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SOCSD leads area school districts in COVID-19 cases
CMSD, only district without traditional in-person learning,
sees lowest case counts since school started
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
Public school districts in
Lowndes and Oktibbeha coun-
ties have witnessed a total of
110 cases of COVID-19 since
school started, sending hun-
dreds of students into quaran-
tine, according to data from the
districts.
Among all three districts in
the area, Starkville-Oktibbeha
Consolidated School District
Aldermen likely
to request
state funding
to relocate
library
YMCA, road extensions
are other potential
projects
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Mayor Lynn
Spruill and six
Starkville aldermen
decided Tuesday at a
special-call work ses-
sion to pursue three
potential projects to
ask the state to fund,
narrowing down a Spruill
longer list of ideas
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month. A plan is a
The board’s top good place
priority will be the to start.
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potential relocation
of the Starkville-Ok-
tibbeha County Public Library from
its 60-year-old building on Universi-
ty Drive to the stretch of Highway
182 that will be revamped in the
next few years with federal grant
money. The board also will look into
the options of bringing a YMCA to
Starkville and extending Stark and
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Police investigate
shooting in north
Columbus
Victim hospitalized in
stable condition
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
One man was hospitalized after
a shooting in north Columbus early
this morning.
Columbus Police Chief Fred
Shelton said officers responded to
a call near OK Foods around the
intersection of 18th Street and Sev-
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witnessed the most confirmed
cases of COVID-19. Columbus
Municipal School District — the
smallest district and the only
one not currently holding tra-
ditional, in-person classes five
days a week — has the fewest,
with only 19 cases so far this
year while the other districts’
cases are approaching 50.
CMSD also started school 18
days earlier than SOCSD and
26 days earlier than LCSD.
As of Friday, SOCSD had
A different kind of Halloween
COVID fears likely to mean fewer trick-or-treaters, parties
Dinosaurs Mark Leonard, 10, and his brother, David, 8, won’t be trick-or-
treating this year. Instead, the Columbus brothers will attend a small party
after attending a Saturday night wedding.
Spiderman, aka Tristen MIller, 5, of Columbus will be having his Halloween
fun at home with his four siblings this year instead of trick-or-treating.
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a total of 46 positive cases —
including 35 students and 11
staff members — since school
started Aug. 24, according to
district Public Information Offi-
cer Nicole Thomas. The district
saw its largest weekly spike
last week, adding 17 confirmed
cases among students and two
among staff.
All three districts rely on a
self-reporting system to track
COVID-19 cases, officials said.
Following Mississippi State De-
CALENDAR
Today through Saturday
■ Radio drama: MSU’s Shack-
ouls Honors College presents “A
Halloween Feast with Seneca’s
Oedipus” online at honors.ms-
state.edu and broadcast at vary-
ing times on MSU’s radio station
91.1 FM and EMCC’s 92.7.
Thursday
■ Loaves & Fishes: This Com-
munity Soup Kitchen fundraiser
features pork loin take-out
meals, $15 or two for $25, from
First United Methodist Church
Family Life Center, 602 College
St. City limits delivery avail-
able. Tickets at Columbus Arts
Council, FUMC, other churches.
662-425-6408.
FREE!
— are required to self-quar-
antine for 14 days. In the case
of an outbreak, where three or
more people in the same group
test positive, the entire group
will be quarantined.
The increase last week led to
large-scale quarantines, includ-
ing the entire Starkville High
Peasant Labat School football team, the high
partment of Health guidelines, school girls basketball team
schools require those who test and an elementary class, The
positive to stay at home for 10 Dispatch reported. By Friday,
days, and students and staff 224 students were still in quar-
who were in close contact with antine, 6.8 percent of the 3,297
the individual — meaning they students enrolled in traditional
were within six feet or were to- in-person learning as of Friday,
gether for more than 15 minutes See COVID CASES, 8A
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
A
ll dressed up and no place
to go.
Welcome to Halloween
2020.
Last week, Ginny Leonard
was sitting in her car in the line
outside Annunciation Catholic
School, waiting to pick up her
sons, Mark, 10, and David, 8,
when she heard about Columbus
Mayor Robert Smith’s message
on the car radio.
On the city’s Facebook page,
the mayor asked Columbus resi-
dents to refrain from taking their
children trick-or-treating.
“I was thinking, ‘Do I tell
the boys now or do I wait?’” she
recalled.
For the Leonards, Halloween
typically has many features —
pumpkin carving, decorations,
picking out costumes (the boys
have inflatable dinosaur cos-
tumes this year). But the focal
point of the holiday has always
been trick-or-treating on Hallow-
een evening.
Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
With the threat of COVID-19,
those plans have changed.
“We actually are going to a
wedding that night,” said Wade
Leonard, the boys’ dad. “There
are a couple of other parents who
will be at the wedding that have
kids and our boys are going with
them after it’s over for a little
party. But for the first time, they
won’t be trick-or-treating.”
Patricia Bobo, whose five kids
range in age from 2 to 10, has
reached the same conclusion,
even though her family’s Hallow-
een celebration has never cen-
tered around trick-or-treating.
“We have never been very
traditional as far as going door-
to-door,” she said. “Now that the
mayor says not to trick-or-treat,
it’s going to be more a family
thing for us. They’ll still have
their costumes. (Her 5-year-old,
Tristen Miller, proudly wore his
Spiderman costume to the Boys
and Girls Club on Tuesday). We’ll
do s’mores, watch movies, bob for
apples, play games, dance. We’ll
just have fun. But we won’t be
Courtesy photo
trick-or-treating.”
See HALLOWEEN, 8A
LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC
MEETINGS
Oct. 30: Starkville
Board of Aldermen
work session, 10
a.m., City Hall
Nov. 2: Oktibbeha
County Board of Su-
pervisors meeting,
9 a.m., Chancery
Courthouse
Nov. 3: Starkville
Board of Aldermen
meeting, 5:30
p.m., City Hall
Nov. 10:
Starkville-Oktibbe-
ha Consolidated
School District
Board of Trustees
Meaghan Pratt, 11, plans to dress meeting, 6 p.m.,
as a fairy for Halloween this year. 401 Greensboro St.
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Biden vows to unify and save

country; Trump hits Midwest
‘Has the heart of this
nation turned to stone?
I don’t think so. I refuse
to believe it.’
Democratic presidential
candidate Joe Biden
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. — Joe
Biden traveled Tuesday to the hot
springs town where Franklin Delano
Roosevelt coped with polio to declare
the U.S. is not too politically diseased
to overcome its health and economic
crises, pledging to be the unifying
force who can “restore our soul and
save this country.”
The Democratic presidential nom-
inee offered his closing argument
with Election Day just one week away
while attempting to go on the politi-
cal offensive in Georgia, which hasn’t
backed a Democrat for the White
House since 1992. He promised to
be a president for all Americans re-
gardless of party, even as he said that
“anger and suspicion is growing and
our wounds are getting deeper.”
“Has the heart of this nation
turned to stone? I don’t think so,”
Biden said. “I refuse to believe it.”
While Biden worked to expand
the electoral map in the South, Pres-
ident Donald Trump focused on the
Democrats’ “blue wall” states that
he flipped in 2016 — Michigan,
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — and
maintained a far busier travel sched-
ule taking him to much more of the
country.
At a cold, rain-soaked rally in the
Michigan capital of Lansing, Trump
said Biden supported the North
American Free Trade Agreement
and China’s entry into the World
Trade Organization, both of which he
said hurt the auto industry and other
manufacturing in the state.
“This election is a matter of eco-
nomic survival for Michigan,” the
president said, arguing that the
state’s economy was strong before
the coronavirus pandemic hit. “Look
what I’ve done.”
Trump also cheered Senate candi-
date John James — who may ultimate-
ly have a better chance of winning
the state than the president — while
attacking Michigan Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer for moving aggressively to
shut down much of the state’s econo-
my to slow the virus’ spread. He even
seemed to cast doubt on federal au-
thorities breaking up what they said
was a plot to kidnap her, which Whit-
mer has argued Trump’s “violent
rhetoric” helped spark.
“It was our people that helped
her out with her problem. And we’ll
have to see if it’s a problem. Right?”
Trump said. “People are entitled to
say ‘maybe it was a problem. Maybe
it wasn’t.’”
Biden, even as he predicted the
country could rise above politics,
went after his election rival, accusing
Trump anew of bungling the federal
response to the pandemic that has
seen new cases surging in many ar-
eas, and failing to manage the eco-
nomic fallout or combat institutional
racism and police brutality that have
sparked widespread demonstrations.

‘We need you’: GOP hunts for new voters in Trump territory
Plan requires blowout victories
and historic turnout in conservative
strongholds across Pennsylvania
BY JOSH BOAK
The Associated Press
SLIPPERY ROCK,
Pa. — President Donald
Trump’s campaign has
a bold theory for how he
will win reelection: It can
tap a universe of millions
of supporters who did not
vote for him in 2016 but
will do so this time.
Supposedly, these
voters are overlooked by
polls that show Trump
consistently trailing
Democrat Joe Biden.
They are mostly the
white working class from
factory towns, farms and
mining communities that
rolls, the campaign in-
sists.
In few places will this
strategy be tested as in
Pennsylvania, a critical
state that Trump carried
by only 44,292 votes out
of 6.1 million cast in 2016.
A Democratic surge of
votes in cities and sub-
urbs could quickly erase
that narrow lead. To hold
onto Pennsylvania’s 20
electoral votes, the pres-
ident needs to prove that
a hidden groundswell of
supporters exists — and
will vote.
But the math be-
hind the theory is tight.
Trump’s plan requires
blowout victories and his-
toric turnout in conserva-
tive strongholds across
the state, places where
he outperformed tradi-
tional Republicans four
years ago and he knows
must do even better. His
mission is made clear by
his campaign stops in
Pennsylvania this week
— a tour through GOP
areas like Latrobe, Lititz
and Martinsburg,
“Trump has to drive
turnout,” said Terry
Madonna, a professor
at Franklin & Marshall
College in Lancaster who
has conducted polls in
the state for almost three
decades. “I don’t see any
evidence that he’s ex-
panded his base.”
The strategy is more
difficult to execute given
the stunning disruption
wrought by the corona-
virus pandemic, both in
terms of a public health
crisis and nationwide
economic dislocation.
Trump’s handling of
the virus has cost him
support among suburban
women and older voters.
His response to the civil
unrest reacting to police
killings of Black men
only served to energize
the resolve of Black wom-
en, as candidates and as
voters. His wrecking-ball
persona has prompted
some of his backers in
2016 to reject him.

Have you checked the

Trump has elevated to
near-mythic status as the
“forgotten Americans.”

Classifieds?
They are disaffected
and disconnected from
conventional politics. Yet
they flock to the Repub-
lican president’s rallies,
plaster their yards with
signs and have been fill-
ing up voter registration

Collins votes EmploymEnt

against Barrett,
heads home to BUSInESS
save Senate job
BY DAVID SHARP
The Associated Press
REntalS
PORTLAND,
— When Republican Sen.
Maine

Susan Collins had to vote

on a Supreme Court jus-
REal EStatE
GaRaGE SalES
tice in 2018, she deliberat-
ed under the spotlight for
weeks, building suspense
that ended with a dramat-
ic floor speech. When she
announced her support for
President Donald Trump’s
nominee, she triggered an
onslaught of Democratic
mERchandISE
VEhIclES
anger.
On Monday, Collins cast
her vote against Trump’s
pick without any speech

commUnIty
and quickly headed home
to Maine to try to save her
political career.
Collins’ contrasting
moves on the Supreme

SERVIcES
Court nominations of Brett
Kavanaugh and Amy Co-
ney Barrett underscore the
difficulty for a senator try-

lEGalS
ing to find middle ground
in an election in which the
battle lines appear starker
than ever. Her vote in fa-
vor of Kavanaugh rallied
Democrats against her and
angered some moderate
supporters, while her vote
against Barrett may not do
much to win them back.
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Mississippi mayor challenges medical marijuana initiative

Madison mayor argues number of signatures
gathered for petition process does not meet
standards set in the state constitution
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A Mississippi
mayor on Tuesday challenged
the petition process that put
one of two medical marijuana
proposals on the statewide bal-
lot, arguing that the number of
signatures gathered does not
meet standards set in the state
constitution.
Madison Mayor Mary Haw-
kins Butler filed papers with
the state Supreme Court one
week before the Nov. 3 gener-
al election, more than a month
after the start of absentee vot-
ing in Mississippi and several
months after the secretary of
state’s office said the initiative
qualified for the ballot.
Supporters of Initiative 65
said their petition process met
the requirements set by the
constitution and by a 2009 at-
torney general’s opinion. They
also accused Butler and the city
of Madison of trying to under-
mine the initiative.
“The Secretary of State
properly qualified Initiative 65
under the same constitutional
procedures used for every oth-
er successful voter initiative,”
Jamie Grantham, spokeswom-
an for Mississippians for Com-
passionate Care, said in a state-
ment. “The lawsuit from the
City of Madison is meritless.”
The Mississippi initiative
process requires petitioners to
gather signatures from regis-
tered voters, getting no more
than one-fifth of the signatures
from any congressional district.
Mississippi had five congres-
sional districts in the 1990s
when the initiative process
was established, but the state
dropped to four congressional
districts after the 2000 Census.
In papers filed Tuesday with
the state Supreme Court, Butler
argued it’s “a mathematical cer-
tainty” that more than one-fifth
of the signatures for Initiative
65 came from at least one of the
four congressional districts.
In a legal opinion dealing
with initiatives, the Mississippi
attorney general’s office said in
2009 that the secretary of state
should require an equal num-
ber of signatures from each of
the five old congressional dis-
tricts.
Butler argued that the secre-
tary of state ignored the “plain
language” of the constitution
when he said Initiative 65 had
qualified for the ballot. Del-
bert Hosemann was in his final
months as secretary of state
when the initiative petitions
were submitted, and he became
lieutenant governor in January.
Justice Leslie D. King on
Tuesday ordered the current
secretary of state, Michael Wat-
son, to respond to Butler’s law-
suit by Wednesday. During a
news conference Tuesday, Wat-
son declined to comment on
the lawsuit. Hosemann, Watson
and Butler are all Republicans.
Initiative 65 would allow pa-
tients to use medical marijuana
to treat debilitating conditions,
as certified by physicians.
An alternative measure that
is also on the Mississippi ballot,
Initiative 65A, also would allow
patients with debilitating con-
ditions to use medical marijua-
na, but it does not specify that
those would have to be certified
by physicians. It says the state
would create a program based
on “sound medical principles.”
More than 100,000 regis-
tered voters petitioned to put
Initiative 65 on the ballot. The
alternative was put there by leg-
islators. Sponsors of the origi-
nal initiative say the alternative
is intended to cause confusion
and kill the original.
There’s a two-step process
for voting on 65 and 65A. The
ballot first instructs people to
“Vote for approval of either,
or against both.” It then says,
“And vote for one” — either 65
or 65A.
Watson has said that even if
people vote against both initia-
tives on the first part, they can
still vote for one of the propos-
als on the second part.
The Mississippi Municipal
League opposes Initiative 65,
partially because the initiative
limits zoning rules that local
governments may put on med-
ical marijuana centers.

Aldermen
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Hospital roads to connect
them to state highways on
the west side of the city.
Aldermen will pursue
cost estimates for all three
ideas and vote on resolu-
tions to bring the ideas to
the Legislature, ideally
by December so the local
delegation can pre-file leg-
islation with the requests,
Spruill said. The city will
most likely submit multi-
ple requests and leave the
rest to the Legislature as
long as the mayor and al-
dermen are unanimous in
their proposals, she said.
“If the Legislature is
in the mood to fund a li-
brary instead of a road or
a road instead of a library,
we’ll be in line to do some-
thing,” Spruill told The
Dispatch.
The aldermen start-
ed discussing potential
projects a few weeks ago
at the encouragement of
State Rep. Rob Roberson
(R-Starkville), who said at
the previous work session
the city should make these
requests every year and
stay on the Legislature’s
radar.
Other potential projects
the board has discussed
included relocating the
county jail, building a
parking garage down-
town, improving the city’s
drainage system and relo-
cating a fire station.
Relocating the jail
would have been a collab-
orative effort between the
city and Oktibbeha Coun-
ty, but the library project
would not necessarily be
the same, Spruill said. The
county contributes to the
library’s funding, but the
city owns the land and the
building and therefore has
the authority over both.
Ward 1 Alderman Ben
he said, and he will talk to
Columbus Mayor Robert
Smith about how the city
brought in a YMCA.
The extensions of Stark
and Hospital roads were
Spruill’s preferred proj-
ect, and Ward 5 Alderman
Hamp Beatty praised it as
a “forward-thinking” idea
for a part of the city that
is likely to develop along
Highways 182 and 25.
City Engineer Edward
Kemp is a building con-
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
struction science lecturer
Ward 5 Alderman Hamp Beatty, right, discusses proj-
ects to pursue for potential state funding with Ward 2 at MSU, and two years
Alderman Sandra Sistrunk, left, and Mayor Lynn Spruill ago he assigned students
at a special-call work session Tuesday. Spruill and the to develop preliminary
board agreed to look into Sistrunk’s idea of relocating plans for the project, but
the public library from its 60-year-old building on Univer- he would have to develop
sity Drive to a new building on Highway 182. them further to get a cost
estimate.
Carver was absent, but that groups can be better Sistrunk brought up
Spruill and the rest of served, they need updat- the possibility of turning
the aldermen agreed that ed technology, and (we the railroad that bisects
most of the ideas were could) perhaps add a mak- Starkville from south-
good ones and would ben- erspace or a workshop west to northeast into a
efit the entire community. space.” biking and walking trail,
Ward 2 Alderman She suggested a part- an idea that arose about
Sandra Sistrunk, who nership with the Episcopal a year ago but has not de-
proposed relocating the Church to use its current- veloped beyond that. The
library, said she hopes the ly vacant Highway 182 railroad runs from Acker-
city settles on a project property. man to West Point and has
that serves an immediate “I would not approach not been used in several
need and that the city is them with the idea of pur- years, and the trail would
not likely to fund on its chasing the property, not be part of the national
own in the near future. even leasing it, just doing network created by the
“We will eventually a joint venture so they nonprofit Rails-to-Trails
fund a drainage project, would have access to the Conservancy.
and we will eventually parking,” Sistrunk said. Kansas City Southern,
build a new fire station The rest of the alder- the company that owns
when the time is right for men agreed to pursue re- the railroad, has not re-
that,” she said. locating the library even if sponded to the city’s re-
The current library was it had not been their first quests to discuss the idea,
built in the 1960s and was choice for a project. and the transportation
originally a courthouse. It “I think there’s definite- company Watco current-
needs a new HVAC system ly a need to start having ly has a 15-year lease on
and more accessibility for that conversation,” Ward the rail line that does not
people with disabilities, 3 Alderman David Little allow any changes to the
Sistrunk said. said. “It might be several property, Spruill said, so
“The building needs years out, but we’ve got to the idea of turning it into
modernization,” Sistrunk start somewhere.” a recreational path is no
said. “They need more The YMCA idea came longer on the table.
meeting space that groups from Ward 7 Alderman
can take advantage of, Henry Vaughn’s conversa-
they need teen space so tions with his constituents,

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Continued from Page 1A
enth Avenue North at about 1:30 a.m. The victim was taken to a hospital out of town,
where he is in stable condition.
Shelton said investigators do not have a suspect in custody but that they know the
victim got into an argument with two other people before the shooting. Investigators
are still collecting evidence in the case.
He asked anyone with information on the shooting to call CPD at 662-244-3500 or
Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers at 800-530-7151.

Zeta speeds toward a storm-weary Louisiana

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS
— Hurricane Zeta
was speeding toward
storm-weary Louisiana
with landfall expected
Wednesday afternoon
just south of New Orle-
ans, where a pump sys-
tem failure has raised the
city’s risk of floods.
Louisiana has had the
worst of it, already been
hit by two tropical storms
and two hurricanes. New
Orleans has been in the
warning area for poten-
tial tropical cyclones sev-
en times this year, each
one veering to the east or
west.
“I don’t think we’re
going to be as lucky with
repair in sight. There was
enough power to keep
the pumps operating if
needed, but little excess
power to tap if other tur-
bines fail, officials said at
a news conference with
Mayor LaToya Cantrell. SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates
Officials said they peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Wed. Thurs.
were running through Major 10:33p —
6:04p
Minor 5:36p
contingencies to provide Major 10:53a 11:34a
power and make repairs Minor 5:01a 5:55a
Courtesy of Mississippi Department

Life-threatening this one,” city emergen- where needed should

of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

storm surge and strong

winds were expected
beginning around mid-
day along the U.S. Gulf
Coast, where residents
were bracing for the 27th
named storm of a histori-
cally busy Atlantic hurri-
cane season.
cy director Colin Arnold
said.
As Zeta approached,
New Orleans officials an-
nounced that a turbine
that generates power to
the city’s aging drainage
pump system broke down
on Sunday, with no quick
there be other equipment
problems. Forecasts
called for anywhere from
2 to 6 inches of rain to fall
in the New Orleans area,
but Zeta is expected to be
a relatively fast-moving
storm, possibly mitigat-
ing the flood threat.
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Liz Weston: How losing Obamacare could cost you

The Trump administration and a group of GOP attorneys ‘Use it and lose it’
general seek to have the entire law thrown out; Supreme coverage
Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Nov. 10
BY LIZ WESTON
NerdWallet
If the Supreme Court
throws out the Affordable
Care Act, your finances
and your future could pay
the price.
Retiring early or start-
ing a business might be-
come too hazardous if
your access to health in-
surance isn’t guaranteed.
You might have to wait a
year before preexisting
conditions are covered
by an employer’s plan.
Young adults could be
kicked off their parents’
policies. Millions of peo-
ple who buy insurance
through the ACA market-
places or who now qualify
for Medicaid could lose
their coverage as well.
Even if you were able
to keep your health insur-
ance, you could face caps
on your coverage that
expose you to enormous
medical bills. Preventive
care and birth control
could cost you more.
Medicare beneficiaries
could face higher pre-
miums, deductibles and
copays. Insurers could
cancel your policy retro-
actively for even minor
mistakes on your appli-
cation.
In the decade since
Health insurance is
meant to help people pay
their medical expenses
the ACA became law,
many Americans have
become so accustomed
to the protections and
savings afforded by the
landmark legislation
that they may not re-
alize how much could
change if Obamacare is
struck down. Its effects
on health care are so per-
vasive that nearly every
American could be af-
fected, according to the
Kaiser Family Founda-
tion, which tracks health
care issues.
The return of
preexisting conditions
The Trump admin-
istration and a group of
Republican attorneys
general have asked that
the entire law be thrown
out. The Supreme Court
is scheduled to hear oral
arguments on Nov. 10.
Before the ACA, in-
surers routinely used
preexisting health con-
ditions as a reason to
deny coverage or charge
people more. Preexist-
ing conditions included
serious ailments such as
cancer or heart disease
as well as more common
conditions such as high
cholesterol, high blood
pressure, asthma, diabe-
tes and obesity, and tem-
porary conditions includ-
ing pregnancy. Insurers
denied about 1 in 5 appli-
cations for individual pol-
icies because of preexist-
ing conditions, and some
employer-provided group
policies required people
to wait up to a year before
their preexisting condi-
tions were covered.
Back then, many peo-
ple who had health is-
sues — or whose family
members did — avoided
changing jobs, starting
businesses or retiring
early because of the risk
they couldn’t find afford-
able health insurance.
President Trump
signed an executive or-
der in September an-
nouncing “a steadfast
commitment to always
protecting individuals
with preexisting con-
ditions,” but the order
alone can’t force insurers
to offer coverage if the
ACA is struck down.
And America is a land
of preexisting conditions.
Half of adults under age
65, or up to 133 million
people, had health issues
that could cause them to
be denied coverage or
charged exorbitant pre-
miums, according to a
2017 government analy-
sis.
and avoid potentially cat-
astrophic bills. Before
Obamacare, however, us-
ing your insurance could
cause you to lose it.
If someone with an in-
dividual insurance policy
got sick, the insurer could
scour the person’s appli-
cation looking for errors.
Even minor mistakes
could cause the compa-
ny to revoke the policy, a
practice called rescission.
Under the ACA, rescis-
sions are allowed only if
there’s fraud or a mate-
rial misrepresentation of
facts.
Policies also routine-
ly had caps that limited
how much insurers had
to pay out over someone’s
lifetime. People who were
sick enough could hit
those caps and be on the
hook for 100 percent of
their medical costs after-
ward.
Other potential
side effects
Millions could become
uninsured if the ACA ex-
changes are shut down,
expanded Medicaid cov-
erage is rescinded and
insurers are no longer
required to cover children
under 26 on their parents’
plans. Some employers
may continue dependent
coverage, since young
people in general tend
went away. Private Medi-
care Advantage plans
to use less health care.
But young people in poor
could reduce costs and
improve coverage. A 0.9
health or with preexisting percentage point increase
conditions could be shut in the payroll tax on high-
out. er-income workers also
Without the ACA, in- would be repealed.
surers could once again Then again, increased
charge copayments or co- Medicare spending and
insurance for preventive reduced revenues will
care, including screen- deplete the system’s trust
ings, immunizations, an-
fund faster. The current
nual checkups and birth
insolvency date, with ACA
control. Medicare benefi-
in place, is 2028; after that
ciaries could once again
point, Medicare’s reve-
have to pay for certain ser-
nues won’t be enough to
vices, including screen-
cover all of its promised
ings for breast cancer,
benefits.
colorectal cancer, cardio-
You may not have
vascular disease and dia-
thought America’s health
betes. The law also closed care system could get
the infamous “doughnut
any more dysfunctional.
hole” in Medicare’s pre- If Obamacare goes away,
scription drug coverage
prepare to be unpleasant-
that left many older peo-
ly surprised.
ple paying thousands of
dollars out of pocket for
their medication.
Ending Obamacare
could increase Medicare
beneficiaries’ costs in
other ways. The ACA re-
duced payments to medi-
cal providers and private
insurers. Reversing that
could lead to higher de-
ductibles and copays
for Part A, which covers
hospital visits, and high-
er premiums and deduct-
ibles for Part B, which Lisa Heath
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Do I need to wear a mask if I’m 6 feet away from others?

‘There’s no
invisible force
field at 6 feet’
Saskia Popescu,
an infectious disease
expert at George
Mason University
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Do I need to wear a
mask if I’m 6 feet away
from others?
Health experts recom-
mend wearing masks in
public and keeping your
distance from others in
most cases, but whether
you should do both could
depend on the situation.
“There’s no invisible
force field at 6 feet,” said
Saskia Popescu, an infec-
tious disease expert at
George Mason Universi-
ty.
The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Pre-
vention says spread of
the virus beyond 6 feet
is uncommon but more
likely in poorly ventilat-
ed spaces. Some health
experts say the virus can
spread more easily than
the agency indicates, and
suggest wearing masks
even in prolonged out-
door gatherings when
people are more than 6
feet apart.
Other factors could
also influence whether
it’s best to keep your dis-
tance while also wearing
a mask. When people
raise their voices or pant
— such as when they
sing, shout or exercise
— they can expel more
respiratory droplets or
aerosols, and send them
traveling farther through
the air. The longer you’re
in a situation with poten-
tial for exposure to the vi-
rus, the greater your risk
of infection.
“The reason this stuff
is so confusing is people
want clear answers, and
there’s not a straightfor-
ward answer,” said Lisa
M. Lee, a public health
expert at Virginia Tech.
Since no protective
measure is entirely ef-
fective, Lee suggests
layering safeguards like
masks, social distancing
and hand washing.
“And your mask is
your basic layer,” she
said.
Getting in the habit of
wearing a mask anytime
you leave the house also
eliminates having to de-
cide when you should,
said Bob Bednarczyk,
an expert in infectious
diseases at Emory Uni-
versity.
“It’s one less thing to
worry about,” he said.

Health panel proposes colon cancer tests start at 45, not 50

BY MARION RENAULT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A pan-
el of health experts wants
U.S. adults to start get-
ting colon cancer screen-
ings at age 45, five years
younger than it previously
recommended.
While overall, colon
cancer rates have been
declining, the draft guide-
lines issued Tuesday by
the U.S. Preventive Ser-
vices Task Force reflect
a growing concern about
rising rates in people un-
der the age of 50.
“We’ve seen more data
showing that younger
people are getting colon
cancer at higher rates,”
said Dr. Alex Krist, a
family doctor at Virginia
Commonwealth Univer-
sity and a member of the
task force. “Basically a
45-year-old today has the
same risk of getting colon
cancer as a 50-year-old
from years past.”
The task force is a vol-
unteer panel of doctors
that regularly reviews
evidence and issues ad-
vice on medical tests and
treatments.
The group is propos-
ing that adults of average
risk for colon cancer be
screened from ages 45 to
75. How often the tests are
done depends on the type
of screening: a colonosco-
py is usually every five to
10 years while stool-based
tests are every year.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020 5A

As virus resurges, so does fear

of more economic pain ahead
Economists worry that the U.S. risks repeating a
mistake made after the 2008-09 Great Recession,
when limits on federal spending and layoffs by
states and localities hindered a recovery
BY CHRISTOPER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — With winter
looming and confirmed viral cases
rising, Bob Szuter’s craft brewery
and restaurant in Columbus, Ohio,
could use another government life-
line to help survive until spring.
So could many restaurants and
bars that buy his beer. Szuter knows
of nearly 20 in the region that have
folded, with many others “limping
along.”
As a small businessman, Szuter
benefited from the multi-trillion-dol-
lar stimulus aid that Congress
passed in March after the pandem-
ic recession flattened the economy.
Countless other business people
did, too, along with millions of laid-
off workers, struggling states and
localities and individual Americans.
All that aid is gone. Yet prospects
for more federal stimulus this year
appear all but dead, clouding the fu-
ture for the unemployed, for small
businesses like Szuter’s and for the
economy as a whole.
Now, with confirmed COVID cas-
es surging across the United States,
so is the risk that the economy
could weaken again as more people
choose to hunker down at home —
and that even more stimulus might
be needed next year than negotia-
tors in Washington are contemplat-
ing. Johns Hopkins University data
shows that more than 83,000 infec-
tions were reported both Friday and
Saturday — well above the previ-
ous record high. The University of
Washington’s Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation forecasts
that the U.S. death toll, now roughly
225,000, could top 318,000 by Jan. 1.
Since early September, Szuter’s
restaurant has enjoyed a modest re-
vival with outdoor dining on a street
converted to a patio. Szuter, the
co-owner with his father of Wolf’s
Ridge Brewing, is investing in tents
and heaters. But he worries that
cold weather and the resurgence
of the virus will depress business
again as more people stay away.
“It’s been a struggle,” said Szut-
er, 35. “Any sort of additional sup-
port would be extremely helpful at
this point, especially going into the
cooler months.”
It’s possible, if unlikely, that a
small economic-relief package will
be approved in a post-election “lame
duck” session of Congress. More
likely, a broad rescue measure could
be enacted early next year, particu-
larly if Joe Biden wins the presiden-
cy and his fellow Democrats capture
the Senate. Even if President Don-
ald Trump were to win re-election,
most analysts foresee at least a mod-
est stimulus next year.
Until then, economists worry
that the United States risks repeat-
ing a mistake made after the 2008-
2009 Great Recession, when limits
on federal spending and layoffs by
states and localities hindered a re-
covery. More aid to states and cit-
ies could forestall further layoffs.
States, which are generally required
to balance their budgets, must now
do so with less revenue.
With no stimulus likely the rest
of this year, economists at Goldman
Sachs have slashed their growth
forecast for the October-December
quarter to a 3 percent annual rate
from 6 percent.

Philadelphia victim’s family sought ambulance, not police

‘When you come to a scene where somebody is in a police officers are not
properly trained to han-
mental crisis, and the only tool you have to deal with it is dle mental health crises.
Johnson said Wallace’s
a gun ... where are the proper tools for the job?’ brother had called 911
Shaka Johnson, attorney for the family of police shooting victim Walter Wallace Jr. to request medical assis-
tance and ambulance.
BY CLAUDIA LAUER fore officers fired shots nant and is scheduled About 500 people had
The Associated Press Monday afternoon. But to have labor induced gathered at a West Phil-
his parents said Tuesday Wednesday. Johnson said adelphia park Tuesday
PHILADELPHIA — night that officers knew Wallace had nine chil-
The family of a Black man night and began march-
their son was in a men- dren — two briefly spoke ing through the neigh-
killed by Philadelphia tal health crisis because at a news conference late
police officers in a shoot- borhood, chanting. There
they had been to the fam- Tuesday, along with Wal-
ing caught on video had were sporadic reports of
ily’s house three times on ter Wallace’s mother and
called for an ambulance arrests in other areas of
Monday. father.
to get him help with a Cathy Wallace, his “When you come to a the city Tuesday night
mental health crisis, not mother, said one of the scene where somebody is around 9 p.m.
for police intervention, times, “they stood there in a mental crisis, and the Video showed people
their lawyer said. and laughed at us.” only tool you have to deal streaming into stores and
Police said Walter Wal- The Wallace family’s with it is a gun ... where stealing goods as they left
lace Jr., 27, was wielding a attorney, Shaka Johnson, are the proper tools for on the opposite side of the
knife and ignored orders said the man’s wife, Dom- the job?” Johnson said, city from where Wallace
to drop the weapon be- inique Wallace, is preg- arguing that Philadelphia was shot.

Judge: US can’t replace Trump in accuser’s defamation suit

BY LARRY NEUMEISTER
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s
request that the United
States replace him as the
defendant in a defamation
lawsuit, which alleges he
raped a woman in a Man-
hattan department store
in the 1990s, was denied
Tuesday by a federal
judge.
The decision by U.S.
District Judge Lewis A.
Kaplan came after the
Justice Department ar-
gued that the United
States — and by exten-
sion the American people
— should replace Trump
as the defendant in a law-
suit filed by the columnist
E. Jean Carroll.
The government’s law-
yers contended that the
United States could step
in as the defendant be-
cause Trump was forced
to respond to her lawsuit
to prove he was physical-
ly and mentally fit for the
job.
A lawyer for Carroll,
Roberta Kaplan, called it
a clear victory for her cli-
ent.
“The simple truth is
that President Trump de-
famed our client because
she was brave enough to
reveal that he had sexual-
ly assaulted her, and that
brutal, personal attack
cannot be attributed to
the Office of the Presi-
dent,” Kaplan said in a
statement.
Messages were left on
Tuesday for lawyers for
Trump and the Justice
Department seeking com-
ment.
The judge ruled that a
law protecting federal em-
ployees from being sued
individually for things
they do within the scope
of their employment
didn’t apply to a president.
“The President of the
United States is not an
employee of the Govern-
ment within the meaning
of the relevant statutes,”
Kaplan wrote. “Even if
he were such an employ-
ee, President Trumps al-
legedly defamatory state-
ments concerning Ms.
Carroll would not have
been within the scope of
his employment.”
Lawyers for Carroll
had written that “only in
a world gone mad could it
somehow be presidential,
not personal, for Trump to
slander a woman who he
sexually assaulted.”

AROUND THE WORLD

Satellite photos show
construction at Iran
nuclear site
DUBAI, United Arab
Emirates — Iran has be-
gun construction at its
Natanz nuclear facility,
satellite images released
Wednesday show, just as
the U.N.’s nuclear agency
acknowledged Tehran is
building an underground
advanced centrifuge as-
sembly plant after its last
one exploded in a report-
ed sabotage attack last
summer.
The construction
comes as the U.S. nears
Election Day in a cam-
paign pitting President
Donald Trump, whose
maximum pressure cam-
paign against Iran has led
Tehran to abandon all lim-
its on its atomic program,
and Joe Biden, who has
expressed a willingness
to return to the accord.
The outcome of the vote
likely will decide which
approach America takes.
Heightened tensions be-
tween Iran and the U.S.
nearly ignited a war at the
start of the year.
Bomb at seminary
in Pakistan kills 8
students, wounds 136
PESHAWAR, Pakistan
— A powerful bomb blast
ripped through an Islamic
seminary on the outskirts
of the northwest Pakistani
city of Peshawar on Tues-
day morning, killing at
least eight students and
wounding 136 others, po-
lice and a hospital spokes-
man said.
The bombing hap-
pened as a prominent
religious scholar during
a special class was de-
livering a lecture about
the teachings of Islam
at the main hall of the
Jamia Zubairia madrassa,
said police officer Waqar
Azim. He said initial in-
vestigations suggest the
bomb went off minutes
after someone left a bag at
the madrassa.
TV footage showed
the damaged main hall of
the seminary, where the
bombing took place. The
hall was littered with bro-
ken glass and its carpet
was stained with blood.
Police said at least 11
pounds of explosives were
used in the attack.
Poles join nationwide
strike in revolt over
abortion ruling
WARSAW, Poland —
People across Poland are
vowing to stay off their
jobs on Wednesday as
part of a nationwide strike
to protest a top court rul-
ing that bans abortions in
cases of congenitally dam-
aged fetuses.
The nationwide strike
comes amid a deepening
standoff between angry
crowds who have been
taking to the streets over
the ruling and Poland’s
deeply conservative
government, which has
vowed not to back down.
The constitutional
court ruling last Thursday
has triggered daily mass
protests across this cen-
tral European nation of 38
million that are exposing
deep divisions in a coun-
try long a bastion of con-
servative Catholicism that
is now undergoing rapid
social transformation.
Rage over the ruling,
which would deny legal
abortions to women even
in cases where a child is
sure to die upon birth, has
been directed at the Ro-
man Catholic church and
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the
ruling party leader and
most powerful politician
in the country.
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OUR VIEW
A plan is a good place to start
S
uccess often means
looking beyond present
circumstances.
Even now, as communities
all over brace for what could
be a devastating second wave
of COVID-19 and the fallout it
would represent, there is val-
ue in looking ahead to a time
when the pandemic no longer
dominates our thoughts.
For the past month, the
Starkville Board of Aldermen
have used work sessions to
consider post-pandemic possi-
bilities for the city.
At the urging of Rep. Rob
Roberson, the mayor and al-
dermen have established a list
of priorities for money from
the state legislature’s bond
program.
While it is difficult to proj-
ect how much -- if any -- bond
money will be made available
to communities during the
2021 legislative session which
begins in January, having
a list of projects available
for their local legislators to
pre-file in December is a first
important step in the process.
Over the past month, alder-
men have considered a long
list of possibilities, including
relocating the county jail,
building a parking garage
downtown, improving the
city’s drainage system and
relocating a fire station.
On Tuesday, the list was
narrowed down to three proj-
ects: The board’s top priority
will be the potential relocation
of the Starkville-Oktibbeha
County Public Library from
its 60-year-old building on
University Drive to the stretch
of Highway 182 that will be re-
vamped in the next few years
with federal grant money. The
board also will look into the
options of bringing a YMCA to
Starkville and extending Stark
and Hospital roads to connect
them to state highways on the
west side of the city.
The preferred projects pro-
vide insight into the board’s
vision for the city.
We cannot help but draw a
parallel between the emphasis
put on Highway 182 develop-
ment and Sunday’s passing of
Dan Camp.
Camp’s abiding legacy was
the vision he had for turning a
blighted part of the city into a
vibrant, successful asset now
known as The Cotton District.
Likewise, we believe the
city’s long-neglected 182 cor-
ridor is rich with unfulfilled
potential.
The aldermen’s priorities
aside, the one thing that
everyone should be able to
agree on is that planning for
the future is a wise move,
something all of our cities
should also pursue. While all
area cities aren’t growing at
Starkville’s rate, a commu-
nity’s health needs constant
attention, and a plan is a good
place to start.
Let’s look ahead.
The future, like objects in
a car’s rear view mirror, is
closer than it appears.

THE NATION CARTOONIST VIEW

Yes, we’re already

transitioning from
fossil fuels
J
oe Biden could have
used more careful
wording at that debate,
but his talk of shifting the
economy from fossil fuels to
cleaner energy reflected a
process well on its way. The
transition started before
Donald Trump took office
and accelerated during his
presidency.
Hoping to vacuum up
some votes in oil- and Froma Harrop
gas-producing swing states,
Trump pounced on Biden’s remark. He also replayed
one of his favorite lies, that Biden would ban fracking.
Biden would stop hydraulic fracturing only on federal
land, a middle position that has displeased some
environmentalists.
Trump’s been pushing another lie, that he “saved
our oil industry.” Actually, he didn’t.
On the contrary, America’s oil and gas companies
are in big trouble and filing record bankruptcies this
year. Exxon Mobil isn’t among them, but the legend-
ary oil giant has lost over 66 percent of its market
value since 2013. MISSISSIPPI VOICES
The reason is partly the transition, pushed along
by the rapidly falling cost of green energy. Renew-
ables such as solar and wind are expected to provide
20 percent of America’s electricity this year, accord-
Politics is a question of money
W
ing to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. ell, yet anoth- Republicans and the job with criminal justice reform.
That’s more than double their share 10 years ago. er Presiden- tax-receiving Demo- Before Covid, the Trump
For one brief but shocking moment, Exxon’s tial election crats. economy was humming along.
market value fell below that of NextEra Energy, a has rolled around and Of course, ideology He took deregulation seriously.
wind and solar power company that few have heard I can no longer put off and ideas play a role That’s another big credit in my
of. Clearly, the move from fossil fuels to clean energy writing about Presi- for some. And there book. I’m not a big fan of trade
sources is not just about environmentalism. It’s about dential politics. I do are many other issues wars, but it probably was time to
capitalism. It’s where investors want to put their this about once every involved. But by and draw some lines with China.
money. four years. large, politics is about I agree with Trump’s approach
COVID-19 has multiplied the suffering of fossil I’m reluctant for economic self inter- that we must learn to live with
fuel companies and their workers. Fear of the virus reasons. There is no est. Covid rather than shut down
has applied the brakes on flying, driving and other shortage of opinions A byproduct of the the economy. The disease can’t
energy-dependent activities. The resulting glut in oil on Presidential poli- Wyatt Emmerich two-party system is be worse than the cure. I don’t
and gas is largely to blame for the loss of 107,000 jobs tics. My opinion would nobody gets every- believe global warming is going
between April and August. By September, the number be vastly redundant. thing they want. Pol- to destroy the world, so that’s
of oil rigs operating in the U.S. had dropped more And after 45 years in journalism, itics makes strange bedfellows. another Trump plus in my book.
than two-thirds from only a year before. I have become somewhat jaded You have to stitch together an The biggest failure of Trump
Trump was president all that time. Had he not gone about the whole affair. odd assortment of ideas and con- has been his failure to reign in
limp on confronting the public health crisis, there’d I seem to be in the minority. stituencies to get to 51 percent. the national deficit. Ever since
probably still be a lot more oil and gas jobs today. Oth- Most people get hot and bothered It’s all about compromise. we opened the spigots after the
er countries managed to corner this plague, and their about Presidential politics. I fear For instance, isn’t it odd that financial crisis, there is a pre-
economies are going full tilt. they will blow a gasket. I am more the Republicans, who profess love vailing attitude that money is
Oil companies know the transition is on schedule. blase. of the free market and individual free and endless. I sure hope all
BP leads the pack in planning a 40 percent cut in oil My daughter Ruth and I liberties, are socially conserva- of these economics professors
and gas production over the next decade — while recently had a conversation about tive while the Democrats who are know what they’re doing. If not,
boosting investment in wind, solar and hydrogen the election. I asked her what more prone to government regu- there will be hell to pay. As bad as
power. This radical move reflects the economic reali- she thought was the main issue. lations tend to be socially liberal. Trump has done on fiscal conser-
ties, the British company says. It believes that global She discussed the candidates’ It’s backwards! vatism, the Democrats would do
demand for oil has already peaked and might never personalities. I am not a big fan of Trump’s worse.
return to pre-pandemic levels. I disagreed. “Ruth, it is and personality. His openness and I also think the Ukrainian
Hello, Texas. Texas is America’s No. 1 producer always has been mainly about honesty can be refreshing, but he Burisma deal with Biden’s son
money and who gets to keep it. often displays boorish behavior. stinks to high heaven. Just like
of oil and gas but also wind energy. Only four coun-
The Republicans are more likely Americans usually vote for the last time, it’s the jerk versus the
tries generate more wind power than Texas. And,
to let you keep your money. The most interesting and charismatic crook.
oh, yes, average wages of renewable energy jobs now
Democrats are more likely to of the two candidates. If that’s I don’t like political parties and
top those of fossil fuel jobs, the Houston Chronicle
take your money and give it to the case, look for Trump to be I am not a Republican. I believe
reports.
someone else. That’s what the reelected. free market solutions are gen-
Solar PV (PV stands for “photovoltaic,” one of the
fighting is mainly about. Trump has done some good erally better than government
solar technologies) and onshore wind (the Texas
“If you have money and want things. He lowered corporate tax- controls, so I tend to vote for
kind) are currently the cheapest newly constructed
to keep it, you are more likely to es. This was long overdue. Our Republicans.
energy sources for two-thirds of the world’s popula-
vote Republican. If you don’t have corporate tax rates were some There, I said it. I’ll be voting
tion, according to the research group BloombergNEF.
money and want the government of the highest in the world and it for Trump. Let the hate mail
The cost of batteries to store the energy is also falling.
to give you some, you are more was driving huge companies out begin!
Bigger turbines have further lowered the price of likely to vote Democratic.” of our country. But I won’t be losing any sleep
onshore wind power over the past five years. Rural It is no coincidence that about Trump has nominated strong, if Biden wins. Our republic is
landowners, meanwhile, are cashing some nice half of Americans pay very little conservative judges to our U.S. strong as a rock and will not fail.
checks as they lease their acres to wind farms. federal tax. It’s designed that Supreme Court. Our highest Wyatt Emmerich is the editor
Do Texans really want four more years of a pres- way. In the two-party system, you court is not supposed to be a and publisher of The Northside
ident who ruminates that wind turbines may cause need 50 percent of the vote plus legislative body. It is supposed to Sun, a weekly newspaper in Jack-
cancer? one. This provides a perfect equi- interpret the law as it was written. son. He can be reached by e-mail
Opinion polls out of Stanford University find that librium between the tax-paying Trump has also done a good at wyatt@northsidesun.com.
the virus and economic downturn have not at all re-
duced the public’s growing worry over rising tempera-
tures. Biden’s ambitious climate plan may be sweet

Make Your Voice Heard

words to voters in his base but also to the voters well
beyond it. We shall see — and hope.
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for the Write The Dispatch: voice@cdispatch.com
Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail address
is fharrop@gmail.com.
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Anxiety 2020: Voters worry

about safety at the polls
About 7 in 10 voters say
they are anxious about
the election
BY LAURIE KELLMAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Gary Kauff-
man says he does not scare easily.
So when men waving President
Donald Trump flags drive by his
house in downtown Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, he stands on his front
steps and waves a banner for Demo-
crats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
“Sometimes I yell at them. They
yell back at me,” says Kauffman, 54.
Still, Kauffman is keeping a clos-
er eye on who they are and what
they’re carrying as Election Day ap-
proaches. Tension has been rising
in his town, known best as hallowed
ground of the Civil War’s bloodiest
battle. Recently, it’s become a hot
spot of angry confrontations be-
tween Trump supporters and liber-
al protesters. Kauffman has seen
some of the Trump supporters car-
rying weapons.
“If there’s guns, I’m a bit more
cautious,” he said on Monday.
Americans aren’t accustomed to
worrying about violence or safety
ahead of an election. It’s a luxury
afforded by years of largely peace-
ful voting, a recent history of fairly
orderly displays of democracy. But
after months filled with disease,
disruption and unrest, Americans
are worried that Election Day could
become a flashpoint.
With Election Day next week,
voters can point to plenty of evi-
dence behind the anxiety. More
than 226,000 Americans have died
of the coronavirus, and cases are
spiking across the country. A sum-
mer of protests of racial injustice
and sometimes violent confronta-
tions has left many on edge. Gun
sales have broken records. Trump
has called on supporters to monitor
voting and has refused to commit
to a peaceful transfer of power or to
explicitly condemn a white suprem-
acist group.
There was the alleged plot to kid-
nap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whit-
mer and another spate of violent pro-
test this week over a police shooting
of a Black man in Philadelphia.
“Human beings don’t do well
with uncertainty, and there’s been
a lot of uncertainty this year,” said
Mara Suttmann-Lea, an assistant
professor of government at Con-
necticut College conducting re-
search on voting. “Absolutely I’m
seeing heightened levels of anxiety
... and it’s a more general, existential
anxiety — ‘What is the state of our
democracy?’”
Those worries have shown up
in polling. About 7 in 10 voters say
they are anxious about the election,
according to an AP-NORC poll this
month. Biden supporters were more
likely to say so than Trump support-
ers — 72 percent to 61 percent.
For some, the worries are a
vague sense of looming trouble that
could take many forms — conflict
at a polling place, protest over the
outcome, protest over no outcome, a
conflagration that splits Americans
over now-familiar divisions.
“You can feel it in the energy,”
particularly on social media, says
Cincinnati voter Josh Holsten Sr.,
42. “There are just a lot of extra ten-
sions that don’t necessarily need to
be there.”
Holsten says he is voting for
Trump, but thinks neither the pres-
ident nor Biden is doing enough to
calm people down. The car sales-
man has even stocked up on food,
water and bulletproof vests for his
family — in case the election sparks
something bad.
Law enforcement and election
officials are preparing, too. FBI and
local officials in several states have
been conducting drills and setting
up command centers to respond to
election-related unrest.
Election officials are training poll
workers on how to de-escalate con-
flict and ensuring they’re prepped
on the rules about poll monitoring,
voter intimidation and harassment.
“The procedures have always
been there. We’ve just never had to
use them,” said Ellen Sorensen, an
elections judge in Naperville, Illi-
nois, outside Chicago. “Perhaps this
time we may. I don’t know.”

1,000-plus faith leaders call for ‘free and fair election’

Statement: ‘America is only as strong DAYS UNTIL “Twenty years later,
we’re not in that place
as its people’s commitment to our THE ELECTION where we can just assume

6
that once the outcome is
democracy and the freedoms and announced and decided,
everyone can just go on
rights it ensures’ with their lives and wish
the new leaders well,”
BY ELANA SCHOR ident of government rela- tion, when vote counting Carey, who signed the
The Associated Press tions at the evangelicals in the swing state of Flor- joint statement alongside
association, contrasted ida was halted and Bush NAE President Walter
WASHINGTON —
the current political cli- declared the winner fol- Kim, said in an interview.
More than 1,000 clergy
members, religious schol- mate with the contentious lowing a Supreme Court
ars and other faith-based 2000 presidential elec- ruling.
advocates have signed
onto a unique statement
that supports a compre-
hensive path to “a free
and fair election” and
urges leaders to heed the
verdict of “legitimate elec-
tion results” regardless of
who wins in November.
Signatories of the
statement, shared in ad-
vance with The Associat-
ed Press, include senior
officials at the National
Association of Evangeli-
cals and prominent pro-
gressive pastor the Rev.
William Barber, as well
as two past faith advis-
ers to former President
George W. Bush. The
statement’s wide swath of
endorsements illustrates
the extent to which the
unprecedented nature of
a mid-pandemic election
has pushed organized re-
ligion to showcase its civ-
ic power.
After listing four basic
principles, including the
importance of leaders
sharing “timely, accurate
information about the
election results” rather
than misinformation, the
statement goes on to state
that those ideas “are cen-
tral to a functioning and
healthy republic and they
are supported by the vast
majority of Americans, yet
they are being challenged
in unprecedented ways in
the 2020 election.”
“America is only as
strong as its people’s com-
mitment to our democra-
cy and the freedoms and
rights it ensures,” the
joint statement adds.
Galen Carey, vice pres-

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Halloween
Continued from Page 1A
To what degree other
parents will refrain from
trick-or-treating this year
remains an open ques-
tion.
“I don’t know what to
expect, really,” said Suzy
Stanton.
Stanton and her
elderly mom moved into
Sherwood Forest subdi-
vision just north of the
Columbus city limits
three years ago. She was
quickly advised by her
new neighbors that her
new neighborhood was
a “go-to” destination for
trick-or-treating far and
wide.
“We usually go
through three big bags of
candy,” she said. “We love
it. We have family over
— eight or nine, and that
doesn’t count the kids
— and we all dress up in
a theme. Last year it was
Harry Potter.”
Their home is still
decorated for Halloween
and the family will again
gather to greet trick-or-
treaters. But concessions
have been made.
“I don’t think we’re
going to have nearly as
many kids as we had
before,” Stanton said. “I
didn’t buy as much candy
this year. And we’ve
decided we’ll dress up as
baseball players and kind
of throw the candy like
a ballplayer throwing a
COVID cases
Continued from Page 1A
Thomas said.
However, most stu-
dents who tested positive
were infected after a fami-
ly member tested positive,
SOCSD Assistant Super-
intendent Anna Guntharp
said, and not many cases
suggested the infection
took place at school.
“We have not found that
it’s been student-to-stu-
dent con-
tact within
a classroom
environ-
ment that’s
caused (the
i n f e c t i o n),
so that’s
really posi- Guntharp
tive,” Gun-
tharp said. “We have had
maybe a couple of staff
cases where they were …
working in close contact.”
Nevertheless, the
spike serves as a remind-
er for the district to re-
main cautious, Thomas
said.
“It reminds us that we
must continue to be dili-
gent in those behaviors,
… always wearing your
masks, social gatherings,
observing that six feet of
distance definitely when-
ever possible,” she said.
Trailing behind
SOCSD is Lowndes Coun-
ty School District, which
had seen 45 positive cases
and had sent 413 students
and staff into quarantine
by Friday, Superintendent
Sam Allison said. Seven
students tested positive
Mississippi University for Women juniors Will Balestrino, left, and Chris Marshall say
they’ll be staying in on Halloween evening. “There’s no place to go,” said Marshall.
Sales of Halloween-themed baked goods at Vowell’s Mar-
ketplace in Starkville have been down this year, which
suggests more families are staying at home for the holi-
day, says Monique Tice, one of the store’s managers.
baseball. We want it to be
as safe as possible.”
The business
of Halloween
Businesses that cater
to Halloween sales have
last week alone, he told
The Dispatch on Monday.
Allison could not provide
The Dispatch with weekly
case counts by press time.
Since school started
Sept. 1, Allison said the
district only recently be-
gan to see an uptick in
case counts.
“We’re having a few
more cases now than we
had even
without
looking at
the num-
bers, and
they are
more wide-
spread,”
he said. Allison
“Early on, it
seemed like it was more
each week at a particular
school, but they weren’t
connected.”
Columbus Municipal
School District — where
school started the earliest
on Aug. 6 — saw fewer
cases than others. Only
14 students and five staff
members tested posi-
tive as of Friday, and 32
students and eight staff
members went through
the quarantine process,
Superintendent Cherie
Labat said. The district
saw five students testing
positive during the week
of Sept. 14, which was
the highest weekly count
since school started, she
said. However, she consid-
ered that an “outlier.”
Labat said she is con-
fident in the measures in
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seen subtle signs that
suggest people will still
have Halloween, but it
may be a different kind of
celebration.
“Candy sales have
been down a little,” said
place at CMSD. The dis-
trict is also in talks with
Allegro Clinic, she said,
to provide rapid testing
for its students and staff
members who are poten-
tially exposed to the vi-
rus.
“We’re working out
the logistics,” she said.
“Having that ability with
a clinic that can get them
in quickly to test is going
to help support keeping
our students in the class-
room.”
Learning models
Labat credited
CMSD’s low case count
to the hybrid and virtu-
al learning models the
district provides. Hybrid
models allow students to
attend classes in person
two days a week, and they
are divided into smaller
groups than usual, she
said, which reduces the
chance of infection within
schools.
As of Tuesday, 1,997
students were enrolled in
the hybrid model and an-
other 1,245 were enrolled
in all virtual.
“Our small class sizes
and our schedule have
assisted in keeping our
numbers extremely low,”
Labat said.
SOCSD has 3,297 stu-
dents learning in person
and roughly 1,700 stu-
dents learning online,
Thomas said. The safety
measures seem to have
worked so far, Guntharp
Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
Monique Tice, a manager
at Vowell’s Marketplace in
Starkville. “It’s certainly
not flying off the shelf.
Our bakery is where sales
are really way off. We nor-
mally sell lots and lots of
Halloween cupcakes, but
that’s been way down this
year. But pumpkin sales
have been great. We sold
out of our pumpkins over
the weekend.”
What does that tell her?
“I think it’s going to
be more of an at-home
Halloween this year,”
Tice said. “Less trick-or-
treating and parties. More
people staying home.”
Connie Willsey, owner
of Costume Party, a
costume shop on Russell
Street in Starkville, has
said, and the district will
only consider switching
to all-virtual learning
when 20 percent of its
population are quaran-
tined or infected.
“It’s just very hard to
replace in-person teach-
ing and learning no mat-
ter what you do,” she said.
“For some of our parents
and students, they were
just ready to go back to
that. There’s just so many
been pleasantly surprised.
Folks are still buying
costumes, she said.
“Halloween is happen-
ing this year,” she happily
noted Tuesday. “We have
been slammed all day and
grateful for it. I don’t be-
lieve it will be as good as a
typical year, but I believe
people are going for it,
regardless.”
Adult Halloween
celebrations
The realities of
COVID-19 are affecting
Halloween plans for
adults, too.
Halloween falls on
a Saturday this year.
Normally, that would be a
godsend for club owners
like Rick Welch, owner of
Rick’s Cafe, a popular ven-
ue for Mississippi State
students.
“We’ve had big crowds
in the past,” said Welch,
who will offer a scaled-
down event this year.
“We have two things
going on,” he added.
“First, we’ll have our first
band since February, but
we’ll have 30 tables, and it
will be an all-seated con-
cert. Outside at our Tiki
Bar, we’ll have a costume
party. Since it’s outside we
can have more people, but
we’re still limiting it to 100
people.”
Based on his conver-
sations with other club
more services and so
much more support that
we can provide through
an in-person or traditional
school.”
Allison did not pro-
vide the number of stu-
dents in each learning
model by press time, but
told The Dispatch he has
confidence in LCSD’s ap-
proach of handling the
pandemic. The number of
infections, he said, should
owners, he expects most
to have some sort of Hal-
loween event.
“I think everybody is
trying something, even
though they aren’t doing
big events,” Welch said.
“We still have employees
and we still have to make
a living.”
Mississippi University
for Women students Will
Balestrino and Chris
Marshall sat at the uni-
versity cafeteria Tuesday,
shooting the breeze.
What wasn’t part of the
discussion was Halloween
plans.
“Normally, I’d proba-
bly be at a party of some
sort,’’ said Balestrino, a
junior from Fort Smith,
Arkansas. “This year, to
be honest, I’m probably
going to be doing home-
work. Finals are really
close and I’ve got to get
caught up.”
Marshall’s Halloween
plans are equally unambi-
tious.
“I’m probably going
to be sitting in the dorm,
watching movies or
playing video games,” the
junior from Biloxi said. “A
lot of the people I know
personally were hoping
for something to do, but
most of them are going to
be sitting back doing a lot
of nothing.
“There’s no place to
go,” he added.
be “significant” for the
district to shift away from
in-person learning.
“We know that our stu-
dents need to be in school,
and we know the tradition-
al education is much more
effective than them being
at home,” he said. “(The
case count) would have to
be significant and it would
have to have a pattern (for
us to switch to all-virtual
learning).”
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Dodgers win title, lose Turner to COVID-19

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas
— No dogpile, no cham-
pagne and a mask on
nearly every face — the
Los Angeles Dodgers
celebrated their first
World Series title since
1988 in a manner no one
could have imagined
prior to the coronavirus
pandemic.
They did it without
Justin Turner, their
red-headed star who re-
ceived a positive test for
COVID-19 in the middle
of their clinching victo-
ry.
Turner was removed
from Los Angeles’ 3-1 all. Just experienced
victory over the Tampa every emotion you can
Bay Rays in Game 6 on possibly imagine. Can’t
Tuesday night after reg- believe I couldn’t be out
istering Major League there to celebrate with
B a s eb a l l ’s my guys! So proud of
first posi- this team & unbelievably
tive test in happy for the City of LA.”
59 days and Commissioner Rob
wasn’t on Manfred confirmed
the field as Turner’s positive test
the Dodg- moments after present-
ers enjoyed ing the World Series
the spoils Turner trophy to Los Angeles
of a title — a jarring reminder of
earned during a most all that’s been different
unusual season. in this season where
“Thanks to everyone the perennially favored
reaching out!,” Turner Dodgers finally broke
said on Twitter. “I feel through.
great, no symptoms at Mookie Betts, who
came to the Dodgers
to make a World Series
difference, had a mad
dash to home plate in the
sixth inning to put Los
Angeles over the top.
The end of a frus-
trating championship
drought for LA — and
perhaps just the start for
Betts and the Dodgers,
whose seventh World Se-
ries title was their sixth
since leaving Brooklyn
to the West Coast in
1958.
Betts bolted from
third for the go-ahead
run on World Series
MVP Corey Seager’s
infield grounder, then
led off the eighth with a
punctuating homer.
“I just came to be a
part of it. I’m just happy I
could contribute,” Betts
said
Clayton Kershaw was
warming in the bullpen
when Julio Urias struck
out Willy Adames to
end it and ran alongside
teammates to celebrate
in the infield, later joined
by family who had been
in the bubble with them
in North Texas. Play-
ers were handed face
masks as they gathered,
although many of their
embraces came mask-
free even after Turner’s
positive test.
The Dodgers had
played 5,014 regular sea-
son games and were in
their 114th postseason
game since Orel Her-
shiser struck out Oak-
land’s Tony Phillips for
the final out of the World
Series in 1988, the same
year Kershaw — the
three-time NL Cy Young
Award winner who won
Games 1 and 5 of this Se-
ries — was born in near-
by Dallas.
Los Angeles had
come up short in the
World Series twice in
See DODGERS, 2B

REPORT: MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL

Hill to
leave MSU, Three matchups to watch between
prepare
for draft
BY BEN PORTNOY
MSU and No. 2 Alabama
bportnoy@cdispatch.com

STARK VILLE —
Mississippi State run-
ning back and Colum-
bus native Kylin Hill is
reportedly planning to
leave the team to pre-
pare for the NFL draft.
Matt Zenitz of
AL.com broke the news
Tuesday afternoon
Hill will likely opt out
of the rest of the 2020
c a mp a i g n
in order
to begin
prepara-
tions for
the NFL
draft. The
Dispatch
r e a c h e d Hill
out to Mis-
sissippi State over the
matter and was told
there was no update on
Hill’s status.
A source close to the
situation told The Dis-
See HILL, 3B

Starkville
up a spot
in Class 6A
in new MS
high school
football poll
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
The Starkville High
School football team
is in the middle of a
COV I D -19 - i nduced
quarantine, but that
didn’t stop the Yellow
Jackets (7-1) from gain-
ing a spot in the Class
6A rankings when the
new Associated Press
Mississippi high school
football poll was re-
leased Tuesday.
Nine Mississippi
media outlets, includ-
ing The Commercial
Dispatch, were polled
on the top five teams in
See POLL, 3B
Mississippi State’s secondary will face a daunting task when it faces the receiving corps of No. 2 Alabama Saturday in Tuscaloosa.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Mississip-
pi State is in a tailspin.
Midway through a week
that’s seen three players leave
the program and reports have
surfaced that previously sus-
pended running back Kylin
Hill is expected to opt out of
the season and prepare for the
NFL draft, the Bulldogs are set
for a date with No. 2 Alabama
on Saturday in Tuscaloosa to
quell whatever concerns exist
in Starkville..
As 31.5-point underdogs
according to BetOnline.ag,
MSU’s chances at an upset are
bleak at best, but a solid show-
ing would go a long way in set-
tling what’s been a rocky ship
guided by Mike Leach through
four games this year.
WIth that, here’s a look at a
three matchups to watch Satur-
day:
Mississippi State offensive
line vs. Dylan Moses
There are quite literally not
enough iterations of the word
bad to describe the MSU offen-
sive line’s performance against
Texas A&M two weeks ago.
According to Pro Football
Focus, the Bulldogs graded out
at a 37.1 on a 100-point scale in
pass blocking and an only mar-
ginally better 40.6 in run block-
ing while allowing the Aggies
six sacks and five quarterback
hurries. MSU’s quarterbacks,
most notably K.J. Costello,
have had their issues, but it
doesn’t matter who’s under
center if the offensive line can’t
protect them.
Enter Alabama middle line-
backer Dylan Moses. Return-
ing from a season-ending inju-
ry he suffered during camp a
year ago, Moses ranks as the
No. 4-rated tackling linebacker
in Power Five football and sec-
ond-best in the Southeastern
Conference according to PFF.
He and running mate Christian
Harris also sit first and second
among SEC linebackers in snap
counts through the 2020 sea-
son.
Following MSU’s loss to
Texas A&M, Leach maligned
Courtesy of Mississippi State Athletics
his offensive line for the mental
mistakes that have given teams
like the Aggies a persistent abil-
ity to get after the quarterback.
With a player like Moses, along
with Harris and Christopher
Allen patrolling the middle of
the Alabama defense, they’re
in for a stiffer task than they’ve
faced all year.
“The quick word is ‘consis-
tency,’” Leach said following
the Kentucky loss. “And I know
you’re getting tired of hearing
it and I’m getting tired of say-
ing it, because however much
you’ve heard it, I’ve said it prob-
ably a thousand times more
than that. But we just have to
get consistent. It’s just a grind
and a struggle.”
See MSU, 3B
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Cashed Out: Rays manager roasted for pulling Snell in Game 6

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Tex-
as — Blake Snell turned
away from his manager
and yelled an expletive
as Kevin Cash headed to
the mound. In control all
night, the Tampa Bay ace
no longer had the ball in
his potent left hand.
Soon, the Rays no lon-
ger had a grip on the lead,
either.
The team that reached
the World Series leaning
largely on analytics was
undone by the data — and
a decision sure to become
part of October lore.
With Snell still seeth-
ing, wobbly reliever Nick
Anderson was on the
mound when Mookie
Betts’ double started a
sequence that led to two
quick runs as the Los An-
geles Dodgers rallied for
a championship-clinching
3-1 victory in Game 6 on
Tuesday night.
“I guess I regret it be-
cause it didn’t work out,”
Cash said, later adding,
“personally, I thought
Blake had done his job
and then some.”
Said Snell: “At the
end of the day, I see both
sides.”
“The hardest thing for
me is I was rolling, I was
in a groove. I felt like I had
them guessing. It’s just
tough for me. It’s going to
be tough for me to accept
that. I really don’t know
to look at it. However you
look at it, we lost.”
The Rays’ pitching phi-
losophy focuses on not
allowing starters to face
hitters for a third time in
a game, and Snell has got-
ten in trouble when he’s
stuck around too long.
But the 2018 AL Cy Young
Award winner was domi-
nant this time, and steam-
ing when he handed the
ball to Cash, regarded as
one of the bright, young
minds in the majors.
“I totally respect and
understand the questions
that come with it. Blake
gave us every opportunity
to win. He was outstand-
ing. They’re not easy deci-
sions. I didn’t want Mook-
ie seeing Blake a third
time,” Cash said.
While Anderson was
warming up, the baseball
world was heating up to
skewer Cash.
From the harsh words
of New York Mets ace
Noah Syndergaard to the
more measured reaction
of longtime reliever Jer-
ry Blevins, the sentiment
was the same.
“So who gets to pull
the manager?” Synder-
gaard tweeted.
“You manage a base-
ball game with your
EYES, HEART, & GUT
as well as your BRAIN,”
Blevins posted.
Some older sluggers
weighed in as well, such
as Hall of Famer Frank
Thomas.
“Another Analytical
Meltdown!! Total Disas-
ter for Tampa,” Thom-
as wrote. “Blake Snell
was your only chance of
winning a tight game to-
night.”
Why pull your best
pitcher with a reasonable
pitch count, nine strike-
outs and just two hits sim-
ply because it’s about to
be the third time through
the order?
“I’m not exactly sure
why. I’m not going to ask
any questions, but he was
pitching a great game,”
Betts said.
“We had a chance to do
something, but they made
a pitching change and it
seems like that’s all we
needed,” he said.
Barnes, the No. 9 hit-
ter, singled on Snell’s
73rd pitch with one out
in the sixth when Cash
made the same decision
he has so many times in
the fifth or sixth inning.
The sixth-year skipper
turned it over to a bullpen
that set a major league
record with 12 different
pitchers recording saves,
despite just a 60-game
schedule reduced by the
pandemic.
Anderson was the best
of them all in the regu-
lar season, allowing five
hits and one earned run
in 16 1/3 innings over 19
outings. But the tall right-
hander — who came from
Miami at the trading
deadline last year in one
of several shrewd deals
that made the Rays who
they are — has been or-
dinary in the postseason.
Anderson allowed a
run in his seventh consec-
utive appearance going
back to Game 5 of the AL
Division Series, a 2-1 win
over the Yankees that sent
Tampa Bay to the ALCS.
“I thought it was
Blake’s game to lose,”
Rays center fielder Kevin
Kiermaier said. “I had a
great seat in center field
in watching how he was
striking everybody out.
He had everything going.
It was an unfortunate way
to see it end.
“Kevin Cash, our front
office, they put together
a certain game plan and
they’ve been right time
and time again. We did
what we did and it didn’t
work out,” he said.
After the double by
Betts down the line in
left, Barnes scored on a
wild pitch by Anderson
that also sent Betts to
third. Corey Seager hit a
grounder to Ji-Man Choi
playing in at first base,
but Betts made the in-
stinctive play and took
off for home, beating the
throw with a head-first
slide.
“The way Cash man-
ages and does his thing,
it got us here,” Anderson
said. “Try to be as ready
as possible when my
name is called. I’ll take
the heat for not holding
my end on this kind of
playoff stretch.”
Betts hit a solo homer
off Pete Fairbanks in the
eighth inning to give a LA
a little breathing room,
and the Rays only had one
more baserunner — No. 9
hitter Mike Zunino’s sin-
gle in the seventh — after
Cash’s fateful move.
“I feel like the thought
process was right. Every
decision’s that made, that
end result has a pretty
weighing factor in how
you feel about it,” Cash
said.

Rays, Dodgers grateful to have fans at neutral-site Series

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas —
Individual whistles echo
during quieter moments,
and a single fan with
enough persistence can
leave an impression with a
chant during World Series
games with the smallest
crowds in more than 100
years.
Because of the corona-
virus, this year’s Fall Clas-
sic is being held at a neu-
tral site. A team from each
coast is playing in Texas,
drawing fans from Los
Angeles and Tampa, Flor-
ida — along with curious
Rangers supporters seeing
the home squad’s new re-
tractable-roof stadium for
the first time.
The roughly 11,000
mask-wearing fans each
night — well, they’re sup-
posed to be wearing face
coverings — are roughly
11,000 more than players
saw in the stands during
the regular season and all
of the American League
playoffs. So 40,518-seat
Globe Life Field might as
well be full as far as the
Tampa Bay Rays are con-
cerned.
“It certainly sounds
like there’s 40,000 people
in there,” manager Kev-
in Cash said. “Now, they
might be 35,000 Dodger
fans, which is OK. Any
type of loudness and ener-
gy, that creates a lot in the
dugout. That creates inten-
sity. It’s loud and it’s been
really refreshing to get to
play with fans.”
To Cash’s point, there
has been plenty of Dodg-
er blue visible for each of
the 12 games with limit-
ed crowds since the start
of the National League
Championship Series two
weeks ago. The 13th will
be Game 6 of the World Se-
ries on Tuesday night, with
Los Angeles in position to
win its first title in 32 years.
That also means plenty
of masks with the icon-
ic interlocking LA logo
since face coverings are
required except when
fans are “actively eating
or drinking” — an activity
apparently more loosely
defined by some.
There’s plenty of elbow
room on the concourses,
and fans in clusters of four
are separated by at least
one row above and below
them. Mask compliance
on the concourses is close
to 100%, while in the seats
about one in four can be
seen either without a mask
on, or with the covering
pulled down around the
neck.
Many of these fans,
though, are used to being
crammed into the corri-
dors of, say, Dodger Stadi-
um, in the postseason.
“It’s great that it’s emp-
ty and it’s clean and it was
easy to get in,” said Ana
Chacon, born, raised and
still living in Los Angeles
County. “But it sucks that
not everyone got to come.
And it sucks that it’s not in
Los Angeles.”
Game 1’s restricted to-
tal of 11,388 was the small-
est Series crowd since
10,535 attended Game 6 in
1909 between the Tigers
and Pittsburgh at Detroit’s
Bennett Park, according to
the Elias Sports Bureau.
It’s the first World Se-
ries played entirely at one
ballpark since 1944 be-
tween the Cardinals and
Browns at Sportsman’s
Park in St. Louis — and
the fourth overall. The
Yankees and Giants shared
New York’s Polo Grounds
in 1921 and 1922.
Jacob Ornelas grew up
in the Dallas area before
returning to his native El
Paso. He still makes it back
for Texas Rangers games
and would have been at
Globe Life Field’s first
opening day had fans been
allowed.
Ornelas went to games
at the original homes of
the Rangers, since-demol-
ished Arlington Stadium,
and watched them in the
World Series a decade
ago at Globe Life Park.
The open-air facility is still
standing across the street
from the new place.
He was standing in a
concession line, trying to
keep his social distance,
on a concourse with large
dots everywhere remind-
ing people to stay 6 feet
(1.8 meters) apart. Just like
with the masks, some lines
were compliant, others not
so much.
“It takes away from the
experience overall, but not
my experience as far as
being here the first time,
being in a World Series,”
Ornelas said. “It’s a World
Series, not the regular sea-
son. The crowd, the noise.”
Los Angeles pitcher
Tony Gonsolin said he no-
ticed a stronger presence
of Dodgers fans in the
World Series compared
with the NLCS, which
might have to do with the
Atlanta Braves having a
strong national following
themselves. LA beat Atlan-
ta in Game 7 to advance.
“Overall, it’s a little bit
louder,” Gonsolin said.
“Those exciting moments
are a little more exciting.
It’s just a fun atmosphere.”
The retractable roof has
served a purpose as well.
It was open for the first
two games, when the tem-
perature at first pitch was
in the low 80s Fahrenheit
(high 20s Celsius) during
a usually mild time of year
in Texas.
It was about 30 degrees
cooler for Game 3, so the
roof was closed, then re-
opened with a game-time
temperature of 57 degrees
Fahrenheit (13.9 degrees
Celsius) for Game 4. A cold
and rainy Sunday closed
the roof again for Game
5.40
It’s almost certain to
remain closed for Game
6, and, if necessary, Game
7. The final two nights in
Texas will be classic fall
weather straight out of
New York, Boston or Phil-
adelphia — temperatures
in the 40s, with possible
drizzle or light rain.

Dodgers
Continued from Page 1B
the previous three years. Bet-
ts was on the other side two
years ago and homered in the
clinching Game 5 for the Bos-
ton Red Sox, who before this
season traded the 2018 AL
MVP to the Dodgers. They
later gave him a $365 million,
12-year extension that goes
until he turns 40 in 2032.
Betts’ 3.2-second sprint
was just enough to beat the
throw by first baseman Ji-
Man Choi, pushing Los Ange-
les ahead 2-1 moments after
Rays manager Kevin Cash
pulled ace left-hander Blake
Snell despite a dominant per-
formance over 5 1/3 innings.
“I’m not exactly sure why,”
Betts said when asked about
the move. “I’m not going to
ask any questions. He was
pitching a great game.”
Randy Arozarena, the pow-
erful Tampa Bay rookie, ex-
tended his postseason record
with his 10th homer in the
first off rookie right-hander
Tony Gonsolin, the first of
seven Dodgers pitchers. The
Rays never got another run-
ner past second base as LA’s
bullpen gave reliever-reliant
Tampa Bay a taste of its own
medicine.
About 2 1/2 weeks after
the Lakers won the NBA title
while finishing their season
in the NBA bubble in Orlan-
do, Florida, the Dodgers gave
Los Angeles another champi-
onship in this year when the
novel coronavirus pandemic
has delayed, shortened and
moved around sports sea-
sons.
Seager, also the NLCS
MVP, set Dodgers records
with eight homers and 20
RBIs this postseason.
The MLB season didn’t
start until late July and was
abbreviated to 60 games for
the shortest regular season
since 1878. And the expand-
ed postseason, with 16 teams
making it instead of 10, al-
most went the full distance.
It ended when Urias got
the last two out Tampa Bay
batters on called third strikes
— the 15th and 16 Ks by the
Rays, with catcher Austin
Barnes stuffing the last pitch
in his back pocket. Along
with the 11 strikeouts by the
Dodgers, it was the most com-
bined strikeouts in a nine-in-
ning World Series game.
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Poll
Continued from Page 1B
each class and the top 10
overall.
Teams earned 10
points for a first-place
vote, nine for a sec-
ond-place vote, and so
on.
Starkville went from
fourth last week to third
this week in Class 6A
while remaining fifth
in the overall rankings.
Oak Grove (7-0) topped
the poll in both catego-
ries.
Oxford was second
in Class 6A, D’Iberville
was fourth, and North-
west Rankin entered the
rankings at fifth.
Starkville has forfeit-
ed this week’s sched-
uled home game against
Warren Central, which
fell out of the rankings
after a loss to Clinton
last Friday. Clinton will
be Starkville’s final op-
ponent of the regular
season on Nov. 6.
In other polls
-- West Point (5-3)
received one fewer vote
than it did last week
among Class 5A schools
despite a 47-14 win over
Columbus at home Fri-
day. After falling out of
the poll entirely with
back-to-back losses to
Lake Cormorant and
Grenada, West Point
received two fifth-place
votes; this week, the
Green Wave received
just one. Picayune (8-0)
took over the top spot
in Class 5A after top-
ranked Neshoba Central
lost to Ridgeland, put-
ting the Rockets third
and the Titans fourth.
West Jones was second
in the class, and La-
fayette was fifth. West
Point is on the road Fri-
day to face New Hope
(2-6).
-- Heritage Academy
(7-2) is again receiving
votes among private
schools after beating
Washington School 35-6
on Friday in Greenville.
The Patriots earned
two fifth-place votes, in-
cluding The Dispatch’s
selection. They got the
second-most votes of
teams outside the top
five, which consists of
Madison-R idgeland
Academy, Leake Acad-
emy, Jackson Prep,
Jackson Academy and
Greenville Christian.
The Patriots have a bye
this week and await the
winner of Friday’s first-
round MAIS Class 5A
playoff game against
Starkville Academy and
Simpson Academy for a
Nov. 6 home game.
-- Noxubee County
(5-1) remained second
behind Magee after a
dominant 29-0 home
win over Choctaw Coun-
ty to clinch home-field
advantage in the Class
3A playoffs. The Tigers
finished ahead of Co-
lumbia and West Mari-
on, which tied for third,
and fifth-place North
Panola. Noxubee Coun-
ty earned three first-
place votes, including
The Dispatch’s choice.
Here’s the ballot Theo
DeRosa submitted for
The Dispatch:
Overall top 10
1. Oak Grove (7-0)
2. Starkville (7-1)
3. Madison-Ridge-
land Academy (9-0)
4. Oxford (7-0)
5. Picayune (8-0)
6. West Jones (8-1)
7. Leake Academy
(10 -0) 3. Corinth (5-2)
8. D’Iberville (7-0) 4. Pontotoc (7-1)
9. Lafayette (6 -2) 5. Poplarville (5-3)
10. Ridgeland (8-1) Class 5A
Class 1A 1. Picayune (8-0)
1. Nanih Waiya (7-0) 2. West Jones (8-1)
2. Lumberton (7-1) 3. Lafayette (6 -2)
3. Biggersville (8-0) 4. Ridgeland (8-1)
4. TCPS (5-2) 5. Neshoba Central
5. Simmons (6 -1) (8-1)
Class 2A Class 6A
1. Taylorsville (7-1) 1. Oak Grove (7-0)
2. North Side (4-0)
2. Starkville (7-1)
3. Enterprise Clarke
3. Oxford (7-0)
(6 -1)
4. D’Iberville (7-0)
4. Scott Central (6 -1)
5. Union (6 -2) 5. Northwest Rankin
Class 3A (7-1)
1. Noxubee County Private schools
(5-1) 1. Madison-Ridge-
2. West Marion (6 -2) land Academy (9-0)
3. Columbia (7-1) 2. Leake Academy
4. Magee (6 -0) (10 -0)
5. North Panola (5-1) 3. Jackson Prep (7-2)
Class 4A 4. Greenville Chris-
1. Louisville (7-1) tian (8-1)
2. Newton County (8- 5. Heritage Academy
0) (7-2)

MSU
Continued from Page 1B

K.J. Costello/Will
Rogers vs. Alabama
secondary
It remains to be seen
which of Costello and
Rogers gets the first
crack at the Alabama de-
fense Saturday. Leach
said Monday that the pair
will split No. 1 reps at least
through the first few prac-
tices this week before he
decides on a starter.
That said, whoever
does end up under center
against the Crimson Tide
— and it’s fair to assume
both will get a shot —
they’ll get a shot against
a secondary that ranks
the lowest it’s been in the
SEC since 2014.
Through five games,
Alabama’s pass defense
currently sits 11th in the
SEC and No. 80 of 101
teams playing this fall.
That said, the Crimson
Tide have been appre-
ciably better against the
pass in home games this
season, allowing just 604
yards, five touchdowns
and forcing five intercep-
tions compared to the
nearly 1,400 yards they’ve
surrendered on the road.
Since its season open-
ing win over then-No. 6
LSU, MSU’s passing of-
fense has been atrocious.
And while a chunk of that
falls on the offensive line,
Costello has done little to
help his cause following
a record-setting perfor-
mance against the Tigers
in Baton Rouge. In the
three games since, he’s
been benched twice and
currently leads the nation
with 10 interceptions.
“I think competition
is a great thing. It brings
out the best in you,” ju-
nior wide receiver Austin
Williams said when asked
about the quarterback
competition Tuesday. “A
little adversity is always
good; it makes you over-
come it, and I definitely
have seen them both rise
to the occasion. I think
they’ve both had good
weeks. They’re compet-
ing hard, and I think I’ve
got full faith and confi-
dence in both of them.”
Leach is going to live
and die by the passing
game, and if Costello or
Rogers are ineffective,
things could get ugly
quickly in Tuscaloosa.
MSU secondary
vs. Alabama wide
receiver corps
Alabama lost a huge
piece to its national cham-
pionship puzzle when re-
ceiver Jaylen Waddle went
down with a season-end-
ing ankle injury during
last week’s game against
Tennessee. However, if
recruiting rankings prove
anything, the Crimson
Tide have plenty of capa-
ble options on deck.
Over the past three re-
cruiting classes, Nick Sa-
ban and co. have secured
signatures from six four-
star receivers. Waddle’s
injury undoubtedly hurts,
but there’s ample talent
left to mitigate the loss.
As for MSU, the Bull-
dogs were dealt a blow
of their own when it was
revealed by Leach last
week that starting safety
Fred Peters could miss
the rest of the season due
to an undisclosed injury.
With Peters out, sopho-
more Collin Duncan like-
ly slides into a starting
role, though classmate
Shawn Preston Jr. could
move over from Bulldog
to safety.
Through five games,
Alabama ranks third
nationally in passing of-
fense. That may see a
slight downturn given
Waddle’s injury, but the
MSU secondary is in for a
fight against a slew of top-
flight receivers and quar-
terback Mac Jones.
“The bye’s been just
building, taking it day by
day, processing, just seiz-
ing every opportunity,”
sophomore cornerback
Martin Emerson Jr. said.
“Coming off the bye week
we just feel like we’ve got
our bodies right. We’re
just ready to go to war.
We’ve got to turn the sea-
son around right now, and
it starts Saturday.”

Hill
Continued from Page 1B

patch last week Hill would
be suspended for the Tex-
as A&M game, though it
was unclear whether the
suspension would contin-
ue beyond that one con-
test.
Sports Illustrated’s
Ross Dellenger reported
Tuesday the suspension
arose after Hill was in-
volved in an outburst fol-
lowing MSU’s loss to Ken-
tucky on Oct. 10.
Monday head coach
Mike Leach was asked
about Hill’s status with
the team, responding that
there was “”No update.
He’s still unavailable.”
Last season, Hill fin-
ished the regular season
as the Southeastern Con-
ference’s leading rusher
and concluded the year
just 41 yards shy of An-
thony Dixon’s single-sea-
son MSU record. The
former Columbus High
School standout will leave
Starkville with 2,535 yards
and 67 touchdowns on the
ground.
In three appearances
this year, Hill totaled 15
rushes for 58 yards, while
also notching 23 recep-
tions for 237 yards and a
touchdown through the
air.
Hill also proved instru-
and Jo’quavious Marks.
Through four games the
pair has combined for 135
yards on 34 carries and
another 144 yards on 34
receptions.
MSU is set to play No.
2 Alabama Saturday in
Tuscaloosa. The Bulldogs
have lost three straight
contests since opening
the season with a win over
then-No. 6 LSU in Baton
Rouge.
Trio of Mississippi State
football players plan-
ning to transfer
The mid-season exodus
continues at Mississippi
State.
After quarterback Gar-
rett Shrader announced
his intention to transfer last
week, a source confirmed
to The Dispatch that junior
signal caller Jalen Mayden
and redshirt freshman
Nick Pendley have entered
the transfer portal.
Paul Jones of 247Sports
first reported the news.
Mayden’s departure is
the most high-profile of
the most recent exports.
A former four-star recruit
in the class of 2018, he was
rated the No. 361 recruit
in the class and the No. 16
dual-threat quarterback
high-profile get for former and especially the entire nior running back Kareem Walker was signed out of
coach Joe Moorhead and HailState Nation for em- Walker is also no longer Ft. Scott Community Col-
his staff, he never found a bracing me as one of your with the team but has not lege in Kansas by Moor-
true path to playing time own.” entered the transfer portal head’s staff. He appeared
during his time at MSU. In
After news surround- of yet. in just two games this sea-
2019 he was firmly behind
both Tommy Stevens and ing Pendley and Mayden A former four-star re- son and did not record a
Shrader in the quarterback broke, Jones reported se- cruit and Michigan signee, single carry.
pecking order. Mayden
was again slotted No. 3 on
the depth chart this season
as head coach Mike Leach
has noted on multiple occa-
sions, including Monday,
K.J. Costello and Will Rog-
ers were solidly in the top
two quarterback slots.
“He does some good
things, working on con-
sistency,” Leach said of
Monday on Oct. 12. “He’s
getting better as we speak.
I do have him behind K.J.
and Will though.”
Should Mayden leave
the program, Costello and
Rogers would be the lone
remaining scholarship
quarterbacks on the roster
this fall. The Bulldogs are
slated to bring in four-star
recruit Sawyer Robertson
and three-star passer Dan-
iel Greek in the 2021 class
as well.
As for Pendley, he ar-
rived at MSU as a three-
star recruit in the class
of 2019 according to
247Sports. In parts of two
years, he appeared in six

mental in changing the
Mississippi state flag over
the offseason, threatening
to sit out the season should
the Confederate battle em-
according to the 247Sports
Composite.
“In Texas he’s a great
athlete,” Mayden’s high
school coach Red Behrens
Reliable
games for the Bulldogs
-- including the first four
games of the 2020 cam-
paign.
Pendley addressed re-

blem not be removed from
the state banner. He was
presented a key to the city
of Columbus in July for his
told The Dispatch over
the summer. “And I know
y’all have a lot of athletes
in Mississippi, but he was
information
ports of his entry into the
transfer portal Tuesday
morning via Twitter.
“I want to say thank you

efforts.
It’s expected MSU’s
running back duties will
now fall to the freshman
a very athletic kid for us
and made some great plays
with both his legs and his
arm.”
when we
to Mississippi State Uni-
versity for the opportunity
you gave me,” he wrote.
“I would also like to thank

need it most. 
tandem of Dillon Johnson While Mayden was a the coaches, teammates,

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Par 3 Contest out, ‘College GameDay’ in at different Masters

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS audience and provide even
more anticipation and ex-
The Par 3 Contest is citement to the event,” Au-
out at the spectator-free gusta National Chairman
Masters in November. Fred Ridley said.
ESPN’s “College It helps that ESPN is a
GameDay” is in. broadcast partner of the
Augusta National an- Masters and will televise
nounced Tuesday more the opening two rounds.
changes to a Masters The coverage typical-
tournament that will be ly begins on Wednesday
unlike any of the previ- with the Par 3 Contest, a
ous 83. The most unusual showcase of past champi-
of all is ESPN’s popular
ons and current players
college football pregame
before an enormous gal-
show taking place on a lery that rarely lacks for
stage that overlooks Ike’s big roars, such as the time
Pond and the ninth green Jack Nicklaus had his
of the Par 3 course. grandson play a shot and
“When exploring ways he made a hole-in-one.
to showcase a fall Mas- The Par 3 Contest dates
ters, we were drawn to the to 1960 and is a big part of
concept of hosting ‘Col- the tradition at Augusta
lege GameDay’ at Augus- National, mainly the jinx
ta National to introduce that no one has ever won
the tournament to a new the Par 3 and the Masters
in the same year.
“We know that experi-
ence could not have been
replicated without guests
and patrons at Augusta
National,” Ridley said.
So much about this
Masters is different be-
cause of the COVID-19
pandemic, which shut
down golf on March 13
and led Augusta National
to postpone the Masters
until Nov. 12-15, without
spectators for the first
time.
Because of the fall
date and shorter daylight
hours, the club said the
weekday rounds would
be played in threesomes
off the first and 10th tees
in morning and afternoon
waves. The field remains
set at 96 players who were
eligible in April. Those
who have qualified since
then, such as PGA Tour
winners Daniel Berger
and Jim Herman, will not
play until 2021.
“College GameDay”
will certainly get a venue
unlike any other. It typi-
cally travels to a college
stadium that features a
marquee matchup — Al-
abama has hosted it the
most times since it began
in 1993 — though it has
gone off campus.
The most notable was
in 2017 when “College
GameDay” was held in
Times Square. It also
was held on the USS San
Diego in 2012 as part of a
salute to veterans.
ESPN said host Rece
Davis will be joined at Au-
gusta National by analyst
Kirk Herbstreit, former
Heisman Trophy winner
Desmond Howard and for-
mer Georgia star David
Pollack, among others.
“Any time ‘College
GameDay’ travels to a new
destination it’s special,
and the opportunity to be
on the grounds of Augusta
National Golf Club during
the Masters is extraordi-
nary,” said Jimmy Pitaro,
chairman of ESPN and
Sports Content.
Because of the pan-
demic, no spectators
have been on site for the
program. For the Mas-
ters, players are allowed
to bring a spouse or fam-
ily member, while Au-
gusta National members
also are allowed on the
grounds.
The ESPN show on
Saturday will be from
9 a.m. to noon, ending
an hour before the CBS
coverage starts of the
third round.
One tradition won’t
change. The Masters
said six-time champion
Jack Nicklaus and three-
time champion Gary
Player will hit the cer-
emonial first tee shot.
Starting times have not
been announced, but
they will be early.
The club already
has announced that
those who bought tick-
ets through Augusta
National will be able to
shop for merchandise
online (two purchases).
It also has a free email
newsletter from the
Masters that it will send
to all fans.

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DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
Our 19-year-
old daughter
is wonderful in
many ways. She’s
smart, attends
a university on
academic schol-
arships and earns
excellent grades.
The problem is the
way she dresses.
ZITS Her shorts are so
short they show
some cheek, the
bathing suits
she wears in our
backyard pool are Dear Abby
almost thongs,
she runs at the track in spandex
and a sports bra and gets
catcalls.
I understand the outfit would
be OK for a formal race, but at
the track? Why not throw on a
T-shirt? The most recent exam-
ple was a Sunday afternoon,
GARFIELD ladies-only baby shower, to
which she wore a pale pink (it
looked nude) clingy dress that
barely covered her butt. No one
else was dressed like that. I was
embarrassed. She wasn’t raised
like this.
I understand there are times
when a young woman wants to
look alluring. I have tried to talk
to her about classy/sexy versus
trampy, but she gets defensive.
Any advice? — EMBARRASSED
MOM IN WEST VIRGINIA
DEAR MOM: Many young
CANDORVILLE
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
28). Working on relationships
looks a lot like working on your-
self this year, because that is
precisely what it entails. As you
keep doing more out of a deep
care and respect for yourself, re-
lationships get more rewarding.
A stellar professional opportu-
nity opens in December. Early
2021 brings financial restructur-
ing. Gemini and Libra adore you.
BABY BLUES Your lucky numbers are: 28, 1,
44, 5 and 17.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
It’s easier to create a scenario
than it is to change it. The best
interactions will be partly spon-
taneous and partly designed.
You can’t control other people,
but you can powerfully position
yourself to maximize your
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
women dress the
way your daughter
does in an attempt
to emulate current
social media
personalities.
Others do it to get
attention because
they are not sure
they have anything
more to offer.
Because lecturing
your daughter
has fallen on deaf
ears, let her learn
these lessons on
her own. And in
the meantime,
concentrate on
helping her to appreciate more of
the important qualities she has
to offer in addition to what I am
assuming is a killer figure.
DEAR ABBY: My husband
and I have been together for 15
years. We seem to have a lot of
issues every year around fall. It
has been this way for the last
five years.
While my husband and I were
separated, he was intimate for
a month with a younger woman.
He decided to stop seeing her
and returned home to work on
our marriage, but before he
approached me about working
things out, he apologized to her
first. I don’t understand why
he owed her an apology. It still
bothers me that he felt the need
to apologize to her first and not
me. What should I do? — HURT IN
influence.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Making connections is easier
with a mutually agreeable propo-
sition, but right now that’s not
what’s on the table. You can say
yes to a person even though you
have to say no to the offer the
person is making.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You provide a mirror for others.
They feel seen and heard. Your
manner of relating is a gift, an
emotional balm. Such exchang-
es are more valuable than
most realize. Indeed, they can
alleviate suffering.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Relationships, like time, are
always moving forward. So don’t
be surprised if the thing that
worked three months or three
THE MIDWEST
DEAR HURT: Your husband
may not have been entirely
honest with the younger woman
about his marital status, or he
may have felt guilty for leading
her on. Who knows? In the
interest of saving your marriage, I
suggest you focus your attention
on the fact that you have your
husband back and let this go.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a dad with
four kids, three of them grown.
When we celebrate my birthday
or my wife’s, or Father’s Day or
Mother’s Day, I’m the one who
always pays. For the most recent
Father’s Day dinner, the check
was $240. My wife and I are still
paycheck-to-paycheck people,
and at least one of my kids
makes five times as much as
we do between her and her boy-
friend. Am I getting this wrong?
— NOT MADE OF MONEY
DEAR NOT MADE: No, you are
not. In some families, the parent,
“the head of the family,” picks up
the check for celebrations. How-
ever, once the children become
adults, they usually step forward
on occasions like birthdays,
anniversaries, Mother’s Day
and Father’s Day and treat their
parents. Because your children
don’t seem to have noticed that
they are now adults, you should
point it out to them. Because of
the disparity in your incomes,
they should at LEAST offer to
treat you and your wife on special
occasions.
years ago will work differently
now, or won’t work at all. This is
an invitation to get creative.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You’re ditching the guided tour
and striking out on your own.
After all, who can tell you what
you’re interested in? Not even
you, but you’ll know it when you
see it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
What you give is exceptionally
valuable, and yet, as it can go in
the extremely high-end places,
the price tag reflecting that
value isn’t attached. One has
to know to know. If they don’t
know, they don’t belong in the
shop.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Leave yourself room for flexibili-
ty. Knowing what you are willing
and not willing to do is tricky
because it constantly changes
depending on who is asking,
the convenience of the ask and
other variables in the moment.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Some problems need to
be approached as you would a
garden. You pay attention for a
short while — seed, weed, trim
— and then you leave it to do
what it will until your next visit.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Your distinct upbringing is
a strength. There may be things
about it that you don’t feel the
need to share, and yet, you can
be sure that you are a stronger
person because of all you’ve
experienced.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). When the job is over, the
problem is solved; the drain is
plugged... it seems it should
be a moment of relief, and yet,
there’s a pang instead, repre-
sentative of an affectionate
involvement with trouble.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). When connecting with
people you know well, you can
predict where the interaction
will go. And this is why it’s
important to add a variable to
the scenario — new location,
different sidekicks, odd timing
— just to keep it fresh.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Among your goals is one
that’s as ambitious as it is
undefined. Perhaps the reason
you haven’t stated exactly the
result you are looking for is that
it’s intangible; it’s a feeling or a
state of mind.

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The care and feeding

of ghosts and goblins
familyfeatures.com
Try serving these smoked salm-
on cucumber boats appetizers at
your family gatherings this holiday
season.

Smoked salmon
recipes elevate
any occasion
D
elicious, colorful and ver-
satile, smoked salmon can
make it easy to elevate your
holiday festivities, which might
look shockingly different this year.
Whether it’s your family or a
small group of friends, you can
feel good about serving sustain-
able smoked salmon to your
guests. Highlight smoked salmon
at socially distanced gatherings
with these recipes and tips from
chef Nora Pouillon, a James Beard
Lifetime Achievement Award
winner, and her daughter, Blue
Circle Foods product director Nina
Damato.
tasteofhome.com
Ready, set, serve These savory witches’ hats are flavored with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil and garlic powder, but a sweeter
version made with chocolate chips is an equally tasty treat for this coming weekend.
There’s no need to prep or cook
smoked salmon — it’s sliced and
ready to eat so you can impress BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch
your guests in no time with a col-

orful smoked salmon platter.
n Arrange smoked salmon
layers on a decorative platter.
n Garnish with your favorite
charcuterie sides like olives,
capers, pickles and sliced lemon,
tomato, cucumber or radish.
n Season with dill sprigs, sea
salt and fresh cracked pepper.
n Serve with an assortment of
crackers or buttered triangles of
crustless brown bread.
A seafood superfood
Smoked salmon is a nutritional
powerhouse full of antioxidants,
omega-3s and protein. A 2-ounce
serving of Blue Circle smoked
salmon contains 1,000 mg of
health-boosting omega-3s, which
meets the daily requirements
recommended by the FDA’s
2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for
Americans. To make the most of
a healthy choice, look for smoked
salmon that does not contain sugar
or added preservatives.
To ensure your smoked salmon
is sourced with the environment
and your health in mind, purchase
products that are free from antibi-
otics, GMOs, added hormones and
synthetic colorants.
From traditional tastes to keto,
gluten-free or dairy-free canapes,
smoked salmon fits the bill. Its
clean ingredient profile means it
satisfies many common dietary
restrictions.
For mouthwatering appetizers,
try Pouillon’s Smoked Salmon Cu-
cumber Boats. If you enjoy pairing
smoked salmon with traditional fla-
vors like cream cheese and capers,
consider her Smoked Salmon Rolls
with Cream Cheese and Caper
Filling.
To access more recipes and tips,
visit bluecirclefoods.com.
See SALMON, 6B
A
s the witching hour draws
nearer, festivity-starved
souls are counting the days
until All Hallows’ Eve. Weather-
folk predict the holiday will come
suitably wrapped in crisp fall
temperatures and clear skies —
just right for tall tales around a fire
pit and toasting a marshmallow or
two. Last Wednesday, we looked at
ways to more safely adapt our Hal-
loween to this frightful 2020 and
also included ideas for healthy-ish
themed snacks. Today, we’re har-
vesting some heartier recipes to fill
up whatever costumed characters
haunt your house. Whet their appe-
tites with crescent roll witches hats
or fruit candy corn. Warm them up
from the inside out with monster
spaghetti, Frankenstein pasta or
spooky chicken noodle soup. superhealthykids.com
As for appetizers, make your Pineapple, mandarin oranges and apples are all that’s needed to conjure
fruit candy corn by getting to- up fruit candy corn.
gether large toothpicks, pineapple
rings, mandarin oranges and chips and 2 teaspoons of powdered
apples (or bananas). Cut the fruit sugar or unsweetened baking
into pieces of descending curved or cocoa. Put crescent roll dough
triangular size (pineapple larger, triangles on an ungreased cookie
orange smaller, apple as the small- sheet and then sprinkle a heaping
est triangle). Spear them together teaspoon of chocolate chips across
on toothpicks to form your “corn,” the wide end of the crescent tri-
says superhealthykids.com. For angle; roll it over once to form the
the dip, combine 1 cup plain Greek brim of a hat. Form the rest of the
style yogurt, 1 tablespoon natural crescent triangle into a hat shape,
peanut butter and 1 tablespoon curving the point. Bake your hats
honey. 9-11 minutes, or until they’re gold-
Pick up a couple of packages en brown. Use a fine mesh strainer
of crescent rolls because you just to sprinkle powdered sugar or
may want to make two versions of cocoa on top and then serve these
witches’ hats — savory and sweet. treats warm from the oven.
A savory recipe from tasteofhome. Make the most you can of this
com is included on page 6B. For holiday season opener. May it be
the sweet option, try this one from filled with far more treats than superhealthykids.com
pillsbury.com. You’ll want 1/4 cup tricks. Frankenstein, anyone? Add some
miniature semisweet chocolate See HALLOWEEN, 6B fall fun to a filling pasta dish.

Add appetizing Asian flavor to your menu

FAMILY FEATURES enjoying a meal around the fiber, vitamin C, vitamin B6,
table with loved ones. potassium and other key nutri-

W
Chinese
style bao hether this back-to- For an ethnic twist on ents such as folate, calcium and
buns with school season calls mealtime, try these Chinese iron.
pickled for at-home learning style bao buns with pickled red Also known as nature’s ninja
red onions or heading back to the class- onions to add Far East flavor to due to their many “skills,” on-
bring a Far room, busy evenings are likely the menu. One key ingredient: ions can add abundant flavor to
East flavor
to your a constant for many families. onions, which at just 45 calories many dishes. They are also rich
table. One way to relieve stress and per serving boost the flavor of in heart-healthy nutrients and
familyfeatures.com hit reset on hectic times is by the dish as a source of dietary See ASIAN, 6B
6B WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Halloween
Continued from Page 5B
SAVORY WITCHES HATS
Prep/total time: 25 minutes
Makes 16 rolls
2 tubes (8 ounces each)
refrigerated crescent rolls
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup minced fresh basil
2 tablespoons oil-packed sun-
dried tomatoes, patted dry
and finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
n Preheat oven to 375 F.
Unroll each tube of crescent
dough; separate each dough
into eight triangles. In a small
bowl, mix remaining ingredi-
ents. Spread 1 teaspoon filling
along the wide end of each
triangle; carefully roll up once
to form brim of hat.
n Place 2 inches apart on
ungreased baking sheets.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until
golden brown. Rotate halfway
through baking to ensure even
browning.
(Source: tasteofhome.com/
Mara Fletcher)
FRANKENSTEIN PASTA
1 cup basil, fresh
2 cloves garlic
1/3 ounce (167 kernels) pine
nuts, dried
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese,
grated
1 dash salt
1/3 cup olive oil
16 ounces whole wheat pasta
shells
3 medium cucumbers
4 ounces mozzarella cheese
1 cup black olives, canned
n In a blender or food pro-
cessor combine basil, garlic,
pine nuts, Parmesan, salt (you
can add pepper if you want as
well) and olive oil. Taste and
add more salt, pepper or garlic
if desired.
n Bring a pot of water (about
5 cups) to a boil and add
whole wheat pasta. Cook
according to box instructions.
Drain and add pesto sauce.
Stir well and let cool.
n Peel and chop up 1 1/2 of
the cucumbers and stir into
pasta.
n Pour out onto a platter
and make a rectangle out of
the pasta. Cut two slices of
mozzarella and make them
into circles using a cookie
cutter or knife. Use olives to
create Frank’s hair, pupils and
mouth. Use the rest of the
cucumber to make “bolts” in
the side of his neck.
(Source: superhealthykids.
com)
MONSTER SPAGHETTI
1 box whole grain spaghetti
1 tablespoon black food
coloring
Stuffed olives, or olives of
your choice
Your favorite spaghetti sauce
n Begin cooking whole grain
spaghetti as instructed on
the box. As soon as you add
the pasta to the boiling water,
add one tablespoon of black
food coloring into the boiling
water. The spaghetti should
absorb the food coloring and
turn black.
n Prepare the spaghetti
sauce, but do not mix it in with
the pasta just yet.
n Next, monsterize your meal:
This step is the most fun
because the whole family gets
involved. Put a serving of spa-
ghetti on a plate and top with
sauce of your choice. Place
olives on top of the sauce to
give your spooky spaghetti
some eerie eyes.
(Source: extension.unh.edu)
SPOOKY CHICKEN
NOODLE SOUP
Your favorite chicken noodle
soup recipe
3 carrots
1 package bow tie pasta
1 tablespoon black food
coloring
n Wash and peel the carrots
and cut into discs. Turn the
discs into pumpkins by cutting
out little stems and rounding
the top edges. Start the soup.
n Cook the pasta separately
from the rest of the soup.
Begin by following directions
on the pasta package. Once
the water is boiling, add the
pasta and food coloring. Once
cooked to your liking, drain the
pasta and add to the soup.
Serve the soup in a festive
witch’s cauldron (or a bowl) to
hungry ghouls and ghosts.
(Source: extension.unh.edu)

Asian
Continued from Page 5B
have been shown to help
prevent some cancers.
Find more back-to-
school meal ideas at
onions-usa.org.
CHINESE STYLE BAO
BUNS WITH PICKLED
RED ONIONS
Pickled red onions:
1 medium red onion
2/3 cup red wine vinegar
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 tablespoon salt
1/4 cup red wine
2 cloves
Beef bao buns:
1 pound boneless beef ribs
1 tablespoon five-spice
powder
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 1/2 cups beef stock
1 cup hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon ginger, grated
12 bao buns (available in
most Asian markets in freez-
er section)
3 green onions, cut on bias
n To make pickled red on-
ions: Slice onion in half then
slice 1/4 inch. In saucepot,
combine vinegar, sugar, salt,
wine and cloves. Place onions
in liquid. Simmer 3-4 minutes,
swirling pan to ensure onions
are exposed to hot mixture.
Remove from heat and steep
15 minutes. Place in clean
container in refrigerator at
least 2 hours. Onions should
be submerged in liquid.
n To make beef bao buns:
Heat oven to 350 F.
n Rub beef with five-spice
powder, salt and pepper. Heat fore shredding with fork. n Place beef between bao
saute pan and sear beef on n Place remaining stock buns and garnish with pickled
all sides. Remove and place in saucepan over medium red onions and green onions.
in baking dish. Add garlic to heat. Reduce by half, or until Serve while warm.
pan and saute briefly. Deglaze thickened so it can coat back (Source: Recipe courtesy of
pan with beef stock and bring of spoon. Toss shredded beef Aran Essig on behalf of the
to simmer, scraping up cara- with sauce. National Onion Association)
melized bits stuck to bottom
of pan. Add hoisin sauce and
ginger to simmering stock.
Pour stock over beef.
n Cover baking dish with
parchment and aluminum foil
and bake 2 hours, or until
beef can be pulled apart with
fork.
n Remove beef from stock
and allow to cool slightly be-

Salmon
Continued from Page 5B
SMOKED SALMON
CUCUMBER BOATS
1 English cucumber (about 1 1/2 inches
thick and 10 inches long)
1 medium tomato, seeded and cut into
tiny pieces
1/4 cup scallions, finely chopped
1 tablespoon dill sprigs, finely chopped,
plus additional for serving (optional),
divided
1 tablespoon lemon juice
4ounces Blue Circle Smoked Salmon,
chopped or pulsed
Salt and pepper, to taste
n Slice cucumber in half lengthwise
and use spoon to scoop out seeds. If
cucumber skin is too thick, peel before
slicing.
n Gently mix tomato, scallions, 1
tablespoon dill, lemon juice and smoked
salmon until combined. Season with salt
and pepper, to taste.
n Fill cucumber halves with smoked
salmon mixture.
n Slice cucumber boats into 1/2-3/4-
inch pieces crosswise.
n To serve, place pieces on platter and
garnish with additional dill, if desired.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of chef Nora
Pouillon)
SMOKED SALMON ROLLS
WITH CREAM CHEESE
AND CAPER FILLING
4 ounces Blue Circle Smoked Salmon
Olive oil
6 ounces cream cheese
2 tablespoons small capers, drained,
plus additional for serving, divided
(optional)
1/2 medium red onion, finely diced
1 tablespoon chopped Italian parsley
Salt and pepper, to taste
n Layer smoked salmon slices on lightly
oiled aluminum foil, overlapping slightly.
n Mix cream cheese with capers, onion
and parsley. Season with salt and pep-
per, to taste.
n Place thick line of cream cheese mix-
ture along long side of salmon.
n Roll up salmon carefully with help of
aluminum foil, similar to sushi roll.
n Chill in refrigerator 2-3 hours or over-
night to firm up roll.
n To serve, use sharp knife to slice
salmon roll into 1/2-inch long pieces.
n Place rolls on serving plate and gar-
nish with additional capers, if desired.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of chef Nora
Pouillon)

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at 1020 ½ Gardner Blvd.,
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and Recovery LLC. They will be arguments or explanations for
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October, 2020.
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arguments or explanations for
and against each measure and
alternative, Legislative Budget
Office fiscal analysis and full
text for Initiative Measure No.
65 and Alternative Measure
No. 65 A (Statewide Ballot
Measure 1).
Ballot Title:
Should Mississippi allow quali-
fied patients with debilitating
medical conditions, as certi-
fied by Mississippi licensed
physicians, to use medical
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marijuana?
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF Ballot Summary:
LOWNDES COUNTY, Initiative Measure No. 65 pro-
MISSISSIPPI, poses to amend the Missis-
IN RE: PEACH FLOWERS SMITH
sippi Constitution to allow qual-
ified patients with debilitating
DECEASED medical conditions, as certi-
fied by Mississippi licensed
CASE NO: 20- 072 physicians, to use medical
marijuana. This amendment
NOTICE TO CREDITORS would allow medical marijuana
to be provided only by licenses
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION treatment centers. The Missis-
having been granted on the sippi State Department of
17th day of June 2020 to Tom- Health would regulate and en-
mie Flowers by the Chancery force the provisions of this
Court of Lowndes County, Mis- amendment.
sissippi, upon the Estate of
Peach flower Smith, Deceased, Sponsor:
notice is hereby given to any Ms. Ashley Ann Durval
and all persons having claims
against said Peach Flowers Legislative Budget Office Fisc-
Smith, Deceased to present al Analysis:
the same to the Clerk of said The overall cost to Mississippi
Court for probate and registra- for the first year is estimated
tion according to law within to be $11,068,150. The anti-
ninety (90) days from the first cipated expenses for the first
publication of this notice, oth- year to implement a medical
erwise, said claim will be marijuana program is
forever barred. $24,068,150 (Plants – seeds
to Sale: $5,000,000; Licens-
ing, Monitoring, Inspection:
2020. $16,220,150; and Cost to Col-
lect Revenue: $2,848,000).
The anticipated revenue is
TOMMIE SMITH $13,000,000 (User ID Cards:
Executor of the Estate of Peach $2,500,000; Commercial Li-
censes: $500,000 and sales
fee at 7 percent:
OF COUNSEL: $10,000,000).
Gerald Gaggini, MSB 99905 The anticipated expenses for
2500 Hickory Wood Dr. years following the first for a
Tupelo, MS 38801 medical marijuana program is
Telephone: 662-350-0549 $15,338,000 (Plants – seeds
to Sale: $5,000,000; Licens-
ing, Monitoring, Inspection:
10/28/2020 $8,756,000; and Cost to Col-
lect Revenue: $1,582,000).
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF The anticipated revenue is
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS- $26,000,000 (User ID Cards:
$5,000,000; Commercial Li-
censes: $1,000,000 and sales
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- fee at 7 percent:
$20,000,000). The overall an-
HODGES, DECEASED nual revenue is anticipated to
be $10,662.000, all of which
CAUSE NO.: 20-0205-JNS must be used to support the
state marijuana program.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Initiative 65 Full Text:
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES Section 1.
The purpose of this article is to
Letters of Administration have ensure the availability of and
undersigned upon the Estate of marijuana for qualified per-
Dorothy Alice Hodges, De- sons with debilitating medical
ceased, by the Chancery Court conditions.
of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi, on the 22nd day of Octo- Section 2.
ber 2020. This is to give no- (1) Except as otherwise
provided for in this article, a
claims against the Estate of qualified patient or caregiver
Dorothy Alice Hodges, De- shall not be subject to criminal
or civil sanctions for the use of
gister their claims with the medical marijuana, obtained
from a medical marijuana treat-
County, Mississippi, within ment center, for a debilitating
ninety (90) days from the first medical condition.
publication date of this Notice (2) Except as otherwise
bate and Register their claims physician shall not be subject
will forever bar them. to criminal or civil sanctions
solely for issuing a physician
certification to a person dia-
2020. gnosed with a debilitating med-
ical condition.
/s/ Thomas S. Hodges, Jr. (3) Except as otherwise
THOMAS S. HODGES, JR., Ad- provided for in this article, a
ministrator medical marijuana treatment
center and its officers, owners,
operators, employees, contract-
ors, and agents shall not be
11/11/2020
subject to criminal or civil sanc-
tions for processing medical
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF marijuana in compliance with
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS- regulations prescribed by the
SIPPI department.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- Section 3.
TATE OF JANICE RILEY, formerly (1) Except as otherwise
known as JANICE GREEN, DE- provided for in this article,
CEASED nothing in this article shall:
(a) Affect or repeal laws relat-
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0171-PDE ing to the use of marijuana that
is not intended for use for a de-
NOTICE TO CREDITORS bilitating medical condition.
(b) Authorize the use of medic-
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI al marijuana for anyone other
COUNTY OF LOWNDES than a qualified patient, and,
where authorized by this
Letters of Administration have chapter, for caregivers and of-
been granted and issued to the ficers, owners, operators, em-
undersigned upon the Estate of ployees, contractors, and
Janice Riley, formerly known as agents of treatment centers.
Chancery Court of Lowndes any motor vehicle, aircraft,
County, Mississippi, on the 8th train, or boat while consuming
day of October 2020. This is to or impaired by medical
give notice to all persons hav- marijuana.
ing claims against said estate (d) Require accommodation for
to probate and register same the use of medical marijuana
with the Chancery Clerk of or require any on-site use of
medical marijuana in any pub-
within ninety (90) days from the lic or private correctional insti-
first publication date of this No- tution, detention facility, or
tice to Creditors. A failure to so place of education, or employ-
probate and register said claim ment.
will forever bar the same. (e) Require any health insur-
ance provider or any govern-
ment agency or authority to re-
2020. imburse any person for ex-
penses related to the use of
/s/ Jerry C. Jones, Administrat- medical marijuana. (f) Override
or any public laws, ordinances,
regulations, or rules or any
PUBLISH: 10/21, 10/28 & private rules, regulations, or
11/4/2020 provisions related to smoking
in or on public or private
places. (g) Affect any existing
drug testing laws, regulations,
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0192-S or rules.
(2) It is unlawful for any per-
son to smoke medical
LOWNDES COUNTY marijuana in a public place.
Any person who violates this
Letters Testamentary have subsection may, upon convic-
been granted and issued to the tion, be punished by a fine of
undersigned upon the estate of not more than One Hundred
JOYCE FRANCES DUNSER, de- Dollars ($100.00).
of Lowndes County, Missis- Section 4.
sippi, on the 29th day of For purposes of this article, the
September, A.D., 2020. This is following terms shall have the
to give notice to all persons following meanings:
having claims against said es- (1) "Caregiver" shall mean a
tate to Probate and Register person who is at least twenty
one (21) years of age, who
complies with the regulations
sippi, within ninety (90) days
from this date. A failure to so
prescribed by the department,
and who assists with a quali-
Probate and Register said fied patient's use of medical
claim will forever bar the same. marijuana. The department
may limit the number of quali-
This the 29th day of Septem- fied patients a caregiver may
assist at any one time. A quali-
fied patient may have more
/s/ Anthony Robert Dunser than one caregiver. A caregiver
is prohibited from consuming
medical marijuana provided for
PUBLISH: 10/28, 11/4 & use by a qualified patient.
11/11/2020 (2) "Criminal or civil sanctions"
shall mean arrest; incarcera-
tion; prosecution; penalty; fine;
Pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. sanction; the denial of any
right, privilege, license, certific-
Mississippi Secretary of ation; and/or to be subject to
State’s Office, supply to you disciplinary action by a licens-
ing board or commission;
and/or to be subject to seizure
and against each measure and and/or forfeiture of assets pur-
alternative, Legislative Budget suant to any Mississippi law,
local ordinance, or board, com-
text for Initiative Measure No. mission, or agency regulation
65 and Alternative Measure or rule.
(3) "Debilitating medical condi-
Measure 1). tion" shall mean cancer, epi-
lepsy or other seizures, Parkin-
son's disease, Huntington's
Should Mississippi allow quali- disease, muscular dystrophy,
multiple sclerosis, cachexia,
medical conditions, as certi- post-traumatic stress disorder,
fied by Mississippi licensed positive status for human im-
physicians, to use medical munodeficiency virus, acquired
marijuana? immune deficiency syndrome,
chronic or debilitating pain,
Ballot Summary: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
Initiative Measure No. 65 pro- glaucoma, agitation of demen-
tion; prosecution; penalty; fine;
sanction; the denial of any
right, privilege, license, certific-
ing board or commission;
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disciplinary action by a licens-
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and/or forfeiture of assets pur-
local ordinance, or board, com-
mission, or agency regulation
or rule.
(3) "Debilitating medical condi-
tion" shall mean cancer, epi-
lepsy or other seizures, Parkin-
son's disease, Huntington's
disease, muscular dystrophy,
multiple sclerosis, cachexia,
post-traumatic stress disorder,
positive status for human im-
munodeficiency virus, acquired
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immune deficiency syndrome,
chronic or debilitating pain,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
glaucoma, agitation of demen-
tias, Crohn's disease, ulcerat-
ive colitis, sickle-cell anemia,
autism with aggressive or self-
injurious behaviors, pain re-
fractory to appropriate opioid
management, spinal cord dis-
ease or severe injury, intract-
able nausea, severe muscle
spasticity, or another medical
condition of the same kind or
class to those herein enumer-
ated and for which a physician
believes the benefits of using
medical marijuana would reas-
onably outweigh potential
health risks.
(4) "Department" shall mean
the Mississippi State Depart-
ment of Health or its suc-
cessor agency.
(5) "Medical marijuana" shall
have the meanings given as of
July 1, 2018 in Section 41-
29105(r) and/or Section 41-
29-105(0), of the Mississippi
Code of 1972, and which is
used to treat the symptoms
and/or effects of a debilitating
medical condition as provided
for in this article.
(6) "Medical marijuana identi-
fication card" shall mean a
document, prescribed by and
issued by the department,
which identifies a person as a
qualified patient or caregiver or
officer, owner, operator, em-
ployee, contractor, or agent of
a medical marijuana treatment
center.
(7) "Medical marijuana treat-
ment center" shall mean an en-
tity that is registered with and
licensed and regulated by the
department and that pro-
cesses medical marijuana, re-
lated supplies, and/or educa-
tional materials. A treatment
center may engage in one or
more of the activities involved
in the processing of medical
marijuana.
(8) "Physician" shall mean a
person with a valid Doctor of
Medicine or Doctor of Osteo-
pathic Medicine degree and
who holds an unrestricted li-
cense to practice medicine in
the state of Mississippi by the
Mississippi Board of Medical
Licensure, or its successor
agency.
(9) "Physician certification"
shall mean a form approved by
the department, signed and
dated by a physician, certifying
that a person suffers from a
debilitating medical condition
for which the use of medical
marijuana may mitigate the
symptoms and/or effects. The
certification shall remain cur-
rent for twelve months, unless
the physician specifies a short-
er period of time, and shall be
issued only after an in-person
examination of the patient in
Mississippi. A certification
shall only be issued on behalf
of a minor when the minor's
parent or guardian is present
and provides signed consent.
Nothing herein shall require a
physician to issue a certifica-
tion.
(10) "Process" shall mean to
acquire, administer, com-
pound, convert, cultivate, deliv-
er, develop, disburse, dis-
pense, distribute, grow, har-
vest, manufacture, package,
possess, prepare, process,
produce, propagate, research,
sell, test, transport, or trans-
fer medical marijuana or any re-
lated products such as foods,
tinctures, aerosols, oils, or
ointments.
(11) "Qualified patient" shall
mean a person who has been
diagnosed with a debilitating
medical condition and who has
been issued a physician certi-
fication.
(12) "Use" shall mean the ac-
quisition, possession, prepara-
tion, use or use with an ac-
cessory, delivery, transfer, or
administration of medical
marijuana by a qualified pa-
tient or caregiver. For pur-
poses of this chapter, "access-
ory" shall have the meaning
given in Section 41-29-105(v)
of the Mississippi Code of
1972, as of July 1, 2018.
Section 5.
(1) The department shall imple- and restrictions, revoke proba- other businesses that fall with-
ment, administer, and enforce tionary status of a licensee and in the definition of medical
the provisions of this article
and shall issue reasonable
rules and regulations, pursu-
ant to the Mississippi Adminis- cense, or accept a voluntary
trative Procedures Act, in the
discharge of its responsibilit-
ies.
(2) The department shall pre-
scribe reasonable rules and
regulations pursuant to this
section that shall include, but
not be limited to, tracking and
labelling of medical marijuana; ing requirements and judicial
qualifications for and safe and review provisions contained in
secure processing of medical
marijuana by medical
marijuana treatment centers;
restrictions on advertising and denial, suspension, or revoca-
marketing; issuance of medic-
al marijuana identification
cards; standards for testing fa- Section 6.
cilities; use of medical
marijuana in nursing homes,
hospices, and assisted living
facilities; reciprocal agree-
ments with other states for pa- the department may assess up
tients registered in medical
marijuana programs; qualifica-
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section that shall include, but
not be limited to, tracking and
with the requirements of a li-
censee. The notice and hear-
labelling of medical marijuana; ing requirements and judicial
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tients registered in medical to the equivalent of the state's Ballot Title (65A):
marijuana programs; qualifica- sales tax rate to the final sale Shall Mississippi establish a
tions of and limitations on of medical marijuana. Revenue program to allow the medical
caregivers and officers, own- generated under this section or use of marijuana products by
ers, operators, employees, con- through the issuance of identi- qualified persons with debilitat-
tractors, and agents of treat- fication cards or the licensing ing conditions?
ment centers; implementation of medical marijuana treat-
and operation of a statewide ment centers shall pay for the Ballot Summary (65A):
data base system to support costs incurred by the depart- This constitutional amendment
the utilization of identification ment in implementing and en- is proposed as a legislative al-
cards; and penalties for viola- forcing the provisions of this ternative measure to Initiative
tions of this article. article and shall be deposited No. 65 and would establish a
(3) The rules and regulations into a special fund in the state program to allow the medical
may include a reasonable fee treasury to be expended by the use of marijuana products by
of up to Fifty Dollars ($50.00) department without prior appro- qualified person with debilitat-
for issuing an identification priation or authorization. The ing medical conditions.
card and reasonable fees for li- department shall administer
censing treatment centers, the fund and make expendit- Introduced by:
which shall be fixed by and ures from the fund for costs or Representative John Thomas
paid to the department, pursu- other services or programs as- “Trey” Lamar and Representat-
ant to Section 6. sociated with this article. Fund ive Brent Powell
(4) The rules and regulations balances shall not revert to the
shall not limit the number of li- General Fund. The department Legislative Budget Office Fisc-
censed medical marijuana shall have the authority to util- al Analysis:
treatment centers nor set the ize these special funds to es- The cost or revenue impact as-
price of medical marijuana. calate personnel positions in sociated with this initiative is
(5) The rules and regulations the department where needed, undeterminable.
shall require the department to as non-state-service, to admin-
issue an identification card or a ister and enforce the provi- Initiative 65A Full Text:
license for a treatment center sions of this article. Upon re-
within a reasonable time follow- quest of the department, the NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
ing an application for a card or State Treasurer shall provide a SOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE
license. line of credit from the Working OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
(6) The department shall issue Cash Stabilization Fund or any That the following amendment
a qualified patient a medical other available special source to the Mississippi Constitution
marijuana identification card funds maintained in the state of 1890 is proposed to the
upon presentation of a physi- treasury in an amount not to qualified electors of the state
cian certification. Such card exceed Two Million Five Hun- at the November 2020 elec-
shall be renewed, as applic- dred Thousand Dollars tion, as an alternative to the
able, upon presentation of a ($2,500,000), for deposit to amendment proposed by Initiat-
new physician certification, but this special fund to provide suf- ive Measure No. 65:
in no case shall a card have an ficient working cash to imple-
expiration term longer than ment the provisions of this art- Article 16, Section 290, Mis-
twelve (12) months. A quali- icle. Any such loans shall be re- sissippi Constitution of 1890,
fied patient is authorized to re- paid from the available funds is created to read as follows:
ceive medical marijuana from a received by the department un-
treatment center upon present- der this article. Section 290. There is estab-
ation of his or her identifica- lished a program in the State
tion card. Section 7. of Mississippi to allow the
(7) The department and medic- A medical marijuana identifica- medical use of marijuana
al marijuana treatment centers tion card issued pursuant to products by qualified persons.
shall protect the confidentiality this article shall serve to identi- The program shall be struc-
of all qualified patients. All re- fy a person as a qualified pa- tured to include, at a minimum,
cords containing the identity of tient or caregiver or officer, the following conditions and re-
qualified patients, caregivers, owner, operator, employee, quirements:
and physicians shall be confid- contractor, or agent of a medic- (a) The program shall be based
ential and exempt from disclos- al marijuana treatment center on sound medical principles;
ure under the Mississippi Pub- and thus exempt such person (b) The program shall be ad-
lic Records Act or any related from criminal or civil sanctions ministered by an appropriate
statute, regulation, or rule per- for the conduct authorized by state agency;
taining to the public disclosure this article. (c) The administering state
of records. agency shall seek the input of
(8) The department may estab- Section 8. health professionals to help
lish an advisory committee to (1) Medical marijuana treat- design the program;
assist the department in the ment centers shall not provide (d) The program shall be lim-
promulgation of rules and regu- to a qualified patient, during ited to qualified persons with
lations and the regulation and any one fourteen-day period, an debilitating medical conditions
enforcement of the provisions amount of medical marijuana as certified by health practition-
of this article. that exceeds 2.5 ounces by ers who are licensed under
(9) The department shall ad- weight. At no one time shall a state law;
opt final rules and regulations qualified patient possess more (e) Marijuana products that are
pursuant to this article no later than 2.5 ounces of medical used by qualified persons in
than July 1, 2021. The depart- marijuana. The weight limita- the program shall be of suit-
ment shall begin issuing identi- tion herein shall not include able pharmaceutical quality
fication cards and treatment any ingredients combined with and prepared by state-licensed
center licenses no later than medical marijuana to prepare manufacturers;
August 15, 2021. edible products, topical (f) Treatment of qualified per-
(10) To ensure timely imple- products, ointments, oils, tinc- sons in the program shall be
mentation of this chapter for tures, or other products. carried out by physicians,
qualified patients, and only for (2) Medical marijuana shall nurses and pharmacists who
activities associated with im- only be dispensed to a quali- are licensed under state law;
plementation and operation, fied patient or caregiver with a (g) The program shall provide
the department is exempt from current medical marijuana iden- for limited categories of
the Mississippi Department of tification card by a medical marijuana preparation of suit-
Information Technology Ser- marijuana treatment center. able and verified quality stand-
vices laws, rules, and regula- (3) All contracts under this art- ards for oral administration;
tions for any information tech- icle and related to the opera- (h) The smoking of marijuana
nology procurements made up tion of medical marijuana treat- products shall be restricted to
to Two Hundred Fifty Thousand ment centers shall be enforce- the treatment of qualified per-
Dollars ($250,000) for two able and rules applicable to sons who have terminal medic-
years from the effective date of other similar businesses by the al conditions as certified by
this chapter. This exemption Department of Revenue shall health practitioners who are li-
shall not apply to any reporting apply to medical marijuana censed under state law;
requirements. treatment centers created pur- (i) The program shall provide
(11) The department is author- suant to this article, except for a limited number of state-li-
ized to adopt and levy adminis- that the processing and use of censed manufacturers of
trative fines to enforce the pro- medical marijuana shall be ex- marijuana products;
visions of this article. Payment empt from the application of (j) The program shall have a pa-
of any fines shall be deposited any state and/or local sales tient registry for program enroll-
in the special fund created by tax or other fee, other than that ment, patient tracking, and
Section 6 of this article. authorized by this article. treatment outcomes assess-
(12) The department is author- (4) No medical marijuana treat- ment; and
ized to adopt and levy the fol- ment center shall be located (k) The program shall provide
lowing sanctions, singly or in within five hundred (500) feet for reporting requirements that
combination, when it finds an of a pre-existing school, include research, analysis, and
applicant or licensee has com- church, or licensed child care outcomes assessment.
mitted any violation of this art- center.
icle or department rules or reg- (5) Except as otherwise
ulations: revoke or suspend a provided in this article, any zon-
license, censure a licensee, im- ing ordinances, regulations
pose a fine in an amount not to and/or provisions of a municip-
exceed Five Thousand Dollars ality or county shall be consist-
($5,000) for the first violation ent with Section 1 of this art- All notices must be
and an amount not to exceed icle and shall not impair the
Twenty Five Thousand Dollars availability of and reasonable emailed to
($25,000) for each sub- access to medical marijuana.
sequent violation, place a li- Zoning provisions applicable to classifieds@
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impose other authorized sanc- marijuana treatment centers
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cense in any case in which it No later than two years from
finds that there has been a the implementation of this art-
substantial failure to comply icle, and every two years there- General Help Wanted
with the requirements of a li- after, the department shall
censee. The notice and hear- provide to the Legislature a
OFFICE MANAGER needed
comprehensive public report of for local Construction com-
the operation of this article.
Section 43-11-11 of the Missis-
pany. Job includes man-
sippi Code of 1972, as of July Section 10. aging Pay Roll, QuickBooks,
1, 2018, shall apply to the The provisions of this article Spreadsheets, Accounts
are declared to be severable, Payable & Receivable, Pur-
tion of a license. and if any provision, word, chasing & Social Media.
phrase, or clause of this art- Single position in small
icle or the application thereof
business with nice atmo-
In addition to the fees applied shall be held invalid, such in- sphere. Mail resume to
to issuing identification cards validity shall not affect the
and licensing medical validity of the remaining por- Blind Box 677 c/o The
marijuana treatment centers, tions of this article. Commercial Dispatch
PO Box 511
to the equivalent of the state's Ballot Title (65A): Columbus MS 39703.
sales tax rate to the final sale Shall Mississippi establish a
of medical marijuana. Revenue program to allow the medical
generated under this section or use of marijuana products by
fication cards or the licensing ing conditions?
of medical marijuana treat-
ment centers shall pay for the Ballot Summary (65A):
costs incurred by the depart- This constitutional amendment
ment in implementing and en- is proposed as a legislative al-
forcing the provisions of this
article and shall be deposited
ternative measure to Initiative
No. 65 and would establish a
into a special fund in the state program to allow the medical
treasury to be expended by the use of marijuana products by
General Services General Services Painting & Papering
department without prior appro- qualified person with debilitat-
priation
A & TorTREEauthorization.
SERVICES The ing
WORK medical conditions.
WANTED: Licensed SULLIVAN’S PAINT
the Bucket
fund andtruck
make&expendit-
stump & Bonded.by:
Introduced Carpentry, minor SERVICE
removal.
ures from Free
the fund forest. electrical, minor
costs or Representative Johnplumbing,
Thomas Special Prices.
services Columbus insulation,
or programs as- “Trey” Lamarpainting, demo− Interior & Exterior Painting.
and Representat-
sociated
since with this article.
1987. SeniorFund ive Brent
lition, Powellcleaned,
gutters 662−435−6528
balances shall not revert
citizen disc. Call Alvin @ to the pressure washing, land−
Fund. The
242−0324/241−4447 department Legislative Budget
scaping, cleanup work. Office Fisc- Plumbing
shall
"We’llhavegothe
outauthority
on a limb for al
to util- Analysis:
662−242−3608.
ize these special funds to es- The cost or revenue impact as-
you!"
calate personnel positions in sociated with this initiative is
Lawn Care / Landscaping
the department where needed, undeterminable. ACME, INC.
Stan McCown
Initiative
JESSE 65A& Full Text:
BEVERLY’S
"We fix leaks."
sions of this article. Upon re- Natural gas & water.
LAWN SERVICE
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE- 662−386−2915
Mowing,BY THE cleanup, tree
LEGISLATURE
line of credit from the Working OF cutting,
THE STATE landscaping,
OF MISSISSIPPI,
sodding & bushamendment
the following hogging.
other available special source to the 662−356−6525
Mississippi Constitution
funds maintained in the state of 1890 is proposed to the
treasury in an amount not to qualified electors of the state
exceed Two Million Five Hun- atPainting & Papering 2020 elec-
the November
dred Thousand Dollars tion, as an alternative to the
($2,500,000), for deposit to amendment
QUALITY proposed
PAINTING.by Initiat-
Ext/IntNo. 65:
Painting.
Sheet Rock Hang, Finish &
ment the provisions of this art- Article Repair. 16,Pressure
Section 290, Mis-
Washing.
icle. Any such loans shall be re- sissippi Constitution of 1890,
Free Estimates. Ask for
is created to read as follows: Are you a painter?
specials! Larry Webber,
Advertise here!
Section 662−242−4932.
290. There is estab-
lished a program in the State
Section 7. of Mississippi to allow the
8B WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020
General Help Wanted
THE COMMERCIAL
DISPATCH seeks a motiv-
ated, contracted carrier for
the Caledonia area. Excel-
lent opportunity to earn
money for college. Must
have good transportation,
valid driver's license & in-
surance. Delivers on
Sunday morning and Mon-
Fri afternoons. Apply at The Houses For Rent: East
Commercial Dispatch, 516
Main Street in Columbus. 3BR/1BA, stove, refrig−
No phone calls please. erator, fresh paint & hard−
wood floors. Available
11/1. $600/mo + $500
Rentals
dep. No HUD, no pets.
662−295−3022.
Ads starting at $25
Apts For Rent: North
FOX RUN APARTMENTS
1 & 2 BR near hospital.
$595−$645 monthly.
Military discount, pet area,
pet friendly, and furnished
corporate apts.
24−HOUR PROFESSIONAL
GYM. ON SITE SECURITY.
ON SITE MAINTENANCE.
ON SITE MANAGEMENT.
24−HOUR CAMERA
SURVEILLANCE. Benji &
Ashleigh, 662−386−4446.
Apts For Rent: South
Downtown Loft: Very nice 1 799−9846 or 205−695−
bdrm loft, wood floors, tall 2248.
ceilings, above a downtown
business. Great location.
Call before 9:00 p.m.
$650. 662−364−1610
Large 2−bedrm apartment. Pointe. For more info call
Recently renovated, very
nice, includes washer /
dryer, lots of closets, great
location. Must see inside.
$850. 662−364−1610
Apts For Rent: West
VIP
Rentals
Apartments & Houses
1 Bedrooms
2 Bedroooms
3 Bedrooms
Furnished & Unfurnished
1, 2, & 3 Baths
Lease, Deposit
& Credit Check
viceinvestments.com
327-8555
Apts For Rent: Other
The Military Square
Apartments are now
accepting applicants!
We have 1, 2, and 3
bedroom units available.
All apartments are newly
remodeled, and include:
New Washer/Dryer, New
Refrigerator, New A/C Unit!
We also offer rent
discounts for:
−Active Military
−Veterans
−Seniors
Call us at: 662−205−0005
Houses For Sale: Other
One call will bring you results.
662-328-2424
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Fri 9−6, Sat 8−4. Oil paint of West Point, turn right on
−ings, glassware, chalk Yokahama Blvd, 8mi & turn
ware, furn, h/h items, left on Darracott Rd, will
clothing, many quilts & see sign, 2.5mi ahead
collectibles. 10469 Hwy 12 shop on left.
E, across from Cedar Hill. 662−494−6218.
Vehicles
Orr Estate Sale
810 1st St. North
Reform, AL 35481
Fri. Oct. 30, 9am−5pm
Sat. Oct. 31, 9am−5pm Ads starting at $12
Sun. Nov. 1, 1pm−5pm
Mon. Nov.2, 9am−1pm Autos For Sale
Selling the estate of
COLEMAN Leon & Shirley Orr,
See photos
2004 CHEVY IMPALA LS,
3.8 liter engine, 4 door,
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TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS
automatic, leather interior,
Stewart’s Antiques & sunroof, & AM/FM/
Estate Sales
1 BEDROOM Benny Shelton
cassette. $2,000.
662−251−3001.
2 BEDROOMS Columbus, MS
662−251−1515
3 BEDROOMS
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household items,
appliances, flat screen placing puzzle based on
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empty spaces 8 4 2 3 9 1 6 7 5
Garage Sales: North given
so thatnumbers.
each row, each The 5 3 7 6 8 2 4 1 9
Ads starting at $12 object
column and each 3x3 the
is to place box 1 9 6 4 5 7 3 8 2
1426 6TH St N. Oct 31 @ numbers
contains the1same to 9 number
in
7am. Please wear mask. Travel & Entertainment the empty spaces so 4 5 8 2 1 3 7 9 6
only once. The difficulty 7 6 1 5 4 9 8 2 3
that each row, each
216 4TH St. N. Fri., Sat. & level increases from
Sun., 10/30−11/1. 9a− PUBLIC CATFISH POND column and each 3 2 9 8 7 6 5 4 1
130 Hillcrest Dr Monday
3x3 boxtocontains
Sunday.
3p. H/h furn. & appliances. Difficulty Level 10/27
Catfish contest Oct. 1−
Garage Sales: New Hope 31. $200 for most the same number only once. The difficulty level
Mobile Homes for Rent weight. $100 for Big increases from Monday to Sunday.
HUGE SALE SAT & SUN! @ Fish. 2 drawings for
$50 valued prizes. Call
3BR/2BA MH in New Hope. 8598 NASHVILLE FERRY
$650 dep + $650/mo. No RD E. 7am. 662−251− 662−386−8591 for
details.
pets, quiet area. Leave full 6580
name & message,
205−712−6697. Garage Sales: Caledonia
Pets
678 MAIN ST. Fri., 10/30
Real Estate
& Sat., 10/31 7a−5p. Big Puppies For Sale:
Two large breed Standard
Tools, towing equip.,
pressure washer, camping Poodle cross, 12 wk old
puppies for sale. Wormed,
equip. & misc. items.
Ads starting at $25 vaccinated, vet checked
and very healthy. They have
Merchandise
Farms & Timberland long white curly hair with
tan and gray spots around
the face and ears. 1 male,
LAMAR CO. AL, 197 Acres. 1 female, very smart with
Good timber. Good hunting.
Road frontage. South of Ads starting at $12 gentle temperament and
lots of energy. Located in
Millport. $1,325/ac. 205− Crawford, MS. $350.
Bargain Column 626−590−2584
4 Covid face shields Wear
Houses For Sale: East to polls or Church. Clear
3BR/2BA in 55+
plastic. Can be worn over
glasses. $13.00 for all. Need a new
companion?
community of Plantation 662−497−4626 or 662−
244−5861
after 5pm, 662−251−
7664. Firewood / Fuel
Houses For Sale: Southside FIREWOOD FOR SALE.
Various lengths.
1512 WASHINGTON AVE 662−295−2274.
3BR/1.5BA, living room w/
gas log−heat, dining room, General Merchandise
front/back porch, natural
gas heat, window units− Mobile Home Frames
cooling, storage bldg &
2 Mobile Home Frames for
carport. 1,230 sq ft. $500 Each. 30 Free
Call 662−425−9451. Concrete Blocks w/ Each
Frame
Houses For Sale: Other
2 Electric Tongue Jacks
FSBO: 4BR/4.5BA $150 Each
10,000+sqft, situated on
13 ac in South Lowndes Co
For More Info. Contact
Jessie Brooks @ When looking
@ 627 Canfield Rd. New 662−272−8711
Hope school district. 50x
100 shop, in ground pool
w/pool house & 1.5 acre
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIDES for a new pet,
Leather chaps, genuine
stock pond. Ideal place for
mini farm! $675,000.
662−327−3477
buffalo, XL, new. $40.
Motorcycle riding boots, adoption is ACROSS
waterproof/insulated, worn
Lots & Acreage
very little, size 10. $70.
One piece rain suit by always a 1 Algiers section
7 October birth-
Gear, L, new. $35.
1.75 ACRE LOTS Good/
Bad Credit Options. Good
credit as low as 20% down,
For sale locally.
501−545−7750. good option. stone
11 Twin of
Artemis
$499/mo. Eaton Land, Sporting Goods
662−361−7711. 12 Ship of 1492
Crawford Army Surplus 13 Conical
Approx. 7 acres located on Main in Crawford. abodes
between Dale Road and Now for sale: Metal Ammo
14 River of
Buck Egger Road at end of
Renon Lane. $30,000
cans 30&50 cal, $10;
.155mm Howitzer treated Five Questions: Hades
Call; leave message. wood ammo boxes, 15 Like vistas
662−549−0696 $5&10; Army steel
17 Atlas pages
1 Six
bunkbeds, $125; Field
PICKENS COUNTY, AL Artillery camo nets with 20 One of the
180 acres in Liberty spreader poles, $225; Kennedys
Unissued camo (BDU/
Community. Good hunting
ACU/ABU) military 6− 23 Boxing great
& road systems. $850/ac.
2 Georgia
Other tracts available. Call pocket fatigues, $35 & M− 24 Cajole
205−799−9846 or 205− 65 field coats & fire− 26 Got together 2 Gorilla, for one 22 Not bother
O’Keeffe
retardant coveralls, $50;
695−2248.
polypro col weather under 27 Concealed 3 Soak up 24 Question of
garment, $18; 28 Trickery 4 Sanctify place
OCP T−shirts, $5. 29 Bailing needs 5 Baldwin of 25 Wallop
Call 662.769.1889
31 Hold up “Beetlejuice” 30 With vigor
3 Weibo 32 Different
33 Scottish isle
6 Garden aid 33 Arrange
7 Like some 35 Londoner,
34 Ineffectual training e.g.
Shop 4 Fencing
37 Serengeti
sight
8 Lacking any 36 Company
light symbol
Classifieds 39 Cheap booze
43 Rank above
9 One or more 37 Floral garland
10 Unmindful 38 Holm of “The
5 Andes viscount
44 Scaly pet
16 Must have
17 Cuban dance
Hobbit”
40 — about
45 Black 18 Alaska native (wander)
46 Head honcho 19 Devil’s prop 41 First número
DOWN 21 Judy Jetson’s 42 Luggage ID
1 Manx, for one brother
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