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By Pamela [email protected]

The careers of four retir-ing administrators are a mere blip among the com-bined 1,785.82 years of expe-rience leaving the Vicksburg Warren School District when the school year ends next week.

A district retirement cer-emony Thursday afternoon officially recognized 58 retir-ing teachers, administrators and staff, about 4 1/2 percent of the total 1,314 certified and non-certified staff.

In addition — not named on the program, which cel-ebrates the careers of those day-in and day-out workers in classrooms, cafeterias, hallways and buses — Super-intendent Dr. James Price, Deputy Superintendent Dr. John Walls and Beechwood Principal Jack Grogan will step down June 30, and Red-wood Elementary School principal Charles “Bubba” Hanks will retire in August.

The four have 109 years of service — just more than double that of Warren Cen-tral Intermediate’s Norman A. Powell, who retires after 50 years in education.

“It’s been a pleasure to work in the Vicksburg Warren School District,” Powell said after the recep-tion. “I’m going to miss all the smiling faces of our children.”

Powell, assistant principal at Warren Central Interme-diate, said if he gets up early after retirement, it will be to go fishing.

Price told retirees, their families and guests that Charlotte Grant, district per-sonnel director since 1992, has never seen so many retirees in one year.

The number far outpaces those in the past three years, and the aggregate experi-ence is more than double the 824 years of service recorded by 2009’s crop of 35 retirees. In 2008, the number was 38, and in 2007, 49.

“The number could rise in the next few weeks,” he said.

Price said the financial impact to the district could be positive, in terms of lower payroll. Academically it will be minimal, he said, since the losses are widespread across many different areas and positions.

“Some we will be replac-ing but others we will not, because of budget issues,” he said.

The proposed school budget for 2010-11, which has not yet been adopted

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Secondinmate isexecutedBy Jack Elliott Jr.The Associated Press

PARCHMAN — Gerald James Holland, convicted for raping and killing a 15-year-old girl, was put to death Thursday, apologizing to the family and blaming his actions on “alcohol, despair and temper.”

“I’m really deep down in my heart sorry it hap-pened,” the 72-year-old Holland said before reading the 23rd Psalm from a paper held by the prison chaplain. “I wish this would bring her back. I want you to know that I’m very sorry this ever hap-pened. I knew it was wrong but it was alcohol, despair and temper that caused it,”

Forecastfor crestup, backBy Steve [email protected]

Increased flow from river tributaries and moderate rains, locally and farther north, has caused the Lower Mississippi River Fore-cast Center to push back its Vicksburg crest forecast another week and raise it to flood stage.

The new forecast has the river cresting on Thursday, May 27, at 43 feet, official flood stage at Vicksburg. The forecast crest has been nudged up and pushed back a handful of times over the past week. Before Thursday’s change, the forecast center was calling for a crest today of 42.7 feet.

Thompson:$2 million;no GOPreportsBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

None of three candidates running for the Republican nod for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District have reported raising or spending any money, while incumbent U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson reported nearly $2 million on hand, according to the latest campaign finance reports.

Bill Marcy of Meridian, Richard Cook of Byram, and George Bailey of Clin-ton appear on primary bal-lots June 1. The winner faces

Look for disciplinarian, public says

By Steve [email protected]

During a public hearing Thursday evening that lasted a little more than an hour, parents, teachers and former educators told the firm in charge of finding the next superintendent of schools the district needs a strong disciplinarian with excep-tional communication skills

who is going to be an active member in the commu-nity.

Nine-teen people showed up for the public hearing, after which representatives from Omaha-based McPherson & Jacobson LLC said many of the same comments and concerns were raised during conversations with students, teachers, community lead-ers and civic groups who met with the firm representatives earlier Thursday.

“You’d be surprised the repetitive things we’ve heard: discipline, account-

Nearly 1,786 years of experience leaving schools

Gerald JamesHolland

Retiring Redwood Principal Bubba Hanks checks on students as he makes his rounds Thursday.

merediTh Spencer•The Vicksburg PosT

Beechwood Principal Jack Grogan wears his fishing attire and sits in a rocking chair, laughing with his students as they watch a slide show of his career in the education system during his retirement party Thursday.

19 attend hearingon superintendentfor school district

KATie cArTer•The Vicksburg PosT

Dr. Gerald Keller, left, of McPherson & Jacobson, addresses a public meeting about his company’s procedures when searching for a new school superintendent.See Schools, Page A8.

See Retiring, Page A8.

See River, Page A9.

See Execution, Page A9.

See Finance, Page A9.

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A City of Vicksburg worker remained in the hospital after a two-vehicle wreck Thursday afternoon on North Washington Street.

Ellis Stamps, 44, 59 Cotton-wood St., Cary, was taken to River Region Medical Center, where he was in fair condi-tion this morning, hospital spokesman Allen Karel said.

Vicksburg police Sgt. Jackie Johnson said Stamps, who works for the right of way department, was driving a grass-cutting tractor south on North Washington around 1:45 p.m. when he attempted to turn his tractor across the northbound lane and onto Spouts Spring Road. The tractor was broadsided by a southbound 18-wheeler that was attempting to pass the slower-moving vehicle.

The driver of the truck, Eddie Ray Butler, 62, 2610 Ken Karyl Ave., was not injured.

Stamps’ supervisor, Ray Banks, who was driving

in another vehicle behind him, said the tractor, valued between $65,000 and $70,000, was totaled.

City man jailedin mower theft

A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail today on a grand larceny charge, records showed.

Johnnie N. Henderson, 23, 805 Walnut St., is accused of taking a riding lawn mower Thursday from a home in the 600 block of Jeffers Hollow Road, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.

After leaving the residence, Henderson drove through a Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol roadblock at U.S. 61 and Redwood Road, where he apparently thought he was recognized, Pace said.

Henderson then returned the lawn mower to the drive-

way of the home.An interview with MHSP

troopers, who gave a descrip-tion of a vehicle carrying a riding lawn mower, led Warren County deputies to Henderson, Pace said.

Henderson was being held without bond pending an ini-tial appearance in court.

Vicksburg womanheld for drug court

A Vicksburg woman was in the Warren County Jail for drug court sanction, records showed.

Tina Brown, 31, 1103 Chest-nut St., was booked into the jail at 11 Thursday morning by Warren County deputies.

She was being held without bond.

TVs, cash takenin 3 house burglaries

Electronics, jewelry and knives were missing Thurs-day in the three residential burglaries in the county and city.

At 3:07 p.m., assorted jew-elry valued at about $3,050, $400 in cash, $2,000 in collect-able coins, a 10 mm hand-

gun with holster valued at $2,000, a Radio Shack tape recorder valued at $75, eight pocket knives valued at $300 together, a white bone-han-dled straight razor valued at $100 and a Nintendo DS valued at $350 were reported stolen in the 2300 block of Fisher Ferry Road, Warren County records showed.

A 42-inch flat-screen Sanyo LCD TV valued at $848, a key ring holding five keys valued at $20 and a PlayStation 2 game console valued at $264 were reported stolen in the 10000 block of U.S. 61 South at 1:24 p.m.

In Vicksburg, a 32-inch flat-screen Samsung TV valued at $750 was reported stolen in the 2000 block of Sky Farm Avenue at 3:51 p.m., police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

CD player takenfrom truck on Cherry

An auto burglary was reported Thursday morning in the 2200 block of Cherry Street, Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

At 11:07, a CD player valued at $150 was reported stolen from a 2002 Ford F-150.

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Judge Price axes‘retirement’ deal

Warren County Judge Johnny Price has decided against taking retirement compensation while in office, according to a letter from the judge to county supervisors.

Earlier this month, Price, a two-term judge who also pre-sides over youth court, told supervisors he planned to “retire” for the purposes of the state’s Public Employee Retirement System. An opin-ion from the Attorney Gen-eral’s Office on the matter, received by supervisors per request of Price, indicated he had done so by referencing a

provision in state law allow-ing an official to receive up to 25 percent of a retiree’s aver-age compensation in addi-tion to a regular retirement allowance.

“I recently indicated my intent to retire, for pay pur-poses only,” read part of the two-sentence letter. “I have withdrawn my application from PERS and canceled this plan.”

Counties may pay county court judges $1,000 less than circuit and chancery judges, who make $103,700 in Warren County.

Price is unopposed for a third term this year but will still appear on general elec-tion ballots Nov. 2.

LOCaLfrom staff reports

By Tish [email protected]

After 10 years, an arrest has been in the killing of Lake Prov-idence Sonic Drive-In manager Spencer Washington.

On Oct. 10, 2000, 31-year-old Washington was closing the restaurant for the night when he was robbed and shot to death, Louisiana State Police Trooper First Class Mark Dennis said.

At the time, the investigation identified Tyrone Bowman of Lake Providence as a suspect

but did not yield enough evi-dence to get an indictment, Dennis said.

In March 2009, a report on items of evidence sent to the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab through the course of the investigation have indicated that DNA found at the scene matched to Bowman, Dennis said.

In February, new leads in the cold case led officials to witnesses who had not been identified, and investigators learned that Bowman, 32, had fled to Milwaukee, the trooper

said.The East Carroll Parish

Grand Jury indicted Bowman Tuesday for armed robbery and first degree murder, Dennis said.

After LSP entered Bowman’s case on NCIC, the Milwaukee Police Department’s Fugitive Team arrested him at 10:40 Tuesday night on the Louisi-ana warrants, Dennis said.

Bowman is being held in Wisconsin pending extradi-tion to East Carroll Parish.

Arrest made in 10-year-old Lake Providence killing

This weekin VicksburgSaturday• Shape Up Vicksburg

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• Women in Business Expo — 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; National Association of Business and Professional Women’s Club; Pember-ton Square mall; free.

• Gator Swamp Meet spring carnival — 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; 1245 Dana Road; benefits Vicksburg Intermediate School; tick-ets: 5 for $1.

• Vicksburg City Workers’ Appreciation Day — 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Mississippi Alliance of State Em-ployees; Riverfront Park, Washington Street.

• Bowl Benefit and Ice Cream Social — 3-6 p.m.; St. Aloysius High School cafeteria; $20 for large bowl, $15 for small bowl, $3 for ice cream; tickets available in ad-vance only at school of-fice; benefits Emily Hen-ry’s fight against cancer and Blair E. Batson Chil-dren’s Hospital.

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p.m.; Old Time Music So-ciety; Warren County Mis-sissippi Welcome Center on Washington Street; free.

• Conservatory of Fine Arts concert — 3 p.m.; The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, 920 South St.; free.

• Vicksburg Orchestral Society concert — 6 p.m.; The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, 920 South St.; free.

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KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg PosT

A City of Vicksburg tractor is on its side in a ditch at North Washington Street and Spouts Spring Road Thursday afternoon after being broad-sided by an 18-wheeler.

CRImE & aCCIdENTfrom staff reports

CulkinA boil water notice for cus-

tomers of Culkin Water Dis-trict along Silver Creek Sub-division has been lifted.

BOIL waTER

Truck slams tractor, injures city worker

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One month later, outrage over Gulf oil spill grows

GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — Thick, sticky oil crept deeper into delicate marshes of the Mississippi Delta, an arrival dreaded for a month since the crude started spewing into the Gulf, as anger and frustration mounted over efforts to plug the gusher from a blown-out well and contain the spill.

Up to now, only tar balls and a sheen of oil had come ashore. But chocolate brown and vivid orange globs and sheets of foul-smelling oil the consistency of latex paint have begun coating the reeds and grasses of Louisiana’s wet-lands, home to rare birds, mammals and a rich variety of marine life.

With each passing day, out-rage grows. State and local officials say the federal gov-ernment isn’t doing enough. President Barack Obama faults the agency that over-sees offshore drilling. Republi-cans say the Coast Guard and the administration should have done more.

A deep, stagnant ooze sat in the middle of a particu-larly devastated marsh off the Louisiana coast where Emily Guidry Schatzel of the National Wildlife Federation was examining stained reeds.

“This is just heartbreaking,” she said with a sigh. “I can’t believe it.”

Fingers are also pointing at BP PLC, not only for the April 20 explosion of the Deep-water Horizon rig and the deaths of 11 workers, but for the gusher of oil that flowed entirely uncontained until this past weekend. The company, which was leasing the rig, con-ceded Thursday what some scientists have been saying for weeks: More oil is flowing from the leak than BP and the Coast Guard had previously estimated.

“It’s anger at the people who are supposed to be driving the ship don’t have any idea what’s going on,” said E.J. Boles, 55, a musician from Big Pine Key, Fla. “Why wouldn’t they have any contingency plan? I’m not a genius and even I would have thought of that.”

The BP executive in charge of fighting the spill, Chief Operating Officer Doug Sut-tles, said he understands the public frustration. He said today that in the worst case scenario, the gusher could continue until early August, when a new well being drilled to cap the flow permanently could be finished.

But Suttles said he believes the rich Gulf environment will recover, in part because it is a large body of water and has

withstood other oil spills.“I’m optimistic, I’m very opti-

mistic that the Gulf will fully recover,” Suttles said on CBS.

A live online video feed of the gusher is sure to fuel the anger.

It shows what appears to be a large plume of oil and gas still spewing into the water next to the stopper-and-tube com-bination that BP inserted to carry some of the crude to the surface. The House commit-tee website where the video was posted promptly crashed because so many people were trying to view it.

At least 6 million gallons have gushed into the Gulf since the explosion, more than half of what the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled in Alaska in 1989. A growing number of sci-

entists believe it’s more.BP spokesman Mark Proe-

gler told The Associated Press that the mile-long tube inserted into a leaking pipe over the weekend is capturing 210,000 gallons of oil a day — the total amount the company and the Coast Guard have esti-mated is gushing into the sea — but some is still escaping. He would not say how much.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a team including scien-tists is working on a new esti-mate of how much oil is gush-ing from the well. Agency officials would not speculate on how big the leak might be.

The Obama administration asked the company to be more open with the public by shar-ing such information as mea-surements of the leak and the trajectory of the spill. BP has been accused of cover-ing up the magnitude of the disaster.

BP executiveconfident Coastwill recover

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Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nung-esser and La. Gov. Bobby Jindal tour through the Roseau Grasses that mark the coastline

of Southeast Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi River where oil has washed ashore.

Fishermen see bleak futureas oil penetrates marshland

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Ron Price guns the outboard motor on his 22-foot fishing boat, racing through an alley in high marsh grass and finally settling into a small oil-soaked bay.

The 40-year-old charter boat captain scans the high roseau cane ringing the edge of Red-fish Bay, one of the best fish-ing spots in the area. Now it’s ruined: the stalks are stained rust-red with oil, from the high tide mark to the low-tide mark — at least 4 feet.

“Even God can’t fix this,” Price says. “And BP certainly can’t.”

It’s been a month since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and collapsed, killing 11 of its crew and unleashing the oil leak that’s gushed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. The people who rely on its waters to make a living knew it would be bad. But with swaths of the Gulf closed to fishing indefi-nitely and fears that consum-ers may not trust Gulf sea-food for years, the fishermen and others are just starting to realize the scope of the devastation.

Broken, twisted strings of boom that failed to soak up the oil bob all around the oily marshlands near the South Pass of the Mississippi River. On a small sandy island south-east of the rivermouth, a drag-onfly with oil-stained wings sits on a plant sagging under the weight of sticky ooze. Here, it smells like an old gas station.

“Once those canes die, you’re looking at the whole fishery dying,” he says.

The cane makes up a huge part of the marshlands and are key to the health of the fish that live there.

A few feet away, a sandy beach exposed at low tide

appears to be clear of the oil, but another one nearby had thick globs of it scattered around. Shorebirds nearby scuttled around pecking the sand for food. Mullet fish, which feed on the surface of the Gulf, popped out of the oily water just offshore.

The oil clinging to these vital marshes here is nauseating and sticky.

Sporting a baseball cap, reflective shades, shorts and a T-shirt, Price took out a can of WD-40 and sprayed report-ers’ hands to dissolve the oil.

Beyond a piece of broken boom was another marsh, oily stalks glistening from the falling sunlight. “Look, the boom is clean, but the cane is covered in oil,” Price says. “It took hundreds of years to create this, and it’s gone just like that.”

Federal fisheries managers have already closed nearly a fifth of federal waters in the Gulf to fishing. Price says he works six days a week fish-ing, and now the future is uncertain.

But even when fishermen are allowed back on the water, industry groups and fisher-men fear customers will ques-tion the safety of their product for years.

The effects on the Gulf coast economy of this oil and chem-ical dispersants being used to fight it back from these marshes will likely ripple through many sectors, not just fishing, said Jean-Michel Cousteau, the environmen-talist and documentary film-maker in Louisiana working on a piece about the spill.

“It creates total chaos in the local economy,” Cousteau says. “It’s not fair to the fish-ermen, it’s not fair to families, it’s not fair to kids and it’s not fair to future generations.”

BP, which was leasing the rig, conceded Thursday what some scientists have been saying for weeks: More

oil is flowing from the leak than BP and the Coast Guard had previously estimated.

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1890E.E. Dick makes 800 cots for use during the reunion. • The Merchants Baseball Club, composed mostly of members of the old Nationals, holds a meeting over the Woodbine to con-sider a proposition to play a game during the reunion. Adolph Abraham has charge of the team.

110 YEARS AGO: 1900A small fire occurs at the home of Morgan Hubbard on Rail-road Avenue. • Pat H. Jordan is dangerously ill.

100 YEARS AGO: 1910The steamer Sadie Lee, on her down trip this week, did not sell liquor between Mississippi and Arkansas.

90 YEARS AGO: 1920Jett School faculty is chosen as follows: Professor Rainey, principal; Miss McGowan, Miss Webster, Miss Chaney and Mrs. Lindley are teachers.

80 YEARS AGO: 1930Rolling Fork population is given as 902. • Congressman Col-lier, who was here for the bridge celebration, returns to Washington.

70 YEARS AGO: 1940Dr. G.T. Gillespie, president of Belhaven College, addresses a meeting of Boy Scouts’ parents here.

60 YEARS AGO: 1950Gov. Fielding Wright is main speaker at the dedication of the Highway 61 bridge over the Yazoo River north of Redwood. • The J.C. Penney store, which for the past several weeks has been engaged in an extensive remodeling program, opens with a “new look” according to M.D. Ruffin, manager.

50 YEARS AGO: 1960The Vicksburg Kiwanis Club holds its annual light bulb sale to make money to support youth projects. • Dr. I.C Knox is honored by employees and fellow staff members of the Vicks-burg Hospital for 50 years in the medical profession.

40 YEARS AGO: 1970Mr. and Mrs. George D. Young announce the birth of a daugh-ter, Donna Renae, on May 23. • Services are held for Mrs. Mattie Hopkins.

30 YEARS AGO: 1980Mrs. Ruth McReynolds, an employee of McRae’s, dies. • Jane E. Bird of Vicksburg is inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda at Lou-isiana State University.

20 YEARS AGO: 1990Gwendolynne Lindsey Merlin celebrates her third birthday. • Blythe Dawsey Brown celebrates her fifth birthday. • Geor-gia Suzanne Walker and Paul Douglas Smith announce their plans to be wed.

10 YEARS AGO: 2000Two train cars carrying granulated fertilizer derail along Rifle Range Road. • Blake Levi Wilson celebrates his first birthday.

ShiftThe Obama administration has

taken a positive step in efforts to help Americans fight drug abuse.

On May 11, President Barack Obama announced a shift in drug policy. The focus will now be on fighting drug abuse as a matter of personal health, not as a crimi-nal issue.

The change comes four decades after the nation initiated its so-called “war on drugs.” The idea of having a “war” against your own citizens was never a good one, and it’s about time that those in the highest levels of gov-ernment are recognizing that publicly.

Said drug czar Gil Kerlikowske: “Calling it a war really limits your resources. Looking at this as both a public safety prob-lem and a public health problem

seems to make a lot more sense.”The White House has an ambi-

tious plan. It hopes to reduce the rate of youth drug use by 15 percent over the next five years. Similar reductions are also sought in chronic drug use, drug abuse deaths and driving while impaired by drugs.

Those are all laudable goals. Kerlikowske also hopes to look at drugs not tied to illegal drugs.

“Quite often the marijuana issue was front and center in almost all of the discussion, and yet we have seen significant increase in drug overdose deaths mainly driven by prescription drugs,” Kerlikowske said.

The administration hopes that doctors will start routinely asking about drugs as a means of early intervention.

“Putting treatment into the pri-mary health care discussion is critical,” Kerlikowske said.

We’d urge parents to broach the subject with their children.

It can be a touchy subject at the dinner table or in the living room, but studies have shown that teen-agers do listen to their parents when the subject is brought up.

Drug abuse has ruined or taken far too many lives. The change in direction is a welcome one, and one we hope will have a better success rate than the failed war on drugs.

Treating drug abuse and no longer having a “war on drugs” are good things. Now, can we move toward getting rid of the title “drug czar?”

Obama changing strategy in drug-abuse fight

WASHINGTON — Following decades of welfare state comfort and years of Keynesian stimulus spend-ing, Europe is seeing the panicky arrival of austerity politics. Resent-ful debtors such as Greece, Spain and Portugal are being forced into tax increases and spending cuts that are painful, unpopular — and just beginning.

Their resentful citizens throw tan-trums and sometimes rocks at police. Resentful creditors such as Germany provide bailouts while wondering why they ever shackled themselves (and the value of their currency) to such irresponsible governments.

Those not resentful are scared. Great Britain — with a deficit that is higher as a percentage of its econ-omy than Greece’s — has formed a coalition government united by little except a commitment to budget responsibility. The constitutional innovation of keeping the current Parliament for the next five years is designed to assure creditors and markets that David Cameron’s gov-ernment will be stable enough to make difficult fiscal choices.

Every looming budget crisis is even-tually a political test — a test of politi-cal foresight and discipline, or a test of crisis management. And America is not exempt.

In 2009, the federal government spent $1.67 for every $1 it collected in taxes. The Obama administration’s budget proposals would dramatically increase publicly held debt as a per-centage of the economy over the next decade, eventually slowing economic growth, fueling inflation and making America more dependent on the kindness of creditors.

How has our political system responded so far? Congress recently found $60 billion in savings in the federal student-loan program — and promptly spent most of it on other education projects. President Obama’s health care reform cut more than $350 billion from Medi-care spending — and soaked up all of it and more into new health entitlements.

This can go on only for so long

before a challenge more similar to Britain’s becomes a fate more sim-ilar to Greece’s. America is about to enter its own period of austerity, which is likely to be the dominant political reality for the next decade. The new game will have few winners and many losers.

If the federal government takes spending reductions seriously, the first wave of austerity would hit the states and public employees. An infu-sion of cash from last year’s stim-ulus package temporarily masked the unsustainable fiscal condition of many states. But there will be no more stimulus packages. Some of the largest states — California, New York — are on the verge of default. And they will only achieve major spend-ing reductions by cutting their pen-sion and public employee compen-

sation systems. This would set up a serious battle between state govern-ments and the labor movement, since a majority of union workers today are public employees. Democratic governors, elected with union sup-port, would be in for a particularly interesting time.

In austerity politics, another group of likely losers is middle-class Amer-icans currently in their 40s. There can be no serious reduction in fed-eral spending without entitlement reform. Social Security and Medi-care eventually will need to be transformed from middle-class enti-tlements given because of age to enti-tlements given to those with lower incomes. In any entitlement reform, Americans at or near retirement will probably be exempt. Young people will have decades to prepare for a new entitlement structure. Middle-aged, middle-class people may be caught, well, in the middle.

And the biggest losers may be responsible politicians who take these realities seriously. Necessary changes will not resemble the rel-atively painless deficit reduction deals of 1990 or 1993. This round may require not only the means testing of Social Security and Medicare but the reduction or elimination of mid-dle-class entitlements such as the

mortgage interest deduction and the employer health care exclusion. Some politicians may be asked to sacrifice their careers for an impor-tant cause.

Because of the difficulties, it is pos-sible that the federal government will not be serious about spending cuts. Public employees and the mid-dle-class elderly, after all, are power-ful voting groups. The alternative is to attempt deficit reduction primar-ily through tax increases — perhaps an additional consumption or value-added tax. But this approach would involve a massive shift of resources from the private sector to the public sector, making many people poorer for the benefit of favored political constituencies.

To sustain expansive public com-mitments, Americans would be asked to accept lower economic growth and weaker job creation. And middle-class voters may not like higher taxes any more than reduced benefits.

An austerity era is a miserable, thankless time to serve in politics — but also an important one.

•Michael Gerson writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. E-mail reaches him at mgerson@ globalengage.org.

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America is about to enter its own period of austerity, which is likely to be the dominant political reality for the next decade. The new game will have few winners and many

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WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Two men armed with AK-47s ambushed and killed two officers who had stopped them on an Arkan-sas interstate, then died in a shootout with police who had tracked them to a Wal-mart parking lot, authori-ties said.

Sgt. Brandon Paudert, 39, and Bill Evans, 38, were killed Thursday while “run-ning drug interdiction” on Interstate 40 in east Arkan-sas, West Memphis Police Inspector Bert Shelton said. The local sheriff and a deputy were shot and injured in the subsequent shootout, authorities said.

The events started when Evans stopped a minivan with Ohio plates, with Paud-ert arriving moments later as backup, Assistant Police Chief Mike Allen said. Two men got out of the van with the assault rifles and opened fire on the officers, Shelton said.

“In what was probably only a few minutes, Offi-cer Evans was shoved to the ground and the men in the minivan started shooting at both officers,” Allen said. Investigators believe the van then sped away, Allen said.

Paudert, the son of West Memphis’ police chief, died at the scene and Evans died at a hospital, authorities said.

Authorities declined to say why Evans stopped the minivan or what was found inside.

Health Department wants state smoke-free

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Department of Education is the lead agency in a statewide campaign to educate residents about the dangers of secondhand smoke.

State Health Officer Dr. Mary Currier said the goal of the two-year campaign is to raise awareness and support a comprehensive statewide smoke-free air law.

Other Mississippi health advocate organizations are partnering with MSDH to help with the Smoke Free Air

Mississippi campaign.According to MSDH, smok-

ing accounts for an estimated 5,250 premature deaths in Mississippi each year, includ-ing 550 deaths among non-smokers as a result of sec-ondhand smoke.

MSDH received a $2.9 mil-lion grant from the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Prevention to help with the campaign.

Natchez police: 2 deadin domestic shootings

NATCHEZ, Miss. — Nat-chez police say they believe a man killed his girlfriend then went to his mother’s apartment and shot himself to death.

Ernest Clark, 40, was shot in the head late Wednesday with a .380 automatic pistol.

Police Lt. Craig Godbold said witnesses on the scene of Clark’s shooting reported that Clark’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Candice Johnson, had been killed.

Police found Johnson’s body at Clark’s home.

Godbold said the couple had been together about a month and may have broken up in the past week. He said there was no sign of struggle at either home. Police recov-ered the gun.

Oktibbeha residentsmust alter mailboxes

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Oktibbeha County will begin checking mailboxes along state rights of way to determine if residents must

replace them.County administrator Don

Posey said that the mailboxes must comply with state regu-lations or the county could lose state-aid money.

Posey said all mailboxes along State-Aid road rights of way in the county — not in the city of Starkville — must be placed atop 4-by-4-inch wooden posts, or “break-away” posts.

Posey said the county receives about $49,900 a year in State Aid funds.

Man flees custodyin death of cyclist

GREENVILLE, Miss. — A Calhoun County man facing 33 years in prison in the death of a Dutch tourist has fled federal supervision before sentencing, authori-ties said.

Esther Hageman, a vaca-tioning journalist, was hit by Wendell Blount’s SUV on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Houston, Miss., on April 22, 2009.

A federal court jury con-victed the 58-year-old Blount on April 23 of this year. Prosecutors said Blount was under the influence of morphine at the time of the accident.

Acting U.S. Marshal Scott Sanders told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that Blount fled today. He has been on house arrest wear-ing an ankle monitor.

Ocean Springs schoolconstruction to begin

OCEAN SPINGS, Miss. — Mobile-based White-Spunner Construction Inc. will begin construction on the new Ocean Springs High School in the coming weeks.

White-Spunner was awarded the bid April 30 after a vote by the Ocean Springs School Board.

Superintendent Robert Hirsh said the $37.25 million, 320,000-square-foot school is scheduled to be completed by March 2012.

Man’s body foundin river in Metairie

METAIRIE, La. — The Jef-ferson Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the discovery of a man’s body found float-ing in the Mississippi River.

The East Jefferson Levee District contacted the sher-iff’s office Thursday after the body was found in the river, at River Road and the River Batture in Metairie.

The sheriff’s office said the body appeared to have been in the water for “quite some time.”

Police: 2 suspects dead after Arkansas officers slain


the southBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By Shelia Byrd

The Associated Press

JACKSON — The state Col-lege Board on Thursday chose a retired professor to serve as interim president of Jackson State University after Presi-dent Ronald Mason Jr. departs at the end of June.

Higher Education Commis-sioner Hank Bounds said he recommended Leslie Burl McLemore because of his management skills.

McLemore, 69, has worked at JSU for 39 years, serving as a political science pro-fessor, dean of the graduate school and director of the office of research administra-tion. McLemore retired from JSU in 2009, but he’s the direc-tor of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizen-ship and Democracy, which is housed on the campus.

McLemore also served as president of the Jackson City Council.

“The fact of the matter is we’re in a very difficult eco-nomic situation. Jackson State, in particular, is really struggling,” Bounds said. “We need someone with really good management skills.”

Bounds also said he’s close to making a recommendation

for a tempo-rary replace-m e n t f o r Mississippi University for Women President Claudia Lim-bert, who also

leaves in June. He said the

announcement could be made at the board’s regularly sched-uled meeting next month or sooner.

The College Board Thursday also selected committees to begin the search to fill those positions, along with another at Alcorn State University that occurred after former presi-dent George Ross left in Feb-ruary to become president of Central Michigan University. Norris Edney is serving as ASU’s interim president.

Mason will become presi-dent at the Southern Univer-sity System, based in Baton Rouge, La., overseeing three academic campuses, a law school and an agricultural center.

Limbert and Mason were honored with resolutions on Thursday. Board officials said Limbert had been named a president emeritus for MUW.

Interim JSU head picked;search continues at MUW

Leslie BurlMcLemore

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is getting tougher on both borrowers and lend-ers blamed for inflating a housing bubble that, when it popped, plunged the nation into a severe recession two years ago.

Under sweeping finan-cial overhauls that have now passed the House and Senate, home buyers won’t be able to get a mortgage without pro-ducing pay stubs or other evi-dence they can make their monthly payments. A new consumer watchdog will police lenders who offer impossible-to-resist subprime mortgages and then jack up the inter-est rates to impossible-to-pay levels.

The bills, which still have to be blended into one that could reach the president’s desk this summer, also shine more light on complex but hidden finan-cial instruments, the “deriv-atives” that made long-odds bets on whether Americans could make payments on mortgages they never should have qualified for.

The legislation takes aim at the credit and securities markets that collapsed when

those bets turned out to be wrong, prompting Congress and the Federal Reserve to put up more than $2 trillion to prevent a panic that might well have triggered a global depression.

Still, for all their ambition, lawmakers left some gaping questions on how to tackle some of the most significant financial sector weaknesses exposed by the 2008 financial meltdown — from mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to unsettled disputes over banks and their derivatives business and requirements that they hold more capital. And in the rough and tumble give and take of writing laws, they rejected tougher mea-sures that would have forced behemoth banks to downsize, required securitizers to retain some credit risk in their loans, and compelled home buyers to put a downpayment on their loans.

If anything, however, the political environment has grown more populist since the House passed its legislation in December — a trend that will likely protect the tougher pro-visions in both bills.

President ordersagencies to work up mileage standards

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ordering federal agencies to work up national mileage and emissions standards for big rig and work trucks for the first time, seeking to limit pollu-tion from the large vehicles that contrib-ute a dispro-portionate share of it.

In a ceremo-ny in the Rose Garden today Obama also ordered fed-eral agencies that have al-ready brought out new standards for cars and light trucks for the 2012-2016 model years to begin work on even stronger rules for 2017 and beyond.

With the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico under-scoring the urgency of reduc-ing dependence on fossil fu-els, Obama said he would like to see vehicles 20 years from now run on half the fuel they do today and produce half the pollution.

Obama last month brought out new standards for cars and light trucks for the 2012-2016 model years that aimed at reaching a fleet average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, nearly 10 miles per gallon more than now.

Now additional standards will be developed further into the future, and heavy trucks would also be regulated, something environmental-

ists have long sought.

For future consumers, it could mean c a r s a n d trucks that go much farther on a tank of gas, though perhaps with a h i g h e r upfront cost.

For the auto industry, uni-form national standards are preferable to a state-by-

state approach that has been a threat ever since Califor-nia started pushing years ago to be allowed more stringent standards than the federal government imposes.

California agreed last year not to adopt its own stan-dards through 2016.

Environmental groups, meanwhile, have wanted standards for medium- and heavy-duty work trucks.

The Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy group, said these large trucks represent only 4 percent of all vehicles on U.S. highways but consume more than 20 percent of on-road transportation fuels.

Comparison of Senate and House financial regulation bills:OversightSenate: Creates a nine-mem-ber Financial Services Over-sight Council made up of the treasury secretary, Federal Reserve chairman, a presi-dential appointee with in-surance expertise, heads of regulatory agencies and a new consumer protection bureau that would monitor financial markets and watch for threats.House: Creates an 11-mem-ber council with similar du-ties.

Consumer protectionSenate: Creates a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau within the Federal Reserve to police lending, taking pow-ers now exercised by various bank regulators. Those regu-lators could appeal bureau regulations to the oversight council, which could veto the regulations with a two-thirds vote. Federal regulators could override state consumer laws on a case-by-case basis. Cur-rently states have a more dif-ficult time applying their laws to national banks. Excludes from oversight any small business that does not en-gage in financial services.House: Creates a stand-

alone Consumer Financial Protection Agency to police lending. There’s no process to veto agency regulations. State law provision is similar to Senate’s. Specifically ex-cludes from agency over-sight real estate brokers and agents, accountants and tax preparers and auto dealers.

Federal ReserveSenate: The Federal Reserve would retain supervision over bank-holding companies and state-charted banks. It also would police large, intercon-nected nonbank institutions that the oversight council de-termines could pose a threat to the economy. With council approval, the Fed could break up large, complex compa-nies that pose a grave threat to the financial system. The Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm, would conduct a one-time examination of the Fed’s emergency lending to finan-cial institutions in the months surrounding the 2008 finan-cial crisis.House: The Federal Reserve would lose consumer protec-tion regulation authority and ability to unilaterally inject money into financial institu-tions. The GAO would be giv-en broader power to conduct audits of the Fed.

Capital standardsSenate: Banks with more than $250 billion in assets would have to meet capital standards at least as strict as those that apply to smaller banks. Banks would not be able to include as top tier capital certain securities that are tax deductible subordi-nated debt.House: Any large bank hold-ing company identified as posing a potential risk to the economy would be required to put up additional capi-tal — more money and as-sets on hand. In computing capital requirements, regula-tors would include a bank’s off-balance sheet activities, such as trusts held for clients. These companies also would face a leverage cap of 15-1 debt-to-net capital ratio.

DerivativesSenate: Trades of derivatives, the complicated financial in-struments blamed for accel-erating the Wall Street crisis, would have to take place in regulated exchanges. Banks would have to spin off all their derivatives business into subsidiaries.House: Also regulates de-rivatives, but contains more exceptions for corporations that use derivatives as a hedge against price fluctua-

tions, not as a speculative investment. The House does not require banks to spin off their derivatives business.

Bank restrictionsSenate: Regulators would devise rules to prohibit bank holding companies with commercial bank operations from speculative trading with their own accounts. Large, interconnected companies would have to put more money in reserve.House: The oversight council may prohibit any activity, in-cluding speculative trading by commercial banks with their own accounts, if it finds that the activity could threaten the stability of the financial sys-tem. Large, interconnected companies would have to put more money in their reserves. Mortgage loansSenate: Lenders would be required to obtain proof from borrowers that they can pay for their mortgages. The would have to provide evi-dence of their income, either though tax returns, payroll receipts or bank documents. That provision seeks to elimi-nate so-called stated-income loans where borrowers of-fered no proof of their ability to make mortgage payments.House: Similar provision.

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Bill aims to expand benefits for unemployed50 tax cuts that expired in January would be extended for year

WAS H I NGT O N (A P ) —People who are out of work for long stretches would get expanded unemployment ben-efits through the end of the year under a bill Democratic lawmakers plan to pass next week.

The bill would also extend, for a year, about 50 popular tax cuts that expired in Jan-uary. The bill would be paid for, in part, by tax increases on investment managers and some U.S.-based multinational companies.

In response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the bill would increase taxes on oil companies by $10.9 billion over the next decade to finance the

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.House leaders said they plan

to vote on the bill early next week, leaving just a few days for the Senate to act before Congress goes on a weeklong vacation for Memorial Day. House leaders had planned to vote this week, but they were still waiting for some cost esti-mates, and a few issues were unresolved.

Delays in extending the tax breaks have left thousands of businesses unable to plan for their tax liabilities. Delays in passing a long-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits have forced thou-sands of laid-off workers to live month to month with no

certainty of income.Unemployment benefits for

many will start to run out June 2, unless Congress acts. The bill would extend unem-ployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in many states, at a cost of $47 billion.

Laid-off workers would con-tinue to get subsidies to buy health insurance through the COBRA program through the end of the year, at a cost of $7.8 billion. States would get $24 billion to states to help cover Medicaid costs.

“This is a bill about creating jobs, preventing outsourcing of jobs overseas, closing loop-holes that corporations and wealthy individuals (use for)

avoiding U.S. taxes and meet-ing the needs of those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said.

The bill started as a one-year extension of popular tax breaks, but it has grown into a grab bag of unfinished busi-ness lawmakers hope to com-plete before Memorial Day. The overall cost of the bill will top $150 billion and could approach $200 billion.

Most of that spending would be added to the federal budget deficit, generating opposition from Republicans and unease among some Democrats.

Olive Branch fiberglass plant adds 30 jobsOLIVE BRANCH, Miss. —

Guardian Fiberglass Inc. is expanding operations at its Olive Branch facility, creat-ing 30 new jobs.

Company officials said Thursday the expansion is to accommodate an increase in production of its fiberglass insulation for the residential and commercial construction industries.

Toyota recalls Lexusesin Japan, U.S. to follow

TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. began a recall today of 4,509 Lexus cars in Japan because of a computer prob-lem affecting the model’s steering system, with a simi-lar recall to follow in the U.S.

The carmaker said Wednes-day it would recall the cars in Japan, with another 7,000 affected in the U.S., China, Europe and other regions. The recall affects Toyota’s luxury Lexus “LS” line and involves a computerized system that oversees how the steering wheel controls the tires.

After being hit with a record $16.4 million fine in the U.S. for being slow to carry out an accelera-tor pedal recall and facing strong government criticism both at home and abroad for slow responses to safety

problems, Toyota Motor Corp. is working to react more quickly to problems with its cars. The company on Tuesday paid the fine in the U.S. where it still faces hundreds of state and federal lawsuits.

Wells Fargo warrantssold for $840.4M

WASHINGTON — A sale of Wells Fargo & Co. war-rants has brought the gov-ernment $840.4 million in the latest move to recoup costs for taxpayers from the $700 billion financial bailout.

The Treasury Department said today it sold 110.26 mil-lion warrants at a price of $7.70 per warrant. The gov-ernment had set a minimum bid price of $6.50 per warrant for the auction, which was held Thursday.

A warrant gives the pur-chaser the right to buy common stock at a fixed price.

Wells Fargo received $25 billion from the bailout fund, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008. It paid that money back in December of last year.

The government received

the warrants as bonus to taxpayers for rescuing the banks during the financial crisis.

The sale of the warrants represents the last link Wells Fargo had to TARP. Finan-cial institutions have been eager to cut ties to the bail-out program to escape vari-ous restrictions imposed on banks. Those include limits on executive compensation.

PepsiCo to invest$2.5B more in China

NEW YORK — PepsiCo Inc. said Friday that it plans to invest an additional $2.5 billion in China in the next three years on new plants and research facilities as the food and beverage maker builds up its presence in the growing market.

The company made the announcement in a news release today from Shanghai, site of the Shanghai Expo, where PepsiCo is a sponsor of the USA Pavilion. That planned spending is in addi-tion to the $1 billion invest-ment it announced in 2008 and plans to complete this year.

The company’s over-seas business has become a strong factor in its suc-cess, with PepsiCo report-ing last month that inter-

national growth pushed its first-quarter profit up 26 per-cent, as people in develop-ing countries bought more of its snacks and drinks. The company, based in Pur-chase, N.Y., posted double-digit gains in sales of snacks and beverages in India and China.

Opel workers agreeon restructuring

BERLIN — General Motors Co. and the work-ers at the automaker’s ailing Adam Opel GmbH unit have reached an agreement on a restructuring plan, an official said today.

Details of the memoran-dum of understanding are to be disclosed at a press conference later today in Ruesselsheim, where the company — whose brands include Opel and Vauxhall — is based, the official told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of ano-nymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter before it was officially announced.

Several “complex details” of the company’s compre-hensive restructuring plan, still have to be discussed, the person said.

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by the Board of Trustees, anticipates 1,274 total posi-tions, meaning that poten-tially 18 of the retirees will be replaced and the remaining 40 lost to attrition.

Zelmarine Murphy, presi-dent of the district’s board of trustees, congratulated honorees and urged them to come back and volunteer in the schools. She said retire-ment will be a “joyful time” for them, with many options for them to pursue. “You can do this and you can do that — and you will be work-ing harder than you ever did at school,” she said with a smile.

In addition to Powell, a number of those honored had 30 or 40 years or more of service.

After 39 1/2 years, Dana Road pre-kindergarten teacher Linda Hanks will retire along with husband Bubba and spend time with grandchildren. “She has been the star in so many chil-dren’s eyes,” said principal Dr. Ethel Lassiter.

Walls praised records clerk Mary Franklin for her 41 years, commenting that the woman who is always cold can now “turn the air condi-tioning off, put the stove on, cook and stay warm.”

Grogan’s 34 years tops the administrators leaving the district this year. His service to the district includes being principal at Beechwood as

well as the former Culkin school. Price called him a principal loved by teachers and other administrators.

“He is the calm in the eye of the storm,” Price said. “Mr. Grogan is as true today as he was 30 years ago and as he will be for the rest of his life.”

Bubba Hanks logged 25 years with the district as teacher, assistant principal at Warren Central High School and principal at Redwood and Vicksburg Intermediate.

Before teacher and staff certificates were handed out by individual school princi-pals, Price and Walls were honored by state Rep. Alex Monsour and Sen. Briggs Hopson, who presented them with resolutions passed by the Mississippi Legislature.

“He’s been a great superin-tendent for us and I think he deserves a great, great thank you for what he’s done,” Monsour said of Price, who received a standing ovation.

In addition, Price received gifts from the Vicksburg Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary clubs and a commendation from the Warren County Board of Supervisors.

Price began his career in the district as a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher in 1991 after serving as principal and teacher at Oakley Train-ing School in Raymond and a career in private business.

He became an assistant principal in 1993, followed

by terms as elementary and intermediate principal and administrative assistant to former Superintendent Donald Oakes. He succeeded Oakes in 2003.

Walls has logged 25 years with the district, after 16 years of teaching at Alcorn State University and the Hinds County and Port Gibson school systems. Before becoming deputy

superintendent, Walls served for a time as principal at Beechwood and assistant principal at Warren Central Junior High.

Price, clearly moved by the honors, said the true worth of the schools came from those working closely with students every day.

“They are the ones that should be honored. I have enjoyed something that very

few people will ever get to enjoy, and I thank you,” he said, his voice breaking.

The search for Price’s suc-cessor is under way, facili-tated by executive recruiting firm McPherson & Jacob-son. At their April 29 meet-ing, district trustees named Randy Broome, Vicksburg High School assistant princi-pal and former head base-ball coach, as the new head

at Redwood; and Chris Per-ritt, Warren Central assis-tant principal and former softball coach, principal of Beechwood.

The district serves about 9,000 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade at 15 schools.

ability, communication,” said McPherson & Jacobson Con-sultant Loe Dunn.

The turnout and tone of the meeting were compa-rable to a similar hearing in March 2003, when the search for outgoing Superintendent Donald Oakes was ongoing and about 20 parents showed up to give their input.

Of the parents who attended, most said they want a superintendent who keeps them informed of what’s going on in their student’s schools and classrooms.

“Under the current system, I find parents and teachers are out of the loop,” said Jim Harper, who has two children who attend school in the dis-trict. “A good communicator all the way up and down the food chain, that’s what I’m looking for.”

“Parents are not the enemy,” echoed Willie Thomas, whose son attends Warren Central High School. “Every time I show up (at the school) to talk to someone, they see me as a threat.”

Superintendent Dr. James Price announced in March that he would retire June 30, triggering a search by the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees for a recruitment firm to help find his replacement. McPherson & Jacobson was selected among three firms that pitched services to the school board, and is being paid $14,500 for its services.

Aiming to give the trustees a recommendation by June 23, the firm is in the second of a four-phased effort to find an educator to lead the district, which comprises 15 schools and about 9,000 stu-dents. The position began being advertised nationally this month, and applications

will be taken until June 11. Three to five finalists will be selected and interviewed in mid-June before a rec-ommendation is given to trustees.

“I promise you, if the pool of candidates is not strong or does not meet the criteria you’ve outlined for us, we’ll recommend the position be re-advertised,” said McPher-son & Jacobson Consultant Dr. Gerald Keller. “We’re not just going to fill this position to fill it.”

A handful of teachers in the district also attended the public hearing to pro-vide an educator’s perspec-tive and express their own frustrations.

“I’m looking for someone who will give me my voice back, because as a teacher, I don’t feel like I have a voice anymore,” said Carolyn Bradley, a fifth-grade teacher at Bowmar Elementary. “We have so many things required of us now and we’re cramming this stuff down these children’s throats so fast that we can’t do all the extra things we need to be doing.”

Ebony Gardner, math teacher and swim coach at Vicksburg High School, said she wants a superintendent who is going to take student truancy seriously.

“As a teacher, I can tell you that we don’t have any kind of attendance policy. If we do, it’s not enforced,” she said, noting she knows of students who have missed more than 40 days of school this year. “There’s no way a teacher can teach someone who is not there.”

Matt Gullett, a Warren Cen-tral graduate who teaches social studies at the school, said it’s important the new superintendent under-

stands the rivalries within the school district — primar-ily between Vicksburg and Warren Central high schools — and is able to be impartial when it comes to support of all schools.

“There’s still blood between Vicksburg and Warren Cen-tral, and between the north side of the county and the south side, but if we’re going to succeed together as a dis-trict we need to set that crap aside,” Gullett said. “This is about the education of our kids and the future of our community.”

Jim Stirgus Sr., who was a teacher, principal and super-intendent of the Vicksburg Municipal Separate School District for nearly 30 years until the 1980s, said students today achieve less because they’re held less accountable.

“We need a very, very strong disciplinarian,” Stir-gus said of the new superin-tendent. “Most teachers are

good people, they just don’t get the support they need from our administrators.”

Price, 58, is the district’s fifth superintendent since city and county schools con-solidated in 1987. He was paid $104,000 when tapped to lead the district in July 2003 — the same as the out-going wage of Oakes — and his salary has been raised to $140,000, among the highest

in the state. During preliminary discus-

sions on his replacement’s pay, the trustees have agreed on a salary range between $110,000 and $140,000. The new superintendent will take over a district with a roughly $80 million operating budget.

In a work session last week, the trustees pared down a list of 25 desired attributes in a new superintendent to

five. They are, in order of importance:

• A strong disciplinarian• A good communicator

with a warm personality• Good managerial skills,

with budgeting abilities• Understands Mississippi

testing and accountability standards

• Has a short- and long-term vision for district success.


On the agendaMeeting Thursday, the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees:• Approved minutes of the

April 29 board meeting.• Accepted cash donations:

for Beechwood Elementa-ry’s music program, $100 from The Church of the Holy Trinity Episcopal, for the Honor Choir’s participa-tion in the Lenten Arts Se-ries; to help with Vicksburg Intermediate’s yearbook costs, $500 from Cooper Industries; and a capital do-nation to the district of one TeachWell Mobile Digital Platform, valued at $899, from Ergotron.

• Approved amendments to the 2009-2010 budget.

• Approved accounts payable claims for May.

• Approved personnel items: compensation for extra du-ties for April; 2010-2011 sal-ary schedules for licensed employees and teacher as-sistants (no changes from 2009-2010); change of sta-tus for two certified em-ployees; classified person-nel recommendations; and substitute, mentor and tu-tor recommendations.

• Approved the purchase of drug abuse and violence prevention materials for all grade levels from The Mendez Foundation, a sole source provider.

• Approved a list of surplus capital assets for disposal.

• Approved 16th Section items: advertising for bids for hunting and fishing leases on three parcels (Da-vis Island, Dana Road and South Park); re-advertising

bids for an oil, gas and min-eral lease (Eagle Lake).

• Approved a change order for construction at Vicks-burg Junior High School.

• Requested a written opin-ion from board attorney Brigss Hopson on the state statute governing donated leave.

• Approved out-of-state trav-el: Vicksburg Intermediate School staff to attend the Marie Carbo Reading Con-ference in New Orleans, July 10-14; Warren Central Junior High School cheer-leaders to participate in the Liberty Bowl Halftime Show and Beale Street Parade in Memphis, Dec. 29-Jan. 1.

• Approved the low bid for wastewater testing at $2,100 monthly by Utililty Contractors of Canton.

SchoolsContinued from Page A1.

If you goMcPherson & Jacobson representatives will pres-ent its findings from Thurs-day’s public hearing to the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees at 6 p.m Wednesday in the board room of the district office, 1500 Mission 66.

RetiringBeechwood• Nancy Biggers — 24 years• Marsha D. Bridgers — 31

years• Kathy Castellane — 36 years• Jack Grogan — 34 years• Susan M. Payne — 8 1/2

years Bovina• Lana Hand — 20 1/2 years• Katherine A. Walker — 12.79

yearsBowmar• Dorothy D. Rankin — 29

yearsDana Road• Linda W. Hanks — 39 1/2

years• Henrietta Kemper — 26

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Texas Board of Education to finish guidelines amid fight over ‘Hussein’AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An

ideologically divided State Board of Education has been fighting over the meaning of the president’s middle name ahead of a final showdown over the social studies and history guidelines that will determine which political events and fig-ures Texas students will learn about for the next decade.

Democrats and a moderate Republican accused conser-vatives on the board of trying to stir up a needless contro-versy Thursday by referring to the president’s full name, President Barack Hussein Obama, saying the middle

name was loaded with nega-tive connotation.

The board is set to wrap up debate on the new social stud-ies and history guidelines for Texas schools before voting today.

The standards will be used to develop state tests and by textbook publishers that develop materials for the nation based on Texas, one of the largest markets.

Critics had complained that Obama’s full name was con-spicuously absent in a high school history course that referred only to the “the election of the first black

president.”But when a Democrat tried

to fix the omission, Repub-lican David Bradley said “I think we give him the full honor and privilege of his full name.”

The effort snarled the board’s progress on amend-m e n t s l at e Th u r s d ay evening.

“The intent behind what you’re doing, I think is pretty obvious,” said Republican Bob Craig, urging Bradley to withdraw the suggestion.

“Please Mr. Bradley, don’t use the middle name,” said Democrat Lawrence Allen.

“You know it’s going to have a negative connotation in the press. Yes, it’s his birth name, but you know the sig-nificance it will play in the press. We don’t have to deal with it.”

Finally Bradley relented.“To put an end to the whin-

ing I withdraw the motion,” he said.

The meeting has drawn national scrutiny, and sparked protest in the Austin board room and around the country.

Though they lost on Hus-sein, conservatives scored a string of other victories

late Thursday, including a requirement that public school students in Texas eval-uate efforts by global orga-nizations such as the United Nations to undermine U.S. sovereignty.

With little discussion from Democrats on the board, con-servatives also added lan-guage that would require stu-dents to discuss the solvency of “long-term entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.”

The decisions will set the standards for teaching history and social studies for some 4.8 million public school students

over the next 10 years. The monthslong process of adopt-ing the curriculum has made the board a lightning rod for ideological debate.

Also Thursday, the board long debated whether to include Confederate Presi-dent Jefferson Davis’ inau-gural address with a lesson on Abraham Lincoln’s phil-osophical views; the board decided to require students to contrast the two views.

A proposal to refer to the slave trade as the “Atlan-tic triangular trade” was changed to call it the “trans-Atlantic slave trade.”

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Thompson in the Nov. 2 gen-eral election. All four of the state’s congressmen are unopposed in their respec-tive primaries.

Primary candidates in Mis-sissippi’s four House races faced a deadline Thursday. Federal election law stipu-lates candidates who raise or spend $5,000 file a finance

report with the Federal Elec-tion Commission. When reached Thursday, Marcy estimated about $3,600 had been raised for his campaign to date, a mark below the reporting floor. Bailey did not expect filing a report. Cook could not be reached.

Finance totals for Thomp-son, first elected in 1993,

showed $1,915,027 in cash on hand, with $1,155,728 raised and $524,827 spent. Both were totals through March 31, the most recent quar-terly deadline for congressio-nal candidates. Thompson’s available cash at this point in the campaign is nearly $900,000 more than at a simi-lar point in 2008, the most recent congressional elec-tion year. Further compari-sons show contributions up by more than $224,000 and spending down about $2,000 for Thompson, who defeated Cook in the 2008 primary with 69 percent of the vote.

Mississippi’s other three House races also show

incumbents leading the money chase. U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., who faces no primary oppo-sition in the north Missis-sippi-based 1st District but is forecast to be the closest House race in Mississippi come November, has raised $1,043,257 to date. Repub-lican state Sen. Alan Nun-nelee has raised the most of three in the party’s primary, with $579,720 raised through March. Seven candidates running either independent or third-party campaigns in the 1st District will join the two nominees on the ballot in November.

U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper,

R-Miss., reported $363,380 through March in the 3rd District. The Woodville-to-Meridian district also covers suburban Jackson. None of three Democrats or two third-party candidates reported raising or spending any money.

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., reported $298,799 through May 12 in the Gulf Coast-based 4th District. Republican state Sen. Steven Palazzo and businessman Joe Tegerdine have raised $125,260 and $30,742, respec-tively, through March. Two third-party candidates will appear on the general elec-tion ballot.

“That’s it,” he said when finished.

Shortly thereafter, the death process started. Hol-land gasped several times, took several deep breaths and was still. He was pro-nounced dead at 6:14 p.m.

Marcie Walker of Wiggins, the sister of 15-year-old Krys-tal King of Gulfport, quietly held hands with Melinda Braxton, director of victim services for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. A brother-in-law, Timo-thy Adams of Gulfport, sat nearby.

Walker, a petite blonde, held a picture of her sister at the post-execution news con-ference. She was joined by another sister, Melissa King Adams of Gulfport.

“It took 24 years, 24 of my personal years, to get to this point to see the man die who killed my sister,” Walker said. “I can really say it is over with. My sister will finally have peace. I believe that.”

“Mississippi should be like Texas and put in an express lane,” she said.

In a statement read at the

news conference, the girl’s mother, Kathy King, said she chose not to attend the execution.

“Watching him die will not

bring Krystal back nor will it take away my pain. And even though Mr. Holland is dead, he still lived a full life, a life he stole from her,” the state-

ment said.Holland had no witnesses

at the execution. He wanted no family or attorneys there, Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps said.

“He had not talked about any hope this week,” Epps said. “I think he kind of fig-ured this was the end.”

It was the second execution in Mississippi in two days. Paul Everette Woodward died Wednesday for his 1987 conviction in the rape-slay-ing of a 24-year-old woman.

Holland requested a seda-tive before the execution and was given Valium. He asked to be buried at the penitentiary.

Earlier Thursday, Gov. Haley Barbour refused to grant clemency and Hol-land’s final appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Holland was convicted of raping and killing King in 1986. At 72, he was the state’s oldest death-row inmate.

Court documents and Hol-land’s conversations with prison officials detail some of the circumstances leading up to the slaying, although

Holland did not admit raping the girl.

King and a friend went to Holland’s home on Sept. 11, 1986, the day before King’s 15th birthday. Epps said Hol-land told him he had been drinking heavily at home that night. Court records show Holland’s wife and daughter left him in July or August, and that he had talked about his divorce to King and her friend.

Epps said Holland claims he received a letter about his divorce being final the same day King came over.

King was killed the next morning. Prosecutors said she was raped, beaten and stabbed, and an autopsy showed the cause of death was asphyxiation from a liga-ture placed around her neck and clothing stuffed down her throat.

But Holland originally claimed her death was an accident. He and another man, Jerry Douglas, dis-posed of the body. Douglas reported the slaying to police and testified against Holland at trial.

“It’s going to be a pretty slow rise to flood stage at Vicksburg, only going up a 10th of an inch or so every couple of days,” said LMRFC hydrologist Daniel Pearce. “It will probably stay around 43 feet for a couple of days and then very slowly start to fall.”

As of this morning, the river was running at 42.7 feet, a rise of 0.1 foot over the past 24 hours.

While a flood stage crest will have limited impacts in the city and county, it will “prolong the agony” in the Yazoo Backwater Area, said U.S. Army Corps of Engi-neers Water Division Techni-cian Waylon Hill.

The Corps had hoped to re-open the gates of Steele Bayou — the lone drainage point for the 4,093 square miles of forest and farm-land in the southernmost tip of the Mississippi Delta known as the Yazoo Backwa-ter Area — by the first week

of June. The gates, about 25 miles north of Vicksburg off Mississippi 465, were forced closed by the rising river on May 6. Hill said the new fore-cast probably will push the re-open date back another week or more.

“It might be the second week in June now before we can open the gates,” said Hill. “Of course, that puts us at the mercy of the rain.”

Steele Bayou was holding more than 6 feet of water out of the backwater area this morning, with the riverside

water stage measuring 90.5 feet and the landside 84.3 feet — both rises of 0.2 feet over the past 24 hours. With normal rainfall, the Corps expects the water stage to reach about 88 feet in the backwater area. Low-lying crops begin to go under-water at 86 feet.

The city’s rain gauges col-lected between a quarter and a half inch of rainfall at vari-ous locations across Vicks-burg Thursday. The National Weather Service is calling for a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms today, mainly before 1 p.m. The weekend forecast looks mostly sunny locally, as does the beginning of next week.

In the county, Chickasaw, Thompson Lake and Long Lake roads are all closed, said Road Manager Richard Winans. The nearby Kings Point Ferry, which normally would be shuttling a few pri-vate landowners across the

Yazoo Diversion Canal each day this time of year, has also been shuttered.

“There will be a couple more secondary roads that will probably go under, depending on any rainfall we get,” said Winans this morning.

Mississippi 465, which leads to the Eagle Lake commu-nity from U.S. 61 North, and LeTourneau Road in south-ern Vicksburg will not go under water unless the river nears 46 feet. No roads have been closed in the city.

Now at a slow rise, the river had been jumping up by one to two feet a day before this week. Two weeks ago, the river was nearly 10 feet lower than it is today. This is the third significant rise this spring. In mid-February, the river rose to an early season crest of 41 feet — which fore-casters warned could signal an even greater spring rise. On April 9, the river rose

again, to 40.9 feet. When the river reaches

flood stage next week, it will be the third consecutive year of spring flooding in Vicks-burg — the first time that’s happened since 1996 through 1998. Last year, the river topped out at 47.5 feet on May 27, and in 2008 the river peaked at 50.9 feet on April 19 — the highest stage since 1973.

Backwater area flood-ing was even more signifi-cant the past two years. The backwater area water stage peaked at 93.7 feet in 2009, and in 2008 it reached 92.3 feet — marking the third and sixth worst flood events in the area since the levee system was completed in 1978. During each of those floods, the Corps estimated more than 400,000 acres of land went underwater.


TONIGHT

The cold front will move through tonight as the

showers have ended. Look for it to warm up a bit this

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BARBIE BASSSETTSATuRdAy

95°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTsunday-monday

Partly cloudy; highs in the lower 90s, lows in the mid-

60s

STATE FORECASTTonIGHT

Partly cloudy; lows in the mid-60s

saTurday-mondayPartly cloudy; highs in the mid-90s, lows in the mid-

60s

ALmAnACHIGHs and Lows

High/past 24 hours............. 87ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 65ºAverage temperature ........ 76ºNormal this date .................. 74ºRecord low .............52º in 1919Record high ...........93º in 1902

raInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ............. 0.59 inchThis month .............2.70 inchesTotal/year ............. 17.34 inchesNormal/month .....3.41 inchesNormal/year ....... 25.43 inches

soLunar TabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Saturday:A.M. Active .........................12:58A.M. Most active ................ 7:10P.M. Active ............................ 1:23P.M. Most active ................. 7:35

sunrIse/sunseTSunset today ....................... 7:57Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:58Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:01

RIVER DATAsTaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 42.7 | Change: +0.1Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 18.7 | Change: +0.2

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 25.0 | Change: +1.1Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 20.6 | Change: +0.9

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 4.5 | Change: -0.2Flood: 12 feet

Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 9.2 | Change: N/C

Flood: 28 feet

sTeeLe bayouLand ...................................84.3River ...................................90.5

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Saturday ................................ 44.0Sunday ................................... 44.4Monday ................................. 44.9

MemphisSaturday ................................ 29.0Sunday ................................... 29.0Monday ................................. 29.2

GreenvilleSaturday ................................ 48.5Sunday ................................... 48.6Monday ................................. 48.7

VicksburgSaturday ................................ 42.7Sunday ................................... 42.7Monday ................................. 42.8

Death penalty opponents Sheila O’Flaherty, left, Gary Griffin, right, and Lela Hubbard, all of Jackson, protest the execu-tion at Parchman Thursday night.

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mISSISSIPPIRIVERThis morning: 42.7 feet24 hour change: + 0.1 feetForecast crest: 43 feet; Thursday, May 27.Flood stage: 43 feet

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

Margaret Lynn BollsLONGVIEW, Texas —

Margaret “Lynn” Bolls died Thursday, May 20, 2010, in Longview, Texas. She was 59.

Mrs. Bolls was born in Vicksburg to Lester and Hattie Gene Herren Flowers.

Survivors include her husband, Judd Bolls of Longview; four brothers, Wiley Flowers, Bill Flow-ers, Randy Lewis Martin and Darrel Flowers, all of Utica; a sister, Mary Goza of Utica; and nieces, nephews and other relatives, including Betty Gilcrease of Vicksburg.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Rosewood Park Cemetery with Chaplain Don Ross officiating.

Welch Funeral Home in Longview has charge of arrangements.

Mary Ruth Smith Wilmore

CHICAGO — Mary Ruth Smith Wilmore, formerly of

Vicksburg, died Saturday, May 15, 2010, in Chicago. She was 76.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank Smith Sr. and Ruth Ann Kirkland Smith; her husband, June Wilmore; two sisters, Bonnie Haymond and Anna Maud Jones; and four brothers, Mark Smith, Nathan Smith Sr., Francis Smith and Rufus “Duff” Smith.

She is survived by four sons, Ralph Wilmore, Greg Wilmore, Melvin Wilmore and Anthony Wilmore, all of Chicago; two daughters, Patricia Wilmore and Dar-lene Wilmore, both of Chi-cago; three sisters, Barbara Jean Pierce and Alice Mae Hill, both of Vicksburg, and Emma Ree Benard of Chi-cago; four brothers, Frank Smith Jr. of Chicago, Willie Harold Smith of San Diego, Harvey L. Smith of Dallas and Dan E. Smith of Philadel-phia, Pa.; and grandchildren, nieces, nephews, friends and other relatives, including the Mitchell, Parson and Ross families.

Services will be Saturday under the direction of House of Branch Funeral Home, 3125 W. Roosevelt Road No. 27, Chicago, IL 60612.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A few days before the Upper Big Branch coal mine blew up, James Woods had a night-mare — he was pinned down, held by his arms, unable to move.

It was, his daughter believes, “God’s way of telling him that something was going to happen.”

Woods awoke from a coma in a Charleston hospital bed, and tried to yank out feeding and ventilator tubes. Doctors were forced to tie down his arms for more than a week.

His dream was right on the mark.

Twenty-nine men died inside Massey Energy Co.’s mine in Montcoal, an hour south of Charleston. One other man was briefly hospitalized, and Woods was pulled out barely alive.

More than a month after the accident, the devout Christian, devoted family man and deter-mined prankster is a fraction of his former self, unable to converse and seemingly lost in a brain that was starved of oxygen from carbon monoxide exposure.

“You know he’s in there,” daughter Sherry Lilly told The Associated Press recently in the family’s first interview

since the April 5 explosion. “And sometimes he’ll have an expression that you’re used to seeing. But then sometimes it’s just blank.”

Woods — a husband at 16, a father at 18 and 54 by the day of the blast — suffered bruised lungs and brain trauma, and his family has no idea what, if anything, he remembers. They don’t talk about the accident in front of him. They don’t ask, either.

They just thank God for mir-acles large and small — his survival, three consecutive words from his mouth, his ability to walk again.

Those first steps were “amaz-ing to see, and very tearful,” Lilly said. “It was like watch-

ing a baby walk for the first time. It really was. I have three children. It was like, ’Wow.’

“Physically, he’s doing good. But mentally, he’s like a small child. He doesn’t even know why he’s here.”

Woods had worked in the mines for 17 years and was an electrician at Upper Big Branch, where he was part of the “old man crew” — miners who took the long ride to the coal seam together and whose experience added up to decades.

Woods and eight others were aboard an underground vehicle that was on its way out of the mine at the time of the explosion, according to Danny Spratt, state mine rescue

team coordinator. Seven were killed.

Rescuers found the other injured miner, whose name has not been publicly released, walking out along the under-ground tracks, Spratt said. The man was treated at a hospital and released within days. He has declined inter-view requests.

Also with Woods earlier that day was his 32-year-old son, Jeremy. Lilly said Jeremy Woods had left the area late in his shift to get some sup-plies he needed to complete his own work. Jeremy Woods was still inside the mine when the explosion occurred, but got out unhurt.

“He realized that when my dad was in there, that he tried to go back in and that men had to restrain him because he was going back in to get dad,” Lilly said.

Jeremy Woods has talked little about the disaster, Lilly said, adding that he wouldn’t be interviewed.

Massey Energy has come under fire since the explo-sion for its safety record, both at Upper Big Branch and in general. The company didn’t respond to a request for com-ment on Woods’ situation.

The elder Woods’ relatives are just thankful for their blessings — “I have my dad when the others don’t,” Lilly said — and focusing on help-ing him get better.

Family marks progress of mine survivor‘He doesn’teven knowwhy he’s here’


Sherry Lilly holds a photo of her father, coal miner James Woods, at a hospital in Charleston.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat said today that North Korea should face international conse-quences over the deadly sink-ing of a South Korean war-ship, while the South said the U.N. would investigate whether the attack violated the Korean War truce.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called the sinking a “military provocation” and said it violated the U.N. Charter as well as the truce that ended the fighting in the 1950-53 con-flict. But he called for a cau-tious response to this “serious and grave” issue.

Arriving in Tokyo ahead of a visit to Beijing and Seoul, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that U.S., Japan, South Korea and China are consulting on an appropri-ate reaction to an international investigation that blamed North Korea for the incident. She said the report announced Thurs-day proves a North Korean sub fired a torpedo that sank the ship, the Cheonan on March 26 and that it could no longer be “business as usual” in deal-ing with the matter and that there must be “an international response.”

While it was “premature” to discuss exact options or actions that will be taken in response, Clinton said it was “impor-tant to send a clear message

to North Korea that provocative actions have consequences.

“The evi -dence is over-whelming and condemning. The torpedo that sunk the

Cheonan ... was fired by a North Korean submarine,” she told reporters.

North Korea said for a second day that war clouds loomed over the divided peninsula, and has asked to send its own team to investigate the site. South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young, speaking to report-ers, called the request “irratio-nal and incomprehensible.”

Instead, Kim’s ministry requested the U.N. Command’s Military Armistice Com-mission, which oversees the truce, to conduct a probe sep-arate from the multinational investigation.

“This incident was clearly a military attack against our naval warship that was carry-ing out a routine patrol opera-tion — an explicit violation of the truce agreement,” deputy defense minister Chang Kwang-il said.

U.N. to launch probeinto warship’s sinkingClinton: Report proves N. Korea fired torpedo

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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A plan by the University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming fresh-man has come under fire from critics who said the school was pushing an unproven tech-nology on impressionable students.

The university has said it will send test kits to 5,500 new stu-dents to analyze genes that help control the body’s responses to alcohol, dairy products and folic acid.

The voluntary tests are intended to spur conversation about the growing field of per-sonal genomics, not predict the likelihood of disease, university officials said Thursday.

“We thought that this would be a more engaging vehicle for discussion than having them read a book or an article,” said Mark Schlissel, dean of biology at UC Berkeley.

Critics, however, worry that students could get the idea the school approves of widely avail-able direct-to-consumer gene-testing kits that claim to pre-dict the risk of future health problems.

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ON TV6 p.m. Versus - As the

temperature approaches 90 today, cool off with a lit-tle playoff ice hockey. The San Jose Sharks and Chica-go Blackhawks hook up for Game 3 of the NHL’s West-ern Conference finals.

WHO’S HOTJALEN WILLIAMS

Vicksburg resident won the 13-14-year-olds’ 100- and 200-me-ter dashes at the Peak Performance Invitational track meet May 15 in Mon-roe. Williams was running with the Mississippi Heat track club.

SIDELINESFavre vows to returnif USM reaches CWS

HATTIESBURG (AP) — Brett Favre says he still isn’t sure what he’s doing next season, but he may have given some indication after visiting with the Southern Miss baseball team.

The Minnesota Vikings quarterback told the Gold-en Eagles on Thursday morning that if they can make it back to the College World Series for the second straight year, he will return for one more NFL season.

“You go back, I go back” the future NFL Hall of Fam-er said.

Favre has left fans hang-ing since the Vikings lost to New Orleans in the NFC Championship game. He signed a two-year contract with the Vikings before last season. Coach Brad Chil-dress hasn’t talked with Favre recently except by text message.

Southern Miss players have some work to do if they want to force Favre into action. They are 31-20 and need wins to earn a postseason invitation.

A recent 12-game win-ning streak vaulted USM into second place in Con-ference USA. The league tournament is next week.

‘’Yes, time is running out but you can get hot again and who knows,” Favre told the team. “Promise me one thing, you will not leave Southern Miss and ask ‘what if?’ Don’t look back 10 years from now and wondering what if.”

LOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 2-9-4La. Pick 4: 8-5-7-1Weekly results: B2

pREp SOCCER

Banksgets jobas coachwith WCBy Steve [email protected]

Warren Central’s Trey Banks has been an impor-tant figure in the back-ground of the soccer pro-gram for the past three years.

He coached the girls’ junior varsity team, assisted with the varsity and helped mold Jamal Brinnon into a top-flight goalkeeper.

Along the way, he’s earned respect from all involved.

Now he’s moving into the spotlight.

Banks was given a promotion Thursday night when the Vicks-burg Warren School Dis-trict Board of Trustees approved his hiring as head coach of WC’s girls’ team. Banks will replace Janet McMaster, who resigned to spend more time with her family.

“I’m just thrilled at the opportunity,” Banks said. “I’ve been waiting for my opportunity and it just came at the right time, so I wanted to go for it.”

Since he’s worked with much of the roster since they were in seventh grade, his charges are familiar with his meth-ods and personality and Banks feels the transition will be a smooth one.

“They know who I am and what I’m about,” Banks said. “They know what I expect out of them. I think they’d feel more comfortable than having to learn someone new.”

Banks played on Warren Central’s 2001 division title team before graduat-ing in 2002. Before return-ing to Warren Central in 2007, he coached at Oxford High School as an assistant.

McMaster, who finished her four-year tenure at WC with a record of 23-24-11 and two playoff appear-ances, didn’t leave the cupboard bare. The Lady Vikes return all of their top goal scorers from last season, led by Mal-lory Reynolds (13 goals, six assists) and Lindsey Barfield (nine goals, five assists).

While the team lost both of its top defenders to graduation and has only one senior on next year’s roster, most of the under-classmen have been start-ing for several seasons already.

“We’ve got a really, really good group coming back,” Banks said. “With our leading scor-ers coming back, all our defense will need is just a little shaping up and we’ll be fine.”

In another coaching change at Warren Central, fast-pitch softball coach Dana McGivney will take over the slow-pitch team next season. She replaces Lucy Young, who is retir-ing after 37 years as a soccer and softball coach at the school.

TreyBanks

Rain shifts Hinds regional to JacksonBy Jeff [email protected]

RAYMOND — Thunder-

storms got the best of Hinds and Pearl River Thursday, forcing a postponement of the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Region XXIII Tournament opener.

The game has been rescheduled for today at 2 p.m. at Smith Wills Stadium in Jackson.

A line of storms rolled through the Raymond campus 20 minutes after East Central upset third-ranked LSU-Eunice 14-10 in the Thursday afternoon game. Both Pearl River and Hinds had finished their pregame warmups and the

two coaches were about to exchange lineup cards when a lightning flash forced Hinds to tarp the infield.

After a delay, the coaches agreed to wait until today rather than play deep into the night.

“After the first storm went through, there was another one coming. If we tried to

wait it out, it would have been 10 p.m. Pearl River didn’t want to have to play until 1 a.m. this morning and then possibly have to play again at noon the next day,” Hinds coach Sam Temple said.

Hinds (31-19) will now face Pearl River at 2 p.m., with the loser facing LSU-Eunice (41-12) in an elimination game at 5:30.

The winner of the Hinds-Pearl River game will face East Central (39-17) at 2 p.m. Saturday in Raymond.

The tournament will have two games on Saturday and the championship game has been moved to0t Sunday.

“We can’t play more than two games a day,” Temple

said.Because of the water that

Hinds’ Joe Moss Field took, the regional will shift to Smith Wills today and return to Raymond for Saturday and Sunday’s games.

Belhaven finished its NAIA regional at Smith Wills on Thursday night, freeing up that venue for the rest of the weekend.

In the first game of the tournament Thursday, East Central took advantage of 12 walks to upset LSU-Eunice. Former Neshoba Central star Donnie Tabb went 3-for-6 with two RBIs and two runs scored, while reliever Colton Mitchell pitched 5 2/3 innings to earn the win for East Central.

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On B3• Belhaven advances to NAIA World Series• LSU snaps skid with win over Mississippi State

USM routs Memphisin series opener, 9-3From staff reports

Although it no longer has a

shot at the Conference USA regular-season champion-ship, Southern Miss showed Thursday it might be a force to be reckoned with in the league tournament.

Scott Copeland allowed one earned run in a complete game, while Mark Ellis, Tyler Koelling and Dillon Day drove in two runs apiece in a 9-3 win over Memphis.

Southern Miss (31-21, 13-9) snapped a three-game losing streak and stayed on track to earn the No. 2 seed in next week’s C-USA Tournament. The victory gave the Golden Eagles a two-game lead over third-place Memphis (26-27, 11-11), and they entered the weekend three games ahead of Marshall — which has

completed its league sched-ule — in the loss column. USM can finish no worse than third.

Copeland improved to 8-0 with a strong performance. He allowed eight hits and one walk, and struck out four. He faced two batters more than the minimum over the last five innings.

“Scott had really good stuff and was able to induce a lot of groundballs tonight,” USM coach Scott Berry said. “His defense played pretty well behind him on a tough night with a wet field but I am very proud of the way he pre-formed tonight.”

Copeland’s teammates provided plenty of support, scoring in every inning after Memphis took a 3-2 lead in the top of the fourth on Der-rick Thomas’ two-run single.

Dillon Day led off the bottom of the fourth with a walk and eventually scored on Koelling’s sacrifice fly to tie it. Another sacrifice fly, this one by Ellis, put the Golden Eagles ahead 4-3 in the fifth and they kept adding to the lead in the later

innings.Koelling tripled in a run

and scored on a wild pitch in the sixth inning, an unearned run came across in the sev-enth, and Day brought in two more with a single in the eighth.

Memphis’ Jacob Wilson scores on a passed ball during Thurs-day’s game against Southern Miss in Hattiesburg. Southern Miss won, 9-3.

Auburn clinches tie for SEC West titleFrom staff reports

Despite another late-inning

meltdown, Ole Miss still has a chance to finish first in the SEC West. It just has to be perfect.

Kevin Patterson’s pinch-hit, three-run homer in the top of the eighth inning Thursday gave Auburn a 5-3 victory over Ole Miss and ensured the Tigers will finish no worse than tied for first place in the SEC West.

Auburn (37-17, 18-10 South-eastern Conference) can win the division title outright by winning one of the last two games in the series, either tonight or Saturday.

The loss was Ole Miss’ fifth in its last seven SEC games. The Rebels (36-18, 16-12) have already clinched a spot in next week’s SEC Tourna-ment, but must win one of the last two games against Auburn and hope Arkansas loses at least two of three in its series against Vanderbilt to do better than the No. 4 seed.

Vanderbilt beat Arkansas on Thursday, 4-3.

Thursday’s loss marked the second time in three games that Ole Miss surren-dered the winning run in the eighth inning. After Alabama scored three runs in the eighth to win 4-1 last Satur-day, Auburn did the same.

Clinging to a 3-2 lead, Ole Miss ace Drew Pomeranz walked the leadoff man in the eighth inning and gave up an infield single to Trent Mummey. Brett Huber replaced Pomeranz and retired the next two batters, but Patterson put a 1-0 pitch

over the right field fence to give Auburn the lead.

“Pomeranz was throwing well and I am usually a guy that goes against righties, so when I saw them going to the bullpen I thought I would get my shot,” Patterson said. “Fortunately guys were on base and he (Huber) hung an off-speed pitch. I figured

I was going to see some fast-balls but luckily it was up in my letters and I was able to get a hold of it.”

Ole Miss threatened in the ninth, putting runners on at first and second with one out. Auburn closer Austin Hub-bard struck out Miles Hamb-lin and Tim Ferguson to end it and earn his ninth save.

“I thought we swung the bats much better. From about the second inning on, I thought our guys swung the bat aggressively. But it’s not about how many hits you get, it’s about how many runs you score. We weren’t good with runners in scoring position,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said.

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Ole Miss’ Taylor Hashman hits a three-run homer against Auburn on Thursday. Auburn beat Ole Miss 5-3 in the opener of a three-game series.

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B1 Sports

MLBAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay ...................30 11 .732 —New York ......................25 16 .610 5Toronto .........................25 18 .581 6Boston ..........................22 20 .524 8 1/2Baltimore ......................13 29 .310 17 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit ...........................24 17 .585 —Minnesota .....................24 17 .585 —Kansas City ..................17 25 .405 7 1/2Chicago ........................16 24 .400 7 1/2Cleveland ......................15 24 .385 8

West Division W L Pct GBTexas ............................24 18 .571 —Oakland ........................20 22 .476 4Los Angeles .................20 23 .465 4 1/2Seattle ..........................15 26 .366 8 1/2

Thursday’s GamesKansas City 9, Cleveland 3Detroit 5, Oakland 2Seattle 4, Toronto 3Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Yankees 6Boston 6, Minnesota 2Texas 13, Baltimore 7L.A. Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 5

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National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................25 15 .625 —Florida ...........................22 20 .524 4Atlanta ..........................21 20 .512 4 1/2Washington ...................21 21 .500 5New York ......................20 22 .476 6

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis .......................24 18 .571 —Cincinnati ......................23 18 .561 1/2Chicago ........................19 23 .452 5Pittsburgh .....................18 23 .439 5 1/2Milwaukee .....................16 25 .390 7 1/2Houston ........................14 27 .341 9 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego ....................24 17 .585 —Los Angeles .................23 18 .561 1San Francisco ..............22 18 .550 1 1/2Colorado .......................20 21 .488 4Arizona .........................18 24 .429 6 1/2

Thursday’s GamesPhiladelphia 5, Chicago Cubs 4Atlanta 10, Cincinnati 9St. Louis 4, Florida 2Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 3N.Y. Mets 10, Washington 7Colorado 4, Houston 0Arizona 8, San Francisco 7L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 1

Today’s GamesAtlanta (T.Hudson 4-1) at Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-1), 6:05 p.m.Baltimore (D.Hernandez 0-5) at Washington (Olsen 2-1), 6:05 p.m.Boston (Lackey 4-2) at Philadelphia (Hamels 4-2), 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Arroyo 3-2) at Cleveland (Westbrook 2-2), 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Vazquez 2-4) at N.Y. Mets (Taka-hashi 3-1), 6:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Lilly 1-3) at Texas (C.Lewis 3-2), 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Garza 5-1) at Houston (Myers 2-3), 7:05 p.m.Colorado (Hammel 1-2) at Kansas City (Bannister 2-3), 7:10 p.m.Florida (Nolasco 4-2) at Chicago White Sox (Bueh-rle 2-5), 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Bush 1-4) at Minnesota (Blackburn 4-1), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Pineiro 3-4) at St. Louis (Penny 3-4), 7:15 p.m.Toronto (Morrow 3-3) at Arizona (Haren 4-3), 8:40 p.m.San Francisco (Zito 6-1) at Oakland (Cahill 1-2), 9:05 p.m.Detroit (Willis 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 4-2), 9:10 p.m.San Diego (LeBlanc 2-1) at Seattle (Cl.Lee 1-2), 9:10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesFlorida at Chicago White Sox, 1:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at St. Louis, 1:15 p.m.Baltimore at Washington, 3:05 p.m.San Francisco at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.Colorado at Kansas City, 3:10 p.m.Milwaukee at Minnesota, 3:10 p.m.Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Houston, 6:05 p.m.Boston at Philadelphia, 6:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Texas, 6:10 p.m.Detroit at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.Toronto at Arizona, 7:10 p.m.San Diego at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

BRAVES 10, REDS 9Cincinnati Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biOCarer ss 4 1 2 0 Prado 2b 5 2 2 1Cairo 3b 4 1 2 1 Heywrd rf 5 0 0 1Votto 1b 4 1 1 4 C.Jones 3b 4 0 0 0BPhllps 2b 5 1 1 0 Kimrel p 0 0 0 0Bruce rf 3 1 0 0 Conrad ph 1 1 1 4RHrndz c 5 2 2 1 McCnn c 3 0 0 0L.Nix lf 5 1 3 3 Venters p 0 0 0 0Stubbs cf 4 0 0 0 Infante ph-3b 1 0 0 0Leake p 3 1 2 0 Glaus 1b 4 1 3 0Owings ph 1 0 0 0 Hinske lf 4 1 1 0Lincoln p 0 0 0 0 YEscor ss 4 1 1 0Masset p 0 0 0 0 McLoth cf 3 2 1 2Rhodes p 0 0 0 0 Hanson p 0 0 0 0Corder p 0 0 0 0 JChavz p 1 0 0 0 MeCarr ph 1 1 1 0 D.Ross c 1 1 0 0Totals 38 9 13 9 Totals 37 10 10 8Cincinnati ................................080 010 000— 9Atlanta .....................................001 020 007— 10One out when winning run scored.E—Cairo (2), O.Cabrera (3), Bruce (1), Leake (2), Glaus (4). DP—Cincinnati 2, Atlanta 3. LOB—Cincinnati 8, Atlanta 4. 2B—L.Nix (2), Leake (1), Prado (12). HR—Votto (10), L.Nix (2), Conrad (3). IP H R ER BB SO CincinnatiLeake 6 5 3 1 1 6Lincoln 2 4 4 4 0 0Masset 0 0 2 1 1 0Rhodes H,10 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Cordero L,1-3 BS,3-16 0 1 1 1 0 0 AtlantaHanson 1 2-3 8 8 8 2 2J.Chavez 3 1-3 2 1 1 0 3Venters 3 3 0 0 2 3Kimbrel W,1-0 1 0 0 0 1 1Lincoln pitched to 4 batters in the 9th.Masset pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.Cordero pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.HBP—by Hanson (Votto).Umpires—Home, Lance Barksdale; First, Ed Rapuano; Second, Tom Hallion; Third, Ron Kulpa.T—2:59. A—21,621 (49,743).

MinoR LEAguE BASEBALLSouthern League

North Division W L Pct. GBTennessee (Cubs) ........25 16 .610 —West Tenn (Mariners) ..21 19 .525 3 1/2Huntsville (Brewers) .....21 20 .512 4Carolina (Reds) ............19 22 .463 6Chattanooga (Dodgers) 17 24 .415 8

South Division W L Pct. GBJacksonville (Marlins) ...26 14 .650 —

Montgomery (Rays) ......22 18 .550 4Mobile (Diamondbacks) 20 20 .500 6Mississippi (Braves) ..20 21 .488 6 1/2Birm. (White Sox) .........11 28 .282 14 1/2

———Thursday’s Games

Huntsville 5, Mississippi 4Montgomery 3, West Tenn 0Mobile at Birmingham, ppd., rainCarolina 6, Chattanooga 4, 8 inningsTennessee 8, Jacksonville 4

Today’s GamesMobile at Birmingham, 5 p.m., 1st gameMobile at Birmingham, 7:30 p.m., 2nd gameMontgomery at West Tenn, 5:05 p.m., 1st gameMontgomery at West Tenn, 7:35 p.m., 2nd gameCarolina at Chattanooga, 6:15 p.m.Jacksonville at Tennessee, 6:15 p.m.Huntsville at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesMobile at Birmingham, 5:05 p.m., 1st gameMobile at Birmingham, 7:30 p.m., 2nd gameJacksonville at Tennessee, 5:15 p.m.Carolina at Chattanooga, 6:15 p.m.Huntsville at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.Montgomery at West Tenn, 7:05 p.m.

CoLLEgE BASEBALLSoutheastern Conference

EastTeam Overall SECx-Florida ........................39-12............................21-7x-South Carolina ..........42-12............................20-8x-Vanderbilt ..................40-13..........................16-10Tennessee ....................30-24..........................12-16Kentucky .......................30-24..........................12-16Georgia .........................15-36............................4-22

WestTeam Overall SECx-Auburn .......................37-17..........................18-10

x-Arkansas ....................38-16..........................16-12

x-Ole Miss ...................36-18..........................16-12LSU ...............................35-19..........................13-15

Alabama .......................32-21..........................13-15

Mississippi St. ............22-32............................5-23x-Clinched SEC Tournament berth

Thursday’s GamesGeorgia 8, Kentucky 6Vanderbilt 4, Arkansas 3Florida 3, South Carolina 2Alabama 11, Tennessee 3Auburn 5, Ole Miss 3LSU 14, Mississippi St. 13

Today’s GamesKentucky at Georgia, 5:30 p.m.Arkansas at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m.Florida at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Alabama at Tennessee, 6 p.m.Auburn at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.Mississippi St. at LSU, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesAlabama at Tennessee, NoonKentucky at Georgia, 1 p.m.Mississippi St. at LSU, 1 p.m.Arkansas at Vanderbilt, 2 p.m.Auburn at Ole Miss, 4 p.m.Florida at South Carolina, 6 p.m.

End regular season———

Conference USATeam Overall C-USAx-Rice ...........................34-19............................16-6

y-Southern Miss .........31-20............................13-9Memphis .......................26-27..........................11-11

Marshall ........................24-29..........................12-12

Houston ........................23-29..........................10-12

East Carolina ................30-24..........................10-12

UAB ..............................27-24..........................10-12

Central Florida ..............32-21............................9-13

Tulane ...........................31-23............................9-13x-Clinched regular-season titley-Clinched C-USA Tournament berth

Thursday’s GamesMarshall 9, Wright St. 7Houston 8, East Carolina 6Central Florida 12, Tulane 6Southern Miss 9, Memphis 3Rice 5, UAB 2

Today’s GamesWright St. at Marshall, 2 p.m.Memphis at Southern Miss, 6:30 p.m.UAB at Rice, 6:30 p.m.Central Florida at Tulane, 6:30 p.m.Houston at East Carolina, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesHouston at East Carolina, NoonWright St. at Marshall, NoonMemphis at Southern Miss, 1 p.m.UAB at Rice, 1 p.m.Central Florida at Tulane, 1 p.m.

End regular season

PREP BASEBALLMHSAA championship schedule

All games at Trustmark ParkMay 25

Amory vs. St. Stanislaus, 10 a.m.

St. Aloysius vs. Myrtle, 1 p.m.Sumrall vs. Water Valley, 4 p.m.

Hamilton vs. Richton, 7 p.m.

May 26Ridgeland vs. Long Beach, 10 a.m.

Madison Central vs. Petal, 1 p.m.

St. Aloysius vs. Myrtle, 4 p.m.Hamilton vs. Richton, 7 p.m.

May 27Sumrall vs. Water Valley, 10 a.m.

Amory vs. St. Stanislaus, 1 p.m.

Ridgeland vs. Long Beach, 4 a.m.

Madison Central vs. Petal, 7 p.m.

nBAnBA Playoffs

(x-if neccessary)

CONFERENCE FINALSEASTERN CONFERENCE

Boston 2, Orlando 0May 16: Boston 92, Orlando 88May 18: Boston 95, Orlando 92Saturday: Orlando at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Monday: Orlando at Boston, 7:30 p.m.x-May 26: Boston at Orlando, 7:30 p.m.x-May 28: Orlando at Boston, 7:30 p.m.x-May 30: Boston at Orlando, 7:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEL.A. Lakers 2, Phoenix 0

May 17: L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107 May 19: Lakers 124, Suns 112Sunday: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.x-May 27: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.x-May 29: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.x-May 31: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.

nHLNHL Playoff ScheduleCONFERENCE FINALS

(Best-of-7)(x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCEPhiladelphia 2, Montreal 1

May 16: Philadelphia 6, Montreal 0May 18: Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0Thursday: Montreal 5, Philadelphia 1Saturday: Philadelphia at Montreal, 2 p.m.Monday: Montreal at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.x-May 26: Philadelphia at Montreal, 6 p.m.x-May 28: Montreal at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEChicago 2, San Jose 0

May 16: Chicago 2, San Jose 1May 18: Chicago 4, San Jose 2Today: San Jose at Chicago, 7 p.m.Sunday: San Jose at Chicago, 2 p.m.x-Tuesday: Chicago at San Jose, 8 p.m.x-May 27: San Jose at Chicago, 7 p.m.x-May 29: Chicago at San Jose, 7 p.m.

nASCARSprint Cup Schedule

Through May 16April 19 — Samsung Mobile 500 (Denny Hamlin)April 25 — Aaron’s 499 (Kevin Harvick)May 1 — Crown Royal Presents The Heath Cal-houn 400 (Kyle Busch)May 8 — Showtime Southern 500 (Denny Hamlin)May 16 — Autism Speaks 400 (Kyle Busch)May 22 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C.May 22 — x-Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C.May 30 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C.June 6 — Gillette Fusion 500, Long Pond, Pa.June 13 — Heluva Good! 400, Brooklyn, Mich.June 20 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif.June 27 — Lenox Tools 301, Loudon, N.H.July 3 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.July 10 — LifeLock.com 400, Joliet, Ill.

Sprint Cup standingsThrough May 16

1. Kevin Harvick ............................................. 1,7682. Kyle Busch ................................................. 1,6993. Matt Kenseth .............................................. 1,6424. Jimmie Johnson ......................................... 1,6375. Denny Hamlin ............................................ 1,6186. Jeff Gordon ................................................ 1,6057. Greg Biffle .................................................. 1,5818. Jeff Burton ................................................. 1,5699. Kurt Busch ................................................. 1,53110. Carl Edwards ........................................... 1,48711. Mark Martin .............................................. 1,47512. Martin Truex Jr. ....................................... 1,43413. Ryan Newman ......................................... 1,40414. Tony Stewart ............................................ 1,39715. Clint Bowyer ............................................. 1,39216. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ................................... 1,39117. Jamie McMurray ...................................... 1,34618. Joey Logano ............................................ 1,33219. Juan Pablo Montoya ................................ 1,322

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Nationwide Series ScheduleThrough May 15

April 25 — Aaron’s 312 (Brad Keselowski)April 30 — BUBBA burger 250 (Brad Keselowski)May 7 — Royal Purple 200 (Denny Hamlin)May 15 — Heluva Good! 200 (Kyle Busch)May 29 — TECH-NET 300, Concord, N.C.June 5 — Federated Parts 300, Lebanon, Tenn.June 12 — Meijer 300, Sparta, Ky.June 19 — Bucyrus 200, Elkhart Lake, Wis.June 26 — New England 200, Loudon, N.H.July 2 — Subway Jalapeno 250 Powered By Coca-Cola, Daytona Beach, Fla.July 9 — Dollar General 300, Joliet, Ill.

Nationwide Series standingsThrough May 15

1. Brad Keselowski ........................................ 1,7662. Kyle Busch ................................................. 1,7553. Kevin Harvick ............................................. 1,7024. Carl Edwards ............................................. 1,5465. Justin Allgaier ............................................ 1,5216. Paul Menard .............................................. 1,4047. Greg Biffle .................................................. 1,2398. Joey Logano .............................................. 1,2289. Jason Leffler .............................................. 1,20410. Brian Scott ............................................... 1,181

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Vicksburg resident Ricky Geter, 11, harvested his first turkey with a 16-gauge shotgun earlier this year.

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May 211979 — The Montreal Canadiens

win their 21st Stanley Cup by beat-ing the New York Rangers 4-1 in Game 5.

1995 — The Penske Racing Team is shut out of the 33-car Indianapo-lis 500 field when two-time winners Al Unser Jr. and Emerson Fittipaldi fail to qualify. Unser is the first Indi-anapolis 500 winner to fail to qual-ify the next year.

2001 — Barry Bonds ties the major league record with his eighth home run in five games, but San Francisco loses to the Arizona Dia-mondbacks 4-2. The homer, off Ari-zona’s Curt Schilling, equals the mark set by Frank Howard, who did it twice in 1968 with Washington.

2006 — Detroit holds Cleveland to the lowest Game 7 point total in NBA history and advances to its fourth straight Eastern Confer-ence final with a 79-61 win over the Cavaliers.

PREP SoCCERWC girls tryoutsare rescheduled

The last day of tryouts for Warren Central’s girls soccer team have been rescheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. because of bad weather. The tryouts will be on the practice field adjacent to Mississippi 27.

Players should bring shinguards, as well as completed physical and parental consent forms. For infor-mation, call coaches Trey Banks or Greg Head at 601-638-3372.

BASEBALLM-Braves’ rallycomes up short

The Mississippi Braves scored four runs in the last two innings Thursday, but left the tying run at second base in the ninth and lost 5-4 to Huntsville.

Huntsville scored four runs in the seventh inning, two of them on a triple by Brett Lawrie. Chuck Cau-field hit a solo homer in the fourth for the Stars’ first run.

The M-Braves got two runs back in the eighth on back-to-back RBI singles by Donell Linares and Eric Duncan. Alex Romero’s two-out single in the ninth brought in two more runs to cut it to 5-4. Linares then lined out to center to end the game.

Randy Gress went 3-for-3 with a double and two runs scored for the M-Braves. Lawrie had two hits, two RBIs and scored a run for Huntsville.

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NEW YORK — Referee Joe DeRosa has been suspended with-out pay for throwing a ball at a fan during halftime of an NBA playoff game in Orlando.

DeRosa will miss the next game he would have been scheduled to work.

At halftime of Game 2 of the East-ern Conference finals between Orlando and Boston, DeRosa was walking to the scorer’s table to get the warm-up jackets for his crew.

A fan behind the table approached DeRosa, gesturing with his arms and appearing to be shouting at the veteran official. DeRosa flipped the game ball to the fan, who tossed it back.

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Bravesstun Redsin ninth

ATLANTA (AP) — Brooks Conrad slowed up as he rounded first base, unsure if his drive had cleared the left field wall to give the Atlanta Braves an improba-ble victory.

Then he saw Laynce Nix swat at his empty glove in frustration.

The ball went over. Game over.

Conrad hit a pinch-hit grand slam Thursday to finish off a seven-run ninth inning that gave the Braves a 10-9 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, who fell out of first in the NL Cen-tral and can only hope the stunning loss doesn’t leave a hangover on their surpris-ingly strong start.

“It was a horrible ending,” said Reds manager Dusty Baker, who appeared close to breaking down after the game. “Boy, that was a tough one.”

The Braves put together the biggest ninth-inning come-back since Cleveland rallied from six runs down against Tampa Bay on May 25, 2009, according to STATS LLC. The Braves trailed 8-0 earlier in the game and were down 9-3 heading into the ninth.

“I hit it and I was kind of talk-ing to it to get out of there and I saw (Nix) jump up,” Conrad said. “From my angle ... it looked like he kind of brought it back. I put my hands on my helmet and said, ‘No way he caught that.”’

He didn’t.“I thought I had it,” Nix said.

“It just bounced out.”The Reds made four errors

Thursday.“We gave them their first

three runs, and in the ninth we got two double-play balls,” Baker said. “It was shocking, all right.”

The Braves won their third straight game in the final at-bat. They have won 8 of 10 to climb above .500 (21-20) for the first time since April 22.

Cuban, Mavericks fansbegin push for LeBron

DALLAS (AP) — LeBron James in a Dallas Mavericks uniform? It’s already happen-ing — on the Internet.

Mavs fans are the latest to do their part to woo the NBA superstar to their city by launching the website leb-rontothemavs.com. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban tweeted a link to the site Thursday, writ-ing: “Gotta love Mavs fans !!”

The home page plays a song and doctored photos include James’ face on a J.R. Ewing picture and him dunking over the Dallas skyline.

The Mavs are a perennial contender with superstars Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd, with whom James won a gold medal in Beijing in 2008. The team could easily free up cap space for a sign-and-trade deal with the Cavaliers, who, if forced into a deal, would prefer sending the marquee free agent to the Western Con-ference. James also is a big Cowboys fan.

Cuban h a s a l s o expressed his interest in acquiring the superstar.

The outspo-ken billion-aire, in an

interview this week with

CNNMoney.com, said “any-body” would be interested in James. Cuban said it would be tough to sign the two-time defending league MVP in free agency, but a sign-and-trade deal with Cleveland is some-thing he would look at.

If James does not reach a deal with the Cavaliers by July 1, he would become an unre-stricted free agent.

Cuban’s remarks could fall under the league’s tampering rules. NBA rules state that a “no comment” is the proper response when the media asks about pending free agents before July 1.

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Celtics head homewith confidence

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Two wins away from the NBA Finals, the Boston Celt-ics have plenty of reasons to be confident.

But overconfident? Don’t count on it, no matter what Paul Pierce said.

Before leaving the court after the Celtics took a 2-0 lead over the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night, Pierce looked straight into the camera and said in a live, 60-second televi-sion interview, “We’re coming home and close it out.”

Coach Doc Rivers wasn’t pleased.

“I didn’t like it,” he said Thursday. “I don’t mind the confidence part. That’s good. You’ve got to have confidence, but we want to be humble and we haven’t achieved anything. I think that’s what he was trying to say. ... I wish they had taken the mike away (before) the last couple of words.”

The Celtics’ 95-92 win in which Pierce scored 28 points sent them home with a chance to sweep the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals by winning Saturday and Monday nights.

Most players who returned to practice after an off day Wednesday don’t like the three-day break between games, but it gives them more time to prepare. Had Game 3 been just two days after the Celtics went up 2-0, the remaining glow might have left them overconfident.

“We still haven’t played our best basketball,” Pierce said. “This team is real humble. We’re not taking these games that we won in Orlando for granted, knowing that they beat us here a couple of times during the season.”

Rivers reminded his play-

ers of Orlando’s 2-0 record in Boston during the regular season. He also knows the first two games were decided by a total of seven points.

“We did our job there but we haven’t done our job at home,” he said. “As far as we’re con-cerned, until that happens nothing’s happened in the series.”

Pierce chose his words more carefully Thursday than he did two days earlier.

Answering the first two ques-tions Tuesday, he praised the Magic and said his offense has improved because he doesn’t have to focus on guarding LeBron James as he did in the previous round. In response to the third and final question, he said Celtics fans wouldn’t let the team relax with a 2-0 lead, but finished with the phrase that bothered Rivers.

“It wasn’t a big deal for me,” Pierce said. “I’m just saying I wanted us to go home. I want our crowd to be ready. I want us to play our best and I want us to win two games. And that’s it.”

Did he receive any feedback for his comment?

“I was pretty much at home with my daughter all day (Wednesday),” Pierce said. “She didn’t say anything.”

Different teammates had dif-ferent reactions.

“I’m behind him,” Rajon

Rondo said.Ray Allen, one of the team’s

more serious players, was less supportive.

“It doesn’t bum me out,” he said, “but I think Paul just has to understand that we’re a classy organization and we always have to make sure we operate that way.”

Pierce also had to deal with comments he appar-ently didn’t make. Shortly after Game 2, a tweet on his Twitter account seemed like prime bulletin board material for the Magic. “Anybody got a BROOM?” it asked, referring to a possible Celtics sweep.

On Thursday, Pierce said he didn’t post that. Earlier, his Twitter account had this mes-sage: “Hacked in game and post game while on podium. Disregard chatter.”

The hack by Dwight Howard that left two horizontal scars on the left side of Pierce’s fore-head was very real. The Magic center received a flagrant foul but wasn’t suspended and that

was fine with Pierce.“We want (to face) the teams’

best,” he said. “In order to be the best, you want to get their best.”

In the Western Conference finals, the Los Angeles Lakers have been the best — by far.

The Phoenix Suns were buried by a scoring ava-lanche in Los Angeles, where the Lakers amassed a total of 252 points to go up 2-0 in the series.

Now the Suns have three days before Game 3 in Phoenix to try to figure out how to slow a team that seems primed for another title.

The Lakers’ Pau Gasol acknowledged that “it must be frustrating” for the Suns to essentially be beaten at their own high-scoring, hot-shoot-ing game.

“It’s going to take a much bigger mindset or focus to go there and be successful and put the type of games and wins that we put in here,” Gasol said.

Belhaven earns first trip to NAIA World SeriesFrom staff reports

Timmy Foster gave Belhaven the lead with a two-run homer in the sixth inning Thursday, and the Blazers went on to clinch their first trip to the NAIA World Series with a 4-3 victory over Texas Wesleyan.

Belhaven won all three of its games in the regional at Smith Wills Stadium. It advanced to the World Series in Lewiston, Idaho, beginning May 28.

Texas Wesleyan took a 3-2 lead in the top of the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Leighton Rush. Belhaven’s Lake Eiland led off the bottom of the inning with the second of his three hits, and Foster followed with his home run to center field to make it 4-3.

Andy Kuehn kept Texas Wesleyan in check with two scoreless innings of relief and closer Wade Broyles pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save of the season.

LSU 14, MSU 13Dvvesignated hitter Matt

Gaudet hit two home runs and drove in five runs, including the game-winner with a sacri-fice fly in the eighth inning, as LSU (35-19, 13-15 Southeastern Conference) beat Mississippi State (22-32, 5-23) and snapped a six-game losing streak.

LSU can clinch a berth in the SEC Tournament tonight if it beats Mississippi State and either Georgia defeats Ken-tucky or Tennessee beats Alabama.

After trailing 12-9 entering the eighth inning, the Bull-dogs tied the game with a sac-rifice fly and a pair of RBI sin-gles by Wes Thigpen and Luke Adkins.

The Tigers responded in the bottom half when Micah Gibbs launched a solo homer to right to tie it at 13. After a successful hit-and-run single by Austin Nola advanced Blake Dean to third, Gaudet knocked him in with a sacrifice fly to put the Tigers back in front, 14-13.

Alabama 11, Tennessee 3

Alabama erupted for eight runs in the final two innings

and turned from score-board watching to piling up huge numbers, in a win over Tennessee.

Alabama (32-21, 13-15 SEC) enhanced its SEC Tourna-ment hopes with the win in the series opener. The Tide is one game ahead of Tennessee (12-16) and Kentucky (12-16) with two games to play. Ken-tucky dropped an 8-6 decision to Georgia on Thursday.

Vandy 4, Arkansas 3Curt Casali’s RBI single in

the bottom of the seventh lifted Vanderbilt (40-13, 16-10 SEC) over Arkansas (36-15, 16-12). Sonny Gray (8-4) picked up

the win by allowing three runs in eight innings. Chase Reid closed out the game to notch his first save of the year.

Florida 3,South Carolina 2

Tyler Thompson homered, Florida relievers held South Carolina (42-12, 20-8 SEC) to two hits over the final 5 2/3 innings and the Gators moved a win away from the SEC title with a victory Thursday.

After Florida (39-12, 21-7) took a 3-0 lead in the fourth, its bullpen made sure it held up. The biggest moment was when reliever Jeff Barfield struck out South Carolina’s top two hitters, Whit Merri-field and Jackie Bradley Jr., with the bases loaded.

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Boston Celtics forwards Kevin Garnett (5) and Brian Sca-labrine celebrate as they walk off the court following a 95-92 win over Orlando in Game 2 of the Eastern Confer-ence finals on Tuesday.


Arkansas’ Monk Kreder hits a two-run single off Vanderbilt pitcher Sonny Gray in the second inning of Thursday’s game. Vanderbilt handed Arkansas its fifth straight loss, 4-3.

Below, Florida pitcher Jeff Barfield works against South Carolina in the fourth inning. Florida won 3-2 in a matchup of SEC East leaders.

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Suge Knight arrested, accused of assaultEx-rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was

arrested Thursday after he pointed a gun at a man and then drove off in his Cadillac, police said.

Knight, 45, was stopped by California Highway Patrol officers in suburban Gardena at about 12:30 a.m. and immediately turned over to Los Angeles police who swarmed around his white Escalade, according to police and news videos.

The brawny, bald, bearded Knight was hand-cuffed.

Knight’s car was stopped after someone called authorities to report that Knight had pointed a gun at him, authorities said.

Knight was booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon — a gun — and also on a misdemeanor warrant alleg-ing that he drove with a suspended license, Harding said.

He was being held on $65,000 bail, she said.

’Where the Boys Are’ gets remakeConnie Francis’ classic song “Where the Boys

Are” is getting a Gaga-esque update.Francis says the producer behind some of

Lady Gaga’s hits and also Destiny’s Child has produced a dance remix of the torch song.

“We’re going to release it on the 29th of May, which is the 50th anniversary of ‘Where the Boys Are,”’ she said in a recent interview.

The 71-year-old singer said she hadn’t heard the song, but added: “I want to hear it any way it sells.”

Francis said she recently worked with her godson Rob Fusari on the remix.

“We were recording it the other day. He was saying, ‘More re-verb there, Connie?”’ she said, laughing. “He was so cute.”

Fusari recently made news when he sued Gaga, claiming he was largely responsible for her success but was ditched when she got big.

Francis is performing this weekend at the Las Vegas Hilton with Dionne Warwick. Warwick said the two will do their own sets, and then sing together at the end of the show.

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1794 silver dollar sells for record $7.85MWhat may be America’s old-

est silver dollar has become the world’s most expensive coin, with its owner saying it changed hands in a private transaction between coin col-lectors for nearly $8 million.

Steven L. Contursi, who has owned the mint-condition 1794 Liberty dollar for the past seven years, confirmed Thurs-day that he sold it to the Car-dinal Collection Educational Foundation of Sunnyvale for $7.85 million.

The previous record price paid for a coin was $7.59 million for a U.S.-minted 1933 $20 gold piece, according to the American Numismatic Association.

The U.S. began producing silver dollars in 1794, and this par-ticular one remains in near-perfect condition 216 years later.

That being the case, the price it fetched was not surprising, said professional coin grader David Hall.

“Even if it looks like it’s been run over by a truck it would still be worth a hundred grand,” he said.

Part of the so-called flowing-hair silver dollars, the coin has a portrait of Lady Liberty with long, straight hair on the front and a noticeably skinny American eagle on the back.

“That’s the type of piece that is available maybe once in a life-time,” said Martin Logies, curator of the Cardinal Collection, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving rare coins and educating the public about them. He said the foundation plans to put the coin on display, just as Contursi did much of the time he owned it.

Numismatic experts say it was among the first U.S. silver dol-lars ever made.

“From the research I’ve done, it is unquestionably the earliest struck of all the pieces known to remain in existence,” said Lo-gies, author of “The Flowing Hair Silver Dollars of 1794.”


Google, partners hoping people want Web TVSAN FRANCISCO (AP)

— Google Inc. believes it has come up with the technology to unite Web surfing with chan-nel surfing on televisions.

To reach the long-elusive goal of turning TV sets into Internet gateways, Google has partnered with Sony Corp., Intel Corp. and Logitech Inter-national. They unveiled their much-anticipated plan for a “smart” TV Thursday, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini pre-dicted the effort will be “the biggest improvement to tele-vision since color.”

“Our goal is to make the same impact on television as the smart phone has had on the mobile phone market,” said Rishi Chandra, the Google product manager who is over-seeing the smart TV project.

The TVs are expected to go on sale this fall in U.S. Best Buy stores, with prices to be announced later in the year. Sales will expand to other countries next year.

Other companies have tried to promote Internet-connected TVs with little success during the past decade.

“I have seen this movie before,” Gartner Inc. analyst Ray Valdes said of Google’s ambitious plans. “They are going down a road littered with failed initiatives like this.”

But Google and its partners believe they have developed a system that will make Internet TV simpler and more appeal-ing. They are also counting on various websites to build news applications tailored to run on Internet TV; they believe that would persuade more couch potatoes to begin interacting with their sets instead of just watching them.

Many households already have been connecting their TVs to the Internet, mostly to watch video through set-top boxes, video game consoles and Blu-ray players. Web-

connected TVs are expected to account for about 19 per-cent of the U.S. sales of flat-panel models this year, with the share projected to rise to 46 percent in 2013, according to ABI Research.

Three of Google’s biggest rivals — Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. — also have been trying to bring more Internet video and services to televisions.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs once described his company’s device for tethering TVs to the Internet as a “hobby.” For-rester Research analyst James McQuivey expects Apple to become much more serious about its efforts now that Google is expanding into TV.

“The whole game for Google is to become the (operating system) for the living room

and make sure Apple doesn’t,” McQuivey said.

Google, which made the bulk of its nearly $24 billion in rev-enue last year from Internet ads displayed on computer screens, wants to turn televi-sions into giant monitors for Web surfing so it can make even more money. The com-pany estimates that televi-sion accounts for $70 billion in annual advertising in the U.S. alone.

Google has been trying to sell ads for regular television pro-gramming for the past three years, but analysts say that has yielded paltry dividends so far.

Thursday’s demonstration of the Internet TV technology didn’t go smoothly at a Google conference for about 5,000 soft-ware programmers.

So many people in the audi-ence were using the confer-ence’s wireless access network that Google ran into repeated problems showing how its technology is supposed to toggle seamlessly between the Web and television pro-gramming. Google finally had to plead with the attendees to disconnect their smart phones from the network.

“Perhaps that was an omen of things to come,” Valdes said.

Once it got enough band-width, Google was able to conduct a series of Internet searches in a drop-down box that appears at the top of tele-vision programs. The search results pointed to Internet videos and other content related to the television pro-gram on the screen.


Stars celebrate Angelou’s 82nd at garden partyWINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

(AP) — Poet Maya Angelou celebrated a belated 82nd birthday Thursday with a few celebrity friends and a few choice words about politi-cal divisiveness in the United States.

Singers Naomi Judd and Martina McBride sang “Happy Birthday to You” to Angelou, who sat at a table in her newly refurbished backyard garden, while hip-hop artist and actor Common improvised a song to honor her.

“I have an attitude of grati-tude. Nobody promised me this day,” Angelou said, explaining how she keeps writing.

Despite her generally upbeat attitude, Angelou said she finds the state of national pol-itics to be tragic.

“I mean, this is our country,” said Angelou, whose birthday was April 4. “This is a country of Republicans, of Democrats and of independents. And we are going to work together to make it better. Or we will not. And we will make it worse. And that’s dumb.”

She declined say whether she blamed racism because

President Obama is black or whom she blames for the problems: “I can’t deal with it. Some of it is blithering igno-rance. We look stupid in the world’s eyes. ... It polarizes us more, and I’m not that. I don’t do that.”

Most of the day focused on the friends and family who gathered to honor Angelou, who wore a pink pantsuit, a printed top and a mauve hat, along with fuzzy socks that

helped her walk. A tent with yellow and white drapes cov-ered the tables where about 100 guests ate while Common and McBride told the crowd what Angelou meant to them.

Common said he first dis-covered Angelou’s poetry in the fifth grade on the South Side of Chicago, when her poem “Still I Rise” touched his soul.

“It was always something

that I could reference to at times when I was feeling down or doubting myself,” he said. “I just thought of that phrase, ‘Still I Rise.’ And it still reso-nates with me.”

While others waxed poetic about Angelou and her affect on them, Lee Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Lee Sapphire,” kept his words simple.

“She inspires me to tell the truth,” he said. “Her voice can’t be any more powerful. And she inspires me to do better work, to dig deeper in my soul and do better work.”

Angelou’s next effort, to be published later this year, is a cook book titled “Great Food All Day Long.”

The recipes are based on the idea of eating small amounts of food during the day, a way of eating that she said helped her lose 40 pounds over the last two years.

The party was sponsored by Lowe’s, the North Carolina-based home improvement store chain, and Harpo Radio, where Angelou has a radio show.

Bret Michaels hospitalized after ‘warning stroke’LOS ANGELES (AP) —

Bret Michaels is back in the hospital.

The rocker and reality TV star suffered what doctors call a “warning stroke” and has been diagnosed with a patent forum ovale, or hole in the heart, according to a report Thursday on his website. Michaels’ publicist, Joann Mig-nano, confirmed the report.

Michaels was hospitalized after experiencing numbness on the left side of his body, particularly in his face and hands.

Doctors said the condition is operable and treatable and likely unrelated to the brain hemorrhage the 47-year-old suffered last month.

Michaels’ neurosurgeon said that while the Poison front-man has a “fantastic attitude” about making a full recovery, “Bret’s brain and body are not

quite 100 per-cent yet, espe-cially with the hole found in his heart.”

Additional tests were being con-d u c t e d t o determine the

best course of treatment. Doctors said Michaels is currently being treated with a daily injection of a blood thinner to reduce the risk of clots.

His website said Michaels was “up, walking, talking, con-tinuing his daily rehab and very happy to be alive.”

“He has made it clear he is sick and tired of being in the hospital and is ready to rock again,” the site says.

Michaels was expected to appear at Sunday’s finale of Donald Trump’s “The Celeb-

rity Apprentice” in New York. NBC said in a statement that the network is “cautiously optimistic” that Michaels can attend the live season finale.

“Ultimately, it’s up to Bret and his doctors if he should

attend,” the statement said.In the episode, Trump’s

boardroom revelation of the winner will air live. The rest of the show was taped last year, including the final challenge segment.

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Poet Maya Angelou, left, greets director Lee Daniels at a gar-den party at her home Thursday in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Mother mistaken for cougar resents growls she getsDear Abby: I’m an athletic,

youthful-looking 58, and my son, “Barry,” is 24. We go out alone for dinner quite often because my husband (Barry’s father) doesn’t enjoy eating in restaurants. My problem is the angry stares my son and I get from younger — and older — women who mistake me for a “cougar” out on a date with my “cub.”

The other night when I left our table to use the restroom, a woman approached Barry, told him he was “disgusting,” and asked, “Why don’t you date girls your own age?” He informed her that I was his mother, but even if I wasn’t, it was none of her business. Another time, a girl Barry’s age asked him why he was out with “an old hag” and said, “How can you want her over me?” This happens every time we go out.

I dress well and look like I could be in my 40s, but I have to wonder about the rude-ness and ignorance of some-one insulting my son without knowing the circumstances of the situation. Some of them

refused to believe the truth even after Barry told them.

Interestingly, young men who have commented thought it was “awesome” that Barry could be out with a cougar. It’s only the females who have a problem with us. Can you comment on this? — Happily Married in Ohio

Dear Mom: Some thoughts do come to mind: Women who are happy in their personal lives don’t approach strang-ers with snide remarks like those you have repeated. The women were rude, presumptu-ous, probably envious — and I’ll bet they were also alone, because it’s hard to imagine a woman with a date doing something so outrageous.

I’m not surprised that younger men might think it was “awesome” that your son could be out with a cougar.

When the subject was raised in my column, the men who com-mented said what attracted them to older women was that they are confident, relaxed, comfortable with themselves and fun to be around — while younger women didn’t bother to be subtle about their prefer-ence for men with money.

And one more thing: You must be quite a knockout to attract the kind of attention you’re getting.

Dear Abby: I am a 19-year-old guy who doesn’t know what I want to do with my life. I know I’m still young and shouldn’t stress out about what my career in life will be, but nothing seems to interest me. I don’t want to be a doctor or an astronomer like some do. I can’t cook or play any instru-ments, and I’m not very good with numbers. I have thought of hundreds of careers — and I hate them all.

I don’t want to do some-thing I will hate for the rest of my life, but I’m afraid that’s what will happen. I have been to three different counselors and none was able to help me.

I’m hoping you can offer me some advice. — Hopeless in Chandler, Ariz.

Dear Hopeless: You aren’t the first person to panic because he (or she) is afraid of being stuck in a career slot that doesn’t fit. The good news is one of the realities of today’s workplace is that in many cases, jobs no longer last a lifetime. Workers can expect to change jobs and be retrained several times — or more — during their work-ing years. I hope this relieves some of your anxiety.

Although you have decided what jobs do not interest you, nowhere have you mentioned any areas in which you excel. For that reason I’m advising you to go to your nearest com-munity college career coun-seling center and ask to take some aptitude tests. People usually enjoy doing something they’re good at.

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

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When should medications,supplements be taken?

Dear Dr. Gott: My doctors have told me that there are better times during the day to take vitamins or calcium. I take a thyroid pill in the morning. About an hour or so later, I take my vitamin with an omega-3 tablet and then take my cal-cium tablet with a late lunch or after my dinner. Am I taking them correctly as far as getting all the benefits from them? I hope you can answer this ques-tion for me.

Dear Reader: You ask an extremely important question, and your doctors are correct in what they tell you. In some respects, the most appropriate time of day to take vitamins and other medications is when you are least likely to forget, such as the first thing each day.

Thyroid medication should be taken on an empty stom-ach a half-hour before break-fast. If you are a swing-shift employee, judge accordingly and plan to take the medication at an appropriate time.

Vitamins can be taken at almost any time of the day, so just before or following a meal is satisfactory. Be sure to read the recommendation printed on each vitamin bottle to deter-mine what the manufacturer believes is most appropriate. There are some supplements that work better when taken on an empty stomach. For exam-ple, if B-complex vitamins upset your stomach, take them with food. Iron supplements should be taken on an empty stomach. And, whenever vitamins are consumed, do not wash them down with alcohol.

Calcium comes in two forms — calcium carbonate, which is more readily available and inexpensive, or calcium citrate. Either form should be taken at least four hours apart from any thyroid medication. This also holds true for calcium antacids, iron supplements and many drugs prescribed or recom-mended as antacids. Calcium carbonate should be taken with meals; calcium citrate can be taken either with meals or on an empty stomach. Calcium should be taken in 500-milli-gram doses or less at one time. Therefore, if your supplement is a 1,000-milligram tablet, split it into two doses, because it can hamper the absorption of some medications, including those for high blood pressure and antibi-otics, so a timing modification might be required. Speak with your physician for his or her recommendations.

I do not believe there are any specific requirements for omega-3 fish oils. To the best of my knowledge, they can be taken at any time of day and either on an empty stomach or a full one.

Drugs, whether prescrip-tion or over-the-counter, can interfere with other medi-cations. Their effect can be reduced, and they can also lead to gastrointestinal issues

and a number of other prob-lems. Make sure that your physician knows what sup-plements you are currently taking so he or she can guide you accordingly.

It appears to me you are dil-igently attempting to do the right thing at the right time.

•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, P.O. Box 167, Wickliffe, OH 44092-0167.

Dr. PETErGOTT

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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

TWEEN 12 & 20BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — It isn’t likely that others can be de-pended upon, so strive to be self-sufficient when it comes to ac-complishing something important to you. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — If you can, before committing your ideas to action, sound them out on someone whose judgment has proven to be quite accurate.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — There is a possibility that monies you are counting on coming your way might be a bit delayed.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Once you discover the person who wants to be your partner doesn’t have any funds to contribute to the venture, unless s/he can offer something of equal impor-tance, back off.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Be charitable to those who need your help today, but first find out whether the person asking is not only deserving, but truly does need assistance. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — You’ll be sorry if you keep your eye on the whipped cream and doughnuts instead of your waistline.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you find things are tilted to work against you, you may choose not to enter the fray.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You and a cohort might have totally different ideas as to what to do first and how to go about it. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Something you’ve taken on do-ing for another could turn out to be quite stressful and more than you can handle. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’ll get what you give today. In order to receive the cooperation you need or want, you will first have to show a willingness to play ball yourself. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Accepting the policy of “never do today what I can put off until tomorrow” will guarantee huge re-grets in the end. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Ignore that hotshot acquaintance of yours who is trying to impress you by making all kinds of grandiose promises.

Teens: Dating violence is a serious issue. A study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health found that one in five high school girls has been abused by a dating partner. Unfor-tunately, parents are often unaware their daughter is being abused.

More than 80 percent of parents do not even acknowledge teen dating violence as an issue. The majority of parents said they have never discussed dating violence with their child, and only 8 percent know of a student at their child’s school who has been physically assaulted by someone they were dating.

Here are some facts about relationship abuse and teens:• Twenty-four percent of all 14- to 17-year-olds — and an as-

tonishing 40 percent of the girls in that age group — know at least one student who has been the victim of dating violence. Yet 81 percent of parents either believe teen dating violence is not an important issue or concede they don’t know if it is or not.

• Less than 25 percent of teens say they have discussed dating violence with their parents.

• Eighty-nine percent of girls between the ages of 14 and 18 say they have been out on one or more dates with a boy.

• Nearly 80 percent of girls who have been physically abused in their intimate relationships continue to date their abuser.

• Of the women between the ages 15-19 murdered each year, 30 percent are killed by their husband or boyfriend.

It’s not always easy to recognize if a teen is in a violent rela-tionship. Surprisingly, abusers are often charming in public, es-pecially to parents — so pay more attention to how he treats your daughter and less to how polite he may be to you.

Here are some further warning signs of abuse:• She apologizes for his behavior and makes excuses for him.• She loses interest in activities that she used to enjoy.• She stops seeing friends and family members and becomes

more and more isolated.• He tells your daughter that you (her parents) don’t like him.• He controls her behavior, checking up on her constantly, call-

ing and paging her, demanding to know whom she has been with.

• She casually mentions his violent behavior, but laughs it off as a joke.

• You see him violently lose his temper.Mom and Dad: It’s your great responsibility to ensure that

your daughter is not one of the abused statistics! Be observant, ask questions and, above all, give her unconditional love.

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

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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S SALEBy virtue of that certain Deedof Trust made on the 1st dayof September, 2006, by W.T. Harris, to Charlene Griffin,Trustee, subsequentlyreplaced by B. Blake Teller,Substituted Trustee,pursuant to valid Substitutionof Trustee which is recordedin Deed Book 1508 at Page703 of the Land Records ofWarren County, Mississippi,to secure certainindebtedness thereinmentioned for the benefit ofGuaranty Bank & TrustCompany, which Deed ofTrust is duly recorded inBook 1611 at Page 137 ofthe Records of Mortgagesand Deeds of Trust on Landin the Office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi; and pursuant tothe power and authorityvested in me, as SubstitutedTrustee, and at the requestof the owner of said indebt-edness, default having beenmade in the payment duethereunder as described inPromissory Note by saidDeed of Trust secured andthe payment of the interestthereunder accruing and theholder and the owner of theNote having elected underthe terms of said Deed ofTrust to declare said Notedue and payable as by saidDeed of Trust authorized,and the same remainingunpaid, I, B. Blake Teller, asSubstituted Trustee, will be-tween the legal hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. onWednesday, the 16th day ofJune, 2010, at the main frontdoor of the Cherry Streetside of the county court-house in Vicksburg, WarrenCounty, Mississippi, exposefor sale at public auction tothe highest and best bidderfor cash the followingdescribed property conveyedby said Deed of Trust, saidproperty being situated inWarren County, State ofMississippi, being describedas follows:Beginning at the northeastcorner of Rose Old-Timers,Inc., property on Eagle Lake,Warren County, Mississippias recorded in Book 340,Page 389 and Book 602,Page 622, Warren CountyCourthouse, Vicksburg,Mississippi, being also onthe South right-of-way ofState Highway 465, runningthence South 36 degrees 30minutes West, 305 feet moreor less along a fence line tothe low-water line of EagleLake; thence North 49 de-grees 51 minutes West, 90.0feet following the low-waterline; thence, leaving saidlow-water line, North 36 de-grees 30 minutes East, 305feet more or less to the southright-of- way of said Highway465; thence South 49 de-grees 51 minutes East, 90.0feet along said right-of-wayto the point of beginning, be-ing all in Section 27, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 East,Warren County, Mississippi,containing .63 acre. Beingalso part of Lot 3 of LakeFront Lots subdivision.The undersigned will onlyconvey such title as isvested in me as SubstitutedTrustee.WITNESS my signature thisthe 20th day of May, 2010./s/ B. Blake TellerB. BLAKE TELLERSubstituted TrusteePublish: 5/25, 6/1, 6/8, 6/15(3t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: THE ESTATE OFADOLPH MAXIE CUPIT,JR., DECEASEDADOLPH MAXIE CUPIT, III,PETITIONERNo. 2010-068PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters of Administrationhaving been granted to theundersigned on the 11th dayof May, 2010, by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, uponthe Estate of Adolph MaxieCupit, Jr., Deceased, noticeis hereby given to all personshaving claims against saidEstate to present the sameto the Clerk of this Court forprobate and registration ac-cording to law, within ninety(90) days from this date, orthey will be forever barred.THIS the 18th day of May,2010./s/ Adohlph Maxie Cupit, IIIADOLPH MAXIE CUPIT, IIIPublish: 5/21, 5/28, 6/4(3t)

01. LegalsIN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: THE ESTATE OFFAYE WOOD CUPIT, DE-CEASEDADOLPH MAXIE CUPIT, III,PETITIONER

No. 2009-018PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters of Administration debonis non having been grant-ed to the undersigned on the12th day of May, 2010, bythe Chancery Court of War-ren County, Mississippi,upon the Estate of FayeWood Cupit, Deceased, no-tice is hereby given to allpersons having claimsagainst said Estate topresent the same to theClerk of this Court for pro-bate and registration accord-ing to law, within ninety (90)days from this date, or theywill be forever barred.THIS the 18th day of May,2010./s/ Adohlph Maxie Cupit, IIIADOLPH MAXIE CUPIT, IIIPublish: 5/21, 5/28, 6/4(3t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: Cherice Gilliam andApril CharlesParcel# 094D 13 3031 0049003547 Mt. Diablo Boulevard500 Dallas Street,PPIN 19630LaFayette, CA 94579Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting on June10, 2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your propertydescribed above, situatedwithin the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of thecitizens of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, andto order such cleaning of theabove mentioned property asmay be necessary to removesaid property as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG, MISSIS-SIPPI, this the May 18, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 5/21, 5/24(2t)

Substitute Trustee'sNotice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 17thday of April, 1996 andacknowledged on the 17thday of April, 1996, JerryCampbell and JoanCampbell, husband and wife,executed and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoLem Adams III, Trustee forFirst Capital MortgageCorporation, an Alabamacorporation, Beneficiary, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in DT Book 1051at Page 330 # 115264; andWHEREAS, by variousassignments on record saidDeed of Trust was ultimatelyassigned to Norwest BankMinnesota, NationalAssociation, as Trustee forEquiVantage Home EquityLoan Trust, 1996-2 under thePooling and ServicingAgreement dated as of May1, 1996 by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1228 at Page 138# 169588; andWHEREAS, on the 7th dayof July, 2008, the Holder ofsaid Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1508 at Page 513# 277275; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 4th day of June, 2010, Iwill during the lawful hours of

01. Legalsbetween 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offerfor sale and will sell, at thewest front door of the WarrenCounty Courthouse atVicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated inWarren County, Mississippi,to-wit:All of Lot 327 of Oak ParkSubdivision, Part 7, a plat ofwhich appears of record inPlat Book 3 at Page 56 ofthe Land Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute TrusteeWITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this day May 11, 2010Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020sw/F08-1881Publish: 5/14, 5/21, 5/28(3t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: THE ESTATE OFROBIN LYNN HICKS,DECEASEDNo. 2010-052PRJAMES M. HICKSPETITIONERNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters of Administrationhaving been granted to theundersigned on the 18th dayof May, 2010, by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, uponthe Estate of Robin LynnHicks, Deceased, notice ishereby given to all personshaving claims against saidEstate to present the sameto the Clerk of this Court forprobate and registrationaccording to law, withinninety (90) days from thisdate, or they will be foreverbarred.THIS the 19th day of May,2010./s/ James M. HicksJAMES M. HICKSPublish: 5/21, 5/28, 6/4(3t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT WARREN COUN-TY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OFRUFUS HUGHES, JR., DE-CEASEDCAUSE NO. 2010-002 PRSUMMONS AND NOTICEOF HEARING(By Publication)THE STATE OF MISSISSIP-PITO: Any and all unknownheirs at law and any personsor entities claiming an inter-est in the Estate of RufusHughes, Jr. or anyone whoclaims to be an heir at law ofRufus Hughes, Jr.You have been made a Partyin the suit filed in this Countyby Johnnie Hughes to Deter-mine the Heirs of RufusHughes, Jr. Parties otherthan you in this action are:Johnnie Hughes and anyand all unknown heirs at lawand any persons or entitiesclaiming an interest in theEstate of Rufus Hughes, Jr.or anyone who claims to bean heir at law of Rufus Hugh-es, Jr.NOTICE OF HEARINGPLEASE TAKE NOTICE thata hearing to Determine Heirswill be held in the ChanceryCourt Building in Vicksburg,Mississippi, before the Hon-orable Vicki R. Barnes,Chancellor, at 10:30 a.m. the23rd day of June, 2010.Issued under my hand andthe seal of said Court, thisthe 10th of May, 2010./s/ Denise Bailey D.C.DOT McGEE, CHANCERYCLERKWARREN COUNTY, MIS-SISSIPPIP.O. BOX 351VICKSBURG, MS 39180FERGUSON & FIKEP.O. DRAWER 89RAYMOND, MS 39154601-857-5282MSB#5194Publish: 5/14, 5/21, 5/28(3t)

SEALED PROPOSALSThe Warren County Board ofSupervisors will receiveSealed Proposals until 10:00a.m. local time on Monday,June 21, 2010, for a Contractfor INMATE HEALTHCAREAND MEDICAL SERVICESat the Warren County Jailand Juvenile DetentionCenter. The proposal filenumber is 03152010.Successful proposing firmmay be required to furnishPerformance and PaymentBonds in the amount of$50,000.00 (Fifty ThousandDollars) as security forfaithful performance and pay-ment to all persons supplyinglabor, materials, supplies,services or consultations inconnection with this contract.Contact information, com-plete specifications, terms,conditions and instructions

01. Legalsfor submitting proposals maybe obtained from the WarrenCounty Chancery Clerk'sOffice, 1009 Cherry Street,Vicksburg, MS 39183.The phone number is601-636-4415.The Warren County Board ofSupervisors reserves theright to determineresponsible proposal firms orcompanies, responsiveproposals, the lowest andbest proposal, award to thefirm or company determinedto be the most advantageousto Warren County, reject anyand all proposals, and waiveany informalities in the pro-posals or proposal process.Published pursuant to BoardOrder dated the 15th day ofMarch, 2010.Dot McGeeWarren County ChanceryClerkPublish: 5/14, 5/21(2t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: Catherine S. KinneyParcel# 0864 09 2470 0023003145 Indiana Avenue2047 sky Farm Avenue,PPIN 19928Vicksburg, MS 39180Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting on June07, 2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your propertydescribed above, situatedwithin the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of the citi-zens of the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, and to ordersuch cleaning of the abovementioned property as maybe necessary to remove saidproperty as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG, MISSIS-SIPPI, this the May 18, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 5/21, 5/24(2t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: Vanessa T. MooreParcel# 0876 02 0863 001500P.O. Box 51686 Williams Street,PPIN 6123Bonita, CA 91908Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting on June07, 2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your propertydescribed above, situatedwithin the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of thecitizens of the City of Vicks-burg, Mississippi, and toorder such cleaning of theabove mentioned property asmay be necessary to removesaid property as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG, MISSIS-SIPPI, this the May 18, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 5/21, 5/24(2t)

01. LegalsBEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OF VICKS-BURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: Vanessa t. MooreParcel# 0876 02 0863 001600P.O. Box 516Williams Street, PPIN 6125Bonita, CA 91908Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting on June07, 2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your propertydescribed above, situatedwithin the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of thecitizens of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, andto order such cleaning of theabove mentioned property asmay be necessary to removesaid property as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG, MISSIS-SIPPI, this the May 18, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 5/21, 5/24(2t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO: Cecil Perkins Estatec/o Parrie Perkins, Jr.Parcel# 0941 13 2670014500453 E. 81st Street1403 Sky Farm Avenue,PPIN 14233Chicago, IL 60619Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor and Al-dermen of the City of Vicks-burg, Mississippi, will con-duct a public hearing at theirregular meeting on June 07,2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your property de-scribed above, situated with-in the City of Vicksburg, Mis-sissippi, to determine if suchcondition is a hazard and/ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg, Missis-sippi, and to order suchcleaning of the above men-tioned property as may benecessary to remove saidproperty as a hazard or men-ace to the health, safety andwelfare of the citizens of theCity of Vicksburg, Mississip-pi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG, MISSIS-SIPPI, this the May 18, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 5/21, 5/24(2t)

Substitute Trustee'sNotice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 10th dayof October, 2007 andacknowledged on the 10thday of October, 2007, GaryJ. Stewart, a married man,joined by his wife AngelaBrown Stewart, ascommunity property,executed and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoAtty. Arnold M. Weiss,Trustee for MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., Beneficiary, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in Book 1681 atPage 142 # 251837; andWHEREAS, on the 29th dayof December, 2009,Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto GMAC Mortgage, LLCby instrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1504 at Page 333 # 274745;andWHEREAS, on the 29th dayof December, 2009, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument record-ed in the office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk in Book1504 at Page 449 # 274908;andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the payments

01. Legalsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 11th day of June, 2010, Iwill during the lawful hours ofbetween 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offerfor sale and will sell, at thewest front door of the WarrenCounty Courthouse at Vicks-burg, Mississippi, for cash tothe highest bidder, the fol-lowing described land andproperty situated in WarrenCounty, Mississippi, to-wit:The following property beingmore fully described to-wit:Lot 7 of Hamilton HeightsSubdivision, Part 2, shownby plat recorded in Plat Book1 at Page 56 of the LandDeed Records for WarrenCounty, Mississippi.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substi-tute TrusteeWITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this day May 18, 2010Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020sw/F09-3643Publish: 5/21, 5/28, 6/4(3t)

The following vehicle isconsidered abandonedand will be sold fortowing, labor and storagefees incurred.1998 Chevrolet Malibu,4 doorVIN: 1G1ND52T1W6116708Date of Sale: Saturday,May 22nd, 2010Time of Sale: 10:00 A.M.Place of Sale:Jackson Auto and Towing97 Sammy Young RoadVicksburg, MS 39180Publish: 5/7, 5/14, 5/21(3t)

SEALED BIDS for furnishingVehicle Accessories will bereceived in the office of theCity Clerk of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi until9:00 o'clock a.m., Monday,June 07, 2010. They will bepublicly opened and readaloud by the Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg in a RegularBoard Meeting at 10:00o'clock a.m., Monday, June 07, 2010.Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does notreceive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m. Bids willbe time-stamped uponreceipt according to CityClerk's time clock.Specifications andinstructions for bidding areon file in the office of the CityClerk, second floor, City Hall,1401 Walnut Street, cornerCrawford and WalnutStreets, Vicksburg,Mississippi.The Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburgreserve the right to reject anyand all bids and to waiveinformalities./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr., CityClerkPublish: 5/14, 5/21(2t)

02. Public Service

ADORABLE 8 WEEK oldkittens free to good homes.Some have bob-tails. 601-218-3170.

FREE CATS AND KIT-TENS to good homes. Call601-631-0009 6pm- 9pm.

FREE KITTENS TO goodhome. Call 601-831-0057.

FREE PAIR OF Kittens tobest home. 7 weeks old,black, black Calico, Whitewith blue eyes, blond earsand tail, orange, Siamese.Must go in pairs. 601-618-0877.

FREE PUPPIES TOGOOD HOMES. 6 week oldCatahoula/ German Shep-herd mix. Call 601-638-4656 after 2pm.

FREE YELLOW LABPuppies. 8 weeks old.Ready to Go. 601-638-2035.

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NESS. WOMEN with chil-dren or without are you inneed of shelter? Mountainof Faith Ministries/ Wom-en's Restoration Shelter.Certain restrictions apply,601-661-8990. Life coach-ing available by appoint-ment.

GARAGE SALE,HAWKINS United MethodistChurch, 3736 Halls Ferry,

Saturday, June 5th, 7am- until, come out and

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Is the one youlove

hurting you?Call

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Call 601-634-0640 any-time or 1-800-793-8266

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06. Lost & Found

$200 REWARD LOSTsmall (2 ½ pounds) Blackand White Female Fox Ter-rier. Near Mosswood Coun-try Club. Highway 61 Southof Port Gibson. Wearingsmall pink collar. 601-437-5920 or 601-660-7428.

FOUND AUSTRALIANSHEPHERD type dog.

Brown eyes. Has to be fam-ily pet. Very well mannered.Porters Chapel area. If youknow this dog, please Call:

601-631-0118.

Found! Calico Cat, NailorRoad area, front paws arede-clawed. 601-456-1405.

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LOST DOG!BROWN, FEMALE

SHEPHERD mix. 5 yearsold, has one floppy ear.Cobblestone/ Culkin area.601-595-0486.

MISSING OR STOLENdog. Small FemaleDachshund. Blue eyes.Dappled colored. If foundcall 601-966-1619 or 601-529-3943.

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Classified InformationLine Ad DeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

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Wednesday 5 p.m., MondayThursday 5 p.m., Tuesday

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Friday 3 p.m., WednesdaySaturday 11 a.m., Thursday

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Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

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New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

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Publication Date:Thursday, June 24, 2010

Advertising Deadline:Tuesday, June 08, 2010

06. Lost & Found

LOST DOG!FEMALE JACK RUS-

SELL puppy from FreetownRoad area. Has collar. Call601-631-0487.

STOLEN SMALLBROWN Dog from OldAmeristar Trailor Park. HasDark stripe from back toend of tail. Scar on upperlip. About 7 months old.Looks like a Pit Bull Puppy.Wearing Black Collar. An-swers to Tink. Any InfoPlease Call: 769-203-0849or 601-638-3210.

07. Help Wanted

A WILD HAIR is hiring anail technician and mas-sage therapist. Call 601-636-4487.

“ACE”Truck Driver Training

With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.

Day, Night & RefresherClasses

Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124

****************************Attention Students!SUMMER WORK-$15 Starting Pay

-Flexible Schedules-Customer Sales/Service

-All Ages 17+Call NOW 601-501-4598

CONFEDERATE RIDGEAPARTMENTS now accepting applicationsfor Certified HVAC maintenance person. Experience is a must!

Call 601-638-0102, for information.

TRUCK DRIVERneeded for delivery of

storage containers.Must have minimum

Class A License.Apply in person @Sheffield Rentals1255 Hwy. 61 S.Vicksburg, MS

DRIVER. WITH DRY bulktank and spreader experi-ence for long term commit-ment. Excellent pay andbenefits with Blue Cross/Blue Shield provided. 877-768-4526.

DUE TO INCREASEDbusiness, an ExperiencedService Technician positionis now open at VicksburgHonda. Must have owntools. Contact George at601-636-1800 for interview.

HOTEL MAINTENANCELOOKING for a Knowledge-able maintenance person tofacilitate the needs of abusy hotel. Previous Hotelexperience preferred.

Send resumes to:Dept. 3723

The Vicksburg PostP.O. 821668

Vicksburg, MS 39182

LOOKING FOR A Feder-al or Postal Job? Whatlooks like the ticket to a se-cure job might be a scam.For information call TheFederal Trade Commission,toll free 1-877-FTC-HELP,or visit www.ftc.gov. A mes-sage from The VicksburgPost and the FTC.

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NEED EXTRA CASHNOW? Sell Avon, earngood $. Call 601-831-3312or toll free 1-866-377-2866.

PI&I MOTOR EXPRESSis currently hiring Flat Bed

drivers. Starting pay is 26%;after 6 months 27%; and af-

ter 6 additional months28%. Job offers many bene-fits, including weekends off.Please call 601-878-5395.

QUALITY CONTROL.EARN up to $100 per day!Evaluate retail stores, train-ing provided, no experiencerequired. Call 877-699-9772.

RECEPTIONIST NEED-ED FOR busy OptometricClinic. Hours are 7:45 until5:30 Monday-Thursday and7:45 until 12:00 Friday.Send resume to Office Man-ager, P.O. Box 820068,Vicksburg, MS 39182 or faxto 601-636-1162.

SMALL BUSINESSSUPPLIERS NEEDED.L.W. Matteson, Inc. is a Ma-rine and Dredging contrac-tor working on the Ouachitaand Mississippi Rivers. Weare currently seeking quali-fied Small Business ven-dors registered with theFederal Government in theareas of marine supplies,diesel fuel, hardware and/or general supplies. Pleasecontact our office at 319-754-6705 or [email protected]. Allvendors must have a validregistration in the FederalContractors Registry (CCR).

THE CEDAR GROVEMissionary Baptist (MB)Church is currently seekinga full time Pastor to providestrong, visionary and spiritu-al leadership to the congre-gation and community.Please send your resume toP.O. Box 821373, Vicks-burg Ms. 39182, AttentionPastor Search Committee.

07. Help Wanted

SERVICE TECNICIANNEEDED for local pest con-trol company. Call 601-630-2996 to schedule an inter-view.

TO BUY OR SELL

AVONCALL 601-636-7535

$10 START UP KIT

VICKSBURG CATHOLICSCHOOL is now acceptingapplications and resumes

for a full- time certifiedGuidance Counselor with aMasters Degree in a related

field. Applications for em-ployment can be found atwww.vicksburgcatholic.orgvia Edline or you may pickone up in the St. Aloysius

School Office. For more in-formation please call 601-

636-2256. All applicationsshould be received no lat-er than June 15, 2010. Ap-plications and resumes may

be mailed to:Vicksburg Catholic

SchoolATTN:Michele Townsend

1990 Grove StreetVicksburg, MS 39183

WANTED COPIERTECHNICIAN. Copier Deal-er needs experienced tech-nician for Central Mississip-pi. Prefer training on Can-non and network experi-ence. Competitive salaryand benefits. Email resumesto [email protected].

12. Schools &Instruction

PIANO LESSONS, ALLages! Kim Steen, 601-218-7318, 601-638-0229.

07. Help Wanted

14. Pets &Livestock

3 COWS FOR SALE. Call601-634-1379 for details.

AKC DACHSHUND PUP-PIES. Black and Tan. Longcoated. First shots,wormed, vet exam. HealthGuarantee. 601-831-1794.

[email protected]

VICKSBURG WARRENHUMANE SOCIETYHighway 61 South

601-636-6631Currently housing 84 unwanted

and abandoned animals.

43 dogs & puppies41 cats & kittens

Please adopt today!Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAYOR NEUTER YOUR PETS!Look for us on www.petfinder.com

14. Pets &Livestock

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED

YORKIES, Poodles and Schnauzers

$200 to $700!601-218-5533,

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BABY GUINEAS. 3 Daysold. $4 each. Call 318-552-3314 or 509-948-8675.

FULL BLOODED REDnose Pitt Puppies. 6 Weeks.8 Females.$200.All Redand White. 601-885-8860.

Foster aHomeless

Pet!

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TOY POODLES,YORKIES, Pomeranians,Maltipoos, Chihuahuas,Shih-tzu. Deposit Welcome.PayPal, Cash. Health Guar-antee. 318-728-5128.www.littlepawkennel.com

07. Help Wanted

15. Auction

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1:00 PM317 McAULEY(WILDWOOD)

Sell all, clear the house sale!Dining sets, bedroom sets,

china cabinets,buffets & household goods.

Antiques:china cabinets, dropleaf secretary,

drop leaf tables, marble toptables, chairs, tea carts, glass

and more.Quality consignments accepted

for this auction. Contact usASAP.

Mississippi Auction Service601 415 3121,

[email protected],www.msauctionservice.com

License #988cash/check/MC/VISA10% buyers premium

LIVING ESTATE AUCTION

15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great

value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

17. Wanted ToBuy

CASH PAID FOR COINS,war relics, antique booksand collectibles. Call 601-618-2727.

WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-940-5075, if no answer,please leave message.

07. Help Wanted

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

Spring Into Savings at

DISCOUNT

FURNITURE BARN

YELLOW TAG SALE!600 Jackson Street

601-638-7191

CAPTAIN JACK'SSHRIMP, headless, frozen.Frog legs. Crawfish. Alliga-tor. Thursday, Friday, Sat-

urday, 1901 North FrontageRoad. 601-638-7001.

FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post

delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,

7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,

Circulation Department.

FURNITURE MUST GO!!Pine Entertainment center

$500. Pine dining table with6 chairs $500. Computerdesk $200. 601-297-0951.


FRESH SQUASH AVAIli-BLE now and more vegeta-bles to come soon. 601-613-0330.

GO GREEN! SAVE ongas! Increase gas mileage 7percent 14 percent, for gasor diesel. Call for details,601-629-6231.

PINK DORA EXPLORERtoddler bed, with mattressand bedding. Call 601-883-1717.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”Bring Your Best Friend to our

NEW LOCATION, 3508 South Washington Street

Not so far, just 1 milesouth of Belmont St.

Same Great Pet Merchandise, Just More Room!

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

WHIRLPOOL WASHER/DRYER, oldies but goodiesAlmond each $75 cash,KitchenAid Dishwasher$100.601-638-2935.

Fresh Seafood, & Sack Oysters,

Live Crawfish$1.50/ lb

CCheapest Prices in Townheapest Prices in Town

STRICK’S SEAFOOD601-218-2363

CrawfishCooking

Every Sunday


K and K Crawfish

318-207-6221

318-574-4572

Purged 5 sacksand up $1.25 a

pound.Under 5 sacks

$1.50 a pound.


19. Garage &Yard Sales

113 WILLOW CREEKDrive, Bovina, Friday and Sat-urday 7am-3pm. Lots morethings have been added! Fab-ric, ribbons, silk flowers,shoes, purses, desk chair,CD's, books, household items,clothing for babies to adults,tables, couch, jewelry, girls“dress up” clothes. Pleasecome BUY!

33 BIRKDALE CIRCLE,Fairways, Saturday,

7am-12 noon, 2 families, furniture,

dryer, children's, men's,women's clothes, toys,

lots of household miscellaneous.

07. Help Wanted


1403 SOUTH FRONTAGEROAD, in front of Sweets Un-limited. Saturday 9-until. Lotsof good stuff. New items!

145 LAKESIDE DRIVE.Lake Park. Saturday 7am-until. All size clothing andshoes, household items, toys,miscellaneous items!

295 AMBERLEAF DRIVE,off Highway 80. Saturday7am-12 Noon. Clothes, tools,furniture and much more.

3440 TIFFENTOWNROAD, Bovina Exit, Friday12pm-4pm and Saturday,6am-10am, Huge sale! Allmust go! If Rain, cancel.

07. Help Wanted


410 STILL DRIVE, offRedbone Road, Saturday,7am-12 noon, boy's, girl'sclothes (6 months-4t), wom-en's and men's clothes,toys, AB Lounger, eliptical.

FORT HILL REUNIONsponsoring a huge garagesale at the City Park Pavil-lion. Saturday May 22 from7am- 11am, before the re-union. Something for every-one.

FRIDAY 12 NOON- 8pm,Saturday 8am-2pm. Babybed, kids John Deere tractor,miscellaneous. 301 NewitVick Drive, Openwood.

Tallulah Academy located in Tallulah, LA

has 2 positions open for the2010-2011 school term.

• Secondary English Teacher

• Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach(teaching preference in Social Studies/PE)

For more information, call Don Pennington at 318-574-2606.

Resumes may be sent by:Fax - 318-574-3390

or email to: [email protected]

ACCOUNTING ASSISTANTAnderson Tully Lumber Company

Prefer previous experience in Accounts Payable. Manufacturingrelated background a plus. GeneralAccounting experience needed along

with high level of proficiency in Excel.

Fax or email your resume to:601-629-3626

Email to:[email protected]

Or mail to P.O. Box 38Vicksburg, MS 39183

Forklift DriversAnderson-Tully is currentlyaccepting applications for

QUALIFIED TAYLOR FORKLIFTOperators. You must have a valid

certificate that states you are certifiedto operate the Taylor “BIG RED”

Forklift”.

Please direct all questionsand / or resumes to:

[email protected]

No Wonder Everybody’s Doing It!To join

The Vicksburg Postnewspaper team

you must bedependable, haveinsurance, reliabletransportation, and

be available to deliverafternoons Monday -

Friday and earlymornings Saturday

and Sunday.

Teachers, stay-at-homeparents, college students,nurses. . . they’re alldelivering the newspaperin their spare time andearning extra income!It’s easy - and it’s a greatway to earn extra cash.

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WE PAY CASH!for gold, silver, diamonds & coinsScallions Jewelers

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New Cars Have Arrived!!!


GARGE SALE 109 OldeTrace Drive, Off of FisherFerry. Saturday 8am untilnoon. No early birds please!

HOME ACCESSORIESAND more is having a hugemoving sale. Friday May21st 9am- 6 and SaturdayMay 22nd 8am- 4. BeautifulHome décor . We are mov-ing to 1325 Wisconsin Av-enue. We will re open midJune. 601-638-9940.

HUGE SALE! Friday andSaturday 7am-11am. 4718Nailor Road.

MULTI-FAMILY YARDSale. Saturday 8am- 11.Kitchen items, toys, books,linens, clothes, aquariums,84x36 storm door, eldercare items, Thule 3-bikerack, unicycle, baby items,Little Tikes playhouse. 3015Short Cherry Street.

RCCC, Inc. is having agarage sale at the corner ofthe old Merchants bankparking lot, across from RiteAid. Saturday 7am-12.

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

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

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

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

for circulation.

YARD SALE. FURNI-TURE, clothes, miscella-neous. 118 Katherine Drive.Saturday 7am-12

20. Hunting

HONDA 185-S 3-wheeler.Excellent condition. $600.601-636-6825.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

1999 17 foot CAPE Horn.Center console, 1999 115Evinrude Ocean Runner,very low hours, great condi-tion, ski pole, .accessories.$9750. 601-415-4314.

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

24. BusinessServices

AFFORDABLE PAINTING.Quality work, interior/ exteri-or, pressure washing. Ref-erences. 601-218-0263.

BARBARA'S LAWN SER-VICE. Grass too tall, giveus a call. Low prices, greatservice. 601-218-8267, 601-629-6464, leave message.

• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13

• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce

Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law

601-636-1109

FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON

ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair

(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref

Licensed • Insured601-618-0367

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

FOR HOME REPAIR. 13years experience. Plumbing,electrical, carpentery,painting. Call R. Smith. 601-638-2606 or 601-415-1710.

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

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

601-529-6168.

Smith Lawn ServiceProfessional cut, trim and

cleanup. Satisfaction guar-anteed, Vicksburg area,

free quotes. 318-341-6620.

Framing, additions, decks,porches & painting.

All types remodeling & repairs.Metal roofs & buildings.Mobile home repairs.

No job too small.Dewayne Kennedy

601-638-0337601-529-7565

26. For RentOr Lease

3 BEDROOM HOUSESand 2 bedroom apartmentsavailable for rent. Section 8available. Call 601-636-4338 or 601-218-1210.

26. For RentOr Lease

Rent or Lease this largefamily home. Fisher FerryRoad, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,bonus room, office. $1350monthly, deposit/ refer-ences. 601-218-0214.

28. FurnishedApartments

1 CORPORATE APART-MENT. $675 monthly. Ev-erything furnished. $250 de-posit. 601-415-0838, 601-831-1147, 601-415-5498.

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

NEWLY RENOVATED.Completely furnished corpo-

rate apartment. All utilities pro-vided including cable andinternet. Laundry room,

courtyard, security entrance.Great location. $750 - $900

month. 601-415-9027,601-638-4386.

NICE FURNISHED APART-MENTS. All utilities paid.Laundry room provided.Drummond Street. Satelliteand Internet provided. Call forgreat prices. Studio 1 & 2 bed-room $650- $950. Short andlong term leases available.601-618-8405, 601-638-4349or 601-831-1523.

34. HousesFor Sale

29. UnfurnishedApartments

1 Bedroom $400. 2 bed-room $425. 3 bedroom $450.All have $200 deposit. Refrig-erator and Stove Furnished.

601-634-8290.

1 BEDROOM APART-MENT. $375 monthly. Wa-ter furnished. $200 deposit.601-415-0838, 601-831-1147, 601-415-5498.

1 BEDROOM, CAPTAINKain House. 2530 Oak Street.All electric, water and cablefurnished, off-street parking,alarm. $650 monthly, $650deposit. 601-638-1967 or504-400-6758.

3 BEDROOM APART-MENTS. New carpet andappliances, $525. 1 bed-room, $400. 601-631-0805.


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• 1 & 2 BedroomStudios & Efficiencies

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34. HousesFor Sale

30. HousesFor Rent

2517 OAK STREET. 2 bed-rooms, all appliances, offstreet parking, storage build-ing. $650 monthly, deposit re-quired. 504-400-6758.

LARGE FAMILY HOME.Fisher Ferry Road, 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, bonusroom, office. $1350 month-ly, deposit/ references. 601-218-0214.

30. HousesFor Rent

909 NATIONAL STREET.2 bedrooms, 1 bath, $595,deposit required. 601-415-0067.

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

NEAR DOWNTOWN 2bedroom, stove, refrigera-tor, central air/heat, lighted

parking. [email protected]

Nice 3 BEDROOMS, 1bath, Glenwood Circle area.Central heat air, hardwoodfloors, garage, fenced yard,utility shed. $850 month +deposit. 601-831-5317 or850-291-4743.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

22 RIDGEVIEW. NICE 3bedrooms, 2 baths, countrylot. $550 monthly, deposit/application and references.601-638-6660.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.61 South area, deposit re-quired. 601-619-9789.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

$18,999! DOUBLE WIDE,28x68, separate living/ din-ing, fireplace. 601-941-3733.

$9000! 16x80, 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, minor re-pairs needed. Newer mod-els available! 601-941-3733.

2000 16X80. ONE owner,all appliances, big tub, sep-arate shower. $14,900. 601-941-3733.

2001 16X80. 3 bedrooms,2 baths, $12,500. 601-672-5146.

2008 FRANKLIN 32X80.4 bedrooms, 2 baths, fullysheet-rocked, bonus roomwith wood floors, crown andbase. Unbelievable home!$49,900. Financing avail-able, 601-941-3733.

DOUBLE WIDE FORsale! 1998 Cappaert ingreat shape! 3 bedrooms, 2baths, $23,500. 601-672-5146.

DOUBLE WIDE WITHland, $49,900! 3 bedrooms,2 baths. Financing avail-able. $330 monthly with ap-proved credit! 601-672-5146.

HANDYMAN SPECIAL! 3single wides for $7500each! 601-672-5146.

INVESTOR'S SPECIAL!NICE 3 bedroom, 2 bathlake front home. Excellentrental property! The first$20,000 gets it! Property lo-cated at 180 Red OakDrive, Vicksburg. Pleasecall 601-941-2952.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

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601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

MOBILE HOME FORSALE. $5000. Good condi-tion, well kept. 3 bedrooms1.5 baths. Must be moved.Call 601-661-6136.

34. HousesFor Sale

33. Commercia lProperty

PPPPFOR LEASEPPPP

1911 Mission 66Office or Retail

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

Easy Access!High Visability!

Brian Moore RealtyConnie - Owner/ Agent

318-322-4000

33. Commercia lProperty

EXECUTIVE PLAZA.North Frontage Road, #11,on front. Available June 1st.$600 monthly. Call 601-529-3666.

I-20 AREA. 2,000 squarefeet. Commercial. Call601-218-9631.


34. HousesFor Sale

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.Great county location.$128,000. 601-618-4641,after 5pm.

4022 HWY 27: Owner fi-nancing, 3 bedroom, 2 bathhome. Ward Real Estate601-634-6898.

455 DOGWOODLAKE DRIVE. Byowner. Custom built,4000 square feet brickhome on 10 woodedacres on lake front. 4bedrooms, 3.5 baths, for-mal living and diningrooms, family room withfireplace, built-in book-cases and entertainmentcenter. Large kitchenwith breakfast room,office, laundry roomupstairs and downstairs.Bonus room, walk-inattic over 3-car garage.Appointment only.$495,000. 601-636-6823, 601-218-3600.

By owner- 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathcompletely remodeled brick

home. Bovina area, hardwood& ceramic flooring, new metal

roof, approx. 1558 sq. ft.$135,000.

For appointment,601-415-4518

AskUs.

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! FHA & VA! Conventional! Construction! First -timeHomebuyers

Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator

MortgageLoans601.630.8209

Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

Rental includingCorporate Apartments

Available


34. HousesFor Sale

JOHN ARNOLD601-529-7376

NEED BUYERS: I have accessto homes in all prices & sizes to

show you, as well as land &commercial property.

Central Drive: Nice homew/hardwood floors, freshly painted inside & out, fenced

backyard, workshop & 16x16covered back porch. $69,000.

Call John Arnold, Vicksburg Realty, LLC.

McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193

VicksburgRealEstate.com

Big River Realty

Bigriverhomes.com

Rely on over 19years of experience

in Real Estate.

DAVID A. BREWER601-631-0065

600 Blossom Lane

HELP!!!My property listings in this ad keepselling! I need MORE LISTINGS!Give me a call to discuss puttingyour property on the market and

IN THIS AD.

3 BR, 2BA home

withingroundpool &large

workshop.

Call Jennifer Gilliland McMillin Real Estate

601-218-4538.

Mission Park Dr, Mission 66Commercial lots, $50,500.

Pear Orchard Offices 1000 sq ft$73,500.

Redwood Rd 1 acre lots $20,000.Newit Vick, 6 acres $72,500.

898 National St. Duplex $44,500.Openwood, Clubhouse Cir., Shop

5000 sq ft $69,900.Openwood 1112 Choctaw Tr.2600sq ft built in 1985. Swimming pool,

deck, fenced in yard. $249,900.100 Wigwam 4 BR 2 BA

$107,900. 1 Grey Creek 30 acres off

Freetown Rd $187,500.1800 Hwy 61 N 4750 sq ft

$385,000.Hwy 61 N Port Gibson 16,800 sq

ft on Black River $220,000Savannah Hills lot $39,900.

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

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

34. HousesFor Sale

PRIVATE 2500 SQUAREFOOT shop with 4 bedroomapartment on approximately2.5 acres. 230 Old Mt. Al-ban Road. $55,000. 601-218-4191.

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

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV

JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

36. Farms &Acreage

4 ACRES ON BazinskyRoad. Undeveloped, lots ofpotential. 985-969-4983,leave message.

38. FarmImple ments/

Heavy Equipment

2003 KUBOTA 3400. 4wheel drive with 5 foot boxblade, 5 foot bush hog.$11,500. 601-883-1113,601-529-2068.

39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles

HONDA 2004 VTX1300S, Clean, beautiful,loaded and road ready!$6000. 601-994-3269.


40. Cars & Trucks

2000 CADILLAC DEV-ILLE. Looks Great, RunsGreat. Well Maintained.Must See to Appreciate.$4,999 601-218-5969.

2001 CHEVROLET Z71LT. Extended cab, white,very solid, loaded up!$6000. 601-954-5429.


40. Cars & Trucks

2005 CHEVROLET IM-PALA. 86468 miles, large 4door sedan. Great for familyruns, clean! Must sell! Only$8977. Call Charlie Beldenat 601-529-6677. Dealer.

2005 DODGE RAM pick-up. With Hemi, 29,000miles. $13,000. 601-218-4714.

2006 CHEVROLETTRAILBLAZER. Pewter, haspassed 117-point Certifica-tion inspection. Lots of extrawarranty for only $13,977.Call Charlie Belden at 601-529-6677. Dealer.

2007 DODGE CHARG-ER. 84,000 miles. $9,000.Call 601-415-0760.

2008 GMC SIERRA SLE.Red, extended cab, 2 wheeldrive. Certified. Call CharlieBelden at 601-529-6677.Dealer.

2008 SATURN VUE XR.A great crossover SUV forthe family. White, only37,020 miles with a 100,000mile power train warranty.Call Charlie Belden at 601-529-6677. Dealer.

ANTIQUE CAR SPE-CIAL. 1969 450 dozer,$6500. Ford moving van,$2700. 1978 Chevrolet ElCamino, $2500. 1961 Ponti-ac Catalina, $1800. 1967Ford Galaxy 500 2 door,$1000. 1961 BellaireChevrolet 4 door, $800. 1968Chevelle, 4 doors, restored,little more work to do, $4500.Chevrolet motor and trans-mission. Deer camp trailer,full bedroom and bunk,$1900. 601-529-1075.

BAD CREDIT?NO PROBLEM!1999 Ford Explorer

1999 Ford Expedition2000 Ford F150

2001 Chrysler Sebring2004 Saturn L200

More to Choose FromGary Cars *Hwy 61

South601-883-9995For pre-approval*www.garyscfl.com

GAS SAVER! 2005 HON-DA Civic Hybrid. Great forcollege or town. Only$10,477. Call CharlieBelden at 601-529-6677.Dealer.

WANT A NEW Car, Truckor SUV? Please call CharlieBelden at Atwood Chevrolet601-529-677, Dealer.

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