Friday May 11,
2012
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Daily Corinthian Vol. 116, No. 114
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 22 pages • 2 sections
‘A Night of Fame ...’
Mayes kills himself Girls are OK
Mail carriers ‘stamp out hunger’ with food drive
BY ADRIAN SAINZ AND HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Local residents can help mail carriers make a special delivery to the food pantry by leaving donations at the mailbox on Saturday. City and rural mail carriers will collect food donations while on their routes Saturday for the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers. Allen McMillin of the Corinth Post Office said residents can leave nonperishable food items at the mailbox or hang a bag on the mailbox for their mail carrier. The AMEN Food Pantry is the beneficiary of the drive. The effort has drawn good participation locally, generating thousands of pounds of food donations, and comes at a time of year when the food pantry often sees an increase in requests for help. “The mail carrier drive is a very large donation and something we appreciate and count on from year to year,” said Maud DeLes Lancaster, president of the board of directors of the food pantry. Any donations of nonperishable items are appreciated. “We are always in need of canned meats and canned fruit,” said Lancaster. “Those are the items that are a little bit more expensive.” Peanut butter and jelly are also good items for the summer, Please see DRIVE | 3A
Photos compliments of Tonya Miller Duffey
The 2012 Kossuth High School Senior Showcase presents the highly entertaining “A Night of Fame at the Aggie” during three performances at the Coliseum Civic Center in downtown Corinth. Directed by Joan Cooper, 60 talented KHS seniors are staging the production to be presented Saturday and Monday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Admission is $10 and tickets are available at the door. For addition information contact KHS at 662-286-3653. See additional photos on page 2A.
GUNTOWN — As a SWAT team closed in, a fugitive accused of killing a Tennessee mother and daughter before disappearing for nearly two weeks with her two other children killed himself Thursday evening, allowing authorities to safely recover the kidnapped girls, police said. Adam Mayes, 35, shot himself in the head Thursday evening after authorities, acting on a tip, found him and the girls near New Albany, Miss., said Guntown Police Chief Michael Hall. Mayes later Mayes was pronounced dead at a hospital, said Daniel McMullen, FBI special agent in charge of Mississippi, at a Thursday evening news conference. Alexandra Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were taken to a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., for observation, Hall said. They appeared to be unharmed, McMullen said. A special operations team from the Mississippi Highway Patrol and officers from the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks rescued the girls, McMullen said. Mayes had been charged with first-degree murder in the April 27 deaths of Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her daughter, Adrienne, 14. Their bodies were found buried outside Mayes’ home a week after they were reported missing by Jo Ann Bain’s husband. Mayes’ wife, Teresa, also is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths. She told investigators he killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain at their Whiteville, Tenn., home so he could abduct the two Please see MAYES | 3A
Battle of Corinth author visits center His new book was released this week BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The author of a comprehensive look at Corinth’s role in the Civil War, hailed as “a splendid blending of military and social history,” will visit the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center for a book signing on Saturday. An instructor at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Timothy B. Smith will be on hand from noon until 2 p.m. at the center at 501 West Linden Street. The new book, “Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation,” was released this week. Smith wanted to give a thorough examination of the role of Corinth, which is often overshadowed by events at Shiloh and other battlefields in the eyes of historians. “It is a fascinating account, and it goes into greater depth and detail than any previous book,” said Tom Parson, ranger at the interpretive center.
It covers the siege, the vicious attacks and counterattacks of the October battle and the subsequent occupation Smith of the town, drawing on hundreds of eyewitness accounts. Smith’s research brought him to Corinth, where he studied historical documents at the museum and delved into chancery court records and private collections. He also gained insight from locals, such as the late historian Margaret Greene Rogers. “He did quite a bit of time here,” said Parson. “He came out and walked the battlefields.” In the book’s preface, Smith laments the lack of proper attention given to the scope of Corinth’s role by anyone other than amateur and local historians prior to the late 1990s. “Inexplicably,” he writes, “little light has been cast on the
“It is a fascinating account, and it goes into greater depth and detail than any previous book.” Tom Parson Ranger, Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center siege; similarly, the occupation phases have produced few studies other than local investigations and journal articles.” Smith is also interested in “the civilians that both affected and were affected by the battles, the racial issues involved in the occupation, and the political overtones of military and social events.” “Smith’s new publication is the first of its kind in over a decade to highlight the importance of Corinth in 1862,” said Karen Jaggars, book store manager. The book is published by the University Press of Kansas.
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On this day in history 150 years ago The CSS Virginia (Merrimack) is scuttled in the James River by her crew. The capture of Norfolk yesterday deprives the vessel of a homeport. The ship draws too much water to navigate the river up to Richmond and has to be destroyed.