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Library system could close branches BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Northeast Regional Library will seek help from the counties it serves to oﬀset major reductions in state funding. Without some funding assistance locally in the upcoming fiscal year, Executive Director

Dee Hare said the libraries will not be able to maintain services. “We will have no alternative but to close some of the smaller branches and drastically reduce the operating hours at the remaining branches,” she said. “The crisis that we are in right now is unlike anything we have

ever experienced before.” The regional system includes Corinth, Rienzi, Iuka, Burnsville, Booneville, Walnut, Ripley, Tishomingo, Chalybeate, Baldwyn, Blue Mountain, Belmont and Marietta. The majority of the regional library’s operating budget

comes from the counties served. The cities where branches are located provide funds for the upkeep of the library facilities and grounds. “We are asking all of our counties for an extra 10 percent over what they have been giving,” said Hare.

The regional library was budgeted at $136,269 in the current Alcorn County budget. The request for fiscal 2018, which begins Oct. 1, will be $149,896. The current and requested budgets for neighboring counPlease see LIBRARY | 5A

Shirts celebrate Slugburger festival spirit Registration set for free legal clinic

BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

No Slugburger Festival is complete without a oﬃcial Tshirt. This year’s design is a throwback to the quintessential event’s rich 30 year history, according to Main Street Director Angela Avent. “It’s a simple and laid back design featuring the traditional slug while also recognizing the cornerstone events of the festival weekend – the eating contest, the Midway and the entertainment,” said Avent. “All shirts are royal blue in color with red outline font and art.” Shirts went on sale this week ahead of the July 13-15 festival. Sizes include youth extra small through adult 3XL. Prices are $10 for youth sizes and $15 for adult sizes. Shirts can be purchased at Borroum’s, The Alliance and FMBank. “We will also have shirts available at the festival, as always,” added Avent. The 30th annual festival will feature entertainment, a pageant, an eating contest, carnival rides and fresh slugburgers cooked onsite. The entertainment lineup includes the local Slug Voice Competition sponsored by Garrett Eye Clinic on Thursday night, Cary Hudson and George McConnell Duo and Mustache Band on Friday night while Tate Moore of

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Borroum’s employees Meaghan Chapman and Crystal Pratt show off the 30th Annual Slugburger Festival T-shirts now available for purchase at the old-fashioned soda fountain and drug store. Kudzu Kings and the 1-900 Band is slated to close out the festival on Saturday night. The World Slugburger Eating Championship will return on Saturday afternoon and feature several top ranked competition eaters.

The Miss Slugburger Festival Pageant will also return this year after several oﬀ years. Entertainment will be set up at the Corinth Depot Complex and C.A.R.E. Honor Garden, while the festival’s carnival

Midway will be set up across the train tracks from the depot. (For more information, search Slugburger Festival on Facebook, visit slugburgerfestival.com or contact Avent at 662-665-1600.)

Everyone needs a little advice from time to time. Qualifying residents of Alcorn County can get some free legal assistance through the Free Family Law Legal Clinic, and now is the time for those who wish to Free Family participate to Law Legal call for preClinic screening. The next clinic is • July 25, set for July 4-7 p.m., Al25 from 4 to 7 corn Chancery p.m. at the Al- Building corn Chancery • Call 286Building at 501 7700 for East Waldron. screening “We have added some services,” said attorney Phil Hinton, coordinator with the local bar association. “We are now doing some simple wills, limited power of attorney and health care power of attorney in addition to the things we have always done.” Those include child custody, child support, divorce, emancipation, guardianship for school attendance and medical insurance purposes, and name change. “A lot of it is directed toward children and people who are taking care of young children,” said Hinton. Please see CLINIC | 5A

Food bank helps those in need BY L.A. STORY lastory@dailycorinthian.com

Traﬃc was backed up into the turn lane on U.S. Highway 72 East Friday morning as people waited for their opportunity to turn into the Church of the Crossroads for monthly food distribution. The Mid-South Food Bank’s monthly distribution is the first Friday of every month and this month saw a large number of participants who arrived for boxes of food.

The Corinth Police Department came to help direct traﬃc and make sure the line moved in an orderly manner as it turned into the church, and snaked around the parking lot, as volunteers worked in the hot sun to provide assistance. Mid-South Food Bank is a Memphis-based food bank set up at the church to provide food to eligible, pre-screened families. Please see FOOD | 2A

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The line of cars snaked through the parking lot of the Church of the Crossroads and backed up all the way, several cars deep, in the turn lane of U.S. Highway 72 East as people waited for their turn to receive the monthly food distribution.

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The church has been distributing for the past six months. The MidSouth Food Bank has partnered up with Caterpillar and volunteer Donnie Waldrop said they found out this week that the food bank distribution will be able to continue for another 12 months. Friday, Waldrop said they were prepared to hand out 430 boxes of food. In June, the Food Bank provided 352 boxes to serve 901 people. Altogether, from February to June, the Food Bank has distributed 1,860 boxes of food to serve 4,873 people in the Crossroads area. In a previous interview, Mid-South Food Bank Marketing Manager Andrew Bell said, “The

program is very eﬀective in getting an additional weeks’ worth of food to people who receive benefits such as SNAP. Those food benefits run out in about 21/2 weeks so this food bank helps provide them with more food so they can use that extra money to pay the higher utility bills in the winter, for example.” Mid-South Food Bank distributes more than 13 million pounds of food to over 200 Partner Agencies annually. Board member and volunteer Danny Beavers said they were all very blessed with the help of Mid-South Food Bank and Caterpillar to be able to provide the service to help feed people. For those who would like to sign up for the Food Bank, they can come to the Church of the

Food pickup is done by appointments and is held the first Friday of every month, except for September, due to the Labor Day holiday, food pickup is the second Friday of that month. Crossroads on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m. to fill out a form. Food pickup is done by appointments and is held the first Friday of every month, except for September, due to the Labor Day holiday, food pickup is the second Friday of

Volunteers Gabby Burns and Danny Beavers enjoy a short break during distribution day of the Mid-South Food Bank. that month. Along with praise for Mid-South Food Bank and Caterpillar, volunteer David Bender said they couldn’t do what they do without the many volunteers who donate time

and eﬀort to make it all happen. He said there are people who pick up the food that will be given away, that stock shelves, unload food, pack boxes and a number of jobs that make the whole system

run smoothly. Volunteers will not have to worry about running out of things to do as the food bank will continue doing what it was meant to do — feed hungry people.

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THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SPONSORED THE TOM TIMMS MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT! Your support of the Tom Timms Memorial Fund is greatly appreciated. YOU have helped the fund provide scholarships to local students and provide our community with access to AED’s in needed areas. Magnolia Regional Health Center Northeast Mississippi Community College Air-Evac Magnolia Regional Health Center-EMS Medical Plaza State Farm Insurance Ferrell’s Home and Outdoors Kimberly Clark Garrett Eye Clinic Works Apartments Farm Bureau Pig Medics Gunn Drug Co. Coca-Cola Bottling Works Gatewood Remodeling Myra & Jackie, First Team Real Estate Taylor’s Escape Lindley Cleaning Solutions Lawn Doctor Home Care Medical Equipment Renasant Insurance Caraustar Crossroads Auto-Hole in One Sponsor Alcorn Eye Care, Inc. Long-Lewis Ford Corinth Banking Association Gardner’s & Rogers Supermarket Sherwin- Williams Langley Wealth Management Dental Arts of Corinth The Dinner Bell Quick Way Long Wholesale Dr. Joseph Johnsey Richard Russo Construction Long Branch Restaurant & Lounge Danny Beavers

American Mini Storage Southeast Medical Solutions Smith Restaurant Renasant Bank Putter’s Pools Servpro OfficePro Pratt Medical -Dr. Amy Davis Liberty National Shelter Insurance Smith & Assoc. Insurance Budweiser Dr. Tom Budny MS Care Center of Corinth Chad’s Pro Alignment Jerry C. Smith Essary Metal Works Gold Bond Pest Control Cooley & Labas Financial Tull Brothers Mark Lothenore Two Brothers Grillin Renasant Bank Advanced Auto Recreations Corinth Fire Department Dr. Stephen Blair DMD Jay Chappelle Corinth Elks Lodge Austin’s Shoes Timms Enterprises Walnut Fire Department Ronnie Smith & Family Sprintmart 72 W Waco Epperson Crossroads Medical Supply Bubba Carpenter David Odle

Air-Evac, EMS, and the Timms family thank you for making this event a success and the continued support of our local EMS and honoring Tom Timms.

Celebration designed to highlight and support the talented local businesses, artisans, farmers, and more that reside in the 731 area code. The event will enhance the local economy while also promoting sustainability by choosing local. If it’s grown, crafted, fashioned, or made in the 731 area code, it is welcome at 731 Fest! All local businesses who strive to make environmentally conscious choices are invited as well. There will be food trucks, live music, and professionals hosting DIY workshops for those interested. Sign up to learn how to do back yard composting, gardening, or repurposed pallet projects. Show the locals why choosing local is better! If you are interested in being a vendor, sponsor or attending a workshop please contact Kelsey Volner Davis at Kelsey.davis@ tn.gov or 731-610-9049, or Cindy Kennnedy at cindy.kennedy@ mcnairycountytn.com or 731-645-5909.

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Today in History Today is Sunday, July 9, the 190th day of 2017. There are 175 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

On this date In 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous “cross of gold” speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago. In 1918, 101 people were killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1945, architect Frank Lloyd Wright unveiled his design for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a spiral structure on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was completed in 1959. In 1951, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. (An official end to the state of war was declared in October 1951.) In 1962, pop artist Andy Warhol’s exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell’s soup cans opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 145 people aboard and eight people on the ground. In 1995, Jerry Garcia performed for the final time as frontman of the Grateful Dead during a concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field (Garcia died a month later).

Local girls go to World Dance Championships BY L.A. STORY lastory@dailycorinthian.com

Something special is happening for six Crossroads area girls — they will test their mettle soon in a championship competition for which they have been preparing for a very long time. An eight-member dance team from the Contemporary Arts Center received two special invitations — called “Golden Tickets” — to compete at the World Dance Championships in Secaucus, N.J., and will go there at the end of July. Clara Parker, Alaina Parker, Lauren Robbins, Alli Shinault, Kaylee Lawson, Hope Mercier, Gracie Weeden and Hanna Jeffcoat competed in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Murfreesboro, Tenn., during the regular dance competition season, which runs from February to April, and earned platinum scores. Those scores alone were high enough to earn them a place at the World Dance Championships, but one specific routine compelled judges to offer the girls two Golden Tickets to compete in New Jersey this year. Trika Smith, who is a co-owner of the Contemporary Arts Center with professional dancer and choreographer Volante Jones, said the girls have been competing together for years now. The piece that has earned the attention of judges, is called “Unsteady.” “It’s a contemporary piece. The costumes are very simple. The dance and choreography speaks for itself. It’s very moving,” said Smith. Smith said the piece was choreographed last August. “When I first heard the music, I felt that there would be a connection with the girls because of their ages and their struggles fitting into life right now. And, life can be unsteady ... that was a connection for them,” said Jones. Smith said when it was choreographed, the girls were allowed to develop their own backstory and they ultimately

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Eight dancers from the Contemporary Arts Center won two Golden Tickets, as well as high performance scores, during their their competition season. Dancers are Clara Parker (back row, from left), Alaina Parker, Lauren Robbins, Alli Shinault, Kaylee Lawson, Hope Mercier, Gracie Weeden (front row, from left) and Hanna Jeffcoat. Six of the eight girls will compete at the World Dance Championships in New Jersey.

“They have finally started dancing with their hearts and not just their arms and legs.” Volante Jones Choreographer came up with the fact that life can be rocky — and it’s unsteady — and it’s good to have people in your life to hang onto. “We took that and put it on stage,” said Jones, “and it obviously works. They deserve a chance to go and showcase all the work they’ve done this year.” Of the eight girls who perform the routine, six will go to the World Dance Championships. All were invited, but two girls decided that the timing of the championship competition would be too diﬃcult with the start of school looming near and other things taking priority. Of the six that are going, each girls’

family provided the funds for the girls’ expenses. The girls who are going range from home schooled, to county schools and city schools. Smith said the dancers had won Golden Tickets before in previous years, but did not make the choice to go because it’s another expenditure of expense and energy and they felt the girls were not ready then. Now, it’s diﬀerent. “They have brought into this piece ... what it means to them. The other pieces did not have the same chemistry as this one,” said Smith. Their choreographer saw the

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Kudos to supervisors for ‘ACSpay’ program The unending local problem of too many pets with no place to call home now may have a new flicker of hope. Or as in the words of Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter Director Charlotte Doehner, “This is the answer to our problems.” We certainly hope so. We speak of the new “ACSpay” program, which will provide low-cost spaying for female dogs owned by low-income families who may not be able to afford it at regular cost. The cost of $25 will include the procedure and a rabies vaccination. The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors gave its approval to the program on Wednesday. The pilot program launches Aug. 1 for Rienzi only. Supervisors hope the program will expand to the entire county. We applaud supervisors for supporting this effort and moving the program forward. Third District Supervisor Tim Mitchell is chairman for the program. The shelter remains at over-capacity. Shelter volunteers say there has been a “population explosion of dogs.” Several area veterinarians have agreed to participate. Danyel Smith is administrator for the program. Applications begin on Aug. 1, and the spays will start on Sept. 1. Qualifying residents will be asked to bathe the dog the night before, not feed her after midnight, and bring her to the shelter on Proper Street on the morning of the appointment. The shelter will transport the dog to the participating clinic for the procedure. The owner will then pick up the dog between 4 and 5 p.m. at the shelter. With a standard spay beginning at $120, the shelter believes a lot of interest in the program is anticipated. The shelter is budgeting for about 40 per month. Once the program gets established, the animal shelter hopes it can look at expanding to include neuters and cats. Doehner is excited about the program. We are as well. “I think it’s going to be great for the community,” Doehner told the Daily Corinthian. “We have seen and talked about a number of areas that have done this, and it has really solved their problem. It’s reduced the number of animals coming to the shelter, which is a cost to the taxpayer, and the number of animals being dropped off in other people’s property. This is going to have a significant impact.” We think so, too. Several fundraisers will be held this month to help support ACSpay. Donations to the program may be made online at cachs.com through the Paypal link. Specify the ACSpay program. The phone number to call to apply for the program will be published at a later date.

A place where civility once ruled PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vermont — When was the last time you heard a member of one political party praise a member of the other party? Here in this hamlet nestled among the Green Mountains, former Baltimore Democratic Mayor Kurt Schmoke rose to speak well of our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, a Republican. The occasion was the annual celebration of Coolidge’s birthday on July 4, the only president born on the day we celebrate America’s birth. Perhaps it takes the death of one and the absence from public oﬃce of another (Schmoke is now president of the University of Baltimore) to cool political passions, but the former mayor’s respect for Coolidge’s commitment to civil rights for African Americans and full voting rights for women long before both movements got moving was, itself, moving. Schmoke quoted from a commencement address Coolidge delivered on June 6, 1924 at Howard University, a historically black college founded in 1867. The previous year, 29 black

people were lynched in the U.S., according to Historical Statistics of the United In Cal States. Thomas 1924, there would be 16 Columnist more. Coolidge was vehemently opposed to inequality. He said, “The nation has need of all that can be contributed to it through the best eﬀorts of all its citizens. The colored people have repeatedly proved their devotion to the high ideals of our country. ... The propaganda of prejudice and hatred which sought to keep the colored men from supporting the national cause (WWI) completely failed. The black man showed himself the same kind of citizen, moved by the same kind of patriotism as the white man.” The Howard speech wasn’t a one-oﬀ. Coolidge made a similar pronouncement in his first State of the Union address on Dec. 6, 1923: “Numbered among our population are some 12

million colored people. Under our Constitution, their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights.” Coolidge lost every Southern state in the 1924 election, but won all the rest, save Wisconsin, taking 54 percent of the popular vote and 72 percent of the electoral vote. It would be 40 years before President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, signed civil rights legislation recognizing rights that Coolidge (and Thomas Jeﬀerson) believed were endowed to all human beings by their Creator, but Coolidge showed the way. In his autobiography, Coolidge wrote of an America that is mostly forgotten, but which cries out to be reclaimed: “The neighborhood around the Notch was made up of people of exemplary habits. Their speech was clean, and their lives were above reproach. They had no mortgages on their farms. If any debts were contracted they were promptly paid. Credit was good and there was money

in the savings bank.” He learned from his father what he called “the practical side of government.” He said he, “understood that it consisted of restraints which the people had imposed upon themselves in order to promote the common welfare.” About taxes he said he learned that when “taxes were laid, someone had to work to earn the money to pay them. I saw that a public debt was a burden on all the people in a community and while it was necessary to meet the needs of a disaster it cost much in interest and ought to be retired as soon as possible.” Doesn’t all of this -- from Schmoke’s kind words about a member of the opposite political party, to Coolidge’s innate decency and fairness toward all, seem like another country? It wasn’t. With notable exceptions, it was largely practiced — and expected — in an America not that long ago. Today’s America is in desperate need of rediscovering what Vermonters then saw as self-evident truths.

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Prayer For Today Lord God, I come to thee for help, that I may make more of my life. Steady me, that I may know its value without wavering, and the loss it sustains from wasted days. I pray that I may live more in thy commandments, and with my work accept the joy of thy love. Amen.

A Verse To Share But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:19-20

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Trump is winning immigration debate With his penchant for tweeted insults and GIFs, Donald Trump will never be mistaken for a master of the sweet art of persuasion. Yet he is clearly winning the public argument on the issue of immigration. He isn’t doing it through sustained, careful attention. No, it is the sheer fact of his November victory, and the data showing the importance of the issue of immigration to it, that has begun to shift the intellectual climate. It had been assumed, even by many Republicans like John McCain, that opposition to amnesty and higher levels of legal immigration would doom the GOP to minority status forevermore. Trump blew up this conventional wisdom. Now, intellectuals on the center-left are calling for Democrats to rethink the party’s orthodoxy on immigration, which has become more and more hostile to enforcement and to any skepticism about current high levels of immigration. The swing here was enormous. A Trump defeat in November after running on an exaggerated version of immigration restriction would have sent Republicans scurrying back to the

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comfortable, corporatefriendly cliches about so-called comprehensive immiRich gration reLowry form. And if Hillary ClinNational ton had won Review on a platform that doubled down on President Barack Obama’s executive amnesties, serious immigration enforcement would have lost its political legitimacy. In light of the election, Josh Barro of Business Insider, William Galston of the Brookings Institution, Peter Beinart of The Atlantic, Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Stanley Greenberg of Democracy Corps, among others, have urged Democrats to recalibrate. Many of these writers don’t merely note the perilous politics of the maximalist Democratic position on immigration or argue that policy should take account of the economic costs as well as the benefits of immigration. They also give credence to cultural concerns over mass immigration — concerns that much of the left considers poorly disguised hate.

In an act of heresy for the Davos set, Fareed Zakaria recommends that “the party should take a position on immigration that is less absolutist and recognizes both the cultural and economic costs of large-scale immigration.” This sentiment wouldn’t be so noteworthy if the Democratic Party hadn’t become so radicalized on immigration. Peter Beinart’s essay in The Atlantic is a trenchant reminder that as recently as 10 years ago, the left allowed much more room for dissent on immigration. Go back a little further, to the 1990s, and Bill Clinton was forthrightly denouncing illegal immigration, and liberal giant Barbara Jordan was heading a bipartisan commission that called for enhanced enforcement and reduced levels of legal immigration. In the interim, Democrats convinced themselves that liberality on immigration has only political upside, and that immigration is in eﬀect a civil-rights issue, and therefore nonnegotiable. Reversing field won’t be easy. The House just voted on Kate’s Law, named after Kate Steinle, the young woman killed in the sanctu-

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ary city of San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who had re-entered the country after getting deported five times. The bill merely strengthens the penalties on repeated illegal re-entry, yet only 24 Democrats could bring themselves to vote for it. The pull of the left’s cosmopolitanism is strong. In an attack on Peter Beinart, Dylan Matthews of Vox argues that the left’s egalitarianism can’t stop at the nation’s borders -- “it means a strong presumption in favor of open immigration.” So, it’d be a mistake to make too much of the recent spate of articles calling for Democrats to rethink this issue. If Democrats are ever going to shift on immigration, though, elite opinion has to change first, and at least there is now an opening. Few would have guessed that in the 1990s, conservative Republicans, so unreservedly in favor of tough sentencing, would be open to joining liberals on criminal-justice reform. Perhaps Democrats will eventually recalibrate on immigration. If so, the unlikely instrument of the sea change will have been none other than Donald J. Trump.

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Counseling service ribbon cutting The Alliance recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the grand opening of New Creations Counseling Services. Owner David Carpenter, MS, NCC, LPC, wife Tanya, and their two children, Lizzie and Maddie, cut the ribbon, assisted by Mayor Tommy Irwin, other city and county officials and host of friends and family. Also on hand to celebrate the opening were Chalet Kemp-Office Manager Kassandra Decker, LPC, and Alan DoddCFO. They are located at 307 E. Waldron St., Corinth, and phone is 662-212-3587.

Dejauna Foote joins U.S. Air Force Dejauna L Foote has joined the United States Air Force under the Delayed Entry Program. The program gives young men and women the opportunity to enlist and delay going into basic military training for up to one year while they complete their educations and prepare for military service. Qualified recruits are eligible to receive skills training, experience, ande-

ducation benefits. After completing basic military training and graduating as new “airmen,” theyeach receive specialized technical instruction in one of more than 140 career fields. She will report to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, for basic training this month. She is a 2017 graduate of Blue Mountain High School.

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ties are: • Tishomingo County: Current - $85,500; FY 2018 request - $94,050 • Prentiss County: Current - $93,000; FY 2018 request - $102,300 • Tippah County: Current - $126,500; FY 2018 request - $139,150 Dee said the system has taken “unprecedented cuts” in funding administered by the Mississippi Library Commission, particularly the Personnel Incentive Grant. At the end of the prior fiscal year, the regional library’s allotment for the current year was to be four quarterly payments of $50,705, but each payment has fallen short by progressively larger amounts. The fourth payment, due in September, has been reduced to $26,989. The regional library

expected to receive $202,820 for the year but will receive only $135,745, a cut of $67,075. The regional library has learned it will receive four payments of $26,989 in FY 2018, a reduction of $94,864. “And that’s if there are not any additional state budget reductions,” said Hare. “We simply cannot continue operating as we are with that kind of loss.” She said the regional library’s operating budget is already bare-bones. “In the last two months,” said Hare, “we’ve had to make more cuts in some areas, such as renegotiating some of our oﬃce equipment maintenance contracts, cutting each branch’s book orders, eliminating several national newspapers at the Corinth branch and dropping all digital magazine subscriptions.”

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Individuals receiving assistance must have income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline. The advice given helps the clients represent themselves in the legal matters. About 50 eligible clients received assistance in Alcorn County

Also under consideration is increasing the charge for photocopies, computer copies and overdue book fines. “Unfortunately, we are at the point where we just don’t have anywhere else to cut expenses except for salaries,” said Hare. The regional system has never before looked at branch closures, and Hare said it is not a decision that would be made lightly. Factors would include operating costs, the branch’s circulation numbers and how far a resident would have to drive to get to the next library. “We think that our public libraries oﬀer a tremendous amount of value to their communities, maybe even more so in our smallest communities to help people who don’t have anywhere else to find those kind of services,” said Hare. “It’s really heartbreaking to think of anybody losing their public library.”

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama student Patrick E Dixon of Corinth was named to the Dean’s List for Spring 2017. A total of 11,101 students enrolled during the 2017 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 (or above) or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A’s). The UA Dean’s and President’s lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate students or undergraduate students who take less than a full course load.

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Students earn MSU degrees Several students from Alcorn County recently earned degrees from Mississippi State University. Among those graduating from the university were: Adcock, Abby, College of Arts & Sciences, BA, Cum Laude; Austin, Aaron, College of Business, BBA, Cum Laude; Beck, William, College of Education, BS; Bowling, Anna, College of Business, BBA, Summa Cum Laude; Burns, Alison, College of Education, BS, Summa Cum Laude; Coleman, Blanton, College of Forest Resources, BS, Magna Cum Laude; Coleman, Lauren, College of Arts & Sciences, BS, Cum Laude; Demeo, Kate, College of Education, BS, Cum Laude; Frazier, Erin, College of Arch, Art & Design, BFA;

Gates, Uneko, College of Arts & Sciences, BS; Knight, Antario, College of Education, MS; Kramer, Bailee, College of Business, BBA, Magna Cum Laude; Loyd, Casey, College of Arts & Sciences, BS; Mills, David, College of Arts & Sciences, BS; Parker, Kayla, College of Ag. & Life Sciences, BS, Cum Laude; Rencher, Taylor, College of Business, BBA, Cum Laude; Rice, Trey, College of Education, MATS; Shawl, Daniel, College of Arts & Sciences, BA; Shipman, Whitney, Bagley

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Trump, allies seek counter to N.Korean ‘menace’ BY KEN THOMAS AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

HAMBURG, Germany — Wrapping up his second European tour, President Donald Trump searched for consensus with Asian allies Saturday on how to counter the “menace” of North Korea after its testlaunch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. “Something has to be done about it,” Trump said as he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a separate meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump said the two were tackling “the problem and menace of North Korea.” The White House said after the meeting with Abe that the U.S. was “prepared to use the

full range of capabilities” in defense of Japan. Trump and Abe committed, the White House said, “to redoubling their eﬀorts to bring all nations together to show North Korea that there are consequences for its threatening and unlawful actions.” The Trump administration has tried to press Beijing to rein in North Korea, a major trading partner of China, and halt Kim Jong Un’s development of nuclear weapons before they can threaten U.S. territory. Trump has voiced his frustration in recent days that China hasn’t done more, suggesting he may take steps of his own. But during his meeting, Trump told Xi, “I appreciate the things that you have done relative to the very substan-

tial problem that we all face in North Korea.” Xi said during the meeting that “sensitive issues remain” in the China-U.S. relationship and more work needed to be done. But he said he had built with Trump a “close contact.” Trump’s extensive slate of meetings with Abe, Xi, British Prime Minister Theresa May and others came on the final day of the annual Group of 20 summit, which has been marked by violent demonstrations by anti-globalization activists. Trump also had a brief, unscheduled meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the situation in Syria. Abe, speaking through a translator, noted that the secu-

rity situation in the Asia Pacific region has become “increasingly severe” due to North Korea’s push to develop its ballistic missile and nuclear program. Abe said he wanted to “demonstrate the robust partnership as well as the bonds” between Japan and the U.S. on the issue. North Korea’s successful test launch of an ICBM was a milestone in its long-term eﬀort to build a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead to attack the United States. The issue was a frequent topic of discussion at the summit, and the White House said earlier that the U.S., South Korea and Japan were pressing for additional measures against North Korea to demonstrate the “serious consequences” for

its latest provocations. The three nations have been calling for “early adoption” of a new U.N. Security Council resolution and additional sanctions to demonstrate to Pyongyang the consequences of its actions. Bringing China on board is a key part of the plan. The administration wants China to fully enforce international sanctions intended to starve Pyongyang of revenue for its nuclear and missile programs. But Trump has been dissatisfied with China’s response. Earlier in the week, he vented on Twitter that trade between China and North Korea had grown nearly 40 percent at the start of 2017. “So much for China working with us - but we had to give it a try!”

Medicaid cut in GOP World leaders stand up to Trump on climate health bill concerns the nursing home set BY DAVID MCHUGH AND GEIR MOULSON Associated Press

BY TERRY SPENCER Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Amy Bernard and her brother kept their mother out of a nursing home as long as they could, until Parkinson’s and dementia took their toll and she was seriously injured in a fall. Bernard is happy with her mother’s nursing home care, but it comes at a steep price: $7,000 per month, an amount that would be way beyond the older woman’s means if not for Medicaid, which picks up $3,000 of the tab. Which is why Bernard and many other Americans like her are watching the health care debate on Capitol Hill with trepidation. The Senate Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act would cut projected Medicaid spending over the next decade by 25 percent. Supporters of the bill say nursing home subsidies would not suﬀer significant cuts, but opponents say they are inevitable. The uncertainty is frustrating to those who rely on them. In the case of Bernard’s 83-year-old mother, retired teacher Franceen Golditch, the $4,000 that she receives each month from her pension and Social Security goes almost entirely to the nursing home.

“Without Medicaid supplementing, I don’t know what would happen,” said Bernard, a self-employed graphic artist in Boynton Beach, Florida. She added: “I have a house and kids to support myself. I honestly have no answer.” While the federalstate Medicaid program is most often associated with poor children and single mothers, almost two-thirds of its spending goes to the elderly and the disabled, even though they make up just 1 in 4 recipients. The reason: Well over half the nation’s 1.3 million senior citizens in nursing homes receive Medicaid. The burden is expected to balloon as the 74 million surviving baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — get older. They are 52 to 71 now. In part because of the Medicaid cuts, the GOP bill lacks the votes to pass in the Senate, which is expected to take up the measure again after Congress’ weeklong July Fourth recess. The bill would cut Medicaid’s projected budget over the next 10 years by a combined $772 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Oﬃce. That would decrease the amount projected to be spent federally on Medicaid during that time to about $4.2 trillion.

HAMBURG, Germany — World powers lined up against U.S. President Donald Trump on climate change, reaﬃrming their support for international eﬀorts to fight global warming. The Group of 20 summit that ended Saturday in Hamburg also revealed tensions on trade, as the U.S. administration and international partners forged a deal that endorsed open markets but acknowledged countries had a right to put up barriers to block unfair practices The summit’s final statement made clear that the other countries and the European Union unanimously supported the Paris climate agreement rejected by Trump. They called the deal to reduce greenhouse gases “irreversible” and vowed to implement it “swiftly” and without exception. The other countries, from European powers such as Germany to emerging ones such as China and energy producers such as Saudi Arabia,

merely “took note” of the U.S. position, which was boxed off in a separate paragraph that the summit host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, made clear applied only to the United States. She said the U.S. position was “regrettable” but that the summit had achieved “good results in some areas,” and cited a hard-won agreement on trade that included Trump and the United States but did not erase the differences over the issue. She said the talks had been at times “difficult.” Trump’s chief economic adviser played down tensions between the U.S. and other nations as the president headed home from his first G-20 summit. Gary Cohn told reporters aboard Air Force One that while communiques “are never easy,” he thought this one “came together pretty reasonably. He said having “a diversity of opinions in a group of 20” was not unexpected. “To get 20 of your friends to agree to have dinner tonight is pretty

hard,” Cohn said. Cohn added that while the U.S. obviously has chosen to get out of the Paris agreement, “we do go out of our way to say in there that that doesn’t mean we don’t support the environment and we’re still working for the environment.” On trade, the talks preserved the G-20’s condemnation of protectionism, a statement that has been a hallmark of the group’s eﬀorts to combat the global financial crisis and the aftereﬀects of the Great Recession. The group added new elements, however: an acknowledgment that trade must be “reciprocal and mutually advantageous” and that countries could use “legitimate trade defense instruments” if they are being taken advantage of. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there was “incredible consensus” on the issue and that the U.S. pushed to include the phrasing about “reciprocal” trade. The wording echoes concerns voiced by Trump, who has said trade must be fair as well

as open and must benefit American companies and workers. He has focused on trade relationships where other countries run large surpluses with the U.S., meaning they sell more to U.S. consumers than they buy from American companies. That’s in contrast to the approach favored by Merkel and the EU, who stress multilateral trade frameworks such as the World Trade Organization. More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain’s referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free-trade bloc. Yet pro-trade oﬃcials from the European Union pointed out that the language in the G-20 statement contains no departure from the current global system of regulation, which already allows countries to take defensive measures within the rules of the WTO. Those can include import taxes that oﬀset unfair practices such as government subsidies or below-cost pricing.

Election officials gather amid voter data uproar Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — State election oﬃcials gathering this weekend amid an uproar over a White House commission investigating allegations of voter fraud and heightened concern about Russian attempts to interfere in U.S. elections say a lack of information from federal

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intelligence oﬃcials about attempts to breach voting systems across the country is a major concern. Both Republicans and Democrats gathered in Indianapolis for a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State say they are frustrated because they have been largely kept in the dark by federal oﬃcials. “The chief election official in each state should be told if there are potential breaches of that state’s data or potential intrusions,” said Republican Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams. The Department of Homeland Security last fall said hackers believed to be

Russian agents targeted voter registration systems in more than 20 states. And a leaked National Security Agency document from May said Russian military intelligence had attempted to hack into voter registration software used in eight states. That backdrop has drawn an unusual spotlight to conference, which kicked-off Friday and is being attended by officials from 37 states. The FBI and Homeland Security were attempting to allay fears by holding a series of closed-door meetings Saturday on voting security with elections officials. “We need to make sure we’re doing everything

and anything possible in 2018. We need better cooperation from federal agencies,” said California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat. There is no indication so far that voting or ballot counting was aﬀected in the November election, but oﬃcials are concerned that the Russians may have gained knowledge that could help them disrupt future elections. The conference also lands one week after the commission investigating President Donald Trump’s allegations of election fraud requested voter information from all 50 states, drawing bipartisan blowback.

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Railroad’s liability in death to be decided SAVANNAH, Ga. — A movie director served jail time for trespassing onto a Georgia railroad bridge and putting his film crew in the path of a freight train that slammed into the group and killed a young camera assistant. Now the dead woman’s parents are going to court saying the railroad should share the blame, even though it denied the filmmakers permission to work on its tracks. Sarah Jones, 27, died on a trestle spanning the Altamaha River in rural Wayne County on Feb. 20, 2014. The train collision also injured six fellow crew members as filming began on “Midnight Rider,” a movie based on the life story of Allman Brothers Band singer Gregg Allman. The illfated production ended with the tragedy. More than three years

later, a Savannah judge has scheduled a civil trial to begin Monday in a wrongful death lawsuit by Jones’ parents against CSX Transportation. Barring a lastminute settlement, a jury will decide if the railroad, which operated the train and owned the bridge, should have taken precautions to avert the deadly crash. Richard and Elizabeth Jones are seeking monetary damages in the lawsuit, but have not specified an amount. Attorneys for Jacksonville, Florida-based CSX insist the collision wasn’t the company’s fault. Investigators found CSX had twice denied the “Midnight Rider” filmmakers’ requests for permission to shoot on its railroad trestle — each time in writing. Both the Wayne County sheriff and the National Transportation Safety Board determined the movie crew, which had placed a hospital bed across the tracks for a planned scene, was trespassing when the CSX train came upon the group at 58 mph with its horn and whistle blaring. The train hit Jones and ran over her.

Mistrial for officer shocks prosecutor TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma prosecutor said Saturday that he was shocked when a judge declared a mistrial in the case of a white former Tulsa police officer who fatally shot his daughter’s black boyfriend because jurors had deliberated for only a few hours. It was the third mistrial in nine months for former Tulsa police of-

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ficer Shannon Kepler, and all of the trials have been overseen by District Judge Sharon Holmes. Kepler doesn’t deny shooting 19-yearold Jeremey Lake, but claims he was acting in self-defense. Kepler testified that Lake was armed, although police didn’t find a weapon on Lake or at the scene. The shooting happened shortly after Lake had started dating Kepler’s then-18-year-old daughter, Lisa. Attorneys said jurors deliberated for just 2½ to three hours on Friday before saying they were deadlocked 6-6. Holmes reminded jurors that the trial had started June 27 and asked whether that changed their minds. When they said no, the judge declared a mistrial. “I have never experienced that procedure before in my life,” Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said, noting that judges often tell juries to continue deliberating to try to reach a unanimous verdict in such circumstances. “I was just hopeful that the court would have followed prior procedure and have the jury deliberate more,” Kunzweiler said. The judge had told the previous juries in the case to continue deliberating after jurors reported they were deadlocked. In one case, the judge waited until 2:30 a.m. before declaring a mistrial when jurors reported they could not break their deadlock. But defense attorney Richard O’Carroll said the procedure was not unusual and that the prosecution’s case — not the jury— was to blame for the mistrial.

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Atmos to buy town’s natural gas system JACKSON — Atmos Energy Corp. will buy a Mississippi town’s natural gas system. The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted Thursday to approve Atmos’ purchase from the Madison County town of Flora for $602,000. Rates and service will not change on the system, which has 1,300 customers in Madison and Hinds counties. Atmos and its predecessor have been leasing and operating Flora’s natural gas system since 1987, paying about $40,000 a year in lease fees. The town agreed to sell the system to Atmos in December.

Jail lawsuit costs counties $75,000 JACKSON — Four Mississippi counties will pay $75,000 in settling a lawsuit by two men who were jailed for months in Scott County without being indicted or getting court-appointed lawyers. Will Allen, a lawyer for the counties, said Scott, Leake, Neshoba and Newton counties will pay the money. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate approved the settlement last month, with the counties agreeing to appoint lawyers for poor defendants immediately after their arrest and to consider alternatives to money bail. Plaintiffs Josh Bassett and Octavious Burks will receive money as part of the settlement. The two sued in 2014. The American Civil Liberties Union and the MacArthur Justice Cen-

ter pursued the suit, alleging poor people are being unfairly jailed because they can’t afford bail. They also sought changes in appointing public defenders.

Ex-jailer, 47 others arrested in drug case JACKSON — An 18-month joint drug investigation has resulted in the arrests of 48 people including a former Lawrence County jailer. Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy said the suspects were picked up Thursday and Friday in raids in five southwest Mississippi counties. Dowdy said in a news release Friday that among the drugs agents encountered during the investigation were 423 dosages of hydrocodone, 107 dosages of oxycodone, 135 grams of methamphetamine, 19 grams of crack cocaine and eight grams of cocaine powder. He said arrest warrants were served on suspects in Lawrence, Lincoln, Walthall, Jefferson Davis, Pike and Copiah counties, though most face charges for selling drugs in Lawrence County.

2 special elections set for House seats HATTIESBURG — Nonpartisan special elections are set for two of the four vacancies in the Mississippi House. Three people are running July 25 in District 108 in Pearl River County to succeed Republican Mark Formby of Picayune. He’s now on the Workers Compensation Commission. Republican Toby Barker left the District 102 House seat, in Forrest

and Lamar counties, to be Hattiesburg mayor as an independent. Gov. Phil Bryant on Friday set July 24 as candidates’ qualifying date, Sept. 12 as the election and Oct. 3 as the runoff. Bryant will set elections to replace Democrat Tyrone Ellis of Starkville, who retired; and Republican Rep. Alex Monsour, who left to become a Vicksburg alderman. Ellis’ District 38 is in Clay, Lowndes and Oktibbeha. Monsour’s District 54 is in Issaquena, Warren and Yazoo counties.

Man pleads guilty to attempted murder PRATT, Kan. — A man suspected of killing and wounding people in Mississippi, New Mexico and Kansas in February has pleaded guilty to charges arising from the Kansas case. Alex Bridges Deaton, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, pleaded guilty Friday to attempted firstdegree murder and aggravated robbery stemming from the shooting of a convenience store clerk in Pratt in March. Two other charges were dropped. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 16. Deaton is charged in Rankin County, Mississippi, with first-degree murder, auto theft, and drive-by shooting. He’s accused of strangling his girlfriend, stealing her car, and shooting a jogger in February. He’s also suspected in the killing of a woman cleaning a church in Neshoba County, Mississippi. He also allegedly carjacked a couple in New Mexico before fleeing to Kansas and shooting the clerk.

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AFLAC NY 1.72 AK Steel NY ... AT&T Inc NY 1.96 AMD Nasd ... AlpAlerMLP NY 1.35 Ambev NY .06 Aon plc NY 1.44 Apple Inc Nasd 2.52 BP PLC NY 2.38 BcpSouth NY .50 BkofAm NY .48 B iPVxST rs NY ... Bemis NY 1.20 Caterpillar NY 3.12 Cemex NY .29 ChesEng NY ... Chevron NY 4.32 Cisco Nasd 1.16 Citigroup NY 1.28 CocaCola NY 1.48 Comcast s Nasd .63 Deere NY 2.40 Delcath rs Nasd ... Dover NY 1.76 DowChm NY 1.84 EnPro NY .88 NY .04 ENSCO ExxonMbl NY 3.08 FstHorizon NY .36 FordM NY .60 FrkUnv NY .47 FredsInc Nasd .24 FrontierCm Nasd .16 GenElec NY .96 iShBrazil NY 1.03 iShEMkts NY .84 iS Eafe NY 1.70 iShR2K NY 1.77 Intel Nasd 1.09 IBM NY 6.00 JPMorgCh NY 2.24 KimbClk NY 3.88

77.98 +.30 5.95 -.62 36.98 -.26 13.36 +.88 11.93 -.03 5.45 -.04 135.01+2.06 144.18 +.16 34.36 -.29 30.75 +.25 24.83 +.57 13.08 +.32 46.69 +.44 106.92 -.54 9.86 +.44 4.54 -.43 103.49 -.84 30.90 -.11 67.91+1.03 44.39 -.46 38.57 -.35 126.64+3.05 .14 -.05 83.17+2.95 63.89 +.82 73.98+2.61 4.77 -.39 80.22 -.51 17.51 +.09 11.26 +.07 7.07 -.08 6.83 -2.40 1.06 -.10 26.15 -.86 34.07 -.07 41.13 -.26 64.84 -.36 140.49 -.43 33.88 +.14 152.94 -.89 93.85+2.95 126.80 -2.31

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Kroger s NY .50 Lowes NY 1.64 MarathnO NY .20 McDnlds NY 3.76 MicronT Nasd ... Microsoft Nasd 1.56 NY Times NY .16 NiSource s NY .70 NorthropG NY 4.00 Nvidia Nasd .56 NY 3.16 ONEOK OrbitATK NY 1.28 Penney NY ... PepsiCo NY 3.22 Petrobras NY ... PwShs QQQNasd 1.52 ... PUVixST rs NY ProctGam NY 2.76 RegionsFn NY .36 RiteAid NY ... S&P500ETF NY 4.13 SpdrOGEx NY .73 SearsHldgs Nasd ... Sherwin NY 3.40 SouthnCo NY 2.32 SwstnEngy NY ... SP Engy NY 2.04 SPDR Fncl NY .46 Staples Nasd .48 Torchmark NY .60 US OilFd NY ... Vale SA NY .29 ValeantPh NY ... VanEGold NY .12 VanE JrGld NY ... WalMart NY 2.04 WeathfIntl NY ... Wendys Co Nasd .28 WestRck NY 1.60 Weyerhsr NY 1.24 WhitingPet NY ... Xerox rs NY ...

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AGRICULTURE FUTURES WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CORN 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Jul 17 Sep 17 Dec 17 Mar 18 May 18 Jul 18 Sep 18

386.75 397 409 418 422.50 427 418.75

373 382 394 403.25 408.50 411.25 408.25

382.25 392.50 404.75 413.75 418.25 422.75 414.50

+11.75 +11.50 +12.75 +12.50 +11.25 +10.25 +4.25

SOYBEANS 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Jul 17 Aug 17 Sep 17 Nov 17 Jan 18 Mar 18 May 18

997.50 1003.50 1008.75 1017.75 1025.25 1021.25 1022.75

949.50 955 958 963 967 969.25 976.25

553.50 574.50 592.25 604.75 609.75 609.50 605

514.50 530 552 563.50 571.25 569 577

Aug 17 Oct 17 Dec 17 Feb 18 Apr 18 Jun 18 Aug 18

117.20 115.82 116.40 116.82 115.50 109.07 107.72

112.42 111.70 112.42 113.27 112.50 106.15 105.17

114.77 113.82 114.60 115.30 114.47 108.20 106.57

-1.53 -1.38 -1.20 -.97 -.33 -.07 -.43

91.72 83.22 70.97 65.35 68.87 72.00 76.02

+1.10 -.53 +.52 +1.88 +2.00 +1.43 +1.52

75.29 69.75 68.59 68.38 68.74 69.11 67.31

-.02 -.61 ... +.81 +.64 +.40 +.25

HOGS-Lean 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

996 1001 1006.25 1015.50 1023.25 1018.75 1021.25

+53.75 +54 +55.75 +60.75 +60.75 +52 +48.50

WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Jul 17 Sep 17 Dec 17 Mar 18 May 18 Jul 18 Sep 18

WkHigh WkLow Settle WkChg CATTLE 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

Jul 17 Aug 17 Oct 17 Dec 17 Feb 18 Apr 18 May 18

92.57 85.37 72.25 65.67 68.90 72.00 76.02

90.05 82.20 69.82 63.27 66.77 70.45 74.55

COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

515.25 535 557.75 574.50 582.75 586 592

+4.25 +9 +12.75 +15.75 +15.50 +15.75 +14.75

Jul 17 Oct 17 Dec 17 Mar 18 May 18 Jul 18 Oct 18

75.22 70.53 68.92 68.43 68.78 69.15 ...

73.62 67.56 66.55 66.30 66.82 67.33 ...

Tables show seven most current contracts for each future. Grains traded on Chicago Board of Trade; livestock on Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and cotton on Intercontinental Exchange.

MUTUAL FUNDS Name

Total Assets Obj ($Mlns) NAV

Vanguard 500IdxAdmrl LB Vanguard TtlSMIdxAdmrl LB Vanguard InsIdxIns LB Vanguard TtlSMIdxInv LB Vanguard TtInSIdxInv FB Vanguard InsIdxInsPlus LB Vanguard TtlSMIdxIns LB Fidelity Contrafund LG Vanguard WlngtnAdmrl MA Vanguard TtInSIdxInsPlus FB American Funds GrfAmrcA m LG Vanguard TtBMIdxAdmrl CI American Funds IncAmrcA m AL American Funds CptlIncBldrA m IH Fidelity 500IndexPrm x LB Dodge & Cox Stk LV Dodge & Cox IntlStk FB American Funds InvCAmrcA m LB American Funds AmrcnBalA m MA Vanguard TtInSIdxAdmrl FB American Funds CptWldGrIncA m WS American Funds WAMtInvsA m LV PIMCO TtlRetIns CI American Funds FdmtlInvsA m LB Dodge & Cox Inc CI Vanguard InTrTEAdmrl MI Metropolitan West TtlRetBdI CI Vanguard PrmCpAdmrl LG Franklin Templeton IncA m CA DoubleLine TtlRetBdI CI Vanguard STInvmGrdAdmrl CS T. Rowe Price GrStk LG Vanguard InsTtlSMIInPls LB American Funds NwPrspctvA m WS Vanguard WlslyIncAdmrl CA PIMCO IncInstl MU Vanguard HCAdmrl SH Vanguard TtBMIdxIns CI Vanguard TrgtRtr2025Inv TG Vanguard WndsrIIAdmrl LV

205,334 170,070 132,229 116,115 106,254 96,676 95,458 81,886 81,168 80,564 79,909 76,965 75,612 71,003 67,576 65,360 61,541 60,537 59,295 58,090 54,126 53,908 53,297 50,223 49,585 49,375 47,959 46,664 46,586 44,457 40,615 40,257 39,844 39,158 38,371 38,360 37,665 36,483 35,372 34,142

224.06 60.62 221.09 60.60 16.59 221.11 60.63 114.62 70.72 111.00 47.32 10.73 22.50 61.08 84.85 192.99 43.62 38.85 26.15 27.75 48.84 42.39 10.18 59.00 13.73 14.11 10.62 125.24 2.32 10.66 10.66 63.74 54.41 41.30 63.45 12.34 89.15 10.73 17.59 66.48

Total Return/Rank Pct Min Init 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt -0.2 0.0 -0.2 0.0 -0.8 -0.2 0.0 -1.5 +0.2 -0.8 -1.2 -0.5 -0.7 -0.9 -0.2 +1.3 -0.5 -0.6 -0.9 -0.8 -0.3 -0.5 -0.5 -1.1 -0.2 -0.8 -0.5 +0.5 -0.9 -0.5 -0.2 -1.3 0.0 -1.0 -0.2 +0.3 +2.0 -0.5 -0.5 +1.4

+18.0/C +14.7/A +18.6/B +14.6/B +18.0/C +14.7/A +18.4/B +14.5/B +21.6/C +7.7/C +18.0/C +14.8/A +18.6/B +14.6/B +22.1/B +14.7/B +12.3/B +10.6/A +21.8/C +7.8/C +21.5/B +15.7/A -1.4/E +2.0/D +9.3/E +9.4/C +8.1/D +7.6/B +18.0/C +14.7/A +29.3/A +16.7/A +34.4/A +10.5/A +15.8/D +14.2/B +10.2/C +10.7/A +21.7/C +7.7/C +18.9/C +11.3/B +15.6/D +13.4/B +0.8/B +2.5/B +19.7/B +15.0/A +2.4/A +3.3/A -0.7/B +2.9/B -0.6/D +3.3/A +29.5/A +18.8/A +12.6/A +7.2/A +0.9/B +3.5/A +0.9/C +2.1/A +28.4/A +16.4/A +18.6/B +14.7/A +21.7/B +12.9/A +4.3/E +7.1/A +9.5 +8.1 +10.0/D +18.7/B -1.4/E +2.0/D +11.9/B +9.2/B +19.5/B +13.2/C

NL 10,000 NL 10,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 3,000 NL 3,000 NL200,000,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 2,500 NL 50,000 NL100,000,000 5.75 250 NL 10,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 10,000 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 10,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 1,000,000 5.75 250 NL 2,500 NL 50,000 NL 3,000,000 NL 50,000 4.25 1,000 NL 100,000 NL 50,000 NL 2,500 NL200,000,000 5.75 250 NL 50,000 NL 1,000,000 NL 50,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 1,000 NL 50,000

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, FB -Foreign Large Blend, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MI -Muni National Intermediate, TG -Target Date 2021-2025, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar. Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s net asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

SYDNEY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tesla announced on Friday it will build the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest lithium-ion battery in southern Australia, part of a bid to solve an energy crisis that has led to ongoing blackouts across the region. Tesla will partner with French renewable energy company Neoen to build the 100-megawatt battery farm in South Australia state, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk promising to deliver the system within 100 days of signing the contract or it will be free. The billionaire entrepreneur originally made the 100-day pledge via Twitter in March, and he and South Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government confirmed on Friday that the deadline was part of their oďŹ&#x192;cial agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The system will be three times more powerful than any system on earth,â&#x20AC;? Musk told reporters in the state capital, Adelaide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not like

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