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Local kindergarten students score well the STAR Early Literacy exam in the fall and spring of the 2016-17 school year. Alcorn students tested 525 on the fall test and 719 on the spring test with a score gain of 194. Corinth students tested 516 on the fall test and 718 on

BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Local kindergarten students tested above average in the latest results of statewide testing. Close to 245 Alcorn School District and 240 Corinth School District kindergarteners took

the spring and reported a score climb of 202. Both districts fall testing average score fell into the “Late Emergent Reader” category, while the spring average score noted students as “Transitional Reader.”

Students who scored between 675 and 774 on testing have mastered alphabet skills and letter-sound relationships. The students can identify many beginning and ending consonant sounds and long and short vowel sounds, and is probably able

to blend sounds and word parts to read simple words. The students are also likely using a variety of strategies to ﬁgure out words, such as pictures, story patterns and phonics. Please see TESTING | 2A

Donations necessary at shelter Church offers BY ZACK STEEN

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(This is the ﬁnal “State of the Shelter” story, the fourth installment of an in-depth series on the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter.) The Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter needs to raise an extra $90,000 per year to stay open. Volunteer Director Charlotte Doehner said the only way the local no kill, nonproﬁt shelter can get there is by way of fundraisers and donations from the community. “Many people don’t realize a lot of simple things can be done to help the shelter keep the doors open and help the animals we care for get adopted,” said Doehner. “Some folks are already doing certain things that helps the shelter.” Doehner’s example is Kroger’s Community Rewards program. “Those who already shop at Kroger and use their Kroger Plus card can select the shelter

in community rewards,” she said. “The program donates money to nonproﬁt organizations when enrolled supporters use their Kroger Plus cards.” That means individuals can earn money for the shelter every time they buy groceries or gas at Kroger. Making the selection adds no extra cost to the customer and has no eﬀect on discounts or fuel points. “We already receive a check from Kroger for $400 to $600 a month. The check is a direct result of the folks who have already selected us,” said

Doehner. To enroll, card members should visit krogercommunityrewards.com and search for “Corinth Alcorn Animal Shelter,” and click on the name to conﬁrm. Those who shop at Roger’s Supermarket can also help shelter animals. “They’ll give back 1 percent of any receipt’s subtotal,” said Doehner. Roger’s shoppers should place receipts in a envelope or bag and place the shelter’s name (Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter) on a piece of paper as well as their name. Individuals should then give these items to Roger’s staﬀ or mail them. A check will then be sent to the shelter with the donors name in the memo line. Online shoppers who use Amazon can also have .5 percent of each purchase donated to the shelter. “AmazonSmile is a great proPlease see SHELTER | 2A

Aldermen to consider 2 ordinance changes BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

A couple of proposed ordinance changes — one aﬀecting sewer connections and one concerning transient vendors — are set to come before the Corinth Board of Aldermen. The two ordinances are expected to be considered for adoption at the board’s next regular meeting on Sept. 5. The change regarding sewer connections would eliminate the 100-foot provision. As the ordinance is currently written, if a resident is more than 100 feet from the sewer line and has adequate acreage for individual sewer treatment, the city cannot require that person to connect. With the change, “If sewer is actually available in a reasonable distance, you will be required to hook on,” said

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TISHOMINGO COUNTY — Worship doesn’t have to be formal and it doesn’t have to be in a traditional church building. This is the idea behind a new type of worship experience Oakland Baptist Church is oﬀering. Oakland is hosting this new experience at 10:30 a.m. every Sunday at Tishomingo County High School. Bro. Dyer Harbor, OBC Associate Pastor and Campus Pastor at the TCHS location, said, “The bottom line is that we’re reaching out to folks who will not come to a traditional church setting for one reason or another. We want to provide a non-traditional church setting where they will feel loved and welcomed.”

Harbor said they oﬀer child care and “a very energetic” kid’s worship for ages K-4th grade with singing and teaching. “One kid was crying because he didn’t want to leave,” said Harbor with a chuckle. “That’s what we want to see.” Regular worship includes a live worship band. Everything is live up to the preaching — that is done via internet where they join in with the message Bro. Randy Bostick preaches on the main campus. Please see CHURCH | 2A

People of the Crossroads Skylar Mincey, Kossuth The late Bobby Caldwell is smiling down from heaven. A member of the Alcorn School District Board of Education for 36 years, he now has a granddaughter teaching in the district he loved so much. Skylar McCrimon Mincey is the new marketing instructor at the Alcorn Career and Technology Center. The 26-year-old 2009 Kossuth High School graduate has been married to Scott Mincey for almost two years and they have a 9-month-old son, Kohen. Skylar has a B.S. degree in business/ marketing from Ole Miss, which qualified her for the Mississippi Alternate Path to Qualified Teachers — a program she completed this past summer. She is a former advertising representative for the Daily Corinthian and the daughter of Mark and Tami Caldwell Taylor and Keith McCrimon. She is the granddaughter of Dimble Caldwell.

Public Works Director Clayton Mills. The city would take a look at residences on a case-by-case basis with cost to the homeowner being a factor, he said. The proposed transient vendor ordinance is in response to some concerns that have emerged about sellers coming into the city and setting up in a location such as a parking lot to do business for a limited period. It would tighten the restrictions on such sellers. The proposed ordinance would limit transient vendors, which are deﬁned as those not having a permanent business location in the city, to operating in I-2 (industrial) zones during the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Tents would be limited

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Mississippi universities seeking bonds after 2017 brought none Associated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi’s eight public universities thought they had a deal with lawmakers for predictable bond funding each year. But the Legislature didn’t do any general borrowing earlier this year. Now, as the universities make their yearly bond request, they’re emphasizing the importance of a yearly money infusion to campus operations. Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce called on trustees, university presidents

and their supporters to press lawmakers to avoid this year’s outcome as the College Board on Thursday voted to forward university requests for 2018 bond money to the Legislature. Not only did lawmakers not borrow, they cut maintenance money from regular appropriations as part of broader budget cuts. “We absolutely are going to need everybody’s advocacy and support to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Boyce said.

After lawmakers failed to pass a bond bill in 2012, they made a threeyear agreement with College Board leaders, promising to borrow a set amount of money each year for universities. That arrangement was supposed to continue over the current fouryear legislative term, but it broke down last spring. That’s because the yearly bond bill was killed during a dispute over transportation funding between House Speaker Philip Gunn and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.

for a Sept. 30 commemorative living history event for the Battle of Corinth anniversary. The closures will be on Linden between Fulton Drive and Wenasoga Road and on Fulton Drive between Linden and Waldron between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. A person will man each barricade in order

to allow police, ambulance and fire vehicles through. The event will “be something similar to what we had at Shiloh for the anniversary, and we had 7,000 people to attend that,” said Shiloh National Military Park Superintendent Dale Wilkerson. “We’re planning for 4,000 to 5,000.”

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to 400 square feet, and auto sellers would be limited to no more than 20 vehicles on the premises. In other business before the city this past week, the board gave approval for road closures around the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center

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A lot of thought, research and footwork went into the decision as to how they would format their services and where they would locate their second campus for this outreach, Harbor said. He said back in the middle of spring, OBC members went in groups to visit some other churches who are hosting services at non-traditional locations. “We put a lot of legwork into it just trying to learn what works and help our folks get a vision of what we wanted,” said the pastor. When it came down to choosing a site for their second location, they really liked the TCHS facilities and went through all the channels with the school board to lease the facility on Sunday morn-

ings. The pastor explained that the school can lease to anyone such as wild game suppers, Boy Scouts or in this case, a church. After four practice runs (soft launches), and no idea how many would come, OBC held its inaugural service at the TCHS campus last Sunday with a little over 300 in attendance, with about a 100 of those being regular OBC members. “We were really tickled. I’m sure there were some folks who just came to see what it was about, but we had a lot of comments that people felt welcome and we were grateful for those kind of comments,” said Harbor. The pastor stressed that the surrounding communities have great churches and their goal is not to take anything away from those congregations.

“We want to try to reach those folks who are just not coming to a traditional church but might join in with a relaxed, non-traditional location. I know of one that meets in a zoo in Cincinnati,” said Harbor. He said when he arrived in the Crossroads area in 1998, there were two of these types of multi-sites in the U.S. and now there are 4,000. Of that number, there are 8 million who attend those sites. “This is how we’re looking at it at Oakland — it’s one church with two locations,” he said.

cans at the animal shelter.” About 33 cans feeds a large dog for one day, said Doehner. She said collecting cans is a easy way for local businesses and organizations to help the shelter right from their workplace. The shelter has also received donations from beneficiary requests. “People contact us all the time wanting to donate retirement assets from a 401(k) or other pension plan and stocks or appreciated assets,” she said. “We have also received bequests where people can leave all or part of their estate to the shelter.” A new website recently launched by the shelter offers links to other ways to help including through their Amazon Wish List, where people can purchase from a list of needed items and have the items shipped directly to the shelter. “The website has been completely revamped and giving to the shelter has never been easier,” she added. “Folks can click the donate button, select

the amount they would like to give, tell us where to spend their money from a dropdown of options and even dedicate the donation in memory or in honor of someone.” A option allows supporters to automatically select recurring payments on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. “Our work would not be possible without our generous community supporters being able to select one of the many easy ways to help us stay open,” said Doehner. “Donations go to work instantly to help feed and heal hundreds of animals at the shelter. “Whether you are a longtime supporter or you are donating for the first time, we are so blessed to have people in the community who help us carry on such a worthy mission,” she added.

(For more information about Oakland at TCHS — check out their Facebook page at Oakland at Tishomingo County High or follow them on Twitter @oaklandatTCHS.)

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gram, but not one that a lot of people are using to help us,” said Doehner. “It’s a simple and automatic way for you to support the shelter every time you shop, at no cost to you.” Current or new account members can signup for AmazonSmile at smile. amazon.com. Doehner said the shelter collects funds from recycled aluminum cans each month. “Every time you throw away an empty aluminum can, you could be helping save an animal’s life,” she said. “Cans for Pets is an opportunity to turn trash into funds for the shelter. The program allows the community to drop off their empty aluminum

(The shelter is located at 3825 Proper Street in Corinth. Their mailing address is 1407A Harper Road, Corinth, MS. 38834. Contact the shelter online at corinthalcornanimalshelter.com or at 662-284-5800.)

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“Corinth School District teachers and students are to be commended for their work and performance during the 2016-17 school year,” said Superintendent Lee Childress. Alcorn Testing Director Tammy Johnson echoed Childress. “We appreciate the dedication from our faculty and support of our parents,” said Johnson. Of the close to 37,000 statewide kindergarteners, the state average score for the fall test was 502. The average score climbed to 710 on the spring test. The score gain is greater than last year, which grew from 502 in the fall to 703 in the spring. “Kindergarten teachers are continuing to do a great job helping students build the foundational literacy skills they need to be successful throughout their education,” said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education. “Reading instruction must remain a major focus through the 3rd grade so that all children complete elementary school with strong reading skills.” The STAR Early Literacy exam evaluates skills such as the ability to recognize letters and match letters to their sounds and a student’s recognition that print flows from left to right. The exam pro-

duces reports for parents and teachers that detail each child’s early reading skills. Teacher reports also include diagnostic information and instructional plans for every student. Pre-K students in the state’s Early Learning Collaboratives (ELCs) and other public pre-K classes for four-year-olds also made steady gains on the STAR Early Literacy exam. The average score among students in ELCs was 585, which exceeded the pre-K end-of-year target score of 498. The average score among four-year-olds in other public pre-K classrooms was 549. Local individual school scores included: • Alcorn Central Elementary School Fall average: 526, spring average: 719, score gain: 193, test takers: 99 • Biggersville Elementary School (State provides BES funding and support for literacy coach staff members.) Fall average: 544, spring average: 696, score gain: 202, test takers: 36 • Corinth Elementary School Fall average: 516, spring average: 718, score gain: 202, test takers: 240 • Kossuth Elementary School Fall average: 518, spring average: 726, score gain: 208, test takers: 109

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Today in History Today is Sunday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2017. There are 133 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History On August 20, 1977, the United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch, goldplated copper phonograph record containing images, greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. (The probe is now more than 10 billion miles away from earth; a more precise, continually updated figure can be found online at https://www.jpl. nasa.gov/voyager/mission/status/.)

On this date In 1866, more than a year after the end of fighting in the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson issued Proclamation 157, which declared that “peace, order, tranquillity, and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America.” In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force before the House of Commons, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Local/Region Across the Region

Booneville Man charged with ramming ATV BOONEVILLE — A Booneville man is accused of ramming an ATV with a truck while confronting alleged trespassers. Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar said Kevin Michael, 47, of Booneville was charged with two counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly pursued two individuals on side by side ATV he claimed were trespassing on property he claimed to be leasing. Michael allegedly rammed the ATV with his truck, causing it to overturn. Both men were transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville and treated for minor injuries. Tolar noted one of the victims and the suspect are brothers. Bond for Michael was set at $25,000 on each count. Bond was revoked for him on a previous indictment for possession of a controlled substance enhanced by possession of a firearm. In a separate, unrelated case, Teddy Kirk Windham, 42, and Haley Nichole Patten, 29, both of Booneville, were arrested during a traffic stop on County Road 8301 on Aug. 8, said Tolar. Deputy Taylor Walker made the stop and discovered approximately 22 grams of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of approximately $2,000. Windham and Patten were each charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, transfer or distribute. Patten was also charged with possession of

drug paraphernalia and two misdemeanor traffic violations. Bond was set at $5,000 on the felony and $3,500 on the misdemeanors. Windham was also charged with providing false identification to a law enforcement officer, possession of drug paraphernalia and an unrelated city warrant. Bond was set at $5,000 on the felony, $2,000 on the misdemeanors and $697 cash on the warrant. Narcotics investigator Joey Clark is in charge of the case and will present it to the next grand jury. In a separate, unrelated case, Joshua Stowers, 34, of Baldwyn, was charged with burglary of a commercial building in connection with the burglary of Highway 45 Trailer Sales. Investigator Roy Ragin used evidence collected at the scene to lead him to potential suspects in the case. The investigation remains open, said Tolar, and more arrests are expected. Items reported stolen in the burglary include 1/2 inch and 3/8 inch drive Matco impact wrenches with charges, 1/2 inch and 3/8 inch Matco deep well socket sets, a Husquavarna 20 inch chainsaw, a Stihl trimmer, vehicle testing and diagnostic equipment, a Matco 1/2 inch drive 20 inch ractchet with a swivel head and miscellaneous Snap-On toools. Anyone with information about the stolen property or those involved in the case should call Ragin at 728-2002 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi at 1-800-773-TIPS (8477).

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Coca-Cola. I think we can all agree that’s a pretty good brand name, right? Ever think about why? It’s not just the billions of ad bucks behind it. It’s all the “k” sounds — three of them in quick, cute, clever secession — not to mention two soft a’s. In other words, Coca-Cola is a name bubbling over with literary devices — alliteration and rhyme. The two devices a lot of people find tacky today. “There’s a lot of stigma attached to alliteration,” an ad executive once told me. It’s considered too cheesy to be Lenore proud of. yes. What advertisSkenazy ingOh, copywriter could possibly Columnist be proud of Tony the Tiger? Hamburger Helper? Wonder Woman? Or that silly little chain Jamba Juice, started by some guys who came from Dunkin’ Donuts, which itself competes with Krispy Kreme? The fact is that alliteration is an amazing memory aid, possibly the oldest on earth. “Beowulf” was written alliteratively about 1,000 years ago — “Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings” — before poetry even rhymed. And now comes new evidence of just how powerful alliteration is. “Our cognitive system is sensitive to overlapping sounds,” said R. Brooke Lea, a psychology professor at Macalester College, where he studies, among other things, how the mind retrieves words and ideas. He and his colleagues came up with a way to study that “sound sensitivity.” They buried a simple word — “barn” — in a free-verse poem. Several lines later, the experiment participants were asked whether “barn” was part of the poem. What happened, according to Lea, is that one sound reminded them of another and brought the whole thought right back. In other words, a simple, familiar sound worked recall magic. The job of advertising is to make us recall something with the least possible effort: “I’m hungry. Where should I go? McDonald’s? I’m lovin’ it! With a Coke maybe? Open happiness!” Those slogans have won through sheer repetition, not inherent memorability. That’s because alliteration, with all its recall power, has fallen out of favor. People still tend to associate alliteration with childish things, maybe because of all those nursery rhymes — “Wee Willie Winkie,” “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,” etc. But the fact that those ditties have lasted centuries does not prove alliteration is for kids. It only proves how universal and catchy it is — and how long it stays in the brain. (Quick, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?) We’re surrounded by an entirely new media landscape, from Snapchat to Facebook to Slack. But maybe all we really need is a good old-fashioned super-simple slogan, awesome in its allegiance to alliteration. And don’t forget to add in rhymes, because that almost-as-ancient device works the same way alliteration does, making a name or slogan easier to remember. “It takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’,” for example. Lea says there’s even more concrete evidence of rhyme’s power. Students given a list of unfamiliar aphorisms that rhymed (”Woes unite foes”) rated them far more “true” than students given sayings that didn’t rhyme (”Troubles unite foes”). That’s because rhymes go down easy, said the professor. “And stuff that’s easy to process, you think is right.” This could even be why people teach their kids “stranger danger,” even though the vast majority of crimes against kids are committed by people they know. So remember: Should you seek to sell, alliterate like crazy. And rhyme. Lenore Skenazy is author of the book and blog “Free-Range Kids” and a hilarious keynote speaker at conferences, companies and schools. Run out and get her book “Has the World Gone Skenazy?”

Prayer For Today My Lord, I would remember to ask thee this morning for that of which I seem to have most need. May I have the will to keep my patience and realize the untold power of my words and actions. Give me thy peace, not only to rest in, but that I may have it to give to others. Amen.

A Verse To Share To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. — Revelation 3:21

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The Breitbart presidency

If Van Jones was right that a moving tribute to the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL in a speech to Congress earlier this year was the moment Donald Trump became president, Trump’s news conference on Tuesday was the moment he became a Breitbart contributing editor. Charlottesville has been a diminishing event for President Trump. He has been unable to summon the moral authority of his office, even though this wasn’t a difficult test. It doesn’t take political skill or crisis-management ability to show largeness of heart. Future historians will marvel that one of the most damaging events in the early Trump administration came in a botched response to a neo-Nazi rally. Even Jake and Elwood Blues could have gotten this right. Over the past few days, Trump hasn’t spoken as the leader of the country, or even leader of one party, but as a leader of an inflamed faction. This is why it was almost unthinkable that he would give a unifying talk, as any other president would, at the funeral of Heather Heyer, the young

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campaign when sundry haters, trolls and bots provided air cover. So he wants to do the minimum necessary to distance himself from it and the maximum possible to associate himself with it. This would explain his shockingly conflicted reaction to Charlottesville. Some of his sentiments -including the contention that there were “fine people” protesting alongside the Nazis -- would be outrageous enough if uttered by the proverbial blogger rather than a man standing in front of a lectern affixed with the presidential seal of the United States. Trump’s news conference was a tour de force of “whataboutism,” one of the most important rhetorical tools of the pro-Trump internet. The “alt-right” marched on Charlottesville? Well, what about the “alt-left”? Robert E. Lee’s statue is coming down? Well, what about George Washington? It’s not that these aren’t legitimate points. They are. But they were used, as whataboutism so often is, as cover for Trump’s failings and to obscure rather than sharpen distinctions. Charlottesville highlights

how the problem with Trump is not the crudity of his expression. This, at times, can be part of his charm and makes him a distinctively powerful communicator. It’s the crudity of thought and feeling. These qualities can’t be dismissed in an office whose occupant is supposed to represent the nation. The media coverage of Trump has been consistently catastrophist since January. Whenever there is an outrage, pundits talk as though it’s the end of his presidency. This is too dire. So long as Trump has the right enemies, namely the mainstream media and PC culture, there is a floor to his political support. But he is slip-sliding toward a crisis of legitimacy. This is the significance of the dissolution of his business councils. It’s not unthinkable, should this trajectory continue, that a time could come when some Republican officeholders refuse to visit the White House. If they wouldn’t feel comfortable at the Breitbart editorial offices, why would they want to show up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

America’s second Civil War

“They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee — and what a leader! ... No military leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among troops as did Lee when he reviewed them on his horse Traveller.” So wrote Samuel Eliot Morison in his magisterial “The Oxford History of the American People” in 1965. First in his class at West Point, hero of the Mexican War, Lee was the man to whom President Lincoln turned to lead his army. But when Virginia seceded, Lee would not lift up his sword against his own people, and chose to defend his home state rather than wage war upon her. This veneration of Lee, wrote Richard Weaver, “appears in the saying attributed to a Confederate soldier, ‘The rest of us may have ... descended from monkeys, but it took a God to make Marse Robert.’” Growing up after World War II, this was accepted history. Yet, on the militant left today, the name Lee evokes raw hatred and howls of “racist and traitor.” A clamor has arisen to have all statues of him and all Confederate soldiers and statesmen pulled down from their pedestals and put in museums or tossed onto trash piles. What has changed since 1965? It is not history. There have been no great new discoveries about Lee. What has changed is America herself. She is not

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woman slain in the vehicular attack by an “altright” protester. Trump’s Rich sensibility is Lowry highly unusual for a National Review politician -let alone for the leader of the free world -- but very familiar from the internet or social media. As his Trump Tower news conference in the wake of Charlottesville showed, his level of argument is at the level of a good Breitbart blogger. He would absolutely kill it in the comments section of a rightwing website or trolling a journalist. Moreover, it appears that he’s happy for his presidency — to paraphrase former adviser Steve Bannon’s notorious description of Breitbart — to be a platform for the “alt-right” and in exactly the same sense. Trump doesn’t want his administration actually to be “alt-right.” But he is keenly aware of the political energy in the fever swamp. He learned this during his time as a birther and during a

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the same country. We have passed through a great social, cultural and moral revoluPatrick tion that has Buchanan left us irretrievably diColumnist vided on separate shores. And the politicians are in panic. Two years ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe called the giant statues of Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson on Richmond’s Monument Avenue “parts of our heritage.” After Charlottesville, New York-born-and-bred McAuliffe, entertaining higher ambitions, went full scalawag, demanding the statues be pulled down as “flashpoints for hatred, division, and violence.” Who hates the statues, Terry? Who’s going to cause the violence? Answer: The Democratic left whom Terry must now appease. In Durham, North Carolina, our Taliban smashed the statue of a Confederate soldier. Near the entrance of Duke University Chapel, a statue of Lee has been defaced, the nose broken off. Wednesday at dawn, Baltimore carried out a cultural cleansing by taking down statues of Lee and Maryland Chief Justice Roger Taney who wrote the Dred Scott decision and opposed Lincoln’s suspension of the right of habeas corpus. For there are 10 Confederates in Statuary Hall in

the Capitol, among them Lee, Georgia’s Alexander Stephens, vice president to Jefferson Davis, and Davis himself. The Black Caucus wants them gone. Mount Rushmore-sized carvings of Lee, Jackson and Davis are on Stone Mountain, Georgia. Are they to be blasted off? There are countless universities, colleges and high schools like Washington & Lee named for Confederate statesmen and soldiers. Across the Potomac from D.C. are Jefferson Davis Highway and Leesburg Pike to Leesburg itself, 25 miles north. Are all highways, streets, towns and counties named for Confederates to be renamed? What about Fort Bragg? On every Civil War battlefield, there are monuments to the Southern fallen. Gettysburg has hundreds of memorials, statues and markers. But if, as the left insists we accept, the Confederates were traitors trying to tear America apart to preserve an evil system, upon what ground do Democrats stand to resist the radical left’s demands? What do we do with those battlefields where Confederates were victorious: Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville? “Where does this all end?” President Trump asked. It doesn’t. Not until America’s histories and biographies are burned and new texts written to Nazify Lee, Jackson, Davis and all the rest, will a newly in-

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doctrinated generation of Americans accede to this demand to tear down and destroy what their fathers cherished. And once all the Confederates are gone, one must begin with the explorers, and then the slave owners like Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Madison, who seceded from slavefree Britain. White supremacists all. Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun must swiftly follow. Then there are all those segregationists. From 1865 to 1965, virtually all of the great Southern senators were white supremacists. In the first half of the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson and FDR carried all 11 states of a rigidly segregationist South all six times they ran, and FDR rewarded Dixie by putting a Klansman on the Supreme Court. While easy for Republicans to wash their hands of such odious elements as Nazis in Charlottesville, will they take up the defense of the monuments and statues that have defined our history, or capitulate to the icon-smashers? In this Second American Civil War, whose side are you on? Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of a new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”

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Several employees from the Caterpillar facilities in Mississippi recently spent time at one of the United Way supported agencies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Boys & Girls Club in Corinth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to help prepare the building for the return of students. The team repainted the gym, reorganized fitness equipment and repaired various items. Caterpillar also donated the materials necessary to make these and future improvements. Caterpillar employee Keith Hardwick joined co-workers in the volunteer effort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a privilege to participate in a Caterpillar community service event supporting the United Way partnership with the Boys & Girls Club in Corinth,â&#x20AC;? said Hardwick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The club offers a positive place for a young person to go that promotes development, learning and having fun with others, knowing that someone cares. I grew up participating in a very similar youth center on a military base, and I recognize that it makes a difference.â&#x20AC;? Information from Caterpillar explained the products and customer solutions they deliver every day help build a better world. At the same time, their employees work to build better communities by donating their time and resources to improve the health and welfare of others. Since the 1950s, Caterpillar employees join together annually to support local United Way chapters and their partner agencies across the United States. These contributions are also matched by the Caterpillar Foundation. Caterpillar has supported United Way for more than 60 years because their mission and

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Mayor calls for removal of Lee statue Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The mayor of Charlottesville on Friday called for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to confirm the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a request that was swiftly rejected by the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governor. Mayor Mike Signer said recent clashes over race and the Confederacy had turned â&#x20AC;&#x153;equestrian statues into lightning rodsâ&#x20AC;? and urged Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe to convene a special session of the General Assembly. Signerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement came nearly a week after white supremacists descended on the city and violently clashed with counter protesters. One woman was killed Saturday when a car plowed into a crowd of people there to condemn what is believed to be the largest gathering of white supremacists in a decade. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can, and we must, respond by denying the Nazis and the KKK and the so-called alt-right the twisted totem they seek,â&#x20AC;? Signer said in a statement. Charlottesvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to remove the statue are in the midst of a legal challenge. A law passed in 1998 forbids local governments from removing or damaging war monuments, but there remains legal ambiguity about whether that applies to statues erected before the law was passed. McAuliffe spokesman Brian Coy said the governor wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call a special session while the issue is being decided in court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The governor hopes the court will rule in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor soon and encourages Mayor Signer to focus on that important

litigation rather than a redundant emergency session,â&#x20AC;? Coy said. McAuliffe did sign an executive order Friday afternoon temporarily banning any public demonstrations at a monument in Richmond. Unlike the Charlottesville statue that sits in a city park, the Richmond monument to Lee is in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue, an iconic boulevard with heavy traffic. Also Friday, the mother of a woman who was killed while protesting the rally said that she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk to President Donald Trump because of comments he made after her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. Speaking on ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Morning Ameri-

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McNairy County native Ken Beene, FNP, has opened a medical clinic in Eastview, Tenn.

McNairy native opens clinic (The following story was compiled by Independent Appeal Assistant Editor Steve Beavers. It is being reprinted with permission.) EASTVIEW, Tenn. — Ken Beene knows McNairy County. The family nurse practitioner understands the place he was reared and is committed to helping sick people get well. “I have lived in several different places, but McNairy County is home,” said Beene, a 1984 McNairy Central High School graduate. Beene opened Eastview Medical Clinic in July. The clinic is located where The Tanning Zone once called home. “I want to work here until I retire,” said the Bethel Springs native. “I intend to be here for a long time and I want my staff to be here with me.” Eastview Mayor Jesse Robbins has wanted a clinic in the town for a while. “This is going to be good for the community,” said Robbins. “Ken is a good fellow and he will do a good job.” The clinic staff consists of Licensed Practi-

cal Nurses, Vicky Crowe and Sally Leonhard and Medical Assistant/Office Manager Michelle Risner. “I have known Ken most of my life,” said Crowe. “He is good at what he does.” Beene’s goal is to provide the community with a local place for basic healthcare. “This part of the county needs a clinic,” he said. Beene – who obtained his Associate Degree in Nursing at Union University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Memphis — was drawn to Eastview due to its recent growth. “Eastview is a growing place and great location,” he said. The clinic has three patient rooms and a triage area. “You never know what is going to walk through the doors,” said Beene. “We are prepared to see all ages from two and up.” Seeing patients in a timely manner is the intention of the clinic staff. “Folks who are sick do not want to sit for an hour to see someone,” said Beene, who is hus-

band to Lori and father to Austin and Elizabeth. “We want to get patients in and send them home so they can rest.” Eastview Medical Clinic offers primary care, sports physicals, testosterone replacement therapy and is able to do lab work. The clinic also takes private pay patients and walk-ins. “The first few weeks have been awesome,” said Risner. “I can’t wait to see what the rest of it is going to be like.” Been credits longtime McNairy County physician Dr. Jim Smith for his help in getting the clinic off the ground. “Dr. Jim has been a great help in assisting us with a lot of equipment,” said Beene. “We might have to extend those hours during flu season,” said Beene. “Right now, we are moved in and ready to do our thing.” (Eastview Medical Clinic is open MondayThursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. The clinic is located at 7430 Highway 45 South in Eastview.)

GOP anxieties about Trump burst into open Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans’ deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and grievances about a sitting president by his own party. Behind the high-profile denunciations voiced this week by GOP senators once considered Trump allies, scores of other, influential Repub-

licans began to express grave concerns about the state of the Trump presidency. In interviews with Associated Press reporters across nine states, 25 Republican politicians, party officials, advisers and donors expressed worries about whether Trump has the self-discipline and capability to govern successfully. Eric Cantor, the former House majority leader from Virginia, said Republicans signaled this week that Trump’s handling of the Charlottesville protests

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Son, Brother, Husband, Father, Uncle, Pops and a Good Friend. “A rambling wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva engineer.” Frederick Page Bauer, 84, died at his home in the presence of his family on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, following a brief illness. Mr. Bauer was born in Atlanta and grew up in Rome, Georgia, attending Rome High School. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1956 with a degree in industrial engineering and was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity. Three hours late for their blind date, he would eventually marry Mildred Yvonne Mitchem on June 16, 1957, in Atlanta. They eventually moved to Mendenhall in 1965 and were members of First Baptist Church. He was employed by Universal Manufacturing (later Magnatek) as director of quality control, retiring after 30 years of service. He holds numerous patents for ideas to improve efficiency and production in the process of manufacturing ballasts for fluorescent lighting. In his spare time he enjoyed teaching computer science to adults at the Simpson County Vo-Tech Center, tutoring teenagers in math and science, as well as volunteering as a voting precinct worker. In retirement he became a failure analysis expert witness for cases involving fluorescent light ballasts. Throughout the years, Fred was a

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ham radio enthusiast, talking to other ham operators all over the world. His collection of QSL cards testify to the number of people with whom he made contact over the years and was a source of great pride. His first call sign was K4HBJ and later King-Baker-5-RedHeaded-Duck. Fred and Yvonne moved to Corinth in 2014 in order to be near their son and family. He was preceded in death by his father, Carl Albert Bauer Sr.; his mother, Rita Mull Bauer; an infant son, David Michael Bauer; a sister, Beverly BauerKing; a brother Carl A. Bauer Jr.; and a nephew, Franklin Page Bauer. Family who remain to celebrate his life are his loving wife, Yvonne Bauer of Corinth; a daughter, Susan Bauer Lee (Tim) of Knoxville, Tenn.; a son, Frederick Scott Bauer (Beth) of Corinth; grandsons Evan Scott Bauer of Gluckstadt and David Jeffrey Bauer (Marla) of Oxford; a nephew, Carl Albert Bauer III (Connie) of Buena Vista, Colo.; and a niece, Mary Elizabeth Bauer (Andy) of Port St. Joe, Fla. Visitation is Saturday, Aug. 26, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Parish Hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Corinth. A funeral service celebrating Fred’s life will follow at 2:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (alzfdn.org/) or Magnolia Regional Health Center Foundation (mrhc.org/foundation-magnolia-regional/).

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‘Free speech rally’ cut short after massive counterprotest BY STEVE LEBLANC Associated Press

BOSTON — Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans converged Saturday on downtown Boston in a boisterous repudiation of white nationalism, dwarfing a small group of conservatives who cut short their planned “free speech rally” a week after a gathering of hate groups led to bloodshed in Virginia. Counterprotesters marched through the city to historic Boston Common, where many gathered near a bandstand abandoned early by conservatives who had planned to deliver a series of speeches. Police vans later escorted the conservatives out of the area, and angry counterprotesters scuffled with armed officers trying to maintain order. Members of the Black Lives Matter movement later protested on the Common, where a Confederate flag was burned and protesters pounded on the sides of a police vehicle. Later Saturday afternoon, Boston’s police

department tweeted that protesters were throwing bottles, urine and rocks at them and asked people publicly to refrain from doing so. Boston Commissioner William Evans said 27 arrests were made — mostly for disorderly conduct while some were for assaulting police officers. Officials said the rallies drew about 40,000 people. Trump applauded the people in Boston who he said were “speaking out” against bigotry and hate. Trump added in a Twitter message that “Our country will soon come together as one!” Organizers of the event, which had been billed as a “Free Speech Rally,” had publicly distanced themselves from the neoNazis, white supremacists and others who fomented violence in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. A woman was killed at that Unite the Right rally, and many others were injured, when a car plowed into counterdemonstrators. Opponents feared that white nationalists might show up in Boston any-

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way, raising the specter of ugly confrontations in the first potentially large and racially charged gathering in a major U.S. city since Charlottesville. One of the planned speakers of the conservative activist rally said the event “fell apart.” Congressional candidate Samson Racioppi, who was among several slated to speak, told WCVB-TV that he didn’t realize “how unplanned of an event it was going to be.” Some counterprotesters dressed entirely in black and wore bandannas over their faces. They chanted anti-Nazi and anti-fascism slogans, and waved signs that said: “Make Nazis Afraid Again,” ‘‘Love your neighbor,” ‘‘Resist fascism” and “Hate never made U.S. great.” Others carried a large banner that read: “SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY.” Chris Hood, a free speech rally attendee from Dorchester, said people were unfairly making it seem like the rally was going to be “a white supremacist Klan rally.”

Suspect in cop killings arrested Associated Press

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A police officer in Florida died from his injuries Saturday, a day after his colleague was killed when a suspect fired at them during a scuffle while they were on patrol. The suspect was later arrested at a bar. Sgt. Sam Howard died Saturday afternoon following Friday night’s attack in Kissimmee. Officer Matthew Baxter died Friday night, a short time after authorities say he was shot by 45-yearold Everett Miller. Miller faces a charge of first-degree murder for the killing of Baxter. Authorities hadn’t yet said what charges he could face for Howard’s death.

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Across the Nation Associated Press

Duke University removes Lee statue DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness before dawn from the entryway to Duke Chapel, where it stood among 10 historical figures. Officials discovered early Thursday that the statue’s face had been gouged and scarred and that part of the nose is missing. Another statue of Lee, the top Confederate general during the Civil War, was the focus of the violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly a week ago. Duke University President Vincent Price said in a letter to the campus community that he consulted with faculty, staff, students and alumni before deciding to remove the statue. “I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university,” Price said in the letter. Durham has been a focal point in the debate over Confederate statues after protesters tore down a bronze Confederate soldier in front of a government building downtown on Monday. Eight people face charges including rioting and damaging property. Days later, hundreds marched through Durham in a largely peaceful demonstration against racism before an impromptu rally at the stone pedestal where the statue stood.

Solar specs, viewer are must for eclipse CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Solar glasses are a must for safe viewing of Monday’s total solar eclipse, the first to span coast to U.S. coast in 99 years. And parents beware: Eye doctors urge strict adult supervision for eclipse watchers under 16 years old. There should be absolutely no peeking without eclipse glasses or other certified filters except during the two minutes or so when the moon completely blots out the sun, called totality. That’s the only time it’s safe to view the eclipse without protection. When totality is ending, then it’s time to put them back on. Totality means 100 percent of the sun is covered. That will occur only along a narrow strip stretching from Oregon, through the Midwestern plains, down to South Carolina. The rest of the U.S. gets a partial eclipse that extends into Canada and to the top of South America. Wherever there’s only a partial eclipse — you need to keep those solar specs on the whole time. There are other options if you don’t have eclipse glasses. You can look indirectly with a pinhole projector that you can make yourself. NASA has a number of designs on its website, including one made with a cereal box . Or grab a kitchen colander — that casts images of the eclipsed sun onto a screen at least 3 feet away. What can happen when you look directly at the sun? You’re essen-

tially cooking your retina, the delicate, light-sensitive tissue deep inside the eyeball. Solar radiation can kill those cells. Hours can pass before you realize the extent of the damage. Seconds are enough for retinal sunburn. And unlike with the skin, you can’t feel it. The damage can be temporary or permanent.

Stuck swimmer turns to Facebook for help EPPING, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman who became stuck in a swimming pool after the ladder broke turned to Facebook to ask for help getting out. Sixty-one-year-old Leslie Kahn was swimming in her pool Aug. 11 when the ladder broke, leaving her stranded. She said she didn’t have the strength to pull herself. No one else was home and her cellphone was inside. She used a pool pole to drag the chair her iPad was on and posted in a community Facebook page, asking for help. She said she labeled the post “911” to get people’s attention. A woman who lived nearby showed up, followed by police and a neighbor. Kahn, a breast cancer survivor, told WMUR-TV that sometimes you help others and other times, you ask for help.

Stabbing suspects returned to Chicago CHICAGO — Two employees of elite universities charged in the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old hair stylist were returned to Chicago early Saturday to face charges of first-degree murder in the brutal killing. Chicago police escorted fired Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem, 43, and Oxford University financial officer Andrew Warren, 56, from Northern California, where they surrendered peacefully on Aug. 4 after an eight-day, nationwide manhunt. Detectives questioned the men Saturday. They could appear in court as early as today. The men are accused of killing Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau, a Michigan native who had been living in Chicago, last month in Lathem’s high-rise Chicago condo. Chicago police have said Cornell-Duranleau suffered more than 40 stab wounds, including “mutilations,” to his upper body. Authorities say the attack was so violent the blade of the knife they believe was used was broken. They found CornellDuranleau’s body July 27 after the building’s front desk received an anonymous call that a crime had occurred on the 10th floor. He had been dead more than 12 hours. By then, authorities say Lathem and Warren had fled the city. According to autopsy results released Friday by the Cook County medical examiner’s office, Cornell-Duranleau had methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death.

Trump to skip Kennedy program BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — In a break with tradition, President Donald Trump and the first lady decided not to participate in events for this year’s Kennedy Center Honors arts awards so honorees can celebrate “without any political distraction,” the White

House announced Saturday. The Kennedy Center said it respected Trump’s decision and the show will go on. Past presidents and first ladies traditionally host a White House reception in the hours before the Kennedy Center gala, which they would then watch from seats high above the stage. This year’s honors are to be awarded on Dec. 3. The Trumps reached their decision Friday, said a White House official who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. It was made the same day that the entire membership of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned to protest Trump’s comments about last weekend’s demonstrations by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president has blamed “many sides” for the violence that left an antiracism activist dead. Trump has had a long and contentious relationship with the arts world and some Kennedy Center honorees, who are being recognized for lifetime achievement in their fields, already had said they would not attend the White House reception. One honoree, television writer and producer Norman Lear, had also questioned whether Trump would want to attend the gala, “given his indifference or worse regarding the arts and humanities.” Trump has recommended defunding the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Baby recovering from heart surgery NETTLETON — A Mississippi baby is home after having open-heart surgery to correct some birth defects. She faces another surgery in the coming months. Malaysia Hills is 2 months old, and her grandmother, Minnie Moore, says the family considers her “our little miracle.” The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that Chinny Moore Hills, 35, of Nettleton had a difficult pregnancy. Malaysia was diagnosed with pneumonia soon after being born. After her breathing problems continued, doctors found multiple defects in her heart. When she was 2 weeks old, Malaysia underwent surgery at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Doctors say she will need surgery again when she’s about 4 months old. Dr. Umar Boston led the surgical team and says Malaysia’s mother has been “fantastic” in helping care for her baby.

Utility to purchase facility’s electricity MERIDIAN — Regulators are approving plans for Mississippi Power Co. to buy electricity from a solar facility to be built in eastern Mississippi. The Mississippi Public Service Commission on Thursday voted for the $100 million solar farm to be built in Lauderdale

County by Silicon Ranch of Nashville, Tennessee. A unit of Atlantabased Southern Co., Mississippi Power will buy all the power from the facility for 25 years. The 570,000 solar panels will be able to supply 53 megawatts of electricity at peak, enough to power about 8,000 homes. Operation is projected to start by December 2019. Mississippi Power says its 160 megawatt solar capacity will be the largest of any Mississippi utility.

Officials uprooting big marijuana farm PRENTISS — Investigators are remaining through the weekend at the site of what they’re calling the largest outdoor marijuana farm found in Mississippi since the 1980s. Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy said agents found a patch with 5,000 more plants at the Jefferson Davis County site on Friday, bringing the total found to 20,000. An underground bunker and generators were also found, but authorities haven’t identified any suspected farmers. With each mature plant yielding a pound of processed marijuana, Dowdy says all the marijuana at the site near Prentiss could have sold for more than $20 million. Dowdy says it’s a “huge task” to find, count and destroy so many marijuana plants. Helping the bureau are other law enforcement agencies, local and

state government and a private construction company.

Sheriff says third escapee caught CLARKSDALE — A third escapee from a Mississippi Delta jail has been recaptured. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Office says officers caught LeAndrew Booker on Friday. The Clarksdale man was being held for burglary when he and three others escaped last week. Officials had earlier recaptured Cordarius Thomas of Clarksdale, initially jailed on charges of assault and burglary, and Percy Bryant of Clarksdale, initially jailed for aggravated assault. Marquis Stevenson of Jonestown, who is accused of murder and statutory rape, is the only one of the inmates still being sought. The sheriff’s office says the four were discovered missing during a routine check in the early hours of Aug. 11.

Festival celebrates writing and reading JACKSON — Richard Ford and Greg Iles were among the authors who spoke at the Mississippi Book Festival. The event took place Saturday in and around Jackson, and promoters called it a “literary lawn party.” The festival had panel discussions about food, art and politics. U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper lel a panel with the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.

Attack exposes new campus threat BOSTON — On college campuses, white supremacists and other far-right extremist groups see fertile ground to spread their messages and recruit followers. But for many colleges, last weekend’s deadly attack at a rally near the University of Virginia exposed a new threat. The rally in Charlottesville left universities across the U.S. bracing for more clashes between extremists and the protesters who oppose them. It also left schools in an increasingly tight bind as they try to ensure campus safety in the face of recruiting efforts by white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups that have escalated beyond campus flyers and online messages, and to balance that with freedom of speech. “People are getting more and more willing to go to the streets,” said Sue Riseling, a former police chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is executive director of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. “It seems like what might have been a little in the shadows has come into full sun, and now it’s out there and exposed for everyone to see.” On the eve of Saturday’s rally, young white men wearing khakis and white polo shirts marched through the University of Virginia’s campus, holding torches as they chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans. The next morning, many donned helmets and shields and clashed with counter-protesters before a car drove into the crowd, killing a 32-yearold woman and injuring 19 others.

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362.75 376.25 388.25 394.75 400.50 404.25 410

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939 941 949.75 958.25 965 971.50 970.75

917.25 921 929.25 937.50 945.25 952 953.75

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412 438.75 461.75 476.25 490 505.25 524

416 442.50 465.25 479.75 493 508.75 527

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71.32 65.35 68.92 71.82 76.47 79.35 78.67

65.42 60.50 65.17 68.87 73.90 77.17 76.92

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67.25 66.65 66.50 67.13 67.76 ... 66.98

106.37 105.90 107.85 110.67 111.32 105.82 104.22

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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.

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+13.2/B +12.9/C +13.2/B +12.8/C +14.6/B +12.9/B +13.2/B

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+14.5/B +9.9/A +14.7 +2.3/C +8.8 +7.1 +13.7/A +14.7/A +9.6/A +12.8 +7.2/C +10.2 +10.3 +12.7 +2.8 +14.0 +3.4/A +3.0/B +3.3 +17.1/A +6.6/A +3.4 +2.1/A +12.2 +13.6/A

NL 2,500 NL 50,000 5.75 250 NL 10,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL 10,000 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 5.75 250 NL 10,000 5.75 250 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 5.75 250 NL

65.16 -0.5 +23.7/A +16.1/A 12.38 +0.5 +8.9 +7.6 63.95 -0.1 +3.9/D +6.8/A 86.05 -3.9 +4.4/D +17.5/C

NL 2,500 NL 1,000,000 NL 50,000 NL 50,000

40,030 39,815 38,830 37,843

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 day’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.

JR’s Wine & Spirits ribbon cutting The Alliance welcomed new member J.R’s Wine & Spirits with a red ribbon ceremony. Owners Jimmy Don and Rodney Manaha, cut the ribbon along with Mayor Tommy Irwin, other city and county officials, and the ambassadors and staff of The Alliance. (Not pictured were Billie Sue and Jean Manahan). J.R’s Wine and Spirits is family owned and operated and located at 2015 Hwy 72E, Corinth, and phone is (662) 594-1877.

Walmart’s online sales soar as it seeks to catch Amazon By JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — Walmart’s recent spending spree to try to catch up to Amazon seems to be paying off. The world’s largest retailer said Thursday that online sales soared 60 percent in the past three months as people shopped more at Walmart.com, Jet.com and its other websites. Walmart had paid more than $3 billion for Jet last year, and since then picked up smaller players including ModCloth and Moosejaw. It is also expanding online grocery ordering to more stores, and is adding giant automated kiosks to 100 locations so customers can pick up online orders without waiting for employees to fetch them. Other traditional retailers are seeing online gains, too: Walmart’s report came a day after Target said its online sales jumped 32 percent in its most recent quar-

ter. But Amazon still poses a threat. The e-commerce giant is in the process of buying organic grocer Whole Foods in a $13.7 billion deal. That could shake up the U.S. grocery business, where Walmart currently holds the largest share. Greg Foran, who runs Walmart’s U.S. stores, said Amazon is a “strong competitor” and that Walmart will continue with its strategy and keep an eye on the rival. “I don’t know what they’re going to do,” Foran said, referring to Amazon. He added that the competition has pushed Walmart to make changes that has lifted its performance. Walmart said sales rose 1.8 percent at U.S. stores open at least a year, the 12th straight quarter of growth for that measure. Shopper traffic rose 1.3 percent. Sales at its international division fell 1 percent. Its profit, however, was

Gulf of Mexico oil lease sale: $121M in highest offers Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Oil and gas companies offered $121.1 million in high bids on 90 Gulf of Mexico tracts at a federal lease sale. Wednesday’s sale was the first since 1983 to offer every available tract in the Gulf. Companies bid on far fewer tracts than in March, when only those off Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were offered. That’s generally seen as the best part of the Gulf for drilling. In March, 28 oil companies offered $274.8 million in high bids on 163 tracts. The government rejected 10 bids as too low, accepting $264 million in bids. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Manage-

ment says 27 companies submitted 99 bids Wednesday. Nine tracts got two bids each. Forty-two of the tracts are at least 5,249 feet under water.

hurt by costs related to boosting its online operations. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. earned $2.9 billion, or 96 cents per share, in the three months ending July 31, down from $3.77 billion, or $1.21 per share, in the same period a year ago. Stripping out certain items, earnings were $1.08 per share. That was a penny better than what analysts polled by Zacks expected. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company

said revenue rose 2 percent to $123.36 billion. The company raised the low end of its fullyear earnings forecast by 10 cents. It now expects adjusted earnings between $4.30 and $4.40 per share for the year. It predicts third-quarter earnings of 90 cents to 98 cents per share. Analysts polled by FactSet predicted full-year earnings of $4.36 per share and third-quarter earnings of 97 cents per share.

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