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Tuesday Sept. 13,

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Daily Corinthian Vol. 115, No. 218

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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section

Public meeting will address cemetery concerns BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is visiting Corinth this evening for a public meeting to address concerns

about Forrest Memorial Park in Corinth and Oaklawn Memorial Park in Booneville. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the Alcorn County Courthouse. Hosemann will be accompanied by

staff members of the regulation and enforcement division of the Secretary of State’s Office. Hosemann’s office recently ordered the two cemeteries, owned by Wayne Hight of Corinth,

to cease all sales of preneed goods and services to the public. The order does not apply to Hight Funeral Home, which is on property adjoining Forrest Memorial Park. The issue is whether the

cemeteries have adequate funds in their perpetual care trust accounts. Unless a purchase is funded with an insurance policy, cemeteries are required to trust 85 percent of all pre-need sales for vaults,

memorial markers and grave opening/closing services. Also, 15 percent must be maintained in a separate perpetual care trust on all sales of Please see MEETING | 2A

Extreme Makeover

Sophie’s shot

Easom foundation reaches out to show BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Easom Outreach Foundation’s plea for an extreme makeover for the Easom/South Corinth campus is now in the hands of the ABC television network. Foundation board members Samuel Crayton and Mona Lisa Grady made a presentation to representatives of the program “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” last week at the Delta Fair & Music Festival in Memphis, where the producers accepted applicants for future episodes of the show. “Extreme Makeover” has previously tackled at least one school building. Following the May 2010 flooding disaster, a school in Nashville, Tenn., was featured. If the same can be done for the now-vacant Corinth campus, it “could have far-reaching implications for Please see MAKEOVER | 2A

Fair kicks off with Cheer Off BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Five year-old Sophie Bowers waits for the right moment to get a picture of her older brother during opening day of the Alcorn County Youth Football League at Crossroads Regional Park on Saturday. Over 300 children took part in the first day of action with games starting at 8 a.m. and continuing throughout the day.

The Alcorn County Fair will kick-off tonight with smiles, pom-poms and plenty of school spirit as area schools turn out for the Cheer Off event set for 7 to 10 p.m. “We’re going to have dances, cheers, tumbling — we have plans for a dueling drumline between Alcorn Central and Corinth — and several other local gyms doing tumbling at the end,” said Danny Turner, County Fair committee Please see CHEER | 2A

Boys & Girls Club plans Kids Day Costs could force the closure BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

The Corinth Boys & Girls Club is planning a day of fun, food and family entertainment at Crossroads Regional Park. Kids Day — featuring game booths, face-painting, hot dogs and drinks for the kids — is scheduled for 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday. “This is our eleventh year to be doing this,” said Boys & Girls Club CPO David Roberts. “It’s a fun time, a time to promote families doing things together, being together and creating a memory.” The inflatables promise to be a big hit with the kids, Roberts said, featuring

inflatable climbing walls, a bouncer and a slide. In addition to the inflatables, Kids Day will include remote control helicopters and airplanes — for the first time ever. In recent years the event has drawn up to 500 people. Representatives from local emergency and law enforcement agencies will be on hand for fun activities and positive interaction with the young participants. These include DARE, the Corinth Fire Department and Air Evac. Alcorn County DARE Officer David Derrick participated in the Kids Day dur-

of voting precincts in McNairy

Please see KIDS DAY | 2A

Please see MCNAIRY | 2A

Index Stocks........ 7 Classified...... 15 Comics...... 13 Crossroads .... 11

Weather........5 Obituaries........ 3 Opinion........ 4 Sports.....8-9

BY JEFF YORK For the Daily Corinthian

SELMER, Tenn. — The need to save money on election costs could lead to the closing of five small voting precincts in McNairy County by the McNairy County Election Commission. The county’s five-member election commission voted last week to close the voting precincts before the 2012 elections. The precincts that will be closing are Cypress, McNairy, Purdy, Leap-

wood and Lawton. There is a possibility the Leapwood precinct closing could be reconsidered by the election commission, according to election commission chairman Paul Estes. The other members of the election commission are Wayne Elam, Dwight Garner, Mary Ruth Mills and Janice Maness. The election commission learned in a recent meeting that closing these five

On this day in history 150 years ago An argument commences between President Davis and General Joseph Johnston about the seniority of Confederate generals. Johnston believes he should be ranked higher; Davis does not. The rift between the two men will grower larger as the war progresses.


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