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Certified results show Parks’ narrow victory BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Certified election results from Tishomingo and Tippah counties confirm a narrow win for Republican Rita Potts Parks in the District 4 Mississippi Senate race. The final total for the district, which includes all of Alcorn County and portions of Tishomingo and Tippah counties, is

9,050 (50.7 percent) for Parks and 8,798 for incumbent Democrat Eric Powell, who was elected four years ago. The incumbent conceded on election night after complete Alcorn County totals were announced, but absentee ballots were still outstanding in the neighboring counties, and Parks declined to claim

victory before seeing the final n u m bers. Powell carr i e d o n l y T i s h o - Parks mingo County, where he led 1,462 (52.3 percent)

to 1,331. Parks carried Tippah County by just 45 votes, leading 1,841 (50.6 percent) to 1,796. That left Alcorn County putting Parks over the top, as she won the county with 5,878 (51.5 percent) to Powell’s 5,540. She carried 10 of the 16 county precincts. Parks is a Corinth resident with a background in manufacturing and

distribution, formerly working for Schering Plough, Hewlett Packard and Baxter. With the defeat of Powell and the retirement of Harvey Moss (D) and Billy McCoy (D), the local legislative delegation has three new faces. District 1 Rep. Bubba Carpenter (R) of Burnsville is the only returning incumbent.

Display of dignity Photographers pay tribute to Alcorn vets BY BOBBY J. SMITH

Senate vote Results from Tuesday vote for Mississippi Senate race, District 4: Alcorn Tishomingo Tippah Total

Powell 5,540 1,462 1,796 8,798

Parks 5,878 1,331 1,841 9,050

(Certified results show a 252vote Parks’ victory with 50.7 percent of the vote.)

New fire station ensures savings

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A photographic tribute to the veterans of Alcorn County will open Friday at the American Legion. Beginning on Veterans Day, “A Salute to Veterans” will feature almost 200 photos of Alcorn County’s men and women who answered America’s call and served in the armed forces. Local photographers Bill Avery and Lisa Wilbanks undertook the project following the success of their recent “Faces and Places of Alcorn County” and “Me and My Mom” exhibits at the Corinth Library. For the two photographers — who spent countless hours shooting photos and assembling the displays — the work was a labor of love and an eye-opening experience. “In my mind it refreshed the sacrifice and the different adversities these men and women went through,” said Avery. “Talking and taking the pictures was a reminder to me of the sacrifices — what these people gave up — to serve our country.” Wilbanks said she learned a great deal she didn’t know about military history from talking to the veterans. “It was interesting to meet these people and hear their different stories,” said Wilbanks, who talked to the subjects of her photographs

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Biggersville Fire & Rescue’s new north fire station will bring insurance savings to residents just south of Corinth. The Board of Supervisors this week approved a resolution amending the existing fire district, a step necessary for more of the department’s coverage area to improve from a 10 to 9 fire rating. Last year, the Biggersville rating improved from 10 to 9 within a 5-mile radius. The new reduction applies to areas to the north of that territory, where response times are expected to reduce by 10 to 12 minutes. “It covers Camp Warriner Road to the railroad track; it covers all of the Shady Grove community; and it goes up 402 all the way to the city limits,” said Biggersville Fire Chief Patrick Claunch. He said the amended fire district adds territory Biggersville already covers but does not encroach on the service area of others. Residents in the area can expect insurance savings of about 40 percent, he said. The Mississippi Fire Ratings Bureau evaluated the department last week and recommended the rating upgrade. The new station is just south of Corinth on Highway 45. “There have been some questions about our old station on 513,” said Claunch. “I’ve heard a lot of people in the community concerned

“Roy Robinson” — Roy Robinson by Bill Avery about their time in the military and afterward, their hobbies and what brought them to the area. “One fellow would tell me only his name and service dates, and another fellow would tell me everything that happened from the time he went in until the time he got out!” Sitting for the pictures was a rewarding experience for the veterans as well, the photographers agreed. “They were very appreciative of it. We’re the ones that need to be thanking them for their service and being away from their families, but most of them were very Please see PHOTOS | 2

“Chaz Kennedy” — Chaz Kennedy by Lisa Wilbanks

“Leonard Phillips” — Leonard Phillips by Lisa Wilbanks

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12,000 luminaries will glow around Corinth this weekend BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

This weekend Corinth will shine a light on the past. Beginning Saturday, hundreds of volunteers will honor the souls of 12,000 Civil War casualties from the Siege and Battle of Corinth with the fourth annual Grand Illumination.

“In looking at the weather forecast, it appears that Mother Nature is going to favor us on Saturday with a beautiful day for everyone to come out for the carriage rides, shopping, entertainment, the live camels, and — of course — the luminaries!” said Tourism Director Kristy White. While a sufficient num-

ber of volunteers have signed up for the downtown area, the Interpretive Center could use more, White said. People may volunteer anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. “With half the luminaries at the Center, it is quite a job to place and light all 6,000,” said White.

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From 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. there will be Living History Programs with the 43rd Mississippi Camel Corps, featuring live camels on the grounds of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center. Artillery demonstrations will be offered at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Living History Programs will again be

offered on Sunday from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Interpretive Center. The Downtown Corinth Merchants will offer Open House specials from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., with sales, holiday displays and extended hours. Complimentary Downtown Walking Tours will be offered at the Cross-

roads Museum from 10 a.m. until noon. The tours will be approximately one mile in length through downtown Corinth with costumed guide Sean Marcum, and will include a visit to the Verandah-Curlee House, currently closed to the public. Please see LUMINARIES | 2

On this day in history 150 years ago

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In a major shake-up of command, General Henry W. Halleck becomes commander of Federal troops in the newly created Department of Missouri, while General Don C. Buell replaces General William T. Sherman as head of the Department of the Cumberland.

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“Billy Joe Lambert” — Billy Joe Lambert tribute by Lisa Wilbanks

“Honor Guard” — Funeral Honor Guard by Bill Avery

Great American Smokeout urges smokers to kick the bad habit For the Daily Corinthian

The Mississippi Tobacco-Free Coalition of Alcorn/Tippah urges smokers to quit for 24 hours on Nov. 17 to encourage them to kick the habit for good. This is part of the American Cancer Society’s Great American

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The tours will again be offered from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. On Sunday, a more rigorous version of the tours will be offered at 2 p.m. at Battery Robinett, adjacent to the Interpretive Center. This tour will cover approximately three miles and will include stops at the historic crossroads, Battery Powell and more. Reser-

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11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Two carriages will pick up and drop off passengers at KC’s Espresso Coffee Shop on the corner of Waldron and Fillmore Streets. Local entertainers will perform on the Amphitheater Stage at Trailhead Park from 3 until 4 p.m. Corinth Theatre-Arts’ Youth Group will perform at Trailhead Park from 6 until 7 p.m. Acclaimed Civil War-

era musician Bobby Horton will present Civil War favorites at the Civil War Interpretive Center beginning at 7 p.m. Hot chocolate and coffee will be available in the lobby before the performance. For more information or to make reservations for the Sunday tours contact the Corinth Area Convention & Visitors Bureau at 662-287-8300 or 800-748-9048.

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appreciative of us for doing it,” said Wilbanks. Avery said one of the best parts of the experience was when they were shooting at the MS Care Center and seeing the looks of pride on the veterans’ faces when they saw the flags and other military paraphernalia in the photo setting. “When they saw the room where we were shooting they could tell they were being honored,” Avery recalled. The photos will be displayed on 14 black felt covered 4 foot by 8 foot panels. Intermingled with the panels are flags, boots and military stand-up displays which were donated by the Army, Navy and Air Force recruiting centers in Corinth. The panels will be hung and stood on the stage in the American Legion building. The American flag is featured somewhere in each of the pictures. The photo display will begin Friday at American Legion Post Number Six on Tate Street — immediately following the Veterans Day Parade which is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in downtown Corinth. The exhibit will continue Saturday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and then will move to the Corinth Library until the end of November.

that thing is going to close down, and that’s far from the case. We’re going to staff and have three trucks stay there.” The fire department will host a grand opening for the new station at 10 a.m. on Nov. 19 with a blood drive, free food and other activities. The station features three drive-through truck bays, a full kitchen and day room, sleeping quarters, office space and training/ conference room. “We’re actually having some people stay at night now on a volunteer basis,” said Claunch. “That will help our response time at night.” The department also has a helicopter landing pad. “People have asked why,” the chief said, “but we actually have already used it. There was a wreck down Wheeler Grove Road in the middle of the night and Air Evac landed there.” Biggersville was the only department in Mississippi and one of 120 across the U.S. awarded a station construction grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. “We’re very proud of that,” said Claunch. More than 6,000 applied for the grant. The 5,000-square-foot facility cost $474,000. It will initially house a pumper truck and a 1,500-gallon tanker truck. “The operating cost of the station, we’re going to absorb that into our normal budget,” said Claunch. “It’s going to be tight on us, but we’re not going to ask the board for any more money.” He said the department continues to have “a fairly heavy volume of calls,” second only to Farmington among the county VFDs.

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Overholt named October top student Shannon Overholt, the son of Vince and Merry Overholt, was named Corinth Rotary Club Student of the Month for October for the Corinth School District. Overholt, a senior at Corinth High School, has a GPA of 4.04 and has a 34 on the ACT. He will graduate in May with an Honors diploma, as a Mississippi Scholar, and will be among the first in Mississippi to graduate with the Cambridge International diploma. He is currently enrolled with Connections Academy completing an independent study in Advanced Placement Calculus, BC. Overholt has attended school in North Carolina, Utah, Arizona, Georgia, and now in Corinth, where he calls home. Active in his school, Overholt is the Academic Team captain where he has competed during his sophomore, junior and senior years winning academic honors at Northeast Mississippi Community College, Blue Mountain College, Mississippi State and Ole

Shannon Overholt Miss Universities. In Physics, his team won first place cost effectiveness at the Ole Miss Water Tower Competition. As a sophomore, Overholt placed first in his class in Trig and PreCal. As a junior he placed second in senior AP Calculus, AB and third in senior Physics. He served as class representative to the CHS Student Council his junior year and serves as the Environmental Club president. He was a finalist for the Daughtersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the American Revolution Citizenship Award. At CHS, along with his

freshman year in Georgia, Overholt has been a member of the National Beta, Interact, Key, Foreign Language, Historical Society, Shakespearian, Robotics, and U.S. Chess Federation Clubs. He has also been a member of Mu Alpha Theta, where he participates in the tutoring program and a member of Science Club, where he participates in the tutoring program along with the Adopt-AStream project. Overholt enjoys sports and is a member of the Corinth Varsity Football Team. Within the community, Overholt enjoys working with people of all ages. He has served with the Junior Leadership Alcorn Program. He partnered with the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center for a fundraiser and was selected by the American Legion as a Boys State Delegate. During his sophomore, junior, and senior years, he has tutored at the Lighthouse Foundation after-school program. He also tutors for the ACT throughout Alcorn County. Overholt

co-developed a community sale for the Lighthouse Family Thrift Store with specific focus on inventory control and marketing. While in Georgia, he led bingo at nursing homes and has assisted with the program at Cornerstone. He has been involved with the Alcorn County Genealogy Society offering technical support and has developed a data base for historical records on the internet. Overholt has also volunteered with the Lighthouse Christmas Toy Store, the Rotary Christmas Basket Distribution, Coca-Cola 10K Classic, Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shoes Run with Rotary 5K Road Race, as well as his third year with the Corinth Grand Illumination honoring Civil War veterans and families. Active within his church, Overholt has helped serve the Lighthouse Thanksgiving Meal, worked with children at VBS, and gone on many mission trips. After graduation, Overholt plans to attend college and major in engineering and then pursue a medical degree.

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Abbigaile Lynn Noyes, the daughter of Drs. Tim and Erica Noyes, was named Corinth Rotary Club Student of the Month for September for the Corinth School District. Noyes, a senior at Corinth High School, is currently ranked second in her class with a grade-point average of 4.1778. She scored a 35 on the ACT and 2250 on the SAT. She is also a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist and a National AP Scholar. Active at CHS, Noyes serves as CHS Student

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Mitt Romney’s glass is three-quarters empty BY DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN Mitt Romney has maintained his onequarter vote share in the Republican contest against all comers . . . and against those who stayed home. Whether confronting hypothetical threats from Donald Trump, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin or Chris Christie -- or real threats from Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry or Herman Cain -- the former Massachusetts governor has with maddening consistency gotten a quarter of the primary vote. But the key question for Mitt is whether his glass is one-quarter full or three-quarters empty. No matter what the match-ups, he never drops below one-quarter of the vote or rises above it. It would seem that 75 percent of Republican primary voters will vote for anybody but Romney, no matter who’s the flavor du jour. And when candidates fade, their vote share is picked up by the next flavor du jour instead of going to Romney. Right now, Herman Cain, on the strength of his bold and audacious 9-9-9 program, has surged into a tie with Romney. Here’s hoping the baseless charges against Cain will fade away or be discredited. But if they are not, one can already see former House Speaker Newt Gingrich poised to inherit the wind. Anybody but Romney! As the field narrows down to a few candidates, will the Ron Paul voters -- or those now backing other candidates -- come to Mitt? Or will they embrace anybody but? Should Romney win the nomination, this lack of enthusiasm among three-quarters of the GOP vote does not auger well for Romney’s capacity to generate the turnout among his party’s base that he will need to defeat Obama in November. It’s not that Romney is getting only a quarter of the vote; it’s that three-quarters oppose him no matter who’s his opponent or what’s going on. Why the aversion to voting for Romney? Perilously, much of his support comes from the GOP establishment. He’s the favorite of the Fortune 500, the Club for Growth, the Chambers of Commerce, Wall Street and party insiders. But his appeal is much more limited among evangelicals and Tea Partyers. In a sense, Mitt is a traditional Republican candidate harking back to the days before Ronald Reagan united the economic conservatives, the national security backers and the evangelicals under one tent. Unfortunately for Romney, it was the union with evangelicals -- now increasingly recast as Tea Party supporters -- that let Reagan create a majority electoral coalition. Romney must follow in those footsteps if he hopes to win. Mitt’s position supporting Romneycare in Massachusetts and his flip-flop-flip on abortion and gay rights cause understandable concern among conservative voters. Less reasonable is the aversion to a Mormon candidate among evangelical Protestants. But regardless of its cause, Romney’s candidacy is now reaching too limited a base for success in November. The energy and kinetic enthusiasm that must animate the Republican campaign has to come from precisely the voters who are now lukewarm, at best, to Romney’s candidacy. Disappointingly, it seems that Romney is not as willing as he should be to reach out to the Tea Party groups. Recently, he rejected an invitation from the Tea Party Patriots -- the largest of the Tea Party groups -- to a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate on Nov. 28 covered by CSPAN. While Romney can hardly be accused of ducking debates -- it seems he’s in one every few weeks -- it was a needless affront to a group that embraces more than half of the Tea Party organizations to plead a scheduling conflict for the date. (Even though it’s my birthday!) Romney must not sit on his lead and calmly watch the other candidates battle it out. He needs to do more to reach out to the GOP base, with which he’s badly out of touch. (Dick Morris, former advisor to the Clinton administration, is a commentator and author of “Rewriting History.” He is also a columnist for the New York Post and The Hill. His wife, Eileen McGann is an attorney and consultant.)

Prayer for today Dear Father, thank you for forgiving and cleansing us of sin. Help us not to feel burdened by forgiven sin. Amen.

A verse to share Jesus said, “Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” — Matthew 28:20 (NIV)

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No guarantees of 2012 legislative elections STARKVILLE — Here are a few items left in the 2011 general election notebook: ■ Both in the media and in among political operatives in both major parties in Mississippi, there has been a general assumption that the Legislature’s failure to complete legislative redistricting dictated backto-back legislative elections in both 2011 and again in 2012. The Legislature was unable to complete the drawing of new maps prior to the 2011 elections. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling on redistricting, allowing state lawmakers to run in their current districts in Tuesday’s elections. Mississippi’s redistricting is complicated by the fact that the state has a prior history of drawing blacks out of the equation and any plan Mississippi legislators draft must be approved by the U.S. Justice Dept. The state’s 122 state House districts and 52 Senate districts have to be updated to reflect population changes

based on new census figures from the 2010 census. A threejudge federal panel Sid said the state Salter could hold the 2011 elecColumnist tions in the old districts, redraw the lines, and then hold another election under the new plans in 2012 after the Justice Department approves the new plans. That same scenario played out in Mississippi after the 1990 Census. But not all state legislators are convinced that there will be back-to-back elections. Veteran lawmaker State Sen. Hob Bryan, DAmory, said last week that he rated chances of back-toback state legislative elections “at about 50 percent.” Several Republican lawmakers have expressed similar sentiments, but NAACP attorney Carroll Rhodes of Hazlehurst has said his clients will submit their own redistricting maps because

the current districts are “severely malapportioned.” When the dust settles from the Nov. 8 elections, legislative redistricting becomes the No. 2 issue on the minds of members of the state House of Representatives. The top issue is the contest to choose a new speaker of the House. ■ The Legislature is also charged with congressional redistricting. While that task is not expected to generate the heat that is did a decade ago when Mississippi lost a congressional district, there is an effort by Republicans to bypass the Obama Administration Justice Department and leave the process in the federal courts. The Mississippi GOP has asked federal judges to redraw the lines for the state’s four congressional districts before the 2012 elections. The largest bone of contention appears to be disagreements between the senior member of the state’s House delegation -- U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Bolton and -- Republican U.S. Rep.

Gregg Harper, R-Pearl, over political turf along their border of their districts. ■ One of the most closely watched statistics from the Nov. 8 general elections will be the count on absentee ballots across the state. While the voters spoke to the issue of voter ID as a mean to combat voter fraud, the facts make clear that absentee ballot fraud is the area of state elections that currently allow the most frequent and widespread voter fraud opportunities. But it appears clear that absentee voting is on the rise and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has identified a number of counties in which individuals are witnessing multiple absentee ballots. That trend has been increased for the last few election cycles. Absentee ballot reform and a revisiting of the question of true early voting are reforms that the Legislature should debate in 2012. (Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

Numbers game ignores reality of flesh and blood One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don’t have juveniles as captains. The reason for the elderly clientele is fairly simple: Most people don’t reach the point when they can afford to travel on luxury cruise ships until they have worked their way up the income ladder over a long period of years. The relationship between age and income is not hard to understand. It usually takes years to acquire the skills and experience that high-paying jobs require, or to build up a clientele for those in business or the professions. But those in the media and in politics who are currently up in arms, denouncing income inequalities, seldom mention age as a factor in those inequalities. The shrill rhetoric about differences in income proceeds as if they are talking about income inequalities between different classes of people. It would be hard to get the public all worked up over the fact that young people just starting out in their careers are not making nearly as much money as their parents or grandparents make.

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Differences in wealth between the young and the old are even greater than difThomas ferences Sowell in income. Households Hoover headed by Institution someone 65 years old and older have more than 15 times as much wealth as households headed by someone under 35 years of age. But these are not different classes of people, as so often insinuated in runaway political rhetoric. Everybody who is 65 years old was once under 35 years of age. And most people under 35 years of age will someday be 65 years old. Differences in age are just one of the reasons why the insinuations about income and wealth that are thrown around in the media and in politics are often remote from reality. While the rhetoric is about people, the statistics are almost invariably about abstract income brackets. It is easier and cheaper to collect statistics about income brackets than it is to follow actual flesh and blood people as they move massively from one income

bracket to another over the years. More important, statistical studies that follow particular individuals over the years often reach diametrically opposite conclusions from the conclusions reached by statistical studies that follow income brackets over the years. Currently we are hearing a lot in the media and in politics about the “top one percent” of income earners who are supposedly getting an ever-increasing share of the nation’s income. That is absolutely true if you are talking about income brackets. It is totally untrue if you are talking about actual flesh and blood people. The Internal Revenue Service can follow individual people over the years because they can identify individuals from their Social Security numbers. During recent years, when “the top one percent” as an income category has been getting a growing share of the nation’s income, IRS data show that actual flesh and blood people who were in the top one percent in 1996 had their incomes go down -- repeat, down -- by a whopping 26 percent by 2005. How can both sets of statistics be true at the same

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time? Because most people who are in the top one percent in a given year do not stay in that bracket over the years. If we are being serious -as distinguished from being political -- then our concern should be with what is happening to actual flesh and blood human beings, not what is happening to abstract income brackets. There is the same statistical problem when talking about “the poor” as there is when talking about “the rich.” A University of Michigan study showed that most of the working people who were in the bottom 20 percent of income earners in 1975 were also in the top 40 percent at some point by 1991. Only 5 percent of those in the bottom quintile in 1975 were still there in 1991, while 29 percent of them were now in the top quintile. People in the media and in politics choose statistics that seem to prove what they want to prove. But the rest of us should become aware of what games are being played with numbers. (Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www. tsowell.com.)

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New blues marker goes up in Starkville STARKVILLE — The Mississippi Blues Trail will unveil a marker Friday at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum in Starkville. The marker will recognize Oktibbeha County, which produced several blues artists who achieved fame for their recordings and live performances in Chicago, California and other areas. Blues Hall of Famer Big Joe Williams (1903-1982) was born close to Noxubee Swamp on the southern edge of the county. Others were Tony Hollins (19101959), who hailed from the Starkville-Osborn area, and Sturgis native Lou Thomas Watts (1934-1970), aka Kid Thomas. Blues-related activities have included the Osborn Blues Festival in the 1980s, the long-running Down Home Blues Festival just north of the county line in West Point, and an event that honors a predecessor to blues music, ragtime: the Ragtime Jazz Festival.

State House majority hangs in balance JACKSON — Control of the Mississippi House of Representatives remained in question Wednesday as ballot counting continued in tight races. Republican officials, confident that GOP candidates would prevail, claimed they had a majority. But Rickey Cole, executive director of the state Democratic Party, refused to concede, saying only, “It’s awfully close.” Republicans needed

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to pick up eight seats to claim control of the 122seat House for the first time since Reconstruction. County officials continued to count absentee ballots Wednesday and as many as 15 races remained in doubt. If no leads change, Republicans would pick up 10 seats in the House, giving them a 64-58 majority. Republicans already hold a majority of Senate seats and retained control of the governor’s office with Tuesday’s election of Phil Bryant.

World War I plaques to be rededicated NATCHEZ — Natchez, Adams County and federal officials were unveiling four new World War I memorial plaques in a ceremony at the federal courthouse Thursday. The Natchez Democrat reports that the plaques will include names of local area black soldiers that served in World War I. The names were omitted when the plaques were originally placed on the courthouse in 1924. The plaques will also include the names of white servicemen left out of the memorial.

Lafayette County restores arts funding OXFORD — Reversing an earlier vote, the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors has restored $15,000 in funding for the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. Last month, the board voted 3-2 to deny funding to the Arts Council after a controversial art show was planned. The Oxford Eagle reports that the show was moved to private property

after a few community members — including Oxford Mayor Pat Patterson — expressed concerns that it was too racy. Wayne Andrews, executive director of YAC, addressed the board Monday and asked them to reconsider their vote. He explained the variety of programs YAC holds in the community that benefit children, adults and senior citizens. Board member Robert Blackmon said he changed his vote on Monday after hearing from Andrews, who was not present at last month’s meeting. After the board denied the funds in October, artist and art supporters rallied together, making Facebook pages and calling the supervisors to express their concerns. This wasn’t the first time the current board of supervisors pulled YAC’s funding. In 2007, YAC received $10,000 from the board. In 2008, the board voted to not give YAC any funds. In 2009, board member Lloyd Oliphant asked the board to consider restoring the funds and YAC’s funding was raised to $15,000. However, Oliphant said on Monday he voted against funding because he felt YAC’s direction has changed since then. After the meeting, Andrews said he was pleased Blackmon took the time to reconsider the vote. “The resolution of this allows our board and members to focus on the important task, which we are passionate about, in providing programs that serve the residents of Lafayette County,” Andrews said.

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Natchez keeps close tabs on development NATCHEZ — Natchez aldermen are making clear that they want the city to keep close tabs on development of a new casino by Premier Gaming Corp. The board voted 5-1 Tuesday to require the company to give updated current site plans to the Natchez planning department and to require the planning department to maintain a complete, current and consistent set of plans from the company, according to The Natchez Democrat. City Planner Bob Nix said after the meeting that construction for the project will happen in phases while the city and Premier negotiate an agreement for full development of the site. Nix also said that Premier Gaming must receive final approval for the design of buildings on the property from the Natchez Preservation and Planning commissions. Nix said those designs need to be approved in December if the developers are to stay on track for the casino to be completed in a year. The planning department is currently prepared to issue the company a foundation-only permit, Nix said. The department is awaiting final foundation design plans for Premier Gaming. The permit means the company will be constructing the foundation at its own risk with the understanding that if an agreement is not in place that satisfies the city once the foundation is complete, construction could be halted until an agreement

is reached. “We need to tie this thing down so we can get the very best contract and to make sure every part of it is honored,” Alderwoman Joyce ArceneauxMathis said.

House 42 mislabeled, officials revisit ballots DEKALB — Kemper County officials are trying to determine Wednesday how many people voted in the House District 42 race when they should have voted in District 43 — and how to proceed once they make that determination. The Neshoba Democrat reports that a handful of precincts in Kemper County are split — some voters in the Preston precinct, for example, vote in District 43 in the race for House of Representatives, while others vote in District 42. Democratic challenger Michael T. Evans holds a slim lead of about 150 votes over incumbent Republican incumbent Russ Nowell in the District 43 race. In the District 42 race, incumbent Democrat Reecy Dickson is the apparent winner over Roy O. VanDevender with about 63 percent of the vote.

Sheriff’s offices will see some new faces JACKSON — Republican Ricky Adam has been elected sheriff in Hancock County — becoming only the fourth sheriff in Hancock County in the past 50 years. Adam defeated Democrat Eric Moran in Tuesday’s election. Several counties elected new sheriffs Tuesday. Two other coastal coun-

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ties kept theirs. Melvin Brisolara was re-elected in Harrison County and Mike Byrd won re-election in Jackson County. Hinds, Rankin and Madison counties will all have new sheriffs. Adam said his first task will be to begin a smooth transition with Sheriff Steve Garber, who served for 12 years. Adam said he believes the biggest challenges ahead will be battling the crime problem in the county and the opening of the new jail. The new $40 million facility is expected in late December or early January. Adam said he has confidence in the current staff at the sheriff’s department. “The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department has some great employees and I’m excited to be able to work with them now,” he said. It’s been a pleasure to serve the people of Hancock County for the past 12 years as a justice court judge and I’m looking forward to being the next sheriff.” In Harrison County, Brisolara captured 70 percent of the vote over Randall Darty.

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