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Inside Veterans Day Special Section

Booneville Northeast to host veterans program

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Daily Corinthian Vol. 120, No. 272

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• Corinth, Mississippi • 26 pages • Three sections

County blaze destroys home BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com

Fire destroyed a home south of Glen Thursday afternoon. The home on County Road 343 was a complete loss said Josh Hite with the Jacinto Volunteer Fire Department. Firefighters were dispatched to the wood frame structure around 2:30 p.m. and found the house fully engulfed in flames. Hite said no one was home

at the time the fire started and the cause remains under investigation, but they believe it may electrical in origin. Fire departments from Jacinto, Glen and Farmington responded to the fire, along with the Biggersville Volunteer Fire Department’s rehab truck to provide support for firefighters and others involved in the response. No one was injured in fighting the fire.

Photo courtesy Josh Hite

Fire tore through this home on County Road 343 on Thursday afternoon.

Veterans remembered

High-speed pursuit driver faces charges

Man honors uncles’ service BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Dick Collins is making sure the stories of his family’s veterans, including one who perished on the way home, are not forgotten. He recently completed a project compiling the war correspondence of two of his uncles, Charles Ambrose Taylor Jr., who died in service, and McWhirter Taylor. “We need to remember,” said Collins. He hopes the printed materials, including transcribed letters sent by the servicemen to their sisters — Collins’ mother and aunts — will provide a record “so our families and the next generations that don’t know anything about this time have something to go back to.” Also included are letters from Taylor’s fellow servicemen who

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

More details have emerged concerning area law enforcement’s high-speed pursuit of a stolen vehicle that ended with a crash in Corinth on Nov. 1. According to Tishomingo County Sheriff John Daugherty, the driver of the stolen vehicle, a white Volkswagen, was 23-year-old Kristy Luttrell, of Fulton. Daugherty said on Tuesday, Nov. 1, his deputies attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the car Luttrell was driving on U.S. Highway 72 in the Burnsville area when they discovered it was registered as a stolen vehicle from Indiana. “Deputies tried to stop the vehicle, but were interrupted by another vehicle, with license plates also from the state of Indiana, attempting to interfere with the deputies attempting to make a traffic stop on the first vehicle,” explained the sheriff. The stolen vehicle then sped away toward Corinth on Highway 72, and the other ve-

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Dick Collins shows some of the letters and postcards his uncles sent home during World War II. He recently transcribed the notes.

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BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Former soldier loves to help veterans BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Josh Logan works every day to help veterans succeed in civilian life. Logan doesn’t have to wonder what it’s like for veterans returning from their time in the military. The 36-year-old spent 14 and a half years in the U.S. Army before taking his current job as Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Specialist with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The Kossuth High School graduate joined the Army in the year 2000 as an infantry soldier. He would go on to fol-

People of the Crossroads Lane Fowler, Corinth Staff photo by Kimberly Shelton

With 12 years of service with the Corinth Police Department under his belt, Lieutenant Lane Fowler admits he didn’t always aspire to be a police officer. “I had a brother who was a police officer and being an officer now myself, I find that I enjoy it a little more each day,” said the 56-year-old. “It gives me the opportunity to help a lot of people.” A 1977 graduate of Alcorn Central High School and the owner of Just Kids 1 Daycare, Fowler has taught the D.A.R.E. program at Corinth Middle School for nine years. Married to Tonia, the Northeast graduate has three children, Kacie Blakney, Johnson Fowler and Sidney Fowler; two grandchildren, Laniey Grace and Korbin Blakney; and two step-grandchildren, Caden and Eli Robbins.

“In the end, if I can help veterans it’s something well worth it.” Josh Logan low his aptitude for working with machinery to become an Army mechanic. Later still, he became a recruiter, a job he now recalls as not one of his favorites, but one that helped him prepare for his current Please see LOGAN | 2A

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Lt. Col. Audrey Box of Ripley serves as guest speaker for the annual Veterans Day program at Corinth National Cemetery.

American Legion Post 6 serves up 550 gallons of Brunswick Stew for its annual Veterans Day meal.

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