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2011 Christmas Basket Fund ‘A Community Tradition’

Basket fund goes to $11,875 ‘Tis the season for giving as donations continue to arrive for the 16th Annual Corinth Rotary Club/Daily Corinthian Christmas Basket Fund.

A $25,000 fund raising goal has been set so 1,100 food baskets can be given to local families on Saturday, Dec. 10.

So far $11,875 has been received.

Recent donations include $100 from B. Lyle and Sandy Rich; and $50 from Iris Terry in memory of L.C. Terry.

Donations are a perfect time to make a tribute to a loved one. Contributions to the Christmas Basket Fund can be made “in honor of” or “in memory of” a special person or persons. The tribute will be published in the Daily Corinthian.

Donations can be brought by the newspaper office or mailed to: Daily Corinthian, Attn.: Christmas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, MS 38835.

Arena hosts Alcorn Farm & Machinery vendor event

BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Crossroads Arena has announced the dates for the first annual Alcorn Farm & Machinery Show.

Coming Jan. 19-21, 2012, the show will give visitors access to farm and machinery vendors — and exhibitors representing the many elements of the farming industry.

“The Crossroads Arena staff is working closely with a committed group of local farmers and sponsors to offer a show that has something for everyone,” said Kathryn Dilworth, general manager of the arena. “But even if farming is not your business, backyard gardeners and tractor lovers will enjoy this show as well.”

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Santa lands, shoppers buy

BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Amid the frenzied rush for bargains and sales on the traditional kickoff day of the holiday shopping season, a special guest flew into Corinth — all the way from the North Pole.

As the clock neared 11 a.m. on Black Friday, a large crowd assembled at Harper Square.

A ripple of excitement passed through the diverse gathering of men, women and children of all ages as a helicopter zoomed into view. It circled quickly in the blue sky over the shopping center and began its descent.

Pointing fingers, wide-eyed stares from children and a multitude of cell-phone cameras were aimed at the flying machine as it touched down with a fierce gust of wind that knocked over several of the orange and white barrels supporting the tape around the landing area. A face familiar the world over peered out of the window.

After the rotors slowed, a trio of youthful elves accompanied by Mayor Tommy Irwin approached the helicopter — and out stepped Santa Claus. His eyes twinkled like polished jingle-bells, his cheeks were red ribbons of Yuletide joy and his beard was white as a new Christmas snow.

With a booming “Ho-ho-ho!” jolly old Saint Nick made his way around the group, hugging children and spreading Christmas cheer with each step.

Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

Cindy Thomas of the Square Nest in downtown Corinth wraps a gift on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year.

After completing a lap around the landing area, Santa and his elvin escort walked inside a nearby store. There Mr. Claus sat in a decorated chair near the back of the building to sit for portraits and listen to the Christmas wishes of Corinth’s

youngest residents.

The line of parents and children reached from Santa’s chair all the way through the front door onto the sidewalk.

It was a moment of lighthearted fun during the most hectic shopping day of the year.

A good Black Friday Merchants and retail outlet managers throughout Corinth reported a large turnout and good sales figures for Black Friday.

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Corinth holiday tradition returns

BY MARK BOEHLER

editor@dailycorinthian.com

A Corinth holiday tradition will make a special return this year.

Thanks to the efforts of the leadership and faithful membership at First Baptist Church in Corinth, the ever popular Singing Christmas Tree is back aglow and full of sound.

“Our whole church has embraced it. It’s been wonderful,” said Royce Wilder, associate pastor of music and worship at First Baptist Church. “The church is really behind it. It’s been a long tradition for the community.”

The Singing Christmas Tree began in 1984 with an outside Sunday afternoon performance

by FBC youth. It continued and grew with the adult and youth choir performances every year except one until 2007.

The church went with other Christmas musicals and programs the past three years, but interest has grown to see the return of the singing tree, noted Wilder.

“There has been a lot of interest — not only in our church, but the entire community — to see it return,” noted Wilder, as volunteers began work last week and continue efforts every day. “A lot of people look forward to it. It’s nice to see it return.”

This year’s tree is a brand new eight-tier structure made special for the FBC sanctuary, complete with new lights and decorations, noted the associate pastor.

The new tree stands 25-feet tall, has over 50,000 programmable lights and will feature 50 singers, he added.

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Church member Bonnie Crum helps string lights Friday morning on the new Singing Christmas Tree at First Baptist Church of Corinth. Silent the past three years, the holiday tradition makes its return this year.

Proceeds from River Run benefit cancer center For the Daily Corinthian

SAVANNAH, Tenn. — The hard work of several hundred volunteers paid off in a big way when the Darryl Worley Foundation recently donated $200,000 to the Darryl Worley Cancer Treatment Center.

The funds were raised through Darryl Worley’s Tennessee River Run, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in September.

Worley recently presented the check on behalf of the foundation to Jack Adams, board member for the Hardin County Medical Center.

Regarding this donation, Worley said, “The work that volunteers have been doing for 10 years is what makes this gift possible. Each year I cannot believe all that people give to help their neighbors. I’m humbled to

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work with so many who give unselfishly year after year.”

The 10th anniversary of Worley’s Tennessee River Run included concerts headlined by Montgomery Gentry, Kansas and Worley, a gala, two-day bass tournament, golf tournament, arts and crafts festival, 5K, youth fishing tournament, motorcycle poker run and boat poker run.

Songwriter-in-the-round events were held in Tupelo, Memphis, Jackson and Murfreesboro to raise money, as well. Bumpus Harley-Davidson sponsored the Tennessee River Run, which was named favorite outdoor adventure in West Tennessee by the readers of The Tennessee Magazine and best Please see RIVER RUN | 2A

On this day in history 150 years ago News of the seizure of the British mail packet Trent by the U.S.S. San Jacinto reaches London. Crowds call for the release of Confederate agents Mason and Slidell.

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ARENA: Greg Peterson from RFD-TV’s ‘Machinery Pete’ will be in attendance for meet-and-greet, Jan. 19 CONTINUED FROM 1A

a special preview and dinner for event sponsors and vendors. Greg Peterson from RFD-TV’s “Machinery Pete” television show will be in attendance for a meet-andgreet that evening.

Friday, Jan. 20, and Saturday, Jan. 21, will feature large machinery dealers and vendors inside the arena representing the many aspects of farming and gardening.

Dewitt Auctions’ used machinery auction will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Based in Sikeston, Mo., Dewitt Auctions was founded in 1976 and conducts 50 to 75 farm equipment auctions a year throughout 12 states.

Their list of buyers spans the United States, Canada, Mexico, Greece and Central America.

The auction will be held in the arena’s front parking lot and will include a variety of farm and machinery items from around the region — as well as local dealers and individuals.

The auction will be covered by “Machinery Pete” and featured on an upcoming show. Anyone interested in submitted equipment to the auction should contact Greg Moss

“This show is going to provide opportunities for farmers to purchase equipment from all the major dealers. The used machinery auction is a chance to buy and sell. We hope to see farm owners pursuing the latest equipment and families out here just enjoying time together.”

Kathryn Dilworth General manager, Crossroads Arena at Crossroads Arena.

Representatives from all the major seed and chemical companies — and organizations that support farmers on local and federal levels — will be set up inside the arena on Friday and Saturday.

The Alcorn Farm & Machinery Show’s organizers request that interested farm- and agriculture-related vendors contact the arena’s general manager ASAP to reserve a spot. Retail vendors selling items that reflect North Mississippi’s tradition of agriculture are also welcome.

“This show is going to provide opportunities for farmers to purchase equipment from all the major dealers. The used machinery auction is a chance to buy and sell,”

said Dilworth. “We hope to see farm owners pursuing the latest equipment and families out here just enjoying time together.”

Event sponsorships are currently available. Interested potential sponsors can find information and forms online or at the arena.

The first annual Alcorn Farm & Machinery Show will be held Jan. 19-21, 2011, at Crossroads Arena. Admission is $5 at the door and children get in free. There is no cost to attend the auction.

For more information call Crossroads Arena at 287-7779. To access registration forms for sponsors and exhibitors stop by the arena or visit alcornfarmmachineryshow.com

RIVER RUN: Darryl Worley Foundation has received $1.2 million, has paid out $1.15 million in grants CONTINUED FROM 1A

music event on the water by Life on the Water magazine.

Existing since 2001 to serve special needs for people in West Tennessee, Northwestern Alabama and Northeastern Mississippi, the Darryl Worley Foundation has received $1,200,000 and has paid out $1,150,000 in grants. The founda-

tion receives general donations and memorials throughout the year but the Tennessee River Run has provided the majority of its funds during the past ten years.

Opening and maintaining the Darryl Worley Cancer Treatment Center is just one of the projects funded by the Darryl Worley Foundation. The foundation also supports St. Jude Children’s Re-

search Hospital, Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and others.

The Darryl Worley Foundation is a 501c3 public benefit corporation.

More information is available at www.darrylworleyfoundation.org.

MAGNOLIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER would like to thank our community for all of your support over the last year. To show our heartfelt appreciation, please join us at the 2011 WINTER WONDERLAND. Come share the joy of the season with us. ADMISSION IS FREE, but please bring a non-perishable food item or monetary donation for the Amen Food Pantry. We will also have a silent auction of decorated Christmas Trees, Holiday Wreaths and Holiday Decor with the proceeds benefiting the Magnolia Foundation. WE’LL HAVE SNACKS, GOODIES, TOYS, GAMES, AND A VERY SPECIAL GUEST. THAT’S RIGHT, SANTA WILL BE JOINING US TO CHECK HIS LIST TWICE AND FIND OUT WHO’S BEEN NAUGHTY AND NICE!

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Shooting shows pitfalls of closing old cases

BY ALLEN G. BREED AND HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press

PELAHATCHIE — On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community’s white constable.

That McNair was dead, and that Luther Steverson had killed him are about the only details on which folks around here agree.

Five months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice — which has been looking into scores of civil rights-era deaths — closed a reinvestigation of McNair’s shooting and informed family members that there was nothing to prosecute. But The Associated Press has found a number of people whose eyewitness accounts conflict with the official finding that Steverson fired just once in self-defense.

In response, the FBI made some more inquiries, but the agency insists that the witness accounts it has are “irreconcilably inconsistent,” and that the case remains unprosecutable. Local authorities, saying they trust the bureau’s judgment, consider the case closed.

But it’s far from solved, say others, including McNair’s three surviving children.

In their minds, crucial questions — such as exactly where McNair was hit, and by how many bullets — remain unresolved.

The only way to reconcile the conflicting stories, they agree, would be to exhume the body.

“I would like to know,” says Patsy Morrow-Whitfield, who was just 10 when neighbors led her and her siblings to the field where her stepfather lay. Still, she added, “It’s almost moot to me.

Because the people that would get the great satisfaction out of this, other than my brother there and me and my sister, has already passed.”

The dispute over McNair’s death illustrates the challenges — and high stakes — of seeking the truth so long after the fact.

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McNair’s was one of 124 civil rights-era deaths that the Justice Department has reviewed since launching its “Cold Case Initiative” in 2006. Congress turned up the heat in 2007 with the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, setting aside millions of dollars “to ensure timely and thorough investigations in the cases involved.”

His case was among more than six dozen the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to the DOJ in February 2007.

Steverson shot McNair on Nov. 6, 1965, as he said he was attempting to serve a warrant on the 27-year-old laborer for nonsupport of his and his wife Myrtle’s six children.

In a recent phone interview, the 84-year-old Steverson, who lives in nearby Pearl, told the AP that he had driven out to Pelahatchie — about 20 miles east of the state capital of Jackson — with town Marshal Cooper Stingley and Night Marshal Pat Wade to serve his warrant. He said he was riding in the back seat,

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the warrant in his shirt pocket and his .38-caliber service revolver in its holster on the seat beside him, when they came across McNair at the juke joint off Highway 80.

“I jumped out,” the former constable said. “And I didn’t have time to grab my regular service gun.”

Steverson said he pulled out his “safety piece” — a two-shot, .22 Magnum derringer — and ran after McNair. When he caught up with him in a field of waist-high grass, he said, McNair wheeled and knocked him down.

“He said, ‘You’ve tried to kill me. I’m going to kill you,”’ Steverson said.

“And he started down on me. It looked like he had a knife. Of course, I was laying on my back trying to get up, had the gun in my hand and I shot him.”

He said the bullet struck McNair square in the chest.

“It blowed him backwards,” Steverson said.

He and the others searched for a knife, he said, but never found one.

Soon afterward, Steverson was cleared in a hearing before a justice of the peace.

In late May of this year, the case became one of about 80 officially closed by the Justice Department following reconsideration.

“After careful review of this incident, we have concluded that the federal government cannot now bring a prosecution against the officer,” Paige M. Fitzgerald, deputy chief in charge of the cold-case effort, wrote in a letter to McNair’s family. “Again, please accept our sincere condolences.”

But after obtaining a copy of the FBI letter through a Freedom of Information Act request, the AP went in search of potential witnesses. Reporters located six people who say they were present when the shooting occurred, or in its immediate aftermath, and who dispute Steverson’s version of events.

While varying in some significant details, their accounts converge on some key points: Two say they saw McNair fleeing, not lunging, and at least four remember hearing multiple gunshots, not one.

“That man was shot down in the back like a damn dog!” Connie Harris, 63, told the AP in a late October telephone interview from her home in Pelahatchie. “I’m not telling you what people say; I’m telling you what my two eyes seen.”

Harris, who was 14 at the time, said she and some friends were on their way to the high school for a “record hop” when she saw Stever-

son and McNair, both of whom she knew.

“Why you doing this?

I ain’t did nothing,” she remembered McNair saying. When his pleading did no good, she said, McNair “broke out running.”

Harris said Steverson fired two shots, and McNair “fell on his face.”

Annie Hoard, 62, who was with Harris, said she also heard McNair pleading, then heard two distinct gunshots — though she did not see the shots fired.

John Lee Hoard, 72, described a different perspective. He and McNair were drinking at the bar, he said, when Steverson arrived and told McNair that he was under arrest.

“Joseph told him he hadn’t did nothing,” Hoard, McNair’s third cousin and Annie Hoard’s brother, told the AP in a telephone interview.

John Hoard said McNair ran out the back door, with Steverson in pursuit. He said he saw the constable fire at McNair’s back, then watched his cousin fall.

The FBI said it had interviewed “no less than 11 civilian witnesses” before its initial decision to close the case. None of the people the AP found and spoke with had been contacted by agents.

In its letter, the FBI told the family that it had located one person who claimed to have been there that evening. That man, who was not identified, told agents that he heard two gunshots.

These accounts echo a contemporary report located by the AP in the files of Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, the organization through which the state spied on its own citizens as part of its effort to resist desegregation.

According to the 1965 memo, outlining an unnamed informant’s statement to the commission, a witness said Steverson “shot McNair once in the back, and then in the head as he was lying on the ground.” The informant said the FBI was investigating. But the letter to the family said agents had been unable to locate a file on the decades-old case.

During the reinvestigation, Steverson told agents that he had been “charged, tried and acquitted of murder,” which, if true, would mean he couldn’t be retried on the state level.

But the FBI told the family it could find no public records or news reports of any formal charges.

In a local library, The AP found documentation of a coroner’s inquest and a justice of the peace hearing, however. In a Nov. 8, 1965, article, the AP quot-

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ed Jackson funeral home director Fred Banks, who was black, as saying that McNair “was shot in the front only. Two inches down from the collarbone and slightly to the left of center.”

Banks’ son Karl, now a county supervisor, said his late father would not have been intimidated despite the charged racial atmosphere of the time.

“He would have called it just like he saw it.”

The late Coroner Dempsey T. Amacker, who was white, said the same thing as Fred Banks during a hearing before Justice of the Peace Walter Ratcliff the following week. Public records of the hearing are unavailable and may have been destroyed, local officials said.

“J.P. Court Here Rules ‘Justifiable Homicide’ in Shooting of Negro,” read the headline in the Nov. 11, 1965, edition of the weekly Rankin County News.

The hearing concluded that no crime had occurred. But conviction after conviction in these old cases has proven that such results cannot always be taken at face value, said historian David T. Beito.

“There are certainly many examples that you could point to in Mississippi in that period of deception by authorities, of authorities circling the wagons to protect each other,” said Beito, a professor at the University of Alabama.

For his part, Steverson told the AP he was never worried. When the agents who visited his home asked if he still had the gun with which he shot McNair, he said he produced the derringer and even let agents photograph it.

Regardless of what some witnesses have claimed, he said his conscience is clear.

“I know what happened,” he said. “It was a necessary thing. If it had been my brother, I would have had to done the same thing.”

McNair’s stepdaughter, Morrow-Whitfield, said her mother never got over the killing. Still, she wonders if pursuing the case is even worth it.

“It would be like an empty victory, you know,” she said. Steverson “has lived his life. He’s an old man now. And all it is, is going to be just facts.”

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Faye Switcher Bonds Funeral services for Faye Switcher Bonds, 76, of Corinth, are set for 2 p.m. today at Wheeler Grove Baptist Church with burial at Forrest Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Bonds died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at her residence. Born March 18, 1935, she was a retired factory worker. She was a member of Wheeler Grove Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her father, Claudie Lee Switcher; her mother, Mabel Inez Gammill Switcher; and two brothers, Charles Switcher and Sammie Switcher.

Survivors include her husband, Joe Edward Bonds; two sons, Mike Bonds and wife Rhonda Bonds of Belmont, and Jeff Bonds and wife Helen of Corinth; one daughter, Shelia Harris and husband Lynn of Corinth; nine grandchildren, Shaun Harris and wife Felicia of Corinth, Whitney Kilgore and husband Doug of Burnsville, Conner Bonds and wife Gina of Rienzi, Chelsea Bonds of Belmont, Austin Bonds of Belmont, Wendy Fowler and husband John of Twin Cities, Ga., Sonya Voyles and husband Bobby of Russelville, Ala., Jennifer Johnson and husband Jeremiah of Booneville, and Heather Essary of Corinth; 15 great-grandchildren; 3 great great-grandchildren; one brother, Larry Switcher and wife Pat of Corinth; other relatives and a host of friends.

Bro. Kara Blackard and Bro. Ray Bennett will officiate.

Visitation began Saturday and continues today from 11:30 a.m. until service time at Wheeler Grove Baptist Church.

Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Landlords face new fees in Tupelo Associated Press

TUPELO — Tupelo landlords have been sent letters informing them of a new ordinance that will raise their business costs starting Jan. 1 and what fines they face if they don’t comply.

City officials tell the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports 750 rental property owners received the letter, a registration form and new fee schedule.

The new ordinance requires rental property owners to pay an annual $25-per-unit registration fee and submit to housing inspections every two years.

Landlords who keep utilities in their own name will get inspected every six months.

Each of the first two inspections are free, but owners who repeatedly fail them must pay $100 to $400 for subsequent visits. After the fifth consecutive failure, landlords will be brought to court.

Inspections also will be required anytime a unit changes tenants.

Landlords who fail to register will be fined $350 per unit. Those who register late also face a $10-perunit penalty for each month they’re past due.

Tupelo has about 5,100 rental units, according to the most recent census.

Officials say the program aims to clean up blighted rental property and improve the general health of all neighborhoods.

Proponents also hope it will decrease the overall percentage of rental units and encourage more home ownership.

It’s the second version of the original program launched in January 2007. That version charged landlords $10 a year if they owned one to three units, $30 annually for four to 10 units, and $100 annually if they owned more than 10.

Landlords who already have paid those fees for the current fiscal year will be exempt from the new fee schedule until Oct. 1.

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Not gridlock, but democracy

BY DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN Columnists

Mark Twain famously wrote that “no man’s property or liberty is safe while the Legislature is in session.” The same could have been said for the deficit reduction supercommittee. Now that it has reached an impasse, we can all breathe easier!

There is a deep, fundamental difference between the parties in Washington. Democrats want higher levels of taxes and spending, and Republicans want lower levels of each. The gulf between them can be adjudicated only by the electorate at an election.

That’s the way we do it in a democracy. To split the difference in a spate of legislative deal-making is to deprive our people of their right of self-government.

Because we are not Japan, we use our elections to air fundamental policy differences.

Because we are not Italy, we come to conclusions and are not always looking to split the difference in fuzzy compromise.

For the last weeks, many conservatives have been concerned that our Republican members of the panel would sell us out and go for a tax increase. Some, like Tennessee’s Senator Lamar Alexander, urged one. For them to have agreed to a compromise would have been to disempower the voters. It would have been a sin.

Now the great question looms before us: How large should government be? Should it consume the 41 percent of our national resources it now does or the 33 percent it did when Obama took power? Let the debate begin, and let the voters decide. And let one or the other party return to Washington in 2013 with control of both houses and of the White House, determined to enact the will of the voters.

The insiders in Washington wanted a deal because they don’t trust the voters. The insiders on Wall Street wanted one because they want predictability. But this decision is not to be made by insiders. It will be made by voters. It is not the triumph of gridlock, but of democracy. The absence of a deal is not a failing of our system, but a manifestation of its most glorious success.

We are still, after all, a democracy.

(Dick Morris and Eileen McGann are political advisors and syndicated columnists.)

A verse to share “Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.”

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‘Super Committee’: Failure or success?

Many people are lamenting the failure of the Congressional “Super Committee” to come up with an agreement on ways to reduce the runaway federal deficits. But you cannot judge success or failure without knowing what the goal was.

If you think the goal was to solve the country’s fiscal crisis, then obviously the Super Committee was a complete failure. But, if you think the goal was to improve the chances of the Obama administration being re-elected in 2012, it was a complete success.

Imagine that there had been no Super Committee in the first place. Who would be blamed for the country’s fiscal crisis? The overwhelmingly Democratic Congress that voted to spend the money which increased the deficits more during the Obama administration than in the eight years of George W. Bush.

When the Obama administration’s massive spending spree was going on, Republicans were so hopelessly outnumbered in both houses of Congress that nothing that the Congressional Republicans could say or do would have the slightest effect.

Even the cleverest political spin-master would have a hard time trying to keep

blame from falling on the Obama administration, without the later shift of to Thomas attention the debt criSowell sis.

T w o Hoover Institute things got the blame shifted. The first was the national debt ceiling, which had to be raised, if politicians were not going to be forced to either cut existing programs or shut down the government -- neither of which was politically attractive.

By the time a vote on raising the national debt ceiling was required, Republicans had gotten control of the House of Representatives.

This meant that the national debt issue was now a bipartisan issue, whereas the spending that drove the national debt up to that national debt ceiling had been a problem strictly for the Democrats.

Splitting the blame with the Republicans for what Democrats alone had done was a political victory, in terms of making the Obama administration less vulnerable at the polls in 2012.

With the help of the media, the big issue was no longer the big spending that

drove the national debt up to the legal ceiling, but the failure of the Republicans to help solve the debt ceiling crisis.

Many people lamented the failure of President Obama to become engaged in the process of working out a solution to the fiscal crisis, and regarded that as a failing. But, again, success or failure depends on what goal you are trying to achieve.

If the goal was to reach a bipartisan solution to the country’s fiscal crisis, then the president’s involvement might have increased the chances of doing that. But, if the goal was to outsource the blame, then the president’s fading away into the background was the perfect political ploy.

Appointing a bipartisan Super Committee with dramatic powers, and apparently dramatic consequences if they failed to reach agreement, created another long distraction in the media that took the president further out of the picture.

When it came to media coverage of the country’s financial crisis, it was almost a question of “Barack Who?” The draconian spending cuts that were supposed to hang over the heads of the members of the Super Committee, like a sword of Damocles, turned out to be a

cardboard sword when the inevitable failure to reach an agreement occurred.

A new Congress meets before these draconian cuts are supposed to happen -- and no Congress can be forced to do anything by a previous Congress. So all this turned out to be a grand charade -- and politicians are great at charades.

This one was a complete political success, because we are now talking about who is to blame for not coming up with a way of solving the fiscal crisis, rather than who did the runaway spending that caused that crisis in the first place.

An even longer-running charade is the budgetcutting charade, where big spenders promise to make spending cuts to match tax increases -- or even to exceed tax increases. Of course the tax increases come first and the spending cuts are spread out into the future -- and usually end up not taking place at all.

This particular charade could be ended by making the spending cuts take place first. But that would spoil the political game.

(Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell. com.)

‘Super Committee’ failure par for course STARKVILLE — The failure of the so-called congressional “super committee” to forge a deficit reduction deal is indicative of far broader problems on Capitol Hill.

The painful automatic budget cuts set to take place in 2013 are but the tip of the fiscal iceberg unless Congress retreats from gridlock and acts.

The leadership of the bipartisan special joint committee said in admitting that political gridlock had blinded the “super committee” from the broader problems facing the country that in a statement: “After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline.”

Both parties blamed the other on Capitol Hill and there was political sniping between the U.S. Senate and U.S. House as well. Lots of politicians issued statements citing their personal “disappointment” over the failure of the committee to

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, memSid Salter said bers of his Democratic Columnist Party “were prepared to strike a grand bargain that would make painful cuts while asking millionaires to pay their fair share, and we put our willingness on paper,” but that Republicans across the political aisle “never came close to meeting us halfway.”

But his Republican counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, argued that an agreement “proved impossible not because Republicans were unwilling to compromise, but because Democrats would not accept any proposal that did not expand the size and scope of government or punish job creators.”

There was even sniping among the 2012 field of Republican presidential con-

tenders and between them and Democratic President Barack Obama. GOP candidates said that Obama had failed to display the leadership necessary to forge an agreement, an accusation rejected by the White House.

The failure of the “super committee” mocks the fiscal realities facing the country. Over the next decade, the Obama administration has proposed some $45.8 trillion of spending with some $20 trillion of that to be spent on Social Security (retirement pensions), Medicaid (health care for the poor, the blind, disabled and children), and Medicare (health care for senior citizens).

The trouble with that plan is that the government only anticipates revenues of some $37.3 trillion. That leaves a projected deficit over the next decade of $8.5 trillion.

Not only is Social Security upside down in terms of benefits paid versus payroll deductions received in 2010, but the Social Security trust fund has been

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reduced by $2.5 trillion worth of congressional borrowing. What retirees and Baby Boomers really have in terms of that “nest egg” they thought they had when FICA was being deducted from their payroll checks is in reality a pile of IOUs in a filing cabinet in Parkersburg, W. Va. The 2.5 trillion owed to Social Security is part of the $14 trillion national debt. And, oh, by the way, Social Security has a total unfunded liability of well over $8 trillion.

The truth is that the nation’s debt and deficit situation would have been tenuous even if the “super committee’s” work had succeeded on every front. Once again, the committee was little more than a sideshow that diverted attention from the more complex problems – like having Congress explain what happened to the Social Security trust fund.

Neither party has the high ground and both parties leave the “super committee” table looking foolish.

(Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

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State Madison residents remember ’01 tornado

BY STEVEN G. WATSON Associated Press

MADISON — It has been a decade since a deadly, predawn F-4 tornado ripped a path through southern Madison County killing two, but for those involved the memories are still fresh.

As one of the first officials on the scene following the Nov. 21, 2001, storm, Madison Public Works Director Denson Robinson, said people still say the tornado was a lesson learned.

“I think it certainly has made a difference,” Robinson said of people’s preparedness. “So many people were traumatized.”

The tornado destroyed 47 homes and damaged more than 100 others.

The tornado hit just before day break at 5:20 a.m. when most residents were sleeping.

Some described suddenly being awaken by a rattling and the massive sound of the tornado

bearing down on them.

Parts of Fairfield were a slab, wiped clean. Automobiles were twisted and tossed like play things. The storm bored it way north through Gluckstadt before lifting near the Nissan plant.

At the time of the storm, there were harrowing stories of survival, how people heard the faint wail of a warning siren in Madison only to dive to safety into a utility room or under furniture in the nick of time.

That morning warning sirens sounded in Ridgeland, too, but there was just an eerie still.

Now survivors of that storm and those it missed say they pay close attention to weather online, own weather radios, some even receive alerts via text or smart phone apps.

Hardest hit was Fairfield off of Mississippi 463 where WLBT-TV meteorologist Barbie Bassett lived at the time and still does. She said the tornado

forever changed the way she reports the weather.

“Before I would get excited about it, almost like a rush,” Bassett said of her job reporting bad and sometimes dangerous weather to viewers. “Now that I’ve been effected by one and I have children and I know people who have been effected, it’s different.

“I’ve been there and done that so it totally changed the way I cover it,” she said.

Bassett was actually out of town with her husband visiting her parents in the Delta for Thanksgiving, but woke to the call from friends and colleagues.

At the time, her husband William was a paramedic and executive with AMR, the county’s ambulance provider.

“We made a three hour trip in about an hour and 45 minutes,” she said.

“I remember when we turned the corner driving into Fairfield

it was just a sense of awe. It was almost like a dream. Is this really my neighborhood? Is this really my neighbor’s houses?

What about my house? It was just pure shock.”

The Bassett home was on the outside edge of the tornado’s path and received some structural damage, but not enough that it had to be torn down.

She remembers helping others who faired much worse, sifting through rubble and finding items strewn all over.

Several houses were completely destroyed in a part of the neighborhood some began calling “Ground Zero.”

Kisha Jones, a 25-year-old public relations executive, was visiting her parents in Fairfield subdivision when she was killed in the storm.

The storm’s other victim was a baby, delivered prematurely at a hospital after the mother was injured critically.

Robinson was one of the first

EMS responders who made it to Fairfield just after the storm passed. He described the scene as eerie.

“When I stepped out of my truck it was pitch black dark and so quiet,” he said. “Then you hear someone say ‘help, over here,’ and you just go help them.”

Bassett said she sometimes talks to middle school students in Madison County who were toddlers when the storm came through. She said it doesn’t take long for the conversation to turn to tornados.

“It’s the one question they always bring up,” she said. “They say they had a tornado in their neighborhood and ask if there could be another one happen this year.

“I think it’s definitely brought a heightened sense of awareness to severe weather and the importance of having several different sources of weather information.”

Councilman seeks fund to pay water bills for needy Associated Press

JACKSON — Jackson should set up a program similar to the one Entergy uses that collects donations for people who can’t pay their utility bills.

That’s the word from Councilman Kenneth Stokes, who is proposing such a fund because he suspects an alarming number of Jacksonians are going without water for months at a time.

Saturday’s Clarion Ledger reported that about a dozen residents attended

a public hearing on the issue Wednesday night.

A few of them said they or someone they know is without running water.

“We’re talking about people who have children.

And these children are urinating and defecating in buckets,” Stokes said.

“They’re taking these buckets and dumping them in the backyard and under the house.”

The problem isn’t always that residents can’t pay their regular usage bill. Often a leak will lead

to thousands of dollars in charges for water they didn’t know they were using.

Others have complained of needing repairs they can’t afford, leaving them unable to turn their water back on in the meantime.

The city can set up payment plans and do a few other things to work with people who owe large sums, but Public Works is prohibited by law from simply forgiving outstanding debt. City offi-

cials said they don’t know how many customers have been issued disconnect notices.

Stokes’ proposal would allow water customers to indicate on their bill that they want to give a dollar to a fund for those who have trouble paying.

Stokes said he’s had informal discussions with the Salvation Army about administering the program, and the agency’s help would mitigate the possibility of cronyism or misuse.

Georgetown resident Geneva Johnson said she visited a friend in Jackson whose house smelled of sewage because he lacked running water.

“It’s bad,” Johnson said. “We’ve got a lot of folks who need this.”

Jackson resident Barbara Smith said she’s been without water for around three months because her landlord won’t fix a problem with her pipes.

“I couldn’t wash up,” Smith said. “I try to keep a

clean house, but I have to go to a neighbor’s house to get water.”

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NASA launches super-size rover ‘Curiosity’ to Mars

BY MARCIA DUNN Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA’s Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life.

It will take 81⁄2 months for Curiosity to reach Mars following a journey of 354 million miles.

An unmanned Atlas V rocket hoisted the rover, officially known as Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky.

A Mars frenzy gripped the launch site, with more than 13,000 guests jamming the space center for NASA’s first launch to Earth’s next-door neighbor in four years, and the first send-off of a Martian rover in eight years.

NASA astrobiologist Pan Conrad, whose carbon compound-seeking instrument is on the rover, had a shirt custom made

for the occasion. Her bright blue, short-sleeve blouse was emblazoned with rockets, planets and the words, “Next stop Mars!”

Conrad jumped, cheered and snapped pictures as the rocket blasted off a few miles away. So did Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Roger Wiens, a planetary scientist in charge of Curiosity’s rockzapping laser machine, called ChemCam. Wiens shouted “Go, Go, Go!” as the rocket soared.

“It was beautiful,” he later observed, just as NASA declared the launch a full success.

The 1-ton Curiosity — as large as a car — is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 science instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, and analyze them right on the spot. There’s a drill as well as the laserzapping device.

NASA’s Mars exploration program director, Doug

McCuistion, called it “the monster truck of Mars.”

“It’s an enormous mission. It’s equivalent of three missions, frankly, and quite an undertaking,” said an ecstatic McCuistion. “Science fiction is now science fact. We’re flying to Mars. We’ll get it on the ground and see what we find.”

The primary goal of the $2.5 billion mission is to see whether cold, dry, barren Mars might have been hospitable for microbial life once upon a time — or might even still be conducive to life now.

No actual life detectors are on board; rather, the instruments will hunt for organic compounds.

Curiosity’s 7-foot arm has a jackhammer on the end to drill into the Martian red rock, and the 7-foot mast on the rover is topped with high-definition and laser cameras.

No previous Martian rover has been so sophisticated or capable.

Gun issue represents tough politics

BY ERICA WERNER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — They are fuzzy about some issues but the Republican presidential candidates leave little doubt about where they stand on gun rights.

Rick Perry and Rick Santorum go pheasant hunting and give interviews before heading out.

Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain speak to the National Rifle Association convention. Michele Bachmann tells People magazine she wants to teach her daughters how to shoot because women need to be able to protect themselves. Mitt Romney, after backing some gun control measures in Massachusetts, now presents himself as a strong Second

Amendment supporter.

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is virtually silent on the issue.

He has hardly addressed it since a couple months after the January assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., when he promised to develop new steps on gun safety in response.

He still has failed to do so, even as Tucson survivors came to Capitol Hill last week to push for action to close loopholes in the background check system.

Democrats have learned the hard way that embracing gun control can be terrible politics, and the 2012 presidential election is shaping up to underscore just how delicate the issue can be. With the election

likely to be decided largely by states where hunting is a popular pastime, like Missouri, Ohio or Pennsylvania, candidates of both parties want to win over gun owners, not alienate them.

For Republicans, that means emphasizing their pro-gun credentials. But for Obama and the Democrats, the approach is trickier.

Obama’s history in support of strict gun control measures prior to becoming president makes it difficult for him to claim he’s a Second Amendment champion, even though he signed a bill allowing people to take loaded guns into national parks. At the same time, he’s apparently decided that his record backing gun safety is nothing to boast of, either.

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SiriusXM 3264356 Intel 1853416 Microsoft 1833471 PwShs QQQ 1704597 Cisco 1644670 MicronT 1368664 FocusMda 1232465 GileadSci 1054597 Nvidia 960688 Oracle 872634

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-.03 -1.56 -1.00 -2.52 -.92 -.79 -7.80 -.60 +.11 -1.86

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CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV - Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, 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.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

Staff photo by Melanie King

Home Banking ribbon cutting ceremony Home Banking Company celebrated its arrival to Corinth on Harper Road with a ribbon cutting ceremony and luncheon on Friday, Nov. 18. Taking part were Branch Manager John Butler; Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin and other city officials; members of the Home Banking Company Board of Directors; employees from other Home Banking branches; community and civic leaders; and members and representatives of The Alliance.

If you raise price, they’ll still come

BY CHRISTINA REXRODE Associated Press

NEW YORK — The way Americans are chomping Big Macs, lacing up pricey sneakers and gulping peppermint mochas in this economy, you’d think they’re taking advantage of big holiday discounts.

The truth is they’re paying more.

McDonald’s, Nike, Starbucks and other companies initially worried that customers would run the other way when they started raising prices to offset their higher costs for ingredients, fuel and packaging. But so far, cash-strapped Americans largely have swallowed the price spikes. And they’re continuing to do so during this holiday shopping season.

On a recent weekday, five full floors of shoppers in a Nike store in New York didn’t seem to mind paying more for their favorite kicks, including the almost $200 sneakers named for NBA star LeBron James. At a McDonald’s across town, people munched on Big Macs and fries that cost a dime or two more than last year.

Customers also piled into a Starbucks down the street, where cappuccinos and many other specialty drinks now top $5.

Timothy and Katrin Sullivan, a San Diego couple, estimate that together they spend about $100 a month on skinny caramel macchiatos and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks, where prices on some drinks have risen in some regions this year. As parents of five children, they worry about the economy and have cut back on travel and ball games, but so far their morning cup of joe has survived the chopping block despite the rising price.

“It’s cheaper than therapy,” says Katrin Sullivan, 39.

The prices Americans pay for food, travel and other things have steadily risen this year, according to government data.

Prices went up 3.5 percent in October compared with the same month a year ago. At the same time, every month for the past year except one, spending grew 2 percent or more compared with the same month a year ago. That’s given retailers some cautious optimism as they try to gauge just how much more consumers are willing to pay.

Pete Bensen, McDonald’s chief financial officer told analysts during the company’s earnings call that the question boils down to this: “Is the consumer in a place that we’re comfortable we can continue to add price increases?”

Companies of all stripes have been asking that

question a lot. In the past year, they’ve been paying more for materials like beef, corn and fuel that they use to make, package and transport their goods.

A combination of poor crop yields in some parts of the world, unrest in the Middle East and greater demand from countries like Brazil and China have sent those costs up.

Many costs have come down after spiking in the spring. A pound of coffee, for example, is trading at about $2.30, down from $3 in the spring. But that’s up from $2 a year ago.

As a result, Starbucks Corp. this year raised the price of the packaged coffee in its stores by 17 percent. The company declines to say whether prices on brewed drinks

have risen or fallen overall in the past year, since those price decisions vary by region. But generally, the Seattle chain says the prices of specialty drinks like lattes and macchiatos are more likely to have risen this year than simpler drinks.

The price of a 16-ounce grande cappuccino at Starbucks costs about $4.25, up about 23 percent from $3.45 a year ago, research firm Technomic estimates. Meanwhile, a bagel went up from $1 a year ago to $1.25.

That hasn’t stopped Starbucks customers from getting their coffee fix, though. Store traffic rose 6 percent in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in October. Revenue at stores open at least

a year — an indicator of a retailer’s health — rose 8 percent.

“We think we are in a very good spot right now,” Jeff Hansberry, who runs Starbucks’ consumer products division, said in a call with analysts this month.

At Nike Inc., sales rose almost 18 percent in the three-month period through August, even though it raised prices on certain styles this year.

Nike hasn’t detailed the price increases, but according to research firm SportsOneSource Group, the suggested price of a pair of this year’s version of LeBron James’ sneakers is about $170, up from about $160 last year. Nike said it expects to raise prices more broadly in the spring.

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Daily Corinthian • Sunday, November 27, 2011 • 9A

BLACK FRIDAY: Santa Claus will be available for pictures today CONTINUED FROM 1A

At Ginger’s at Harper Square — the store where Santa established his headquarters — owner Ginger Stockton said the day was a complete success for both sales and holiday cheer.

“It’s been just awesome!” Stockton said. “It gets the season started off perfectly, it’s so fun and exciting!”

Santa extended his visit through Saturday and will be available for pictures and Christmas requests today during regular business hours from 1 until 5 p.m.

Austin’s Shoes was bustling with shoppers even during lunchtime, when many stores saw the number of customers decline.

“We’re crazy busy today,” said Assistant Manager Heather Green.

She said sales at the footwear store were excellent, with shoppers taking advantage of the buy-oneget-on-at-half-price sale and extended store hours.

Austin’s will continue offering discounts through Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Green happily predicted the heavy shopper traffic in Austin’s would continue throughout the day.

“It will be steady today — and steady’s good around here,” she said.

The owner of a downtown toy store reported good business for the day.

“Sales have been good,” said Sherry Grisham, owner of Today’s Dolls & Toys, “and it’s been busy.”

She predicted a spike in sales during the afternoon from “overnight shoppers” and a good day the next, with many shoppers turning out for deals on Small Business Saturday.

The story was similar at other downtown businesses.

Mary Kate Butler, owner of Kates and Co., reported lots of shopper traffic.

“It’s good. It’s been really busy,” Butler said.

“It’ll be even busier this

afternoon and Small Business Saturday.”

Mississippi-themed items proved particularly popular with Black Friday shoppers, Butler said, including pillows, glasses, dish towels and candles embossed with facets of the Magnolia State.

At Andie Grace — an apparel store in downtown — shoppers turned out early to take advantage of a 30-percent-off sale.

“We were really surprised people came out at 8 a.m.,” said owner Andie Grace Daniel. “We’ve been busy ever since. It slowed down for lunch, but then it picked up again.”

Daniel said turnout was “about double from previous years” and the large number the purchases made for a busy day getting the items ready to go under Christmas trees.

“We have tons of stuff to wrap!” Daniel said.

Store employees were also busy wrapping gifts at the Square Nest.

“We’ve had a great day, probably our best day of the year so far,” said owner Cindy Thomas. “This feels like Christmas now!”

Thomas reported good sales-figures, with many shoppers stopping by from out of town. Formal wear items were among the day’s biggest sellers.

“Our pageant and prom business has probably doubled — that’s been fabulous!” said Thomas. “I think we’re going to pull it out and it’ll be at least as good as last year.”

Lipchic Boutique on Fillmore Street surpassed its previous year’s sales total by lunchtime, said owner Brenda Barbour.

“We’ve had lots of folks come in,” she said. “We opened early and still had people waiting outside.”

For Joe’s Shoes — a feature of downtown Corinth since 1938 — the owner predicted sales would be 35 percent higher than the previous year’s total

Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

Santa Claus arrives via helicopter at Harper Square Mall in Corinth on Friday, above. Customers look for deals at Austin’s Shoes on Black Friday, right. by the end of the day. The shoe store offered “lots of sales” and bargains spread throughout the store.

“It’s been a great day so far, and I feel like the afternoon will be even better!” said owner Jerry Latch, around 1:30 p.m. “We’ve had customers all day long.”

Latch credited some of his store’s success to Black Friday’s sunny and warm weather and Corinth’s excellent, lively downtown area.

“Corinth has one of the best downtown areas anywhere around,” Latch said.

At the Southgate Shopping Center, a line of eager Belk customers stretched past the front door of Maurices as they waited Friday morning for the store to open its doors.

Many were lined up for the Belk Million Dollar Giveaway, in which 250 customers were given gift cards of various values, with one lucky early

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morning shopper winning a gift card worth $1,000.

The winner was a regular Belk customer, Ellen Hendrix of Corinth.

“She was very excited,” said Store Manager Linda Hastings. “That was a lot of fun, and the first time we’ve done the $1,000 giveaway.”

The store manager said

she was thrilled with the day’s sales figures — which were “well above” the previous year’s total.

“The first three hours were beyond our expectations,” said Hastings. “It’s very exciting, and has been a really good day for us.”

The biggest sellers at Belk were ladies’ boots,

luggage and electronics.

Hastings looked forward to continued success at Belk’s new location.

“Every weekend between here and Christmas we have something special going on,” she said.

“We’re excited about the holiday season — it’s going to be great!”

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10A • Daily Corinthian

Local Schedule Monday Basketball Walnut Invitational (G) Ripley-Potts Camp, 4 (B) Ripley-Potts Camp, 5:30 (G) Walnut-Ashland, 7 (B) Walnut-Ashland, 8:30

Tuesday Basketball Biggersville @ Jumpertown, 6 Corinth @ Tish (WXRZ), 6 Soccer Corinth @ Saltillo, 5/7

Thursday Basketball Walnut Invitational (G) Ripley-Ashland, 4 (B) Ashland-Potts Camp, 5:30 (G) Walnut-Potts Camp, 7 (B) Walnut-Ripley, 8:30 North Pontotoc Tourney Kossuth

Friday Basketball Central @ New Site, 6 Adamsville @ Corinth, 6 Biggersville @ Wheeler, 6 Kossuth @ East Union, 6 Soccer North Pontotoc @ Corinth, 5:30

Saturday Basketball Biggersville @ Central (WXRZ), 6 Walnut Invitational (G) Ashland-Potts Camp, 3 (B) Walnut-Potts Camp, 4:30 (G) Walnut-Ripley, 6 (B) Ripley-Ashland, 7:30 North Pontotoc Tourney Kossuth Soccer Center Hill Tournament (B) Corinth-Horn Lake, 8:30 a.m.

(G) Corinth-Horn Lake, 9:45 a.m.

(B) Corinth-Center Hill, 12:15 (G) Corinth-Center Hill, 1:30

Tuesday, Dec. 6 Basketball Central @ West Union, 6 East Union @ Walnut, 6 Itawamba @ Corinth (WXRZ), 6 Kossuth @ Ingomar, 6 Soccer Corinth @ Tish County, 4:30/6:30

Shorts KHS Booster Club Thirty guns in thirty days. Giving away a gun a day in December, starting Dec. 1st. Tickets are $30 each, or 4 for $100. See any KHS Booster Club member for tickets, or call Christy Dickson at 665-2179 or Amy Mercer at 609-9430. Only 1,000 tickets will be sold and only a limited number remain.

Sports Ministry Registration for the Jericho Sports Ministry basketball is under way at Tate Baptist Church. Cost is $35 for each player and includes jersey. Open to ages 4-15 years old. Practices will begin Dec. 5 and season starts Jan. 7, 2012. Season is eight weeks. Mandatory player evaluations will be Dec. 1-2 from 6-8 p.m. at Tate Baptist. For more info call the church 286-2935 or Dr. Mike Weeden 286-8860.

RailCat Camp Cross City Baseball Academy -- located in the Corinth Sportsplex -- will host its RailCat Camp on Saturday, December 10. Houston Astros coach Dave Clark, a 12-year major league veteran, and St. Louis Cardinals closer Jason Motte will be at the camp.

Camp is open to three different age groups: 7-9 camp is set for 9:30-11 a.m.; 10-12 is 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.; and 13 and up will be held from 2-3 p.m. Camp is limited to 20 spots in each age group. Cost is $50 per player. For more information call 901-283-8315 or go to www.crosscitybaseball.com NE Basketball Tickets Northeast Mississippi Community College athletic officials have announced that season tickets for the upcoming 2011-12 Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball season are now on sale at the business office located in Estes Hall. Cost is $35 per season ticket or $60 for a pair. For information regarding the purchase of Northeast basketball season tickets, contact the Northeast Business Office at 662-720-7251.

Winter Bowling Leagues Plaza Lanes will be offering bowling leagues this winter for men and women. Leagues for both will play on Monday and Thursday nights. Ladiesonly leagues will bowl on Tuesday night and Thursday morning. Church Leagues will play on Tuesday nights and only four more spots are available. Youth will bowl Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. For more information call Plaza Lanes at 286-8105.

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Warriors wake up; scalp Chieftains

BY H. LEE SMITH II lsmith@dailycorinthian.com

HOUSTON -— Corinth overcame a slow start to roll past Okolona 82-47 in the opening contest of the Hilltopper Classic.

The Warriors, which improved to 2-1, fell behind 8-0 and went scoreless the first four minutes of the contest.

“We played pretty good after that,” said seventh-year head coach Keith Greene, who won for the 131st time in 198 outings.

Corinth trailed 13-9 after

one but exploded in the middle periods. Fifty-four combined points in the second and third -- paced by Kendrick Williams’ 15 and Eric Richardson’s 10 -- gave CHS a comfortable 63-38 lead heading into the final frame.

Eight different Warriors scored in the 16-minute span, with six tallying four or more points.

Darius Herman scored all eight of his points in the final quarter as the Warriors more than doubled the Cheiftains by an 19-9 count.

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Okolona 13 7 1 8 9 -- 47 The league opener will be CORINTH (82) -- Eric Richardson just the Warriors’ fourth game 23, Kendrick Williams 15, Darius Herin 18 days. man 8, Desmin Harris 8, Raheem “We new we had eight play- Sorrell 8, Deione Weeks 6, Jose Coners (six varsity) that were treras 5, Dondre Green 4, Darian Patplaying football and 20 of terson 3, Jazz Garner 2.

OKOLONA (47) -- Ford 12, Clark 10, our 25 are either freshmen Ivy 9, Thomas 8, Jenkins 4, Allen 3, or sophomores,” said Greene. Bowens 1.

“That’s why we opened with a 3-Pointers: (C) Herman 2, Richardlight shedule in terms of early- son 2, Harris 2, Contreras, Patterson.

(O) Ivy, Thomas, Allen. season games.”

Record: Corinth 2-1.

Corinth will open its home

Mississippi St. crushes Ole Miss in Egg Bowl

BY DAVID BRANDT Associated Press

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State quarterback Chris Relf took the first snap and barreled past would-be Mississippi tacklers for 12 yards.

Then he took the second snap and darted through a gigantic hole, rushing 17 yards downfield.

It was only two plays. But that’s all the time it took to tell that the Bulldogs were going to roll to their third straight Egg Bowl victory.

Mississippi State crushed rival Ole Miss 31-3 on Saturday night at Davis Wade Stadium, earning bowl eligibility for the second straight season and a three-game winning streak in the Egg Bowl for the first time since 1942.

“I hope the kids in Mississippi understand that this is where you come to win championships,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said. “When we came here, we made this a priority. And tomorrow we’ll restart that clock in our locker room that counts down to this game next year.

But I’m going to have to figure out how to reset it for a leap year.”

Vick Ballard rushed for 144 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries. He also caught two passes for 25 yards and a touchdown. LaDarius Perkins added a 36-yard touchdown run and a 20-yard touchdown catch. The 28-point margin of victory was the most for Mississippi State (6-6, 2-6 Southeastern Conference) in the series since 1919.

Ole Miss (2-10, 0-8) finished a miserable season that included 10 losses for the first time in program history and ends coach Houston Nutt’s four-year tenure.

Nutt’s resignation was announced on Nov. 7, but he remained to coach the last three games, which the Rebels lost by a combined score of 110-13.

Nutt ends with a 24-26 overall record at Ole Miss, including a 10-22 mark in conference games. The Rebels have lost 14 straight SEC games.

Mullen has injected new life into the rivalry since his arrival in Starkville, with a smack-talking persona that’s been backed up with dominant victories. The Bulldogs unveiled new uniforms for Saturday’s game, with gold numbers, gold shoes and the phrase ‘Hail State’ replac-

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Mississippi State players hoist the Egg Bowl trophy as they celebrate Saturday’s 31-3 win over Mississippi in Starkville, Miss. It was Mississippi State’s third straight win in the series. ing each player’s last name on the back of the jersey.

Mississippi State’s first drive went 11 plays and 68 yards, ending on an 18-yard touchdown pass from Relf to Ballard that gave the Bulldogs a 7-0 lead with 5:35 remaining in the first quarter.

“They kind of didn’t have (much) to play for,” Ballard said. “We did.”

Mississippi State stretched its lead to 21-0 by halftime on a 36-yard run by Perkins and then a 20-yard pass from Relf to Perkins. To seal any doubt, Ballard rushed for a 25-yard touchdown early in the third quarter to push the lead to 280.

Relf didn’t have to throw much but was effective when he did, completing 8 of 13 passes for 70 yards, two touchdowns and

one interception.

“We didn’t really have the season we wanted to have,” Relf said. “But beating Ole Miss, it just gives us confidence that we can keep it going.”

Ole Miss never could get moving on offense. Its only sustained drive lasted 12 plays and 47 yards before Bryson Rose kicked a 28-yard field goal in the third quarter. Enrique Davis rushed for 32 yards on 12 carries while Donte Moncrief caught four passes for 20 yards.

The game had a fitting ending, with Ole Miss quarterback Barry Brunetti leveled at the 3-yard line by the Mississippi State defense as he was trying to score a touchdown. The crowd roared its approval as Please see EGG | 11A

Ole Miss-Mississippi State Series Results Previous results of the Ole MissMississippi State series. The Egg Bowl Trophy was awarded beginning in 1927. (#-MSU forced to forfeit wins

by NCAA)

Year Winner Score Site 2010 MSU 31-23 Oxford 2009 MSU 41-27 Starkville 2008 Ole Miss 45-0 Oxford 2007 MSU 17-14 Starkville 2006 Ole Miss 20-17 Oxford 2005 MSU 35-14 Starkville 2004 Ole Miss 20-3 Oxford 2003 Ole Miss 31-0 Starkville 2002 Ole Miss 24-12 Oxford 2001 MSU 36-28 Starkville 2000 Ole Miss 45-30 Oxford –––– 1999 MSU 23-20 Starkville 1998 MSU 28-6 Oxford 1997 Ole Miss 15-14 Starkville 1996 MSU 17-0 Oxford 1995 Ole Miss 13-10 Starkville 1994 MSU 21-17 Oxford 1993 MSU 20-13 Starkville 1992 Ole Miss 17-10 Oxford 1991 MSU 24-9 Starkville 1990 Ole Miss 21-9 Jackson –––– 1989 Ole Miss 21-11 Jackson 1988 Ole Miss 3-6 Jackson

1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980

MSU 30-20 Ole Miss 24-3 Ole Miss 45-27 Ole Miss 24-3 Ole Miss 24-23 MSU 27-10 Ole Miss 21-17 MSU 19-14 –––– 1979 Ole Miss 14-9 1978 Ole Miss 27-7 1977# MSU 18-14 1976# MSU 28-11 1975 Ole Miss 13-7 1974 MSU 31-13 1973 Ole Miss 38-10 1972 Ole Miss 51-14 1971 Ole Miss 48-0 1970 MSU 19-14 –––– 1969 Ole Miss 48-22 1968 Tie 17-17 1967 Ole Miss 10-3 1966 Ole Miss 1 4-0 1965 Ole Miss 21-0 1964 MSU 20-17 1963 Tie 10-10 1962 Ole Miss 13-6 1961 Ole Miss 37-7 1960 Ole Miss 35-9 –––– 1959 Ole Miss 42-0

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1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930

Ole Miss 21-0 Tie 7-7 Ole Miss 13-7 Ole Miss 26-0 Ole Miss 14-0 Tie 7-7 Ole Miss 20-14 Ole Miss 49-7 Ole Miss 27-20 –––– Ole Miss 26-0 Ole Miss 34-7 Ole Miss 33-14 MSU 20-0 Ole Miss 7-6 Ole Miss 13-8 DNP MSU 34-13 MSU 6-0 MSU 19-0 –––– MSU 18-6 Ole Miss 19-6 S MSU 9-7 MSU 26-6 Ole Miss 14-6 Ole Miss 7-3 Ole Miss 31-0 Ole Miss 13-0 Ole Miss 25-14 Ole Miss 20-0 ––––

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Tie 7-7 Oxford Ole Miss 20-19 Starkville Ole Miss 20-12 Oxford Ole Miss 7-6 Starkville MSU 6-0 Jackson MSU 20-0 Jackson MSU 13-6 Jackson MSU 19-13 Jackson MSU 21-0 Greenwood MSU 20-0 Greenwood –––– MSU 33-0 Clarksdale MSU 34-0 Starkville MSU 13-0 Oxford MSU 41-14 Tupelo MSU 36-0 Tupelo MSU 65-0 Tupelo DNP DNP DNP MSU 6-0 Jackson Ole Miss 30-0 J ackson –––– Ole Miss 9-5 Jackson MSU 44-6 Jackson MSU 15-0 Jackson Ole Miss 29-5 Jackson MSU 11-0 Jackson Ole Miss 17-5 Columbus Tie 6-6 Oxford Ole Miss 21-0 Starkville

Iron Man: Richardson powers No. 2 Bama The Associated Press

AUBURN, Ala.— Trent Richardson and No. 2 Alabama turned the Iron Bowl into a statement game. Now, they’ll wait and see what happens in the national title and Heisman Trophy races.

Richardson rushed for a career-high 203 yards and AJ McCarron threw three firsthalf touchdown passes to lift the Crimson Tide to a 42-14 victory over rival Auburn on

Saturday.

The Tide (11-1, 7-1 SEC) has a week before finding out if its resume is good enough to secure a shot at a second national title in three years. No. 5 Oklahoma State, fourth in the BCS standings, and No. 1 LSU have big games remaining against No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 13 Georgia, respectively.

Richardson ran 27 times and caught a 5-yard touch-

down pass in his final chance to impress Heisman voters.

He had runs of 35 and 57 yards to set up second-half scores.

Fans began chanting first “Heisman” and then “LSU” in the fourth, with a sizable contingent wearing crimson and white remaining in the stands afterward clamoring for a rematch. By then, there wasn’t all that much orange and blue left.

The Tide fell to LSU 9-6 in an overtime game that ‘Bama fans at least feel didn’t settle the matter of which one is better.

It’s pretty clear who’s best in the state.

In the end, the win might have given the Tide enough style points to hold onto No. 2 in the BCS rankings whatever happens next week.

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The Tide dominated statistically but didn’t put Auburn (7-5, 4-4) away until Dee Milliner’s 35-yard interception return early in the fourth quarter. Alabama entered the quarter with a 309-44 advantage in total yards but also gave up touchdowns on a fumble recovery and a kick return.

McCarron completed 18 of 23 passes for 184 yards but only attempted five second-half passes.

Richardson handled the rest. He gained 142 yards on 13 carries in the second half against a defense ranked 98th nationally against the run.

It was more than enough to end Auburn’s streak of 14 straight wins at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

The Tigers’ biggest offensive weapons were mostly nonfactors. Tailback Mike Dyer, the SEC’s No. 2 rusher, had three carries at the half and finished with 13 for 48 yards.

Clint Moseley completed 11 of 18 passes for a paltry 62 yards and the pick-6. Freshman backup Kiehl Frazier played much of the game but didn’t complete either of his two pass attempts.

The Tigers did threaten an offensive touchdown in the fourth but stalled on downs after getting it to the 5. Then Richardson scampered down the left sideline and sprinted to the other side of the field for the 57-yarder.

Auburn managed to hang around for three quarters. Then Milliner intercepted a badly overthrown pass by Moseley, who has now had three passes returned for TDs in Auburn’s three biggest games against LSU, Georgia and Bama.

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the Bulldogs stormed the field and Mullen raised the Egg Bowl trophy above his head.

Brunetti completed 12 of 22 passes for 112 yards.

“That was not the way I wanted to go out,” Nutt said. “We’re a team that is very fragile and you can’t turn the ball over. When things go bad, they go bad.”

The Rebels didn’t exactly rally around their outgoing coach, losing by lopsided margins to Louisiana Tech, LSU and Mississippi State since it was announced Nutt would not return.

Nutt was paid about $2.7 million this season to oversee the collapse. He’s also owed a $6 million buyout.

The search for the Rebels’ fifth coach in 17 seasons now begins in earnest. Whoever it is will have plenty of work ahead considering Ole Miss is 1-15 in the SEC — including the 14-game conference losing streak — over the past two seasons and resides in arguably the hardest division in college football.

Sunday’s schedule AUTO RACING 9:30 a.m. — Formula One, Brazilian Grand Prix, at Sao Paulo (Speed) GOLF 8 a.m. — European PGA Tour, South African Open, final round, at Johannesburg, (same-day tape, TGC) 11 a.m. — Australian PGA Championship, final round, at Coolum Beach, Australia (same-day tape, TGC) MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 3:30 p.m. — Old Spice Classic, third-place game, at Orlando, Fla. (ESPN2) 5:30 p.m. — Old Spice Classic, championship game, at Orlando, Fla. (ESPN2) 8 p.m.— 76 Classic, championship game, at Anaheim, Calif. (ESPN2) NFL Noon— Regional coverage, doubleheader (CBS) Noon — Regional coverage (Fox) 3 p.m.— Regional coverage (Fox) 3:15 p.m. — Regional coverage, doubleheader game (CBS) 7 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Kansas City (NBC) TENNIS 4 a.m. — ATP World Tour, Finals, semifinals, at London (delayed tape, ESPN2) 11:30 a.m. — ATP World Tour, Finals, championship match, at London (ESPN2) WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1 p.m. — Baylor at Tennessee (ESPN)

MISC.

23 12 9 2 26 64 58 22 12 9 1 25 66 57 23 10 12 1 21 61 70 21 8 12 1 17 45 58 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 19 13 5 1 27 58 43 Phoenix 22 12 7 3 27 61 56 Dallas 23 13 9 1 27 59 64 Los Angeles 22 11 7 4 26 54 53 Anaheim 22 6 12 4 16 48 71 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games St. Louis 2, Calgary 0 Vancouver 5, Phoenix 0 Saturday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 2 N.Y. Rangers 2, Philadelphia 0 Colorado 5, Edmonton 2 Boston 4, Winnipeg 2 Buffalo 5, Washington 1 Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 3, OT Tampa Bay 5, Florida 1 Detroit 4, Nashville 1 Phoenix 3, Dallas 0 Vancouver at San Jose, (n) Chicago at Los Angeles, (n) Sunday’s Games Carolina at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

San Jose at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

PRO FOOTBALL NFL standings, schedule

Saturday’s Transactions BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS_Named Chili Davis hitting coach.

HOCKEY American Hockey League AHL_Suspended Worcester D Matt Pelech two games as a consequence of an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Nov. 23 game at Manchester.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS_Announced D Matt Campanale was returned to the team by Binghamton (AHL) and F Louie Caporusso and F Jack Downing were recalled by Binghamton.

HOCKEY NHL standings, schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 24 14 6 4 32 77 Philadelphia 23 13 7 3 29 80 N.Y. Rangers 20 12 5 3 27 56 New Jersey 22 12 9 1 25 57 N.Y. Islanders 21 6 11 4 16 41 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 22 14 7 1 29 75 Toronto 23 13 8 2 28 74 Buffalo 23 13 9 1 27 67 Montreal 24 10 10 4 24 61 Ottawa 22 10 10 2 22 65 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Florida 23 12 7 4 28 64 Washington 22 12 9 1 25 70 Tampa Bay 22 11 9 2 24 62 Winnipeg 23 9 10 4 22 66 Carolina 24 8 12 4 20 57 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Detroit 22 14 7 1 29 65 Chicago 23 13 7 3 29 77 St. Louis 22 12 8 2 26 55 Nashville 22 10 8 4 24 58 Columbus 22 6 13 3 15 53 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Minnesota 22 13 6 3 29 52

GA 59 68 43 58 68 GA 47 73 61 60 76 GA 59 73 69 74 79 GA 49 73 48 61 73 GA 47

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 3 0 .700 293 N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 228 Buffalo 5 5 0 .500 237 Miami 3 8 0 .273 212 South W L T Pct PF Houston 7 3 0 .700 273 Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 203 Jacksonville 3 7 0 .300 125 Indianapolis 0 10 0 .000 131 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 8 3 0 .727 272 Pittsburgh 7 3 0 .700 220 Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 236 Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 145 West W L T Pct PF Oakland 6 4 0 .600 235 Denver 5 5 0 .500 205 San Diego 4 6 0 .400 236 Kansas City 4 6 0 .400 144 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 7 4 0 .636 270 N.Y. Giants 6 4 0 .600 228 Philadelphia 4 6 0 .400 237 Washington 3 7 0 .300 160 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 7 3 0 .700 313 Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 235 Tampa Bay 4 6 0 .400 182 Carolina 2 8 0 .200 225 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 11 0 0 1.000 382 Chicago 7 3 0 .700 268 Detroit 7 4 0 .636 316 Minnesota 2 8 0 .200 200 West W L T Pct PF San Francisco 9 2 0 .818 262 Seattle 4 6 0 .400 168 Arizona 3 7 0 .300 190 St. Louis 2 8 0 .200 120 ___ Thursday’s Games Green Bay 27, Detroit 15 Dallas 20, Miami 19 Baltimore 16, San Francisco 6 Sunday’s Games Arizona at St. Louis, Noon Tampa Bay at Tennessee, Noon Cleveland at Cincinnati, Noon Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, Noon

PA 203 217 253 206 PA 166 195 180 300 PA 182 179 195 193 PA 254 247 259 252 PA 225 228 213 205 PA 228 213 268 286 PA 227 207 246 271 PA 161 209 236 247

Houston at Jacksonville, Noon Carolina at Indianapolis, Noon Minnesota at Atlanta, Noon Chicago at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Washington at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Denver at San Diego, 3:15 p.m.

New England at Philadelphia, 3:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 7:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday Philadelphia at Seattle, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 4 Kansas City at Chicago, Noon Atlanta at Houston, Noon Denver at Minnesota, Noon Carolina at Tampa Bay, Noon Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, Noon N.Y. Jets at Washington, Noon Oakland at Miami, Noon Tennessee at Buffalo, Noon Indianapolis at New England, Noon Baltimore at Cleveland, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 3:15 p.m.

Dallas at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 3:15 p.m.

Detroit at New Orleans, 7:20 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Saturday’s men’s scores EAST Boston U. 70, Rhode Island 64 Bucknell 87, West Alabama 50 CCSU 92, Hartford 58 Columbia 59, Manhattan 41 Delaware 81, Lafayette 78 Duquesne 84, Louisiana-Lafayette 65 Hofstra 63, Cleveland St. 53 James Madison 60, Penn 58 La Salle 82, Rider 70 Marist 81, Colgate 73 Morehead St. 68, Princeton 56 Northeastern 78, St. John’s 64 Oregon St. 66, Towson 46 Saint Joseph’s 65, Penn St. 47 Seton Hall 63, St. Peter’s 54 St. Francis (NY) 79, NJIT 60 Vermont 64, Siena 62 Wagner 85, Delaware St. 62 Yale 84, Army 75 Youngstown St. 60, St. Francis (Pa.) 59 SOUTH ppalachian St. 81, Milligan 58 Davidson 70, UNC Wilmington 67 East Carolina 78, Chowan 62 FIU 64, Coastal Carolina 62 Georgia St. 72, Liberty 50 Harding 71, Louisiana-Monroe 68 High Point 80, The Citadel 72, OT Howard 67, William & Mary 58 Kentucky 87, Portland 63 Middle Tennessee 90, Austin Peay 70 NC Central 104, Barber-Scotia 55 SC State 104, Kennesaw St. 98, 2OT San Diego 66, Alcorn St. 65 Savannah St. 72, Gardner-Webb 66 South Florida 68, FAU 55 Tulane 72, New Orleans 53 W. Kentucky 72, SE Louisiana 67 Winthrop 107, Cent. Pennsylvania 68 MIDWEST Akron 81, Detroit 63 Charlotte 70, Wright St. 66 Drake 73, CS Northridge 49 IUPUI 74, Texas Southern 55 Iowa 82, IPFW 72 Loyola of Chicago 64, Fordham 50 Missouri St. 69, Tulsa 64, OT N. Dakota St. 78, Fresno St. 65 Nebraska 76, S. Dakota St. 64 Nevada 64, Bradley 59 Purdue 78, Coppin St. 57 SE Missouri 64, Miami (Ohio) 57 Toledo 82, Ill.-Chicago 67 UMKC 93, Longwood 53 W. Illinois 65, North Dakota 62 Wisconsin 73, BYU 56 Wofford 56, Prairie View 49 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 86, Grambling St. 44 Cent. Arkansas 107, E. Illinois 96, 2OT

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — CoShik Williams ran for a touchdown and senior wide receiver Matt Roark filled in at quarterback with 124 yards on 24 carries as Kentucky snapped a 26-game losing streak to Tennessee with a 10-7 victory on Saturday.

The win capped a disappointing season for the Wildcats (5-7, 2-6 Southeastern Conference) and kept Tennessee (5-7, 1-7) from reaching bowl eligibility with representatives from the Liberty Bowl on hand.

Women’s Top 25 Saturday 1. Baylor (5-0) did not play. Next: at No. 6 Tennessee, Sunday.

2. UConn (5-0) beat Buffalo 90-34.

Next: vs. Dayton, Sunday.

3. Stanford (4-1) did not play. Next: vs. UC Davis, Wednesday.

4. Notre Dame (5-1) beat No. 7 Duke 56-54. Next: vs. Pennsylvania, Friday.

5. Texas A&M (6-0) beat Iowa 7458. Next: at No. 15 Purdue, Sunday, Dec. 4.

6. Tennessee (2-1) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 1 Baylor, Sunday.

7. Duke (4-1) lost to No. 4 Notre Dame 56-54. Next: vs. No. 15 Purdue, Thursday.

8. Maryland (7-0) beat Cal State Bakersfield 114-83. Next: vs. Michigan, Wednesday.

9. Miami (4-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Longwood, Sunday.

10. Georgia (4-1) lost to No. 21 Georgetown 64-56. Next: vs. Northeastern, Sunday.

11. Louisville (6-1) beat Florida A&M 86-66. Next: vs. Murray State, Tuesday.

12. Oklahoma (3-1) lost to Vanderbilt 78-66. Next: vs. No. 18 Ohio State, Sunday, Dec. 4.

13. Rutgers (6-0) beat Arizona State 59-52. Next: vs. Florida, Friday.

14. Kentucky (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. MVSU, Sunday.

15. Purdue (6-0) did not play. Next: at No. 7 Duke, Thursday.

16. North Carolina (4-0) did not play.

Next: vs. Kennesaw State, Sunday.

17. Penn State (4-1) vs. Nevada.

Next: vs. No. 16 North Carolina, Wednesday.

18. Ohio State (4-0) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 20 LSU, Sunday.

19. Texas Tech (4-0) beat Central Arkansas 76-43. Next: vs. LouisianaMonroe, Sunday.

20. LSU (3-2) did not play. Next: at No. 18 Ohio State, Sunday.

21. Georgetown (4-2) beat No. 10 Georgia 64-56. Next: vs. UNLV, Sunday.

22. Virginia (5-1) beat Hawaii 60-43.

Next: vs. California, Sunday.

23. DePaul (4-1) did not play. Next: at Northwestern, Sunday.

24. Texas (4-1) beat California 6160. Next: at Hawaii, Sunday.

25. UCLA (3-2) beat Colgate 68-48.

Next: vs. San Diego State, Wednesday.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday’s scores EAST Cincinnati 30, Syracuse 13 New Haven 44, Kutztown 37

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Salisbury 49, Kean 47 St. John Fisher 27, Delaware Valley 14 Stony Brook 31, Albany (NY) 28 UConn 40, Rutgers 22 Wesley 49, Linfield 34 SOUTH Alabama 42, Auburn 14 Cent. Arkansas 34, Tennessee Tech 14 Delta St. 42, North Alabama 14 FAU 38, UAB 35 FIU 31, Middle Tennessee 18 Florida St. 21, Florida 7 Georgetown (Ky.) 26, St. Francis (Ind.) 14 Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 17 Grambling St. 36, Southern U. 12 James Madison 20, E. Kentucky 17 Kentucky 10, Tennessee 7 Louisiana Tech 44, New Mexico St. 0 Marshall 34, East Carolina 27, OT Mississippi St. 31, Mississippi 3 NC State 56, Maryland 41 North Carolina 37, Duke 21 North Greenville 58, Mars Hill 32 Old Dominion 35, Norfolk St. 18 South Carolina 34, Clemson 13 Southern Miss. 44, Memphis 7 Vanderbilt 41, Wake Forest 7 Virginia Tech 38, Virginia 0 W. Kentucky 41, Troy 18 Winston-Salem 35, California (Pa.) 28 MIDWEST Marian (Ind.) 49, St. Francis (Ill.) 7 Michigan 40, Ohio St. 34 Michigan St. 31, Northwestern 17 Minnesota 27, Illinois 7 Missouri 24, Kansas 10 Mount Union 30, Centre 10 Pittsburg St. 31, Washburn 22 Purdue 33, Indiana 25 St. Thomas (Minn.) 38, Monmouth (Ill.) 10 St. Xavier 22, Mid-Am Nazarene 14 Wabash 29, North Central 28 Wayne (Mich.) 38, Nebraska-Kearney 20 Wis.-Whitewater 41, Franklin 14 Wisconsin 45, Penn St. 7 SOUTHWEST Baylor 66, Texas Tech 42 Mary Hardin-Baylor 49, McMurry 20 NW Missouri St. 38, Midwestern St. 31 Oklahoma 26, Iowa St. 6 SMU 27, Rice 24 FAR WEST Air Force 45, Colorado St. 21 Arizona 45, Louisiana-Lafayette 37 Boise St. 36, Wyoming 14 Carroll (Mont.) 17, Azusa Pacific 14 Minn. Duluth 24, CSU-Pueblo 21 Oregon 49, Oregon St. 21 San Jose St. 27, Fresno St. 24 Utah St. 21, Nevada 17 Washington 38, Washington St. 21

FCS playoffs First Round Saturday, Nov. 26 James Madison 20, Eastern Kentucky 17 Old Dominion 35, Norfolk State 18 Stony Brook 31, Albany (N.Y.) 28 Central Arkansas 34, Tennessee Tech 14 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 3 Old Dominion (10-2) at Georgia Southern (9-2), 1 p.m.

Central Arkansas (9-3) at Montana (9-2), 2 p.m.

Maine (8-3) at Appalachian State (83), 2 p.m.

Stony Brook (9-3) at Sam Houston State (11-0), 3 p.m.

New Hampshire (8-3) at Montana State (9-2), 3 p.m.

Lehigh (10-1) at Towson (9-2), 3:30 p.m.

James Madison (8-4) at North Dakota State (10-1), 4 p.m.

Wofford (8-3) at Northern Iowa (9-2), 5 p.m.

Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 9 or Saturday, Dec. 10 Stony Brook-Sam Houston State winner vs. New Hampshire-Montana State winner, 2:30 or 8 p.m.

Wofford-Northern Iowa winner vs.

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Old Dominion-Georgia Southern winner vs. Maine-Appalachian State winner, 2:30 or 8 p.m.

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15-play drive that lasted nearly eight minutes before it stalled at the Tennessee 7 and forced Craig McIntosh’s 24-yard field goal. That would stay the only score until the fourth quarter, when Williams scored from the 6 to give Kentucky a 10-0 lead.

Tennessee had plenty of chances late, but committed three turnovers in the second half.

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Roark had talked earlier in the week about needing to find a job after he graduated in May, but he left a strong impression in his final appearance at Commonwealth Stadium with injured quarterbacks Maxwell Smith (right shoulder) and Morgan Newton (right ankle, right shoulder) watching from the sideline.

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“Everything is brand new,” added Wilder. “The metal structure, greenery and all the lights.”

The Singing Christmas Tree has three performances this holiday season. They are 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10; 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11; and 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12. All performances are inside the church sanctuary located at 501 Main Street in downtown Corinth.

Each performance is free, open to the public and requires no tickets.

Performances combine the talents of both adults and youth. Music will include “all the classics,” noted Wilder.

FBC’s first through six grade children’s choir will make a special appearance and sing a special Christmas anthem.

“Right now, we are ahead of schedule,” noted Wilder on Friday morning

“Right now, we are ahead of schedule.

But we are learning some new things, so we’ll stay busy every day until everything is ready.”

Royce Wilder Associate pastor of music and worship, First Baptist Church in the sanctuary as several church members were busy hanging lights on the huge new tree. “But we are learning some new things, so we’ll stay busy every day until everything is ready.”

(For more information on the First Baptist Church Singing Christmas Tree, contact the church at 662286-2208.)

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Taylor — Delk Miss Susan Elaine Taylor and Mr. William Wilder Delk will exchange wedding vows at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17 at Oakland Baptist Church in Corinth.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Taylor. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy P. Taylor of Corinth and the late Howard “Sonny” Carmack and the late Mavene George Carmack.

The prospective bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Delk of Olive Branch. He is the grandson of Mr. Bill Delk and the late Carolyn Delk and Mrs. Gaye Knight and the late Leon Knight of Memphis, Tenn. and the late Mr. Bill Price of Memphis, Tenn.

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bachelor’s degree in educational psychology. Her honors include ShacKouls Honors College, Kappa Delta Pi honor society; and Pi Beta Phi sorority; and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society as she completes her master’s of science in mental health counseling in August 2012.

Mr. Delk is a 2007 graduate of Southern Baptist Educational Center in Southaven and a 2011 graduate of Mississippi State University where he received his mechanical engineering degree. He is presently working toward a master’s of business administration.

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The couple will spend their honeymoon in the Smoky Mountains. After their honeymoon, they will reside in Starkville.

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We recently found her.

It took him some time to find the courage to send her a message, and when he did she rejected him.

“Patty” met her birth mother a few years ago and decided to have contact only with her.

This has caused John so much pain that I sometimes cry myself to sleep at night. Our daughters were raised knowing they have an older sister.

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I don’t know how to explain what’s happening without them thinking they’re not good enough.

My husband was raised in foster homes.

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As to what you should tell your daughters, explain that Patty’s reason for not wanting to meet them may be that her birth mother has poisoned her against the paternal branch of the family, and not to take it personally. It may very well be the truth.

DEAR ABBY: My identical twin sister “Gwen” and I were close our whole lives. She married and had two children,

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She has recently gone through a divorce and is the primary caregiver of her children. She doesn’t have a job. I feel like I’m walking on eggshells around her. She has threatened several times to kill herself, and she starts horrible arguments with our parents and me.

I have tried to help out and watch her kids when I could, but I have a full schedule and need to make time for my other relationships. After being threatened a couple of times, I finally stopped talking to her because I was tired of turning the other cheek to her outrageous, violent behavior.

I love my twin and miss our close relationship. I understand the stress of being an unemployed, single mother of two, but I can’t continue putting up with the weekly arguments. Is there any hope we can be close again?

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‘Tis the season for Christmas markets

BY SHIRLEY O’BRYAN SMITH Associated Press

It’s a scene played out all over Europe as the holidays approach: The air is cold, the sky is bright and snow crunches underfoot as crowds make their way through rows of little wooden structures that look like storybook houses with sloping roofs and rustic trim, each one offering some treasure that’s beautiful, fun or delicious.

Chatter, laughter and music waft through the air, mixing with the smells of gingerbread, grilled meats and cookies as shoppers browse among the carved toys, small musical instruments, ornaments, handcrafted clothing, homemade soap, candles and hand-blown glass.

Millions of people -both locals and visitors -attend annual Christmas markets in cities all over

Europe each year. They’re not only tourist attractions, but they’re also big business for local economies. But will the European financial crisis be the Grinch that steals the holiday spirit from the continent’s Christmas markets?

Slovak economist Vladimir Vano, in Bratislava, says probably not. The Volksbank Slovakia chief financial analyst says if anything, it may enhance the experience because “the main draw of these markets isn’t just the buying and selling of wares.”

He says they’re really an old version of our modern online social networks -- a place to connect. In times of trouble, he adds, people want that connection to be more personal. They want to hold hands or talk face-to-face as they enjoy activities with their family and friends. If you add in the nostalgic spirit of the holidays, you have what he calls “behavior eco-

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But that’s not the only factor. Vano says some potential vendors may decide it’s more important than ever to invest the several thousand dollars it takes to rent a seller’s stall. According to Jozsef Molnar, managing director of the Budapest Tourism office in Hungary, vendors pay about $3,500 to set up for six weeks at his city’s main market and they usually take home something in the neighborhood of $14,000.

Spaces are limited, but some municipalities across Europe are opening up a few more this year, hoping that more vendors offering a greater variety of merchandise may attract even larger crowds.

Of the nearly 600,000 visitors who attend the Budapest Christmas market at Vorosmarty Square each year, 30 to 40 percent are foreigners, according to Molnar. That means revenue for hotels, restaurants and other segments of the travel industry in addition to income for the vendors and the markets.

Vorosmarty is a lovely location that offers a giant Christmas tree, nativity scenes and a unique Advent calendar that opens

up in the windows of the historic Gerbeaud confectionary. The merchandise is quite good. Sellers are judged by experts representing craftsmen and folk artists, and only those of high skill are allowed to set up shop. But quality doesn’t come cheap. You could pay hundreds of dollars for a nativity set, $40 to $60 for a woman’s hand-styled woven hat or less for small trinkets.

Food is also top notch.

One favorite is the chimney cake, a delicacy once made by wrapping dough around actual chimney pipes. Now the dough is wrapped around something that looks like a large, slightly V-shaped rolling pin. It’s sprinkled with sugar or slathered in butter or honey, cooked on hot coals, then twisted off the pin, wrapped in paper and devoured by appreciative customers.

Another outstanding market is Vienna’s huge Christkindlmarkt, which usually ranks as one of Europe’s best. It’s wellorganized, beautiful, set in Rathausplatz, the plaza in front of the Rathaus (city hall) and the quality of goods is first-rate.

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Author Charles Frazier follows the sound of music

BY CHRIS TALBOTT AP Entertainment Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Growing up deep in the mountains of western North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s, a young Charles Frazier couldn’t wait for the sun to go down. That’s when the WLAC signal would suddenly come clear out of the night sky and things would get really interesting on his radio.

“We had a little radio station that went off at dark,” Frazier recalls. “So all during the day, one radio station, country music. When school was out there was two hours of teenage music. And then the sun goes down and all the sudden there’s this station from Nashville pouring in. And I liked that really raw rockabilly stuff that’s so hard to classify. It’s definitely rawer ... than even country at the time, but it was way more country sound-

ing than most rock ‘n’ roll from places outside The South.”

James Brown came wailing from the speaker. That spooky voice of Howlin’ Wolf added an uneasy edge to the night.

Guys like Charlie Feathers and Gene Vincent would rock his world.

Those sound memories populate the pages of the author’s new best-seller “Nightwoods,” whose quiet, reflective moments play out to a soundtrack of rhythm and blues, early rock ‘n’ roll and melancholy jazz.

“Nightwoods” is the story of Luce, a disconnected young woman who is left to take care of a nearly feral set of twins after her sister is murdered by her husband.

As the book opens, she has sequestered herself in an abandoned lodge far from the nearest people or town. She spends her nights listening to WLAC

and waiting for life to pass her by before the children and eventually a love interest named Stubblefield somehow find her in her self-imposed exile.

Frazier assigns each of the book’s main figures music that sheds light on their personalities.

“It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to,” Frazier said. “So Luce has her WLAC. She is such a closed-up inner person who is holding the world at arm’s length and things like that, yet she stays up late at night listening to this really intense, energetic, passionate music and she sees them like prayers.

“Or Stubblefield with his record collection and the reference that (Miles Davis’) ‘Kind of Blue’ is the thing that makes him think about his inability to sustain a relationship. All he can do is listen to ‘Kind

of Blue’ and get sad.”

Frazier talked about “Nightwoods” during a stop last month for a book festival in, appropriately enough, Music City. He was something of a literary rock star while in town, filling Tennessee’s legislative chamber with admirers for a reading from “Nightwoods.” He stopped by Third Man Records, owned by “Cold Mountain” film friend Jack White, for a look around.

Much of the time Frazier sits reserved behind a salt-and-pepper beard on a serious face. Ask him about music, though, and his eyes light. He becomes animated as if from some unseen energy source and his hands begin to move as he talks.

Music is as much a part of his life as the words with which he fills his books. The two are intertwined. The stone walls in his office are lined with

shelves full of CDs, vinyl and stereo equipment, and something is always playing as he taps out his books. His breakthrough debut, “Cold Mountain,” in 1997, had music at its heart and has spurred a whirl of creativity as others responded strongly to the sounds in his books.

Bluegrass and roots player Tim O’Brien and friends recorded an album of music inspired by that National Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer Jennifer Higdon is working on an opera based on the book, set to debut in 2015.

Higdon was drawn to “Cold Mountain” because she grew up in east Tennessee, on the other side of the Great Smoky Mountains from the territory Frazier’s characters haunt in North Carolina. She heard the melody in Frazier’s prose from the moment she picked up “Cold Mountain” five years ago.

O’Brien remembers reading “Cold Mountain” with a friend and being riveted as little bits and pieces of old-timey music popped up here and there in chapter titles and dialogue. O’Brien and Frazier have become friends and often discuss the power of music and its ability to inspire.

“Music is a touchstone like smell or color or taste,” O’Brien said.

“It sort of reminds you of things. And getting to know him afterward, after having read (’Cold Mountain’), it was really telling.”

“Nightwoods” unfolds something like a murder ballad, one of those dark, often gory tales of death and deceit so popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. There’s tragedy and death at its heart, but there are moments of quiet strength and bravery as well, not to mention a mysterious deep, dark hole.

Five classic movies for which to be thankful

BY CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Movie Critic

LOS ANGELES — It’s Thanksgiving this week, a time to reflect on the people and things for which we’re grateful. Since I love movies, I thought it would be a good time to choose five for which I’m thankful. These are the cinematic equivalent of comfort food, ones I can watch over and over again, and always rely on to make me laugh, lift me up or provide an escape. (The inclusion of anything by John Hughes goes without saying.)

Ask me tomorrow and this list might be different. But for today, dig in:

■ “Rushmore” (1998): This was only Wes Anderson’s second movie, but it remains his best. Young Jason Schwartzman stars as Max Fischer, who’s involved in every club, sport and activity at the exclusive Rushmore Academy.

A restrained Bill Murray is hilarious as the depressed father of a couple of Max’s classmates, with whom Max forms an unlikely friendship — until the two compete for the affections of the first-grade teacher.

■ “The Sound of Music” (1965): OK, so I’m just going to put it out there: I played Gretl in our little neighborhood production of this musical when I was

5, and it’s always held a special place in my heart.

Yes, it’s a huge movie and a classic, winner of five Academy Awards including best picture. But there’s something so personal about it; we all grew up watching it — it’s one of those movies that was on television every year around the holidays.

■ “This Is Spinal Tap” (1984): Pretty much the greatest mockumentary ever, the one that launched Christopher Guest’s entire oeuvre.

Others, such as “Waiting for Guffman,” have their classic moments, but this one sets the standard.

So many great, quotable

Horoscopes Sunday, November 27

BY HOLIDAY MATHIS Creators Syndicate

Last week, Venus entered Capricorn, and now she’s dancing at a lovely angle to Big Daddy Jupiter. It becomes important to approach our relationships with great thoughtfulness, tact and grace. And many will put money where their hearts are. Gifts will be bought, and those gifts will be generous, expensive and tasteful.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Socalled “necessities” will turn out to be unnecessary, after all. You’ll be reducing your needs because it makes life simpler and more pleasurable to do so.

It also happens to reduce your carbon footprint.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You remember who you are and what you came for. You could even reach out and grab it in one dashing move. What held you back before was fear, and it was all in your head.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your memory will serve you well and could make you money. Old advice will be newly applicable. For instance, you may get the prime opportunity to heed the warning your mother gave you all those years ago.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You usually want to make something beautiful out of what was once quite ordinary. However, now you’ll be inspired by the challenge of creating something beautiful out of what was downright despicable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Strong intentions will be necessary for progress to happen. It will take a bit of a push to get people motivated, but diplomacy is needed, too. You’ll suc-

ceed by figuring out where to push and how hard.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will be asked to change your stance on an issue, though the reasons for doing so may not be compelling enough to convince you. You know your mind, and you’re not going to change it so easily.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll be in the mood to share, though your usual personal boundaries might be a little fuzzy. So be careful what you confess and to whom. Tonight you’ll learn of exciting developments in your inner circle.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You will witness someone doing good in the world. The act may be small, but it is still remarkable. This will expand your vision of what it means to make the world a better place.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Your mind and heart will provide ample illumination for you to see the world how it really is. In some way, you’ll light the path for someone with a broken bulb.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You won’t run away from a challenge just because it seems hard. Indeed, it is the high level of difficulty that makes you rush toward it. Your favorite kind of challenge is an impossible one.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your thoughts and behaviors will convey your generous nature. When they don’t, you feel on a physical level that you’re misaligned or simply not yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your heart will be light; your mood, majestic. Nothing, not even the densest cloud cover, can stop you from spreading the sunshine and dancing in the moonlight.

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lines. So many ridiculous songs in this fake behindthe-scenes look at a spectacularly awful and overthe-top British rock band.

So many small, deadpan ad-libs that produce huge laughs. Rob Reiner (as director and co-star) nails a particular brand of bighaired musical self-seriousness that was prevalent in this era.

■ “The Big Lebowski” (1998): Admittedly, this is not the Coen brothers’ best film — that would be “No Country for Old Men,” their masterpiece.

And I could watch that over and over again, too.

But the cult of Lebowski is just too powerful. There’s

something hypnotic about it: the way The Dude navigates the increasingly surreal adventure in which he’s found himself; the cadence of the banter; the repetition of certain key phrases (most of which can’t be repeated here, sadly). Bowling, Vietnam, white Russians, porn, a toe with green nail polish on it and a crucial rug that really tied the room together all collide in weird and wonderful ways in this absurd case of mistaken identity.

■ “Sleeping Beauty” (1959): This was my favorite Disney animated film growing up, an uncharacteristically chickish

choice on my part, given its themes of a woman in peril who needs a man to rescue her — the man she’s been arranged to marry, of all people.

So no, it’s not terribly forward-thinking.

But when I was a little girl, it all seemed so romantic.

Aurora was so gorgeous and graceful. Much of the film’s allure comes from the music — the sweeping score adapted from Tchaikovsky’s ballet. The movie itself is just so beautiful, too, nearly a decade in the making with its hand-inked animation. And Maleficent is just such a great name for an evil witch.

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Leftover turkey doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be bland

BY MARY FOSTER Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The star of the Thanksgiving table â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that beautifully brown-baked or perhaps deep-fried turkey â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may not seem quiet as lovely in the days after.

A giant carcass wrapped in aluminum foil, taking up a large section of the refrigerator, does little more than contribute to slowly drying sandwiches for many. But some chefs say the bird is just as tasty after the big feast, if you get a little creative.

From a gumbo made with twice-roasted bones, to grits and turkey grillades, to turkey benedict with hollandaise sauce, or a creamy turkey and cauliflower soup, Southern chefs say the Thanksgiving turkey can get a new lease on life the day after to get beyond the mundane reheated leftovers or cold pickings.

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GRILLADES AND GRITS â&#x20AC;&#x153;That leftover turkey is

wonderful,â&#x20AC;? said chef John Besh, host of the public television show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chef John Beshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Orleans.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many ways to fix it and they are all easy and delicious.â&#x20AC;?

A favorite at Beshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house is turkey grillades and grits.

Grillades is a traditional Cajun dish, usually made with slow-cooked beef or pork. Besh said slices of leftover turkey work just as well.

The dish is easy to make.

Brown sliced turkey in bacon drippings. Remove the turkey and add an onion, a stalk of celery, half a bell pepper and a clove of garlic to the skillet. After thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s softened ad a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste, dust with a little flower and brown it in the skillet. Besh then puts the turkey back with some broth and any leftover gravy, simmers it 15to-20 minutes, and stirs in some creole seasoning.

Then serve over grits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do this a lot, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great tailgate dish because you can reheat it and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready to eat,â&#x20AC;? Besh said.

Southern chefs say the Thanksgiving turkey can get a new lease on life the day after. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a totally new flavor,â&#x20AC;? Hall said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody wants that same holiday flavor weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been eating again. I have to shock my palette back to life with something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so foreign.â&#x20AC;?

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TURKEY SHAWARMA In Clarksdale, Miss, chef Hayden Hall, who trained with chef Susan Spicer in New Orleans and worked with Wolfgang Puck, plans to use his leftover turkey to do a take on a Middle Eastern dish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Turkey is very versatile, it takes on any flavor you want,â&#x20AC;? said Hall, who describes his restaurant, Oxbow, as where â&#x20AC;&#x153;worldly cuisine meets country.â&#x20AC;?

He will be making turkey shawarma for an entirely new post-Thanksgiving taste.

Hayden cooks the turkey in a skillet adding cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg. Then he takes a whole-wheat pita, coats it with his black-eyed pea humus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he says any humus will work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; adds the turkey and tops it with fresh salad and a little pickled turnip.

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TURKEY GUMBO Haley Bittermann, executive chef for Ralph Brennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Orleans restaurants, said she barely gives the turkey its final baste when her thoughts turn to gumbo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In New Orleans gumbo is so close to everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart, and the leftover Thanksgiving turkey makes it really good,â&#x20AC;? Bittermann said.

She strips the bones and places them in the oven to roast again. The extra browning makes an extra rich stock, she said.

The gumbo follows the traditional recipes, with some fresh thyme and lots of picked turkey

meat, and andouille sausage, she said.

Bittermann lets it cook slowly, and sometimes even puts it away for a couple of days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gumbo gets better if it ages a little,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

CREAMED TURKEY SOUP At Houmas House, a plantation on the River Road northwest of New Orleans, chef Jeremy Langlois is thinking a rich creamy soup is not only a good way to use up the leftover turkey, but to head off the nip in the air.

Langlois might not be eager to see turkey again after cooking 25 to 30 of them on Thanksgiving Day, but he is eager to see his cauliflower soup.

He debones the turkey and uses the bones to make his stock. Once he has that he says he cooks the cauliflower until it breaks down, adds cream and the diced turkey.

The secret to the dish is the turkey skin which Langlois puts back in the oven and cooks until it is crisp.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I dice it, and call it turkey croutons,â&#x20AC;? Langlois said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It becomes very crumbly and I use it to top the soup. It really adds an intense flavor.â&#x20AC;? â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

TURKEY BENEDICT Kelly English operates Restaurant Iris in Memphis, Tenn., where he said he serves a fancy version of the food his family knew in his native Louisiana. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think sometimes the leftovers are more popular than the original turkey,â&#x20AC;? English said.

English strips the turkey meat from the bones and simmers it in the leftover gravy to make turkey benedict.

If there is leftover dressing he uses it as a base, if not he makes biscuits, and then tops them with the turkey and gravy and hollandaise sauce.

But English admits he always holds back a little turkey, which he slaps on white bread with some bacon and mayonnaise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes that good old turkey sandwich is really the best,â&#x20AC;? he said

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Community Events Christmas Concert The Corinth Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maurice Weatherall, will present, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” at the Corinth Coliseum Civic Center in downtown Corinth at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 4.

The concert will feature many familiar Christmas classics as well as new Christmas favorites. The concert will also feature Dr. Eddie Elsey as well as the vocal talents of Chad Dickerson, Tenecia Guise and the B.T. Cox Elementary School (Pontotoc, Miss.).

Admission will be $15 regular price; $10 for students and senior adults 55 and up; and active military is free. Tickets available at both Regions Bank locations, Waits Jewelry, Corinth Tourism Office and The Alliance.

Tickets will also be available at the door the day of the concert.

Fall festival/concert Brigman Hill Baptist Church, 4652 CR 200, (located eight miles east of Corinth on Farmington Road -- next to Jerry Fowler’s Transmission Service), is having a Fall Festival and Concert on today beginning at 5 p.m. Unity Four will be the featured singers.

There will be a bonfire, food and fun for all ages Admission is free, a love offering for Unity Four will be taken.

For more information call 287-4333, church office or email:pastorchris@brigmanhillbc.com or visit on Facebook at www.brigmanhillbc.com.

Food drive During its Customer Appreciation Days in November, OneMain Financial is providing its customers and area

residents the opportunity to support their local community. For the entire month of November, the Corinth OneMain Financial branch will be collecting non-perishable food to help feed those in need throughout the community. The collected food will be donated to The Amen Food Pantry in time to be distributed to local residents before the holidays.

As part of their Customer Appreciation Days, everyone who visits their local OneMain Financial branch from now through Wednesday, Nov. 30 can enter a sweepstakes to win a digital picture frame and pick up a complimentary 2012 wall calendar.

OneMain Financial branch is located at 1747 Virginia Lane, Corinth, 662-286-3363.

‘Becensable’ workshop As seen on “Good Morning America,” learn strategies that allow families to cut monthly household budgets by 25 to 50 percent without clipping and filing coupons and save time as well at the “Becensable” workshop at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Corinth on Monday, Nov. 28 from 6-8 p.m. Cost is $15.

For more information, call 662-720-7296 or email continuinged@ nemcc.edu.

Toy Store Registration for The Lighthouse Foundation 16th annual Toy Store Christmas program runs throughout November.

The Toy Store program is open to Alcorn County residents only. Registration sessions will be held each Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in November from 9 a.m. to noon at the foundation head-

quarters on South Johns Street. An evening registration session will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, for those who work during the day and can’t make it to the morning sessions. The foundation will be closed the week of Thanksgiving and no registration sessions will be held during that week.

Those registering need to bring photo identification and proof of residency for themselves, along with a birth certificate and social security card for each child they are registering for assistance.

The foundation is also seeking donations and volunteers for the project. Shopping day for those registered will be held Dec. 8. Those interested in helping with the project can call the foundation at 286-0091.

Donations may also be mailed to The Lighthouse Foundation, P.O. Box 2121, Corinth, MS 38835.

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This is a variety show featuring local vocalists, instrumentalists, choirs and dancers.

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Dinner theater

An exhibit of pottery and paintings of Helene and Ray Fielder of Booneville are on display in the Anderson Hall Art Gallery on the Booneville campus of Northeast Mississippi Community College. The exhibit will run through Nov. 28. Gallery hours are MondayFriday, 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. For more info contact Terry Anderson at tfanderson@nemcc.edu or 662-720-7336.

Jesus Name Community Church in Walnut is hosting the second annual “Christmas At Our House: A Dinner Theater” on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children, and $12 for groups of 15 or more. They can be purchased at 662223-4279 or 870-6346317. The pre-show begins at 6:30 p.m., dinner is served at 7 p.m. and the main show “Happy Hollandaise” is at 8 p.m.

Dinner will consist of turkey and dressing and all the trimmings. It is served Lambert’s style and is all you can eat.

Christmas concert The 5th Annual Christmas Concert, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” sponsored by the Corinth Area Arts Council and a Corinth Coliseum-Civic Center fundraiser, is being held Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. at the downtown

Wild turkey program Shiloh National Military Park will host a special interpretive presentation on wild turkeys on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 4 p.m.

The one-hour program will discuss the history, biology and behavior of America’s largest game bird. The presentation will start in the Shiloh Visitor Center auditorium with a presentation on wild turkey ecology. Then it will continue outdoors as participants will take a caravan drive to observe the birds on the battlefield.

For more information please contact the Shiloh Battlefield at 731689-5275 or visit www. nps.gov/shil or Facebook at www.facebook.com/ ShilohNMP or Twitter at twitter.com/#!/shilohnps.

Christmas parades ■ The 2011 Corinth/ Alcorn County Christmas Parade “1800s Christ-

mas” will begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3. The parade route will begin at Main and Fillmore Streets and continue through historic downtown Corinth.

■ The Rienzi Christmas Parade is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. No entry fee is required and the line-up will be the same as last year’s. The only change is the parade will start on South Front Street to School Street to Clark Street and take a right on Main Street (Hwy. 356) to left on Robbins Street and disband on Robbins Street at old factory building.

Entries include professional, civic or private organizations, area churches, antique cars, 4-wheel drives, 18-wheelers, horses, wagons, schools, manufacturing companies and private individuals. For more information, call Rienzi Town Hall at 662462-5315.

Santa Claus The Caterpillar Reman Relay for Life team will hold a fundraiser on Saturday, Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Belk in Corinth. Children can have their pictures made with Santa Clause for a $5 donation. Cookies and candy will also be available for additional donations.

Holiday Open House The Alcorn County Welcome Center’s Annual Holiday Open House is being held Monday, Dec. 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Welcome Center, 2028 South Tate St., Corinth.

Entertainment will be provided by Kay Bain, WTVA’s host of Kay Bain’s Saturday Mornin’ Show and Ms. June.

Refreshments will be served at noon.

Introduction to exporting A free seminar, “Introduction to Exporting” is being offered Thursday, Dec. 8 from 1-3 p.m. at the WIN Job Center/ Northeast at Corinth, 2759 S. Harper Rd., Corinth. The seminar outlines the basic steps to exporting a product or service. Topics include: regulations such as licenses and permits; basic marketing concepts to help analyze the revenue potential, lending terminology; outline for a business plan and other resources to assist in getting new customers for a business by exporting.

To register by telephone, call 1-800-7257232 (for Miss. area codes only).

Christmas bazaar The Alcorn County 4-H Volunteer Leaders’ Association is holding its annual Christmas Craft & Gift Bazaar, Friday, Dec. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Alcorn County Extension Service from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. both days.

Call the Alcorn County Extension Service at 286-7756 for more information.

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Assistance Pickin’ on the Square Pickin’ on the courthouse square has moved to a new location for the winter months to the old East Corinth School auditorium, corner of Third and Meeks Streets.

Admission is free but a donation is taken for rent to be able to get into a good warm place for the winter months.

Pickin’ starts at 7 p.m. every Thursday night.

Scholarships offered In keeping with its motto of “Care Today - Character Tomorrow”, the Junior Auxiliary of Corinth offers two types of financial aid scholarships to allow local students to pursue their college educations.

The Grant-in-Aid Scholarship, an award of $750, is available to students who demonstrate the potential to achieve, but are financially challenged.

The Glenn Davis Gray Scholarship, an award of $1,000, is available to students who are pursuing a medically related field. Scholarships are not automatically renewed from year to year and students must complete the application process annually in order to be considered for that year’s available scholarships.

All applicants for Junior Auxiliary scholarships must be residents of Alcorn County and must be U.S. citizens. Those eligible to apply include graduating high school seniors, students currently attending college or medical school, and older students returning to college or medical school.

All applicants must plan to attend college or medical school at the institution of their choice during the 2012-2013 school year. The scholarship award selection is based on financial

need, academic performance, letters of recommendation, community involvement, and the applicant’s statement of objectives.

Applications for the Grant-in-Aid and Glenn Davis Gray scholarships are available from all high school guidance counselors and also from the Corinth Public Library and Northeast Mississippi Community College.

Applicants are asked to send three copies of their application to the Junior Auxiliary scholarship chairman. An original copy is kept on file, and all identifying information (applicant’s name, parents’ names, etc.) is removed from the copy that goes to the selection committee.

Applications and letters of recommendation must be postmarked by Feb. 28 and mailed directly to JA Scholarship Chair, 3025 Wynbrooke Drive, Corinth, MS 38834.

Friday night music There will be bluegrass, country and gospel music played on Friday nights at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Iuka. Membership is not required.

Heartland Band is back performing. Guest performers are also invited. This is a free show with donations accepted. Food and drinks are available.

Country music night The Joe Rickman Band will be playing on Thursday nghts from 6:309:30 p.m. at the Burnsville city park building.

Admission is $3, single and $5, couple. There will be concessions. The event is family-friendly with no smoking or alcohol. Proceeds go toward the community center.

For more information, call 662-287-3437.

Support needed Kossuth Volunteer Fire Department has begun their annual door-to-door fund drive. In the next few weeks representatives of the fire department will call on each home and business they serve. They will be asking for the financial support by letter carried by those helping. A complimentary 10 by 13 family portrait will be offered to each contributor. The portraits will be made at the fire department after the fund raiser is completed. Those times will be announced later.

Kossuth Fire Department serves the town of Kossuth and the area around the town designated by the E911 system for the county. They answer all emergencies in that area. Chief Hodum reminds all citizens to dial 911 for all emergencies.

Those going door-todoor will be properly identified and carry letters from the fire department.

Welcome Center This is a great time to come by the Alcorn County Welcome Center, 2028 South Tate St., Corinth to pick up shopping brochures for the state as well as for Corinth and surrounding cities. The theme for November is “Shopping.”

The Welcome Center can give tips on where to find unique gift items and information on special discount days for different stores.

Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 3189 Harper Road, Corinth, 287-1051. Please call prior to the meeting if would like to have any issues discussed.

Food ministry Bread of Life Ministries is an outreach of the Alcorn Baptist Association Food Pantry — every Thursday from 10-10:30 a.m. at Tate Baptist Church on Harper Road.

Announcements and devotionals by various pastors and others are followed by personal attention as well as food distribution. Food donations and volunteers are welcome. For more information, contact Bro. Tim Alvis at 662-603-9515.

Senior Bingo Those ages 55 and up are invited to join Animal Rescue & Care for Senior Bingo every Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at Arby’s, 706 U.S. Hwy. 72 East. There is no charge to participate.

Call for Help A service of United Way of Corinth and Alcorn County, First Call for Help is a telephone service that connects callers with programs in the community available to help those in need. This information and referral program is available to the public, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Knowing what services are available and how to access them is the first step to getting help.

For further information, call 286-6500.

Genealogical society Knights of Columbus The Knights of Columbus will have a business meeting the first Sunday of each month at 10:30 a.m. and the second

The Alcorn County Genealogical Society is located at the Northeast Mississippi Business Incubator System on 1828 Proper Street in Corinth.

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Operating hours are Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Genealogical Society is also open other days and times by advance appointment.

Directions and a map to the new location can be obtained from the ACGS website at http:// www.avsia.com/acgs.

Living Will The Magnolia Regional Health Center’s Patient Advocate’s Office offers free forms and assistance for those wishing to express their medical wishes through a living will or advanced directive.

Anyone interested in learning more should call 293-1117.

Mentally disabled socialization Region IV Mental Health/Mental Retardation Commission offers a program that serves individuals, 50 years of age or older, who are in need of socialization activities.

This program offers training in use of leisure time, structured assistance in daily life activities, individual and group therapy, weekly field trips, and meals. Transportation is provided.

Interested individuals should contact Sheila Baker at 662-286-5868.

Magnolia Dulcimer Magnolia Dulcimer meetings are 6 p.m. the first and third Mondays at First Presbyterian Church, 919 Shiloh Rd., Corinth. Visitors are always welcome.

For more information, contact Jan Pike, 6651871.

Caregiver support The Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group in Corinth is partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association Mississippi Chapter. Keri Roaten is the facilitator. The group meets every first Thursday of each month at the Corinth Public Library, from 6-7 p.m.

The group discusses the hardships of those caring for people effected by the disease and offer several different resources as well. For more information, contact k_roaten@hotmail. com or 662-594-5526.

Challenge Academy For those ages 16-18 who want to earn a high school diploma, they can attend Challenge Academy, a nationally recognized premier high

school alternative, offering a chance for students to earn an Adult High School Diploma. If qualified, students can also earn up to 15 semester hours of college through a local university, nationally certified construction skills, Microsoft and OSHA and Red Cross certifications.

Both males and females encouraged to apply. Tuition is free.

Challenge Academy is accepting applications now for Class No. 36 starting Jan. 14.

For more information, call 1-800-507-6253 or visit www.ngycp.org/ state/ms.

Medicare help The Northeast Mississippi Planning & Development District of Booneville can help with qualifications for extra help through Social Security for Medicare prescriptions. Call SHIP (State Health Insurance Assistance Program) at 1-800-948-3090.

New business owners The MSBDC Business Assistance Center @ Northeast Community College-Booneville address is MSBDC Business Assistance Center @ Northeast Community College-Corinth, 2759 S. Harper Road, Corinth.

The telephone number is 662-696-2311. Office hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Park closed The historic Jacinto Courthouse park is closed until further notice due to storm damage.

Volunteers needed Legacy Hospice, formerly Heritage Hospice, is looking for interested volunteers. Volunteers are an essential part of patient and family care.

Legacy Hospice hopes through appropriate care and support by a caring community, patients and families may be free to attain a satisfactory degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death.

To be a part of this community of care, contact Tim Dixon, volunteer coordinator at 662-2865333.

Marines helping Marines “The Few and the Proud — Marines Helping Marines” — a United States Marine Corps League is a visitation program for senior inactive Marines. When a senior inactive Marine is housebound or in a nursing home or hospice, the Corinth detachment will visit fellow Marines — because once a Marine always a Marine.

For more information, call 662-287-3233.

Support groups ■ A support group for the blind and vision impaired will meet the first Saturday of each month from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Tate Baptist Church fellowship hall, 1201 N. Harper Rd., Corinth.

There will be no cost to attend.

Contact Patsy at the church office at 286-2935 for more information.

■ The “Good Grief” ministry is for those who have recently lost a loved one, or are caring for those in the final chapter(s) of their life.

This ministry of support, consolation and moving forward is open to all in the community. For more information please call 662-587-9602.

Hopewell United Methodist Church is located at 4572 CR 200 (Old Farmington Road), Corinth.