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Nine will vie for mayor's seat •Two more contenders, Jim High and Mary Hallman, entered the race Friday. By Philip Moulden Daily Journal
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Two people qualified before the deadline Friday, raising the field to nine for the Dec. 21 special election to fill Tupelo's vacant mayor's chair. Absentee balloting for the election will b egin today at 8 a.m. at City Hall.
Jim High, an insurance consultant and assistant director for the Tupelo Downtown/ Main Street Association, and Mary Hallman, a former self-declared write-in congressional candidate, filed qualifying papers for the mayor's job Friday. They joined seven other candidates who qualified earlier for the nonpartisan vote. The others are: • At-large City Councilwoman Carolyn Mauldin; • Retired businessman David Caldwell; • College language instructor Michael
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· ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - After years of being under suspicion as a spy for China, computer scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged Friday with removing nuclear . ' , secrets from highly secure computers at the Los Alamos weapons lab. There was still no proof he passed informa-tion to China or any other country, but officials said they want to know what happened to seven high-volume computer tapes Lee allegedly filled full of nuclear computer codes. Three tapes were recovered. The 59-count indictment charges that Lee violated the fede ral Espionage Act by the ''unlawful gathering and retention of national defense" secrets and violated the Atomic Energy Act by removing secret weapons files from the Los Alamos computers. He could face up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of any of the counts, officials said. Although he has not been charged with providing secrets to a foreign country, Lee's "mishandling of classified information ... has resulted in serious damage to important national interests," said U.S. Attorney John Kelly. The indictment says that Lee, working in Turn to SCIENTIST on back page
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"This is news to me and were going to have to look into it. But I don't know what we can do about it. I guess without him being a convictedfelon, they're not obligated to notify us. "
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• Nicholas Price wanted to help other kids get toys for Christmas, so it seemed logical to volunteer as a Salvation Army bell ringer in Peoria, Ill. Of course, most bell ringers are a little older than 4-year-old Nicholas, whose size, age and puppy-dog eyes might just have brought in an extra quarter or twQ to the red collection bucket he manned in the Northwoods Mall on Wednesday night. Nicholas' mother, Angie Price, says he saw a nother bell ringer a few weeks ago and a?ked about him. She says when she e xplained what he was doing, Nicholas said he wanted to help. "I want to help the other children get toys," he s~id Wednesday, while climbing over his mother to ring his bell. Salvation Army officials say children can ring bells and man the kettles if a n adult is supervising. ·
ballot in a 15-minute meeting following the 5 p.m. Friday deadline. The printer immediately began preparing absentee ballots for the contest. City Hall will be open from 8 a.m. to noon t9day to accept ballots from registered voters who will not be in the city Dec. 21. Absentee balloting will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. to noon next Saturday. Deputy city clerk Mary Joe Gosa said the tight time frame for balloting could make
McClung; • Former Tupelo Vice Mayor and Alderman Joe Savery; • Businessman and former Itawamba Community College-Tupelo campus director Lany Otis; • The Rev. T.C. Cummings, pastor of the Sky's the limit Ministries; · • Retired Borden Co. employee James H. "Bud" Lemmons.
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PUPPY LOVE: Brownie members Morgan Hodges, left, and Summer Smith, both . of Blue Springs, hold a couple of "kissing puppies" at the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society Friday afternoon after donating supplies and money to the s helter.
Brownie Troop donates supplies to Humane Society By Eileen Bailey Daily Journal
Ashley Caldwell, 10, gently holds the large black puppy in her arms. She sways back and forth as she coos over the roly-poly mass of fur. Caldwell said she's sad because puppies like the one sh e holds "needs a home." The Blue Springs resident may not be able .to take the puppy home but she has done her part in helping the animals by raising money and getting donated items for the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society, Caldwell, along with other members of her Brownie troop, visited the humane society Friday afternoon to donate the $88 they raised for the animals at the shelter. Troop members also gave the shelter items - dog and cat food, dog toys, bleach and cat litter - collected from neighbors, family members and friends. The project, Caldwell said, "was fun." "It gave us a chance to be together," said Caldwell, a member of East Union Brownie Troop #368. But there were times when asking for donations was hard. "Some people said they ·c ouldn'thelp because they didn't have enough money," she said.
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TENDER LOVING CARE: Sarah Reed of Blue Springs loves on a puppy at the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society Friday. Reed a nd other me mbers of East Union Brownie Troop #368 raised mone y a nd collected food, toys a nd othe r ite ms for the shelte r.
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Man accused in killing llloving to Mississippi; officials were unaware The Associated Press JACKSON - Police and mental health workers say they know little about plans for a man accw')ed in one of Vermont's most gruesome killings to move to Mississippi. Louis Hines, 43, is likely to be released from the Vermont State Hospital next month , almost 20 years afte r h e bludgeoned Bernadette Lesage, 21, to death while she was eating lunch on the lawn of a church in Burlington, Vt. Hines is to live with his aunt . and uncle in Tippah County, in northeast Mississippi, according to court papers filed in the Family Court in Washington County, Vt. "This is news to me and were going to have to look into it," said T ippah County Sheriff Tommy Storey on Thursday. "But I don't know what we can do about it. I guess without him being a convicted felon, they're not obligated to notify us." Hines was diagnosed as a para-· noid schizophrenic and committed to the hospital. He was ruled insane and never stood trial for the killing.
Vermont authorities have been working on the plan to release Hines to Mississippi fo r more than a year. But Mississippi State Hospital communication director Leslie Lloyd said she knew nothing of those plans. "We'r e not aware of any communication that h as transpired with Vermont officials," she said. Unde r a d eal brokered by Washington County, Ve rmont, Judge Kathleen Manley, Hines will live w ith his a unt, Mary Joyce P e tersen, a nd h e r husband, Charles Petersen, in Tipplersville, which is near the Tennessee border. Hines will be supetvised by the Timber Hills M ental Health Cente r irt Ripley, according to th e court papers. But officials there would not comment Thursday, citing patient confidentiality. "I can't e ve n acknowledge I know what you're talking about," said Patrick Chapman, director of Timbe r Hills, Chapman said the clinic is a daytime-only center, but doctors are on call 24 hours a day.