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Corps will meet Monday on fix for land shift Slide is threat to water main

By Tish Butts tbutts@vicksburgpost.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set a Monday

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meeting to come up with a permanent fix to a land shift threatening one of Vicksburg’s main water lines.

If the 36-inch concrete pipe located about three feet below Washington Street were to burst, service to the entire city would be lost.

The shift had not moved since being discovered

Friday morning, Kavanaugh Breazeale, a Corps spokesman, said Saturday. Contract workers who were doing ground work on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Interpretive Center just north of the MV Mississippi IV first detected the problem.

“The fear is heavy rain,” Breazeale said. The fore-

cast called for a chance of showers Saturday night and sunny skies the rest of the week.

Since Friday morning, the Corps has been on 24-hour watch at the site, taking measurements each hour.

“Right now, there is no problem,” Breazeale said.

“The issue is to keep the wall

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TODAY IN hISTOrY 1935: The notorious Nazi propaganda film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premieres in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowns herself in Lewes, England.

1969: The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. EisenhowDwight D. er, dies in Eisenhower Washington, D.C., at age 78.

1979: America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurrs inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa. 2009: Fears in Fargo, N.D. of a catastrophic flood ease with word that the surging Red River has crested at lower-than-expected levels.

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from falling and the water line from cracking. ” To make sure neither happened, on Friday dump trucks hauled sand to the site, where bulldozers pushed the sand against the base of the slope beneath the slide. Above the slide, Washington Street suffered

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Corrine Stockton decorates at Christ Episcopal Church on Saturday in preparation for today’s Palm Sunday services. Also called Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday

of the Lord’s Passion, the day, observed the Sunday before Easter, marks the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before his crucifixion and resurrection.

A Vicksburg man was killed early Saturday morning in a one-car wreck on Mississippi 3.

Jerimey J. Hoye, 28, 5369 Cary Blanton Road, “lost control of his vehicle and was ejected,” about 12:20 a.m., said Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol spokesman Sgt. James Walker. The wreck happened a half mile from U.S. 61 North.

Hoye was a native of Rolling Fork who had moved to Vicksburg. He was the father of a 9-year-old daughter, Shatevion Brown of Anguilla, and had been planning to marry, said his oldest sister, Wanda Jackson Williams of Greenville.

Williams said her brother had been headed home from a friend’s house. “He lost control in a curve, and the car flipped.”

She described him as quiet, but friendly, and willing to share with anyone. “If he had something, you could get it.”

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said Hoye was found 15 or 20 yards from his 1995 Buick Skylark. Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey pronounced Hoye dead at the scene, at 1:11 a.m.

“He died from head and chest trauma,” Huskey said. “There will not be an autopsy.”

Hoye was an employee of Steele Farms in Avon, said Williams. His parents are Walter and Sadie Hoye of Cary, she said, and three of his sisters live in Vicksburg, one in Anguilla, one in Lawton, Okla., and one in Chicago. Two brothers live out of state.

Walker Funeral Home of Rolling Fork is in charge of arrangements.

Mayor: Money spent on travels has paid off for city

By Steve Sanoski ssanoski@vicksburgpost.com When Vicksburg Main Street directors discussed inviting Mayor Paul Winfield and City Attorney Lee Davis Thames Jr. to join several members on an upcoming trip to Oklahoma City for the National Main Street Confer-

ence, they decided they better pay the city officials’ way.

Directors of the downtown develMayor opment orgaPaul Winfield nization on Tuesday approved spend-

ing $2,632 to cover registration fees, travel, lodging and meals for the mayor and city attorney during the four-day trip, set for early May. While not all members voted for the measure with enthusiasm, most were convinced the mayor’s depleted travel budget would otherwise lead him to opt out of the trip. Not

Ronnie Bounds, though.

“The fact that the mayor can’t travel unless we pay is ludicrous,” said Bounds, a founding member of the 26-year-old Main Street program and a former longtime city planner. “If he wanted to go to a conference in Washington, D.C., he’d go. I have to abstain from this.”

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ber’s congressional elections will consume even more of lawmakers’ time.

Obama can follow through on his promised shift back to the economy — pursuing more jobs bills and a revamp of Wall Street regulations — then hone in on helping Democrats win election. Or he can add in aggressive campaigns to pass immigration and climate-change legislation this year.

The Obama White House “had a political near-death experience over health care the past few months. It turned out OK in the end, but it was a close call,” Galston said. “So I think they have to ask themselves: Do they think Democratic elected officials and the electorate have the stomach for a lot more controversy?”

The next big legislative goal is rewriting how the government regulates the financial sector, adding consumer protections and preventing a repeat of the 2008 meltdown.

Obama hopes to have a bill to

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public can take.”

Obama does not sound like a president who intends to scale back. “We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges,” he said as the clock neared midnight on Sunday, shortly after the House passed the bill at the heart of the health debate.

The East Room was empty of guests that night. A couple of days later, when Obama returned to the biggest room in the White House to sign the bill, it was packed with Democratic lawmakers. They were giddy.

It was only this month that the White House was fending off reports of internal dissension and second-guessing over whether Obama should have listened more to his chief of staff on health care.

The conversation now is very different. Behind the scenes, Obama and his team often say that fortunes change quickly, that one day they’re considered stupid, and then a big victory can make them look brilliant. Until they mess up again.

So one good week changed a lot. For now.

his desk by the fall.

As encompassing as the health care victory was for Obama and Democratic leaders, it took much longer than the White House envisioned.

That had a cost.

Whatever Congress starts but does not finish this year will die. A new Congress will need to start fresh in 2011.

If history is a guide, Democrats will see their majorities shrink in the House and Senate after the midterm vote in November. That gives Obama even more impetus to push hard now. Already, he has pledged to do everything he can to achieve a bipartisan consensus on immigration this year — the same kind of all-in pledge he made on health care.

The relentless nature of the presidency gives Obama little time to soak in the health care victory. He already is spending his time, that most precious commodity, on the road to explain the new law.

Tense discussions with Isra-

el’s prime minister took some of his time this past week. The nuclear arms deal with Russia finally came together. But even once it is signed, Obama faces a fight in getting it ratified in the Senate.

On the upside, the nation is seeing him turn promises into action.

Bundled up with the health care package was an Obama education priority, a reshaping of college loans that removes banks as middlemen between the government and students. As for the health care bill, about two-thirds of people see it as an accomplishment for Obama’s presidency, a CBS News poll found.

“I think he can use the momentum to do other things if they’re more on the micropolicy level, without big costs to the government,” said Stephen Wayne, a presidential scholar at Georgetown University. “One of these huge comprehensive programs per administration is about all we can do — or all the American

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Obama has a choice to make about the next phase of his presidency, said William Galston, a former domestic policy aide in Bill Clinton’s White House and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. That phase runs between now and about August, when the campaign season for November’s congressional elections will consume even more of lawmakers’ time.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doubted and deeply in need of a comeback, President Barack Obama had a political dream week: a historic remaking of America’s health care system, a vast overhaul of how students pay for college and a groundbreaking deal with Russia to shrink nuclear arsenals.

The biggest foreign and domestic policy victories of Obama’s presidency positioned him to keep swinging big. He has fresh results to back up his argument that persistence pays. The White House’s thinking is that the burst of success, particularly in extending health coverage to millions more people, will carry over to other issues and show lawmakers, and perhaps foreign leaders, the value of sticking with Obama.

As a vindicated tone took hold in West Wing offices, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs put it this way: “Accomplishment demonstrates leadership and strength. And those are tangible currencies in Washington.”

Yet this town also is known for having a short memory, and the forces working against the president are considerable.

He has a combative relationship with Republicans.

An exhausted public is looking for jobs. His political base wants action on energy and immigration. There’s a shrinking legislative window and the Democratic Party is wary of big losses in November.

How he moves ahead will show the country what else he thinks he can get done quickly and whether he can learn from a tough triumph.

Obama has a choice to make about the next phase of his presidency, said William Galston, a former domestic policy aide in Bill Clinton’s White House and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

That phase runs between now and about August, when the campaign season for Novem-

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Obama bypasses vacationing Senate, names 15 to top posts WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.

The move immediately deepened the divide between the Democratic president and Republicans in the Senate following a long, bruising fight over health care. Obama revealed his decision by blistering Republicans, accusing them of holding up nominees for months solely to try to score a political advantage on him.

“I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way

‘I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of President the basic Barack Obama functioning of government.’ of the basic functioning of government,” Obama said.

The 15 appointees to boards and agencies include the contentious choice of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans had blocked his nomination on

grounds he would bring a radical pro-union agenda to the job, and they called on Obama not to appoint Becker over the recess.

Obama went ahead anyway, while also choosing a second member for the labor board so that four of its five slots will be filled. The labor board, which referees labor-management disputes, has had a majority of its seats vacant for more than two years, raising questions about legality of its rulings.

Overall, the appointments will take place in the coming week, allowing people to make the transition to their new jobs, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki. said. The news of Becker’s appointment drew the quickest ire from

TSA nominee out of the running WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is back to square one — again — in finding a transportation security chief to shore up the nation’s defenses against terrorist threats from the air, road and rail.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding took himself out of the running Friday night as head of the Transportation Security Administration, another setback for Obama after his first choice withdrew in January because he faced a tough confirmation struggle in Congress.

Harding’s past as a defense contractor raised complications for his nomination.

He had extensive intelligence experience that Obama hoped to tap in fortifying security against attacks such as the Christmas bombing attempt on an airliner bound for Detroit, which was foiled by

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‘I feel that the distractions caused by my work as a defense Maj. Gen. Robert Harding contractor would not be good for this administration nor for the Department of Homeland Security.’ passengers. The agency’s primary mission is to keep commercial aviation safe from terrorism, but its responsibilities cover land and ferry as well.

Harding retired from the Army in 2001, ending a threedecade career during which he served as the Defense

Department’s top human intelligence officer, managing a $1 billion intelligence collection program. He became a government consultant on human intelligence and counterintelligence.

Questions arose after his nomination about a contract his company had with the government to provide interrogators in Iraq. After the government ended the contract early, in 2004, Harding Security Associates claimed more money from termination of the contract than the Defense Department’s inspector general said it was entitled to get.

The firm refunded $1.8 million of that money in a 2008 settlement. “I feel that the distractions caused by my work as a defense contractor would not be good for this administration nor for the Department of Homeland Security,” Harding said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama intends to nominate Massachusetts pediatrician Donald Berwick, known for his work to improve patient care, to oversee Medicare and Medicaid.

Berwick, a Harvard professor, also leads a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the efficiency of the health care industry.

The timing of the nomination is important because Berwick, if confirmed by

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“Once again the administration showed that it had little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress,” said Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Obama’s foe in the 2008 presidential election.

“This is clear payback by the administration to organized labor.”

Both Republican and Democratic presidents have made recess appointments, which circumvents the Senate’s authority to confirm nominees, when they could not overcome delays. President George W. Bush made more than 170 such appointments in his two terms. President Bill Clinton made nearly 140.

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Mississippi has been without a board certified medical examiner since 1996.

State’s need for crime doc still not met OUR OPINION

Money Good management should have a dividend Money managers for local public treasuries are doing a much better job than their counterparts at the state and federal levels.

In Washington, Congress, which doubled the national debt to $8 trillion during the eight years of the George Bush presidency, has, in one year, added another $4 trillion — putting the debt per taxpayer at $116,000. Further, the Congressional Budget Office says existing plans of the Barack Obama administration will increase the debt by another $10 trillion in the next 10 years.

In Jackson, lawmakers — who have the authority to issue bonds for capital expenses, but are constitutionally required to balance Mississippi’s budget otherwise — continue to quibble over this year’s allocations, even though the fiscal year ends June 30.

Undecided is when, exactly, they’ll get around to deciding allocations for the new budget year, which starts July 1.

Locally, good fiscal management has

kept the Vicksburg Warren School District from running out of money, even though state payments have been below promised amounts. No teacher layoffs, although some staff vacancies have not been filled.

Warren County supervisors, boosted by property tax appraisals that showed higher values countywide this tax year, are nonetheless dealing with shortfalls, including reimbursements from the state treasury for homestead exemption claims. Board members have mentioned the possibility of furloughs, but so far plan to conserve and keep overtime in check.

From City Hall, word is that overall revenue is down about 4 percent, but again Mayor Paul Winfield and the aldermen expected less revenue and adopted a budget that called for less spending overall, mainly through reduction in capital projects. City Hall will zap people with higher water and sewer rates, making money that

had been used to subsidize the utilities available for other purposes — but don’t count on one of them being a tax cut.

The national economic implosion occurred in October 2008. This is March 2010, so 17 months have elapsed. While there are new signs of life in the marketplace, at least on Wall Street, it may be another 17 months or more before revenue stabilizes for local government.

The schools, city and county have benefited from a realistic approach to their financial situations. The challenge before them is to keep their expectations in check and, more importantly, use the local stability to better position themselves.

Winfield is correct when he says, as he has many times, that this community is better off financially than many.

Local leaders should use that to the citizens’ advantage.

‘Hospitalists’ a new plus in local health services One of the most compelling aspects of the growing hospitalist program in Vicksburg is that government didn’t invent it, nor does government compel it.

Instead, the model approach to health care delivery is “market-driven,” in that it makes better use of physicians’ time without compromising — and perhaps even improving — patient care.

Hospitalists are physicians — Dr. William Wooten and Dr. James Hall at River Region Medical Center — whose services are limited to people when hospitalized. They work in tandem with clinical physicians who see these patients in their offices and, of course, can still see them when hospitalized and consult with Wooten and Hall daily or on an hour-by-hour or minute-byminute basis as needed.

As our Wednesday story explained, some patients will be more accepting of the arrangement than others, but its pluses are many. For one thing, the hospitalists are specialists in hospital care.

For another, clinical physicians can be relieved of travel time, added paperwork and other matters associated with caring for their patients when those patients are in an in-patient setting.

No one knows exactly what’s coming down the pike with federal health care legislation, but it is clear demand for services will be increasing as a byproduct of more people eligible for regular checkups and other health maintenance visits. This is the type of care that America’s uninsured have, for the most part, not received.

Reports are that up to 32 million more people might be calling on clinics for

appointments, joining about 250 million now covered by public or private insurance plans.

Dr. W. Briggs Hopson, vice president for medical affairs at River Region, said he’s confident the approach of using hospitalists will spread. It has been shown to be more cost-effective.

It has been shown to result in excellent patient care. And insurance companies like it, too.

It’s good to see the hospital in Vicksburg continuing to explore better methods and procedures and adopting ideas that work. And to those who insist government can be a better manager of health services than the private sector, we hold up hospitalists as yet another example that those who walk the walk usually know a lot more than those who talk the talk.

Itawamba litigation ends in a stalemate No one appreciates the First Amendment more than newspapers. Equally true is that since being adopted and ratified more than 200 years ago, this sacred pledge of individual freedom from government meddling has been tested in courts time and time again.

Sometimes the issue has national significance, such as the constitutionality of public school-sponsored prayer.

Sometimes the issue has far less significance, such as whether a high school can cancel a prom because two girls want to attend as a couple, with one of them dressed in clothes usually identified with males.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson looked at the law and found there was no requirement that the Itawamba County school district sponsor a prom. That being the situation, Davidson correctly ruled the school board was free to hold a prom or not hold a prom for a good reason, a bad reason or no reason at all.

Davidson then turned to the plaintiff, senior Constance McMillen, 18, who testified she’d known since the eighth grade that she is a lesbian and had asked to wear a tux to the prom and attend with a same-sex date.

Davidson correctly ruled that because

she intended to communicate a message by these actions, her choices fell “squarely within the purview of the First Amendment.”

In sum, this case was mostly a stunt, fully in keeping with the American Civil Liberties Union’s stated purpose of continually challenging government actions. That doesn’t mean Ms. McMillen’s rights are any more or any less important than anyone else’s — just that this has been a case of more salacious interest than anything else.

And the good news is that the First Amendment survives yet again.

Mississippi is a state where people talk tough about being tough on crime. Mississippi politicians on the whole set the pace for those discussions.

But in truth, a lot of that talk is just talk — because when push comes to shove Mississippi taxpayers haven’t wanted to foot the bill to be tough on crime.

The current flap over legislation requiring higher standards for Mississippi’s next state medical examiner and others who perform autopsies in criminal investigations is a clear example. Since the 1980s, Mississippi has for the most part been unwilling to pay the freight for a qualified, certified state medical examiner to conduct autopsies.

Instead, we settled for many years for a cheaper alternative in using pathologists who didn’t have board certification in forensic pathology.

House Bill 1456 calls for the state and county medical examiners to be medical doctors certified in forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology. However, the bill also would allow someone without those credentials to handle autopsies if a boardcertified pathologist isn’t available for a reasonable time — which SID leaves the door open to the status quo.

H.B. 1456 is an effort by the state to repair its abysmal forensic investigation system. Mississippi has been without a board certified medical examiner since 1996.

Dr. Steven Hayne was under contract to conduct many of the state’s autopsies in criminal investigations. Hayne doesn’t have national board certification in forensic pathology.

Some of his evidence and testimony in criminal cases has come under fire, including his work in two 1990s capital murder convictions in Noxubee County.

In 2008, Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks were exonerated in the killings of two toddlers in separate cases. Both were convicted mostly on the testimony of Hayne and odontologist Dr. Michael West.

Hayne had identified bite marks on the body of the children. West claimed the bite marks were made by the two front teeth of the suspects. A panel of experts later successfully refuted the theory. Hayne’s contract with the state was terminated in 2008.

Mississippi has taken steps toward eliminating wrongful convictions.

State lawmakers acted in 2000 to remove some of the financial strain of defending the indigent by creating the Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel and the Office of Capital Defense Counsel to pay for the defense of the poor charged with capital murder and the death row appeals of inmates.

Want to be tough on crime? Then Mississippi taxpayers must pay for qualified forensic pathologists, adequate post-conviction counsel, adequate capital case defense, modern DNA evidence gathering and storage capabilities and an overall professional death investigation system.

Failure to do so undermines righteous convictions. Failure to do so exposes holes in the current system — a system that came frighteningly close to executing Kennedy Brewer who was indeed innocent.

The Legislature passed and Gov. Haley Barbour is expected to sign H.B. 1456 over objections from Attorney General Jim Hood — who has yet to explain his opposition to the bill.

Even in hard times, funding a reliable, certified death investigation system remains good public policy.

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Sid Salter is Perspective editor of The Clarion-Ledger.

Phone him at 601-961-7084 or e-mail ssalter@ clarionledger.com.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Vicksburg Post

WEEK IN VIcKsburg The first week of spring brought rain on four days, with amounts of about a half-inch each. Highs were in the 70s most days, but lows varied more widely, ranging from 36 degrees to 57.

The Mississippi River continued a spring rise averaging more than a foot a day. The week started at 28.8 feet on the Vicksburg gauge and ended at 36.4 feet. The forecast was for a reading of 37.6 feet today.

Armstrong World Industries announced it will restart veneer production at its Port of Vicksburg facility. The plant, closed with 124 jobs cut in January 2009, will reopen with about 77 employees.

Repaving of Clay Street and Wisconsin Avenue got under way with $637,605 from an allocation to Vicksburg from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Dennis Lewis, 31, 209 Central Drive, was pronounced dead of a single stab wound to the chest.

Charged with the homicide and jailed was Chapiya Richardson, 28, identified by authorities as his girlfriend.

Jacob Brister was named chief of the Project Management branch of the Vicksburg District, Army Corps of Engineers.

Details were set for the annual show organized for members of the Vicksburg Art Association. The event will include voting for a People’s Choice award.

Leon Bryant, 33, was captured in Chicago a week after escaping here. Bryant, who has previous convictions, was facing a 2008 indictment in Warren County Circuit Court when he fled.

Attorney Peter Swords of New York visited, recalling coming to the area 40 years ago as a civil rights worker. He said that experience changed his entire career.

With funds lagging expectations, county supervisors visited the topic of possible furloughs for county employees and met with justice court judges on how to better enforce collection of past-due fines.

Although still a draft, a consulting firm’s report, as expected, recommends a new, rural jail facility for the county.

For the first time, mention was made of using an empty industrial building at Flowers, already owned by the county, as part of a 134,000-square-foot facility with space for 350 detainees.

Organizers say Tapestry, a tourism enhancement that offers interactive events, is getting a much better response in its second year.

Dr. William Wooten and Dr. James Hall were introduced as “hospitalists” at River Region Medical Center. Under the new arrangement, they will provide primary care for clinical physicians’ patients when the patients are hospitalized.

Five months into the fiscal year, collections of sales tax rebates and gaming taxes by the City of Vicksburg were down about 8 percent each.

During the next budget year, the Vicksburg Warren School District anticipates having more money, a total of more than $80 million, but plans to reduce employment by about 40 positions through attrition. The added funds come from grants, while state allocations are expected to decline.

City officials decided to shift money in a 2008 bond issue that had been earmarked for sports complex work and paving to get work started on a new rail tunnel and overpass on Washington Street at Clark Street.

The decision means the project, planned since 2006, might get under way in early April.

All customers of water and sewer services in Vicksburg learned they will be paying a lot more for the utilities. The city adopted new rates that will increase all residential bills by a minimum of $93.60 per year, based on minimum use.

Josh Morgan was hired on a 3-2 vote as the new head coach for Warren Central High School football.

In addition to Dennis Lewis, deaths during the week included Robert “Bill” Donerson, Mary “Mae” Evens, Fannie G. Ledlow, David W. Lyons Sr., Irene B. Miller, Mary E. Pruett, Marye Helen Warnock Webster, Adolph Maxie Cupit Jr., Mary Frances Payne Glatt and James E. Dixon.

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Ole Miss: Old times there are best forgotten?

Perception is reality.

When reality tries to argue against perception, reality loses.

Anything having an “Old South” theme is twinged with the oppression of black people.

The “New South” wants a new template. It doesn’t want to dwell on the days when second-class citizenship was enforced by law.

That means Colonel Reb has got to go.

Says who?

Says students of the University of Mississippi, by vote. And it’s only fair, given that it was the students of yesteryear who created the mascot in the first place.

Still, it’s a heck of a story.

The first University of Mississippi students, all male, enrolled on the Oxford campus in 1848. In the fall of 1861, only four students showed up for class. The rest had formed what became known as the University Greys, a rifle unit assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia.

When the Civil War ended and classes resumed, sports teams were not the University Greys and the mascot was not a Confederate officer. Instead, school teams were known as “The Flood.”

In 1936, staffers at the student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, sponsored a competition for a new name.

It was the late Benjamin A. Guider of Vicksburg, who went on to be a lawyer and circuit judge, who entered “Rebels.”

Of more than 200 suggested names, letters were mailed to 42 working newsmen containing five to pick from. A total of 21 responded and 18 liked Guider’s choice — making it official. Seventy years after the surrender at Appomattox, University of Mississippi athletes first played as Rebels.

Enter another Vicksburg man, also now deceased.

Frank E. Everett Jr. earned a bachelor’s degree from the university in 1932 and a law degree in 1934. (There were far fewer laws to learn back then, so law school lasted two years instead of three.)

Everett went on to earn his living as

CHARLIE

MITcHELL

The little rebel epitomizes the persistent and unconquerable zest of generations past, current and future. He has known sorrow and joy, victory and disappointment, but his eye is set steady to the future. He is history and hope.

an attorney, but his passion was history.

He was the first president when the Mississippi Historical Society was reorganized in 1953 after being inactive since 1912. He was directly involved with creation of the Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society, which still operates the Old Court House Museum.

And when David Sansing, professor who wrote the history of Ole Miss for its 150th anniversary, needed to know how Colonel Reb came to be, he had no source other than Everett.

According to Everett, via Sansing, Colonel Reb isn’t a symbolic white planter of the Old South. In fact, he perpetuates the memory of a son of slaves — Blind Jim Ivy, born in 1870 as the son of Matilda Ivy of Alabama.

As the story goes, Jim Ivy lost his sight in his early teens when coal tar got into his eyes while he was

on a work crew painting the Tallahatchie River Bridge. Ivy moved to Oxford, where he became a peanut vendor and unofficial mascot for students from 1896 until he died in 1955.

Known as the “dean of freshmen,” Ivy wore a broad-brimmed hat, gave pep talks to students and sat with them at football games.

And, of course, he carried a cane.

The first known depiction of a Col-

onel Reb was in the 1937 Ole Miss yearbook.

In an undated essay about “the little man with the big hat and walking cane” from at least 20 or 30 years ago, Everett affirms that Blind Jim Ivy — because of his spirit and enthusiasm — was the “original live predecessor” of Colonel Reb. A copy of the essay was given to me by Jo Ann Sharbrough, who has many of Everett’s papers. In it, Everett offers a gentle mocking to schools that use animal mascots.

“The Little Rebel with the big hat is human and personal, with soul and character and confidence,” he wrote. The colonel was described as “ageless and raceless. He belongs to no era.”

Better than any animal could, Everett wrote, “the little rebel epitomizes the persistent and unconquerable zest of generations past, current and future. He has known sorrow and joy, victory and disappointment, but his eye is set steady to the future. He is history and hope.”

In the essay, Everett also speaks to what it means to be a rebel, the term first used by Northerners to describe secessionists, not by secessionists themselves. “George Washington was a rebel. Benjamin Franklin was a rebel. Martin Luther and Martin Luther King were rebels,” he wrote. “Geography or time do not make a rebel, but independent attitude does. It is a matter of the spirit that burns inside.”

Yes, but ....

Contemporary thinking is that whatever images Colonel Reb conjures for the Ole Miss faithful, the feisty mascot has been and will be used as “proof” they are behind the times.

So, so long Colonel.

Perception matters, and because it does, students say you’ve got to go.

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Charlie Mitchell is executive editor of The Vicksburg Post. Write to him at Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182, or e-mail cmitchell@ vicksburgpost.com.

LETTErs TO THE EDITOr

Health takeover will sharply reduce quality of care I have listened to or read most of the discussion on health care/ health insurance reform that has taken place. We have the best health care system in the world.

Does it have some problems?

Yes, but they can be fixed without this takeover by the federal government.

This is the first step to socialized medicine. In all of the discussion, nothing has been said about who would take care of the 32 million who will be given health insurance.

Nothing in this bill adds any doctors, nurses or health care facilities.

That means the present system will be overrun and no one will receive quality care.

I worked in the health care field for over 30 years. Sister Mary Eva Loyacono, R.S.M., who was the administrator of Mercy Hospital when I went to work at the hospital, told me something that I have never forgotten. She said, “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” That is true of this bill. You cannot cover all these people and give them what is promised without taxing to death our children, grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.

The legislation is unconstitutional in that it requires an individual to purchase something he or she doesn’t want. A lot of young people, just getting started, feel that they don’t need insurance. Why force them to buy a plan designed by backroom deals that will cost more than they can afford?

I hate to see what is happening to our great country. We no longer have the great statesmen we’ve had in the past. All the current group can do is see how much they can gain for themselves and how much they can tax and control our lives.

They act like we don’t know what we need and how to provide for our families. They, the government, have proved they cannot run a business — just look at the Post Office.

Maybe we will wake up and vote the whole bunch out but, until then, may God bless America.

Robert E. Quimby

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It was a hate crime I have to comment on the article written about the release of Arthur Lee Stevenson. Needless to say, I was absolutely amazed and shocked. I did not know Mr. Stevenson, but I did know Holly Koerper since he was a patient of mine, and I got to know him well as a result.

I would like to point out why I am shocked at his killer’s release.

Holly was the jailer at the time of his murder. He was a 71-year-old elderly gentleman who would not hurt a fly. He was not in the best of health, being a little overweight.

Arthur Stevenson was a 23-yearold healthy young male. Physically, Holly was no match for Mr. Stevenson.

Holly Koerper was not just stabbed to death, he was slaughtered. Both arms were almost completely amputated; his neck was sliced; and he was next to being totally eviscerated. This was the worst hate crime that I was personally aware of during my 40 years of practicing medicine.

Stevenson is to be released after 36 years of incarceration at the age

of 59. I have serious doubts about his rehabilitation. I am extremely sincere when I say justice has not been served and I wonder who the next victim will be.

Charles A. Marascalco, M.D. Vicksburg

Good series on future I sincerely enjoyed the recent series of articles on the future of Vicksburg tourism by the journalism students from Ole Miss. What wonderful experience for them. It also shows what a progressive publication the Post is.

The articles made me realize what a vast amount of truly interesting material we have here. I am also convinced that if we had the management and money of something like Disney, we could actually rival them as a family destination for folks and families who want more than fun and games — and superexpensive everything! I hope I live long enough to see it.

Thanks for the series and your constant efforts.

Mary Louise Nosser Vicksburg

Change is coming When campaigning for president, Barack Obama promised that he would fundamentally change America as we know it. This past Sunday, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the majority of Democrats in congress kept that promise.

If the health care reform legislation they passed is allowed to stand, then the quality, availability and cost of medical care for all Americans will forever be changed ... for the worse.

Mark Mayfield Jackson

Just say no thanks Good news for those who hate the recently enacted health care reform bill. You do not have to keep any of your children between the ages of 22-26 on your insurance plan. If you are given a rebate of $260 to help

offset the donut hole in Medicare Part D, simply return it to the U.S. Department of Treasury. In other words, you do not have to take advantage of any of the improvements embedded in the bill.

I would strongly encourage you to attend the next Tea Baggers and Republican Party meetings and try to convince them to do the same.

Please do not do as a lot of Republican senators and representatives have done over the past year — vote against a bill to help the economy and then return to their states for the ribbon-cuttings made possible by the bill they voted against.

Rudy Smith Vicksburg

Next target hit Well, they’ve finally won another battle.

After years of convincing the public that all business people, bankers, oil producers, pharmaceutical companies, etc., were untrustworthy, and super-regulating these industries, making it almost impossible for them to continue providing efficient and economical products and services to their customers, the Democrats have now zeroed in on the health care insurers for more of the same.

I can only speak for the banking industry. When they passed the Community Reinvestment Act some 25-30 years ago, the trigger was pulled on requiring bankers to extend credit to those unable to pay, and bringing about the enormous housing bubble burst, thanks to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG and their supposed congressional regulators, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Charles Schumer and others.

These people are the veritable foxes still guarding the henhouse.

And they’re the same guys on the winning side of the health care nightmare. We are governed by the most corrupt people in the history of our nation.

Woe is us.

William W. Watson St. Joseph, La.

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Palin to tea party protesters: Don’t sit down, shut up ‘I’m happy so many people came to see my hometown of Searchlight and spend their out-of-state money, especially in these tough economic times.’

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. (AP) — Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.

The wind whipped U.S. flags behind the former Alaska governor as she stood on a makeshift stage, holding a microphone and her notes as she spoke to the cheering crowd.

She told them Reid, fighting for re-election, is “gambling away our future.”

“Someone needs to tell him, this is not a crapshoot,” Palin said.

About 7,000 people streamed into tiny Searchlight, a former mining town 60 miles south of Las Vegas, bringing American flags, “Don’t Tread on Me” signs and outspoken anger toward Reid, President Barack Obama and the health care overhaul.

Palin told them the big-government, big-debt spending spree of the Senate majority leader, Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is over.

“You’re fired!” Palin said.

A string of polls has shown Reid is vulnerable in politi-

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The Searchlight native responded with sarcasm to the large crowd gathered in the hardscrabble town of about 1,000 he grew up in.

“I’m happy so many people came to see my hometown of Searchlight and spend their

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Nevadans, not people from other states who parachuted in for one day to have a tea party.”

Traffic on a highway leading into the town was backed up

more than two miles Saturday afternoon as people gathered for the rally, which kicks off a 42-city bus tour that ends in Washington on April 15, tax day.

Cars and RVs filled the dusty area where the rally was held, as people set up lawn chairs and braced against the stiff wind whipping up dust clouds and blowing dozens of flags straight out.

The rally that’s been called a conservative Woodstock takes place just days after the historic health care vote that ushered in near-universal medical

coverage and divided Congress and the nation.

The vote was followed by reports of threats and vandalism aimed at some Washington lawmakers, mostly Democrats who supported the new law.

Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, appeared after spending Friday and Saturday morning campaigning for Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican who led the 2008 ticket.

She is now a Fox News analyst and potential 2012 presidential candidate.

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THE SOUTH Karen Gamble, managing editor | E-mail: newsreleases@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 137

Lawmakers recess until April 20, Five incumbents ousted plan to wrap up state budget then in Tallulah city elections SEAN MURPHY

POST WEB EDITOR

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It’s me, me and that’s all Many years ago, grocery stores around America designed a brilliant plan to keep shoppers happy, whether they were buying a box of laundry detergent or a cart full of goods.

Stores created express lines as a way to allow those with detergent and diapers to avoid waiting in line behind the family of six with two full buggies.

Of course customers of the “me and only me” mind set found ways to get around the rules by simply ignoring the signs.

There were no consequences for violating those rules, just tsks and head-shakes from perplexed shoppers standing behind with a box of crackers and a jug of milk.

The latest grocery store convenience — the self-checkout — is being ruined in the same manner as the express lines. The “me” generation at its worst.

No sign alerts people at the self-checkout to have only a few items for the convenience of others. It is now commonplace to see that family of six with two overflowing carts and a 120-pound bag of Ol’ Roy in the self-checkout line.

Does it matter others are standing behind with only a few items? As House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said on another topic, “hell no.”

Fact is, there shouldn’t have to be a notice in the first place.

Shoppers at 1 in the morning in an empty store should have the freedom to run as many items over the self-scanner as they can fit into a cart. During the 5 o’clock rush, however, with the lines of customers waiting with only a jug of milk, the Ol’ Roy-packing family of six should be in a normal line.

Period.

In a friendly society where people care for one another, such violations of the code of humanity would not be an issue. But we are not a friendly society, we are delving deeper and deeper into the “me” society. The world revolves around “me” and it does not matter how many others are being inconvenienced — because no one else exists.

There was a time even before the express lines appeared that someone standing with full cart would allow the stranger standing behind holding three items to just go ahead. Smiles were exchanged along with a pleasant thank you. Once, we were once societal teammates.

In the land of “me” it is perfectly acceptable to disregard the spirit of society, ignore others and try to roll that sack of Ol’ Roy over the scanner.

As the sports saying goes, there is no “I” in team.

But there sure is a me.

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Sean P. Murphy is Web editor. He can be reached at smurphy@ vicksburgpost.com

By Emily Wagster Pettus The Associated Press

They’re taking a break for more than three weeks and will return to the Capitol on April 20 to wrap up a state spending plan for the year that begins July 1.

Negotiators have agreed to spend about $5.5 billion, but they haven’t divided the money among state programs. They’re hoping to get

JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers on Saturday finished a big chunk of their work for the three-month session by passing final versions of bills that would make general changes to state laws.

By Tish Butts tbutts@vicksburgpost.com

an additional $187 million in federal money that could also be included in the budget.

When lawmakers return, they’ll also finish debate about authorizing the Department of Employment Security to remain in existence beyond July 1. State

Incumbent Eddie Beckwith Jr. was ousted Saturday in Tallulah’s mayoral election.

With 1,109 votes, Democrat Mike Abendroth claimed 41 percent of the vote to Beckwith’s 607 votes, said unofficial results listed Saturday

See Lawmakers, Page A8.

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night on the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Web site.

Democrat Paxton J. Branch received 605 votes; Theodore “Teddy” Lindsey, no party affiliation, 275; and Democrat Moses Junior Williams, 113.

Beckwith claimed no party affiliation.

See Elections, Page A8.

Farewell ceremony Friday for 579th

By Tish Butts tbutts@vicksburgpost.com Soldiers from the 579th Engineer Detachment on Friday will set out on the unit’s first deployment since the Forward Engineer Support Team — Main reactivated in 2007.

Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield, Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ The deployMissisment ceresippi mony for the Valley Division, 579th Engiand Col. neer DetachRichard ment will be W. Dean, at 12:30 p.m. comFriday at the mander of Vicksburg Dis579th, are trict building to speak on Clay Street. during the 12:30 p.m. ceremony at the Vicksburg District building, 4155 Clay St., Public Affairs Officer Mark Abueg said.

He said the group expects “members of the community to come out and send off members of our team.”

Soldiers from the Vicksburg District, the Mississippi Valley Division, the 412th Theater Engineer Command and the Engineer Research and Development Center are expected to attend as well.

Led by Dean, most of the soldier and civilian team will deploy to execute military contingencies and provide disaster relief in Afghanistan for about year, Abueg said.

Dean’s former duties in Washington, D.C., included advising Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, on matters regarding Army Reserve engineers. Dean replaced the detachment’s first commander since reactivation, Lt. Col. Sam Jaynes Jr. The unit consists of 36 members who can deploy quickly to provide construction and means for engineering, Abueg said.

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Sisters Angie Wilkinson, left, and Christy W. Pecanty, right, walk arm-in-arm with their mother, Frankie N. Wilkinson,

during Saturday’s River City Heart Walk. At right is Pecanty’s husband, Ken.

Family hits the street with loved one’s story

By Tish Butts tbutts@vicksburgpost.com For one family, this year’s River City Heart Walk was more than just a walk. It was a way to remember a loved one, Capt. Larry Wayne Wilkinson, who died this past week of heart disease.

Sisters Angie Wilkinson, 41, and Christy W. Pecanty, 42, and their mother, Frankie N. Wilkinson, 69, wore pictures of Wilkinson pinned to their shirts as they joined about 250 other walkers at Rainbow Event Center Saturday.

“After somebody in your family gets it, you realize you really need to study up on it so you can help that person,” said Pecanty. “The American Heart Association has so much literature out

there, and they put it in layman’s terms where you can actually understand what’s going on. “ Capt. Larry Wayne Wilkinson Wilkinson, a master captain on the Delta Queen until the paddlewheeler was taken out of commission in 2008, died Wednesday at age 47 of cardiomyopathy, a weakening or change in the structure of the heart muscle. He was in the process of being tested for a heart transplant, Angie Wilkinson said.

The family had hoped to transfer Wilkinson from River Region Medical Center to University Medi-

cal Center in Jackson for the tests, “but he wasn’t strong enough to be moved,” Pecanty said.

Wilkinson, a football player at Vicksburg High School and a 1981 graduate, had worked as a deckhand before advancing to master captain. “His world and his life was on that river,” said Pecanty.

Angie Wilkinson has also struggled with heart disease: she was born with mitral valve tachycardia.

“I’ve had it under control since I was 18,” she said.

“We lost my grandmother when I was 18 to a massive heart attack.”

Pecanty, who was leading a Mutual Credit Union team at the walk, raised $1,520. It was her third year participating. Her team

raised a total of more than $2,000. Angie Wilkinson, a first-time participant on the Mutual team, raised $200.

For the entire walk, more than $60,000 was raised as of Saturday. River Region’s team raised the most, $7,500.

“We will surpass our goal” of $75,000 by June, said Gay Smith, special events coordinator for the American Heart & Stroke Association.

More than one in three adults in America have one or more types of cardiovascular disease. Since 1900, such diseases have accounted for more deaths each year than any other major cause of death, according to the American Heart Association. On average, one American dies from heart disease every 38 seconds.

Hold real still Quinjerus Miles, 5, tries not to move as Rachel Rhett, 13, paints his face Saturday during Bowmar Avenue Elementary’s Carnival Craze. The fundraiser was to gather money for new playground equipment.

Quinjerus is the son of Schaqualese Miles, and Rachel is the daughter of Glenn and Gail Rhett. Waiting their turns are Marcelous Melvin, 5, and sister Paris, 3, the children of Gidget and Milly Melvin of Jackson.

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A view from the top Historic photos taken in and around Vicksburg are featured on Sundays in The Vicksburg Post. Many of the photos are from the J. Mack Moore Collection at the Old Court House Museum.

Though not all photos were taken by Mr. Moore, they are part of

Snow was on the ground — and the roof — when this photo was taken of the Craig-Flowers home on Cherry Street near Belmont, but the year is uncertain, though it probably was 1919 or 1940. The house, built on the site

the collection given to the museum by longtime Vicksburg Post managing editor Charles J. Faulk. Appropriate photos from the public will also be accepted and published. To submit a photo, contact Karen Gamble at 636-4545.

of the home of John Wesley Vick, is now the home of Bob and Joyce Clingan. The photo is from the Old Court House Museum collection.

Shake-and-bake meth lab found on Campbell Swamp A shake-and-bake methamphetamine lab was found hanging from a tree Saturday on Campbell Swamp Road, Sheriff Martin Pace said.

“Two very alert citizens saw what appeared to be a backpack hanging from a tree branch,” said Pace. “It appeared the manufacturing process might have gone awry.”

Warren County sheriff’s deputies found three containers in the backpack, Pace

crime

from staff reports said.

“One of them ignited, which is why they probably abandoned it,” he said. “Shake and bake can be very volatile and unpredictable.”

Agents from the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics assisted in the investigation. No suspects had been named.

Second man charged in MLK Drive burglary A Vicksburg man was arrested Saturday in a March 19 home burglary on Martin Luther King Drive.

Deshawn Williams, 18, 780 U.S. 61 North, Apartment 8D, was arrested about 7:15 a.m., said Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby Stewart. Williams is accused of taking a purse with $150 and an Xbox 360

game console from a home in the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Drive.

Also charged in the burglary is Marvel Hunter, 18, 1840 Martin Luther King Drive. He was charged Wednesday after being identified by the victim, Stewart said. Williams was in the Warren County Jail pending an initial court appearance.

Hunter was released from the Issaquena County jail Friday.

Lawmakers Continued from Page A7. agencies routinely come up for reauthorization.

This year, an employment agency bill stalled when some Democrats wanted to force Republican Gov. Haley Barbour to accept millions of federal stimulus dollars for the jobless. Barbour has balked at changing state regulations to allow unemployment benefits to go to people seeking part-time work.

Among the bills that passed both chambers Saturday was one that would allow low-performing schools to be restructured. Supporters said the change could improve students’ academic achievement, while opponents said it could hurt other schools by siphoning too much money.

The struggling schools could become either charter schools or “new start” schools, both of which are designed to revamp management and increase parental involvement.

“We’re going to get a lot of kids educated,” said Rep. Chuck Espy, D-Clarksdale, a charter schools advocate.

The House passed the bill 84-29 with little discussion.

The Senate passed it 27-11

public meetings this week Monday • Warren County Board of Supervisors, 8:30 a.m., Board of Supervisors building, rear conference room Wednesday • Vicksburg Warren E-911 Commission, 9 a.m., E-911 Dispatch Center, 1401 Clay St. Thursday • Vicksburg Municipal Airport Board of Directors, 7:30 a.m., 5855 U.S. 61 South.

after an hourlong debate.

Espy is one of the few members of the Legislative Black Caucus who supports charter schools. Many black lawmakers say they’re skeptical of charters in a state where many white families formed private academies after court-ordered integration of the public schools.

Carmichael emphasized that the charter schools would be public.

Mississippi has 951 elementary and secondary schools, and officials say 212 of those

are classified as failing or at risk of failing.

The Vicksburg Warren School District is classified as at risk of failing under the new Mississippi Department of Education accountability system. The ranking, issued in November, is based on 2008 and 2009 state tests.

Schools classified as failing three years in a row could become “new start” schools.

All the school’s employees would lose their jobs, and a deputy state superintendent of education would choose

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The bill would not limit the number of “new start” schools, but some lawmakers said finances could.

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Also on the ballots were spots for the city’s police chief and five councilmen.

James Earl Vaughn Jr. is the city’s new police chief. He beat incumbent Donnell Rose with 1,344 votes, or 51 percent. Rose got 682 votes; Fred Washington Jr., 439; Johnnie J. Henderson, 132; and John Cartwright, 62. All ran as Democrats.

In the councilmen races, three of five districts will see new leaders.

With 80 percent of the vote, incumbent Charles Michael Finlayson, a Democrat, will remain over District 1. He received 556 votes. Running against him was Janet KlineClark, also a Democrat, with 142 votes.

In District 2, Lisa D. Houston was the winner, taking home 227 votes to incumbent Henry J. Williams’ 136.

Dianna Cooks received 78 votes. All ran as Democrats.

In District 3, Tommy Watson ousted incumbent Eddie Fountain with 275 votes, or 53 percent. Fountain received 245 votes. Both are Democrats.

Taking 217 votes, or 53 percent, and replacing incumbent Democrat Kelvin Brooks, Marjorie Day, also a Democrat, will lead District 4. Brooks received 194 votes.

Five candidates were vying for the District 5 spot.

Incumbent Gloria Owens Hayden, no party affiliation, won with 251 votes, or 46 percent.

Michael Whitney followed with 137; Fred Washington with 92; Charlie Thompson Jr. with 38; and Ronnie Charles Groves with 32. All ran as Democrats.

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Water

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Continued from Page A1. several cracks, which were sealed. Saturday, city workers checked for cracks and shifts in a storm drain just south of the shift.

“Right now, the situation is under control,” Mayor Paul Winfield said Saturday.

“At this point, nothing has changed.”

The city’s water lines were being monitored for pressure losses, he said, with updates available at 601-801-3443, the city’s action line.

Asked late Saturday evening about Monday’s Corps meeting, Winfield said he was unaware that one had been set, but was sure the city would have a presence there and that the Corps had been keeping city officials up to date.

Anna Booth, the city’s Emergency Management director, urged people to stock up on water, but not panic.

“You should always have a plan,” she said Saturday.

“The first 72 hours is on you.”

Paperwork to declare an emergency in the city has been drawn up if needed.

Declaring an emergency frees officials to authorize large expenditures without a special called meeting, and makes it easier for state agencies to assist in response

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Soil is shipped in Friday to shore up the wall below the land shift that is threatening a city water main beneath Washington Street. efforts.

In September 2006, a break on the same water line next to Anderson-Tully Company off North Washington Street left residents without water for 24 hours and cost the city about $60,000 to repair.

The water main is the primary line from the city’s water plant on Haining Road, which draws its water from several nearby wells.

The main line along Wash-

ington Street splits into two 24-inch lines running in opposite directions near Jackson Street. From there, the system branches out into webs of 18-, 10- and 8-inch lines.

About 3 million gallons of water run through the system at any one time, distributing water to roughly 10,000 metered connections in the city. The city also sells some water to area water

districts, but most draw the majority of their water from their own wells.

After a solution is set, Breazeale said, the Corps plans to move forward with construction on the interpretive center.

“Once that wall is supported correctly, the Corps is going to go back to plan A — that’s building the museum,” he said.

Travels

BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — Military divers plunged into the waters near South Korea’s tense maritime border with North Korea on Saturday, searching in vain for 46 missing marines from a naval ship that exploded and sank, officials said.

The exact cause of the explosion was unclear, but North Korea did not appear to be to blame, officials said.

Families voiced their anger as hopes faded for the missing crew after the ship sank in one of South Korea’s worst naval disasters.

Divers tried twice to get to the wreckage, Rear Adm. Lee Ki-sik of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told lawmakers.

The explosion tore open the rear hull of the Cheonan, shut down its engine, wiped out power and caused the ship to sink a little over three hours later, the Joint Chiefs said.

Military planes and boats were searching the waters near South Korea’s Baengnyeong Island where the 1,200-ton Cheonan had been on a routine patrol mission.

Rescue efforts Saturday were hampered by fierce waves and high winds.

Continued from Page A1. nio and Houston at the city’s expense. On most trips he’s been accompanied by members of his staff, and highranking staff members also have taken out-of-state trips without the mayor, records provided after a written request show.

In total, Winfield and his staff have accumulated about $8,000 in travel expenses outside Vicksburg since he took office in July. Former Mayor Laurence Leyens and his staff spent a total of $3,500 on travel during his entire last year in office.

Winfield said any comparison to the former mayor’s travel expenses is misleading.

“The needs of our administrations are different, and you’re talking about somebody who is new in office compared to somebody who was in his eighth year in office during an election year,” Winfield said.

“It’s not the most accurate comparison.”

Winfield said he and Thames would have considered going to the National Main Street Conference even if they had to use city funds, and did not give the Main Street board an ultimatum to either pay their way or count them out.

“I mentioned that I’m trying to watch my travel... but they extended that offer,” he said. “I think that was done to encourage and foster a relationship, at least that’s what I felt.” Main Street is funded by dues, by a special levy added to the bills of downtown area property owners and by city allocations, so while the Oklahoma trip would not have shown up in city records, the money will still in large measure come from taxpayers.

In February, Winfield announced all travel outside Vicksburg by city employees would be limited to training seminars. Other measures to rein in spending included limiting capital expenses and raises. Going forward, the mayor said he’ll judge each invitation he receives to attend outside events and travel if he feels it’s worthwhile.

“I’m invited to be somewhere in the country at all times, and I believe it’s our responsibility to promote and sell Vicksburg anywhere and everywhere we can,” he said. “But I don’t sign off on anything that I see as a waste, for myself or anyone else.”

There are direct benefits to going on the road, the mayor

said. Winfield noted Vicksburg was selected in September as one of 18 cities in the nation to participate in The Cities of Service Coalition, requiring his traveling to New York to represent the city. Also, the urgency of finding funding for the closed Washington Street bridge at Clark Street required several trips to Washington and many more to Jackson.

“I believe the money we’ve spent on travel has been worthwhile, and I believe Vicksburg will reap the benefits,” Winfield said. “We’ve spent thousands of dollars traveling back and forth to Washington, but now we’re in a position to get a $4 million earmark to get the Washington Street bridge project going.”

Thursday, city officials voted to shift $4 million in an earlier bond issue to the rail overpass to get the project started. The money was to have gone to paving projects and completion of a sports complex on Fisher Ferry Road. If the earmark comes, those projects will be reinstated, officials said.

As a new face in politics, Winfield also has been to various Mississippi Municipal League conferences for training and networking

seminars.

“MML is an invaluable resource,” he said. “Not only are you networking with other leaders around the state, but you’re there looking at the cutting edge things going on in other cities.

You’re also continuing your education, and that’s how you avoid goof-ups.”

The mayor has also put about 8,000 miles on the $24,000 Chevrolet Tahoe the city purchased for him six months ago, racking up roughly $1,300 in fuel costs.

Comparatively, North Ward Alderman Michael Mayfield has incurred $1,200 in fuel costs since July, and Leyens spent about $800 on gas for his city vehicle during his last year in office.

According to documents also received by an open records request, the mayor had new rims put onto his Tahoe one month after it was ordered, at a cost of $850.

Winfield said he never specifically requested the rims — which he stressed are Chevrolet stock rims — but was informed the vehicle would look awkward without them.

“That vehicle has a police package, which includes raw, unfinished rims, with the nuts and bolts showing,” he explained. “As

mayor — someone who is meeting with dignitaries and potential investors in our city every day — I thought it would be a justifiable expense to get the stock rims and not be driving around with unfinished black rims and the nuts and bolts exposed.”

South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman said questions like those about rims on the mayor’s vehicle are precisely why he gave up using a city vehicle altogether in 2008.

“You’re just under constant scrutiny about it all the time, and that’s the biggest reason I gave it up,” said Beauman, who now drives his personal vehicle to City Hall. “If you were on your way home from City Hall and you stopped at the grocery store, somebody wanted to know why you were there in a city vehicle. I just got tired of it.”

Beauman has also quit traveling to MML and other conferences inside and out of the state, but not because of the scrutiny.

“I did MML and some of that stuff the first year or two I was in office, but I found out pretty quickly after those first few years that I had gotten all I was going to get out of those trips,” he said.

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Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, c/o Christy Pecanty, 321 Silver Creek Drive, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

DEATHS The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

Irene B. Miller Services for Irene B. Miller will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 to 5 today at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home.

Mrs. Miller died Sunday, March 21, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. She was 87.

She was a member of King Solomon M.B. Church.

Capt. Larry Wayne Wilkinson Capt. Larry Wayne Wilkinson died Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. He was 47.

Born in Vicksburg, he was a graduate of Vicksburg High School in the Class of 1981. Capt. Wilkinson began his work with the Delta Queen Steamboat Company at the age of 18 as a deck hand, progressing

up the ranks to master captain. He was master captain of the Delta Queen until the paddlewheeler was taken out of commission in 2008. Capt.

Wilkinson was president of the International Maritime Security Network at the time of his death and was a member of the Baptist faith.

He is survived by his mother and father, Hugh E. Wilkinson and Frankie Capt. Larry N. Wilkinson Wayne Wilkinson of Vicksburg; two sisters, Angie Wilkinson of Vicksburg and Christy W. Pecanty and her husband, Ken, of Vicksburg; three nieces, Ashley E. Kelley, Mandi P. Driver and Danielle Pecanty; a nephew, Kristopher Pecanty; and a greatniece, Baylyn Pecanty.

Services will be at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, at Riles Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Matt Buckles, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be at Green Acres Memorial Park. Visitation will be Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

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Expect partly cloudy conditions today. Sunny skies and warmer temperatures will stick around most of the week.

WEATHER This weather package is compiled from historical records and information provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECAST monday-wednesday Partly cloudy; highs in the 70s; lows in the 40s

STATE FORECAST Today Slight chance of rain; highs in the 60s; lows in the mid40s monday-wednesday Mostly sunny; highs in the 70s; lows in the 40s

ALmAnAC HigHs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 76º Low/past 24 hours .............. 47º Average temperature ........ 62º Normal this date .................. 60º Record low .............33º in 1937 Record high ...........87º in 1910 RainfaLL Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours........................N/A This month .............2.58 inches Total/year............. 12.81 inches Normal/month .....5.38 inches Normal/year ....... 15.71 inches soLunaR TabLe Most active times for fish and wildlife Monday: A.M. Active ........................... 4:49 A.M. Most active ..............11:02 P.M. Active ............................ 5:15 P.M. Most active ...............11:27 sunRise/sunseT Sunset today ....................... 7:19 Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:20 Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:55

RIVER DATA sTages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 37.2 | Change: 0.8 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 19.3 | Change: 0.0 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 19.7 | Change: -1.9 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 19.2 | Change: -0.1 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 12.2 | Change: -1.4 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 19.6 | Change: 1.1 Flood: 28 feet sTeeLe bayou Land ...................................78.6 River ...................................84.6

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U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan double in first quarter of 2010 KABUL (AP) — The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban’s momentum.

Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in the number of

wounded, with injuries more than tripling in the first two months of the year and trending in the same direction based on the latest available data for March.

U.S. officials have warned that casualties are likely to rise even further as the Pentagon completes its deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and sets its sights

on the Taliban’s home base of Kandahar province, where a major operation is expected in the coming months.

“We must steel ourselves, no matter how successful we are on any given day, for harder days yet to come,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said.

In total, 57 U.S. troops were killed here during the first two

Suspected U.S. missiles kill 4 in Pakistan ISLAMABAD — Suspected U.S. missiles killed four people in the Pakistan’s insurgent-dominated northwest Saturday, officials said.

The strike is the latest in an escalating campaign targeting Taliban-linked militants near the Afghan border.

Two intelligence officials said the missiles struck two houses Saturday in the village of Hurmaz in North Waziristan. A military official also confirmed the information. All three spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

It was not clear who the four dead people were. North Waziristan is largely controlled by militants who launch attacks against NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama has ramped up missile attacks carried out by unmanned drone aircraft.

Ex-Va. congressman dies of heart disease MATHEWS, Va. — Stanford E. Parris, a former Virginia congressman who served six terms and was an Air Force pilot during the Korean War, has died. He was 80.

Stanford E. Parris Parris’ former chief of staff, Dick Leggett, said the former congressman died from heart disease Saturday at his home in Mathews County in eastern Virginia along the Chesapeake Bay. Leggett says Parris had a major impact on the northern Virginia area he represented by supporting floodcontrol projects and bridges, among other things.

The Republican ran for governor in 1985 and 1989.

He served in Congress from 1973-74 and then returned from 1981 through 1990. He was a member of the Banking and Finance Committee and cautioned about the looming savings and loan crisis.

He was born in Champaign, Ill.

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Cab driver accused of aiding al-Qaida CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors have charged a Chicago cab driver with trying to provide funds to al-Qaida, saying the man planned to send money to a terrorist leader in Pakistan who had said he needed cash to buy explosives.

Raja Lahrasib Khan, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, was charged Friday with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

According to the criminal complaint, Khan also discussed a possible bomb attack on an unspecified U.S. stadium this summer. Speak-

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The balding, bearded Khan, clad in a wrinkled nylon jacket, rumpled pants and sneakers, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Geraldine Soat Brown on Friday. She ordered him held pending a status hearing set for Tuesday.

He was represented by Daniel P. McLoughlin, a staff attorney with the federal defender program. McLoughlin declined to comment after the hearing but told Soat Brown he would probably withdraw from the case and another attorney would be appointed to defend Khan.

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months of 2010 compared with 28 in January and February of last year, an increase of more than 100 percent, according to Pentagon figures compiled by The Associated Press. At least 20 American service members have been killed so far in March, an average of about 0.8 per day, compared to 13, or 0.4 per day, a year ago.

The steady rise in combat

deaths has generated less public reaction in the United States than the spike in casualties last summer and fall, which undermined public support in the U.S. for the 8-year-old American-led mission here. Fighting traditionally tapers off in Afghanistan during winter months, only to peak in the summer.

After a summer marked by

the highest monthly death rates of the war, President Barack Obama faced serious domestic opposition over his decision in December to increase troops in Afghanistan, with only about half of Americans supporting the move. But support for his handling of the war has actually improved since then, despite the increased casualties.

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MSU aims for NCAA glory Mississippi State faces Florida State at 1:30 today. Story/B5 Time: 1 :30 p.m.

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Or better yet, Indianapolis.

It’s almost heaven, West Virginia. Da’Sean Butler and the Mountaineers are off to the Final Four for the first time since 1959.

Injury replacement Joe Mazzulla scored a careerhigh 17 points in his first start this season and West Virginia handled a coldshooting Kentucky team stocked with future NBA players almost from the opening tip for a 73-66 victory in the East Regional final Saturday.

Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins, back with his alma mater, is in the Final Four for the first time since taking Cincinnati in 1992. It’s an even longer stretch for West Virginia — Jerry West was the star of the team 51 years

The associated press

West Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler celebrates with teammate Cam Thoroughman, left, Saturday. Butler scored 18 points as West Virginia won the game 73-66. ago, and not yet a Hall of Famer or NBA logo.

John Wall and the young Wildcats could have used West’s famous shooting

touch in this one. They were awful from 3-point range, missing their first 20 attempts and See Kentucky, Page B3.

SALT LAKE CITY — Every day they walk into practice, they also walk onto a movie set — the one where they filmed the story about the little team that gets its big chance and lives out the unthinkable dream.

That’s the story of “Hoosiers.”

That’s also the story of Butler — the team that’s reminding everyone that big schools with big money don’t have a monopoly on everything in big-time sports.

Yes, the boys from Butler did it — getting 22 points from Gordon Hayward to defeat Kansas State 63-56 in the West Regional final Saturday and advance to the Final Four.

Next, the Bulldogs take their 24-game winning streak to downtown Indy. Though only five miles from the Butler campus, it’s hard to think of many programs that have taken a longer, more unlikely road to get this close

Major League Baseball preview. Story/B4

ON TV

1:20 p.m. CBS - Tennessee aims for its first trip to the Final Four against Michigan State, while Duke aims to be the only No. 1 seed to survive with an Elite Eight game against Baylor.

MATT WARREN

Pitching out of jams was something that both Harris and Warren did with aplomb.

Warren faced his biggest challenge in the University Christian fourth, when the bases loaded up with two outs after an RBI single by Geg Moore. Despite walking seven-hole hitter Seth Pearce, Warren induced a slow roller back to the mound for the third out and a game tied at 2.

The scene was repeated again in the fifth after Warren yielded a leadoff single to Brandon Waltman. Conner Smith singled in Waltman and the bases loaded after Smith’s single,

PORT GIBSON — After a 6-3 start, Port Gibson’s baseball schedule has gotten a lot tougher.

Saturday afternoon, as the rest of Port Gibson celebrated the town’s Heritage Festival, the Blue Waves stepped up to face the suddenly-hot Warren Central Vikings. WC was fresh off an emotional come-from-behind win the night before against Clinton at Viking Field.

The Vikings showed no ill effects from their escape against Clinton and produced a workman-like 12-0 pounding of the Blue Waves in four innings at the Claiborne County Fairgrounds.

The win is WC’s fourth straight and the Vikings improve to 10-7. The 10 wins equals last year’s total and is the most since 2006.

Port Gibson, meanwhile, has now lost four straight to fall to 6-7. The Blue Waves were beaten in the finals of their own Spring Break Classic by Natchez.

They dropped two division games to Columbia, which included a road defeat Friday night and then Saturday’s home clash with the Vikings.

“We didn’t get back until 2 a.m. from Columbia and then we had to come back today and play a good Warren Central team,” Port Gibson coach Dan Smith said. “We hope these games can make us better.”

Port Gibson made it a good game for two innings against the Vikings. They trailed just 1-0 as starting pitcher Dominique Savage mixed up his pitches to keep WC offbalanced.

“The first guy mixed it up pretty well, and then, we

See PCA, Page B3.

See WC, Page B3.

PCA pitcher hit a gamewinning two-run home run to lift PCA over University Christian 4-3 on Saturday.

SIDELINES Ernie Els grabs lead at Bay Hill tourney

LOTTERY

Powerball: 10; Power play: 4

Weekly results: B2

See Butler, Page B3.

By Jeff Byrd jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com

WHO’S HOT

La. Pick 3: 7-5-1 La. Pick 4: 7-1-2-7 Easy 5: 4-5-14-15-26 La. Lotto: 3-4-12-24-35-39 Powerball: 7-21-32-44-52

to a championship.

“It’d be just as cool if we moved it to Hinkle,” Butler coach Brad Stevens said of his team’s fieldhouse. “I’d be all for that.”

No such luck. Still, the fifthseeded Bulldogs (32-4) are writing their own underdog story, even if they can’t really be called underdogs anymore.

Shelvin Mack scored 16 and Ronald Nored and Willie Veasley keyed an inyour-face defensive effort on K-State guards Jacob Pullen and Denis Clemente to help Butler become the first school from a true, midmajor conference to make the Final Four since George Mason in 2006 — a trip that also ended in Indianapolis.

“This is probably the coolest thing that’s ever happened in my life,” Nored said.

Trailing almost the entire

Vikings crest Blue Waves

Phillies, Yanks aim for Series

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Ernie Els is trying to keep his head clear and his game simple.

It seems to be working.

Els finished with two tough pars Saturday at Bay Hill, enough to go from a two-shot deficit to a oneshot lead over Ben Curtis going into the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and a chance for Els to win his second straight tournament.

“There’s a lot of work left,” Els said after a 3-under 69, making him the only player to break 70 all three days at Bay Hill. “Obviously, I’m still in a very good position. I would have taken it before the tournament started. I would like to keep working and just try and concentrate on playing good golf tomorrow.”

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KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg Post

Porters Chapel Academy’s Colby Rushing, left, and Matthew Warren bow to one another after Warren hit a home run

against University Christian School Saturday at Eagle Field.

More photos/www.vicksburgpost.com.

PCA gets redemption

Warren’s home run helps Eagles quench Flames

By Steve Wilson swilson@vicksburgpost.com

prep baseball

For PCA pitcher Matt Warren, who earlier in the week walked in the winning run against University Christian, redemption was just a clutch performance away.

Warren pitched out of several jams in his five innings of work and ripped a tworun home run to supply the margin of victory in a 4-3 PCA win over University Christian on Saturday.

The victory was one the Eagles (6-5, 5-1 District 5-A) needed, especially with a home-and-home against district-leading Calvary Christian coming up this week.

The victory put some needed breathing room between third-place University Christian (9-7, 4-4) and PCA, as the top two teams in each district make the postseason.

“This win for us is huge,” PCA coach Jerry Bourne said. “This puts us in good shape in the district. Our guys came out and played a good game when they knew that they had to play a good game. Matt showed up today.

That was a huge, clutch hit in a big spot for us.”

Warren allowed only two runs on four hits with three strikeouts and he finished 2-for-2, reaching safely in all

three trips to the batter’s box.

It was a win the Eagles tried to give away in the seventh. Reliever John Michael Harris was undone by a crucial error on a routine throw to first, allowing leadoff hitter Dillon Chappell to reach. With one out, Landon Perkins sharply lined a shot over Jeff Hearn’s head to score Chappell and cut the PCA lead to 4-3. A double play turned into a fielder’s choice with another miscue. A second error at first allowed Cody Grogan to reach with two outs, but Harris induced a weak tapper to the mound to end the game and pick up the save for PCA.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

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SCOREBOARD

AUTO RACING 11 a.m. Fox - NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 2:30 p.m. ABC - IRL, Grand Prix of St. Petersburg BOWLING Noon ESPN - PBA, Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship GOLF 8 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, Open de Andalucia Noon TGC - Champions Tour, The Cap Cana Championship 1:30 p.m. NBC - PGA Tour, Arnold Palmer Invitational 6 p.m. TGC - LPGA, Kia Classic COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1 p.m. CBS - Tennessee vs. Michigan State; Baylor vs. Duke NBA 7 p.m. ESPN - San Antonio at Boston TENNIS Noon FSN - ATP/WTA Tour, Sony Ericsson Open 7 p.m. FSN - ATP/WTA Tour, Sony Ericsson Open WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 11 a.m. ESPN - NCAA Division I tournament, Connecticut vs. Iowa State 1:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Florida State vs.

Mississippi State 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Oklahoma vs.

Notre Dame 8:30 p.m. ESPN2 - Nebraska vs. Kentucky

major league baseball

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Spring Training Schedule

EASTERN CONFERENCE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

sidelines

from staff & AP reports

PREP TRACK Home team wins Viking Relays Warren Central took top honors in both boys and girls rankings after Saturday’s Viking Relays at Viking Stadium.

The boys finished first over Brookhaven (136 points) and Vicksburg (79). The Lady Vikes finished with 151 points, ahead of secondplace Brookhaven (126 points) and Vicksburg (83). Sh’Qulla Neal took MVP honors for the girls, while Brookhaven’s Isiah White took top honors for the boys.

Winners for Lady Vikes were: Audrianna Ratliff in the 400-meter dash; Condrea Collins in the 800meter run and 1,600-meter run, Kiera Ross in the 300-meter hurdles; Jessica Gates in the pole vault; and Neal in the long jump, For WC’s boys, Walter King won the 1,600-meter run; Matt Waddle took top honors in the pole vault and Jarrell Pedyfoot won in discus.

FOOTBALL Joey Porter arrested in California BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Authorities say NFL linebacker Joey Porter has been arrested in Bakersfield on suspicion of drunken driving and accused of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.

The California Highway Patrol says the 33-year-old player was confronted by officers early Saturday in a fast-food parking lot.

Alabama QB Jackson held out of practice TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama reserve quarterback Star Jackson has missed the past two practices because of academic issues.

Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said Saturday that he holds a player out when he “doesn’t do what he is supposed to do in school.” He said Jackson will be able to watch film with the team but won’t be allowed to return to practice until he gets the issue straightened out.

flashback

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 28 1950 — CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 in the NCAA basketball final to become the only team to win the NIT and NCAA titles in the same year. CCNY beat Bradley 69-61 in the NIT on March 18.

1982 — Louisiana Tech beats Cheyney State 76-62 in the NCAA’s first women’s basketball championship. The tournament replaces the AIAW championship that had been held since 1972.

1992 — Christian Laettner hits a 15-foot turnaround jumper at the buzzer to give defending champion Duke a 104-103 overtime victory over Kentucky and a fifth consecutive trip to the Final Four.

1995 — Michael Jordan, playing in his fifth game in 22 months, scores 55 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 113-111 victory over the New York Knicks.

Saturday’s Games Toronto 11, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 3, Florida 2 Baltimore 6, Boston 1 Houston 4, Tampa Bay 4, tie, 10 innings Minnesota 8, Philadelphia 4 Atlanta 4, Washington (ss) 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Detroit 1 Washington (ss) 7, N.Y. Mets 5, 10 innings Kansas City 14, Oakland 12 L.A. Dodgers 3, Seattle 1 Cleveland 2, Arizona 0 L.A. Angels 4, San Francisco 3 San Diego (ss) 3, Cincinnati 2 Milwaukee 3, Texas 1 Chicago Cubs 2, San Diego (ss) 2, tie, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 6, Colorado 2 Today’s Games Minnesota vs Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (ss) vs Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston vs Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (ss) vs Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

St. Louis vs N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs Oakland at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs Arizona at Tucson, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs Chicago White Sox (ss) at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (ss) vs Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Detroit vs Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (ss) vs Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston vs Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Florida vs N.Y. Mets (ss) at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Colorado vs Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Seattle vs Oakland at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs L.A. Angels (ss) at Tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (ss) vs Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Arizona vs San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Northeast Division

Atlantic Division

W y-Boston........................47 Toronto..........................35 New York.......................26 Philadelphia...................26 New Jersey...................9

L 25 36 46 47 64

Pct GB .653 — .493 11 1/2 .361 21 .356 21 1/2 .123 38 1/2

Southeast Division

W x-Orlando.......................51 x-Atlanta........................46 Miami.............................39 Charlotte........................38 Washington....................21

L 22 26 34 34 51

Pct GB .699 — .639 4 1/2 .534 12 .528 12 1/2 .292 29 1/2

Central Division

W y-Cleveland....................57 Milwaukee......................39 Chicago.........................34 Indiana...........................27 Detroit............................23

L 16 32 38 46 49

Pct GB .781 — .549 17 .472 22 1/2 .370 30 .319 33 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W Dallas.............................47 San Antonio...................43 Memphis........................38 Houston.........................36 New Orleans.................34

L 25 28 34 36 40

Pct .653 .606 .528 .500 .459

GB — 3 1/2 9 11 14

Northwest Division

W Denver...........................48 Utah...............................48 Oklahoma City...............44 Portland.........................44 Minnesota......................14

L 25 26 27 29 59

Pct .658 .649 .620 .603 .192

Pacific Division

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Southeastern Conference East

NCAA Tournament

West

Team Overall SEC LSU................................20-3................................5-1 Auburn...........................16-6................................3-1 Ole Miss.......................18-5................................3-1 Alabama........................16-5................................2-3 Arkansas........................17-5................................3-2 Mississippi St..............13-10...............................1-4 Friday’s Games LSU 6, Tennessee 2 Vanderbilt 7, Kentucky 0 South Carolina 11, Auburn 5 Ole Miss 3, Florida 2 Arkansas 9, Alabama 8 Mississippi State 9, Georgia 8 Saturday’s Games LSU 10, Tennessee 6 (Game 1) LSU 8, Tennessee 6 (Game 2) South Carolina 2, Auburn 0 Vanderbilt 2, Kentucky 1 (Game 1) Vanderbilt 9, Kentucky 8 (Game 2) Georgia 7, Miss State 4 Arkansas 4, Alabama 3 Ole Miss 13, Florida 3 Today’s Games South Carolina at Auburn, 1 p.m.

Florida at Ole Miss, 1 p.m.

Alabama at Arkansas, 1:05 p.m.

Georgia at Mississippi State, 1:30 p.m.

———

Conference USA

Team Overall C-USA UAB...............................13-8................................2-1 Memphis........................11-13...............................2-1 Tulane............................16-8................................1-1 Central Florida...............15-9................................1-1 Houston.........................11-10...............................1-1 Marshall.........................10-11...............................1-1 Southern Miss.............14-9................................1-2 Rice...............................13-12..............................1-2 East Carolina.................15-8................................0-0 Friday’s Games East Carolina 30, North Carolina Central 4 Tulane 4, Marshall 3 Memphis 5, Rice 2 UAB 4, Southern Miss 2 UCF 7, Houston 4 Saturday’s Games East Carolina 15, North Carolina Central 2 Marshall 7, Tulane 3 Memphis 8, Rice 7 Rice 13, Memphis 4 UAB 13, Southern Miss 8 Southern Miss 14, UAB 3 Houston 7, UCF 3 Today’s Games Marshall at Tulane, 11 a.m.

North Carolina Central at East Carolina, Noon Rice at Memphis, Noon Southern Miss at UAB, 1 p.m.

UCF at Houston, 1 p.m.

Mississippi college schedule

Saturday’s Games Alcorn St. 4, Alabama St. 1 Jackson St. 2, Alabama A&M 0 Delta St. 9, Harding 4 Harding 8, Delta St. 7 Austin College 7,Millsaps 6 William Carey 6, Spring Hill 4 William Carey 10, Spring Hill 3 Mobile 10, Tougaloo 5 Mobile 10, Tougaloo 2 Georgia 7, Miss State 4 Ole Miss 13, Florida 3 UAB 13, Southern Miss 8 Southern Miss 14, UAB 3 Today’s Games Delta St. at Harding, 1 p.m.

Millsaps at Austin College, 1 p.m.

Alabama St. at Alcorn St., 1 p.m.

Jackson St. at Alabama A&M, 1 p.m.

Southern Miss at UAB, 1 p.m.

Florida at Ole Miss, 1 p.m.

Georgia at Mississippi St., 1:30 p.m.

GB — 1/2 3 4 34

W L Pct GB x-L.A. Lakers.................54 19 .740 — Phoenix..........................46 26 .639 7 1/2 L.A. Clippers..................27 45 .375 26 1/2 Sacramento...................24 49 .329 30 Golden State.................20 51 .282 33 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division ——— Saturday’s Games Utah 103, Washington 87 Chicago 106, New Jersey 83 Portland 112, New Orleans 101 L.A. Lakers 109, Houston 101 Dallas at Golden State, (n) Today’s Games Memphis at Milwaukee, 2 p.m.

Sacramento at Cleveland, 2 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 2:30 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Miami, 5 p.m.

Denver at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Boston, 7 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Toronto at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Utah, 8 p.m.

college baseball Team Overall SEC Florida............................17-4................................3-2 South Carolina..............19-4................................5-0 Vanderbilt......................21-4................................4-2 Kentucky........................16-8................................1-5 Tennessee.....................11-13..............................0-6 Georgia..........................9-14................................1-4

The Vicksburg Post

EAST REGIONAL

At Syracuse, N.Y. Regional Semifinals Thursday West Virginia 69, Washington 56 Kentucky 62, Cornell 45 Regional Championship Saturday West Virginia 73, Kentucky 66

SOUTH REGIONAL

At Houston Regional Semifinals Friday Baylor 72, Saint Mary’s, Calif. 49 Duke 70, Purdue 57 Regional Championship Today Baylor (28-7) vs. Duke (32-5), 4:05 p.m.

MIDWEST REGIONAL

At St. Louis Regional Semifinals Friday Tennessee 76, Ohio State 73 Michigan State 59, Northern Iowa 52 Regional Championship Today Tennessee (28-8) vs. Michigan State (27-8), 1:20 p.m.

WEST REGIONAL

At Salt Lake City Regional Semifinals Thursday Butler 63, Syracuse 59 Kansas State 101, Xavier 96, 2OT Regional Championship Saturday Butler 63, Kansas State 56

GP x-Buffalo..........74 Ottawa.............76 Montreal...........76 Boston.............74 Toronto............75

W 41 41 37 34 28

L 23 30 31 28 35

OT 10 5 8 12 12

Pts 92 87 82 80 68

Southeast Division

GP y-Washington...74 Atlanta.............75 Tampa Bay......75 Florida..............74 Carolina...........75

W 49 33 30 30 31

L 14 30 33 33 35

OT 11 12 12 11 9

Pts 109 78 72 71 71

GF 212 205 204 188 198

GA 187 216 208 186 245

GF 289 223 197 193 206

GA 209 236 237 217 235

GF 239 211 207 201 201

GA 187 210 197 204 242

GF 242 222 189 205 189

GA 191 203 190 224 253

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP x-Chicago........73 Nashville..........76 Detroit..............75 St. Louis..........74 Columbus........75

W 46 43 39 35 30

L 20 27 23 30 32

OT 7 6 13 9 13

Pts 99 92 91 79 73

Northwest Division

GP Vancouver.......74 Colorado..........74 Calgary............75 Minnesota........75 Edmonton........74

W 45 41 37 36 24

L 25 26 29 33 43

OT 4 7 9 6 7

Pts 94 89 83 78 55

Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-San Jose......74 45 19 10 100 239 193 x-Phoenix.........76 47 23 6 100 210 187 Los Angeles....73 42 25 6 90 215 195 Anaheim..........74 35 31 8 78 208 226 Dallas...............74 32 28 14 78 211 234 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Saturday’s Games Detroit 1, Nashville 0, SO Boston 5, Calgary 0 Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 1 Buffalo 7, Tampa Bay 1 Toronto 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT New Jersey 4, Montreal 2 Ottawa 3, Florida 2 Atlanta 4, Carolina 0 N.Y. Islanders 4, Columbus 3, OT Phoenix 6, Colorado 2 Vancouver at San Jose, (n) Dallas at Los Angeles, (n) Today’s Games Calgary at Washington, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Edmonton at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 7 p.m.

nascar Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Va. Lap length: .526 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

2. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, Owner Points.

3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

4. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, Owner Points.

5. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

6. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, Owner Points.

7. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

8. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, Owner Points.

9. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, Owner Points.

10. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Owner Points.

11. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

12. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

13. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, Owner Points.

14. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, Owner Points.

15. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

16. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

17. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, Owner Points.

18. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, Owner Points.

19. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, Owner Points.

20. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, Owner Points.

21. (43) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, Owner Points.

22. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

23. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, Owner Points.

24. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner Points.

25. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, Owner Points.

26. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

27. (6) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.

28. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

29. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

30. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, Owner Points.

31. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, Owner Points.

32. (38) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points.

33. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, Owner Points.

34. (34) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Owner Points.

35. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.

36. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, Owner Points.

37. (26) David Stremme, Ford, Owner Points.

38. (36) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

39. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, Owner Points.

40. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, Owner Points.

41. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, Owner Points.

42. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points.

Failed to Qualify 43.

44.

45.

46.

(90) (09) (46) (35)

Casey Mears, Chevrolet.

Aric Almirola, Chevrolet.

Terry Cook, Dodge.

Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet.

women’s basketball

Kroger 250 Results

NCAA Women’s Tournament

At Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Va. Lap length: .526 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 250 laps, 150 rating, 195 points.

2. (31) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 250, 106.1, 175.

3. (32) Brian Ickler, Toyota, 250, 95.9, 165.

4. (5) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 250, 117.5, 165.

5. (9) Johnny Benson, Toyota, 250, 100, 155.

6. (2) Aric Almirola, Toyota, 250, 102.8, 150.

7. (3) Matt Crafton, Chevrolet, 250, 109.3, 146.

8. (26) Max Papis, Toyota, 250, 78.7, 142.

9. (23) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet, 250, 80.1, 138.

10. (12) Ricky Carmichael, Chevrolet, 250, 80.8, 134.

11. (22) Chris Eggleston, Chevrolet, 250, 67.3, 130.

12. (21) Hermie Sadler, Chevrolet, 250, 60.7, 127.

13. (11) Narain Karthikeyan, Chevrolet, 250, 60.4, 124.

14. (8) Tayler Malsam, Toyota, 250, 85.7, 121.

15. (7) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 250, 106.1, 118.

16. (19) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 249, 76.9, 115.

17. (35) D.J. Kennington, Chevrolet, 248, 50.8, 112.

18. (13) David Starr, Toyota, 246, 86, 109.

19. (10) Rick Crawford, Ford, 246, 71.9, 106.

20. (15) Tony Jackson Jr., Chevrolet, 245, 49.3, 103.

21. (33) Clay Greenfield, Dodge, electrical, 242, 54.1, 100.

22. (24) Brent Raymer, Ford, 239, 45.2, 97.

23. (18) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 238, 32.1, 94.

24. (25) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 237, 55.3, 91.

25. (20) Brett Butler, Chevrolet, electrical, 236, 50, 88.

26. (14) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, electrical, 234, 36.9, 85.

27. (4) Mike Skinner, Toyota, 226, 96.1, 87.

28. (29) Ken Schrader, Chevrolet, engine, 211, 57, 79.

29. (17) Jason White, Dodge, 206, 59.1, 76.

30. (6) Todd Bodine, Toyota, overheating, 173, 65.3, 73.

31. (16) Justin Lofton, Toyota, 168, 55.5, 70.

32. (28) Brian Johnson Jr., Ford, accident, 106, 35.7, 67.

33. (30) Chris Lafferty, Ford, brakes, 104, 29.8, 64.

Saturday

DAYTON REGIONAL

Regional Semifinals Sunday Connecticut vs. Iowa State, 11:04 a.m.

Florida State vs. Mississippi State, 2:32 p.m.

Regional Championship Tuesday Semifinal winners, TBA

MEMPHIS REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Saturday Baylor 77, Tennessee 62 Duke 66, San Diego State 58 Regional Championship Monday Baylor (26-9) vs. Duke (30-5), 6 p.m.

SACRAMENTO REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Saturday Stanford 73, Georgia 36 Gonzaga (29-4) vs. Xavier (29-3), (n) Regional Championship Monday Stanford (34-1) vs. Gonzaga-Xavier winner, 8 p.m.

KANSAS CITY REGIONAL

Regional Semifinals Sunday Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame, 6:34 p.m.

Nebraska vs. Kentucky, 8:30 p.m.

Regional Championship Tuesday Semifinal winners, TBAs

nhl EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP x-New Jersey..74 x-Pittsburgh.....75 Philadelphia.....75 N.Y. Rangers...75 N.Y. Islanders..75

W 44 43 37 33 31

L 25 25 32 32 34

OT 5 7 6 10 10

Pts 93 93 80 76 72

GF 202 232 216 197 196

GA 178 213 209 203 232

34. (34) Lance Fenton, Dodge, accident, 98, 28.1, 61.

35. (36) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet, brakes, 55, 32.4, 58.

36. (27) Shane Sieg, Chevrolet, 3, 28, 55.

——— Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 62.793 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 5 minutes, 39 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 1.552 seconds.

Caution Flags: 11 for 66 laps.

Lead Changes: 5 among 4 drivers.

Lap Leaders: K.Harvick 1-80; R.Hornaday Jr. 81-89; K.Harvick 90-135; M.Skinner 136-150; T.Peters 151-189; K.Harvick 190-250.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Harvick, 3 times for 187 laps; T.Peters, 1 time for 39 laps; M.Skinner, 1 time for 15 laps; R.Hornaday Jr., 1 time for 9 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. T.Peters, 501; 2. A.Almirola, 442; 3. T.Bodine, 413; 4. K.Harvick, 390; 5.

M.Crafton, 388; 6. J.White, 371; 7. R.Carmichael, 360; 8. T.Malsam, 357; 9. A.Dillon, 334; 10.

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DETROIT TIGERS—Placed RHP Zach Miner and LHP Bobby Seay on the 15-day DL retroactive to March 26. Optioned LHP Daniel Schlereth and OF Wilkin Ramirez to Toledo (IL). Assigned RHP Enrique Gonzalez, LHP Phil Dumatrait and C Max St. Pierre to their minor league camp.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Traded C Steve Lerud to Baltimore for a player to be named.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned INF Matt Tolbert to Rochester (IL). Reassigned LHP Mike Maroth, C Danny Lehmann and OF Ben Revere to their minor league camp.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Optioned RHP Vin Mazzaro and 1B Chris Carter to Sacramento (PCL).

Reassigned OF Michael Taylor to their minor league camp.

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Ole Miss blasts Florida, takes SEC series Butler From staff reports Matt Smith and Alex Yarbrough both had three-RBI performances to pace Ole Miss to a 15-3 blowout win over second-ranked Florida at Swayze Field on Saturday.

Tanner Mathis and Zach Miller drove in two runs apiece for Ole Miss, which will go for the series sweep today.

Aaron Barrett (6-0) earned the win for Ole Miss, scattering four hits to go along with nine strikeouts. Matt Crouse earned his first save, pitching three innings of shutout relief.

Florida starter Hudson Randall (2-1) was pulled after giving up five earned runs and six hits in just one inning of work.

college baseball Georgia 7, Miss. St. 4 Mississippi State could not pull off another late rally Saturday afternoon, falling to Georgia.

MSU is now 13-10 overall and 1-4 in league play, while UGA improved to 9-14 and 1-4.

Georgia rallied from a 1-0 deficit with five runs in the top of the fourth inning. MSU finished with seven hits. Nick Vickerson and Russ Sneed were the lone multiple hitters for MSU. Sneed now has five hits in the series.

Starting pitcher Chris Stratton (2-3) took the loss. Stratton was chased with two outs in the UGA fourth inning. Strat-

ton allowed three hits and four earned runs.

USM splits with UAB Southern Miss scored 11 runs in their first three at bats and freshman Jay Myrick was outstanding in his first collegiate start to lead Southern Miss to a 14-3 win in the second game of a doubleheader at UAB. The Golden Eagles pounded out 18 hits, including five home runs. One of which was a grand slam hit by Taylor Walker.

Adam Doleac and Mark Ellis each had three hits apiece to lead the offense.

Southern Miss managed only one hit through the first five innings and three different Golden Eagle pitchers surrendered four earned runs as

UAB took game one 13-8.

LSU sweeps Tennessee Fourth-ranked LSU collected 15 hits and defeated Tennessee, 10-6, in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

Left-hander Chris Matulis (4-0) earned the win, allowing three earned runs on five hits in five innings with one walk and two strikeouts.

Catcher Micah Gibbs and designated hitter Matt Gaudet each drove in two runs to lead LSU to an 8-6 win over Tennessee in the second game of a doubleheader.

LSU, which defeated Tennessee, 6-2 on Friday night, completed an SEC series sweep on the road for the first time since May 2008 at Auburn.

Baylor eliminates Tennessee

By The Associated Press Freshman sensation Brittney Griner has grown up a lot this season — just ask Tennessee.

Griner scored 27 points and blocked 10 shots, leading fourth-seeded Baylor to a 77-62 win over the top-seeded Lady Vols on Saturday to advance to the NCAA tournament regional finals.

“She was the X factor,” said Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, whose team was taken out in the first round last season.

Baylor’s only other appearance in the round of eight was in 2005, the same year it won the national championship. The Lady Bears (26-9) will face No. 2 seed Duke on Monday night.

The Lady Vols’ loss spoiled the highly anticipated matchup between Tennessee and Connecticut, which could have happened in this year’s national semifinals.

The Lady Vols, who lost in the first round last season, haven’t missed out on back-to-back Final Fours since 1993-94.

Tennessee (32-3) successfully limited the 6-foot-8 Griner in its 74-65 win over Baylor in the first game of the season but couldn’t do it again even with as many as four players on her at a time. Griner hit several shots while double-teamed or passed to an open Lady Bears teammate for an easy layup.

Griner’s 26 blocks in the NCAA tournament ranks her second in history. Duke’s Alison Bales holds the NCAA tournament record with 30 in 2006, and Connecticut’s Rebecca Lobo’s 22 now ranks third.

The teams went back and forth throughout the first half and early in the second, trading the lead 10 times and tying four times. With both 6-foot-6 Kelley Cain and 6-foot-3 Alyssia Brewer on the floor to guard Griner, Tennessee found some success inside and was up 55-50 with just under eight minutes left.

The Lady Vol orange-clad crowd fell silent as Griner hit back-to-back layups and had a three-point play as part of a 21-1 run as Tennessee’s defense unraveled.

Tennessee (32-3) turned to its shooters in desperation.

Though Angie Bjorklund and Shekinna Stricklen managed to hit jumpers in traffic and knock down a few 3s in the first half, they missed left and right in the second half.

Continued from Page B1. game, No. 2 Kansas State (29-8) rallied to tie it at 54 with 3:09 remaining.

But Butler didn’t fold, it only got better. The Bulldogs scored the next nine points to seal the game before Pullen’s shot at the buzzer dropped — but offered no consolation.

“It was a great experience, but it hurts that it had to end today,” Pullen said.

Enrollment at Butler is in the 4,500 range, about 15 of whom have reminded everyone why college basketball captures America’s heart this time every year.

They are weaving a story about the overlooked and under-appreciated getting their time in the limelight — the kind of tale every underdog, from Charlie Brown to Gene Hackman, has to love.

But make no mistake — this is not some scrappy, overmatched team that needed a break, no Danny and the Miracles, or Villanova shooting 79 percent to knock off mighty Georgetown.

This is a team that stood toe-to-toe with Syracuse on one night, then Kansas State the next, shutting down two power teams from power conferences with legitimate stars of their own.

Pullen and Clemente didn’t score a point for Kansas State until 15 seconds remained in the first half, and it was no matter of luck.

Rather, it was the tough, inyour-face defense of Nored and Veasley that did it — smothering a pair of players who had combined for 53 points two nights earlier in a double-overtime win against Xavier.

Clemente finished with 18 and Pullen 14, but they shot a combined 11 for 30.

“Defensively, they just try to hound everybody, try to stay in the lane, pack it in so there’s nowhere to drive,” Pullen said. “Then they just send five to the glass every time. Did a good job rebounding.”

WC Continued from Page B1. figured him out,” WC coach Josh Abraham said.

That came in the third inning. Jimmie Elliott and Beau Wallace drew walks to start things. Savage came back to fan Dylan Wooten for the last of his three strikeouts, but then gave up singles to Carlos Gonzalez, Clayton Ashley and Jay Harper. Ashley and Harper’s hits were good for two runs each as WC went up 5-0.

After a pair of Blue Wave errors extended the inning, Savage began to labor. He walked three straight batters before getting out of the third with a flyout to left. He then walked another and hit a second to end his day in the fourth inning.

“Had we played defense behind him, he would’ve done better. We had to pitch Silento (Sayles) against

Columbia and then we had to put Rudy (Wilson) up there,” Smith said.

Wilson walked six of the nine batters faced. He hit one and one reached on an error.

A grounder to the mound ended the WC fourth with the Vikings up 12-0. In all, Port Gibson pitchers walked 12 and hit two.

Blake Jobe ended things quickly, facing just four batters in the bottom of the fourth. He struck out eight and allowed just two hits, singles to Sayles and Savage.

“Blake is really coming into his own. His velocity has picked up and he throws a very heavy ball,” Abraham said.

“Today was a good win, especially after an emotional win last night with Clinton.

We just wanted to be pretty sound today, and we were.”

PCA Continued from Page B1.

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Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt yells at her players in the second half Saturday. Baylor upset Tennessee 77-62.

Womens basketball The Lady Vols managed to hit only 32.9 percent, only slightly better than their season-worst 32.8 percent against Stanford, and finished with 22 paint points. The Lady Vols allowed the Lady Bears 49.1 percent shooting and 36 paint points.

Stanford 73, Georgia 36 Jayne Appel had 17 points and five rebounds in 24 minutes while playing on a tender right ankle and top-seeded Stanford rolled into the Sac-

ramento Regional final with a victory over fifth-seeded Georgia.

Kayla Pedersen added 13 points and matched her season high with 15 rebounds and Nnemkadi Ogwumike 11 points and 11 boards in the 25th straight win for the Cardinal (34-1) since losing at No. 1 Connecticut. Stanford moved one step closer to that anticipated rematch with the undefeated Huskies, whose last lost was to Stanford in the national semifinals two years ago.

Duke 66, San Diego St. 58 Jasmine Thomas matched

her career-high with 29 points, and Duke beat San Diego State to reach the Memphis regional final. With the win, the Blue Devils (30-5) notched their eighth 30-win season in the past decade and moved to their first regional final since 2006 when they lost in overtime to Maryland in the national championship game.

San Diego State (23-11) upset two ranked teams to reach this game for the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 in 1994. But the Aztecs’ bid to become the first double-digit seed to play in a regional final since that expansion failed as they missed their first 10 shots of the second half.

another single to Perkins and a walk by Michael Allen.

Warren was bailed out when PCA first baseman Cameron Upton gloved a liner and caught the runner off first for a quick twin-killing to stifle the threat with just one run scored.

The Eagles got half of their runs in the bottom of the second. Kreuz Federick led off the frame with a single and Hearn beat out a sacrifice bunt attempt into another hit. An error allowed Federick to score and Montana McDaniel drove in Hearn off a sacrifice fly to

put PCA up 2-0 after two.

The contest would remain tied at 2 until the PCA fifth.

With two outs, Warren came up after Colby Rushing ripped a liner through the gap. He took the second pitch he saw from Chappell and crushed it over the right-field fence up onto the roadway above for a 4-2 lead and a bow of thanks from Rushing at the plate.

“I was just trying to get a base hit and get Colby in,” Warren said. “I thought I was going to just get a double and it just kept going.”

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Kentucky Continued from Page B1. finishing a stunning 4-of-32 (12.5 percent). DeAndre Liggins finally hit a 3 with 3:29 left to end the drought, but by then it was too late.

West Virginia went the other way, making eight 3s in the first half without a 2-point basket.

It’s been a turbulent time for Huggins since his previous Final Four appearance.

He was forced out at Cincinnati, had a heart attack in 2002 and spent a year coaching Kansas State before he

found the country roads back to Huntington in 2007.

He couldn’t have imagined at the start of the tournament relying on Mazzulla to take his team to Indianapolis. Slowed by a bad shoulder, Mazzulla came off the bench in 35 games this season and averaged 2.2 points — barely worth a mention in most scouting reports.

He started Saturday because West Virginia point guard Darryl Bryant broke his right foot Tuesday in

practice.

Mazzulla dashed uncontested to the rim for several easy baskets. When he was out of the game, he was on all fours in front of the bench slamming the court in encouragement.

West Virginia fans chanted “Final Four! Final Four!” as the players took their spots at halfcourt after the final buzzer. Butler, who scored 18 points, led the Mountaineers in a little Final Four dance and they cupped their ears to

the crowd.

“I talked about it being special,” Huggins told the crowd.

“Two more and it will be really special.”

They had the stage after Kentucky had the spotlight all season. The Wildcats (353), who also went 16 for 29 at the free throw line, were a strong favorite to win their first national championship since 1998 once overall No. 1 seed Kansas went down in the second round.

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Phillies aim for NL title three-peat The only thing the Philadelphia Phillies want from the St. Louis Cardinals is the title of last team to win three straight National League pennants.

Albert Pujols? Heck, the Phils are fine with Ryan Howard. Besides, they boosted their chance of the first NL three-peat since the Cardinals in the 1940s by making the big deal, getting Roy Halladay in a trade.

The 2010 Cardinals aren’t conceding anything, though.

They brought back Big Mac to help the hitters and gave Matt Holliday a huge deal to keep him paired with Pujols in the lineup.

Until the races heat up, though, all eyes in the NL will be fixed on the next wave of budding superstars.

The Braves have 20-year-old Jason Heyward and the talk of his prodigious homers.

And in Washington, the one thing that might rival the midterm elections in anticipation is the arrival of Stephen Strasburg and his astounding array of polished pitches. The Phillies again ran away with the NL East, but failed to defend their World Series title. So they traded late-season acquisition Cliff Lee, so brilliant in the playoffs, for Toronto’s Halladay. In the NL Central, new hitting coach Mark McGwire and the Cardinals will face a stiff challenge from the Cubs. The NL West is a three-team race. The Rockies, who surged to the wild card once Jim Tracy took over after an 18-28 start, and the Giants, behind the gifted arms of two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain, are prepared to unseat the Los Angeles Dodgers and Manny Ramirez.

A look at the NL in predicted order of finish:

EAST Philadelphia Phillies Not satisfied with a return to the World Series that

that made few moves in the offseason. On offense, the Astros lost shortstop Miguel Tejada — rookie Tommy Manzella takes over — from a lineup that produced just 643 runs, 14th in the NL.

Pittsburgh Pirates The ballclub without a winning season since Barry Bonds’ year last with the team in 1992 is building for the future. A bevy of trades over the last 2½ seasons stocked the minors.

WEST Colorado Rockies

Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward bats against the Detroit Tigers Friday. Heyward will be the Braves’ starting right fielder on Opening Day.

Expectations are high after Tracy took over for Clint Hurdle as manager after a slow start and led the team to the NL wild card. They could win the West if lefthander Jeff Francis returns to form after missing all of 2008.

national league New York Mets

Los Angeles Dodgers

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ended in a six-game loss to the Yankees, the Phillies added Halladay to top their rotation. They also beefed up an already formidable lineup with Polanco, and upgraded the bench with catcher Brian Schneider, infielder Juan Castro and outfielder Ross Gload.

Atlanta Braves If Bobby Cox is going to return to the playoffs in his last season as manager of the Braves, it in part could be thanks to the 20-year-old right fielder Heyward. Glaus and Jones will be counted on to rediscover their home run strokes and help the Braves improve on their 149 homers, 22nd overall.The starting rotation is still one of the best in the league with Derek Lowe, a healthy Tim Hudson, Tommy Hanson and Jair Jurrjens. The bullpen, anchored by 38-year-old Wagner and 40-year-old Takashi Saito, could be a weak spot.

Health is the key if the Mets are going to bounce back from the disastrous 70-92 finish in 2009, and they already are off to a poor start. Center fielder Carlos Beltran is expected to be out for April after having knee surgery in January.

Florida Marlins With a talented core of young players led by NL batting champion Hanley Ramirez, Rookie of the Year Chris Coghlan and All-Star righty Josh Johnson, Florida won 87 games last year.

Washington Nationals The fact the Nationals finished their second straight 100-loss season (59-103) is no reason for optimism in D.C. Strasburg, however, is.

CENTRAL St. Louis Cardinals With a starting rotation anchored by dual aces Adam Wainwright and Chris Car-

penter, and an offense led by the combo of Pujols and Holliday, the Cardinals should repeat as Central champs.

Chicago Cubs The biggest move the Cubs made this offseason was trading away the volatile Bradley after one combustible season.

Milwaukee Brewers The Brewers found out that Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder can only carry the club so far, so Milwaukee went out and signed Randy Wolf to $29.75 million, threeyear deal and brought back Doug Davis.

Cincinnati Reds Only six teams in majors scored fewer runs than the Reds did (673) last year, their ninth straight losing season, but they added only one new starter: Orlando Cabrera.

Houston Astros New manager Brad Mills inherits a sagging ballclub

The Dodgers could be as interesting off the field as they are on it. Owners Frank McCourt and his estranged wife, Jamie, are set to meet in court in May. Manager Joe Torre is in the final year of his contract.

San Francisco Giants

It’s a good thing Lincecum and Cain don’t need much run support — they can’t expect it from the Giants’ offense.

Arizona Diamondbacks Much depends on the return of 2006 Cy Young Award winner Brandon Webb from shoulder surgery and he might be ready by mid-April.

San Diego Padres

There is optimism in San Diego after the Padres went 37-25 to finish the season in fourth place. But a sunny outlook might not be enough to keep All-Star slugger Adrian Gonzalez.

Everyone else is chasing the Yankees Everybody knows it’s status quo in the AL East: Yankees and Red Sox, with the Rays hoping they can reprise their run from two years ago. The Central also features the regular figures — Detroit, Minnesota and the Chicago White Sox — fighting for the division.

It’s the AL West that has a whole new look.

The West is hands down the most changed division in baseball with all kinds of switcheroos for 2010. Seattle reloaded and is trying to contend for its first playoff berth since Ichiro Suzuki’s sensational rookie season of 2001, when the Mariners won an AL-record 116 games.

In the Central, the Twins have lots to celebrate before opening day even arrives.

They just locked up star catcher Joe Mauer on a $184 million, eight-year contract, perfect timing as the team christens its new open-air ballpark.

A look at the AL in predicted order of finish:

and lows for Minnesota.

The Twins were devastated to learn All-Star closer Joe Nathan needs reconstructive elbow surgery that will cost him the entire season.

Chicago White Sox Perhaps the biggest question for the White Sox is where will they get their power after losing Jermaine Dye and Jim Thome?

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EAST New York Yankees

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Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Mark Teixeira, Mariano Rivera, Nick Swisher — the heart of this defending champion team is still intact, even if Matsui is now out West with the Angels and Johnny Damon is in Detroit.

added one of the most coveted pitchers on the market in the right-hander Lackey, who spent his first eight major league seasons at the front of the Angels’ rotation.

Boston Red Sox After earning the wild card last season, the Red Sox had a disappointing division series in which they were swept by the Angels.

Yet Boston reloaded and

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Tampa Bay Rays The Rays are determined to get back to the playoffs after missing last season, a year after their improbable World Series run.

Toronto Blue Jays This is a rebuilding year

for the Blue Jays and everyone is curious how they will do without former ace Roy Halladay.

Baltimore Orioles Trembley believes his younger players now have more experience and the club has made some key acquisitions to help boost the starting rotation — namely Kevin Millwood — bullpen and offense.

CENTRAL Minnesota Twins It’s been a spring of highs

Los Angeles Angels The Angels have the pieces — despite a handful of new faces — in place to win their fourth straight division crown and sixth in seven years.

Texas Rangers

The Tigers need another big year from Justin Verlander, who led the majors in strikeouts last season with 269 and went 19-9. Same goes for new closer Jose Valverde.

Perhaps the biggest thing the Rangers will have to deal with in April is any fallout or potential distraction in the wake of fourth-year manager Washington’s admission he failed a drug test last season after using cocaine.

Cleveland Indians

Oakland Athletics

First-year skipper Manny Acta moves to the AL after being fired as manager of the Washington Nationals.

The A’s know they will have to start well to stay in the division mix — none of this coming-from-behind stuff they were often known for earlier in the decade.

Detroit Tigers

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher John Lackey throws a warmup pitch during a spring training game with the New York New York Mets earlier this spring.

Mariners are counting on his production at designated hitter even if he is now 40.

Kansas City Royals The Royals led the Central early last season thanks to strong starting pitching and a reliable bullpen.

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(AP) — Coming off a season in which he finished 19th in points and missed the Chase for the championship, Kevin Harvick appears calm and relaxed so far this season.

The reason is simple: the turn of the calendar meant a turnaround in his fortunes.

“We’ve had a good, solid five weeks and that’s what we set out to do at the beginning of the year, was to start well and run solid and run up front and lead laps and we’ve been fortunate to do that,” Harvick said on Saturday at Martinsville Speedway, where his status as the points leader after those five races put him on today’s pole when qualifying was rained out.

“Hopefully we can have 31 more.”

Starting with a seventhplace run in the season-opening Daytona 500, Harvick has finished in the top five twice, the top 10 four times, and was 11th in the other race. A year ago, he had just five top-five finishes and nine top-10s after all 36 races had been run.

While Harvick is leading the way, the resurgence at Richard Childress Racing is across the board. One year after all four RCR drivers failed to qualify for the 10-race Chase for the championship, teammates Jeff Burton (7th) and Clint Bowyer (12th) are all in the top 12.

It’s a turnaround even Childress can’t fully explain.

“You can’t put your hand on any one thing,” he said. “We changed a lot of personnel, we did a lot of different things and hopefully it’s going to pay off by the end of the year.”

Childress also did away with his fourth team, and the improved consistency of the teams remaining has helped make for more enjoyable weekends all around, the owner said.

“Anytime you’re running good, it’s not easier, but it’s not as painful to come to the

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Lady Bulldogs aim for Final Four

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Kevin Harvick waits before practice for the Food City 500 race at Bristol Motor Speedway earlier this season.

On TV 11 a.m. Fox Martinsville Speedway races,” he said before Saturday’s truck race in which Harvick also started based first on points.

“We’ve had years like last year, and you’ve got to learn how to cope with it and know that you’re going to get batter.

You’ve got to be able to see the light in front of you.”

Now, the light Harvick sees is the one in Victory Lane.

He hasn’t been there as a winner since 2007, and hoped

to use the truck race as an opportunity to learn something about the track that might help him end that drought Sunday.

“Some people would rather relax by not doing anything,” he said. “I would rather be in a vehicle on the racetrack because I feel like there is always something you can learn.”

Harvick has come close, finishing second twice this season, while Burton’s best finish is a third at California, and Bowyer’s is the fourth he opened the season with at Daytona.

Ridley leads White to LSU spring win

By The Associated Press Stevan Ridley ran for 104 yards and a touchdown as the White team defeated the Purple team 24-9 in LSU’s spring football game Saturday.

Ridley did most of the work when the White team drove 80 yards in 10 plays for a touchdown on the opening possession of the game. Ridley capped the march with a 4-yard scoring run. Ridley carried seven times for 70 yards on the possession.

The White team’s other offensive touchdown came in the second half when Jarrett Lee completed a 4-yard pass to Chris Tolliver. Lee played

Saturday. Mississippi State plays Florida State in a semifinal game today.

quarterback for the Purple team in the first half.

While playing for the Purple, Lee had a pass intercepted by Craig Loston and returned 22 yards for a touchdown. Josh Jasper kicked a 57-yard field goal on the final play of the first half for the White team.

All of the Purple team’s points came on field goals.

Jasper made kicks of 21 and 47 yards in the first half. Drew Alleman made a 42-yard field goal in the second half.

Michael Ford rushed for 139 yards on 19 carries.

Auburn QBs getting offense down well Offensive coordinator Gus

Malzahn says Auburn’s quarterbacks have a better understanding of the offense than they did this time last year, even the one who wasn’t around.

The Tigers donned full pads for the first time Saturday to close the first week of spring practice. Malzahn said junior college transfer Cam Newton and the other three quarterbacks “did a solid job.”

“We rotated them equally,” he said. “The thing that stands out to me is all four have a good grasp in what we’re doing.

“Compared to this time last year, you can tell the guys have a better understanding of the offense.”

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — This is uncharted territory for Mississippi State.

The Lady Bulldogs are making their very first trip to the regional semifinals in the NCAA tournament. Their next test will be against Florida State, a team that is only now growing accustomed to being the hunted instead of the hunter.

“There were cowbells as we were walking off the bus,” guard Alexis Rack said, accepting that welcome as Starkville compliment in the wake of last week’s stunning 87-67 upset of second-seeded Ohio State.

The victory up in Pittsburgh touched off a raucous response.

“There was definitely a lot of excitement on campus,” guard Mary Kathryn Govero said with a broad smile. “We had a good reception back home.”

Now another milestone awaits, should seventh-seeded Mississippi State (21-12) get by third-seeded Florida State (28-5) this afternoon at the

On TV 1:30 p.m. today, ESPN2 Mississippi St. vs. Florida St. University of Dayton Arena.

The winner would draw either Iowa State or top-ranked Connecticut, riding a 74-game winning streak, on Tuesday night with a trip to the Final Four in San Antonio hanging in the balance.

Some teams embrace being an underdog. Others take years to adapt to being a favorite. Florida State coach Sue Semrau said her team first felt as though it had a target on its back a year ago.

Those upperclassmen — guards Angel Gray and Alysha Harvin along with 6-foot-5 tower of power inside Jacinta Monroe — are the backbone of the Florida State team.

Harvin said that when she looks at Mississippi State, she sees a team in transformation, much like the one that Florida State has undergone.

“Mississippi State is a great

team. They kind of remind me a lot of our team. They are fast, they have good guard players and post players,” Harvin said. “We just need to go out and be there for each other.

That’s the biggest thing we said we wanted to do this year, was stay together. If we can do that, and are there together defensively, our offense will come. We just need to stay together.”

It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks for Mississippi State, which came into the NCAA tournament having lost three of its last five games. After barely getting by Middle Tennessee in the first round, the Lady Bulldogs played what may have been their finest game of the year.

They shot 56 percent from the field, made a season-high 12 3-pointers and hit a seasonhigh 55 percent behind the arc against the stunned Buckeyes, who had their eyes set on a possible regional championship game against UConn just an hour or so away from their campus.

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Turkey season takes a backseat Fishing enjoys resurgence In my first book, The Flaming Turkey, we conclusively proved that most wild turkey hunters are to some extent crazy. Since that volume was a small press best-seller, the public obviously endorsed that viewpoint. Now the question has arisen: as wild turkey hunters become more experienced and aged, do they get over the insanity and gain some degree of wisdom?

Verily, verily, not at all.

Your Uncle Bob, who literally “wrote the book” on turkey hunting, is a case in point. After over a half century of turkey hunting, where did I spend the opening weekend of the 2010 turkey season?

In a recording studio, singing songs with a group of men who have just gotten out of prison.

I realize that the turkey hunters amongst the readership (yes, Virginia, some turkey hunters CAN read!) are simply shrugging at this confirmation of mental instability: “Knew that Neill boy was crazy when I read his book,” is their attitude. Yet it just gets wusser and wusser, as Gen’ul Nathan Bedford Forrest, with whom my great-granddaddy rode with in The War, would have declared.

I’m spending the second weekend of turkey season in the same studio.

The Mississippi Kairos Prison Ministry Music Team, in which I sing lead, cut our first CD back around Thanksgiving. The public reaction to that was so good that we are preparing a second release, a two-CD set of the praise

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and worship music that we sing and play in prison, at the Studio 61 recording studio here in my hometown of Leland.

It will be available from kairos-mississippi.org in May, or from P.O. Box 6, Stoneville, Miss. 38776, for $25 each, with all proceeds going to the MS Kairos Prison Ministry.

“Yeah, well, that’s crazy, too,” you’re probably saying.

Maybe not. Kairos is a 30-yearold ministry in 32 states and at least 10 foreign countries, and those statistics show that inmates who go through a Kairos weekend and stay faithful to the prayer and share groups afterward have a five times better chance of staying out of prison once they’ve served their sentences and been released. It costs about $30,000 a year to keep a person in prison in America.

There’s a collateral stat which shows that prisons in which a Kairos community is established require as much as 40 percent less security. That’s saving the rest of you taxpayers a lot of money.

To support such a ministry is worth a couple of weekends of turkey season maybe. Perhaps it’s even worth your ordering a few CD sets to listen to, then re-ordering to give to everyone on your Christmas list.

Besides, one cannot appreci-

ate fully just how crazy turkey hunters really are unless one has spent all day cooped up in a padded room with four guitar players and a harmonicaist. . . harmonica-er. . . harmonica player who also beats on drums. It would probably be a wise thing for me to take a shotgun along for our second session this Saturday.

Nahh, maybe not. Big Robert taught me to eat what I shoot, except for snakes and coyotes and skunks, plus guitar players would probably be stringy.

I got up early this morning and looked upward when I went out on the patio to throw out yesterday’s Slung Coffee grounds, after I had cut the water on to boil for making today’s Slung Coffee. The stars were like handfuls of bright diamonds scattered across a field of black velvet, and somewhere across the Mammy Grudge an owl hooted: “Whoo, whoo, who cooks for you?” the call sounded clear in the crisp chilly darkness. Even though I was standing in my own back yard I caught myself listening for an answering gobble, which was kind of crazy in itself, since turkeys have always seemed to gobble at a pitch that I can’t hear unless they are roosted over my head. Let it thunder 50 miles away, and I know it instantly, but if I hear a turkey gobble in a tree, I know I just got too close. Crazy, ain’t it?

Yeah, well, I’m fixing to be locked in a padded room with prison people.

• Robert Hitt Neill is an outdoors writer and he lives in Leland, Miss.

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St. Al softball hosts cancer fund benefit The St. Aloysius softball team will host its first “pink” game on Tuesday against Madison-St. Joe. All money collected from gate receipts and concession sales will be donated to cancer-related charities. The teams will play another pink game on April 20 at Madison-St. Joe. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children. No student passes or all-sports cards will be honored. There will also be a pass the helmet fund drive during the game, as well as a live bluegrass band. The junior varsity game begins at 5 p.m. and the varsity plays at 6.

Clear Creek Ladies Golf Association report On Wednesday, the Ladies of Clear Creek will hold their monthly business meeting at the Clear Creek clubhouse at 8:30 a.m. Following the meeting, the Ladies will play a game of “Pick 12.” On Saturday, the Ladies will play a game of “Pick 12,” with check-in at 9:30 and tee-off at 10 a.m.

Mission Park baseball registration Registration for the Mission Park Baseball League will continue until April 9 at the Vicksburg Parks and Recreation Department. Registration forms can be picked up at the Parks and Rec office on Army Navy Drive, The Sports Center, Just Duett Sports, Sherman Avenue Elementary School and Dana Road Elementary, or by calling Ernest Galloway at 601618-4455. For information, call Galloway or the Parks and Rec office at 601-634-4514.

YMCA tee ball registration The Vicksburg YMCA is currently taking tee ball registrations through April 10.

The program is for boys and girls ages 4-6 and will begin April 12. For information, please contact Dustin Blount at 638-1071.

Parks and Rec softball registration Registration for the Vicksburg Parks and Recreation Department’s adult softball leagues will continue until April 9. Men’s and women’s leagues are available. Packets can be picked up at the Parks and rec offices on Army Navy Drive. A mandatory coaches’ meeting will be held April 5 at the Parks and Rec offices. For information, call 601-634-4514.

Youth soccer roundup U8 boys Barnes Glass 3, Good Samaritan 0 - Scoring for Barnes Glass were Christopher Wilkinson, Steed Springfield, and Cameron Howard.

Barnes Glass 5, Boolos CPA 4 - Scoring for Barnes Glass were Christopher Wilkinson with two goals, Trey Hynum with two and Springfield with one.

Arrowhead Enterprises 7, Boolos CPA 1 - For Arrowhead Enterprises, Sam Dixon and Jagger Weekly scored three goals each. Tyler Ivory scored one goal.

Arrowhead Enterprises 6, Good Samaritan 0 - For Arrowhead, Weekly had three goals, Ivory two goals, and Bennie Meade added another.

Porters Paint 8, Ergon 4 For Porters Paint, Shamar Lott scored four goals. Joshua Hallberg and Justin Walker scored two each. Hallberg and Zachary Boyd added one assist apiece.

Porters Paint 12, Carpet One 0 - For Porters Paint, Lott scored five goals. Daquarian Buck, Walker and Dorian Tuminello scored two goals apiece. Joshua Hallberg added another. Brandon Turner and Zachary Boyd had assists.

U6 boys Roca Restaurant vs. Pool & Patio - For Roca Restaurant, Jessie Hallberg scored four goals. Reagan David, Bryson Whitaker and Jacob Walker scored one goal apiece. Ben David and Drake McClure had assists. For Pool & Patio, Daniel Llopis and Nicholas Williams scored. Kameron Wallace had an assist.

Roca Restaurant vs. Eric Coulter Realtor - For Roca, Jessie Hallberg scored four goals. Drake McClure had an assist.

Southerland & Southerland vs. Shipley’s Donuts - Anden McClurg scored for Southerland. Noah Taylor, Preston Lynch, Brayden Truesdale, and Austin Jones scored one goal apiece for Shipley’s.

Southerland & Southerland vs. Law Office of Toni Terrett - Blakeney Allen and Jack Stuart scored for Southerland. Justin Hasty and Jeremiah Reynolds scored one apiece for Terrett Law Office.

House of Awards vs. Law Office of Toni Terrett For House of Awards, Ben Vroman and Luke Hopkins scored four goals apiece and Jake Brister added two goals.

House of Awards vs. Team 8 - For House of Awards, Luke Hopkins scored five goals.

Wyatt Schrader and Jake Brister had two goals apiece.

Youth baseball roundup Vicksburg Venom wins Clinton Invitational - The Vicksburg Venom won an allVicksburg final, 20-1, over the Mudslingers in the 12-yearolds’ Clinton Invitational played on March 20. Tyler Smith pitched a complete game.

Venom 22, Clinton Arrows 1 - Lane Hynum went 4-for-4 with a double and three singles. Brooks Boolos and John Austin Burris homered. Taft Nesmith was the winning pitcher and Liam Hopson pitched in relief for the Venom.

Venom 10, Forest Hill Sluggers 8 - Tyler Smith and Lee Simpson were both 2-for-2.

John Austin Burris was the winning pitcher. Lee Simpson pitched the middle innings, and Lane Hynum earned the save.

Venom 19, Clinton Bengals 1 - Lane Hynum and Tyler Smith each homered and had three RBIs for the Venom.

Landon Little pitched two scoreless innings for the win, and Matthew Register pitched in relief.

Venom 12, Forest Hill Sluggers 2 - John Austin Burris, Lee Simpson, and Dale Griffith all homered for the Venom in a wild second inning. Dale Griffith pitched a complete game for the Venom.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — At a time when the economy has shaken big-time sports from the PGA to the NFL, the low-key pastime of fishing has enjoyed a quiet resurgence.

A pair of recent studies indicate that families have been turning to fishing, which can be as simple as standing on the shore with a rod and reel, as a good way to spend time together without wrecking the household budget.

A report commissioned

by The Outdoor Foundation found that, in a decade during which the number of anglers generally dropped, 2009 bucked the trend and saw an increase of 1.6 percent or 630,000 participants. A separate study found one of the largest bumps since the 1970s in fishing license purchases, based on a 12-state index.

Tim Bodine owns a painting and wallpaper business in Saint Charles, Mo., but he only worked 42 days last year.

That meant he had the time to pull his young son out of preschool.

“I stayed at home with him and said ’What are we going to do? Well, let’s go fishing,”’ he said.

outdoors Americans already fish in big numbers (almost 41 million, according to the Outdoor Foundation), but the sport has been declining among young people.

“The most exciting thing that happened out of this whole economic nightmare that we’re in is fishing license sales nationwide have gone up,” said Skeet Reese, one of the country’s top professional anglers.

“For a family experience, people can’t travel, they can’t go to Disneyland, they can’t go to Mexico. They can’t afford to go to these places, so they go, ’Let’s just go camping this weekend.”’

And fishing.

A Southwick Associates study reported a 4.7 percent increase in fishing license sales in 2009, based on a 12-state index — though previous studies had been based on all 50 states. Eight of the states included in the survey, ranging from Florida to New Jersey, had sales increases from the previous year, said Rob Southwick, an economist who specializes in wildlife and environmental consulting.

Mike Nussman, president and CEO of the American Sportsfishing Association, is pragmatic about the boost in fishing amid tough times.

“I think it’s always good to remind people of activities that they enjoy, so that certainly is a positive for us,” said Nussman, whose group commissioned the fishing license study along with the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation. “I certainly anticipate some of this will carry on.

“Is it going to last forever?

Certainly I wouldn’t say that, but I think it resets where we are as a nation in regard to this particular activity. It can remind you of the enjoyment you can have with your family and your friends.”

David Matagiese runs classes and clinics on fishing as the education director for the International Game Fish Association.

“We’ve seen a fairly large surge in single mothers who are trying to get their kids out fishing,” Matagiese said. “To do real basic fishing, fishing from the shoreline, it’s fairly cheap. All you need is a rod and reel, find some water; bait’s easy to come by.”

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$5 optional lunch If you are not ready to start or add to your family, there are lots of options to consider for birth control. Join Ob/Gyn Holt Crews, MD, for a complete overview of all methods to help decide what’s right for you.

April 7, 11:45 a.m., Baptist for Women Conference Center

Mother/Daughter Brunch $5 per person Your adolescent daughter may already have questions about changes in her body. At this brunch, obstetrician/gynecologists Erica Ory, M.D., and Barbie Sullivan, M.D., will help prepare her for what’s ahead. Hart Wylie, L.P.C., will discuss self-image, relationships, communication, and emotions.

April 10, 9:30 a.m., Baptist for Women Conference Center Huh? Hearing Loss is a Problem $5 optional lunch There are many causes of hearing loss in both children and adults, but many of them can be prevented. Find out how to protect both you and your child in this seminar with ENT Stephen Lee, MD. April 13, 11:45 a.m., Baptist for Women Conference Center Living With Myeloma: An Overview of Diagnosis and Treatment This free presentation by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society includes lunch for those who preregister. Guest Speaker is Oncologist Grace Shumaker, MD. April 13, 12:00 p.m., Hederman Cancer Center

Chest Pain Explained Chest pain is associated with heart attacks, so it can’t be ignored. But is chest pain always a heart problem? And can you have a heart attack without chest pain? Join cardiologist Todd Lawson, MD, for an important update on chest pain. Lunch provided.

April 16, 11:45 a.m., Baptist Madison Campus Community Room

Thick or Thin, Save Your Skin Concerned about moles or sun damage? Skin cancer, the most common form of cancer, affects one in five Americans. But most skin cancers are curable if detected and treated early. Join us for a skin screening with plastic surgeons David Steckler, M.D. and William Wallace, M.D. The screening also will include UV light evaluation for overall skin health.

April 20, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Hederman Cancer Center

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$5 optional lunch New treatments for urinary incontinence get good results, and even better, some take less than 30 minutes without the need for a hospital stay. Get all the details from urologist Charles Secrest, MD, including information about new bulking agents and the mini sling procedure.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Vicksburg Post

TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “Shooter” — Reluctantly pressed into service again, a former military sniper, Mark Wahlberg, plots revenge against his powerful foes after being betrayed and wounded./7 on TBS n SPORTS NASCAR — Brakes will heat up and tempers will flare up as the Sprint Cup boys race on the paperclip-shaped track Martinsville./11 a.m. on Fox n PRIMETIME Mark Wahlberg “Cold Case” — An FBI agent once romantically involved with Stillman asks the team for help finding a serial killer who has evaded her for 30 years./9 on CBS

THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com

MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Dianne Wiest, actress, 62; Reba McEntire, country singer, 55; Salt, rapper, 44; Max Perlich, actor, 42; Vince Vaughn, actor, 40; Julia Stiles, actress, 29; Lady Gaga, singer, 24.

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Mother fired up after son stood up by date Dear Abby: My son, “Peter,” is in college working on a postgraduate degree. He arranged a date with a young woman while they were home over the holidays. After accepting the first date and breaking it, she agreed to a second one.

As Peter was driving to pick her up, he called to doublecheck her address only to be told she was still at a previous engagement. Naturally, Peter expected she’d call back when she was free — but she didn’t.

There was no explanation, no call or text.

What is happening to young people today? Do texting and online social networking encourage them to avoid simple human kindness and consideration of others? I think these new devices are giving kids an easy way to get out of difficult and uncomfortable situations. They don’t have to hear the hurt of rejection or the sting of their rudeness through a text or a chat.

Meanwhile, my thoughtful, sensitive son sat home thinking he wasn’t important enough for an explanation! At

DEAR ABBY ABIGAIL

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26, he’s beginning to think he should just focus on finishing school and forget the dating scene. And if this is the caliber of today’s young women, maybe he should! — Mother of a Good Son Dear Mother: Your son may be thoughtful and sensitive, but he appears to have unfortunate taste in women. You say he is working on a postgraduate degree? How old was the girl — because she appears to have the emotional maturity of a young teenager.

Nobody likes rejection, but Peter should consider the source. Rather than giving up on dating, he should look for company among women who are at his intellectual and emotional level — in college or grad school or perhaps a little older.

Dear Abby: I am a 29-yearold female who would like to know why people feel compelled to tell random strangers to “smile.”

I was in the market the other night and a man came walking by me saying, “You dropped something,” and was pointing to the floor. I looked down and said, “I don’t see anything.” He then told me, “You dropped your smile.”

Abby, I was SO not amused.

I turned around going back to my business saying, “Oh, OK.” The man proceeded to walk away mumbling, “Don’t look so serious. It’s only the grocery store.”

I hate when people do this.

It happens to me a lot and has most of my life. People — especially seniors — say, “Don’t you dare smile for me, don’t you dare!” Or, “Smile! You’re too cute not to smile.” An old gentleman said, “Oh, she’s like ice — so cold, never smiles.”

What can I do if this happens again? I don’t see the need to walk around the store or sit at my desk at work with a Cheshire cat grin on my face

all day. Any suggestions? — Offended in Gilroy, Calif.

Dear Offended: The man who asked if you had “lost” something may have been making a clumsy attempt to pick you up. That sometimes happens in markets. As to the “older people” who comment on your expression — or lack thereof — they may consider themselves so “senior” that they can “coax” you into doing as they would like — like “coochy-kooing” a baby to make it laugh on cue.

Making personal remarks to strangers is, of course, rude. My advice to you is to distance yourself from those individuals as quickly as possible. Speaking personally, if I was approached the way you have been, the last thing I’d be inclined to do is smile or engage them at all. I’d be offended, too.

• Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

O’Donnell looking to come back to daytime TV

By David Bauder AP television writer

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Actor Dennis Hopper is hugged by his daughter, Galen Hopper, and granddaughter, Violet Goldstone, after being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A frail Hopper gets his Hollywood star A bandaged and frail Dennis Hopper has been honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

The actor and filmmaker, 73, who is battling prostate cancer, appeared gaunt and was helped to the stage by a friend.

The two-time Oscar nominee, who has appeared in more than 100 films, said he came to Hollywood from his native Kansas at 18, “so that was my college.”

Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, David Lynch and Dwight Yoakam were among the luminaries on hand to honor their friend and colleague. Nicholson wore a shirt decorated with images from “Easy Rider,” the classic 1969 road film Hopper wrote, directed and starred in, alongside Peter Fonda.

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Man tries to revive dead opossum Police have charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway.

Several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, state police Trooper Jamie Levier said. One person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance.

Another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The animal ahad been dead a while.

TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE

BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION If tomorrow is your birthday: In the year ahead you could form an important alliance with someone whose ideals and objectives closely parallel yours.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Group negotiations should go quite smoothly for you today, but it could be one-on-one encounters that give you fits.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — You might think you have a good deal going, only to find out that it’s been watered down.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Subdue your risk-taking tendencies when it comes to anything really important to you; the odds aren’t worth it.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — You might waste a lot of time trying to pound square pegs into round holes before you discover your blunder.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Get back in character, and be patient with someone who doesn’t grasp things as quickly as you think they should.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A financial situation that has been flowing in your favor may take an unexpected turn today.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — It’s not like you to prejudge people, yet today you could expect someone you meet for the first time to live up to unrealistic expectations, and be totally unprepared to handle who this person really is.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Numerous burdens, not necessarily of your own making, could overwhelm you today if you let them.

Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you don’t hold your ground, you could let someone’s dire assessment of something eradicate your hopes and enthusiasm.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — There’s a good chance you could work very hard for something today, only to find out that there was nothing in it for you.

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NEW YORK — Rosie O’Donnell plans an “uplifting” new television talk show for launch next year that aims squarely at the audience Oprah Winfrey is leaving behind when her show ends.

O’Donnell won six Daytime Emmys in six years as host of an entertainment-oriented talk show that ended in 2002, but is planning something different this time — a singletopic aspirational show that sounds much like what Winfrey is doing right now.

Her success depends on convincing viewers that she’s not the polarizing figure she’s often seemed in the ensuing years, whether she can set up distribution outside of the traditional studio system and getting television executives to bet on something new at a time they’re struggling for money.

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“I would like this show to make a difference in people’s lives, to be real, uplifting, authentic and focus on life, love and laughter,” O’Donnell, 48,

said.

Scott Carlin and Dick Robertson, two former Warner Bros. syndication executives who helped launch O’Donnell’s first show, said they approached her about getting back into daytime TV shortly after Winfrey’s announcement.

The three of them are setting up their own company to produce and distribute the show,

instead of getting together with a larger studio.

O’Donnell said she wanted to “build on what Oprah began and excelled at for 25 years, in my own style and with new adaptations and ideas.”

To describe the program, the executives said one idea would be to invite Sandra Bullock on at the time of “The Blind Side” movie release and use it as a starting point to talk about the foster care system. O’Donnell told “Entertainment Tonight” that, as a mother of teenagers, she could do a show about how to care for them.

By the description, it seems O’Donnell is looking to distinguish herself from Ellen DeGeneres, whose lighter, more entertainment-oriented show

is widely considered the most likely beneficiary of Winfrey’s absence.

While O’Donnell’s first show was wildly popular at first, its ratings dropped by 47 percent by its last year. Her controversial year on “The View,” and willingness to speak her mind politically, turned off some viewers and television executives, and may give her a handicap to overcome.

Carlin and Robertson noted the show is not political. She was hired by “The View” to be outspoken, Robertson said.

Some television stations have already made plans for the hour Winfrey is leaving, with expansion of local news a popular — and cheap — option.

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Best-seller ‘The Help’ by Mississippi’s Stockett headed to big screen books

By Chris Talbott AP entertainment writer

The associated press

Kathryn Stockett at a book-signing for “The Help” ern whites. “The Help” is both uproariously funny and poignant, resonating with readers across the country.

The book seems ready-made for a film and Taylor saw the possibilities early on when Stockett showed him her manuscript. The creator of a wellreceived short film, “Chicken Party,” and 2009’s “Pretty Ugly

People,” he was looking for a larger vehicle to develop, and his best friend had just the material for him.

“She didn’t even have a publisher yet and I said, ‘You’ve got to let me option this,”’ Taylor said in an interview from New York, where he was having casting interviews.

“And she said, ‘I’m going to

hold you to this. It’s going to be so much fun.’ And then, of course, she got her agent and I was the last person in the world they wanted.”

Taylor had a few things going for him, though, including his relationship with producer and filmmaker Chris Columbus, who greatly admired “Chicken Party.” Columbus, it

new on the shelves The Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library reports on new books regularly: • “The Night Monster” by James Swain continues the adventures of private investigator Jack Carpenter. The past has come back to haunt Carpenter, former head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit. As a young cop he failed to stop the kidnapping of a college coed by a shockingly large assailant — and neither victim nor attacker was ever seen again.

The abduction has remained Carpenter’s most chilling cold case, and even now the mystery of the missing girl lurks in his darkest dreams.

But after 18 years, it’s about to become a terrifying reality once more. When his daughter, Jessie, asks him to bird-dog a camera-toting creep who’s been shadowing her college basketball team, Carpenter’s hot pursuit leads him smack into another run-in with his old hulking nemesis, who abducts one of Jessie’s teammates. While the Broward County cops are determined to pin the rap on a convenient suspect, Carpenter isn’t about to let grim history repeat itself — especially when he discovers a pattern of unsolved kidnappings involving the same massive perp.

• “The Children’s Book”

by A.S. Byatt spans the time period from the Victorian era through the World War I years. When Olive Wellwood’s eldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful parties Olive hosts at their rambling country house — and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children — conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. As these lives — of adults and children alike — unfold, lies are revealed, hearts are broken and the damaging truth about the Wellwoods slowly emerges.

• “The Ex Chronicles”

by Carol Taylor is a novel of faith in one’s self, trust in one’s friends and the sacrifices we make in the name of love. Precious, a struggling writer, discovers her fiancé, Darius, in bed with another woman, but that doesn’t stop her from wanting him. Bella, the wise-cracking, overindulged child of an absent diplomat father and pill-popping socialite mother, knows her boyfriend, Julius, is using her, but before she can give him up she has to give up her first love — alcohol. Half Jamaican, half British Zenobia sacrifices a successful modeling career for Mal-

colm, her overly critical boyfriend, but when he strays she fears she’s made a terrible mistake. Bourgie Hope, the editorial director of a high-fashion magazine, is working double time to hide the strain of caring for her dementia-ridden mother and her own debilitating depression, while trying to resist a strong attraction to her new driver, Derrick, a single dad from the projects.

• “Once in a Blue Moon”

by Eileen Goudge is a family drama focusing on two sisters, their turbulent lives and loves. While growing up, it was Lindsay’s job to look after her little sister, Kerrie Ann. When the girls’ stripper mom was sent to prison for selling drugs, their neighbor, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love, fought to keep them — but to no avail. Thirty years later, Lindsay is the owner of a bookstore in the sleepy California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay. Adopted by a loving couple, she’s still trying to reconnect with her long-lost sister. Unbeknownst to Lindsay, Kerrie Ann has led a very different life, bounced from one foster home to the next. Now sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of her little girl. When the sisters are reunited, the two very different women clash. As Lindsay and Kerrie Ann engage in the fiercest battles of their lives, they are drawn together, restoring their belief in the unshakable bond of family.

• “Capitol Offense” by William Bernhardt explores the criminal justice system.

Professor Dennis Thomas arrives at the law office of Ben Kincaid with a bizarre request: Thomas wants to know if Kincaid can help him beat a murder charge of a killing yet to happen. The professor’s intended victim is a Tulsa cop who had refused to authorize a search for Thomas’ missing wife. For seven days, Joslyn Thomas has been in the twisted

wreckage of her car, dying a horrifically slow death in an isolated ravine. Now, insane with grief, Thomas wants to kill Detective Christopher Sentz. Kincaid warns him not to, but that same day someone fires seven bullets into the police officer. Suddenly, Kincaid’s conversation with Thomas is privileged and Thomas is begging Kincaid to defend him. Thomas claimed he didn’t shoot Sentz — even though he wanted to.

Something about the bookish, addled Thomas tugs at Kincaid’s conscience, and against all advice he decides to represent this troubled man in the center of a media and political fire storm.

• “Stardust” by Joseph Kanon is set in Hollywood in 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from wartorn Europe to find that his brother, Daniel, has died in mysterious circumstances.

Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful career in movies and a heroic past choose to kill himself?

Determined to uncover the truth, Ben enters the maze of the studio system and the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business. This is the moment when politics and the dream factories are beginning to collide as Communist witch hunts render the biggest stars and star makers vulnerable. Even here, where the devastation to Europe seems no more real than a painted movie set, the war casts long and dangerous shadows. When Ben learns troubling facts about his own family’s past, he is caught in the middle of a wave of deception that shakes his moral foundation to the core.

• “Spring Break” by Kayla Perrin is the story of a vacation gone wrong.

“Help me…”: these are the last words Chanetelle hears from her friend Ashley in a static-filled phone call that soon goes dead. Their trip to the island paradise of Artula started the way any

turns out, is tight with Steven Spielberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks.

Columbus wanted to work with Taylor, but Taylor didn’t immediately have a project, he said. Then, “The Help” came along.

“Nothing would ever stick and finally I told him about, ‘The Help,”’ said Taylor, who began working on the script two years ago. “And he read the script and he said, ‘All right, this is the one.”’

It’s the kind of dreamlike sequence of events Stockett and Taylor might have mooned over as children as they talked about their hopes and plans for escape from oppressive Mississippi. Stockett and Taylor met when they were 5 at a Presbyterian church and had “an oddball affinity for each other,” Taylor said.

They were artistic kids with dreams quite a bit different from those of their classmates.

They cooked up little adven-

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trip should, and Chanetelle and her friends find themselves in sun-drenched days and party-hopping nights.

The vacation is not without its conflicts, however, as old rivalries and new jealousies come to light. But no one expects things to turn as ugly as they do. No one expects that they won’t all return. And no one expects that murder might be the ultimate souvenir.

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Kathryn Stockett and Tate Taylor have been best friends all their lives. Now they’re collaborating on a major motion picture.

D r e a m Wo r k s S tu d i o s recently slated Stockett’s firecracker of a first novel, “The Help,” for production. Taylor will be at the helm of his first major studio film.

Watch out Hollywood.

“Tate is trouble and put it in capital letters,” Jackson, Miss., native Stockett said.

“He is so much fun. We had a ball growing up. We got in so much trouble all the time. I was always getting grounded when Tate was there.”

“The Help” was a publishing success story of 2009 and remains on best-seller lists well into 2010. It’s spending its 50th week on the New York Times list of best-sellers at No. 2 and has been No. 1. More than 1.9 million copies have been printed.

The book tells the story of a group of black domestic maids in 1960s Jackson, Miss., who band together to tell the sometimes sad, sometimes triumphant stories of lives spent toiling for upper class South-

tures when they were bored — like the time when they were 14 and decided they’d go to New Orleans to eat at Brennan’s Restaurant, a three-hour drive from home in Jackson.

“But we knew we couldn’t get there and get back in time without getting caught,” Taylor said. “So we invented a spend-the-night party, each of us did, on a Saturday night, and lied to our parents and we drove down to New Orleans ... got dressed up and went down there and just hit the town, and went and ate at Brennan’s.”

Stockett is at work on her second novel, a story set in Mississippi during the Depression. Meanwhile, she’s keeping an eye on casting and location work for the film version of “The Help.”

She’s not really concerned, though.

“I don’t have any say in what happens with the movie and there’s much relief in that — because you know it’s Tate,” she said.

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PORTFOLIO We welcome your news about achievements by area employees.

Submit items by e-mail (newsreleases@vicksburgpost. com), postal service (P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), fax (634-0897) , or delivered in person to 1601-F N. Frontage Road

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Tunica tourism exec to speak at VAMP Webster Franklin, president and CEO of the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau, will be the speaker at the April meeting of the Vicksburg Association of Marketing Professionals.

The meeting will be at noon April 6 at Ameristar Casino’s Heritage Buffet.

Franklin began his career in the White House as an executive assistant and personal aide to the wife of Vice President Dan Quayle during the President George H.W. Bush administration.

Afterward, he became the first paid executive director of the Tunica County Chamber of Commerce, and was responsible for creating and funding the Tunica C.V.B., where he has served as president and CEO since 1997. In 2004, he was inducted into the Mississippi Tourism Hall of Fame and the Tunica Tourism Hall of Fame.

VAMP meets each first Tuesday. For information, e-mail vicksburgmarketing@yahoo.com.

Some job recovery seen in Louisiana NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s job picture improved for the second straight month in February, but still lagged behind what it was a year ago.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission reported Friday that nonseasonally adjusted nonfarm employment for Louisiana was estimated at 1,882,200 for February. That’s an increase of 13,000 for the month, while over the year, employment fell by 35,700.

Goods-producing employment increased by 4,000 from January, while service-providing employment gained 9,000 jobs. Over the year, goodsproducing industries lost 22,000 jobs while the service-providing sector declined by 13,700.

Northrop mulls 4-day schedule PASCAGOULA, Miss.

(AP) — Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding is considering a return to a five-day work week at its shipyards in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Company officials met with union representatives on Thursday in Pascagoula.

The four-day work week was agreed upon years ago by both the company and the unions, but outside the labor contract.

Either side can go back to the five-day work week with 30-day’s notice.

MVD’s chief rewarded for efforts in conservation

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, center, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., appear at a

health care reform news conference this past week.

Bill might not offset retirees’ medical costs Couple will spend average of $250,000 on wellness, study finds

By Mark Jewell AP personal finance writer BOSTON — Relief to seniors facing high prescription drug costs is one of the first changes to come under the new health care overhaul. But ultimately that won’t offset the relentless increase in retirees’ medical expenses.

A couple retiring this year will need a quarter of a million dollars, on average, to cover medical expenses in retirement, according to a study by Fidelity Investments.

The estimate is up 4.2 percent from Fidelity’s projection last year. The Boston-based financial services company has updated its estimate annually since 2002 as part of its business of helping employers design workplace benefits programs.

The study is based on projections for a couple of 65-year-olds retiring this year with Medicare coverage. The estimate factors in the federal program’s premiums, co-payments and deductibles, as well as out-of-pocket prescription costs. The study assumes no employer provided insurance in retirement, and a life expectancy of 85 for women and 82 for men.

The estimate has risen 56 percent from Fidelity’s ini-

the estimate has risen 56 percent from Fidelity’s initial $160,000 projection in 2002. the average annual increase has been 5.7 percent, so this year’s 4.2 percent rise — from $240,000 last year to $250,000 — is modest. But with broader inflation now near zero amid a recession, health care costs continue to rise faster than other expenses, said sunit Patel, a senior vice president at Fidelity. tial $160,000 projection in 2002. The average annual increase has been 5.7 percent, so this year’s 4.2 percent rise — from $240,000 last year to $250,000 — is modest.

But with broader inflation now near zero amid a recession, health care costs continue to rise faster than other expenses, said Sunit Patel, a senior vice president at Fidelity.

The findings illustrate the importance of factoring in health care alongside housing, food and other expenses in retirement planning.

“It turns out to be a surprise for many, and one of the largest expenses in retirement,” Patel said.

The increase in this year’s estimate was relatively small because a surge in patent expirations for brand-name drugs meant many cheaper generic versions reached the market, Patel said.

That helped limit out-ofpocket prescription costs.

Fidelity’s estimate doesn’t factor in most dental services, or long-term care, such as costs from living in a nursing home. A 2008 study by Fidelity estimated a 65-year-old couple would need $85,000 on average to cover insurance costs for long-term care in retirement.

The study also didn’t account for the health care overhaul that President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday. Fidelity was updating its 2010 estimate before legislative details were clear, Patel said.

The law’s focus is expanding access to people under age 65. But it also would benefit many retirees by gradually closing what’s known as the “doughnut hole” coverage gap in the Medicare drug benefit.

Seniors fall into that hole once they spend $2,830 per year. The legislation would

begin narrowing the gap by providing a $250 rebate this year. The gap would be fully closed by 2020, when seniors would still be responsible for 25 percent of the cost of their medications until Medicare’s catastrophic coverage kicks in.

Patel said the gap’s closure is likely to yield only a “very modest” reduction to Fidelity’s $250,000 overall cost estimate.

Fidelity’s estimate is a projection of what an average couple would need.

Actual costs will vary widely, depending on a couple’s medical needs and how long they live.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute, an independent nonprofit, conducts similar research but, unlike Fidelity, doesn’t focus on an average. That’s because there are so many variables that many retirees’ costs will end up far lower or higher than any average, said Paul Fronstin, EBRI’s director of health research and education.

For example, EBRI estimated last year that a retired couple would need $416,000 for health care costs if their drug costs were far higher than average, in the 90th percentile.

If that same couple lives longer than three-quarters of retirees, the estimate rises to $614,000.

The commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division has been recognized by the National Military Fish & Wildlife Association.

Brig. Gen. Michael J. Walsh, 54, is the recipient of the 2010 Award for Conservation Partnerships.

The award, for efforts in ecosystem restoration and manageBrig. Gen. ment, was Michael J. Walsh announced at the association’s conference in Milwaukee this past week.

“I have high expectations that this award will serve to further proactive efforts of all who are concerned with the future ecological and economic sustainability of this great Mississippi River Watershed,” Walsh said in an e-mail.

Walsh oversaw the first comprehensive vision statement for a sustainable Mississippi River Watershed.

In 2009, as a leader in the Mid-West Natural Resources Group, he developed a strategy that was signed by the group’s consortium of 14 federal agencies. Also, three memorandums of understanding were signed under his leadership, with The National Audubon Society, Ducks Unlimited and the U.S. Forest Service.

Walsh, 54, became commander of the MVD in 2008 after the retirement of Brig.

Gen. Robert Crear. A Brooklyn, N.Y,. native, he has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York and a master’s in construction management from the University of Florida. As a soldier, Walsh attended Engineer Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He and his wife, Susan, have two adult sons.

The NMFWA is a nonprofit organization working to protect and manage wildlife and other natural resources. The award given to Walsh recognizes individuals from the Department of Defense and others who promote the military’s role in conserving natSee Walsh, Page B10.

If readers want to call this the bad bug, good bug update, then go right ahead.

That’s how I see it, too.

First, I want to mention an important program the Extension Service is offering to increase your knowledge of the bad bugs — termites.

Then, mark your calendars for a two-day workshop on good bugs — honeybees.

Notice how I called the program on termites important? I hope you take termites and their potential damage as seriously as I do.

My trusted colleague and Extension entomologist Dr. Blake Layton has a saying about homes in Mississippi: there are two kinds — the ones that have or have had termite damage and the ones that are going to have it. I

If you go

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county extension director have heard Layton say many times that some of the saddest encounters he’s had are when a homeowner has paid off the mortgage only to discover that termites have caused major damage. In many cases, Layton says, the costs are like starting a mortgage payment all over again.

I generally do not publicize an Extension educational program more than

• Protect Your Home from Termites — 5:30 p.m.

May 6 via interactive video conference at the Warren County Extension office, 1100-C Grove St; free; 601-636-5442 to register.

• Beekeeping workshop — June 2-3 at the Forrest County Extension office in Hattiesburg; Harry Fulton, 662-325-7765. a month in advance, but in this case I will because I really don’t want you to miss out on this opportunity. The Warren County Extension office will be the host site for Protect Your Home from

Termites, beginning at 5:30 p.m. May 6 and presented

by Layton from the Department of Entomology at Mississippi State University via our interactive video conference system. Register soon as space is limited.

Participants can expect to learn how to recognize termites and signs of infestation; important aspects of biology that influence how termites are controlled; methods of control; how treatments are applied and what to expect from your termite contract; and common risk factors that make a building more susceptible to termites. A question and answer session will follow.

This workshop has the potential to save homeowners tens of thousands of dol-

lars. Make plans to attend if possible.

Also, the Extension Service will on June 2 and 3 host a beekeeping workshop at the Forrest County Extension office in Hattiesburg.

Most of us consider honeybees the good bugs since we know that approximately two-thirds of the food we consume is pollinated by them.

This will be an excellent hands-on training for beginners and novices. For more information, contact Harry Fulton at 662-325-7765.

• John C. Coccaro is county Extension director. Write to him at 1100-C Grove St., Vicksburg, MS 39180 or call 601636-5442. E-mail him at jcoccaro@ext. msstate.edu.

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By Consumer Reports editors Honda and Subaru have earned class-leader status for building the best all-around vehicles for American drivers, according to Consumer Reports’ latest Automaker Report Cards. This is the fourth consecutive year that Honda has topped CR’s list.

At the opposite end of the annual ranking is Chrysler, which fared even worse than last year. However, Chrysler had one recommended vehicle this year, the Ram pickup, compared to no recommended vehicles last year.

Tied with an overall score of 77 out of 100 points, Honda and Subaru were followed by Toyota (74) (recommendations for eight recalled Toyota models were temporarily suspended), Hyundai (73) and Nissan and Volkswagen, tied at (72) in overall score.

Although Honda and Subaru are building the best vehicles

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overall, South Korean carmaker Hyundai and its subsidiary, Kia, have shown the most dramatic improvement, jumping to fourth place from ninth last year.

The overall score for each automaker is based on the average of its vehicles’ overall scores in CR’s road tests and their average predictedreliability ratings from CR’s annual auto survey. Manufacturers received a report card only if five or more of their vehicles were tested.

Honda continues to make many of the best all-around vehicles. Overall, its Honda and Acura models are the most reliable vehicles in CR’s predicted-reliability ratings.

The most recent models from Honda, however, have not shown the same dedication to interior quality and fuel

economy that earlier models did. Despite its outstanding reliability, CR doesn’t recommend the new Insight because of subpar emergency handling and a compromised rear seat.

The redesigned 2010 Legacy sedan and Outback wagon helped contribute to Subaru’s tie with Honda in CR’s rankings. However, CR no longer recommends the Subaru Impreza WRX because its subscribers reported a relatively high number of problems, including transmission troubles, in the latest survey. Last year, CR recommended every Subaru model.

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Author set to sign civil rights book Lorelei Books in downtown Vicksburg will host a book-signing May 19 by author Margaret McMullan.

McMullan will sign copies of “Sources of Light” from 4 to 6 p.m.

The book is set in 1962 Jackson during the Civil Rights Era. The bookstore is located at 1103 Washington St. Call 601-634-8624 or visit www.loreleibooks.com for more information.

Bike rally to raise funds for ACS The third annual Rally Round the River bike ride will be Saturday at Mound Baptist Church off U.S. 80 in Tallulah.

Registration will be at 9:30 a.m. with the 100-mile ride starting at 10. Entry is $30 per bike and rider.

The event will benefit the American Cancer Society.

To register, call Jeff or Lisa Reddick at 318-2827360 or 318-282-7350.

Azie Jabour, 92, talks about her life in Vicksburg.

Quilts on display in two cities Quilts from the 22nd annual Pieces and Strings Contest and Show will be on display through April 30 in Port Gibson.

The Mississippi Cultural Crossroads exhibit features African-American, European-American and heirloom quilts. Winning quilts will also be on display May 8-Aug. 1 at the Mississippi Museum of Art, 507 Market St., in Jackson.

Call 601-437-8905 or visit www.msculturalcrossroads.org for more information.

CAR members honor war vets The Sarah Randolph Boone Society of the Children of the American Revolution presented a program, Remembering Our American Patriots, during a meeting of the Ashmead Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Candles were lighted for Revolutionary War ancestors of the children and for Ashmead family members who have served or are serving in 20th century wars.

Attending the program were Bob Bell, Hunter Bell, Matthew Bell, Jacob Breeden, Sally Bell McLean, Carmine Bell, Roeland Bell, Lynn Bell Breeden, Devon Bell, Sarah Hunter Fordice, Annabeth Breeden, Bart Bell and Sallie Fordice.

Annual ZooBrew set for May 14 in Jackson Jackson Zoo’s third annual ZooBrew will be from 6 to 9 p.m. May 14.

The event will feature specialty beers, live entertainment, a hot-wing cook-off and a getaway raffle. Admission is $35 for Friends of the Zoo and $40 for nonmembers.

The zoo is located at 2918 W. Capitol St. Call 601-352-2580 or visit jacksonzoo.org for more information.

Photo by Katie Carter

She is gentle, gracious, loving, and ‘what she did, she did well’ It’s ironic, isn’t it, that Azie Jabour “never liked to cook,” but she started the popular annual Lebanese dinner at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church 50 years ago?

Her daughter, Pam Mayfield, agrees that her mother “is not the best cook in the world. When I think of things she made when I was growing up, it’s a limited menu.”

Limited, perhaps, but Miss Azie has a reputation for making the best kibbee and stuffed squash.

When cooking kibbee, she always held out some for her son, John Wayne, who liked it raw, “though the acidity of the onions really cooks it.” Yet, she maintains, “I just wasn’t a cook.”

From the beginning, the Lebanese dinner was a great success “because everybody loves Lebanese food. From the first dinner, it just grew.” Everybody in the congregation got involved with the project, but Miss Azie remembers that in the beginning a few were mainstays, working behind the

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scenes, cooking ahead of time and handling the finances. Miss Azie continued to participate until three or four years ago when declining health made it necessary for her to retire.

She grew up in Longview, Texas, one of five children of one of only two Lebanese families in town. She went to college for a year, but it was during the Great Depression, so she felt the need to go home and help her family. She came to Vicksburg with some friends in 1940, and that’s when she met her future husband, Mike Jabour.

Was it love at first sight?

“I guess not,” she laughed, but she didn’t resist his persistent attention, and they were married in 1941.

Father Michael Baroudy traveled from Vicksburg to Longview to perform the ceremony.

Mike Jabour was a young Vicksburg businessman, having opened The Hub, a men’s clothing store, in 1933 soon after he graduated from high school. When he and Miss Azie married they took a honeymoon trip to Havana, Cuba. As soon as they got home, she went to work in the store with Mr. Mike.

They worked together for more than 40 “wonderful, happy years.

I loved working with my husband.

He was so easy to work with.”

Their son, John Wayne Jabour, operated it for a number of years, and Pam had a women’s department there for more than 15 years.

The store is now closed.

When World War II ended and the men came home, they needed suits. The Hub was the only men’s store in town, and Mr. Mike’s policy was “take it, and pay me when you can.” One veteran had a folded-up piece of cloth he traded for a suit — it’s a handmade Oriental tapestry, some 10 feet tall and half as

wide, which still has a prominent place in the Jabour home.

One of the store’s promotions was Straw Hat Day back when men wore hats — and the manufacturer would send a straw hat encased in a block of ice to be put outside on the sidewalk. People guessed at the time it would take to thaw, the winner getting a new hat.

During World War II, when it was hard to find a place to live, the Jabours rented one room in a house at Drummond and Division streets in a home owned by some other Jabours. They had begun building a home on Drummond, and Pam speculated that they “speeded up construction when I was born in 1946” because of living with two children in one room.”

They moved into the new house in January 1947 “and had so much room they probably ran around and chased each other.”

Though there were just five siblings in Miss Azie’s family, Mr. Mike See Azie, Page C8.

California glass artist hosting recipe contest downtown

By Manivanh Chanprasith mchan@vicksburgpost.com A nationally known glass artist is calling on Vicksburg cooks to enter her recipe contest.

California artist Annie Morhauser will host the Annieglass Best Recipe Contest Thursday afternoon at Sassafras, a shop on Washington Street.

Morhauser owns Annieglass, a Watsonville, Calif.-based company that specializes in handcrafted glass tableware. Morhauser will be in Vicksburg as part of a four-stop tour in Mississippi.

“We’re inviting people to bring their

recipes, prepared on Annieglass or a picture of your recipe on Annieglass,” store owner Nancy Bullard said.

“While (Morhauser) is here, she will select five winners,” who will receive a piece from the Annieglass collection.

They will also be featured on the company’s Web site, www.annieglass.com.

Sassafras carries more than 150 Annieglass pieces.

“It’s very elegant,” Bullard said. “It can be sophisticated without being formal.”

Each Annieglass piece is handcrafted through a technique called slumping, during which a sheet of flat glass is melted over a mold at

very high temperatures in a fiery kiln. Precious metals are then handpainted onto the glass, making it chip-resistant and dishwasher safe.

A total of 50,000 Annieglass pieces are produced annually. The company was founded in 1983.

Morhauser’s Annieglass pieces have been included in the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Scotland.

While on her Mississippi tour, Morhauser will visit shops in Philadelphia, Meridian and Madison.

If you go The Annieglass Best Recipe Contest will take place from 10:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Thursday at Sassafras, 1406 Washington St. Annieglass owner Annie Annie MorhausMorhauser er will choose five winners. Entry is free. For more information, call Sassafras at 601-6383744 or visit www.annieglass.com.

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local events & ENTERTAINMENT Tapestry Tour of Homes

2010 Riverfest

Through April 5; tickets: $10 per home or $25 per three, available at Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau office on Clay Street; 601-636-9421. The homes: • Anchuca Historic Mansion, 1010 First East St. — 11 a.m.

Thursday and 10 a.m. Saturday.

• Annabelle, 501 Speed St. — 1 p.m. today and Friday.

• Baer House, 1117 Grove St. — 1 p.m. Monday, Saturday and April 5.

• The Bazsinsky House, 1022 Monroe St. — 10 a.m. today, Monday and April 5.

• Duff Green Mansion, 1114 First East St. — 3 p.m. today and Friday.

• The Corners Mansion, 601 Klein St. — 2 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday.

• Cedar Grove mansion, 2200 Oak St. — 11 a.m. today and Friday.

• Christ Episcopal Church, 1115 Main St. — 9 a.m. Monday, Saturday and April 5.

• The Cobb House at Southern Cultural Heritage Center, 1302 Adams St. — 2 p.m. Monday, Thursday and April 5.

• The George Washington Ball House, 921 Main St. — 4 p.m.

Saturday and 11 a.m. Monday and April 5.

• The Jacqueline House African-American Museum, 1325 Main St. — 9 a.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Monday and April 5.

• Linden Plantation Gardens, 505 Duncan Road — 4 p.m. today and Thursday.

• The Martha Vick House, 1300 Grove St. — 1 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

• The Mary Harwood House, 600 Fort Hill Road — 10 a.m.

Thursday and 3 p.m. Saturday.

• The Shlenker House, 2212 Cherry St. — 3 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday.

• The Old Court House Museum, 1008 Cherry St. — 4 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. today; 6 p.m. Saturday, Alan Huffman, author of “Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History,” speaker.

April 16-17; theme: Jammin’ on the River; downtown event will feature bluegrass, country, blues, rock and R&B; Jason Michael Carroll will headline first night and J. Blackfoot with Blue Mountain of Memphis will close out second night; tickets: $15 per night or $25 for weekend pass; www.riverfestms.com.

Master Gardeners March Mondays 5:30-7 p.m. Monday; Weed Alert! Escaped Ornamentals by Virginia DuBowy; Warren County Extension Office, 1100-C Grove St.; free; 601-636-5442.

Vicksburg Art Association Members’ Spring Show 1-4 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Wednesday; Old Constitution Firehouse, Main and Openwood streets; free viewing; contact: Leslie Horton, president, 601-638-7900 or lesliehorton@hotmail.com.

Vicksburg Red Carpet Classic Auto Show 8 a.m. April 17; Vicksburg Cruisers Car Club; Blackburn Motor Company on North Frontage Road; car registration fee: $15 per car in advance or $20 day of show; 601-415-0421, 601-831-2597 or www.vicksburgcruisers.com.

Southern Cultural Heritage Center Reservations required for each event: 601-631-2997 or info@ southernculture.org; Beginning stained glass workshop: 5:307:30 p.m. Tuesday; the Rev. Mark Bleakley of Holy Cross Anglican Church, instructor; $160 for members, $170 for nonmembers; Amir Gwirtzman concert: 6 p.m. April 5; $15 in advance or $20 at door, $8 for students; Ballroom dance lessons: 5-7 p.m. April 11 and 25; the Cha-Cha; James Frechette, instructor; $20 per person; Drawing basics workshop: 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 13 and 20; Jeanie Nicolson, instructor; $50 for members, $60 for nonmembers, supplies included; Digital photography workshop: 5:30-7 p.m. April 27 and May 4; Kathy Gibson, instructor; $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers; bring camera and batteries; Chocolate Affair: 7 p.m. May 6; $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers; diners with event ticket will receive 10 percent discount at Cafe Anchuca, Duff’s Tavern & Grill, Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company and Roca.

42nd annual Vicksburg-Warren County Riverfest Arts & Crafts Show 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. April 17; Walnut, South and Crawford streets; free.

Walk MS 9 a.m. April 17; Art Park at Catfish Row downtown; sponsored

by Alabama-Mississippi Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; 601-856-5831 or angie.jackson@nmss.org.

Attic Gallery traveling exhibit On display through April 24; Pearl River Glass Studio, 142 Millsaps Ave., Jackson; free; 601-638-9221.

Vicksburg Theatre Guild Auditions: Fairy Tale Theatre; 2-4 p.m. April 10-11; open to ages 7-18; $35 for VTG members and $55 for nonmembers; “Gold in the Hills”: July 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 and 30-31; “Bad Seed”: May 7-9 and 14-16; “Fairy Tale Theatre”: June 24-27; all events at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m., Sunday shows at 2; $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $5 for 12 and younger; 601-636-0471 or www.e-vtg. com.

“Mont Helena — A Dream Revisited” April 29-30, May 1, 6-8 and 20-22; Mont Helena home on U.S. 61 North, between Rolling Fork and Anguilla; tickets: $45 plus $3 processing fee, available in advance only; call 662-873-2080, fax 662-873-2450 or visit www.monthelena.com.

18th annual Civil War Show 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 10; Battlefield Inn; $2; 601-638-1195.

LIFE of Mississippi annual Art of Life EXPO-tential 5-8 p.m. April 8; Mississippi Craft Center, 950 Rice Road, Ridgeland; $15 per person or $25 for couples; 601-969-4009 or lifeofms@aol.com.

Health Walk Program 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through May 30; Poverty Point State Historic Site, West Carroll Parish, east of Monroe on Louisiana 577; free; 888-926-5492.

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” 10th anniversary April 16-18; movie screening during Crossroads Film Festival & Society in Jackson; 601-832-4921 or luriley@aol.com.

• Ameristar Casino, 4116 Washington St. 601-638-1000, www.ameristar.com • Doug Allen — Variety; tonight and Tuesday-April 4 at Cabaret Lounge; free.

• Terry Mike Jeffrey — Variety; April 6-11 at Cabaret; free.

• Hip Kitty — Rock; Friday-Saturday at Bottleneck Blues Bar; free.

• Dr. Zarr’s Funkmonster — Variety/funk; April 9-10 at Bottleneck; free.

• Billy Currington — Country; 7:30 p.m. April 9 at Bottleneck; tickets: $45.

• Richard Marx — Contemporary; 7:30 p.m. May 14 at Bottleneck; tickets: $45-$50.

Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company 1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571 • 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays — Open mic night.

• 10 p.m. Thursday — Chris Steiner and Patrick McCleary; $5.

• 10 p.m. Friday — Scott Chisolm and Better Half; call for cover.

• 10 p.m. Saturday — Bailey Brothers; call for cover.

LD’s Kitchen, 1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838

Book-signings The Rev. Peter G. Heltzel, Vicksburg native: 4 p.m. April 8; “Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics”; William H. Dodson: 4-5:30 p.m. May 20; “If Only I had Known: A True Story”; Lorelei Books, 1103 Washington St.; 601-634-8624 or loreleibooks.com.

Jim Henson Exhibits Leland: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Saturday, free but donations accepted.

H.C. Porter Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories

• 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Mississippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free.

• 7 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Line dancing; free.

Eli’s Treehouse Restaurant & Sports Grill, 1837 Cherry St., 601-636-3953 • 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday — Karaoke contest, cash prize.

Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn, 4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-638-5811 • 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke in the lounge; free.

Through Thursday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-5 p.m. today; Mississippi Arts Center, 201 E. Pascagoula St., Jackson; free, but donations to Backyards & Beyond, a nonprofit organization, are encouraged.

Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge, 4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761

Jackson Audubon Society bird walk

• 7-10 p.m. Wednesday — Live music in lounge; free.

• Friday-Saturday — Grits & Gravy; $7.

8-10 a.m. Saturday; LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, Mayes Lake Entrance, 115 Lakeland Terrace, Jackson; $3 per vehicle; 601-9567444 or www.jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

Mississippi Welcome Center, 4210 Washington St., 601-638-4269 • 1-4 p.m. each third Sunday — Old Time Music Society; free.

Mississippi College concert-celebration series 7:30 p.m. April 6; Provine Chapel on campus.

Mississippi College theater

Roca Restaurant & Bar, 127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800 • 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays — Live music with Ben Shaw; free.

Performances on Clinton campus; 601-925-3440; “William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors”: 2 p.m. today; MC’s Jennings Courtyard, 208 McLemore Drive; $7.

Monroe artist’s pastels on display at Ouachita River gallery The Ouachita River Art Gallery’s April artist is Rita Mann of West Monroe.

Mann specializes in watercolor, acrylic and pastel mediums. Her Adventures in Pastels exhibit will showcase pieces from her new collection.

The exhibit is free, and the hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday.

The gallery is located at 308 Trenton St., West Monroe.

For information, call 318-3222380 or visit www.orag.org.

Hattiesburg revs up for classic car show The Classic & Antique Car Show in Hattiesburg will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 17.

The free event will be at the Forrest County Multi Purpose Center, 962 Sullivan Drive, off U.S. 49 South.

Registration begins at 7 a.m., and the fee is $20 per vehicle. Visit www.mshomeandfamily.com/carshow for more information.

Alexandria group sets play downtown The City Park Players of Central Louisiana Community Theatre will present “Steal Away.”

and experts in children’s literature.

Visit www.usm.edu/bookfest, or call 601-266-4499.

take note

from staff reports The play, set in Chicago during the Great Depression, is about the Negro Women’s Organization for Youth Education.

Show dates are Thursday, Saturday and April 10-11 at the downtown Hearn Stage in the Rapides Foundation Building, 1101 Fourth St., Alexandria, La. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for ages 65 and older and $5 for students. Reservations are encouraged. Call 318-4421800 or e-mail cityparkplayers@gmail.com.

USM’s coast campus plans jazz festivities The University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast campus at Long Beach will host the Southern Miss Jazz and Blues Festival.

The free festival, set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, will feature performances by the Steve Warren Band, Swampnoise, the Jerry Ball Jazz and Blues Quintet and Southern Miss Jazz Sextet+1, as well as food, arts and crafts, and children’s Easter activities.

The Gulf Park campus is at 730 E. Beach Blvd. Visit www. usm.edu/gc/jazz-n-blues/ for more information.

Cars to be displayed at Wiggins festival The Red Creek Classics Car Club will display cars at the Pine Hill Festival Saturday in downtown Wiggins.

The show, set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature older-model cars, trucks and motorcycles.

Car registration is $20, and awards will be given in eight categories.

The festival, sponsored by the Stone County Economic Development Partnership, will feature races, a talent show, live entertainment, food, and arts and crafts. It will be at Blaylock Park.

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“Bluebonnets,” a pastel by Rita Mann, whose works will be on display in April at the Ouachita River Art Gallery, 308 Trenton St., West Monroe Call 601-928-5418, or visit www.stonecounty.com or www.redcreekclassics.com.

Kids’ book festival at Southern Miss The University of Southern Mississippi will host the 43rd

annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival April 7-9.

The event will be at the new Thad Cochran center on the Hattiesburg campus, and will feature workshops and presentations by authors, illustrators, storytellers

Crowd scenes focus of exhibit at Carey The Lucile Parker Gallery at William Carey University will present an exhibit by artist and art instructor Steve Strickland.

The exhibit, called Recent Paintings, features his interpretation of crowd scenes. It will run through April 8.

Strickland, who has bachelor’s and master’s

degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi, teaches drawing and painting, graphic design and art appreciation at Faulkner State Community College in Alabama.

The exhibit at the Lucile Parker Gallery is free, and hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment.

Call 601-318-6528.

Alexandria sets run, walk benefit The third annual Running the Roads for Life 5K Run/ Walk and 1 Mile Fun Run will be April 25 in downtown Alexandria, La. The race, which benefits the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency, will begin at Third and Murray streets.

The fee is $25 in advance or $30 the day of the race. A prerace banquet is set for 6 p.m.

April 24 at the Country Inn & Suites, 2727 Monroe Highway, Pineville, La. Former Dallas Cowboys player Everson Wall will be the keynote speaker. Cost is $25 per person.

Register for both events at www.lopa.org, or call 318-2013981 or 318-229-1992 for more information.

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april 3 • Domenica Harris and Nathaniel Graham III 2 p.m. at Cedar Grove M.B. Church Reception at Unique Banquet Hall Family and friends are invited

• Shanndolyn R. Williamson and Derrick G. Slaughter 3 p.m. at Greater Grove Street M.B. Church Reception at St. Mary’s Center Family and friends are invited

Shandy Kay Hunt Engaged to marry James Robert Davis

Leah Katherine Burnett Engaged to marry Joseph Brian Ivey Jr.

Shelby Paige Bricka Engaged to marry William Keeling Perdue II

Hunt, Davis to marry; Miss Burnett to marry Miss Bricka to marry reception in Pattison Ivey at Crawford Street Mr. Perdue on May 15 The engagement of Shandy Kay Hunt of Pattison to James Robert Davis of Eagle Lake is announced today. Vows will be exchanged April 17, 2010, in a private ceremony. A reception will begin at 5 p.m. at the home of Deborah Kay and Billy Vinson in Pattison. All relatives and friends are invited to attend the reception.

Ms. Hunt is the daughter of Deborah Kay and Billy Vinson and Pat and Jeanna Bearden, all of Pattison. She is employed at RiverHills Bank in Port Gibson.

Mr. Davis is the son of Nancy Nettles and Rudy Davis of Redwood. He is employed with Ram Electric.

Kristen Nicole Clarke Engaged to marry Mark Lee Redd

Clarke, Redd to marry Kristen Nicole Clarke and Mark Lee Redd, both of Houston, Texas, will be married at noon April 3, 2010, at Ashton Gardens in Houston. A reception will follow.

Miss Clarke is the daughter of James and Linda Clarke of Houston.

Mr. Redd is the son of Her-

bert and Ann Redd of Vicksburg. He is the grandson of David and Ollie Mayhall of Magee and the late Herbert and Mamie Redd.

The prospective groom is a 2004 graduate of Vicksburg High School. He is employed at After-Dinner Theatre.

Are you planning a wedding?

The Vicksburg Post will publish an engagement announcement before the wedding date. The Sunday before the wedding, we will list your wedding in a roundup of those planned for the week. The wedding writeup and photo will run, as space allows, as soon as possible after the wedding.

Wedding information submitted more than two months after the ceremony is too late for use.

There is no charge to publish any of the announcements submitted within our time limits. Brides who submit information past the deadline or who wish to include additional details not requested on our forms (such as dress descriptions or decorations) may do so at a cost of 50 cents per word. A $100 fee will be charged to include a photo if the information is posted after our deadline.

Information for engagement and wedding announcements should be submitted on forms provided by The Vicksburg Post. They are available at the newspaper office, 1601 N. Frontage Road, or online at vicksburgpost.com.

Forms should be filled out in full, typewritten when possible or legibly written. A phone number on the form is required.

Photos of the bride or couple should be close-ups when possible; unfiltered, glossy images in 5-by-7 or 4-by-6 reproduce best. Inferior quality photos will be refused.

For more information, call 601-636-4545, ext. 131.

The engagement of Leah Katherine Burnett of Flowood to Joseph Brian Ivey Jr. of Madison is announced today.

The wedding will be at 6 p.m. June 26, 2010, at Crawford Street United Methodist Church. A reception will follow at the B’nai B’rith Literary Club.

Miss Burnett is the daughter of Jeffrey Kelly Burnett and Dr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Frazier, all of Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Douglas Burnett and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Franklin Cowart, all of Vicksburg. She is the greatgranddaughter of Mrs. William Woodrow Sultan Jr. of Vicksburg.

Mr. Ivey is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Brian Ivey of Vicksburg. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nix Ivey of Walkersville, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marshall Kelly of Jasper, Ala.; and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee Thornton of Panama City, Fla. The bride-elect is a 2005 honor graduate of Warren

Central High School, where she was head cheerleader and a member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Student Council and Viking Voices. She was a member of the Vicksburg Cotillion Club.

She attended Mississippi State University, where she was a member of the Phi Delta chapter of Chi Omega sorority.

Miss Burnett will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

The prospective groom is a 2003 graduate of Porters Chapel Academy, where he was a member of the National Honor Society, Key Club and basketball, baseball and football teams.

He received a bachelor’s degree in business marketing in 2007 from Mississippi College, where he was a member of the basketball team.

Mr. Ivey is employed at Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company.

Army Pvt. Ethan C. McBroom has graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. During the nine weeks of basic combat training, he received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons employment, map reading, military courtesy, physical fitness, first aid skills and Army traditions. The son of John McBroom of Vicksburg, he is a 2008 graduate of Warren Central High School.

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Air Force Reserve Airman Deren F. Jenkins has graduated from basic military trainRobbie and Gayle Goudelock announce the birth of an 8-pound, 9-ounce son, Patrick Henry “Patch,” on Feb. 3, 2010, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.

Grandparents are Suzanne M. Latham, Mr. and Mrs. Hays Latham and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Goudelock.

• Tracy Dawn May announces the birth of a 7-pound son, Caleb Steven May, on Feb. 4, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Linda Carol May and the late Steven Wayne May. The baby is welcomed by a sister, Candice Faith May. • Antonio and Latoya Calvin announce the birth of a 6-pound daughter, MaKayla Tileya, on Feb. 18, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Maternal grandparents are Myra Thomas and John Thomas. Paternal grandparents are Annie Mae Houston and Eddie Calvin Jr. • Johnathan M. Ponder and Sarah Ramshur announce the birth of a 7-pound, 13-ounce son, Johnathan

released by armed services ing at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

The eightweek program included training in military discipline and studies, Air Fo r c e c o r e Deren F. values, physiJenkins cal fitness and basic warfare principles.

His basic training completion earns him four credits toward

Dr. and Mrs. Ray Mark Bricka of Starkville announce the engagement of their daughter, Shelby Paige, to William Keeling Perdue II. Mr. Perdue is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keeling Perdue and Mallory Divine Perdue, all of Atlanta.

Miss Bricka is the granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Dale White of Starkville and the late Mr. and Mrs. William Lorenz Bricka of Nashville, Tenn.

Mr. Perdue is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Divine of Albany, Ga., and the late Mr. and Mrs. William Keeling Perdue of Americus, Ga. The bride-elect graduated as salutatorian from St. Aloysius High School in 2002.

She graduated summa cum laude in 2006 from Auburn University, where she received a Bachelor of Building Science degree. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Kappa Phi honor society. She served in the

Wesley Foundation and was an Auburn student recruiter.

She graduated magna cum laude in 2009 from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where she received her Juris Doctorate degree.

Miss Bricka is a member of the Georgia State Bar and is employed with the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office.

The prospective groom is a 2000 graduate of Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., and is an Eagle Scout.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice in 2005 from Auburn University, where he was in the Wesley Foundation.

Mr. Perdue graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia, where he received a Master of Public Administration degree in 2007.

Vows will be exchanged at 2 p.m. May 15, 2010, at Northside United Methodist Church in Atlanta. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall of the church.

an Associate in Applied Science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. The son of Louise Porter of Tallulah, he is a 2001 graduate of McCall Senior High School.

Under his leadership the unit saw a 300 percent workload increase and treated more than 500 patients.

He also organized a humanitarian Eric project beneBaroni fitting local Afghan children. He is the son of Tom and Jonnie Baroni of Vicksburg.

Air Force Capt. Eric Baroni has been awarded the Bronze Star for his achievements in the line of duty while serving at the U.S. Army Forward Operating Base Rushmore in Sharana, Afghanistan. A physician’s assistant, he had charge of the troop medical clinic overseeing nine junior medics from various services.

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forms provided through area hospitals Michael Ponder Jr., on Feb. 19, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Alicia Brooks and Carmen and Randy Ramshur.

• Cedrick D. Allen and Kenyatta S. Brown announce the birth of a 7-pound, 13-ounce son, Cedarius Demon Lee Allen, on Feb. 22, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Lillie Hunter, Phillip Griffen, the late Laverne Michelle Allen and Robert Lee Curtis.

• Cody A. Bridges and Vershonda D. Defrance announce the birth of a 6-pound, 13-ounce daughter, Harmony Alana Amor Bridges, on Feb. 26, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Maternal grandparents are Harry and Deloras Defrance.

Paternal grandparents are Larry and Jula Bridges.

• Leslie O. “Les” and Sharunda N. Flagg Kane announce the birth of a 6-pound daughter, Amy Mariana, on Feb. 27,

2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are James E. Flagg Jr. and the late Bertha J. Flagg, Charlie J. Walker and Otha J. Walker.

• Tracy A. and Kristen Griffith Davis announce the birth of a 6-pound, 8-ounce daughter, Addison Elizabeth, on Feb. 27, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Karen and Don Griffith, Rudy Davis and Nancy Nettles.

• Robert E. Graves Jr. and Jasmine D. Matthews announce the birth of a 5-pound, 14-ounce daughter, Rakiyah E’Rihanna Graves, on March 1, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Maternal grandparents are Tony Smoots and the late Anguenette Matthews. Paternal grandparents are Tangala Chiplin and Robert Graves Sr. • Chad W. Vickers and Heatherly A. Burrough announce the birth of an

8-pound, 2-ounce daughter, Makinzee Lynne Vickers, on March 2, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Timothy and Regina Burrough, Steve Whitehead and Tracey Whitehead.

• John A. IV and Brittany Toney Thomason announce the birth of a 6-pound, 6-ounce daughter, Kynsleigh Kay, on March 2, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are LaDonna A. Thomason and the late John A. Thomason III, Charles A. Toney Jr. and Debra B. Marshall. Great-grandparents are the late Mr. and Mrs. John A. Thomason Jr., Iris Allison and the late Bill Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Toney Sr., Kay C. Barfield and the late Charles E. Barfield.

• Tony P. and Helen E. Hart announce the birth of a 7-pound, 11-ounce son, Christipher Lynn, on March 2, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Shirley and Jimmie Hart, Lisa McPeek, David Jester and Cynthia E. Mathes.

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Miley’s ‘Last Song’: Teen setting music aside to concentrate on acting

By David Germain AP movie writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Singing was the last thing on Miley Cyrus’ mind in “The Last Song.”

Other than a brief sing-along to a tune on a car radio, her character doesn’t do any crooning, something Cyrus deliberately avoided with her first lead in a live-action film that doesn’t feature musical alterego Hannah Montana.

“I didn’t want to sing in the film. We sang in the car that once, but that doesn’t really count. I didn’t want to do a performance thing,” said Cyrus, who also contributes two songs to the soundtrack but figures she wants to keep singing and acting separate from now on.

“I never say I’m not going to do anything. Then if I end up doing it, I’m going to get a lot of crap. ‘She said she’d never ...’, you know? And I don’t have time for that drama and people freaking out. But most likely, I’d like to stay away from music in films and do a little something less obvious.”

Music in general is going on hold for Cyrus, who said an upcoming album will be her last for at least a few years, because she wants to concentrate on big-screen roles.

Cyrus, 17, has a handful of episodes left to shoot in the final season of “Hannah Montana,” the Disney Channel series that made her a star. She has remained in the Disney stable for a “Hannah Montana” concert movie and feature film and led the voice cast with John Travolta in the studio’s ani-

film

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Actress Miley Cyrus mated hit “Bolt.”

“The Last Song,” also from Disney, is a calculated effort by teen idol Cyrus to graduate into more grown-up territory and bring her fans along without alienating them as she moves beyond Hannah’s happy world.

Cyrus’ mother, Tish Cyrus, was the executive producer on “The Last Song.”

“She and Tish, her mom and also her manager, are very astute people and knew precisely what would be the right

next movie for Miley,” said Julie Anne Robinson, who directed “The Last Song.” “She’s demonstrated that she has got emotional range and depth in this movie that can take her forward. I really think she could do almost anything.”

Cyrus’ character, Ronnie, is dealing with grim issues involving her divorced parents (Greg Kinnear and Kelly Preston) as she reluctantly spends a summer with her estranged dad, a composer and pianist who would love nothing

more than to see his daughter resume her own abandoned piano studies.

Yet “The Last Song” also lets Ronnie put in some fun time at the beach with a hunky new beau (Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus’ real-life boyfriend).

“It’s a good steppingstone.

Nothing too crazy. It’s mature, but it’s kind of for everyone,” Cyrus said. “I think my next step, I’ll get more and more mature and edgier, but I think it was the best steppingstone for me.”

“The Last Song” was written specifically for Cyrus by novelist Nicholas Sparks, whose best-selling love stories include Hollywood adaptations such as “The Notebook,” “A Walk to Remember,” “Nights in Rodanthe” and this year’s “Dear John.”

Cyrus had expressed interest in taking on an inspirational story like “A Walk to Remember,” and Sparks developed the plot and characters, then worked up the screenplay with his friend Jeff Van Wie. Once

the script was done, Sparks sat down to write the novel version of “The Last Song,” which came out last year.

Sparks tailored plot points to Cyrus, letting her choose her character’s name (Ronnie was her grandfather’s name) and developing sequences in which Ronnie tries to save a nest of endangered sea turtles after Cyrus mentioned she loved animals.

“The Last Song” turns melancholy, and Ronnie is forced to deal with betrayal and tragedy even as she reconnects with her father.

“This was not an easy role for Miley. This was not an easy role for any actress,” Sparks said. “This was as hard as what Rachel McAdams did in ‘The Notebook’ or what Diane Lane did in ‘Nights in Rodanthe.’

Those were mature women who did those roles. She’s 17 years old. It was not easy for her, and I thought she did a phenomenal job.”

Cyrus said she has had an odd personal journey with the role that made her famous, Hannah, the pop-music superstar living a double life as an ordinary schoolgirl.

“It’s kind of a weird cycle.

I didn’t really relate to her because I didn’t know the famous life. Then I understood it, and I related to her. And now, I don’t really relate to her anymore, because I’ve gotten more mature than that, and the show can only go so far for the channel it’s on.”

‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’ documents Disney’s animation run film review

By Jake Coyle AP entertainment writer Oh, what simpler times they were when Disney was trotting out movies like “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King” every year.

Those bright, colorful animations, arriving annually like clockwork, defined the late 80s and early 90s as much as hair bands and Madonna. It was a seemingly unstoppable run of quirky sidekicks, hummable tunes and magical candelabras.

The documentary “Waking Sleeping Beauty” is a behindthe-scenes look at Disney animation during those heady times. The streak from 1984 to 1994 also produced “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.”

Looking back now from the Pixar era, it seems a long time ago, indeed.

Made by the Walt Disney Company and directed and narrated by longtime Disney producer Don Hahn (“Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King”), “Waking Sleeping Beauty” is an unabashed bit

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Director Don Hahn, left, and producer Peter Schneider in an editing session in the documentary “Waking Sleeping Beauty” of navel gazing.

It’s surely self-aggrandizing to recall one’s own glory so ardently, especially when it centers on things — glorious though they are — like a parrot voiced by Gilbert Gottfried and a crab with a Jamaican accent.

But it’s also a good story and includes more insider intrigue than you might expect. There’s plenty here on the feuding

between the Disney executives who presided over the restoration of Disney’s animation pre-eminence: Roy Disney, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg. (Less quarrelsome was Frank Wells, the mountain-climbing president whose death in a helicopter crash in 1994 is depicted here as the end of this era.)

Eisner, Katzenberg and Disney, who died in Decem-

ber, agreed to interviews for the film and, for the most part, speak candidly — if politely — about their work together. To give some sense of objectivity, the interviews for the film were conducted by veteran journalist Patrick Pacheco.

The focus on the business side of things (fawning over the box-office for “The Lion King,” for example), takes some of the fun out of “Waking

Sleeping Beauty.” Certainly, the leadership of these executives was critical to rebuilding Disney animation, but it’s less riveting than hearing about the creation of Ariel and other indelible characters.

Much of the film does maintain the perspective of the rank-and-file animators. It’s stuffed with grainy home movies of office life on the Disney lot, water cooler griping and — best of all — caricature drawings by the animators of their bosses.

It’s an eccentric, very male and undeniably geeky bunch: One video shows the animators re-creating “Apocalypse Now” in their cubicles. Some of the video was shot by John Lasseter as a young animator. (He would go on to oversee Pixar and become chief creative officer of Disney animation.) A young Tim Burton also makes a cameo.

The segment of the film devoted to Howard Ashman, the musical theater playwright and lyricist recruited to craft the music for “The

Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast,” is one of the movie’s best. There’s a great joy in seeing him introduce his vision of “Under the Sea,” imagining the musical creatures and tapping his foot to the beat.

There lies the biggest success of “Waking Sleeping Beauty”: its depiction of the fraught, passionate and idiosyncratic collaborative process of animation.

There are only hints (like the digital flop “Rescuers Down Under”) of the changes that will later revolutionize the medium.

The yearly comfort of animated excellence now comes from Pixar’s releases, which Disney shares in, having acquired the company in 2006.

Those films — from “Ratatouille” to “Toy Story 2” — constitute a higher plane of art.

One might even call it the circle of life, or something.

“Waking Sleeping Beauty,” a Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios release, is rated PG. Running time: 86 minutes.

Three stars out of four.

‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ is lukewarm soak THINK GRADUATION

By David Germain AP movie writer If you had a hot tub that could transport you to any era in time, would you really make a beeline for the 1980s?

That’s where the filmmakers headed with “Hot Tub Time Machine,” a not-so-excellent, dude-where’s-my-youth adventure that’s occasionally amusing but mostly is as lazy, selfinvolved and garish as that chintzy decade itself.

The ’80s make an easy target, and casting John Cusack, one of the most enduring stars to rise from that decade, adds to the flashback and lends some assurance that you’re not forking money over for a hot tub and getting a rusty, leaky old claw foot tub instead. If this guy signed on, it can’t be as dumb as it sounds, right?

Well, “Hot Tub Time Machine” pretty much is as dumb as it sounds, its goofy but potentially clever concept landing closer to the moronic monotony of “Dude, Where’s My Car?” than the inspired idiocy of “Bill & Ted’s Excel-

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Craig Robinson, from left, Rob Corddry, John Cusack and Clark Duke in a scene from “Hot Tub Time Machine” lent Adventure.”

Some of the trouble arises from Cusack’s castmates in this tale of four losers who travel back to 1986 to settle old scores and do a little messing with the timeline for personal profit.

Cusack is fine, wandering the action like a manic Scrooge who has come back to see how he squandered his early promise with bad choices. As one of his buddies, Craig Robinson captures the same droll charm he brings as the warehouse foreman on “The Office.”

But much of the story hinges on character actors Rob Cord-

dry and Clark Duke, who overdo everything with a shrillness that makes the movie’s crass jokes and gags all the more obnoxious — and a lot less funny than they might have been.

The thin plot centers on three middle-aged buddies grown apart: insurance salesman Adam (Cusack), whose girlfriend just left him; party guy Lou (Corddry), who has no friends, no job and no prospects; and hen-pecked married man Nick (Robinson), who gave up his music dream and now works in a chic canine-

care shop.

With Adam’s video-game geek nephew Jacob (Duke) along for the ride, these three take a weekend trip to the ski resort that was the scene of their best times in the ’80s.

One drunken night, and presto, Mr. Hot Tub Time Machine sends them back to a pivotal night of their youth for a chance to either let time play out the same sad grooves or use their knowledge of the future to create a better past for themselves.

Crispin Glover, who co-starred in 1985’s time-travel adventure “Back to the Future,” continually takes over the movie with his weirdly amiable turn as a bellhop who has his own dark fate hanging over him.

Sadly, “Hot Tub Time Machine” never stokes up to more than a lukewarm whirlpool.

“Hot Tub Time Machine,” an MGM release, is rated R. Two stars out of four.

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Be sure to ask lots of questions when renting vacation homes NEW YORK (AP) • With three adult children, Teri Hurley made sure to book a house with three bedrooms for her family’s Thanksgiving vacation in New York’s Catskill Mountains.

She was stunned — and angry — when she discovered that the third bedroom of the rental property was down a narrow, steep set of stairs under a kitchen trapdoor, half hidden by a scatter rug.

“My son volunteered to play dungeon boy and took the basement accommodation,” Hurley said. “When he wanted to enter the living area, he had to pound on his ceiling — our floor — so we could open the trap door to let him up!”

When Hurley got home, she complained to VRBO. com, where she booked the rental online, but ultimately decided not to go through with a formal complaint. The disappointing experience in 2008 hasn’t stopped her from renting on VRBO.com, which stands for vacation rentals by owner. For 10 years her family has stayed at the same Florida villa she found on VRBO. And last Christmas, she rented a “stunning” log house on 10 acres outside Woodstock, N.Y., also from VRBO. The vacation rental market — booking a vacation property directly from the owner or from a property management company — is booming.

A study released in 2009 by the travel industry research firm PhoCusWright Inc. estimated the market to be $24.3 billion or more than a fifth of the U.S. lodging industry (based on room revenue) of $107 billion in 2007.

Alexis de Belloy, vice president of U.S. business at HomeAway Inc., the world’s largest vacation rental marketplace and owner of sites including HomeAway.com, VRBO.com and VacationRentals.com, says HomeAway facilitates more than 300,000 bookings a month with only a “handful of instances” of unsatisfactory rentals.

While he wasn’t familiar with the particulars of Hurley’s complaint, he says HomeAway has a staff of 100 who do customer support including investigate complaints. Documentation of a problem can lead to a listing being taken down. He also notes that the company offers rental insurance up to $10,000 that protects against Internet fraud and foreclosure, with the aver-

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Beverly D’Angelo, left, as Ellen Griswold, and Chevy Chase, as Clark Griswold,

TRaveL age cost for insurance about $44.

The demand for vacation rentals is being driven by a number of factors: a large supply of second homes, some purchased as investments; more travel by large, multigenerational groups including for family reunions; and economies of scale which can make a vacation rental a better value than hotels, especially for longer stays. Another driver is the Internet, which lets both rental companies and individual homeowners go online to market their homes.

But the industry is relatively new, fragmented and unregulated. Consider that Conrad Hilton purchased his first hotel in 1919 and that HomeAway was launched in 2006.

When HomeAway ran a Super Bowl ad this year featuring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo in a reprise of their roles as the Griswolds from the 1983 hit comedy “National Lampoon Vacation,” it marked a sort of coming-of-age for the industry.

As with any new thing, consumers need to be cautious.

Web photos can be deceiving. Online reviews can be planted by people with an agenda, good or bad. Even if a glowing review were once true, properties deteriorate if

appear in an ad for vacation-rental Web site HomeAway.

they aren’t maintained. What can a would-be renter do?

Insist on a rental agreement.

Pay with a credit card. Ask lots of questions, by phone as well as e-mail. Ask for references. Take out rental insurance. Inquire about extra fees. Find out how and when you’ll get back your security deposit.

Also this: Keep records.

Make photos or videos of substandard conditions. Complain promptly if there’s a problem.

Seek out the Better Business Bureau if you feel you were victimized. Finally, know your needs. If you’re traveling to a mountain hideaway in winter, who will plow the road to the main highway if there’s a blizzard?

Hurley’s complaint about the “dungeon” third bedroom is mild compared to some of the horror stories online. John Romano, a vacation rental property owner who markets his properties on VRWD. com, which stands for Vacation Rentals Web Directory, started a companion site in 2006 called Vacation Rentals Watchdog — VRWD.org — where people can go to gripe.

There you’ll find scary stories about people who put down thousands of dollars in security deposits and travel hundreds or thousands of miles only to discover stained couches, cobweb-covered grills, dilapidated patio fur-

niture, ant infestations • and worse. Some stick it out.

Others take the loss, spending additional thousands of dollars for alternative lodging.

Even rentals that don’t turn out to be a disaster can still be inconvenient and provide a few heart-stopping moments.

Alicia Cackley, an executive with the federal government, took her 79-year-old parents to Italy a few years ago, booking apartments online in Rome, Assisi and Lucca.

All went well until they got to Lucca, where they planned to stay for a week and a half, taking day trips to Florence.

The stone guest house on a larger estate was farther outside the city than she had expected and had very little heat — in October.

“Heat is not an amenity,” Cackley observed. “We sat around wrapped up in blankets.” After three nights they moved out and she had to

• Get a written agreement spelling out terms and conditions. Never wire money or write a personal check. Plastic is the way to go because your credit card company may offer some protection. If you can show that promised goods and services were not provided, you may be able to get a refund.

• Don’t trust an owner who will only communicate via e-mail, and don’t hesitate to pick up the phone to ask the owner/property manager detailed questions or even request more photos than those displayed in the online ad.

• Find out how you’ll get back your security deposit, if there is one, and what it covers.

• Ask friends for recommendations. If you decide on a house or condo belonging to a stranger, ask for references from others who have stayed there.

• If a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In most cases, you get what you pay for.

• Plug the property owner and address into a Web browser and see what comes up. You may discover complaints from previous renters. Make sure scramble to find new lodgings in town — without speaking Italian.

Such cautionary tales resonate with me because of my own experience last December, when my husband and I rented a studio apartment in Paris for 11 days through VRBO. We arrived to discover no heat in the kitchen or bathroom, peeling wallpaper, rusty burners on the stovetop, broken light fixtures,

you’re dealing with the real property owner. Scammers can steal information to create phony listings.

• Seasoned renters suggest negotiating with owners/ managers on price if vacancy rates in the area are high. You can also inquire about perks to sweeten the deal, like free tickets or discounts to local activities.

• Be skeptical of glowing online reviews, especially if the reviewers are anonymous.

• Ask the owner/property manager to define nebulous terms like “oceanfront property” and “5-minute walk to the beach.”

Make sure you’re clear on such things as how far the house is from the center of town.

• If the owner doesn’t live in the area, find out if there’s a local caretaker who can deal with problems like blown fuses or an overflowing toilet. Find out whom to contact in case of an emergency.

• If you have physical limitations, ask about handicap accommodations including elevator service. Everyone, with or without disabilities, is likely to want to know about noise levels, air conditioning and heating, and mattresses.

and clumps of hair and dust on the floor. The worst moment, perhaps, was when the bed frame collapsed when we lay down to take a nap a few hours after arriving.

After staying one night — the owner came that evening to repair the bed frame with packing tape — we moved into a hotel.

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Ludacris says he wanted Lauryn Hill for ‘Sexes’ CD

Continued from Page C1. was one of nine children, and Pam reflected, “You never had to look for a cousin.” The Jabours had three children — John Wayne, Pam and Michelle. John Wayne died recently; Michelle lives in New York; and Pam resides here.

There’s a tree at the Jabour home that is distinctly Lebanese, or perhaps native to the Mediterranean area. Its fruit is similar to a crab apple but larger, is green and then turns brown, and probably can’t be found in a nursery.

It’s called an I-neb tree (no one was sure of the spelling), and many Lebanese consider the fruit a delicacy, “and those who like them know where they’re located in town.” Pam thought her grandmother planted it, but Miss Azie said, “No, but she supervised it.”

Other than a few personal items, Miss Azie said, she has little from the Old Country but added, “They were just lucky enough to get here.”

A few years ago, Miss Azie was ill and in a coma for several months, and when she came to the first thing she asked for was a cheeseburger and a Diet Coke. She said she’s doing OK at 92, and “I thank God. I can’t walk, but I can roll.” (She’s confined to a wheelchair).

She can’t do much now, she said, but, “I read all the time. I read it all. I like novels and read newspapers.” She’s always taken The Vicksburg Post: “I can’t live without it.”

Pam believes, “The luckiest thing is to have your mother.

She can’t hear well, she can’t

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KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg PosT

Azie Jabour and daughter Pam Mayfield walk, but at 92 she goes to the doctor only for checkups.

Many things have made her special — her gentle, gracious manner, being a loving mother, always professional — and what she did, she did well.”

Her name, Azie, reflects that. It’s Lebanese, and it should be spelled Azizie, with two additional letters, but she said “Azie is enough.”

Appropriately, it means “dear.”

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Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in Vicksburg.

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NEW YORK — Ludacris’ latest album features a number of female rappers — but the Grammy-winner acknowledges there’s one lady with whom he really wanted to work.

“I think Lauryn Hill is like extremely talented and I can say I did try to do that, it just didn’t work itself out,” he said of the multiple Grammy-winning singer-rapper, whose only studio album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” has sold more than 8 million units in the United States since its release in 1998.

While the reclusive former Fugees performer didn’t make it on “Battle of the Sexes,” Ludacris’ seventh studio release, he successfully recruited Lil Kim, Eve, Trina and newcomer Nicki Minaj.

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Janie Fortenberry had her camera at the ready as she grabbed an image of a blooming Bradford pear in Vicksburg and a flock of gold finches at a bird feeder in West Monroe, La.

Alice Jones Alice Jones was at a social at Bowmar Baptist Church when she spotted steam from Baxter Wilson floating into a stunning sunset.

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Issued under my hand and seal of said Court, this the 11 day of March, 2010.

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Call 318-574-3971 Busby

HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS!

!

D E L L E CANC

Please adopt today!

Look for us on www.petfinder.com

14. Pets & Livestock AKC REGISTERED Labrador Retrievers for sale! Born February 18th, will be ready for new home on April 1st. (4) Chocolate males, (1) Black male and female. $250 each. Call 318-282-2156 if interested.

www.pawsrescuepets.org

Foster a Homeless Pet!

43 dogs & puppies 41 cats & kittens Please adopt today!

Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS! Look for us on www.petfinder.com

YOU ARE ALWAYS A WINNER......

When you advertise in

The Vicksburg Post Classifieds!

07. Help Wanted

Large shipment of designer handbags & wallets.Children & adult name brand shoes.

Brenda Love.

BABY CHICKS hatched March 21st, and older. $1.50 each. Looking for Hen Turkeys. 318-552-3314.

Silver Creek Equestrian 601-638-8988 silvercreekarena.com

FURNITURE BARN

601-638-7191

600 Jackson St, Vicksburg

15. Auction LOOKING FOR A great value? Subscribe to The Vicksburg Post, 601-6364545, ask for Circulation.

07. Help Wanted

1010 Eagle Lake Shore Road

18. Miscellaneous For Sale FOR LESS THAN 45 cents per day, have The Vicksburg Post delivered to your home.

Only $14 per month, 7 day delivery.

Call 601-636-4545, Circulation Department.

FOR THE BEST prices on furniture at 7059 Fisher Ferry Road, Sandy's 3 Way Convenience Store and Deli, factory direct furniture corner of Fisher Ferry and Jeff Davis Road. 601-6368429.

GE WASHER AND DRYER for sale. Good condition, $400. Call 318-341-2038 INVACARE MODEL 9000 electric wheel chair with battery charger. Never used. $700. Call 601-415-0981.

NEW GENERATORS

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Bring Your Best Friend to our NEW LOCATION, 3508 South Washington Street Not so far, just 1 mile south of Belmont St. Same Great Pet Merchandise, Just More Room!

$365,000 Bring your fishing pole!!! This beautiful log home features 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, family room, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, 2 screen porches off the master and family room, 16' x 40' deck with stairs leading down to the pier with covered boat slip. This home is a dream! Kitchen features all stainless appliances including refrigerator. This home comes partially furnished.

Andrea Lewis 601-218-0644 andrealewis@cablelynx.com

LEECH REAL ESTATE OF VICKSBURG, INC.

www.leechrealestateofvicksburg.com

THE PET SHOP “Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique�

at DISCOUNT

18. Miscellaneous For Sale TRUE BRAND COMMERCIAL stainless steel upright freezer. Double door refrigerator. Excellent condition.

601-636-3193.

USED TIRES! LIGHT trucks and SUV's, 16's, 17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A few matching sets! Call Archie or Lionel, 601-638-3252.

18. Miscellaneous For Sale

18. Miscellaneous For Sale

WE PAY CASH! for gold, silver, diamonds & coins Scallions Jewelers 1207 Washington St. • 601-636-6413

Fresh Seafood, Fresh Sack Oysters,

Live Crawfish $2.25/ lb Cheapest Prices in Town

STRICK’S SEAFOOD

601-218-2363

Crawfish Cooking Every Sunday

19. Garage & Yard Sales What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend?

Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

11. Business Opportunities

07. Help Wanted

17. Wanted To Buy CASH PAID FOR COINS, war relics, antique books and collectibles. Call 601618-2727.

WE BUY ESTATES. Households and quality goods. Best prices. You call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com

CALL 601-636-SEL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

07. Help Wanted

United Medical, leading regional respiratory company seeks results driven sales representative. Create working relationship with MD’s, nurses, social workers, and articulate our excellent patient care with attentive listening skills. Competitive base + un-capped commission. Drug free workplace. EOE.

S e n d re s u m e s t o : S a l e s R e p re s e n t a t i v e P. O . B o x 8 2 1 6 8 2 Vi c k s b u r g , M S 3 9 1 8 3

HERITAGE HOUSE NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER Now Hiring

DIRECTOR OF NURSING • Must be an RN • Plans, Organizes, Directs Nursing Staff • Strong Multi-task Abilities • Strong people skills

Call

come GIVE OUR TEAM A LOOK

601-636-SELL

Competitive Salary and Benefit Package Apply in person to: Administrator 3103 Wisconsin Ave. • Vicksburg, MS Phone: 601-638-1514 Fax: 601-638-8738

To Place Your Ad.

3216 Washington

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4 P.M.

REALTOR ASSOCIATEÂŽ

601-636-5947

GE 4' DEEP FREEZER, good condition. $350. Call 601-218-3037.

Horseback Birthday Parties

Highway 61 South

601-636-6631

1993 ISUZU PICKUP. Make offer. Set of 5 Jeep rims, $100. 601-218-3135.

CONTRACTORS TRUCK rack, fits extra cab '07 GMC and Chevrolet. $500. 601415-3847.

VICKSBURG WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY Currently housing 84 unwanted and abandoned animals.

1706 Vicklan Street Wonderful family home in the Glenwood Circle area. Minutes from playground/park. Large formal living room w/ fireplace, dining & sunken family room that opens onto covered patio with outdoor kitchen. Refinished hardwood floors throughout house. Updated kitchen w/ eat-in area & ceramic tile floors. 3 large bedrooms. Master bedroom & bath. Double lot.

601-415-9179 Home for Sale? Show it to the world at www.vicksburgrealestate.com

13. Situations Wanted

102 Crabapple Lane

reathacrear@aol.com

Drive a little, save a lot! This adorable home features a large family room with vaulted ceilings, wood beams, hardwood floors & a fireplace that opens into dining area & kitchen.

The family room is wonderful. The open kitchen has ceramic floors. The house has large covered back & front porches.

One bedroom & bath up & 2 bedrooms & bath down. Large storage shed, fenced back yard. The upstairs overlooks family room.

Beverly McMillin

homesofvicksburg.net

07. Help Wanted

2735 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • 601-638-6243

NINA601-415-4503 ROCCONI

601-634-8928 or 601-218-2489

REATHA CREAR 601-831-1742 601-634-8928

NEW LISTINGS!!

BETH MAZZANTI

$229,900.

& Coldwell Banker All Stars

UYERS AND ELLERS SINCE 1994�

Over 32 years of experience put to work for you!

$

3514 OAK STREET Beautiful view of Mississippi River. Separate living and dining, front & side screened porch. Vinyl siding. New roof in 2007.

A handy man's dream with a beautiful view of the river. $ 55,000

ERVING

EMAIL: ANDREA@JONESANDUPCHURCH.COM Andrea Upchurch WWW.VICKSBURGHOMES.COM

What A View!

This Home Has Been Restored To Splendor!

Beautiful Pine Floors, Large Rooms, Great Location.

Covenant Health & Rehab of Vicksburg LLC “Every Day of Life Counts�

We are a Dynamic skilled nursing facility seeking an energetic individual.

Housekeeping Supervisor Previous housekeeping Management required.

Please fax to 601-636-4986 Covenant Health & Rehabilitation of Vicksburg, LLC 2850 Porters Chapel Road Vicksburg, MS 39180-1805 Phone: (601) 638-9211 Fax: (601) 636-4986 What are your dreams?�

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Warren County Emergency Management is seeking a candidate to fill the position of Operations Officer.

This position serves as key Staff Assistant and advisor to the Director and provides support on the formulation, development, integration and evaluation of Emergency Management policy, plans and programs.

Application packets for this position are ;available in the Chancery Clerk’s Office located on the First Floor of the Warren County Court House, 1009 Cherry Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39183, between 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. The deadline to submit Application is Friday, April 2, 2010.

1, 2, & 3 bedrooms and townhomes available immediately. and

VICKSBURGS NEWEST, AND A WELL MAINTAINED FAVORTIE. EACH WITH SPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS AND SOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.

FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752 www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com

The Vicksburg Post

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Ask the Guys Dear Classified Guys, I'm beginning to think I'm bad luck.

I've worked for three companies in the last five years and each one has closed its doors. The first company ran out of investment money before it even had a chance to launch a product. The second business was sued and had to file bankruptcy after paying the attorneys. Then at my last company, the CEO was caught embezzling and brought the company down with him. I wouldn't mind the time off between jobs, but it takes me months to find a new one. That's a lot of rent when you have no income.

Although it looks like I've landed another new job with a start-up company that makes home teeth whitening systems, I'm concerned my bad luck could continue. Any ideas on how I can tell if a company is going to last?

• • • Cash: Considering your

luck with employment, I'd say it pays to "brush up" your resume.

Carry: Evaluating the future success of a business can be difficult, sometimes even for the owners. Established businesses that have been in the marketplace for many years are usually more secure. Newer start-up companies, such

Duane “Cash” Holze & Todd “Carry” Holze 03/28/10 ©2010 The Classified Guys®

as the one you're soon to be working at, are slightly more of a gamble.

Cash: There are ways to check the financial stability of a company.

Publicly traded companies, like those appearing on the stock market, are required to publish their financial data.

However, private companies, like those that you have been working for, don't typically release financial information about their sales.

Carry: In those cases, it's important to ask a lot of questions during your job interview. Since they are a start-up company, they should be prepared to offer information about the company’s direction and the strength of their market potential. They know employees

want to invest their time in a company with a future.

Cash: If the company leaves you with the impression they're operating on a shoestring budget, then they probably are.

Carry: Regardless of this company's potential, consider this. Most people make their largest leap in salary when they change jobs. After you accept this position, continue circulating your resume. If you find something at a company that you feel more comfortable with, then you can make the jump and avoid having several months without a job.

Cash: Besides, working for a teeth whitening company could have its benefits. At least you'll have a bright smile for your next job interview.

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Fast Facts Following Success

Reader Humor Ship It

Companies like Amazon and Microsoft started in a garage and grew into global businesses. However, many similar companies never made it past the first year. Determining which startups will succeed and which ones will fail is no easy task, but an abstract paper from Harvard University has tried to link a company's success with the entrepreneurs who start it. According to the research, first time entrepreneurs have an 18% chance of success in their venture. Entrepreneurs who previously failed and tried again have about a 20% chance. However, entrepreneurs who have succeeded and try again fair the best with a success rate of about 30%.

I've never been one to like computers, and when I became a shipping manager, nothing changed.

One day I had a rush order so I opened the FedEx shipping program to try and create some shipping labels. After a half-hour of banging the keyboard, I finally gave up and decided to try our other shipper. I opened the UPS program and had the same trouble. I just couldn't get anything to print.

In my frustration, I groaned, "Why don't FedEx and UPS just merge to create one simple program."

As one of my employees came over to help, he replied, "Because then the company would be called, 'FED-UP'!"

(Thanks to John B.)

Pearly Whites Can whitening your teeth help you during a job interview? It could if the whiter teeth make you smile more.

People who smile during an interview appear to be less stressed, more enthusiastic, friendlier and more approachable; all traits that help a first meeting go well. There are many over-thecounter whitening systems available today. However, dentists typically offer the most comprehensive treatment.

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21. Boats, Fishing Supplies 16' JON BOAT, TRAILER, trolling motor and battery. $1000. 601-415-3354.

2006 BAYLINER SKI Boat. 4.0 Mercruiser, many accessories, excellent condition. $13,000. 601-2181714.

What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

22. Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING $68 Back in town briefly (Jackson tuners charge $125-$145) Repairs since 1972. Former full-time University tuner.

Stewart Speers 601-529-7557

24. Business Services AFFORDABLE PAINTING. Quality work. Exterior/interior: Pressure washing. 20 years experience. 601-2180263.

Toni Walker Terrett Attorney At Law 601-636-1109 • Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce

D&D Tree Cutting, Trimming & Lawn Care For Free Estimates, call “Big James” at 601-218-7782.

DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740.

GOODWIN FLOOR FINISHING. Install, sand, refinish hardwood floors, 98 percent dust free, commercial equipment used. Free estimates. 601-636-4128, 601529-1457.

HOME OR OFFICE cleaning available. 10 years experience. Honest, dependable.

References available. 601218-3558.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

24. Business Services J. JONES LAWN SERVICE. Reasonable rates.

Call 601-218-7173.

LaBarre Lawn Service. 10 years of service, grass cutting, blowing and edging.

601-540-4395.

QUALITY PAINTING and Pressure Washing for the lowest price.

Call Willie Walker at 601-638-2107.

River City Lawn Care You grow it - we mow it!

Affordable and professional. Lawn and landscape maintenance.

Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

SPRING CLEANING ON your list? Let us do the work for you! Quality Cleaning, painting, power washing.

Free estimates, 601-2149805.

28. Furnished Apartments

BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE LIVING

29. Unfurnished Apartments

Voted #1 Apartments in the 2009 Reader’s Choice

CONFEDERATE RIDGE

TYE ASHFORD

780 Highway 61 North

Call for Details, 601-638-0102

Vicksburg’s Most Convenient Luxury Apartments!

• Cable Furnished!

• High Speed Internet Access Available!

601-636-0503 2160 S. Frontage Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

27. Rooms For Rent NIGHTLY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY RATES. Between Ameristar and Diamond Jacks Casino.

Multiple night discounts, no deposit, best prices in town.

DIXIANA MOTEL 4041 WASHINGTON STREET VICKSBURG, MS.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

For those adults who like a safe community setting with the best neighbors in Vicksburg.

Bradford Ridge Apartments Live in a Quality Built Apartment for LESS! All brick, concrete floors and double walls provide excellent soundproofing, security, and safety.

601-638-1102 * 601-415-3333

MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTS FOR ELDERLY & DISABLED CITIZENS! 3515 MANOR DRIVE VICKSBURG, MS

Toll Free 1-866-238-8861 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

415-3333 • 638-1102 • 636-1455

SUPERIOR QUALITY, CUSTOM OAK CABINETS, EXTRA LARGE MASTER BEDROOM, & WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS SAFE!!!

ALL UNITS HAVE AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEM

SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333

APARTMENTS FOR RENT. 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms available. Autumn Oaks. 601636-0447.

Spring

3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS. New carpet, paint, washer/ dryer hookups. $525- $550. 601-631-0805.

CLEAN 2 BEDROOMS, 1 bath. Wood floors, appliances, $650 monthly, 3321 Drummond. 601-415-9191.

• 1 & 2 Bedroom Studios & Efficiencies • Utilities Paid

Commodore Apartments

No Utility Deposit Required to Fine Restaurants, Shops, Churches, Banks & Casinos

✦ From $495.00 ✦ Secure High-Rise Building • Off Street Parking • 9 1/2 Foot Ceilings • Beautiful River Views • Senior Discounts •

• Lake Surrounds Community

• Pool • Fireplace • Spacious Floor Plans 601-629-6300

Classic Elegance in Modern Surroundings

601-630-2921

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

501 Fairways Drive Vicksburg

801 Clay Street • Vicksburg

CALL 601-636-SELL

Classifieds Really Work!

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms 605 Cain Ridge Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

601-638-2231

DOWNTOWN, BRICK, Marie Apartments. Total electric, central air/ heat, stove, refrigerator. $500, water furnished. 601-6367107, trip@msubulldogs.org NOW LEASING! 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms. Magnolia Commons of Vicksburg, off Highway 61 South. 601-619-6821.

TAKING APPLICATIONS!!

On a newly remodeled 3 bedroom, $450. Refrigerator and stove furnished. $200 deposit.

Call 601-634-8290

COME CHECK US OUT TODAY YOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR HOME HERE Great Location, Hard-Working Staff

AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

24. Business Services

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

BUSINESS & SERVICE DIRECTORY Score A Bullseye With One Of These Businesses!

• Glass

• Construction

Barnes Glass

CONSTRUCTION

Quality Service at Competitive Prices #1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks •Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESS Jason Barnes • 601-661-0900

CROSS OVER

BUFORD

INTO THE GOOD LIFE!

Dirt For Vicksburg Fred Clark Heavy Clay, 610, Clay Gravel, Fill Dirt Trackhoe, Dozer, Box Blade, Demolition Work Driveways: Repair, Form & Finish House Pads: Concrete, Clearing & Grubbing Licensed & Bonded

Apartment Homes

Spacious 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartment homes!

• CABLE FURNISHED • HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS AVAILABLE • NUMEROUS LAVISH AMENITIES • SPARKLING SWIMMING POOL • BASKETBALL COURT • VOLLEYBALL COURT www.gfprop.com

601-636-0503 • 2160 S. Frontage Rd.

We are General Contractors, specializing in all types of carpentry.

Jon Ross 601-638-7932

• Signs

PATRIOTIC • FLAGS • BANNERS • BUMPER STICKERS • YARD SIGNS

Show Your Colors!

Post Plaza

601-631-0400 CABINETS, ADDITIONS, METAL ROOFS, 1601 N. Frontage Rd. VINYL SIDING, PATIO DECKS, Vicksburg, MS 39180 DOZER & EXCAVATOR WORK, SEPTIC SYSTEMS, • Dirt LawnServices Care LOT CLEAN UP Services LICENSED

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt, Rock & Sand All Types of Dozer Work Land Clearing • Demolition Site Development & Preparation Excavation Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

We accept VISA

New Homes

Framing, Remodeling, Cabinets, Flooring, Roofing & Vinyl Siding State Licensed & Bonded

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL New Construction & Remodeling

CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 601-636-4813 State Board of Contractors Approved & Bonded

• Construction

ROSS

ROY’S CONSTRUCTION

• Bulldozer & Construction

601-638-9233

Be the first to live in one of our New Apartments!

Available January 1st 2010

1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, downtown. $400 to $650 monthly, deposit required. 601-638-1746.

Where buyers and sellers meet.

Discount for Senior Citizens available

SHAMROCK A PA RT M E N T S

1 bedroom apartments, $400. 2 bedroom townhouse, new paint/ carpet, $500, $300 deposit. 601-631-0805.

The Classified Marketplace...

• Rent Based On Income

AUDUBON PLACE

29. Unfurnished Apartments

Move-In Special

24. Business Services

26. For Rent Or Lease OFFICE SUITE NEAR CORPS Museum.

Kitchenette, shower, Wi-Fi, parking, 600 square feet. $495.

601-529-6093.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.

• Beautifully Landscaped

(601-924-8670) WILL MOVE YOU easy, fast and cheaper. Just call, 601-630-9196, 601-5290809.

29. Unfurnished Apartments

• Downtown Convenience

PRE-VIEW VICKSBURG'S FINEST furnished apartments on-line at www. vicksburgcorporatehousing. com 601-874-1116.

“BANKRUPTCY CODE” CHAPTER 7 - $600 CHAPTER 13 - $300 DOWN,

SPEAK DIRECTLY TO AN ATTORNEY

FAMILY ATMOSPHERE Newly remodeled 2 and 3 bedrooms. Paid cable, water and trash.Washer, dryer and microwave included. $0 deposit.

Call 601-415-8735 or 601-638-5587

NEWLY RENOVATED. Completely furnished corporate apartment. All utilities provided including cable and internet. Laundry room, courtyard, security entrance.

Great location. $750 - $900 month. 601-415-9027, 601-638-4386.

HELPING PEOPLE FILE UNDER THE

THE REST IN THE PLAN

29. Unfurnished Apartments G REAT

EXECUTIVE BEDROOM SUITE. Fully furnished, kitchen, washer / dryer, covered garage, alarm system, maid service, all utilities furnished. $600 monthly. Call 601-618-0264

SPRING INTO SAVINGS at

NO FAULT DIVORCE - $350

29. Unfurnished Apartments

• BONDED • INSURED

DWAYNE ROY 601-415-6997 JOSHUA ROY 601-831-0558

McLaughlin Construction & Remodeling Serving Vicksburg since 1989.

MS State licensed. New construction, additions, custom cabinets, flooring, siding, roofing & decks. Free estimates! 601-831-2073 or 601-638-0927

WE ACCEPT MOST MAJOR CREDIT CARDS .

e y r 601-301-1773

403 Silver Creek Drive Vicksburg, MS 39180 bonelliconstruction@yahoo.com

• Printing

SPEEDIPRINT & OFFICE SUPPLY

• Business Cards • Letterhead • Envelopes • Invoices • Work Orders • Invitations (601) 638-2900 Fax (601) 636-6711 1601-C North Frontage Rd Vicksburg, MS 39180

• Insulation

River City Landscaping, LLC

• Dozer / Trackhoe Work Dump Truck • Bush Hogging Box Blade • Demolition Lawn Maintenance Deliver Dirt•Gravel•Sand•Rock Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins. Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner) 601-529-0894

• Lawn HandyMan Care Services

RIVER CITY HANDYMAN Joe Rangel - Owner 601.636.7843 • 601.529.5400

Beat The Heat Sale!

Get a jump on summer by taking advantage of our BeatTheHeatSale.

You can lower your utility bill as much as 30-35%. Call today and start saving.

601-218-2498

From small repair projects to home upgrades...We’re not satisfied until You are. Call today for your Free Estimate!

Hit The Bullseye By Advertising Daily With The Business And Service Directory Aim for the coverage and receive the most for your advertising dollars in the Vicksburg area!

All Business & Service Directory Ads MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE !

Call today about our special long term ad runs available in the Business Directory.

We offer specials from 3 months to 12 months at a great price deal !

• CLASSIFIEDS • 601-636-7355 • www.vicksburgpost.com •

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The Vicksburg Post

The paper that makes you feel right at home.

•hometown news •classifieds •area shopping •local sports •community calendar...and so much more Subscribe today for home delivery: 601-636-4545 or come by and see us at 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180

32. Mobile Homes For Sale

30. Houses For Rent

34. Houses For Sale

34. Houses For Sale

34. Houses For Sale

39. Motorcycles, Bicycles

1411 ELM STREET. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, central heat and air, new roof. No rent to own. $16,000. 601529-5376.

2006 HONDA SHADOW Aero 750 Windshield, Saddleman Saddle bags. Less than 5000 miles. Two tone silver/pearl white. 2 matching helmets included. $4900.

601-279-4031, after 6pm

Open Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 Bob Gordon........601-831-0135 Tony Jordan........601-630-6461 Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 Kai Mason...........601-218-5623

Owner Finance- No Credit Check! $5000 down, $775 monthly. Nice 3 bedrooms, 2 baths on 2 acres. 601941-2952, 601-720-2106.

1622 SOUTH STREET. 3 bed, 2 full bath, big living room, dining and kitchen area, washroom, newly remodeled, section 8 welcomed. Call 601-795-5065, 601-529-3286.

33. Commercial Property

3 BEDROOMS, 1 BATH, House in South Warren County. Country setting, large yard. 601-529-5733 or 601-415-1117 after 5pm.

601-634-8928 1713 CLAY STREET. 1,200+ square feet available/ office space. Call 601618-8659 or 601-429-5005.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS 2300 square feet, remodeled, 3 car carport. $1000 monthly, $1500 deposit, references required. Serious inquiries only. 601-301-0878.

2170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd. www.ColdwellBanker.com www.homesofvicksburg.net

I-20 AREA, INDIVIDUAL office suites, conference room, kitchen, lobby and reception area. Starting at $300 including utilities. Call 601-218-9631.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS completely remodeled, convenient to WES, fenced back yard, quiet dead end street. $875 monthly. Deposit, first month's rent, references and credit check required. 601529-0725, leave message.

34. Houses For Sale 4909 OAK RIDGE ROAD Completely rebuilt, approximately 1100 square feet, hardwood, ceramic floors, 2 car carport, all appliances included, 1 acre.

Asking $110,000. 601-8312073 or 601-638-0927.

3/ 4 BEDROOMSRent $1,100 and Up! • 721 National.

732-768-5743.

Discover a new world of opportunity with The Vicksburg Post Classifieds.

McMillin Real Estate 601-636-8193 VicksburgRealEstate.com

Big River Realty Rely on over 19 years of experience in Real Estate.

DAVID A. BREWER 601-631-0065

225 Falcon Ridge 3 BR, 2 BA. Open floor plan, fenced yard.

Reduced!

LOOKING FOR YOUR DREAM HOME?

909 NATIONAL STREET. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, $595, deposit required. 601-4150067

600 Blossom Lane

Check the real estate listings in the classifieds daily.

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.

Close in, nice. $795 monthly. 601-831-4506.

32. Mobile Homes For Sale

3 BR, 2 BA home with inground pool & large workshop.

Bigriverhomes.com

Ask Us.

2005 16x80, 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Laundry room/ pantry. Call for details. $18,500. 601-636-7661.

KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LOCAL NEWS AND SALES...

SUBSCRIBE TO THE VICKSBURG POST TODAY! CALL 601-636-4545, ASK FOR CIRCULATION.

FHA & VA Conventional ! Construction ! First-time Homebuyers !

Licensed in MS and LA

Candy Francisco Mortgage Originator

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34. Houses For Sale

Mortgage Loans 601.630.8209

Member FDIC

2150 South Frontage Road

Jones & Upchurch Real Estate Agency 1803 Clay Street www.jonesandupchurch.com Judy Uzzle.................601-994-4663 Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665 Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 Rip Hoxie, Land Pro....601-260-9149 Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012 Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490 Broker, GRI

bkbank.com

601-636-6490

Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Rick McAllister..601-218-1150 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

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2104 BAKER STREET. 4 bedroom, 1.5 baths, newly renovated. $62,000. 601529-5376.

HOME FOR SALE. Cary, Ms, adorable 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, 1200 square feet, front/ back porches.

662-907-0619.

Eagle Lake

ARNER

601-636-0502

3 lots, shop & greenhouse, septic, utilities, community pier and boat launch, water view. $49,500 Sullivan Cove

2418 Drummond St Circa 1900. 4300 sq. ft. 4 BR and 3 BA, ive. custom kitchen.

Call Bette Paul Warner, 601 218 1800. www.lakehouse.com McMillin Real Estate

REAL ESTATE, INC

JIM HOBSON

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

17727 Hwy 465 Eagle Lake frontage. 3076 sq. ft. on 1.7 acres.

203 John Allen St. Adorable home, ready to move in. 3 bdrms, 1 baths. 1253 sq. ft. $89.900.

420 Lake Forest. 5 BR, 3 BA, over 2600 sq. ft. New addition with incredible master suite. $219,900.

225 Boundary Line. 20 acres,new home with Inground pool. 100x150 riding arena.

3774 Ring Road. Affordable home, well maintained in south county. $93,900.

114 Grey Oaks Precious bungalow off Rifle Range Road.

Perfect starter home.

304 Linda Dr Affordable 3 BR, 2 BA, 1766 sq. ft. Large flat yard with storage bldg and garden spot.

6207 Indiana Avenue Brick 4 BR, 2 BA Oak Park home.

New laminate floors, covered patio, workshop.

250 Amberleaf Bovina School District and in the County. Split plan with 3 B/R 2 Baths. Tremendous master bath with tall ceilings. Tray ceilings in Master and Den. Den has a gas log fireplace.

Over an acre lot.

BEVERLY MCMILLIN

40. Cars & Trucks 1980 MERCEDES 450SL. Convertible/hardtop, great condition. See at 717 Clay Street.

601-638-7484.

1989 F250 DIESEL. Great shape. Runs good. $2500 or best offer. Call 601-218-4873.

40. Cars & Trucks

40. Cars & Trucks

1996 GMC SIERRA C2500 SLT. Good condition, 231,000. $4500. 601618-0962,

GOOD Credit BAD Credit NO Credit

1996 NISSAN MAXIMA. $1800. 601-497-5382.

Gary has cars, Trucks SUV's for everyone Regardless of Credit Gary's Cars For Less 3524 Hwy 61 S 601-883-9995 Get Pre-Approved www.garyscfl.com

2009 HONDA FIT. Good condition. $13,500. Call 601-868-1240

BOTTOM LINE AUTO SALES We finance! Corner of Fisher Ferry Road and Jeff Davis Road. 601-529-1195.

HYUNDAI PARTS sale. 601-497-5382.

for

1994 DODGE INTREPID. Loaded, new battery, radiator, etcetera. Excellent condition. $800. 601-629-9762.

1996 BUICK PARK AVENUE. $1800. 601-4975382.

35. Lots For Sale CANTRELL COVE SUBDIVISION Owner: Ollie Cantrell, Jr. Reduced to: $20,000 Each Quiet, country living, easy access to Vicksburg & Tallulah!

Approximately 1.5 Acre Lots Mound, LA Exit - Highway 602 (1 Mile South of I-20 Interstate)

LOST YOUR NINE IRON? Check the classifieds daily or sell the rest with a fast action

318-574-3610

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36. Farms & Acreage

601-636-SELL

THINKING OF BUYING LAND? Check out OUR listings! investorsrealtyinc.net Danny Rice/ Broker 601-529-2847, 601-638-2236, Charlie Donald, 601-668-8027, Investors Realty Group, Inc.

The Car Store CARS • CARS • CARS• CARS $

00 BUICK CENTURY LIMITED V1976 ........24 Months @ 260 per month .. 1435*down 99SMO ERCURY LDGRAND MARQUIS GS V1913 ....23 Months D per month ..$1465 SO*LdownD SO@L270 $ 02 NISSAN SENTRA GXE V1915 ........24 Months @ 280 per month .. 1585*down 01 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT V1844 ..24 Months @ 270 per month ....$1615*down 01 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SLE V1979 24 Months @ 290 per month ..$1870*down 06 CHEVY COLBALT LS V1973 ..............24 Months @ 310 per month ....$1915*down 06 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX V1926 ..........23 Months @ 340 per month ..$2375*down 04 NISSAN ALTIMA SE V1969 ..............23 Months @ 360 per month ..$2545*down $

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34. Houses For Sale

601-415-9179 McMillin Real Estate

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2200 Cherry Street

• 4B/2.5BA, 3,640 sf., • Built in 1886 • Corner of Cherry & Arthur • $230,000

Please call one of these Coldwell Banker professionals today:

• 4B/3.5BA, 3,093 sf., • Savannah Hills • 2 bedrooms downstairs • Price Reduced!!

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• 3B/2BA, 1,978 sf., • Glenwood Circle area • Don’t miss tax credit $8,000 • $155,000

Open 3:00-4:00 3:00-4:00

1611 Broadhill Drive

• 3B/1BA, 1,055 sf., • Lots of updates!!!

• Hurry, don’t lose the $8,000!

• $69,000

Katina “Gidget” Tim DeRossette Comans

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601-529-5654 601-301-0625 601-218-0022 601-831-1840

Call Coldwell Banker All Stars today at 601-634-8928 2170 South Frontage Rd. • Vicksburg, MS 39180 Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

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601-638-6015 • 2800 Clay Street • Vicksburg, MS

2:00-4:00

203 Charleston Drive

Drop by Sunday and visit with one of these Coldwell Banker Agents and see the home of your dreams.

TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS 01STO OYOTA LDTUNDRA V1832R ..................12 Months D per month ....$1315 SO*LdownD SO@L250 01 FORD RANGER XLT EXT CAB V1892 ....24 Months @ 280 per month ..$1585*down $ D 02 FORD LDF150 XLT EXT CAB V1965 ....23 Months SO SO*Ldown SOL@ D340 per month .. 2270 00 FORD F150 XLT EXT CAB V1910 ....24 Months @ 340 per month ..$2455*down

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2170 I-20 S. Frontage Road www.homesofvicksburg.com

2:00-4:00

• 3B/2BA, 1,739 sf., • Over an acre, built in 2007 • Outdoor cooking area • Covered porch, $185,900

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Eric Coulter 601-529-9448 Gidget Comans 601-529-5654 Jeré Jabour 601-218-0022 Jimmy Ball 601-218-3541 Marianne Jones 601-415-6868 Reatha Crear 601-831-1742 Valorie Spiller 601-456-6234 Harley Caldwell, Broker

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‘08 Chevrolet Silverado

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Give the item’s age, condition, size, color, brand name and any other important information needed to describe it completely & accurately.

D on’t Exaggerate Misleading information

$20,595

$15,998

$18,995

Ext. Cab, low miles

Convertible

V8, 1 owner

2006 Nissan Sentra, 4 dr

$10,495 2009 Nissan Sentra, 4 dr, only 7,000 miles

$15,998

may bring potential buyers to your home but it will not help you make the sale. You’ll lose the prospect’s trust and faith as well at the sale.

2006 Mercury Grand Marquis LS

$13,995 2007 Buick Lucerne CXL, loaded

$16,185

2008 Mazda 6, 4 dr., 40,000 mi.

$13,998 2009 Chevrolet Impala, 4 dr., LT

$16,995

2009 Nissan Versa, 4 dr. auto

$13,998 2008 Nissan Altima 2.5S, 4 dr, power roof

$16,995

2009 Honda Civic, 4 dr. auto

$15,995 2007 Honda Accord EXL, 2 dr, V6, Black

$17,998

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2007 Mustang, Convertible

$15,998 2008 Honda Accord, 4 dr, LXP, low miles

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concerns of classified shoppers. Ads that list prices will get their attention first. Including price also helps you avoid inquiries from callers not in our price range.

Place Your Classified Ad Today!

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4105 E. CLAY ST. • V ICKSBURG , MS • HOURS: SALES 9-7 • SERVICE 7:30-5:30

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2000 Volvo S-40 - #600114A

2005 Toyota Corolla LE

2006 Mercury Grand Marquis

2002 Honda CRV LX - #60013A

$5,995

$9,995

$9,995

$9,995

2008 Nissan Versa SS - #690183A

2008 Ford Focus SE - #184403

2009 Mitsubishi Galant ES

2009 Pontiac G6 GT - #6P4457

$10,995

$11,995

$12,995

$13,995

2009 Mazda 6 Touring - #6P4450

2008 Chevrolet Impala LT - #P2184

2009 Chevrolet Cobalt LT - #6P4470

2007 Suzuki XL7 - #6P4489

$13,995

$13,995

$13,995

$14,995

2009 Toyota Camry LE - #6P4461

2009 Dodge Charger SXT

2009 Toyota Corolla LE - 6P4452

2007 Toyota Camry SE - #6P4448

$15,995

$15,995

$15,995

$16,495

2008 Nissan Altima S - #600182A

2008 Toyota Prius - #600135A

2006 Toyota Highlander

2008 Honda Accord LXP

$16,995

$16,995

$17,995

2008 Toyota RAV 4 - 6P4431

2009 Toyota Camry XLS - #600201A

2008 Toyota Tundra - #6P4474

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$17,995

2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LS - 6P4458

$20,995 $19,995 $23,995 $18,995 Cash prices good thru 3/31/10 with approved credit, subject to prior sale.

Special Financing Available thru 3/31/10. See Dealer For Details.

View Our Specials Online at:

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The Vicksburg Post

May the miracle of Easter fill your life with joy and hope.

Cassie, Michele & Vickie ST. MICHAEL’s CATHOLIC CHURCH 100 St. Michael Place Vicksburg, MS • 601-636-3445

Easter Activities, Father P.J. Curley April 1 - 7:00pm Holy Thursday April 2 - 7:00pm Good Friday “Passion of the Lord”

April 3 - 8:00pm Holy Saturday April 4 - 8:30 & 11:00am Easter Sunday Spanish Mass - 2:00pm Easter Sunday

FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 3428 Wisconsin Ave. Vicksburg, MS • 601-634-0082 We will join the Community Sunrise Service at Fort Hill • 6:30am Easter Breakfast in the Church Fellowship Hall • 8:30am Sunday School • 9:45am Resurrection Day Worship Service • 10:50am

Speaker: Reverend Ronald Ray

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH 6949 Hwy 61 South • Vicksburg, MS

Pastor Scott Reiber 3601 Halls Ferry Road Vicksburg, MS • 601-636-4292

601-636-2238

Good Friday Worship Service 7:00pm Easter Morning Worship Service 11:00am Proclaiming the Savior, Equipping the Saints, Reaching Out in Love

Pastor: Billy Brumfield Associate Pastor/ Youth: Jason McGuffie EASTER SERVICES Sunrise Service at 7:30am Morning Worship Service at 9:00am Special East Musical: “I Know My Redeemer Lives.”

No Sunday school (bus will not run) or evening services on Easter Sunday

FAMILY LIFE CATHEDRAL 2832 Ken Karyl Avenue • Vicksburg, MS • 601-629-3900 • 601-638-3433

EARLY MORNING RESURRECTION SERVICE “He’s Alive For Evermore” Sunday, April 4 - 8:00am Brunch following Service Come and be blessed, and be a blessing

Betty J. Young-Tyler, Pastor

YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY’s

Fifth Annual

Youth Fest 2010

“About My Father’s Business” April 2 • 12 Noon- 5:00pm PRIZES • FOOD • GAMES All Youth & Young Adults (teens) Welcome!

FREE ADMISSION

The Vicksburg Post

Sunday, March 28, 2010

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1501 Cherry Street • Vicksburg, MS • 601-636-1200 Palm Sunday Worship Services - 9:30am Children will present “The Tale of Three Trees”

Thursday, April 1st Noon - Ecumenical Holy Week Service Devotion: Father Michael Nation. Light lunch served

7:00pm - Maundy Thursday Service Rev. Tim Brown leading. Will serve Communion.

9:30pm - Worship Service Rev. Tim Brown leading

CRAWFORD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 900 Crawford Street Vicksburg, MS Easter Service - 10:55am Scripture: John 20:1-18 Message: The Morning Death Died

WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH 2310 Culkin Road • Vicksburg, MS 601-636-5320 Pastor: Kent Campbell

EASTER SERVICES April 4 - Easter Sunday Sunday School at 9:40am Worship Service at 11:00am No Evening Service

ST. PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH 713 Crawford Street • Vicksburg, MS 601-636-0140 PASTOR: MSGR. PATRICK FARRELL

Holy Thursday -The Lord’s Supper • 7:00pm Good Friday - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion • 7:00pm Way of the Cross - Friday • 12:00 Noon Easter Vigil - Saturday • 8:00pm Easter Sunday Mass • 10:30am

HAWKINS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH would like to extend a special invitation to the following services for:

HOLY WEEK Wednesday March 31 Prayer Service: 6:30 pm on front lawn Thursday, April 1 Maundy Thursday Service at 6:30pm Friday, April 2 Tenebrae Service 6:30pm Easter Sunday, April 4 Pancake Breakfast 8:00am Worship Service 10:00am

Everyone Is Invited To Attend:

YMCA EASTER SUNRISE WORSHIP SERVICE FORT NOGALES NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

7:00 am Sunday Morning • April 4, 2010 PARKING & SHUTTLE SERVICE WILL BE PROVIDED

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The Vicksburg Post

GMC TRUCK MONTH

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0% APR up to 72 Months or Rebates Up To $6500 2009 GMC Envoy

2009 GMC Sierra 2500

2009 GMC Sierra

0% APR

Equipped with 6.6L Duramax Diesel, Allison transmission, SLE preferred package, steering wheel radio controls, dual zone air, bluetooth, fog lamps, adjustable power pedals, remote vehicle start, rear defogger, power heated mirrors, HD trailering equipment. #41051

Equipped with 3.73 rear axle, skid plate, SLE preferred package, steering wheel radio controls, air conditioner, bluetooth, fog lamps, 5.3L V8, 20” chrome-clad aluminum wheels, Pro-sport package and more. #41137

SLE

Ext. Cab SLE Duramax Diesel

for

72 Months

In Lieu of Rebate Equipped with Sun and Sound package, power sunroof, Bose Stereo, full size spare tire and wheel, SLE package and more. #41005

TRUCK MONTH PRICE

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32,240 $ Sale Price - 30,495 $ Rebates - 3,500 M.S.R.P. -

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*

26,995

2010 GMC Terrain

TRUCK MONTH PRICE

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29,495

Equipped with V8 engine, 1 year OnStar Safe and Sound, SL package and more. #41205

Crew Cab

$

30,605 $ Sale Price - 28,895 $ Rebates - 3,000

25,010

24,595

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#41284

GMC TRUCK MONTH PRICE

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45,330 $ Sale Price - 41,995 $ Rebates - 5,500 M.S.R.P. -

Extended Cab SLE

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25,895

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28,535

2010 GMC Sierra 2500

2010 GMC Yukon XL

2010 GMC Yukon Denali

Equipped with leather interior, Duramax Diesel, Allison transmission, 17” bright aluminum wheels, convenience package, 17” All-terrain tires, heavy duty trailering equipment. #41253

Equipped with white diamond paint, 2nd row bucket seats, SLT equipment package, heated front and 2nd row seats, power operated lift gate, 2nd row power release seat and more. #41199

Equipped with Sun and Entertainment package, rear seat entertainment, power sunroof, 1 year OnStar with Turn-by-Turn Navigation. #41283

4x4 Crew Cab Duramax Diesel

$

51,935 $ Sale Price - 49,495 $ Rebates - 3,000 M.S.R.P. -

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50,674 $ Sale Price - 47,795 $ Rebates - 2,000 M.S.R.P. -

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46,995 45,795 0% FINANCING

GMC TRUCK MONTH PRICE

GMC TRUCK MONTH PRICE

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55,905 Sale Price - 52,995 $ Rebates - 2,000 M.S.R.P. -

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GMC TRUCK MONTH PRICE

$

*

50,995

for 60 Months* with GMAC Approved Credit

ON EVERY 2010 GMC ACADIA Herb Caldwell Clyde McKinney An experienced sales staff to Kevin Watson Curtis Dixon Bobby Bryan Baxter Morris meet all of your automotive needs.

Salesman of the Tim Moody Preston Balthrop Month of February Come to George Carr, Mike Francisco Kevin Watson Zachary Balthrop Debbie Berry You’ll Be Glad You Did. For a complete listing of our used vehicles visit our website at www.georgecarr.com

GeorgeCarr BU IC K • PON T IAC • CADI LL AC • GMC

www.georgecarr.com • 601-636-7777 • 1-800-669-3620 • 2950 S. Frontage Road • Vicksburg, MS Special finance rates with GMAC approved credit. GMAC financing with approved credit. All rebates assigned to dealer. See dealer for complete details. Art for illustration purposes only, actual vehicle may vary.