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GTECHS will not accept incoming freshman class

‘We didn’t Current sophomores through seniors will
say (GTECHS) continue; LCSD to be fiscal manager another year
was totally BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
gone. We just
Golden Triangle Early College High
said at this School will not accept an incoming fresh-
man class for the 2020-21 school year.
point, we need to make In an email sent to parents of applicants
and obtained by The Dispatch, GTECHS
decisions.’ Principal Jill Savely said she met with su-
Lowndes County School District perintendents from area school districts
Superintendent Sam Allison and representatives from Mississippi
GTECHS accepting students from pri-
vate middle schools and an increase in
the dual enrollment fee East Mississippi
Community College planned to charge
Department of Education partner districts next school year.
Thursday afternoon and GTECHS, which opened in 2015 and
they made the decision is located on EMCC’s Mayhew campus,
due to concerns raised by accepts about 60 students per class from
some districts. Columbus Municipal, Lowndes County,
“This was definitely not Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated, West
the news I had hoped to Point Consolidated and Noxubee County
hear and I know that this is school districts. The students have the
difficult for each of you as Savely opportunity to take college classes at
well,” Savely writes in the email. EMCC alongside high school classes and
Primarily, those concerns were See GTECHS, 3A

BICYCLE LESSONS Legislature heads

back to session
amid debate over
who has authority
to distribute
CARES Act funds
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com

Hours before the

Mississippi Legis-
lature was abruptly
called into session,
local legislators
who were being in-
terviewed by The
Dispatch said they
were pretty sure they Reeves
would be called back early.
They just didn’t know how early.
They anticipated the Legislature
would reconvene Monday as part of
a showdown between lawmakers
and Gov. Tate Reeves loomed on
the horizon.
By noon, the timetable had
changed, if not the mission: Lt.
Gov. Delbert Hosemann and House
Speaker Phillip Gunn called their
respective chambers into session
at 1 p.m. today in an effort to as-
sert the Legislature’s authority to
administer $1.25 billion in federal
See LEGISLATURE, 6A
Birney Imes/Dispatch Staff
Jessica Clayborn spent part of Monday afternoon teaching her daughter Naomi, 5, to ride a bike near their home on Ninth
Avenue South. Naomi is a kindergartner at Joe Cook. Naomi’s father is Deonray Taylor.

CLW will not shut off

Starkville officials not concerned about Cornerstone bond payments delinquent service
Sistrunk: Project is ‘still a sound
until at least June 10
financial plan’ despite sales tax Gale: Past due
revenue shortfall accounts could reach
BY TESS VRBIN $500,000 by then
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Starkville is well-positioned
to pay for the multimillion-dollar Amid mounting
Cornerstone Park project, city debt, Columbus
officials say, despite an expected Light and Water will
sales tax revenue shortfall this not shut off service
year due to the COVID-19 corona- to residential cus-
virus pandemic. tomers for at least 30
“We are early enough in the Sistrunk Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff days after Gov. Tate
development of it that if we had Construction crews work on the first phase of Cornerstone Park off High- Reeves ends Mis-
way 25 in Starkville on Thursday afternoon. Interim Parks and Recreation
to make changes, we could, but I think we had Director David D’Aquilla said the project is continuing on schedule despite sissippi’s “Safer At Gale
a sound financial plan going into it,” Ward 2 Al- the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, and Ward 2 Alderman Sandra Sistrunk Home” order, which is currently set
derman Sandra Sistrunk said. “Even with this said the city is financially equipped to pay off the general obligation bonds to expire May 11.
See BOND PAYMENTS, 3A for the park despite the pandemic causing a drop in sales tax revenue. See CLW, 6A

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in a 2008 video that tallied up 20 million May 5: Columbus City
views? Council, Municipal Com-
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in plain shortbread? plex, 5 p.m.
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Fifth grade, Annunciation nicipal School District,
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Sex assault allegation raises

questions for Biden, Democrats
‘These accusations have not been found to be
credible, so it’s in the Biden campaign’s interest
to nip this in the bud directly and do it quickly’
Lis Smith, a top strategist on Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign
BY ALEXANDRA JAFFE
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— A sexual assault al-
legation is Joe Biden’s
first big challenge
as the Democrats’
presidential nominee,
fueling Republican
attacks and leaving
Biden
many in his own party
in an uncomfortable bind.
Biden’s campaign has denied the
allegation from his former Senate
staffer Tara Reade, who has said
Biden assaulted her in the basement
of a Capitol Hill office building in
the 1990s. But the story garnered
fresh attention this week after two of
Reade’s associates said she previous-
ly told them about elements of her
allegations.
Republicans worried about Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s increasingly
precarious political standing are
seizing on the allegation to portray
Democrats as hypocrites who only
defend women who allege wrong-
doing against conservatives. They
are digging in despite the fact that it
could renew attention on the multi-
ple sexual assault allegations lodged
against Trump.
Democrats, meanwhile, are in
an awkward position of vigorously
validating women who come for-
ward with their stories while de-
fending the man who will be their
standard-bearer in what many in the
party consider the most important
election of their lifetimes.
The tension is heightened be-
cause Biden himself has said noth-
ing about the allegation.
Like many Americans, he has
spent the past several weeks at home
to prevent the spread of the corona-
virus. Biden has participated in a
handful of local and national inter-
views, during which he wasn’t asked
about the allegation. He will be inter-
viewed Friday morning on MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe” and is expected to
face questions about the accusations.
Ahead of that appearance, Demo-
crats urged a more forceful response.
“The campaign has issued state-
ments, but he hasn’t issued any state-
ments in his own voice,” said former
Democratic National Committee
Chairwoman Donna Brazile. “It’s
not helping, it’s just damaging —
not only to the person who has come
forward, but it’s also damaging the
candidate.”
Lis Smith, a top strategist on Pete
Buttigieg’s presidential campaign,
also called on the Biden campaign
to speak up.
“These accusations have not
been found to be credible, so it’s
in the Biden campaign’s interest to
nip this in the bud directly and do it
quickly,” she said.
The November contest between
Biden and Trump will be the first
presidential race of the #MeToo era,
which has led numerous women
to come forward with allegations
of sexual assault. Trump has been
accused of assault and unwanted
touching by numerous women, alle-
gations he denies.
Women are a core constituen-
cy for Democrats, and Biden has a
mixed history. While he wrote the
Violence Against Women Act as a
senator, he also came under heavy
criticism for his handling of Anita
Hill’s Senate testimony in the 1990s.
Just before he launched his 2020
campaign, several women accused
him of unwanted touching, behavior
for which he apologized.
Biden has pledged to pick a wom-
an as a running mate, and the alle-
gation has left those thought to be in
contention in a tough spot.

Trump erupts at campaign team as his poll numbers slide

BY ZEKE MILLER the nation’s economy Trump in his freewheel- anonymity because they
AND JONATHAN LEMIRE remains shuttered, new ing press briefings. were not authorized to
The Associated Press speak publicly about pri-
surveys by the Republi- Trump reacted with
can National Committee defiance, incredulous vate discussions.
WA S H - The message to the
and Trump’s campaign that he could be losing to
INGTON president was sobering:
— Presi- pointed to a harrowing someone he viewed as a
picture for the president weak candidate. Trump was trailing the
dent Don- former Democratic vice
ald Trump as he faces reelection. “I am not f—-ing los-
While Trump saw ing to Joe Biden,” he president in many key
erupted at battleground states, he
his top po- some of the best approval repeated in a series of
ratings of his presidency heated conference calls was told, and would have
litical ad- lost the Electoral College
visers last Trump during the early weeks with his top campaign of-
of the crisis, aides high- ficials, according to five if the election had been
week when they present-
lighted the growing polit- people with knowledge of held earlier this month.
ed him with worrisome
polling data that showed ical cost of the crisis and the conversations. They
his support eroding in the unforced errors by spoke on condition of
a series of battleground
states as his response to
the coronavirus comes
under criticism.
As the virus takes its
deadly toll and much of

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Mamie Turner
SHUQUALAK —
Mamie Louis Turner,
68, died April 25, 2020,
in Noxubee County.
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GTECHS
Continued from Page 1A
graduate with an associ-
ate’s degree. The school
boasts small class sizes
and targets students who
would struggle academi-
cally or socially in a typ-
ical high school.
In April, both CMSD
and SOCSD’s school
boards voted to end
their partnership with
GTECHS, citing both ris-
ing costs of sending stu-
dents to the school and
concern that GTECHS
was using money for pub-
lic school students while
accepting students who
attended private middle
schools.
LCSD Superinten-
dent Sam Allison, whose
district is the fiscal and
administrative agency of
GTECHS, confirmed to
The Dispatch the deci-
sion not to accept fresh-
men next year.
He stressed that stu-
dents currently enrolled
in GTECHS — even those
from CMSD and SOCSD
— who will make up the
sophomore through se-
nior classes will continue
to attend through gradu-
ation.
“There are several
kids that we want to fin-
ish and we don’t want to
put that in jeopardy,” he
said. “We want to do ev-
erything we can for those
kids.”
However, he said he
and the other superinten-
dents felt there was “too
much uncertainty” about
the future of the program
to guarantee another
freshman class.
“We didn’t say
Bond payments
Continued from Page 1A
setback, (which) is going
to be more than a few
months, it’s still a sound
financial plan. I may wor-
ry about a lot of things,
but this one doesn’t have
me so worried.”
Golden Triangle De-
velopment LINK CEO
Joe Max Higgins told the
Columbus Rotary Club at
its Tuesday meeting that
funding the Cornerstone
Park recreation complex
off Highway 25, estimat-
ed at between $18 million
and $22 million, is “kind
of a problem” at the mo-
ment. Sistrunk, the board
of aldermen’s budget
chairperson, and Mayor
Lynn Spruill disagree.
“We’ve pushed those
payments out three years
so we will
have an op-
portunity
to hopeful-
ly make up
the sales tax
(revenue)
we’ve lost
and put us Spruill
in a better
position to pay off those
bonds over that duration
and we’ll be back from the
loss,” Spruill said.
Starkville added 1
percent to its existing
2-percent restaurant and
hotel-motel tax in August
after it passed a public
referendum in May and
the board of aldermen in
June. The tax was meant
to support the construc-
tion of Cornerstone Park
and maintenance and
capital improvements at
existing parks.
Aldermen voted in
February to issue up to
$25 million in general
AROUND THE STATE
Police: Mississippi man who drowned
saving child found
BRANDON — Authorities said
they’ve found the body of a Mississip-
pi man who drowned after helping his
child out of the water.
Justin Perkins’ body was recovered on
Wednesday afternoon after he drowned
in the Rankin County side of the Ross
Barnett Reservoir on Sunday, news out-
lets reported.
Perkins, 32, was on a boat Sunday as
his children played in the water while
wearing floating devices, Ross Barnett
Reservoir police Lt. Trevell Dixon told
The Clarion Ledger. The wind picked up
(GTECHS) was totally
gone,” he said. “We just
said at this point, we need
to make decisions.”
A ‘fiscal nightmare’
Since starting in 2015,
GTECHS has been fund-
ed by MDE Mississippi
Adequate Education Plan
funds, which is based on
a headcount of students
taken the previous year.
That amount changes
every year, but this year
would have been about
$6,600 per student, ac-
cording to Allison and
copies of GTECHS’ gen-
eral budget proposal ob-
tained by The Dispatch.
Fiscal management
and administration was
supposed to transfer from
LCSD to EMCC next
school year. However,
LCSD will continue those
roles as part of Thurs-
day’s decision.
In addition to MAEP
funds, EMCC charged
districts dual enrollments
fees, which had not been
part of the cost to dis-
tricts in previous years.
Those fees ranged from
$16,000 to more than
$30,000, depending on
the number of students
in each grade from those
school districts.
CMSD Superintendent
Cherie Labat called it a
“fiscal nightmare,” par-
ticularly given that dual
enrollment costs for 144
CMSD students taking
EMCC courses have in-
creased as well.
“There’s just been an
inflation of costs from
EMCC,” she said. “…
obligation bonds for park
improvements, including
Cornerstone construc-
tion, and Spruill said $14
million have been issued
so far. The repayment
term is up to 30 years.
The bonds sold above
face value, so the city has
$15.4 million on hand to
spend on Cornerstone
construction, Sistrunk
said, and the deadline to
issue the remaining $11
million in bonds is some-
time next year.
The only bond pay-
ments due for the next
three years are interest
payments, which the
city is prepared to pay,
Sistrunk said. The an-
nual payments will con-
tinue to be small until
2028, the year the city is
scheduled to pay off old-
er construction bonds for
the Starkville Sportsplex,
and then they will start to
increase, she said.
“We kept our payments
lower until that debt paid
off, and then what we’re
paying annually toward
that debt service can
switch over and be used
for the Cornerstone Proj-
ect,” Sistrunk said.
Additional costs for
bond issues — such as
fees for consultants,
underwriters and legal
counsel — usually add up
to about 3 percent of the
total issue, Sistrunk said.
The city has issued
two contracts for the
project so far: $4 million
in dirt work that is un-
derway right now, and a
design contract that will
total between $1 million
and $2 million.
Sistrunk said she
and one of the children started panick-
ing in the water before Perkins jumped
in to save them, he added.
The family told WAPT-TV that Per-
kins didn’t grab his life jacket before
jumping in to save his 5-year-old son.
Dixon said Perkins was able to get the
child back on the family’s boat but then
disappeared into the water.
Reservoir police along with local and
state agencies have been on the search
for Perkins since Sunday amid the diffi-
cult weather conditions, Dixon said.
Police are glad to give the family
some kind of closure, even if it’s not the
“closure we would like,” he added.
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How much
more are we
supposed
to bear on
costs? …
We want to
be a part-
ner,
(a)
but
cost Labat
increase that costs that
much overnight, that’s a
lot to deal with (during
the COVID-19 pandem-
ic).”
Labat said she felt that
GTECHS should have
done more, as an insti-
tution funded by public
money, to focus on and re-
cruit at-risk students, stu-
dents who would be the
first to attend college in
their families or students
who were interested in
pursuing careers in area
industries. She previous-
ly had raised concerns
that private school stu-
dents were being accept-
ed to GTECHS.
EMCC President Scott
Alsobrooks did not re-
turn multiple calls from
The Dispatch by press
time. Allison said since
LCSD is maintaining fis-
cal agency of GTECHS,
funding will continue as it
has been in the past, with
MAEP funds covering
the school’s costs.
After Thursday’s de-
cision, Savely said she
emailed two separate
letters — one informing
parents of the nearly 160
current students they will
continue at GTECHS and
another to the parents of
81 applicants indicating
none would be accept-
ed. Applicants’ parents
would be surprised if the
city sold all of the remain-
ing $11 million in bonds it
can issue for parks proj-
ects by the deadline next
year, but it might be able
to sell some of them de-
spite the precarious eco-
nomic climate caused by
the pandemic.
“As we sort through
what our finances are
going to look like, we’re
trying to be very conser-
vative in planning for this
project in terms of avail-
able dollars,” Sistrunk
said.
The board approved a
series of cost-saving mea-
sures in April, including
city staff furloughs and a
hiring freeze, to mitigate
what Spruill predicts will
be a $1.3 million sales tax
revenue shortfall due to
the pandemic.
Timetable for the work
The Cornerstone work
will be finished before the
city addresses any oth-
er park projects, which
might have extended
timelines for comple-
tion since the Parks and
Recreation department
is scaling back its opera-
tions during the pandem-
ic, Spruill said.
So far the pandemic
has not delayed the Cor-
nerstone construction
schedule, interim parks
director David D’Aquilla
said. The design process
is set to be completed in
June or July, and the de-
partment will meet with
the city then to deter-
mine if any aspect of the
project’s budget needs to
change, he said.
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 3A
Teen receives
also will receive a letter
through the mail.
scholarship honoring
Savely said she was
disappointed with the su-
perintendents’ decision
‘The Hate U Give’ author
to not accept a freshman
class but that she hopes
Angie Thomas Writers Scholarship
to go “back to the draw- will cover all expenses for tuition,
ing board” to find a way
to serve students not room and board for four years
connected to their home
schools. for Jackson student
“I am hopeful that we
can find a way to reach THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
those students who are
either not being success- JACKSON — A Mississippi teenager with a
ful in school or could be talent for writing is receiving a full-ride college
more successful, or who scholarship named for the author of “The Hate U
are not connected to their Give.”
Belhaven University is awarding its first Angie
traditional school,” she
Thomas Writers Scholarship to Imani Skipwith
said. “... I think there are
of Jackson, the university announced Tuesday.
so many students in this
Skipwith will be graduating from the Mississippi
area who we can help and
School of the Arts, and submitted writing samples
can still benefit from be- to support her application.
ing at GTECHS. I think Thomas graduated from Belhaven in 2011. Her
there’s a misconception third young-adult novel, “Concrete Rose,” is set to
that the main value of a be published in January.
student being at GTECHS She wrote the bestselling “The Hate U Give,”
is the dual credit opportu- about an African American teenager who sees a
nities. ... The main focus police officer shoot and kill her best friend. It was
for us is connection with published in 2017 and was released as a movie in
students and learning 2018. Her 2019 novel, “On the Come Up,” is about a
how we can help each one young rapper who finds her identity and confronts
of them individually be stereotypes through music. Thomas is working as
as successful as they can a producer of the movie that is in development.
possibly be.” Belhaven announced in January that the Thom-
In her letter to appli- as scholarship would cover all expenses for tui-
cants’ parents, Savely tion, room and board for four years for a creative
thanks them for their sup- writing major. One incoming freshman a year
port of GTECHS. receives the full package, while others receive
“I want to applaud smaller awards.
each of you for stepping In the university news release, Thomas de-
out of your comfort zone scribed Skipwith as “truly gifted from God” and
and taking the risk to deserves to focus on writing without financial
turn in an application to worries.
GTECHS,” she writes. “It’s an honor to know that such a brilliant
“For some of you, apply- young woman will benefit from a scholarship in
ing to GTECHS may have my honor,” Thomas said. “I have no doubt that
been a very difficult de- Imani will soar under the guidance of the entire
cision and I admire your Belhaven family.”
courage.” Skipwith also praised Thomas: “I look up to
her, and it means a lot to me that someone so spec-
tacular has found faith and promise in my work.”
“From a timetable, ev-
erything is still where it
New election ordered for contested
needs to be,” D’Aquilla
said. “We’re not looking
Okolona marshal position
to bid construction until THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the fall.”
The city could make OKOLONA — A judge ordered the mayor of a
small month-by-month Mississippi town to set another election for its town
adjustments to the proj- marshal seat, nearly three years after the original
ect’s budget as time race was challenged.
goes by to keep the total Okolona Mayor Sherman Carouthers was given
cost “closer to $18 mil- five days to schedule the election, news outlets re-
lion than $22 million,” ported Tuesday.
William Randle was initially declared the win-
Sistrunk said.
ner of the 2017 Democratic primary for the town
She said she has seen
marshal seat, winning by just one vote, according
public interest increase
to news outlets. A town marshal is similar to a po-
for parks and recreation lice chief.
amenities over the past Tommie Ivy Sr., who ran against Randle in the
few years. primary, challenged the election. Circuit Court
“I’ve been very pleas-
Judge Barry Ford ruled Ivy beat Randle by two
antly surprised at the votes. Randle was removed from the post and
number of conversations
wasn’t allowed to run in the special election that
I’ve had in three years followed.
about the demand for
Ivy was later sworn in as town marshal in late
more sidewalks in the 2017, news outlets reported.
community,” she said. Randle challenged the judge’s ruling that took
“That tells me that people him off the ballot, and the state supreme court de-
do want to be out and en- termined Randle was unfairly excluded, according
gaged, and I think that’s to news outlets.
just a shift in the services Ford handed down Tuesday’s order for a new
that the city provides in election. A date hasn’t yet been announced.
the future.” Okolona is about 20 miles south of Tupelo.
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SLIMANTICS
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few weeks, sort of conduct has “four teens” and see what ly (enough to ensure a second American lives and achieved
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seen television To suggest that “four black teens.” What you While acknowledging the As of today, COVID-19 has
images of protests these people are will find is evidence is that protests, Nixon noted the claimed more American lives
at state capitols simply patriots the “race card” is generally large crowds of protesters in two months than the Viet-
that any rational exercising the far more legitimate than you were not truly representative nam War did in 10 years. And,
person would find Constitutional right might suspect. of the American people as contrary to what you may see
disturbing. to bare arms is a But aside from the nature a whole. Most Americans, on TV, there is a Silent Major-
But nothing grotesque distor- of these protests and how they he said, had not taken to the ity today that recognizes the
quite crystallizes tion. It was, in fact, are perceived in the context of streets in protest. It was that gravity of that.
this recent phe- an act of terrorism. race, there is yet another point audience Nixon addressed: For every person dressing
nomenon quite like Slim Smith Were that group to be drawn from what we are “And so tonight—to you, in cammo, carrying rifles and
the protest staged of people black, seeing on television, a point the great silent majority of my screaming at lawmakers to
at the Michigan the “complexion” that Richard Nixon made in a fellow Americans—I ask for make a political statement,
capitol Thursday when pro- of the reaction would almost nationally-televised speech on your support,” he said. there are hundreds of thou-
testers, clothed in camouflage assuredly have been much November 3, 1969. The phrase “Silent Major- sands of Americans staying at
and carrying military-style different. They would likely At the time, tens of thou- ity” struck a chord with the home, complying with orders
rifles, screamed angry taunts have been arrested or shot. sands of Americans were American people. Almost and following the advice of
at legislators from the balcony Example after example proves participating in Vietnam War immediately, public opinion our medical experts. That,
of the Michigan courthouse in it. There are few things more demonstrations across the over Nixon’s handling of the too, is a political statement
protest of the state’s shelter at dangerous for a black citizen nation and the Nixon Adminis- war shifted dramatically in his and, a display of genuine
home order. than exercising his constitu- tration was struggling to find favor. patriotism.
Angry people carrying tional right to bare arms. an effective response. History tells us the popular Slim Smith is a columnist
guns is a tragedy waiting to To anyone whose knee-jerk In his TV speech, Nixon opinion — that Silent Major- and feature writer for The
happen. Mercifully, no one reaction is to dismiss that as expressed an idea that quickly ity — was wrong in regard Dispatch. His email address is
was hurt. “playing the race card,” try changed the tide of public to Vietnam, which ultimately ssmith@cdispatch.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Voice of the people
Doesn’t like message of cartoon
The picture in the Opinion page
of Wednesday’s Dispatch really left
me with some questions. Just what
is the picture of OUR Vice President
trying to imply?
I would not dare try to list what
I truly think is being implied here.
I find the picture very offensive
and do not like the fact my kids are
asking me what the picture means.
Please help me understand how
this picture deserves being printed
in our local Columbus newspaper
during these trying times.
Greg Trout
Columbus
Editor’s note: The cartoon in
question was run as commentary on
the Vice President’s decision to visit
the Mayo Clinic without wearing
a mask, which was in violation of
the hospital’s policy and contrary to
suggested preventative action by the
White House coronavirus task force,
which Pence chairs.

“
A MOMENT OF CALM
Opportunity
With doubt and dis-
may you are smitten
You think there’s no
chance for you, son?
Why, the best books haven’t been STATE OF THE NATION
written
The best race hasn’t been run,
The best score hasn’t been made
yet,
Testing: the way out of this trap
O
The best song hasn’t been sung, ne of the less helpful entire population (with its are not able to self-quarantine and
The best tune hasn’t been played aspects of our current attendant economic pain) to alarming numbers of whom are falling
yet, quandary is the shrill testing on a massive scale, ill. Doctors and nurses are at high risk.
Cheer up, for the world is young! argument between two contact tracing and support- Seventeen percent of the New York
closed-minded camps. One ed isolation (T TSI). With City police force is infected, and the
No chance? Why the world is just condemns those who wish the proper level of T TSI, we outbreak at meat processing plants has
eager to open up the economy as could begin safely to reopen prompted the chairman of Tyson Foods
For things that you ought to create science-defying ghouls who the economy, sector by sec- to warn that the “food supply chain is
Its store of true wealth is still care nothing for human tor, starting with the most breaking.”
meagre life. The other depicts the essential. Phase Two would permit the reopen-
Its needs are incessant and great, stay-at-homes as economic We are currently testing ing of many businesses while main-
It yearns for more power and saboteurs willing to destroy about 150,000 people a day. taining social distancing for vulnerable
beauty the national economy in the Mona Charen That number needs to ramp populations. Phase Three would see
More laughter and love and name of unobtainable safety. up fast to 2 million a day and about 80% of the economy back on
romance, Neither reckons with then quickly to 5 million track, and Phase Four would see a new
More loyalty, labor and duty, the indispensable bridge — the testing per day, reaching 20 million by August. normal in which the economy returned
No chance--why there’s nothing problem. Whatever mayors, governors, To accomplish this, Safra calls for a to pre-pandemic levels but with test-
but chance! or presidents might say, we cannot Pandemic Testing Board modeled on ing, careful monitoring and improved
restart the economy as long as people World War II’s War Production Board decontamination to suppress further
For the best verse hasn’t been are too frightened to resume working, to coordinate the innovation, supply outbreaks.
rhymed yet, shopping, and socializing. An NPR/ chains and regulatory changes neces- If a vaccine comes along, so much
The best house hasn’t been Marist poll found that 65% of Americans sary to facilitate this. Testing is always the better. But this roadmap would
planned, believe that it would be a “bad idea” a critical part of disease control, but permit us to cope with a world that
The highest peak hasn’t been to have people return to work until never more than in this case, when so contains COVID-19 — or some future
climbed yet, further testing is available, and 80% say many carriers are asymptomatic. pathogen — without letting it wreak
The mightiest rivers aren’t the same about eating in restaurants. Once infected people are identified, devastation on the economy or our
spanned, Even larger majorities oppose opening they need to be supported in isolation health.
Don’t worry and fret, faint heart- schools or sporting events. — meaning that they should be able to How much would it cost? Between
ed, On the other hand, it’s simply expect sick pay, the guarantee of a job $50 billion and $300 billion over two
The chances have just begun, untenable to keep huge sectors of the when they return and perhaps tempo- years. But compared to what? The cur-
For the Best jobs haven’t been economy in what Will Wilkinson of rary housing (hotels may be useful for rent lockdown regime is the costliest
started, the Niskanen Center calls “soft house those who need it). Their contacts must emergency of our lifetimes. The price
The Best work hasn’t been done. arrest” indefinitely, or to open up only also be informed and urged to self-iso- we are paying now, including eye-pop-
Berton Braley to be forced to shut down again in the late for the two-week incubation period. ping outlays of up to $350 billion a
face of new illness spikes. We are stuck Johns Hopkins University has estimat- month from the federal government
in limbo. We’ve succeeded in flattening ed that we will need to hire and train at (spiking our national debt to levels un-
the curve but haven’t conceived a way least 100,000 new personnel. This will seen since World War II), lost education
to avoid thousands of more deaths with- involve the use of apps and other tech- for children, bankruptcies, diminish-
Make Your Voice Heard
out causing an economic catastrophe. nologies that pose privacy concerns, ing mental health, overwhelmed soup
Fortunately, the Safra Center for but experience with other epidemics kitchens, spikes in domestic violence
Write The Dispatch: Ethics at Harvard has gathered experts like HIV has shown that it can be done and more, is incalculable. This road-
voice@cdispatch.com from across the political spectrum and sensitively. After a negative test, people map — or something like it — offers a
prepared a very compelling roadmap can safely return to work. lifeline.
for escaping from this trap. It requires Phase One would focus on essential Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow at
shifting focus from quarantining the workers, the 40% of the workforce who the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Obituaries
Continued from Page 2A

Sallie Webb Mary Childs and Jim Ervin Webber of Co- from noon- employed as a school Billy Perkins
NOXUBEE COUN- Sharp. He was formerly lumbus, Alden Prowell 4 p.m. at administrator. COLUMBUS — Bil-
TY — Sallie Webb, 81, employed as a laborer of Colorado Springs, Carter’s He is survived ly W. Perkins, 82, died
died April with Columbus Mar- Colorado, Campranell Funeral by his wife, Marcia May 1, 2020, at his
25, 2020, at ble Works and was a Prowell of Winfeild, Al- Services. Hollingsworth Gettys residence.
her resi- member of New Hope abama, Michael Prow- Carter’s of Aberdeen; children, Arrangements are
dence. Baptist Church. ell of Orlando, Florida, Funeral James Samuel Gettys incomplete and will be
A pri- In addition to his Bobbi Whitfield of Day- Services of Hawkins III “Trey” and Wil- announced by Memori-
vate family parents, he was preced- ton, Ohio, Gail Grooks Columbus liam O. Gettys both of al Gunter Peel Funeral
graveside ed in death by his wife, of Columbus, Dianne is in charge of arrange- Birmingham, Alabama; Home and Crematory
service Mary S. Sharp; and Webber of Columbus, ments. and one grandchild. Second Avenue North
will be at Webb siblings, Eddie Sam Latonia M. Charles of Mrs. Hawkins was location.
11 a.m. Sat- rogers, Lee Sharp and Tomball, Texas, Rosie born Aug. 20, 1955, in Yvonne Neal
Leonard Sharp. Strong of New Caney, Columbus, to the late
urday, at Toliver Chapel
He is survived by his Texas, Gwen Webber James and Betty Wil-
COLUMBUS — Helen Beck
M.B.C. Cemetery, with Yvonne C. Neal, 69, COLUMBUS —
Louis Murray offici- children, Teri L. Peo- Marning of Houston, son. She was formerly died April
ples, Tom D. Walker, employed as a contract Helen “Red” Beck,
ating. Private family Texas and Vera Webber 22, 2020,
Sammie L. Sharp Jr. specialist with CAFB died April 28, 2020, at
visitation is from 2-5 of Atlanta, Georgia; at Medi-
and was a member of Baptist Memorial Hos-
p.m. today, at Carter’s all of Artesia, Climmie and one grandchild. cal City
Peter’s Rock Temple pital-Golden Triangle.
Funeral Services. Car- L. Walker of Atlanta, Alliance
Family Worship Center A home going
ter’s Funeral Services Georgia and Victoria Pearlie Gillespie Hospital celebration will be at
Whitfield of Columbus; STARKVILLE — COGIC. in Fort
of Macon is in charge 11 a.m. Saturday, at
siblings, James Rogers, Pearlie B. Gillespie, 89, In addition to her Worth,
of arrangements. Zion Gate Missionary
Gussie Poster and J.P. died April 28, 2020, in parents, she was pre- Texas.
Mrs. Webb was born Neal Baptist, with the Rev
Givens all of Artesia; Columbus. ceded in death by Ollie
Feb. 20, 1939, in Noxu- Grave- James A. Boyd officiat-
16 grandchildren; and Graveside service Wilson Jr.
bee County, to the late side services will be at ing. Lavender’s Funer-
three great-grandchil- will be at 11 a.m. She is survived by
Charlie Johnson Jr. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday, al Service of Aliceville
dren. Saturday, at Bethel her husband, Joseph
Sallie Lucille Johnson. at Memorial Gardens. is in charge of arrange-
Cemetery. West Memo- Hawkins; children,
She was a member of Visitation is from noon- ments.
Toliver Chapel MBC. Bubba Staples rial Funeral Home of Ecole Hanks of Colum-
6 p.m. today, at Lee-
COLUMBUS — Starkville is in charge bus, Shaywen Hawkins
In addition to her Sykes Funeral Home.
Bubba James Staples, of arrangements. of Mabelton,, Georgia
parents, she was Lee-Sykes Funeral
75, died April 25, 2020, She is survived by and Joseph Hawkins II
preceded in death by Home of Columbus is
at Cleveland Nursing & her children, Hattie of Columbus; siblings,
her husband, Sylvester in charge of arrange-
Rehab. Williams and Debo- Charles Wilson of
Webb Sr.; children, ments.
Services will be rah Ann Johnson; and Crete, Illinois, Maxcine
Cidney Gray Webb and Mrs. Neal was born
at 11 a.m. Saturday, siblings, Dossie Gandy, Cooper of Los Ange-
Daisy Webb; and one Oct. 19, 1950, to the
at Pepper Hill M.B. Henry Gandy, Estella les, California, JoAnn
grandchild. late Fred Coleman and
Church Cemetery, Brooks and Dorothy Butler of Northport,
She is survived by Alabama, Annette Helen Coleman Danc-
her children, Margie with Maurice Kidd Gandy. er. She was formerly
officiating. Visitation is Sherrod of Colum-
Tucker of Crawford, bus, Shelia Cooper employed as culinary
Maudine Brown, from 2-5 p.m. today, at Joe Dollar staff with Faith & Love
of Jackson, Jacquline
Sylvester Webb Jr., Carter’s Funeral Ser- COLUMBUS — Joe Morales of Fayetteville, Temple of God. Charles Young
Margaret Webb and vices. Carter’s Funeral W. Dollar, 68, died In addition to her Memorial Services:
Services of Columbus North Carolina, Pamela Held At A Later Date.
Norma Oliver all of Ma- April 30, 2020, at Bap- Graham of Riverdale parents, she was 2nd Ave. North Location
con; siblings, Joe Lee is in charge of arrange- tist Memorial Hospi- preceded in death by
ments. Georgia and Tronda
Johnson of Starkville
Mr. Staples was born
tal-Golden Triangle. Wilson of Dallas; nine her daughter Monique Joe Dollar
and Ruby Carter of Arrangements are grandchildren; and four Jones; and siblings, Incomplete
St. Louis, Missouri; July 9, 1944, in Lown- incomplete and will be Willie Bob Lee and 2nd Ave. North Location
des County, to the late great-grandchildren.
17 grandchildren; 25 announced by Memori- Virginia Nash.
great-grandchildren; Lizzie Lou Staples al Gunter Peel Funeral She is survived by Joseph King
and one great-great- and Linzy Staples. He Home and Crematory James Gettys Jr. her children, Pamela Incomplete
was formerly em- ABERDEEN — College St. Location
grandchild. Second Avenue North Coleman Chukwu of
ployed with Johnston location. James Samuel Gettys
Tombigbee Furniture Jr., 68,
Atlanta, Georiga and Billy Perkins
Etoile Barnes Company and Airline died April
Vincent Coleman of Incomplete
STARKVILLE —
Manufacturing. He was Joseph King 27, 2020, Meridian; siblings, 2nd Ave. North Location
Etoile Bell Barnes, 78, COLUMBUS — in Tupelo. Fredericia Hairston
a member of St. James
died April 24, 2020. Joseph O. King, 90, Services of Chicago, Illinois,
M.B. Church.
Graveside services died April 30, 2020, at will be at Rhonda Lee of Colum-
In addition to his memorialgunterpeel.com
will be at 2 p.m. Sat- Baptist Memorial Hos- 11 a.m. bus and Helen Danc-
parents, he was pre-
urday, in Plair U.M. pital-Golden Triangle. Saturday, er-Allen of Fort Worth,
ceded in death by his
Church Cemetery. Arrangements are at Century Gettys Jr. Texas.
siblings, Mamie Bailey,
Visitation is from 5-7 incomplete and will be Hairston
Joe Robert Harris,

Charles Young
p.m. today, at Mr. announced by Memori- Funeral Home Chap-
Jessie D. Harris, Alex
Peiler M.B. Church. Hawkins, Larry Sta- al Gunter Peel Funeral el, with the Rev. Tony
West Memorial Funer- ples, Albert Staples and Home and Crematory Montgomery. Burial
al Home of Starkville Willie James Staples. College Street location. will follow in Odd Fel- Charles David Young age 77, died Thursday,
is in charge of arrange- He is survived by lows Rest Cemetery of April 30, 2020, at his residence in Columbus.
ments. his siblings, Lorenzo Gloria Hawkins Aberdeen. Visitation is A memorial service will be held at a later date.
She is survived by Staples, Augusta Sta- COLUMBUS — Glo- from 4-6 p.m. today, at Mr. Young was born on Saturday, October 17,
her children, Ron- ples, Mandy Walls and ria Ann Hawkins, 64, the funeral home. Cen- 1942, in Amory, MS, to the late Houston Wilson
ald Barnes, Donald Victoria Clark. died April 23, 2020, in tury Hairston Funeral and Mary Idell Stegall Young. He was a member
Barnes, Robert B. Meridian. Home of Columbus is and Pastor of Sovereign Faith Baptist Church.
Barnes and Katherine A private grave- in charge of arrange- In addition to his parents, he was preceded
Neely. Ned Whitfield side service will be at ments. in death by his granddaughter, Tiffany Marie
COLUMBUS — Ned Young.
Lee Whitfield, 65, 11 a.m. Saturday, at Mr. Gettys was
Shirley Horace passed Peter’s Rock Temple born June 12, 1951, in Survivors include, Wife, Anne Trimm Young,
EUPOR A — Shirley Family Worship Center Aberdeen, to the late Columbus MS; Sons, Steve Young (Paula),
away. Tupelo, MS, Scott Young (Cindy), Columbus,
Deloris Horace, 79, Grave- COGIC of Starkville, James Samuel Gettys
died April 27, 2020, in with Cordell Lewis and Ellen Walton Get- MS; Grandchildren, Drew Young, Kourtney
side ser- Gilmore, David Young, Shane Young, Ashley
Meridian. vices will officiating. Visitation is tys. He was formerly
Graveside services Young, Derek Young, Amanda Martin; and two
be at 11 great-grandchildren.
will be at 11 a.m Satur- a.m. Sat-
day, in Embry Ceme- In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to
urday, in Gideons International; North Columbus Chapter,
tery of Bellefontaine. Sandfield Whitfield
West Memorial Funer- P.O. Box 2174, Columbus MS 39704.
Cemetery.
al Home of Starkville Visitation is from noon-
is in charge of arrange- 6p.m. today, at Lee-
ments. Sykes Funeral Home.
She is survived by Lee-Sykes Funeral
her children, Rob- Home of Columbus is Sign the online guest book at
ert Gibbs Jr., Shawn in charge of arrange- www.memorialgunterpeel.com
Horace and Jasmine ments. 716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS
Horace; and siblings, Mr. Whitfield was
Macarthur James and born Nov. 19, 1954, in
Johnnie James. Columbus, to the late
Mandy E. Whitfield
Sammie Sharp Sr.
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CLW
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The Mississippi Pub-
lic Service Commission
has suspended utilities
shutoffs through May 14
because of the COVID-19
coronavirus pandemic,
but General Manager
Todd Gale said at Thurs-
day’s board meeting
that CLW — which buys
its power from the Ten-
nessee Valley Authori-
ty — isn’t subject to that
restriction. Regardless,
CLW won’t be shutting off
power to any customers
until June 10 at the earli-
est.
Gale told The Dispatch
after Thursday’s meeting
that 18 percent of CLW
customers would be cur-
rently subject to discon-
nection under typical cir-
cumstances.
The balance on the
utility’s past due accounts
on April 24 was roughly
$300,000. On April 24,
2019, it was a little more
than $67,000. Gale told
The Dispatch that utilities
around the country likely
face similar conditions
during the pandemic, and
it could pose a problem.
Mississippi inmate dies after days of hospitalization
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON — A Mississippi in-
mate died Thursday after being hos-
pitalized for several days, the state
Department of Corrections said.
Darrell Hugh King, 51, died at
Merit Health Central in Jackson,
where he had been taken from Cen-
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funds — Mississippi’s
share of $340 billion in
CARES Act funding ear-
marked to compensate
state’s for expenses relat-
ed to COVID-19.
A legislative staffer
who asked not to be iden-
tified said House and Sen-
ate attorneys and staff
worked well into Thurs-
day evening crafting a bill
that clarified any doubt
about the Legislature’s
sole authority over spend-
ing.
“It’s pretty simple,”
Rep. Gary Chism (R-Co-
lumbus)
said. “The
governor
thinks it’s in
his purview
to distribute
this money.
The Legis-
lature be- Chism
lieves very
strongly that that author-
ity belongs to the Legisla-
ture. This won’t take long
for us when we’re called
back into session.”
A storm over who will
ultimately determine how
the funds will be spent
has been brewing since
Reeves announced the
formation of a 17-mem-
ber advisory committee
(called Restart Mississip-
pi) — made up exclusively
of business owners, many
of them Reeves’ donors —
to help determine a plan
for the state’s economic
recovery two weeks ago.
As Gunn and Hose-
mann were contacting
legislators to inform them
they would reconvene on
Friday, Reeves addressed
questions about the pend-
ing legislative action
during Thursday’s daily
COVID-19 briefing, vacil-
lating between accepting
the Legislature’s author-
ity over the funds and
pushing back against it.
“What I really want
you to know is I don’t re-
ally give a damn about
who is in charge of this
money,” Reeves said.
“What I care about is the
people who need it and
need it now. We’ve always
planned to work with the
Legislature on the expen-
diture of these funds, but
it’s incredibly important
in federal and state emer-
gencies that we have the
ability to do what a chief
“If we let it go another
30 days, we’re probably
going to end up some-
where around half a mil-
lion dollars,” Gale said
during the meeting. “If
we don’t collect on that or
don’t collect a lot of it, we
might be forced to look
into a rate increase, but
that’s too early to tell.”
If a rate increase be-
came necessary, it would
likely be implemented in
October, Gale said.
During Thursday’s
meeting, Gale laid out the
utility’s plan for making
arrangements with the
2,000 or so customers
who are behind on their
payments.
CLW will contact de-
faulting customers on the
day their bills come due
— the utility bills differ-
ent customers every day
as part of a 30-day bill-
ing cycle — and will give
them 30 days to come in
and make arrangements
in which the total amount
of their missed payments
will be divided over their
bills for the following
months.
tral Mississippi Correctional Facili-
ty. An autopsy will be done and “no
foul play” is suspected in his death,
according to a news release from
the department.
King was a few months into a
four-year term for a conviction on
possession of methamphetamine.
He was sentenced in mid-December
executive does, which is
execute the laws that have
been passed by the Legis-
lature.”
Reeves said the state’s
constitution allows the
governor to distribute
funds the Legislature has
not designated to state
agencies.
“It’s is very clear the
chief executive has the
ability, and quite frankly
has to have the ability,
to expend those funds
for the betterment of all
Mississippians,” he said.
“Should (the Legislature)
choose to change that law,
that’s certainly their pre-
rogative.”
Rep. Rob Roberson
(R-Starkville) said he
doesn’t view the Legisla-
ture’s position as a power
play.
“I think (Reeves) is
attempting to do what he
feels is the right thing,”
Roberson said. “On the
flip side, my position is
that there is no reason
to even have a Legisla-
ture if we’re going to let
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Customers who owe
less than $25 will be asked
to pay right away, but the
more they owe, the longer
they have to pay it back.
For example, those who
owe from $25.01 to $200
will have their debt split
over the next four months’
bills, and there are sev-
en-month, 10-month and
11-month options as well.
Those who owe more
than $800 have 12 months
to pay it back.
The board voted at
the end of Thursday’s
meeting to authorize im-
plementing the plan once
Reeves’ order is lifted.
Gale told The Dispatch
that the plan would “more
than likely” be pushed
back in accordance with
the length of the order if
Reeves extends it.
“We’re gonna kind of
take the more conserva-
tive road,” Gale said.
Concerns about
repayment
At the meeting, Gale
voiced his uncertainty
that CLW will receive di-
in Pontotoc County.
Cases of the new coronavirus
have been confirmed in Mississippi
prisons, but Department of Correc-
tions spokeswoman Grace Simmons
Fisher told The Associated Press
that the department will not release
the names of inmates who die from
it.
one person
make these
decisions.
We’re in
this togeth-
er. I don’t
think what
we’re doing
Roberson
is trying to
exclude the
governor, but I don’t want
the reverse, either.”
Asked if he would veto
the legislation passed by
the Legislature, Reeves
didn’t tip his hand.
“I’m not going to com-
mit to anything until I
can see the language that
might be in it,” he said.
Chism said a veto is
likely to be a moot point.
“Oh, yeah, we’ll have
the votes to make it ve-
to-proof,” he said. “We
would never be called into
session if we didn’t.”
There has been spec-
ulation the dispute could
wind up in court. Reeves
said there have been prec-
edents when the governor
distributed emergency
funding in the past, but
rect payment from low-in- have to educate,” he told Timeline differs for
come customers who are the board. “They have
behind on their bills. never been up against this commercial customers
Prairie Opportunity before.” The plan Gale initially
Inc. offers the Low-In- Not many customers proposed at Thursday’s
come Home Energy As- have contacted the utility meeting would have giv-
sistance Program, which about overdue payments en commercial customers
provides regular finan- yet, but Gale said he ex- 30 days to make arrange-
cial help paying electric pects that to change. ments as well, but board
and other utilities bills to “Since some custom- member Jabari Edwards
those who can’t afford it. ers know that they’re voiced concerns about
That’s one of the avenues not going to be cut off, that timeline.
Gale and CLW expect to “Just because the state
they’re not calling,” he
see utilized as they hope has opened, let’s say,
said during the meet-
to recoup their mounting restaurants, it doesn’t
ing. “Once we start this
debts.
process, we’ll get a lot of mean that customers
“I don’t see them giv-
calls.” are going to come back,”
ing it directly to us,” Gale
Gale said he wants the Edwards told Gale. “You
said. “It’s either going to
have to funnel through utility to instruct custom- and I both know people
(won’t) just flock back.”
our customers and the LI- ers in need of arrange-
Edwards suggest-
HEAP program through ments to come to the CLW
Prairie, or it’s gonna fun- building for one-on-one ed allowing 60 days for
nel through the city.” meetings for the clarity commercial customers to
Gale said that low-in- that phone conversations make arrangements, and
come customers who can’t always offer. the board agreed to the
routinely need assistance new term.
paying their bills have
become accustomed to
it; it’s those who are now
struggling for the first
time who will need the
most help.
“You’ve got some peo-
ple that don’t know the
process that we’re gonna
stopped short of saying
he would press the matter
through the courts.
“I will tell you if it
means I have to fight to
get money to the people of
Mississippi as quickly as
possible, I’ll do it,” Reeves
said.
Although he agrees
that the Legislature
should administer the
funds, Rep. Kabir Kar-
riem (D-Columbus) said
he’s still concerned about
how those federal funds
are ultimately distributed.
“It’s kind of wait and
see with me,” Karriem
said. “My
concern
is will the
leg isl at ive
leadersh ip
dist r ibute
the funds
equitably or
will these Karriem
be some-
thing that gets pushed
through by just Republi-
cans. Everybody needs to
have a voice in this.”
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‘WE DIDN’T THINK IT WAS REAL’
Inside the final 48 hours of the Bulldogs’ 2020 season
Rowdey Jordan takes a swing for Mississippi State against Texas Tech on March 11 in Biloxi. The Bulldogs beat the Red Raiders in the last game of the 2020 season.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
BILOXI — It was just after 8
p.m. as Mississippi State coach
Chris Lemonis rounded a cor-
ner in the underbelly of MGM
Park for postgame media avail-
ability.
With the bright lights of the
Beau Rivage and Hard Rock Ca-
sinos gleaming over the playing
field, Lemonis’ squad had just
earned a midweek sweep of
No. 4 Texas Tech in the minor
league home of the Double-A
Biloxi Shuckers.
Lemonis hadn’t looked at
his phone since an hour before
the game, and he still hadn’t
peeked at it when Assistant Di-
rector of Communications Greg
Campbell greeted him in the
subterranean hallway.
“Hey man, a lot’s gone on
since y’all started playing base-
ball,” Campbell informed him.
Unbeknownst to Lemonis
and most of the Bulldogs, the
United States had found it-
self in the early stages of the
COVID-19 crisis. In a matter of
days, it would bring a complete
halt to all normalcy society gen-
erally enjoys.
“You’re just sitting there
like, ‘Wow, this is really hap-
pening,’” Lemonis later told
The Dispatch.
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL
Illinois lands former MSU OL Jones NASCAR to resume season May
BY DISPATCH STAFF
Former Mississippi State of-
fensive lineman Brevyn Jones is
transferring to Illinois.
The 6-foot-4, 280-pound
freshman from
Huffman High
School (Center
Point, Alabama)
announced his in-
tention to join the
Illini via Twitter
Jones
on Thursday.
Jones will
have all four years of eligibili-
ty remaining after redshirting
during his freshman season.
He was a three-star recruit
according to 247 Sports, rank-
ing as the No. 1,633 overall
MISSISSIPPI STATE BASEBALL
‘I ain’t going to quit living’
Following a Tuesday night
walloping of Texas Tech, MSU
headed into the second leg of its
Gulf Coast tour riding high.
Despite the NCAA’s warn-
ings against attending ma-
jor sporting events due to
COVID-19 concerns, over 6,000
The Bulldogs line up one last time before what would prove to be their final contest of 2020.
Mississippi State swept Texas Tech in the two-game series at MGM Park in Biloxi.
player in the nation, the No.
140 offensive tackle and the No.
61 player in Alabama in the re-
cruiting class of 2019.
Jones committed to the Bull-
dogs on Oct. 31, 2018.
Jones announced April 6
he would be transferring from
Mississippi State, just days af-
ter new head coach Mike Leach
posted a tweet with a picture of
a woman knitting a noose for
her husband.
Defensive lineman Fabien
Lovett announced his transfer
after that, citing the offensive
image as one of the reasons for
his departure.
Illinois finished 6-7 in 2019
with a 4-5 record in the Big Ten
Conference.
fans packed the stands at MGM
Park as the Bulldogs went for a
series sweep of the Red Raiders
on March 11.
“I’m not freaking out about
it,” Picayune resident Chad
Goss told The Dispatch as he
entered the gates. “When it’s
time for me to go, it’s time for
me to go. I ain’t going to quit
AUTO
17 with seven races in 10 days
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOT TE, N.C. — NA-
SCAR plans to restart its en-
gines with a flurry of races at
two historic tracks.
NASCAR said Thursday it
is set to return May 17 with an
elite Cup Series race at Darling-
ton Raceway in South Carolina,
the first of seven events in an
11-day stretch across the top
three series.
There will be no practice,
no qualifying and drivers will
jump into their cars for the first
time since March 8 and attempt
to tackle “The Track Too Tough
To Tame.”
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living.”
Hosting a hitters meeting
in a room beneath the stadi-
um, MSU assistant coach Jake
Gautreau had gathered his po-
sition players for one final run
down of the night’s scouting re-
port. Rumblings on Twitter and
in the news had coaches and
players uncertain what the fu-
Katy Knauss/Biloxi Shuckers
“Events are going to look
different than they have in the
past,” said John Bobo, NA-
SCAR vice president of racing
operations.
NASCAR has set guidelines
to safely hold the events us-
ing CDC guidelines on social
distancing and personal pro-
tective equipment. The entire
venue will be used to maintain
distancing in garage stalls and
where the haulers are parked,
while drivers will have to
self-isolate in their motorhomes
as they prepare to compete.
“Our priority right now is
to try and get back racing in
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Katy Knauss/Biloxi Shuckers
ture might hold, but Gautreau’s
group remained lighthearted.
Looking over at junior
outfielder Rowdey Jordan,
Gautreau jabbed at his leadoff
hitter without knowledge of the
weight his words would carry in
future days.
“I said something like, ‘Well,
you better get a lot of hits to-
night. It might be the last at-
bats of the season,’” Gautreau
recounted. “And we laughed
about it because that’s where
we were at mentally. We didn’t
think it was real.”
Leading 1-0 in the early stag-
es of the game, Gautreau left
the dugout and headed under
the stadium around the third
inning.
Someone beneath the bleach-
ers proclaimed one league had
already canceled competition
for the rest of the season due to
the coronavirus. The possibility
of playing that weekend’s series
against Arkansas without fans
had also quickly become a ma-
jor discussion amongst MSU
athletic administrators.
With COVID-19’s impact on
the sports world spreading like
wildfire immediately below the
playing surface in Biloxi, the
Bulldogs and Red Raiders con-
tinued to do battle on the field
above.
See BASEBALL, 2B
a safe way,” said Steve O’Don-
nell, chief racing development
officer.
NASCAR follows the UFC as
the first major sports organiza-
tions to get back to work since
the coronavirus pandemic shut
down U.S. sports in mid-March.
The Professional Bull Racing
Series resumed competition
last weekend and there has
been some horse racing.
NASCAR’s revised schedule
goes only through May and has
a pair of Wednesday Cup races,
fulfilling fans’ longtime plea
for midweek events. The first
See NASCAR, 2B
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SOCCER

PSG declared French champion after season ends early

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — Paris
Saint-Germain’s latest
French league title came
without the usual celebra-
tions and fanfare.
Instead, there was
just a formal ruling from
league executives that
provided another exam-
ple of how the coronavi-
rus has upended sports
across the world.
PSG was officially
crowned Ligue 1 cham-
2019-20 season and we
have awarded the league
title to PSG,” league pres-
ident Nathalie Boy de la
Tour said.
Handing the title to
PSG was basically a for-
mality, with the team
12 points ahead of sec-
ond-place Marseille with
10 rounds of matches left
to play.
But other teams ob-
jected to the decision to
finalize the league stand-
ings based on a points-
title in the last eight years
— and ninth overall — al-
though this one certainly
had a different flavor to it.
Instead of the normal
on-field celebrations,
there was just muted reac-
tion on social media.
In a statement, PSG
president Nasser Al-Khe-
laifi dedicated the title to
the “healthcare staff and
to all the everyday heroes
on the front line whose
commitment and self-sac-
rifice over many weeks
Al-Khelaifi said. “Health,
as the government has al-
ways said, must be every-
one’s priority.”
Star striker Kylian
Mbappé posted photos on
Twitter of himself raising
the league trophy on two
previous occasions, but
there was no immediate
public reaction from Bra-
zil forward Neymar.
Any celebrations with
fans, such as the tradi-
tional open bus parade,
will have to wait.
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On the mound, South-
eastern Louisiana gradu-
ate transfer Carlisle Koes-
tler kept the hard-hitting
Texas Tech bats at bay
— allowing just four hits
and one earned run in five
innings of work — while
junior Josh Hatcher’s
rocketed seventh-inning
double off the Yuengling
Lager sign in right center
field gave the Bulldogs a
lead they wouldn’t relin-
quish.
Standing on second
base, Hatcher celebrated
with an air guitar strum
toward the dugout that
would’ve made Jimi Hen-
drix jealous as the crowd
roared in approval.
“Man, for some people
this is the only Mississip-
pi State game they see be-
cause they live down here
on the coast,” Lemonis
said postgame. “And for
us to come out here and
play well in an unbeliev-
able environment was a
lot of fun.”
Stark realities
As the on-field shenan-
igans and celebrations
came to a close following
the Bulldogs’ 3-2 win over
the Red Raiders, Lemonis
and his squad completed
postgame media obliga-
tions and headed for the
bus.
Once there, Lemonis
gave the team a brief run-
down on the instant im-
pact COVID-19, though
information was limited.
Moments later the buses
fired up and headed back
to Starkville to face an un-
certain future.
“It was a crazy couple
days, you know, just be-
cause of the fear of the
unknown right now that’s
out there,” Lemonis said.
Back at the Margari-
taville Resort, where the
Bulldogs had stayed the
past four days, Gautreau
and his family retired to
their hotel room for the
night, planning to make
the over three-hour trek
back to northeast Missis-
sippi the following morn-
ing.
Flipping on the tele-
vision, Gautreau was in-
formed of the NBA’s deci-
sion to postpone games. A
stark reality began to set
in.
“I thought ‘OK, this
is a pretty big deal, and
if the NBA is canceling
their season, I would as-
sume that we’re not gonna
be playing baseball,’” he
said.
‘It’ll never be the same
thing as the 2020 team’
Once back in
Starkville, Lemonis held
a team meeting at Dudy
Noble Field the following
day.
While the gathering
was in part to reassure
the players and keep them
informed, a sinking feel-
ing amongst the coaches
had emerged that the sea-
son was on the precipice
of cancellation.
That afternoon, the
NCAA announced it
would cancel the men’s
and women’s NCAA bas-
ketball tournament in ad-
dition to spring sports.
In the days to follow,
the Bulldogs scattered
to their varying homes
across the country. A few
increases from Monday to Sunday.
remained in Starkville for
the time being, but the
team was effectively bro-
ken up.
In a span of 48 hours,
Mississippi State had
gone from twice downing
a top-five team to watch-
ing its season end due to
a global pandemic.
And though those in-
volved are now wholly
aware of the present cli-
mate and why the season
had to be called off, there
remains a sting that this
year’s squad never got
the closure it hoped for
— closure the Bulldogs
earnestly believed would
manifest itself in a return
trip to the College World
Series.
“We really didn’t get a
chance for the 2020 Bull-
dogs to have their hugs
and say their goodbyes,”
pitching coach Scott Fox-
hall told The Dispatch.
“There’s going to be a
lot of guys back in our
program, but it’ll never
be the same thing as the
2020 team.”

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of those races will be at
Darlington, three days af-
ter the return race at the
70-year-old, egg-shaped
oval.
Charlotte Motor
Speedway will then host
the Coca-Cola 600 on May
24 to mark 60 consecutive
years the longest race on
the NASCAR schedule
will be held on Memo-
rial Day weekend. The
track in Concord, outside
NASCAR’s home base of
Charlotte, will then host
a Wednesday race three
days later.
There also will be low-
er-tier Xfinity and Truck
series races at the two
tracks. The North Caro-
lina governor has said the
the Charlotte races can
be held as long as health
conditions in the area do
not deteriorate.
“This has been a pro-
active effort to put our
motorsports industry
back to work and boost
the morale of sports fans
around the world,” said
Marcus Smith, president
and CEO of Speedway
Motorsports. He said
“sports fans around the
world need this, a return
to some sense of normal-
cy with live sports on TV,
and NASCAR is uniquely
positioned to deliver it
from a competition stand-
point.”
NASCAR suspend-
ed its season March 13
with only four of its 36
scheduled races complet-
ed. The stock car series,
heavily reliant on televi-
sion money and sponsor
payments, has vowed to
complete its full schedule.
The revised schedule for
now stays at tracks within
driving distance of Char-
lotte-based race teams
and in states that have
started reopening.
O’Donnell said NA-
SCAR wanted to get other facility.
seven events completed “For the couple tracks
within driving distance where we need to move an
of North Carolina before ACROSS
event, we want to do that 1 Like lions
it resumes competition
in the right way,” O’Don- 6 Olympics
in states that require air
travel and hotels. nell said. “We just want award
NASCAR has complet- to take a little time here 11 Cohort of Kirk
ed a fully revised sched- before we’re able to an- and Sulu
ule but would not reveal it nounce that.” 12 Speculate
Thursday as so much re- Almost all teams began
13 Milk source
lies on the pandemic and 14 View obscur-
returning to their shops ers
guidelines in different this week with either a 15 Chimney
states. reduced initial workforce grime
Darlington will now
or in split shifts. Now that 17 Proofing note
have three coveted Cup
NASCAR has told the 18 Surgery
races for the first time
teams where it will be rac- memento
in track history. It is also
ing this month, they can 20 Lab aide of
scheduled to open the film
playoffs with the South- start preparing cars suit-
22 Mythical piper
ern 500 on Sept. 6. Be- able for the two tracks. 23 Cry after county 19 Money
cause the track now has Although Florida and reaching the 46 Peevish 21 Jokes
two additional dates, NA- Texas invited NASCAR to summit 23 Pressing need
SCAR will lose two Cup compete in those states 26 Film prize DOWN 24 Words of
races from its other prop- 28 Painting base
without spectators, the 1 Marsh stuff understanding
erties. The same goes for 29 Springsteen
sanctioning body is hold- 2 Cry of insight 25 Young ones
Speedway Motorsports, nickname 3 Barrage from 27 Ear-shaped
which gained one addi- ing off on announcing rac-
31 Match part telemarketers shell
tional race so far and will es in those states because 32 Walking aid 4 Slip 30 Dr. Ruth’s field
have to forfeit one at an- of the travel required. 33 Good pair 5 Harry Belafonte 33 Biscotti flavor
34 Bargain hit 34 Titled woman
36 TV warrior 6 May honoree 35 Yale students
princess 7 Series unit 37 Radiate
38 Parcel out 8 Mayday and 39 Cowboy
40 Flour factories the like nickname
43 Piglet’s 9 Poker payment 41 Rent out
creator 10 For fear that 42 Pig’s digs
44 Key 16 Dickens boy
45 Newark’s 18 Set eyes on

NFL
Bengals release Dalton, clear way for Burrow to lead
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI — The
Bengals cleared the way
for Joe Burrow to lead
the team by releasing
quarterback Andy Dal-
ton, who holds several of
the franchise’s passing
records but couldn’t lead
Cincinnati deep into the
playoffs.
The move Thursday
gives Dalton, who had
a year left on his deal, a
chance to compete for a
job with another team.
It also clears the way
for Burrow to start fresh
on a team that hasn’t won
a playoff game since the
1990 season, the fifth-lon-
gest stretch of futility in
NFL history.
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
Dalton led Cincinnati
to its best stretch of play-
off appearances — five
straight from 2011-15 —
but couldn’t get that elu-
sive win. As the offensive
line deteriorated and top
receiver A.J. Green sus-
tained a series of injuries,
Dalton’s results suffered,
too.
“Andy will always hold
a special place with this
franchise, and I know that
he holds a special place
in my heart,” owner Mike
Brown said. “This is a
hard day for our club be-
cause we know and appre-
ciate what a consummate
professional Andy has
always been. We respect
and appreciate Andy, and
we thank him.”
FAMILY CIRCUS
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
Dalton was a sec-
ond-round pick in 2011
when quarterback Carson
Palmer demanded a trade
and threatened to retire
rather than continue play-
ing for the Bengals. Dal-
ton and Green, Cincinna-
ti’s first-round pick that
year, led Cincinnati to its
best stretch of playoff ap-
pearances.
The Bengals lost in the
first round each time, set-
ting an NFL record. Dal-
ton had a broken thumb
and was sidelined for the
last of those playoff ap-
pearances, which ended
in a last-minute meltdown
and an 18-16 loss to Pitts-
burgh during the 2015
season.
Dalton was one of
the NFL’s most efficient
passers when given a
solid supporting cast. He
led the AFC with a 106.3
passer rating in 2015, a
single-season Bengals re-
cord.
Coach Zac Taylor sig-
naled the end of Dalton’s
career in Cincinnati by
benching him for three
games midway through
last year’s 2-14 season, a
move that shocked Dalton
and his longtime team-
mates. Dalton was upset
the Bengals didn’t try
to trade him before the
deadline.
Rookie Ryan Finley
started the next three
games and was even
worse, prompting Taylor
to reinstate Dalton as the
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My fiancee
has two
daughters (14
and 11) from a
previous mar-
riage. Their dad,
“Brett,” was just
arrested for his
fourth DUI, the
second within a
year. The girls
don’t trust him
anymore, and
their image of
him has changed
greatly.
We have al-
Dear Abby
ways encouraged
the girls to stay with their dad
on “his” days, but when they
do, Brett rarely does anything
with them, and he berates
them. I know he misses his
girls, and his siblings have told
us the girls need to get past
this because “tomorrow is not
guaranteed.” I understand. I
live my life on that premise.
But if Brett isn’t willing to
change, then why should we
continue to encourage his
being in their lives? He cares
only about his image, not the
actual relationship with his
daughters.
He has a history with drugs
and alcohol, and in the last
12 months, he has been fired
from three different jobs. This
is not the role model the girls
need. I know I’m not their
father, but it kills me seeing
them hurt. Should we encour-
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May
1). You’re in the driver’s seat
of your dream this year, and
you’ll have co-pilots who get on
and off, depending on where
they are headed with their own
ambitions. There will be beau-
tiful instances of timing when
providing and receiving help
is gloriously easy. Feasts and
festivities of fall will be epic.
Scorpio and Capricorn adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 3,
33, 28, 1 and 45.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
As an adult, you have a lot of
choice about who you’re around.
Though it doesn’t always seem
that way. That’s why, with new
people, the standards should
starter for the rest of the
season. Dalton led the
Bengals to their two wins.
When Cincinnati draft-
ed Burrow first overall
last week, the question
was whether the Bengals
would keep Dalton for the
final year on his contract
and use him to mentor
the rookie, or let him try
to win a starting job with
another team.
Dalton, 32, holds Ben-
gals career records for
touchdown passes (204)
and completions (2,757),
surpassing Ken Ander-
son — who also wore No.
14 — for both marks. He
also holds club marks
for career passer rating
(87.5) and games with 300
yards passing (28). His 24
age them to still
visit him? Or
do we let them
decide? I’m a
soon-to-be step-
father who wants
only what is best
for the girls. —
PARENTING IN
THE MIDWEST
DEAR PAR-
ENTING: When
there is a divorce
with children
involved, custody
arrangements
are usually dictat-
ed by the court.
Your fiancee’s
daughters may not have much
choice but to visit their father
on “his” days. That said, the
custody arrangement can be
altered if it becomes neces-
sary.
I agree that someone
with four DUIs is not a great
role model, and he could be
a danger to them if he is still
allowed to drive. Encourage
the girls to keep you informed
of what transpires during
their visits with their father. I
disagree with the relatives who
say they must get past their
father’s neglect and verbal
abuse.
DEAR ABBY: I have three
sisters. We are all in our 50s
and 60s. Three of us get along
great and always have, but we
have all had issues with our
oldest sister, “Lulu.” She has
gotten angry at us for many
be high. Cheerfulness is a
must.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You get pleasure from novelty in
small measurements. You seek
a situation that feels fresh, but
not so new that it disorients or
destabilizes. It’s also what you
want to create for others.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). You appreciate when
others trust you enough to be
vulnerable. You also appreciate
when they respect you enough
not to flood the conversation
with big emotion at the wrong
time. You’re strong. You need
the same.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Pick your guitar and fill your fruit
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 3B
game-winning drives also
are the most by a Bengals
quarterback.
His 70-61-2 record as a
starter is second best by a
Bengals quarterback with
at least 10 starts, trailing
Virgil Carter.
Dalton also holds sin-
gle-season team records
for yards passing (4,293
in 2013) and touchdowns
(33 in 2013).
Dalton and his wife,
J.J,, were active in the
community through their
foundation. Most recent-
ly, they donated $150,000
to a local health crisis
fund to help meet medical
needs during the corona-
virus pandemic.
different reasons.
When our father was
terminally ill, she wanted one
of us to live with him in his
home even though we thought
it was enough that we were in
the same small town and went
over there daily. Also, Lulu is
a widow and not financially
secure, and she feels we have
not helped her out enough.
There have been times we
have gotten along wonderfully,
but sadly, it always ends in
drama.
I miss her regardless of
the drama, but she seems
to have written us off. She is
convinced that she is right,
and we are bad for her. Must I
learn to accept this and move
on? Or should I try to make
it right? My youngest sister
wants nothing to do with her.
She says Lulu is bad for her
mental health. Can you help
me to finally resolve this one
way or the other? — DYSFUNC-
TIONAL IN NEW JERSEY
DEAR DYSFUNCTIONAL:
You are not responsible for
Lulu’s financial woes. Let her
know you are there for her,
but cannot help support her
financially. I’m sorry you didn’t
mention whether she has a
job. If she doesn’t, she needs
to find one to supplement her
income. Unless you are willing
to cave to emotional blackmail
and supplement your sister’s
income for the rest of her life
(or yours), accept that it may
be time to move on.
jar. The work will get done, even-
tually. In the meantime, having
a good time is as productive, if
not more, than your workaday
tasks.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You’ll be as magnificent as the
purpose you choose, so set
goals that empower you. This
is no time to put yourself in a
position where you’re likely to
be giving and giving without the
promise of a return.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
This is garbage day for emotion-
al baggage. There’s much to
take advantage of once you’ve
freed yourself of the waste. All
you have to do is direct yourself
to drop it at the curb.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You’ll mentally dance through
precarious lines of reason and
whimsical patterns of thought,
making balletic leaps into pos-
sibilities you hadn’t considered
before.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You’ll stumble across a
piece of loaded information.
Should you discuss it or sit on it
a moment? There’s more power
in keeping it to yourself until you
know exactly how to file it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Restlessness is an energy
that’s hard to fight. The desire
to take action feels urgent and
will override the usual criteria
checklist you run your decisions
through.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). A little bit of risk goes a
long way today, especially of
the financial variety. Dollars and
adrenaline go hand in hand.
Decide ahead of time how much
you’re willing to lose.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). You’ll sprinkle in the extra
spice that keeps things inter-
esting. This is not just about
cooking. Familiar things get
forgotten. Fascinating things get
remembered. Nothing can be
fascinating and familiar at the
same time.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). It’s an impassioned day
when your heart will lead and
your head will convince you to
follow. Serving your feelings
matters more to you than serv-
ing other practical interests.
Have a screw loose
SOLUTION:
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Mississippi State
School Ministry
Mississippi State School
of Ministry will be taking ap-
RELIGIOUS BRIEFS
For more information, call Dr. meadowoodamory@gmail. a.m.; Sunday worship 11:15
Michael T. Boyd, 662-425-
Grief Support Group com.
Women Prayer, a.m.; Tuesday Bible study 7
8443.
The Oil of Joy for Grief
and Mourning offers a grief
Worship Service p.m. For information, call Pas-
support group at 6 p.m. every Prayer for Youth Church of the Eternal tor District Elder Lou Nabors,

plications for enrollment into

CANCELED UNTIL 2nd Thursday of the month Every 2nd and 3rd Sat-
Word, 106 22nd St. S., holds
a prayer and worship service
662-329-1234.

their online degree granting
program beginning May 14,
2020 @7:00PM. Earn your
Certification, Associates,
Bachelor, Master and Doctor-
al Degree in Religious Stud-
ies. We are an accreditation
School of Ministry authorized
through State of Mississippi
and Federal Government. Our
degrees are for ecclesiastical
purposes only. We accept
transcripts and your life expe-
rience also can also be used
for degree granting purposes.
For further information feel
free to call 662-425-8443
Historic Church
Homecoming Canceled Fellowship Dinner,
Historic Mt. Pleasant
Methodist Church, Wright
Youth Service
Road, Caledonia, MS Annual
Homecoming on May 10,
2020 has been canceled due
to the current Coronavirus
Pandemic shutdown orders
and it has not been resched-
uled.
School of Ministry
Enrollment
Mississippi State School
of Ministry is now taking
applications for enrollment.
Earn a certification, asso-
ciates, bachelor, master or
doctoral degree in divinity.
FURTHER NOTICE
Forgive and Live
Forgive and Live meets
from 6-7 p.m. every 2nd and
4th Tuesday of each month
in the downtown YMCA Board
Room and every 3rd Wednes-
day at Vibrant Church Cafe.
Inquire and seek informa-
tion to succeed spiritually,
physically and financially and
be eager to be a blessing to
the community, churches and
families through the Word of
God. The public is invited to
attend. For more information,
call Pat Fisher Douglas, 662-
251-5899.
Pleasant Ridge Faith Cen-
ter, 923 Ridge Road, hosts a
fellowship dinner and youth
service every 3rd Sunday.
Gospel Book Club
Friendship M.B. Church,
1102 12th Ave. S., invites
the public to join its Commu-
nity Gospel Book Club from
6-7 p.m., on the fourth Friday
of each month, to study and
share views of the Holy Bible.
Open to all ages and ethnic-
ities. For more information,
call Barbara Mattison or
Lillian Murray, 662-570-5595.
at United Christian Baptist
Church, 232 Yorkville Road
East. “Making your grieving
journey easier.” For more in-
formation, call 662-327-0604
or e-mail unitedchristian@
cableone.net.
Celebrate Recovery
The Assembly Church,
2201 Military Road, and
Meadowview Church, 300 Lin-
den Circle in Starkville, host
Celebrate Recovery at 6 p.m.
every Sunday at The Assem-
bly Church (next to Lowe’s)
and at 6 p.m. every Tuesday
at Meadowview Church. Get
help, healing and support for
any habit, hurt or hang-up
using the Christ-centered 12
steps.
Divorce Recovery
The DivorceCare Recovery
support group meets from
4:30-6 p.m. each Sunday
beginning Jan. 12-April 5 at
Meadowood Baptist Church,
1512 Hatley Road in Amory.
Child care provided through
5th grade. Standalone
seminar sessions topics are
“Facing My Anger”, “Facing My
Loneliness”, “New Relation-
ships”, and “Forgiveness”.
For more information, call
Meadowood Baptist Church,
662-256-5616, or email
urday, Pleasant Ridge Faith
Center hosts a prayer for the
youth from 2-3 p.m.
Prayer, Free Coffee
Mount Zion Missionary
Baptist Church, 2221 14th
Ave. N., hosts free coffee and
a prayer community outreach
service from 8-9 a.m. every
5th Saturday. For information,
contact Jesse Slater, 662-
328-4979.
Radio Program
Apostles Patrick Perkins
invites the public to tune in
to WTWG, radio 1050 AM for
Perfecting the Saints Broad-
cast, Wednesdays 8:30 a.m.
every Thursday from 5-6 p.m.
Call Marie Nabors, 662-549-
4322 or 662-329-1234, for
prayer requests.
Prayer Ministry
New Beginning Everlasting
Outreach Ministry invites the
public to call in with their
prayer requests at 662-327-
9843.
Prayer Service
Church of the Eternal
Word, 106 22nd. St. S., Co-
lumbus, holds prayer service
Thursday nights 5-6 p.m.
Contact Marie Nabors, 662-
549-4322. Church service
times: Sunday school 10
Fitness
Transformations
The Transformational
Church, 2301 Jess Lyons
Road, hosts boxing lessons
Mondays and Wednesday
from 5-7 p.m., weight-loss
boot camp Tuesdays and
Thursdays 5-7 p.m. and both
on Saturdays 9-11 a.m.
Youth Fellowship
The Transformational
Church, 2301 Jess Lyons
Road, hosts Youth Fellowship
from 7-8:30 p.m. every Tues-
day. Games, prayer, service,
food, & more. Transportation
available. For information, call
Iris Roberson, 662-295-7456.

A coronavirus drug seems

to work. What’s next?
BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
News that an experimental drug
seems to be the first effective treatment
for the new coronavirus has unleashed a
flurry of interest — and a clamor to know
how soon it might be available.
Talk turned Thursday to how quickly
the federal Food and Drug Administra-
tion might act on Gilead Sciences’s rem-
desivir after preliminary results from a
major study found it shortened the recov-
ery time by an average of four days for
people hospitalized with COVID-19.
“You do now have a drug that you have
proven can actually work on the virus,”
the National Institutes of Health’s Dr. An-
thony Fauci told The Associated Press.
“Will it be an overwhelming cure? No,
of course not,” Fauci said. But with its
use, “you will free up hospital beds, you
will take less stress on the health care
system.”
No drug currently is approved for
treating the virus, which has killed more
than 230,000 people worldwide since it
emerged late last year.
When independent experts monitor-
ing the study called with the news that
the drug was working, study leader Dr.
Andre Kalil of the University of Nebraska
said he was “almost speechless” with joy.
Here are some questions about the re-
sults and next steps.
Q: How much does the drug help?
A: Remdesivir reduced the time pa-
tients were in the hospital by 31 percent
to 11 days on average versus 15 days for
those just given usual care, preliminary
results of the study found.
The drug also might be reducing
deaths, although that’s not certain from
the partial results revealed so far.
About 8 percent of those on the drug
died versus 11.6 percent of the compari-
son group, but the difference is not large
enough for scientists to say for sure that
the drug was the reason.
Q: What about folks with milder
illness?
A: Remdesivir so far has only been
tested in people with moderate to severe
illness who were hospitalized and got it
through an IV.
Even among those in the study there
was “a very big span of illness,” from peo-
ple just needing a little extra oxygen to
those requiring breathing machines, said
Dr. Elizabeth Hohmann, who enrolled 49
patients in the study at Massachusetts
General Hospital.
“We need more information to see
how best to use it going forward” and
which types of patients get the most ben-
efit, she said.
Q: When will it be available and for
whom?
A: The drug is not yet approved any-
where in the world for any use. The FDA
could make it immediately available
through an “emergency use authoriza-
tion,” which speeds experimental drugs,
tests and other medical products to pa-
tients during public health crises. Under
the authorization, the agency can waive
the usually rigorous standards necessary
for drug approval and instead approve
drugs whose potential benefits outweigh
their risks.

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Legal Notices
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NO-
TICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on June 10, 2005,
Laketia Underwood, single ex-
ecuted a certain deed of trust
to Kirk Smith, Trustee for the
benefit of Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc. as
nominee for SouthStar Fund-
ing, LLC, its successors and
assigns which deed of trust is
of record in the office of the
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
County, State of Mississippi in
Book 2005 at Page 16630 and
re-recorded in Book 2005 at
Page 25214; and
WHEREAS, Deutsche Bank Na-
tional Trust Company, as Trust-
ee for GSAMP Trust 2005-HE5
has heretofore substituted
Shapiro & Brown, LLC as Trust-
ee by instrument dated March
7, 2014 and recorded in the
aforesaid Chancery Clerk's Of-
fice in Book 2014 at Page
5776; and
WHEREAS, default having been
made in the terms and condi-
tions of said deed of trust and
the entire debt secured thereby
having been declared to be due
and payable in accordance with
the terms of said deed of trust, cing, LLC (the “Plaintiff”) seek-
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as Trustee for
GSAMP Trust 2005-HE5, the
legal holder of said indebted-
ness, having requested the un-
dersigned Substituted Trustee
to execute the trust and sell
said land and property in ac-
cordance with the terms of said
deed of trust and for the pur-
pose of raising the sums due
thereunder, together with attor- unknown heirs of Eddie B.
ney's fees, trustee's fees and
expense of sale.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Shapiro & Smith, deceased.
Brown, LLC, Substituted Trust-
ee in said deed of trust, will on You are required to mail or
May 28, 2020 offer for sale at hand deliver a copy of a writ-
public outcry and sell within
legal hours (being between the filed against you in this action
hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m.), at the Southeast Door of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC,
the County Courthouse of
Lowndes County, located at
505 2nd Avenue North, Colum- 39157, the attorney for the
bus, MS 39701, to the highest Plaintiff.
and best bidder for cash or cer-
tified funds the following de-
scribed property situated in
Lowndes County, State of Mis- LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS
sissippi, to-wit:
Lot Six (6) of East Emerald Es- THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF
tates, Part One, a subdivision
in and to the City of Columbus, SPONSESell
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
as shown by map or plat there- DEFAULT WILL BE ENTERED
of of record in Subdivision Plat AGAINSTclassified
Book 2 at page 99 in the of-
fice of the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
subject, however, to restrictive You must also file the original
covenants and conditions as
shown by instrument dated
March 22, 1966, and recorded able time afterward.
in Book 371, pages 533 - 535,
land records of Lowndes
County, MS.
I WILL CONVEY only such title
as vested in me as Substi-
tuted Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on
this 13th day of April, 2020.
Shapiro & Brown, LLC
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
Shapiro & Brown, LLC
1080 River Oaks Drive, Suite
B-202
Flowood, MS 39232
(601) 981-9299
2103 Shannon Ave
Columbus, MS 39702
20-026035
Publication Dates: May 1, 8,
15, and 22, 2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF VAN LEE HUNLEY, JR.,
DECEASED
NO. 2020-0080-PDE
MILES HUNLEY, ADMINISTRAT-
OR
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters of Administration have
been granted and issued to
Miles Hunley, Administrator of
the Estate of Van Lee Hunley,
Jr., deceased, by the Chancery
Court of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, on the 29th day of
April, 2020. This is to give no-
tice to all persons having
claims against said estate to
Probate and Register same
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days after
the first publication of this No-
tice to Creditors. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
claim will forever bar the same.
/s/ Miles Hunley Miles Hunley,
Administrator
OF COUNSEL:
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The Nichols Firm, PLLC
Post Office Box 1081
Columbus, MS 39703-1081
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
CAUSE NO. 44CH1:20-cv-
00080-RPF
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING,
LLC PLAINTIFF
V.
LARRY SMITH, MYKLE K.
SMITH, JUDY K. SMITH, DAISY
FLOWERS HAWKINS, SARAH
FLOWERS SYKES, TOMMIE LEE
FLOWER, Jr., a/k/a TOMMIE
LEE FLOWERS, Jr., EDDIE B.
SMITH, III, THE UNKNOWN
HEIRS OF EDDIE B. SMITH,
SR., DECEASED, THE UN-
KNOWN HEIRS OF EDDIE B.
SMITH, JR., DECEASED, and
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF
PEACH FLOWERS SMITH,
a/k/a PEACH FLOWER SMITH,
DECEASED DEFENDANTS
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: Eddie B. Smith, III
P.O. Box 222
Addis, LA 70710-0222
Eddie B. Smith, III
4652 Jaselyn Ann Avenue
Addis, LA 70710-29311
You have been made a Defend-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Bayview Loan Servi-
ing a judgment in favor of the
Plaintiff for confirmation of title
and reformation of certain in-
struments in the chain of title.
Defendants other than you in
this action are Larry Smith,
Mykle K. Smith, Judy K. Smith,
Daisy Flowers Hawkins, Sarah
Flowers Sykes, Tommie Lee
Flower, Jr., unknown heirs of
Eddie B. Smith, Sr., deceased,
Smith, Jr., deceased, and un-
known heirs of Peach Flowers
Smith a/k/a Peach Flower
ten response to the Complaint
to: G. Dewey Hembree, III,
1020 Highland Colony Parkway,
Ste 702, Ridgeland, MS
YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE
MAILED OR DELIVERED NOT
AFTER THE FIRST PUBLISH
DATE, WHICH IS THE DATE OF
THIS SUMMONS. IF YOUR RE-
idleSO
items
with
IS NOT
a quick
MAILED OR
DELIVERED, A JUDGMENT BY
action
YOU FOR THEad. MONEY
OR OTHER RELIEF DEMANDED
IN THE COMPLAINT.
of your response with the Clerk
of this Court within a reason-
Issued under my hand and seal
of said Court, this 27th day of
April, 2020.
Cindy E. Goode, Chancery Clerk
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No. 2247)
MCGLINCHEY STAFFORD, PLLC
1020 Highland Colony Pkwy,
Ste 702
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(769) 524-2300; (601) 510-
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FLOWERS SYKES, TOMMIE LEE
FLOWER, Jr., a/k/a TOMMIE
LEE FLOWERS, Jr., EDDIE B.
SMITH, III, THE UNKNOWN
HEIRS OF EDDIE B. SMITH,
SR., DECEASED, THE UN-
KNOWN HEIRS OF EDDIE B.
SMITH, JR., DECEASED, and
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF
PEACH FLOWERS SMITH,
a/k/a PEACH FLOWER SMITH,
DECEASED DEFENDANTS
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: Eddie B. Smith, III
P.O. Box 222
Addis, LA 70710-0222
Legal Notices
Eddie B. Smith, III
4652 Jaselyn Ann Avenue
Addis, LA 70710-29311
You have been made a Defend-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Bayview Loan Servi-
cing, LLC (the “Plaintiff”) seek-
ing a judgment in favor of the
Plaintiff for confirmation of title
and reformation of certain in-
struments in the chain of title.
Defendants other than you in
this action are Larry Smith,
Mykle K. Smith, Judy K. Smith,
Daisy Flowers Hawkins, Sarah
Flowers Sykes, Tommie Lee
Flower, Jr., unknown heirs of
Eddie B. Smith, Sr., deceased,
unknown heirs of Eddie B.
Smith, Jr., deceased, and un-
known heirs of Peach Flowers
Smith a/k/a Peach Flower
Smith, deceased.
You are required to mail or
hand deliver a copy of a writ-
ten response to the Complaint
filed against you in this action
to: G. Dewey Hembree, III,
McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC,
1020 Highland Colony Parkway,
Ste 702, Ridgeland, MS
39157, the attorney for the
Plaintiff.
YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE
MAILED OR DELIVERED NOT
LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS Robert Fulton Rice, Deceased
AFTER THE FIRST PUBLISH
DATE, WHICH IS THE DATE OF
THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF
THIS SUMMONS. IF YOUR RE-
SPONSE IS NOT SO MAILED OR
DELIVERED, A JUDGMENT BY
DEFAULT WILL BE ENTERED
AGAINST YOU FOR THE MONEY
OR OTHER RELIEF DEMANDED
IN THE COMPLAINT.
You must also file the original
of your response with the Clerk
of this Court within a reason-
able time afterward.
Issued under my hand and seal
of said Court, this 27th day of
April, 2020.
Cindy E. Goode, Chancery Clerk
Lowndes County, Mississippi
BY: s/Tina Fisher
D.C.
(Seal)
SUBMITTED BY :
G. Dewey Hembree, III (MSB
No. 2247)
MCGLINCHEY STAFFORD, PLLC
1020 Highland Colony Pkwy,
Ste 702
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(769) 524-2300; (601) 510-
5609 (fax)
Publish: May 1, 2020, May 8,
2020, May 15, 2020,
May 22, 2020
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setting & 1.5 acres in
Caledonia. Covered back
COMMUNITY
porch. No pets, no smok−
ing. Call 662−352−3205,
leave msg if no answer.
ADS STARTING AT $12
RENT A CAMPER!
CHEAPER THAN A MOTEL!
Utilities & cable included, Travel & Entertainment
from $145/wk − $535/mo
Columbus & County School PUBLIC CATFISH POND
locations. 662−242−7653 @ 130 Hillcrest Drive.
or 205−442−2011. Open Tues−Sat, 7a−5p
Appointment Only, call
RV/MOBILE HOME SITE 662−386−8591
East or West Columbus or
near CAFB, Caledonia
schools. 601−940−1397.
Office Spaces For Rent
OFFICE SPACE FOR
LEASE. 1112 Main St.,
Ste. 5. 3700 sq. ft.
Plenty of private parking.
662−327−9559.
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Houses For Sale: East
Five Questions:
2BR/1BA @ 1521
Shepherd Rd.
Sold as is, needs work.
Serious inquiries only,
1 Lilith Fair
General Services General Services 769−274−4110.
HILL’S PRESSURE SKILLED CRAFTSMAN. Houses For Sale: New Hope
WASHING. Commercial/ Any kind of work! We can
Residential. House, build, paint, drywall, clean 16 WIDNER IN NEW HOPE
2 Mentos
concrete, sidewalks & & cut grass. Reasonable Newly remodeled. 3BR/
mobile washing. Free est. rates. Safe & Reliable. 2BA home. Approx. 1,500
662−386−8925. 662−386−3658. sq. ft. Has 25’x30’ wired
metal shop w/ roll−up front
Lawn Care / Landscaping & side door. $154,500.
ANNIVERSARY? 3 Butter,
662−549−9298.
SAM’S LAWN SERVICE
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flour, sugar
RKERS No lawn too large or too Lots & Acreage
PA
small. Mowing, trimming &
ON
J.
weedeating. 1.75 ACRE LOTS.
Call 662−243−1694 Good/Bad Credit Options.
E 100 Russell St. Good credit as low as 10%
W ELER
J
Starkville, MS
4 Argentina
662-268-8058
Painting & Papering down, $299/mo. Eaton
Land, 662−361−7711.
SULLIVAN’S PAINT
CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY SERVICE
$545 plus Filing Fee Special Prices.
5 “O Brother,
CHAPTER 13 BANKRUPTCY Interior & Exterior Painting
662−435−6528
All Attorney Fees Through The Plan
Where At
Jim Arnold, Attorney Are you a painter?
662-324-1666 • 601-656-6914 Looking for a new home?
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104 South Lafayette Street, Starkville Let us help, shop here.
662-328-2424
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