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As consolida-tion committeemembers turntheir attentionto orming a uni-fed school dis-tricts structure
or students, theate o the coun-tys educationbuilding remains an unsettledissue.
The county-owned acil ity,built in 2011, houses Oktib-beha County School Districtsadministration. Constructionplans were developed ater thedistricts ormer headquarterswere damaged ater HurricaneKatrina made landall andworked inland in 2005. Workbegan on the 8,000-square-oot, almost-$1.6 million acil-
ity while the school districtrented ofce in the strip mallthat houses Dirt Cheap.
Last week, OCSD Con-servator Margie Pulley andStarkville School District Su-perintendent Lewis Hollowaypitched various plans to logis-tically merge the two systems.
Working ideas include bring-ing high school-age studentsto Starkville High School,upgrading the countys twoelementary schools and con-structing a new campus ormiddle school-age students.
Also, Mississippi State Uni-
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Toay Lincoln symposium: Eventson the Mississippi State campusinclude 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.free talks at Mitchell MemorialLibrary on Abraham Lincolnsleadership and the 13th Amend-ment, and a 7:30 p.m. discus-sion at McCool Hall by historianFrank Williams about Steven
Spielbergs movie Lincoln.
Saturay, Sept. 28 Marker unveiling: As part
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the 150th anniversary of the
Civil War, the public is invited to
a Mississippi Historical Marker
unveiling at 10 a.m. at the cor-
ner of Highway 12 and LouisvilleStreet (in front of Walgreens)in Starkville, noting Union Gen.Benjamin Griersons raid thatcame through Starkville in 1863.Period music and reenactorswill be on hand afterward at theGreensboro Center.
Suay, Sept. 29Book signing: Columbusauthor Michael Farris Smith willread from his novel Riversand sign books at the Tennes-see Williams Welcome Center,300 Main St., from 2-4 p.m.Refreshments will be servedat this event presented by theColumbus Cultural HeritageFoundation.
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Ofcials celebrate start o Yokohama costructioBY NATHAN [email protected]
WEST POINT Somepeople say Mississippis aclub, Joe Max Higgins saidMonday. Mississippi is aamily, and weve got newamily members in the house today, olks.
Higgins, the Golden Triangle Development LinkCEO, was reerring to Yokohama Tire Manuactur-ing Mississippi. Company, state and local ofcialsbroke ground on what will be one o the largesttire plants in the country during a ceremony at thePrairie Belt Powersite in Clay County. In abouttwo years, the acility will open its doors or 500
workers.
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President of Yokohama Tire Company Hikomitsu Noji shakes hands with Audriana Taylor, a fourth grader at Southside Elementary inWest Point, after she presented him with a magnolia tree to be planted. TOP OF PAGE: President of Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mis-sissippi Tadahuru Yamamoto, Gov. Phil Bryant, President of Yokohama Tire Company Hikomitsu Noji, Consul General of Japan in Nash-ville Motohiko Kato, Link CEO Joe Max Higgins and Sen. Roger Wicker break ground on the new Yokohama plant in Clay County Monday.
InSIdEOUR VIEW: A niceday or an outdoor wed-ding. Page 4A
Residents giddy with enthusiasmover arrival of new industryBY SARAH fOwLER
The excitement in the air at Yo-kohama Tire Manuacturing Missis-sippis ground-breaking ceremonyin Clay County was almost palpableMonday morning as executives,lawmakers and Clay County residentsgathered on the hundreds o acres oarm land that will soon house a boom-
ing tire manuacturer.Governor Phil Bryant said West
Point would one daybe a shining city onthe hill. Yokohamapresident HikomitsuNoji compared themerging o the Japaneseindustry and the Mis-sissippi work orce to amarriage with a happyhoneymoon in the nearuture and a baby the acility
born 45 months later.See yokohama, 6A See building, 6ASee reactions, 8A
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TuesdaySay What?What were trying to get is the balance betweenawareness and alarmist.Dr. Jeanne Conry, president o the American College o Ob-stetricians and Gynecologists, speaking about the dangers
o environmental chemicals to pregnant women. Story, 5A.
U.S. honors Ray Charleswith limited-edition stampThe AssociATed Press
ATLANTA The U.S.Postal Service is planningto add soul singer RayCharles to its Music IconsForever stamp series.
Postal ofcials say theagency is releasing a stampeaturing the Albany, Ga.,native on Monday alongwith one o the artists pre-
viously unreleased songs.Charles was a sing-
er and songwriter whopioneered the soul andrhythm-and-blues genres.He died in 2004.
Events are beingplanned in Atlanta andLos Angeles to celebrateCharles inclusion in theseries.
R&B singer Ashanti andthe Morehouse CollegeGlee Club are scheduledto perorm at the Atlantaschools Ray Charles Per-orming Arts Center. AndChaka Khan is headlining
an event at the GrammyMuseum.
The U.S. Postal Servicehonors music legends eachyear by eaturing them onlimited-edition stamps.
AP Photo/The U.S. Postal Service
In this undated photo provided by the The U.S. PostalService, a new Postal Service stamp honoring musicianRay Charles is shown. The stamp is part o the MusicIcons series o stamps.
AP Photo/Alan Diaz
In this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, fle photo, a sales person pulls out an iPhone 5s or a customer during the open-ing day o sales o the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C, in Hialeah, Fla.
By MichAeL LiedTKe
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO Gadgetlovers still cant resist the iPhonesseductive call, even amid a bevy oenticing lower-priced alternativesthat oer similar eatures.
In a Monday announcement, Ap-ple Inc. said it sold 9 million unitso its top-o-the-line iPhone 5S andless-expensive iPhone 5C duringtheir frst three days on sale. That
trounced the perormance o last
years model, the iPhone 5, whichsold 5 million units in its openingweekend.
The initial sales fgures or Ap-ples latest iPhone models providedthe latest testament to the prod-ucts enduring appeal more thansix years ater the debut o the frstiPhone triggered a mobile comput-ing revolution.
The iPhone 5S and 5Cs quickstart also surpassed analyst ore-casts that predicted Apple would
sell somewhere rom 6 million to
8 million models during the frstweekend.
The demand or the new iP-hones has been incredible, AppleCEO Tim Cook crowed in a state-ment. As part o the companys e-ort to drum up interest in its mostproftable product, Cook made anearly-morning appearance at anApple store in Palo Alto, Cali. onFriday when the new iPhones frstwent on sale.
Mondays positive news helpedgenerate more interest in Applesstock. The shares gained $23.23, or
5 percent, to close at $490.64.
Apples sales of newiPhones off to fast startCmpn sld 9 mlln ns n fs ds
By roB GiLLies
The Associated Press
TORONTO Black-Berrys largest share-holder has reached a ten-tative agreement to pay$4.7 billion or the trou-bled smartphone maker,even as many investors
ret about its potential de-mise.
BlackBerry Ltd. saidMonday that Fairax Fi-nancial Holdings Ltd. hassigned a letter o intentthat contemplates buy-ing the company or $9per share in cash in a dealthat would take the com-
pany private. The tenta-tive deal comes just daysater the Canadian com-
pany announced plans tolay o 40 percent o itsglobal workorce. The
oer price is below whatBlackBerry was tradingat beore the layo an-nouncement.
Analysts say that al-though BlackBerryshardware business is notworth anything, the com-pany still owns valuablepatents. Patents on wire-
less technologies haveexploded in value in re-cent years, as makers othe iPhone and variousAndroid devices sue eachother. Having a strongportolio o patents allowsphone makers to deendthemselves and work outdeals.
Fairfax reaches tentative deal to buy BlackBerry
AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File
In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, fle photo, Black-Berrys employees prepare the launch event or thecompanys new smartphones in London.
The AssociATed Press
QINGDAO, China Chinas richest man plans
to spend $8.2 billion tobuild the countrys ver-sion o Hollywood in thenortheastern city o Qin-gdao.
In a glitzy, star-stud-ded red carpet event Sun-day, Wang Jianlin said hiscompany, Dalian WandaGroup, will build a state-o-the-art flm studio com-plex in a bid to dominateChinas rapidly growingmovie market.
The Qingdao OrientalMovie Metropoliss 20studios will include a per-manent underwater studioand a 10,000 square-me-ter (108,000 square-eet)stage that Wang saidwould be the worlds big-gest. The acility will alsoinclude an Imax researchand development center,cinemas and Chinas big-gest flm and celebrity waxmuseums. The frst phaseis planned to open in June2016 and it will be ully op-
erational by June 2017.A yacht marina, eighthotels and a theme parkwill be built to attract tour-ists.
The company hassigned a preliminary dealwith a number o globalflm and television giantsand talent agencies toshoot about 30 oreign
flms a year. It did notname the companies.
Wang also hopes to at-tract more than 50 Chineseproduction companies tomake at least 100 domes-tic flms and TV shows ayear at the studios, wheresets will simulate locationsrom Europe, the MiddleEast and Chinas Ming
and Qing dynasties.Dalian Wanda, which
operates cinemas, hotelsand department stores inChina, last year boughtthe U.S. cinema chainAMC or $2.6 billion andsnapped up British yachtmaker Sunseeker in Junethis year.
The tycoons red carpetevent in Qingdao under-
lined his outsized ambi-tions or Chinas entertain-ment industry. NicoleKidman, Ewan McGregor,Catherine Zeta-Jones,John Travolta and Leon-ardo DiCaprio rubbed el-bows with Chinese starsincluding Zhang Ziyi, JetLi and Tony Leung at theevent in Qingdao, bestknown or Tsingtao Brew-ery ounded when Ger-many colonized the city acentury ago.
Wangs success in at-
tracting the A-list actors tohis launch, held the sameday as the Emmy televi-sion awards show in LosAngeles, also highlightshow the center o gravityin the global flm industryis shiting to the East.
In an interview, Wangboasted o his plans toexpand in Chinas moviemarket, which overtookJapan to become theworlds second biggestater ticket sales rose 36percent last year to $2.7
billion.Theres no single com-pany in the whole worldthat has a big-scale pro-duction base, and at thesame time has screeningand distribution channels.Wanda Group is the frstone in the world, saidWang, Wandas ounderand chairman.
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JACKSON Nowthat budget hearings areover, Mississippi lawmak-ers ace a long processo deciding how to spendtax dollars or scal 2015,which begins July 1.
The 14 members o theoint Legislative BudgetCommittee held our dayso public hearings lastweek and quizzed agencyleaders about how moneyis already being spent onprograms large and small.
I think thats the jobweve now got to eval-uate how theyre spendingtheir money, what did theyget, what did they spend iton last year, what do theyplan to spend it on next
year, why is there an in-crease, what do they wantthat money or, HouseSpeaker Philip Gunn,R-Clinton, said ater thehearings ended. Thoseare the kinds o questionsthat we now have to eval-uate and make judgmentcalls on.
In December, the com-
mittee will release a budgetblueprint, and RepublicanGov. Phil Bryant will re-lease his own separate seto spending recommenda-tions. All 122 House mem-bers and 52 senators willvote on a nal budget bylate March or early April, ithey stay on schedule.
Mississippis currentbudget is about $5.8 billion.State economist DarrinWebb predicts Mississippiwill continue to see mod-
est growth, and lawmakers
say the 2015 budget will beslightly larger.
Agency requestsA ew agencies are
seeking budget decreas-es, but most requested anincrease o about 5 percentto 25 percent. The Depart-ment o Revenue request-ed a 66 percent increase,with Commissioner EdMorgan saying the depart-ment needs to hire moreemployees. He said thedepartment had answeredonly 26 percent o custom-er calls in the past year.
Its unacceptable,Morgan said. Its an em-barrassment to us.
The Department oPublic Saety requested a45 percent increase, andlawmakers grilled DPSexecutives about pay rais-es and vehicles. Severallawmakers said DPS hasnot ullled promises toreplace outdated vehicles
that state
t r o o p e r sare driving.C o m m i s -sioner Al-bert SantaCruz saidthe agencybought 15vehicles orone o its divisions, theMississippi Bureau o In-vestigation.
Budget writers alsoquestioned the Forest-ry Commission aboutmulti-year nancing to
buy radios or a statewideemergency communica-tions system, and askedthe director o the stateWireless CommunicationCommission whether lo-cal governments or otherusers should pay ees to beon the system.
The Department oEducation sought ullunding o the Mississip-pi Adequate EducationProgram, as required bylaw. Although lawmakers
were generally cordial
about the request, HouseAppropriations CommitteeChairman Herb Frierson,R-Poplarville, said otherparts o government wouldbe shortchanged i legisla-tors pump an additional$264.5 million into MAEP,as requested. The ormulais designed to ensure thatschools receive enoughmoney to meet midlevelacademic standards. Itwas put into law in 1997and phased in over severalyears, but has been ully
unded only two years.Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves,a Republican who headsthe Budget Committee,said the vast majority oagency directors present-ed wish lists that weresomewhat reasonable andsomewhat rational in size.
Now, there were ex-ceptions, and I think youall know who they were,Reeves said. But the vastmajority o state agencydirectors came in here and
asked or things that they
elt like they needed, but itwasnt the kind o unreal-istic expectations o yearspast.
Last year, just last year,total increases requested,that came beore the com-mittee, were in excess o$1.1 billion. This year, itwas less than $750 mil-lion, Reeves said. Now,is $750 million a lot omoney? Well, where I grewup in Florence, yeah, itsa whole lot o money. Butthere a huge dierence
between 1.1 billion and 750million.
Miss. lawmakers face long budget writing process
The ollowing arrestswere reported by theLowndes County Sher-is Department and theColumbus Police Depart-ment:
n Terry Lee Bradord,50, o 915 16th St. N., wasarrested at his residenceby CPD Sept. 20 andcharged with domestic vio-lence/aggravated assault.He was released the sameday on a $1,500 bond. Hiscourt date is scheduled orDec. 5.n Timothy Dewayne
Standier, 32, o 470 S.Frontage Road, was arrest-ed at 1014 Fith Ave. N., byCPD Sept. 19 and chargedwith possession o marijua-na-more than one ounceand contempt o court. Hiscourt date is scheduled orOct. 16.
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WASHINGTON House Republicans are ar
less ambitious this week intheir demands or spend-ing cuts to erase new debtissued to pay the govern-ments bills than they wereduring a budget battle twoyears ago.
The list o cuts underconsideration now tallies upto a raction o the almost $1trillion in additional borrow-ing that would be permittedunder a GOP proposal orenabling the government topay its bills through Decem-ber o next year.
Two years ago, HouseSpeaker John Boehner,R-Ohio, insisted on spend-ing cuts totaling $2.1 trillionover a decade as the priceto meet President BarackObamas demand or alike-sized increase in thegovernments borrowingcap, also known as the debtceiling.
Those cuts involvedtighter caps on agencyoperating budgets as wellas the automatic, across-the-board cuts known as se-questration triggered by theailure o a decit super-committee to reach a deal.
The problem now is thatthere isnt a roster o big,politically palatable cutsready to go. Instead, Repub-
licans have put together agrab bag o smaller savingsideas, like higher pensioncontributions or ederalworkers, higher premiumsor upper-income Medicare
beneciaries, caps on medi-cal malpractice verdicts andreduced payments to hos-pitals that treat more poorpeople than average.
A leading set o propos-als comes rom a HouseGOP leadership oce andwas circulating on Wash-ingtons K Street lobbyingcorridor on Monday. It in-cludes a plan to increasepension contributions oederal civilian workers byup to 5 percentage pointsand lowering the ederal
match accordingly, whichcould help deray the de-cit by up to $84 billion overa decade. Another, to blockimmigrants in the countryillegally rom claiming the
child tax credit would savejust $7 billion over the sameperiod. Eliminating the So-cial Services Block Grant, afexible unding stream orstates to help with day care,
Meals on Wheels, and drugtreatment acilities, wouldsave less than $2 billion ayear.
Taken together, theseproposals and others couldcut spending by perhaps$200 billion over the com-ing decade. While GOPaides say details arent set,House leaders are looking
at an increase in the cur-rent $16.7 trillion debt ceil-ing sucient to cover thegovernments bills until thebeginning o 2015. Accord-
ing to calculations by the Bi-partisan Policy Center thinktank in Washington, thatwould require raising theborrowing cap by almost $1trillion.
Boehner insists that anyincrease in the borrowingcap be matched by budgetcuts and other reorms toproduce savings o an equalamount, though not on adollar-or-dollar basis over10 years like in 2011. Its asomewhat nebulous stan-dard because o the dicul-
ty in quantiying how muchany given reorm is worth.Obama says he wont ne-
gotiate concessions as theprice or authority to contin-ue borrowing to cover billsalready incurred and prom-ises already made and hasdemanded a clean debtlimit increase with no condi-tions attached.
GOP offers smaller budget cuts on debt measure
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., smiles as he leaves the oor o the House o Representatives at theCapitol in Washington, Friday.
Other proposals listed in the GOPleaderships list of options:
nEliminating the authority of the government to charge
a bailout fee to big banks under the Dodd-Frank fnancial over-
sight law. The ee could only be charged it theres a major bankailure. The document claims $23 billion in savings.
nIncrease Medicare means testing to permit higher pre-
miums or Medicare benefciaries, raising $56 billion.
nCap pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice
lawsuits to $250,000 and cap punitive damages at the greater
o $250,000 or twice the economic damages in such suits.
nReduce a gimmick in which states levy taxes on health
care providers as a way to game the Medicaid system and
receive higher ederal payments at a savings o $11 billion.
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Monday was a perect dayor an outdoor wedding.
That was the day YokohamaTire Manuacturing Missis-sippi broke ground on therst phase o its $300-mi llionacility in Clay County.
The event eatured manyo the trappings you typicallyexpect at ground-breakingceremonies. There were thecustomary silver shovels andspeeches lled with analogies.
O all the analogies, weound the one oered byYokohama Tire CompanyPresident Hikomitso Noji, mostappropriate. Noji likened thedays estivities to a weddingand the idea that Mondaysground-breaking is symbolic oa committed relationship builton mutual trust is especiallyappealing.
It is particularly meaningulthat Noji chose the weddinganalogy since, unlike the U.S.
where hal o the marriagesend in divorce, marriagesare taken very seriously inapan. In Japan, there is a
permanence associated withmarriage that is oten lackingin the U.S.
From Yokohamas per-spective, the relationshipbetween the company and thecommunity will be built tolast, something Link CEO JoeMax Higgins stressed earlyon in his negotiations withYokohama. Higgins told themthat our generations o Clay
County residents had workedat Sara Lee Corporation beoreit closed in 2007 and promisedthat our generations wouldwork at Yokohama should the
company decided to locatethere.
At the risk o extendingthe wedding analogy too ar,we suggest that whi le thosewho played a role in bringingYokohama to Clay County werenumerous, Higgins stands
apart or his eorts. It was onlynatural, then, that Higginswould perorm the ceremonyMonday, a duty he perormedfawlessly.
And what is a marriagewithout vows?
That duty was let to Yo-kohama Tire ManuacturingMississippi President Tadahu-ru Yamamoto.
We promise to be goodstewards o the resources you
have extended us. Yamamotasaid. We promise to contrib-ute to the quality o li e o yourcitizens through jobs and jobsatisaction. We promise to be
continually involved in yourcommunity now and in thelong term.
Perhaps as a symbol o com-mitment, Yokohama ocialsannounced that they will planttrees in the area surroundingthe new acility as part o the
companys Forever Forestproject, a world-wide commit-ment to plant 500,000 trees atYokohama ac ilit ies by 2017.West Point mayor Robbie Rob-
inson announced that citizenso the community will donateand plant 1,000 saplings orthat cause.
As weddings go, it wasa pretty impressive aai r,although there was one distinctdierence between Mondays
event and your typical wed-ding: Nobody cried at thiswedding.
Monday was a day orsmiles.
Huckabee endorsement
Recently, the Starkville Dispatch took excep-tion to my announcement that ormer ArkansasGovernor and 2008 presidential candidate MikeHuckabee had endorsed my campaign or Oktib-beha County Prosecutor.
I respectully d isagree with The Dispatchsassessment.
When a person seeks employment, he typi -cally provides reerences rom one or more ohis ormer employers.
Gov. Huckabee gave me my rst job out ocollege, back in 1998. Since that time, I haveremained close to his amily. In 2003, when Iapplied to law school, Janet Huckabee submitteda letter o reerence. In 2007, when I wrote mybook, the Governor drated the oreword. Now,the Governor is personally endorsing me or thisvery important position.
Given my proessional history with Gov.Huckabee, it is altogether tting and proper thathe should describe my character attributes tomy prospective employers, namely, the voterso Oktibbeha County. This is exactly what Gov.Huckabee has done, and I thank him or it.
Matthew WilsonStarkville
Believes government is out of controlThere is a movement underway to take back
control o our government. The project wasounded or the purpose o stopping the runawaypower o the ederal government. We believeWashington D.C. is broken and will not xitsel. The ederal government is spending thiscountry into the ground, seizing power rom thestates and taking liberty rom the people.
Under the power o Article V o the Constitu-tion, the Convention o States seeks to urge andempower state legislators to call a convention topropose amendments to curb the abuses o theederal government.
Please go to the site on the Internet www.conventionostates.com and sign up to bea member. Only through the support o theAmerican people will this project have a chanceto succeed.
Harriet VaughnColumbus
Mississippi Voices
As we approachwhat will probably bethe defnitive debateon the uture o theA ordable Care Act, aword or two o expla -nation is in order. Thiscolumn will contain anumber o questions,but very ew concreteanswers to those ques-tions.
The subject todayinvolves arguably the
most signifcant pieceo social legislation in our lie-time The A ordable Care Act,or Obamacare as it has becomeknown.
With the passage o a bud-get, or alternately a governmentshutdown, and the raising o theceiling on the national debt, or bycontrast the deault on the nationsdebt obligations hanging in thebalance, the debate and vote onunding, or eectively repealing,Obamacare stands as the ulcrumupon which these Armaged-don-like actions hinge.
All have heard the crescendoo critics decrying each rate in-crease announced by an insurancecompany. While critics attributethese increases completely toObamacare, some questionsneed to be asked. To what shouldwe attribute the more rapid rateincreases and constant reductiono benefts in the years prior tothe 2009 passage o Obamacare?These rate increases began theirrapid ascent immediately ater theailure o Hillary Care duringthe Clinton administration. Hadthe insurance and other healthcare providers kept their increas-
es in check during that time,would there have been such apressing need or the Congres-sional action that culminated inObamacare?
I received a copy o a letter twoweeks ago rom a woman who,while moving and temporarilybetween jobs, became ill withextremely high blood pressure.Upon going to work, and aterincurring signifcant expense in
bringing her bloodpressure under controlin the early days o hernew job, she was in-ormed that there wasa 365-day exclusionaryperiod in the coverageo this pre-existingcondition. What is theanswer or this hardworking employee andothers like her?
A amily riendwho was required
to undergo a radicalmastectomy suers rom theresidual eects o severe lymph-edema. Fortunately, this employedperson has health coverage andhas had insurance or some 30years. Unor tunately, the companyraised her monthly premium romaround $500 a month to $1,300per month. What is the answer orthis employee who has worked orthree decades?
Then there are the uncer-tain numbers o the uninsuredand marginally insured. Thosenumbers range rom 500,000to 600,000 in Mississippi to 50million nationally. What are theprospects or those among theseindividuals who must deal withbrain tumors, leukemia, chronicheart disease, and severe or debil-itating injury? When the ates othese individuals are raised in theorm o a question, the answersbecome vague and run the gamutranging rom let them go to theemergency room to we can prayor them.
Several months ago, the vowrom one political camp andindeed rom Republican Presiden-tial Candidate Mitt Romney was
one to repeal and replace. It wasa clear call to scrap what Con-gress had passed in the orm oObamacare and to put somethingmore eective at addressing thesignifcant shortcomings in Amer-ican health care in its place. Nowmany Americans, both Democratand Republican, would probablytake this deal once all o the keyelements o the new plan wereknown. Is there indeed a plan to
replace Obamacare and what arethe key components o that plan?
We then arrive at the mostsensitive subject o all in oureorts to address the health careneeds o our brothers and sisters.In the midst o all o the rancorousconversations between liberalsand conservatives has been thediscussion o the appropriate roleo religion in the nation as a wholeand in a variety o policy debatesranging rom reproductive rightsto health care. Washington Mall
rallies have been held to proclaimAmerica as a Christ ian nation.With the words o Jesus Christ
to his ollowers that I you havedone unto the least o these youhave done it unto me or hisdirective to the young lawyer whoprompted the story o the GoodSamaritan to Go and do likewiseas backdrop, are we now fndingthat the claim that we are a Chris-tian nation is too big o a burdento carry anymore?
Astoundingly, the arriva l oatheist philosopher, the late AynRand, on the scene seems to haveaorded to anti-government pro-gram types a welcomed proponento individual destiny as opposedto a civic community. Indeed heradvocates such as Paul Ryan andothers have taken to distributingher books Atlas Shrugged andThe Fountainhead much as theGiddeons distribute Bibles. Whatare we to make o it all?
Eorts o opponents oObamacare, like those o Sena-tors Ted Cruz o Texas and MikeLee o Utah, have been relent-less during the August recess.House Speaker John Boehner haspromised a whale o a fght. I
the Oct. 1 signup period witnessesa large number o takers or thisfrst comprehensive attempt at anational health care program, thismay indeed be the last chance tohead it o. All that is let is onemore question Where will we bewhen the smoke clears?
Wiseman is director of the Sten-nis Institute at Mississippi StateUniversity. His e-mail address [email protected].
Defunding Obamacare: the mother
of all debates
Voice of the people
West Point and Yokohama say, I do
Marty Wiseman
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West Point Mayor Robbie Robinson, President of Yokohama Rubber Company Hikomitsu Noji and Gov. Phil Bryant during a ceremonycelebrating the ground breaking of the companys new mega site in Clay County.
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don Ray Comer, 91,died Sept. 23, 2013, at
Pioneer CommunityHospital.Services are today
at 2 p.m. at AberdeenFirst United MethodistChurch with the Rev.Keith Williams ofciat-ing. Burial will ollow inOddellows Rest Cem-etery. Visitation is twohours prior to services.
isdale-Lann Memo-rial Funeral Home isin charge o arrange-ments.
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and Virdie Stovall Com-er. He was a graduate oItawamba High School.He was a member oAberdeen First UnitedMethodist Church andthe Rotary Club. He wasemployed with ComerPackaging.
In addition to hisparents, he was preced-ed in death by his wie,Ruth Grimes Comer;
brother, Graden Com-er; and sisters, Chris-tine Pate and TarleneWeatherord.
Survivors include hisson, Jimmy Comer oAberdeen; sister, WilmaCreely o Fulton; twograndchildren and twogreat-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are RayLacey, David Houston,
George Grimes, JohnBales, Charles Carawayand Tom Seymer.
Hattie WilsonPRAIRIE Hattie
Harrison Wilson, 95,died Sept. 18, 2013, atDugan Nursing Home.
Services areWednesday at 11 a.m.at Northside ChristianChurch with the Rev.Dederick AndersonSr. ofciating. Burialwill ollow in Sykes
Cemetery. Visitationis today rom 5-7 p.m.at the church. CartersMortuary Services isin charge o arrange-ments.
Mrs. Wilson wasborn Sept. 8, 1918, tothe late Joe Harrisonand Minnie Harrison.She was ormerly em-ployed as a teacher.
In addition to herparents, she waspreceded in death by
her husband, MasonWilson; and brother,Stillman Harrison.
Survivors include hersons, Joe Ceaers Wil-son o Spokane, Wash.,and Joe Reaers Wilsono Prairie; daughter,Vivian Townsend oMilwaukee; 14 grand-children and onegreat-grandchild.
Rufus TurmanSULLIGENT, Ala.
Ruus Turman, 81, died
Sept. 22, 2013, at Gilm-ore Memorial RegionalCenter in Amory.
Services are Thurs-day at 2 p.m. at OttsFuneral Home Chapelwith Billy Ray Adamsofciating. Burial willollow in Sulligent CityCemetery. Visitationis Wednesday rom6-8 p.m. at the uneralhome.
Mr. Turman wasborn June 24, 1932, to
the late Harvey andLela Mae Johnson.He attended SulligentSchools and was or-merly employed withMcCoy Manuacturingand Turman Garage.He was a member oSulligent First BaptistChurch.
In addition to hisparents, he was pre-ceded in death by hisbrother, William Ken-neth Turman; and onegrandchild.
Survivors includehis wie, Naomi SusieTurman o Sulligent;daughter, Brenda S.Trentham o Sulligent ;brother, Larry Tur-man o Columbus; twograndchildren and ourgreat-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are Gar-rett Motes, John Mur-phy, Tray Trentham,Robert Motes, JustinFlippo and TannerHamilton.
Ginger WelchMILLPORT, Ala.
Ginger Mae KuhnsWelch, 65, died Sept.21, 2013, at Salem Nurs-ing Home in Reorm,Ala.
Services are Thurs-day at 1 p.m. at PleasantHill Baptist Churchwith the Rev. Steve
Lammons and the Rev.Bill Hurt ofciating.Burial will ollow in thechurch cemetery. Visi-tation is one hour priorto services. Dowdle Fu-neral Home is in chargeo arrangements.
Mrs. Welch was aveteran o the U.S. Ma-rine Corps. and was amember o Pleasant HillBaptist Church.
She was preceded indeath by her parents,Albert Neal and Geral-
dine Dunord Kuhns.Survivors include her
husband, Charles Wal-ter Welch o Millport;daughter, Amy MarieMcManus o Farming-ton, Alaska; stepdaugh-ter, Cheryl Hanslovin orOregon; stepsons, DanWelch o Oregon andDon Welch o Orlando,Fla.; sisters, Dixie Mayand Chris, both o Or-egon and Kelly Spranoo Washington; brother,
Victor Kuhns o Albany,Ore.; and six grandchil-dren.
Pallbearers are DonWelch, Dane Welch,Steve Hutcherson, MattHutcherson, JeremyMcManus and HunterMcManus.
James Ledbetter Sr.COLUMBUS
James Ledbetter Sr., 68,died Sept. 20, 2013, atBaptist Memorial Hos-
pitalGolden Triangle.Services are Wednes-day at 11 a.m. at Charity
MissionFull Gos-pel BaptistChurchin Craw-ord withBobby L.McCarterSr. ofciat-ing. Burial will ollow inTurner-Hairston Ceme-tery. Visitation is todayrom noon to 5 p.m. atCarters o Columbus.
Mr. Ledbetter wasborn Sept. 7, 1945, to
the late Charlie Bushand Sarah Ledbet-ter. He was ormerlyemployed with GeneralMotors and was a mem-ber o Charity MissionFull Gospel BaptistChurch.
In addition to his par-ents, he was precededin death by his siblings,David Bush, Bill Bush,Willie Ledbetter, OlaSmith, Annie Brown,Mattie Rice and HampLedbetter.
Survivors includehis children, JennierEngelmann o Ferndale,Mich., James LedbetterJr. o Flint, Mich., Alli -son Holden o Apopka,Fla., Daniel Twigg, EricTwigg, Greg Twigg andAudrey Twigg, all oArvada, Colo.; siblings,Bobby Bush, PearlHankins, Betty Lowery,Lartha Fulgham andOllie Bush, all o Co-lumbus, Rosie Tucker
o Jonesboro, Ga., andJohnny Will Ledbettero Cleveland, Ohio; and
three grandchildren.
Febbie NeelySTARKVILLE
Febbie Collier Neely, 74,died Sept. 17, 2013.
Services are Wednes-day at 1 p.m. at GoodHope MB Church withGary Wordlaw ofciat-ing. Burial will ollowin Josey Creek Ceme-tery. Visitation is todayrom noon to 1 p.m. atWest Memorial Funeral
Home.Ms. Neely is survivedby her sons, Nathan-iel Ellis, Tyrone Ellis,Sammie Ray Howardand Jessie Collier, allo Starkville; daughter,Bobbie Brown o BatonRouge, La.; sisters, Sar-ah Cooper o Starkvilleand Katie Ruth Neely oMeridian; 25 grandchil-dren; 31 great-grand-children and 10great-great-grandchil-dren.
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Edwin KneppEdwin Jay Knepp went home to be with his
Savior, Jesus Christ, on Sunday, September 22,2013. He was in declining health in his lateryears and died at his home near Macon, Mis-sissippi.
Edwin was born to the late Samuel and Mar-tha Knepp on March 18, 1929, in Plain City,Ohio. He was joined in matrimony to TressaSchrock on May 6, 1951, and they had sevenchildren.
In 1953, at the age o 24, he was ordained tothe call o ministry in the Mennonite Church.He served there with additional leadership or
six years, beore moving to Noxubee County,Mississippi in 1959. There he served as pas-tor at the Magnolia Mennonite Church or 34years. In 1994, Edwin and Tressa moved toTaylorsville, Mississippi where he served at theMaranatha Mennonite Church or six years.They returned to Noxubee County in 2001.
While liv ing in Indiana, Edwin was involvedin dairy arming. Ater moving to Mississippi,he joined in partnership with the Ezra Schrockamily in the Macon Ready-Mix Concrete Co.Ater retir ing rom the concrete company in1983, he built the Sunbelt Meat Company inMacon.
Survivors include his wie o sixty-two years,Tressa Schrock Knepp; ve daughters, Sharon(Dale) Miller, o Severn, NC, Grace (Merlin)Martin o Conrath, WI, Jewel (Mervin) Miller,Shirlene (Jay) Hoover and Kathy (the late Tim)Graber, all o Macon. In addition he leaves twosons, Gaylord (Kay) Knepp o Canon City, COand Phillip (Mary Ellen) Knepp, also o Macon.He also was blessed with 35 grandchildren and16 great-grandchildren.
Visitations will be held Wednesday, Septem-ber 25, rom 2 p.m. 4 p.m. and again rom 6:30p.m. 9 p.m. at the Magnolia Mennonite Churchin Macon. Funeral services will be held Thurs-day, September 26 at 10 a.m. at the Magnolia
Mennonite Church. Paul Shirk, Jan Heisey andBen Graber will ociate the services. Burialwill ollow in the church cemetery. CockrellFuneral Home is handling the arrangements.
In lieu o fowers, memorials may be made toNew Horizons Ministries, P.O. Box 1500, Can-on City, CO 81215.
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Malinda McCorkleMalinda Catherine McCorkle, 81, o Colum-
bus, MS passed away Saturday, September 21,2013, at her residence.
Visitation was Monday, September 23, 2013,rom 6-8 PM at Lowndes Funeral Home, Colum-bus, MS. Funeral services were Tuesday, Sep-tember 24, 2013, at 11:00 AM at Bread o LieFellowship Church with Bro. Jack Taylor ofciat-ing and Sister Diane Mealer assisting. Interment
was at Beersheba Cemetery, Columbus, MS withLowndes Funeral Home directing.
Mrs. McCorkle was born May 24, 1932, inColumbus, MS to the late John Curtis and MaryMalinda Catherine House Perrigin. She was amember o Bread o Lie Fellowship Church, Co-lumbus, MS and her time was flled being a wie,mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.In addition to her parents, she was preceded indeath by her husband, Robert Foster McCorkle;daughters, Bonnie Jane Patino and Connie Juan-ita Smith; son, Larry Smith; granddaughters,Kathleen A. Adkins and Sherri Sabine; and 3 sis-ters and 2 brothers.
Mrs. McCorkle is survived by her children,Mike (Kathy) Smith, Louisville, KY, Rebecca
Joann ( Jay) Campbell and Debra (Max) McCork-le Porter, both o Columbus, MS; brother, JohnPat Perrigin, Columbus, MS; grandchildren,David Patino, San Antionio, TX, Bobby Bartleyand Melissa Jenkins both o Columbus, MS, Kev-in Bartley, Dallas, TX, Chris Smith and LeslieKlinger, both o Louisville, KY, Ryland MatthewsIII, USMC and Jerey Matthews, New Bern, NC;great-grandchildren, Kimberly Adkins, KalieAdkins, Nicholas Jenkins, Zaylie Jenkins, DevanBartley, Alex Bartley, Cameron Bartley and Em-iliegh Bart ley.
Pallbearers were Christopher Michael Smith,Robert Bartley, Jr., Kevin Michael J. Bartley, Ry-land E. Matthews III, Jerey Foster Matthews
and Nolan Alexander Bartley.Honorary pallbearers were Devan JordanBartley, Nicholas Hayes Jenkins, Cameron Fos-ter Bartley, Bryan Nicholas Jenkins, James W.Campbell, Max E. Porter, Franklin L . Klinger III,Michael Adkins, David Pat ino and Jorge Patino.
Memorials may be made to Bread o Lie Fel-lowship Church, 100 Old New Hope Road, Colum-bus, MS 39702.
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nations largest groups o obstetricians
and ertility specialists said Monday.
The report urges doctors to push
or stricter environmental policies tobetter identiy and reduce exposure tochemicals that prove truly risky. Butits likely to scare pregnant women inthe meantime.
Thats because during the frstprenatal visit, the American Collegeo Obstetricians and Gynecologistswants doctors to ask mothers-to-beabout their exposure to dierentchemicals. Theyre also supposed toteach women how to avoid some con-sidered most worrisome during preg-nancy.
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ist, said Dr. Jeanne Conry, president
o the American College o Obstetri-
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dustrial chemicals and pollutants that
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inormation about sae levels some-
thing the groups hope to change. But
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tility, miscarriages, birth deects and
other problems, the committee said.
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Yokohamacontinued from Pge 1a
The $300 millioninvestment rom the cor-poration and $70 millionin state general obliga-tion bonds will becomea one-million squareoot tire-making acilityOctober 2015. In anothereight years, with another
$900 mil lion investmentby Yokohama, the acilitywill have expanded to115 acres under one roo.Eight years and more than400 megawatts o powerwill be available at thesite. It has the capacity toprovide 7.5 million gallonso water and 2.5 gallonso wastewater treatmentper day.
A great partnershipFor West Point Mayor
Robbie Robinson, it was
like being a kid whosbeen waiting or Christ-mas, and now its Christ-mas morning.
For Yokohama TireCorporation PresidentHikomitsu Noji, it wasa red- letter day or theuture o his company.
I cant explain justhow much this plantmeans to us, Noji toldthe crowd. Our industryis conditioned or solidgrowth in the uture.Well no longer wait andcontinue sitting on the
sidelines, not having ourown manuacturing acili-ty right here in the UnitedStates.
The next year will becrucial on Mississippisend to make sure theplant opens on time.Georgia-based rm Kaji-ma Associates/Architects& Engineers has alreadybeen selected to overseethe plants design, butbasic inrastructure takesthe oreront now. WestPoint selectmen will
open bids rom contrac-tors vying or water andsewer installation. Nextmonth, Clay Countysupervisors will start thebidding process or roadconstruction. The inra-structure itsel is slatedto be complete late nextyear with plant construc-tion, product testing andproduction to ollow. Thegravel lot, which will soonbe graded, will be a city
in itsel with a populationo sub-contractors andconstruction workers.
About 40,000 truck-loads o dirt will have tobe hauled during the rstphase o constructionalone. That might causesome strain on county
roads in the short term,supervisor Lynn Hortonsaid, but in a countywhose unemploymenthas been the highest inthe state in recent years,the sacrice will be worthit.
We hope everybodywill understand whatsabout to take place, hesaid. Were moving or-ward and better days areyet to come.
A look backThe event also pro-
vided an opportunity torefect on what took placebehind the scenes to bringthe company to the Gold-en Triangle. Higgins wasquick to thank the manyorganizations, state andlocal leaders involved, in-cluding Tombigbee RiverValley Water ManagementDistrict; the MississippiDevelopment Authority;4-County Power Associ-ation; the AppalachianRegional Commission;and Deloitte Consulting,
Yokohamas advisory rm.Governor Phil Bryant,
Miss. Sen. Roger Wickerand Reps. Alan Nunneleeand Gregg Harper wereall on hand or the event.The state legislaturewas recognized or itsnear-unanimous supporto an incentive package orthe company in April.
During a Link lun-cheon earlier this sum-mer, Higgins detailedthe events leading tothat day, beginning withClay County signing thedotted line to partner withthe Link in April 2012.Partners were broughtin to review the locationthat would become themegasite. The water man-agement district securedgrant unding so theLink could complete duediligence studies.
In December, Yokoha-ma representatives visitedthe site or the rst time.They stayed about an
hour. Link ocials hadthat amount o time to gettheir oot in the door.
In the next twomonths, they hostedmore and longer on-sitevisits. They boardeda plane to Asia on Val-entines Day, visiting
corporate headquartersand plants or a week.They learned the Mondayater they returned romthe trip that they wouldhost Yokohama RubberCompany Chairman andCEO Tadanobu Nagumo.He wanted to see WestPoint, Starkville, Colum-bus, Mississippi StateUniversity and meet withthe governor, all in a our-hour window.
Pretty tough, huh?Higgins said at the lun-cheon. How do you do it?
Well, we did.They had to rent a he-
licopter. Not one o thoseregular helicopters,but one t or the CEOo a global corporation.Higgins talked to MikeHainsey, Golden TriangleRegional Airport Exec-utive Director. Hainseyknew where Higginscould rent a SikorksyS-76.
Anybody know whatthat is? Higgins asked.Ill tell you what it is.
Its $27,000 a day. I said,Well take one.Heavy rain had allen
in the days beore Nagu-mo was to visit, causinga logistical problem orlanding the helicopters.They couldnt land onthe site itsel becausethey would sink into themud. They would run intopower lines i they tried toland on East HazelwoodRoad, which runs by theplant.
4-County CEO JoeCade stepped in and
solved that problem,agreeing to take the pow-er lines down and replacethem ater the visit.
We re-routed ourpower around anotherway to eed all the houses.We took two strands oline down so the helicop-ters would come in andfy where the lines wereand land on the high-way, Cade said Monday.That s what were here
or. Thats our job is to dothings like that.
Cade also had the areablocked o rom tracwith trucks and signsindicating utility workwas being done.
When you see theseguys get o a helicopter,
they look just like youthink theyre going tolook, Higgins said. Bad-ass and important. Youknow theyre somebodywhen they walk in. Wecouldnt have a bunch orubberneckers out therelooking.
No detail was neglect-ed. The visitors receivedwarm moist wash clothswrapped up or them towipe their hands. Theywere served Japanesetea. Each visitor hadcustom galoshes with hisname on them. The he-licopter landed and theywalked into a heated tentwith storyboards tell ingthem everything greatabout the 1,100-acremegasite. They hoppedon our-wheelers or a45-minute tour o the site.
That, in my opinion,is where we won thedeal because that wasthe day we gave themthe story, Higgins said.We said, West Pointis the toughest town we
know...Its there I told thechairman that this wasa community and a townthat had our generationsworking at Sara Lee andi they only gave us achance, wed have ourgenerations working atYokohama.
In April, Yokohamaocials came back again,this time to the gover-nors mansion, wherethey announced they hadchosen Mississippi overtwo other locations. Thewhole process took justour months.
A look aheadAter Mondays cere-
mony, MDA executive di-rector Brent Christensen
said Yokohamas arrivalwill l ikely bring with itother economic develop-ment opportunities orthe area surrounding thesite and or Mississippi ingeneral.
It puts you on themap. Its a tribute and tes-
tament to the leadershipo the community thatthey have the bandwidthand commitment to makea project like this hap-pen, Christensen said. Ithink it will pay dividendsor many years to come,not only or this projectbut or others that maybe attracted because owhat theyve seen in thekind o business climateand the kind o serviceYokohama has gotten andwill continue to get.
In echoing that otheropportunities will come,Bryant said he and stateleaders will work to makesure the state has a busi-ness-to-business model
going orward.Generations hence
will look back at this dayand say that is the daythat my opportunity be-gan, perhaps not only tobe a manuacturer in thisgreat plant, but to be parto the leadership team,
he said.Counsul-General oJapan in Nashvil le Moto-hiko Kato said the eventmarks the orging o along-term partnershipthat will be pivotal or theuture o both Yokohamaand economic growth inMississippi or years tocome.
By selecting Missis-sippi or construction othe rst totally new plantin the United States,Yokohama is saying they
have condence in Mis-sissippis potential, Katosaid. I know this plantwill stand as a shining ex-ample o what is possiblehere in Mississippi.
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HATTIESBURG Hattiesburg residentshead to the polls todayor a rematch in the citysmayoral race.
Democratic Hatties-burg Mayor JohnnyDuPree recorded 37 morevotes than his challenger,Independent Dave Ware,in a June 4 election.
The new election was
called by Judge WilliamColeman ater a mistri-al was declared in a suitbrought by Ware, chal-lenging the outcome.
Polls will open at 7 a.m.and close at 7 p.m. today.
Hattiesburg residents to choose mayor
Buildingcontinued from Pge 1aversity conrmed whatmany area stakeholderssuspected the schoolis interested in a teach-ing partnership with theunied district whilecommittee members alsomulled utilizing distancelearning in an eort toprovide all OktibbehaCounty students educa-tional opportunities in amore ecient manner.
But the seven-member
Commission on Consol-idated Starkville SchoolDistrict Structure nev-er broached the subjecto the county educationbuilding.
Orlando Trainer, Ok-tibbeha County Board oSupervisors president andconsolidation committeemember, conrmed stat-ute requires the countyto provide a base o opera-tions or OCSD. How thatstatute will be appliedater the county and cityschool systems merge in2015 is unknown, he said.Since the county owns thebuilding, its ate will bedecided by Oktibbehasve supervisors.
It would be at theboards discretion to de-termine i it goes with thepackage or it goes the oth-er direction, Trainer saidreerencing any uturerecommendations madeby the merger committeeand any action taken bythe districts incomingboard o trustees.
Everything is on thetable. We just have to lookat it, he said.
But how could the dis-trict utilize the buildingater consolidation? SSDcurrently houses its pri-mary administrators inthe Greensboro Center, ahistoric building in whichrenovations or expansionswould have to ollow strictguidelines and couldprove more costly than
other options. The uniedschool system, Hollowaysaid, could send other ad-ministrators or programsto the county educationbuilding, but the districthas no such plans devel-oped.
By moving ocesaround, the city schooldistrict could open upmore space at its minorcampuses OverstreetSchool or Emerson Fam-ily School, or example but this shell game isnot expected to createenough ree space to alle-viate any pressing capaci-ty issues.
I the consolidatedschool districts incomingboard decides to relin-quish the building back tosupervisors, Trainer saidthe county should have notrouble lling it with itsown administrators.
Theres always a needor space to do countybusiness, he said.
Supervisors could alsolook at renting out space
in the building to helpadd an additional revenuestream. Since the acilitywas constructed with Ka-trina relie money, Train-er said, the county wouldhave to be cautious i itsearched or renters.
It would have to besomething more-gearedtoward public use, hesaid. I think that spacecould be utilized, butselling it? That would be
going in an unusual direc-tion.Along with Trainer,
District 1 Supervisor JohnMontgomery said theconsolidation committeeshould continue to ndthe best t or the uniedsystem so the buildingcan continue to serve insome sort o educationalcapacity.
I think its going to beup to them, Montgomerysaid, alluding to a uturerecommendation by thecommittee. Hopeullythe committee can becreative enough to utilizethis building to the best othe entire county, whatev-er that plan may be.
That building was de-signed to complement ed-ucation. As ar as Im con-cerned, it needs to stay inthat particular purview,Trainer added.
The next merger com-mittee meeting is sched-uled or 5 p.m. Oct. 3 atthe county educationbuilding.
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or a third day Monday in what theysaid was a nal push to rescue thelast ew hostages in a siege that haslet at least 62 people dead.
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WASHINGTON The Washington NavyYard shooter lied about aprevious arrest and ailedto disclose thousandso dollars in debts whenhe applied or a securityclearance in the Navy.
Then ederal investiga-tors dismissed the omis-sions, and made one otheir own deleting anyreerence to Aaron Alexisuse o a gun in that arrest.
The gaps in his recordeventually allowed himto work in the secureNavy building where hegunned down 12 work-ers last week, underscor-
ing weaknesses with theclearance process thatNavy ocials are target-ing or change.
Navy Secretary RayMabus recommendedMonday that all police re-ports not just arrestsor convictions involv-ing an individual mustbe included when a back-ground check is done. Healso recommended thatthe Navy enhance its man-agement o sailor evalua-tions and tness reports
by assigning more seniorocers to oversee them.The Navy, in a report
released Monday, re-vealed new details aboutAlexis Navy service, in-
cluding his ailure to re-veal the 2004 arrest overa parking disagreement inSeattle. And ocials saidthe background reportgiven to the Navy omittedthe act that he had shotout the tires o anotherpersons car during thatdispute.
Instead, the reportrom the Oce o Per-sonnel Management saidAlexis defated the tires.
Deense ocials haveacknowledged that a lot
o red fags were missedin Alexis background,allowing him to maintaina secret-level securityclearance and have accessto a secure Navy acility
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Report: Shooter lied about previous arrest, debts
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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus recommended all police
reports must be included with a background check
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naevs attorneys alsohave the right to makethe case against thedeath penalty.
Tsarnaev, 20, is ac-cused in twin bombings
that killed three peopleand injured more than260 others at the April15 marathon. Hes alsoaccused o killing a Mas-sachusetts Institute oTechnology police ocerwhile on the run threedays later.
Death penalty protocol ocus o Mass. bomb hearing
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The excitement was ob-vious on the aces o law-
makers and executives,but could not compare tothe emotions that radi-ated rom Clay Countyresidents: excitement anddreams flled with hope.
Its like its beenraining here or severalyears and we fnally havea rainbow to appear, saidWest Point native Ladon-na Halverson. Yokohamais our rainbow.
The $1.2 billion plantwill sit on 115 acresand create 2,000 local
ob when all phases arecompleted in 2023. ClayCounty currently has thehighest unemploymentrate in the state at 19percent.
Roosevelt Cox isretired but said seeing aplant like Yokohama openin Clay County is a signo hope or uture gener-ations.
I think it will be a bigopportunity or people toget jobs in West Point,Cox said. Since (SaraLee) closed down, theresnothing or people to do.Mysel, personally, Imretired but Im looking or-ward to the young peoplehaving something to doand have a better lie thanthey have now.
Edward Houstonechoed Coxs sentimentsand said with new jobopportunities, youngergenerations will have achance to dream o a newway o lie, a dream thatwas almost impossiblewithout the new plant.
Were trying to get anew way o lie, Houstonsaid. This is an oppor-tunity or people in thecommunity. We have thehighest unemploymentrate here in Clay Countyand this is an opportunitythat we can move orward,that they can get theirdreams and go and dowhat they need to do inlie.
The impact thefve-million square ootplant will have on uture
generations seemed to beat the oreront o every-ones mind Monday.
Jermaine Taylor, prin-cipal at West Point MiddleSchool, says all too otenhe sees children whoare negatively impactedwhen their parents areunemployed. By hopeullyboosting the local employ-ment rate, Taylor said hehopes childrens gradeswill be aected as well.
Financial stabilityat home interprets intobetter success in school,
Taylor said. I theyreseeing mom being suc-cessul and less stress onmom, its less stress onthe child.
Noting the loss o theSara Lee plant in 2007,Taylor said he saw a risein people leaving the com-munity to fnd jobs. Bybringing back industry,Taylor said he hopes ClayCounty will keep peoplewho may be thinking oleaving.
When we lost some
industry here, we saw alot o amilies move awayto fnd work, attendancewent down, our enroll-ment went down. Itsgoing to mean a lot or us.Our uture generationswill have some place toturn to or employment.Its going to be hope orour children coming
through that theyre goingto have a place o employ-
ment and be able to stayin the area and not have tomove o to fnd work.
Gene Perry was stand-ing back rom the crowdMonday and seemed tobe taking in the scene, atoothpick in his mouth,hands on his hips.
Its really a big pushor the county and all othe surrounding coun-ties, he said. Its goingto be really helpul toour young people and orgenerations to come and
I think it s one o the bestthings that could haveever happened to ClayCounty, Lowndes County,Oktibbeha and all o thesurrounding counties. Itsgoing to be a really bigboost.
West Point MayorRobbie Robinson agreedand said not only wouldWest Point be positivelyimpacted, but surround-ing counties would be aswell.
Clay County/WestPoint cannot fll 2,000 jobsso there will be plentyo jobs to go around,Robinson said. Therewill be people rom Lown-des County, OktibbehaCounty, Monroe County,the surrounding areas.
Its going to take that tournish 2,000 jobs to Yo-kohama and we pledgedto do that. Locally, its justunbelievable. With theconstruction workers thatwill be coming in duringthe construction phase,West Point will beneft
rom the act that theyllbe spending their moneyin West Point and wellhave sales tax revenueincreasing.
Luann Little said thecreation o 2,000 jobswill mean so much to herbeloved hometown.
Its amazing. It reallyis, Little said. WestPoint needs jobs so bad,so bad.
Little owns landadjacent to the Yokohamaproperty and said seeingthe new plant built therewould have meant somuch to her late ather.Daddy loved his God, hisamily and Clay County.Hed be all or this.
Jackie Edwards is onthe executive board at the
Golden Triangle Develop-ment Link and is a lielongClay County resident. Ed-wards said she has beeninvolved in the processsince Clay County frstapproached Link CEO JoeMax Higgins and askedhim to help bring industry
to their area.We think this is thegreatest thing that hashappened, Edwards said.I still cant believe itsreal. I wake up at nightthinking, when I wakeup its all going to be adream. Its that big o adeal or this area.
She also noted the losso Sara Lee, but said thepeople o West Point haveweathered the storm.
Weve been throughthe times when (Sara Lee)closed and we didnt closeup and die. We stayed vi-able, we got to looking oroptions and this is goingto save our town.
Its literally going tosave our town.
Taylor LittlePerryHouston
BY sARAH fOwlER
A series o search warrants andraids led to the seizure o nearly$40,000 in suspected drug money.
Assistant Commander ArchieWilliams with the Lowndes CountyNarcotics Division said agents seizedmore than $37,000 in cash along with
cocaine and marijuana rom threehomes in Lowndes County over thepast week. The search warrantsstemmed rom the arrest o a Colum-bus couple that law enorcement be-lieves to be cocaine distributors.
Were not only looking into notonly dealing with street level dealersbut people we consider distributors,
Williams said.Antwon Jordan, 44,
and Latonya Shelton,28, were arrested lastMonday and chargedwith possession o co-caine with intent to dis-tribute ater they lednarcotics agents and
Lowndes County sher-is deputies on a high speed chasethrough the city. Over an ounce ococaine and $8,000 in cash was dis-covered in the couples possession.
Their arrests then lead to thesearch warrants o three residenceswhere the couple allegedly storednarcotics and manuactured crack
cocaine. The search o59 Spann Lane, 3865Military Road and 44Timber Drive result-ed in the discoveryo nearly $30,000 incash, cocaine, mari-juana, spice, variousitems used to the man-
uacture o crack co-caine and a stolen frearm.Jordan and Shelton are currently
in the custody o the Lowndes Coun-ty Adult Detention. More charges areexpected against the couple.
Williams said the investigation isongoing are more arrests are expect-ed.
Drug raid leads to seizure of $40K
Jordan Shelton
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By AdAm minichino
Chad Harrison knewsomething was wrong withhis All-State player.
The ScottCentral HighSchool girlsbasketbal lcoach waited
until the endo practiceMonday tocheck withVictoria Viv-ians to seewhat was bothering her.
He quickly realized Viv-ians had come to a decisionthat was going to end a na-tional recruiting battle.
I want to go to Missis-sippi State, Vivians toldHarrison.
Those seven wordsset o a chain reaction o
phone calls, text messag-es, emails, and tweets thatspread the word that one othe countrys top prep bas-ketball players was comingto Starkville to join coachVic Schaeers womens bas-ketball program.
She is truly unstoppa-ble, Harrison said Mondaynight. She can do any-thing. She can shoot the ballrom 30 eet, she can postup around the basket andscore with either hand, shecan fnish in trafc, and can
rebound the ball on one endand score down at the otherend in three seconds.
Academy will play in an elimi-nation game at 11:45 a.m. An-other game will ollow at 1:30p.m. beore the frst champion-ship game is scheduled or 3:15
p.m. An i-needed champion-ship game will ollow at 5 p.m.
All our teams have qualifedor the Class AAA overall state
tournament. Todays action willdetermine seedings.
For Heritage Academy andStarkville Academy, their loss-es Monday ended their sea-
sons. Magnolia Heights deeat-ed Starkville Academy 11-1 inanother opening-round game.
By ScoTT WALTERS
Ole Miss ootball coachHugh Freeze isnt sure
how ar the Rebels haveprogressed in his one-plusseason at the helm.
However, Freeze eelslike he will know a wholelot more Saturday ater histeam plays deending na-tional champion and top-ranked Alabama.
For a second straightseason, the teams willmeet at Bryant-DennyStadium in Tuscaloosa.Kicko is set or 5:30 p.m.(ESPN).
We look orward to the
opportunity to go over,Freeze said Monday athis weekly media gath-ering. For several yearsnow, Alabama has beenthe standard to which youmeasure yoursel in thisconerence. That hasntchanged. Its another op-portunity or us to mea-sure ourselves and seewhere we are. Im OK withthe results as (long) ourbest eort is put orth.
O to a 3-0 star t or thefrst time since 1989, No.
21 Ole Miss enjoyed itsfrst o two open dates thisseason Saturday.
Not playing a gamewas a good thing or us,
By GEoRGE hEnRy
The Associated Press
ATLA NTA Mike Minor
believes he will be sharp inOctober even though he hasnt
won a start since Aug. 25.
I dont think its been great,
and I think it shows, he said.
But its one o those things that
I thought I pitched pretty well
all year, but right now Im kind
o struggling a little bit.Minor gave up two home
runs in the Atlanta Braves 5-0loss to the Milwaukee Brewers
on Monday night.The NL East champion
Braves began the night withthe leagues best record andare one-hal game in ront oSt. Louis Cardinals, who beatWashington 4-3 on Monday.The Los Angeles Dodgers, who
did not play Monday, moved twogames back.
Atlanta was shut out or the16th time, second-most in the
NL.Minor (13-8) allowed eight
hits and three runs and struckout six in seven innings. The let-hander, whom manager FrediGonzalez is considering to startthe playo opener next week, iswinless in his last fve starts.
What I like is he gave usevery opportunity to win thegame, Gonzalez said. Seveninnings, and you hold the oppo-
sition to three runs, youve got apretty good chance.
With six games let in theregular season, the Braveshave the majors best homerecord at 52-23, but Milwau-kee led 4-0 in the eighth when
By ScoTT WALTERS
South Lamar HighSchool junior Holden
Fields always elt like theStallions would win a oot-
ball game sooner rather
than later this season.South Lamar snapped
a 14-game, two-season
losing streak with Fri-day nights 42-19 victory
against Lynn. Playing
ullback and middle line-backer, Fields had a major
hand in the victory. He
ran or 127 yards and twotouchdowns and had sixtackles and two quarter-back hurries.
For his accomplish-ments, Fields is TheDispatchs Prep Player othe Week.
I thought we had achance to be a better oot-ball team this year andwin some games, Fieldssaid. We have a newcoach and several newplayers on the team. You
could tell there was
a dierent attitudeduring the sum-mer. Everybodywas hitting theweight room hardto get better. Wewere doing morework than we hadever done beore.
When Shannon Mc-Gregory took the SouthLamar job last spring, hepromised nothing morethan hard work. Gregoryelt like the attitude and
work ethic were
good enough to getthe Stallions backin the business owinning games.
I saw a groupo kids that werehungry, McGreg-ory said. Theywere not despon-
dent even though theyhad been losing. I havecoached a long time,and I just wanted to helpteach them some waysthey could become better
ootball players. With the
help o some o the veter-ans, such as Holden, thekids bought in right away.They were on board withwhatever we wanted to doto try to make them win-ners again.
For Fields, the biggestchange during the osea-son was in the installationo a new oense. SouthLamar now runs theWing-T.
Switching to theWing-T has been the
greatest thing possible,
Fields said. It took us awhile to learn everything,but once we did, it was agood thing. We are excit-ed about playing oenseagain.
Progress in the new o-ense came slowly. Grant-ed, the frst three gameswere losses to LamarCounty, Pickens Coun-ty, and Brilliant. Thatgroup combined to win 23games last season.
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SPORTS LINE662-241-5000Sports THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
Vivians
NL PLAYOFF CHASEW L Pct.
nAtlanta 92 64 .590
nSt. Louis 92 65 .586
nLos Angeles 90 66 .577
nCincinnati 90 67 .573
nPittsburgh 90 67 .573
nNOTE: Atlanta and Los Angeles
have clinched the NL East and NL
West. St. Louis, Cincinnati, and
Pittsburgh have clinched playo
berths.
INSIDEnThe Pittsburgh Pirates clinchedtheir frst playo berth in 21
years Monday.Page 3B
SATURDAYnOle Miss at Alabama,5:30 p.m. (ESPN)
INSIDEnLSU quarterback ZachMettenberger is eager to
get his return trip to Georgia
and a game against the
Bulldogs behind him. Also,
the SoutheasternConerence honored
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Action hadnt star ted Mon-day, but Gary Harris wanted toset the tone.
Its a new season, the Her-itage Academy ast-pitch sot-ball coach said, exhorting his
players to try to create somemagic.
Unortunately, HeritageAcademy had only one gamesworth o magic let in its sea-son.
Heritage Academy lost toMadison-Ridgeland Academy18-0, beat Starkville Academy15-4 and lost to WashingtonSchool 11-1 on Monday in theMississippi Association o In-dependent Schools Class AA A,District 1 tournament at PropstPark in Columbus.
Magnolia Heights will play
Hillcrest Christian in a win-ners bracket game at 10 a.m.today at Heritage Academy.Washington School and Pillow
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TOP: Heritage Academy starting pitcher Kaitlyn Oswalt and Starkville Academy starting pitcherMeridee Higginbotham (BELOW) deliver pitches Monday in their game in the Mississippi Association
o Independent Schools Class AAA, District 1 tournament at Propst Park in Columbus.
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Starkville at Columbus, 7 p.m.
New Hope at Clarksdale, 7 p.m.
Ethel at West Lowndes, 7 p.m.
West Point at Oxford, 7 p.m.
Caledonia at Choctaw County, 7 p.m.
Noxubee County at Leake Central, 7 p.m.
Corinth at Aberdeen, 7 p.m.
Bruce at Amory, 7 p.m.
East Webster at JZ George, 7 p.m.Louisville at Kosciusko, 7 p.m.
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