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Bulldogs claim Egg Bowl trophy

with 21-20 victory over Ole Miss
Moorhead: ‘I’m damn
proud of this team’
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — With a
57-yard completion on fourth-
and-24, a pass interference
call that left the
Bulldog faithful
exasperated and
a unsportmanlike
conduct penalty
against Ole Miss
that ultimately
led to a missed
extra point that Moorhead
would have tied
the game, Mississippi State
escaped with a 21-20 Egg Bowl
victory on Thanksgiving night.
Ole Miss appeared poised to
tie the game with just four sec-
onds remaining when Ole Miss
receiver Elijah Moore grabbed
a two-yard touchdown pass.
But Moore’s celebration — he
crawled on all fours toward the
back of the end zone, then lifted
a leg to simulate a dog urinat-
ing — drew a 15-yard-penalty,
turning a perfunctory point-af-
ter kick into a 35-yard attempt,
which Rebel kicker Luke Logan
missed, wide right, preserving
the Bulldogs’ 1-point victory
and adding another bizarre
chapter to the long rivalry, con-
tested for the 92nd time Thurs-
day.
“I think more than anything
it’s a validation for our team
and a validation of our culture,”
MSU coach Joe Moorhead said.
“To me, it puts an exclamation
point on the narrative floating
around that I’m not the right
man for this job, this program
or I can’t coach in this league.
See EGG BOWL, 6A
Mississippi State defeated Ole Miss 21-20 in
the Egg Bowl Thursday night at Davis Wade
Stadium in Starkville. FULL COVERAGE, 1B.
— Photo by Stan Beall/Special to The Dispatch

City hosts second ‘Holiday Night of Hope’ for families in need

Community Outreach, volunteers who said it would be diffi-
cult to find the money to
Kids line up for pop-
corn at last year’s
hope to give presents to 120 children buy Christmas presents
for their children. Other
Holiday Night of Hope
event at the Trotter
By Slim Smith son, “Holiday Night of charities were hearing Center. Columbus
ssmith@cdispatch.com Hope,’’ which provides similar stories. Community Outreach
Christmas gifts to chil- The idea of throwing director Glenda
E v e r y dren of the working poor a party to provide those Richardson came up
now and in the community, was children with donated with the idea for the
then, an such an idea. presents came with little party, which treated
idea proves time to spare. kids to fun, games
The idea came to
so success- “It would be fair to say and food along with
Richardson, the director
Christmas presents.
ful that it of the City of Columbus we put it together on the
This year’s event will
leaves peo- Community Outreach fly,” Richardson said. “We be held Dec. 13 and
ple wonder- Richardson program, last year as she didn’t really have much donations of toys,
ing why no began to hear the stories time.” cash and gift cards
one thought of it before. of many of the citizens Even, so as word began are needed.
For Glenda Richard- she works with, people See ‘Night of hope’, 6A Courtesy photo

Weather Five Questions Calendar Local Folks Public

1 What pop star became a judge on the TV Today meetings
show X-Factor in its second season? Dec. 2:
■ Jive Turkey Jam Communi-
2 If you put all the U.S. presidents in alphabet- Lowndes County
ical order by last name, who comes last? ty Food Drive: Bring a bag of
Supervisors, 9
3 What Jane Austen novel begins, “It is a truth canned goods for admission (or
a.m., County
universally acknowledged, that a single man in $5 without food donation) to this
Courthouse
possession of a good fortune must be in want United Way of North Mississippi
of a wife”? Dec. 3:
Colin Knox Wright benefit music jam at 7:30 p.m.
4 Boston, Valmaine and Tom Thumb are variet- Columbus City
Fourth grade, Annunciation at State Theater, 217 Main St.
ies of what vegetable? Council regular
Starkville. All musicians welcome;

61 Low 50
5 In soccer, what color card indicates that a meeting, 5
player has been ejected from the match? gear provided.
High p.m., Municipal
Intermittent clouds Complex
Full forecast on
Answers, 6B Sunday Courtroom
page 3A. ■ Sparkle and Glow: This Dec. 9:
Columbus Arts Council event on Columbus
Inside “Holiday Entertaining at its Best”
with Amber Card is 2-4 p.m. at
Municipal
School Board of
Classifieds 6B Obituaries 5A the Rosenzweig Arts Center, 501 Clyde Hollis is from Colum- Trustees regular
Comics 4B Opinions 4A Main St. Tickets are $35 at co- bus. He works at Rent-A-Space meeting, 6 p.m.,
Crossword 3B Religion 5B lumbus-arts.org, at the arts cen- storage. Hollis enjoys hunting and Brandon Central
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A weekly photo exploration of life

FOCAL POINT inside the Golden Triangle

Gathering
to give back
Written and photographed by Jennifer Mosbrucker/Dispatch Staff

A
celebratory shout rang out in the
Stokes-Beard Elementary School
kitchen with the completion of each
order as volunteers gathered to prepare
meals for those in need of a Thanksgiving
dinner. Meals were filled in styrofoam
containers, packed in boxes and loaded
in vehicles to be delivered around town.
Food was also available at the school for
those who wished to stop by.

ABOVE: Andy Stewart adds a meal to a stack Vallery Hampton planned to take to her family.
Stewart helped deliver meals on the north side of town. Volunteers stopped the truck to pass
out meals each time residents in the area waved it down. While on this particular delivery
run, the volunteers had more people in need of meals than they had meals. “We’ll be back.
We have to go grab more,” they assured the last few they passed. TOP: A wave of volunteers
forms a line behind the serving station Thursday at Stokes-Beard Elementary School. The food
was prepared in the days leading up to Thanksgiving by the team of cooks at the school. A total
of 165 turkeys were donated for the meal.

Food is passed
down the as-
sembly line just
before dessert is
added to the tray.
Each boxed meal
included turkey,
stuffing, green
beans, corn,
cranberry sauce, Event organizer Annie Barry has been helping with the annual event
a roll and cake. since it began with just 50 meals in 1994. “It started with an act of
Water bottles kindness wanting to make sure people in our neighbored would have a
were also passed meal on Thanksgiving day,” Barry said. “The need is there, you just feel
out upon delivery. good about helping people.”

John Rice
hands
meals to a
family while
on a delivery
run. Around
300 volun-
teers helped
prepare
and distrib-
ute more
than 1,800
meals on
Thanksgiv-
ing day. This
was the
25th anni-
versary of
the event’s
creation.
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National Park Service to help plan Remains confirmed

8 local areas in 5 states
Landscape architects and community planners will
work with local communities to help plan parks,
trails, greenways and other open spaces
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — The Nation-
al Park Service will provide con-
sultants to help create eight local
parks and other recreation and con-
servation areas in Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, South Carolina, Kentucky
and Florida.
Park Service landscape archi-
tects and community planners work
with local communities to help plan
parks, trails, greenways and other
open spaces, said Deirdre Hewitt,
program manager for the park ser-
vice’s Rivers, Trails and Conserva-
tion Assistance Program.
In Mississippi, they’ll help the
city of Marks redesign the park
where the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. began the Poor People’s Cam-
paign, leading a mule train to Wash-
The following arrests
were made by Lowndes
County Sheriff’s Office:
n Isaac Brown, 56, was
charged with aggravated
assault with a weapon or
other means to produce
death.
n Lydia Martinez, 60,
was charged with murder
and accessory after the
fact.
n Jonathan Turner, 45,
was charged with aggra-
vated assault to manifest
extreme indifference to
life.
n Joshua Tate, 23, was
charged with possession
of methamphetamine,
possession of parapher-
nalia, possession of a con-
trolled substance, false
information and resisting
arrest.
n Nicholas Gray Sr.,
38, was charged with fel-
ony malicious mischief,
possession of a weapon by
a felon and two counts of
violation of probation.
n Anfrenee Rice, 23,
was charged with com-
mercial burglary, pro-
viding false information
to law enforcement, two
counts of resisting arrest,
two counts of disobeying
a police officer, no driver’s
license, no insurance and
five counts of failure to ap-
pear.
The following arrests
were made by the Oktib-
beha County Sheriff’s Of-
fice:
n Eric Edmonds, 41,
was charged with proba-
tion violation and a bench
warrant.
n Jakerius Gadison,
24, was charged with
three counts of receiving
stolen property and tres-
passing.
n Demarcus Hayden,
28, was charged with ag-
gravated assault, kidnap-
as UFC fighters’
stepdaughter
a master plan to create publicly ac-
cessible blueways and greenways
in Florence County. Another is a
plan to restore and rehabilitate the
Rocky Point Community Forest and
create a community support team ‘I am heartbroken for the family of
ington in 1968. The work would in- that can care for it.
clude new areas for hiking, biking Kentucky also has two projects Aniah Blanchard. Like Alabamians
and paddling.
In Opelika, Alabama, they’ll help
accepted for the program. Park
service experts will help planners
across our state, I was praying
create a master plan for Creekline working to create an Ohio River
Recreation Trail, starting with the
for a much different outcome.’
Trails of Opelika. That’s envisioned Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey
as a system of nature trails and 274-mile stretch from Portsmouth
Ohio, to West Point, Kentucky. Oth-
shared-use paths that will connect By KIM CHANDLER
ers will work with the West Point The Associated Press
greenspaces with major roads and
Revitalization Committee in creat-
bike lanes citywide.
ing a trail along the path that natu- Human remains discovered in a wooded area
In a second Alabama project,
ralist John Muir took through Ken- have been confirmed as belonging to a missing
Park Service employees will help tucky during his walk to the Gulf of college student who was the stepdaughter of a
Baldwin County put on multi- Mexico. well-known UFC fighter, Alabama authorities an-
city meetings about its planned In Florida, they’ll be helping nounced Wednesday.
cross-county rails-to-trails project. to develop a plan that protects the The Auburn Police Department said the De-
They’ll also help with system-wide archaeological history of the pre- partment of Forensic Sciences confirmed the re-
design and marketing standards for historic Native American mounds mains belong to Aniah Blanchard, 19. She was the
a multi-use trail connecting several at Chattahoochee while providing stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris.
cities. camping, increased access, and Police said they were making the announce-
Two South Carolina projects greater outdoor recreation oppor- ment with “heavy hearts” as the month-long
also are getting assistance. One is tunities. search came to a close. Blanchard’s disappear-
ance is now a homicide investigation and addition-
al charges will be filed, police said.
“I am heartbroken for the family of Aniah
Blanchard,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a
statement. “Like Alabamians across our state, I
Area arrests was praying for a much different outcome. I will
be keeping them in my prayers and ask the people
of Alabama to continue to do so as well.
Blanchard was last seen Oct. 23 in Auburn, Al-
abama, at a gas station. Her black Honda CRV was
found abandoned days later more than 50 miles
away at an apartment complex in Montgomery.
Police said her blood was found in the car.
Police announced Monday that human remains
were found in a wooded area in neighboring Ma-
Brown Martinez Turner J. Tate Gray Sr. Rice con County. They said that investigative leads led
them to search that location.
Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, is currently being held
without bond on kidnapping charges in the teen’s
disappearance. Police charged two other men
with either helping dispose of evidence or hinder-
ing the investigation.
A man at the convenience store where she was
last seen told investigators he saw Yazeed force
Edmonds Gadison Hayden E. Reed Barber Riekhof Blanchard into her car and drive away, according
to Auburn police detective Josh Mixon.
Serial rapist sentenced to 371
Gay
ping, grand
Kinard Barnett L. Reed Williams Dobbins
years in prison in Tennessee
la rceny, The Associated Press
agg ravated
domestic vi- MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Prosecutors say a con-
olence, pos- victed serial rapist has been sentenced in Tennes-
session of a see to 371 years in prison.
weapon by The Shelby County district attorney’s office
a felon and says 37-year-old William L. Gossett was sen-
a MDOC Felton Fleming F. Tate Richards Dunlavey
tenced Monday for five aggravated rapes and 21
hold. possession of a controlled possession of marijuana other felonies in a dozen break-ins in Memphis.
n Elizabeth Reed, 24, substance, possession of a in a vehicle. Cases included 15 victims between July 2012
was charged with capital Schedule II drug and pos- n Keith Fleming, 19, and April 2016. Prosecutors say most of the bur-
murder. was charged with bur-
session of marijuana in a glaries, rapes and attempted rapes took place at
n Aubrey Barber, 20, glary other than a vehicle.
vehicle. apartment units across Memphis.
was charged with credit n Fred Tate, 55, was
n Lemichael Reed, 29, Investigators say Gossett often entered
card fraud. was charged with proba- charged with third of- through sliding glass doors or windows, usually
n Rieves Riekhof, 29, fense DUI. with a gun or a knife. He was linked to the crimes
tion violation.
was charged with proba- n Monroe Richards, through DNA and other evidence.
n Michael Williams,
tion violation and no driv- 19, was charged with con- Investigators arrested Gossett in 2016. Purses,
50, was charged with pos-
er’s license. tributing to the delinquen- cellphones, jewelry and other items belonging to
n Dianndra Gay, 24, session of a controlled
substance, DUI other and cy of a minor. his victims were found in his home in Southaven,
was charged with false n David Dunlavey, 22, Mississippi, and in pawn shops.
pretense and contempt of improper equipment.
n Cynthia Dobbins, 36, was charged with bur-
court.
n Jonathan Kinard, 25, was served with a felony glary other than a vehicle cdispatch.com
warrant and charged with and public drunk.
was charged with retalia-
tion against a public ser- possession of parapherna-
vant, a MDOC hold and lia.
disturbing the peace. n Marcos Felton,
n Darren Barnett, 18, 29, was charged with a
was charged with posses- MDOC hold, possession
sion of a Schedule I drug, of a Schedule I drug and

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Our View
Lottery requires good judgment, restraint
This week marked a historic event
in Mississippi. Monday at 5 a.m., the
Mississippi Lottery Corporation offered
its first lottery games — a group of four
scratch-off tickets that featured prizes
up to $100,000.
More than 1,200 retailers offer the
game cards and business was brisk. On
Jan. 30, the MLC will offer residents a
chance to participate in the multi-state
lottery games Mega Millions and Pow-
erball, with prizes that can reach the
hundreds of millions. Mississippi may
or may not establish its own traditional
number-drawing lottery game as anoth-
er option. To date, the MLC has made
no commitment to that idea.
Although the lottery has never had
universal support, the clamor for it
has been steady for years. When faced
with a serious roads/bridges crisis, the
Mississippi Legislature finally approve
a lottery during a special session in Au-
gust 2018. The first $80 million will go
to a fund for roads/bridges repair and
maintenance. Any additional revenue
will be earmarked for public education.
Opponents of the lottery say these
games take advantage of vulnerable
people for whom the lottery can often
be viewed as desperate means of escap-
ing poverty. Some even call it a tax on
the poor because the games tend to be
played by lower income citizens. The
irony is that, in an effort to escape pov-
erty, the money they spend can actually
make their financial status even worse.
Simply put, it’s gambling and should
be treated with caution like any other
potentially addictive activity.
But the state cannot be responsible
for the poor choices people make. In
this case, it really is a matter of person-
al responsibility.
It is therefore important to view the
lottery in proper perspective.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare, through
the character Polonius, cautioned:
“Costly thy habits as thy purse can
buy.”
That’s good advice when it comes to
the lottery. The lottery is a game, not a
financial plan.
There will be winners — and a few of
them will win big — but for most lottery
players it’s a bet that doesn’t pay off.
The idea of becoming instantly
wealthy is, naturally, an appealing
thought and we are tempted to try our
hand, especially if it requires only a
dollar or two.
When viewed that way, the lottery is
no threat to anyone.
But when folks use the money that
would normally go to necessities in a
bid to strike it rich, it’s a foolish and
possibly ruinous decision.
So we urge caution.
Remember. People don’t invest in the
lottery. They “play” it.
It’s a game and should be treated as
such.

Musings

The socioeconomics
of menthol cigarettes
In my home state of
Massachusetts, where a wily
state government has found a
way to do everything except
stop people from leaving the
older cities, there is a war on
flavored tobacco and vaping
products. A ban of both is on
the way.
Ostensibly, this is to
protect our children, who are
presumably lured into smok-
Marc Dion
ing by flavored products.
“Who do they sell this
junk to?” I once said to my wife, holding up a bottle
of cupcake-flavored vodka in a local liquor store.
“I know who they sell it to,” my wife said. “I used
to BE a teenage girl.”
I smoke a pipe. I can tell you from my own expe-
rience that I seldom have to fistfight a 16-year-old
boy to get the last package of cherry-flavored pipe
tobacco.
Tobacco use follows strange patterns.
In Massachusetts, where the ban will cover men-
State of the nation
On being the good guys
thol cigarettes, just the words “menthol cigarettes”
conjure up an image of the stereotypical urban poor
person.
Do you live in one of the greener lawn suburbs? People often offer est assault on Amer- Trump does not understand
If you do, you think of the typical resident of my cynical interpretations ica’s moral standing morality — not in war, and not
older city as a welfare-dependent woman, maybe of American support was his decision, over in peace. Glance at his pardon
30 pounds overweight, emerging from the local for Israel. It’s the the objections of the of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an abuse-
Walmart with a cart full of cheese curls, lighting up malign influence of military and the pleas of-power poster boy. Arpaio
a menthol cigarette while she waits for the taxicab the Jewish lobby, or of his own defense arrested journalists who wrote
that will take her back to the projects. She is wearing Israel is a colonial out- secretary, to pardon critical pieces about him and
pajama pants and a hoodie, and there is an excellent post of the American three servicemen con- even a county supervisor who got
chance she is clutching a large Styrofoam cup of hegemon or Israel has victed of, or charged in his way. He sent a SWAT team
flavored coffee. brainwashed Amer- with, war crimes. “We to a suburban home supposedly
When I was growing up in Missouri in the 1970s, ican policymakers. train our boys to be looking for a cache of weapons.
to say the cigarette brand names Kool or Newport What these right- killing machines, then The goons wound up burning
meant you were talking about African American wing conspiracists, Mona Charen prosecute them when down the house and killing the
people. White men didn’t smoke menthols. It was un- anti-Semites and they kill!” he tweeted. family’s dog. No illegal weapons
manly. White women who smoked menthols smoked committed leftists miss is that Note that Trump is not arguing were found in the ashes.
Salems. there isn’t any mystery about the that these cases are miscar- We are at our best when we
I’ve worked loading dock jobs in Missouri and, bond between the U.S. and Israel. riages. He’s saying war crimes refuse to countenance crimes
when we dangled our feet off the edge of the dock to U.S. support for Israel, and vice should not be punished. by our own. On March 16, 1968,
take our sit-down break, the three black guys on the versa, has been based on shared Any number of current and Chief warrant officer Hugh
crew each lit a Kool, while us two white boys pulled values. former servicemen have bris- Thompson Jr. and two crewmen
out our packs of Marlboros. Israel shares with the United tled at this. We do not train our were flying a reconnaissance
Who knows what that meant? Who knows what it States respect for human rights soldiers to be killing machines mission over a village in South
means now? and the rule of law. Though — and contributing to that Vietnam when they noticed the
I once tended bar with a very nice African Ameri- often besieged by enemies who stereotype is hardly pro-military. bodies of elderly people and
can man who told me he wouldn’t eat, drink or smoke target innocent civilians in terror Veterans already face skepticism children. It was My Lai. Seeing
any product advertised in black neighborhoods. attacks, use their own civilians as from potential employers out American soldiers advancing on
“If there’s billboards for it in black neighborhoods, human shields, and celebrate as of misplaced fear that PTSD or Vietnamese civilians, Thompson
it kills you quicker than the stuff they sell in white heroes terrorists who massacre some other combat-induced ma- signaled that his men would
neighborhoods,” he said, squinting through the unarmed men, women and chil- nia will incline them to murder- shoot if they killed any more. The
smoke of a Marlboro. dren, Israel does not sink to that ous rampages. massacre was halted.
It’s hard to tell if Massachusetts lawmakers want level. Though Israel vigorously While war does require ag- Thompson’s actions that day
to take the familiar comfort of menthol smokes away defends herself, she does not re- gression and violence, the U.S. eventually won him the Soldier’s
from the poor because there is no penalty for aiming sort to targeting civilians, nor to military abides by (or used to) Medal for “heroism not involving
legislation at the poor, or if they want to protect the indiscriminate bombing (despite the Law of Armed Conflict and conflict with the enemy.” His con-
children of the poor. accusations to the contrary). the Uniform Code of Military duct is taught at West Point.
Nearly all of the comforts enjoyed by the poor are And — this is crucial — when Justice. As Fred Kaplan noted, As for Lt. William Calley, the
ether illegal or deadly or both, and it has been so Israeli soldiers go too far and “American troops are trained as only American soldier convicted
since the decades-ago time of bathtub gin, roll-your- kill unarmed Palestinians, Israel much in when not to shoot their of murder at My Lai, President
own smokes and the solace of the opium pipe, which, does not name public squares weapons as they are in how to Nixon altered his sentence to
like fentanyl, was imported from China and planted after them. They are tried and shoot them.” Our troops receive house arrest. But he didn’t par-
in poor neighborhoods like a putrid rose. punished. intense training about avoiding don him.
That’s the thing about the poor. They are like a It is never easy to hold one’s civilian casualties. Building an honorable eth-
rose. They’ll grow from a pile of manure and produce military to account. Within Isra- Trump’s pardons are a slap in ic in the nation’s military has
beautiful flowers that only last a short season. And, el, soldiers tried for war crimes the face to the dozens of Navy been the work of decades, even
always, the legislators, people so privileged that they have had their supporters and SEALs and others who risked centuries. Undermining it can
trying them is controversial. But their careers to come forward be the work of months. Admiral
are frequently paid not to work, wonder why the poor
Israel’s willingness to hold itself and report gross violations, and William McRaven has spoken
try so hard to kill themselves so young. The answer
to high standards marks it as a to the hundreds of thousands of up. Now would be a good time to
is a cloud of smoke.
civilized country. American servicemen and wom- hear from H.R. McMaster, James
Marc Dion, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a
War crimes and abuses are en who behaved honorably on the Mattis, Stanley McChrystal, Col-
reporter and columnist for The Herald News, the daily
part of war. No country is pure. battlefield. Just as Trump offered in Powell, Joseph Dunford and as
newspaper of his hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts.
What distinguishes the good a green light to Turkey’s strong- many others as possible who care
For more on Dion, go to go to www.creators.com. guys from the bad is how the man Recep Erdogan to slaughter to uphold what is right.
nation responds to those trans- our Kurdish allies, he’s provided Mona Charen is a Senior Fel-
gressions. permission to the American mili- low at the Ethics and Public Policy
President Donald Trump’s lat- tary to commit similar outrages. Center.
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Obituaries
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Mattie Ingram John Henry Harry and siblings, Betty Wells Mazie Walker of arrangements. Ridout’s Gardendale
STARKVILLE — Martha Louise Latham. and Fannie Gavin, both WEST POINT — Mr. Sizemore was Chapel of Gardendale
Mattie Perkins Ingram, She was formerly em- of Prairie Point, Mary Mazie I. Walker, 69, born Oct. 14, 1932, is in charge of arrange-
87, died Nov. 24, 2019, ployed with Seminole Hood of Columbus, died Nov. 21, 2019, at in Beaverton, to the ments.
in Starkville. Manufacturing and Martha Greathree How- Baptist Memorial Hos- late Daniel Middleton Ms. Blaylock was
Services will be at 2 McCoy Glenn Man- ard Hood and Johnny pital-Golden Triangle. Sizemore and “Margie” born July 21, 1967, in
p.m. Saturday at Bethel ufacturing and was a Hood, both of Brooks- Services will be at Marie Gann. He was a Birmingham, to Larry
M.B. Church. Burial member of Holly Grove ville, Wayne Hood of 11 a.m. Saturday at 1952 graduate of Sulli- and Sue Amason. She
will follow at Bethel M.B. Church. Carrollton, Alabama, New St. Peter M.B. gent High school and attended Hillveiw
Cemetery. Visitation is In addition to her and Marvin Cockrell Church, with the Rev. was formerly employed Elementary School
parents, she was of Macon; eight grand- Judias Neal officiat- with Reltoc Manufac- and Bottenfield Junior
from 1-6 p.m. today at
preceded in death by children; and three ing. Burial will follow turing. High. She was a 1985
West Memorial Funeral
her child, Annie Grace; great-grandchildren. at Pool’s Memorial In addition to his graduate of Minor
Home. West Memo-
and siblings, Hattie Gardens. Visitation is parents, he was pre- High School, a 1990
rial Funeral Home of
Cheeks, Peggy Jean George Shields ceded in death by his graduate of the Univer-
Starkville is in charge from 3-6 p.m. today at
Bridges and Donald COLUMBUS — brother, Leon Size- sity of North Alabama,
of arrangements. Carter’s Mortuary Ser-
Ray Latham. George Buckhana more. and a graduate of the
She is survived by vice Chapel. Carter’s
She is survived by Shields, 66, died Nov. He is survived by his University of Southern
her children, Nora Per- Mortuary Service of
her husband, Willie 24, 2019, wife, Ellen Sizemore of Mississippi. She was
kins, Annie Doss, Rose West Point is in charge
James Latham of Co- at Baptist Beaverton; son, Doug- formerly employed as
Perry, Alice Ingram, of arrangements.
lumbus; daughter, Kyle- Memorial las Sizemore; daughter, a band director with
Darnell Jefferson, Ms. Walker was
sola Kyles of Columbus; Suzanne Sizemore; and South Lamar High
Larry Ingram, Kevin Hospi- born Nov. 29, 1949, in
three grandchildren; one grandchild. School in Millport,
Ingram and Maxine tal-Golden Clay County, to the
and six great-grandchil- Triangle. late Guy T. Walker and Hunt Middle School,
Carpenter; and sister,
Elise Peterson. dren. Services Lucy M. Walker. She Tracy Blaylock Columbus High School
Pallbearers will be will be at was formerly employed COLUMBUS — and Pickens County
Jackie Willis, George noon Satur- Shields Tracy Renee Amason High School in Re-
Patrick Johnson Bound, Jonathan day at Unit-
as a CNA.
Blaylock, 52, died Nov. form, and as Director
COLUMBUS — Pat- In addition to her
Latham, Marcus Kyles, ed Faith Interdenomina- parents, she was 26, 2019. of Bands at New Hope
rick Johnson, 46, died A Cel- High School.
Steven Vassar and Stan- tional Ministries, with preceded in death by
Nov. 18, 2019, at Baptist ebration In addition to her
ley Baker. Johnny Durrah offici- her daughter, Katrina
Memorial of Life parents, she is sur-
Hospi- ating. Burial will follow L. Seay; and brother,
Bessie Jordan at Great Mt. Olive M.B. Thomas L. Walker. service vived by her sister,
tal-Golden will be Kelly Amason Noles of
Triangle. COLUMBUS — Church Cemetery. Vis- She is survived by
Bessie Jordan, 73, died itation is from noon-6 her sons, Lee Otis Saturday Morris.
Services at Hillveiw Pallbearers will be
will be at Nov. 23, 2019, at her p.m. today at Carter’s Seay, Victor L. Walker Blaylock
residence. Funeral Service. Car- and Antonio M. Walk- Baptist Marc DeVenney, Adam
11 a.m. Church in DeVenney, Thomas
Saturday at Johnson Services ter’s Funeral Service of er; daughters, Joi T.
will be at Columbus is in charge Crawford and Nadja Birmingham, Alabama, Richardson, Brian
New Hope with the Rev. Mark Lindsey, Lee Majors
C.M.E. 11 a.m. of arrangements. T. Walker; brother,
Mr. Shields was Wallace T. Walker; sis- Barber and the Rev. and Todd Smith.
Church, with the Rev. Saturday at
born Aug. 17, 1953, in ters, Sarah A. McMil- Gene Carver officiat- Memorials may be
Cornelia Naylor offici- Christian
lian, Deloris Conway ing. Burial will follow made to the Universi-
ating. Burial will follow Hill M.B. Columbus, to the late
and Mary Smith; 24 at Freewill Baptist ty of North Alabama
at Union Cemetery. Church, Freddie Hendricks
grandchildren; and 21 Cemetery. Visitation Pride of Dixie March-
Visitation is from noon- with Allan Jordan and Lenner B. Staples
will be from 10:30 ing Band, UNA Box
6 p.m. today at Centu- Smith Hendricks. He was great-grandchildren.
a.m.-1 p.m. prior to 5240, Florence, Ala-
ry Hairston Funeral officiating. Burial formerly employed as
services at the church. bama 35632.
Home. Century Hair- will follow at Bigbee a carpenter and was a Ralph Sizemore
ston Funeral Home of Valley C.M.E. Church member of United Faith BEAVERTON, Ala.
Columbus is in charge Cemetery. Visitation is Interdenominational — Ralph Sizemore, 87,
of arrangements. from 1-6 p.m. today at Ministries. died Nov. 26, 2019, at
Mr. Johnson was Carter’s Funeral Ser- In addition to his St. Vincent’s Hospital
born Feb. 27, 1973, in vices. Carter’s Funeral parents, he was pre- in Birmingham.
Noxubee County, to the Services of Columbus ceded in death by Memorial services
late Mary and Walter is in charge of arrange- his siblings, Patricia will be at 2 p.m. Sun-
Johnson. ments. Smith, Allen Hendricks, day at Beaverton Unit-
He is survived by his Mrs. Jordan was Robert Shields, Jessie ed Methodist Church,
wife, Cherry Johnson born April 6, 1946, in Ann Hendricks, Bobby with David Sullivan
of Columbus; daugh- Noxubee County, to the Hendricks and Robert officiating. Burial will
ter, Tawanda Barry of late Willie James Hood Hendricks. follow at Sizemore
Columbus; son, Orlan- and Leola Hood. She He is survived by his Memorial Cemetery.
dor Sr. of Columbus; was formerly employed wife, Lynette Williams Otts Funeral Home of
sisters, Patricia Smith as a CNA with Aurora Shields of Columbus; Sulligent is in charge
of Macon and Carolyn Health and Rehabilita- children, Nicole Shields
Guyton of Radcliff, tion and was a member of Texas, Angel Hill of
Kentucky; brothers, of First Community Pittsburgh, Pennsylva-
Walter Johnson of Co- Non-Denominational nia, Timothy Shields
lumbus, Jasin Johnson Ministry. of Kankakee, Illinois,
of Radcliff and Milton In addition to her and Shawnice Greer
Johnson of Spring- parents, she was pre- of Columbus; siblings,
field, Missouri; eight ceded in death by her Julia Burgin and Eddie
grandchildren; and one siblings, Willie James Hendricks, both of Co-
great-grandchild. Hood Jr. and Eddie lumbus, Barbara Kidd
Hood. of Steens and Nicole
She is survived by Jackson of Canton; and
Ola Brown her husband, Jonnie eight grandchildren.
COLUMBUS — Ola
Jordan of Columbus; Pallbearers will Jodi Napier
Mae Brown, 76, died Visitation:
children, Zelda Jordan be Durrell Walton, Friday, Nov. 29 • 12-1 PM
Nov. 18, 2019, in Mill- College St. Location
of Byram, Laura Jordan Brandon Rogers,
port, Alabama. Services:
of Greensboro, North Jeremy Rogers, Deme- Friday, Nov. 29 • 1 PM
Services will be at 2
Carolina, and Robert trius Burgin and Leon College St. Location

Bill Arinder
p.m. Saturday at Holly Burial
Jordan of Columbus; Shields. Friendship Cemetery
Grove M.B. Church in
Millport, with the Rev.
Kevin Dixon officiating. Ann Palmer
Incomplete Oscar Billy (Bill) Arinder, 88, passed into the
Burial will follow at College St. Location presence of his Savior, on Tuesday, November 26,
the church cemetery. 2019, at home, surrounded by his loving family.
Visitation is from noon- Ronald Bailey Bill was preceded in death by his parents,
6 p.m. today at Carter’s Incomplete William and Mary; his brothers, Houston, Robert,
Funeral Service. Car- 2nd Ave. North Location
Dewitt and Lonnie; and his sister, Cordie.
ter’s Funeral Service of Bill is survived by his wife of 63 years,
Columbus is in charge Shirley; three sons, Greg (Kathy) of Columbus,
of arrangements. memorialgunterpeel.com MS, Gary (Betty) of Madison, MS, and Grant
Mrs. Brown was (Lori) of Starkville, MS; and one daughter,
born April 8, 1943, in Gwenda Brown (Mark) of Oxford, MS. Bill loved
Millport, to the late children, especially babies, and was blessed with
and survived by 9 grandchildren, Brad (Audrey),
Lauren (Curtis), Tori, Amy (Will), Graham,
Garison, Wesley, Abigail and Emme. He was also
blessed and survived by 3 great-grandchildren,
Andrew, Levi and Barrett.
Along with all of his family, Bill loved music
and practically sang his way into Heaven. He
was a veteran, serving his country in the United
States Navy, during the Korean Conflict. A gentle,
quiet, consistent man, he provided for his family
well as a salesman and real estate developer. Bill
loved supporting his local high school sports and
could often be found in the gym cheering for the
New Hope Trojan teams.
As a retired man, Bill discovered a new
passion that helped define who he was and
what mattered to him. Through the ministry of
Gideons International, he began to participate
in the local Jail Ministry. These opportunities
to share the love of Christ with those who most
needed it became the great joy and passion of his
life and truly defined the kind of man he was.
Visitation will be at Calvary Baptist Church,
Starkville, on Monday, December 2, 2019, at
10:00 AM, with Services starting at 11:00 AM.
Burial will be in New Hope at Mount Vernon
Baptist Church at 2:00 PM, where Bill served as
a Deacon and Church Treasurer for many years.
You can leave the family a condolence at: www.
welchfuneralhomes.com.
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Shorter shopping season means a more intense scramble
Adobe Analytics predicts a loss
of $1 billion in online revenue from a
shortened holiday shopping season
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
AP Retail Writer
NEW YORK — The
mad scramble between
Thanksgiving and Christ-
mas just got six days
shorter.
Black Friday once
again kicks off the start
of the holiday shopping
season. But with six few-
er days than last year, it
will be the shortest sea-
son since 2013 because
Thanksgiving fell on
the fourth Thursday in
November — the latest
possible date it could be.
That means customers
will have less time to shop
and retailers will have less
time to woo them.
Adobe Analytics pre-
dicts a loss of $1 billion
in online revenue from a
shortened season. Still,
it expects online sales
will reach $143.7 billion,
up 14.1 percent from last
‘Night of Hope’
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to circulate, donations
and offers to volunteer be-
gan pouring in.
“We had hoped to give
each child two gifts and
a gift card, if we could,”
Richardson said. “We
were able to do that for a
little over 100 children. It
was absolutely wonderful,
the way our community
responded.”
Now, with some left-
over donations and a
full year to prepare, this
year’s “Holiday Night of
Hope” has even more am-
bitious plans.
“We have 120 children
on our list,” Richardson
said. “And because we
were still getting dona-
tions even after last year’s
party, we got a little head
start for this year.”
This year’s party —
Egg Bowl
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That’s not the case. I’m
damn proud of this team.”
For MSU, the win ex-
tends a school-record 10-
year bowl streak, while
Ole Miss will conclude
the year 4-8 and miss the
postseason for the fourth
time since 2015.
With starting quar-
terback Tommy Stevens
year’s holiday season
The National Retail
Federation, the nation’s
largest retail trade group,
baked the shorter season
into its forecast, but it says
the real drivers will be the
job market. It forecasts
that holiday sales will rise
between 3.8 percent and
4.2 percent, an increase
from the disappointing
2.1 percent growth seen
in the November and De-
cember 2018 period that
came well short of the
group’s prediction.
Last year’s holiday
sales were hurt by turmoil
over the White House
trade policy with China
and a delay in data col-
lection by nearly a month
because of a government
shutdown. This year’s
holiday forecast is above
the average holiday sales
growth of 3.7 percent over
the previous five years.
which like last year will
feature kid-friendly fun
and foods — will be held
Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. upstairs
at The Trotter Convention
Center.
To help identify chil-
dren in need, Richardson
turned to former United
Way director Josie Fan-
non, who screened and
interviewed parents of
children targeted for the
event.
“These are families
I’ve talked to, often, peo-
ple I’ve worked with.
I know their stories,”
Fannon said. “So many
of them are working at
minimum wage jobs or
just a little more. They
may have had their work
hours cut. They’re strug-
gling just to make it. Then
Christmas comes and the
sidelined due to an injury,
freshman quarterback
Garrett Shrader drew the
starting assignment. He
completed 10 of 14 passes
for 108 yards and added
another 19 yards and two
touchdowns on 12 car-
ries.
Junior running back
and Columbus native
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Holiday stress: Amazon, others under gun for 1-day delivery
By JOSEPH PISANI
AP Retail Writer
NEW YORK — This year, hol-
iday stress may take on a whole
new meaning for online retailers.
Amazon, Walmart and others
have promised to deliver more of
their orders within 24 hours of
customers clicking on “Buy.”
The coming weeks will be the
first test of whether they can make
that happen during the busy hol-
iday shopping season, when on-
slaughts of orders and bad weath-
NRF expects online
and other non-store sales,
which are included in the
total, to increase between
11 percent and 14 percent,
for the holiday period.
Black Friday is expect-
ed to once again be the
largest shopping day of
the season, followed by
the last Saturday before
Christmas, according to
MasterCard Spending-
Pulse, which tracks spend-
ing across all types of
financial
stress that
goes with
it. When
you have
to make
the choice
between
s p e n d i n g Fannon
money on putting gas in
the car so you can get to
your job or buying Christ-
mas presents, well, you
have to by the gas. It’s not
really a choice.
“So to be able to do
this, to step in and say,
‘don’t worry about the
Christmas presents,’ I just
feel like it’s the perfect re-
sponse,” she said.
Richardson said the
generosity of the commu-
nity does not surprise her.
“It’s not just the dona-
tions, either,” she said.
Kylin Hill also notched
his eighth 100-yard rush-
ing effort of the year with
a 27-carry, 132-yard effort
— moving his SEC-lead-
ing season total to 1,347
yards.
Defensively, junior
linebacker Erroll Thomp-
son led the team with 11
tackles, while sophomore
er can lay waste to even the best “The store made the promise,”
delivery plans. said Suketu Gandhi, partner in the
It’s an expensive feat that re- digital transformation practice at
quires not just additional planes consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
and vehicles, but more workers Amazon learned that six years
and reams of data to help retailers ago, when UPS and FedEx were
prepare and predict what shoppers crippled by bad weather and
may buy. last-minute online shopping, caus-
And the stakes to deliver on ing millions of packages to be late
time are high. A late package can for Christmas. Since then, the on-
damage a retailer’s reputation, line shopping giant has been build-
since shoppers tend to blame ing its own delivery network to
them, even if the late arrival is the give it more control over when and
fault of the delivery company. how its packages are delivered.
payments including cash
and check. Thanksgiving
Day isn’t even on the top
10 holiday shopping days,
according to MasterCard.
The 2019 holiday sea-
son will be a good mea-
sure of the U.S. economy’s
health. Many retail CEOs
describe their customers
has financially healthy,
citing moderate wage
growth and an unemploy-
ment rate hovering near a
50-year low.
“Building Bridges for
Hope is partnering with
us and local churches are
sending us volunteers.
It’s really a community
effort.”
As last year, the plans
are to provide each child
with two presents — at
least one of them from the
child’s wish list — and a
gift card.
Anyone wanting to
donate toys, cash or gift
cards should submit do-
nations by Dec. 9. Dona-
tions can be dropped off at
the Community Outreach
Office at 1607 Main St.
or mailed to C/O Build-
ing Bridges of Hope, P.O.
Box 492, Columbus, Mis-
sissippi 3903. For more
information, call Richard-
son at 662-364-1850.
West Point product Mar-
cus Murphy and junior
Starkville native Willie
Gay Jr. contributed an in-
terception and a fumble
recovery, respectively.
MSU’s postseason
fate will be announced
Sunday, Dec. 8 following
conference championship
weekend.
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BULLDOGS KEEP THE GOLDEN EGG
Mississippi State senior offensive lineman Michael Story holds up the Golden Egg trophy after the Bulldogs’ 21-20 win over Ole Miss on Thursday at Davis Wade Stadium.
Mississippi State downs Ole Miss as Rebels falter in final seconds
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Of course
it ended this way.
On a drive that saw a 57-yard
completion on fourth-and-24, a
pass interference call that left
the Bulldog faithful exasperat-
ed and a peeing-dog touchdown
celebration on a potential-tying
score that brought deafening si-
lence on Davis Wade Stadium,
it was Luke Logan’s missed ex-
tra point that gave Mississippi
State a 21-20 Egg Bowl victo-
ry over Ole Miss on Thursday
night.
In a game that is known for
the uncommon becoming all
too common, the 92nd edition
of the Battle for the Golden Egg
delivered as a 40-minute slug-
fest of epic insanity.
First it was the surprise start
of freshman quarterback Gar-
rett Shrader — who took over
after a lingering upper-body
injury from last week’s Abilene
Christian game forced starter
Tommy Stevens out of the line-
up.
COMMENTARY
Moorhead rumors swirl amid Egg Bowl win for MSU
STARKVILLE — Joe Moor-
head sat down beaming, with
the Golden Egg trophy resting
beside him.
“I can’t see you over this tro-
phy,” Moorhead said after the
first question a reporter asked
him after Mississippi State’s
wild 21-20 victory over Ole Miss
in the Egg Bowl
on Thursday.
A man who
has been re-
served for
much of 2019
was anything
but on Thanks-
giving night. Garrick
“This is Hodge
my team, my
school and
my program,” Moorhead said.
“They’re going to have to drag
my Yankee ass out of here.”
Before Ole Miss and Mis-
sissippi State even kicked off,
social media ran rampant with
speculation Moorhead would
be fired from MSU, win or lose,
Finishing the night 10 of 14
for 108 yards, it was the Char-
lotte, North Carolina product’s
feet that twice carried the
Bulldogs to pay dirt. Normally
mild-mannered, Shrader of-
fered a swaggy flex toward his
Bulldog brethren caked in gold
and maroon body paint just
above the north end zone after
his second touchdown scam-
per of the day put the Bulldogs
ahead 21-14 with just over three
minutes remaining in the third
quarter.
At running back, junior Kylin
Hill did Kylin Hill-like things as
the Columbus native raced to
his eighth 100-yard game of the
season — pushing his SEC-best
rushing total to 1,347 yards on
the year.
Senior tailback Nick Gibson
also joined the party as he to-
taled three carries for 57 yards
and the game’s opening touch-
down. A former four-star re-
cruit turned career back-up, it
was Gibson’s 30-yard scamper
that opened the fourth quarter
and furthered belief that the
Golden Egg would remain in
and the school would anoint
Louisiana’s Billy Napier as the
new coach later in the weekend.
The validity of those rumors
seems very much in question.
“Was it Bob from Bogue
Chitto?” Moorhead quipped ad-
dressing the speculation, dou-
bling down that he’s never paid
any attention to outside noise
leading into a game week.
“The only (opinions) I care
about are the ones in that locker
room,” Moorhead said. “Every-
one else can go kick rocks.”
A few hours after Twitter ex-
ploded with rumors, Ole Miss
receiver Elijah Moore did his
best to ensure Moorhead re-
mained MSU’s coach in 2020
by pretending he was Bully the
Bulldog on a leisurely stroll, lift-
ing his leg to mock a dog urinat-
ing after scoring a touchdown
with four seconds remaining.
That drew a 15-yard unsports-
manlike conduct penalty, and
Luke Logan missed what would
have been the game-tying extra
Starkville.
“It just felt amazing — any-
thing I could do to help my
team,” he said. “It’s truly a
blessing.”
Defensively, the oft-suspend-
ed pair of junior linebacker
Willie Gay Jr. and sophomore
safety Marcus Murphy kept Ole
Miss’ vaunted rushing attack
led by freshman quarterback
John Rhys Plumlee at bay.
“They help, right?” Moor-
head quipped of the dynamic
duo.
Gay — who finished the night
with five tackles, one tackle for
a loss — earned a game-chang-
ing fumble recovery in which
he attempted to pitch the ball to
senior defensive end Chauncey
Rivers before falling on it once
more as it crashed to the turf.
Stepping in front of Ole Miss
quarterback Matt Corral’s third
throw from scrimmage with
just over six minutes remaining,
Murphy announced himself to
the 57,529 in attendance with
what looked to be the game-ic-
ing turnover. Destiny looked to
be at work.
point, clinching the Bulldogs’
victory.
Moorhead received a ‘Say this, say that’ in year two,
$50,000 bonus for getting the
team’s sixth win, guaranteeing
the program will go to a bowl
game for a program-record 10th
straight year. When you think
about it, it’s pretty wild that
Moorhead’s bank account gets
fatter because Moore wanted to
pretend to pee on the turf of Da-
vis Wade Stadium. He probably
owes Moore half of that bonus.
Fair is fair.
Nevertheless, one could
make a valid point Moorhead’s
team underachieved this sea-
son. Seven to eight wins were
the expectation, not six. Ten
players getting suspended for
eight games because of what’s
become known as ‘Tutor-gate’
wasn’t a great look for the uni-
versity either.
That said, it would just seem
almost unfair to fire a coach
that has gone to a bowl two
straight years and beaten Ole
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It was the same Marcus Mur-
phy who missed three quarters
of the year for violating team
rules. The same Marcus Mur-
phy whose mother, Demetrick,
died unexpectedly Jan. 7. The
same Marcus Murphy whose
friend’s father was killed recent-
ly. The same Marcus Murphy
whose toddler son, Mason, was
diagnosed with a rare genetic
abnormality and is in need of
a bone marrow transplant. The
same Marcus Murphy whose
pick-six kept MSU’s bowl hopes
alive in a thrashing of Arkansas
in Fayetteville.
It was Murphy, because of
course it was.
“That was her,” he said refer-
encing his mother in relation to
his interception.
But as has been the case
all too often this season, MSU
failed to make it easy. Seconds
after Murphy’s pick, what had
been an anemic offense for
much of the year promptly de-
livered a three-and-out to grant
Ole Miss possession with 2:06
left in the fourth quarter.
Instead of riding Plumlee
Miss twice.
“The knee-jerk reaction of
go pound sand, I don’t care,”
Moorhead said. “The only peo-
ple I care about are the ones in
that locker room. Everyone else
can go kick rocks.”
Continuing his self proc-
lamation he’s the right fit for
MSU, the second-year coach
boasted he has the full support
of the locker room.
“If you ask (the players)
who’s the right man for this job,
they’re going to tell you it’s me,”
Moorhead said. “I promise you
that.”
He wasn’t lying.
His star running back Kylin
Hill came to a staunch defense
of his coach.
“I feel like there’s no coach
in the country who loves their
players like coach Moorhead
does ... He’s the guy for the job.”
MSU quarterback Garrett
Shrader, who decided to come
to Mississippi State largely
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— who entered the game as
the SEC’s sixth-leading rusher
despite having played just eight
games and finished the night
with 34 yards and a score on
the ground — Luke stuck with
the gunslinging Corral in an
attempt to spark what had been
a middling Ole Miss passing at-
tack.
Staring at fourth and a mile
— or 24 yards to be exact —
Corral wound up and lofted a
deep ball to a streaking Braylon
Sanders — who unspeakably
found himself over the top of
an MSU defense that Moor-
head said was aligned in a pre-
vent-formation.
“I think it was covered up
until Corral scrambled around
and I think we got our eyes
down and let it get over our
head,” he said.
With Ole Miss sitting firm-
ly on the edge of the MSU red
zone, chaos persisted in the
form of five penalties — four of
which were credited to the Bull-
dogs. But it was the lone Rebel
penalty, an unsportsmanlike
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because of Moorhead, echoed
similar sentiments.
“He has a certain set of be-
liefs of how the program should
be run,” Shrader said. “He gets
guys to buy in, that’s the big-
gest thing. I actually believe
everything he says and does.
I plan on him being my coach
and winning a lot more games.”
Whatever chance there
was of MSU athletic director
John Cohen pulling the plug
on Moorhead seems minis-
cule now. But if for whatever
reason Moorhead coached his
last game with the Bulldogs on
Thursday, he went down swing-
ing.
“It put an exclamation point
on the narrative that was float-
ing around that I’m not the right
man for this job and that I can’t
coach in this league. That’s not
the case,” Moorhead said. “I’m
damn proud of this team.”
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Rumors or not, Moorhead says he isn’t going anywhere

BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — As
Joe Moorhead walked into
the press conference room
in the underbelly of Davis
Wade Stadium on Thurs-
day, he carried with him
the fruits of his labor.
With a black visor
perched on his head and
the shimmering Golden
Egg trophy under his arm,
Moorhead settled behind
the podium and delivered
his sermon.
“In 21 years of coach-
in reference to a crack he
made regarding outside
noise earlier this season.
“No one wants more
success than me and no
one wants a win as quickly
to get to a championship
— I get that part,” Moor-
head added. “I also have a
sense of logic and reason
and that things take time
and we want to be like the
1998 and 1999 teams be-
cause they were the last
ones to win an SEC cham-
pionship. And we’ll get
there.”
burn — the top four teams
in the SEC West this sea-
son — the Bulldogs were
outscored 179-73.
Further, MSU recorded
just one win against a Pow-
er Five conference foe with
a winning record through
Thursday. Despite that,
Moorhead remained op-
timistic of the state of his
squad postgame.
“This narrative gets
created by people who
aren’t involved in the de-
cision-making process,”
Moorhead said. “And I un-
Hill said. “... He’s the guy
for the job.”
“Hats off to Joe Moor-
head — he’s a great coach
and he led us in the right
direction,” senior defen-
sive end Chauncey Rivers
added. “He taught me how
to be a leader, how to take
control of this team, how
to be a man. So at the end
of the day, I respect coach
Moorhead.”
With a gaggle of family
members following him
into the side door of the
press conference room, Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

ing and a bunch more as

a player, I don’t know that
With Thursday’s victo-
ry, the Bulldogs conclude
derstand at times this year
we didn’t play like we need-
Moorhead disappeared
into the hallway one final Sudoku
Sudoku is a number-
placing puzzle based on
Yesterday’s answer
the regular season 6-6 and ed to play. I mean I talked time just before 10:30 p.m. Sudoku
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with as much adversity as also now sits at 14-11, is the the injuries and all those As the Egg Bowl trophy based onthe
is to place a 9x9
numbers 9 8 6 3 7 1 4 5 2
we’ve had to face,” he said. second MSU head coach things that go into it and sat glistening on the table grid
1 to 9with
in theseveral
empty spaces 4 5 9 7 6 3 8 2 1
“From having 10 guys out to win his first two Egg playing the third-toughest at the front of the room, given
so that numbers.
each row, eachThe 6 7 8 2 1 5 3 9 4
Bowls since World War II schedule in the country the night concluded. And object
column and each 3x3 the
is to place box
to start the season — some 3 2 1 8 9 4 6 7 5
— joining current Florida and every team that we’ve whether it be Moorhead’s numbers
contains the1same to 9 number
in
of our best players — go- 1 9 4 5 8 7 2 3 6
head coach Dan Mullen lost to is bowl-eligible.” final time at Davis Wade the empty spaces so
ing through a quarterback only once. The difficulty 8 3 5 4 2 6 9 1 7
— and became the second Moorhead’s players Stadium or not, he made that each row, each
rotation and having a ton level increases from
coach in program history were also questioned on his case clear — he’s not column and each 7 6 2 1 3 9 5 4 8
of injures — we had some Monday
to reach bowl eligibility the swirling rumors and going anywhere willingly. 3x3 boxtocontains
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ups and downs but the

kids just kept fighting.”
As rumors swirled that
his tenure was in doubt
regardless of the outcome
of Thursday’s Egg Bowl
against in-state rival Ole
Miss, Moorhead was fiery
and direct in his address
toward the rumblings.
“Who was it, Bob from
Bogue Chitto?” he said
in his first two seasons in
Starkville.
And while the numbers
stand among the elite in
school history, detractors
have long pointed to the
ebbs and flows of the 2019
team as an indictment on
Moorhead and his staff. In
games against Alabama,
LSU, Texas A&M and Au-
how they view their head
coach — doubling down
on the former Penn State
offensive coordinator’s fit
in Starkville.
“I feel like there’s no
coach in the country who
loves their players like
coach Moorhead does,”
junior running back and
Columbus native Kylin
“Everyone is coaching the same number only once. The difficulty level
for their job every day,” he increases from Monday to Sunday.
said. “That’s part of this
profession. I get it. To me,
that aspect of it didn’t faze
me at all because there
was no inclination outside
of these rumors and innu-
endo that that was even
the case. So it was busi-
ness as usual this week.”

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Continued from Page 1B
conduct foul on receiver
Elijah Moore — who imi-
tated a dog urinating on a
fire hydrant following his
two-yard touchdown re-
ception with four seconds
left — that backed up the
potentially game-tying
extra point to the Bulldog
17-yardline.
Luke, who said post-
game he’d have gone for
the tie regardless of the
penalty, looked on in hor-
ror as Logan’s kick floated
right of the uprights as
the thunderous clanging
of cowbells erupted in the
Starkville night.
An onside kick ensued.
Junior receiver JaVonta
Payton snagged the ball
with ease. MSU took over.
Standing four yards
off the line of scrimmage,
Shrader received one fi-
nal snap, took a knee and
raced toward the MSU
student section. Once
there, the “unflappable”
freshman signal caller
as Moorhead called him
launched the game ball
into the stands.
“That was the best
throw I made all night,” he
conceded through a wry
smile as he left his post-
game media session.
For Moorhead and the
Bulldogs, a win doesn’t
cure all ills. Rumors
swirled on social media
throughout the night that
MSU’s lead man was “out”
regardless of the result of
Thursday’s contest.
Addressing the spec-
ulation unprompted post-
game, Moorhead made
a stand at the podium as
the Golden Egg trophy
gleamed inches in front of
him on the front right cor-
ner of the stand.
“This is my team, my
school and my program,”
he bellowed. “They’re
going to have to drag my
Yankee ass out of here.”
Whether it’s Moor-
head’s final time in the
maroon and white or not
didn’t matter Thursday at
10:17 p.m. As celebratory
cigar smoke crept into the
press conference room,
reality set in. For MSU,
its school-record 10-year
bowl streak lives on. Most
importantly, it won the
game it had to. It defeat-
ed the school up north in
a game that will live on in
Bulldog lore. Because of
course it did.
“I think more than any-
thing it’s a validation for
our team and a validation
of our culture,” Moorhead
said. “To me, it puts an ex-
clamation point on the nar-
rative floating around that
I’m not the right man for
this job, this program or I
can’t coach in this league.
That’s not the case. I’m
damn proud of this team.”

ACROSS
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target
5 Pert talk
9 Barbershop
offering
11 Hilo hello
13 Trims
14 Succeed
15 Break off
16 Foolish talk
18 Tony-nom-
inated Disney
musical
20 Took the title
21 Paint type
22 Doll cry
DOWN nesses
23 Reactor part
1 Rockies resort 26 Spring sign
24 Spoil
2 Designer Coco 27 Outlaw
25 Flight part
3 Place to find 28 Jacket part
27 Quick snacks
nuts 30 Ocean’s
29 Possesses
4 Second person motions
30 Loafer orna-
5 Long tales 31 Tender spots
ments
6 Bunches 33 Olympics
32 Silhouette
7 Crash cause sled
34 Old auto
8 Israeli greeting 37 “Caught you!”
35 Exultant
10 Spotted
36 Less common
12 Game place
38 Sudden swell
17 Cat breed
39 Rude push
19 Cease
40 Spots
22 Dojo flooring
41 God of war
24 Stingy sorts
25 Mall busi-
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BULLDOG BULLETS

MSU going bowling for 10th straight year

By Garrick Hodge
ghodge@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Wow, what
a game.
For the 10th straight year,
Mississippi State is going bowl-
ing.
The Bulldogs took down
their rivals on Thanksgiving
night, retaining the Golden Egg
trophy with a 21-20 victory over
Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl.
This will still be considered a
disappointing year to some, and
it probably should be. Going 6-6
isn’t exactly a cause for celebra-
tion. But at least the Bulldogs
kept the bowl streak alive, so
there’s some solace at the end
of the year.
As always, a quick program-
ming note for those who are
new here: Bulldog Bullets will
be a weekly recurring arti-
cle filled with short observa-
tions and commentary written
throughout Mississippi State
football games that posts short-
ly after the final gun.
To the Bulldog Bullets:
n We’re just as aware of the
Joe Moorhead rumors as you
guys are. Hopefully there will
be an update in the not-too-dis-
tant future.
n Ole Miss completed a
fourth-and-24 to keep the game
alive with a 57-yard bomb. This
game had no shortage of dra-
ma. I have no idea how the sec-
ondary lets a wideout get that
far behind it considering the
down and distance.
n Then the defense jumps
offsides on fourth-and-4. Woof.
n Ole Miss scores a touch-
down and then commits an
unsportsmanlike conduct pen-
alty. Then the kicker missed
the PAT. That was the craziest
ending to a game I’ve seen in a
while.
n Thursday marked the first
time in five years the home
team has won the Egg Bowl.
n Bowl predictions are
pointless and most often wrong.
But what the heck, I’ll make one
anyway: MSU will play in the
Music City Bowl.
n Kylin Hill quietly had an-
other 100-plus yard rushing ef-
fort for MSU. Business as usual
for the electric running back.
n A horrible late-game deci-
sion from Matt Corral resulted
in a Marcus Murphy intercep-
tion. Matt Luke is probably go-
ing to take some heat for bench-
ing John Rhys Plumlee for
Corral in a game that Plumlee
was effective through the air.
n MSU probably did the best
job of containing Plumlee on
the ground that any team has
done all year. Just a pretty solid
all-around defensive effort.
n Right away, Ole Miss’ tem-
po on offense was driving MSU
crazy. Then the Rebels fum-
bled. Completely changed the
momentum around.
n Always cool to see a senior
like Nick Gibson score a touch-
down in his last Egg Bowl.
n Mississippi State actually
had a kickoff go into the end
zone. Must have been a mishit.
n Sarcasm aside, MSU’s
kickoff coverage was pretty
stellar Thursday.
n A wild Keytaon Thompson
appeared and caught a pass. In
all seriousness, that was inter-
esting.
n I know he dropped the
snap, but Tucker Day still had
plenty of time to get a punt off
instead of panicking and try-
ing to run for a first down. Very
costly mistake that let Ole Miss
tie the game heading into half-
time.
n Elijah Moore’s drops
didn’t exactly help Ole Miss.
n That Willie Gay fumble
recovery and failed pitch to
Chauncey Rivers (MSU recov-
ered the ball anyway) has to
be the craziest play from the
game, but not by much.

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I have been together for 30
years, married for 20. We
have two sons living at home,
a 20-year-old who works full-
time and a 17-year-old who is
graduating from high school in
the spring.
I have been offered a trans-
fer to Australia by my employer
— a transfer I had asked for.
When we discussed it in the
past, everyone was all for it.
My oldest can likely stay with
the multinational hotel chain
he works for now, and I can get
my youngest a decent career
in my field of work as there is a
tremendous shortage of skilled
labor in Australia.
Now my wife tells me
she can’t leave her family,
especially her father, who has
Parkinson’s. I have told her
she can expect to return every
summer to our condo on the
beach and an additional two
trips per year.
Abby, I thought our vows
meant we would be together
forever, wherever. My employer
will soon begin the process of
opening the Australian office,
a process I will be part of and
likely train the new hire. I am
bitter and resentful toward my
wife, and it is affecting my atti-
tude toward her. I love her, but
I am struggling to get over the
fact she is denying me a very
lucrative opportunity. Advice?
— LOSING OUT IN CANADA
DEAR LOSING OUT: It’s
time for you and your wife to
put your heads together and
work out a solution. By that I
mean you should accept the
lucrative business opportunity
you have been offered, AND
your wife can take care of her
father as long as she needs
to. Unless his condition is
critical, she can visit you and
your sons periodically so it
shouldn’t put too much strain
on your marriage. I hope you
will consider it because the
kind of resentment you are
feeling now can destroy a
marriage.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov.
29). A high level of savoir-faire
requires great cleverness,
which is easy for you, as
there’s a universal genius at
your disposal this solar year.
Notable moments center around
unconscious desires becoming
conscious, ideas becoming re-
ality and your legacy being built
with the help of a group of like
BABY BLUES talents. Scorpio and Virgo adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 8,
30, 27, 34 and 19.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Take your time. Figure things
out. Do you know the unspoken
rules? It will not be a good
idea to accept what’s being
offered unless you completely
understand the terms of the
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
transaction.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Desire and good judgment
will pull in opposite directions.
Instead of sticking around for
the tug of war, go where things
in the environment will be less
polarized and it will be easy to
do the right thing.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
The people in your life appre-
ciate you but don’t always tell
you the way you need to hear
it, which today will be verbally
and publically. You deserve the
accolades.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Be direct wherever you can.
Leave no room for ambiguity, as
it will waste time and energy.
A good rule of thumb is “If you
have to ask, then that’s your
answer.”
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
While you shouldn’t lose sight of
your own ideas, neither should
you try to force them on anyone.
Share in the commonly accept-
ed version of reality. It may be
wrong, but working with others
is essential to your success.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Whether you’re seeing the usual
people today or getting to know
a new group, you’ll benefit from
being the one to interject some
novelty into the interaction,
perhaps with an interesting
icebreaker or a game.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Embrace what works for you
for as long as it does. If you
believe, then so it is, no scien-
tific proof required. Nor does
it matter in the least who else
believes or disbelieves.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Just because you change
your mood doesn’t mean you’ll
change your mind. If you choose
a different course of action, it
will be for good reason and the
result of much consideration.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Paying close attention
sometimes means making sure
your mind doesn’t wander, and
sometimes it means making
sure it does. After all, nothing
exists alone. There’s always a
larger context to consider.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Fools may rush in, but not
you. You’re not even sure if you
want in at all, and that prudence
is part of your charm today. You
don’t have to deliberate on this
one. You’ll go only if and when
you feel it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Anticipate your various
obligations with an eye toward
possible conflicts and contra-
dictions. While there’s no such
thing as a perfect plan, much
trouble can be avoided with a
really good one.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). There really won’t be a neu-
tral zone today, as you’ll know
right away if you’re interested,
able, ready... or not. All you
need is the courage to believe
your own inklings and act on
them.

The joke’s on you

SOLUTION:
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Pastor Anniversary
Providence M.B. Church,
2320 Providence Church Road
in Ethelsville, hosts its 22nd
Pastor Anniversary program for
Pastor Robert Moore at 2:30
Cake Program at 1 p.m. Dec.
7. The public is invited to
attend. For more information,
call 662-255-7145.
Forgive and Live
Religious briefs
1102 12th Ave. S., invites the
public to join its Community
Gospel Book Club from 6-7
p.m. the last Friday of each
month to study and share
views of the Holy Bible. Open
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.
Women Prayer,
Worship Service
Church of the Eternal
Word, 106 22nd St. S., holds
a prayer and worship service
Sunday worship 11:15 a.m.;
Tuesday Bible study 7 p.m.
For information, call Pastor
District Elder Lou Nabors,
662-329-1234.

p.m. Dec. 1. Guest speaker

will be the Rev. Bernard Henry
of the Infant Baptist Church in
Carrollton. The public is invited
to attend. For more informa-
tion, call 205-662-3869.
Christmas Bake/
Craft Sale
Mathiston U.M. Church,
24894 Hwy. 15 in Mathiston,
hosts its Christmas Bake and
Craft Sale from 8 a.m.-noon
Dec. 7. Proceeds benefit the
United Methodist Women
Mission projects. The public
is invited to attend. For more
information, call Jimmie Whitt,
662-263-6173.
Holy Cake Program
The Pastor’s Aid of True-
vine Baptist Church, 5606
Artesia Road, hosts its Holy
Forgive and Live meets
from 6-7 p.m. every 1st and
3rd Monday of each month in
the downtown YMCA Board
Room. Inquire and seek infor-
mation 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.
Fellowship Dinner,
Youth Service
Pleasant Ridge Faith
Center, 923 Ridge Road,
Columbus, hosts a fellowship
dinner and youth service every
3rd Sunday.
Gospel Book Club
Friendship M.B. Church,
to all ages and ethnicities. For
more information, call Lillian
Murray, 662-570-1974.
Grief Support Group
The Oil of Joy for Grief
and Mourning offers a grief
support group at 6 p.m. every
2nd Thursday of the month
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 Assembly
Church (next to Lowe’s) and
Prayer for Youth
Every 2nd and 3rd
Saturday, 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
Broadcast, 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 a.m.;
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 and more. Transportation
available. For information, call
Iris Roberson, 662-295-7456.

Trump thanks troops on Afghan

visit, says Taliban want deal
President Trump spent more than
three hours at Bagram Air Field
in surprise Thanksgiving visit
By JILL COLVIN
The Associated Press
B A -
GRAM AIR
FIELD, Af-
ghanistan
— Presi-
dent Donald
Trump paid
a surprise
Trump
T hanksgiv-
ing visit to Afghanistan,
where he announced the
U.S. and the Taliban have
been engaged in ongoing
peace talks and said he
believes the Taliban want
a cease-fire.
Trump arrived at Ba-
gram Air Field shortly
after 8:30 p.m. local time
Thursday and spent 3½
hours on the ground
during his first trip to the
site of America’s longest
war. He served turkey
and thanked the troops,
delivered a speech and
sat down with Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani
before leaving just after
midnight.
As per tradition, re-
porters were under strict
instructions to keep the
trip a secret to ensure the
president’s safety in the
country. About 12,000
U.S. forces remain in Af-
ghanistan.
Traveling with Repub-
lican Sen. John Barrasso
of Wyoming and a small
clutch of aides, including
his acting chief of staff,
press secretary and na-
tional security adviser,
Trump appeared in good
spirits as he was escorted
around the base by heav-
ily armed soldiers, as the
smell of burning fuel and
garbage wafted through
the chilly air. Unlike last
year’s post-Christmas
visit to Iraq — his first to
an active combat zone —
first lady Melania Trump
did not make the trip.
Trump’s first stop was
a dining hall, where the
crowd erupted into cheers
when he arrived. There,
he served turkey to sol-
diers dressed in fatigues
and sat down for a meal.
But he said he only tast-
ed the mashed potatoes
before he was pulled away
for photos.
“I never got the tur-
key,” he told the troops.
“A gorgeous piece of tur-
key.”
During his visit, Trump
announced that the U.S.
and Taliban have been en-
gaged in peace talks and
insisted the Taliban want
to make a deal after heavy
U.S. fire in recent months.
“We’re meeting with
them,” he said. “And
we’re saying it has to be a
cease-fire. And they don’t
want to do a cease-fire,
but now they do want to
do a cease-fire, I believe
... and we’ll see what hap-
pens.”
The trip came after
Trump abruptly broke off
peace talks with the Tali-
ban in September, cancel-
ing a secret meeting with
Taliban and Afghan lead-
ers at the Camp David
presidential retreat after a
particularly deadly spate
of violence, capped by a
bombing in Kabul that
killed 12 people, includ-
ing an American soldier.
That ended a nearly
yearlong effort by the U.S.
to reach a political settle-
ment with the Taliban,
the group that protected
al-Qaida extremists in
Afghanistan, prompting
U.S. military action after
the Sept. 11, 2001, terror-
ist attacks. U.S. and inter-
national forces have been
on the ground ever since.

China furious, Hong Kong celebrates after US move on bills

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister: Human rights bills are Chinese Communist Party
must honor its promises to
‘serious interference in China’s internal affairs ...’ the Hong Kong people.”
The U.S. “believes that
The Associated Press ference in China’s internal the U.S. not to implement Hong Kong’s autonomy,
affairs and a serious viola- the bills to prevent greater its adherence to the rule
BEIJING — China tion of international law,” a damage to U.S.-China rela- of law, and its commitment
reacted furiously Thurs- foreign ministry statement tions, the ministry said. to protecting civil liberties
day to President Donald said. In a statement about are key to preserving its
Trump’s signing two bills Le called it a “nakedly the meeting, the U.S. Em- special status under U.S.
aimed at supporting hu- hegemonic act.” He urged bassy in Beijing said, “the law,” it said.
man rights in Hong Kong,
summoning the U.S. am-
bassador to protest and
warning the move would
undermine cooperation
with Washington.
Hong Kong, a former
British colony that was
granted semi-autonomy
when China took control in
1997, has been rocked by
six months of sometimes
violent pro-democracy
demonstrations.
Thousands of pro-de-
mocracy activists crowded
a public square in down-
town Hong Kong on Thurs-
day night for a “Thanksgiv-
ing Day” rally to thank the
United States for passing
the laws and vowed to
“march on” in their fight.
Trump’s approval of the
bills was not unexpected.
Neither was the reaction
from Beijing, given Chi-
na’s adamant rejections of
any commentary on what
it considers an internal is-
sue.
Nevertheless, the clash
comes at a sensitive time
and could upset already
thorny trade negotiations
between the two nations.
Chinese Vice Foreign
Minister Le Yucheng told
U.S. Ambassador Terry
Branstad that the move
constituted “serious inter-
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ninety (90) days from the first
publication date of this Notice
to Creditors. A failure to so pro-
bate and register said claim
will forever bar the same.
This the 13th day of November
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/s/ Brittany Brown, Adminis-
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Myra Kate Richardson Cox, Ex- (107k), lots of documen− reunions, the pavilion in
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General Help Wanted
COLUMBUS BUSINESS
seeking to hire employee to
perform clerical duties in-
cluding greeting customers,
answering telephone, filing,
light typing, photocopying,
running errands, assisting
staff with projects, monitor-
ing office supplies invent-
ory and ordering additional
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Email resume to:
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THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
PLANING AND DEVELOP-
MENT DISTRICT is accept-
ing applications for part-
time personal care attend-
ants to work in the Golden
Triangle area. Applicants
must have a valid driver’s
license, reliable transporta-
tion and liability insurance
on vehicle. Contact Minnie
Lindsey at the Golden Tri-
angle Planning and Devel-
opment District, 106 Miley
Drive, Starkville, MS. No
telephone calls please.
Dryer connections.
Deposit required. Call
662−436−2255 for
further details.
Background checks
required. $500.
Apts For Rent: Other
1ST MONTH − Rent Free!
1BR Apt − $350−$385
2BR Apt − $395−$495
2BR TwnHome − $625
Lease, Dep & Credit Check.
Coleman Realty
662−329−2323.
DOWNTOWN 1BR
This large 1 bedroom
apartment has been
recently renovated. It
features great natural light,
hardwood floors, tall
ceilings and access to a
shared laundry room.
$750 rent and $750
deposit. Utilities included.
No pets please. Call Peter,
662−574−1561.
DOWNTOWN: 2BR/1BA
CH&A, 1 story, W/D,
historic district, 1 block
from downtown.
$575/mo. + $575 dep.
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udice
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