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Area hospitals brace for increase in COVID cases

NMMC chief medical officer: ‘We’ll deal with all this better happened since the pre-mask
mandate days of late July and
if people start masking and social distancing’ early August.
Jamie Martin, chief medi-
cal officer at Baptist Memorial
BY SLIM SMITH across the state,” said Jim Jack- as of today, we have six or sev- Hospital-Golden Triangle, said
ssmith@cdispatch.com son, CEO at OCH Regional en. It could be that we are just the hospital has seen a surge in
Medical Center. “But for some starting to see the result of the cases over the past two weeks.
The surge in COVID-19 cas-
reason, we didn’t see that in- increase in cases.” “We were down to single dig-
es that is sweeping the state
may finally be arriving in the crease in hospitalizations that Jackson said Tuesday Jackson Martin its for most of September and
Golden Triangle, administra- other areas were seeing.” marked the first day the hospi- sippi now has a total of 135,803 October,” he said. “But here in
tors from hospitals in Colum- That changed almost as tal has seen six or more cases in cases and 3,581 deaths. the last two weeks, we’ve been
bus, Starkville and West Point Jackson was speaking. a single day since Aug. 17. The seven-day average of seeing the numbers in the 10 to
acknowledge. “We were averaging three The Mississippi State De- new cases stood at 1,094.71 — 20 range. The same thing is go-
“We’ve been following the to four positive patients a day,” partment of Health on Monday the fifth day in a row the num- ing on in other places.”
uptick in cases in the area and Jackson said Tuesday. “Now, reported 905 new cases. Missis- ber broke 1,000. That hasn’t See HOSPITALS, 8A

PLANTING JASMINE Rienzi man

to serve life
for 30-year-
old Starkville
murder
Investigators linked
DNA from crime scene
to that of defendants’
relatives on genealogy
website
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com

Julia Kathryn
Holt said she want-
ed to see Michael
Devaughn’s face
when she spoke to
him from the stand
of the courtroom in
Lowndes County
Devaughn
Courthouse during
his sentencing hearing Tuesday.
Devaughn, 53, of Rienzi, had just
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff pleaded guilty to capital murder,
Mallory Williams, of Styron’s Lawn Service in Columbus, plants jasmine at the Lowndes County Soccer Complex Thursday more than 30 years after the deaths
evening. She has worked for Styron’s for four months, she said. of Starkville residents Betty Jones,
65, and Holt’s grandmother Kath-
ryn Crigler, 81. The two women had
been at Crigler’s home the night of
Sept. 3, 1990, when an intruder en-
tered the home, murdered Jones

LED streetlights projected to save city $100K annually
Mayor: Citizens ‘satisfied’
with ‘brighter, clearer’ lights
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
Installed in May, the
more than 4,000 LED
lights illuminating Colum-
bus streets have saved the
city $102,000 in utilities
since July, and are expect-
ed to save $400,000 in util-
ities annually, Rudy Wat- Smith
kins of Tennessee-based
PATH Company told the city council
Tuesday night.
The 4,276 energy-saving lights were
installed across the city to replace old
fixtures and provide “brighter, clearer”
lights above city streets, Mayor Robert
Smith told The Dispatch. The construc-
tion crew began the process in February
and completed the installation in May.
Watkins, who presented pre-instal-
lation and post-installation pictures to
the council, told The Dispatch the LED
lights are more cost-efficient and better
distribute the light compared to the old
lights.
“They use between 50 to 70 percent
less energy than … (those that use) old-
er technology,” he said. “It also does a
better job at spreading the light in be-
tween the poles evenly compared to the
old technology.”
The lights also have a 10-year war-
ranty, he said, and they should last for at
least 20 years. If a storm hits Columbus
and damages the lights, the cost of re-
pairs will be covered by the city’s insur-
ance, City Attorney Jeff Turnage added.
Prior to the installation, the city had
budgeted an annual $515,658 for street-
See STREETLIGHTS, 8A
Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff
Rudy Watkins, representative from
Memphis, Tennessee-based PATH
Company, gives an update on the
city’s LED light installation project
at the Columbus city council meet-
ing Tuesday night. More than 4,200
street lights have been installed
across the city, he said, and the
project is expected to save the city
$400,000 per year in utility costs.
and sexually assaulted Crigler, who
died two months later.
It wasn’t until October 2018 that
investigators arrested Devaughn
after matching DNA from family
members of his to DNA taken from
Crigler’s rape kit. Holt said she’d
kept a picture of Devaughn on her
phone ever since the arrest.
“That was my best friend,” Holt
said of Crigler. “... I hope you feel
remorse. I hope you’ve thought
about that for 30 years.”
An Oktibbeha County grand
jury indicted Devaughn for one
count of capital murder and sex-
ual battery in 2019. (The plea and
sentencing hearing was held in
Lowndes County because court is
currently in session there.) Prose-
cutors dropped the sexual battery
charge as a condition of Devaughn
pleading guilty.
Sixteenth District Circuit Judge
Lee Coleman sentenced Devaughn
See MURDER, 3A

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Trump fires agency head who

vouched for 2020 vote security
Since his loss, Trump has been firing officials seen
as insufficiently loyal and denouncing the conduct
of an election that led to an embarrassing defeat
BY BEN FOX
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Donald Trump fired the nation’s top
election security official, a widely
respected member of his adminis-
tration who had dared to refute the
president’s unsubstantiated claims
of electoral fraud and vouch for the
integrity of the vote.
While abrupt, the dismissal
Tuesday of Christopher Krebs, the
director of the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency,
was not a surprise. Since his loss,
Trump has been ridding his admin-
istration of officials seen as insuffi-
ciently loyal and has been denounc-
ing the conduct of an election that
led to an embarrassing defeat to
Democrat Joe Biden.
That made Krebs a prime tar-
get. He had used the imprimatur of
Trump’s own Department of Home-
land Security, where his agency
was based, to issue a stream of
statements and tweets over the past
week attesting to the proper con-
duct of the election and denouncing
the falsehoods spread by the presi-
dent and his supporters — without
mentioning Trump by name.
Krebs stood by those assertions
after his ouster.
“Honored to serve. We did it
right,” he said in a brief statement
on Twitter. “Defend Today, Secure
Tomorrow.”
He closed with the phrase “Pro-
tect 2020,” which had been his
agency’s slogan ahead of the elec-
tion.
The firing of Krebs, a Trump
appointee, came the week after
the dismissal of Defense Secre-
tary Mark Esper, part of a broader
shakeup that put Trump loyalists in
senior Pentagon positions.
A former Microsoft executive,
Krebs ran the agency, known as
CISA, from its creation in the wake
of Russian interference with the
2016 election through the Novem-
ber election. He won bipartisan
praise as CISA coordinated feder-
al state and local efforts to defend
electoral systems from foreign or
domestic interference.
Hours before being dismissed,
Krebs tweeted out a report citing
59 election security experts say-
ing there is no credible evidence of
computer fraud in the 2020 election
outcome.
Trump responded on Twitter
later in the day. He repeated unsub-
stantiated claims about the vote and
wrote “effective immediately, Chris
Krebs has been terminated as Di-
rector of the Cybersecurity and In-
frastructure Security Agency.”
Officials with CISA and its par-
ent agency, the Department of
Homeland Security, had no imme-
diate comment.

Biden’s DIY transition proceeds without Trump assistance

Biden’s representatives plan to
meet directly with pharmaceutical
companies this week to determine
how best to distribute vaccines
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WILMINGTON, Del.
— President Donald
Trump’s refusal to coop-
erate with his successor
is forcing President-elect
Joe Biden to seek unusual
workarounds to prepare
for the exploding public
health threat and evolv-
ing national security chal-
lenges he will inherit in
just nine weeks.
Blocked from the offi-
cial intelligence briefing
traditionally afforded
to incoming presidents,
Biden gathered virtually
on Tuesday with a collec-
tion of intelligence, de-
fense and diplomatic ex-
perts. None of the experts
are currently affiliated
with the U.S. government,
raising questions about
whether Biden is being
provided the most up-to-
date information about
dangers facing the nation.
Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris received
a more formal briefing
pharmaceutical compa-
nies this week to deter-
mine how best to distrib-
ute at least two promising
vaccines to hundreds of
millions of Americans,
the biggest logistical chal-
lenge to face a new presi-
on Tuesday as a member dent in generations.
of the Senate Intelligence The moves reflect how
Committee, though still Biden is adjusting to a his-
has relatively limited in-
torically tense transition.
formation about the spe-
With no sign that Trump
cific threats Biden will
is prepared to facilitate
inherit.
soon a peaceful transfer
And as the worst pan-
of power, Biden and his
demic in a century bears team are instead working
down on the U.S. with through a series of back-
renewed ferocity, the up options to do the best
current administration they can to prepare for the
is blocking Biden from challenges he will face as
collaborating with its soon as he takes office in
response team. Biden’s January.
representatives instead Declining to criticize
plan to meet directly with Trump, Biden acknowl-
edged Tuesday that he
has “not been receiving
briefings that would or-
dinarily come by now”
as he opened his virtual
meeting with the nation-
al security experts. The
12 participants, who ap-
peared on video screens,
included former Deputy
CIA Director David Co-
hen, retired Gen. Stanley
McChrystal and Avril
Haines, a deputy nation-
al security adviser in the
Obama administration,
among others.
Biden said he was pre-
paring to inherit “a divid-
ed country and a world in
disarray.”
“That’s why I need you
all,” he said.

Georgia elections
chief battles fellow
Republicans,
president
BY JEFF AMY
The Associated Press

ATLANTA — Geor-
gia’s secretary of state is
a man on an island, and
the political flood is rising
fast as President Donald
Trump and his allies vent
their outrage at the fellow
Republican and make un-
supported claims that mis-
management and fraud
tainted the state’s presi-
dential election.
Trump spent the
weekend attacking Brad
Raffensperger on social
media, at one point call-
ing him “a so-called Re-
publican (RINO),” an ac-
ronym for “Republican in
name only.” Raffensperger
punched back, disputing
Trump’s claims that he
made it easier for Demo-
crats to cheat using mail-
in ballots.
The secretary also
called U.S. Rep Doug
Collins, who is running
Trump’s Georgia recount
effort, a “liar,” and says
South Carolina Republi-
can Sen. Lindsey Graham
called him in an apparent
effort to pressure him to
improperly discard bal-
lots. Graham dismissed
the allegation as “ridicu-
lous.”
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Number of students with virus doubled within week, data show

More than 14K students in Mississippi have
been placed in quarantine within the last week
BY LEAH WILLINGHAM
The Associated Press/Report for America
JACKSON — Newly con-
firmed cases of the coronavirus
among students in Mississippi
have nearly doubled in a week’s
time, according to data released
by the department of health.
The number of students who
tested positive for coronavirus
increased from 579 from Nov.
2 through Nov. 6 to more than
1,000 from Nov. 9 to Nov. 13.
Last week, schools reported 70
outbreaks, which means more
than three cases were reported
within a confined setting over
the course of two weeks.
“You see that things are re-
ally starting to heat up,” State
Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers
said Tuesday during a virtual
briefing with reporters. Byers
was addressing coronavirus
developments in Mississippi’s
school system.
More than 14,000 students in
Mississippi have been placed in
quarantine within the last week,
according to the state. That’s
compared with about 9,000 stu-
dents during the previous week.
Children generally don’t ap-
pear to get sick or experience
symptoms as often as adults
when they’re infected with coro-
navirus. However, since the
start of the pandemic, at least
three children have died of com-
plications from the virus, Byers
said.
Several teachers have died
from Covid-19 since students re-
turned to school, although Mis-
sissippi’s State Health Officer
Dr. Thomas Dobbs said it can
be difficult to pinpoint exactly
where a person became infect-
ed, and whether it was a result of
being in the classroom.
“There are teachers who
have died, and linking it specif-
ically to an outbreak is hard to
do,” Dobbs said. “But is it possi-
ble, and has it likely occurred?
Yes.”
Most recently, a teacher’s
aide at Hernando Elementary
School in DeSoto County, which
is reporting the most corona-
virus cases in the entire state,
died from coronavirus compli-
cations, DeSoto County Schools
confirmed to WREG-TV on
Monday.
Schools are required to re-
port on a weekly basis the num-
bers of teachers and students
who test positive for coronavi-
rus or are in quarantine, as well
as the number of outbreaks in a
school. The data released by the
Mississippi State Department
of Health for this past week was
based on data reported by 880 of
the 1,200 schools in the state.
The health department is
now tracking how many schools
have opted to temporarily tran-
sition to virtual learning be-
cause of outbreaks. More than
65 schools have gone virtual
within the last week because of
outbreaks or an increased num-
ber of teachers and students in
quarantine, Byers said.

First woman confirmed as federal judge for southern Mississippi

Kristi Haskins Johnson will serve in
the southern half of the state, with
courthouses in Jackson, Hattiesburg,
Natchez and Gulfport
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON — The U.S.
Senate on Tuesday con-
firmed the first woman
to become a federal judge
for the Southern District
of Mississippi.
Kristi Haskins Johnson
of Brandon is a former as-
sistant U.S. attorney for
the southern half of Mis-
sissippi. Earlier this year,
Mississippi Attorney Gen-
eral Lynn Fitch named
Johnson as the state solic-
itor general.
President Donald
Trump announced John-
son’s nomination to the
federal bench March 30,
and the Republican-con-
trolled Senate voted 53-43
Tuesday for her confirma-
tion. Johnson will serve in
the southern half of the
state, with courthouses
in Jackson, Hattiesburg,
Natchez and Gulfport.
Johnson earned an un-
dergraduate degree from
the University of Missis-
sippi and a law degree
from Mississippi College,
where she was executive
editor of the Mississip-
pi College Law Review.
She was a law clerk for
U.S. District Judge Shar-
ion Aycock in northern
Mississippi and for Judge
Leslie H. Southwick of the
5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals. Johnson also has
been an adjunct professor
at Mississippi College.
Mississippi’s two Re-
publican U.S. senators,
Roger Wicker and Cindy
Hyde-Smith, issued state-
ments Tuesday praising
Johnson.
“She is well-prepared
and well-equipped to take
her seat on the federal
bench, and I’m proud she
is making history to be the
first woman judge to serve
in the Southern District,”
said Hyde-Smith, who is
the first woman to repre-
sent Mississippi in either
“brought our appellate
advocacy to new heights.”
chamber of Congress. “I
am confident that she will
“This is a significant
day for Mississippi as
serve Mississippi and our
nation with distinction as
Kristi makes history
for the second time this
she upholds the Constitu-
year,” Fitch, who is the
tion and the rule of law.”
Wicker said Johnson first woman to serve as
“has a unique record of Mississippi attorney gen-
accomplishment as a eral, said in a statement.
public servant, a private
attorney, a scholar and a
professor.”
Fitch said Johnson, as
solicitor general, made
“tremendous contribu-
tions” to the state attor-
ney general’s office and

Murder
Continued from Page 1A
to life in prison without
the possibility of parole.
Holt said she was glad he
pleaded, since he could
have faced the death pen-
alty if a jury had convict-
ed him at trial, and she’s
against the death penalty.
“I forgive you and I
pray that you find peace
in your heart,” she said.
DNA and genetic
genealogy
District Attorney Scott
Colom told The Dispatch
the facts
of the case
were “terri-
ble.”
During
the hear-
ing, he told
Coleman
p r o s e c u - Colom
tors had
evidence to show that
Devaughn entered Cri-
gler’s home and slashed
Jones’ throat before going
into Crigler’s room “with
his hands covered in
blood.” He assaulted her,
breaking her pelvis, be-
fore taking her purse and
leaving the house. Colom
said Crigler “crawled her
way to the kitchen” to call
911.
“She did not know at
that time that her friend
had been killed,” Colom
said.
Investigators said the
case could not have been
solved without advance-
ments in DNA evidence
since the 1990s. Colom
said it was even unusual
for hospitals to perform
rape kits at the time, so
he was glad OCH did af-
ter the assault on Crigler.
DNA samples from
the kit were not sent to a
laboratory until 2005, Co-
lom said. But at that time,
the DNA did not match
any samples on the Com-
bined DNA Index System
(CODIS), a national da-
tabase of DNA samples
from those convicted of
felonies, meaning the
suspect had never been
convicted of a felony be-
fore.
Starkville Police De-
partment Lt. Bill Lott,
who has
spond to calls from The should be able to see
Dispatch by press time. this.”
Colom said he also left Dispatch reporter Tess
the case with mixed feel- Vrbin contributed to this
ings. The brutality of the report.
crime makes it difficult
to feel “happy” about it
no matter the outcome,
he said, but he is glad the
victims’ family members
— including Crigler’s
sister, who was with Cri-
gler when she reported
the attack to police — got
to hear Devaughn’s sen-
tencing.
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff “She was able 30 years
Michael Devaughn and his attorney Mark Williamson of later to be there when
Starkville face 16th District Circuit Judge Lee Coleman
the person that did it fi-
at Devaughn’s sentencing hearing in Lowndes County
Courthouse Tuesday. Devaughn pleaded guilty to capi- nally was caught, accept-
ed responsibility, and
tal murder in a 30-year-old Starkville case and was sen-
she has the comfort of
tenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
By pleading, Devaughn admitted to murdering Betty knowing he’ll spend the
Jones, 65, and sexually assaulting Kathryn Crigler, 81, rest of his life in prison,
in Crigler’s Starkville home on Sept. 3, 1990. which is what she want-
ed and what she said she
pects’ family members Taylor’s mother, Anne thought her sister would
who had been arrested McWhorter, is Jones’ want,” he said.
in other states or who younger sister. “I’m proud of law en-
had willingly submitted “She was just a won- forcement,” he added.
their DNA to genealogy derful person,” Taylor “They never gave up. Bill
websites such as Ances- said of Jones. “And we’ve Lott — without him, we
try.com. Virginia-based always remembered her never get to this point.
Parabon NanoLabs even- for being a fun-loving, Everybody knows that. I
tually matched DNA from caring compassionate was happy that we did our
the rape kit to relatives of lady, and are very thank- part. We got it across the
Devaughn whose DNA ful for (law enforcement), finish line, my staff and
had been uploaded to especially Bill Lott for I. We really did prioritize
GEDMatch, a free online seeing this through to it for the family. … They
database where individ- the end and getting our
uals can upload DNA to family closure.”
discover relatives or find Holt told The Dis-
other genealogical infor- patch that when she was
mation. growing up, she used to
“Genetic genealogy is spend her summers in
what actually solved this Starkville with Crigler,
case,” Lott said. “Not CO- who was a talented singer
DIS, not your traditional and piano player.
database.” “My granny was one
Lott said he followed of the strongest women
the case of the infamous I have ever known,” she
Golden State Killer, Jo- said. “I was so close to
seph DeAngelo, who her. She was my closest
in June pleaded guilty grandparent.
in California to sever- “I’ve known Betty
al rapes and murders all my life,” she added.
stretching back to the “Even though she was so
1970s. Investigators in much younger, she was
that case matched DNA one of my granny’s very,
evidence from one of the very best friends.”
crime scenes to relatives Jones and Crigler’s
of DeAngelo on GED- case became the subject
Match. of the Knock Knock pod-
Lott said he wanted to cast, started by Jones’
make sure the courts up- step-grandsons Simon
held that case before us- and Jason Jones, who live
ing the same techniques in Nashville.
to solve Jones’ murder. The story has been in
“When I saw that the his family since he was SOLUNAR TABLE
Golden Case Killer’s case 10, so having a resolution
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peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Wed. Thurs.
was held up because of is “a very odd feeling,” Ja- Major 3:48a 4:47a

been work- the GEDMatch, which son Jones said.

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case on his vacy … I said, ‘It’s time someone go to prison for

of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

own time for for us to do it,’ to Para- the rest of their life, so
14 ½ years,
said he later
sent further
bon,” Lott said.

samples of Lott
DNA off to
different labs, hoping
they could match the
DNA to DNA of the sus-
‘Getting closure’
Jones’ niece, Jennifer
McWhorton Taylor, said
after 30 years, she was
relieved for her family to
have a sense of closure.
it’s a mixed feeling,” he
said. “Whatever happens
to Michael Devaughn
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FDA allows first rapid virus test Amazon opens online pharmacy,
shaking up another industry
that gives results at home BY JOSEPH PISANI AND TOM MURPHY
AP Writers

Test will require a authorization to the single-use

prescription, likely
limiting its initial use
BY MAT THEW PERRONE
AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON — U.S. regu-
lators on Tuesday allowed emer-
gency use of the first rapid coro-
navirus test that can be performed
entirely at home and delivers re-
sults in 30 minutes.
The announcement by the Food
and Drug Administration rep-
resents an important step in U.S.
efforts to expand testing options
for COVID-19 beyond health care
facilities and testing sites. Howev-
er, the test will require a prescrip-
tion, likely limiting its initial use.
The FDA granted emergency
test kit from Lucira Health, a Cali-
fornia manufacturer.
The company’s test allows us-
ers to swab themselves to collect
a nasal sample. The sample is
then swirled in a vial of laboratory
solution that plugs into a portable
device. Results are displayed as
lights labeled positive or negative.
To date, the FDA has autho-
rized nearly 300 tests for corona-
virus. The vast majority require a
nasal swab performed by a health
professional and must be pro-
cessed at laboratories using high-
tech equipment. A handful of tests
allow people to collect their own
sample at home — a nasal swab or
saliva — that’s then shipped to a
lab, which usually means waiting
days for results.
Health experts have called for
options to allow people to test
themselves at home, reducing
turnaround times and the poten-
tial spread of the virus to others,
including health care workers.
Rapid test results are critical to
quickly quarantining those who
are infected and tracing their con-
tacts. But for months, U.S. testing
has been plagued by slow results
due to bottlenecks as testing lab-
oratories. There are other rapid
tests but most require a small, spe-
cial machine operated by a health
professional to develop results
“Now, more Americans who
may have COVID-19 will be able
to take immediate action, based
on their results, to protect them-
selves and those around them,”
Dr. Jeff Shuren, director of the
FDA’s devices center, said in a
statement.
NEW YORK — Now at Amazon.com: insulin
and inhalers.
The retail colossus opened an online pharma-
cy Tuesday that allows customers to order medi-
cation or prescription refills, and have them deliv-
ered to their front door in a couple of days.
The potential impact of Amazon’s arrival in the
pharmaceutical space rippled through that sector
immediately. The stocks of CVS Health Corp.,
Walgreens and Rite Aid all tumbled Tuesday.
The big chains rely on their pharmacies for
a steady flow of shoppers who may also grab a
snack or shampoo or groceries on the way out.
All have upped online services and touted their
abilities to deliver prescriptions and other goods
as the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more con-
sumers to stay home. But Amazon.com has mas-
tered these things, and its online store is infinite-
ly larger, with millions of loyal shoppers already
buying books, TVs and just about anything else.
“The news represents a disruption to the sys-
tem and competitive threat that will likely shift
scripts away from the retail channel,” analysts at
Citi Research said in a note.

Marianne Shaw Schmitt

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AREA OBITUARIES
Grubb Springs Commu-
nity to the late James
Clarence and Mettie
Lou Roberts Smith.
He was a graduate of
Greenwood Springs
High School. He was
formerly employed with
Texas Easter, as a truck
driver for Lion Oil and
as owner and operator
of Smith’s Body Shop.
He was a member of
Hamilton United Meth-
odist Church.
In addition to his
parents, he was preced-
ed in death by his wife,
Martha Lucille Judaon
Smith; and son Ricky
Smith.
He is survived by his
children, Jerry Smith
and Martha Perkins;
seven grandchildren;
and 14 grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be
Ben Smith, Isaac Smith,
Kendall Gosa, Alan At-
kins, Tyler Craven and
Drew Randolph.
Suzanne Spruill
ABERDEEN — Su-
zanne Spruill, 52, died
Nov. 15, 2020, at North
Mississippi Medical
Center of Amory.
Services are at
11 a.m. today, in the
Tisdale-Lann Memorial
Marianne Shaw Schmitt
father, she is survived Schrock all of Aber- died in Phoenixville, PA on
by her husband, John deen, Michael Schrock November 12, 2020, after a brief
Spruill; and siblings, of Amory, Nora Fonte- illness. She was 87 years young.
Born in Louisville, MS, she
Joe Schrock, Rudy not of Hamilton, Norma
was raised in Memphis, TN
Schrock, Harold Schrock of New Hope
and Aberdeen, MS, and played
Schrock, Billy Schrock, and Marie Dabbs of baritone in the Aberdeen High
Elmer Schrock, Chris Starkville. School marching band. She
graduated from the Mississippi
University for Women (the “W”) with a Bachelor’s
Degree in Speech and Journalism. Out of college,
she served as a cub reporter for The Columbus
Dispatch, and earned her own column “PSHAW!”
from 1955-1956.
She moved north to Baltimore, MD to serve
as Technical Editor for Westinghouse Ordnance,
meeting the new tech writer, her soon-to-be-
husband Phillip T. Schmitt. Together, they
produced manuals for the Mark 45 Torpedo. After
what they both agreed was a stormy courtship,
the two were married in 1960 in Aberdeen, MS.
They started their family life in Drexel
Hill, PA, and in the times that Phillip worked
abroad for the US Space Program, Marianne
somehow raised five children across the states
of Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Mississippi,
circling back to Malvern, PA as home base for
the remainder of her life.
While the kids were elementary age, Marianne
served as Head Librarian for the Kathryn D.
Markley Elementary School, further solidifying
her love of books. She was a Brownie/Girl Scout
Leader, a Cub Scout Leader, the President of the
PTO, and an enthusiastic Band Booster for Great
Valley High School’s marching band in Malvern,
PA. She worked for B.G. Balmer & Company
insurance agency before taking up the notepad
again as reporter and editor for The Suburban
Advertiser in Exton, PA. She was promoted to
Managing Editor at the well-respected weekly
paper, The Suburban & Wayne Times, in

will be at 2 p.m. Friday,
in Coxburg Cemetery
of Lexington. Visitation
will be from 9-11:30
a.m. Friday, at Fellow-
ship Baptist Church of
Starkville. Welch Fu-
neral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
Mr. Engelmann was
born March 19, 1955,
to the late Marvin and
Grace. He attended
Fellowship Baptist
Church.
In addition to his par-
ents, he was preceded
in death by his siblings,
Ray and Jimmy; and
two grandchildren.
He is survived by his
wife, Relda; children,
Paul, Dale, Todd, Ste-
phen, Tiffany, Timothy,
Gregory, Samantha,
Jamie; and 19 grand-
children.
Pallbearers will be
Jeff Engelmann, Brent
Butler, Scott Grice,
John Lee, Jimmy Bon-
ner and Bill Lott.
James Smith
ABERDEEN —
James Loren Smith,
91, died Nov. 16, 2020,
at Monroe Regional
Hospital.
Funeral Services
are at 3 p.m. today, at
Tisdale-Lann Memorial
Funeral Home, with
Roger McGrew offici-
ating. Burial will follow
in Oddfellows Rest
Cemetery. Visitation is
from 2-2:45 p.m. prior
to services at the funer-
al home. Tisdale-Lann
Memorial Funeral
Home of Aberdeen is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mr. Smith was born
April 27, 1929, in the
Chapel, with David Lee
officiating. Burial will
follow in Oaklawn Me-
morial Gardens. Visita-
tion was from 5-7 p.m.
Tuesday, at the funeral
home. Tisdale-Lann
Memorial Funeral
Home of Aberdeen is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mrs. Spruill was
born June 14, 1968,
in Alabama, to Eli
Schrock and the late
Emma Lee Schrock.
She was formerly em-
ployed as a homemaker.
In addition to her
mother, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
siblings, Alvin Schrock
and Sam Lawmire.
In addition to her
Reta Burchfield
Visitation:
Friday, Nov. 20 • 11 AM - 1 PM
College St. Location
Services:
Friday, Nov. 20 • 1 PM
College St. Locaiton
Burial
Memorial Gardens
College St. Location
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Incomplete
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Reta Burchfield
Reta Atkins Burchfield, age
74, of Columbus, MS, passed
away November 15, 2020, at her
residence.
Funeral services will be
Friday, November 20, 2020, at
1:00 PM at Memorial Gunter
Peel Chapel 903 College St.
location, with Rev. Danny Avery
officiating. The interment will
immediately follow at Memorial Gardens of
Columbus. Visitation will be from 11:00 AM until
the time of the service.
Mrs. Burchfield was born August 16, 1946, in
Millport, AL, to the late James Floyd and Alma
Juanita Wood Atkins, Sr. She was a graduate of S.
D. Lee High School and was a member of Canaan
Baptist Church. Mrs. Burchfield worked for over
20 years for United Technologies and also retired
as a truck team driver with her late husband,
George E. Burchfield, Sr.
In addition to her parents and husband, she
was preceded in death by her daughter, Tracy
Lynn Johnson.
Survivors include her sons, George
Burchfield, Jr. and his wife Denise of Columbus,
MS, and Jay Burchfield and his wife Heather of
Columbus, MS; brother, James Atkins, Jr. and
his wife Verline of Danville, AL; sisters, Linda
Knight and her husband John of Caledonia, MS
and Judy Woolbright and her husband Breman
of Columbus, MS; grandchildren, Hunter
Buchanan, Ridge Blackburn, Scott Johnson,
Conner Burchfield, Jordan Johnson, Lexie
Castleman, Madi Grace Burchfield and Mallory
Kate Burchfield; and great-grandchildren,
Haygen Johnson, Peyton Martin, Keli’i
Blackburn, William Blackburn, Titus Buchanan,
Max Buchanan and Landon Castleman.
Pallbearers will be Ridge Blackburn, Conner
Burchfield, Scott Johnson, Alan Castleman,
Jimmy Atkins, Shea Woolbright and Sean
Woolbright.
Memorials may be made to Columbus Lowndes
Humane Society, P.O. Box 85, Columbus, MS,
39703.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
College Street • Columbus, MS
Wayne, PA.
After a long career at The Suburban, she was
part of the ‘dream team’ that launched a new
newspaper on Philadelphia’s legendary Main
Line. Its inception brought accolades to the
region. Under Marianne’s editorial leadership,
the weekly Main Line Life was voted “Best
Community Paper in the Nation” in 2001, and for
many years to come.
Marianne retired from the newspaper industry
begrudgingly, stating that her press pass would
be sorely missed (no more free performances?)
She was well-known at local theatres, especially
The People’s Light & Theatre Company in
Malvern, PA. One of her great joys was having
met the actress Tallulah Bankhead in person on
a New England theatre-hopping joyride in her
college days.
Marianne’s wit, wisdom and spunky demeanor
generated many lasting friendships. She enjoyed
crosswords (in pen!), writing, reading, gardening,
shopping with her children and grandchildren
(using the “Grandma Gold Card”), road trips,
little league championships, tea houses, Celtic
festivals, sports, antiques & auctions, live
music, and a ‘wee dram’ when paired with witty
conversation.
She is survived by her five children, Stephanie
(Philip) Marabella of Sinking Spring, PA,
Gretchen (Thomas) Burton of Lantana, TX, Karl
Schmitt of Reading, PA, Jeanne (Edward) Alleva
of Phoenixville, PA and Buck (Dawn) Schmitt
of Coatesville, PA; 10 grandchildren, one great-
grandchild; and many nieces and nephews.
She is predeceased by her parents; her
husband, Phillip T. Schmitt; her sister, Frances
Shaw Loeblich; and her two brothers, Herbert
Dudley “Buck” Shaw and William Shaw, both
WW II veterans.
Arrangements will be made by Mauger
Givnish Funeral Home in Malvern, PA (www.
maugergivnish.com). Interment will be private at
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Annville,
PA..
If desired, memorial contributions may be
made to the The Military Order of the Purple
Heart (www.purpleheart.org) or the SPCA
(www.bvspca.org) www.maugergivnish.com
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Toilet paper limits, empty

shelves are back as virus surges
‘A more informed consumer combined with a more the workforce at manufacturing
plants where the products are made
informed manufacturer and a more informed retailer are calling out sick, mainly be-
cause they’ve been in contact with
should provide all of us with a greater sense of ease others who were tested positive to
COVID-19, Freeman said.
and ensure we can meet this growing demand’ Kelly Anderson of Colorado
Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the Consumer Brands Association Springs, Colorado, said she needs
more supplies now that in-person
BY JOSEPH PISANI Association, formerly the Grocery school in her area was canceled
AND ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Manufacturers Association, said he earlier this month and her two
AP Retail Writers
doesn’t expect things to be as bad children are at home more. She’s
this go-around since lockdowns are noticed others are stocking up, too:
NEW YORK — Looking for toi- Safeway and Walmart were nearly
being handled on a regional basis
let paper? Good luck. wiped out of bottled water and dis-
and everyone is better prepared.
A surge of new coronavirus cases infectant wipes during a recent vis-
“A more informed consumer
in the U.S. is sending people back it, both of which had been easy to
to stores to stockpile again, leaving combined with a more informed
find since the summer.
shelves bare and forcing retailers to manufacturer and a more informed
It’s also been harder to find a
put limits on purchases. retailer should provide all of us with
time slot to get her groceries deliv-
Walmart said Tuesday it’s having a greater sense of ease and ensure
ered. Anderson says she’s had to
trouble keeping up with demand for we can meet this growing demand,”
wait as many as two days instead of
cleaning supplies in some stores. Freeman said. same-day delivery. But that’s still
Supermarket chains Kroger and The biggest supply issue seems not as bad as earlier this year
Publix are limiting how much toilet to be paper products: 21 percent of “March seems like a million
paper and paper towels shoppers shelves that stock paper towels and years ago, but I do remember freak-
can buy after demand spiked re- toilet paper are empty, the highest ing out,” she said. “I couldn’t get
cently. And Amazon is sold out of level in at least a month, according groceries delivered for a week.”
most disinfectant wipes and paper to market research company IRI. Walmart said while supplies are
towels. Cleaning supplies have remained stressed in some areas, it thinks
A similar scene played out back level at 16 percent. Before the pan- it will be able to handle any stock-
in March, when the pandemic first demic, 5 percent to 7 percent of piling now than earlier this year.
hit and people hunkered down in consumer goods were typically out Amazon said its working with man-
their homes. of stock, IRI said. ufacturers to get items such as dis-
But Geoff Freeman, president Contributing to the problem is infecting wipes, paper towels and
and CEO of the Consumer Brands the fact that roughly 10 percent of hand sanitizer in stock.

Hunting licenses soar as virus-weary Americans head outdoors

Trend appears to be nationwide,
although many states won’t have final
numbers until the end of the year
BY JOHN FLESHER
AND ANNA LIZ NICHOLS
The Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY,
Mich. — Hunting was a
big part of Zane Goucher’s
youth, when he pursued
whitetail deer and ruffed
grouse in the Maine
woods with his father. He
eventually drifted away
from the sport but has
returned after a 22-year
absence, inspired by the
coronavirus outbreak.
Many Americans ap-
pear to be doing likewise,
as sales of hunting and
fishing licenses are spik-
ing in much of the U.S.
Weary of being cooped up
at home — and of mask-
ing and social distancing
when they go elsewhere
— they’re taking refuge
in outdoor sports that of-
fer safety and solitude.
The trend has abruptly
reversed a steady decline
in hunting’s popularity
that once appeared per-
manent and provided a
potential new source of
food for families and food
banks pressed by the pan-
demic.
“I’d been meaning to
get back into it and just
never did,” said Goucher,
now a resident of Grand
Ledge, Michigan, who
headed into the field
Sunday with 12-year-old
daughter Annabelle as
the state’s firearm deer
hunting season opened.
Lifestyle changes forced
by the pandemic, espe-
cially online schooling for
his four children, “gave
me that boost to make it
happen.”
“They were getting a
lot more screen time than
normal, so this was a way
to get them outside,” he
said. For his part, “it’s a
reawakening, kinda gets
me back to my roots.”
More than 545,000
hunters in Michigan had
bought licenses through
Nov. 11, nearly 10 percent
more than at the same
point in 2019, according
to the state Department
of Natural Resources.
Significantly, the number
getting licenses for the
first time in at least five
years — if ever — has
jumped 80 percent, to
nearly 84,500.
Fishing license sales
also have soared. Louisi-
ana’s total in April, short-
ly after the governor is-
sued a stay-at-home order,
nearly doubled that of the
same month in 2019. In
Idaho, new hunters and
anglers are up nearly 30
percent over last year.
The trend appears to
be nationwide, although
many states won’t have fi-
nal numbers until the end
of the year, said Nick Bug-
gia of the Congressional
Sportsmen’s Foundation,
which supports outdoor
sports caucuses in Con-
gress and state legisla-
tures.

Sorry, Grinch. Coronavirus won’t stop NORAD from tracking Santa

BY LOLITA C. BALDOR every child will be able to
The Associated Press get through to a volunteer
at NORAD’s call center to
WASHINGTON — check on Santa’s where-
Children of the world can abouts, as they have in
rest easy. The global pan- years before.
demic won’t stop them Normally, 150-160 vol-
from tracking Santa Claus’ unteers crowd into a con-
progress as he delivers ference room at Peterson
gifts around the globe on Air Force Base in Colorado
Christmas Eve. Springs, taking two-hour
The North American shifts to answer the phones
Aerospace Defense Com- as eager children call to see
mand has announced that if Santa and his sleigh have
NORAD will track Santa reached their rooftops. All
on Dec. 24, just as it has together, 1,500 people over
done for 65 years. But there 20 hours have participat-
will be some changes: Not ed in the call center in the
past, fielding more than
130,000 phone calls, begin-
ning at 6 a.m. Eastern time
on Christmas Eve.
This year, due to safety
restrictions forced by the
COVID-19 pandemic, the
number of volunteers has
been drastically cut to what
NORAD expects will be
fewer than 10 people per
shift.
“We understand this is
a time-honored tradition,
and we know undoubtedly
there is going to be some
disappointment,” said
NORAD spokesman Pres-
ton Schlachter. “But we’re
trying to keep it safe for
everyone involved.”
So, some callers may
be able to once again get
through to a member of the
military or other volunteer
when they dial the NORAD
Tracks Santa toll-free num-
ber, 1-877-Hi-NORAD. But
others will get a recorded
update on Santa’s current
location.
Schlachter said NORAD
will largely be limiting vol-
unteers to people who al-
ready work there and their
immediate families.
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SLIMANTICS
The Governor’s $3-million re-education camp plan
G
ov. Tate
Reeves used
Monday’s
Coronavirus brief-
ing to unveil his
legislative budget
plan for 2021.
I don’t blame
him. Given his
handling of the
pandemic, I’d want
to give folks some-
thing else to talk Slim Smith
about, too.
There’s much to
talk about in Reeves’ budget
plan, I’ll admit, starting with
his idea of cutting state reve-
nue by a third by eliminating
the state income tax. That’s
nothing short of insane unless
you are of the opinion that
we’re spending way too much
money on education, infra-
structure, public safety, public
health, foster care, wildlife and 500 companies come rushing
parks, etc., etc.
And, please, don’t come
at me with the “but Florida
and Texas don’t have state
income tax!” argument.
The size of those
economies isn’t
an apples-and-or-
anges fallacy.
It’s more like an
apples-and-orang-
utans argument.
Nonsensical.
Reeves calls it a
bold move to attract
new business and
industry to the
state because com-
panies are always
looking to relocate
to places where their employ-
ees can have access to bad
schools, crumbling infrastruc-
ture and pitiful quality of life.
So, yeah, that’s pretty “bold.”
If Reeves’ plan goes
through, we might as well
begin to market our state as
“The Somalia of the South”
and watch all those Fortune
in.
I’ve probably already given
this dimwitted appeal to the
greed of the ignorant more
attention than it deserves, so
I’ll move on to another little
gem found in the Governor’s
budget plan.
The plan also calls for $3
million to establish a Patriotic
Education Program to combat
what he calls “indoctrination
in the far-left socialist teach-
ings that emphasize America’s
shortcomings over the excep-
tional achievements of this
country.”
Reeves went on to say
revisionist history is an at-
tempt to tear down American
institutions and is poisoning a
generation:
“Capitalism, democracy,
and other uniquely American
values have been the victims
of a targeted campaign from
foreign and domestic influ-
ence — aiming to destroy the
pillars of our society.”
Somewhere in hell, Joseph
McCarthy is blushing.
But let’s talk about what we
know about Patriotic Educa-
tion.
History certainly shows us
the value of Patriotic Educa-
tion programs. They were a
big hit in Cambodia, where
the Khmer Rouge made it a
priority. They even had fun-
filled “camps” where misguid-
ed citizens were set straight
about what it means to be a
good, patriotic Cambodian.
North Korea and Russia, to
name a couple of other places,
have also put a lot of emphasis
on “patriotic education.”
The idea of spending $3
million for patriotic educa-
tion does pique my curiosity,
though. I wonder what such
a program would teach? Or,
of greater interest, what it
wouldn’t teach.
Slavery?
“On the plus side, Black
Americans would still be over
in Africa in their grass huts
being all free and stuff for the
past 400 years or so. It worked
out great in the end. Why
complain?”
The Civil War?
“An attempt by the north-
ern states tried to wreck the
Southern economy.”
Trail of tears?
“Oklahoma, New Mexico
and Arizona have a rugged
beauty all their own!”
The Civil Rights movement?
“A communist-backed effort
to change our way of life!”
The goal of patriotic educa-
tion, Reeves said, is to tell both
the good and the bad by min-
imizing the bad and inflating
the good.
It sounds like a guilty con-
science to me.
If we have reached the point
where we feel compelled to
teach patriotism, we are admit-
ting that we weren’t always so
great a country, after all, and,
heck, we’ve still got some work
to do.
It’s like feeling the need to
teach kids to love their ma-
mas.
I would just as soon go
ahead and give that $3 million
to Brett Favre and call it a day.
Slim Smith is a columnist
and feature writer for The
Dispatch. His email address is
ssmith@cdispatch.com.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE CARTOONIST VIEW

Lame duck actions to benefit
the privileged
It has always been my belief that
the underlying intent of conserva-
tism is the preservation and concen-
tration of wealth and privilege. This
results in opposition to any activity
by government that tends to spread
the wealth. Social Security has been
in conservative gun sights since its
inception. Minimum wage, union
rights, unemployment insurance,
and Medicare are under incessant
attack. Government regulation of
business and industry in the interest
of the public wealth are anathema
(I have noticed that when issues
of wealth and power come up, the
Republicans are like the irresistible
force, but when matters dear to their
popular base come up, like abortion
or gay marriage, nothing really
happens.)
As a lame duck president, Donald
Trump has militarized the conserva-
tive goals. First, he declared North
America’s largest wildlife refuge
open for business. Loggers and
oil drillers have been solicited to
present bids for rights in the Alas-
kan National Forest, and right away,
before the new president can stop it.
The National Parks and Forests are
there for us, the common folks. So
who needs them.
Second, he nominated Judy
Shelton to the Federal Reserve
Board. Ms. Shelton wants to return
us to the gold standard. The gold
standard would dramatically reduce
the supply of money. This reduction
would not affect the very rich at all,
THE NATION
but it would be a disaster for every-
body else. Banks would not have
money to lend ordinary folks — for
Truth gets the final word
mortgages, as one example; small “The coronavirus is the work kept intruding on her This isn’t a partisan tendency, but
business loans, for another. William common cold, folks.” thoughts. a human one. It has, though, been
Jennings Bryant put the issue well: — Rush Limbaugh “I can’t help but think encouraged, made a bedrock of the
“…we will answer their demand for of the COVID patients the business model, by conservative polit-
a gold standard by saying to them: “One day, it’s like a mira- last few days,” she tweet- ical and media figures. They lie, they
You shall not press down upon the cle — it will disappear.” ed. “The ones that stick lie about the lies, then they lie about
brow of labor this crown of thorns, — Donald Trump out are those who still lying about lies, spinning elaborate
you shall not crucify mankind upon a don’t believe the virus is webs of claptrap and hogwash, of ut-
cross of gold.” “The risk to the average real. The ones who scream ter, self-refuting nonsense, that people
She wants to end the Federal person does remain quite at you for a magic medi- nonetheless believe, because at some
Deposit Insurance Corporation. Only low” cine and that Joe Biden is fundamental level, they need to.
people with less than a quarter-mil- — Laura Ingraham going to ruin the USA. All On a good day, that’s frustrating.
lion dollars on deposit are affected Leonard Pitts while gasping for breath. On a day when the COVID-19 death

by that. She has spoken out against
the mandate of the Federal Reserve,
set by Congress, to pursue maxi-
mum employment and price stability.
Basically, she opposes anything
that helps ordinary people, and
supports everything that supports
wealth and privilege.
Former Federal Reserve officials
and a number of famous economists,
including all the recent Nobel Prize
winners, have signed a letter implor-
ing the Senate not to consent to this.
Mitt Romney and Susan Collins were
the only Republicans who opposed
this appointment, but because the
GOP was down two other Sena-
tors, this was enough to defeat the
confirmation; once the quarantined
Senators return, another vote will
occur.
She would be a disaster for all of
us who have less that $250,000 in the
bank, which is almost all of us. Let
your Senators know.
Bill Gillmore
Columbus
T
he American death
toll from the novel
coronavirus will soon pass
250,000. That’s a quarter of a million
people lying with a Buick parked on
their chests, swimming in their own
sweat, feeble as an August breeze,
head pounding like a bass drum in the have pneumonia. Even lung cancer.
devil’s rock band, dying.
And for some, denying it to the
end. As Jodi Doering, an ER nurse
in Woonsocket, South Dakota, puts
it, “Their last dying words are, ‘This
can’t be happening. It’s not real.’”
“And when they should be spend-
ing time FaceTiming their families,”
she adds, “they’re filled with anger
and hatred. I just can’t believe that
those are going to be their last
thoughts and words.”
Doering was explaining to CNN’s
Alisyn Camerota how she came to
pen the tweet that made a small-town
nurse internet famous. It was Satur-
day. She had the night off and was
planning to spend it on her couch
with her dog and some ice cream. But facts.
...They tell you there must
be another reason they
are sick. They call you names and ask
why you have to wear all that ‘stuff’
because they don’t have COVID be-
cause it’s not real.”
She says patients insist they must
Anything but the disease they’ve been
convinced does not exist.
“This can’t be happening,” they
insist, even as it’s happening. “It’s not
real.”
That level of denial is disheart-
ening and appalling, yet it would
surprise no one familiar with the four
decades of scholarship documenting a
glaring flaw in human reason. Mean-
ing, our tendency to reject informa-
tion that does not conform to what we
want to believe. If you hold a premise
to be true and the facts prove other-
wise you’d think, logically, that this
would cause you to modify or discard
the premise. But people are actually
more likely to modify or discard the
toll spirals into the clouds and an ER
nurse feels overwhelmed, it is infuri-
ating. It makes you wonder how some
people can live with themselves. Is it
really worth a life to advance a polit-
ical agenda? When people trust you
for truth on matters critical to their
survival, how can you look them in
the eye and tell them lies?
Coronavirus deaths in South
Dakota have jumped sharply since
the beginning of the month. The state
reports one of the highest per capita
infection rates in the U.S. It is not
incidental that Donald Trump won 62
percent of the vote there.
Meantime, sick people struggle to
reconcile their suffering with the lies
they’ve been told. “This can’t be hap-
pening,” they say. “It’s not real.” Then
they curse, and die. And yet again,
truth gets the final word.
As it always does.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004
Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a
columnist for the Miami Herald. Email
him at lpitts@miamiherald.com.
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Explainer: What’s with the

confusion over face masks?
As of Tuesday, 36 states
have some type of face
mask mandate
BY ANDREW SELSKY
The Associated Press
A lot of the effort to slow the
spread of the coronavirus comes
down to a seemingly simple con-
cept: Wearing a mask.
But the issue has proven a
thorny one. Health authorities have
changed their guidance on who
should wear masks and when to
wear them. This has led to some
confusion and even suspicion.
But since the coronavirus first
appeared, authorities have gained
a better understanding of how it
spreads and how masks can help
stop that spread.
Here’s a look at how what we
know about masks has changed,
and how government officials are
increasingly getting behind the idea
of mandating the use of masks.
What do the experts say?
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has long ad-
vised people to wear masks because
they help prevent people who are
infected — whether they know it or
not — from spreading the coronavi-
rus.
But last week, the CDC added
a new reason: masks can also pro-
tect wearers who are not infected,
though to a lesser degree.
The agency referred to a study
led by Japanese researchers that
found masks block about 60 percent
of the amount of virus that comes
out of an infected person. When an
uninfected person wearing a mask
is near an infected person who isn’t
wearing one, the amount of virus
the uninfected person inhaled fell
by up to 50 percent.
But when BOTH people are
wearing masks, that produced the
best result. The decline in virus par-
ticles reaching the second person
was close to 70 percent.
So, if everyone wears a mask
when social distancing is not fea-
sible, the infection rate will be cut,
experts say.
It’s not a perfect solution.
Hand-washing, keeping a distance
and being in well-ventilated areas is
important.
How is this different from what
they’ve said before?
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome
Adams tweeted on Feb. 29: “Seri-
ously people — STOP BUYING
MASKS! They are NOT effective
in preventing general public from
catching #Coronavirus”
But today, Adams has a different
message pinned to the top of his
Twitter account.
“When we can’t stay six feet away
from others, please, I’m begging
you, wear a face covering,” Adams
says in the videotaped July 2 tweet.
And in July, the CDC stressed
that cloth face coverings are a
critical tool in the fight against
COVID-19, particularly when every-
one wears them.
Similarly, the World Health Orga-
nization early on had recommended
against mask-wearing for the gen-
eral public, saying they might lead
to a false sense of security and that
people who didn’t know how to use
them properly could infect them-
selves.
The World Health Organization
changed its advice in June, and now
says people should wear them when
they can’t be socially distant.
How are U.S. states handling
the situation?
It’s a mix. As of Tuesday, 36 states
have some type of mask mandate.
Republican governors in Iowa,
North Dakota and Utah — all states
that are being hit hard — have re-
cently reversed course and required
at least limited mask use. Others
have extended or expanded earlier
orders.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds cast
some doubt Tuesday on the science
behind masks even as she imposed
a limited mask rule, noting that
neighboring states with mask man-
dates have seen rising numbers of
cases, although not as severely as
Iowa.
“If you look, you can find whatev-
er you want to support wherever you
are at,” she said.
In California, a more stringent
mask mandate took effect on Tues-
day. Democratic Gov. Gavin New-
som said residents will be required
to cover up outdoors, with limited
exceptions.

Volunteers still needed to test variety of COVID-19 vaccines

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
Two COVID-19 vac-
cines might be nearing
the finish line, but scien-
tists caution it’s critical
that enough people volun-
teer to help finish study-
ing other candidates in
the U.S. and around the
world.
Moderna Inc. and com-
petitor Pfizer Inc. recently
announced preliminary
results showing their vac-
cines appear more than 90
percent effective, at least
for short-term protection
against COVID-19.
If those early results
hold up and U.S. regula-
tors agree the shots are
safe, emergency use of
small, rationed supplies
could start in late Decem-
ber. Other countries with
contracts for early doses
would undertake their
own reviews.
But multiple vaccines
will be needed to meet
global demand and help
end the pandemic, raising
concern that studies that
still need to sign up thou-
sands of volunteers could
run short if people wait for
an already OK’d option in-
stead.
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Aldermen Little, Walker not running for reelection

Both said they hope their successors bring new ideas to the board the term, which started in 2017.
“We’ve had some rough mo-
The proposed change would
add smoking lounges “engaged
BY TESS VRBIN good things, and you’ve been to get off the sidelines.” ments, but for the most part I in the sale and use of cigars
tvrbin@cdispatch.com part of that in immeasurable His daughter, Elizabeth Lake think we’ve worked well togeth- and/or hookahs” to the list of
ways,” Spruill said. Little, died last year at the age er,” Sistrunk said. exceptions, according to docu-
Two Starkville Jason Walker of Ward 4 had of 18 when a plane she was pilot- Little said announcing his ments provided with the meet-
aldermen said at already told the board he too ing crashed in Oxford, and Lit- decision this early will hopeful- ing agenda. These lounges
Tuesday’s meet- ly allow someone from Ward 3 would have to be located within
would not be seeking a third tle said he is still grateful for the
ing they will not to put in the necessary thought standalone commercial build-
term, but the discussion of Lit- city’s “outpouring of love and
run for reelection and effort to run for his seat. ings in the city’s leisure and
tle’s decision made Walker’s de- support” for his family.
in April 2021. The mayor’s office and all entertainment district, which
cision public. The rest of the board ex-
David Little of seven seats on the board of al-
He told The Dispatch this pressed their appreciation for covers most of downtown and
Ward 3 told the dermen will be up for election
Little morning that “two terms are Little’s tenure on the board. Ben the Cotton District.
board in a pre- in 2021. No other elected city
sufficient” and he wants to fo- Carver of Ward 1 said he has Most of the board expressed
pared announce- officials have said they will not
cus on his full-time job as an as- always looked up to Little, and support for the proposal, which
ment that “after defend their positions.
several months sociate professor of landscape Henry Vaughn of Ward 7 said he is still subject to change before
In other business, the board
of prayerful con- architecture at Mississippi too does not think of himself as the board votes for or against it
unanimously called for the first
sideration and State University. a politician but understands the of two public hearings to consid- at a later meeting.
thoughts” he “I’ve accomplished a number need to be of service to the city. er adding cigar lounges to the “I think it would be some-
would not be run- of things that I was passionate Ward 5 Alderman Hamp Be- city’s smoking ordinance. thing different for Starkville,
ning for a third about and trying to get done, atty, the board’s newest member The current ordinance bans but I think it would be reward-
term. Walker but I think it’s good for some- after a special election in May ing,” Vaughn said.
smoking of any kind in most
“I believe for the city to grow body else to come in and see 2019, said it had been an hon- public places but makes excep- Little said he supports the
and prosper, new individuals what they want to do for the cit- or to work with both Little and tions for private clubs, desig- ordinance as long as it does not
and ideas are always needed,” izens of Ward 4 and the entire Walker, and he hopes they both nated rooms in hotels or motels roll back existing restrictions
Little said. city,” Walker said. remain active in the Starkville and stores that sell tobacco or on designated smoking areas.
Mayor Lynn Spruill was the Little said he does not think community. electronic cigarettes and are “I’m excited about what the
first to thank Little for serving of himself as a politician but as Ward 2 Alderman Sandra “not adjoined or physically con- corner of Main Street (and
two terms on the board. someone “who simply wants the Sistrunk said she appreciated nected to another business or Washington Street) would look
“I think we’ve done a lot of best for Starkville” and “wanted the board as a whole throughout residence.” like,” he said.

Courtesy photo
State legislators District 17 Sen. Chuck Younger, District 37 Representative-elect Lynn Wright, District 39 Rep.
Dana McLean, District 16 Sen. Angela Turner-Ford, District 42 Rep. Carl Mickens and Lowndes County School
District Superintendent Sam Allison pose together during a special LCSD event thanking legislators at the dis-
trict’s central office in Columbus Tuesday.

Hospitals
Continued from Page 1A
Jeremy Blanchard,
chief medical officer
for North
Mississip -
pi Medical
Center — At OCH, meanwhile,
where West
Point is one
of NMMC’s
seven hospi-
tals in North Blanchard
Mississip -
pi — said the number of
cases has meant shifting
patients from one facility
to another, based on the
availability of beds in the
intensive care unit (ICU).
“We don’t operate as
seven different hospitals,”
Blanchard said. “We have
a contracting/expansion
model where, if we need
to, we can transfer a pa-
tient out of West Point to
Amory or Tupelo or any of
our facilities based on the
availability of beds. Even
before the surge, a patient
wasn’t always going to be
placed where he may have
started out.”
Blanchard said NMMC
has a two-floor area at the
system’s largest hospital
in Tupelo that can accom-
modate the surge.
the hospital reported that
all six of its ICU beds were
occupied on Monday and
Tuesday, but that does
not mean OCH cannot ac-
commodate more COVID
patients.
“Currently, we have
a COVID unit with 12
rooms,” Jackson said.
“Those rooms are in re-
serve in the event of a
surge. So we’ll be able to
handle an increase. Plus
there is money available
to hospitals to increase
the numbers of nega-
tive pressure rooms for
COVID-specific cases.”
At Baptist, Martin said
there were four of the hos-
pital’s 18 ICU rooms avail-
able as of Tuesday.
“Like most hospitals,
the majority of ICU pa-
tients are there for some-
thing other than COVID,”
Martin said. “I think the
average of COVID pa-
tients in ICUs is around 30
percent. That’s what we’re
seeing, too.”
Administrators at
all three hospitals said
they are prepared for
an increased number of
COVID patients but un-
derstand the fear it can
create.
“We understand those
concerns,” Jackson said.
“But what we want people
to know is that we’ve seen
higher numbers than we
are seeing right now, and
we’ve come out on the oth-
er side. We’re prepared.”
Blanchard said the
surge in cases should be a
call to action for residents.
“What I can say is that
we’ll deal with all this bet-
ter if people start mask-
ing and social distancing
today,” he said. “It makes
that much of a difference.
It really does.”

Streetlights
Continued from Page 1A
light utilities, according
to Watkins’ presenta-
tion. However, between
July and September, the
city has saved $101,927
in utilities compared to
figures from the same
months last year, Watkins
said. Moving forward, the
city may save an annual
$400,000 in utilities, he
said.
That means the city
will likely achieve a
net saving of roughly
$100,000 each year, Smith
said, considering the pay-
ment the city has to make
each year on a 15-year
loan it took out last year
for the project. The coun-
cil voted to borrow the
loan of $3.2 million to re-
place old fixtures and cov-
er the project cost, which
is around $3.3 million, he
said. The annual payment
is almost $300,000.
Smith said he’s glad to
see the results of the proj-
ect so far.
“They are brighter.
They are a lot clearer,”
he said. “… Most of the
citizens, they are really
satisfied.”

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Heritage Academy comes out strong in season opener at Oak Hill Academy
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
WEST POINT — Col-
lin Adair tiptoed the right
sideline to catch the pass,
narrowly managing to avoid
stepping out as he brought
the basketball safely back
into play.
His acrobatic save wasn’t
the only tightrope act the
Heritage Academy boys
basketball team needed to
maintain a long, tenuous
possession early in the
third quarter of Tuesday’s
game at Oak Hill Academy
in West Point. Fellow soph-
omore Mack Howard leapt a
couple feet in the air to catch
a pass; Adair sprinted to the
elbow to grab another.
After nearly a minute,
what Patriots coach Russ
Whiteside called “sloppy”
play by his team yielded re-
sults. Howard slipped free
for an open layup, and Her-
itage Academy scored for
the first time in the second
half.
The possession neatly
encapsulated the Pats’ play
in their 53-39 win over the
Raiders in Tuesday’s season
opener: sloppy, sure, but
certainly good enough.
“I was really pleased,”
Whiteside said. “I think we
came out with pretty high
energy. I thought we played
with a lot of effort — espe-
cially in the first half.”
For the Patriots coach, it
truly was more a tale of two
halves than anything. Heri-
tage Academy roared out of
the gate early on, as How-
ard hit a 3-pointer to extend
the lead to nine points be-
fore Oak Hill (2-2) had even
gotten on the scoreboard.
The Patriots rode that mo-
mentum into a 39-21 lead at
the break.
“We came out flat,” Oak
Hill coach Andrew Howell
said. “We talked about it in
the locker room: That run
they had in the first quarter
was the difference. They
came out and played harder
than we did.”
While the Raiders fought
back, closing the gap to nine
points early in the fourth Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
quarter, their coach said Oak Hill Academy’s Morgan Dabbs (20, left) fights with Heritage Academy’s Reagan
See PREP, 3B Merchant (20) for a loose ball in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game in West Point.

CCA senior MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL ANALYSIS

CC DeVos
signs to
play softball Three matchups to watch when
at William
Carey
University
MSU faces No. 13 Georgia
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com

S TEENS — At a
softball tournament in
eighth grade, CC De-
Vos tried a new posi-
tion for the first time.
Ever since then, De-
Vos — now a senior at
Columbus Christian
Academy — has never
wanted to stop catch-
ing, even when a seri-
ous injury threatened
to force the issue.
Now, William Carey
University will give De-
Vos a chance to keep
playing the position
she has come to love.
On Tuesday morn-
ing in front of friends
and family in Colum-
bus Christian’s gym,
DeVos signed her na-
tional letter of intent to
play softball at the col-
See CCA, 3B

Delayed
NBA draft
finally
comes
Wednesday
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

There was no danc-

ing on the court after
a March Madness vic-
tory. No bounding onto
the stage in a spiffy suit
to meet the commis-
sioner in June.
The coronavirus pan-
demic wiped out the tra-
ditional end of a college
career and the usual
start of a pro one. Play-
ers such as Anthony Ed-
wards, LaMelo Ball and
James Wiseman should
be about a month into
their rookie seasons
by now, but their plans
were put on hold.
After multiple de-
lays, the NBA draft
finally arrives Wednes-
See NBA, 3B
It remains unclear who will line up under center this weekend for MSU between Stanford import K.J. Costello and Will Rogers. Rogers started
the Bulldogs’ last contest against Vanderbilt two weeks ago.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARK VILLE — Mississip-
pi State earned a much-need-
ed win against Vanderbilt two
weeks ago, before a combi-
nation of COVID-19 positive
tests, contact tracing and
injuries forced the Bulldogs
below the Southeastern Con-
ference mandated 53-scholar-
ship player minimum ahead
of last week’s scheduled game
against Auburn.
Now sitting at 2-4 with an
unintended bye week of sorts
behind them, MSU heads to
Athens for a meeting with a
No. 13-ranked Georgia squad
who’s SEC title game aspira-
tions hang in the balance of
each remaining contest.
With that, here are three
matchups to watch when the
varying shades of Bulldogs
meet Saturday:
Georgia quarterbacks vs.
MSU secondary
Imagine a world where
Ohio State quarterback Justin
Fields is still in Athens. Safe
to say that would solve a num-
ber of the Bulldogs’ issues
this season.
Heading into this week’s
contest, Georgia’s defense has
continued its elite ways, but
meager quarterback play from
former walk-on Stetson Ben-
nett and D’wan Mathis leaves
head coach Kirby Smart’s
squad a bit of a wild card week
to week.
Bennett has received the
lion’s share of the touches un-
der center this fall after sup-
planting Mathis early this fall,
but through six games this
Mississippi State athletics
year he’s completed just over
55 percent of his passes for a
7.6 yards per attempt. The for-
mer Jones College standout’s
six interceptions also rank as
the fourth most of the 16 eligi-
ble SEC passers.
On the flip side, MSU’s
defense has been startlingly
good despite what the Bull-
dogs’ record indicates. In six
contests this season — three
of which came against teams
ranked in the Associated
Press top 25 at the time —
See MSU, 2B
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Wichita State coach Marshall resigns after misconduct probe

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
K ANSAS CITY, Mo.
— Wichita State coach
Gregg Marshall re-
signed Tuesday follow-
ing an investigation into
allegations of verbal and
physical abuse, ending a
tenure that soared to the
Final Four and crashed
on the eve of the upcom-
ing season.
Marshall, who has
long been known for his
combustible sideline per-
sona, came under scru-
tiny when former player
Shaq Morris claimed
he’d been struck twice
by his coach during an
October 2015 practice.
Morris also claimed
that he’d seen Marshall
choke assistant coach
Kyle Lindsted, who soon
departed to become an
assistant at Minneso-
ta. Marshall denied the
claims.
The school said Mar-
shall agreed to a settle-
ment of $7.75 million to
be paid over the next six
years.
“This was a difficult
decision, but one I feel
was necessary for my
family, the university
and, most importantly,
the student-athletes,”
Marshall said. “I wish to
thank the coaches, stu-
dent-athletes, the uni-
versity, the community,
and all of Shocker Na-
tion for their unending
dedication, support and
loyalty. I am incredibly
proud of this men’s bas-
ketball program and all
it has achieved over the
past 14 years.”
Shockers assistant
coach Isaac Brown, who
has been with the pro-
gram since 2014, will
serve as interim coach.
Their season begins
Nov. 25 against Utah
State in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota.
“I know this is a dif-
ficult time for our kids,
but we will come togeth-
er as a team and contin-
ue to compete,” Brown
said. “We have a great
group of kids and staff,
and we will work hard
each day to represent
our school and our city.”
Wichita State ath-
letic director Darron
Boatright said “the uni-
versity acknowledges
the success of the bas-
ketball program under
Coach Marshall,” but
that it was in the best in-
terest of the program to
part ways.
“What the program
needs right now is sta-
bility,” Boatright said.
“Isaac has been here
for seven years and has
good rapport and rela-
tionships with the play-
ers and staff. I think he
is the natural choice.”
Marshall had stead-
fastly denied any accu-
sation that he had struck
a player or choked an
assistant, though five
players told The Wichita
Eagle they saw him hit
Morris during the 2015-
16 season. Eight other
players told The Eagle
they saw him put his
hands around Lindsted’s
throat during the 2016 -
17 season.
Wichita State
launched an inquiry in
October, hiring St. Lou-
is-based law firm Tueth
Kenney to handle the
probe.
“Many players thrive
in the system we have
created and are ener-
gized by our team cul-
ture,” Marshall said
soon after the allega-
tions surfaced. “For
those players, I am a
motivator, a pusher,
someone who can tap
into their greatest po-
tential. For others, I can
be demanding, harsh or
strict. I don’t argue with
those descriptions.
“What I am not is
demeaning or abusive.
I have deep respect for
all my players,” Mar-
shall added. “I believe
unequivocally in their
value as athletes, as stu-
dents and as people. Any
portrayal of me to the
contrary is wrong.”
The 57-year-old Mar-
hsall was due $3.5 mil-
lion in base salary this
season under a contract
that automatically re-
newed. But his contract
also stated he could be
fired without payment
for “good cause” as de-
termined by the univer-
sity, such as conduct
found to be “inconsis-
tent with the profession-
al standards expected
of a head coach of an
intercollegiate team that
results in material inju-
ry to the reputation of
Wichita State.”
Several former play-
ers have rushed to Mar-
shall’s defense, though
most were not on the
team when Morris ac-
cused him of miscon-
duct. Marshall also
had the support of Tom
Devlin, the entrepreneur
behind Rent-A-Center
and a significant boost-
er, along with former
players Xavier McDan-
iel and Aubrey Sherrod,
who remain icons within
the program.
Marshall was hired
to replace Mark Tur-
geon after nine seasons
at Winthrop, where he
made seven trips to the
NCA A Tournament and
won a school-record 194
games. After winning
just 11 his first season
with the Shockers, Mar-
shall quickly built them
into a perennial con-
tender, parlaying their
success in the Missou-
ri Valley Conference
into an invitation to join
the American Athletic
Conference prior to the
2017-18 season.
Marshall won at least
20 games in 11 consecu-
tive seasons. Along the
way, the Shockers made according to compos-
a stunning run to the ite rankings of recruit-
Final Four during the ing sites compiled by
2012-13 season, went un- 247Sports, those three
beaten during the regu- schools landed only two
lar season and finished of the top 12 recruits
35 -1 the following year. in this year’s freshman
The program wound up class: Kentucky guards
sending several players Brandon Boston Jr. (No.
— including Ron Baker 5) and Terrence Clarke
and Fred VanVleet — to (No. 8).
the NBA. In the meantime, four
Things have been of the top seven players
bumpier the past few chose Oklahoma State,
years, though. The Southern California,
Shockers went 22–15 Stanford and Florida
and failed to make the State.
NCA A Tournament two Jerry Meyer, the di-
years ago, and a wave rector of basketball
of transfers had left the scouting at 247Sports,
roster in tatters heading says he noticed this
into this season. trend starting in 2015.
High-scoring guards
That’s the year four of
Erik Stevenson ( Wash-
the top eight recruits
ington) and Jamarius
selected LSU (Ben
Burton (Texas Tech)
Simmons), California
were arguably the big-
(Jaylen Brown and Ivan
gest departures, but
Rabb) and Mississippi
they were joined by five
State (Malik Newman).
others: Grant Sherfield
One year earlier, seven
to Nevada, Asbjor Midt-
of the top 13 prospects
gaard to Grand Canyon,
had chosen either Duke,
Noah Fernandes to Mas- Kentucky or Kansas.
sachusetts, Tate Busse
“That was when like,
to Division II MSU-Den-
boom, things started to
ver and DeAntoni Gor-
change,” Meyer said.
don to Northwest Mis-
“That’s when it got in
sissippi Community
my consciousness, that
College.
we’ve got a phenomenon
Marshall quickly re-
starting here, and it’s
built his roster with an
continued.”
influx of freshmen and
Kentucky, Duke and
transfers, headlined by
Kansas are still obvious-
Connecticut transplant
ly getting their share.
Alterique Gilbert, that
had left him optimistic Kentucky had the na-
that the Shockers would tion’s No. 1 2020 class
be contenders again this and Duke ranked third,
season. while Kansas signed the
nation’s No. 21 prospect
in guard Bryce Thomp-
Top freshmen forge son. But other schools
their own paths in are attracting elite talent
picking schools as well.
Many of the nation’s That list starts with
brightest prospects in Cade Cunningham, the
the most recent recruit- nation’s No. 1 recruit last
ing class didn’t neces- year. Cunningham chose
sarily select the most Oklahoma State and
obvious schools. stuck with the Cowboys
Kentucky, Duke and even when they received
Kansas have landed a postseason ban from
many of the notable one- the NCA A as part of the
and-done performers federal corruption inves-
over the last decade. But tigation into college bas-
ketball.
Cunningham’s broth-
er, Cannen Cunning-
ham, is an assistant on
Oklahoma State coach
Mike Boynton’s staff.
“At first it was tough
when they made the
ruling,” Cade Cunning-
ham said this summer.
“All your emotions are
running super high, you
want to explore your op-
tions and everything. Af-
ter kind of settling down
and really looking into
everything, at the end of
the day, Coach Boynton
was who I wanted to play
for.”
No. 21 Florida State
lists Scottie Barnes as a
guard even though he’s
6 -foot-8. Seminoles as-
sistant coach Charlton
Young calls Barnes “the
kind of guy that comes
once every 25 years”
with his combination
of size, athleticism and
unselfishness. Barnes
is ranked seventh in the
247Sports Composite
and played high school
basketball at Montverde
(Florida) Academy. Mey-
er said Barnes doesn’t
shoot well but is “elite in
all other categories.”
Meanwhile, Ken-
tucky’s Brandon Bos-
ton Jr., a 6 -foot-7 guard
from Norcross, Georgia,
played at Sierra Canyon
in Chatsworth, Califor-
nia. He was named the
California male athlete
of the year and the Cal-
ifornia basketball play-
er of the year by USA
Today. Boston already
has earned first-team
honors on the media’s
preseason all-Southeast-
ern Conference team.
He should team up with
Clarke to form a dy-
namic backcourt for the
10th-ranked Wildcats.
Another Southeastern
Conference guard duo to
watch is the Tennessee
tandem of Jaden Spring-
er and Keon Johnson.

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MSU has allowed an average of 232.7
yards per game through the air and just
127.2 yards on the ground.
That said, the Bulldogs are in a trick
spot in the secondary given starting
safety Marcus Murphy opted out of the
2020 season this week while running
mate Fred Peters is also likely done for
the year after undergoing surgery for
an undisclosed injury.
Georgia’s quarterbacks have had
their share of issues of late — most
recently, Bennett was pulled from the
Bulldogs’ 44-28 drubbing at the hands
of No. 6 Florida after going 5-of-16 for 78
yards, a touchdown and an interception
— but it’s also possible we see former
five-star recruit and USC transfer JT
Daniels for the first time all year against
a shorthanded MSU secondary.
Daniels’ debut has been a long await-
ed one and he’s likely the x-factor in
determining what this Bulldog offense
looks like come Saturday in Athens.
MSU’s passing offense
vs. Georgia defense
I’m not sure there’s a strong enough
variation of the word “bad” to describe
how poor MSU’s passing attack has
been of late. I wrote last week how this
can be as much attributed to growing
pains that were also seen at Washing-
ton State, and, well, a global pandemic
wiping out a normal offseason. But that
doesn’t change the fact the Bulldogs
have been atrocious since their Week 1
win over LSU.
It remains unclear who will line up
under center this weekend between
Stanford import K.J. Costello and Will
Rogers — who started the Nov. 7 win
over Vanderbilt with Costello sidelined
due to an undisclosed injury — though
neither has been particularly impres-
sive when called upon.
Costello broke a nearly four de-
cade-old SEC passing record in the win
over LSU, but has since seen his name
cemented at the bottom of the confer-
ence passing charts, most notably his
league-leading 10 interceptions.
As for Rogers, he’s been thrust into a
handful of difficult situations in replac-
ing an inefficient Costello, but his 4.6
yards per attempt rank third-to-last na-
tionally among quarterbacks who’ve re-
ceived at least 20 percent of their team’s
snaps according to Pro Football Focus.
And then there’s the Georgia de-
fense. For a unit that consistently ranks
among the nation’s elite, Smart’s de-
fense has been more adept to big plays
than normal this fall. At present, the
Georgia defense sits No. 98 nationally,
allowing 262.8 passing yards per game.
In fairness, those numbers are
skewed somewhat by the 571 and 564-
yard total offensive outputs recorded by
Florida and Alabama, respectively, and
the Bulldogs haven’t allowed more than
215 yards in any of its other four games
this season.
MSU has done little to inspire any
confidence its offense is ready to turn
a corner regardless of who lines up at
quarterback, while Georgia is fresh off
being annihilated by the high-flying
Florida offense. Expect the red and
white clad Bulldogs to get back on track
Saturday.
Mississippi State vs. history
MSU and Georgia don’t meet often
given they’re on different sides of the
SEC, but history is on the side of this
week’s hosts.
Though the teams have only met five
times since 1997, Georgia holds a 4-1
edge over that span and a series lead
of 18-6. Of those six wins, MSU has
recorded just two victories since 1974
and the Bulldogs haven’t won in Athens
since Dwight Eisenhower was Presi-
dent.
Mike Leach’s inaugural season in
Starkville has been one of tremendous
highs and incredible lows. After the air
raid rather loudly announced its return
to the SEC in Week 1, it has since fallen
off a cliff, including not having account-
ed for more than 300 passing yards
since the first week of October.
According to BetOnline, MSU
opened as a 24-point underdog against
Georgia. It’s unlikely Leach’s squad
scores an upset Saturday given what
we’ve seen this season and past prece-
dent, but covering the spread would be
a win in itself.

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he would have liked to see more
effort come before it was too late
to make a difference.
“It’s great to see that, but I
don’t want them to fight only when
they’re backed into a corner,”
Howell said. “I want them to fight
from the first round.”
The Patriots, meanwhile, know
they have plenty of time to work
on delivering the knockout blow
on which they couldn’t connect
Tuesday. With football occupying
several Heritage Academy players
until Friday’s loss in the MAIS
Class 5A semifinals, Heritage
Academy’s hoops team has barely
had time to get on the court.
“It’s just the beginning of bas-
ketball season,” sophomore big
man Trey Naugher said. “We’ve
only had one practice, so we hav-
en’t had that much.”
Even so, after losing a nine-
man senior class, the Patriots feel
good about how their season start-
ed Tuesday.
“When you lose nine seniors,
you wonder how everybody’s go-
ing to come out and work together
and gel,” Whiteside said. “We’ve
got a long way to go. We’ve got
a long way to go, but I like our
group.”
Oak Hill Academy girls 51,
Heritage Academy 41
Oak Hill Academy senior Car-
ley Wooten didn’t know she’d
fouled out until the public address
announcer noted she had commit-
ted her fifth foul with 35.6 seconds
to go Tuesday.
“What?” Wooten yelped, sur-
prised, from the Raiders’ bench.
She looked up at the scoreboard
for verification, then shook her
head in apparent disbelief.
Still, there was a hint of a smile
on her face.
Fouling out was of little con-
cern to Wooten and Oak Hill
against Heritage Academy on
Tuesday, after all, as the Raiders
beat the Patriots 51-41.
“We’ve come a long way from
last year, so that’s really exciting,”
sophomore Mary Beth Briggs
said.
Wooten had 12 points as Oak
Hill improved to 4-1 in its first sea-
son under head coach Terry Wal-
ters. Briggs led the Raiders with
17 points.
“Mary Beth had one of her
good games,” Walters said. “She
has good and bad games, but she’s
only a sophomore, so she’ll get
better as the year goes on.”
A 10-0 run in the second quar-
ter put the Raiders in the lead for
good and sent the Patriots to their
third defeat in as many games.
Turnovers all evening and poor
foul shooting — the Pats missed
eight free throws in the fourth
quarter alone — cost Heritage
Academy a chance to fight back.
“I can tell that we’ve still got a
lot of work to do as far as getting in
shape, getting our legs under us,”
said Patriots coach Miriam “Moe”
Reed, who pointed to her team’s
trouble from the line late in the
game as a sign of fatigue.
And it’s understandable: Her-
itage Academy is a young team
with just one senior, Sara Kate
Thompson, who didn’t play bas-
ketball last year and played spar-
ingly Tuesday. Freshman Reagan
Merchant, who had 15 points, was
relied on heavily; sophomore Lucy
Sharp, who led the team with 18,
continued to improve her game.
Sharp hit from midrange consis-
tently and even knocked down a
3-pointer in the second quarter.
“She’s really added a whole
‘nother dimension to her game
with her outside shooting,” Reed
said. “The summer did a lot of
good for her as far as just gaining
confidence. She’s having to play
a whole different role this year.
We really look for her to score a
lot more, work for more opportu-
nities. She’s not just a down-low
player anymore; she’s not just a
post player for us. She’s somebody
who’s got to step out and hit those
outside shots.”
Heritage Academy’s next
game is Thursday against Mag-
nolia Heights in Columbus, while
Oak Hill will host Kirk Academy
in a rematch of a road win earlier
this season in Grenada.
“We know what they’re going
to do, so we’re going to try to out-
do them,” Briggs said.
Other scores
Prep Girls Basketball
Starkville Academy 55, Magno-
lia Heights 35
SENATOBIA — Lillee Alpe
scored 19 points to lead the
Starkville Academy girls team
over Magnolia Heights on Tues-
day in Senatobia.
Marin Shy added 15 points for
the Volunteers. Caroline Wood
had 10, and Fallon Parker had
nine.
Prep Boys Basketball
Starkville Academy 49, Magno-
lia Heights 48
SENATOBIA — Jawon Yarbor-
ough hit a 3-pointer with seven
seconds left to lift the Starkville
Academy boys over Magnolia
Heights, 49-48, in Tuesday’s road
game.
The Volunteers will host Choc-
taw County on Thursday.
Prep Girls Soccer
Mooreville 5, New Hope 1
NEW HOPE — New Hope lost
Tuesday’s home match to Moore-
ville, 5-1.
Nicole Padron had the lone
goal for the Trojans.
New Hope’s next match is
Thursday at Tupelo.
Vardaman 2, Mississippi School
for Mathematics and Science 1
The Mississippi School for
Mathematics and Science girls
fell short against Vardaman in
Tuesday’s home match.
Senior Ashley Mangus scored
off a corner kick, but the Blue
Waves lost 2-1.
Prep Boys Soccer
Columbus 5, Winona 1
Destin Poindexter had a hat
trick for the Columbus High boys
in a 5-1 home win over Winona on
Tuesday.
Keylan Payne and Tony Mar-
quez added goals for the Falcons.
Starkville Academy 1, Caledo-
nia 0
STARKVILLE — Starkville
Academy boys soccer blanked
Caledonia, 1-0, in Tuesday’s match
in Starkville.
Wilkes Stubbs had the only
goal of the match.
The Volunteers will host Bayou
Academy on Thursday.
Caledonia will play at Tupelo
on Friday.
New Hope 6, Mooreville 0
NEW HOPE — Trey Parnell
had a hat trick in New Hope’s 6-0
rout of Mooreville on Tuesday.
José Castillo and Brant Smith
added goals for the Trojans.
Heritage Academy 7, Magnolia
Heights 2
Vardaman 3, Mississippi School
for Mathematics and Science 0
Conner named Region 1-5A
athlete of the year
Columbus High School senior
Ethan Conner was named the
football Region 1-5A athlete of the
year.
Isaiah Harris, Steve Cattledge,
Chris Allen, Elijah Short and Dar-
ion Mosley were named first-team
all-division.
Steve Turner, Deitrick Mc-
Cray, Michael Mosley, Karon
Hawk and Jaylan Harrison
made the second team.
Jamarion Moody, Tyrese
Erby, Darrion Salter, Chris-
topher Martin and Tawonn
Troop received an honorable
mention.

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Continued from Page 1B
day. Like everyone else in
2020, this year’s class of
players has tried to make
the best of their difficult
circumstances.
“I feel like it was better
for me,” Edwards said. “I
haven’t complained, I hav-
en’t tripped about it at all.
I just felt like it was better
for me because more time
for me to get better and
get ready for the NBA.”
The freshman guard
from Georgia is one of the
leading candidates to be
picked first by the Min-
nesota Timberwolves.
Ball, a guard who skipped
college to play profession-
ally overseas, and 7-foot-1
Memphis freshman cen-
ter Wiseman are the oth-
er headliners in the class.
The draft is usually
held in June in New York,
where Adam Silver an-
nounces the first-round
picks. The top players sit
at tables in the front of
the arena and when their
names are called, put on
a hat with the logo of the
team that picked them
and walk onto the stage
for a handshake and a
photo with the commis-
sioner.
This time, Silver will
be announcing the picks
from the ESPN campus in
Bristol, Connecticut. Play-
ers have been shipped
boxes of hats for wherever
they will be watching to
choose the one they need
when their name is called.
It’s not the draft night
they wanted, but the ex-
citement of becoming a
pro player won’t diminish.
Not when they’ve been
waiting since March,
when sports stopped just
days before the selection
of the NCAA Tournament
field, to start playing ball
again.
“I mean, playing in
games, I missed it a lot.
But at the same time,
this extra time, it’s only
helping me,” said forward
Obi Toppin, the national
college player of the year
from Dayton.
“I feel like I’m more
prepared and mentally
prepared for when the
time comes, and I feel like
when I’m on the court and
that jump ball goes up, I
feel like I’ve been waiting
so long that it’s going to
be an amazing feeling.”
The Golden State War-
riors have the No. 2 pick, a
chance to add a top young
player to a team that
reached five straight NBA
Finals before tumbling to
the bottom of the league
when Stephen Curry and
Klay Thompson were
injured. Charlotte picks
third, followed by Chica-
go and Cleveland.
The teams lacked
some resources to eval-
uate players, without the
normal draft combine in
Chicago or the ability to
invite players to their fa-
cilities for meetings and
workouts. Perhaps that’s
partly the reason there is
no consensus No. 1 pick
this year like Zion Wil-
liamson in 2019. me just being there gave the middle. the smoothest path to
“I would say the analy- me a lot of mental tough- If it’s Ball, he ends a the NBA, which perhaps
sis is fair. There is no guy ness, gave me a lot of ma- run a 10 straight one-and- makes him the perfect
that has separated them- turity as a person.” dones to be the No. 1 pick. player to handle a year
self from the pack, from He worked out for Blake Griffin in 2009 is when everything else
public or external view,” only the Warriors and the last non-college fresh- about the draft process
Timberwolves President
Hornets, suggesting the man to be the top selec- has been upended.
Gersson Rosas said.
Wolves may be choosing tion. “I feel like I’m just the
Edwards believes the
lack of an NCAA Tour- between Edwards and Ball didn’t do college right man for it,” Ball said.
nament hurt the players. Ball with 2015 No. 1 pick at all, playing profession- “Like I said, I feel like I’m
They couldn’t make a fi- Karl-Anthony Towns en- ally in Lithuania and Aus- born for this whole thing
nal collegiate statement trenched as their man in tralia. It certainly wasn’t going on.”
like Ja Morant did when
he turned in a triple-dou-
ble in an upset victory for
Murray State in the first
round of the 2019 NCAA
Tournament. That helped
secure him as the No. 2
pick behind Williamson
and he was a runaway
winner of the Rookie of
the Year award after near-
ly leading Memphis to the
playoffs.
Wiseman wouldn’t
have had that chance
anyway. He averaged 19.7
points and 10.7 rebounds
in three games after ar-
riving as the nation’s No.
1 recruit, then was sus-
pended by the NCAA for
eligibility reasons and an-
nounced he was leaving
the program to prepare
for the draft.
“Of course I wanted to
win a national champion-
ship, of course I wanted
to establish that situation
with my teammates,” he
said. “I love my team-
mates, I actually text
them every day. But you
know how life happens.
Like, stuff hits you out of
nowhere, but I feel that

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lege in Hattiesburg.
“It means a lot with
how far I’ve come,” De-
Vos said.
In 2018, DeVos tore
her ACL and MCL run-
ning to first base and had
surgery to reconstruct
the ligament. She was
told she’d probably never
be able to catch again and
that she’d probably end
up having to move to the
outfield.
“Whenever I was told
that, I was really deter-
mined to come back
stronger than I was,” De-
Vos said.
It took a year before
she could get back on
the field and another two
months before she got
back to catching. And
just like DeVos did, Wil-
liam Carey coach Craig
Fletcher kept the faith.
“He told me that he
wasn’t going to stop fight-
ing,” DeVos said. “Sure
enough, after my inju-
ry and after I was back
playing, he was still there
watching me.”
Since Columbus
Christian doesn’t field
a high school softball
team, DeVos has played
travel ball for the Tuscalo-
osa (Alabama) Titans. At
a game with the Titans,
DeVos met Fletcher, who
extolled William Carey’s
virtues. DeVos visited
campus and loved it. Wil-
liam Carey became No. 1
on her list.
And when Fletcher
made it clear the Crusad-
ers would allow DeVos to
catch in college, the deci-
sion was obvious.
“When William Car-
ey talked to me and they
stuck with me after my
injury, I knew that was
the school I wanted to
choose,” DeVos said.
Two weeks before
her senior year started,
DeVos had surgery to
remove a screw that was
inserted as part of the
initial reconstruction as
well as a cyst that was
forming. The procedure
“helped a ton,” she said.
DeVos was able to com-
pete in fall ball, which
just wrapped up, and she
plans to play “here and
there” in summer ball
before heading to Hat-
tiesburg. She’ll major in
criminology and contin-
ue her catching career
with the Crusaders.
“All my friends and
family supported me
through it all,” DeVos
said.
4B WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Theo Epstein steps down after 9 seasons leading Cubs
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Listening
in on fans’ conversations
during his walks home
from Wrigley Field, Theo
Epstein could sense their
excitement as the Chicago
Cubs set themselves up to
capture that long-awaited
World Series champion-
ship.
It was as if they were all
in it together.
“It felt like the lines be-
tween fans and front office
members and players were
blurred because we were
all part of this club that
was in on a secret,” he said.
“We all kind of knew what
was about to happen, may-
be before the rest of the
baseball world did.”
Epstein, who trans-
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CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
formed the long-suffering
Cubs and helped bring
home a drought-busting
championship in 2016, is
stepping down after nine
seasons as the club’s pres-
ident of baseball opera-
tions, the team announced
Tuesday. General manager
Jed Hoyer is being promot-
ed to take Epstein’s place.
Epstein said after the
season he anticipated re-
maining on the job for at
least one more year, with
his contract set to expire in
2021. But he said Tuesday
it became apparent this
past summer “for a num-
ber of reasons” it was time
to move on.
“It became really clear
that we’d be facing some
significant long-term deci-
sions this winter, decisions
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with long-term impacts,”
Epstein said. “Those types
of decisions are really best
made by somebody who’s
going to be here for a long
time, not just for one more
year. ... Jed clearly is that
person.”
Chairman Tom Ricketts
said it was a “sad day for
me personally” and called
Epstein a “great partner
and truly a great friend.”
“Really, I think the lega-
cy that Theo leaves behind
is an organization that ex-
pects to win, not an organi-
zation that is surprised to
win,” Ricketts added.
Though the COVID-19
pandemic wreaked finan-
cial havoc on baseball,
Ricketts said money “had
nothing to do” with Ep-
stein’s decision. Epstein,
who won’t be paid for 2021
by the Cubs, said Ricketts
did not bring up his salary
when they discussed his
future. He also said he was
not asked to resign.
The 46-year-old Ep-
stein, who grew up near
Boston and helped the
Red Sox break an 86-year
drought with World Series
championships in 2004 and
2007, is one of five execu-
tives to win titles with mul-
tiple organizations. He, Pat
Gillick, John Schuerholz
and Dave Dombrowski are
the only ones to do so with
teams in each league.
Epstein hopes to stay
involved with baseball
while he plots his next
move. He plans to run a
team again, though prob-
ably not next season. He
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
Two years
ago, my
husband of 50
years confessed
that 46 years ago,
shortly after our
son was born, he
had a one-night
stand with a total
stranger he gave
a ride to. She
offered sex to him,
and they went to a
hotel for the brief
encounter. He
said he had totally
forgotten about it Dear Abby
until recently. He
said he was very upset when he
remembered, to the point that
he felt sick.
He decided to tell me
because he didn’t want any se-
crets between us, and he asked
me to forgive him. I forgave him,
but I have been devastated ever
since. He was a virgin when
we married, and he has been
unfaithful only that one time.
Abby, I cannot get over the
fact that he did this to me. Not
a single day goes by without
the pain and the images of him
being unfaithful in a marriage
that I considered to be nearly
perfect until then, take hold of
me and make me very sad. I
don’t cry as much anymore, but
the intensity of the pain hasn’t
subsided.
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov.
18). You refuse to buy into the
status quo vision because you
see more than people around
you are accepting. With your
imaginative approach, you’ll
make extraordinary things
happen. A deal comes together
before the end of the year,
thanks to your investigative
problem-solving. Love is lav-
ished on you. Aries and Gemini
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 20, 4, 44, 48 and 1.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Feeling hesitant and resistant
can be taken as a signal you’re
in danger, or it doesn’t mean
this at all. Today, it’s just a
simple fear of the unknown and
should be brushed off in the
would like to be part of an
ownership group at some
point.
“Baseball team own-
ers can be transformed
into forces for civic good
and help a lot of people
and be involved in a lot of
the important conversa-
tions in the city and be a
solution for a lot of issues
in cities,” Epstein said.
“So that does appeal to
me. A lot of things would
have to go right for that to
happen. Usually, for that
type of thing to happen
you need access to a lot
of capital. ... Who knows?
Maybe I have plans for
some of those things down
the line, but a lot would
have to go right for that
to happen.”
For now, Epstein will
I haven’t
talked to anyone
else about this.
My husband loves
me and has been
very supportive,
but it hasn’t been
enough to heal
this pain. Your
words of wisdom
will be appreciat-
ed. — WOUNDED
IN FLORIDA
DEAR WOUND-
ED: So your
husband chose
to ease his guilty
conscience about
this one-time
infidelity 46 years ago and lay
it on you. It would have been
kinder had he “confessed” to
his spiritual adviser.
Focus on the fact that what
happened (once) four years into
your marriage is less relevant
than the quality of the relation-
ship you have shared during
the ensuing nearly half-century.
Because it has been two years
since your husband told you and
you are still in emotional pain,
consider enlisting the help of
a licensed marriage and family
therapist. Talking it out may
help these feelings to dissipate
so you will no longer be haunted
by the images in your head.
Please do not wait to do this.
Your physician is the first person
to ask for a referral.
name of learning.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). The current way works,
but you can’t help but wonder if
there’s a more efficient method.
Condensing tasks, thereby
freeing up time, feels like a
sacred cause, and appropriately
so. Time is among your most
precious resources.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You have something to express,
though you won’t be sure exact-
ly what it is or the best way to
put it out there until you start
talking. Communication is an
experiment. Give yourself plenty
of chances.
CANCER (June 22-July
22). You’re focused on a future
event. However great it will be,
remain in Chicago with
his wife and two sons.
He said he would likely
become a season-tick-
et holder, maybe even a
bleacher bum. And he
vowed to buy beers for
any Cubs fan he sees in
a bar following the coro-
navirus pandemic, until
the team wins a World
Series under Hoyer.
Epstein oversaw a
massive rebuild when
he came to Chicago fol-
lowing the 2011 season.
He overhauled the farm
system as well as the
scouting and analytics
operations, helping to
produce one of the most
successful stretches in
the franchise’s history
with a big assist from
Hoyer.
DEAR ABBY: I have read
about how narcissistic, angry,
depressed people shame others
and spread lies on social media.
May I take a moment to remind
your readers that they do not
HAVE to have social media? I
stopped looking at it two years
ago, after the death of my sis-
ter. People said some horrible
things, so I decided enough
is enough — I’m done. Not
only have I not missed it, I’m
much more peaceful and less
stressed. I connect with people
I love through email, texting and
sometimes good old-fashioned
letter-writing. That works for
me. — FREEDOM REGAINED IN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR FREEDOM REGAINED:
I have received an increasing
number of letters from people
about problems in which there
is a social media element. For
those who have become over-
whelmed, I recommend limiting
time spent online. For people
who have been victimized by
trolls, another solution is to
simply block or delete them.
I’m sharing your suggestion
for anyone who might need
it — and I suspect there may be
quite a few. However, discon-
necting from social media does
take more effort because the
dropouts must decide not only
who they wish to communicate
with but also by what means
to do it.
today is just as great. If you
knew that someday you would
be nostalgic about this very
day, then what would you do
differently to savor it?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You cannot make the future
because it’s a collaboration.
However, you can and will
strongly influence the people
around you by envisioning your
version and feeding that vision
with your words and actions.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You’ll mine gems of happiness
all over the place — and time
— today. You’ll revel in glorious
moments as you time travel
through joyous moments of your
memory and your projections of
the future.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Having too little to do doesn’t
feel good to you. Having too
much is worse. There’s a sweet
spot in the middle — just
enough stress to keep you on
your toes and not enough to
drain you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Your cosmic boon: well-calibrat-
ed confidence. You’re realistic
about what you can achieve
and seeing the smiles you elicit
along the way will give you just
the right amount of confidence.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Today’s decisions aren’t
major, but they’re tricky. There
are consequences to be had,
and they’ll happen on many
levels. Check around, research,
put in the deep thought.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). You’ll be doing some fore-
casting. The more specific you
are in your predictions, the less
prepared you’ll be for a variety
of outcomes. Make contingency
plans. Allow for uncertainty.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-
Feb. 18). You can’t wait for
something to be over, but don’t
let the anticipation rob you of
appreciation for the stage you’re
in right now. The finish line is an
illusory delineation. The end of
this journey is the threshold of
the next.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Disagreement won’t be an
obstacle to progress. In fact,
it’s an essential tool in improv-
ing things. Today’s disagree-
ment has a way of balancing
out errors and promoting more
expansive thinking.
World without end
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Tips for sweets — and safety

— this Thanksgiving
BY JAN SWOOPE
jswoope@cdispatch.com

L
ike many of you, our fami-
ly plans to scale back this
Thanksgiving — fewer people,
much simpler menu, and aiming
to do whatever we do outside,
assuming Mother Nature is kind.
No big turkey this year surrounded familyfeatures.com
by more sides than we can (well, White cheddar and Parmesan
should) eat. To be honest, the feel- cheeses, sherry, hash browns and
ing of release from all the tradition- eggs flavor this sherry, ham and
al prep is already making me step cheese brunch bake.
lighter.
It is a fact that COVID-19 cases
and hospitalizations are rising, and
that should have us all taking extra
Flavorful
precautions next week that reduce
the risk of spread. In my personal
opinion, there are many reasons
dishes prepped
to do so — not only to protect our
families but to save what we can of
the community Christmas season;
in minutes for
to lessen the risk of temporary
shutdowns returning, as they
already are in other states; and
small, family
gatherings
to hasten the advent of a stable,
robust economy.
If you’re hosting a small holiday snap4ct.org
gathering, the Centers for Disease This nutty apple crisp contains delicious autumn flavors including apples,
FAMILY FEATURES
Control and Prevention has some raisins, cinnamon, brown sugar and nuts.

advice at cdc.gov. First, know that
there is currently no evidence
to suggest that handling food or
eating is associated with directly
spreading COVID-19. It’s possible a
person can get the virus by touch-
ing a surface or object, including
food, food packaging or utensils
that have the virus on them, then
touching their own mouth, nose or
possibly their eyes. However, that
is not thought to be the main way
the virus is spread.
Some general considerations
that can mitigate risk are to limit
the number of attendees as much
as possible and move gatherings
outdoors. Avoid crowded, poorly
ventilated spaces with people who
are not in your household. If you
must be inside, increase ventilation
by opening windows and doors to
the extent it is safe and feasible, or
by placing central air and heating
on continuous circulation.
Other advice includes
n Clean and disinfect common-
ly touched surfaces and any shared
items between use when feasible.
n Wear a mask while preparing
food for or serving food to others
who don’t live in your household.
n Limit people going in and out
of the areas where food is being
prepared or handled, such as
the kitchen or around the grill, if
possible.
n Have one person who is
wearing a mask serve all the food
so that multiple people are not
handling serving utensils.
n Use single-use options or
identify one person to serve shar-
able items, like salad dressings,
food containers, plates and utensils
and condiments.
n Offer no-touch trash cans for
guests to easily throw away food
items. Use gloves when removing
garbage bags and wash hands
afterward.
The ultra careful may want to
encourage guests to bring their
own food and drink for themselves
and for members of their house-
hold; avoid potluck-style gather-
ings.
It goes without saying that the
CDC recommends wearing masks
unless eating, remaining 6 feet
apart from others not in your usual
household and washing hands well.
Make hand sanitizer available.
Sure, none of this is fun, but a
few precautions now could help in
the long-run, and we all want to get
to the finish line.
But back to food, because that’s
on our minds, isn’t it? A Thanks-
giving menu isn’t complete without
a sweet. (Our family favors apple
cake, apple pie or pecan pie). Here
are a few more ideas for your
holiday.
NUTTY APPLE CRISP
Makes: 10 servings
3 apples, cored and cut into 1 inch
chunks, unpeeled
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 lemon, juiced
1/2 cup old fashioned oats
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 cup pistachios, walnuts or almonds,
unsalted, chopped
2 tablespoons margarine or butter, melted
n Place rack in center of oven and pre-
heat to 350 F.
n Place sliced apples, raisins, and lemon
juice in 8x8 inch pan or baking dish. Toss.
n In a bowl, mix remaining ingredients
except melted margarine.
n Add melted margarine and mix until tex-
ture is consistent. Sprinkle over apple-rai-
sin mixture.
n Bake uncovered 45-50 minutes or until
apples are tender.
(Note: Sweet varieties of apples like
Honeycrisp, Fuji, or Gala work best for
this recipe since there is very little added
sugar. Adding nuts and oatmeal to the top
of this crisp adds fiber, making it heart
healthy.)
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PUMPKIN APPLE CAKE
1 package (18.25 ounces) white cake mix
1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2/3 cup apple juice
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Nonstick cooking spray and flour
n Preheat oven to 350 F.
n Combine cake mix, pumpkin, cinna-
I
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Use some of the season’s abun-
dant sweet potatoes to make this
tasty sweet potato cake.
mon, apple juice, eggs, and vanilla in
large mixing bowl.
n Beat at low speed for 30 seconds.
Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.
n Pour into a 12 cup bundt pan or a 9-by-
13-inch cake pan that has been sprayed
with cooking spray and floured.
n Bake for 35-40 minutes or until wooden
toothpick inserted in cake center comes
out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Then invert
onto wire rack to cool completely.
(Note: This is an ideal cake to bake in
cans and give for gifts. Cans should
be well greased and filled 2/3 full. It is
best to use cans with smooth sides and
without a lead seam. Baking times for
cans: 18 ounce can, 45 minutes or until
done; 16-17 ounce can, 40 minutes or
until done; 6 ounce can, 30 minutes or
until done.)
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SWEET POTATO CAKE
Makes: 16 servings
1 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes (about 2 to
3 medium, or 2 large)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Two pinches ground cloves (add more if
you like)
1/2 stick unsalted butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 large eggs
For the frosting:
1 1/2 cups plain Greek yogurt
See THANKSGIVING, 6B
n what’s certain to be a holiday
season unlike any other, you
can transform your seasonal
menu in 20 minutes of prep time
or less by incorporating flavorful
ingredients that make ordinary
dishes extraordinary, ensuring the
holidays are as special and memo-
rable as any other year.
Stress-free holiday entertaining
at home begins with ingredients
like Holland House Cooking Wines
that add an extra boost of flavor to
recipes like Tuscan White Bean
Soup. Perfect for chilly evenings,
this recipe combines pantry sta-
ples and enticing seasonings for an
easy-to-make soup that simmers
in the slow cooker. This Sherry,
Ham and Cheese Brunch Bake is
another delicious and convenient
recipe to feed your family on early
holiday mornings. This simple,
tasty brunch bake can be easily
prepped the night before.
While holiday gatherings may
be smaller this year, spending
time with family can be made
even more special when sharing a
homemade, holiday-inspired meal.
Sherry Cherry Pork Loin Roast,
made in a time-saving slow cooker,
provides an easy way to bring
your family together for a flavorful
holiday meal.
Holland House Cooking Wines
are available in four flavors — Mar-
sala, Sherry, White and Red.
Visit hollandhouseflavors.
com to find more holiday-worthy
dishes.
SHERRY CHERRY PORK
LOIN ROAST
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 5-6 hours
Servings: 8-10
7 tablespoons avocado or grapeseed oil,
divided
2 large Vidalia onions, halved and thinly
sliced
4 teaspoons kosher salt, divided
1 pork loin roast (4-4 1/2 pounds),
trimmed and patted dry
3 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper,
divided
Sherry cherry sauce:
3/4 cup Holland House Sherry Cooking
Wine
5-6 cloves garlic
See FLAVORFUL, 6B

Apples help celebrate the best of the season

FAMILY FEATURES to sugary sweet, so finding ness coupled with a crisp, ored plant-breeding meth-
the right balance for your elegant crunch. They are an ods. Plus, the apples’ bright

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Use apples in a variety of ways — like
toasted bread topped with brie, a slice
of apple and bacon — throughout the
holiday season ahead.
I
f it seems like your gro-
cery store’s apple section
is more abundant than it
has been in the past, you’d be
correct. With new apple vari-
eties coming onto the scene
every few years, gone are the
days of choosing between
simply red or green.
Instead, choosing the
right apple is similar to
selecting the perfect wine.
Apples can range from tart
palate is key. Scent can also
influence taste, especially
when you have a balanced
sweetness with an uplifting,
fresh aroma.
When it comes to apples,
a satisfying texture is as
important as taste. Consider
an option like the Envy apple,
which has been referred to as
“the ultimate apple expe-
rience” for its consistently
balanced, delightful sweet-
easy snack when eaten fresh
out of hand and are perfect
for pairing with cheese, char-
cuterie boards, chocolate and
nut butters.
Easy to spot with their
crimson red skin over a
golden background that
practically glows, Envy
apples are naturally descend-
ed from Braeburn and Royal
Gala apple varieties, bred by
farmers who use time-hon-
white flesh is naturally slow
to brown when sliced, so they
stay fresher longer.
For more information,
including recipes and enter-
taining tips, visit EnvyApple.
com.
Creating the ultimate
charcuterie board
Stick to the basics this
holiday season to create a
See APPLES, 6B
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Flavorful
Continued from Page 5B
1 cup frozen Bing cherries, divided
1 1/2 tablespoons dry mustard powder
4 tablespoons Holland House Balsamic
Vinegar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 bunch fresh parsley, large stems
removed, plus additional reserved for
garnish
3 tablespoons cornstarch (optional)

n In large slow cooker on high heat, add

2 tablespoons oil, sliced onions and 1
teaspoon salt.
n Season roast evenly on all sides with 2
teaspoons salt and 1 tea­spoon pepper.
n Place large skillet over medium heat.
Add 2 tablespoons oil to pan. Sear pork
loin 3 minutes on each side until golden
brown. Transfer roast to slow cooker on
top of onions. Cover and cook on low 3
hours.
Sudoku YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

n To make sherry cherry sauce: In blend-

er, blend sherry cooking wine, garlic, 1/2 Cooking wines can boost the flavor of dishes like this sherry cherry pork
familyfeatures.com
Sudoku
Sudoku is a number-
placing puzzle based on
Yesterday’s answer
cup cherries, mustard powder, balsamic Sudoku 5 8 6 2 7 4 3 9 1
vinegar, soy sauce, parsley, remaining
loin roast. a 9x9 gridis witha several
num-
olive oil, remaining salt and remaining ber-placing
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8 teaspoons Parmesan cheese, shaved (for 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard powder based onthe a 9x9
pepper until smooth; set aside. garnish) 2 tablespoons fresh chopped dill is to place numbers 4 1 2 3 9 6 5 8 7
n After pork loin cooks 3 hours, add 1 teaspoon fresh chopped dill, for garnish grid
1 to 9with
in theseveral
empty spaces 1 3 4 5 6 9 7 2 8
sherry cherry sauce around pork roast. given
Cover and cook 2-3 hours on low.
n Place chicken stock, white cooking wine, (optional) so that numbers.
each row, eachThe 6 9 7 4 2 8 1 3 5
tomatoes, onion, celery, carrots, garlic, 2 teaspoons freshly grated Parmesan object
column and each 3x3 the
is to place box
n To glaze, brush roast with warm sauce cannellini beans, artichoke hearts, bay numbers 8 2 5 7 1 3 6 4 9
contains the1same to 9 number
in
3-4 times in last hour of cooking. cheese, for garnish (optional)
leaf, poultry seasoning, salt, pepper and 3 6 1 9 8 5 2 7 4
n Once pork reaches internal tempera- the empty spaces so
rosemary in slow cooker. Cover and cook on n Move oven rack to middle position and only once. The difficulty 2 4 9 1 3 7 8 5 6
ture of 145 F, remove and let rest 15-20 low 7-8 hours or high 4-5 hours. that each row, each
minutes before slicing. preheat to 400 F. Generously grease 9-by- level increases from
n About 30 minutes before serving soup, 13-inch baking dish with butter; set aside. column and each 7 5 8 6 4 2 9 1 3
n To finish sauce, remove 1/4 cup stir in kale and cover. Monday
3x3 boxtocontains
Sunday. Difficulty Level 11/17

cooking liquid and mix with cornstarch to
make a slurry. Whisk slurry and remaining
cherries into sauce. Cook in slow cooker
on high 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
n Slice roast 1/2-inch thick, garnish
with fresh parsley and serve with Sherry
Cherry Sauce and braised onions.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of Cate Meade
of “Cate’s Kitchen Fit”)
TUSCAN WHITE BEAN SOUP
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 8 hours
Servings: 8
4 cups chicken stock
1 cup Holland House White Cooking Wine
1 can (14 1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes
1 medium yellow onion, diced small
1 cup celery, diced
1 cup carrots, diced
6 large cloves garlic, minced
3 cans (15 1/2 ounces each) cannellini
beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (13 3/4 ounces) artichoke hearts,
rinsed and drained
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary
4 cups kale (about 6 ounces), cleaned,
destemmed and chopped
5 ounces pancetta or bacon, diced
n In 10-inch nonstick skillet, add olive oil
n In 10-inch skillet over medium heat, and preheat pan over medium heat. Add the same number only once. The difficulty level
cook pancetta until crispy, about 4 minutes.
Move pancetta to paper towel-lined plate
shallots and cook, stirring often, until soft- increases from Monday to Sunday.
to drain. ened and golden, about 7-8 minutes.
n Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle with n Stir in cooking wine and cook until liquid
pancetta and Parmesan cheese shavings. is evaporated, about 3-5 minutes. Remove
(Source: Recipe courtesy of Jillian Wade of from heat.
“Food, Folks & Fun”) n Add frozen hash browns to prepared
baking dish. Pour melted butter over pota-
toes and add salt, pepper and caramelized
SHERRY, HAM AND CHEESE shallots.
n Use spoon to mix well. Bake 30 minutes,
BRUNCH BAKE or until potatoes are cooked through
Prep time: 20 minutes and some edges are beginning to brown.
Cook time: 1 hour, 20 minutes Remove potatoes from oven and reduce
Servings: 10 temperature to 325 F.
n Sprinkle cheddar cheese and 1 cup
8 tablespoons salted butter, melted, plus shredded Parmesan cheese evenly over
additional for greasing pan, divided potatoes followed by ham.
2 teaspoons olive oil n In large measuring cup or small bowl,
2 large shallots, minced vigorously whisk eggs, milk, mustard pow-
1/2 cup Holland House Sherry Cooking der and dill until fully combined and eggs
Wine
1 package (20 ounces) frozen hash brown become frothy, about 1 minute.
potatoes n Pour egg mixture evenly over potatoes,
1/2 teaspoon salt cheese and ham. Store covered in refrigera-
1/2 teaspoon pepper tor if prepping night before.
2 cups (8 ounces) shredded white cheddar n Bake 35-40 minutes, or until edges of
cheese casserole are golden brown and center of
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Parmesan casserole is set.
cheese n Cool 5 minutes before slicing and
8 ounces precooked ham, cut into 1/2-inch serving. Serve with chopped dill and grated
pieces Parmesan cheese, if desired.
8 large eggs (Source: Recipe courtesy of Jillian Wade of
1 1/4 cups whole milk “Food, Folks & Fun”)

Apples
Continued from Page 5B
perfect charcuterie board: friends and loved ones
n The board: Select a will likely be limited
board big enough for your this year, so make this
gathering but not too big holiday season a time
as you want there to be for cherishing traditions
overlap and crowding. in new, different ways.
n The cheeses: Select Consider these ways to
three different cheeses make apples part of the
that complement the celebration:
other items. Brie is a solid n Break out the web-
soft cheese choice while cam and challenge your
blue fills the need for a siblings to a cross-coun- ACROSS
stronger, more pungent try apple pie bake-off. 1 Prejudice
cheese. Try an aged n Give a relish tray an 5 Gloss targets
cheddar or smoky gouda upgrade with a sophisti- 9 Follow as a
to round out the trio. cated charcuterie board result
n The meats: Some- stacked with creamy 11 Attack
thing salty with a little gorgonzola cheese, salty 12 “The Tem-
fat, like prosciutto or caramel sauce, crunchy pest” sprite
speck, provides a flavorful mixed nuts and crisp 13 Mumbai’s
addition to the board. apple slices. Entertain- nation
n The produce: ing tip: Envy apples are 14 Start of an
Choose fruits that not a perfect addition to any ode title
only taste great, but are holiday spread as their 15 Endless
also beautiful to display white flesh stays natu- reminders
such as Envy apple slices, rally whiter longer and
which stay whiter longer,
17 Giving under
resists the browning that pressure
making them ideal for sometimes shows with
any entertaining occa- 19 “My word!”
other apples.
sion. Plus their balanced 20 Carrying out 39 Ohio city 11 Diana of “The
n Get transported
sweetness pairs well with from the comfort of your 21 Physique, 40 Barking beast Avengers”
any item on the board. couch by watching one slangily 41 Await 16 Luanda native
n The crackers: Vari- of Hallmark Channel’s 22 Nary a soul DOWN 18 Bar staples
ety is key with crackers, all-new original holiday 24 Methane, for 1 Pulses 21 Ice chunk
and like the cheeses, movies, munching on ap- one 2 Hostile incur- 23 Bean
three types is typically ples as your movie-time 26 Parliament sion 24 Player in a
the magic formula. Think snack. members 3 Crumbly Italian mask
water crackers, multi- n Share the scents 29 Abel, to Adam cheese 25 Soft wool
grain wafers and bread- of the holidays with 30 Checkout 4 Take to court 27 Hindu festival
sticks. neighbors by crafting chore 5 Breathing of lights
n The snacks: Sweet pomanders, which are 32 Identifying, on organ 28 Deceived
and salty are king when fresh apples studded social media 6 Blue hue 29 Some deer
it comes to snacks, so a with whole cloves. 34 Misery 7 Grimacing, 30 Auction
mix of chocolate and nuts n Fill decorative 35 Spoken perhaps actions
works for many char- bowls with festive 36 Really
cuterie boards.
8 Play place 31 Gaggle group
apples, enclose in cel- impressed 10 Pacific 33 Beach bird
lophane and gift them 38 Some babies current 37 Quill tip
Home for the holidays to friends and family
Traveling to visit member.

Thanksgiving
Continued from Page 5B
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar
n Preheat oven to 350 F.
Line bottom of an 8-by-8-inch
square pan with parchment pa-
per and then butter the paper
and sides of the pan (a 9-by-9-
inch pan works fine too).
n Prick potatoes with a fork
and microwave on high for 5
minutes, or until soft.
n Peel cooled sweet potatoes
and mash until very smooth.
Measure 1 1/2 packed cups
from sweet potato mash and
set aside.
n In a large bowl, beat butter
and brown sugar together with
an electric mixer until light and
fluffy. Add oil, vanilla and eggs,
and beat until just combined.
Mix in sweet potato puree.
n Whisk flour, baking powder,
baking soda, salt and spices
together in a medium bowl.
n Stir dry ingredients into wet
ingredients until they are just
mixed in. Do not over mix.
n Spread batter in prepared
pan, and bake about 35 to
40 minutes. Let cake rest in
pan for 5 minutes on a cooling
rack, then invert onto cooling
rack, and let cool completely.
n For the frosting: Whisk all
ingredients until they become
a bit thick. Place in the fridge
to thicken even more (at least
30 minutes). Spread on the
prepared cake.
Serve at room temperature cut
into squares. cdispatch.com
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said Deed of Trust, and the
holder of said Deed of Trust,
having requested the under-
signed so to do, on the 9th day perfected, and enforceable first
of December, 2020, I will dur-
ing the lawful hours of between erty. The Order further author-
11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., at
public outcry, offer for sale and subject Deed of Trust recorded
will sell, at the south east front in Mortgage Book 2008 at
door of Lowndes County Court- Page 21932, and appoints
house, 505 2nd Ave. North at
Columbus, Mississippi, for
cash to the highest bidder, the ized agent, for purposes of con-
following described land and
property situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to-wit:
Commencing at the Southwest sissippi's land records in Deed
corner of the Southeast
Quarter of Section 17, Town-
ship 17 South, Range 18 West,
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
and run thence North 88 de-
grees 31 minutes East 832.71 indebtedness secured by the
feet along the South boundary
of Section 17 to an iron pin
and the point of beginning. Run having requested the under-
thence North 00 degrees 21
minutes East 281.43 feet to
an iron pin on the South right-
of-way of Jess Lyons Road; run 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., at
thence South 89 degrees 30
minutes East 156.30 feet
along said right-of-way to an
iron pin; run thence South 00
degrees 02 minutes West
275.99 feet to an iron pin on
the South boundary of said
Section 17; run thence South
88 degrees 31 minutes West
157.86 feet along said bound-
ary to the point of beginning.
All lying in the Southwest
Quarter of the Southeast
Quarter of Section 17, Town-
ship 17 South, Range 18 West, run thence South 38 degrees
Lowndes County, Mississippi
and containing 1.00 acre, more to a point; run thence South 00
or less.
N.A. as successor in interest to
all permitted successors and
assigns of The First National
Bank of Chicago as Trustee, for
BankAmerica Manufactured
Housing Contract Trust IV,
Senior/Subordinate Pass-
Through Certificates, Series
1998-1, by instrument recor-
ded in the office of the afore-
said Chancery Clerk in Book
2020 at Page 27969; and
WHEREAS, on the 27th day of
October, 2020 the Holder of
said Deed of Trust substituted County, Mississippi, rendered
and appointed Dean Morris,
LLC as Substitute Trustee by
instrument recorded in the of-
fice of the aforesaid Chancery
Clerk in Book 2020 at Page
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28480; and
WHEREAS, default having been Deed of Trust in Book 1246 at
made in the payments of the
indebtedness secured by the
said Deed of Trust, and the
holder of said Deed of Trust,
having requested the under-
signed so to do, on the 9th day perfected, and enforceable first
of December, 2020, I will dur-
ing the lawful hours of between erty. The Order further author-
11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., at
public outcry, offer for sale and subject Deed of Trust recorded
will sell, at the south east front in Mortgage Book 2008 at
door of Lowndes County Court- Page 21932, and appoints
house, 505 2nd Ave. North at
Columbus, Mississippi, for
cash to the highest bidder, the ized agent, for purposes of con-
following described land and
property situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to-wit:
Commencing at the Southwest sissippi's land records in Deed
corner of the Southeast
Quarter of Section 17, Town-
ship 17 South, Range 18 West,
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
and run thence North 88 de-
grees 31 minutes East 832.71 indebtedness secured by the
feet along the South boundary
of Section 17 to an iron pin
and the point of beginning. Run having requested the under-
thence North 00 degrees 21
minutes East 281.43 feet to
an iron pin on the South right-
of-way of Jess Lyons Road; run 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., at
thence South 89 degrees 30
minutes East 156.30 feet
along said right-of-way to an
iron pin; run thence South 00
degrees 02 minutes West
275.99 feet to an iron pin on
the South boundary of said
Section 17; run thence South
88 degrees 31 minutes West
157.86 feet along said bound-
ary to the point of beginning.
All lying in the Southwest
Quarter of the Southeast
Quarter of Section 17, Town-
ship 17 South, Range 18 West, run thence South 38 degrees
Lowndes County, Mississippi
and containing 1.00 acre, more to a point; run thence South 00
or less.
Including the following manu-
factured home: 1996 South-
ern Energy SEII 750, 60X28,
Serial No. DSE2AL9941AB
1996 Southern Energy SEII
750, 60X28, Serial No.
DSE2AL9941AB
I will only convey such title as
is vested in me as Substitute
Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this situated in the Northeast
12th day of November, 2020.
Dean Morris, LLC
Substitute Trustee
855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste.
404, Bldg. 400
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(318) 330-9020
adp/F20-0300
PUBLISH: 11/18/2020,
11/25/2020, 12/2/2020
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF Lowndes
WHEREAS, on the 29th day of
August, 2008, Wayne Vincent
Davis Sr. aka Wayne V. Davis,
Sr. and Sharon Ann Davis aka
Sharon Davis, his wife, ex-
ecuted and delivered a certain
Deed of Trust unto Real Estate
Closing Services, Trustee for
Mortgage Electronic Registra-
tion Systems, Inc. as nominee
for Realty Mortgage Corpora-
tion, Beneficiary, to secure an
indebtedness therein de-
scribed, which Deed of Trust is
recorded in the office of the
WHEREAS, Wayne Vincent Dav-
is Sr. aka Wayne V. Davis, Sr.
Sharon Davis, his wife is also
known as Sharon A. Davis per
the land records of Lowndes
WHEREAS, on the 13th day of
Electronic Registration Sys-
alty Mortgage Corporation, as-
signed said Deed of Trust unto
by instrument recorded in the
office of the aforesaid Chan-
at Page 20137; and
WHEREAS by Amended Order
granting Default Judgment and
Final Judgment on the Plead-
ings, in the matter of
PennyMac Loan Services, LLC
vs. Wayne Davis, Sr. a/k/a
Wayne Vincent Davis, Sr., et al;
Cause No.: 2019-0530 DE in
the Chancery Court of Lowndes
on the 30th day of September
2020, which reforms the Deed
of Trust filed in the Chancery
Court of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi in Mortgage Book
2008 at Page 21932, grants a
declaratory judgment that the
Page 177 is satisfied and is
canceled of record, and recog-
nizes the reformed Deed of
Trust in Mortgage Book 2008
at Page 21932 to be a valid,
priority lien on the subject prop-
izes judicial foreclosure of the
The best place for personalized
Dean Morris, LLC, Special
Commissioner, or its author-
advertising
President: Dr. Scott
ducting the Judicial Foreclos-
ure Sale. Said Amended Order
appearing in the Chancery Alsobrooks
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
1512 Kemper Street
Book 2020 at Page 7539 on
October 21, 2020; and ; and
WHEREAS, default having been
made in the payments of the
said Deed of Trust, and the
holder of said Deed of Trust,
signed so to do, on the 9th day
of December, 2020, I will dur-
ing the lawful hours of between
public outcry, offer for sale and
will sell, at the south east front
door of Lowndes County Court-
house, 505 2nd Ave. North at
Columbus, Mississippi, for
cash to the highest bidder, the
following described land and
property situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to-wit:
Commencing at the Northwest
corner of Section 30, Town-
ship 16 South, Range 17 West,
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
16 minutes West 2130.2 feet
degrees 04 minutes West
signed said Deed of Trust unto
PennyMac Loan Services, LLC,
by instrument recorded in the
office of the aforesaid Chan-
cery Clerk in MORT Book 2018
at Page 20137; and
WHEREAS by Amended Order
granting Default Judgment and
Final Judgment on the Plead-
ings, in the matter of
PennyMac Loan Services, LLC
vs. Wayne Davis, Sr. a/k/a
Wayne Vincent Davis, Sr., et al;
Cause No.: 2019-0530 DE in
the Chancery Court of Lowndes
on the 30th day of September
2020, which reforms the Deed
of Trust filed in the Chancery
Court of Lowndes County, Mis-
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sissippi in Mortgage Book
2008 at Page 21932, grants a
declaratory judgment that the
Page 177 is satisfied and is
canceled of record, and recog-
nizes the reformed Deed of
Trust in Mortgage Book 2008
at Page 21932 to be a valid,
priority lien on the subject prop-
izes judicial foreclosure of the
Dean Morris, LLC, Special
Commissioner, or its author-
ducting the Judicial Foreclos-
ure Sale. Said Amended Order
appearing in the Chancery
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
Book 2020 at Page 7539 on
October 21, 2020; and ; and
WHEREAS, default having been
made in the payments of the
said Deed of Trust, and the
holder of said Deed of Trust,
signed so to do, on the 9th day
of December, 2020, I will dur-
ing the lawful hours of between
public outcry, offer for sale and
will sell, at the south east front
door of Lowndes County Court-
house, 505 2nd Ave. North at
Columbus, Mississippi, for
cash to the highest bidder, the
following described land and
property situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to-wit:
Commencing at the Northwest
corner of Section 30, Town-
ship 16 South, Range 17 West,
Lowndes County, Mississippi;
16 minutes West 2130.2 feet
degrees 04 minutes West
83.03 feet to the Point of Be-
ginning of the herein described
tract; run thence South 00 de-
grees 04 minutes West,
110.32 feet to a point; run
thence South 85 degrees 41
minutes West 336.05 feet to a
point; run thence North 04 de-
grees 19 minutes West 110.0
feet to a point; run thence
North 85 degrees 41 minutes
East 344.48 feet to a Point of
Beginning, containing 0.86
acres, more or less, and being
Quarter (NE1/4) of Section 30,
Township 16 South, Range 17
West, Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi.
Together with and including
that certain easement for in-
gress and egress as recorded
in Deed Book 954 at Page 21
in the office of the Chancery
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi.
I will only convey such title as
is vested in me as Special
Commissioner.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this
12th day of November, 2020.
Dean Morris, LLC, or its author-
ized agent
Special Commissioner
855 S Pear Orchard Rd, Ste.
404 Bldg 400
Ridgeland, MS 39157
(318) 330-9020
adp/F19-0389 PERSONAL CARE: Full and
PUBLISH: 11/18/2020,
11/25/2020, 12/2/2020
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CC”) intends to make
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mit and caterer’s per-
mit as provided for by
the Local Option Alco-
holic Beverage Con-
trol Laws, Section 67-
1-1, et seq., of the
Mississippi Code of
1972, Annotated. If
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ate as a sole owner
under the trade name
of Lion Hills Center &
Golf Course, 2331
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bus, MS. East Missis-
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