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CMSD approves ‘hybrid schedule’ for fall

semester, allows ‘virtual-only’ students
Board green-lights bus driver salary schedule, 3,500 students,
those who opt in
hours, also will be an option.
Students who choose to fol-
er training, according to the
website.
hears updates on Hunt campus recovery the hybrid sched-
ule will physically
low the hybrid learning model
will be split into two groups,
Those who do not have reli-
able Internet access can attend
BY YUE STELLA YU its monthly meeting Monday attend school two each with a different schedule: school at the district’s “desig-
syu@cdispatch.com night. days a week and Some will be assigned to an “A nated safe sites” on days of their
Starting Aug. 6, the district study remotely schedule,” which means they virtual learning, and electron-
Students at Columbus Mu- will adopt a “hybrid schedule” for the rest of the will go to school physically on ic devices will be provided at
nicipal School District will Labat
combining both in-person and week, following Mondays and Tuesdays; those those sites. Students who study
spend the majority — if not all virtual learning in the wake of regular school hours. A virtu- assigned to a “B schedule” will remotely have to receive diag-
— of their school weeks online the COVID-19 pandemic, ac- al-only model, which requires attend school on Thursdays and nostic and state testing at the
this fall, the board of trustees cording to CMSD’s website. students to have Internet ac- Fridays. Wednesdays will be for “safe sites.” Following guide-
unanimously decided during Of the district’s roughly cess every day during class campus disinfection and teach- See CMSD, 3A

Helping Hands offers fans to help T.K. Martin

citizens battle summer heat Center planning
COVID-19 safety
measures for
preschool
Director: Center is
‘in a very good place
financially’ after last
year’s closure rumors
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

Some families
travel more than
three hours one way
to bring their child
to the T.K. Martin
Center for Technol-
ogy and Disability,
director Kasee Strat- Stratton-
ton-Gadke said, be- Gadke
cause its specialized preschool ser-
vices can’t be found anywhere else.
The T.K. Martin Center on the
Mississippi State University cam-
Anto Tavitian/Dispatch Staff
ABOVE: Robert Benton of Military Hardware unloads fans for donations to Lowndes County residents on Monday at Helping pus provides technology, training
Hands in Columbus. BELOW: Cindy Wiygul of Helping Hands unloads fan donations on Monday at Helping Hands in Columbus. and educational support for people
of all ages with disabilities, and it
See T.K. MARTIN CENTER, 6A
Heat wave underway this week with temps in mid-to-high 90s
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com

A box fan won’t solve David Chism plans

all of Marianna Hubbard’s
problems, but it will stop the
to run for House
bleeding, she hopes. District 37 seat
It’s already been a tough
summer for Hubbard, 50. In
April, the air-conditioning
Republican will run
unit at the East Columbus
Hubbard for seat vacated by his
home she shares with her
daughter and three granddaughters — third cousin
ages 9, 8 and 5 — quit working. She’s been
out of work since June, when the company BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
she works for, Johnson Tombigbee Furni- ialtman@cdispatch.com
ture Manufacturing, shut down operations
for the month of July. Lowndes Coun-
With the arrival of a heat wave that is ty native David M.
expected to extend into next week — tem- Chism will run for
peratures in the mid-to-high 90s, with heat the state House of
indices ranging from 103 to 109 degrees — Representatives seat
Hubbard was back at Helping Hands Min- recently vacated
istries in Columbus on Monday, hoping to by his third cousin,
secure another fan. Gary Chism. Chism
See HEAT WAVE, 6A Anto Tavitian/Dispatch Staff See CHISM, 3A

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Group seeks ideas for Mississippi

flag without rebel emblem
State Department of Archives and History will
collect flag proposals from the public until Aug. 13
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A state agency said
Monday that the public can submit
proposals for a new Mississippi flag,
using two requirements in state
law: The designs cannot include the
Confederate battle emblem, and
they must have the phrase, “In God
We Trust.”
Mississippi does not have a ban-
ner, and will not for a few months,
because it recently retired the last
state flag in the U.S. with the Con-
federate battle symbol that many
see as racist.
The state Department of Ar-
chives and History said Monday
that it will collect flag proposals
from the public until Aug. 13. Those
will go to a nine-member commis-
sion that will design a new flag. The
department said designs should
use two or three colors and have
meaningful symbolism.
“The flag should be so simple
that a child can draw it from mem-
ory,” the department said in a news
release.
Mississippi faced increasing
pressure to change its 126-year-old
flag as widespread protests against
racial injustice focused attention on
Confederate symbols.
On June 28, a broad coalition of
legislators passed the landmark
legislation to retire the flag, cap-
ping a weekend of emotional debate
and decades of effort by Black law-
makers and others who see the reb-
el emblem as a symbol of hatred. A
groundswell of young activists, col-
lege athletes and leaders from busi-
ness, religion, education and sports
called on Mississippi to make the
change.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves
signed the bill June 30, immedi-
ately removing official status from
the banner. The new law requires
a ceremony for the “prompt, digni-
fied and respectful removal” of the
flag, and that took place July 1 at the
state Capitol.
The commission will recom-
mend a single flag design that will
be put on the Nov. 3 ballot. If voters
reject it, the commission will draft
a different design using the same
guidelines, to be sent to voters later.
The Confederate battle emblem
has a red field topped by a blue X
with 13 white stars. White suprem-
acist legislators put it on the up-
per-left corner of the Mississippi
flag in 1894, as white people were
squelching political power African
Americans had gained after the
Civil War.
Critics have said for generations
that it’s wrong for a state where 38
percent of the people are Black to
have a flag marked by the Confeder-
acy, particularly since the Ku Klux
Klan and other hate groups have
used the symbol to promote racist
agendas.
Mississippi voters chose to keep
the flag in a 2001 statewide election,
with supporters saying they saw it
as a symbol of Southern heritage.
But several cities and all the state’s
public universities stopped flying
the flag because of the Confederate
symbol.

Masks for kids? Schools confront the politics of reopening

CDC has urged students and teachers policy, and its supporters
argue that face cover-
“imposing their small
worldview on all of us.”
to wear masks whenever feasible ings are ineffective, give
a false sense of security
“I’m not looking for
a fight, I just want us to
BY JOCELYN GECKER cial expressions visually and are potentially detri- take precautions,” said
The Associated Press available” and helped or- mental. Harper, whose children
ganize a protest of over The Centers for Dis- are 4 and 6.
On one side are parents ease Control and Preven- She also started a pe-
100 people outside the
saying, let kids be kids. tion says masks may help tition, calling on schools
district office, with signs
They object to masks and prevent infected people to follow state guidelines
saying, “No to masks, Yes
social distancing in class- from spreading the vi- that include masks for
rooms this fall — arguing to recess,” and “Let me
breathe.” rus to others and urged teachers and students,
both could hurt their chil- students and teachers
Dozens have echoed constant social distancing
dren’s well-being — and to wear them whenev-
her beliefs at Orange on campuses and other
want schools to reopen er feasible. Democratic
County Board of Educa- measures.
full time. Gov. Gavin Newsom has
tion meetings, where the “For each school
On the other side are ordered Californians to
five-member elected body board, the question is
parents and teachers who wear them in public.
is majority Republican going to be: What does
call for safeguards that Brooke Aston Harp-
would have been unimag- and is recommending a our community want, and
er, a liberal parent who who is the loudest?” she
inable before the corona- full return to school with- attended a particularly
virus pandemic: part-time out masks or social dis- said.
spirited board meeting re-
school, face coverings for tancing. The board makes cently, said it was “horri-
all or a fully online curric- recommendations but not fying” that speakers were
ulum.
The impassioned tug-
of-wars have put educa-
tors in the middle of an
increasingly politicized
debate on how best to re-
open schools this fall, a
daunting challenge as in-
fections spike in the U.S.
“Don’t tell me my kid
has to wear a mask,” said
Kim Sherman, a mother
of three in the central Cal-
ifornia city of Clovis who
describes herself as very
conservative and very
pro-Trump. “I don’t need
to be dictated to to tell
me how best to raise my
kids.”
With many districts
still finalizing how they
may reopen, President
Donald Trump has
ramped up pressure to
get public schools back
in business, threatening
to withhold federal fund-
ing from those that don’t
resume in-person classes.
Without evidence, he’s
accused Democrats of
wanting schools closed
because of politics, not
health.
Similar mudslinging
is happening at school
board meetings, in neigh-
bors’ social media clashes
and in online petitions.
Some parents have
threatened to pull their
children — and the fund-
ing they provide — if
masks are required.
Hillary Salway, a moth-
er of three in Orange
County, California, is part
of a vocal minority calling
for schools to fully open
with “normal social in-
teraction.” If the district
requires masks for her
son’s kindergarten class,
she says, “I don’t know if
my son will be starting
his educational career in
the public school system
this fall.”
She wants him to feel
free to hug his teach-
er and friends and can’t
imagine sending him to
a school where he’ll get
reprimanded for sharing
a toy. She started a pe-
tition last month urging
her district to “keep fa-
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West Point school district releases 2020-21 reopening plan

Board of Trustees moves school start to Aug. 10
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Individual schools and par-
ents, rather than the West Point
Consolidated School District,
will determine what school
looks like in West Point when
buildings reopen and classes
resume in less than a month.
“I wouldn’t ask you to put
your child in any situation I
wouldn’t allow my own child
to be in,” Superintendent Bur-
nell McDonald said in a video
released online this morning.
He played the video for the
WPCSD Board of Trustees at
its Monday evening meeting.
Students have the options
of attending school in person
or learning online like they did
from March to May due to the
COVID-19 coronavirus pan-
demic, and a survey of parents
indicates there will be about 50
percent in-person attendance,
McDonald said.
That might not translate to
social distancing on school bus-
es, so the district is encourag-
ing parents to drive their chil-
dren to and from school if they
are able, and the district might
adjust its bus routes to make
sure there are not too many
children on one bus, McDonald
said.
Each school has its own
plans for enforcing safety mea-
sures and curriculum delivery,
but WPCSD also has some dis-
trict-wide plans, such as lim-
iting the number of students
in each classroom, taking the
temperatures of everyone who
enters a building, requiring
administrative approval for vis-
itors and requiring protective
face coverings for both students
and employees.
“If we have students that
refuse to cooperate with teach-
ers and administrators when
they’re asked to put on their
masks for safety reasons, we
may have to call (parents) and
ask to switch them to distance
learning,” McDonald said.
All desks will face the same
direction, teachers will have
their own face shields, and
teachers and custodial staff will
clean and disinfect classrooms
regularly, he said.
The degree to which teach-
ers will have to develop in-per-
son, online or both types of
ment system to make it easy to
switch back to an entirely virtu-
al learning environment in case
a resurgence of the pandemic
demands it, he said.
Giving parents a choice of
what method of education is
best for their children is import-
ant, McDonald said, but board
member Laquante Pruitt said
she believed parents did not
want to have to choose.
“I think they want us to tell
them what to do and then hold
us accountable for whatever
happens next,” Pruitt said.
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Parents have until July 21
The West Point Consolidated School District Board of Trustees
voted unanimously at its Monday meeting to move its school start to register their children for
in-person or online learning
date from Aug. 5 to Aug. 10. The extra time will allow students in
an entirely online learning environment extra time to prepare, said and will be able to change their
Superintendent Burnell McDonald, center. The district will allow
registration the week before La-
students and families the choice of in-person or online learning for
bor Day if they so choose, but
the upcoming school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
after Labor Day they will have
lesson plans will depend on the do online only, but for the most to stick with their decision for
subject, grade level and number part it’s a combination.” the rest of the semester, Mc-
of students in each class, Mc- Lunch safety plans will vary Donald said.
Donald told The Dispatch. from school to school, but the The board voted unanimous-
“At the high school, some Centers for Disease Control ly, at McDonald’s suggestion, to
(teachers) will be the only ones and Prevention recommend move the school start date from
certified in a particular subject students eat lunch in class- Wednesday, Aug. 5 to Monday,
and will have to do both,” he rooms instead of cafeterias, Aug. 10 in order to allow stu-
said. “On the elementary level, so WPCSD recommends the dents in the virtual learning
depending on the number of same, McDonald said. environment three additional
students who show up, it may The district will implement school days to prepare them-
be able to free up teachers to the Canvas learning manage- selves.

CMSD
Continued from Page 1A
lines from the Centers for
Disease Control and Pre-
vention, the spaces will be
disinfected between uses
and computers will be set
six feet apart from each
other, according to the
district’s website.
In a video introduc-
ing the hybrid schedule,
Superintendent Cherie
Labat appealed to par-
ents for their support in
helping students advance
their learning amid the
pandemic.
“It is imperative as par-
ents that if you choose a
virtual learning option,
that you exercise best
practices for students to
learn in their home en-
vironment,” Labat said.
“Best practices include:
a quiet space, materials
needed for class, routines
to meet real-time course
schedules, regular com-
munication with teachers
and support staff, com-
mitment to taking bench-
mark and state assess-
ments at school-based
sanitized safe sites and
support materials needed
for class.”
Teachers must be
physically at school every
day, Labat told The Dis-
patch on Tuesday. Except
for Wednesdays, they will
be teaching half of their
usual students in person
while offering virtual in-
structions to the other
half, she said. Students
must spend 240 minutes
a day learning through
one of the three ways:
working through assign-
ments, learning from an
online instruction pro-
gram or communicating
with teachers about their
learning progress.
Bus transportation will
be offered to all students,
but private transportation
also is encouraged to re-
duce the risk of spreading
the virus. Students will
also be required to wear
a mask after boarding the
bus and on campus for
most of the time, Labat
told The Dispatch Mon-
day night.
“This is particular-
ly important because
(masks) reduce the
spread of the virus from
80 to 90 percent,” she
said. “We know that it’s
going to be difficult, but
we understand it’s im-
portant for ... disease pre-
vention.”
The district will still
offer school lunch five
times a day, Labat said,
but instead of hot meals,
it will offer packed meals
to reduce health con-
cerns. Students can pick
up the meals for the rest
of the week on days they
are physically at school,
and eat in classrooms at
school, she said.
“We’ll take very flex-
ible feeding patterns to
make sure students have
a meal for five days a
week,” Labat said. “We’re
also (trying) to make sure
that we have the most
sanitized environment in
distributing food to our
students.”
CMSD Board of Trust-
ees President Jason
Spears told The Dispatch
the students will also
have their temperature
checked upon boarding
the buses or entering the
campus. The district will
provide hand sanitizers
to the students as well, he
said.
Due to the uncertain
nature of the pandemic,
Spears said the district
still has a lot of details in
the works.
“As we kind of move
into it, we’ll have to
adapt and
be accom-
modative
and meet
the need of
students as
well as the
parents,” he
said. Spears
To offer
transporta-
tion to students in the fall,
CMSD is also recruiting
a team of bus drivers for
its fleet of 69 buses. The
effort came after the dis-
trict parted ways in May
with Ecco Ride, the com-
pany that used to manage
transportation for the dis-
trict. With the company
gone, CMSD has to con-
ceive its own transporta-
tion department, the cost
of which was estimated at
$2 million in May.
On Monday, the board
unanimously approved
the pay scale for bus driv-
ers at a $12 hourly rate.
Assistant Superintendent
Glenn Dedeaux told the
board the district has re-
ceived 49 applications for
the jobs and, as a contin-
gency plan, intends to re-
cruit some of its teachers
or coaches as part-time
bus drivers.
The district’s tentative
schedule is for full-time
bus drivers to work six
hours a day for five days a November. The roofing million for repairs Mid-
week, Labat told The Dis- cost is estimated at $2.1 dlesex estimated at $4.8
patch. million, which will be en- million. As of March 10,
For bus operations and tirely covered by the dis- the district has received
maintenance, the board trict’s insurance agency, roughly $3.6 million from
also approved Monday Wisconsin-based Middle-
the lease of a building at the insurance company,
sex Insurance Company,
310 Idlewild Road. The he said. The Dispatch reported.
monthly rate is $1,450, The company filed a The board discussed
Spears told The Dispatch. lawsuit against the dis- the lawsuit on Monday but
Leasing instead of buying trict in March, claiming took no actions, Spears
the building was a great CMSD had requested $14 told The Dispatch.
choice for CMSD, he said,
because the owner would
still have to pay property
taxes on the land, which
CMSD collects as reve-
nue.
“We’re in a way getting
back some of those funds
that we are paying in a
lease to the landlord,” he
said. “It’s a really good
property for a reasonable
price.”
Hunt campus recovery
In other business, the
rebuild of a two-story
building at Hunt High
School campus — where
the roof and most of its
classrooms were de-
stroyed in the EF-3 torna-
do that hit Columbus in
February 2019 — began
last week, Spears told
The Dispatch.
The building on 20th
Street North had housed
the alternative school and
CMSD’s operations.
The installation of the
roof is underway, Spears
said, and is expected
to reach completion in

Chism
Continued from Page 1A
David Chism, a Re-
publican, announced his
candidacy for the District
37 seat on Facebook over
the weekend. If elected,
David Chism will com-
plete Gary Chism’s term,
which ends in 2023. Gary
Chism retired June 30
due to health issues in his
family.
David Chism said in the
Facebook post announc-
ing his candidacy that he
plans to bring “sense and
sensibility” to the people
of Mississippi. While he
is a self-proclaimed fis-
cal conservative, he said
two of his main priorities
moving forward are the
expansion of broadband
in rural communities and
said, and starting in the
fall they also will have to
be technology experts
and nurses.
“I would say that with
the proliferation of this
virus, I saw things fall
apart in the way that
they should not have fall-
en apart,” he told The
Dispatch this morning.
“There were children who
could not get online to do
their schoolwork. The in-
frastructure and technol-
ogy was just not adequate
to be prepared for this
kind of thing. I don’t think
anyone is to blame, nec-
essarily, but we definitely
need to do better.”
Chism started Colum-
bus-based Greenaway
received “tremendous
support” since announc-
ing his candidacy on Face-
book.
House District 37 cov-
ers parts of Lowndes,
Oktibbeha and Clay coun-
ties.
“What you essential-
ly have is a collection of
rural communities, and I
don’t think these commu-
nities are all that differ-
ent,” he said. “... We have
similar interests. We’re
all in proximity to Mis-
sissippi State University.
We’re all in proximity to SOLUNAR TABLE
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ensuring teachers have
the necessary resources
— particularly techno-
logical resources — to
do their jobs in the midst
of a pandemic. Teachers
already do the jobs of
“three or four other dif-
ferent professionals,” he
Pool Services in Tusca-
loosa in 2008. The busi-
ness has since moved to
Columbus, where is does
work all over the Golden
Triangle.
This will be Chism’s
first time running for of-
fice. He said he’s already
rus situation, not to have
our freedoms taken away
from us in the process and
to move on with a positive
dialogue.”
Gov. Tate Reeves has
yet to announce the date
of the special election to
fill the seat.
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SLIMANTICS
A better idea for the school year
T
oday, I am where thousands My goal for the class of 2021 Only minor adjustments will access to more children. We’ll
narrowing of children still is to make sure you are able be required. The Legislature be five months closer to a
the focus of don’t have access to to attend graduation ceremo- will have to figure out a way to COVID-19 virus. It will be five
my column to the broadband, an awful nies in 2021 without having to provide funding that begins in more months for our nation to
graduating Class lot of Mississippi attend a funeral service, too. January instead of July. A few get serious about stopping the
of 2021. I suppose school children It’s a pretty simple plan, re- sports seasons will have to be spread of the virus and bring
their parents may are going to be left ally, and I’m surprised no one altered. new cases down to something
find this relevant, behind. I’ve yet to has thought of it. After a few years, it will approaching a manageable
too, along with hear anyone explain Forget about school for the make so much sense that you level.
anyone else who how a special edu- rest of the year. Use that time will wonder why schools ever There’s no guarantee, of
might have some cation student, who to study independently. operated any other way. course, but starting the school
interest in living generally needs The school year will start Throughout history, year in January at least gives
long enough to see Slim Smith one-on-one atten- instead in January. For you se- permanent change has often us some reasonable hope
them graduate. tion, is supposed niors, it will simply mean that been dictated by a particular that once the school begins it
As it stands right to learn online. It instead of graduating in May, circumstance. (Think air travel can continue without having
now, students from kindergar- seems virtually impossible. you’ll graduate in December. after 9/11, for example) to shut down because of an
ten to college will return to ac- With coronavirus cases still In fact, that will be true of all As it was with 9/11, outbreak.
tual classrooms in a few weeks. sweeping the county, the idea future classes. COVID-19 is likely to alter how Will we be better positioned
Don’t get used to it, though. By of returning to school in a few The school year will mirror we live, work, play. I suggest to start school in January than
the looks of things now, schools weeks is preposterous. It’s the calendar year. we add education to that mix we are in a few weeks?
and colleges will be shutting going to be a disaster, unmiti- As for class schedules, by aligning the school year I’ll take that bet.
down almost as quickly as they gated chaos. they’ll remain pretty much the with the calendar. At this point, we’ve got little
open, and schools will have I don’t have a solution, same, but instead of beginning What that will allow is for to lose by making the change.
to rely on online learning and but I do have a plan, which is a school year one year and five more months to see where Slim Smith is a columnist
hope students will be able to something that cannot be said finishing it the next, the class we are headed with the virus. and feature writer for The
keep up their studies. of either our President or our schedule will simply follow the It will be five more months to Dispatch. His email address is
In a state like Mississippi, governor. calendar. work on getting broadband ssmith@cdispatch.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR CARTOONIST VIEW

Voice of the people
Raises concerns about monument in cemetery
I own a plot in Friendship Cemetery. When I
talk about the Confederate memorial monument
now on the Courthouse lawn being placed there,
it’s because I have a stake in it.
For two reasons, placing the monument in
Friendship is a bad idea. Its size is one problem. It
is very tall and will loom over the whole cemetery,
visible anywhere you have a clear line of sight. Fur-
thermore, it is way out of proportion to the many
smaller monuments, the family grave markers.
Someone who can authoritatively advise on this
problem, an artist, an architect, an expert from
Archives and History, should be consulted before
this thing is put there. Otherwise we might have
an aesthetic disaster.
The second problem is the legend that the im-
age of a Ku Klux Klansman is carved on the back
of the topmost soldier figure. Even if this is verified
to be false by qualified experts, people will believe
it anyway. The stigma will remain with the statue
and attach to the cemetery.
Furthermore, recalling that the reason for
removing the monument from the Courthouse is
its racially divisive nature, this cemetery is set in
an African-American neighborhood. How are they
to feel about a huge Confederate monument and a
Klansman placed in their midst?
Everything about this entire monument is anti-
thetical to the name Friendship Cemetery. I do not
want it looking down on my family and friends.
William Hairston
Lamar County, Alabama STATE OF THE NATION
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welcome all letters emailed to voice@cdispatch.com can be a good 10,000 Californians turing base would have vigorously
or mailed to The Dispatch, Attn: Letters to the Editor, job. It should work at its Fremont pushed the industry to retool for
PO Box 511, Columbus, MS 39703-0511. matter not to the factory. The compa- the clean-energy era, not hinder
autoworker whether his ny recently filed the it. That future is gunning toward
product runs on fossil papers to build another us. The European Union and
fuels or electric battery. plant nearby to make China, two of the three biggest
A national leadership electric batteries. Tesla auto markets, have already set
TODAY IN HISTORY looking out for the says it created a total of strict carbon-emission standards.
workers’ future would 51,000 jobs in Califor- All-electric vehicles emit zero
Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 196th day of 2020. embrace the future, nia in 2017 alone. greenhouse gases.
There are 170 days left in the year. which is clean-powered Some of the older Critics of electric cars have
transportation. Froma Harrop U.S. carmakers have insisted that the cost of their bat-
Today’s Highlight in History: America does not made serious moves teries would greatly stand in their
On July 14, 2016, terror struck Bastille Day have that leadership. in the electric vehicle way. Just one year ago, a column
celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice (nees) President Donald Trump has game. Ford is working on an elec- in The Wall Street Journal argued
as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing pushed the false promise that tric version of its bestselling F-150 that batteries would probably not
86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State ex- our suffering blue-collar workers pickup truck. come down in price as had con-
tremists; the driver was shot dead by police. could return to the good old days Meanwhile, Nikola Motor Co., sumer electronics.
if only environmentalists (and a new company racing to make Just one year later, Tesla’s bat-
foreigners) would disappear. The electric trucks, has raised over $1 tery supplier in China claims it can
On this date: promise is worse than futile be- billion in funding. The market val- manufacture a battery that powers
In 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of
cause it discourages change these ue of the Phoenix-based company a vehicle for over a million miles.
the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed
very workers need. has surpassed Ford’s. That would make for a much
the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners
Science and innovation used to Then there’s another newcom- cheaper battery over its lifetime.
inside. be the American path to winning. er, Rivian. Headquartered just The investing public obviously
In 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, The science-bashing administra- outside Detroit, Rivian says it will sees gold in green energy. The
making it a federal crime to publish false, scandal- tion is making us poorer, stock come out with an all-electric pick- S&P Global Clean Energy index is
ous or malicious writing about the United States investors excepted. But enough up by early next year. Its backers now up more than 37 percent over
government. about Trump for now. include Amazon, Ford and several the past two years. By contrast,
In 1865, the Matterhorn, straddling Italy and Let’s get back to cars and big investor groups. the S&P 500 has risen 18 percent.
Switzerland, was summited as a seven-member trucks and the brass ring those Electric-vehicle sales have done This reflects rising investor con-
rope party led by British climber Edward Whymper who reach into the future are as well as they have in this country fidence not only in clean cars but
reached the peak. (Four members of the party fell to grabbing. Tesla, maker of electric thanks to forward-looking states also in the ability of wind and solar
their deaths during their descent; Whymper and two vehicles, is one of the only U.S. car and no thanks to Washington. The power to compete with fossil fuels
guides survived.) companies to have reported higher Trump Environmental Protection on price.
In 1914, scientist Robert H. Goddard received a sales for the second quarter. That Agency last year revoked Cali- If only our government in Wash-
U.S. patent for a liquid-fueled rocket apparatus. was despite a falling price for gas. fornia’s authority to set higher ington would promote, rather than
In 1921, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco Despite a virus pandemic that had fuel-economy standards, which hold back, the sort of technologi-
(SAH’-koh) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted many consumers sitting on their helps electric vehicle sales. Cali- cal advances this country used to
in Dedham, Massachusetts, of murdering a shoe wallets. And despite the cost of fornia and well over a dozen states lead. A return of the old mojo will
company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and Van- buying a Tesla. The cheapest Tes- that follow its lead have respond- have to await the next election.
zetti were executed six years later.) la, the Model 3, has a base price of ed by suing the administration. Froma Harrop, a syndicated
In 1933, all German political parties, except the about $40,000. The case could end up at the U.S. columnist, writes for the Providence
Nazi Party, were outlawed. Based in Palo Alto, California, Supreme Court. (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail
SOURCE: The Associated Press Tesla leads the world in electric ve- Competent national leaders address is fharrop@gmail.com.
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White House turns on Fauci as Trump minimizes virus spike

Trump: Pandemic’s severity being overstated
by critics to damage his reelection chances
BY JILL COLVIN, JONATHAN
LEMIRE AND ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G -
TON — With U.S.
virus cases spik-
ing and the death
toll mounting, the
White House is
working to under-
cut its most trust-
Fauci
ed coronavirus
expert, playing down the dan-
ger as President Donald Trump
pushes to get the economy mov-
ing before he faces voters in No-
vember.
The U.S. has become a cau-
tionary tale across the globe,
with once-falling cases now
spiraling. However, Trump sug-
gests the severity of the pan-
demic that has killed more than
135,000 Americans is being
overstated by critics to damage
his reelection chances.
Trump on Monday retweeted
a post by Chuck Woolery, once
the host of TV’s “Love Connec-
tion,” claiming that “Everyone
is lying” about COVID-19. Wool-
ery’s tweet attacked not just the
media and Democrats but the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and most doc-
tors “that we are told to trust. I
think it’s all about the election
and keeping the economy from
coming back, which is about the
election.”
At the same time, the presi-
dent and top White House aides
are ramping up attacks against
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s
top infectious diseases expert.
Fauci has been increasingly side-
lined by the White House as he
sounds alarms about the virus,
a most unwelcome message at a
time when Trump is focused on
pushing an economic rebound.
“We haven’t even begun to
see the end of it yet,” he said in
a talk with the dean of Stanford’s
medical school Monday, calling
for a “step back” in reopenings.
Last week, Fauci contradict-
ed Trump about the severity
of the virus during a FiveThir-
tyEight podcast. While Trump
contends repeatedly that he has
done a great job against the pan-
demic, Fauci said, “As a country,
when you compare us to other
countries, I don’t think you can
say we’re doing great. I mean,
we’re just not.”
Trump later said Fauci had
“made a lot of mistakes.” He
pointed to Fauci’s early disagree-
ment with him over the China
travel ban and to the evolving
guidance over the use of masks
as scientists’ understanding of
the virus improved — points the
White House expanded on in
statements to media outlets over
the weekend.
Asked whether the president
still had confidence in Fauci, a
White House official on Monday
insisted Trump did. The official
said Fauci, the director of the Na-
tional Institute of Allergy and In-
fectious Diseases, was regarded
as “a valued voice” on the White
House coronavirus task force.
The official spoke on condition
of anonymity even though the
president has repeatedly railed
against anonymous sources.
“I have a very good relation-
ship with Dr. Fauci,” Trump told
reporters Monday, calling him
“a very nice person.” But the
president added, “I don’t always
agree with him.”
That supportive message was
not echoed by Peter Navarro, a
top White House trade adviser
who has been working on the
coronavirus effort.
In an email, Navarro con-
tinued to criticize Fauci to The
Associated Press on Monday,
saying the doctor has “a good
bedside manner with the public
but he has been wrong about
everything I have ever interact-
ed with him on.” That includes,
he said, downplaying the early
risk of the virus and expressing
skepticism over the use of hy-
droxychloroquine, which Navar-
ro has aggressively championed
despite contradictory evidence
on its efficacy and safety.
Fauci, who has not appeared
at recent White House task force
briefings and has been largely
absent from television, told the
Financial Times last week that
he last saw Trump in person at
the White House on June 2 and
hadn’t briefed him in at least two
months.

US budget deficit hits all-time Have you checked the

high of $864 billion in June
BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON — The federal gov-
ernment incurred the biggest monthly
budget deficit in history in June as spend-
ing on programs to combat the coronavi-
Classifieds?
For the first nine months of this bud-
get year, which began Oct. 1, the deficit
totals $2.74 trillion, also a record for that
period. That puts the country well on the
way to hitting the $3.7 trillion deficit for
the whole year that has been forecast by
the Congressional Budget Office.

rus recession exploded while millions of
job losses cut into tax revenues.
The Treasury Department reported
Monday that the deficit hit $864 billion
EmploymEnt
That total would surpass the previ-
ous annual record of $1.4 trillion set in
2009 when the government was spend-
ing heavily to lift the country out of the

last month, an amount of red ink that
surpasses most annual deficits in the na-
tion’s history and is above the previous
monthly deficit record of $738 billion in
April. That amount was also tied to the
BUSInESS
recession caused by the 2008 financial
crisis.
The June deficit was driven higher
by spending on various government re-
lief programs such as an extra $600 per

trillions of dollars Congress has provided
to cushion the impact of the widespread
shutdowns that occurred in an effort to
limit the spread of the viral pandemic.
REntalS
week in expanded unemployment bene-
fits and a Paycheck Protection Program
that provided support to businesses to
keep workers on their payrolls.

Global vaccine plan may allow rich countries to buy more
BY MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer
LONDON — Politi-
cians and public health
leaders have publicly
committed to equitably
cluding Britain, France,
Germany and the U.S. —
already have ordered hun-
dreds of millions of doses
before the vaccines are
even proven to work.
REal EStatE
While no country can
afford to buy doses of ev-
GaRaGE SalES
mERchandISE
ery potential vaccine can-
didate, many poor ones
can’t afford to place such
speculative bets at all.

VEhIclES
sharing any coronavirus
vaccine that works, but
the top global initiative to
make that happen may al-

commUnIty
low rich countries to rein-
force their own stockpiles
while making fewer doses
available for poor ones.
Activists warn that

SERVIcES
without stronger attempts
to hold political, pharma-
ceutical and health lead-
ers accountable, vaccines

lEGalS
will be hoarded by rich
countries in an unseem-
ly race to inoculate their
populations first. After
the recent uproar over the
United States purchasing
a large amount of a new
COVID-19 drug, some pre-
dict an even more disturb-
ing scenario if a successful
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Health
HEALTH TIP
n Bake or roast instead of grilling or frying: The way you prepare your food can drastically change its effects on your
health. Grilling, broiling, frying and deep-frying are all popular methods of preparing meat and fish. However, during these
types of cooking methods, several potentially toxic compounds are formed, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),
advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and heterocyclic amines (HCAs). All of these compounds have been linked to several
diseases, including cancer and heart disease. Healthier cooking methods include baking, broiling, simmering, slow-cooking,
poaching, pressure cooking, stewing and sous-vide.
Source: healthline.com

Health tips from Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen

The Slow Food movement —
slow from plate to mouth,
that is
Slow Food is an interna-
tional organization dedicated
to locally grown foods and
traditional cooking that was
founded in 1986 in Italy and
now has 100,000 members
in 160 countries. While we
applaud the push to offer al-
ternatives to obesity-inducing
fast and processed foods, we’d
like to advocate another kind
of slow food — slow from plate
to mouth.
According to several stud-
ies, if you bolt down your food,
you’re at a big risk for obesity
and metabolic syndrome, a
precursor to Type 2 diabetes
and cardiovascular disease.
Japanese researchers followed
more than 1,000 men and
women, average age 51, for five
years and found that 12 percent
of fast eaters developed meta-
bolic syndrome. Put down “Start out with a little bit of oil. with no tomato intake.
In contrast, your uten- Then you fry some garlic, then Tomatoes contain high lev-
only 2.3 percent sil between you throw in some tomatoes, els of a polyphenolic compound
of slow eaters bites. Then tomato paste, you fry it and known as lycopene that’s made
did. A study think mind- make sure it doesn’t stick.” more bioavailable when heated.
in the journal fully about the These red-sauce-loving Other foods high in this nutri-
Appetite found flavors, smells mobsters probably had no idea ent include red bell peppers,
that guys who and textures their concoction could do more watermelon, papaya and guava.
were fast eaters you are eating, than coat linguini — turns Lucky for you, tomato sea-
gained twice as allowing out it also protects the family son is right around the corner.
much weight yourself to jewels. For fabulous recipes using
over eight years savor them. New research confirms cooked and canned tomatoes,
as average or Drs. Oz and Roizen That’ll slow that eating cooked tomatoes preorder Dr. Mike’s “What to
slow eaters did. down your risk may reduce the risk of pros- Cook When Cookbook” — in
Another study in the Journal of overeating, weight gain and tate cancer. A study published August you can discover dish-
of the Academy of Nutrition serious health problems. in Cancer Causes & Control es such as Chunky Roasted
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consumed significantly fewer eight years. The researchers sa-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
calories, while feeling well-fed. tomatoes help prevent found that men who consumed and Spinach.
If you’re a fast eater, use prostate cancer canned or cooked tomatoes Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of
these techniques to give your In “The Godfather,” capo four or more times a week “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike
body’s “I’m full” hormone, Peter Clemenza teaches Don had a lower risk for prostate Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness
leptin, time to signal you to Vito Corleone’s youngest son cancer than those who never Officer and Chair of Wellness
stop eating: Drink a sip of wa- Michael how to make Sunday consumed tomatoes. The most Institute at Cleveland Clinic.
ter between bites. Count how gravy. “Come here ... You never dramatic benefits were seen To live your healthiest, tune
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— aiming for 20 to 35 chews. for 20 guys someday,” he says. third of a cup daily, compared www.sharecare.com.

Heat wave
Continued from Page 1A
Hubbard was able
to get the first fan from
Helping Hands, which
operates a fan drive each
summer, shortly after her
air-conditioning system
quit working.
A second fan will allow
her to cool two bedrooms.
“My 9-year-old grand-
baby has nose bleeds
when it gets hot, so we
really need a fan to keep
her from having those
nosebleeds,” Hubbard
said. “Getting a second
fan will at least be able
to have fans in two bed-
rooms. During the day
we can move them around
to wherever we are in the
house.”
Providing fans for peo-
ple like Hubbard has been
part of Helping Hands’
program for years now,
said director Nancy Guer-
ry.
“I think this is the 16th
year we’ve been giving
away fans,” Guerry said.
“We got a
late start
this year be-
cause of the
C OV I D -19
(virus). We
normally
start the
Guerry
drive in
April or May, but we didn’t
get started until June this
year.”
Guerry said requests
for fans can extend even
until November or De-
cember, but the bulk of
requests come during the
summer.
“We usually give out
about a dozen fans a
week,” she said. “But I
expect we’ll see a lot more
this week with this hot
weather we’re having.”
Guerry said that in past
years, more people are in-
clined to donate fans. But
this year has been differ-
ent.
“Again, because of the
virus, a lot more people
HEAT WAVE
Day
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
are donating money rather
than going out and buying
a fan and dropping it off,”
she said. “That’s fine with
us. Usually what we do is
when we get enough mon-
ey we’ll order 50 fans at a
time. We work with Mil-
itary Hardware because
they give us a good deal
on the fans. Plus, they’ll
deliver them. It usually
only takes a few days for
them to deliver an order.”
The fans run $18 when
ordered through Military
Hardware.
Guerry said. “Right now, should write “fan drive”
we have about 30 fans
here that we can give out,
in the check memo so the
money can be used specif-
High Feels like but we do have money ically for that purpose.
94 106 available for another or- Hubbard, who has
der.” been employed at JTB for
95 107
Those wishing to do- 25 years, hopes to learn
96 109
nate fans can drop them whether she’ll be called
96 109 off at Helping Hands back to her job on Aug.
95 108 during normal business 3. In the meantime, she’ll
hours at its office at 223 rely on those two fans to
93 106
22nd St. N. Those wishing keep her house tolerable.
Source: Accuweather to donate money for the “Even with the fans, it’s
fan drive should send the still probably 90 degrees
“We had an order come check to Helping Hands in the house,” Hubbard
in today (Monday) and Ministries, P.O. Box 1241, said. “It’s not easy. We’re
had another order deliv- Columbus, MS, 39703. just doing the best we can
ered the week before,” Guerry said donors right now.”

T.K. Martin Center

Continued from Page 1A
relies on grants and do-
nations, Stratton-Gadke
told the Starkville Rotary
Club at its virtual meeting
Monday.
“(It’s) really humbling
to know that families are
trusting us with that care,
but also it really speaks
to the impact of that pro-
gram and what wonderful
support our staff gives,”
she said.
Stratton-Gadke has
been the center’s director
for just more than a year.
She was the first speaker
of the new term of Rotary
leadership on Monday,
with Grant Arinder tak-
ing over the presidency
from Sid Salter, and the
club will make a weekly
donation to the T.K. Mar-
tin Center in honor of the
speaker at each meeting
for the next year.
The preschool pro-
gram is the “heart and
soul” of the center, and it
will start its 19th year in
August, Stratton-Gadke
said. Its goal is to help
children with disabilities
get “as close to an equal
playing field to their peers
as possible” at an early
age, she said. The school
has three classrooms,
teachers and teaching
assistants, as well as
speech, occupational and
physical therapists.
Many students have
weak immune systems
and cannot attend a regu-
lar school due to the inter-
personal spread of illness-
es and infections, and this
is especially important
during the COVID-19
coronavirus pandemic,
Stratton-Gadke said. The
school will implement ad-
ditional safety measures
when students return in
August, and those mea-
sures will not be finalized
until just before the school
year starts so it can be as
up-to-date as possible,
she said.
“We will not have any
volunteers or extra per-
sons coming into our
classrooms, every child
and their family is go-
ing to be screened (for a
fever) before they enter
the building, and we have
worked very closely with
Mississippi State’s jani-
torial team to make sure
we have the right saniti-
zation (schedule) up and
running,” Stratton-Gadke
said.
One of her goals for the
center’s future is to add a
classroom for kindergart-
eners through third grad-
ers with immune system
issues, she said.
In April 2019, rumors
spread on social media
that the center might
close due to a loss of grant
funding, but MSU admin-
istrators said there were
no plans to close the cen-
ter. Stratton-Gadke said
the center still has all the
grant contracts it had be-
fore she became director
and has added a few more
since, including one with
the Christopher and Dana
Reeve Foundation, which
works to improve the
quality of life for people
with disabilities.
“We’re in a very good
place financially,” Strat-
ton-Gadke said.
She is an associate
professor of education-
al psychology and the
founder and director of
Mississippi State’s Bull-
dog CHARGE (coloboma,
heart defects, atresia cho-
anae, growth retardation,
genital abnormalities and
ear abnormalities) Syn-
drome Research Labora-
tory and the co-founder
and co-director of the uni-
versity’s Autism and De-
velopmental Disabilities
Clinic.
“If you don’t know how
I manage all those roles,
I’m not sure either,” Strat-
ton-Gadke said. “I was
really excited to step into
this role (as director). It
was kind of a dream job.”

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NJCAA POSTPONES FALL SPORTS TO SPRING
Copiah-Lincoln Community College head football coach Glenn Davis told The Dispatch Monday he’s not optimistic his team can field a team in the spring because of 25 graduating
players in December. Monday, the National Junior College Athletic Association officially announced it will move all fall sports, with the exception of cross country and half marathon
championships, to the spring semester.
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Another college sports
domino fell Monday eve-
ning.
The National Junior
College Athletic Associa-
tion officially announced
it will move all fall sports,
with the exception of
cross country and half
marathon champion-
ships, to the spring se-
mester. Sports moving to
the spring include foot-
ball, men’s and women’s
soccer and volleyball.
Furthermore, all winter
sports, including men’s
and women’s basketball,
will begin in January and
Washington’s NFL team drops ‘Redskins’ name after 87 years
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON —
The Washington NFL
franchise announced
Monday it is dropping
the “Redskins” name and
Indian head logo, bowing
to recent pressure from
sponsors and decades of
criticism that they are of-
fensive to Native Ameri-
cans.
A new name must still
be selected for one of the
oldest and most storied
teams in the National
Football League, and it’s
unclear how soon that
will happen. But for now,
arguably the most po-
larizing name in North
American professional
sports is gone at a time of
reckoning over racial in-
finish in April.
“Our greatest focus is
and always has been pro-
viding the best opportu-
nities for our student-ath-
letes,” NJCAA President
& CEO Dr. Christopher
Parker said in a news re-
lease. “Through a unified
effort from our Presiden-
tial Advisory Council, the
Board of Regents, and
leadership staff, our most
recent plan of action pro-
vides a path that keeps
our student-athletes
competing at the highest
level with proper safety
measures in place. As we
move forward as an asso-
ciation, we will continue
to provide opportunities
justice, iconography and
racism in the U.S.
The team said it is
“retiring” the name and
logo and that owner Dan
Snyder and coach Ron Ri-
vera are working closely
to devel-
op a new
moniker
and de-
sign. The
announce-
ment came
on the old
letterhead Synder
with the
Redskins name because
the team technically re-
tains it until a new one is
approved.
“As a kid who grew
up in the (D.C. area),
it’ll always be #HT TR
(fight song ‘Hail to the
JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL
for our student-athletes, the recommendation of
coaches, and all those in- the MACC presidents,
volved with the NJCAA to voted to abstain on the
be safe and successful.” final vote regarding
Fifty-four NJCAA moving most sports to
schools sponsor football the spring,” the MACC
and 14 of those are based official Twitter account
in Mississippi as part of wrote. “While we are con-
the Mississippi Associa- cerned about the health
tion of Community and and safety of our stu-
Junior Colleges. dent-athletes, personnel
After the NJCAA an- and fans, we believe they
nouncement, the Missis- are best served by waiting
sippi Association of Com- for other conferences and
munity Colleges released organizations to make a
a statement that painted final decision regarding
a more wait-and-see ap- fall sports.”
proach than JUCO’s gov- When contacted for an
erning body indicated. interview, an East Missis-
“The Region 23 repre- sippi Community College
sentative to the NJCAA Athletics Spokesperson
Board of Regents, upon referred The Dispatch to
Redskins’) but looking Tennessee Oilers be-
forward to the future,”
starting quarterback
came the Titans two sea-
sons after moving from
Dwayne Haskins tweet- Houston.
ed. After President Don-
The “R” in “Hail to the ald Trump last week crit-
Redskins” could soon icized the Redskins and
be replaced by Redtails, Major League Baseball’s
Redwolves or Redhawks. Cleveland Indians for
Redtails or Red Tails considering name chang-
— an homage to the es, White House press
Tuskegee Airmen from secretary Kayleigh McE-
World War II — is the nany said the president
favorite on online sports- “believes that the Native
book BetOnline, and the American community
group said it “would be would be very angry at
honored and pleased to this and he does have
work with the organiza- polling to back him up.”
tion during and after the She cited a 2016 Wash-
(name change) process, ington Post poll showing
should this name be ad- 90% of Native Americans
opted.” aren’t offended by the
This will be the NFL’s name, a survey that has
first name change since since been discredited
the late 1990s when the See WASHINGTON, 2B
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the statement made by
the MACC.
The MACC statement
looms large, because
should it abide by the NJ-
CAA ruling and postpone
fall sports, several Mis-
sissippi football coaches
think the entire concept
of a spring season is im-
possible.
“In my opinion, this de-
cision essentially scratch-
es the season,” a MACJC
head coach said, who
spoke with The Dispatch
only on the condition of
anonymity. “Any kind
of spring football com-
petition at our level will
not work. The (NJCAA)
should have known that
Indians, other teams
pressured after Redskins
drop nickname
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — The
spotlight for change is
shining on the Cleveland
Indians.
Now that the NFL’s
Washington Redskins
have retired their con-
tentious nickname and
logo after decades of
objection and amid a na-
tionwide movement call-
ing for racial justice, the
Indians appear to be the
next major sports fran-
chise that might assume
a new identity.
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ans, who recently an-
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Glenn Davis, head foot-
ball coach at Copiah-Lin-
coln Community College,
said 25 of his players are
on track to graduate in
December and would not
be available in the spring.
He opines most, if not all,
sophomores part of the
two-year JUCO program
will elect to skip the sea-
son and maintain three
years of athletic eligibili-
ty for a four-year college.
That would leave him
with a roster full of fresh-
men players.
In Davis’ opinion, no
four-year college coach
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a name change for the
first time in 105 years,
the Atlanta Braves, Chi-
cago Blackhawks and
Super Bowl champion
Kansas City Chiefs are
among those facing
backlash along with the
potential of sponsors
pulling their financial
support.
For some, the time
has come for widespread
changes to sports nick-
names, mascots and
symbols as the country
reckons with its legacy of
racism.
“I understand people
aren’t willing to change
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or so quickly, or they’re hoping this
moment is going to pass. It’s not,”
said activist Frances Danger, who
is Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole
from Oklahoma. ”And now that
we’ve gotten what we needed on the
Redskins side, we’re going to start
working on the rest of them. We’re
not going to let up.”
On Monday, Washington an-
nounced it was dropping a nickname
that had been in place since 1933
and had grown into an embarrass-
ing scar for the NFL franchise. The
team buckled under financial pres-
sure from sponsors including Fe-
dEx, the shipping giant and naming
franchise would undergo a “thor-
ough review” before its next move.
Cleveland’s situation is differ-
ent from Washington’s on several
fronts.
First, the Indians are not feeling
heat from any corporate sponsors.
At least not publicly.
When the Redskins announced
their review earlier this month, the
Indians released a statement with-
in hours of Washington’s that said,
“we are committed to engaging our
community and appropriate stake-
holders to determine the best path
forward with regard to our team
name.”
other layers — trademark contracts,
new logos, Major League Baseball’s
approval — to work through before
the change could take effect.
While the Indians seem open
to a new identity, the Braves aren’t
budging.
They have no plans to change
their nickname, telling season-tick-
et holders in a letter last week that
“we will always be the Atlanta
Braves.” However, the team said it
will review the team’s ”tomahawk
chop” chant — a tradition borrowed
in the early 1990s from Florida
State’s powerful football program.
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While the debate over the
Redskins’ nickname was waged for
years, the drastic change came just
two weeks after owner Dan Sny-
der, who once said he would never
change the team’s moniker, said the
remains a presence on some team
merchandise, its reduced status and
removal from the diamond and sig-
nage around Progressive Field was
applauded as a positive step.
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think we’ve done a good job, but we
want to do a better job. And I think
we’re committed to that as we go
forward.”

Washington
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by experts.
The announcement
came less than two weeks
after Snyder, a boyhood
fan of the team who once
declared he would nev-
er get rid of the name,
launched a “thorough re-
view” amid pressure from
sponsors. FedEx, Nike,
Pepsi and Bank of Ameri-
ca all lined up against the
name, which was given
to the franchise in 1933
when the team was still
based in Boston.
Native American ad-
vocates and experts have
long criticized the name
they call a “dictionary-de-
fined racial slur.” Over
a dozen Native leaders
and organizations wrote
to NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell last week
demanding an immedi-
ate end to Washington’s
use of the name. Goodell,
who has fielded ques-
tions on the topic for
years, said he supported
the review.
“The NFL and Dan
Snyder, we have to com-
mend them on making
the right call to change
the name,” said Oneida
Indian Nation Represen-
tative Ray Halbritter,
leader of the “Change
the Mascot” campaign.
“Dan Snyder won today
because now he has a
legacy that will be differ-
ent from the racial slur
that was the team name.
I know that’s not an easy
thing to do, but it was the
right thing to do.”
Protests against the
name predate Snyder
buying the team in 1999,
and, until now, he had
shown no willingness
to consider a change.
Strong words from spon-
sors — including a com-
pany run by a minority
stakeholder of the team
— changed the equation.
FedEx earlier this
month became the first
sponsor to announce it
had asked the organiza-
tion to change the name,
particularly important
because CEO Frederick
Smith owns part of the
team. FedEx paid $205
million for the long-term
naming rights to the
team’s stadium in Lando-
ver, Maryland.
The lease at FedEx
Field expires in 2027, and
dropping the name keeps
open various possibilities
in Maryland, Virginia
and Washington for the
team’s new stadium and
headquarters. District
of Columbia Mayor Mu-
riel Bowser has said the
name was an “obstacle”
to Snyder building on the
old RFK Stadium site,
which is believed to be
his preference.
Bowser said she wel-
comed the name change
but there were still obsta-
cles to overcome before
the team’s return from
suburban Maryland be-
came a serious possibil-
ity.
“Yes, we want to
change the name and
change the location,” she
said. “The Washington
football team should be
playing in Washington.”
At a Dick’s Sport-
ing Goods store in the
northeast part of the
district, Redskins bur-
gundy gear took up far
less rack space Monday
than that of the reigning
MLB champion Nation-
als and about as much
as the NHL’s Capitals. A
store employee said the
merchandise generally
doesn’t sell very well,
crediting that to a com-
bination of the name, the
move out of the district
and years of professional
mediocrity.
MLB’s Atlanta Braves
and the NHL’s Chicago
Blackhawks have said
they have no inclination
to make a change. Some
advocates would like to
see all Native American
names, mascots and im-
agery out of sports.
“Our fight continues,”
Crystal Echo Hawk of the
Native American advo-
cacy group IllumiNative
said in a statement. “We
will not rest until the of-
fensive use of Native im-
agery, logos and names
are eradicated from pro-
fessional, collegiate and
(other school) sports.
The time is now to stand
in solidarity and declare
that racism will not be
tolerated.”
Halbritter said it was
important to note those
other names are not
a slur, but he hopes a
“broader discussion” can
be had. He pointed out
that Florida State spoke
with the Seminole tribe
about its name, the same
thing a minor league
baseball team in Spo-
kane, Washington, did
with local Native Ameri-
cans.
Long removed from
the glory days of win-
ning Super Bowl titles in
the 1982, 1987 and 1991
seasons under coach
Joe Gibbs, Washington’s
NFL team has just five
playoff appearances in 21
years and no postseason
victories since 2005. The
team has lacked a nation-
ally marketable player
since Robert Griffin III’s
short-lived stardom, and
the 2020 schedule fea-
tures zero prime-time
games for a franchise
that used to be a draw.
Re-branding with a
new name and logo —
and perhaps the same
burgundy and gold colors
— coupled with turning
football operations over
to Rivera could be a boon
for Snyder on and off the
field. Even if a segment of
the fan base opposes the
change in the name of
tradition, winning would
more than make up for
those losses.
Marty Conway, a
Georgetown Universi-
ty adjunct professor of
sports marketing and ACROSS
business, said that while 1 Full range
the NFL and team could 6 Rotisserie rods
pay tens of millions of 11 Barn-raising
dollars to buy back old sect
merchandise, the long- 12 Seminar
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lucrative with a new 13 Paris attrac-
stadium naming rights tion
deal and other corporate 15 Jargon
sponsorships. ending
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nity, certainly long over-17 Roadhouse
due in terms of the time 18 Enjoys a
frame,” Conway said. favorite book
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of an immediate opportu- 21 NFL player
nity, which we’re seeing 22 Chest mus-
play out every day, which cles genre 14 Extinct bird
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chise and in a step-by-
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roots of its past and con-
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sistent with the change in
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is going to want a potential recruit
to end up playing 20-plus games in
a single calendar year with only a
two-month recovery period after
their spring season.
“The numbers are going to be
upside down,” he said. “I just don’t
see us being able to play in the
spring losing that many kids.
“I don’t know what the sopho-
mores will do. I think a lot of col-
lege coaches will talk to them, just
like a lot of agents will try to talk
to athletes at four-year schools out
of playing their senior year, four
year schools coaches will try and
talk these players out of playing so
they can (have three years of eligi-
bility left).”
The MACJC has normally been
a hot-bed of recruiting talent, with
56 players in the class of 2020 rat-
ed as 3-stars or better (according
to 247Sports) eventually signing
with Division I colleges. In light of
the announcement, recruiting gets
murky at best.
Several JUCO coaches believe
this decision will hurt their ath-
letes’ prospects of playing at a
four-year college. There may be
no opportunity for a freshman
who hardly played his first year to
prove worthy of a Division I schol-
arship, or for an already-commit-
ted athlete to receive an improved
offer from a bigger school after a
breakout sophomore season.
“It’s going to hurt every one
of them,” a MACJC coach said.
“Both freshmen and sophomores.
They’re being hurt by a govern-
ing body that’s supposed to help
them.”
Despite the announcement
from the NJCA A, no changes have
been made to the college sports re-
cruiting calendar. The early sign-
ing period for Division I football
is scheduled for mid-December,
while National Signing Day re-
mains in its usual spot in the first
week of February.
One MACJC coach opined
the NJCA A may attempt to allow
schools to host several fall practic-
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“I think they may attempt to
make some accommodations,” he
said. “I think it will fall flat on its
face. I don’t think this decision was
thought through. I’m extremely
disappointed.”
Two conferences affiliated with
the NCA A, the Ivy League and
Patriot League, have also made
the decision to postpone their fall
sports to the spring semester.
Earlier this summer, an MACJC
announced an eight-game sched-
ule, one less than its typical nine-
game regular season, slated to
begin Sept. 10. It is unclear how
many games would be played un-
der the proposed spring switch.
“The bottom line is all of us
coaches want to be safe for our
kids and coaches,” Davis said. “We
want to play as many games as we
possibly can but if there’s not a
way to do it safe, then it’s not safe.”

Pucks and masks prevalent as 24 NHL teams open training camp
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
St. Louis Blues goalie
Jordan Binnington is so
accustomed to wearing a
mask, he didn’t mind doing
so for the past four months
during the coronavirus
pandemic.
“Sometimes, I forgot
I’m wearing it while driv-
ing,” Binnington said Mon-
day, when the Blues were
among the NHL’s 24 teams
to open training camp for
the upcoming playoffs.
“You make fun of those
people who are driving by
themselves with a mask on,
but I sometimes forget.”
Goalies weren’t the only
ones wearing masks as the
NHL hit the ice, en masse,
in the first full glimpse of
hockey’s return since the
regular season was placed
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on pause March 12.
Masked equipment
managers patrolled the
benches, clearing them
of water bottles and tow-
els following practices. In
Nashville, general man-
ager David Poile, 70, wore
one while watching the
Predators practice from a
private suite.
And in Dallas, Stars in-
terim coach Rick Bowness
wore a mask while observ-
ing practice from an empty
bench. At 65, he wasn’t tak-
ing any chances.
“I was going to err on
the side of caution. I’m still
very nervous about the
COVID, and we haven’t
tested our players since
last Thursday,” Bowness
said. Once results come
back, he intends to return
to the ice, perhaps as early
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as Wednesday
Players and staff all have
their eyes on resuming the
season with an expanded
24-team playoff set to begin
in two hub cities - Toronto
and Edmonton, Alberta, --
on Aug. 1.
“On the ice is normal,”
Washington Capitals cap-
tain Alex Ovechkin said.
“On the ice is same rules
what we have before. But
soon as you step off the ice
in the locker room, every-
body have to wear a mask.
It’s kind of weird, but I’m
pretty sure we’re going to
get used to it.”
Players and everyone
else who will be spending
up to two months inside the
“bubble” — including hotel
staff, bus drivers and arena
workers — will have no oth-
er choice but to get accus-
tomed to the new reality if
the NHL hopes to complete
its most unique season.
Once games resume, they
will be played in empty
arenas, with as many as
three games played per
day at each site, and with
the Stanley Cup awarded
in late September at the
earliest.
There is no guarantee
the league will be able to
pull it off.
Though the familiar
sound of pucks, skates and
sticks echoed through are-
nas once again, the remind-
ers of COVID-19 were also
prevalent.
The NHL announced
that 43 players had tested
positive for the coronavirus
from June 8 through the
end of the league’s optional
workouts. In Toronto, star
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same man for 15
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He’s a machinist
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Sometimes he does it, but
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Last Saturday morning
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break at his home in Arizo-
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“It was the safest place
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In Pittsburgh, the Pen-
guins voluntarily sidelined
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secondary exposure to
a person testing positive
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revealing who the players
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forward Patric Hornqvist.
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all day, I started
calling around 7
p.m. and three
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but he didn’t pick
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again, schedule something fun
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DEAR ABBY: Our family
and extended family are all
highly educated individuals with
advanced degrees. My son’s
wife didn’t go to college, and
depend on how much else is
going on in your realm.
TAURUS (April 20-May
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mysterious, and yet, if someone
wants to reach you, that person
is going to have to try a little
harder now because you’re
working something out in the
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GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
What baffles those around you
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you know and attend to the
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“It’s a matter of every-
one working together and
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Crosby said. “Whether you
are a player or a fan, you
miss the game. You also
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you. We’re trying to find a
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It was a far different
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ly complement of players
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siderable turnaround. Na-
than MacKinnon, Mikko
Rantanen, Nazem Kadri,
Cale Makar and goalie
Philipp Grubauer were
among the formerly in-
jured players back on the
ice, with only center Col-
in Wilson deemed not fit
to play.
while she is genuinely nice, she
butchers the English language.
My granddaughter will be
learning to talk soon, and I
wonder what’s the best way to
approach the situation. I don’t
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in-law, but I also don’t want
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your family and extended family
are well-educated and hold ad-
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your grandchild spends with all
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of learning proper grammar. Do
not talk “baby talk” with her.
Read to her and give her books
as gifts. If her mother reads
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around her well-educated father
will also help, and once she’s in
school, it will be reinforced.
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make your son’s wife self-con-
scious about her upbringing
because if you do, you may be
seeing a lot less of that little
family.
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would like more than you have,
and yet, maybe you also need
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question isn’t money. Whatever
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validation, but something about
it still helps.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Are you feeling uncharac-
teristically shy? It might help
to know. No one is expecting
you to have answers. You’re so
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is enough.
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those human needs that would
seem easy enough to meet, and
yet, with every exposure to a
thing, it becomes less amusing.
This is the secret to your ap-
peal. You keep changing it up.
The White House
SOLUTION:
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Funeral Home of Gunter Peel Funeral Sand Hill Cemetery. She is survived by
Starkville is in charge Home and Crematory There will be no public her children, Steve
of arrangements. Second Avenue location visitation. Lavender’s Hackman, Fayrene
He is survived by his is in charge of arrange- Funeral Service of Turner, Shirley Jones,
children, Deidre Ward, ments. Aliceville is in charge Evon Guyton and Linda
Shanta Ward-Brown, Rev. Higdon was of arrangements. Pennington; sister,
Goeffrey Alexander born Dec. 28, 1928, in Emma Jean Bankhead;
Ward and Quantrell
Lamar County, to the Lois Hackman 15 grandchildren;
Ward; and siblings, late Troy Edgar and SULLIGENT, Ala. 27 great-grand-
Betty J. Ashford, Debra Violet Irene Aldridge — Lois Nails Hackman, children; and four
Ward, Winfred L. Higdon. 92, died July 11, 2020, great-great-grandchil-
Ward, Dennis M. Ward In addition to his par- at her residence. dren.
and Marcus A. Ward. ents, he was preceded Funeral services will
in death by his wives, be at 1 p.m. Thursday,
Lula Gay Jewel and Nora; sib- at Otts Funeral Home
STARKVILLE — lings, James, Dorsey, Chapel, with the Rev.
Lula Mae Gay, 89, died Lemuel, Ganus, Bruce Jeremy Brock officiat-
July 4, 2020, in Louis- Higdon and Vaudine ing. Burial will follow in
ville. Black. Furnace Hill Cemetery.
Graveside funeral He is survived by his Visitation will be one
services will be at 11 children, Shelby Finney hour prior to services.
a.m. Wednesday, in Bell and Barbara Jolly; two Otts Funeral Home of
Chapel U.M. Church grandchildren; and two Sulligent is in charge of
Cemetery. Visitation is great-grandchildren. arrangements.
from 1-5 p.m. today, at Mrs. Hackman was Ouda P. Gresham
West Memorial Funeral Rosie Williams born Feb. 11, 1928, in Visitation:
Saturday, July 18 • 10-11 AM
Home. West Memo- DECATUR, Ga. — Lamar County, to the
2nd Ave. North Location
rial Funeral Home of Rosie L. Williams, 70, late Elgie Nails and Services:
Starkville is in charge died July 10, 2020. Lestie McGraw. She Saturday, July 18 • 11 AM
of arrangements. 2nd Ave. North Chapel
Arrangements are was formerly employed
She is survived by
her children, Arther
incomplete and will be at Gattman Sportswear Troy Higdon
announced by Carter’s and cleaning houses. Visitation:
Roberson, Jethro Gay
Funeral Services of She was a member of Thursday, July 16 • 10-11 AM
Jr., Tommie Stinson Jr., Columbus. St. James Missionary College St. Location
Services:
Aaron Poe Jr., Mary Baptist Church. Thursday, July 16 • 11 AM
Poe, Onnie Blackshire, College St. Location
Ernest Poe, Willie Gay John Hankins In addition to her Burial
ETHELSVILLE, parents, she was Covin Baptist Church Cemetery
Sr. and Jeffie Gay-Nash; preceded in death by College St. Location
and sister, Mary Louise Ala. — John Hankins,
her husband, Willie
Yeates. 49, died July 13, 2020,
Hackman; children,
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Mrs. Bevering was
preceded in death by
her mother, Glenda
Basson; father, George
Willard Payne; chil-
dren, Christopher
Shawn Yearby and
Brian Yearby.
She is survived
by her husband Billy
Bevering; daughter Mi-
chelle Yearby; sibling,
Roger Lee; and step-fa-
ther Chestly Basson.
Mary Jones
ABERDEEN —
Mary Elizabeth Blair
Jones, 78, died July 7,
2020, at North Missis-
sippi Medical Center of
Tupelo.
A memorial service
is at 10 a.m. today, at
ments.
Mr. Mitchell was
born June 11, 1923, in
Lowndes County, to
the late Jim and Ros-
ie Mitchell. He was
formerly employed as
a professional shoe
shiner and was a mem-
ber of Southside M.B.
Church.
In addition to his par-
ents, he was preceded
in death by his siblings,
Ella Mae Davis, Net-
tie Kennedy, Martha
Mitchell, Albert Mitch-
ell Sr., Lewis Mitchell,
James Mitchell and
George Cornelius
Mitchell.
Goeffrey Ward Jr
MADISON, Wis. —
Goeffrey Ward Jr., 68,
died July 1, 2020.
at Bradley healthcare
and Rehab.
Funeral services will Raymond Latham
be at 11 a.m. Thursday, GORDO, Ala. — Ouda Pace Gresham, 90,
at Memorial Gunter Raymond “Lewis” formerly of Columbus, died
Peel, with the Rev. Latham, 74, died July July 10 in Hoover, Alabama,
Kelly Jolly officiating. 11, 2020, at Forest Man- after a short illness.
Burial will follow in or Health and Rehabil- A memorial service will be
Covin Baptist Church itation of Northport, held at 11 AM Saturday, July
Cemetery of Fayette, Alabama. 18, at Memorial Gunter Peel
Alabama. Visitation A graveside going Funeral Home, 716 Second
will be one hour prior home celebration will Avenue North, Columbus.
Rev. Ken Letson, pastor, The
Church at Shelby Crossings in
Calera, Alabama, will officiate. The family will
receive friends from 10 to 11 AM at the funeral
home.
Ouda Shellyn Pace was born September 4,
1929, in Sebastopol, Mississippi, the daughter
of the late John Oliver and Maggie Lyle Pace.
She grew up in Lena, Mississippi, and attended
Lena Schools. She received a bachelor’s degree
in education from Mississippi College and later
earned a master’s degree in education from
Mississippi State University.
On October 9, 1955, she married William
James Gresham, Jr., of Carthage, Mississippi.

Tisdale-Lann Memorial
Funeral Home, with
Ken Blanton officiat-
Levin Hailey
Graveside services
are at 11 a.m. today, They lived in Mississippi, California and Texas
New Prospect Ceme- during his service in the U.S. Air Force before
retiring in Columbus. Ouda taught school for 25
Levin “Bubba” Hailey went to Heaven on July years in Mississippi, completing her career as

Catherine Basinger
Georgia Catherine Sanders Basinger, 90,
died July 7, 2020, at Windsor Place in Columbus,
MS. Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home &
Crematory, 2nd Avenue North, was entrusted
with her arrangements.
Mrs. Basinger was born November 25, 1929,
to the late James Russell and Clara Pace Sanders
in Alabama. She was a 1948 graduate of Stephen
D. Lee Senior High School and a 1952 graduate of
the Baptist School of Nursing, Memphis, TN with
a RN degree. She worked for the late Dr. Henry
Holleman at Doster Hospital for thirty years and
the late Dr. John Frazier for fifteen years.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased
by her sisters, Minnie Grace Sanders and Louise
Sanders Homan.
She is survived by her husband, Henry
Basinger, of Caledonia; her son and daughter-
in-law, Bo and Judy Jarrett of Columbus; and her
stepdaughter and step son-in-law, Anna Basinger
Couch and Bobby of Starkville. She is also
survived by her niece, Mary Catherine Dunn,
whom she raised; and her brother James Sanders
and sister Maude Gardner.
There will not be any services. Memorials
may be made to the Columbus-Lowndes Humane
Society, P.O. Box 85, Columbus, MS 39703.
Sign the online guest book at
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11, 2020.
A private family graveside was held Monday,
July 13, 2020, at Shuqualak Cemetery with Bro.
Bill Ross officiating. Memorials may be made to
Calvary Baptist Church, 105 Dent St., Macon,
MS 39341. Cockrell Funeral Home is honored to
be entrusted with arrangements.
Bubba was born in Kemper County, Mississippi
on August 19, 1938, to O.L. and Mary Alice Sciple
Hailey. He married Margaret West Watkins in
1964 and they enjoyed life together until she
passed away in 2009. Bubba was a passionate
believer in his God and the peace that he found
in his faith was evident in everything that he did.
He loved Jesus Christ, to hunt and fish, nature
and the outdoors, the sight of deer or turkeys
feeding beside his house, a hummingbird by
his window, a squirrel by the swing and dogs.
He loved people and for several decades he ran
The Gholson Cash Store where you could find
anything that you needed along with a ready
smile and good conversation. He retired from the
Mississippi Highway Department as a supervisor
for Kemper County. Bubba had a gift for making
friends of everyone who met him. No one walked
away without remembering his name.
Bubba knew how to fix almost anything and
was always willing to lend a helping hand or offer
advice or just listen. He was incredibly loyal and
could always be counted on when things were
tough whether it was a loved one with a terrible
disease or a tornado in a neighboring town.
He was an amateur taxidermist which caused
his grandchildren to always immediately look
in his freezer in the old store to see what new
animal, bird, or reptile was going to be his next
specimen. Bubba was not a prideful man, but
he was exceptionally proud of his family, his
children, grandchildren and especially his great
grandchildren. Bubba was a man of deep faith
and it was through that faith that he fought the
battles of illness over the past three years with
calm unyielding faith and courage.
He is survived by his children W. G. Watkins
(Polly) of Madison and Billy Watkins (Susan) of
Ridgeland; his brothers Levi Hailey and David
Hailey and sister Vondelle Hailey Fairbanks; and
his loving companion, Faye Coleman of Macon.
Bubba has six grandchildren and 15 great
grandchildren.
Your family will miss you Bubba. Go rest high
on that mountain.
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a business education teacher at Caldwell High
School in Columbus.
Ouda was active in the First Baptist Church
of Columbus for many years. After retirement,
she moved first to Bolivar, Missouri, and later to
St. Augustine, Florida, to live near her children.
She was an active member of Anastasia Baptist
Church in St. Augustine and served faithfully
in the church’s preschool ministry for 20 years.
Most recently, she was a regular attender and
volunteer at The Church at Shelby Crossings
in Calera, Alabama, where her daughter was
minister to families. She also was a member
of the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and actively involved in
genealogical projects and organizations.
Survivors include her daughter, Shellyn
Gresham Poole (Philip) of Hoover; her son,
William Oliver Gresham, of St. Augustine; four
granddaughters, Melissa Poole Kirby (Todd) of
Daphne, Alabama; Caroline Poole Love (Kerry)
of Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Chelsea Gresham
(Chris Thompson) of Tampa, Florida; and Sami
Lynn Gresham of Winter Garden, Florida; two
great-granddaughters, Olivia Shellyne Kirby and
Anne Willson Kirby; two sisters, Rosaline Pace
Walker of Roeton, Alabama, and John Ann Pace
Miller of Germantown, Tennessee; one brother,
George Lyle Pace (Ollie Kathryn) of Nashville,
North Carolina; a sister-in-law, DeAnn Pace of
Fairborn, Ohio; and a host of nieces, nephews
and cousins.
She was predeceased by her husband, her
parents, and a brother, Oliver Lauren Pace.
The family has suggested that in lieu of
flowers, memorial gifts may be made to The
Church at Shelby Crossings, 532 George Roy
Parkway, Calera, Alabama 35040, online at
shelbycrossings.com, or Anastasia Baptist
Church, 1650 A1A South, St. Augustine, Florida
32080, online at Anastasiachurch.org.
In accordance with local ordinances, masks
will be required at the funeral home and
appropriate social distancing guidelines will be
observed.
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Ten-Hut! Mask On! Class of 2024 to West Point amid pandemic

‘We can mitigate
exposure as much as
possible, but we can’t
eliminate it’
Lt. Col. Robert Kinney
BY MICHAEL HILL
The Associated Press
WEST POINT, N.Y. — New
cadet candidates arriving at
the U.S. Military Academy on
Monday were promptly tested
for COVID-19, stood at attention
in face masks and were given
shouted orders to wash their
hands.
The transition from civilian to
West Point cadet is different for
the Class of 2024 as the academy
adapts to the pandemic, starting
with Reception Day, or R-Day.
Reception Day still ushers
in an intense period of training
that introduces new arrivals to
the rigors of cadet life. But this
year, older cadets barked orders
through face masks. New ca-
dets will still have to endure the
weeks of drills, marches and ex-
ertions of Cadet Basic Training,
unofficially known as “Beast
Barracks.” But that training will
be two weeks shorter this year.
“I know that it’s shorter, but I
trust it will be the same experi-
ence overall. I’ll still get to know
all my classmates,” said Justin
Suess of Batavia, Illinois. “I am
prepared. I’ve been exercising
hard.”
The more than 1,220 new
cadets this year are arriving
over three days, from Sunday
through Tuesday, instead of one
Reception Day, as usual.
New arrivals dropped off by
their parents Monday morn-
ing took a moment for goodbye
hugs before being tested for
COVID-19. Results come back
in an hour or so. Those who test
positive — as four did Sunday
— will be isolated for weeks but
will still take part in training.
Hundreds of new cadets spent
Monday being hustled around in
groups for the traditional round
of uniform fittings, buzz cuts
and lining up. They were or-
dered to “Hurry Up!” and “Move
With a Purpose!” but also “Wash
Your Hands!” at an outdoor wa-
ter station. At another station,
older cadets shouted orders to
the new arrivals from behind a
see-through plastic sheet. New
cadets marched in socially dis-
tant intervals.
“We can mitigate exposure
as much as possible, but we can’t
eliminate it. What we can do is
prevent transit from one person
to the next by adhering to strict,
non-pharmaceutical interven-
tions,” said Lt. Col. Robert Kin-
ney, who is in charge of R-Day
operations.
All new cadets will be moni-
tored and spend most of their
time in cohorts of 35 to 40, said
Brigadier Gen. Curtis A. Buz-
zard, commandant of cadets.
Though this year’s Cadet Ba-
sic Training has been shortened
from six weeks to four, Buzzard
said he’s confident they will be
well trained.
They will still shoot, rappel,
march, drill, navigate, spend
four nights in field training and
throw a live hand grenade, he
said, though some training will
be deferred until next summer.
“I still think we have a very
good plan to acculturate them to
West Point and the Army,” Buz-
zard said.
The changes in training mir-
ror those made by the other ser-
vice academies this summer, as
well as by the military in gener-
al.
Army soldiers undergoing
Basic Combat Training are mon-
itored and initially have limited
contact with others for 14 days as
they focus on academic training.
Members of the smaller cadres
then join the rest of the trainees
for the remaining weeks of train-
ing.

More than 200 schools back

lawsuit over foreign student rule
Lawsuit challenges recent directive backed by existing law for-
bidding foreign students
saying international students cannot from taking all of their
classes online. ICE sus-
stay in the U.S. if they take all their pended the rule in March
in response to the pan-
classes online this fall demic, but the agency told
universities it was subject
BY COLLIN BINKLEY leges and state and local to change, according to a
AP Education Writer officials are standing up Monday court filing from
to the policy, which faces the Trump administration.
BOSTON — More than mounting legal opposi- The agencies say their
200 universities are back- tion. Massachusetts filed updated guidance still pro-
ing a legal challenge to the a federal suit Monday vides leniency by allowing
Trump administration’s that was joined by Dem- foreign students to main-
new restrictions on inter- ocratic attorneys general tain their visas even if they
national students, arguing in 16 other states and the study online from abroad
that the policy jeopardizes District of Columbia. Oth- this fall.
students’ safety and forc- er suits have come from “Rather than complete-
es schools to reconsider Johns Hopkins University ly rescinding the March
fall plans they have spent and the state of California. guidance and reverting
months preparing. The University of Califor- to business as usual with
The schools have nia system has said it will respect to schools and
signed court briefs sup- sue. foreign students, ICE
porting Harvard Universi- A judge is scheduled announced a measured
ty and the Massachusetts to hear arguments Tues- transition to begin a move
Institute of Technology as day in the case brought by toward reopening schools
they sue U.S. Immigration Harvard and MIT. If the and allowing students to
and Customs Enforcement judge does not suspend return to classrooms,” the
in federal court in Boston. the rule, colleges across brief said.
The lawsuit challenges a the U.S. will have until A brief filed Monday by
recently announced direc- Wednesday to notify ICE if 59 universities, however,
tive saying international they plan to be fully online says the rule throws their
students cannot stay in the this fall. plans into disarray with
U.S. if they take all their The Department of less than a month before
classes online this fall. Homeland Security and some schools start the fall
A wide range of col- ICE say the new policy is term.

China sanctions Cruz, Rubio, Smith, Brownback for criticism

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — China said
Monday it will impose
sanctions on three U.S.
lawmakers and one am-
bassador in response to
similar actions taken by
the U.S. last week against
Chinese officials over al-
leged human rights abus-
es against Muslims in the
Xinjiang region.
U.S. Senators Marco
Rubio and Ted Cruz, Rep.
Chris Smith and Ambas-
sador for Religious Free-
dom Sam Brownback
were targeted, as was the
Congressional-Executive
Commission on China.
The four have been crit-
ical of the ruling Com-
munist Party’s policies
toward minority groups
and people of faith.
Foreign ministry
spokesperson Hua
Chunying said the U.S.
move had “seriously
damaged China-U.S. re-
lations” and that China
was determined to uphold
its national sovereignty
against what it sees as in-
terference in its internal
affairs.
“China will respond
further according to the
development of the situa-
tion,” Hua said.
She did not spell out
the sanctions beyond
saying they would corre-
spond to the American
ones. The U.S. prohibited
any property transactions
by Americans with four
senior Chinese officials
and barred three of them
from entering the U.S.
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SETERUS, INC.; FEDERAL NA-
TIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCI- screen & have valid driver’s
cage 33"x33’x22" w/ food
bowls, toys, hay container,
2 Domino’s
lowing numbers, +1 646 876 ATION, a/k/a Fannie Mae; NA- license with good driving re- HOUSE FOR RENT.
litter box, like new. Cat
9923 US (New York), +1 301 TIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC, cord. EOE. Send resume’ 56 Mason Dr. No HUD. No
3 Samhain
715 8592 US (Germantown), tower 4.5’x2’x1.5’, gently
d/b/a Mr. Cooper; and ALL or apply at following: pets. 3BR/1.5BA. Asking
used. $150/both $80/ea.
or +1 312 626 6799 US OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS For Columbus: $760/ per month. Dep.
(Chicago) and the meeting ID: OR ENTITIES HAVING OR 662−251−0836.
825 330 8020. R&D Maintenance Services $760. 662−549−9298.
CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN OR 3600 West Plymouth Road Wanted To Buy
The Community Services Block
TO THE PROPERTY DE-
SCRIBED IN THIS COMPLAINT Columbus, Ms. 39701 Houses For Rent: Other 4 Mary, Edith and
For Pickenville:
Sybil
Grant provides funds for a DEFENDANTS Dumbbells and Kettlebells
range of activities to amelior- R&D Maintenance Services 248 BYRNES CIR. 3BR/
2BA with extra room. $650 Searching for used
ate the causes and effects of NO. 2020-0257-DE 1623 Lock & Dam Road Dumbbells and Kettlebells.
poverty. For Fiscal Year 2021, Carrollton, AL. 35447 rent + $650 dep. Call 662
Please call or text 662−
5 Peach
at least 90 percent of the PUBLICATION SUMMONS −364−7969 for more info.
funds allocated to the State 425−1677.
through these grants will be AREA BUSINESS Take down that “for
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
contracted to non-profit com- is seeking a mature, rent” sign and get
munity action agencies, mi- motivated person who
One call will bring you results.
TO: All other unknown persons
grant seasonal farm worker or- or entities having or claiming a enjoys interacting with
fast results with an
ganizations or community- legal or equitable interest in or people, being outdoors easy classified ad.
662-328-2424
based organizations that meet to the property described in the
the eligibility requirements as attached Complaint and below
and multitasking. Skills
described in Section 675 of related to maintaining Place your
or place your ad online at
the Community Services Block NOTICE TO DEFENDANT equipment and/or farm
Grant Act, as amended. The eli- work are desired but not ad today at
gibility requirements for the You have been made a Defend- required. Person needs to
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ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Edward Michael
Oglesby and Judy Oglesby,
be flexible enough to pitch
in where ever needed but or call 328-2424
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The Low-Income Home Energy Plaintiffs, seeking confirmation
also keep their core
Assistance Program assists eli- and quieting of title and vari- responsibilities in mind.
gible households to pay the ous other relief. The real prop- If you enjoy a different ex-
costs of home energy bills and erty, which is the subject of perience on the regular,
other energy-related services, this Complaint is described as meeting new people and
for example, wood, kerosene, follows: believe in customer
electricity, gas, heaters,
blankets, fans and air condi-
satisfaction this job might
A tract or parcel of land loc- be for you.
tioners. For Fiscal Year 2021, ated in the Northeast Quarter
at least 90 percent of the (NE ¼) of Section 22, Town- Please submit resume to:
funds allocated to the State ship 17 South, Range 17 West, Blind Box 675 c/o The
through these grants will be Lowndes County, Mississippi, Commercial Dispatch
contracted to private, nonprofit, and being more particularly de- PO Box 511
and public agencies desig- scribed as follows: Columbus, MS 39703
nated in accordance with Pub-
lic Law 97-35, as amended. Commencing at an existing iron
The eligibility requirements for pipe at the Southeast corner of MOUNT TRUCKING is hir-
the program are outlined in the the Northeast Quarter (NE ¼) ing a flatbed driver in the
application process. of Section 22; thence North 87 Columbus area. Family-
degrees 10 minutes West owned. Get more out your
Copies of the state plans are along the South line of the said
available for review at the Mis- Northeast Quarter (NE ¼) of check & more home time.
sissippi Department of Human Section 22, a distance of We work for you!
Services by calling 601-359- 300.02 feet to an iron pin and *Home every weekend
4768 or 1-800-421-0762. being the Point of Beginning of *50 cent a mile *1099
the herein described tract of Tyrone Washington
Inquiries, comments or sugges- land; thence continue North 87 901-230-4659
tions regarding the block grant degrees 10 minutes West mounttrucking@yahoo.com
plans and/or eligibility require- along the South line of the said
ments must be received on or Northeast Quarter (NE ¼) of
before July 28, 2020 by the Di- Section 22, a distance of THE COMMERCIAL
vision of Community Services, 291.18 feet to an iron pin; DISPATCH seeks a motiv-
P. O. Box 352, Jackson, Mis- thence North 58 degrees 15 ated, contracted carrier for
sissippi 39205. Public com- minutes West a distance of the Brooksville & Macon
ments will be reviewed before 372.82 feet to an iron pin on
finalizing the 2021 State Plans the Southerly right-of-way line area. Excellent opportunity
for these programs. of the Columbus Millport Road; to earn money for college.
thence North 52 degrees 16 Must have good transporta-
INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR minutes East along said South- tion, valid driver's license
SALE OF FOREST PRODUCTS erly right of way line a distance & insurance. Delivers on
ON STATE LANDS of 94.17 feet; thence continue Sunday morning and Mon-
Northeasterly along said South- Fri afternoons. Apply at The
Bids will be received by the erly right-of-way line and being Commercial Dispatch, 516
Mississippi Department of a curve to the right a distance
Main Street in Columbus.
Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks at of 399.3 feet to an iron pin;
3319 Lake Lowndes Road, thence South 22 degrees 07 No phone calls please.
Columbus, Mississippi 39702, minutes East a distance of
up to and not later than 11:00 512.65 feet to the Point of Be-
A.M., August 6, 2020 for the ginning. Containing 3.58 acres,
purchase on a per ton, pay-as- more or less.
cut basis of all timber, stand-
ing or down, designated for cut- Defendants other than you in
Rentals
ting at Lake Lowndes State this action are Parkway Mort-
Park, Sections 3 and 10, Town- gage, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank, Ads starting at $25
ship 19 South, Range 17 West, N.A., successor by merger to
Lowndes County, Mississippi. Wachovia Bank of Delaware, Apts For Rent: North
Each bidder is expected to N.A., f/k/a First Union Nation-
make his own cruise and to bid al Bank of Delaware; Citibank,
accordingly. N.A., a/k/a Citi Mortgage; J.P. FOX RUN APARTMENTS
Morgan Chase & Co., d/b/a foxruncompany.com
Before bids are submitted, full Chase Bank; Capital One Home 1 & 2 BR near hospital.
information concerning the tim- Loans, LLC, Operating Subsidi- $595−$645 monthly.
ber, the conditions of sale and ary of a National Bank; Bank of Military discount, pet area,

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be obtained from Carl Branson, merger to BAC Home Loans corporate apts.
Forester (662-417-2611, Servicing, LP, f/k/a Country-
Carl.Branson@wfp.ms.gov). The wide Home Loans Servicing,
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MERS, Inc.; Seterus, Inc.; Fed- ON SITE MANAGEMENT.
PUBLISH: 7/14, 7/21, 7/28 & eral National Mortgage Associ- 24−HOUR CAMERA
ation, a/k/a Fannie Mae; and
8/4/2020
Nationstar Mortgage, LLC,
SURVEILLANCE. Benji &
Ashleigh, 662−386−4446. Promote your small business starting at only $25
State of Mississippi d/b/a Mr. Cooper.
County Of Lowndes
You are required to mail or Very large, very nice 2bd, SERVICES General Services Lawn Care / Landscaping Tree Services
NOTICE OF SALE LIQUIDATION hand deliver a copy of a writ- 2ba apartment. Lots of
ten response to the Complaint closets, washer dryer WORK WANTED: Licensed JESSE & BEVERLY’S J&A TREE REMOVAL
to Elizabeth F. Jones, the attor- Carpet & Flooring & Bonded. Carpentry, minor LAWN SERVICE Work from a bucket truck.
WHEREAS, the following ten- included. Fenced, covered
ants entered into leases with ney for the Plaintiff, whose ad- parking. Perfect for two electrical, minor plumbing, Mowing, cleanup, Insured/bonded.
The Grove Mini Warehouses for dress is Post Office Box 1827, roommates, or a couple insulation, painting, landscaping, sodding, Call Jimmy Prescott for free
storage space in which to store 322 Main Street, Columbus, with kids. $675.00 662− demolition, gutters & tree cutting. estimate, 662−386−6286.
personal property and Mississippi 39703-1827. Your cleaned, pressure washing, 662−356−6525
response must be mailed or 364−1610
delivered within thirty (30) days landscaping, cleanup work.
WHEREAS, default has been Apts For Rent: South 662−242−3608.
made in the payment for rent after June 30, 2020, which is Lawn Care
and The Grove Mini Ware- the date of the first publication Mow, Trim, Edge and Blow.
houses pursuant to said of this Summons. If your re- Two large, very nice, 2br, Free Estimate.
HILL’S PRESSURE
leases is authorized to sell the sponse is not so mailed or de- 1ba apartments in
WASHING. Commercial/ Call 662−574−1225.
personal property to satisfy the livered, a judgment by default downtown Columbus. First If no answer please leave
past due rent and other will be entered against you for floor with washer/dryers Residential. House,
the money or other relief de- DAVID’S CARPET & concrete, sidewalks & message.
charges owed to it by the fol- and private parking. One of
lowing tenants: manded in the Complaint. UPHOLSTERY mobile washing. Free est.
the best locations in SAM’S LAWN SERVICE
downtown. $875.00 662− CLEANING 662−386−8925.
Apryl Sherrod You must also file the original 1 Room − $50 No lawn too large or too
A16 of your response with the Clerk 364−1610 small. Mowing, trimming &
of this Court within a reason- 2 Rooms − $70
$165.00 3+ Rooms − $30 EA weedeating.
able time afterward. Call 662−243−1694
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