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Leach: SEC hasn’t decided ‘whether it’s the dog

or the vehicle’ on playing 2020 football season
Starkville braces for economic impact if conference scraps play ing a potential fall
season.
League, who’s been happily
playing all along, I’m not sure
BY BEN PORTNOY hopeful the SEC and coaches and hope we get the chance to “I mean, I that it does.”
bportnoy@cdispatch.com around the league would be in share it with everybody around think I’m proba- While Leach’s words are
favor of playing this fall. the country.” bly not supposed sure to garner attention, the
If first-year Mississippi State “Right now college foot- Citing how British Premier to say anything, landscape of college football
head coach Mike Leach has his ball hasn’t quite figured out if League soccer has thrived but I’m not a big has shifted by the minute over
way, the Southeastern Confer- they’re the dog or the vehicle throughout the COVID-19 pan- fan of it,” Leach Leach the past days and weeks.
ence will play football this year. and whether they’re going to demic, Leach argued that oth- said of the Big Late Sunday night, some
As reports surfaced Mon- stay,” he said. “I wish there ers have been able to weather Ten’s impending decision. “If of college football’s brightest
day morning that the Big Ten was more clarity to that. We’re the storm while still playing we are going to cancel I think stars, including Clemson’s
is close to canceling its fall all waiting to see, and we’re sports. He also said he’d want we need to make sure the sci- Trevor Lawrence and Ohio
season, Leach told members of excited about our team, we’re science to back up any deci- ence holds it up, and if you look State’s Justin Fields, tweeted
the Starkville Rotary Club he’s excited about this opportunity sions that are made in cancel- at the British Premier Soccer See LEACH, 3A

CORNERSTONE PARK GROUNDBREAKING Lowndes County

property values
increase; city
assessment
remains flat
Greg Andrews:
Pandemic may affect
property tax collection
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com

L O W N D E S
COUNTY — Lown-
des County saw more
than $100 million
of growth in its as-
sessed real and per-
sonal property value
over the past year,
whereas the city of Andrews
Courtesy photo Columbus’ value remained rough-
Community leaders in Starkville shovel dirt during the official groundbreaking for Cornerstone Park off Highway 25 in Starkville ly level compared to the prior year,
on Monday. Construction began this year on the project, estimated at between $18 million and $22 million, to build tourna- according to the latest assessment
ment ready baseball and softball fields at the complex. Voters in 2019 approved an increase in the tourism tax to fund the conducted by Tax Assessor/Collec-
project. “I believe (Cornerstone is) going to be a catalyst for increasing recreational opportunities for our community, espe- tor Greg Andrews.
cially our children,” Mayor Lynn Spruill said during the groundbreaking ceremony, adding the park will contribute to economic The assessment, conducted an-
development and a higher quality of life in Starkville. nually, appraises the value of real
and personal properties within the
county, municipalities and school
districts — an instrumental esti-
mate government entities use to
See PROPERTY VALUES, 3A

LCSD files $2 million suit over

leaky roof at New Hope High Caledonia Energy
Partners sees $20M
District will buy up to 10 new buses over next two years ing within two months of completion.

BY THEO DEROSA tion Inc., New Jersey-based GAF Materi-

tderosa@cdispatch.com
LOWNDES COUN-
TY — Lowndes County
School District is suing
the contractor, materi-
al supplier and installer
of the leaky roof at the
2-year-old New Hope
High School building for Smith
$2 million.
The district filed suit in Lowndes
County Circuit Court on July 30 seeking
at least $1 million in compensatory dam-
ages and at least $1 million in general
damages from West Brothers Construc-
als and Lindsey Roofing LLC.
LCSD’s suit claims it is entitled to
the installation of a new roof or its mon-
etary equivalent due to a breach of the
contract the district made with West
Brothers and its subcontractors and
materials. The district also cited negli-
gence, breach of warranty and breach of
good faith and fair dealing by the three
defendants.
The $24.3 million New Hope High
School — the most expensive of several
district facilities paid for by a $44 million
bond issue voters approved in 2015 —
was completed in February 2018, and
the roof at the new building began leak-
Nearly 200 leaks occurred within the
first year and caused “massive” damage
to the school, according to the suit.
An independent inspector — Ben
Hixson of Alabama-based Hixson Con-
sultants Inc. — examined the building
and delivered a report to the district in
April. Hixson concluded that Lindsey’s
installation was faulty and that GAF had
not communicated with Lindsey about
proper installation and application tech-
niques.
“Based upon the many facts causing
the roofing deficiency failures, GAF as
the designer of record and Lindsey Roof-
ing & Sheet Metal are responsible for
the problems,” Hixson said in his report.
See LCSD, 3A
spike in property value
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
LOWNDES COUNTY — A
new round of property value as-
sessment, conducted by Lowndes
County Tax Assessor Greg An-
drews, places the actual value of
county-based natural gas company
Caledonia Energy Partners at $86.5
million — a $20-million jump from
last year’s $66.4 million.
Sheldon Alston, attorney for the
company, protested the value in
front of the board of supervisors
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Mississippi school funding feud

resolved with veto, new bill
Legislators also
expanded a grant
program for businesses
that have been hurt
by the pandemic
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi leg-
islators returned to the Capitol on
Monday and resolved a dispute over
education funding for the budget
year that began July 1.
They also expanded a grant pro-
gram for businesses that have been
hurt by the coronavirus pandemic,
increasing the minimum award
from $1,500 to $3,500.
House and Senate negotiators
discussed a budget for the Depart-
ment of Marine Resources, but did
not reach a resolution by late Mon-
day. Talks were expected to contin-
ue Tuesday.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on
July 8 vetoed big parts of the edu-
cation budget because legislators
did not fund a bonus pay program
for teachers in schools that either
maintain high academic perfor-
mance or show significant improve-
ment.
House and Senate leaders said
the omission of the bonus funding
was an oversight and the governor’s
veto was unnecessary because they
intended to fund the program in a
few months, in time for teachers to
receive the extra pay.
On Monday, the Republican-con-
trolled House and Senate both vot-
ed to override Reeves’ partial veto
of the education budget. With a
two-thirds majority needed in each
chamber, House members voted
109-17 for the override and senators
voted 41-1.
It was the first time since 2002
for legislators to override a gover-
nor’s veto. At that time, Democrat
Ronnie Musgrove was governor
Mask up: Mississippi lawmakers
return amid coronavirus outbreak
State health officer: 49 legislators have tested
positive for the virus, at least four hospitalized­
BY LEAH WILLINGHAM AND EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Most Mississippi legislators wore masks and practiced
social distancing Monday as they returned to the state Capitol for the
first time since the start of the largest coronavirus outbreak in any
statehouse in the U.S.
“Please separate yourselves. I know it’s tempting to congregate and
talk,” Republican Speaker Philip Gunn told members of the House.
The state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said Monday that 49
Mississippi legislators have tested positive for the virus — more than
25 percent of them. Legislative leaders say most cases have come from
the House.
Dobbs said at least four legislators have been hospitalized, with
three requiring intensive care.
At least 12 other people who work in the Capitol have tested positive,
and one of them has died, Dobbs said.
The updated numbers are a significant increase from mid-July, when
the state Health Department said 30 legislators and 11 others from the
Capitol were known to have tested positive for COVID-19.
The outbreak among Mississippi lawmakers comprises nearly half
of the more than 100 state lawmakers who have tested positive nation-
wide, according to an Associated Press tally.
and Democrats still controlled both legislators left the Capitol on July
chambers of the Legislature. 1 because the House and Senate
On Monday, the House and Sen- clashed over how to spend $40 mil-
ate passed a separate bill to fund lion a year that the state receives
the bonus pay for more than 23,000 from oil and gas production in the
teachers. Gulf of Mexico.
The first-year governor said Reeves also vetoed parts of a bill
Monday that he’s not surprised
that allocated federal relief money
about the override. Reeves said for the coronavirus pandemic, but
some House members have hard
legislators were not expected to try
feelings against him because he
to override that action. Instead, a
pushed conservative legislation the
fight over the issue will move for-
previous eight years as lieutenant
governor. ward in the courts.
“If individual members of the House Speaker Philip Gunn and
House want to punch me in the face, Speaker Pro Tempore Jason White,
if they want to stab me in the back, who are both Republican, sued
that’s fine,” Reeves said. “As long as Reeves last week, arguing that his
those teachers get the money.” action was improper because the
Negotiations about the Depart- governor cannot veto portions of
ment of Marine Resources bud- budget bills that deal with condi-
get originally stalled just before tions for how money is spent.

Mississippi flag design process: Elvis has left the building

Friday, flag commissioners will meet
and choose the final five proposals
BY EMILY designs have magnolias
WAGSTER PET TUS and stars. Some have
The Associated Press wavy lines that could
represent the waters of
JACKSON — The new the Mississippi River or
Mississippi state flag will the Gulf of Mexico. The
not include beer cans, oddball among the survi-
crawfish, a caramel cake, vors has a giant mosquito
Elvis or Kermit the Frog. surrounded by a circle of
Mississippi recently re- stars.
tired the last state banner On Friday, the nine
with the Confederate bat- commissioners will meet
tle emblem that’s widely and choose the final five.
condemned as racist. A By early September, they
nine-member commis- will agree on a single de-
sion will recommend a sign to put on the Nov. 3
replacement that cannot statewide ballot.
include the Confederate The commissioners —
symbol and must have who were appointed by
the phrase, “In God We the governor, lieutenant
Trust.” governor and House
The public submitted speaker — could accept
nearly 3,000 designs, and one of the public submis-
the commission narrowed sions, combine elements
that to 147 proposals that from different designs
were posted Monday to or start from scratch and
the state Department draw their own.
of Archives and History Mississippi had used
website. Lost in the first the same Confeder-
round were designs with ate-themed flag since
food items and celebri- 1894, when white suprem-
ties. acists in the Legislature
Many of the remaining set the design amid back-
lash to political power
that African Americans
gained during Recon-
struction. People who
voted in a 2001 election
chose to keep the flag, but
the symbol remained di-
visive in a state with a 38
percent Black population.
All eight of Mississip-
pi’s public universities
and a growing number
of cities and counties
stopped flying the state
flag in recent years.
For decades, Missis-
sippi legislative leaders
said they couldn’t find
consensus in the House
and Senate to change the
banner. Republican Tate
Reeves was elected gov-
ernor in 2019 after saying
that if the flag were to be
reconsidered, it should
only be done in another
election.
Momentum shifted in
early June, after the May
25 killing of George Floyd
by a Minneapolis police
officer. The Black man’s
death sparked global pro-
tests against racial injus-
tice and reinvigorated de-
bates about Confederate
symbols. Within weeks,
leaders from business, re-
ligion and education were
lobbying Mississippi leg-
islators to ditch the flag
and replace it with a more
inclusive design.
Two college sports
organizations leveraged
their power. The South-
eastern Conference said
it might bar league cham-
pionships in Mississippi
unless the state changed
the flag. The NCAA said
that because of the Con-
federate symbol on the
flag, Mississippi could not
host events determined
by teams’ performances,
which would affect sports
such as baseball, women’s
basketball and softball.
Reeves agreed to sign
the bill to retire the old
flag after it became clear
that legislators had the
two-thirds majority they
would need to override a
veto.
If voters accept the
commission’s proposal,
that design will become
the new flag. If they re-
ject it, commissioners will
draw a new design and
that will go on the ballot
later.

Pro wrestling star James ‘Kamala’ Harris dies at 70

BY RUSSELL CONTRER AS
The Associated Press
James Harris, a Mis-
sissippi-born share-
cropper who gained
international fame as
“Kamala the Ugandan
Giant,” a massive profes-
sional wrestler who bur-
ied opponents with his
trademark “splash,” has
died.
World Wrestling En-
tertainment confirmed
his death in a statement
Sunday.
Kenny Casanova, who
co-wrote Harris’ autobi-
ography, wrote on social
media that Harris died
from COVID-19, the dis-
ease caused by the novel
coronavirus. He was 70.
In recent years, Harris
had suffered from many
health ailments, includ-
ing having both legs am-
putated because of diabe-
tes.
Born in Senatobia,
Mississippi, the 6-foot-7-
inch, nearly 400-pound
Harris began his wres-
tling career as Sugar
Bear Harris and under
other names but wasn’t
considered successful in
the ring. It wasn’t until a
promoter suggested the
Kamala gimmick loosely
based on Ugandan dicta-
tor Idi Amin that his ca-
reer took a turn.
Walking into the ring
with body and face paint
and a spear, Kamala
would headline cards
against babyface wres-
tlers like the Junkyard
Dog, Andre the Giant,
and Hacksaw Butch Reed
in Mid-South Wrestling’s
territory of Louisiana and
Texas. He was managed
by Skandor Akbar and a
masked man named Fri-
day, who tried to control
the wrestler’s behavior.
He’d chop opponents
and often pretended to
bite their faces. His fin-
ishing move, the “splash,”
consisted of him running
full speed at a downed foe
while jumping in the air
with his hands extended
and landing on the op-
ponent’s back. The move
left opponents immobile
for an easy pin.
Harris would later join
the WWE and face Hulk
Hogan, Jake “The Snake”
Robert and the Undertak-
er.
Critics charged that
the character of Kamala
was based on racial ste-
reotypes as wrestling an-
nouncers often used such
terms as “savage” and
“beast.”
In interviews later in
life, Harris said he found
the gimmick fun and
meant no harm. But he
did often tell interview-
ers he was underpaid
compared to other wres-
tlers at the time and treat-
ed poorly.
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LCSD
Continued from Page 1A
The suit alleges that GAF
and Lindsey have not fulfilled
their warranties, which include
Lindsey’s three-year installers’
warranty running through 2021
and a 20-year guarantee from
GAF that runs through Feb. 9,
2038.
According to the suit, GAF
has not honored its guarantee,
nor has it sought to pay any
amounts under its warranty.
Instead, the company has at-
tributed the leaks to structur-
al problems with the building,
but the district’s suit says such
problems do not exist.
LCSD Board Attorney Jeff
Smith, who filed the suit on
behalf of the district, told The
Dispatch that while Lindsey and
West Brothers have expressed
a willingness to negotiate with
the district, GAF feels it has
done nothing wrong and has
made no attempt to negotiate.
“We’ve been very disappoint-
ed in GAF’s position,” Smith
said in a text message.
Representatives from GAF
did not return messages from
The Dispatch by press time.
LCSD’s suit called for the
defendants to pay attorney fees
and all other costs and fees in-
volved in the matter in addition
to the compensatory and gen-
eral damages of no less than $1
million each. The district also
requested extra-contractual
damages for the breach of good
faith and fair dealing.
West Brothers said it had
no comment on the lawsuit.
No Lindsey representative was
reachable for comment by press
time.
District to bulk up bus fleet
LCSD will also spend up
to $1.5 million over the next
two years to improve its fleet
of school buses. In a 4-1 vote
at a public hearing Friday on
the Fiscal Year 2021 budget,
the board authorized issuing
debt for the project that would
be repaid from a portion of its
dedicated capital improvement
millage.
Superintendent Sam Allison
said the district will designate
one mill for purchasing new
buses. LCSD has 3 mills each
year dedicated to capital im-
provements. That
millage can go
unused, and be-
fore setting aside
the mill for the
buses, the dis-
trict had 1.6 mills
available.
“It makes you Allison
able to do the things you need,
and that’s why it’s there for
school districts,” Allison said
of the capital improvement mill-
age.
On the district’s 81 bus
routes, 22 buses were made in
2010 or before, while 39 were
made in 2013 or before. In front
of the board, Allison questioned
the safety of the older buses and
recommended beginning to re-
place the fleet.
“If we don’t address our need
for some new buses now, it’s
going to really come and hit us
in the future as far as needing
some,” he told The Dispatch on
Monday. “We want to get our
fleet back into good working
condition.”
Smith put the average cost
of one bus at about $82,000 and
said the district should be able
to afford at least three new ones
per year. Allison said he hopes
to buy up to 10 new buses over
the two-year period.
Board member Brian Clark
expressed concerns about bor-
rowing money but ultimately
supported Allison’s recommen-
dation. Board member Jacque-
line Gray opposed.

Leach
Continued from Page 1A
out a graphic calling for,
among a slew of other de-
mands, a college football
players union. The move-
ment, which has been pro-
moted under the hashtag
‘WeWantToPlay,’ reached
the top of the trending
charts in the United
States on Twitter.
At least 14 MSU play-
ers tweeted in support of
the movement — includ-
ing senior running back
Kylin Hill, 2019 team
captain Erroll Thompson
and senior wide receiver
JaVonta Payton.
Starkville Mayor Lynn
Spruill also chimed in on
impending decisions by
college football’s power
brokers Monday, offering
her thoughts on the eco-
nomic impact a canceled
football season would
have locally. She told The
Dispatch the city is pro-
jecting a loss of between
$800,000 and $1.1 million
should college sports not
occur. In preparation for
this, city leaders are pro-
posing a 2-mill increase
in the local property tax
rate — a measure that is
expected to be brought up
in meetings this week.
“We have to be ex-
tremely conservative
about how we plan on bud-
geting this coming year
in case everything goes
south on us in such a way
that we can’t recoup and
make our budget work,”
Spruill said.
According to Sports
Illustrated’s Ross Del-
lenger, SEC presidents
were set to meet Monday
regarding the future of
the 2020 season, though
a vote was not expected.
Other conference com-
missioners, presidents
and athletic directors
from the Big 12, Pac-12,
ACC and Big Ten were
also slated to meet at
varying times on Monday
or in the coming days.
SEC Commissioner
Greg Sankey broke his
silence on the current
climate of college football
Monday afternoon. San-
key, who has remained
relatively steady and de-
liberate in his decisions
thus far, tweeted, “Can we
play, I don’t know. We ha-
ven’t stopped trying. We
support, educate and care
for student-athletes every
day, and will continue to
do so...every day.”
In Starkville, MSU
Athletic Director John
Cohen offered his support
for the players’ movement
via Twitter, writing, “Love
the passion, perseverance
and resilience shown by
all of our student-ath-
letes, especially during
these ever-changing cir-
cumstances. We will con-
tinue fully supporting our
student-athletes, coaches
and staff, while keeping
their health and safety
our highest priority.”
At present, SEC train-
ing camps are slated to
begin just a week from
Monday, while the first
games of the season are
set to be played Sept. 26.
If Leach, his players and
numerous administrators
around the country have
their way, kickoff will re-
main on schedule.
“It turns out as of to-
day, (playing this fall is)
still up for debate,” Leach
said. “And with the shift-
ing around to some of the
other conferences, it’s my
hope that the SEC holds
strong and we still get to
play.”

Property values
Continued from Page 1A
calculate potential prop-
erty tax revenue and build
their budgets for the next
fiscal year.
The mixed projections
between county and city
values, Andrews told The
Dispatch, can be largely
attributed to the differ-
ences between area de-
velopments over the past
year. While the county
saw industrial growth and
the expiration of multiple
“fee-in-lieu” agreements
— which offer property
tax breaks to companies
for up to 10 years — the
city experienced a major
loss of retail tenants at
Leigh Mall, he said.
The county’s assessed
value rose from $643.8
million last year to $749.7
million this year, accord-
ing to Andrews’ assess-
ment. Lowndes County
School District, which he
said had an assessed val-
ue of about $479.5 million
last year, is now valued at
$551.2 million.
The increases are
mainly due to the expi-
ration of 13 fee-in-lieu
agreements in December,
he said, including several
with Indiana-based Steel
Dynamics, Inc., Prime
Metals and PACCAR. The
county still has 41 such
agreements in effect, doc-
uments show.
Fee-in-lieu agree-
ments, which require at
least $60 million of in-
vestments under the state
law, grant companies that
meet that standard up to
10 years when they pay
one-third of regular prop-
erty taxes to the county
and its school district.
After that, they begin pay-
ing full taxes.
District 2 Supervisor
Trip Hair-
ston told
The Dis-
patch on
Monday
af ternoon
the increase
in proper-
ty values Hairston
is “positive
news” for the county.
“That is going to put us
in a really good position
as far as budgeting con-
cerns. That increases the
value of a mill,” he said.
District 3 Supervisor
John Holli-
man, who
is acting
president of
the board of
supervisors,
agreed. The
revenue
g e n e r a t e d Holliman
from the
additional value, he told
The Dispatch, could lead
to a flat millage rate next
year and fund more future
projects.
“I don’t anticipate a tax
increase,” Holliman said.
“(The revenue) is actually
going to mean a little bit
more money in the gener-
al fund, and hopefully we
can do some more proj-
ects and maybe do some
more road work with it.”
City tax
assessment value
Compared to the
county, however, the city
tends to lose out on that
revenue, because indus-
trial prospects are less
incentivized to reside in
the city due to its higher
millage rate, Andrews
said. The total millage
rate within city limits is
154.33 (county, city and
school taxes combined),
which is almost twice the
amount a company has to
pay (88.26 mills combined
for county and county
school district) if located
in the county outside the
city limits.
“If I had a major com-
pany located somewhere
in Lowndes County, I’m
probably going to look at
the county, not the city,
because of that reason
alone,” Andrews said.
The city’s assessed val-
ue for Fiscal Year 2020 is
$194.8 million — a slight
drop of roughly $39,000
compared to that of last
year, Andrews said. The
city’s school district, on
the other hand, witnessed
a slightly increased value
from $215.3 million last
year to $216.2 million this
year, he said.
Leigh Mall, valued at
$12.5 million in fiscal year
2019, was purchased by School District, that num- mill values, he said. The valued at $749.7 million
The Hull Group at $3.5 ber rose from $479,000 to mill value usually equals this year, adopt a mill val-
million — signifying a $536,000 per mill. Due to to .001 percent of the as- ue of $734,000.
$9 million decrease in a level city value, Andrews sessed value, Andrews “I’d rather have too
the property’s value, An- projects a $190,000-per- said, but estimating a low- much money at the end
drews told The Dispatch. mill value in the city and er figure protects the en- of the fiscal year than not
Only 14 tenants remain at $209,000 per mill in the tities from overspending enough,” he said. “I was
the mall, which has a ca- school district — the their budget in case the more conservative this
pacity for 36, he said. same figures he recom- revenue is not there. For year than normal years
Despite that loss, he mended last year. example, he recommends because of (the pandem-
said the city’s projected that the county, which is ic).”
value is better than he had Pandemic ups chance
expected. It could mean
that the city gained new
of property tax defaults
Despite the better
retail stores while losing
outlook, Andrews said
tenants at the mall, he
the COVID-19 pandemic
said.
might lead to less prop-
Mayor Robert Smith
erty tax revenue than ex-
told The
pected. More businesses
Dispatch
could default property tax
in a Sun-
payments mid-year, he
day text
said, some of which have
he and the
filed bankruptcy since the
city council
pandemic.
are “elated”
“You can get down to
that The
December 2020 or Janu-
Hull Group Smith
ary 2021 and start seeing
purchased
people not being able to
Leigh Mall in January.
pay their property taxes
The lowered assessed
value, he said, would help
because of unfortunate
circumstances that we
The Hull Group renovate
have never seen,” he said.
the property and bring in
The potential for a
new tenants.
downturn in collections
Smith said he believes
led Andrews to take a
the city’s financial outlook
more conservative ap-
is promising. The city
proach in assessing the
budgeted for $7.7 million
county’s and the city’s
in property tax collections
and has collected $7.3 mil-
lion so far, he said, and
Andrews’ office has hired
an agency to collect past-
due property tax revenues
from the last seven years.
“I am confident that
our finances are moving
in a positive direction,” he
wrote.
The rise and fall of as-
sessed values also affect
the value of a mill, which
represents the expected
revenue one mill can gen-
erate. Mills are used to
calculate property taxes,
and one mill equals $1 of
property tax levied on
$1,000 worth of assessed
value. Each government
entity multiplies the mill
value by its millage rate
to estimate the potential
property tax revenue it
will receive and plan ac-
cordingly.
The county’s mill val-
ue rose to $734,000 from
$683,000 last year, he SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates
peak-feeding times for fish and game.
said. In Lowndes County Major
Tue.
6:43a
Wed.
7:05p
Minor 12:26a 12:58a
Major — 7:28a
Minor 2:05p 3:02p
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Picking a flag to make us all proud
A
nybody who paid attention to the
recent debate over the Missis-
sippi flag should enjoy looking
at the 2,700 proposals that residents
submitted for its replacement.
The state Department of Archives
& History put all of them on its website
Monday. The site is www.mdah.ms.gov.
There is a link on the homepage to view
the submissions, and they are worth a
scroll. It’s evident that a lot of people
took the challenge seriously and sent in
some very creative work.
About 1,800 of the designs met the
Legislature’s rules for the new flag — it
cannot have the Confederate emblem,
which got the former flag finally retired,
and it must include the phrase “In God
We Trust.” Another 900 designs missed
one or both of those but are included on
the website.
The website also allows viewers to
mark up to 25 favorites. It would be
fun over the coming weeks to create a
separate page that displays the designs
that get the most votes, even though the
nine-member flag commission is not
required to choose any specific entry.
A look through several hundred of
the designs — a few drawn by hand,
but most using graphic design software
— indicates that a magnolia blossom
is one of the most popular ideas for the
flag. A number of the designs have 20
stars to signify that Mississippi was the
20th state to join the Union. Many also
incorporate the state’s curvy western
river boundary into the design, and oth-
ers use the state seal, which includes
“In God We Trust.”
One of the most clever entries
includes Kermit the Frog, a teddy bear,
a blues guitar and other items with
Mississippi roots as the centerpiece.
For true humor, one design is nothing
more than a picture of the Ole Miss
player who got in trouble for posing as
a dog in the end zone during last year’s
Egg Bowl.
A cursory review of the entries
makes one thing clear: Designing an
effective flag is a difficult assignment.
The Mississippi flag is even more
challenging because of the controversy
surrounding the one it will replace. The
new design has to tread gently on those
angered by that decision, while pro-
posing a piece of art that unites people
with very different opinions. Plus, the
flag commission needs to come up with
something that has the best possible
chance of being approved by voters in
the November referendum.
Flag design is a mission in which
the phrase “less is more” applies. A
consultant told the commission that a
good flag is easily recognizable from a
distance — think the Stars and Stripes
— and tiny elements in the design
rarely work.
The flag commission has a tough job,
but it has been given a bunch of ideas
with which to work. Let’s hope this
leads to something of which we can all
be proud.
Greenwood Commonwealth

No payroll tax, CARTOONIST VIEW

no Social Security
B
y the time you read
this, President Don-
ald Trump’s latest
economic stimulus plan
may be largely forgotten.
But it has revived an un-
pleasant idea that the right
fringe has been peddling
for years: killing Social
Security and Medicare.
We speak of an execu-
tive order that would cut
payroll taxes. Payroll taxes Froma Harrop
fund virtually all of Social
Security and much of Medicare. Without this money,
Americans would have neither.
Oh, but Trump says these taxes wouldn’t exactly
be cut. Rather, they’d be “deferred” through Dec.
31 for workers making less than $100,000. Workers
would be on the hook for the taxes at some later
date.
Can you imagine slapping low- and middle-income
workers with a bill for the back taxes? Neither can I.
Which explains why Trump says that he might
actually extend the deferral or forget about collect-
ing these taxes. As Stephen Moore, a member of his
White House Economic Recovery Task Force, writes
in The Wall Street Journal, Trump could sign a bill
“to forgive these repayments.”
The obvious long-term goal is to destabilize
funding for Social Security and Medicare. For Social
Security, this would be a more direct hit than the
right’s previous privatization schemes. The real world reasserts itself
S
In essence, low- and middle-income workers are
being offered a modest tax cut in return for consid- ince the death that the dead were the conduct is allowed to continue,
erable insecurity in retirement. This would seem of George Floyd victims of rogue cops then Portland is lost.”
a heck of a time to threaten beloved middle-class beneath the knee or white supremacists. Wheeler, having gotten the
entitlements, but there you have it. of a cop in Minneapo- Indeed, the front message the rioters have been
And here’s the con job: Trump could tell the Trea- lis on Memorial Day, page of Monday’s New trying to deliver, finally ordered
sury to “protect” these programs by putting bonds the nation has been York Times gave voice his city’s police to do “what is nec-
into Social Security and Medicare in place of the instructed by its cul- to the city’s Black and essary” to quell the rioting, even
lost tax revenues, Moore advises. After all, Barack tural elites that this is Hispanic leaders who if it means using tear gas.
Obama did that in 2011. the daily reality that a are objecting to a pro- What has happened in Port-
First off, Obama shouldn’t have done that. Social racist America has too posed $1 billion cut in land, and across much of Ameri-
long ignored the police budget. The ca, was predictable, and predict-
Security is especially sacrosanct precisely because
Our nation, it was people in high-crime ed.
the workers pay for it with their own taxes. Patrick Buchanan
shouted in our faces, precincts, for whom First, the progressives tolerate
More importantly, Obama’s payroll tax “holiday”
is a place where white these leaders speak, and even celebrate civil disobe-
had an expiration date that was honored. Trump now
cops harass, brutalize, assault and want more, not fewer, cops on the dience, because the cause is just
talks about making these payroll tax cuts perma-
kill Black Americans regularly beat. and noble. Then, to hold onto pub-
nent — even as the other side of his mouth says tax
and with impunity. Even Portland, Oregon, which lic attention, the protesters march
collections are only being delayed.
“Defund the police!” the Black has been indulging nightly pro- and block traffic. Next comes the
As an economic shot in the arm, cutting, defer-
Lives Matter demand went out, tests since the killing of George cursing of cops, the throwing of
ring or juggling payroll taxes would do little. After to be echoed and re-echoed by Floyd, seems to be awakening to trash, water bottles and rocks.
all, the people who pay these taxes already have BLM’s amen corner of progres- the real world. Then there’s the smashing of
jobs. Real economists, conservative and liberal, sive elites. When the Department of store windows, looting and arson,
agree on this. The pendulum may be swing- Homeland Security pulled its and Molotov cocktails. Finally,
Today’s economic disaster revolves around those ing back, for this weekend reintro- agents out of Portland and handed there’s instigating violence with
who have lost jobs or businesses during the corona- duced us to the old familiar world. the defense of the Mark Hatfield cops to get footage of police fight-
virus pandemic. Unemployment now stands over 10 In Washington, D.C., about federal courthouse to the state ing back so the law enforcement
percent, higher than at any point during the 2008 midnight Saturday, at a block police, the “peaceful protesters” officers can be painted by the
financial crisis. party in the Southeast sector shifted their attention to the city’s progressive press as stormtroop-
Wouldn’t it be swell right now to have the $1.5 of the city, three shooters fired buildings and Portland Police ers and the Gestapo.
trillion that Trump frittered away in the 2017 tax 100 rounds, wounded 20, killed a Bureau’s East Precinct. In Portland, we reached the
cuts? They came at a time of very low unemployment teenager and left a female police With police personnel corralled point where “peaceful protesters”
and booming stock markets, so there was no need officer in critical condition. inside, the East Precinct was tried to set a building ablaze with
for deficit-exploding stimulus. It appears to have been an barricaded with cars and wooden cops barricaded inside.
Mainly a means to funnel more money to the attempted massacre, a slaughter. planks, and an attempt was made This, as the mayor said, is
upper incomes, the cuts didn’t boost the economy for “More than 115 people have to set it afire by throwing flaming attempted murder.
everyone, as was promised. In the quarter right be- been slain in the District this objects into the building. Today, people watch their
fore the virus hit, the gross domestic product grew a year, a 17 percent increase over Mugged by reality, Mayor Ted leaders in city after city fail to
mediocre 2.1 percent. (Avert your eyes from what’s this time in 2019, which ended the Wheeler seems to have belatedly keep the peace and restore order
happening now.) year with a decade high,” reports awakened to the character of the as protesters riot at will, and they
Or that $1.5 trillion could have been used to re- The Washington Post. protesters he has been coddling: make plans to move out. In the
build America’s infrastructure. That would have cre- D.C.’s numbers, however, pale “When you commit arson with suburbs and country, they quietly
ated good blue-collar jobs, and our roads and bridges by comparison to Chicago, where an accelerant in an attempt to observe the inability of cops to
would more resemble those of a rich country. this weekend recorded 32 more burn down a building that is oc- quell the violence, and they buy
Aside from this devious ploy to weaken popular people shot, with three dead. cupied by people whom you have guns.
programs, the executive order has another flaw. According to the Sun-Times, intentionally trapped inside, you While the right backs Trump’s
The president doesn’t have the power to end a tax. there were 106 homicides in the are not demonstrating, you are stand for law and order, the ulti-
Congress writes tax law, members of both parties city in July, a single-month body attempting to commit murder.” mate battle here may be between
are saying. count almost equal to the toll Equally problematic: “You will liberal Democrats elected to, and
Moore holds that Trump could “pull an end run” D.C. has piled up in all of the first be creating the B-roll film that failing to, run the cities, and the
around Congress. “He should declare a national seven months of 2020. will be used in ads nationally to radical left and Marxists who
economic emergency and announce that the Internal A disproportionate number of help Donald Trump during his welcome their failure as they
Revenue Service will immediately stop collecting the the dead and wounded are Black campaign.” intend to kick the liberals down
payroll tax,” he writes. Americans, and a disproportion- Portland police union president the stairs.
But here’s the deal: No Social Security payroll ate number of the shooters and Daryl Turner was enraged at what Patrick J. Buchanan, a nation-
tax, no Social Security. No Medicare payroll tax, no killers are Black men. he had seen. “I am disgusted that ally syndicated columnist, was a se-
Medicare. If black lives matter, where is our City has come to this,” said nior advisor to presidents Richard
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for Black Lives Matter? Turner. “If it is acceptable for Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald
the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail Rarely in these stories of shoot- rioters to... try and burn down Reagan. His website is http://bu-
address is fharrop@gmail.com. ings and killings does one read occupied buildings, and if this chanan.org/blog.
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In virus talks, Pelosi holds firm while Mnuchin wants a deal

‘Anytime they want to meet — and they’re
wiling to negotiate and have a new proposal
— we’re more than happy to meet’
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
BY LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON — Speak-
er Nancy Pelosi is not about to
blink.
The Democratic leader has
been here before, negotiating
a deal with the White House
to save the U.S. economy, and
lessons from the Great Re-
cession are now punctuating
the coronavirus talks. With
Republicans again balking at
big government bailouts, the
Democrats believe they have
the leverage, forcing President
Donald Trump into a politically
risky standoff over help for mil-
lions of Americans.
“It’s impossible to know
whether she has overplayed
her hand until we see if there
is a COVID package,” says Mi-
chael Steel, a former top aide to
then-Speaker John Boehner.
Monday brought no new
talks between Trump’s team
and negotiators on Capitol Hill
as the president tries a go-it-
alone strategy. Over the week-
end, he launched a series of
executive actions that give the
appearance of a White House
taking charge but may end up
providing little help for ordi-
nary Americans.
The president’s orders seek
to reverse the devastating fall-
out from unemployment as-
sistance, eviction protections
and other aid that has expired.
But there are limits, and legal
pitfalls, in trying to make an
end run around the legislative
branch.
Pelosi dismissed Trump’s
proposals Monday as an “illu-
sion” in an interview on MSN-
BC.
Trump acknowledged he’s
still quite open to a deal with
Congress. “So now Schum-
er and Pelosi want to meet to
make a deal. Amazing how it
all works, isn’t it,” he tweeted
Monday. “They know my phone
number.”
With Trump now having
played his hand, however, Dem-
ocrats appear in no rush to
show theirs.
It will take days, if not weeks,
to sort out what Trump intend-
ed with his executive actions,
as guidance from the admin-
istration is sent to the states.
Already, the Department of
Labor is telling governors that
Trump’s promised $400 weekly
jobless benefit boost will actual-
ly amount to just $300 if states
are unable to provide the rest,
according to information ob-
tained Monday by The Associ-
ated Press.
Senate Democratic leader
Chuck Schumer dismissed the
Trump’s administrative actions
as “all sizzle and no steak,” held
together by “spit and glue.”
In the meantime, countless
Americans are already feeling
the squeeze. What had been
a $600 weekly unemployment
benefit boost is gone, as are
federal eviction protections.
Schools that had been eyeing
federal help now face the pros-
pect of reopening on shoestring
budgets.
The virus shows no signs
of easing, with more than 5
million infections and 160,000
deaths nationwide and stark
new evidence that many Ameri-
cans’ jobs may never return.
Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin, on a conference call
with governors on Monday, said
action by Congress remains the
administration’s “first choice.”
Mnuchin and Vice President
Mike Pence urged the gover-
nors to reach out to congressio-
nal leaders and push for legisla-
tion, according to audio of the
call obtained by AP.
“Anytime they want to meet
— and they’re wiling to nego-
tiate and have a new proposal
— we’re more than happy to
meet,” Mnuchin said later at
the White House. He confirmed
he has not spoken to the Dem-
ocratic leaders since talks col-
lapsed Friday.

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Richie and Kim Cole-
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children.
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Louise Shackelford
SULLIGENT, Ala.
— Louise Webb Shack-
elford, 78, died Aug. 8,
2020, at her residence.
Funeral services will
be at 3 p.m. Wednesday,
at Otts Funeral Home
Chapel, with James
Godsey officiating.
Burial will follow in Tay-
lor Springs Cemetery.
Visitation will be one
hour prior to services
at the funeral home.
Otts Funeral Home of
Sulligent is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Shackelford
was born Aug. 5, 1942,
in Fulton, to the late
Elmer Webb and Verna
Edwards. Shew was a
graduate of Itawamba
County High School
and was a member of
Taylor Springs Freewill
Baptist Church.
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Paul Webb. Fulton, to the late Odell
She is survived Wilson and Lebon
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Michael Shackelford; parents, he was preced-
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and two grandchildren. Janie Trulove; and son
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her residence. West Point; and three
Arrangements are grandchildren.
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Memorials can be
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COLUMBUS — Sid-
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Dwight Trulove
WEST POINT —
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love, 76, died Aug. 10,
2020, at NMMC-Tupe-
lo.
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— Elizabeth Lipsey
Wright, 92, died Aug. 8,
2020, at Trinity Health-
care.
A private grave-
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Monday, at Brooksville
follow in Furnace Hill
Cemetery. Visitation
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Shooting near White House
interrupts Trump’s briefing on TV
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A
uniformed Secret Service
officer shot and wounded
a man during a confron-
tation near the White
House that led to Presi-
dent Donald Trump being
abruptly escorted out of
a briefing room during
a televised news confer-
ence Monday, authorities
said.
The White House com-
plex was not breached
and no one under Secret
Service protection was
in danger, said Tom Sul-
arrangements.
Mr. Coleman was
born June 8, 1971, in
Vernon, Alabama, to
Sadie Kennedy Spears
and the late James
Coleman. He attended
Hamilton, Alabama
schools and was for-
merly employed with
Buccaneer Homes.
In addition to his
mother, he is survived
by his step-father,
livan, chief of the Secret
Service Uniformed Divi-
sion.
The name of the man,
51, and his condition were
not released by Sullivan.
The District of Columbia
fire department said the
man suffered serious or
possibly critical injuries.
Sullivan said the man
had claimed he was
armed, moved aggres-
sively toward the officer,
and appeared ready to
fire before the officer shot
him once. Sullivan did not
address whether the man
had indeed been armed.
Rev. Tommy Gillon and Rev. Jay Anderson will
officiate the services.
Pallbearers will be James “Bubba” Smith, Trey
Allman, Tommy Reid, Steve Brown, Dr. Keith
Rushing and Larry Pearson.
Honorary pallbearers are current and former
employees of Anel Corporation, Board of
Directors of Dizzy Dean Baseball and Henry
Allman.
Visitation was Monday, August 10, from 5:00
until 8:00 p.m. at Oliver Funeral Home in Winona.
Mrs. Ramsey, 82, passed away at Baptist
Memorial Hospital in Columbus on Saturday,
August 8, 2020. She was born to John B. and
Hazel Jefcoat Mortimer on September 19,
1937. She was a retired office manager for Anel
Corporation in Winona. She was a member of the
former Winona Lions Club and was involved with
the Winona Parks and Recreation her entire adult
life. She was a member of the National and State
Board of Directors of Dizzy Dean Baseball and
was heavily involved in excess of thirty years.
She was a member of First Baptist Church of
Winona where she served as organist, children’s
choir director, pianist, and was the First Grade
Sunday School Class teacher for over fifty years.
She is survived by her three sons, Mike
Lum (Debbi) of Columbus, Gary Lum
(Anne) of Madison, and Dr. Randy Ramsey
(Amy) of Flowood; her sister, Martha Lee of
Hattiesburg; nine grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Memorial contributions may be made to MS
Dizzy Dean Scholarship, c/o Brent Frye, PO Box
5327, MS State, MS
39762.
Oliver Funeral Home of Winona (www.
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Corey Scott Doyle, 31, of Columbus, MS
passed away Saturday, August 8, 2020, at his res-
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A graveside service will be Wednesday, Au-
gust 12 at 10:00 AM at Christian Chapel Church
of Christ Millport, AL with Rev. Paul Howard of-
ficiating. Interment will be in Christian Chapel
Church of Christ Cemetery with Lowndes Funer-
al Home, Columbus, MS directing.
Mr. Doyle was born January 3, 1989, in Amo-
ry, MS to Pennie Lynn Rainwater and Kenneth
Wayne Doyle. He loved going hunting and watch-
ing racing. Mr. Doyle worked in construction
for 10 years. He attended Lighthouse Baptist
Church.
Mr. Doyle is preceded in death by his pater-
nal grandfather, Kenneth Doyle and his maternal
grandfather, Ray Rainwater.
Mr. Doyle is survived by his father, Wayne
(Janice) Doyle of Columbus, MS; mother, Pennie
Doyle of Steens, MS; son, Hunter Bryce Doyle of
Orange Beach, AL; brother, Kevin Wayne Doyle
of Columbus, MS; step-sisters, Ivy (Justin) Har-
ris of Columbus, MS and Amy (Robert) Moore
of Columbus, MS; paternal grandmother, Shirley
Doyle and maternal grandmother, Gaila Rainwa-
ter.
Pallbearers will be Davie Howard, Colby
Doyle, Justin Harris, Robert Moore and Dennis
Rainwater.
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Buford Ln, Poplarville, MS 39740.
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Health
HEALTH TIP
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of whom had one thing
in common: Alzheimer’s
disease. In the U.S.
it’s estimated that 5.7
million people have the
condition, and the num-
ber is projected to hit 16
million by 2050.
Maybe not. A study
in the Journal of Neu-
rology, Neurosurgery
& Psychiatry analyzed
current research and
came up with the top
10 evidence-based risk
factors for Alzheimer’s
that you can avoid with
lifestyle changes and
medical care.
The risks are: lack of
education; insufficient
cognitive activity; obe-
sity late in life; depres-
sion; chronic stress;
diabetes; head trauma;
high blood pressure in
middle age; elevated
homocysteine level
(it increases the risk
for artery damage and
blood clots, and usually
indicates a B12 defi-
ciency); and low blood
pressure on standing,
also called orthostatic
hypotension, which can
cause dizziness, weak-
ness and falls.
If any of those risk
factors applies to YOU,
take steps to regain con-
trol of your brain health.
■ Sign up for a class,
challenge yourself with
new interests.
■ Take steps with
your doctor to address
excess weight and
control your diabetes (or
better yet, reverse it).
■ Always get medical
attention for any head
bump or bang.
■ Start treatment
for chronic stress and
depression, and exercise
300 minutes a week.
That eases depression
and stress for many
folks.
■ Reduce high blood
pressure with weight
loss, nutritional chang-
es, medication and
exercise.
■ Have a blood test to
check your B12 level.
■ Adopt a Mediterra-
nean diet.
■ And talk to your
doc if you have frequent
lightheadedness or diz-
ziness upon standing.
Is your child at risk
for premature heart
disease? Nearly 60
percent are!
When you hear the
Bee Gees plead, “How
can you mend a broken
heart?” we doubt you’re
thinking, “Hmmm,
that could be a good
question to ask about
my little kid’s ticker.”
But an alarming new
scientific statement from
the American Heart
Association, published
in the journal Circula-
tion, reveals that almost
60 percent of U.S. kids
don’t have healthy car-
diorespiratory fitness,
a key measure of phys-
ical fitness and overall
health.
CRF is a measure
of the capacity of both
circulatory and respira-
tory systems to supply
oxygen to the power cen-
ters in skeletal muscles’
cells. That’s how energy
is produced during
activity. In children, a
low or unhealthy CRF
leads to premature heart
disease, Type 2 diabetes
and high blood pressure.
Plus, kids with lousy
CRF are at increased
risk for premature death
from heart disease and
stroke as adults.
If your child is
overweight, obese or
sedentary, ask your doc
to assess his or her CRF
using a cardiopulmonary
exercise test. And start
doing interval or HIIT
training two or three
times weekly with your
child — that’s alternat-
ing bursts of vigorous
activity with rest or
low-intensity activity
(for example, running
fast for one or two min-
utes, then walking or
jogging slowly for three
minutes, and repeating
five times). Measur-
able improvements can
happen in a couple of
months. Get retested,
and keep it going.
Bonus!
Boosting
a child’s
CRF also
fuels
kids’
brain
power.
Studies
show it
improves
cognitive
Drs. Oz and Roizen
abilities
and helps
with con-
centration and attention. workout style completely.
Win, win.
Do you get more fit
from aerobics or
strength training?
Brie and Nikki Bella
are identical twins who
entertained folks as a
professional wrestling tag
team for the WWE. Nikki
says lifting weights works
to trim her down and stay
strong. Brie says staying
fit takes a mix — say, a
14-minute barre routine
on busy days and two
hours at the gym when
there’s time. They’re an
example of what research- his lifestyle choices have
ers from Australia found
when they looked at how
30 sets of identical twins
responded to endurance
(aerobics) and resistance
(strength) training.
Their study, published
in the Journal of Phys-
iology, reveals that the
response to exercise is
highly individual, even
for identical twins. That
helps explain why some
people say “Sweating to
the oldies” builds endur-
ance and muscle, while
others find it leaves them
as untrained as when they smoking in middle age
started their ongoing
routine — and why other
folks find that strength
training builds muscle
and endurance, but aero-
bics don’t.
If you’re frustrated by
how slowly you’re getting
into shape, the study also
found that almost every-
one can improve fitness
with the right exercise
program. “Low-respond-
ers to one mode may be
‘rescued’ by switching to
an alternate mode of exer-
cise,” say the researchers.
So, if after three months
of aerobic or strength
training,
you aren’t
much
more
fit than
when you
start-
ed, try
switch-
ing.
But we
suggest
you don’t
abandon
either
Choose your core workout
(three-plus days a week)
and add in one or two
days of the complementa-
ry style to avoid boredom
and achieve maximum
agility, strength and car-
dio fitness.
Early cognitive
dysfunction linked to
CVD, diabetes, smoking
In an episode of “The
Simpsons,” Homer, who
never completed high
school, decides to take
an exam to finally get his
degree. The problem is,
made his memory a little
shabby. “All right, brain,”
he pleads, “you don’t like
me and I don’t like you,
but let’s just do this, and I
can get back to killing you
with beer.” At least Homer
was smart enough to
know his notoriously poor
habits were hurting his
academic performance.
A recent study, pub-
lished in the journal Neu-
rology, suggests cardio-
vascular disease (Homer
had a triple bypass in
season four), diabetes and
are reliable predictors of
early decline in memory,
executive function and
processing speed.
The 2,675 middle-aged
adults in the study took
thinking and memory
tests at its start and then
at a follow-up five years
later. Overall, people
with all three risk factors
were nearly three times
as likely to experience a
faster cognitive decline
in middle age as those
without the risk factors.
Specifically, more than
10 percent of those with
diabetes had an accelerat-
ed midlife decline in brain
power, compared with 4.7
percent of those without
diabetes. Nearly 8 percent
of current smokers had
faster cognitive decline,
compared with 4.3 per-
cent of those who never
smoked.
The study under-
scores the importance of
knowing your numbers
— blood pressure, LDL
cholesterol level, blood
sugar and BMI — from
your 20s on, and using
your cognitive powers
to discover the joys of
healthy nutrition, physical
activity and steering clear
of all smoking.
Planting the seeds
of longevity
Vegans and vegetarians
are still pretty rare in the
U.S. In a Gallup poll from
2018, only about 8 percent
of 30- to 49-year-olds said
they were vegetarians
and 4 percent said they
were vegans. Surprising-
ly, fewer young folks, 18
to 29, were off meat: 7
percent were vegetarian
and 3 percent were vegan.
Go figure.
Well, that’s what
researchers did in a study
in JAMA Internal Med-
icine that looked at the
life-extending properties
of a plant-based diet. They
reviewed data on 400,000
U.S. adults 50 and older
over a 16-year period and
figured out that the risk
of death fell 12 percent for
men and 14 percent for
women for every 3 ounces
of plant protein they ate
per 1,000 calories con-
sumed.
But even a smaller
bump in consumption
of plant protein made a
difference: Swapping 3
percent of calories from
animal to plant protein
was enough to reduce
the risk of death for both
sexes by 10 percent.
The most damaging
animal proteins were red
meat and eggs — and the
best benefits came from
cutting them out entirely.
That’s what we’ve said in
this column for the past 12
years, based on the data
of the Stan Hazen at the
Cleveland Clinic. That duo
(plus processed meat) is
so damaging because they
encourage certain intes-
tinal bacteria to produce
inflammatory mediators
that promote cancer,
dementia, arthritis, heart
disease and stroke. So
gobble, gobble — not
turkey, but tofu, beans,
nuts, seeds, 100 percent
whole grains and a variety
of fruits and vegetables.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is
host of “The Dr. Oz Show,”
and Mike Roizen, M.D. is
Chief Wellness Officer and
Chair of Wellness Institute
at Cleveland Clinic. To live
your healthiest, tune into
“The Dr. Oz Show” or visit
www.sharecare.com.

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during its Aug. 3 meeting,
claiming the company
should have been valued
much lower at $12 million,
a figure based on the sale
price of the company to
ArcLight Capital Partners
in October 2018, he said.
“Eighty-some million
dollars is obviously way
out of whack,” he told The
Dispatch on Monday af-
ternoon. “With that, (the
company has) no choice
but to object to the assess-
ment and file appeals from
that point.”
The company, protest-
ing the assessment, also
filed a lawsuit against
the county in December,
which is ongoing, Alston
said. On behalf of the
company, he said he has
argued with the county
over the issue for about
the past 18 months.
The company, valued
at $101 million in 2006,
entered a 10-year fee-in-
lieu agreement with the
county, which generated
$500,000 in annual taxes
(one-third of what it would
have otherwise paid)
while the agreement last-
ed. Following its expira-
tion, the company began
paying a full annual tax
of $1.1 million in 2017 and
2018 — an amount that
factored in the deprecia-
tion of those assets over
the 10-year period.
Andrews previously
told The Dispatch the
protest didn’t begin until
the company started pay-
ing full taxes. His assess-
ment, he said, is based on
the company’s own report
of its equipment cost.
Additionally, Andrews
said, Sempra, a subsidiary
of ArcLight, purchased in
January a storage facility
of similar capacity to Cale-
donia Energy Partners
in Simpson County. The
company was sold at $173
million, for a price of $8
million per BCF (billion
cubic feet), which is used
to measure a facility’s cav-
ity capacity, he said.
“We’ve got 20 BCFs in
Caledonia. That’s $160
million, not $11 million,”
he said. “You do the
math.”
Alston rejected An-
drews’ cost-based assess-
ment, claiming it is based
on the original equipment
cost, which he believes
should be lower due to
the depreciation over the
years as well as a collapse
in the natural gas storage
industry.
“The costs of the items
that were spent years ago
… don’t have any correla-
tion to the current day
value,” he said. “The nat-
ural gas storage market
has shifted dramatically,
and therefore, it’s now
not worth close to what (it
used to be worth).”
Andrews’ office inves-
tigated the company last
year for under-reporting
its assets for 13 years and
found out documentation
discrepancies between
the company’s federal
and county reports. For
example, the company’s
asset list in 2018 shows it
owned 10 wells, instead of
the nine wells it had been
reporting to the county
since 2006, The Dispatch
reported.
Alston said he is un-
aware of any underreport-
ing and does not believe
that has ever happened.
Andrews declined to com-
ment further on the issue,
citing concerns about the
ongoing lawsuit.

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TRUMP, COACHES PUSH FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL AS CRACKS EMERGE

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SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey speaks during a press conference after it was announced that the Southeastern Conference Tournament was canceled due to Coronavirus con-
cerns on March 12 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.,

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Donald
Trump on Monday joined
a U.S. senator and a num-
ber of coaches calling to
save the college football
season from a pandem-
ic-forced shutdown as
supporters pushed the
premise that the players
are safer because of their
sport.
There was speculation
two of the five most pow-
erful conferences — the
Big Ten and the Pac-12
— might call off their sea-
sons and explore the pos-
sibility of spring football.
The Mountain West
became the second con-
ference in the NCAA’s
Football Bowl Subdivison
to do just that, joining the
Mid-American Confer-
ence in giving up hope on
playing any sports in the
first semester. Back east,
Old Dominion canceled
fall sports, too, becoming
the first school in college
football’s highest tier to
break from its league; the
rest of Conference USA is
going forward with plans
to play.
A Big Ten spokes-
man said no votes on fall
sports had been taken by
its presidents and chan-
cellors as of Monday
afternoon. The confer-
ence’s athletic directors
were scheduled to meet
later in the day, but it’s
the university presidents
who will have the final
say on whether football
is played. In the Pac-12,
presidents were sched-
uled to meet Tuesday, a
person familiar with the
meeting told AP condition
of anonymity because the
meeting was not being
made public,
The powerful South-
eastern Conference made
clear it was not ready to
shutter its fall season.
“Best advice I’ve re-
ceived since COVID-19:
‘Be patient. Take time
when making decisions.
This is all new & you’ll
gain better information
each day,’” SEC Com-
missioner Greg Sankey
posted on Twitter. ”Can
we play? I don’t know. We
haven’t stopped trying.”
A growing number of
athletes have spoken out
about saving the season,
with Clemson star quar-
terback Trevor Lawrence
among a group posting to
Twitter with the hashtag
#WeWantToPlay. Trump
threw his support behind
them Monday.
“The student-athletes
have been working too
hard for their season to be
canceled,” the president
tweeted.
That didn’t help the
Mountain West, which
announced all fall sports
including football were
postponed. Though Air
Force would be permitted
the opportunity to play
the other service acade-
mies, Army and Navy.
Old Dominion dropped
out earlier in the day. The
Virginia school, a relative
newcomer to major col-
lege football, canceled fall
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Starkville Academy softball rockets past Hebron Christian Former MSU standouts
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
PHEBA — After the
Starkville Academy soft-
ball team stranded two
runners in the top of the
third inning of Monday’s
game at Hebron Chris-
tian School, the Volun-
teers’ Browning Hughes
gathered her teammates
in the visiting dugout.
“‘We’re still in this,’”
the sophomore second
baseman reminded the
Vols, who trailed 2-1.
“We’re not out of it.’”
Starkville Academy
quickly proved her right.
Hughes said her team
gets motivation from ev-
ery run it scores, so when
Fallon Parker led off the
fourth with a single and
scored after Hebron’s
catcher misfired trying to
catch Parker stealing, the
game was tied and the
Vols had the jump-start
they needed.
Sure, Hebron helped
out with a grab bag of
miscues — allowing a bat-
ter to reach on a dropped
third strike, a hit by pitch
and an error were some
of them — but Starkville
Academy came out of the
fourth inning with a 6-2
lead and all the momen-
tum they could ask for.
So it wasn’t surprising
when the Vols came back
out for the top of the fifth,
scored nine more runs
and effectively put the
game away. Starkville
Academy (3-2) beat He-
bron 16-6 on the run rule
in six innings to claim its
third straight win.
“One’s an accident,”
Vols coach Lee Berry-
hill said. “Two’s lucky.
Three’s a winning
streak.”
Berryhill said his hit-
ters — many of them are
Hughes’ grade level or
younger — are starting
to catch on to his offen-
sive philosophy: swing
aggressively with no
strikes or one strike and
protect with two. Above,
all just put the ball in play
and make opposing play-
ers get you out, Berryhill
stresses.
A combined 50 runs
in their past two contests
— Starkville Academy
won 34-14 at Oak Hill
Academy on Thursday
— is a good sign the Vols
are achieving what their
coach wanted.
But Berryhill said
some of the minor things
he wants his team to do
aren’t quite there yet.
Take the bottom of the
fifth, which Starkville
Academy entered with a
15-2 lead. Instead of clos-
ing out the game on the
10-run mercy rule right
then and there and pre-
serving pitcher Calliope
Koiva’s arm, the Vols al-
lowed four straight runs
and let the contest con-
tinue.
“We’re still learning
the game within the
game — the little things,”
Berryhill said. “We don’t
understand all that yet.”
Hebron coach Rease
Gairhan credited his Ea-
gles (1-3) for making a
run in the fifth inning,
but naturally, he wished
it had come before things
went south.
“If we would have
stopped the snowball ef-
fect those two innings be-
fore, we would have been
right in it,” Gairhan said.
Still, he’s happy to see
Hebron’s offense rounding
into form. The Eagles fi-
nally looked capable at the
plate Friday in their lone
win, a 7-1 victory over Cal-
houn Academy, and Gair-
han hopes to see more of
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Moreland, Woodruff
thriving in truncated
MLB season
BY GARRICK HODGE run walk off shot in the
ghodge@cdispatch.com ninth inning.
Meanwhile, Milwau-
Former Mississippi
kee Brewers ace Brandon
State standout Mitch
Woodruff has continued
Moreland is delivering
for the Boston Red Sox to assert his dominance
so far in Major League on the
Baseball’s truncated sea- mound,
son. pitching to
Through Sunday’s a 2.53 ERA
games, the 6-foot-3, in 21.1
245-pound first baseman innings
has been a force offen- with 26
sively for the Red Sox in strikeouts.
Moreland
2020 in just 10 games, Wood r u f f
hitting .323 with six sits with a
home runs, 12 RBI and 1-1 record this season.
seven runs scored. Mo- New York Yankees
reland had his best game reliever Jonathan Holder
of the season on Sunday
is having a magnificent
against the Toronto Blue start for the Yankees
Jays, hitting two home
with a pristine earned
runs that include a two-
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Phillies hit 5 homers to back Aaron Nola, beat Braves 13-8

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — Aar-
on Nola got enough run sup-
port that even another dismal
performance by the bullpen
couldn’t ruin.
Didi Gregorius hit a grand
slam, Bryce Harper blasted a
three-run shot and the Phila-
delphia Phillies beat the Atlanta
Braves 13-8 Monday night, giv-
ing Nola his first win in nearly
a year.
Nola (1-1) allowed one run,
two hits and struck out 10 in
eight innings. He threw just
89 pitches but was denied an
opportunity for his first career
complete game in his 130th
start. Two relievers gave up sev-
en runs in the ninth.
“Obviously, I wanted to,”
Nola said about finishing the
game. “I understand where
they’re coming from, for sure.”
Nola said he would’ve fought
harder to stay in the game if it
were 2-1 or 3-1. The ace right-
hander was 0-5 in nine starts
since his last win at Boston on
August 20, 2019.
Phillies manager Joe Girardi
said he removed Nola because
there have been many injuries
to pitchers across the majors.
“My job is to protect players
from themselves,” he said. “I
feel bad for pulling him.”
The Phillies had lost Nola’s
last nine starts, scoring only 27
runs combined in those games.
Roman Quinn, Jean Segura
and J.T. Realmuto added solo
shots for Philadelphia, which
bounced back after getting
swept in Sunday’s doublehead-
er to earn a split of the four-
game series.
The Phillies jumped on
Braves lefty Sean Newcomb
(0-2) in the first when Harp-
er drove a 3-1 pitch way out to
right-center into Atlanta’s bull-
pen, setting off air horns and
cow bells from fans gathered
outside the stadium.
The group, which calls it-
self the “Phandemic Krew,”
has grown from a few people
to more than 30. Some folks
bring ladders to peek into the
ballpark and others sit on lawn
chairs. They watch the game on
a television hanging on a brick
wall in Ashburn Alley out in
left-center field.
Gregorius made it 10-1
during a seven-run second in-
ning that chased Newcomb.
Quinn started the inning
with a liner out to left. After
Realmuto’s RBI single ended
Newcomb’s night, Gregorius
launched Robbie Erlin’s first
pitch into the right-field bleach-
ers for his sixth career slam.
Newcomb surrendered eight
runs and six hits in 1 1/3 in-
nings.
Travis d’Arnaud hit a solo
homer off Nola. Johan Camargo
connected off Nick Pivetta, who
yielded six runs and recorded
just one out in the ninth. Austin
Riley hit a two-run shot off Trev-
or Kelley before the side-wind-
ing righty got the final out.
“They keep banging away
and coming back,” Braves man-
ager Brian Snitker said. “It was
a pretty big hurdle, but if you
can keep a game doable or rel-
atively close in this ballpark, it’s
one of those places that you nev-
er know what might happen. It
can be haunted here sometimes
in that ninth inning. It was good
to see them come back and
show some life. You just never
know.”
Strikeout machine
Nola has 14 double-digit
strikeout games in his career
and two in a row for the second
time. He fanned 12 in a 3-1 loss
to the Yankees last Wednesday.
Franchise first
The Phillies had four hom-
ers and scored 10 runs within
the first two innings of a game
for the first time in club history,
according to Elias Sports Bu-
reau.
Trainer’s room
Braves: LHP Cole Hamels
(shoulder) still hasn’t thrown
off a mound but manager Brian
Snitker said there’s still hope
he pitches this season.
Phillies: RHP David Robert-
son and LHP Ranger Suárez
are throwing at the team’s
complex in Clearwater, Flori-
da. Robertson, a former closer,
is returning from Tommy John
surgery. Suárez tested positive
for COVID-19 before the sea-
son. ... Harper said he’s fine af-
ter getting hit on the right hand
by a pitch. The ball hit part of
a protective covering he wears.
Harper stayed in the game.
Up next
Braves: RHP Touki Tous-
saint (0-0, 6.08 ERA) starts
Tuesday night in New York and
LHP Jordan Montgomery (1-1,
5.59) goes for the Yankees in
the opener of a two-game inter-
league set.
Phillies: RHP Zack Wheel-
er (2-0, 2.08) takes the mound
against Orioles RHP Alex Cobb
(1-1, 2.51) in the start of a three-
game interleague series Tues-
day.

Softball
Continued from Page 1B
the same from his team.
“I did like to see them fight
back at that one point,” he said
of the fifth-inning comeback.
“Even though it was a little
too late, at least we tried to put
something together — bet-
ter than just completely going
down.”
But while the Eagles’ fielding
was its best unit in its first three
games, it was more than lack-
ing Monday. Time after time, fly
balls clanked off gloves; ground
balls rolled away from fielders.
One high fly into right center
glanced off center fielder Paityn
Fulgham’s glove and hit her in
the face, allowing two runs to
score and causing a brief delay.
(Fulgham was OK.)
Gairhan also said he didn’t
like how the team watched too
many Koiva pitches sail by for
strikes and lamented the strug-
gles of Eagles starter Aubrey
Eaton and reliever Reese Wil-
liams to hit their spots from the
circle.
“It was a tough game today,”
said Eaton, a junior who drove
in Hebron’s first two runs at the
plate.
Eaton said hitting her tar-
gets is one of the main things
she wants to improve, and Gair-
han hopes that betterment and
more can be delivered in time
for today’s home game against
Kemper Academy at 6 p.m.
Starkville Academy also has
a quick turnaround, hosting
Kirk Academy at 6 p.m. today.
The Vols can win their fourth
straight and build on a sudden
momentum swing that doesn’t
come around too often.
“It’s great,” Hughes said.
“It’s been a while since we’ve
had that streak.”

Football
Continued from Page 1B
sports less than a week af-
ter C-USA set out a plan to
play a football season.
“We concluded that the
season — including travel
and competition — posed
too great a risk for our
student-athletes,” ODU
President John Broderick
said.
Michigan coach Jim
Harbaugh took a different
stand, saying the Wolver-
ines have shown that play-
ers can be safe after they
return to school. He cited
Michigan’s COVID-19
testing stats, including
11 positives out of 893
administered to the mem-
bers of the football pro-
gram and none in the last
353 tests.
“I’m not advocating
for football this fall be-
cause of my passion or
our players desire to play
but because of the facts
accumulated over the
last eight weeks since
our players returned to
campus on June 13,” Har-
baugh wrote.
Nebraska coach Scott
Frost made similar claims
and said if the Big Ten
doesn’t play, that might
not stop the Cornhuskers.
“Our university is com-
mitted to playing no mat-
ter what, no matter what
that looks like and how
that looks,” Frost said.
“We want to play no mat-
ter who it is or where it is.”
Ohio State coach Ryan
Day said the Buckeyes
might look elsewhere
for games, too, and Penn
State coach James Frank-
lin on Twitter implored
Big Ten leaders to have
patience, delay and seek
clarity.
Sen. Ben Sasse, a
Nebraska Republican,
picked up on the saf-
er-with-football theme in
a letter to the presidents
and chancellors of the Big
Ten.
“Life is about tradeoffs.
There are no guarantees
that college football will
be completely safe —
that’s absolutely true; it’s
always true,” he wrote.
“But the structure and
discipline of football pro-
grams is very likely safer
than what the lived expe-
rience of 18- to 22-year-
olds will be if there isn’t a
season.”
Michigan’s situation
falls in line with what
many medical staffers are
seeing on their campuses.
“We’ve seen it spread
thus far within room-
mates and outside of
our facilities primarily.
We haven’t seen a lot of
spread within athletic fa-
cilities themselves,” said
Dr. Kyle Goerl, medical
director at Kansas State.
Doctors and epidemi-
ologists outside of college
sports are less convinced
that big-time college foot-
ball programs decrease
the risk of getting and
spreading COVID-19.
“This is a very conve-
nient, self-serving narra-
tive for people who want
college football to happen
whether to score politi-
cal points or for revenue
purposes,” said Zachary
Binney, an epidemiologist
with Oxford College at
Emory University. “But
I’ve yet to see anyone of
them do it with actual
data.
“Estimate the risk for
me of what would have
happened with these stu-
dents were they not to
play college football ver-
sus what’s going to hap-
pen to them if they do?
That’s actually a really
complicated, really diffi-
cult question to answer.
I don’t think we know for
sure.”
The number of con-
firmed infections in
the U.S. is more than 5
million, the most in the
world.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, a se-
nior scholar at the Johns
Hopkins University Cen-
ter for Health Security,
said only an NBA-type
bubble can really protect
college athletes more
than the general popula-
tion and keep the season
from being disrupted by
the virus.
“If we’re going to try
and minimize the risk of
the virus, it’s really that
the setting of the country
as whole is the issue, not
really actually the sport,”
said Adalja, a member of
the NCAA’s COVID-19
advisory panel.
The number of cas-
es per day has declined
recently, but not for
long enough to say the
pandemic has been con-
trolled, said Lucia Mul-
len, an epidemiologist and
analyst for the Johns Hop-
kins University Center for
Health Security.
Mullen hears echos
of the nation’s debate
over reopening schools
in the case made by foot-
ball players and coaches.
Structure and support is
healthy for young people,
she said.
“The worry with the
U.S. is, and this is some-
thing I put to the sports as
well, we all do want sports
back, but it’s going to be
incredibly aggravating if
we try and bring it back
and we have to cancel the
season because it’s not
working,” she said. “And
that it delays us for yet
another year and we can’t
have any sports for the
rest of the year because
our virus outbreak is too
uncontrollable.”
Adalja said the window
for a college football sea-
son is closing.
“Because of the fact
that we cannot solve these
simple problems in a larg-
er community of testing,
tracing and isolating,”
Adalja said. “If we can’t
solve those problems
there, it’s going to be very
hard to do that in a college
campus atmosphere.”

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Continued from Page 1B
run average of zero, not allowing a single
run in 6.2 innings of work. The former
MSU breakout has struck out six batters
in 2020.
Moving from one reliever to the next,
Pittsburgh’s Chris Stratton has also lim-
ited opponents’ bats, delivering a 2.89
ERA with 13 strikeouts in 9.1 innings of
work in 2020.
Through 15 games, Adam Frazier
is batting .177 with two home runs and
four RBI for the Pirates.
Seattle Mariners pitcher Kendall
Graveman started two games for the
Seattle Mariners this season and struck
out 10 batters in 8.2 innings of work
while also allowing eight runs. Unfor-
tunately for the former MSU standout,
Graveman was recently placed on the
10-day IL by Seattle and will miss an un-
specified amount of time.
In other news, outfielder Hunter Ren-
froe has clubbed two home runs and
driven in nine runs for the Tampa Bay
Rays in 15 games thus far.
It’s been a long wait to return to the
mound for St. Louis Cardinal pitcher
Dakota Hudson. Considering the Car-
dinals have only played five games this
season due to multiple postponed games
because of excessive players testing
positive for COVID-19, Hudson has only
made one start this year. Should the Car-
dinals return to action Friday against
the Chicago White Sox, it is still unclear
when Hudson will next take the mound.
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AP study: MLB average salary under $1.3M; Scherzer tops list
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS der the formula agreed down from $4,375,486 at roster expansion to an
to in March by MLB and the start of the 2019 sea- active limit of 30 per team
NEW YORK — Ma- the union, a figure the son. at the season’s start, add-
jor League Baseball’s union wound up keeping Unhappy with flatten- ing more major leaguers
eye-popping salaries during bitter negotiations ing salaries during the making the $563,500
took an astonishing dive that failed to produce an first four years of a col- minimum or close to it.
during the coronavirus agreement. Commission- lective bargaining agree- There were 1,007 players
pandemic to their lowest er Rob Manfred unilater- ment that runs to Decem- on opening-day rosters
level in nearly a quar- ally announced a 60-game ber 2021, players spoke and injured lists, up from
ter-century, according to regular-season schedule even before the curtailed 878 last year.
a study by The Associated that started four months season of seeking large Scherzer’s $210 mil-
Press. late on July 23, down from changes. Talks figure to lion, seven-year contract
Washington pitcher the normal 162 games for be the most contentious includes a $50 million
Max Scherzer topped the each team. since the 1994-95 strike, signing bonus — baseball
shortened season’s list at Salaries averaged the last shortened sea- signing bonuses are dis-
$17.8 million, his income $1,295,942 on expanded sons before this one. tinct from salaries and not
partially protected by a opening-day rosters after Even with contracts subject to reduction. His
huge signing bonus. That prorated pay was factored at full value and project- $35 million salary, which
is the lowest amount for in, according to the AP ed for 25-man active is entirely deferred, was
baseball’s highest-paid study. That must feel like rosters, this year’s aver- sliced to $12.96 million.
player since Los Angeles a throwback paycheck, age of $4,520,010 would MLB’s initial proposal
Dodgers pitcher Kevin similar to a vintage jer- have represented just a in late May would have cut
Brown made $15.7 million sey -- it’s the lowest av- 3.1% increase over 2016′s the highest-paid stars the
in 2000. erage in the AP’s annual $4,381,980. most, and Scherzer’s 2020
Players receive about opening-day study since Part of the drop in the salary would have been
37% of their 2020 pay un- $1,176,967 in 1996 and average was caused by reduced to about $4.85
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My wife and
I have been
together since we
were 16, married
for 25 years. Her
parents took me
in as a teenager,
and her family has
been my family
ever since.
I’m the kind
ZITS of person who
loves everyone
equally. I will bend
over backward for
someone in need
and have done
Dear Abby
so for my wife’s
family many times.
Over the last few years,
my wife’s brother, nephew and
niece have turned against me.
They’ve called me controlling,
hateful and racist. I am none
of those. I am, though, a law
enforcement officer and a
GARFIELD Christian. My wife’s brother is a
convicted felon, and her niece
went to one of those anti-every-
thing colleges.
This has created a rift in the
family and caused my wife and
me to feel hated and isolated,
which has ruined family gath-
erings and holidays. How can I
fix this? What can I do to help
them see me for who I am,
instead of their biases based
on my religion and occupation?
— REALLY NOT LIKE THAT
DEAR REALLY NOT: There
CANDORVILLE is nothing you can or should
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY
(Aug.11). You care deeply, so
you involve yourself deeply, but
not with everything, only with
things that are inherently mean-
ingful and/or part of a larger
mission. You’ll gain fans of your
work, which makes people’s
lives better. You’ll turn attention
into the means to spoil your
family in some ways and give
unforgettable experiences.
BABY BLUES Gemini and Cancer adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 5, 33,
59, 2 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
To think in terms that are overly
profound is to push fun away
from yourself. The good news
is that getting the fun back is
easy; it also happens to be the
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
million. The union fought
to keep the prorated pay
called for in the March
deal, while MLB argued it
needed additional cuts to
play in empty ballparks.
As a result, MLB called
for the shortest schedule
since 1878.
Los Angeles Dodgers
pitcher Clayton Kershaw
was second on the open-
ing day list at $16.3 mil-
lion, boosted by a $23 mil-
lion signing bonus.
Los Angeles Angels
outfielder Mike Trout
was third at $15.8 million,
followed by San Diego
shortstop Manny Macha-
do ($15.1 million), Hous-
ton pitcher Zack Greinke
($14.1 million), New York
Yankees pitcher Gerrit
Cole ($13.3 million), Col-
orado third baseman No-
do to erase their
biases. From
your description,
you have done
enough good
deeds for your
in-laws to have
shown them the
kind of person
you are.
You have
mentioned only
your brother-in-
law the felon and
his radicalized
daughter. Where
does the rest of
the family stand
on this? If they
are joining in and allowing you
to be isolated, quit trying to
impress them. Instead, spend
your time with people who
like, understand and accept
you for who you are and don’t
look back. Your brother-in-law
and his kids will come looking
for you as soon as they need
something else from you, but
when they do, I sincerely hope
you’ll resist the temptation to
buy your way back in.
DEAR ABBY: I work closely
with a woman who is 21 years
younger than I. We are both
single. Because of our age
difference and professional
relationship I am not looking to
date her. However, over the last
couple years I have developed
romantic feelings for her.
I converse with her by
asking questions about movies
way to enlightenment — light-
ening up.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You’ll be conducting experi-
ments today. You may feel like
you’re all over the place, but
there’s a great deal of cohesion
in your actions because it’s all
coming from you.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). You do a job justice by
embracing the planning phase
of it. Take all the time you need.
Then, when the actual events
are upon you, you’ll be cool,
calm and collected, ever-confi-
dent that your vision is coming
together.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You used to think of something
as hard work and now you see it
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2020 3B
lan Arenado ($12.96 mil-
lion), Houston second
baseman José Altuve
($12.63 million), Astros
pitcher Justin Verlander
($12 million) and Na-
tionals pitcher Stephen
Strasburg ($11.7 mil-
lion).
Each player’s figure
includes his adjusted
2020 salary plus a prorat-
ed share of his signing
bonus. For players such
as Scherzer, parts of sal-
aries deferred without
interest are discounted
to present-day value.
The player pool includes
Minnesota pitcher Mi-
chael Pineda, who has a
guaranteed contract and
started the season on
the restricted list while
completing a suspension
for a banned diuretic.
she likes, books she reads
or what she did the previous
weekend. Her answers are
usually short and without
elaboration. I even share with
her things that I do in my life,
but never once in the five years
I have known her, has she ever
initiated a conversation with
me or asked me about my life.
She acts differently with other
male co-workers. She does
things for them, smiles at them
and seems genuinely inter-
ested in their conversation. It
really stings every time I see
her socialize with others and
ignore me. What can I do to get
out of this psychological rut I
am in? — STUCK IN ILLINOIS
DEAR STUCK: Your co-work-
er may have picked up on the
fact that you are attracted to
her and it is not reciprocated,
which is why she keeps your
relationship strictly formal and
work-related. I am sure this
stings, and for that you have
my sympathy.
You now must do what
everyone else in your situation
does, which is concentrate
on meeting women who are
available. You are not going to
find what you’re looking for in
your workplace. What’s going
on is not healthy for you or
conducive to a productive work
environment. If you can’t quell
that crush on her, you may
have to change jobs so you
won’t have to work so closely
with her — or at all.
more like just part of making
yourself into the person you
want to be. Thinking about it
this way is energizing.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Solo
goals should not be cake-sized.
It will take you so long to eat
the whole thing that by the time
you get midway through, it will
already be stale. Make your
personal goals small as a cake
pop and life will be sweet.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
There’s no one-size-fits-all route
to success. Some learn the
most through reading; others
have to get elbow-deep into proj-
ects and really understand them
from the ground level. You’ll find
your style and work it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
When you repeatedly try a thing
and somehow it just keeps
not working out, do you need
persistence or change? Much
depends on the feeling you get
and the spirit of your attempts.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Once the work is out of
your hands, it becomes a mirror
in which your current standard
of output is reflected. This is
why it will be well worth the ex-
tra time it takes to double- and
triple-check your work.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You are unique, and the
way you do things cannot be
duplicated by anyone else. Sure,
you could get a replacement to
fill in, but it just wouldn’t be the
same. Your loved ones know
this.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). If you know you don’t care
about something, what is it
doing on your to-do list? Go
through your various projects,
possessions and responsibil-
ities and determine what is
relevant to who you are today.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). How are you talking to
yourself these days? Self-talk
is a behavior. It’s hard to see it
that way because it is not evi-
denced so clearly in action. And
yet, to an astute and soulful
observer, of course, it is.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Do not debate with your-
self; rather, see what needs
to be done and then jump in
and start doing it immediately.
Things either come together
quickly, or you figure out they
are not worth your time.
Indianapolis
SOLUTION:
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27- son, D.C.
AS NEXT FRIEND AND PRESENT
CUSTODIAN OF THE MINOR
CHILD HEREIN PETITIONER
VS
JOHNETTE COLLEEN FAIRLEY,
DANNY DEE HARPER, JR. AND
UNKNOWN FATHER RESPOND- pelo, Mississippi 38802. Oth-
ENTS
CAUSE NO. 2020-0264
SUMMONS
(Service by Publication)
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: JOHNETTE COLLEEN FAIR-
LEY whose address, PO Box
and whereabouts is unknown
after diligent search and inquiry DOMAIN,
TO: DANNY DEE HARPER, JR.
whose address, PO Box and
whereabouts is unknown after
diligent search and inquiry
TO: UNKNOWN FATHER, whose
address, PO Box and where-
abouts is unknown after dili-
gent search and inquiry
You have been made a Re-
spondent in the suit filed in
this Court by Palmer Home for
Children, seeking Petition for
Termination of Parental Rights. DAVID WARD GATEWOOD, AD-
You are summoned to appear
and defend the complaint or
petition filed against you in this
action at 9:00 O’clock a.m. on NOTICE TO CREDITORS
the 18th day of September,
2020, at the Oktibbeha County STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Courthouse in Starkville, Mis-
sissippi, and in case of your
failure to appear and defend a Letters Testamentary have
judgment will be entered
against you for the money or
other things demanded in the
complaint or petition.
You are not required to file an
answer or other pleading but
you may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the to Probate and Register same
seal of said Court, this the
20th day of July, 2020.
Cindy E. Goode
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi
Shantrell W. Granderson
Deputy Clerk
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Dated: 7/24/2020
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IN THE SPECIAL COURT OF EM-
INENT DOMAIN
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
COLUMBUS REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY PLAINTIFF
VS.
IRENE COBB, ET AL. DEFEND-
ANTS
NO. 2019-0005-ED2
ALIAS SUMMONS BY PUBLICA-
TION
GRAY, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-
AT-LAW AND DEVISEES OF THE
FOLLOWING DECEASED INDI-
VIDUALS: VIOLA SYKES, NOLA
SMITH, WALLACE GRAY, AND
ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES
HAVING OR CLAIMING A LEGAL
OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN
CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY LOC-
ATED IN BLOCK 22 NORTH OF
MAIN STREET, AT 311 4TH AV-
ENUE NORTH, COLUMBUS,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
You have been made Defend-
ants in a lawsuit filed in this
Court by the Columbus Re-
development Authority to con-
demn by eminent domain cer-
tain real property located in
Block 22 North of Main at 311
4th Avenue North, Columbus,
Mississippi. The property is ne-
cessary to renew and redevel-
opment blighted conditions in
accordance with the Urban Re-
newal Plan (Burns Bottom) of
the City of Columbus, Missis-
sippi.
You are summoned to appear
and defend against the com-
plaint or petition filed against
you in this action at 1:30
o’clock p. m. on the 9th day of
September, 2020, in the
second floor courtroom of the
Lowndes County Courthouse in
Columbus, Mississippi, and in
case of your failure to appear
and defend, a judgment will be
entered against you for the
money or other things deman-
ded in the complaint or peti-
tion.
You are hereby further given
notice that not less than ten
(10) days prior to the date of
the trial on September 9,
2020, you are required to file
the Statement of Values pursu- BY: /s/ Shantrell W. Grander-
7, which shall be treated as
pleadings in this action. The
date of the filing of the Com-
plaint herein is the 10th day of
October, 2019, and the name
and address of the attorney for LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
the Plaintiff is Martha Bost
Stegall, P. O. Box 7120, Tu-
er than the Statement of Val-
ues you are not required to file CUSTODIAN OF THE MINOR
an Answer or other pleading
but you may do so if you de-
sire.
Issued under my hand and the BRANCH CO-PETITIONERS
seal of said Court, this 30th
day of July, 2020.
TERESA BARKSDALE, CLERK UNKNOWN PUTATIVE FATHER
SPECIAL COURT OF EMINENT
LOWNDES COUNTY, MS
BY: Ann Marie Langford, D.C.
Publish: 8/4, 8/11,
8/18/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: ESTATE OF OLIVIA DI-
ANE WARD GATEWOOD, DE-
CEASED
MINISTRATOR
CAUSE NO.: 2020-00150-JNS
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
been granted and issued to the the 9th day of September,
undersigned upon the Estate of 2020, at the Oktibbeha County Thursday, September 10th,
OLIVIA DIANE WARD GATE-
WOOD, Deceased, by the Chan- sissippi, and in case of your
cery Court of Lowndes County, failure to appear and defend a time they will be publicly
Mississippi, on the 6th day of
August, A.D., 2020. This is to
give notice to all persons hav- other things demanded in the
ing claims against said estate
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days from
this date. A failure to so Pro-
bate and Register said claim
will forever bar the same.
This the 6th day of August
2020.
/s/ /S/ David Ward Gatewood sissippi
DAVID WARD GATEWOOD
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF WILLIAM DAVID
PLYLER, DECEASED
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0136-JNS
MARY ANN PLYLER, ADMINIS-
TRATRIX
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: All Unknown Heirs-at-Law of
William David Plyler, deceased, TO: CAMERON COLEMAN who
and Any Unknown Parties In In- is not to be found in the State
terest
All Unknown Heirs-at-Law of Jef- dress is unknown.
frey Mark Plyler, deceased, and
Any Unknown Parties In In-
terest
You have been made a defend- seeking custody of the minor
ant in the Petition for Adjudica- child, Camilla Coleman.
tion of Heirs-at-Law [Doc. No.
13] filed by the Administratrix,
Mary Ann Plyler, on August 3,
2020, seeking to determine
the heirs-at-law of William Dav- YOU IN THIS ACTION AT 9:30
id Plyler, deceased, and Jef-
frey Mark Plyler, deceased.
Other than you, the only other
interested parties in this ac-
tion are Mary Ann Plyler, Willi-
am Lester Plyler, Philip D.
Plyler and William Alexander
Neely.
You are summoned to appear
and represent your interests
against said Petition before the
Honorable Joseph N. Studdard, You are not required to file an
Chancellor of the 14th Chan-
cery District at 9:00 a.m. on
the 16th day of September
2020, at the Lowndes County
Courthouse in Columbus, Mis-
sissippi, and in case of your
failure to appear your interest
in this matter will not be con-
sidered.
You are not required to file an
answer or other pleading, but
you may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the 8/18/2020
seal of said Court, this the 7th
day of August 2020.
CINDY EGGER GOODE, CHAN-
CERY CLERK
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
(SEAL)
PUBLISH: 8/11, 8/18 &
8/25/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
SIPPI
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN Letters of Administration have
AS NEXT FRIEND AND PRESENT been granted and issued to the
CHILD HEREIN PETITIONER
MEGAN ELIZABETH MERRITT
AND JUSTIN MATTHEW
VS
RESPONDENT
CAUSE NO. 2020-0260
SUMMONS
(Service by Publication)
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: UNKNOWN PUTATIVE FATH- /s/ Jamie Michelle Carag
ER, whose address, PO Box
and whereabouts is unknown
after diligent search and inquiry 8/25/2020
You have been made a Re-
spondent in the suit filed in
this Court by Palmer Home for
Children, seeking Petition for
Termination of Parental Rights. POSALS
Co-Petitioners other than you in MISCELLANEOUS COUNTY
this action are Megan Eliza-
beth Merritt and Justin Mat-
thew Branch.
You are summoned to appear
and defend the complaint or
petition filed against you in this County Court House, 108 East
action at 9:00 O’clock a.m. on Main Street Starkville, Missis-
Courthouse in Starkville, Mis-
judgment will be entered
against you for the money or
complaint or petition.
You are not required to file an
answer or other pleading but
you may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this the
20th day of July, 2020.
Cindy E. Goode
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
Shantrell W. Granderson
Deputy Clerk
(Seal)
Dated: 07/24/2020
Publish: 7/28, 8/4 &
8/11/2020
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
CHYNA MARCHBANKS
PLAINTIFF
VS.
CAMERON COLEMAN DEFEND-
ANT
CAUSE NO. 2020-0273
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
of Mississippi on diligent in-
quiry and whose post office ad-
You have been made a Defend-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Chyna Marchbanks
YOU ARE SUMMONED TO AP-
PEAR AND DEFEND AGAINST
THE PETITION FILED AGAINST
O’CLOCK, A.M., ON THE 15TH
DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2020 IN
THE COURTROOM OF THE WEB-
STER COUNTY COURTHOUSE
IN OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI,
AND IN CASE OF YOUR FAIL-
URE TO APPEAR AND DEFEND,
A JUDGMENT WILL BE
ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR
THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE
COMPLAINT.
answer or other pleading, but
you may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this 29TH
day of July, A.D., 2020.
CINDY E. GOODE
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
County, Mississippi
BY: TINA FISHER
PUBLISH: 8/4, 8/11 &
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF STEVE ERWIN CURRY,
DECEASED
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0055-JNS
JAMIE MICHELLE CARAG, PETI-
TIONER
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
undersigned upon the Estate of
Steve Erwin Curry, deceased,
by the Chancery Court of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
on the 29th day of June 2020.
This is to give notice to all per-
sons having claims against
said estate to Probate and Re-
gister same with the Chancery
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, within ninety (90) days
from the first publication date
of this Notice to Creditors. A
failure to so Probate and Re-
gister said claim will forever
bar the same.
This the 27th day of July 2020.
PUBLISH: 8/11, 8/18, &
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID PRO-
ROAD WORK
Sealed or electronic bids will
be received by the Board of Su-
pervisors of Oktibbeha County,
Mississippi at the Oktibbeha
sippi 39759 until 10:00 A.M.
2020 for miscellaneous county
road and bridge repair at which
opened and read aloud.
Bid A: Furnish and install soil-
cement base stabilization for
county roadways in accord-
ance with Section S-308-A and
S-308-B of the Standard Spe-
cifications for State-Aid Road
and Bridge Construction, latest
edition. Application rate is
39.71 pounds per square yard
for 8 inch incorporation depth
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over 22 feet roadway width.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$__/ PER MILE
Promote your small business starting at only $25
Bid B: Mill existing asphalt
and/or DBST and furnish and
Buildingsoil-cement
& Remodeling base stabil-
install
ization for county roadways in
accordance with Section S-308-
A and S-308-B of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition. Application rate
is 39.71 pounds per square
yard for 8 inch incorporation
depth over 22 feet roadway
width.
Bids shall be based on a rate necessary to complete the
MAINTENANCE PROS
per mile and shall include all work.DAVID’S CARPET &
Specializing in:
materials and labor necessary
Residential Carpentry,
to complete the work.
Electrical, Painting,
Appliance Repair & Minor
$___/ PER MILE
Plumbing. Free estimate.
Bid Call
C: Removal of existing as-
662−570−5570.
phalt pavement on county road- tion Rugs−Must
ways in accordance with Sec-
tion S-202 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per square yard and shall in-
clude all materials and labor
necessary to complete the
work.
$__/ PER S.Y.
Bid D: Furnish and install
You’llbituminous
find the best deals 662−242−3608.
double surface
treatment for county roadways Bridge Construction, latest edi-
when youwith advertise
in accordance Section S- tion.
410 of the Standard Specifica-
and
tions for shop here!
State-Aid Road and
Bridge Construction, latest edi- Residential.
tion. Application rate is 100.0 concrete,
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gallons CRS-2P and 5.68 tons
#57 stone per station for Mat
Coat and 90.0 gallons CRS-2P $___/ PER MILE
and 3.79 tons #7 stone per
Sealed or electronic bids will
be received by the Board of Su-
pervisors of Oktibbeha County,
Mississippi at the Oktibbeha
County Court House, 108 East
Main Street Starkville, Missis-
sippi 39759 until 10:00 A.M.
Thursday, September 10th,
2020 for miscellaneous county
road and bridge repair at which
time they will be publicly
To place ads starting at only $12,
opened and read aloud.call 662-328-2424 or visit ads.cdispatch.com
Bid A: Furnish and install soil-
cement base stabilization for
county roadways THEinDISPATCH
accord-
ance with Section S-308-A and to complete the work.
S-308-B of the Standard Spe-
cifications for State-Aid Road
and Bridge Construction, latest
Legal Notices
edition. Application rate is
39.71 pounds per square yard wide thermoplastic traffic stripe
for 8 inch incorporation depth
over 22 feet roadway width.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$__/ PER MILE
Bid B: Mill existing asphalt
and/or DBST and furnish and
install soil-cement base stabil- $__/ PER LINEAR FOOT
ization for county roadways in
accordance with Section S-308- Bid K: Furnish and install ther-
A and S-308-B of the Standard moplastic legend (white) (120
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, tion S-621 of the Standard
latest edition. Application rate
is 39.71 pounds per square
yard for 8 inch incorporation
depth over 22 feet roadway
width.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$___/ PER MILE
Bid C: Removal of existing as-
phalt pavement on county road- white) in accordance with Sec-
ways in accordance with Sec-
tion S-202 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, latest edition.
latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per square yard and shall in-
clude all materials and labor
necessary to complete the
work.
$__/ PER S.Y.
Bid D: Furnish and install
double bituminous surface
treatment for county roadways tions for State-Aid Road and
in accordance with Section S-
410 of the Standard Specifica- tion.
tions for State-Aid Road and
Bridge Construction, latest edi- Bids shall be based on a rate
tion. Application rate is 100.0
gallons CRS-2P and 5.68 tons
#57 stone per station for Mat
Coat and 90.0 gallons CRS-2P
and 3.79 tons #7 stone per
station for Seal Coat.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile for a 20 ft. roadway
and shall include all materials
and labor necessary to com-
plete the work.
$__/ PER MILE
Bid E: Furnish and install hot
mix asphalt paving for county
roadways in accordance with
Section S-403 of the Standard work.
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, $__/ PER LINEAR FOOT
latest edition. Material shall be
a surface course meeting
MDOT specifications for MT-
9.5.
Bid is for a 2 in. lift on a 20 ft. State-Aid Road and Bridge Con- 200 East Main Street, Stark-
roadway and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$__/ PER MILE
Bid F: Furnish and install HP-
10x42 piles in accordance with
Section S-803 of the Standard $__/ PER SQUARE FOOT
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, Proposals shall be good for a
latest edition. Length = 20 ft.
$__/ PER EACH
Bid G: Furnish and install HP-
10x42 piles in accordance with count to view or order bid docu- quired by the specifications
Section S-803 of the Standard ments at www.pritchardengin-
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, ments are non-refundable and
latest edition. Length = 30 ft.
$__/ PER EACH
Bid H: Furnish and install 4”
wide thermoplastic edge stripe questions related to the con-
(continuous white) (60 mil) in
accordance with Section S-621 fice of Pritchard Engineering,
of the Standard Specifications Inc at (662) 324-2205, 100 Mi- tion 31-3-21 and 31-3-15, Mis-
for State-Aid Road and Bridge
Construction, latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$__/ PER MILE
Bid I: Furnish and install 4”
wide thermoplastic traffic stripe com under the project page. No ing a bid shall be clearly
(skip yellow) (90 mil) in accord- oral, telegraphic, telephonic, or marked on the outside as: BID
ance with Section S-621 of the e-mail proposals will be con-
Standard Specifications for
State-Aid Road and Bridge Con- current Certificate of Respons- ope should also bear on the
struction, latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$__/ PER MILE
Bid J: Furnish and install 4”
wide thermoplastic traffic stripe
(continuous yellow) (90 mil) in
accordance with Section S-621 ied by a bid bond/security de-
of the Standard Specifications posit or certified check in an
for State-Aid Road and Bridge
Construction, latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per linear foot and shall in-
clude all materials and labor
necessary to complete the
work.
$__/
CarpetPER LINEAR FOOT
& Flooring
Bid K: Furnish and install ther-
moplastic legend (white) (120
mil) in accordance with Sec-
tion S-621 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, Publish Dates: August 11,
latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per square foot and shall in-
clude all materials and labor
UPHOLSTERY
$___/ PER SQUARE FOOT
CLEANING
1 Room − $50
Bid L: Furnish and−install
2 Rooms $70 4”
wide3+traffic stripe−(continuous
Rooms $30 EA
white) in accordance with Sec-
Be Seen
S-619 of the Standard
Car Upholstery
Specifications Cleaning
for State-Aid
Available
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition.
662−722−1758
Bids shall be based on a rate
General
per mileServices
and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
WORK WANTED: Licensed
& Bonded. Carpentry, minor
$___/ PER MILE
electrical, minor plumbing,
insulation, painting, demo−
Bid M: gutters
lition, Furnish and install 4”
cleaned,
wide traffic stripe (skip yellow)
pressure washing, land−
in accordance with Section S-
lawn too large or too small.
scaping, cleanup work.
619 of the Standard Specifica-
tions for State-Aid Road and
HILL’S PRESSURE
WASHING. Commercial/
Bids shall be based on a rate
House,
per mile and shall include all
sidewalks & If you don’t advertise your business,
materials and labor necessary
mobile washing.
to complete Free est.
the work.
662−386−8925.
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary Proposal shall be submitted on
to complete the work. this form. Bids may be submit-
$__/ PER MILE
ted in person, or for those in-
terested, bids can be electron-
ically submitted at
Bid I: Furnish and install 4” www.pritchardengineeringplans.
wide thermoplastic traffic stripe com under the project page. No
(skip yellow) (90 mil) in accord- oral, telegraphic, telephonic, or
ance with Section S-621 of the e-mail proposals will be con-
Standard Specifications for sidered. For sealed bids, the
State-Aid Road and Bridge Con- current Certificate of Respons-
struction, latest edition. ibility Number of the bidder
shall appear on the outside of
Bids shall be based on a rate each sealed envelope contain-
ing a proposal, said envelope
nper mile and shall include all
CDISPATCH.COM
materials n TUESDAY,
and labor necessary beingAUGUST 11, 2020
plainly marked n 5B
Bid for
Oktibbeha County Road and
Bridge Repair. If submitting
$__/ PER MILE electronically, please include
this information on a cover
LegalJ:Notices
Bid Furnish and install 4” Legal Notices
page with your bid submission.
(continuous yellow) (90 mil) in Each Bid must be accompan-
accordance with Section S-621 ied by a bid bond/security de-
of the Standard Specifications posit or certified check in an
for State-Aid Road and Bridge
Construction, latest edition.
amount equal to 5% of the bid,
payable to Oktibbeha County
as bid security. In the event
Bids shall be based on a rate that an electronic bid is submit-
per linear foot and shall in- ted, a copy of the bid bond
clude all materials and labor must be included with the sub-
necessary to complete the mission. If submitting electron-
work. ically, a hard copy of all bid
documents must be provided
within 3 business days if re-
quested after the bid opening.
John Montgomery, President
mil) in accordance with Sec- Oktibbeha County Board of Su-
pervisors
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, Publish Dates: August 11,
latest edition. 2020 and August 18, 2020
Bids shall be based on a rate IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
per square foot and shall in- LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
clude all materials and labor SIPPI
necessary to complete the
work. IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF WILLIAM DAVID
$___/ PER SQUARE FOOT
PLYLER, DECEASED
Bid L: Furnish and install 4”
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0136-JNS
wide traffic stripe (continuous
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
tion S-619 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Road and Bridge Construction, COUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters of Administration have
Bids shall be based on a rate
been granted and issued to the
per mile and shall include all
undersigned upon the Estate of
materials and labor necessary
William David Plyler, deceased,
to complete the work.
by the Chancery Court of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
$___/ PER MILE on the 31st day of July 2020.
This is to give notice to all per-
Bid M: Furnish and install 4”
sons having claims against
wide traffic stripe (skip yellow)
said estate to Probate and Re-
in accordance with Section S-
gister same with the Chancery
619 of the Standard Specifica- Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, within ninety (90) days
Bridge Construction, latest edi- from the first publication date
of this Notice to Creditors. A
failure to so Probate and Re-
gister said claim will forever
per mile and shall include all
bar the same.
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work. This the 31st day of July 2020.
$___/ PER MILE
/s/ Mary Ann Plyler, Adminis-
tratrix
Bid N: Furnish and install 4”
wide traffic stripe (continuous
PUBLISH: 8/4, 8/11 &
yellow) in accordance with Sec- 8/18/2020
tion S-619 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction, ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
latest edition.
NORTH STAR INDUSTRIAL
PARK SIGN
Bids shall be based on a rate
per linear foot and shall in-
clude all materials and labor OKTIBBEHA COUNTY ECONOM-
IC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
necessary to complete the
STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
Sealed bids for the North Star
(Starkville/Oktibbeha Co.) In-
Bid O: Furnish and install traffic dustrial Park, Sign will be re-
legend (white) in accordance ceived by the Oktibbeha County
Economic Development Author-
with Section S-621 of the
Standard Specifications for ity (OCEDA) at their office at
struction, latest edition. ville, MS, until 2:00 P. M.,
September 10, 2020, and then
Bids shall be based on a rate at said office publicly opened
and read aloud.
per square foot and shall in-
clude all materials and labor
necessary to complete the This project includes all items
related to the construction of
work.
sign located at the North Star
Industrial Park.
The above general outline of
features of the work does not
period of 180 days from date
of signing. in any way limit the responsibil-
ity of the Contractor to perform
Plan Holders are required to all work and furnish all labor,
equipment and materials re-
log-in or register for an ac-
and the drawings referred to
therein.
eeringplans.com. Bid docu-
must be purchased through the CERTIFICATE OF RESPONSIBIL-
website. Questions regarding ITY: Each contractor submit-
website registration and online ting a bid in excess of
orders please contact Plan $50,000.00 must show on his
bid and on the face of the en-
House at 662-407-0193. For
velope containing the bid, his
tract documents contact the of- Certificate of Responsibility
Number, as required by Sec-
ley Road, Starkville, Missis- sissippi Code of 1972. If the
sippi 39759. No partial sets of bid does not exceed
drawings of project manuals $50,000.00, a notation so
stating must appear on the
will be issued.
face of the envelope.
Proposal shall be submitted on
this form. Bids may be submit- Each bid must be submitted in
ted in person, or for those in- a sealed envelope, addressed
terested, bids can be electron- to OCEDA, 200 East Main
ically submitted at Street, Starkville, MS 39759.
www.pritchardengineeringplans. Each sealed envelope contain-
ENCLOSED “North Star Indus-
trial Park, Sign” and the envel-
sidered. For sealed bids, the
ibility Number of the bidder outside the name of the Com-
pany and the Company’s ad-
shall appear on the outside of
each sealed envelope contain- dress. If forwarded by mail, the
ing a proposal, said envelope sealed envelope containing the
bid must be enclosed in anoth-
being plainly marked Bid for
Oktibbeha County Road and er envelope addressed to
OCEDA, 200 East Main Street.
Bridge Repair. If submitting
electronically, please include Any bid not received in writing
at this office by the date and
this information on a cover
page with your bid submission. time specified will be declared
late. OCEDA will not be re-
sponsible for delays in delivery.
Each Bid must be accompan-
It is solely the responsibility of
the vendor that bids to reach
amount equal to 5% of the bid, the opening on time. Any bid
payable to Oktibbeha County received after deadline will be
returned unopened. Bids or al-
as bid security. In the event
that an electronic bid is submit- terations by fax or phone will
ted, a copy of the bid bond not be accepted. Electronic
must be included with the sub- bids shall be accepted, if re-
mission. If submitting electron- ceived prior to the bid date and
ically, a hard copy of all bid time.
documents must be provided
No bidder may withdraw his bid
within
General3Services
business days if re- Painting & Papering
quested after the bid opening. within ninety (90) days after
the actual date of the opening
John Montgomery, President thereof.
QUALITY PAINTING.
Oktibbeha County Board of Su- Ext/Int Painting.
pervisors EVIDENCE: No bid will be
Sheet Rock Hang, Finish &
opened, considered or accep-
Repair. Pressure
ted unless the aboveWashing.
informa-
tionFree Estimates.
is given Ask for
as specified.
2020 and August 18, 2020 specials! Larry Webber,
Awarding public contracts to
662−242−4932.
non-resident Bidders will be on
the same basis as the non-res-
identSULLIVAN’S
bidder’s statePAINT
awards
contracts to Mississippi Con-
SERVICE
tractorsSpecial
bidding Prices.
under similar
circumstances. In order to en-
Interior & Exterior Painting.
sure that Mississippi’s Golden
662−435−6528
Rule is followed, state law re-
quires a non-resident bidder to
Tree Services
attach to his bid, a copy of
his/her resident state’s cur-
rentA laws
& T pertaining to such
TREE SERVICES
state’s treatment of non-resid-
Lawn Care / Landscaping Bucket truck
ent contractors. & stump
removal. Free est.
JESSE & BEVERLY’S Each Serving
Bidder mustColumbus
deposit with
his proposal,
since 1987.a Bid Senior
Bond or
LAWN SERVICE Certified
citizenCheck
disc. inCall
an Alvin
amount @
Mowing, cleanup,
equal to five percent (5%) of
242−0324/241−4447
landscaping, sodding, his bid, payable to OCEDA,
"We’ll go out on a limb for as
& tree cutting. bid security. The successful
you!"
662−356−6525 bidder will be required to fur-
nish a Payment Bond and Per-
SAM’S LAWN SERVICE No formance
J&A TREEBond REMOVAL
each in the
amount of one hundred per-
Work
cent fromofa the
(100%) bucket truck.
contract
Insured/bonded.
Mowing, trimming & amount.
weedeating. Call Jimmy Prescott for free
Call 662−243−1694 Bid documents
estimate, are being made
662−386−6286.
available electronically and via
original paper copy (if reques-
ted). Plan holders are required
to register for an account at
how are they gonna know? www.neel-schafferplans.com to
view and order Bid Documents.
All plan holders are required to
have a valid email address for
OCEDA, 200 East Main Street.
6B Tuesday,
Any bid August
not received 11, 2020
in writing The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com
at this office by the date and
time specified will be declared
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late. Notices will not be re- Medical / Dental Houses For Rent: East General Merchandise
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It is solely the responsibility of
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opening for full time front Hope School District. FULLY FURNISHED ON THE WEB
office staff. Our office is No pets, no HUD, Credit IN WEST POINT.
received after deadline will be
returned unopened. Bids or al- seeking an individual who check. $790/mo. Includes appliances, Visit www.cdispatch.com
has experience in front of- 662−386−3803. furniture & utilities.
for a printable copy of
terations by fax or phone will
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bids shall be accepted, if re- professional appearance, Houses For Rent: Other
ceived prior to the bid date and
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Restaurant / Hotel
Awarding public contracts to Mobile Homes for Rent
non-resident Bidders will be on
the same basis as the non-res- SUBWAY SANDWICH is now
ident bidder’s state awards hiring: Walmart location 3BR/2BA Trailer, New
contracts to Mississippi Con- #37878: Opening Shift Hope school dist. $650/
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sure that Mississippi’s Golden starting $8.25. b/w 10a−9p. 662−386−
Rule is followed, state law re-
quires a non-resident bidder to Alabama Street #2702: 4292. NO TEXT MGS.
attach to his bid, a copy of Any Shift 9:30am-10pm.
his/her resident state’s cur- Pay rate set at interview. RV/MOBILE HOME SITE
rent laws pertaining to such Apply @ www.subway.com East or West Columbus or
state’s treatment of non-resid- or send application to near CAFB, Caledonia
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ent contractors. sub2000inc@gmail.com schools. 601−940−1397.
Each Bidder must deposit with
his proposal, a Bid Bond or
de-cluttering by
Certified Check in an amount
equal to five percent (5%) of
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tions regarding website regis-
tration and online orders.
OCEDA hereby notifies all Bid-
ders that it will affirmatively in-
sure that in any contract
entered into pursuant to this
advertisement, disadvantaged
and women’s business enter-
prises will be afforded the full
opportunity to submit bids in
response to this invitation and
will not be discriminated
against on the grounds of race,
color, or national origin in con-
sideration for an award.
OCEDA reserves the right to re-
ject any bids and all bids and
waive any informality.
BY: /s/ Lynn Spruill
OCEDA
DATES OF PUBLICATION:
August 11, 2020
August 18, 2020
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Vehicles
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823 8th St. North
662−889−5166.
least 4 yrs. of experience. Columbus, MS 39701
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