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Supes decide on final site for Confederate statue
Discord among supervisors continues
over Sanders’ refusal to resign
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
In a unanimous vote, Lown-
des County supervisors select-
ed Monday a piece of land ad-
jacent to Confederate soldiers’
graves at Friendship Cemetery
as the new location for the Con-
federate monument outside the
county courthouse.
The spot is one of the two lo-
cations proposed by Columbus
West Point grappling with relocating
Confederate monument at City Hall
West Point city officials are looking into the possibility of relocating a Confeder-
ate monument first placed on the grounds of City Hall in 1907. The most likely
destination for the monument would be the city-owned Greenwood Cemetery,
but Mayor Robbie Robinson said finding the $70,000 or more estimated for the
project will be a challenge.
Oktibbeha board considering
hazard pay for election workers
Individual counties
would cover hazard
pay for Sept. 22
special election
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Oktibbeha supervisors ta-
bled the suggestion to provide
$50 maximum in hazard pay to
each poll worker working the
upcoming special election on
Sept. 22 for two open seats in
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officials at the city-owned ceme-
tery — where both Confederate
and Union soldiers are buried
— as potential relocation sites.
The alternative, which is locat-
ed near the Tombigbee River to-
ward the west of the cemetery,
is easier for heavy-duty trucks
to navigate, city officials previ-
ously said. Mayor Robert Smith
has said the city will yield the
ownership of either parcel to the
Antranik Tavitian/Dispatch Staff
Montgomery Williams
the state Legislature.
Greg Fulgham, District 1
commissioner on the Oktibbe-
ha County Election Commis-
sion, said at Monday’s meeting
that poll workers will be in di-
rect contact with all voters in
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they agreed the selected site is a
better fit because of its proximi-
The next step, said County
Engineer Bob Calvert, is to sub-
ty to the Confederate section of
the cemetery.
mit several materials to Missis-
sippi Department of Archives
District 1 Supervisor Harry and History (MDAH) for ap-
Sanders said Monday he and his proval, including a legal descrip-
fellow supervisors visited the tion and photos of the new site,
sites Aug. 3, and all favored the photos of the cracks and damag-
one selected. es on the monument and plan on
Sanders Brooks “We looked at both sites, and how to relocate the structure.
I think the consensus was … the During the meeting, super-
county to facilitate the process. best site would be the one over visors agreed the plan should
Compared to the alternative, where the Confederate soldiers be to relocate the entire monu-
some supervisors previously are buried, rather than the oth- ment, although some expressed
said the approved site may prove er end of the cemetery where concerns that such a plan may
more challenging for monument there’s no historical value to put be expensive.
movers. Despite the difficulties, it there,” he said. See LOWNDES SUPES, 3A
Starkville man
charged with
Mayor ‘not opposed’ to moving
it, concerned about funding
murder in
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
June stabbing
WEST POINT — Over the
past few months, Blair Key
Victim died Saturday
and Barry White have been
fielding more calls that usual.
from wounds sustained
One of the more recent
calls came from West Point
during attack
Mayor Robbie Robinson. DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Robinson reached out to
Key, owner of Columbus Mar- A Starkville man
ble Works, and White, direc- Robinson was charged with
tor of historic preservation murder Monday for
for the Mississippi Department of Archives
the stabbing of an-
and History, to inquire about the possibility
other man in June.
of moving the Confederate monument located
Johnny Harris,
on city property next to City Hall.
63, was initially
“We’ve probably had about 10 calls from
charged with ag-
municipalities and counties about moving
gravated assault
monuments,” White said. “Most of them just Harris
want to know about the process.” for stabbing Elbert
Aside from Lowndes County, whose notice Vaughn, 56, on
of intent was filed with MDAH on Friday, most June 19 at the Roselawn Terrace
of the local governments are in the fact-gath- apartment complex on South Mont-
ering stage. gomery Street. Oktibbeha County
It’s much the same for Key, whose compa- Coroner Michael Hunt said Vaughn
ny has had informal talk “with about a dozen” died Saturday at North Mississippi
cities and counties about moving monuments. Medical Center in Tupelo.
To date, Columbus Marble Works has been Vaughn was initially treated
contracted to relocate just one monument — for the stab wound at OCH Re-
moving one at Ole Miss across campus to a gional Medical Center in June but
cemetery where Confederate soldiers are remained unstable and was trans-
buried. ferred to NMMC a few days later,
Hunt said. He was eventually placed
“I’ve given some cost estimates to some
in hospice care, and an autopsy has
others,” Key said. “I think, right now, they are
just trying to get an idea of how much it will been ordered since his death.
cost and what the process is.” Harris and Vaughn both lived at
See MONUMENT, 6A See MURDER, 6A
a precinct, therefore at risk of
contracting the COVID-19 coro-
navirus.
The commission does not
have hazard pay in its budget,
especially since it did not antic-
ipate a special election, and the
federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief
and Economic Security Act did
not cover the cost either, Ful-
gham said. Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
“Occasionally the Secretary Toby Sanford, left, Geographic Information System director at the Gold-
of State will drop down some en Triangle Planning and Development District, presents the updated
house count for the county’s garbage collection services to Supervisors
money, but we haven’t been Joe Williams of District 5 and Board President John Montgomery of Dis-
promised any money yet,” he trict 1 Monday. GTPDD is responsible for counting the houses, billing
said. the residents and collecting the money, which the county then pays to
See OKTIBBEHA SUPES, 6A Golden Triangle Waste Services.
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MEETINGS
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Board of Aldermen
meeting, 5:30 p.m.,
City Hall
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Center Board of
Trustees, 4 p.m.
Aug. 28: Starkville
Board of Aldermen
work session, 10
a.m., City Hall
Answers, 6B
Sept. 1: Starkville
Board of Aldermen
meeting, 5:30 p.m.,
City Hall
Health 6A Sept. 11:
Obituaries 5A Taliyah Lowe, 12, goes to Columbus Starkville Board
Opinions 4A Middle School where she plays of Aldermen work
basketball. session, 10 a.m.,
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Dems put divides aside, rally

behind Biden at convention
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Michelle Obama

delivered a passionate condemna-
tion of President Donald Trump
during the opening night of the
Democratic National Convention,
declaring him “in over his head” and
warning that the nation’s mounting
crises would only get worse if he’s
reelected over Joe Biden.
“Donald Trump is the wrong
president for our country,” she said.
“He cannot meet this moment. He
simply cannot be who we need him
to be for us.”
The former first lady, one of the
nation’s most respected women,
was the headliner at the first pres-
idential nominating convention
of the coronavirus era. There was
no central meeting place or cheer-
ing throng during the all-virtual
affair Monday night. But it was an
opportunity for Democrats — and
some Republicans — to rally be-
hind Biden, the party’s presidential
nominee.
Bernie Sanders, the progressive
Vermont senator who was Biden’s
last standing rival during the pri-
mary, encouraged his loyal sup-
porters to vote for the former vice
president in November, arguing the
nation can’t survive another four
years of Trump. He notably backed
Biden’s plan for tackling health
care, one of their most substantive
differences in the past. Sanders
backs a Medicare for All plan while
Biden has called for expanding the
current “Obamacare” law.”
But it was Michelle Obama,
making her fourth convention ap-
pearance, who once again delivered
an electrifying moment. Wearing
a necklace that said “vote,” she
tapped into her enduring populari-
ty among Black voters and college
educated suburban women — vot-
ers Biden will need to show up in
force.
She issued a stark warning to a
country already navigating health
and economic crises along with a
reckoning on racism.
“If you think things possibly
can’t get worse, trust me, they can
and they will if we don’t make a
change in this election,” she said
as she issued a call to action for the
coalition of young and diverse vot-
Michelle Obama warns at DNC
that Trump is ‘in over his head’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — At the 2016
Democratic National Convention,
former Michelle Obama told party
members that “when they go low,
we go high.”
After four years of President
Donald Trump, she came back to
give it to them straight.
“If you think things cannot pos-
sibly get worse, trust me they can;
and they will, if we don’t make a
change in this election,” Mrs.
Obama told her party in a blunt
and emotional appeal that capped
the first night of the Democrats’
convention.
The former first lady outlined
dire stakes for the election ahead,
declaring President Donald
Trump “in over his head” and the
“wrong president for our coun-
try.” Warning of possible voter
suppression, she told Americans
they must vote for Joe Biden “in
numbers that cannot be ignored”
if they want to preserve the “most
basic requirements for a function-
ing society.”
The scathing assessment was
delivered in the last and longest
speech in Democrats’ experi-
ment with a virtual convention in
the coronavirus era, a spot Mrs.
Obama earned through her over-
ers who twice sent her family to the
White House.
Biden will formally accept the
nomination on Thursday near his
home in Wilmington, Delaware.
His running mate, California Sen.
Kamala Harris, who is the first
Black woman on a national ticket,
speaks Wednesday night.
Leading up to that, Biden sought
on opening night to demonstrate
the broad ideological range of his
supporters.
On the same night he was
praised by Sanders, a self-de-
scribed democratic socialist who
championed a multitrillion-dollar
whelming popularity in her party.
She delivered her remarks in
a casual setting — a living room,
with a Biden campaign sign on
the mantle — and identified as
much with the beleaguered voters
of America as the lineup of poli-
ticians that preceded her in the
program.
“You know I hate politics,” she
said, before diving into a speech
that appealed to both her long-
time fans in the Democratic coa-
lition and a broad audience she’s
drawn since leaving the White
House and becoming a bestselling
author.
The president “has had more
than enough time to prove that he
can do the job, but he is clearly in
over his head,” she said. “He can-
not meet this moment.”
“It is what it is,” Mrs. Obama
said — echoing a remark Trump
made recently about the U.S.
death toll from the coronavirus.
Citing the pandemic, the flag-
ging economy, the political unrest
that’s broken out nationwide over
systemic racism and what she de-
scribed as America’s lack of lead-
ership on the world stage, Mrs.
Obama said the nation is “under-
performing not simply on matters
of policy, but on matters of char-
acter.”
universal health care plan, Biden
also won backing from Ohio’s for-
mer Republican Gov. John Kasich,
an anti-abortion conservative who
spent decades fighting to cut gov-
ernment spending.
“My friends, I say to you, and
to everyone who supported oth-
er candidates in this primary and
to those who may have voted for
Donald Trump in the last election:
The future of our democracy is at
stake. The future of our economy
is at stake. The future of our plan-
et is at stake,” Sanders said as he
endorsed Biden’s health care plan.

Amid outcry, postmaster general to testify before House

urday on legislation that
The Postal Service said it has stopped removing would prohibit changes at
mailboxes and mail-sorting machines amid outcry the agency. The package
will also include $25 bil-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS leveled fresh criticism a major Republican donor, lion to shore up the Postal
on universal ballots and have endangered millions Service, which faces con-
WASHINGTON — mail-in voting. of Americans who rely on tinued financial losses.
Facing a public backlash “Wouldn’t do that,” the post office to obtain The Postal Service is
over mail disruptions, the Trump told reporters prescription drugs and among the nation’s old-
Trump administration Monday at the White other needs, including an est and more popular
scrambled to respond as House. “I have encour- expected surge in mail-in institutions, strained in
the House prepared an
aged everybody: Speed voting this fall. recent years by declines
emergency vote to halt de-
up the mail, not slow the Speaker Nancy Pelosi first-class and business
livery delays and service
mail.” is calling the House back mail, but now hit with
changes that Democrats
warned could imperil the Embattled Postmas- into session over the cri- new challenges during
November election. ter General Louis DeJoy sis at the Postal Service, the coronavirus pandem-
The Postal Service will testify next Monday setting up a political ic. Trump routinely criti-
said it has stopped re- before Congress, along showdown amid growing cizes its business model,
moving mailboxes and with the chairman of the concerns that the Trump but the financial outlook
mail-sorting machines Postal Service board of White House is trying to is far more complex, and
amid an outcry from law- governors. undermine the agency includes an unusual re-
makers. President Don- Democrats and some ahead of the election. quirement to pre-fund re-
ald Trump flatly denied Republicans say actions Pelosi cut short law- tiree health benefits that
he was asking for the mail by the new postmaster makers’ summer recess advocates in Congress
to be delayed even as he general, a Trump ally and with a vote expected Sat- want to undo.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020 3A

Mississippi will provide free virus testing to teachers

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS hopeful about the state’s

JACKSON — The state of
Mississippi is expanding ac-
cess to free coronavirus testing
for teachers and school-based
emergency telehealth coverage
after more than 70 of the state’s
82 counties have reported
outbreaks during their first few
weeks back in the classroom.
The Mississippi State De-
partment of Health has report-
ed 245 cases of coronavirus in
teachers and 199 in students
since some districts began
returning to school in late July.
More than 2,000 students and
around 600 teachers at the
start of this week are in quaran-
tine after being exposed to the
virus, Mississippi’s state health
officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said.
To curb the spread of the
virus, Dobbs announced
Monday that K-12 teachers in
the state will now have access
to free testing, whether or not
they have symptoms or know
they’ve been exposed. They
will be able to be tested at the
state’s two community testing
sites, as well as 16 new regional
mobile testing sites to be set up
early next week.
Additionally, the Mississippi
Division of Medicaid said that
it has expanded its coverage to
allow schools without nurses or
school-based clinics to access
telehealth services. That
change began Aug. 1 and will
continue through the end of the
pandemic, officials said.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves
said the two measures will en-
80% of Vermont inmates at Mississippi prison infected
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An outbreak of the coro-
navirus at a private prison in
Mississippi has now infected
80% of the Vermont inmates
housed there and more test
results are pending, the head
of the Vermont Corrections
Department said Monday.
A total of 176 Vermont in-
mates at the Tallahatchie
County Correctional Facility
in Tutwiler, Mississippi, test-
ed positive for COVID-19, the
illness caused by the virus,
and 33 have tested negative,
Interim Vermont Corrections
Commissioner Jim Baker
said. One inmate is hospital-
ized. More test results are
pending, he said.
“We are anticipating that
we could see more positives,”
Baker said.
Vermont houses 219 in-
mates in Mississippi, because
of a lack of capacity in its
own prisons. In late July, six
inmates who were returned
to Vermont from Mississippi
prison tested positive when
they arrived at the Marble
sure that Mississippi’s schools
“will remain safe,” adding that
he hopes expanding testing
for teachers, in particular, will
give educators confidence and
“peace of mind” about return-
ing to school.
“We know that there are
risks with opening schools,
coronavirus numbers. Howev-
er, with students returning to
K-12 schools and colleges, he is
Valley Correctional
Facility in Rutland.
THE NUMBERS missioner is respon-
sible for, have tested concerned about more out-
n Vermont reported breaks if safety protocols are
That prompted Ver- 12 new cases of the positive.
mont’s Corrections coronavirus on Monday “This situation not followed.
Department on July for a statewide total has got to be man- “We have some real oppor-
30 to order that the to date of more than aged,” he said, tunities, we also have some
remaining Vermont 1,520. Three people adding that he un- threats,” he said,
inmates in Missis- were hospitalized. The derstood that the Meanwhile, college sports
sippi be tested. total number of deaths facility is in a loca- are also surging ahead in the
Most of the Ver- remained at 58. More tion “that has an state. The University of Florida
mont inmates who than 113,200 people enormous amount of football team will play at the
have tested positive
have been tested so
community spread.”
far, according to the University of Mississippi on
are asymptomat- Health Department. “That means
Sept. 26. Mississippi State will
ic and 119 are in you’ve got to double
play Louisiana State University
medical recovery, down on your proto-
he said. About 20 are consid- cols to prevent the community on the same day.
ered to be vulnerable based spread from coming into your The Health Department
on their health conditions, he facility,” he said. said Monday that Mississippi,
said. The Corrections Depart- CoreCivic, the operator of with a population of about 3
ment is watching four inmates the prison, is now in the pro- million, has had at least 72,412
very closely, Baker said. cess of testing the remaining reported cases and at least
The Corrections Depart- inmates from other states, 2,095 deaths from COVID-19
ment sent staff down to the Baker said. as of Sunday evening. That’s
prison and rewrote protocols In Vermont, testing this an increase of 276 confirmed
for the prison, such as for month at the Rutland prison cases and 11 deaths from num-
contract tracing and the prop- after the return of the infect- bers reported the day before,
er use of personal protective ed inmates, has not turned with two deaths occurring
equipment, he said. up any new positive cases, he between July 26 and July 27
Baker said he could not said. Following contract trac-
and identified later from death
express how disappointing it ing, two correctional officers
certificates.
was to learn that 80.4% of Ver- were tested by private health
mont inmates in Mississippi, care providers and tested pos- The true number of virus
who he as corrections com- itive, he said. infections is thought to be far
higher because many people
have not been tested and
and we know that there are Mississippi has seen de-
studies suggest people can be
risks if we choose not to open clining cases in recent weeks
schools,” Reeves said during a after a surge of new cases and infected without feeling sick.
news briefing. “Our job, once deaths in July. On July 29, the The virus causes mild or mod-
we have decided to do every- state’s seven-day average peak- erate symptoms for most but
thing we can to safely reopen ed at 1,390 cases. On Monday, can be more severe or fatal for
schools, is to then administer the state’s seven-day average some, especially older adults
and find programs to mitigate was below 700. and those with existing health
risks as much as possible.” Dobbs said he is feeling problems.

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District 3 Supervisor
John Holliman, who is
also presiding over board
meetings as the acting
president, told The Dis-
patch he would favor relo-
cating parts instead of all
of the monument.
“Moving all of it is go-
ing to be really expensive.
I suggested one time be-
fore about leaving the bot-
tom part and just taking
the soldier, the top part,
and moving it,” he said.
“Right now, taxpayers,
they tell me they don’t
want to pay for it.”
Sanders shared the
same concern and raised
the question if the board
could reverse its June 15
vote to relocate the mon-
ument.
“If the cost to move this
thing is so high … is there
any chance we can leave
it where it is?” Sanders
asked Calvert during the
meeting. “That could be
an option down the road
as we look at all the data.”
Former Columbus
Packet owner Roger
Larsen, who spoke at the
Monday meeting, told the
board he can raise enough
private funds for the re-
location of parts of the
monument. Although the
language of the state law
prohibits the alteration of
a war monument, he said
there may be “leeway” for
the county. The county
could also wait for the lo-
cal delegation to the state
Legislature to push for
bills that would allow the
move, he said.
“The law … it sounds
strict initially, but it gives
you all kinds of outs,” he
said. “The last thing the
Archives and History (De-
partment) is doing right
now is trying to impede a
good-faith effort to solve
the situation.”
Board Attorney Tim
Hudson said the county
could have submitted a
plan to MDAH to relocate
parts of the monument for
approval. If approved, that
could have left the county
with some flexibility to de-
cide how much of the mon-
visor Leroy Brooks said
moving only parts of the
monument goes against
people’s will.
“There needs to be
some discussion with the
people that made the re-
quest,” he said. “In their
mind, they said ‘monu-
ment,’ and the rational
thinking would be the en-
tire thing.”
Employee COVID
policies
In other business, su-
pervisors passed a set of
COVID-19 policies across
county departments,
which was drafted by in-
coming County Adminis-
trator Jay Fisher.
Instead of screening
employees daily, the coun-
ty requires employees
to self-report to their su-
pervisors if they develop
sy mptoms
or have
been ex-
posed to
positive
C OV I D -1 9
patients,
F i s h e r
said. They Fisher
must then
receive a test, self-quar-
antine for at least 14 days
and remain symptom-free
for at least 72 hours before
coming back to work.
While under self-quar-
antine, employees will
be paid up to 80 hours of
sick leave, Fisher said, but
since there is no desig-
nated testing location for
them, the wait period for
the results may vary.
Sanders asked Fisher
if the county can recom-
mend employees to take
the tests in clinics in West
Point, which he said can
yield results in 20 min-
utes.
“If somebody … is paid
four days or five days wait-
ing on the results, and all
of a sudden it comes back
… negative,” he said, “we
pay somebody four days
or five days sitting at
home when there’s no rea-
son to do that.”
Fisher said the safest
option is to take the stan-
dard tests, which he said
lowers the risk of false
negative results.
“The ‘instant’ tests …
I think, have less accura-
cy than the tests that are
processed by laboratory,
which is taking multiple
days,” he said. “If you ex-
hibit symptoms, it might
be in your best interest to
take the longer test, be-
cause you are going to be
out regardless.”
The Dispatch will file
a public records request
today with the sheriff’s
office for its COVID-19-re-
lated policies regarding
employees and jail in-
mates.
Sanders clashes with
Smith, Brooks over
abstention from
agenda items
Two months after
Sanders made remarks
that Black Americans re-
mained “dependent” since
slavery ended, two Black
supervisors — Jeff Smith
of District 4 and Brooks —
continue to abstain from
most county businesses
discussed during board
meetings.
On Monday, they ab-
stained from items such as
the county’s claim docket,
water utility permits and President Lavonne Latham leaders as well as the major-
designating new private Harris also called for Sand- ity of the supervisors have
roads in District 1. ers to resign. Protesters, called for him to entirely
Sanders questioned local business and church resign from the board.
their abstentions — a
method Smith and Brooks
said shows their refusal
to move on from Sanders’
comments.
“We’ve got (supervi-
sors of) District 4 and
District 5 abstaining every
single issue that’s brought
up,” he said. “Then all of a
sudden, when something
comes up … spending the
county’s money in District
4 on the roads, all of a sud-
den, you got the supervi-
sor down there voting for
it.”
Brooks refuted Sand-
ers’ claim, arguing that
Sanders was the reason
they abstained.
“If we choose not to
vote, that’s our preroga-
tive. It’s not your job to
question what we do,”
Brooks said. “We abstain
because every time we
look at you, we get sick to
the stomach. So don’t you
question when we vote
and why we vote, you just
handle your business.”
During the meeting,
Lowndes County NAACP
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decided, ‘No, we want to
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OUR VIEW
An especially relevant centennial
On this day 100 years ago, women
in the United States earned the right
to vote with the ratification of the 19th
Amendment to the Constitution.
While some centennials are regard-
ed as little more than historical foot-
notes to be casually noted and quickly
forgotten, this anniversary retains as
much powerful relevance today as when
it was first enacted.
The journey of the suffrage move-
ment remains one of the most powerful
examples of persistence in American
History. The American suffrage move-
ment traces its history to 1848 when
200 women convened in Seneca Falls,
N.Y. Generations of women who fought
for the right died without seeing the
fruits of their labor, yet the effort never
faltered, even in the face of repeated
failure.
Although women had secured the
right to vote in several western states
by the turn of the century, the first
effort to extend voting rights to wom-
en throughout the nation through an
amendment to the Constitution was
proposed in 1878. Every year, the
proposal was made in Congress. Every
year, it failed — a string 41 consecutive
failures.
Finally, in 1919, Congress approved
the amendment, sending it to the states
for ratification. Two-thirds of the states,
36 in all, were needed to ratify the
amendment. It came down to Tennes-
see, which voted for ratification by a
one-vote margin on this date in 1920,
bringing a successful end to a cam-
paign that had started 172 years earlier.
Today, the significance of the 19th
Amendment cannot be overstated.
Once earning the right to vote — a
right not fully extended to Black wom-
en until the 1965 Voting Rights Act —
women have become perhaps the most
powerful voting bloc in our nation.
Over the past 40 years, women have
both registered to vote and voted at a
higher rate than men.
According to the latest data, 53 per-
cent of registered voters in the U.S. are
women. In the 2018 midterm elections,
women voted at a 3.2 percent higher
rate than men.
Now, as we approach the 2020 elec-
tions in November, we should all take a
moment to recognize the long struggle
for women’s suffrage, as well as the
sacrifices of Black Americans in the
South, to secure the right to vote. It did
not come easily or painlessly.
The best tribute we can make is to
register and vote.

FROM THE LEFT CARTOONIST VIEW

It’s bigot time: Rattled by
Kamala Harris, Trump &
friends go full white power
BY JEFF ROBBINS

Joe Biden’s selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as

his running mate last week placed two facts on
graphic display. The first is that President Donald
Trump, who is rattled by accomplished women
generally, is deeply rattled by Harris, a former
prosecutor who, as a member of the Senate Ju-
diciary Committee, drilled holes in experienced
dissemblers like Attorney General William Barr
and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The second is that Trump’s reelection chances
hinge on two tactics: discouraging citizens of color
from voting in November or preventing them from
doing so altogether, and ginning up the largest
possible turnout of white voters disposed to think
that nonwhites threaten their way of life, if not their
existence.
A recent Pew Research Center survey told us
what we need to know about Trump’s path to retain-
ing power. It found that Biden leads Trump among
Blacks 89% to 8%, among Hispanics 63% to 35% and
among Asian Americans 67% to 31%. Among white
men with college degrees, Biden is ahead 58% to
41%; among white women with college degrees, he
leads 63% to 35%.
That leaves exactly one demographic that favors
Trump: white Americans without college degrees,
and he leads among them by nearly 2 to 1. Therein
lies the simplicity of Trump’s battle plan: suppress-
ing the vote in communities of color, frightening
the devil out of non-college-educated whites and
pushing the view that he is the Preserver of White
Power incarnate.
It worked for Trump in 2016, and he hopes it will
work again in 2020. In the lead-up to Biden’s widely
expected choice of Harris, whose mother was born
in India and father was born in Jamaica, Trump
called the movement to affirm that Black lives mat-
ter “a symbol of hate,” stoking certain whites’ fear
of Blacks with characteristic elegance. Touting his
rollback of an Obama administration rule simply re-
quiring local communities receiving federal fund-
ing to study racial discrimination and set goals for
reducing segregation, Trump declared himself the
savior of lily-white America. “I am happy to inform
all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle
Dream,” he tweeted, “that you will no longer be
bothered or financially hurt by having low income
housing built in your neighborhood.” Suburbanites,
he continued, “are thrilled that I ended the long
running program where low income housing would
invade their neighborhood.” In order to make sure
that no whites missed the message, he told report-
ers on July 31: “You build low-income housing, and
you build other forms of housing — also having
to do with zoning — and destroy people that
have lived in communities in suburbia. For years,
they’ve lived there, and they want to destroy their
lives and destroy what they have.”
If Trump has a distinctive hallmark, it is his lack
of class, and he reminded us of it when the selec-
tion of Harris was announced. Born and raised
in California, Harris is indisputably an American
citizen. This did not stop Trump from pointedly
encouraging the crackpot hogwash that Harris’
citizenship is an “open question.” “If she’s got a
problem, you would have thought that she would
have been vetted by sleepy Joe,” sneered Trump,
thereby encouraging Americans to ingest the
snake oil that Harris had “a problem” when she
has none. It was the very same racist claptrap that
Trump had promoted about Barack Obama. Harris
and Obama are both Black, you see, which Trump
hopes will suggest that their citizenship is dubious.
Trump’s Kool-Aid chorus picked up the refrain,
with wingman Tucker Carlson acting like a juvenile
delinquent by intentionally mispronouncing Harris’
first name.
It’s Bigot Time in America, and our president
sees each news cycle as a new opportunity to hit
a new low. “We are in a battle for the soul of the
nation,” says Joe Biden, and is he ever right.
Jeff Robbins, a former assistant United States
attorney and United States delegate to the United
Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, was chief
counsel for the minority of the United States Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. An
attorney specializing in the First Amendment, he is
a longtime columnist for the Boston Herald, writing
on politics, national security, human rights and the
Mideast.
FROM THE RIGHT
The progressive racism of the Ivy League
If the definition of
racism is deliberate
discrimination based
on race, color or
national origin, Yale
University appears to
be a textbook case of
“systemic racism.”
And, so, the De-
partment of Justice
contends.
Last week, Assistant
Attorney General Eric Patrick J. Buchanan sity”?
Dreiband charged,
“Yale discriminates based on
race...in its undergraduate ad-
missions process and race is the
determinative factor in hundreds
of admissions decisions each year. scores and academic achieve-
“Asian Americans and whites
have only one-tenth to one-fourth
of the likelihood of admission as
African American applicants with
comparable academic creden-
tials...
“Yale uses race at multiple
steps of its admissions process
resulting in a multiplied effect of
race on an applicant’s likelihood
of admission.
“Yale racially balances its
classes.”
Yale defends this admissions
policy by claiming it considers the seek...not just equality as a right
“whole person” — leadership, a
likelihood students “will contrib-
ute to the Yale Community and
the world,” and, says Yale Pres-
ident Peter Salovey, “a student
body whose diversity is a mark of
its excellence.”
Yet, somehow, when all these
factors are considered, the
higher-scoring Asian and white
students invariably come up short, excel in academic pursuits and
because the racial composition of
Yale’s incoming classes remains
roughly the same every year.
The Justice Department
refused to wave its big stick — a
threat to cut off tax dollars that go urban and middle-class Black kids
yearly to Yale. Incidentally, Yale
sits on an endowment of some $30
billion — second only to Har-
vard’s.
A court case alleging that Har-
vard emulates Yale, or vice versa,
and admits Black and brown
students whose test scores would
instantly disqualify white and
Asian students is headed for the
Supreme Court.
At the heart of this dispute
over diversity are basic
questions, the resolu-
tion of which will affect
the long-term unity of
the American nation.
Is discrimination
against white stu-
dents in favor of Black
students with far lower
test scores morally
acceptable if done to
advance racial “diver-
And, if so, for how
long? Forever?
Is it praiseworthy to advance
Hispanic applicants over Asian
applicants with far higher test
ments?
Why? What did these Chinese,
Korean, Filipino and Vietnamese
high school seniors do to deserve
discrimination in the country to
which their parents came where,
supposedly, “All men are created
equal”?
President Lyndon Johnson first
formally introduced this notion of
benevolent racial discrimination.
Addressing D.C.’s Howard Univer-
sity in 1965, LBJ said in a speech
written by Richard Goodwin, “We
and a theory but equality as a fact
and equality as a result.”
But what if equality of opportu-
nity, an equal chance at the start-
ing line, fails to produce equality
of results?
What if Black Americans
dominate America’s most richly
rewarded sports such as the NBA
and NFL, while Asians and whites
on admissions exams at Yale and
Harvard?
Why is it right to discriminate
against working-class white kids
from Middle America in favor of
in admissions to prestige colleges?
If so, what does social justice
mean? Who defines it?
In California, the state leg-
islature has put on the ballot a
measure to overturn the ban on all
racial and ethnic discrimination
that was voted into California’s
Constitution in Proposition 209 in
1996.
That prohibition reads:
“The state shall not discrimi-
nate against, or grant preferential
treatment to, any individual or
group on the basis of race, sex,
color, ethnicity, or national origin
in the operation of public employ-
ment, public education, or public
contracting.”
What Californians said in 1996
was: No discrimination means no
discrimination.
Civil rights activist Ward
Connerly, who is fighting the
repeal of Prop 209, argues that
while street mobs may be tearing
down statues, West Coast liberals
are tearing down the principle of
equality.
It is the character of the repub-
lic that is at issue here.
If Asian Americans, outnum-
bered 5 to 1 by Black and Hispanic
Americans, can be indefinitely
discriminated against, this would
appear to be the very definition of
“un-American.”
And if white Americans, the
shrinking majority of the nation
and a minority in our most pop-
ulous states, can indefinitely be
discriminated against in favor of
people of color, they will eventu-
ally embrace the tribal politics of
race and identity that would risk
the breakup of the union, as is
happening in Europe and around
the world.
The taproot of progressive
racism is LBJ’s Executive Order
11246. This altered the meaning
of “affirmative action” from guar-
anteeing the equality of opportu-
nity to bringing about an equality
of “results.”
President Donald Trump,
before or after Nov. 3, should
convene with Ward Connerly and
ask him to redefine “affirmative
action” to mean exactly what its
original author, JFK, intended it
to mean.
As for Yale and other Ivy
League universities, it is an indict-
ment of conservatives who have
held executive power often in the
past 50 years that they have not
chopped federal funding for these
bastions of progressive racism.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a nation-
ally syndicated columnist, was a
senior advisor to presidents Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald
Reagan. His website is http://bu-
chanan.org/blog.
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Report: Nursing home cases up

nearly 80% in COVID-19 rebound
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘The case numbers suggest the problem is far from solved.’
WASHINGTON — Tamara Konetzka, a research professor at the University of Chicago
COVID-19 cases in U.S.
nursing homes jumped the week starting July 26, policy that has not been forgetting to wash their
nearly 80% earlier this a 77% increase from a low fulfilled— securing sup- hands, congregating in
summer, driven by ram- point the week of June 21. ply chains for (personal break rooms, and wearing
pant spread across the The group is the indus- protective equipment) and (protective equipment)

South and much of the
West, according to an
industry report released
Monday.
“The case numbers
suggest the problem is far
from solved,” said Tamara
Konetzka, a research pro-
fessor at the University of
Chicago, who specializes
in long-term care. She
was not involved with the
study.
Long-term care facili-
ties account for less than
1% of the U.S. population,
but more than 40 percent
of COVID-19 deaths, ac-
cording to the COVID
Tracking Project.
The situation is a polit-
ically sensitive issue for
President Donald Trump,
who is scrambling to hold
on to support from older
voters as polls show dis-
approval of his adminis-
tration’s response to the
pandemic.
The White House an-
nounced in late July the
release of $5 billion for
nursing homes, while
launching a program to
equip each of some 15,000
facilities with a fast-test
machine to screen res-
try’s main trade associa-
tion.
Weekly deaths, rose to
1,706 the week of July 26,
an increase of nearly 25%
from a low point the week
starting July 5.
Nursing homes in Sun-
belt states had more time
to prepare than facilities
in the Northeast that were
hit in late winter and early
spring, with grim results.
But Konetzka and other
researchers have been
warning that once a com-
munity anywhere experi-
ences an outbreak, it’s only
a matter of time before
the coronavirus enters its
nursing homes. A leading
theory is that staffers who
don’t yet know they’re in-
fected unwittingly bring
the virus in. Inside, the
coronavirus encounters
an ideal environment in
which to spread among
frail older people living in
close quarters.
“As the virus surges in
Sunbelt states, there’s no
reason to think it won’t
affect nursing homes in
the same way it did in
states that surged earli-
er,” said Konetzka. “We
rapid testing.”
The industry analysis
illustrates the march of
the virus across the U.S.
As of the week of May
31, fewer than one-third
of the weekly coronavirus
cases were from nursing
homes in Sunbelt states.
But by the week starting
July 26, that share was
78%.
Deaths followed a
similar pattern. Nursing
homes in states across
the South and parts of the
West accounted for 28% of
deaths the week of May
31. That share was 69% by
the week starting July 26.
The Trump adminis-
tration says it’s executing
on its plan to provide fast-
test machines to nursing
homes and make sure
that all facilities have the
protective equipment they
need. But Seema Verma,
head of the Centers for
Medicare and Medic-
aid Services, said states
and nursing homes also
have responsibility to
safeguard residents. She
called on nursing homes
to step up their game.
“The reality is that (a)
improperly. All the testing
in the world is for naught
if staff don’t adhere to the
basic, longstanding infec-
tion control practices that
the federal government
has had in place for years.”
Mark Parkinson, head
of the nursing home trade
group that produced the
study, said the problem is
bigger.
“The data indicate that
this virus is spread by as-
ymptomatic carriers and
that even perfect infec-
tion control wouldn’t have
stopped it,” he said. “The
challenge with this virus
is that because it is spread
by asymptomatic carriers
the prior infection control
procedures didn’t work.”
Parkinson said that
about 10% of facilities still
report lacking an adequate
supply of N95 masks, con-
sidered standard for hos-
pital personnel.
He said the administra-
tion’s effort to distribute
fast-test machines could
be a “game changer,” but
added “there’s still a long
way to go.” Distribution is
expected to be completed
by the end of September.
Willie Whitten
Willie Ruth Whitten, age 92, of Columbus,
MS passed away August 16, 2020, at Baptist
Memorial Hospital in Columbus.
Private graveside services will be held in
Ethelsville Community Cemetery with Rev. Mel
Howton officiating and Skelton Funeral Home
directing.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
James Whitten; son, James Edward Whitten;
grandson, J. J. Whitten; daughter-in-law, Winna
Whitten and her parents.
Survivors include her son, Earnest Whitten;
daughter-in-law, Angie Whitten; sister, Mary
Gladys McDonald; three grandchildren, Patton
Whitten (Christi), Salethia Holifield (Chris)
and Drew Whitten (Ashley); seven great-
grandchildren, Austin Whitten (Courtney),
Callop Whitten (Miranda), Dalton Whitten,
Caris Whitten, Dakota Hill, Preston Whitten,
Brooklyn Holifield, and Jackson Holifield; two
great-great grandchildren, Tynley Whitten
and Zoey Whitten and a number of nieces and
nephews.
Willie Ruth was born June 18, 1928, in Alabama
to the late Clifton Henderson and Willie Holmes
Henderson. She was a homemaker and a member
of Ethelsville Baptist Church.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials
to Ethelsville Baptist Church, 230 Main Street,
Ethelsville, AL 35461.
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Monday’s study from
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were 9,715 coronavirus
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Antonia Malone of
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Errik Oliver
AMORY — Err-
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died Aug. 16, 2020, in
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at Cleveland-Moffett
Funeral Home, with
In the meantime, Par-
kinson said it can still
take three days, and
sometimes more, to get
results. “We continue to
be plagued with a testing
problem,” he said.
home. Cleveland-Mof-
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Amory is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Oliver was born
June 8, 1998, in Amory,
to Charles Eric Oliver
and Elisabeth Williams
Oliver. He was a grad-
uate of Amory High
School and was former-
ly employed as a welder
with Bolzoni Auramo
of Sulligent. He attend-
ed Hamilton Revival
Center and Greenbri-
er United Methodist
Church.
In addition to his
parents, he is survived
by his brother, Cade
Oliver.
Pallbearers will be
James Jones, Caleb
Robertson, Brandon
Eric Holley
Eric Brent Holley, 45, of Columbus, MS passed
away Saturday, August 15, 2020, at Baptist
Memorial Hospital-GT.
A family memorial service will be Tuesday,
August 18, 2020, at 1:00 PM at Lowndes Funeral
Home with Bro. Kenny Gardner officiating.
Friends may view online at Lowndesfuneralhome.
net. A drive through visitation will follow from
2:00-3:00 PM in the Lowndes Funeral Home
parking lot.
Mr. Holley was born on March 9, 1975, in
Amory, MS. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, yak life,
and salt life. Mr. Holley enjoyed spending time
with his friends and family.
Mr. Holley is survived by his wife, Tracy
Nath of Columbus, MS; sons, Ethan Holley, Seth
Holley and Hank Johnson; daughters, Heaven
Johnson and Brittany Suter; grandchildren,
Jessa, Hank, Emma and Jaxson; mother, Tammy
(Daniel) Sandlin Barnes; brothers, Chad Holley,
Drew Newell and Daniel Barnes Jr.; sister, Shelly
Orsborn; and a host of nieces and nephews.
Honorary pallbearers will be Cory Sanders,
Luke Butler, Jeramiah Butler, Colby Bishop, Josh
Williams, Dustin Nichols, Greg Crump, Chad
Dove, Seth Holley, Chad Holley, Drew Newell,
Hank Johnson Jr. and Bubba Suter.
Memorials may be made to Cedar Hill Animal
Sanctuary 144 Sanctuary Loop Caledonia, MS
39740.
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DECATUR, Ga. —
Pinkie Malone, 83, died
Aug. 11, 2020, at Emory
Hillandale Hospital.
A private family only
graveside service is
at 11 a.m. today, in Odd-
fellow Cemetery of Ma-
con, with the Rev. Ron
Houston Sr. officiating.
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Mrs. Malone was
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In addition to her
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children, McArthur
and Michael Malone;
six brothers and three
sisters.
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Malone, Gary Malone
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Thomas Millender
Thomas Edward Millender,87, of Aberdeen,
MS passed away Monday, August 10, 2020, at
Creekside Manor, Saltillo, MS.
The family will hold a memorial service at a
later date.
Mr. Millender was born January 2, 1933, in
Prairie, MS to the late Fay Ray and W.E. (Buster)
Millender. He graduated from Aberdeen High
School, then went on to receive his bachelor
in pre-law at MSU and was in the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon Fraternity. Mr. Millender was a Charter
member of St. Marks Methodist Church in
Aberdeen, MS. Mr. Millender was a farmer and
cattleman in Monroe County for many years.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Millender is
preceded in death by his daughter, Georgia
Millender.
Mr. Millender is survived by his wife, Doris
Fulgham Millender; daughters, Lynn (Mike)
Hanson of Columbus, MS, Lisa (Wally) Soplata
of Collierville, TN and Leslie (Bruce) Tucker of
Tupelo, MS; grandchildren, Matthew Hanson,
Blake Hanson, Jacob Hanson, Austin Soplata,
Avery Soplata, Luke Tucker and Josh Tucker;
great-grandchildren, Ayden Hanson and Lucas
Hanson; sister, Joan Loftin; brother, Frank
Millender and step-brother, Donald Bunch all of
Aberdeen, MS.
Memorials may be made to The Georgia
Millender Memorial Leadership Award c/o
MUW Office of Development and Alumni 1100
College Street MUW 1618 Columbus, MS 39701
or online at https://longblueline.muw.edu/give.
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residence.
Visitation will be Tuesday,
August 18, 2020, from 1:00-2:00
at Springhill Baptist Church,
Millport, AL. A funeral service
will follow at 2:00 PM with Bro.
Trey Reece officiating and
Rev. Jordan Lollar assisting.
Interment will be in Ebenezer Cemetery,
Fernbank, AL with Lowndes Funeral Home,
Columbus, MS directing.
Mr. White was born on October 25, 1986, in
Amory, MS to Carla Adams White and Charles
White. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, spending
time with family and friends. Mr. White was an
avid Alabama Football fan.
Mr. White is preceded in death by his maternal
grandfather, Edgar Adams.
Mr. White is survived by his mother, Carla
Adams White of Ethelsville, AL; father, Charles
White; daughters, Abigail Shay White, Daylin
Rose White and Raelynn Jo White; brothers,
Justin (Nicole) White and Jaleb (Chelsey) White;
maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Adams, and
paternal grandmother, Dean White; paternal
grandfather, J.T. White; and a host of nieces and
nephews and cousins.
Pallbearers will be Dustin Vail, Brian Adams,
Eric Adams, Kory Adams, Joshua Chitwood,
Jeremy Chitwood and Blake Moore.
Honorary pallbearers will be the Class of
2005- South Lamar, Pastor Dan Finney and
Pastor Calvin Hall.
Memorials may be made to American Diabetes
Association 200 Office Park Drive, Suite 303
Birmingham, AL 35223.
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HEALTH TIP
n Cook at home more often. Try to make a habit
of cooking at home most nights, rather than eating
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is in it. You won’t have to wonder about any hidden
unhealthy or high-calorie ingredients.
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Unmasking the effectiveness
of masks
During the 1918 Spanish flu pan-
demic, Americans were warned
that “spit spreads death.” One an-
nouncement in the San Francisco
Chronicle read: “The man or wom-
an or child who will not wear a mask
now is a dangerous slacker.” The
more things change, the more they
stay the same!
In a recent JAMA paper, the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention affirms that cloth face cov-
erings are an effective way to fight
the virus, particularly when they’re
worn by everyone. They also recent-
ly published a case study of a hair
salon in which both stylists were
infected with COVID-19, but not
one of their 139 clients contracted
the virus. Why? In large measure,
because everyone wore masks.
Masks are more likely to be
worn if government leadership en-
courages it. (It’s mandated or rec-
ommended in more than 160 coun-
tries.) But failing that, it’s up to you
to advocate for and practice their
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Robinson said that
describes West Point’s
position at the moment.
“I think I’ve only had
a couple of people say
anything about the mon-
ument in the last year,”
Robinson said. “But
it came up during our
special (call) meeting
earlier this month. We
couldn’t take it up then,
but I did start making
some calls, just to find
out what the steps are.”
Robinson said based
on a call he made to
Key, it will cost the
city between $70,000
to $75,000 to move the
monument, which was
erected in 1907.
“It should be pretty
easy to move it,” Key
said. “It’s bigger than the
one at Ole Miss, but it’s
easy to access, both the
current location and at
the cemetery.”
The most likely new
venue, Robinson said,
would be the city-owned
Greenwood Cemetery.
In addition to being
designated as a Missis-
sippi Landmark, which
requires MDAH ap-
proval to be modified or
moved, the West Point
monument is listed on
the National Registry
of Historic Places be-
cause it is located on $18,000 surplus, which
the grounds of City Hall, isn’t much. That’s proba-
which was added to the bly the biggest question:
Register in 2009. Where’s the money go-
“That really won’t af- ing to come from? The
fect anything as far as city doesn’t have it, not
relocating it, though, be- in this year’s budget.”
cause it doesn’t require
federal funding,” White
said.
Robinson said the
presence of the mon-
ument hasn’t been a
hot-button topic around
town, but he’s not op-
posed to relocating it.
“The big question is
where is the money going
to come from,” Robinson
said. “We just finished
our budget. We have an

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District 1 Supervisor
and Board President John
Montgomery said he had
no problem with the sug-
gestion but needed to look
at funding options first.
District 5 Supervisor Joe
Williams agreed that poll
workers should receive
extra compensation.
“I would like to see poll
workers get that extra
money since they’re put-
ting themselves in harm’s
way,” Williams said.
The Legislature tried
to pass a bill allowing haz-
ard pay for poll workers
through Dec. 31. The bill
failed, but the Legislature
did allow each county to
make its own decision on
the matter. Earlier this
month, Clay County su-
pervisors unanimously
approved $50 in hazard
pay for the special elec-
tion.
State Rep. Gary Chism
(R-Columbus) resigned
from the District 37
House seat and State Sen.
Gary Jackson (R-French
Camp) resigned from the
District 15 Senate seat in
June. The Sept. 22 elec-
tion will decide their re-
placements.
The Oktibbeha super-
visors will revisit the topic
in September.
Later in the meeting,
supervisors heard a re-
port from Golden Trian-
gle Planning and Develop-
ment District. Geographic
Information System Di-
rector Toby Sanford and
Utility Services Director
Jennifer Odom reported
the number of residenc-
es the county can bill for
house-to-house garbage
collection fluctuates reg-
ularly as people move in
and out of those houses.
GTPDD currently
bills 8,841 of the 9,533
residences in Oktibbeha
County. This does not in-
clude apartment complex-
es, which have their own
dumpsters, and some of
the remaining residences
are not occupied, Sanford
and Odom said.
Golden Triangle Waste
Services charges Ok-
tibbeha County more
than $76,000 per month
at $8.12 per residence.
The agency increased its
billing from $64,000 per
month in January to ac-
count for residences that
had not been billed previ-
ously.
Supervisors voted
unanimously in Decem-
ber to bill property own-
ers instead of renters for
garbage collection ser-
vices and to request a full
list of addresses in the
county that would be add-
ed to the billing list.
GTPDD is responsible
for counting the houses,
billing the residents and
collecting the money,
which the county then
pays to GTWS.
The property owner is
ultimately responsible for
paying an unpaid garbage
bill even if the previous
owner or renter did not
pay it, Odom said.
Board
Attorney
Rob Rob-
erson said
he has re-
ceived some
complaints
about the
billing pro- Roberson
cess.
“People have got to un-
derstand that we’ve got
to get a handle on this
because there is a sub-
stantial amount of money
that’s not being collect-
ed,” Roberson said.
GTWS formed in 1997
to provide garbage pickup
for Oktibbeha, Lowndes
and Webster counties,
and supervisors from
the three counties serve
on the GTWS board.
Williams and District 3
Supervisor Marvell How-
ard represent Oktibbeha
County on the board.

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Roselawn Terrace and knew each other, Starkville Police Department Public Infor-
mation Officer Brandon Lovelady said. The two men had an argument outside that
escalated into a physical altercation, he said.
Harris has been in Oktibbeha County Jail since June 20. His bond was revoked
due to a previous felony charge of sexual battery in January 2018, Lovelady said.
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BREAKING DOWN MISSISSIPPI STATE’S 2020 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
On Monday, Mississippi State learned it will open the 2020 10-game conference only season against LSU on the road on Sept. 26.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Foot-
ball season is on the hori-
zon.
Monday night, Missis-
sippi State learned its of-
ficial ledger for the 2020
season as the Bulldogs
will partake in a 10-game,
conference-only slate
amid the COVID-19 pan-
demic.
With first year head
coach Mike Leach open-
ing fall practices Tuesday
and the first game against
LSU less than six weeks
away, here’s a deep dive
into MSU’s matchups and
what to expect this year:
COVID-19, not championships, hot topic at SEC practices
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Southeastern Con-
ference teams opened
preseason camp Monday
with the precarious sta-
tus of the season largely
overshadowing even the
annual am-
bitions of
Alabama
and Geor-
gia.
Ques-
tions like
how will
LSU fare Kiffin
without
quarter-
back Joe Burrow took a
backseat to uncertain-
ty. Quarterback battles
seem fairly inconse-
quential with COVID-19
Sept. 26 — at No. 5 LSU
What better way to
start one’s tenure than a
season opener against the
defending national cham-
pions?
Mississippi native
Myles Brennan is slated
to take the reins under
center for the Tigers after
Joe Burrow’s video game-
like 2019 campaign. And
while Brennan likely
won’t replicate Burrow’s
numbers, he should prove
efficient.
Following its national
title, LSU set a conference
record with 13 players se-
lected in the 2020 NFL
Draft. And though that’s
threatening the season
— and teams’ depth
charts.
“The teams that han-
dle this the best and the
players that are the saf-
est, those teams are go-
ing to win a lot of games,”
first-year Mississippi
coach Lane Kiffin said.
The SEC, winner of 10
football national cham-
pionships since 2006,
is just hoping to have a
season and play out the
league-only schedule
starting Sept. 26. It’s an
open question of how a
national champion will
even be crowned, with
the PAC-12 and Big Ten
opting not to play this
fall.
Masks and social dis-
ANALYSIS
a massive amount of tal-
ent loss, Ed Orgeron’s
recruiting classes have
averaged a national fin-
ish of 6.6 in the 247sports
Composite since he took
over in 2016.
MSU has proven ca-
pable of beating LSU
as recently as 2017 and
have more wins in Baton
Rouge over the Tigers
(18) than in Starkville (7)
since their series began
in 1896. That said, expect
the defending champs to
hold serve on home turf.
Oct. 3 — vs. Arkansas
I’ll keep this one short.
Sam Pittman has a hell of
a schedule to navigate in
tancing are hot topics
even with LSU trying
to repeat as national
champions without its
Heisman Trophy-win-
ning quarterback and Al-
abama aiming for anoth-
er national championship
run after failing to make
the playoffs last season.
Safety protocols have
been the norm around
football buildings, with
frequent testing and tem-
perature checks and a
largely bubble-like exis-
tence. But now students
are returning, creating
troublesome scenes on
some campuses, includ-
ing Alabama.
SEC coaches and of-
ficials have sounded the
alarm in efforts to save
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his first year as the head
coach in Fayetteville and
it’s looking increasing-
ly likely the Razorbacks
won’t win a game in 2020.
Florida transfer quarter-
back Feleipe Franks and
senior running back Ra-
keem Boyd could make
Arkansas mildly more in-
teresting than they were a
season ago, but this squad
is in rebuilding mode to
the ‘nth degree.
Oct. 10 — at Kentucky
Gone is one-man of-
fensive juggernaut Lynn
Bowden, but Kentucky
might actually be better
despite his loss. Start-
ing quarterback Terry
the season.
Alabama athletic
director Greg Byrne
Tweeted a photo Sunday
showing dozens of peo-
ple, many not wearing
face masks, bunched to-
gether waiting to get into
a popular bar in Tuscalo-
osa on the day sororities
accepted new members.
“Who wants college
sports this fall?? Obvi-
ously not these people!!”
Byrne said in a tweet,
urging people to wear
masks.
Likewise, Kiffin ad-
dressed the lack of pre-
cautions among some
people and predicted the
number of students test-
ing positive won’t be a
See SEC, 2B
Wilson is back after he
was sidelined all of last
season with a torn patel-
lar tendon and boasts a
12-3 record as a starter.
Senior Asim Rose and
sophomore Kavosiey
Smoke also both return at
running back and should
help Wilson lead a bal-
anced offensive attack,
while the Wildcat defense
brings back four of its five
leading tacklers a season
ago.
MSU narrowly es-
caped Kentucky in
Starkville last season
and a trip to Lexington
this fall could prove even
more taxing. If the Bull-
dogs hope to reach .500
Swanson’s walk-
off homer gives
Braves 7-6 win
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ATLANTA — Dans-
by Swanson hit a two-
out, two-run homer in
the bottom of the ninth
inning to cap a four-run
rally that gave the Atlan-
ta Braves a stunning 7-6
victory over the Wash-
ington Nationals on Mon-
day night.
With the Braves trail-
ing 6-3 against Washing-
ton closer Daniel Hudson
(1-2), Adam Duvall made
it close by hitting a two-
run shot that just cleared
the wall in left field. Jo-
han Camargo followed
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or better this year, this
game is a must-win.
Oct. 17 — No. 13 Texas
A&M
Stop me if you’ve heard
this before: This is the
year Texas A&M can
compete for an SEC title.
Since Jimbo Fisher ar-
rived in College Station
with expectations bigger
than the state of Texas
could even handle, the
Aggies have yet to break
through despite per-
sistent shouts that each
year could be their year.
Bringing back senior
quarterback Kellen Mond
See MSU, 2B
with a single, but Hud-
son retired the next two
hitters to put the Braves
down to their final out.
It never came.
Swanson drove one
over the wall in right-cen-
ter for the game winner.
When he got to home
plate, his teammates
toasted him from afar,
jumping up and down
with their hands in the
air.
The rally ruined a
memorable night for
Washington rookie Luis
Garcia, who became the
first player born in the
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2000s to hit a big league
homer.
The youngest player
in the majors at age 20,
Garcia hit a two-run shot
off Touki Toussaint in the
second inning. Asdrubal
Cabrera, Juan Soto and
Eric Thames also hom-
ered for the defending
World Series champs,
but it wasn’t enough.
Garcia, who was born
on May 16, 2000, came
into the shortened sea-
son as one of Washing-
ton’s top prospects. He
got his chance when Star-
lin Castro went on the in-
jured list with a broken
right wrist and doesn’t
MSU
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is assuredly a start giv-
en he’s among the most
experienced returning
signal-callers in the SEC
and has proved largely
effective in his three sea-
sons guiding the Aggie
offense.
MSU’s loss in Col-
lege Station last season
was uninspiring, though
whether that was a cred-
it to Texas A&M or a
down-on-its-luck team
isn’t clear. The Aggies
should be favored in this
one, but Fisher’s squad
has dropped four of their
last six against the Bull-
dogs — including three-
straight in Starkville. If
MSU has a chance at a
major upset this fall, it’s
this contest.
Oct. 31 — at No. 3
Alabama
New quarterback, no
problem in Tuscaloosa.
While Tua Tagovailoa is
off to the NFL, Alabama
returns fourth-year junior
Mac Jones under center
to guide what should be
another high-powered
and physical Crimson
Tide offense that also
boasts honorable mention
All-American running
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low one.
“If people think peo-
ple are doing this well,
open your eyes,” he
said. “Just drive around.
This ain’t kids. Adults
don’t do it. Just drive
through downtown and
look around or look at
pictures on the Internet
of other places.
“This is not taken
very serious by a lot of
people and especially by
young people who are
back at college that have
been sitting at their
house with their par-
ents for however many
months.”
But those are the
challenges SEC teams
look over-matched in the
least.
Two batters later,
Thames delivered an
even longer drive over
the center-field wall to
give the Nationals a 3-0
lead.
The Braves responded
with two runs in the bot-
tom half against Anibal
Sanchez, but Toussaint
surrendered another run
in the fourth without giv-
ing up a hit. The right-
hander hit a batter and
walked three more, in-
cluding Kurt Suzuki with
the bases loaded.
When Toussaint start-
ed the fourth with anoth-
back Najee Harris and
projected first round wide
receiver prospect DeVon-
ta Smith.
Defensively, Alabama
also returns a young core
from a unit that dipped
from No. 16 to No. 21 na-
tionally in total defense
between 2018 and 2019.
With five starters back
in Tuscaloosa, expect
this unit to be among the
country’s best.
MSU has beaten Al-
abama just twice since
2001 and the Crim-
son Tide have taken
12-straight from the Bull-
dogs in the series. Expect
that trend to continue in
2020 during this Hallow-
een affair.
Nov. 7 — vs. Vanderbilt
As was the case with
Arkansas, this will be
brief. Vanderbilt is likely
going to be bad; like real-
ly bad. The Commodores
have barely sniffed a win-
ning season since Jame
Franklin departed to be-
come the head coach at
Penn State and that’s not
likely to change this year.
Derrick Mason is pre-
sumably coaching for his
job and with a roster that
face with it becoming
harder for players to re-
main in their virtual pro-
tective bubble.
Auburn, for instance,
had 33 positive tests
among players over the
summer, according to
coach Gus Malzahn. A
high number of players
in quarantine either for
positive tests or contact
with those who have
the virus could derail a
team’s fortunes faster
than any injury wave.
It has Malzahn
talking about the im-
portance of not just
second-teamers but
third-teamers.
“It’s going to be a tell-
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er walk — his sixth of the
game — Braves manager
Brian Snitker had seen
enough. It was another
blow to Atlanta’s belea-
guered rotation, which
lost ace Mike Soroka to a
season-ending injury and
demoted two other start-
ers, Mike Foltynewicz
and Sean Newcomb.
Toussaint’s spot in the
rotation now appears in
jeopardy after another
shaky start. He gave up
four runs in three-plus in-
nings and threw only 34
of 73 pitches for strikes,
his ER A climbing to 7.97.
Cabrera went deep
off Grant Dayton for his
finished No. 101 in total
defense and No. 124 in to-
tal offense last year, Van-
derbilt is almost certainly
headed for another rough
season.
Chalk this one up as a
win for the Bulldogs.
Nov. 14 — vs. No. 11
Auburn
Last year’s trip to The
Plains was downright em-
barrassing for Joe Moor-
head and co. as MSU fell
behind 21-0 just over six
minutes into the contest
en route to a 56-23 thrash-
ing.
However, the Tigers’
vaunted defensive line
from last season suffered
its share of losses and will
have to reload when they
meet the Bulldogs this
fall.
It’s expected sopho-
more quarterback Bo
Nix, a former five-star re-
cruit in the class of 2019,
will take a step forward
with another year under
Gus Malzahn’s guidance.
Auburn also returns its
top three receivers from
a season ago in Seth Wil-
liams, Anthony Schwartz
and Eli Stove.
The Bulldogs and Ti-
ing time right now with
all the students coming
back to the campus,”
the Tigers coach said.
“What we’ve just told
our guys, is let’s control
us. Most of our classes
are going to be on line
for all our players, so
we’re just doing every-
thing we can to really
stay self-isolated to pro-
tect our players so we
have a good chance of
playing the season.”
Some players around
the country have opted
to sit out the season, and
Florida coach Dan Mul-
len expects more — and
perhaps some coaches,
too.
fifth homer of the season
in the fifth. Soto, on the
day he was announced
as NL player of the week,
led off the ninth with sev-
enth homer against Will
Smith (2-0).
TRAINER’S ROOM
Washington’s Howie
Kendrick did not start
for the third game in a
row because of a sore
hamstring. Manager
Dave Martinez said the
team is taking no chanc-
es with the oft-injured
veteran, though the in-
jury does not appear to
be serious. “We’ve just
got to be smart,” Marti-
gers have split their eight
meetings since 2012, but
Malzahn’s squad should
take the lead in 2020
against an MSU team
rebuilding under its first
year head coach.
Nov. 21 — at No. 4
Georgia
MSU drew Georgia as
one of its two additional
Southeastern Confer-
ence games this fall due
to COVID-19-related
scheduling changes.
The red and white
clad Bulldogs will be
among the favorites to
win the SEC East and
the additions of Wake
Forest graduate transfer
quarterback Jamie New-
man coupled with the
immediate eligibility of
USC import JT Daniels
should only strengthen
their case.
After finishing the
2019 season with the
nation’s No. 3 ranked
defense, Georgia will be
as stiff a test as any for
Leach’s air raid offense.
It’s unlikely MSU can
spring an upset in Ath-
ens, but the strength-on-
strength matchup should
“Really wouldn’t be
surprised if we had
coaches opt out, to be
honest with you,” said
Mullen, who declined to
identify which “couple”
of players were held out
of practice. “Coaches
are at such high risk be-
cause of the age group
that they’re in.”
But, he agrees with
Kiffin, saying “the team
that’s able to adapt will
end up holding up that
national championship
trophy at the end of the
season.”
Alabama coach Nick
Saban said he believes
there should still be a
playoff if the ACC, Big
nez said. “We don’t want
to lose him for three
weeks. If we lose him for
three weeks, that’s pretty
much game over.”
UP NEXT
Nationals: RHP Aus-
tin Voth (0-2, 3.21 ER A)
gets the nod for Wash-
ington on Tuesday in
the second game of the
series at Truist Park. He
is hoping to bounce back
from a rough outing at
New York, where he gave
up six hits, three runs
and two homers in four
innings against the Mets.
Braves: For the sec-
ond time in three games,
be intriguing nonethe-
less.
Nov. 28 — at Ole Miss
How on earth could
last season’s game get
more insane? We’ll find
out.
Lane Kiffin and Mike
Leach’s relationship date
back to their previous
stops at USC and Wash-
ington State, respectively,
and we’ll now see their
paths cross annually.
Ole Miss still has yet
to determine a starting
quarterback between
Matt Corral and John
Rhys Plumlee, but ju-
nior playmaker Elijah
Moore is back along with
the Rebels’ top five pass
catchers from a season
ago. So too is the sopho-
more running back tan-
dem of Jerrion Ealy and
Snoop Conner.
Predicting the out-
come of an Egg Bowl is
generally futile, but it
could be the difference
between a .500 or win-
ning record and a losing
one for MSU.
Dec. 5 — vs. Missouri
MSU is plenty famil-
12 and SEC play out a
season.
“That’s one of the
biggest questions our
players ask is, ‘Coach, if
we play will we be able
to play in a playoff? We
want a chance to play
for a championship if we
have a good season.’”
For his own safety,
the 68-year-old says
he and wife Terry have
stayed in a “personal
bubble” with immediate
family. He said he sits
on a park bench 10 feet
away when visiting his
88-year-old mom.
“I don’t fear this be-
cause we’re trying to do
the right thing and we
Atlanta’s beleaguered ro-
tation will go to the bull-
pen for a starter. RH Josh
Tomlin (1-0, 1.59) makes
his first start of the sea-
son, hoping to dupli-
cate the performance of
Robbie Erlin on Sunday.
Erlin went four innings
in a 4-0 victory over the
Marlins, giving the At-
lanta staff a much-need-
ed boost. While Tomlin
has been used mostly as
a reliever during his two
seasons with the Braves,
this is hardly a new role.
He made 144 starts over
nine seasons with Cleve-
land.
iar with former Appa-
lachian State coaches
after they fell to first
year Missouri head
coach Eliah Drinkwitz’s
former boss Scott Sat-
terfield and Louisville
in the 2019 Music City
Bowl.
And while Satterfield
spurned a quick turn-
around with the Cardi-
nal, Drinkwitz’s task
might prove more diffi-
cult.
Missouri was rela-
tively even-keel under
Barry Odom’s watch,
finishing no worse than
6 -6 over his final three
years. But with a roster
that returns less than
half it’s offensive pro-
duction at quarterback,
receiver and offensive
line according to The
Athletic, 2020 should be
a rebuilding season for
the Tigers.
Missouri senior Lar-
ry Rountree III is likely
to be among the SEC’s
top returning running
backs, but if MSU’s de-
fense can keep him in
check, this is a game
the Bulldogs should win
to close out Leach’s first
season in Starkville.
have great medical care
here and we have great
medical protocols here
to try to keep people
safe,” Saban said.
Georgia cornerback
Eric Stokes said play-
ers are safer on campus
than at home, but urged
students to wear masks,
wash hands and practice
other safety protocols.
Like the players them-
selves presumably are.
“I know for a fact
that everybody here on
our team wants to have
a season and play this
fall,” Stokes said. “So
we’re doing everything
in our power to make
sure we can.”

James on his return to postseason: ‘This is the toughest’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE BUENA VIS-
TA, Fla. — LeBron James
never took it for granted,
no matter how routine it
became.
He never counted on
playing even one playoff
game in a season, even
long after it became
viewed as a failure if he
didn’t play for a title. The
NBA is hard. He only
made it look easy.
And he said this post-
season, his first in two
years and the most un-
usual in league history,
will be his most challeng-
ing yet.
“This is the toughest
championship run for me
personally, for the cir-
cumstances of just being
in here,” he said after he
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
finished practice Monday
in a Disney World conven-
tion center ballroom.
His Los Angeles Lak-
ers cruised to the best re-
cord in the Western Con-
ference, but there are no
luxuries usually afforded
the No. 1 seed. There’s no
celebrities sitting court-
side at Staples Center to
boost them. There’s an
opponent, the Portland
Trail Blazers, who took
advantage of a four-month
break caused by the coro-
navirus pandemic to get
healthy and arrive with
a loaded roster that’s far
more talented than the av-
erage No. 8 seed.
The only sure thing
this time around might be
James’ mind.
“As far as me locking
in on an opponent and
FAMILY CIRCUS
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individuals, that hasn’t
changed,” James said.
“What’s different is this
environment. I’m not
home with my family. Not
in my own bed. I’m not
in our practice facility.
I’m not preparing to be
at Staples tomorrow with
our fans. I’m not with a lot
of things that’s essential
to my everyday regimen.
So that’s what’s different.
But as far as mentally,
that’s always going to be
sharp.”
So are his skills, of
course. He averaged
25.3 points and led the
NBA with 10.2 assists
per game, but the Lakers
needed much more than
that.
They needed some-
one to help steer them
through tragedy after
Kobe Bryant, one of the
franchise’s icons, was
killed in a helicopter
crash in January. And
they continue to count
on his experience as they
deal with the obstacles of
what’s potentially a three-
month road trip.
“He’s the best leader
I’ve ever been around
and just represents all
the right things,” Lakers
coach Frank Vogel said.
“Oozes class and we’re
just lucky to have him on
our squad and leading our
team.”
James was in the post-
season every year from
2006-18 and they weren’t
just cameos. He never
lost in the first round and
didn’t lose at all until the
NBA Finals in the last
eight years of that stretch,
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
My wife left
me a little
over two years
ago, and I can’t
seem to get over
it. All she said was
that we had an
“emotional dis-
connect.” I don’t
believe she was
unfaithful.
All I can think
about is being
with her, and I
cringe if I think
about her being
with someone Dear Abby
else. I’m a profes-
sional with a good career and
pension, and I have been ap-
proached by some nice women
who would like to date. How can
I get over my feelings for my ex?
— LONELY IN THE PLAINS
DEAR LONELY: Have you
been getting out and partici-
pating in leisure activities since
your wife left? That would be
one way to get your mind off her Help! — UNEASY IN OREGON
because sitting around thinking
about her is counterproductive.
Your ex should have been
more specific about why she
left. Understanding would have
helped you start to really heal.
Because it has been two years
and you haven’t been able to
work this out, please talk with
a licensed psychotherapist.
Your physician or your health
insurance provider can give
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug.
18). You’re not one to take a
risk just for the thrill of it, but
you’ll risk quite a lot for the
results and people you deem
worthy, and that’s precisely
what makes this year stellar.
You’ll go all in, and not only will
it be enormously satisfying in
the moment; you’ll look back in
pride and astonishment at who
you are and all that unfolds.
Virgo and Scorpio adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 19, 10,
4, 18 and 12.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Do not doubt that you can go
beyond your previous limits.
“Start by doing what’s neces-
the first four in Miami and
the last four in Cleveland.
But the first serious
injury of his career, a
groin injury sustained
on Christmas 2018 in his
first season in Los Ange-
les, doomed the Lakers.
Their playoff hopes were
long since gone when he
shut it down for good at
the end of March.
His return to the play-
offs took longer than ex-
pected because of the sea-
son’s suspension, with the
usual mid-April start this
time coming in mid-Au-
gust. That makes it 26
months since James’ last
postseason game, back
on June 8, 2018 in Cleve-
land, when the Warriors
completed a sweep.
By then there was a
sense that James, who
you the names of
qualified profes-
sionals. Please
don’t wait to ask.
DEAR ABBY:
My daughter just
informed me that
she will be hang-
ing a deer head
in their living
room. Her live-in
boyfriend loves
to hunt, and she
is doing this for
him. Just thinking
about it makes
me physically ill.
My thoughts turn
to a dying animal
who is suffering.
My husband and I gave my
daughter $12,000 to buy this
home. I want her to rethink
her decision based on the fact
that this disturbs me, not that
I’m trying to push her around
because we gave her this
money. I know she will take it
personally and be upset at me.
DEAR UNEASY: I think we
both know your daughter is
an adult and entitled to make
that decision without worrying
that her fella’s hobby bothers
you. We don’t have to like it
or approve. Because what’s
upsetting you is the idea that
the deer suffered, ask your
daughter (or him) how many
shots it took to take the crea-
ture down. If it was more than
sary; then do what’s possible;
and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.” — St. Francis of
Assisi
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
It’s easier to forgive an enemy
than it is to let someone close
to you off the hook. Do both. No
one is ever so free as they are
when they are free of resent-
ment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Inside every long-term, mutually
caring relationship, a little im-
patience must fall. How these
less-than-ideal moments get
handled can be defining in the
relationship. It’s an opportunity
for grace and resilience.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020 3B
would become a free
agent that summer, might
choose to leave the Cava-
liers again.
There was no such
thought it would be so
long until his next post-
season game.
Still, his mind is on
more than basketball.
He was one of the sign-
ers Monday of an open
letter written by More
Than A Vote, a coalition of
Black athletes and artists
whose mission is to “edu-
cate, energize and protect
Black voters.” The coali-
tion partnered with the
Los Angeles Dodgers to
use Dodger Stadium as a
vote center for the pres-
idential election in No-
vember and is aiming get
more arenas and sports
facilities in use.
one, you might be happier en-
tertaining them in your home.
DEAR ABBY: My wife and
I retired five years ago. I have
adequate savings and an
excellent pension for us to live
comfortably.
I took up a hobby three
years ago that generates
about $5,000 in annual
income, which I put aside in
a separate bank account. My
wife asked, “What are you
saving that money for?” I said,
“Maybe a classic car, helping
with a family reunion (on my
side)”, etc. She responded,
“We need to be on the same
page about how it gets spent
because half of it is mine.”
When I reached out to my
son for his insight, he sided
with her because (legally)
half of what I have is hers. I
have no problem consulting
with her on a major expendi-
ture coming out of our other
savings, but on this one I feel
she is controlling and petty.
Your thoughts? — HOBBY IN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR HOBBY: I agree with
you. Not only that, but she also
lacks tact.
Dear Abby is written by Ab-
igail Van Buren, also known
as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother,
Pauline Phillips. Contact
Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.
com or P.O. Box 69440, Los
Angeles, CA 90069.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Questions will lead you down a
path. Don’t be overly eager to
get to the answer. Answers may
be briefly satisfying, but once
they come, the journey is over.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You
are needed, and it’s wonderful
to feel like your help makes a
difference. Accept help when it
is offered and you’ll allow some-
one else to feel this wonderful
feeling.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
If today were an orchestration,
your contribution would be
along the lines of a bassoon
part, which is to say essential
although low-key and not in the
least bit self-serious.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Those who care to show you
part of the world you wouldn’t
otherwise know are giving you
love in a very useful form. You’ll
soon enjoy paying this forward.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). You rely on those you
love, and you like that they rely
on you, but if you didn’t have
one another, you’d each stand
up just fine on your own. The
leaning you do is a dance, more
artful than it is necessary.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). People have different ca-
pacities for understanding and
processing one another. Be pa-
tient with this. Communication
is trickier and more nuanced
than usual today.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Cause and effect isn’t al-
ways obvious or timely. Some of
what you are experiencing today
is part of a cycle that began at
least a decade ago. It makes
you think about what you’re
starting right now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). It’s the simple decisions
— the yes/no/stay/go variety
— that will make the biggest
difference in how things develop
from here. Don’t know what
you’re doing? Just say yes,
then. You’ll learn as you go.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). When you give of yourself
without pretense or agenda,
your honest and pure attention
is a precious gift. Pay attention
to who appreciates that.
Asymptomatic
SOLUTION:
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DECEASED
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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF STEVE ERWIN CURRY, contracts to Mississippi Con-
DECEASED
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0055-JNS
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THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: All Unknown Heirs-at-Law of Each Bidder must deposit with
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ceived by the Oktibbeha County
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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
TO: RONALD GRAY, LOUIS
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-
ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27-
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
the Plaintiff is Martha Bost
Stegall, P. O. Box 7120, Tu-
pelo, Mississippi 38802. Oth-
er than the Statement of Val-
ues you are not required to file
an Answer or other pleading
but you may do so if you de-
sire.
Issued under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this 30th
day of July, 2020.
TERESA BARKSDALE, CLERK
SPECIAL COURT OF EMINENT
DOMAIN,
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 THE MATTER OF ORANJULA
SHANKLIN, DECEASED
LYNETTE SHANKLIN, PETITION-
ER
NO. 2018-0106-B
SUMMONS
(Publication)
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
TO: HEIRS-AT-LAW AND
WRONGFUL DEATH BENEFI-
CIARIES OF ORANJULA SHANK-
LIN, DECEASED, not known to
Petitioner
You have been made a Defend-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Lynette Shanklin, Peti-
tioner, to determine Heirs-at-
Law and Wrongful Death Bene-
ficiaries. Defendants other
than you in this action are
none.
You are summoned to appear
then and there at 9:00 a.m. on
the 23rd day of September,
2020, at the Lowndes County
Chancery Courthouse in Colum-
bus, Mississippi, to show
cause, if you can, why the Peti-
tion filed in this civil action by
said Lynette Shanklin, and ex-
hibited against you should not
be allowed and approved and
relief demanded therein gran-
ted.
You are not required to file an
answer or other pleading but
may do so if desired. Issued
under my hand and the seal of
said Court this the 12th day of
August, 2020.
CINDY GOODE, CHANCERY
CLERK
BY: Cindy E. Goode, Clerk
BY: Shantrell W. Granderson,
D.C.
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE
GUARDIANSHIP OF A.I.S., A
MINOR
CAUSE NO.: 2020-0162-JNS
BY PETITIONERS: LONNIE
DWAYNE SHEPPEARD and
KARINA DORENE SHEPPEARD
THE RELIEF SOUGHT HEREIN
MAY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL
RIGHTS. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO
NOTICE OF ANY HEARING ON
THIS PETITION, TO ATTEND
ANY SUCH HEARING, AND TO
BE REPRESENTED BY AN AT-
TORNEY.
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: AMANDA INEZ ABSHIRE
Last known address:
13623 Hamshire Road
Hamshire, TX 77622
You have been made a re-
spondent in the Petition for Ap-
pointment of Guardians of a
Minor under Section 202 [Doc.
No. 2] filed August 11, 2020,
by Petitioners, Lonnie Dwayne
Sheppeard, also known as
Dwayne Sheppeard, and Karina
Dorene Sheppeard, also known
as Dori Sheppeard, seeking
guardianship of A.I.S., a minor
child born xx/xx/2011. Other
than you and the Petitioners,
the only other interested party
in this action is Toby Wayne
Stanford.
You are summoned to appear
and represent your interests
against said Petition before the
Honorable Joseph N. Studdard,
Chancellor of the 14th Chan-
cery District at 9:00 a.m. on
the 18th day of September
2020, at the Oktibbeha County
Courthouse in Starkville, 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
seal of said Court, this the
14th day of August 2020.
CINDY E. GOODE, CHANCERY
CLERK
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
(SEAL)
BY:/s/ Shantrell W. Grander-
son, D.C.
PUBLISH: 8/18, 8/25 &
9/1/2020
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,
and Any Unknown Parties In In-
terest
All Unknown Heirs-at-Law of Jef-
frey Mark Plyler, deceased, and PUBLISH: 8/18, 8/25 &
Any Unknown Parties In In-
terest
You have been made a defend-
ant in the Petition for Adjudica-
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-
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,
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
seal of said Court, this the 7th
day of August 2020.
CINDY EGGER GOODE, CHAN-
CERY CLERK
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
(SEAL)
BY: /s/ Shantrell W. Grander-
son, D.C.
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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
TO: CAMERON COLEMAN who
is not to be found in the State
of Mississippi on diligent in-
quiry and whose post office ad-
dress is unknown.
You have been made a Defend-
ant in the suit filed in this
Court by Chyna Marchbanks
seeking custody of the minor
child, Camilla Coleman.
YOU ARE SUMMONED TO AP-
PEAR AND DEFEND AGAINST
THE PETITION FILED AGAINST
YOU IN THIS ACTION AT 9:30
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.
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 29TH
day of July, A.D., 2020.
CINDY E. GOODE
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
County, Mississippi
BY: TINA FISHER
PUBLISH: 8/4, 8/11 &
8/18/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: ESTATE OF NELLIE J.
CALDWELL, DECEASED
LYNN C. SAUCER, EXECUTRIX
NO. 2020-0165-PDE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary have
been granted and issued to
Lynn C. Saucer, Executrix of
the Estate of Nellie J. Caldwell,
deceased, by the Chancery
Court of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, on the 13th day of Au-
gust, 2020. This is to give no-
tice to all persons having
claims against said estate to
Probate and Register same
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days after
the first publication of this No-
tice to Creditors. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
claim will forever bar the same.
/s/ Lynn C. Saucer
Lynn C. Saucer, Executrix
OF COUNSEL:
Aubrey E. Nichols, MB # 3842
The Nichols Firm, PLLC
Post Office Box 1081
Columbus, MS 39703-1081
(662) 243-7312
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9/1/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: ESTATE OF OLIVIA DI-
ANE WARD GATEWOOD, DE-
CEASED
DAVID WARD GATEWOOD, AD-
MINISTRATOR
CAUSE NO.: 2020-00150-JNS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters Testamentary have
been granted and issued to the
undersigned upon the Estate of
OLIVIA DIANE WARD GATE-
WOOD, Deceased, by the Chan-
cery Court of Lowndes County,
Mississippi, on the 6th day of
August, A.D., 2020. This is to
give notice to all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate
to Probate and Register same
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
DAVID WARD GATEWOOD
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8/25/2020
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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
Letters of Administration have
been granted and issued to the
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.
/s/ Jamie Michelle Carag
PUBLISH: 8/11, 8/18, &
8/25/2020
THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF MILTON
LEWIS, DECEASED
CASTELLA HENDERSON, AD-
MINISTRATRIX
CASUE NO.: 2020-0299-PDE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters of Administration have
been granted and issued to the
undersigned upon the estate of
MILTON LEWIS, deceased, by
the Chancery Court of Lowndes
County, Mississippi, on the
12th day of August A.D., 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 this date. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
claim will forever bar the same.
This the 14th day of August,
2020.
s/ Castella Henderson
CASTELLA HENDERSON
Administratrix of the Estate of
Milton Lewis, Deceased
Published: 8/18, 8/25 &
9/1/2020
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
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters of Administration have
been granted and issued to the
undersigned upon the Estate of
William David Plyler, deceased,
by the Chancery Court of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
on the 31st day of July 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 31st day of July 2020.
/s/ Mary Ann Plyler, Adminis-
tratrix
PUBLISH: 8/4, 8/11 &
8/18/2020
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID PRO-
POSALS
MISCELLANEOUS COUNTY
ROAD WORK
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
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
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-
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
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$___/ PER MILE Bid N: Furnish and install 4”
wide traffic stripe (continuous
Bid C: Removal of existing as- yellow) in accordance with Sec-
phalt pavement on county road- tion S-619 of the Standard
ways in accordance with Sec- Specifications for State-Aid
tion S-202 of the Standard Road and Bridge Construction,
Specifications for State-Aid latest edition.
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition. Bids shall be based on a rate
road and bridge repair at which
time they will be publicly
opened and read aloud.
Bid A: Furnish and install soil-
cement base stabilization for
county roadways in accord-
ance with Section S-308-A and
S-308-B of the Standard Spe-
cifications for State-Aid Road
and Bridge Construction, latest
edition. Application rate is
39.71 pounds per square yard
for 8 inch incorporation depth
over 22 feet roadway width.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
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$__/ PER MILE
Bid B: Mill existing asphalt
and/or DBST and furnish and
install soil-cement base stabil-
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
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-
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
double bituminous surface
treatment for county roadways
in accordance with Section S-
410 of the Standard Specifica-
tions for State-Aid Road and
Bridge Construction, latest edi-
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
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction,
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.
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
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition. Length = 20 ft.
$__/ PER EACH
Bid G: Furnish and install HP-
10x42 piles in accordance with
Section S-803 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition. Length = 30 ft.
$__/ PER EACH
Bid H: Furnish and install 4”
wide thermoplastic edge stripe
(continuous white) (60 mil) in
accordance with Section S-621
of the Standard Specifications
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
(skip yellow) (90 mil) in accord-
ance with Section S-621 of the
Standard Specifications for
State-Aid Road and Bridge Con-
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
of the Standard Specifications
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.
$__/ PER LINEAR FOOT
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,
latest edition.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per square foot and shall in-
clude all materials and labor
necessary to complete the
work.
$___/ PER SQUARE FOOT
Bid L: Furnish and install 4”
wide traffic stripe (continuous
white) in accordance with Sec-
tion S-619 of the Standard
Specifications 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 M: Furnish and install 4”
wide traffic stripe (skip yellow)
in accordance with Section S-
619 of the Standard Specifica-
tions for State-Aid Road and
Bridge Construction, latest edi-
tion.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$___/ PER MILE
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$___/ PER MILE
Bid M: Furnish and install 4”
wide traffic stripe (skip yellow)
in accordance with Section S-
619 of the Standard Specifica-
tions for State-Aid Road and
Bridge Construction, latest edi-
tion.
Bids shall be based on a rate
per mile and shall include all
materials and labor necessary
to complete the work.
$___/ PER MILE
Bid N: Furnish and install 4”
wide traffic stripe (continuous
yellow) in accordance with Sec-
tion S-619 of the Standard
Specifications for State-Aid
Road and Bridge Construction,
latest edition.
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