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Suspect ignites mop to swipe Lowe’s pressure washer

Shelton: ‘Why would you commit a felony to commit a misdemeanor?’
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN 10:30 or 11 a.m. the store at about the same
ialtman@cdispatch.com Andrews said it time.
was a small fire While police do not have a
Columbus Po- set on the mop suspect yet, Shelton said inves-
lice Department aisle — investi- tigators are currently reviewing
is investigating gators believe store surveillance footage. The
what authorities to an actual mop suspect will face charges of
believe to have — that automat- felony arson and misdemeanor
been an inten- ically triggered Andrews shoplifting.
tional fire set in the store’s sprinkler system, “It’s kind of extreme,” Shel-
Lowe’s Sunday which had mostly put the fire ton said. “Why would you com-
Shelton
morning. out by the time firefighters ar- mit a felony to commit a misde-
CPD Chief Fred Shelton rived. meanor?”
Courtesy photo
and Columbus Fire and Res- Authorities believe some- No one was injured during
Investigators in Columbus are searching for a suspect who set a
cue Chief Martin Andrews one set the fire to create a the incident, and Lowe’s closed fire in the mop aisle of Lowe’s on Military Road Sunday morning.
said firefighters responded distraction so he or she could for the rest of the day, Andrews Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton and Columbus Fire and Rescue
to a call about the fire at the shoplift. Shelton said a pres- said. It reopened Monday. Chief Martin Andrews said authorities believe the suspect set the
Military Road store at around sure washer was taken from See FIRE, 6A fire as a distraction so he or she could steal a pressure washer.

Absentee voting FAMILY WALK

up more than
50 percent
from 2016 in
Golden Triangle
With 7 days to election
day, nearly 6K area
voters have already
cast ballots
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com

Months ago, long

before absentee vot-
ing for the Nov. 3
election began, Clay
County Circuit Clerk
Kim Brown Hood
was notified by the
Secretary of State’s
office to expect a lot Hood
more people to vote
by absentee than
during the 2016 presi-
dential election.
“We were told be-
fore the start to esti-
mate 25 percent more Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
absentee votes,” LaDrae White, left, and Mia Vaughn take a walk with Vaughn’s 7-month-old daughter, Leilani Jackson, at the Collegiate
Hood said. Rook
Heights apartment complex Monday evening. The three of them go on family walks around the complex in southern Starkville
While Hood isn’t regularly, Vaughn said.
sure what the fi-
nal absentee voting
numbers were in her
county in 2016, she’s
pretty sure the num-
bers are substantially
higher than 25 per-
cent.
Barksdale Two arrested for felony domestic
violence in separate shootings
“We’ve had more absentee votes
than I ever imagined,” she said
Monday.
With seven days to go before
the election, 1,264 Clay County
voters have already cast their ab- Shelton: Incidents are isolated, unrelated aggravated assault. Shelton
said McCaa shot an individu-
sentee ballots, some by mail, most
by in-person voting, which has kept to shootings from previous weekend al on Gregory Road at about
10 p.m. Saturday. The shoot-
her office extremely busy for weeks BY ISABELLE ALTMAN assault-domestic violence. ing was in retaliation for the
now. ialtman@cdispatch.com She is accused of shooting victim apparently beating up
What’s happening with absentee
ballots in Clay County is hardly an a romantic partner in her his girlfriend, a family mem-
Two people have been ar-
anomaly. Forrest Boulevard home ber of McCaa’s.
rested for domestic violence
According to a Secretary of after two separate Saturday Saturday at 8 p.m. after the Whitmore McCaa “(He) was giving him
State’s Office update Monday, night shootings in Colum- two argued, Columbus Po- juries. some of what he was giving
169,000 Mississippians have cast bus. lice Chief Fred Shelton said. Then on Monday, Devario his girlfriend,” Shelton said.
absentee ballots, 58,000 more than Breeze Whitmore, 22, The victim was flown to an McCaa, 29, of Columbus, Shelton said in that case,
in 2016. That’s a 52-percent in- was arrested Sunday and out-of-town hospital and is turned himself in to Colum- the victim was treated and
See VOTING, 6A charged with aggravated still being treated for his in- bus Police Department for See SHOOTINGS, 6A

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means of passing over bogs and Oedipus” online at honors.ms-
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marshes in which country — Argenti- state.edu and broadcast at vary-
na, the Netherlands or Zambia? Lowndes County
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vian nation are popular tourist destina- facebook.com/

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tions for northern Europeans? LowndesCounty-
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sored from which classic film? munity Soup Kitchen fundraiser Lowndes County
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Issues important to Trump

await Barrett on Supreme Court
Amy Coney Barrett, confirmed on Monday by
the Senate in a 52-48 virtual party line vote, is
expected to begin work as a justice today
BY MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— Amy Coney Bar-
rett’s first votes on
the Supreme Court
could include two big
topics affecting the
man who appointed
her.
The court is weigh- Barrett
ing a plea from President Donald
Trump to prevent the Manhattan
district attorney from acquiring his
tax returns. It is also considering
appeals from the Trump campaign
and Republicans to shorten the
deadline for receiving and counting
absentee ballots in the battleground
states of North Carolina and Penn-
sylvania.
It’s not certain Barrett will take
part in any of these issues, but she
will make that call.
Barrett was confirmed Monday
by the Senate in a 52-48 virtual par-
ty line vote. She is expected to begin
work as a justice on Tuesday after
taking the second of two oaths re-
quired of judges by federal law. No
justice has assumed office so close
to a presidential election or immedi-
ately confronted issues so directly
tied to the incumbent president’s
political and personal fortunes.
At 48, she’s the youngest justice
since Clarence Thomas joined the
court in 1991 at age 43.
Other election-related issues are
pending at the high court, which
next week also will hear a clash of
LGBTQ rights and religious free-
doms. The fate of the Affordable
Care Act is on the agenda on Nov.
10, and Trump himself last week
reiterated his opposition to the
Obama-era law. “I hope they end
it,” he said in an interview with CBS
News’ “60 Minutes.”
On Friday, Barrett, the most
open opponent of abortion rights
to join the court in decades, also
could be called upon to weigh in on
Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
The state is appealing lower court
rulings invalidating the ban. Abor-
tion opponents in Pittsburgh also
are challenging a so-called bubble
zone that prevents protesters from
getting too close to abortion clinics.
The court put off acting on both
cases before Barrett joined the
court, without offering any expla-
nation in the Mississippi case. It or-
dered Pittsburgh to file a response
to the appeal filed by the protesters,
who call themselves sidewalk coun-
selors.
It’s not clear that the public will
know how Barrett voted in the two
abortion cases because the court
typically doesn’t make the vote
counts public when it is consider-
ing whether to grant full review to
cases.

Biden goes on offense in Georgia, Trump targets Midwest

President is staying focused on states
that he flipped in 2016: Pennsylvania,
Michigan and Wisconsin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — in 2016, later in the
One week until Election
Day, Joe Biden is going
on offense, heading Tues-
day to Georgia — which
hasn’t backed a Democrat
for president since 1992
— and pushing into other
territory where President
Donald Trump was once
expected to easily repeat
his wins from four years
ago.
The Democratic presi-
dential nominee planned
to travel to Iowa, which
Trump took by 10 points
week. His running mate,
California Sen. Kamala
Harris, is heading to Ar-
izona and Texas, where
Republicans haven’t lost
any statewide office since
1994 — the nation’s lon-
gest political winning
streak.
The aggressive sched-
ule is a sign of confidence
by the Biden team, which
is trying to stretch the
electoral map and open up
more paths to 270 elector-
al college votes. But after
Democrats flirted with
GOP territory in 2016,
only to lose those states
as well as their traditional
Midwestern strongholds,
Biden’s campaign is
mindful of overreaching.
The former vice presi-
dent will also visit in the
coming days Wisconsin,
Michigan and Florida.
Georgia, where Biden
will make two stops on
Tuesday, has increasingly
become a draw for Dem-
ocrats in recent years, as
turnout increases among
Black voters and the At-
lanta suburbs tilt away
from the GOP.
“If this was the Geor-
gia of 2008, 2012, I think
there’s no way we would
have seen a Biden come
this late,” said Nsé Ufot,
chief executive officer of
the New Georgia Project,
which aims to increase
voter registration, espe-
cially among young peo-
ple and minorities. “It’s a
loud signal and acknowl-
edgment of Georgia as a
battleground state.”
Trump is staying fo-
cused on the so-called
“blue wall” states that he
flipped in 2016: Pennsyl-
vania, Michigan and Wis-
consin, where he’ll return
on Tuesday to hit West Sa-
lem just three days after
holding a Janesville rally.

Counting the vote: Will we know who won on election night?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAYS UNTIL Trump has repeatedly
warned of voting fraud
right now in Pennsylva-
nia, votes that arrive by
Millions of Americans
THE ELECTION without offering any ev- mail three days after Nov.

have already voted, but
each state has different
rules on when it’s allowed
to actually start count-
ing those ballots. That is
going to produce results
coming in at very differ-
ent times — perhaps days
or even weeks after Elec-
tion Day.
In some places, elec-
tion officials can begin
processing ballots weeks
before Election Day. That
means workers can start
verifying voter informa-
tion while also removing
ballots from their enve-
lopes to physically get
them ready for tabulation.
Doing so readies ballots
for counting on Election
Day and will speed up the
release of results.
7
But it’s not that simple.
In some of the most crit-
ical battleground states,
laws prevent the early pro-
cessing of ballots. So on
Nov. 3, Election Day, of-
ficials will have to run an
in-person election while
also working through the
unprecedented number
of mail-in votes. This dy-
namic is likely to delay
results and heighten the
potential for big shifts if
in-person vote tallies are
upended by the counting
of mail-in ballots.
President Donald
idence. Because of that,
there are concerns that
he will use delays in
vote-counting to declare
results illegitimate. While
results might come in lat-
er than usual this year,
that’s because of a change
in how people are voting,
not malfeasance or fraud.
Here is another wrin-
kle: Nationwide delivery
delays at the U.S. Postal
Service are sparking fears
that ballots might not ar-
rive in time to be count-
ed. Republicans, includ-
ing Trump’s campaign,
have been filing lawsuits
to stop election officials
from counting ballots that
are delivered after Elec-
tion Day.
For example: As of
3 will be counted, after an
intense legal battle that
went all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court last
week. Republicans have
filed another suit against
the extension. Also, Penn-
sylvania doesn’t allow ear-
ly processing of mail-in
ballots, further complicat-
ing matters.
In Michigan, anoth-
er hotly contested state,
an appeals court has
struck down a 14-day bal-
lot-counting extension,
leading the state’s top
election official to urge
voters to drop off their
ballots in person rather
than use the Postal Ser-
vice. Courts have also
nixed similar extensions
in Wisconsin and Indiana.

Mississippi governor’s mask mandate expands to 16 counties
Reeves said he does not anticipate setting a
statewide mandate for people to wear masks
to polling places on or before the election
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi
Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday
that he is extending a mask
mandate to seven additional
counties to try to control the
spread of the coronavirus as
cases increase rapidly in some
areas.
His new order takes effect
The following arrests
were made by Lowndes
County Sheriff’s Office:
n Armando Barry, 41,
was charged with posses-
sion of cocaine and three
counts possession of a
controlled substance.
n Anthony Crathin,
24, was charged with ag-
gravated assault with a
weapon or other means to
produce death.
n William Dean, 44,
was charged with posses-
sion of distillery.
n Javaris Johnson, 36,
was charged with two
counts trafficking of con-
trolled substances, con-
tempt of court and failure
to appear.
n William Nethery,
46, was charged with sex
offender registration fail-
ure.
n Kristen Pierson,
24, was charged with
two counts possession of
methamphetamine and
felony taking of a motor
vehicle.
n Donavan Prather,
18, was charged with pos-
session of methamphet-
amine.
n Tarcari Walker, 42,
was charged with bur-
glary of inhabited dwell-
ing at night with deadly
force.
The following arrests
were made by the Oktib-
beha County Sheriff’s Of-
fice:
n Alex Juan, 27, was
charged with hold for oth-
er agency and DUI first
offense.
n Jaylon Davis, 22,
was charged with receiv-
ing stolen property and
no seatbelt.
n Todd Burkis, 51, was
charged with a circuit
court order.
n Tevin Hodges, 29,
was charged with a parole
violation.
n Fajion Hill, 22, was
charged with a circuit
court order.
n Derrick Bell, 42,
was charged with a cir-
cuit court order.
10 shot, 2 fatally, at post-
funeral gathering in Mississippi
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENWOOD — Ten
people were shot, two
fatally, during a post-fu-
neral gathering in Missis-
sippi over the weekend,
police said.
Jonathan Pitts, 42, and
his sister Katrina Pitts,
41, died at the scene of the
shooting late Saturday in
Greenwood, the Green-
wood Commonwealth re-
ported.
The siblings and oth-
er relatives from Chicago
were in Greenwood to at-
tend their grandmother’s
funeral, investigators
said. A gathering with
family from both cities
was held after the ser-
vices.
Greenwood Depu-
ty Police Chief Marvin
Hammond said he could
not immediately provide
an age range of the other
shooting victims or their
conditions.
Eyewitnesses told po-
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in the state, Harrison and Mad-
ison, along with the less-pop-
reduce the risk of spread and
overwhelming the health care
wear a mask,” Reeves said.
Mississippi confirmed its
ulated Benton, Carroll, Jones,
Leake and Marshall counties.
system — you go out in pub-
lic, wear a mask,” Reeves said
first cases of COVID-19 in
March. For the first few months,
Those with restrictions he set during a news conference. Reeves set county-by-county
last week are DeSoto, Jackson, “Stay socially distanced. Don’t mask mandates only in places
Wednesday and lasts until at Lee, Forrest, Lamar, Itawamba, get close to one another. Don’t with rapidly increasing case
least Nov. 11. When it is in place, Neshoba, Claiborne and Chick- have big events ... for social pur- numbers. His only statewide
16 of Mississippi’s 82 counties asaw counties. poses.” mask mandate was in place
will have a requirement for peo- Reeves said the restrictions The Republican governor from Aug. 4 to Sept. 30.
ple to wear face coverings when are in counties that have had at said he does not anticipate that The state health department
they are indoors away from least 200 confirmed virus cases he will set a statewide mandate said Monday that Mississip-
their homes. Social gatherings or at least 500 confirmed cases for people to wear masks to poll- pi, with a population of about
in those 16 counties also will be per 100,000 residents during a ing places on or before the Nov. 3 million, has reported more
limited to 10 people indoors or recent two-week period. 3 election. than 115,000 confirmed cases
50 people outdoors. “If you live anywhere in “I do anticipate that the vast and at least 3,263 deaths from
The counties Reeves is add- Mississippi and you want to majority of Mississippians, COVID-19 as of Sunday eve-
ing are two of the larger ones be in the game and help us when they go vote, are going to ning.
AREA ARRESTS
Hurricane warning
for New Orleans as Zeta
swirls over Mexico
BY GABRIEL ALCOCER
The Associated Press
Barry Crathin Dean Johnson Nethery Pierson
CANCUN, Mexico — Storm-weary Louisi-
ana is once again under a hurricane warning,
with Zeta leaving Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
on a path that could hit New Orleans Wednesday
night.
Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy At-
lantic season, made landfall as a hurricane just
north of the ancient Mayan city of Tulum with
Prather Walker Juan Davis Burkis Hodges maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. It weak-
ened to a tropical storm as it crossed over land,
but it was expected to regain its strength over the
Gulf of Mexico.
Zeta’s top winds were 70 mph early Tuesday,
centered about 560 miles south of the mouth of
the Mississippi River. If Zeta makes landfall in
Louisiana, it will be the fifth named storm to hit
the state this year, joining Cristobal, Laura, Mar-
co and Delta.
Hill Bell Norwood Thompson Phillips J. Evans Zeta was still drenching the northern Yucatan
as its center moved over the water. Quintana Roo
state Gov. Carlos Joaquín warned that “nobody
should be on the streets ... you shouldn’t go out
anymore” until the storm passed.
Tucker Dobbins Reed Young Wright Black
Bush Miller Neal L. Evans Peterson Hagens
n Elmer Norwood, 37, with aggravated assault. hold.
was charged with was n Rachel Reed, 33, n Timothy Neal, 37,
charged with a circuit was charged with proba- was charged with a DUI
court order. tion violation. 3rd offense.
n Jamaunte Thomp- n Braxton Young, 27, n Lela Evans, 21, was
son, 34, was charged with was charged with shots charged with possession
a circuit court order. fired. of a stolen firearm, ex-
n Kennedy Phillips, n Kelly Wright, 39, pired drivers license and
23, was charged with em- was charged with a cir- no seatbelt.
bezzlement. cuit court order. n George Peterson,
n Jakava Evans, 24, n Roy Black 59, was 34, was charged with
was charged with posses- charged with an indict- possession of marijuana
sion of a stolen firearm. ment. more than 30 grams and
n Lamarcus Tucker, n Alex Bush, 39, was sale of marijuana.
21, was charged with charged with an indict- n Johnathan Hagens,
grand larceny. ment. 19, was charged with
n Macklwayne Dob- n Jacquet Miller, 45, armed robbery and carry-
bins, 53, was charged was charged with MDOC ing a concealed weapon.
lice a semiautomatic rifle been made as of Sunday.
was used, and officers Hammond did not im-
picked up shell casings mediately respond to a
from an AR-15. Hammond telephone message Mon-
said the assailant was day from The Associated
gone by the time officers Press seeking additional
arrived. No arrests had information.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE CARTOONIST VIEW

Believes polling places
should enforce mask mandates
One of the stated reasons for not enforcing
the local mask mandate at the polls is that
some people might be disenfranchised. An
interesting reason. Some people might be in-
convenienced by wearing a mask and choose
not to vote to avoid the inconvenience. Other
people, many at high risk of terrible outcomes
from infection, may choose not to vote to pro-
tect their lives and the health of their families.
It seems to me that someone in one group or
the other is going to be disenfranchised. I
cannot believe that anyone thinks that these
two obstacles are equivalent.
Mississippi has already denied people the
right to absentee ballots unless they can clear
a high hurdle, forcing them to the polls to vote
at all. This Columbus ruling makes voting a
life-threatening event.
Then, consider the poll workers, inhaling
the aerosols of hundreds of barefaced people,
most of whom have done nothing to avoid in-
fection to this point. There they will sit, in an
enclosed space, for hours on end as aerosols
concentrate, at a time when COVID-19 cases
are at record highs.
The other stated reason for the ruling is
wrong on the face of it. The lack of a Feder-
al mandate to wear a mask is not an order
against local mandates. Further, this is not a
Federal election. It is a local election for fed-
eral offices, with ballot initiatives for medical
marijuana and on acceptance of a flag design
that are for Mississippi alone. President
Trump himself obeyed the local mandate to
wear a mask at his polling place, so apparently
SLIMANTICS

Will medical marijuana go up in smoke?

the Department of Justice has no objection.
My cynical side tells me that there may be
a partisan motive in all this. Bare-faces tend
to be Republicans, and wearing a mask will

I
not stop many from voting in such a charged t is almost comical ceeded past this point, Ok, then, but what about the
election. Mask-wearers tend to be Democrats, the lengths Missis- you can proceed to children?
and since they wear masks, they will see the sippi’s establish- choose whether you In case you were wondering, 65
decision to vote in an enclosed space around ment has gone to make prefer 65 or 65A. dictates that dispensaries cannot
those not wearing masks as having much sure Mississippi does If 65 attracts more be located within 500 feet of a
more serious potential consequences, and too not have a medical mar- of the “EEE/KNEE” school, which is the zoning that
many will opt for safety first. This issue needs ijuana program. votes than 65A receives already applies to places that trade
examination, and in a hurry. This week will After years of watch- in “EYE/NIGH” votes, in powerful mind- and mood-al-
pass quickly. ing the Mississippi medical marijuana tering, highly-addictive products.
Bill Parker Legislature ignore bills will be permitted in We call those places pharmacies. I
Columbus to establish a medical a handful of random don’t see anybody getting out the
marijuana program counties selected by the tape measure to figure out how
Slim Smith
Moody’s Analytics releases in the state, citizens Governor based on “the close Walgreens is to the neigh-
GDP projections took the matter in their
As if the
advice of experts while borhood elementary school.
I could talk about what Wall Street own hands through being careful to avoid Another big flaw of 65, say the
the petition process. the perils of imposing detractors, is that it allows for no
(Moody’s Analytics, to be specific) thinks of
our economic future but here are the numbers Needing the signature intentional the “heavy hand of oversight by the Legislature.
that really matter for sure right now:
n 545 — the number of children separated
of 100,000 registered
voters to place the issue
ballot government.”
If 65A attracts the
They say that like it’s a bad
thing.
from their parents at the US - Mexico border
still in US custody and whose parents have so
before the voters, the
petition drive accumu-
confusion isn’t most votes from the
“EEE/KNEE” crowd,
So the Legislature wants to do
for medical marijuana what it has
far not been found;
n 29.8 million — the number of people
lated 220,000 signa- enough, the 65A will allow the done for public education, roads/
tures. Legislature to craft bridges infrastructure, foster care
who will lose their health insurance if the Suffice to say, the Legislature a medical marijuana or mental health?
Trump administration successfully convinc- legislators did not take program in a timely Forget medical marijuana for a
es the Supreme Court to get rid of the ACA it well and took steps to and their fashion, which for the second. I want to know what these
(Obamacare) during this year’s Supreme put these people back Legislature is roughly legislators are smoking.
Court session (case #19-840/19-1019, to be in their place, starting cronies have the year 2080. These In truth, 65 deserves our votes,
considered by the SC on Nov. 10th);
n 226,345 — the number of people who
with the way the issue
would be presented to
embarked on a things cannot be
rushed, after all.
despite the intentionally convo-
luted way medical marijuana will
have died of Covid-19 as of Friday, 10/23/20; a
projected 385,000 by February 1;
voters. The ballot is
constructed to confuse
misinformation As if the intentional
ballot confusion isn’t
appear on the ballot and despite
the ludicrous misinformation cam-
n 77,640 — the number of new Covid-19
infections reported Thursday, 10/22 — the
just enough voters to campaign enough, the Legislature paigns orchestrated by those who
ensure that medical and their cronies have don’t care that 81 percent of Mis-
highest number of new cases reported in a day
yet for the US. This does not bode well for the marijuana doesn’t pass. that makes embarked on a misin- sissippians (according to a May
In a fair process, formation campaign poll of 600 likely Mississippi vot-
projection above. October 23’s number was
even higher — over 79,000 (and Sunday, over there would be a single the 1936 that makes the 1936 ers), believe that a doctor should
ballot question asking film “Reefer Madness” be able to prescribe marijuana to
80,000).
n 45 — the number of states experiencing voters to choose among film ‘Reefer seem like a documen- patients suffering from qualifying
an increase in Covid-19 cases including eight
states experiencing increases more than 500/
three options: Yes to
Initiative 65. Yes to
Madness’ tary.
Some, but not all,
medical conditions.
Two-thirds of the states have
day greater than 2 weeks, mostly in the upper Initiative 65A. No to
medical marijuana.
seem like a law enforcement in the
state have said that
medical marijuana programs,
including a bunch of “red” states.
Midwest;
n 5 — the number of Vice-President That is not what we documentary. medical marijuana will School kids there aren’t using
Pence’s staffers that have tested positive for have, though. lead to an increase in their lunch money to score weed
Covid-19 as of Monday, October 26. First, you must choose whether crime, despite the fact that virtual- at the pot shop next door. Blood
Further, over the weekend, Mark Meadows, to vote for either or neither of the ly every study going back 20 years is not flowing down the streets
President Trump’s Chief of Staff, said, “We are two initiatives. shows no credible link between because Aunt Martha is using
not going to control the pandemic.” Instead, Then, you must choose whether medical marijuana and increased marijuana instead of opioids for
both the President and Vice-President have “either” is pronounced “EYE-ther” crime rates. pain relief.
chosen to help spread it by continuing to hold or “EEE-ther.” There is also the fear-monger- But I think the best reason of
rallies where social distancing and masks are If you choose, the EYE-ther ing about how 65, which allows for all to vote for 65 is to teach these
largely absent. pronunciation, you must decide privately-owned dispensaries, will legislators and their cronies a
In view of the above, it actually does seem whether “neither” is pronounced mean a “pot shop” on every corner, lesson.
relevant to discuss the Wall Street projections “KNEE-ther” or “NIGH-ther.” especially corners near schools. So vote FOR “either” then vote
if Democrats retain the House, flip the Senate If you choose “EEE-ther” and Arkansas established a medical FOR 65.
and win the White House after all, since the “NIGH-ther,” your vote is on the marijuana program 1½ years ago. And, by the way, it’s “EYE-ther”
pandemic has such a huge impact on the state
basis of inconsistent pronunci- The state has 39 dispensaries in and “NIGH-ther.”
of the economy.
ation. It has to be “EEE” and the whole state. So either Arkan- Slim Smith is a columnist and
Moody’s Analytics recently released pro-
“KNEE” or “EYE” and “NIGH.” sas is pretty close to being round feature writer for The Dispatch. His
jections for US GDP growth over the next four
years under different scenarios.
You cannot have it both ways. (few corners) or somebody is email address is ssmith@cdispatch.
n Democrats Sweep: +4.2% If you have successfully pro- doing some serious exaggerating. com.
n Biden wins/Congress split: +3.5%;
n Trump wins/Congress split: +3.2%;
n Republicans sweep: +3.1%.
There is still something you can do here
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Nellie Bonman
SULLIGENT, Ala.
— Nellie Mae Cannon
Bomman, 68, died Oct.
24, 2020, at her resi-
dence.
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the Gilmer Addition of
Sulligent City Cemetery.
Otts Funeral Home of
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arrangements.
Mrs. Bonman was
AREA OBITUARIES
Mr. Perrigin was Mr. Swoope was
born July 18, 1951, born Sept. 29, 1933, in
in Columbus, to the Columbus, to the late
late John M. Perrigin Carrie Prowell and
and Pauline Mabelle Lafayette Swoope. he
Smith. He was previ- was a graduate of SD
ously employed with Lee High School and
Lamar Manufacturing, attended Mississippi
Generations of Vernon, State University. He was
Fayette Cotton Mill and formerly employed with
Wal-Mart. He attended Farmers Home Admin-
Fountain of Life Church. istration and The Point.
He is survived by his In addition to his par-
daughter Tracy Barnes ents, he was preceded in
of Vernon; brother, death by his wife, Mary
Drake Batton Swoope;
Roger Dale Perrigin
and siblings, James
of Columbus; and one
Prowell Swoope, Celeste
grandchild.
“Boo” Swoope William
James Woodard and Elizabeth “Sister”
Swoope Reid.
COLUMBUS —
He is survived by
James Woodard, 39,
his son, James “Jim”
died Oct. 26, 2020, at his
residence. Prowell Swoope;
siblings, Lafayette
Arrangements are
“Teeny” F. Swoope Jr.,
incomplete and will be
Thomas “Dake” K.
announced by Lown-
Swoope, William “Bill”
des Funeral Home of
M. Swoope, Frank G.
Columbus.
Swoope, Warren “Oop”
D. Swoope, Walter “Pen-
Darrell Estes ny” W. Swoope, Charles
MILLPORT, Ala. —
M. Swoope, Burton
Darrell Anthony Estes,
C. Swoope, Eleanor
53, died Oct. 24, 2020.
Swoope Hairston and
Funeral services will
Lucy “Boopie” Swoope
be at 2 p.m. Wednesday,
Beard; and two grand-
ad Dowdle Funeral
children.
Home, with Roy Bush Pallbearers will be
officiating. Burial will Trip Hairston, Will
follow in Springhill Gavin, Joseph Salmon,
Cemetery. Visitation Johnny Hancock, Kevin
is from 6-8 p.m. today, Boatner and Jimmy
at the funeral home Bell.
chapel. Dowdle Funeral Memorials may be
Home of Millport is in made to West Point/
charge of arrangements. Clay County Animal
Mr. Estes was born
death by his wife, Ruby
Pitts Kennedy; siblings,
Helen Chandler, Mary
Lee Gilmer and Julia
Maddox; and step-son
Danny McLeroy.
He is survived by his
daughter, Nancy Kenne-
dy of Vernon.
Estella Harris
CRAWFORD –­ Es-
telle Harris died Oct.
25, 2020, at Vineyard
Court Nursing Center.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Yuvonda Jones
COLUMBUS — Yu-
vonda J. Jones, 55, died
Oct. 26, 2020, at her
residence.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Helon Gill
AMORY — Helon R.
Gilmore Gill, 84, died
Oct. 24, 2020, at her
residence.
Services will be at
2 p.m. Thursday, at
Tisdale-Lann Memori-
al Chapel, with Lloyd
Sweat officiating. Burial
will follow in Oaklawn
Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be one
hour prior to services
at the funeral home.
Tisdale-Lann Memo-
rial Funeral Home of
Aberdeen is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Gill was born
Oct. 20, 1936, in Lamar
County, Alabama, to the
late Emmett and Clara
Mae Gilmore. She was
formerly employed with
Action Industries and
was a member of Mead-
owood Baptist Church.
In addition to her
parents, she was pre-
ceded in death by her
husband, James Reuben
Gill; siblings, James,
Johnny, Linda Brack
and Gladys Gray.
She is survived by
her children, James
R. Gill Jr. of Michigan,
David Gill of Atlanta,
Georgia, Thomas Gill
of Michigan and Barba-
ra Byrd of Smithville;
siblings, Leon, James,
Bobby, Dale, Beiddie
Cantrell all of Texas,
Mary Ann Stapp,
Virginia Patrick both of
Alabama and Sue Mer-
chant of Columbus; 10
grandchildren; and 14
great-grandchildren.
Robert Reagh
COLUMBUS — Rob-
ert Reagh, 72, died Oct.
24, 2020, at Baptist Me-
morial Hospital-Golden
Triangle.
A private graveside
service will be held at
a later date. Lowndes
Funeral Home of Co-
lumbus is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Reagh was born
Dec. 10, 1947, in Fay-
ette, Alabama, to the
late Robert D. and Augie
B. Dillard Reagh. He
was formerly employed
as a florist.
He is survived by his
sister, Joan Tipton.

Helen Mize Douglas

born Dec. 5, 1951, in
Sulligent, to the late
Robert Hewitt and
Dessie Lee Johnson
Cannon. She was a grad-
uate of Sulligent High
School. She was former-
ly employed in the cafe-
teria of NACCO and was
a member of Moscow
Holy City Church.
She is survived by
her husband, Larry
Bonman; son, Antho-
ny Cannon of Fulton;
brother, Mitchell Allen
Cannon of California;
and two grandchildren.
Kenneth Perrigin
VERNON, Ala. —
Kenneth Perrigin, 69,
died Oct. 22, 2020, at his
residence.
Funeral services
were at 2 p.m. Saturday,
at Fountain Life Church,
with Paul Barham offici-
ating. Burial followed in
Furnace Hill Cemetery.
Visitation was one hour
prior to services at the
Shelter 5122 Old Tibbee
June 6, 1967, in Tuscalo- Rd West Point, MS
osa, Alabama, to Mary 39773 or Sally Kate
Ann Estes and the late Winters Children’s
Glen Edward Estes. He Helen Mize Douglas, 89, of Starkville, MS,
Home PO Box 1233 died October 23, 2020, with her family near and
was formerly employed West Point, MS 39773.
with Columbus Machine daughter and granddaughter by her side.
Works and Welding. Helen Marie Fulgham, the fifth daughter of
In addition to his Hunter Kennedy Lisa Heath James Alvero Fulgham and Myrtle Templeton
VERNON, Ala. — Memorial Services:
mother, he is survived Friday, Oct. 30 • 11 AM
was born on the family farm August 27, 1931, in
by his half brother, Kurt Hunter Kennedy, 93, Calvary Baptist Church the Center Grove Community just east of Maben,
died Oct. 25, 2020, at Burial MS.
Estes of Vernon, Ala- Houston City Cemetery
bama. Generations of Vernon. College St. Locaiton Helen is survived by her daughter, Janet
Pallbearers will Graveside services Judson (Ted) of West Point and three sons,
be Ray Estes, Dennis are at 11 a.m. today, in Katherine Norris Danny (Kathy) Mize of Starkville, Murray
Morton Chapel Ceme- Incomplete (Mary) Mize of West Point and Johnny
Rainwater, Joe Elinburg, College St. Locaiton
Ricky Gentry, Don tery, with Glen Boman (Deborah) Mize of Ozark, AL; one brother,
officiating. Chandler Fu- James A Fulgham Jr. of Center Grove; and one
Crowell and I.V. Gunter.
neral Home of Vernon
Betty Fancher
Visitation: sister, Deleslyn (Cameron) Dakin of Cleveland,
is in charge of arrange- Friday, Oct. 30 • 6-8 PM MS. She is survived by seven grandchildren and
Edward Swoope ments. 2nd Ave N Location eleven great-grandchildren.
WEST POINT — Mr. Kennedy was Services:
Saturday, Oct. 31 • 11 AM She was preceded in death by five sisters,
Edward “Ed” Ashby born Feb. 9, 1927, in La- 2nd Ave N Chapel Lucille Johnson and Christine Douglas of
Swoope, 87, died Oct. mar County, Alabama, Burial
Starkville, Vivian Crowley of Center Grove,
Friendship Cemetery
25, 2020, at Waverly to the late Clinton Leroy Evelyn Boyd of Birmingham, AL and Robbie Sue
2nd Ave N Location
Care Home. and Rachel Adeline Ken- Peay of Verona, MS.
Funeral services will nedy. He was a veteran She graduated from Maben High School in
be at 11 a.m. Wednes- of the U.S. Army and 1949 and married James Luther Mize, Jr. on
day, at First Presbyteri- was formerly employed May 31, 1949. She had a challenging career of
an Church, EPC, with as a dairy and row crop raising four children, while helping her husband
the Rev. Brandon Dates memorialgunterpeel.com
farmer. manage the family business, Mize Restaurant.
officiating. Burial will In addition to his par- She enjoyed remodeling her family home in West
follow in Friendship ents, he was preceded in Point, MS, playing Bridge with her friends and
Cemetery. Visitation will visiting with family in the Starkville-Maben area.

church. Otts Funeral
Home of Sulligent was
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Bobby Beasley
be one hour prior to ser- Her driving adventures during those years was
vices. Robinson Funeral most entertaining for her children during the
Home of West Point is in summers as she took them to the farm. Her father
charge of arrangements. Bobby Gene Beasley, 59 of Columbus, MS had cows and row crops and ample areas of forest
passed away Sunday, October 25, 2020, at Baptist

Robert Camp
Robert Daniel Camp was born on April 13, 1941,
and died on October 25, 2020, from complications
due to Covid-19. His parents, Dewey W. and Opal
Q. Camp, preceded him in death.
A graduate of Mississippi State University, Dan
taught for a time in the Vicksburg public schools
but returned to Starkville. He joined the faculty
of Mississippi State before devoting full time to
creating and managing the Cotton District, a
nationally recognized residential and commercial
development. Dan remained committed to public
education and served for many years on the Board
of Trustees for the Starkville School District. In
that role he was a champion for the arts. He also
supported the Starkville Arts Council and was
the guiding light behind the Cotton District Arts
Festival. From 2005 to 2009, he was mayor of
Starkville and brought his business expertise to
city government.
His many friends praised Dan for his intellectual
curiosity and wide-ranging knowledge, for his
keen wit and ready laugh, for his innovative
ideas, for his open mind and generous spirit,
and for his willingness to take a stand on issues
of importance. Dr. M. L. (“Twinkie”) Lawhon,
his friend from childhood, spoke for a legion of
admirers when she called Dan a “genius.”
Dan is survived by his wife, Gemma T. Camp;
his son Robert A. Camp, daughter-in-law Emily,
and their daughter Corban; by his son Bonn
Camp, daughter-in-law Jessica and their daughter
Josephine; by his brother, Dewey W. Camp; and
sister Bonnie W. Camp; and by multiple nieces
and nephews.
A private memorial service will be held at a
later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that
donations be made to a charity of choice.
You can leave the family a condolence at: www.
welchfuneralhomes.com.
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Memorial Hospita –Golden Triangle, Columbus,
MS.
Visitation will be Tuesday, October 27, 2020,
from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM at Bartahatchie Baptist
Church. A funeral service will be Wednesday,
October 28, 2020, at 2:00 PM at Bartahatchie
Baptist Church with Bro. Robert Fowlkes
officiating. Interment will be at Egger Cemetery,
Caledonia, MS with Lowndes Funeral Home
directing.
Mr. Beasley was born on February 16, 1961,
in Columbus, MS to Buddy Beasley and the late
Dorothy Louise Honeycutt Bradley. He attended
Bartahatchee Baptist Church and was employed
with Baldor Electric as a supervisor for the
past 37 years. Mr. Beasley enjoyed hunting and
fishing but mostly he loved spending time with
his family and helping his friends.
In addition to his mother, Mr. Beasley
was preceded in death by his brother, Randy
Honeycutt; and sister, Cindy Simpson; step-
father, Earl Honeycutt.
Mr. Beasley is survived by his wife, Kathy
Beasley, Columbus, MS; father, Buddy (Hazel)
Beasley, Avendale, LA; children, Brandy Beasley,
Courtney Beasley, David (Victoria) Holliman,
Katelyn Holliman, Jennifer (Michael) Parker
and William Haughton; brothers, Eddie (Sophie)
Honeycutt, Ricky (Brenda) Honeycutt, James
(Angie) Beasley, Terry (Ashley) Beasley, Bobby
Beasley; grandchildren, Abby Manzolillo, Faith
Manzolillo, Byron Channels, Zackary Channels,
Melissa Turner, Ariel Holliman, Alex Morgan
and Kinsley Parker.
Pallbearers will be Randy Barksdale, Jeremy
Boykin, Allen Boykin, Joseph Richardson, Ray
Hollis and Phil Moore.
The honorary pallbearer will be Doug
Nickoles.
Memorials may be made to Columbus Lowndes
Humane Society, P.O. Box 85, Columbus, MS
39703.
Compliments of
Lowndes Funeral Home
www.lowndesfuneralhome.net
to educate her city kids to the remembrances of
her childhood. Once she took the kids on a fun
ride around the field roads of her dad’s place
and had the bull chasing her red car across the
pastures and through the woods with the kids
yelling “Mom the cows are coming to get us!”.
After James’ passed in 1975, she returned
to school to learn a new career and found
employment with the Division of Plant Industry
located on the MSU campus. After retirement
she was blessed with the companionship of
James Arvle Douglas and they married on July
10, 1997. They enjoyed six years of
traveling and exploring the southeast until
Arvle was no longer able to travel. After Arvle’s
passing in 2006, Helen spent her remaining
years enjoying her nearby grandchildren, telling
them entertaining stories of the people she met
over the years. Her yardwork kept her busy as
her daughter Janet and next-door neighbor and
nephew, Myron Johnson, kept a watchful eye on
her during the last few years.
The family would like to acknowledge and
thank Dr. Emily Landrum and Joanne Clark,
director of the Bee Hive in Starkville for their
continued care, as well as each of the staff
members and the sitter who lovingly met her
needs each day.
A graveside service will be at 10 AM Tuesday,
at Memorial Gardens Cemetery with Rev. Eric
Ross officiating. The family will visit with friends
from 9:30-10 AM Tuesday, at the cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be James Lee Mize,
Lucas Judson, Matthew Judson, Myron Johnson,
Levette Johnson, Steven Fulgham, Michael
Fulgham and Pat Peay.
Robinson Funeral Home is assisting the family
with arrangements.
Memorials may be made to Center Grove
Baptist Church, 146 Center Grove Rd Maben, MS
39750 or Sally Kate Winters Children’s Home,
PO Box 1233 West Point, MS 39773.
Friends may leave an online condolence to the
family at robinsonfh.net.
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Health
HEALTH TIP
n Replace your favorite “fast food” restaurant:
There are many healthy fast food restaurants offering
delicious and healthy meals. They may just be a great
replacement for your favorite burger or pizza joint.
Source: healthline.com

Health tips from Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen

Do air filters make indoor
get-togethers safer?
When Phil Collins sings, “I can
feel it coming in the air tonight,”
he isn’t warning you to beware of
the virus that causes COVID-19 as
you join friends, family or col-
leagues indoors this winter. But
it might make you wonder about
what you can do to reduce the
risks in closed-in environments.
The answer: Use a multifaceted
approach. ConsumerLab.com did
extensive tests on the virus-filter-
ing abilities of air filters. The bot-
tom line is “portable air cleaners ...
cannot protect people when used
on their own, but they can be part
of a strategy for protecting people
indoors when used along with oth-
er recommended practices.”
Those recommended practices
include (temperatures permitting)
opening windows, running air
conditioners with the outside air
vent open, in addition to wearing
masks and sitting at least 6 feet
apart. As for choosing an air-filter-
ing device, HEPA filters are best.
(We’d add, it’s smart to have far-
UVC light as part of the filtration
process).
Fibrous filters, including HEPA
filters, are rated as minimum
efficiency reporting value 1 to
16. Only those rated MERV 11 or
higher are tested for removing par-
ticles 0.3 to 1 micron in size. While
those size particles are larger than
the virus that causes COVID-19,
aerosolized drop- (the top number)
lets containing measurably over 18
viruses are up to 5 months.
microns and may Then there’s the
be captured by fi- impact of loneli-
brous filters. Most ness. The lack of
HEPA-designated calming interaction
residential air with people can in-
cleaners perform crease stress, cause
at levels compara- sleep problems and
ble to MERV 16 — lead to overeating,
with an efficiency all associated with
of 99 percent or Drs. Oz and Roizen elevated blood pres-
higher. sure. One study in
For info on per- the journal Psychol-
formance-verified units, check out ogy and Aging found that over a
the Association of Home Appliance four-year stretch, the loneliest folks
Manufacturers website at www. saw a 14.4-point increase in their
ahamdir.com/room-air-cleaners. systolic pressure number than folks
who were the least lonely. That can
3 surprise triggers put you at high risk for a stroke. So
for high blood pressure it’s important to make an effort to
New York Post gossip columnist break out of your lonely feelings.
Earl Wilson once said, “One way Connect online with groups of folks
to get high blood pressure is to go with shared interests. Every sub-
mountain climbing over molehills.” ject, from gardening to photogra-
When it comes to high blood phy, world history and pet reptiles
pressure, a lot of surprising fac- has a chatroom; talk on the phone
tors, besides making mountains with and safely see friends and
out of molehills, can come into relatives; and volunteer to help oth-
play. Did you know if you hold in ers — a new study shows increased
your urine for, say, three hours, compassion counteracts loneliness.
your blood pressure can climb? Or And always keep tabs on your blood
that sugar may raise your blood pressure.
pressure? A study in the Ameri- Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The
can Journal of Cardiology found Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen,
drinking over 12 ounces of sug- M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and
ar-sweetened beverages a day ups Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleve-
your risk of high blood pressure by land Clinic. To live your healthiest,
at least 6 percent and can increase tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit
your systolic blood pressure www.sharecare.com.

Can I celebrate Halloween during the pandemic?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Can I celebrate Hallow-
een during the pandemic?
Yes, but probably not
like you normally would.
Health experts say some
Halloween traditions like
crowding on doorsteps
for candy and inching
your way through haunted
houses heighten the risk
of spreading COVID-19
and should be avoided.
But there are ways to
adapt celebrations.
Outdoor pumpkin carv-
ing, a virtual or neighbor-
hood costume parade or
a scary movie marathon
at home are some options
that minimize contact
with strangers.
“There are lots of cre-
ative ways to approach this
and make this year memo-
rable,” said Dr. Colleen S.
Kraft, who specializes in
infectious diseases at Em-
ory University Hospital in
Atlanta.
If you’re venturing
out, experts say to keep a
6-foot distance from oth-
ers and sanitize hands
regularly as you normally
would.
Protective face cover-
ings — plastic costume
masks don’t count —
should also be a part of
every Halloween get-up,
according to the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Some cities have dis-
couraged or even banned
door-to-door trick-or-
treating. In places where
it’s allowed, there are ways
to make it safer. for the virus to spread.
Various devices such As Michigan health
as plastic grabbers can officials put it: “The only
help you hand out can- thing scary about Hal-
dy without any physical loween should be the cos-
contact, says Dr. Nipunie tumes.”
Rajapakse, a pediatric spe-
cialist at the Mayo Clinic
in Minnesota.
Marking 6-foot spacing
on sidewalks and drive-
ways with duct tape or
chalk can also discourage
people from gathering at
the front door.
Those with any
COVID-19 symptoms,
known exposures to the
virus or pending tests re-
sults should stay home, ac-
cording to the CDC. And
experts say to avoid indoor
parties and haunted hous-
es since a lack of ventila-
tion could make it easier

Voting
Continued from Page 1A
crease, more than double
the projections.
Oktibbeha County Cir-
cuit Clerk Tony Rook es-
timated 2,500 voters have
turned in absentee ballots
this year, an increase of 56
percent over the 1,600 ab-
sentee ballots cast in 2016.
As of Monday after-
noon, Lowndes Coun-
ty Circuit Clerk Teresa
Barksdale reported 3,071
absentee ballots cast. In
2016, there were 2,304
absentee ballots cast in
the county.
Barksdale suggested
those numbers will con-
tinue to swell in the re-
maining week of voting.
“Definitely,’ she said.
“Just today (Monday)
we had 252 absentee bal-
lots cast. It was a steady
stream all day. I expected
that to continue through
the week.”
The deadline to cast an
in-person absentee ballot
is noon Saturday. Mail-in
absentees must be post-
marked by Nov. 3.

Shootings
Continued from Page 1A
released from Baptist
Memorial Hospital-Gold-
en Triangle for non
life-threatening injuries.
Investigators are still
determining whether to
charge him with domes-
tic violence.
Shelton stressed that
these were isolated inci-
dents not related to mul-
tiple shootings that took
place the weekend of Oct.
16-18 — one on Brown
Street and one near East
Columbus Gym — which
police are still actively in-
vestigating.
He said he has de-
ployed a special four-of-
ficer unit on weekends to
back up the regular shift
of police officers on Fri-
day, Saturday and Sunday
nights, to help curb vio-
lence. That special detail
helped respond to both
domestic violence shoot-
ings over the weekend,
he said.
Both Whitmore and
McCaa are currently
in custody at Lowndes
County Adult Detention
Center with no bond set
at this time.

Fire
Continued from Page 1A
Andrews said he does
not know how much wa-
ter damage the sprinkler
caused.
“It put out a massive
amount of water,” he said.
“What people don’t under-
stand, even though it just
was in that area, all the
water that was in that sys-
tem goes to that one sprin-
kler head and dumps it. So
until it drains all of the wa-
ter that is standing there
ready to be used, they said
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MSU’s Ron Polk regales Starkville Rotary Club with tales of past and present
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Ron
Polk’s arrival at Mississippi
State in 1976 was anything but
glamorous.
For a school that boasts 11
College World Series Appear-
ances and 15 NCA A Regional
Championships, Polk’s hiring
was an afterthought. So much
so, the story announcing his
appointment in The Clari-
on-Ledger was relegated to the
11th page of that day’s paper.
“I thought my contract was
really good,” Polk said. “Fif-
teen thousand dollars, that’s
what I made the
first year as head
coach at Missis-
sippi State.”
In the decades
since his hiring,
Polk’s become a
living legend of
sorts. He’s spent Polk
56 years in coaching, just re-
cently ending a 12-year spell
as a volunteer assistant at the
University of Alabama-Bir-
mingham to become a special
assistant to MSU Athletic Di-
rector John Cohen — one of his
former players.
Speaking with the Starkville
Rotary Club on Monday after-
noon, Polk regaled the crowd
with tales of his years upon
years in college baseball and
what it means to be back in
Starkville following an unsanc-
timonious departure from the
school in 2008.
Hired by MSU in an admin-
istrative capacity in January,
Polk has spent the past few
months amid the COVID-19
pandemic attending MSU ath-
letic events when possible,
smoking anywhere from sev-
en to eight cigars per day and
coaching summer collegiate
baseball in the Honor the Game
Wood Bat League in Meridian.
He’s also begun offering
tours of the museum of Bulldog
memorabilia he’s built into his
home in the Browning Creek
neighborhood of Starkville. As
of Monday, he estimates he’s
given 28 hour-and-a-half long
tours thus far.
“At one time I knew the
creed for every civic club in
the state of Mississippi,” he
boasted in reference to his long
speaking career that ran paral-
lel to his time on the diamond.
“But this is the first one I’ve
been at where you’ve had to be
spaced out.”
Making the rounds among
MSU’s varying fall sports,
Polk headed out to Old Wa-
verly Golf Club last week to
attend The Ally — a home
tournament hosted by the
Bulldogs’ women’s golf pro-
gram. Once there, he was
greeted by MSU sophomore
golfer Abbey Daniel, whose
father, Chuck, was recruited
by Polk as a baseball player
during the late 1980s.
Trading barbs with the
younger Daniel, Polk quipped
that had he not convinced
Chuck to attend MSU, he and
his wife may never have met
and Abbey may never have
been born.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Dodgers one
win from title
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — Since Orel

Hershiser struck out Oakland’s Tony
Phillips for the final out of the 1988
World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers
have played 5,014 regular-season games
and 113 more in the postseason in pur-
suit of their next title. They have spent
$3.69 billion in player payroll over 32
seasons.
One more win and that elusive sev-
enth championship will be theirs.
“I think it’s going to be really wel-
coming to the players, this generation,”
Hershiser said Monday, a day before
the Dodgers take a 3-2 World Series
lead into Game 6 against the Tampa Bay
Rays. “It’s definitely a generational win
for this group of guys and I’m thinking
of the Kenley Jansens, the Clayton Ker-
shaws, the Justin Turners, the guys that
have been here through all the division
titles.”
Kershaw got his second win of the
Series on Sunday, and Tony Gonsolin
starts Tuesday against the Rays’ Blake
Snell. The rookie right-hander hopes to
keep the World Series from reaching a
Game 7 for the fourth time in five years.
If Tampa Bay manages to win, Walk-
er Buehler would start Game 7 for the
Dodgers on Wednesday and Charlie
Morton for the Rays in the finale of the
first neutral-site Series.
Gonsolin was used as an opener in
See DODGERS, 3B

ALABAMA FOOTBALL
No. 2 Bama striving
to replace (some of)
Waddle’s production
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alabama isn’t looking for Slade Bold-

en to be another Jaylen Waddle.
Not even the second-ranked Crimson
Tide has that kind of depth. Alabama
(5-0) must carry on without Waddle
starting Saturday against Mississippi
Mansel Guerry/Mississippi State Athletics State after losing one of the nation’s top
Mississippi State freshman quarterback Will Rogers drops back to pass against Texas A&M on Oct. 17 at Davis Wade receivers to a broken right ankle on the
Stadium in Starkville. The Bulldogs lost 28-14. opening kickoff of the Tennessee game.
“You can’t replace a guy like Jaylen

Costello and Rogers continue to split Waddle in terms of what his ability is,”
Tide coach Nick Saban said. “It’s no dif-
ferent than losing Allen Iverson, a guy

No. 1 reps ahead of Alabama game
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The Mississip-
pi State quarterback conundrum re-
mains ongoing.
Speaking with the media Monday,
head coach Mike Leach revealed
that he anticipates Stanford graduate
transfer K.J. Costello and freshman
Will Rogers will continue sharing No.
1 reps for at least the next few days
ahead of MSU’s meeting with No. 2 Al-
abama on Saturday in Tuscaloosa.
“I think they’re neck and neck,”
Leach said. “We’ll continue to split the
reps this week for the first couple of
practices.”
While Costello burst onto the na-
tional scene with a Southeastern
Conference-record 623 yards passing
against then-No. 6 LSU in Week 1, the
former Cardinal signal-caller has been
inconsistent at best over the past three
weeks. In starts against Arkansas,
Kentucky and No. 8 Texas A&M, he’s
completed 66.9 percent of his throws
for a meager 644 yards, one touch-
down and eight interceptions. Costello
was also benched in contests against
Kentucky and Texas A&M for his in-
ability to move the MSU offense.
In response, Rogers proved mildly
effective in mop-up duty against the
Wildcats and Aggies. Through parts
of two career games, the Brandon na-
tive has completed 24 of 33 passes for
one touchdown and two interceptions.
“I look at Will as a young guy that
has a lot of leadership in him,” senior
linebacker Erroll Thompson said fol-
lowing MSU’s loss to Texas A&M.
“He’s a great player. I expect that from
him.”
Though it’s unclear on who becomes
the starter Saturday at Alabama, past
precedent suggests the battle between
Costello and Rogers could carry deep
into the 2020 campaign.
Leach flip-flopped between quar-
terbacks Luke Falk and Tyler Hilinski
throughout the 2017 season at Wash-
ington State. Just a sophomore at
the time, Hilinski appeared in eight
games, attempting 178 passes for sev-
en touchdowns and seven intercep-
tions, while Falk shouldered the heavi-
er load with 534 passes to his name.
Leach said Monday the parallel
isn’t exact, but there are some simi-
larities between the 2017 conundrum
and what he’s facing in his first year in
Starkville.
“I mean you’re looking for the guy
that can run the unit the best,” he said.
“You don’t want to go out there and
have some stagnant effort on offense.
Not really uninspired, but just not play-
ing together as well. So, you’re always
looking for something to spark that. I
think from that standpoint it’s similar.”
Through five weeks of the 2020 sea-
son, Leach has yet to update the depth
See MSU, 3B
that scores 30-40 points a game. He’s
that kind of impact player.”
Bolden, a sophomore who had had
few passes thrown his way, replaced
Waddle at receiver and on punt returns
against the Volunteers. The former high
school quarterback wound up with six
catches for 94 yards after logging just
two catches in his first 18 career games.
Waddle had surgery in Birmingham
Saturday night after the game and Sa-
ban said it “was very, very successful.”
The junior is expected to miss the rest of
the season and may not play for Alabama
again since he’s a highly rated NFL pros-
pect.
Saban said it’s the same procedure
former Tide tailbacks Derrick Henry
and Kenyan Drake had during their
college careers. He said it will likely be
6-8 weeks before Waddle can start “real
heavy rehab.”
“The long-term prognosis for his sur-
gery is very good,” Saban said.
The long-term prognosis for Ala-
bama’s offense remains good too. The
Tide still has quarterback Mac Jones
See ALABAMA, 3B
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Dodgers hope Gonsolin more than an opener in Game 6

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARLINGTON, Texas
— Tony Gonsolin found
out after Game 2 that he
would be starting Game 6
as well for the Los Ange-
les Dodgers.
This time, they plan
for the rookie right-
hander to be more than
an opener with the Dodg-
ers having a chance to
clinch their first World
Series title since 1988.
“Tony’s a starting
pitcher tomorrow.” man-
ager Dave Roberts said
Monday. “I’m going to
watch him pitch and then
we’ll see what we do after
that. ... I want to go as
long as he possibly can,
that’d be great.”
Gonsolin went 1 1/3
innings against Tampa
Bay in Game 2, a planned
bullpen game for the
Dodgers. He was the los-
er after giving up only
one run — the one that
put the Rays ahead to
stay in the 6-4 win — two
days after he pitched two
innings in relief in the
clinching Game 7 of the
National League Champi-
onship Series against the
Atlanta Braves.
“With the extra day, it
worked out nicely, I took
the next day off and then
got my two lifts and my
bullpen and on would
have been Game 4,” Gon-
solin said. “And ready to
go for tomorrow.”
After Clayton Ker-
shaw won his second
game against the Rays
on Sunday night for a 3-2
Series advantage, Los
Angeles opted against
trying to use right-hand-
ed ace Walker Buehler to
start on short rest Tues-
day night.
Roberts, who hopes
to get five or six innings
from Gonsolin, said
the Dodgers thought
through that option, but
decided it didn’t make
sense.
“You’re putting your-
self in a situation where
after winning a game to
put him in a tough sit-
uation. There’s already
guaranteed, at worse, a
Game 7,” Roberts said.
“There’s a blister com-
ponent that we’ve dealt
with, that it just brings
that more into play with
that extra day.”
Buehler was the win-
ner in Game 3 on Friday
night, when he struck out
10 while allowing one run
and three hits over six in-
nings.
Ray of hope
Eleven of the last 14
teams that trailed going
into Game 6, and then
forced a Game 7, went on
to win the World Series.
Sub pitcher
Ryan Thompson has
pitched in relief for the
Tampa Bay Rays in three
consecutive World Series
games.
A year ago, the 6-foot-
5 right-hander from Or-
egon with the unusual
delivery — part sidearm,
part submarine — was a
substitute teacher and
sometimes working with
his mother overseeing a
Wii dance club.
“I was just trying to
make as much money
as I could so I could af-
ford training, and I was
in Triple-A,” Thompson
said Monday. “The minor
league life is not easy.
When I had my surgery,
you know, everything
was up in the air.”
Thompson, who had
Tommy John surgery
in 2018, made his big
league debut this season
when he appeared in 25
regular-season games.
He has a 1.93 ER A in nine
postseason appearances,
including 2 2/3 scoreless
innings in this World Se-
ries.
His family didn’t get
to see him pitch in the
regular season, which
Thompson said was a
struggle since he was
not able to share those
moments. They have
been at some postsea-
son games, including
the World Series, though
they can’t see each other
after games with players
in MLB’s bubbled post-
season environment be-
cause of concerns after
the coronavirus delayed
and shortened the regu-
lar season.
“I just wish that I could
hug them. I just wish
that I could run up into
the stands and say, ‘Hi.’
Or even after the game,
meet him out for dinner
or something,” Thomp-
son said. “That’s the part
that sucks for us, is that
there’s a disconnect. Our
parents get to feel this
emotion, and we get feel
emotion, but we don’t get
to embrace and feel this
moment together.”
Deep nine
When Max Muncy hit
a no-doubt homer in the
fifth inning of Game 5, he
became the ninth differ-
ent Dodgers player to go
deep in this World Series.
That broke the record
of eight different Oakland
players who homered for
the Athletics in a Series
sweep of San Francis-
co in 1989. Los Angeles
had tied the mark three
innings before Muncy
when Joc Pederson went
deep.
Shortstop Corey Sea-
ger and third baseman
Justin Turner both have
two homers in this Fall
Classic for LA. The rest
of the Dodgers homers
vs. the Rays have come
from Mookie Betts, Cody
Bellinger, Chris Taylor,
Austin Barnes and Will
Smith.
Short hops
A run has been scored
in the top half of the first
inning in the last four
games. That hadn’t hap-
pened since the 1932
World Series, when the
New York Yankees swept
the Chicago Cubs during
the Series where Babe
Ruth called his home
run shot. ... Muncy has
walked 20 times, match-
ing Gary Sheffield in
1997 for the second-most
in postseason history.
Barry Bonds got a record
27 free passes in 2002.

Rams dominate matchup of tough defenses, beat Bears 24-10

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INGLEWOOD, Calif.
— Josh Reynolds and Ger-
ald Everett caught touch-
down passes from Jared
Goff, and the Los Angeles
Rams won a matchup of
dominant defenses, beat-
ing the Chicago Bears 24-
10 on Monday night.
Goff passed for 219
yards and Malcolm
Brown rushed for a score
for the Rams (5-2), who
remained unbeaten at
brand-new SoFi Stadium
and reasserted them-
selves as NFC contend-
ers with a rebound per-
formance one week after
a rough loss at San Fran-
cisco.
Taylor Rapp made an
end-zone interception
on a pass deflection by
Troy Hill while the Rams
held Chicago (5-2) to 182
yards in the first three
quarters and built a 24-3
lead.
Eddie Jackson re-
turned a fumble 8 yards
for Chicago’s only touch-
down with 7:30 to play,
but Los Angeles’ defense
stayed in control, yielding
279 total yards and three
points. The Rams have
won twice in three de-
fense-dominated games
between these longtime
rivals over the past three
seasons.
Nick Foles passed for
261 yards for the Bears,
who dropped out of the
NFC North lead and fell
to 3-1 on the road with
their latest discouraging
offensive performance.
Chicago managed just
49 yards rushing and has
175 yards on the ground
in the past four games.
The Rams’ defense,
now coordinated by for-
mer Bears outside line-
backers coach Brandon
Staley, sacked Foles four
times and picked off two
of his passes, including
Jalen Ramsey’s first inter-
ception of the season near
midfield to clinch the vic-
tory with 3:13 to play.
Even punter Johnny
Hekker dominated the
Bears, pinning them in-
side their 10 with all five
of his punts in a superb
performance by the four-
time Pro Bowler.
The Rams led 10-3 at
halftime after holding the
Bears to 126 yards. Reyn-
olds made his 4-yard TD
reception on the second
drive for just the second
scoring catch by a wide
receiver against Chica-
go’s stingy secondary
all season, but the Bears
stopped two additional
drives just outside field
goal range to keep the
deficit manageable.
The Rams went up 17-3
midway through the third
quarter on a TD drive
capped by Brown’s 1-yard
run.
Chicago mounted its
best drive immediately
thereafter, but its 71-yard
march ended when Hill
deflected a pass intend-
ed for Darnell Mooney
in the end zone and Rapp
snagged it for an intercep-
tion.
The Rams followed
with a crisp 80-yard drive
capped by a 12-yard TD
catch-and-run by Everett,
their big-play tight end.
Chicago got to the
Rams 4 with just over
nine minutes to play, but
Aaron Donald flushed
Foles from the pocket and
into Justin Hollins’ arms
for a fourth-down sack.
Robert Woods fumbled
three plays later on a jet
sweep, and Jackson re-
turned it for the sixth de-
fensive touchdown of his
four-year career.
Reunion game
Leonard Floyd had
two sacks and six tackles
in his first game against
Chicago since the Bears
released him last offsea-
son. After his sack, Floyd
jumped up and went to-
ward the Bears sideline,
shouting and gesticulat-
ing.
Injury report
Bears: C Cody White-
hair injured his calf in the
second half.
Rams: Rookie S Terrell
Burgess was taken off
the field on a cart in the
fourth quarter with an air
cast around his left leg.
He has an ankle injury.
... TE Tyler Higbee was
inactive with a hand in-
jury, missing his second
game since 2016. Johnny
Mundt had a career-high
47 yards receiving in his
absence, including a ca-
reer-best 34-yard catch in
the second quarter.
Up next
Bears: Host New Orle-
ans on Sunday.
Rams: Visit Miami on
Sunday as the opponent
in Tua Tagovailoa’s debut
start.

SEC fines Lane Kiffin
over officiating
complaints
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
— The Southeastern Con-
ference has fined Missis-
sippi coach Lane Kiffin
$25,000 for his complaints
about officiating on social
media.
The league announced
the fine on Monday, but
also said the replay official
should have stopped play
to review the call after
Mississippi’s fourth-quar-
ter kickoff appeared to
have touched the right
hand of Shaun Shivers.
The Rebels recovered in
the end zone but the on-
field call was that Shivers
didn’t touch it and play
wasn’t halted for a review.
It’s unclear which so-
cial-media posts drew the
fine but Kiffin did retweet
one calling the officiating
“a disgrace.”
Earlier Monday, Kif-
fin said he had spoken to
SEC coordinator of offi-
cials John McDaid about
the play. He said he was
instructed not to publicly
disclose the explanation
given by McDaid.
“I asked the side judge,
‘Why aren’t they replay-
ing it? Do I need to chal-
lenge?’” Kiffin said before
the fine was announced.
“He said, ‘They’ve already
looked at it. There’s noth-
ing there.’ I’m not allowed
to say anything about the
conversation but I real-
ly wish that our fans and
players could hear what I
was told.”
Auburn went on to win
35-28 on Bo Nix’s 42-yard
touchdown pass to Seth
Williams with 1:11 left.
Kiffin said he want-
ed “to take a five-minute
power yoga class” to help
him control his words to
reporters after the call
with McDaid.
“I really wish for our
players, for our fans, that
they could hear what I
was just told,” he said. “I
think they deserve to. But
I asked. They made sure
to tell me there’s a policy
that I can’t tell you, the
players or the fans what
their, if you want to call it,
explanation for that situa-
tion and how TV copy and
everybody in the country
can see it hit him.”
Public criticism of offi-
cials “is absolutely prohib-
ited” under SEC bylaws.
Cowboys question their
own fight in rapidly
spiraling season
Dallas receiver Amari
Cooper had no answer for
why the Cowboys didn’t
respond when Andy Dal-
ton ended up with a con-
cussion after the quarter-
back was hit while sliding
on a play that led to the
ejection of Washington’s
Jon Bostic.
Coach Mike McCar-
thy didn’t hide his disap-
pointment in the rest of
the players on offense.
Defensive end DeMarcus
Lawrence fit the theme
perfectly when answer-
ing an unrelated question
about whether Dallas (2-
5) could turn its season
around after a demoraliz-
ing 25-3 loss to Washing-
ton.
“We need more belief
and more high spirits
around this team, and
really more fight,” Law-
rence said. “That’s real-
ly, I feel like, one of our
weaknesses. We need
to build a stronger back-
bone, fight and also make
sure that we brought ev-
erything possible to come
out with a victory.”
It’s difficult to judge
McCarthy’s first season
in Dallas because the
Cowboys could be on
their third starting quar-
terback Sunday in Phila-
delphia. Dalton was mak-
ing his second start in
place of Dak Prescott, out
for the year with a broken
ankle.
The offensive line is in
shambles, and the pan-
demic ruined the offsea-
son for a defense mak-
ing a significant scheme
change. But the defense
has been so bad, ques-
tions about defensive co-
ordinator Mike Nolan’s
future won’t go away.
McCarthy again dis-
missed the suggestion of
dumping Nolan in the fi-
nal answer with reporters
after the Washington loss.
Still, this is the first time
for McCarthy and Nolan
to coach together since
2005 in San Francisco.
Those 49ers, with No-
lan as head coach and
McCarthy running the
offense, had one of the
worst defenses in the NFL
for a team that went 4-12.
These Cowboys are head-
ed that direction fast, and
there were never ques-
tions about the team’s re-
solve in nine-plus seasons
under Jason Garrett.
“We knew there would
be adjustments through-
out as a football team,”
McCarthy said. “We’ve
been hit with a number
of challenges that we are
just not pushing through
right now. So, we need to
continue to work and I be-
lieve we’ll push through
the other end.”
SOURCE: AP
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Dodgers
Continued from Page 1B
Game 2, allowing Bran-
don Lowe’s first-inning
homer, lasting just four
outs and taking the
loss as the Rays won
6 -4. Dodgers manager
Dave Roberts said he
views the 25 -year-old
right-hander as a tradi-
tional starter this time
through and hopes for
five or six innings from
him.
“It’s mostly an eye
test because he’s shown
that when he’s rolling,
he gets lefties, righties
(3 for 21, three homers, Tampa Bay won its 1950, the Dodgers were
six RBIs) has been hit first division title since sold to the Fox division
and miss. 2010 and is in the Series of Rupert Murdoch’s
Rays manager Kevin for the second time, fol- News Corp. in 1998,
Cash said he plans on lowing a five-game loss then to Frank McCourt
formulating his lineup to Philadelphia in 2008. in 2004 and to Guggen-
to guard against a short The Rays and Cash heim Baseball Manage-
outing by Gonsolin fol- have impressed Rob- ment in 2012. An owner-
lowed by righty-lefty erts with their relent- ship group led by Mark
switches. He hopes lessness, evidenced by Walter includes former
Snell pitches aggres- their ninth-inning rally Lakers star Magic John-
sively. to win Game 4. son, women’s tennis
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“He balances analytics
with just watching his
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four RBIs), Max Muncy
(.389, six RBIs) and Jus-
tin Turner (.364).
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got (.400), Kevin Kier-
maier (.375, two hom-
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two homers, three
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Brock’s Series record Sox and Philadelphia/ things because there’s increases from Monday to Sunday.
A fter beating the Dodg- Oakland Athletics (nine so much buildup with
ers with Boston in the apiece) and New York/ the fan base and with
2018 Series, Betts was San Francisco Giants the organization and
acquired by Los An- (eight). with the players,” said
geles in a trade last Kershaw made his Hershiser, now a broad-
February and signed a Dodgers debut in 2008 caster for the Dodgers’
$365 million contract and has helped them Spectrum SportsNet L A
through 2032. win eight straight NL network. “Even if it was
“We got a steal,” Rob- West titles and NL pen- won in ’17, it would’ve
erts said. “And I’m just nants in 2017, ’18 and been a long time. I
so grateful that the deal this year. Jansen has think it’s very hard as
was done because it’s been with Los Angeles far as the playoffs are
not only helping us this since 2010, Turner, Joc concerned. In no way
year, it’s going to help Pederson and Pedro was the ’88 Dodger
us for the next wave of Baez since 2014, Co- team supposed to win
young players and re- rey Seager, and Kiké against the mighty Mets
ally enhance what we Hernández and Alex and against the Bash
have as a culture going Wood since 2015. Brother Oakland A’s.
forward. And it’s going A model of stabili- So sometimes maybe
to affect players that ty under the O’Malley the best team on paper
haven’t been drafted by family for nearly a half and talent on the field
the Dodgers yet.” century starting in doesn’t always win.”

Polk
Continued from Page 1B
“She got up and gave me a hug,”
Polk reminisced.
While Polk’s official duties un-
der MSU’s banner vary, it’s on the
baseball field where his love still
persists. At Dudy Noble Field, the
Ron Polk Ring of Honor wraps its
way around the grandstand. This
spring, the second and third class-
es will be inducted after the 2020
celebrations were brought to a
halt amid the pandemic.
Polk also readily bragged on
the talent around the Southeast-
ern Conference and why, after his
nearly six decades of coaching, it
remains among the nation’s best
collections of collegiate baseball
talent.
“This is by far the best ath-
letic conference in the country,”
he said. “After watching all our
teams practice and watching the
coaches coach, we’re blessed with
outstanding coaches and athletes
and continue to support them
as citizens of this great city of
Starkville.”
“I kind of compare coaching
in the SEC a lot like coaching ice
hockey in hell — there are many
ways things could go wrong in
a hurry,” he continued through
a laugh. “So I tell them all this
we’ve got to be positive — I’ve al-
ways been a positive person — I
want you to be as positive as the
guy in Alabama last year, he was
85 years of age, and he married
a 25-year-old woman and moved
right next door to the elementary
school and bought a five-bedroom
house. That’s how positive I want
these people to be.” ACROSS

MSU
1 Church doctrine
6 Yell “boo!” at
11 Snowy wader
Continued from Page 1B 12 Lost color
13 Spooky
chart since MSU’s season opener have performed well in practice. 17. It remains unclear as to when 15 Toe count
against LSU. Monday, that same I don’t really like splitting reps he will return to the field. 16 Squeak
roster was distributed to media with quarterbacks. I like to set- n It’s expected MSU will use stopper
members, offering little insight tle on one. I would prefer that ap- a handful of options to replace 17 Plaything
as to who might take the first proach, but we’ve been awfully up safety Fred Peters, who is expect- 18 Odor
snap under center. and down. We need to figure out ed to miss the rest of the season 20 Tremble
Leach noted he’d like to settle who gives us the best spark. It’s due to an undisclosed injury for 23 Party prep
the competition for the foresee- definitely competitive at the posi- which he had surgery last week 27 Llama’s land
able future, but whether that hap- tion this week.” according to Leach.
28 Arbor climber
“We’ve got a committee doing
29 In a fitting way
pens this week or in the games to
31 Evil spirit
come remains to be seen. Other notes pretty good,” Leach said Monday.
32 Clothing brand
“Long story short, I think the n Leach did not afford any “I don’t know if [defensive coor-
34 Money 4 Sister of Jo, 26 Farm enclo-
more exposure they have, the update on senior running back dinator] Zach [Arnett]’s going to machine
better,” Leach said of how patient maintain the committee or if he’s
Amy and Beth sure
and Columbus native Kylin Hill 37 Beanie or 5 Not out 30 Marina boats
he is with quarterbacks that are on Monday. Hill did not dress for got a specific one. I suspect it’ll beret 6 Hexes 31 Rely
new to his system. “Both guys MSU’s loss to Texas A&M on Oct. be a couple of guys.” 38 Farrow of 7 Soup buy 33 Halloween
“Rosemary’s

Alabama
Continued from Page 1B
and no shortage of weap-
ons surrounding him.
Bolden joins receiv-
ers DeVonta Smith and
John Metchie III as
key cogs in one of the
nation’s top passing
games. Alabama also
has standout tailback
Najee Harris to anchor
an effective running
game.
Waddle still leads the
team with 557 yards and
ranked as one of the na-
tion’s top punt returners
the past two seasons,
though he seldom got
the chance the first half
of this season.
Smith is close behind
with 45 catches for 556
yards while Metchie is
averaging 23.8 yards on
8 Stepped down flyer
Baby” 9 Nevada city 34 Basics
41 Heading 10 Tense 35 Easy run
toward dawn 14 Suit accessory 36 Silent per-
44 Astronomer’s 18 Skeleton part former
21 catches and has been ing to bounce back from said, adding that “the find 19 Flat 38 Lode setting
another deep threat. something like this. guy knows a lot about 45 Time being 20 Masseur’s 39 Machu Picchu
Saban said he ex- “That’s kind of what I football.” 46 Flower parts place native
pected to visit with told him.” “I always like watch- 47 Intense fear 21 Cool, to 40 Like some
Waddle later Monday or Alabama has several ing his (high school) DOWN jazzmen wines
on Tuesday. Jones and freshman receivers who highlights because it 1 Skilled 22 Museum focus 42 Ruby or garnet
other teammates spoke could vie for playing gets me pretty fired 2 Storybook 24 Director 43 Neither
with Waddle after the time, including Javon up. He’s making plays,” monster Burton follower
game. Baker, Traeshon Holden Jones said. “So when 3 Amused look 25 One, for Juan
“I got to say a few and Thaiu Jones-Bell. you have somebody that
words to him, but it’s But Bolden figures to can make plays like that
hard to go walk up to one assume much of Wad- and put him wherever
of your closest friends dle’s role on both of- you want on the field,
and see him crying like fense and in the return he’s super versatile.
that just knowing that game. He had been used “I’ve got a lot of
his season’s kind of a few times last season banked reps with him.
over,” the quarterback as a Wildcat quarter- He’s a guy if I ever need
said. “He doesn’t know back. Saban praised his to throw, whether it’s at
what his path looks like quickness, hands and 12 at night or 6 in the
going forward, but just instincts. morning, he’ll be there.
knowing Jaylen for the Bolden is versatile So I always appreciate
past couple of years, he’s enough to have even Slade and he’s going to
one of the hardest work- lined up on defense in do a good job. He’s just
ers I know, and he’s go- spring practice, Jones getting started.”

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4B TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020
Beckham’s season over, Browns star WR tears knee ligament
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — Odell
Beckham Jr. was in a much
better place emotionally
and physically. This was
going to be the season he
changed minds.
He was determined to
make 2020 — and its many
obstacles — a special year,
re-establish himself as
one of the NFL’s best play-
ers and lead the Browns
back to the playoffs, along
with with best friend and
teammate Jarvis Landry.
Beckham won’t get the
chance.
The star receiver’s sec-
ond season with Cleveland
ended on Monday after
an MRI confirmed he
sustained a torn left knee
ligament in the opening
minutes of Sunday’s 37-34
Comics & Puzzles
DILBERT
ZITS
GARFIELD
CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
win over the Cincinnati
Bengals.
Beckham’s injury is a
devastating personal blow
and a potentially major
setback to the Browns,
who are off to their best
start since 1994 and eye-
ing their first postseason
appearance in 18 years.
They’ll have to get
there without Beckham.
“Obviously, it’s a big
loss,” coach Kevin Ste-
fanski said. “He’s a huge
part of what we do, so now
we just have to huddle up
and find some different
ways and find some differ-
ent people and put them
in that role. ... I’m sick for
Odell.”
The three-time Pro
Bowler got hurt when his
left leg buckled while he
FAMILY CIRCUS
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was trying to make a tack-
le after Baker Mayfield’s
first pass was intercepted
by Bengals cornerback
Darius Phillips.
An MRI taken Monday
in Cleveland confirmed
the diagnosis of the torn
ACL, an injury that typical-
ly requires nine months to
one year of recovery time.
The team said Beckham
will be placed on injured
reserve, but Stefanski did
not have a timetable on
when he will have surgery.
On what became his
final play of 2020, Beck-
ham, who was slowed last
season by a core muscle
injury, was chasing Phil-
lips down the sideline
when his leg got twisted
awkwardly. He immedi-
ately grabbed it, was taken
directly to the locker room
and didn’t return.
The Browns (5-2)
played well without Beck-
ham, who for all his talent
hasn’t been able to make
a strong connection with
Mayfield since arriving
in a blockbuster trade
from the New York Giants
before last season. The
three-time Pro Bowler
played most of 2019 with
an injury that required off-
season surgery.
After Beckham went
out Sunday, Mayfield
completed 21 consecu-
tive passes and threw five
TD passes — matching a
franchise record — as the
Browns outlasted Joe Bur-
row and the Bengals.
Mayfield was also with-
out injured running back
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: I
am a young
woman who
has battled rheu-
matoid arthritis
and Sjogren’s
syndrome for the
past eight years.
My aunt passed
away from compli-
cations of it at the
age of 43, and I’m
getting close to
that age.
Since the
beginning of the
pandemic, I have
become increas- Dear Abby
ingly disabled. I
can barely get out of bed with-
out being in pain and cannot
sleep. Household chores have
become impossible, and I can
get things done only near the
end of the day when the swell-
ing in my joints goes down.
I saw how this disease
robbed my aunt of her liveli-
hood, but I also saw how my
uncle helped her with almost
everything. I love my husband,
but he seems to think that I can
just take a pill and instantly
and magically be fine, which is
not true. He has unrealistic ex-
pectations of me that I cannot
meet.
I have tried to get him to
understand this is a chronic
disease that will be with me for
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.
27). So much more is possible
than before, and opportunities
crop up all around you. You
can take next month’s exciting
outcome as a sign to stay that
path. This early success is only
the first nugget in a bag of gold.
Keep it all rolling by making sure
you have helpful partners and
a system of accountability and
support. Cancer and Capricorn
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 7, 33, 10, 28 and 41.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Associative memories will play a
role in today’s decision-making
process, although not all of the
memories are vivid, many being
as faint as ghosts and yet still
powerfully influential.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Nick Chubb, tight end
Austin Hooper and Landry
played with a broken rib.
But the third-year QB had
one of his best games by
making plays with rookie
tight end Harrison Bry-
ant (two TDs), Rashard
Higgins (six catches) and
rookie receiver Donovan
Peoples-Jones, who en-
tered the game without a
catch and grabbed May-
field’s winning TD pass
with 11 seconds left
Cleveland, which hasn’t
made the postseason
since 2002, will have to go
the rest of the way without
Beckham, who turns 28
on Nov. 5. He had 23 catch-
es for 319 yards and three
touchdowns this season
and scored on a 50-yard
touchdown run.
the rest of my life,
and I have given
him material to
read, but he dis-
misses it. At this
point, I feel like
packing up and
leaving because
I’m a burden to
him and I don’t
know what else
to do anymore.
Advice? — FULL
OF PAIN
DEAR FULL
OF PAIN: Packing
up and leaving
right now is not
advisable. When
couples promise each other
they will stick together “in sick-
ness and in health,” situations
like the one in which you find
yourself is what’s meant.
Does your doctor know the
degree to which your health
has declined in the last several
months? If not, put the person
on notice! Schedule a consulta-
tion, if possible, and when you
do, your husband should be with
you so he can fully understand
what’s going on and help you if
you need it. If he isn’t capable
of doing that, you will have to
make other arrangements for
your care and for the housework
you can no longer manage.
Please stop beating yourself
up over this. You have done
Wherever you go, you cultivate
a sense of belonging meant for
everyone around you, not just
the few you know or the few that
are similar to you. In this way,
you are a light in the world.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
No state of being is intrinsically
better than another, though
you have your preferences. You
wouldn’t willingly choose to be
inconvenienced or uncomfort-
able, though what you gain will
make the trouble worthwhile.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You probably don’t realize how
important it is that you show up.
You are bringing something of
value to the table, though be-
cause it is also integral to who
you are, you don’t experience it
as anything out of the ordinary.
Beckham’s presence
alone made defenses ac-
count for him on every
snap.
“Odell, the energy he
brings to practice, the en-
ergy he brings to games.
No one else is going to
be able to bring that type
of juice,” Stefanski said.
“But it’s our job to find the
guys that can go compete
and we’ll put them in spots
where they can succeed
and think we’ll be able to
do that.
“It’s not easy. I don’t
want to have to do it and
I’m very disappointed for
Odell, but that’s the na-
ture of this beast. Injuries
are part of this thing and
that doesn’t mean any of
us have to like it, but we
do have to deal with it.”
nothing wrong. Your husband
could just as easily be the
unwell spouse, if fate hadn’t
decided otherwise.
DEAR ABBY: My friend just
ended a relationship with her
boyfriend of over two years that
had progressed to them moving
in together. About eight months
ago, she found out he was hav-
ing an online relationship, but
they talked it out and decided
to give it another try. Now, after
learning he has another woman
on the line, she kicked him out.
Abby, he is working to get
her back, and she seems
to want to give him another
chance. I think it’s a losing
game for her and more disap-
pointment down the line. My
question is, how honest should
I be about my unwillingness
to go along with giving him a
third chance? It seems like this
leopard won’t change his spots.
— CRYSTAL BALL IN MISSOURI
DEAR CRYSTAL BALL: If you
haven’t already expressed your
feelings to your friend, AND SHE
ASKS YOU FOR YOUR OPINION,
be fully honest regarding your
concerns about her ex-boy-
friend’s character. I agree that
having cheated on her not
once but twice, the likelihood
of him doing it again is almost
guaranteed. That said, you can’t
live your friend’s life for her, and
some people are slow to learn.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You
set out knowing what you want
at the end of the journey. Get-
ting that specific prize will not,
in the end, be very important.
It’s the hope of a prize that
opens the world, not the prize
itself.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Your social network is as unique
a possession as can be. Shar-
ing it will help you see this much
more clearly and will inspire
you to continue cultivating new
connections.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Everyone you come into contact
with is living a vividly complex
life, though some are more in-
clined to give you a peek into it
than others. You’re lucky today
because you do not assume
to know anything about other
people.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Keep track of those
strange details that don’t readily
fit. Things that seem unrelat-
ed on the surface, you’ll find,
are quite related indeed if you
dig but a little deeper into the
matter.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Some are afraid that put-
ting together a bucket list will
cause too much focus on their
own demise when the opposite
effect will occur. Living gets
more exciting. The longer the
list, the more life it represents.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). No two relationships
are the same, so there’s no
single approach to relationship
success. However, today, your
way of learning about others
before you decide where to take
things will work beautifully and
universally.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). We all have feelings
that we’re not sure how to or
whether to express; you’re not
alone in that. What does set
you apart today is your exquisite
instinct and follow-through in
this regard.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You don’t need to know
everything about a person to
make a relationship work, but
do try to find out a little more
about where the other person
is coming from. That will make
today’s interaction much
smoother.
In one’s good books
SOLUTION:
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WHEREAS, on July 23, 2007,
Dawanda O. Elliott and Mi-
chael E. Elliott executed a
Deed of Trust to T. Harris Colli-
er, III, as Trustee for Trust-
mark National Bank, as Lender,
with Mortgage Electronic Regis-
tration Systems, Inc.,
(“MERS”), as Beneficiary,
which is recorded in the office
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2007 at Page 22309;
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entire debt secured having
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COUNTY OF LOWNDES SURVEILLANCE. Benji &
Ashleigh, 662−386−4446.
Letters Testamentary have
been granted and issued to the
undersigned upon the Estate of
Samuel Alan Smith, deceased,
by the Chancery Court of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
on the 7th day of October
2020. This is to give notice 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 from the first
publication date of this Notice
to Creditors. A failure to so Pro-
bate and Register said claim
will forever bar the same.
This the 7th day of October
2020.
/s/ Susan Bowen Smith, Exec-
utrix
PUBLISH: 10/13, 10/20 &
10/27/2020
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Employment
Call us: 662-328-2424
General Help Wanted
OFFICE MANAGER needed
for local Construction com-
pany. Job includes man-
aging Pay Roll, QuickBooks,
Spreadsheets, Accounts
Payable & Receivable, Pur-
chasing & Social Media.
Single position in small
business with nice atmo-
sphere. Mail resume to
Blind Box 677 c/o The
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PO Box 511 Refrigerator, New A/C Unit!
Columbus MS 39703.
DISPATCH seeks a motiv-
ated, contracted carrier for
the Caledonia area. Excel- Call us at: 662−205−0005
lent opportunity to earn
money for college. Must
valid driver's license & in-
surance. Delivers on
Main Street in Columbus.
No phone calls please.
Rentals
Ads starting at $25
Apts For Rent: North
Apts For Rent: South
Downtown Loft: Very nice 1
bdrm loft, wood floors, tall
ceilings, above a downtown
business. Great location.
Call before 9:00 p.m.
$650. 662−364−1610
Large 2−bedrm apartment. Road frontage. South of
Recently renovated, very
nice, includes washer /
dryer, lots of closets, great 2248.
location. Must see inside.
$850. 662−364−1610
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Apts For Rent: West Houses For Sale: Other
Merchandise Vehicles
VIP
FSBO: 4BR/4.5BA
10,000+sqft, situated on
Rentals
13 ac in South Lowndes Co
@ 627 Canfield Rd. New Ads starting at $12 Ads starting at $12
Hope school district. 50x
Apartments & Houses 100 shop, in ground pool Bargain Column Autos For Sale
w/pool house & 1.5 acre
1 Bedrooms stock pond. Ideal place for 4 Covid face shields Wear
mini farm! $675,000.
2004 CHEVY IMPALA LS,
3.8 liter engine, 4 door,
2 Bedroooms
to polls or Church. Clear
662−327−3477 plastic. Can be worn over automatic, leather interior,
3 Bedrooms
glasses. $13.00 for all. sunroof, & AM/FM/
Lots & Acreage
662−497−4626 or 662− cassette. $2,000.
662−251−3001.
Furnished & Unfurnished 1.75 ACRE LOTS Good/
244−5861
1, 2, & 3 Baths
Bad Credit Options. Good
credit as low as 20% down, Firewood / Fuel
Lease, Deposit
& Credit Check
$499/mo. Eaton Land,
662−361−7711. FIREWOOD FOR SALE.
Various lengths.
Community
viceinvestments.com Approx. 7 acres located
662−295−2274.
Ads starting at $12
327-8555
between Dale Road and
Buck Egger Road at end of General Merchandise Travel & Entertainment
Renon Lane. $30,000
Apts For Rent: Other Call; leave message. Mobile Home Frames
662−549−0696 2 Mobile Home Frames for PUBLIC CATFISH POND
$500 Each. 30 Free 130 Hillcrest Dr
Concrete Blocks w/ Each Catfish contest Oct. 1−
PICKENS COUNTY, AL
180 acres in Liberty Frame 31. $200 for most
Community. Good hunting weight. $100 for Big
& road systems. $850/ac. 2 Electric Tongue Jacks Fish. 2 drawings for
Other tracts available. Call $150 Each $50 valued prizes. Call
For More Info. Contact 662−386−8591 for
205−799−9846 or 205−
695−2248. Jessie Brooks @ details.
662−272−8711
Garage Sales
Pets
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIDES
Leather chaps, genuine Big Puppies For Sale:
buffalo, XL, new. $40.
Two large breed Standard
Two free signs Motorcycle riding boots, Poodle cross, 12 wk old
waterproof/insulated, worn puppies for sale. Wormed,
Estate Sales very little, size 10. $70. vaccinated, vet checked
One piece rain suit by and very healthy. They have
BIG SALE: Oct 30−31. Gear, L, new. $35. long white curly hair with
For sale locally. tan and gray spots around
Fri 9−6, Sat 8−4. Oil paint
−ings, glassware, chalk 501−545−7750. the face and ears. 1 male,
ware, furn, h/h items, 1 female, very smart with
clothing, many quilts & Sporting Goods gentle temperament and
collectibles. 10469 Hwy 12 lots of energy. Located in
The Military Square
E, across from Cedar Hill. Crawford Army Surplus Crawford, MS. $350.
Apartments are now
on Main in Crawford. 626−590−2584
accepting applicants!
We have 1, 2, and 3 Now for sale: Metal Ammo
bedroom units available. Orr Estate Sale cans 30&50 cal, $10;
All apartments are newly
remodeled, and include:
810 1st St. North
Reform, AL 35481
.155mm Howitzer treated
wood ammo boxes,
Read local.
New Washer/Dryer, New Fri. Oct. 30, 9am−5pm $5&10; Army steel cdispatch.com
Sat. Oct. 31, 9am−5pm bunkbeds, $125; Field
Sun. Nov. 1, 1pm−5pm Artillery camo nets with
We also offer rent
discounts for:
Mon. Nov.2, 9am−1pm
Selling the estate of
spreader poles, $225;
Unissued camo (BDU/ Five Questions:
−Active Military Leon & Shirley Orr, ACU/ABU) military 6−
−Veterans See photos pocket fatigues, $35 & M−
1 Complemen-
−Seniors @www.estatesales.net 65 field coats & fire−
Stewart’s Antiques & retardant coveralls, $50;
tary
Estate Sales polypro col weather under
Benny Shelton
garment, $18;
COLEMAN Columbus, MS
662−251−1515
OCP T−shirts, $5.
Call 662.769.1889
RENTALS
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TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS
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1 BEDROOM ED SANDERS GUNSMITH
?
Open for season!
2 BEDROOMS
know
3 Netherlands
Tue−Fri: 9−5 & Sat: 9−12
3 BEDROOMS Over 50 years experience!
Repairs, cleaning, refin−
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662−494−6218.
2411 HWY 45 N Auctions
COLUMBUS, MS
Houses For Rent: East
3BR/1BA, stove, refrig−
erator, fresh paint & hard−
wood floors. Available
11/1. $600/mo + $500
dep. No HUD, no pets.
662−295−3022.
Real Estate
Ads starting at $25
Farms & Timberland
LAMAR CO. AL, 197 Acres.
Good timber. Good hunting.
Millport. $1,325/ac. 205−
799−9846 or 205−695−
Houses For Sale: East
3BR/2BA in 55+
community of Plantation
Pointe. For more info call
after 5pm, 662−251−
7664.
Houses For Sale: Southside
1512 WASHINGTON AVE
3BR/1.5BA, living room w/
gas log−heat, dining room,
front/back porch, natural
gas heat, window units−
cooling, storage bldg &
carport. 1,230 sq ft.
Call 662−425−9451.
Service Directory
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Carpet & Flooring General Services General Services Painting & Papering
A & T TREE SERVICES QUALITY PAINTING.
Bucket truck & stump Ext/Int Painting.
removal. Free est. Sheet Rock Hang, Finish &
Serving Columbus Repair. Pressure Washing.
since 1987. Senior Free Estimates. Ask for
citizen disc. Call Alvin @ specials! Larry Webber,
242−0324/241−4447 662−242−4932.
"We’ll go out on a limb for
you!" SULLIVAN’S PAINT
SERVICE
Fall Special: 4 Rms $99 Special Prices.
1 Room − $50 WORK WANTED: Licensed
& Bonded. Carpentry, minor Interior & Exterior Painting.
2 Room − $70 662−435−6528
3 Rooms − $90 electrical, minor plumbing,
Carpet−Rugs−Tile−Cars insulation, painting, demo−
lition, gutters cleaned, Plumbing
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scaping, cleanup work.
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