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Lowndes supervisors vote along racial lines

to leave Confederate monument at courthouse
Sanders: Blacks have
remained ‘dependent’
since slavery
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com

The Confederate monument in front of

Lowndes County courthouse will stay in place,
following a 3-2 vote by the board of supervisors
Monday morning against its relocation.
The motion to relocate the century-old mon-
ument, made by District 5 Leroy Brooks, failed
to carry after Supervisors Harry Sanders, Trip
Hairston and John Holliman — the three white
supervisors — voted to reject the measure,
following heated clashes between Brooks and
Sanders over the handling of the monument.
Advocates for relocating the monument,
such as Bishop Scott Volland of The Heights,
argued at the meeting the monument glorifies
slavery and is insensitive to the black commu-
nity. Supervisors who were lukewarm to the
idea, however, told The Dispatch they voted
against it because the monument preserves
history that needs to be remembered.
“We haven’t had slavery in the United States
Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
for 150 years,” Sanders told The Dispatch Mon-
day morning. “Why is it still an issue?” ABOVE: John Lewis takes a break
The vote upset many citizens in attendance from protesting near the Confeder-
ate monument that stands on the
who supported the relocation, such as Volland,
Lowndes County Courthouse lawn on
Lowndes County NAACP President Lavonne Monday in Columbus. Lewis was born
Latham Harris, State Rep. Kabir Karriem and raised in Columbus but now lives
(D-Columbus) and Nadia Colom, wife of Dis- in Texas. He returned to Columbus on
trict Attorney Scott Colom. Upon hearing the Wednesday and said he is not leav-
vote, many of them shook their heads and ex- ing town until the statue is removed.
claimed: “Again, wrong side of history.” “Change starts from home,” Lewis
The monument at the courthouse, erect- said. LEFT: Bishop Scott Volland asks
ed in 1912, honors Confederate soldiers who the county board of supervisors to
fought in the South during the Civil War as consider relocating the Confederate
“our heroes.” The inscription deems the histo- monument that stands on the court-
ry a “sacred heritage” and described the war house lawn during a board of supervi-
as a “noble cause.” On top of the monument is sors meeting on Monday at the Lown-
des County Courthouse. “When we as
a stone statue of a soldier holding a flag in his a society no longer care about what
left arm. offends our fellow citizens,” Volland
Brooks, giving his motion to remove the said, “then all of a sudden we become
courthouse monument to Friendship Ceme- the very thing that we claim to hate.”
See MONUMENT, 3A Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff

Water management district guarantees MSU planning

a few projects a year, director says
Oktibbeha supes weigh passing ordinance
penalizing false calls to fire department
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
The Tombigbee River
Valley Water Management
District will tackle multiple
drainage projects in Oktib-
beha County per year, agen-
cy Executive Director David
Kennard told supervisors at
their Monday meeting — a
promise that contradicted
some supervisors’ concerns
last month when the board
voted to join the Tupe-
lo-based state agency.
The water management
district does flood control,
cleanup and repair projects
on waterways of all sizes
in 12 northeast Mississippi
counties, with Oktibbeha
soon to be the 13th.
“We’ve got responsibil-
ities in Kemper County all
the way up to Alcorn County,
so we’re spread out,” Ken-
nard said. “What we normal-
ly do is start in the north,
in Alcorn County, and we’ll
take care of two or three
projects per county as we
move south.”
The district completes
the rotation at least twice per
year, works on projects each
county deems most import-
ant and only deviates from
its plans if bad weather cre-
ates a flood risk and requires
workers to move to higher
ground, Kennard said.
Flooding and drainage is-
sues have been a priority for
the supervisors due to heavy
rains over the past several
months, and the board voted
health and safety
measures for
returning students,
employees
Expanded, cheaper
summer courses bring
in record numbers
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
of students
District 1 Supervisor and Board President John Montgomery,
BY TESS VRBIN
right, and Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District
executive director David Kennard, left, discuss the county’s tvrbin@cdispatch.com
new membership in the flood control agency at Monday’s
board of supervisors meeting. The agency completes a few Trying to keep
projects in all its member counties every year on a north-to- Mississippi State
south rotation, Kennard said. University afloat
during a global pan-
3-2 in May to join the district, against joining the agency, demic while being
which includes a $133,000 citing their concerns that mindful of health
annual membership fee. Dis- Oktibbeha County would be and safety has been
trict 1 Supervisor and Board low on the agency’s priority “like driving through
Shaw
President John Montgomery list and that it would take a dense fog or trying
and District 4 Supervisor workers years to get to the to swim in mud,” MSU Provost
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Could the police shooting

in Atlanta have been prevented?
‘It’s not an open-and-shut
case. The DA has a hell of
a choice on his hands to
deal with this case’
Former Los Angeles Police
Department use-of-force expert
Timothy T. Williams Jr.
BY LISA MARIE PANE
The Associated Press
It started off as routine: a man
asleep in his car in a fast-food
drive-thru. But it rapidly spun out
of control when Atlanta police tried
to handcuff and arrest Rayshard
Brooks for being intoxicated.
Video of the scene from late Fri-
day shows the 27-year-old black man
wrestling with two white officers,
taking a Taser from one of them,
running a short distance through
the Wendy’s parking lot, and then
pointing the stun gun toward one.
That officer shot him twice in the
back, killing him.
How did it all go so wrong so fast?
And what, if anything, could officers
have done to defuse the situation?
Law enforcement experts say
the answers to those questions are
complicated and not as clear-cut as
in the recent death of George Floyd,
the black man who was pronounced
dead after a Minneapolis officer put
his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly
9 minutes.
Among the questions being
asked: Instead of arresting Brooks,
couldn’t officers have just taken
away his keys and let him walk
home or get a lift from someone?
Could the officers have said or done
something else to help keep him
calm and safely place him under ar-
rest?
And why did one of the officers
shoot him rather than just let him
‘When does it stop?’ Slain
man’s family makes tearful plea
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black
man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes
in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from
violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after
George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
An autopsy found that 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot twice
in the back late Friday by a white officer who was trying to arrest him at
a fast food restaurant for being intoxicated behind the wheel of his car.
Brooks tried to flee after wrestling with officers and grabbing a stun
gun from one of them.
“Not only are we hurt, we are angry,” said Chassidy Evans, Brooks’
niece. “When does it stop? We’re not only pleading for justice. We’re
pleading for change.”
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday that she
was ordering changes to police use-of-force policies, including requir-
ing that officers receive continuous training in how to deescalate situa-
tions and use those techniques before taking action that could be fatal.
She said she also was requiring officers to intervene if they see a col-
league using excessive force.
The mayor said that after Brooks’ shooting, it was clear Atlanta did
not have “another day, another minute, another hour to waste” in chang-
ing police practices.
run away and catch him later, since had options other than to arrest
they already had his driver’s license Brooks, especially at a time when
information? the coronavirus is making jails
“It’s not an open-and-shut case. more dangerous.
The DA has a hell of a choice on his “They could have easily wait-
hands to deal with this case,” said ed and caught him later,” L. Chris
Timothy T. Williams Jr., a use-of- Stewart, the Brooks family’s lawyer,
force expert who spent nearly three said on NBC’s “Today” show. “It was
decades with the Los Angeles Po-
just unnecessary.”
lice Department. “It’s a very compli-
Williams said it’s not that easy
cated case.”
The officer who killed Brooks and called efforts to second-guess
has been fired, and the other officer the decision to arrest Brooks Mon-
has been put on desk duty. Atlan- day-morning quarterbacking.
ta’s police chief has resigned. The “You’re trained to enforce the
district attorney expects to decide law. If there are laws being broken
by midweek whether to charge the in front of you, you have an obliga-
officers. tion, a legal obligation, to do what
Some observers said the officers has to be done,” he said.

Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

Eleven percent of African Americans based on data from three
COVID Impact surveys
pact research further de-
tails the toll the pandemic
say they were close with someone conducted between April
and June by NORC at the
has taken on black Amer-
icans.
who has died from the coronavirus University of Chicago Pre-existing condi-
for the Data Foundation tions and limited access
BY K AT STAFFORD AND April that lays bare how about the pandemic’s ef- to health care have been
HANNAH FINGERHUT black Americans have fect on the physical, men- identified as reasons
The Associated Press borne the brunt of the tal and social health of black Americans have
pandemic. Americans. been particularly suscep-
DETROIT — African Eleven percent of Afri- While recent surveys tible to the virus. Experts
Americans are dispro- can Americans say they conducted by the AP- and medical professionals
portionately likely to were close with someone NORC Center for Public say the longstanding ef-
say a family member or who has died from the Affairs Research have fects of structural racism
close friend has died of coronavirus, compared found that black Ameri- and generational trauma
COVID-19 or respirato- with 5 percent of Ameri- cans are especially likely exacted upon black Amer-
ry illness since March, cans overall and 4 percent to know someone who icans in the centuries fol-
according to a series of of white Americans. had the virus, the new lowing slavery also can-
surveys conducted since The findings are data from the COVID Im- not be ignored.

US revokes emergency use of drugs touted by Trump vs. virus

BY MAT THEW PERRONE growing evidence they
AP Health Writer don’t work and could
cause serious side ef-
WASHINGTON — fects.
U.S. regulators on Mon- The Food and Drug
day revoked emergency Administration said the
authorization for malaria drugs hydroxychloro-
drugs promoted by Pres- quine and chloroquine
ident Donald Trump for are unlikely to be effec-
treating COVID-19 amid tive in treating the coro-
navirus. Citing reports
of heart complications,
the FDA said the drugs’
unproven benefits “do not
outweigh the known and
potential risks.”
In a separate an-
nouncement, the FDA
also warned doctors
against prescribing the
drugs in combination
with remdesivir, the lone
drug currently shown
to help patients with
COVID-19. The FDA said
the anti-malaria drugs
can reduce the effective-
ness of remdesivir, which
FDA cleared for emergen-
cy use in May.

Some Mississippi counties could move Confederate monuments
Washington County supervisors voted 4-1
to work with a local historical commission
to find a new place for the monument that’s
outside the courthouse in Greenville
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Some Mis-
sissippi counties are debating
whether to move Confederate
monuments that have stood for
more than a century outside
courthouses or in other promi-
nent spots on public property.
The potential changes are
happening as Confederate mon-
uments are being removed in
Monument
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tery — where both Con-
federate and Union sol-
diers are buried — said
such a structure in front
of the courthouse poorly
reflects on a county that
should consider all of its
citizens equal. He also
made reference to a long-
standing local legend that
if one views the statue
from the east, the soldier
looks like a hooded Klans-
man.
“We are not trying to
change history, we are
just trying to rechannel
some things that are of-
fensive to people,” he said.
“We are not saying tear it
down, we are saying re-
locate it, so when people
come to the courthouse
and they look at it from a
certain angle, they don’t
see something that looks
like a Ku Klux Klan.”
Sanders disagreed,
at first offering an alter-
native motion to include
a more comprehensive
history at the courthouse
monument. He later with-
drew it.
“You don’t solve any
problem other than the
fact you get it moved from
one place to another,”
Sanders told The Dis-
patch. “I think that we
don’t want to do away with
history, and we need to be
reminded of some atroc-
ity that happened. If we
are not reminded about it,
we are going to have a ten-
dency to forget it and (the
history) is going to repeat
itself.”
He further dismissed
the protest against the
monument as “problems”
addressed by the black
community, who he said
have remained “depen-
dent” since slavery. He
referenced other ethnici-
ties living in America who
he felt had better “assim-
ilated” to society even af-
ter mistreatment — such
as Irish, Italian, Polish
and Japanese residents.
“We didn’t do the Jap-
anese right here in World
War II, we put them all …
in a concentration camp
and everything and no-
body said a damn word
about it today. Are the
Japanese all upset about
that, burning stuff down
and all that? No,” Sanders
told The Dispatch after
the meeting. “They’ve
(been) assimilated into
the country and they are
doing fine. The only ones
that are having the prob-
lems: Guess who? The
African Americans. You
know why?
“In my opinion, they
were slaves. And be-
cause of that, they didn’t
have to go out and earn
any money, they didn’t
have to do anything,” he
added. “Whoever owned
them took care of them,
fed them, clothed them,
worked them. They be-
came dependent, and that
dependency is still there.
The Democrats right
here who depend on the
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in November whether to move
a Confederate monument that
location if it is determined that
the location is more appropriate
leaders and university admin-
istrators said the Confederate
was donated to the county in to displaying the monument.” soldier statue should be moved
1910. News outlets reported the In majority-white Lafayette from a spot near the main ad-
decision was made after sever- County, a diverse group of peo- ministrative building into a Civil
al people spoke for and against ple carried signs Monday out- War cemetery in a secluded part
moving the statue. A new site side the new courthouse, calling of the campus. The state College
has not been proposed for the on supervisors to remove a Con- Board has delayed a decision
some other southern states amid
monument in a county named federate monument that stands on moving the monument, but
protests against racism.
for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a outside the old courthouse near- could discuss the issue at Thurs-
On Monday, supervisors
in majority-black Washington Confederate general who later by. The Oxford Eagle reported day’s meeting.
County voted 4-1 to work with became a leader in the Ku Klux that supervisors set a June 22 A former University of Missis-
a local historical commission Klan. public hearing. sippi student was arrested May
to find a new place for the mon- A Mississippi law enacted The monument outside the 30 after he spray painted “Spir-
ument that’s outside the court- in 2004 says no war monument Lafayette County Courthouse itual Genocide” and left bloody
house in Greenville, the Delta may be “relocated, removed, dis- is about a mile from a similar handprints on the monument on
Democrat-Times reported. turbed, altered, renamed or re- one that has been the subject campus. He was charged with
Supervisors in majori- dedicated.” But the law also says: of debate on the University of defacing public property. The
ty-white Forrest County voted “The governing body may move Mississippi campus. More than monument has already been
3-2 Monday to let voters decide the memorial to a more suitable a year ago, student and faculty cleaned.
Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
District 1 Supervisor Harry
Sanders listens as Bishop
Scott Volland asks the
county to consider remov-
ing a Confederate monu-
ment from the courthouse
lawn during a board of su-
pervisors meeting on Mon-
day. Sanders proposed
that instead of relocating
the statue, they compro-
mise by adding onto the
monument to address
slavery. Later, Volland said
that what Sanders didn’t
realize is that relocating
Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
the statue already was
Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff From left, John Lewis and Sonniah Ramirez, 12, protest compromising.
District 5 Supervisor Leroy Brooks moves for the Con- for the removal of the Confederate monument that
federate monument to be relocated from the court- stands on the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn on feelings, many deep-root-
house lawn to Friendship Cemetery. “We don’t like what Monday in Columbus. Lewis was protesting by himself ed fears, many misunder-
it stands for and what it reflects. We don’t want our when Sonniah approached him. “Can I hold a sign with standings and mistrusts
children and grandchildren growing up to have to come you for 30 minutes?” she asked, and then the pair that have been perpetuat-
and see the same thing,” Brooks said. stood together. ed throughout history.”
But the community
‘In my opinion, they were slaves. And because of that, they didn’t have to go will keep advocating for
the cause, such as writ-
out and earn any money, they didn’t have to do anything. Whoever owned ing letters to supervisors
and signing petitions to
them took care of them, fed them, clothed them, worked them. They became make a change, said Pas-
tor R.J. Matthews of King-
dependent, and that dependency is still there. The Democrats right here who dom Vision International
Church.
depend on the black vote to get elected, they make them dependent on them.’ Karriem told The Dis-
Harry Sanders, Lowndes County Board of Supervisors president patch he hopes Sanders,
Hairston and Holliman
black vote to get elected, documents a more com- and white, but one about patch he is “somewhat reconsider their vote.
they make them depen- prehensive history. “human decency.” disappointed but not dis- “It’s very discourag-
dent on them.” Although he recogniz- District 3 Supervisor illusioned” by the board’s ing, but this is a time for
es the historic value in John Holliman shared decision. Changing en- this body to go back,
Disappointed, but not the current monument, Sanders’ view, arguing trenched beliefs, he said, have a conversation and
Volland said, it does not
disillusioned represent all lives that
the history was worth can be hard. take the next steps in this
Removing the monu- preserving. Many of his “Some still waters run community for action,” he
were lost in the war. constituents, he said, deep,” he said. “When said.
ment is a goal shared by
many protesters, such “There were many urged him to vote for the you stir up those waters, it Dispatch reporter Slim
as David Horton, as they more lives that were af- monument to stay. begins to bring to the sur- Smith contributed to this
conducted weeks of fected and/or taken, Volland told The Dis- face many deep-rooted report.
peaceful protests in the many more freedoms that
city against racial injus- were infringed upon by
tice over the police kill- the defense of that Con-
ing of George Floyd in federacy and what it stood
Minneapolis last month for,” he said. “It should be
and that of Ricky Ball in a monument that is not
Columbus in 2015. For simply reflective of the
the Ball shooting, Mis- Confederacy, but all lives,
sissippi Attorney General be (they) slave or free, all
Lynn Fitch dismissed a lives we do claim to be
manslaughter charge in created equal.”
late May against former Moreover, Volland
Columbus police officer said, by clinging onto the
Canyon Boykin. history where the Confed-
In a June 9 town hall eracy fought to preserve
meeting, Horton called slavery, the monument is
for local leadership sup- an offensive symbol to the
port to remove or relocate black community.
Confederate monuments “The Civil War, widely,
in the county and join a is known for the issue of
bipartisan statewide ef- slavery,” he said. “When
fort to rid the Mississippi we as a society no longer
flag of its Confederate em- care about what offends
blem. our fellow citizens, when
Volland, echoing Hor- we no longer care about
ton’s appeal, urged the what hurts or what vi-
board of supervisors olates the same rights
Monday to relocate the we cling to, then all of a
courthouse monument to sudden we’ve become the
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OUR VIEW
A monument isn’t the only thing that
should be removed from the courthouse
D
uring Monday’s Lown-
des County Board of
Supervisors meeting,
Scott Volland, a local pastor,
appealed to the supervisors to
remove the Confederate me-
morial from the courthouse
grounds.
Similar efforts to remove
these monuments, almost
all of which were erected 30
to 50 years after the end of
the Civil War during the Jim
Crow era of the South, have
been happening throughout
the South in recent weeks.
All three white supervi-
sors — board president Harry
Sanders, John Holliman
and Trip Hairston — voted
against the removal, but did
not participate in the discus-
sions before the vote was
held. The motion defeated,
3-2, along racial lines.
Even before the vote, we
were convinced the relocation
of the monument was justi-
fied. The inscriptions on the
monument are evidence that
rather than reflect history, it
is a gross distortion of histo-
ry, a tribute to Lost Cause my-
thology erected long after the
war’s end and a reminder to
all — especially black citizens
— of a stubborn racial hierar-
chy that persists even to this
day. Perhaps most egregious
is the fact it is located at a site
where citizens — black and
white — seek justice.
If the weight of the argu-
ment to move the monument
wasn’t already sufficient, the
comments made by Sanders
after the meeting should set-
tle the matter once and for all.
Sanders said black oppo-
sition to the monument is
proof that American blacks
have not assimilated as have
other ethnic groups. “The
only ones that are having
problems: Guess who? The
African Americans,” Sanders
said.
He didn’t stop there.
He said blacks during
slavery became dependent
on their slave-owners for
sustenance and survival and
remain dependent today.
We will waste no effort in
condemning Sanders’ twist-
ed view of history and how
he believes it has shaped
the character of our black
community today, other than
to say his words would have
been comfortable on the lips
of Mississippi’s most virulent
racist officials of our ugly
past, men like Vardaman,
Bilbo and Barnett.
This attitude, especially
from an elected leader, is
slanderous to our black citi-
zens, a stain on the character
of our white citizens and a
poor reflection of us all.
Sanders’ comments are not
just offensive. We fear they
are dangerous.
It is time for our communi-
ty to stand as one for not only
the relocation of the Confed-
erate monument but for Sand-
ers’ immediate resignation.
His continuing presence,
not unlike the monument, will
serve as ugly reminder of the
past and the crippling residue
of bigotry that continues,
sadly, even today.

STATE OF THE NATION CARTOONIST VIEW

Defund the police?
Stop abusing the language
Y
ou know you have a
stupid declaration on
your hands when you
have to explain what some on
your side really mean. Such
is the burden of Democrats
trying to limit the damage
from the childish demands to
“defund the police.”
Oxford’s U.S. dictionary
defines “defund” as “prevent
from continuing to receive
funds.” To the educated ear, Froma Harrop
defund registers as abolish.
No responsible Democrat
supports getting rid of police. Joe Biden has refused
to get sucked into that conversation. House Majority
Whip Jim Clyburn, a civil rights hero who knows
something about police brutality, has warned Dem-
ocrats not to let attention seekers “hijack” the move-
ment to reform policing with calls to, in effect, end it.
The group capturing headlines with these de-
mands is actually tiny. A Yahoo News/YouGov poll
finds that only 16 percent of Democrats and 15 per-
cent of Republicans favor even reducing law enforce-
ment budgets.
I wish friends in the liberal media would stop giv-
ing cover to — and thus exaggerating the support for
— calls to defund police. They do this with byzantine
discussions on what they think — or want to think —
the radicals really want. “Defund the police? Here’s
what that really means” — Washington Post. “What LETTER TO THE EDITOR
‘Defund the Police’ Actually Means” — The Atlantic.
“Growing calls to ‘defund the police,’ explained” —
Vox.
Such commentary typically offers serious ideas
Voice of the people
to reform policing. They include moving some police Disagrees with Dispatch erate generals in Friendship- re- me think about how our city al-
functions, such as dealing with the mentally ill, to Recent articles and editorials move their headstones? locates its money. For me, it was
social workers; curbing the power of police unions to have prompted this response, Antebellum homes- burn interesting in the same way a
protect bad cops; and changing hiring processes for with the purpose of encouraging them down? This madness has prison system may try to address
a job that can attract bullying and/or racist person- your writers to consider your to stop! recidivism rates by diverting
alities. They even include moving some money from role in sowing and propagating The Fourth Estate is a pow- funds from hiring more guards
police departments to other social service budgets. social discord in Columbus. erful influence on the populace, to workforce training programs
Fine. But they really should reject outright de- Daily you have produced a for good or bad. Your newspaper or other quality of life programs
mands to close good police departments along with steady stream of articles relat- has taken a hard left turn and for prisoners.
the problematic as a kind of group punishment. ing to Ball, flag, statues, voting a change of course is needed. Co- This paper has never sug-
For decades, “failing” school districts have de- records, etc. lumbus is a good city filled with gested Boykin was guilty of
prived poor children of adequate education. Do you On June 3, as we watched loving, caring people who want manslaughter. We have never
hear calls from the far left to defund public schools? sincere protesters, rioters, and the best for each other. Please defended Ball’s character or
No, but you hear that from some prominent voices on looters destroy cities across consider your role in bringing us claimed he was innocent (or
the right opposed to teachers unions and wanting to the United States, you chose together. guilty) of anything. We do,
funnel more taxpayer money to private schools. Left- to publish a column headlined Kathy Reed however, recognize that some-
wing magazine The Nation last year published a piece ”Defund the police.” To what Columbus times police-involved shootings
titled “Stop Defunding Our Public Schools.” end? Fear and hatred know no deserve extra scrutiny, and this
This defund-the-police theme has delivered color; both are conditions of the Peter Imes responds: Thank particular shooting had many
Christmas in June to a Trump-loving media desperate heart. Where authorized force is you for your letter. You bring odd circumstances. Moreover,
to divert attention from the president’s unravelling removed, unauthorized force of up many important topics. Yes, it mobilized a group of people in
leadership. A headline from Fox began, “These cities all kinds swiftly replace it. our pages have been filled with our community to speak out and
have begun defunding police ...” Consider the Ball/Boykin issues concerning race lately. seek answers. This paper has an
Our politically polarized times have nurtured an controversy. If this case were so Our community and our coun- obligation to report on all voices
odd symbiotic relationship between the right and left ironclad, Colom would not have try are grappling with many of our community, and we make
media: Two organisms that seem opposed cooperate shirked his responsibility by crises at once, and some center an earnest attempt to do that.
to inflate the importance of a view to which few Amer- passing the case to Jim Hood. around race. Large portions of Your letter seems to suggest
icans are subscribed — and excite social media. Again, if the evidence was so our population feel unheard, maintaining the status-quo is the
But in this case, Democrats lose because so many clear cut, why did Hood ignore under-served and targeted. I best way to preserve harmony.
feel obliged to accord respect to proposals that almost it for four years? Then when struggle to see how reporting on But, again, we can’t ignore the
no party members support. Lynn Fitch makes a decision to these movements sows the seeds voices who are speaking out and
Yours truly has never been a big fan of Bernie dismiss the case, you pounce of hate; ignoring them is much saying, specifically, that they feel
Sanders, but he deserves kudos for saying that what and we are forced to relive the more dangerous. hate directed at them.
the country needs is “well-trained, well-educated, bitterness, suspicion and yes, ha- Hashing out our differences On the issue of the flag, and
and well-paid professionals in police departments.” If tred all over again, because you through conversation and trying our elected leadership’s opinions
anything, he added, they need more resources. did not like the verdict. We will to find understanding is the only on its design, we are unapologet-
No modern society can survive without law en- never know whether Boykin is non-violent way we as a society ic. For too long, Mississippi has
forcement. That includes largely poor and black and guilty of murder, but we do know can find solutions to the prob- hidden behind various excuses
brown neighborhoods. When their businesses get The Dispatch convicted him. lems we face. This opinion page for not making symbolic and sub-
ransacked and close for good, their communities lose Your attack on Rep. Dana is one place such dialogue can stantive changes when it comes
local jobs, tax revenue and street life. Mclean was unconscionable. happen. to race and our failure to let go of
The video of a crowd loudly booing Minneapolis Her position has always been So when a Starkville native the vestiges of the Confederacy.
Mayor Jacob Frey for refusing to summarily abol- that any questions regarding the attending law school submitted Since her election, this paper has
ish the police department sped around the world as Mississippi flag should be by ref- a well-researched, well-written championed the fresh thinking
evidence of widespread and growing U.S. sentiment. erendum. Let everyone vote. For op-ed proposing defunding McLean represents (and we con-
As we see, it was no such thing — not even among you to demand that she tell you the police, I chose to print it in tinue to do so), but asking elect-
Democrats. how she would personally vote is the hopes it will promote con- ed officials to go on the record
Too bad so many liberals still feel obliged to ex- disgraceful. The voting booth is versation on this timely issue. with their opinions on important
plain and thus validate the doltish defund-police rheto- private. The author didn’t define what issues like this one is not out of
ric. They’d be better off just rejecting it as off-the-wall. You have determined that ev- defunding police actually means. line. Deferring to the voters on
Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist, writes for the erything “Confederate” must go, Personally, I believe completely the topic of the flag risks kicking
Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. Her e-mail address i.e. the flag, courthouse statues. dissolving law enforcement is a this tired issue down the road yet
is fharrop@gmail.com. What about those four Confed- terrible idea, but the op-ed made again.
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Supreme Court: Gay, transgender

workers protected by law
Kavanaugh: Ruling
represents an
‘important victory
achieved today by
gay and lesbian
Americans’
BY MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The Supreme Court ruled
Monday that a landmark
civil rights law protects
gay, lesbian and transgen-
der people from discrim-
ination in employment,
a resounding victory for
LGBT rights from a con-
servative court.
The court decided by
a 6-3 vote that a key pro-
vision of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 known as Title
VII that bars job discrim-
ination because of sex,
among other reasons, en-
compasses bias against
people because of their
sexual orientation or gen-
der identity.
“An employer who fires
an individual for being
homosexual or transgen-
der fires that person for
traits or actions it would
not have questioned in
members of a different
sex,” Justice Neil Gor-
such wrote for the court.
“Sex plays a necessary
and undisguisable role in
the decision, exactly what
Title VII forbids.”
The decision was a
defeat not just for the
employers, but also the
Court for now stays out of police immunity debate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS than 50 years ago. It shields officials,
including police, from lawsuits for mon-
WASHINGTON — The Supreme ey as a result for things they do in the
Court is for now declining to get in- course of their job.
volved in an ongoing debate by citizens As is usual the court didn’t comment
and in Congress over policing, reject- in turning away the cases, but Justice
ing cases Monday that would have al-
lowed the justices to revisit when police
Clarence Thomas wrote a 6-page dis-
sent saying he would have agreed to
can be held financially responsible for
wrongdoing. hear one of the cases.
“I have previously expressed my
With protests over racism and po-
lice brutality continuing nationwide, doubts about our qualified immunity
the justices turned away more than jurisprudence,” he wrote, explaining
half a dozen cases involving the legal he believes the court’s “qualified im-
doctrine known as qualified immuni- munity doctrine appears to stray from
ty, which the high court created more the statutory text.”
Trump administration, ‘sex’ is different from
which argued that the discrimination because
law’s plain wording com- of ‘sexual orientation’ or
pelled a ruling for the ‘gender identity.’”
employers. Gorsuch, a Kavanaugh wrote in
conservative appointee of a separate dissent that
President Donald Trump, the court was rewriting
concluded the opposite, the law to include gender
and Trump said Monday identity and sexual orien-
he accepted the court’s tation, a job that belongs
“very powerful decision.” to Congress. Still, Kava-
Gorsuch was joined naugh said the decision
in the majority by Chief represents an “important
Justice John Roberts and victory achieved today by
the court’s four liberal gay and lesbian Ameri-
members. Justice Brett cans.”
Kavanaugh, Trump’s oth- Trump had a restrained
er Supreme Court pick, reaction, telling reporters
dissented, along with that he’d read the decision
Justices Samuel Alito and and that “some people
Clarence Thomas. were surprised.”
“The Court tries to He added: “But they’ve
convince readers that it ruled and we live with
is merely enforcing the their decision. That’s
terms of the statute, but what it’s all about. We
that is preposterous,” Ali- live with the decision of
to wrote in the dissent. the Supreme Court. Very
“Even as understood to- powerful. A very power-
day, the concept of dis- ful decision actually. But
crimination because of they have so ruled.”

Many businesses ask customers

and workers to waive legal rights
BY TOM KRISHER
AND MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As
businesses reopen across
the U.S. after coronavi-
rus shutdowns, many are
requiring customers and
workers to sign forms say-
ing they won’t sue if they
catch COVID-19.
Businesses fear they
could be the target of liti-
gation even if they adhere
to safety precautions from
the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
and state health offi-
cials. But workers’ rights
groups say the forms
force employees to sign
away their rights should
they get sick.
The liability waivers,
similar to what President
Donald Trump’s cam-
paign is requiring for peo-
ple to attend a Saturday
rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
would protect businesses
in states that don’t have li-
ability limits or immunity
from coronavirus-related
lawsuits.
So far, at least five
states — Utah, North Car-
olina, Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas and Alabama — have
such limits through leg-
islation or executive or-
ders, and others are con-
sidering them. Business
groups such as the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce
are lobbying for national
immunity legislation.
The novel coronavirus
has sickened more than
2 million people in the
U.S. and killed more than
115,000, according to
Johns Hopkins University.
At Salon Medusa in
West Hartford, Connecti-
cut, hair stylist Lena
Whelan says they’re us-
ing only two of six styling
stations since reopening
June 1. Customers have
to wait outside, they have
to wear masks, and all sta-
tions and tools are disin-
fected between clients.
Despite all those safe-
ty measures, customers
must sign a form saying
they won’t sue if they get
infected with the novel
coronavirus. The form,
which also asks patrons if
they or any family mem-
bers have virus symp-
toms, gives the salon
extra legal protection,
Whelan said.
Critics argue that li-
ability waivers open the
door for corporations to
skirt protocols like erect-
ing Plexiglas barriers,
providing face masks and
other protective equip-
ment, and keeping people
the proper distance apart
without suffering any re-
percussions. If you don’t read The Dispatch, how are you gonna know?
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Health tips from Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen

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Shaw
Continued from Page 1A
and Executive Vice Pres-
ident David Shaw told the
Starkville Rotary Club
at its virtual meeting on
Monday.
Classes have been
conducted online
since March due to the
COVID-19 coronavirus
pandemic. MSU students’
expected return to cam-
pus in August means
they will most likely have
to follow a list of health
and safety rules, includ-
ing required protective
face masks in classrooms
and daily responses to
a self-screening mobile
app to check for potential
virus symptoms, Shaw
said. Several temperature
monitoring stations will
likely be set up through-
out campus as well.
“That’s probably not
going to be the full extent
of it, but I can tell you all
of those things are in rela-
tively final stages of plan-
ning,” Shaw said.
The administration
also is trying to procure
additional classroom
space, such as auditori-
ums that are not usually
used for classes, to en-
sure that students can be
seated six feet apart, he
said.
The Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Preven-
tion recently expanded
its list of medical accom-
modations, and Shaw said
the MSU administration
will make sure older or
immunocompromised
faculty are aware of it so
they can teach safely.
“They can file for med-
ical accommodation, and
we can work with the
deans and department
heads to have them may-
be teach some of their
classes online and things
like that,” Shaw said.
MSU is returning its
employees to campus in
phases. Maintenance and
repair workers returned
June 1, and employees
who had been unable
to work from home re-
turned Monday. All cam-
pus buildings will be
open and the majority of
employees will be back
to work on July 6. Safety
protocols are in place,
including social distanc-
ing, self-screenings, face
masks and hand sanitiz-
er.
Fall 2020 student en-
rollment numbers are
holding steady, with only
a 1 percent decrease com-
pared to this time last
year, as of June 8. Tuition,
housing, parking and din-
ing fees will not change,
Shaw said.
However, MSU cur-
rently has its largest sum-
mer school population
in its history with 9,189
students, a 24.6 percent
increase compared to
last year’s 7,374 students.
They are taking an aver-
age of 6.24 credit hours
while last summer’s stu-
dents took 5.88, accord-
ing to data Shaw present-
ed.
The university encour-
aged students to enroll in
summer school with the
“Summer Advantage,”
offering more summer
courses than in the past
for a discounted cost.
MSU President Mark demic, but MSU is setting
Keenum, who previously up tours of the building,
discussed the new sum- Shaw said.
mer school options with The Partnership
Rotary in April, said it was School will allow MSU
meant to be an affordable College of Education stu-
alternative to students’ dents to observe class-
summer jobs and intern- room teaching. It was
ships that might have originally scheduled to
been canceled due to the open in August 2018 be-
pandemic. fore rain delays pushed
MSU issued 3,312 de- it to November 2018, Au-
grees in May and a total gust 2019 and finally Au-
of 5,520 in both Decem- gust 2020.
ber and May, both record “I could not be more
numbers, Shaw said. excited to see us so close
The decision to hold a
that we’re actually talking
virtual instead of in-per-
ribbon-cutting in July,”
son commencement
Shaw said.
ceremony in May was
“gut-wrenching,” he said,
but some viewers ex-
pressed interest in MSU
holding a virtual ceremo-
ny in addition to the live
one in the future.
Shaw also gave the
board a list of university
construction projects that
are either underway or
about to start. Those proj-
ects include a $21 million
Music Building that had
its groundbreaking Mon-
day, a $12.5 million poul-
try science building that
will open in August, a $16
million parking garage
with 500 spaces and a $34
million engineering com-
plex that both will open
next spring.
The ribbon-cutting
ceremony for the $30
million Partnership
School, the new cam-
pus for grades 6-7 in
the Starkville-Oktibbe-
ha Consolidated School
District, is set for next
month. Attendance will
be limited due to the pan-

Oktibbeha
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county’s drainage proj-
ects.
The board agreed in
May that Hollis Creek,
which is partly in Miller’s
district, is a serious prob-
lem due to the buildup of
debris and subsequent
flooding of residential ar-
eas in southern Starkville
and Oktibbeha County.
Miller asked Kennard if
the water management
district is allowed to ex-
pand a creek, and Ken-
nard said the district does
not have permission to do
so and would clear out the
debris instead.
The district also is not
equipped to haul away the
debris it removes from
ditches and creeks, so
the landowner is respon-
sible for what to do with
the debris, Kennard said.
The district can go on
private property to clean
up creeks, something the
county cannot do without
previous consent from
property owners.
The board and Gov.
Tate Reeves will each
appoint a member rep-
resenting Oktibbeha
County to the water man-
agement district board.
Property taxes fund the
services, and Oktibbeha
County does not need to
increase millage rates in
order to receive them.
Supervisors will also
consider an ordinance at
its next meeting to reduce
the number of false alarm
calls to county fire de-
partments, after county
fire services coordinator
Patrick Warner told the
board there have been
more than 30 so far this
year.
“That’s thirty-some-
thing times the fire trucks
pull out of the station, and
that’s gas we have to pay
for, and for nothing,” War-
ner said. “It’s also a liabil-
ity issue. Every time you
drive the fire truck down
the road on an emergen-
cy call, it could be some-
thing bad.”
Most false alarms
come from apartment
complexes that do not
keep up with the elec-
trical maintenance re-
quirements of security
systems, Warner said, so
security companies have
stopped doing business
with the apartments and
no longer take responsi-
bility for false alarms.
Warner said he will
most likely issue three
warnings before enforc-
ing the fine, with an
amount yet to be decided,
that the board will pass in
July.
Montgomery and Mill-
er both said they would
support the ordinance.
“You cry wolf so many
times that when there’s
truly a fire, that’s when
the true impact would
happen, because some-
body says, ‘Oh, it’s just
that fire alarm again’ and
just roll over, and that’s
how they could get hurt
or killed,” Montgomery
said.
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WITH OFFER IN HAND, WILLIAMS II COULD BE NEXT IN LINE

FOR A SMALL 2022 BULLDOG DEFENSIVE BACK CLASS
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARK VILLE — More recently, Wil-
Mississippi State’s sec-
ondary is undergoing a
reload.
Having signed six
defensive backs in the
2020 class, another two
are committed in the
class of 2021. And while
the class of 2022 could
be lighter on defensive
backs than MSU’s sign-
ing classes over the next
two seasons, Georgia
athlete Terian Williams
II would be a welcome
addition in Starkville.
Standing 5 -foot-
11 and weighing 170
pounds, Williams is
slightly slender at this
point in time. But enter-
ing his junior season,
the speed he possesses
is real.
Attending The Open-
ing Regional last Feb-
ruary, he was clocked
at 4.13 seconds in the
shuttle run and notched
a 28.9-inch vertical. His
40 -yard dash has also
been timed at 4.5 sec-
onds.
liams has spent the
spring and early parts
of the summer working
through speed and foot-
work drills in a sandbox
at a local park alongside
Northwestern receiv-
er Malik Washington,
among others. Cone
drills on grass patch-
es and weightlifting in
the garage have been
worked into the rotation
as well.
“If there’s an opportu-
nity for him to work, he’s
going to do it,” Grayson
coach Adam Carter told
The Dispatch. “I don’t
have any question about
his speed whatsoever.
I think he runs really
well and I think his film
shows that.”
Now entering the
fourth month since the
COVID-19 crisis be-
gan its rampant spread
across the United States,
the down time its afford-
ed Williams has been a
blessing in disguise.
After transferring
14 miles down Athens
Highway from Parkview
High School in Lilburn
to Grayson High School
in Loganville for his ju-
nior season, he’s spent
the majority of the down
time during the pandem-
ic studying his new play-
book.
Profiling as a corner-
back at the collegiate
level, Williams expects
to play quarterback, de-
fensive back and return
kicks in his first season
with the Rams — a trend
recent Bulldogs Camer-
on Dantzler, Jonathan
Abram, Darius Slay and
Charles Mitchell all fol-
lowed before beginning
their respective MSU
and NFL careers.
“His ability to be in
the backfield and go
play the ball — not every
kid has that back there,”
Carter said. “Some kids
are moved back there
because they don’t have
those ball skills and he
definitely has them.”
“I know that my car-
dio has to be up so I run
a lot,” Williams told The
Dispatch. “... It’s not
something I’m asking
him ‘Why is he asking
me to do this, do that.’
All of it is fun and I have
a good time whether I’m
on offense, defense or
special teams.”
Recruiting-wise, Wil-
liams’ profile has gained
major steam in recent
months.
Since May 5, he’s
received reported of-
fers from Kansas State,
Central Michigan, Iowa
State, Boston College,
Indiana, Central Florida
and MSU. Other South-
eastern Conference
schools like L SU, Flor-
ida, Kentucky and Ten-
nessee are in the mix.
So too is Florida State.
“To get somebody
Photo courtesy of Terian Williams II
like Mississippi State
Class of 2022 athlete Terian Williams II has received
— they’re one of those seven reported offers since May 5 — including one
See MSU, 2B from Mississippi State.

Manfred says there might not be an MLB season

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Com-
missioner Rob Manfred
says there might be no
major league season af-
ter a breakdown in talks
between teams and the
union on how to split up
money in a season de-
layed by the coronavirus
pandemic. The league
also said several players
have tested positive for
COVID-19.
Two days after union
head Tony Clark declared
additional negotiations fu-
tile, Deputy Commission-
er Dan Halem sent a sev-
en-page letter to players’
association chief negoti-
ator Bruce Meyer asking
the union whether it will
waive the threat of legal
action and tell MLB to an-
nounce a spring training
report date and a regular
season schedule.
These were just the lat-
est escalating volleys in
a sport viewing disagree-
ments over starting the
season as a preliminary
battle ahead of bargain-
ing to replace the labor
contract that expires on
Dec. 1, 2021.
“It’s just
a disas-
ter for our
game, ab-
solutely no
question
about it,”
Manfred
said during
Manfred
an appear-
ance on
ESPN that included the
heads of the other major
U.S. professional leagues.
“It shouldn’t be happen-
ing, and it’s important
that we find a way to get
past it and get the game
back on the field for the
benefit of our fans.”
Spring training was
stopped because of the
pandemic on March 12,
two weeks before opening
day, and the sides reached
an agreement on March
26 on how to revise their
labor deal to account for
the virus.
Since then, the hos-
tility has escalated to
1990s levels as the sides
exchanged offers. MLB
claims teams can’t afford
to play without fans and
pay the prorated salaries
called for in the March
deal, which included a
provision for “good-faith”
negotiations over the pos-
sibility of games in empty
ballparks or neutral sites.
“The proliferation of
COVID-19 outbreaks
around the country over
the last week, and the
fact that we already know
of several 40-man ros-
ter players and staff who
have tested positive, has
increased the risks asso-
ciated with commencing
spring training in the
next few weeks,” Halem
wrote in his letter to Mey-
er, which was obtained by
the AP.
Halem sent Meyer a
letter with a sarcastic
tone Friday accompany-
ing MLB’s latest offer,
and Meyer responded
with a hostile tone Satur-
day as the sides memori-
alized positions ahead of a
possible grievance before
the panel chaired by inde-
pendent arbitrator Mark
Irvings. Halem’s letter
Monday asked the union
for many clarifications of
its positions.
“I note that both the
NBA and NHL, two
leagues which you repeat-
edly reference in your
letter, do not intend to
resume play until about
Aug. 1, and both intend
to resume play at a limit-
ed number of sites with
a quarantine approach,”
Halem wrote. “Please let
us know the association’s
views on quarantining
players in league-ap-
proved hotels (like the
NBA’s Disney World mod-
el) when they are not at
the ballpark if conditions
worsen over the next few
weeks.”
Clark had issued a
statement Saturday that
told MLB: “It’s time to
get back to work. Tell us
when and where.” The
union then said it might
file a grievance seeking
additional economic doc-
uments and money dam-
ages that could total $1
billion or more.
“Players are disgusted
that after Rob Manfred
unequivocally told players
and fans that there would
‘100%’ be a 2020 season,
he has decided to go back
on his word and is now
threatening to cancel the
entire season,” Clark said
in a statement Monday.
“This latest threat is
just one more indication
that Major League Base-
ball has been negotiating
in bad faith since the be-
ginning,” Clark added.
“This has always been
about extracting addition-
al pay cuts from players
and this is just another
day and another bad faith
tactic in their ongoing
campaign.”
Manfred said ahead of
last week’s amateur draft
that the chance of a sea-
son was “100%.”
He reversed his posi-
tion Monday.
“I’m not confident. I
think there’s real risk;
and as long as there’s no
dialogue, that real risk is
going to continue,” Man-
fred said on ESPN. “The
owners are 100% commit-
ted to getting baseball
back on the field. Unfortu-
nately, I can’t tell you that
I’m 100% certain that’s go-
ing to happen.”
Halem asked the union
for permission to go
ahead with the season.
MLB has made three
economic offers, the last
offering to guarantee
players 70% of their sal-
aries as part a 72-game
schedule beginning July
14 and increasing the to-
tal to 80% if the postsea-
son is completed.
Players previously of-
fered two proposals, hold-
ing their position that no
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Berger a winner at Colonial, and PGA Tour feels like it, too
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH, Texas
— The PGA Tour spent
two months learning about
the COVID-19 pandemic
and trying to develop a safe
plan to return, followed by
another month hoping for
the best.
Commissioner Jay Mo-
nahan said his confidence
in the plan came with a
dose of uncertainty.
“If we ... got into a situa-
tion where we were dealing
with a number of positive
tests, that’s something —
candidly — that I lost a lot
of sleep over in the weeks
that preceded coming,”
Monahan said.
Monahan felt every bit
a winner as Daniel Berg-
er at the Charles Schwab
Challenge.
The tour administered
487 tests for the new coro-
navirus at Colonial, and
the results on all of them
came back negative. On
the golf course, a dozen
of some of golf’s best play-
ers — from Rory McIlroy
to Justin Thomas, Xander
Schauffele to Jordan Spi-
eth — all had a chance
going into the final round.
“Listen, there is more
work to be done,” Mona-
han said. “But this is a
phenomenal start to our
return.”
It was a healthy return,
except for a somewhat
sickly finish.
Berger made a 10-foot
birdie putt on the 18th
hole and heard the deaf-
ening silence of a big mo-
ment with no spectators
allowed at Colonial. He got
into a playoff when Collin
Morikawa missed a 6-foot
birdie putt for the win and
Xander Schauffele missed
his try from 25 feet.
The playoff was held
on the 17th hole, another
reminder of how this week
was different. Playoffs
always start on the 18th
hole because that’s where
the gallery is packed into
the grandstands. With no
fans allowed, and with the
17th tee right next to the
clubhouse, off they went.
Morikawa hit a deft
chip to 3 feet. Berger
chipped even closer from
behind the green and
rapped in his par. They
presumably were headed
to the 18th tee until Mori-
kawa’s 3-footer spun out,
and Berger was the win-
ner.
Schauffele should have
been in the playoff, but
his 3-footer for par on the
17th in regulation dipped
in the right side of the cup
and spun out of the left
side. Talk about a horrible
horseshoe.
“If there are fans and
everything with the ‘oohs’
and ‘aahs,’ I’d probably be
a little more (ticked) off,”
Schauffele said. “Maybe
that’s a good thing for me
right now. But it was defi-
nitely weird.”
Justin Rose had an
18-foot birdie putt on the
18th that looked good all
the way until it wasn’t. He
finished one behind along
with Bryson DeCham-
beau and Jason Kokrak,
who also missed birdie
chances on the last hole.
This isn’t the first time
Rose or anyone else has
missed a big putt. It wasn’t
the first time Rose let out a
gutteral moan from miss-
ing. It was just the first
time he actually heard it.
“If the crowd are there,
their groans or cries, what-
ever it may be, would have
drowned me out,” Rose
said. “You suddenly real-
ize you actually do make
some noise sometimes
yourself. And it surprised
me a little bit there on 18.”
There were reminders
all week of no fans, but
rarely why golf had been
shut down since March
12 because of the rapid
spread of COVID-19, a
pandemic that canceled
one major (British Open)
and postponed the others
until later in the year.
“The only time I
thought about it was
when I was having to take
the tests, and that was
really it,” Keith Mitchell
said. “Hopefully, nobody
comes down with it and
we can keep on playing.”
Players on the charter
to the next stop — Hil-
ton Head on the South
Carolina shore — had to
swing by the pool area at
Colonial after the third
round for a saliva test. If
negative, they board the
plane and don’t have to
be tested at Hilton Head.
Everyone else driving,
flying commercial or fly-
ing private face another
test when they arrive.
Tony Finau learned a
new skill beyond chip-
ping and putting. He
learned to spit for his
test.
“You just kind of roll
your tongue around in-
side your mouth, and it
seems to bring a little bit
more, and also if you just
lean your face down, it
seems to come out a little
easier,” he said.
So few talking about
the virus was an indica-
tion of how safe it felt.
In this case, the week
doesn’t end until the next
tournament begins.
“I was asked, ‘What’s
a successful week look
like?’ It means us getting
to the RBC Heritage and
having another success-
ful week,” he said. “I feel
very good about the set-
up there, and we’re ready
to go again.”
Monahan had said
as the tour prepared to
return that it was criti-
cal not to fall into a trap
that all is well. He said
he wouldn’t feel comfort-
able until told he could be
comfortable, and likely
would mean a vaccine.
Morikawa said being
back to golf and being
back to normal were dif-
ferent matters.
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Gundy’s OAN support angers star Oklahoma St RB Chuba Hubbard

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY —
Oklahoma State running
back Chuba Hubbard
and coach Mike Gundy
appear to have ironed out
their differences for now.
Hubbard suggested
Monday he may boycott
the program after Gundy
was photographed wear-
ing a T-shirt promoting
the One America News
Network, a far-right news
channel that has been
praised by President
Donald Trump.
Gundy is seen in a pho-
tograph on Twitter wear-
ing the shirt with the
letters OAN. In a tweet
responding to the pho-
to, Hubbard said: “I will
not stand for this. This
is completely insensitive
to everything going on
in society, and it’s unac-
ceptable. I will not be do-
ing anything with Okla-
homa State until things
CHANGE.”
Gundy’s comments
led the school’s president
and athletic director to
issue statements of con-
cern and support.
Hubbard, who is black,
has been more active
on social media since
George Floyd, an un-
armed black man, died
after a white Minneapolis
police officer pressed his
knee against Floyd’s neck
for several minutes. Hub-
bard has been supportive
of protests that erupted
around the world after
Floyd’s death.
Gundy and Hubbard
later appeared together
on a short video on Twit-
ter. Gundy said he met
with the team and will
make adjustments.
“In light of today’s
Tweet, with the T-shirt I
was wearing, I met with
some players and real-
ized it’s a very sensitive
issue with what’s going
on in today’s society,” he
said. “So we had a great
meeting and (I was) made
aware of some things
some players feel like
that can make our orga-
nization and our culture
even better than it is here
at Oklahoma State. I’m
looking forward to mak-
ing some changes, and it
starts at the top with me,
and we’ve got good days
ahead.”
Hubbard apologized
for using social media to
air his concern instead of
going directly to Gundy.
“I’ll start off by first
saying I went about it the
wrong way by Tweeting,”
Hubbard said. “I’m not
somebody that has to
Tweet something to make
change. I should have
went to him as a man.
I’m more about action. So
that was bad on my part.
But from now on, we’re
going to focus more on
bringing change, and
that’s the most important
thing.”
Hubbard’s tweet re-
vealed some issues that
were bubbling under the
surface. Several current
and former Oklahoma
State athletes supported
him. Current linebacker
Amen Ogbongbemiga de-
clared “I stand with him!”
and former Cowboys run-
ning back Justice Hill,
now with the Baltimore
Ravens, tweeted: “OSU
Athletics and University
need major change. 100%
support brotha.”
Hubbard’s comments
sent ripples all the way to
the top of the university.
“I hear and respect
the concerns expressed
by our Black student-ath-
letes,” Oklahoma State
President Burns Hargis
said in a statement. “This
is a time for unity of pur-
pose to confront racial
inequities and injustice.
We will not tolerate insen-
sitive behavior by anyone
at Oklahoma State.”
The discussion also
got the attention of Okla-
homa State athletic direc-
tor Mike Holder.
“This afternoon has
been very disturbing,”
Holder said in a state-
ment. “The tweets from
the current and former
players are of grave con-
cern.”
An OAN commenta-
tor, Liz Wheeler, recent-
ly described the Black
Lives Matter movement
as a “farce” that speaks
for “oppression” and “re-
venge.”
Gundy spoke about his
fondness for OAN during
a conference call with
reporters in April that
mostly focused on the
coronavirus pandemic.
“I was flipping through
stations,” he said. “I found
one — I don’t even know
if anyone knows about
this. It’s called OAN.
It’s called One America
News. And it was so re-
freshing. They just re-
port the news. There’s no
commentary, there’s no
opinions on this. There’s
no left, there’s no right.
They just reported the
news.”
His praise for OAN
followed several minutes
explaining how he felt
the “mainstream media”
had been too negative in
its coverage of what he
called the “Chinese vi-
rus.” He apologized a few
days later.
“I have been made
aware that comments
from my press conference
have offended some,”
Gundy said in a state-
ment. “It was never my in-
tention to offend anyone
and I apologize. My first
priority is and will always
be the student-athletes
and doing what is best for
the program and the uni-
versity.”
In that same interview,
Gundy said he favored
a speedy reopening of
the school’s facilities,
but Oklahoma State dis-
agreed with his timeta-
ble. The school recently
reopened its facilities,
only to have several play-
ers test positive for the
coronavirus. Ogbongbe-
miga said on Twitter that
he tested positive after
he attended a protest in
Tulsa.
Gundy addressed
Floyd’s death and the
subsequent civil unrest
in a statement on Twit-
ter: “I’m thankful to be
in an environment with
Oklahoma State football
and our Cowboy Culture
where we respect each
other. The 200 people in
our family understand
and appreciate diversi-
ty and have compassion
for one another. I hope
we replace the rage with
respect and all come to-
gether.”
Hubbard was NFL
draft-eligible, but he
chose to return to
school. He was a first-
team All-American and
the AP Big 12 Offen-
sive Player of the Year
last season and finished
eighth in the Heisman
Trophy voting. His 2,094
rushing yards was the
second-best single-sea-
son total in school his-
tory, trailing only Barry
Sanders’ 1988 Heisman
Trophy-winning season.

Plan to hold 2020 US Open without fans awaits government OK

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moving closer to hold-
ing the first Grand Slam
tournament of the coro-
navirus pandemic, the
U.S. Tennis Association
is awaiting the go-ahead
from the New York state
government to play the
U.S. Open in New York
starting in August —
without fans and with
strict health protocols.
“We’re ready to move
forward,” USTA spokes-
man Chris Widmaier said
in a telephone interview
Monday, “as long as we
get all the approvals we
need.”
A formal announce-
ment could come this
week.
“We’ve received a pro-
posal and we’re reviewing
it,” Richard Azzopardi, a
spokesman for New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
wrote in an email.
Like many sports, the
professional tennis tours
have been suspended
since March because
of the pandemic. The
French Open was post-
poned from May and cur-
rently is slated to start
a week after the Sept.
13 end of the U.S. Open;
Wimbledon was canceled
altogether for the first
time since World War II
in 1945.
Even if the state OKs
the U.S. Open, one sig-
nificant question would
remain: Which players ac-
tually would participate?
Such top names as
both No. 1-ranked play-
ers, Novak Djokovic and
Ash Barty, and defending
men’s champion Rafael
Nadal, have expressed
reservations about head-
ing to Flushing Mead-
ows, where an indoor
tennis facility was used
as a temporary home for
hundreds of hospital beds
at the height of the city’s
coronavirus crisis.
Already ruled out, re-
gardless: Roger Federer,
who has won five of his
men’s-record 20 Grand
Slam singles titles at the
U.S. Open but announced
recently that he is out for
the rest of the year after
needing a second ar-
throscopic surgery on his
right knee.
With international
TV contracts — includ-
ing an annual average of
$70 million from ESPN
alone — helping offset
the loss of money from
ticket sales and other on-
site revenue, and facing a
recession that already led
to the recent elimination
of more than 100 jobs at
the USTA, the associa-
tion’s board decided to go
forward with its marquee
event despite concerns
about COVID-19 and in-
ternational travel.
“At the end of the
day, there are three fac-
tors involved in the de-
cision-making. No. 1 is
creating a plan that has
health and safety at the
forefront. No. 2 is wheth-
er conducting the U.S.
Open is the right thing for
the sport of tennis. And
No. 3 is whether it can
be done in a financially
viable manner. We be-
lieve we can hit all three
of the objectives,” Wid-
maier said. “But we do
need to approach this in a
step-by-step manner, and
when all of the steps are
completed, that is when
we can make an official
announcement.”
The plan shared with
the state government in-
cludes: zero spectators;
limited player entourag-
es; assigned hotels; in-
creased cleaning at the
tournament grounds;
extra locker room space;
daily temperature checks
and occasional testing for
COVID-19.
There would be no
qualifying for singles and
likely reduced fields for
doubles. Players whose
rankings would have put
them in qualifying rounds
that allow some men and
women access to the
128-player singles draws
will be compensated with
funds the USTA will pass
along to the ATP and
WTA tours to distribute.
Also part of the pro-
posal shared with players:
The Cincinnati hard-court
tournament scheduled for
Aug. 16-23 — the USTA
is its majority owner —
would be moved to New
York and held in place of
U.S. Open qualifying.
Last week, Djokovic
said the restrictions that
would be in place for the
U.S. Open in New York
because of the virus
would be “extreme.”
“Most of the players I
have talked to were quite
negative on whether they
would go there,” Djokovic
said.
He hosted exhibition
matches with packed
stands last week in his
home country of Serbia,
where the government
lifted most lockdowns and
restrictions last month.
“I have concerns, too,”
Barty wrote in an email.
“I understand the tourna-
ments are eager to run,
but keeping everyone safe
has to be the priority.”
Widmaier said the
USTA has been consult-
ing with the ATP and
WTA about its setup.
“Our stated goal has
been that, if we could
build a plan in conjunc-
tion with medical and
security experts that
mitigated the risks of
COVID-19 and assured
the health and well-be-
ing of all U.S. Open par-
ticipants, we very much
want to move ahead with
the tournament,” he said.
“We believe, by working
in the collaborative man-
ner with these experts
and the two tours, we
have such a plan.”

Oregon, Arizona St athletes challenge NCAA in federal court

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Attorneys filed a lawsuit
against the NCAA in feder-
al court Monday that seeks
to prevent the association
from limiting the amount
of money athletes can make
off their names, images and
likenesses.
The antitrust lawsuit
by attorneys representing
two current college ath-
letes also seeks damages
for potential past earnings
athletes have been denied
by current NCAA rules. Ar-
izona State swimmer Grant
House and Oregon wom-
en’s basketball player Sedo-
na Prince are the plaintiffs.
They are suing the
NCAA and the Power Five
Conferences — the Atlantic
Coast Conference, Big Ten,
Big 12, Pac-12 and South-
eastern Conference — for
unspecified damages. The
suit seeks class-action sta-
tus.
The latest legal chal-
lenge comes as the NCAA
is the process of changing
its rules to allow college ath-
letes to earn money from
third parties for things such
as social media endorse-
ments, sponsorship deals
and personal appearances.
The NCAA is also seeking
help from Congress in the
form of a federal law re-
garding name, image and
likeness compensation that
would superseded legisla-
tion being pushed at the
state level.
Florida’s governor
signed an NIL bill into law
last week that would go into
effect July 2021.
The lawsuit makes the
case that by changing
course on name, image and
likeness compensation, the
NCAA is contradicting its
previous defense of the col-
legiate model.
“This is the needle that
NCAA has had to thread,”
said Gave Feldman, direc-
tor of the Tulane sports law
program. “The NCAA has
argued that any payment
to college athletes needs to
be tethered to education or
incidental to athletic partic-
ipation. Anything that is not
tethered to education or is
not incidental to athletic
participation will destroy
amateurism or destroy col-
lege sports.
“The plaintiffs are now
arguing that compensation
for name, image and like-
ness is not tethered to edu-
cation and is not incidental
to participation and there-
fore destroys the NCAA”s
own definition of amateur-
ism and erases the line be-
tween college and pro.”
Feldman noted the law-
suit is can be used by the
NCAA to show lawmakers
why it needs federal protec-
tion.
“What incentive will that
ever provide the NCAA
to give athletes economic
rights if it’s used to prove
that every other restriction
they have is illegal?” Feld-
man said.
The lead attorney in
the latest case against the
NCAA — Steve Berman
from Hagens Berman Sobol
Shapiro — is a familiar legal
foe for the association. His
firm has won two antitrust
lawsuits against the NCAA
in the past decade: The Ed
O’Bannon case that chal-
lenged the NCAA’s use of
athletes’ names, images
and likenesses, and the
so-called Alston case that
accused the NCAA and
major conferences of ille-
gally capping compensa-
tion to athletes.

MLB
Continued from Page 1B
additional pay cuts were acceptable be-
yond the prorated salaries for 2020 that
they had agreed to in March. That deal
called for $170 million in salary advanc-
es and a guarantee of service time credit
if no games are played this year.
Manfred had threatened a shorter
schedule, perhaps of about 50 games.
The union could respond by filing a
grievance, arguing players should be
paid for the season of 119 games they
initially proposed. The union’s first plan
would result in salaries of nearly $3 bil-
lion.
Players are angry following five years
of flat salaries, a lost grievance claim-
ing the Chicago Cubs manipulated the
service time of star third baseman Kris
Bryant in violation of the labor contract
and allegations several teams did not
properly use revenue sharing proceeds,
which the union called “tanking.”
Players hope to see documents de-
tailing regional sports networks’ agree-
ments with teams, financial interests of
MLB owners in RSNs and real estate
ventures adjacent to ballparks, plus
MLB affiliated companies such as the
MLB Network, MLB Advanced Media
and BAM Tech. During a grievance,
they would ask Irvings to order docu-
ment production.
In their March agreement, the sides
vowed to “work in good faith to as soon
as is practicable commence, play, and
complete the fullest 2020 championship
season and post-season that is econom-
ically feasible, consistent with” a series
of provisions.
Absent Manfred’s consent, the agree-
ment said, the season would not begin
unless there were no travel restrictions
in the U.S. and Canada impacting play,
no restrictions on mass gatherings at
all 30 regular-season ballparks and no
health or safety risks in playing in front
of fans at the regular stadiums. But it
also provided that the sides “will discuss
in good faith the economic feasibility of
playing games in the absence of specta-
tors or at appropriate substitute neutral
sites.”
MLB told the union it would lose an
additional $640,000 for each regular sea-
son game played with no gate revenue
and does not want to extend the regular
season past Sept. 27 because it fears a
second wave of the coronavirus could
endanger the postseason, when $787
million of broadcast revenue is earned.

MSU
Continued from Page 1B
top teams that’re trying to get back to that top lev-
el,” Williams said of his recent offer from the Bulldog
staff. “And for them to see me as one of those guys to
bring into the division and into the national champion-
ship, it just feels great.”
At present, Williams said his recruitment is wide
open as he hopes to visit a number of schools and
speak with coaches in-person before making a deci-
sion — a process that remains up in the air due to on-
going COVID-19 concerns.
“I’m trying to enjoy the whole process,” he said.
“I’m not trying to grow up too fast or anything. Just
knowing these coaches are even looking at me is mak-
ing me want to work harder knowing that my talent
isn’t going unnoticed.”
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Doyle out as Iowa strength coach; Barta standing by Ferentz
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS we’re all familiar with and look forward to con- $556,249.50 — the first
over the last 20 years ... tinued growth,” Doyle on Aug. 1 and the second
IOWA CITY, Iowa — are still there and still a said in a prepared state- on Jan. 1. Doyle agreed
Iowa athletic director part of the foundation and ment. “I am confident that not to take any legal ac-
Gary Barta gave a vote who Kirk is,” Barta said at my record and character tion against the universi-
of confidence to long- a news conference. will be confirmed in the ty, the board of regents or
time football coach Kirk Iowa announced a sep- course of the independent state of Iowa.
Ferentz on Monday after aration agreement with review. The university Ferentz is Iowa’s all-
deciding to cut ties with Chris Doyle, at the center and I have reached an time wins leader and en-
a strength coach accused of allegations he and oth- agreement and it is time ters his 22nd season as
of mistreating African er assistant coaches made to move on from Iowa the longest-tenured coach
American players. racist comments and football. My family and I of a Football Bowl Subdi-
Ferentz has dealt se- belittled players. Doyle are looking forward to the vision program. Ferentz
riously in addressing will be paid more than next chapter.” earned $5.5 million last
former and current play- $1.1 million by the uni- Doyle, who earned year after bonuses, and
ers’ concerns about the versity, which also said a $800,000 per year and his contract runs through
program’s culture, Barta Missouri law firm, Husch was the highest paid the 2025 season.
said. He also pointed to Blackwell, will conduct an strength and conditioning Barta became emo-
Ferentz’s on-field suc- independent review of the coach in college football, tional during the news
cess, player development allegations against the has denied any “unethical conference, choking up
and the team’s record of football program. behavior or bias” based on two occasions he men-
community service. “I have worked dili- on race. Under the agree- tioned race relations in
“I do remain confident gently to make a positive ment, Doyle will be paid his athletic department
Kirk Ferentz can lead this impact on the lives of 15 months’ salary and for and in the United States.
team moving forward and student-athletes, support unused vacation. There “One thing I want-
many of the attributes them as they speak out, will be two payments of ed to do, and it’s really
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important to me, is to
say I’m sorry to former
student-athletes, coach-
es, staff, current stu-
dent-athletes, anybody
who has had a negative
experience with Iowa
football,” Barta said.
“When I say negative
— if you felt mistreated,
misled, discriminated
against, whatever the
case, I truly am sorry.
We want everybody who
participates in our pro-
gram to have a great ex-
perience academically,
athletically and socially.”
Former Iowa offensive
lineman James Daniels,
now with the Chicago
Bears, was the first to
raise the issue of the
Iowa staff’s treatment of
players.
“There are too many
keep your check-
book closed. And
as to showing up
to endorse your
brother’s run for
office, continue to
refrain and cross
your fingers that
your absence
won’t be noticed
amidst all the
excitement. If your
husband wants
to donate to your
morally degen-
erate brother’s
campaign, it is his
choice, and he has
a right to it just as
you have a right to yours.
P.S. Anyone who would shoot
at a defenseless animal and
neglect his aged parents (“Honor
thy father and thy mother”) really
doesn’t belong in ANY office.
DEAR ABBY: My wife of 39
years decided two weeks ago to
cease all communication with
me. We had a sometimes-rocky
marriage, but since becoming
empty-nesters six months ago,
we have enjoyed a rebirth of our
relationship — long walks, games,
fun meals, concerts, etc.
Two weeks ago, we had what
I thought was a minor disagree-
ment about the use of a credit
card. Since then she has treated
me like I don’t exist. She answers
my questions with one word only
You’ll choose your friends very
carefully.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Anyone can be impressed
by museum curations and the
efforts of great artists. But what
you do is more rare. You see
uncommon beauty in common
things — a gift that keeps
giving.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
It’s very hard to teach people
who think they already know.
This requires disruption and
unlearning before the most
elemental bedrock can be laid.
Only try and teach the willing.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Would you rather be idolized and
emulated, or ignored and left
to your own devices? There is a
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2020 3B
racial disparities in the
Iowa football program.
Black players have been
treated unfairly for far
too long,” Daniels tweet-
ed June 5.
Dozens of former
players followed with
social media posts about
their experiences, es-
pecially with Doyle. He
was placed on paid leave
June 6. Offensive coordi-
nator Brian Ferentz, son
of the head coach, and
assistant defensive co-
ordinator Seth Wallace
also have been alleged to
have made inappropriate
comments to players.
Kirk Ferentz said Fri-
day the coaching style
by some of his assistants
“at times was demeaning
and created unnecessary
frustration and anxiety.”
or no response. I have begged
her to talk to me about what’s
wrong; she just turns away. She
has altered her daily schedule to
avoid having contact with me. I
am shattered. What can I do? —
CLUELESS IN TENNESSEE
DEAR CLUELESS: It’s time
to review why your marriage to
this woman was “rocky.” Stop
begging, step back and count
yourself fortunate that you have
had this reminder. Counseling
might help you and your wife to
communicate in a healthier way
if she is willing to try. However, if
she isn’t, you will have to decide
how much more “punishment”
you are willing to tolerate when
you disagree, and what is realis-
tic to do about it if you aren’t.
DEAR ABBY: We have a
neighbor whose adult son has
gotten into trouble with the law.
His mom and dad are devas-
tated and have withdrawn from
all of us. How do we handle it
when we see them around the
neighborhood? Do we ignore “the
elephant” and just say hi? Do we
ask them how their son is doing?
It’s so sad to see them suffer,
and we don’t know what to do. —
WHAT TO DO IN THE EAST
DEAR WHAT TO DO: When you
see your neighbors, be cordial.
Make polite conversation, and
if they mention their son, listen
to what they have to say and be
supportive, but not judgmental.
great benefit and freedom to
invisibility, but it’s best achieved
by those who don’t want or need
the attention.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It
seems like a strange time to
raise your price, up the stakes
or ask for a promotion, and yet
you’re due. Remind yourself of
how you provide value to your
team, and think about how you’d
like to be compensated.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Just as planets orbit the sun
and moths fly at the lightbulb,
it is in the nature of humans to
gather around a fire. Today that
“fire” will come in the form of
some incendiary topic.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Often work does not come
together in a straightforward
way, so you appreciate days like
today when the small picture
reflects the big picture. The
mountain is climbed one upward
step at a time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Be like the great entertain-
ers. Meld your sense of what
the audience wants with your
own appetites and gifts. If you
only give what they want, you’re
pandering. If you only give what
you want, there won’t be a deal.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). Nothing provides an
energy rush like adrenaline,
and nothing brings out your
adrenaline like other people’s
expectations. You’ll be able to
accomplish much more when
there’s social pressure involved.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Ennui is like a solicitor
ignoring all the neighborhood
signs. When he comes knocking
at your door, don’t let him in.
Don’t even go to the door. Find
something creative to do and
he’ll go away.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). In the mood for a risk,
you’ll be testing your own
limits. As your attitude tilts
toward daredevil-ish, will you be
enchanted or alarmed? Maybe
a little of both, and that’s the
point.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). There are people who
seem to make you feel bold and
playful, although those qualities
are always inside you, just wait-
ing for permission to emerge,
when actually, they don’t really
need it.
Overcome all odds
SOLUTION:
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STARKVILLE —
Bobby Joe Craig, 83,
died June 12, 2020, at
his residence.
A memorial service
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Home of Starkville is
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mr. Craig was born
to the late Joe Wade
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lyn Cobb Craig. He was
a graduate of Mississip-
pi State University and
was formerly employed
as Vice-President of Op-
erations with Methods
Workshop, LLC.
In addition to his
parents, he was preced-
ed in death by his wife,
Eunice Nan Craig.
He is survived by
his daughter, Lee Ann
Fowler of Franklin,
Tennessee; son, Brian
Craig of Milton, Geor-
gia; stepchildren, Jay
Milton of Houston Tex-
as, and Connie Mayts
of Tampa, Florida;
sisters, Wadene Dea-
AREA OBITUARIES
son of Meridianville, Mary Clincy parents, he was preced- Memorials may be des Funeral Home of
Alabama, and Debbie ed in death by his wife, made to the Columbus Columbus.
STARKVILLE —
Doss of Gulf Shores; Mary Jean Clincy, 74, Helen Harris; and sib- Lowndes Humane Mrs. Hall was born
brothers, Bryant Craig died June 10, 2020, in lings, Izola Smith, Car- Society, P.O. Box 85, Sept. 18, 1930, in
of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Tupelo. rie Armstrong, James E. Columbus, MS or to the Arkansas, to the late
Douglas Craig of Bu- A graveside service “Big Time Billy” Harris, American Cancer So- Oliver W. and Willie
san, South Korea; and will be held at 10 a.m. Eddie G. “Sonny” ciety, 1380 Livingston Josephine Morris Mc-
eight grandchildren. Thursday at Oktoc Harris, Lula Jones, and Ln., Jackson, MS 39213. Millin.
Memorials may be Adolph Webber.
Memorial Gardens In addition to her
made to St. Jude Chil- Cemetery, with the Rev. He is survived by Barbara Jordan parents, she was pre-
dren’s Hospital, P.O. Demario Brown offici- his children, Yulanda MILLPORT, Ala. — ceded in death by her
Box 50, Memphis, TN ating. Burial will follow. Harris-Hugh, John, Tor- Barbara Jean Clardy husband, Samuel Allen
38101 or to the Bulldog Visitation will be from rellas Gail, Demetrius Jordan, 72, died June Brasfield.
Club, P.O. BT, Missis- 1-5 p.m. Wednesday, Kelly, and Brittany Tate 14, 2020, at Arbor She is survived by
sippi State, MS 39762. at Century Hairston Talley; adopted son, Woods Health and her daughter, Ann
Toriaeno “Truck Driv-
Funeral Home. Century Rehab, in Reform. Yeatman of Columbus;
Anna Barron Hairston Funeral Home er” Greenlee; brothers, Arrangements are seven grandchildren;
STARKVILLE — of Starkville is in charge James Webber, Mike incomplete and will be and four great-grand-
Anna Verline Woods of arrangements. Webber, LaRoy Webber, announced by Dowdle children.
Barron, 78, died June Mrs. Clincy was and Larry Webber; Funeral Home of Mill- Memorials may be
12, 2020, at her resi- born Oct. 4, 1945, in sisters, Barbara Har- port. made to the Martha
dence. Starkville, to the late ris McDonald, Wanda Hall Memorial Fund,
A graveside service Harris, Annie Fenton,
will be held at 10 a.m.
N. F. Bell and Frankie
Oaker Webber, Margie Kenneth Brown Lowndes Funeral
D. Watt-Bell. She was COLUMBUS — Ken- Home, 1131 N. Lehm-
today, at Memorial formerly employed as a McNeil, and Dorthy berg Rd., Columbus,
Jones; and four grand- neth Anthony Brown,
Garden Park Cemetery. caregiver. 66, died MS 39702.
Welch Funeral Home of She is survived by children.
June 12,
Starkville is in charge her son, Kevin Bell of 2020.
of arrangements. Plantation, Florida; Clifford Wright Sr. A grave-
Mrs. Barron was daughter, Ricikkippia PICKENSVILLE, side ser-
born Sept. 5, 1941, in Cliny of Thorton, Illi- Ala. — Clifford Wright vice will
Starkville, to Hazel nois; sister, Vanzelene Sr., 93, died June 12, be held
Pauline Thomas and Bell of Cleveland, Ohio; 2020, at his residence. at 10 a.m.
the late Virgil Hines and three grandchil- A graveside home Wednes- Brown
Woods. She was former- dren. going celebration and day, at
ly employed with the burial will be held at 11 Memorial Gardens.
Mississippi State Seed John Harris a.m. Friday, at Beebe
Visitation is from 1-5
Testing Laboratory COLUMBUS — John Chapel Cemetery, with
p.m. today, at Lee-Sykes
and was a member of the Rev. Marcus Wright
Meadowview Baptist
L. “Skin” Harris, 82,
officiating. Visitation
Funeral Home. Lee- Sheila Terrell
died June Sykes Funeral Home of Graveside Service:
Church. 11, 2020. will be from 1-6 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 • 10 AM
Columbus is in charge Friendship Cemetery
In addition to her Visita- Thursday, at Lavender’s
of arrangements. 2nd Ave. North Location
father, she was pre- tion will be Funeral Service. Laven-
Mr. Brown was
ceded in death by her from noon- der’s Funeral Service of Faye McCool
born Oct. 16, 1953, to
husband, Jerry Lee 2 p.m. Aliceville is in charge of Visitation:
Charles Dock and Flora
Barron; and stepfather, Wednes- arrangements. Wednesday, June 17 • 10-11 AM
Rogers Brown. 2nd Ave. North Location
Roy Eugene Thomas. day, at Memorial Service:
He was preceded in
In addition to her Lee-Sykes Harris Faye McCool death by his siblings,
Wednesday, June 17 • 11 AM
2nd Ave. North Location
mother, she is survived Funer- CALEDONIA — Burial
by her daughters, Jana Charles Dock Brown
al Home. Graveside Robbie Faye McCool, Jr. and Roger Benard Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Barron Fuss of Brandon services will follow 70, died June 15, 20202, Cemetery
and Jennifer Anne Bar- Brown.
at Memorial Gardens at her residence. He is survived by
ron of Starkville; son, Cemetery. Lee-Sykes Services will be at Olaf Burgess
Jason Shane Barron of his sister, Alicia Brown Memorial Service:
Funeral Home of Co- 11 a.m. Wednesday, at Young of Dallas, Texas. Private Family Service
Jackson, Tennessee; lumbus is in charge of Memorial Gunter Peel 2nd Ave. North Location
and five grandchildren. arrangements. Funeral Home and Cre-
Mr. Harris was born matory, Second Avenue Martha Hall Brad Lamar
Carole Wegener March 18, 1938, in North location, with the COLUMBUS — Incomplete
Martha Brasfield Hall, 2nd Ave. North Location
COLUMBUS — Car- Mayhew, to the late Joe Rev. Steve Blalock and
ole Ann Cline Wegener, L. and Ollie M. Phillips. Jason Pennington offici- 89, died June 14, 2020,
75, died Oct. 15, 2019, He was educated within ating. Burial will follow at Aurora Health and
at her residence. the Lowndes County at Pleasant Hill Church Rehabilitation Center. memorialgunterpeel.com
A Celebration of School System and was Cemetery. Visitation Arrangements are
Life service be held an U.S. Army veter- will be one hour prior to incomplete and will be
at 2 p.m. Saturday, at an. He was formerly services at the funeral announced by Lown-
New Covenant Bap- employed with Babcock home. Memorial Gunter
tist Church. Lowndes and Wilcox and was a Peel Funeral Home,
Funeral Home of Co- member of Mt. Pelier Second Avenue North
lumbus is in charge of M.B. Church. location, is in charge of
arrangements. In addition to his arrangements.

What are the potential long-term effects of having COVID-19?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most people recover Lung scarring can oc- ing kidney and liver func-
within a few weeks. For cur in people who devel- tion have been reported as
What are the potential

long-term effects of hav-
ing COVID-19?
It’s hard to say exactly,
because the coronavirus
Sheila Terrell
people who experience oped pneumonia. Heart well. However, it’s too soon
longer-term effects, the inflammation, irregular to know if those could be
most common issues heartbeats, and worsen- permanent problems.
are bouts of exhaustion, Sheila Atkins Terrell, age 65, died Saturday,
headaches, anxiety and June 13, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Co-

is still so new that scien-
tists don’t know much
about long-term effects.
The best evidence comes
from patients themselves,
and some experience a
variety of symptoms long
after their infections have
cleared.
Jason Phillips
muscle aches that can last
lumbus.
for at least several more
Graveside services will be held Tuesday, June
weeks.
16, 2020, at 10:00 AM at Friendship Cemetery,
Patients who required Jason Lee Phillips, 39, of Columbus, MS,
intensive care, including
with Rev. Jimmy Criddle officiating. Memorial
passed away Friday, June 12, 2020, at Baptist Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory, Second
those put on ventilators
Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle, Columbus, Avenue North location, has been entrusted with
or kidney dialysis, can
experience more serious
MS. the arrangements.
issues. A drive-thru visitation was held Monday, June Sheila was born on Saturday, December 11,
15, 2020, from 10:00 – 11:00 AM at Lowndes 1954, in Columbus to Marvin Gay and Doris

Margie Tabor
Margie Lodell Whitfield Tabor, 82, of Jackson-
ville, IL, passed away Monday, June 8, 2020, at
Jacksonville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center, Jacksonville, IL.
A graveside service was held Monday, June 15,
2020, at 9:00 AM at Egger Cemetery, Caledonia,
MS, with Bro Kenny Gardner officiating, and
Lowndes Funeral Home directing.
Mrs. Tabor was born April 13, 1938, to the late
Hershall and Fannie Mae Jennings Whitfield,
in Littlefield, TX. She moved to Jacksonville,
IL 13 years ago from Columbus, MS. Mrs. Ta-
bor worked as a waitress at Wags Café/Chat-n-
Chew Restaurant for over 50 years. She enjoyed
waitressing and loved being a mother, wife,
and grandmother. Mrs. Tabor was a member of
Woodlawn Church of Christ in Steens, MS.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Tabor was pre-
ceded in death by her husband, Doyle Tabor; son,
Earnest Leo Tabor; brother, Troy Wayne Whit-
field; and sister, Wanda Marie Morgan
Mrs. Tabor is survived by her son, Shannon
Ray (Cheri Hoots) Tabor, Chatham, IL; stepchil-
dren, John Tabor, Ed Tabor, and Tammy Smith,
all of California; brother, Wendall Lee (Mary)
Whitfield, Saratoga, CA; and grandchildren,
Garrett Tabor and Daniel Tabor
Pallbearers were Family and Friends.
Memorials may be made to National Breast
Cancer Foundation, P.O Box 678572, Dallas, TX
75267-8572.
Compliments of
Lowndes Funeral Home
www.lowndesfuneralhome.net
Funeral Home, Columbus, MS. A private funer-
al service followed at 11:00 AM in the Lowndes
Funeral Home Chapel. Interment was at Hatley
Cemetery, Hatley, MS, with Lowndes Funeral
Home directing.
Mr. Phillips was born August 29, 1980, to
Lisa Brewer Cobb and the late Dennis Phillips
in Amory, MS. He attended West End Baptist
Church and West Point Pentecostal Church. Mr.
Phillips was an Eagle Scout and in the ROTC in
High School. Jason enjoyed hunting, fishing, and
boating on the river. He was presently employed
as a scrap buyer at Steel Dynamics (SCI) for the
past 13 years.
In addition to his father, Mr. Phillips was pre-
ceded in death by his wife, Lori Lynn Phillps.
Mr. Phillips is survived by his mother, Lisa
(Robert) Cobb, West Point, MS; children, Cam-
eron and Gabriel Phillips, Columbus, MS; sis-
ter, Heather Phillips, West Point, MS; brother,
Jeremy Phillips, Wentzville, MO; grandparents,
Larry Brewer, Granny Peggy, and Bobbie Grass
Reeves; nieces, Madison and Ashley Brasfield;
special friends, Amanda Ray, Remy, Bob, and
Breezy; pets, Box Bulldog, Daisy, and Boston
Terrier, Beau; a host of aunts, uncles, and other
relatives.
Pallbearers were Randy Edmonson, Jeremy
Phillips, Robert Cobb, Ken Brewer, and George
Ferguson.
Honorary pallbearers were employees of SDI
and his Boy Scout Troop.
Memorials may be sent to St. Jude Children’s
Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105
or the Leukemia Society,at www.lls.org.
Compliments of
Lowndes Funeral Home
www.lowndesfuneralhome.net
Gavin Atkins. Sheila spent her career as a much
sought after certified surgical technologist,
working in medical facilities throughout the
United States. Sheila’s family, work, cooking,
and travel were her passions. Sheila was loved
and enjoyed her family and her beloved labradoo-
dle, Max. Sheila brought energy into a room and
was a joy and blessing to her friends and family.
Sheila, Shola as she’s known by her granddaugh-
ter, will be deeply missed.
She was preceded in death by her brother,
Terry “Rabbit” Atkins.
Survivors include her husband, Clay Terrell
Columbus, MS; daughter, Dawn Myers, Ocean
Springs, MS; mother, Doris Gavin Atkins, Colum-
bus, MS; father, Marvin Gay Atkins, Columbus,
MS; brothers, Ronnie Atkins (Jan), Steve Atkins,
and Gary Atkins (Debbie); granddaughter, Mor-
gan Myers; and sister-in-law, Bunny Atkins
Serving as pallbearers will be Chris Terrell,
Brad Atkins, Collin Atkins, Brent Atkins, Beau
Atkins, and Daniel Talley.
Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Tom-
my Glenn, Bobby Hooks, Ralph McLain, Ray
McIntyre, Mickey Guyton, Will Hardy, Ron
Locke, Mike Commiskey, Dave Taylor, and Jerry
Smith.
Memorials may be made to Baptist Memorial
Hospital Hospice, P.O. Box 1307, Columbus, MS
39703.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS

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CALL US: 662-328-2424
Legal Notices
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
BRUCE WAYNE BRADLEY
PLAINTIFF
VERSUS
REBECCA FAYE MORRIS
THOMPSON DEFENDANT
CAUSE NO: 2015-0194-D
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
TO: REBECCA FAYE MORRIS
THOMPSON an adult non-resid-
ent citizen of the State of Mis-
sissippi or not to be found
therein on diligent inquiry and is necessary to renew and re-
the Post Office and physical ad- development blighted condi-
dresses are unknown. You
have been made parties in the
Complaint for Child Custody
and Other Relief filed in the
Court by Bruce Wayne Bradley.
You are summoned to appear
in this cause at 9:00 o'clock
A.M. on the 29th day of July,
A.D., 2020 in the Chancery
Courthouse in West Point, Clay
County, Mississippi, and in the
case of your failure to appear
and defend this matter will be
forced to default all rights.
You are required to mail or
hand deliver a copy of a writ-
ten ANSWER either admitting
or denying each allegation in
the Complaint to Charles Eas-
ley, Jr., Attorney whose ad-
dress is Post Office Box 1472,
Columbus, MS 39703-1472.
YOUR ANSWER MUST BE
MAILED OR DELIVERED NO
LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS 2020, you are required to file
FROM THE DATE OF FIRST PUB- the Statement of Values pursu- in the circuit courtroom,
LICATION. IF YOUR ANSWER IS
NOT MAILED OR DELIVERED
AND YOU APPEAR AT SAID
TIME, A JUDGEMENT MAY BE
ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR
THE MONEY OR OTHER RELIEF
DEMANDED IN THE COM-
PLAINT FOR DIVORCE AND
OTHER RELIEF.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND
OFFICIAL SEAL OF said Court of ues you are not required to file notice that not less than ten
Lowndes County, Columbus,
Mississippi, this 12th day of
June, 2020.
Cindy Goode
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
County, Mississippi
(SEAL)
BY: Tina Fisher
PUBLISH: 6/16, 6/23, &
6/30/2020
IN THE SPECIAL COURT OF EM- Publish: 6/16, 6/23 &
INENT DOMAIN
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
COLUMBUS REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY PLAINTIFF
VS.
RENATA JENNINGS, ET AL. DE- AUTHORITY, PLAINTIFF
FENDANTS
NO. 2020-0009-ED2
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-
LAW AND DEVISEES OF GLOR-
IA MARTIN, DECEASED, THE
UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW AND MISSISSIPPI, NAOMI BRAD-
DEVISEES OF MARIE JOHN-
SON, DECEASED, THE UN-
KNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW AND DE-
VISEES OF IRENE MCCOY, DE-
CEASED, THE UNKNOWN
HEIRS-AT-LAW AND DEVISEES
OF FEBBER MCCOY, AND ALL
PERSONS OR ENTITIES HAV-
ING OR CLAIMING A LEGAL OR SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 18
EQUITABLE INTEREST IN CER-
TAIN REAL PROPERTY LOC-
ATED IN BLOCK 22, NORTH OF SIPPI, BEING TAX PARCEL NO.
MAIN, ON 3D STREET NORTH,
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI IN
SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 18
SOUTH, RANGE 18 WEST,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI, BEING TAX PARCEL NO.
61W090004800 ASSESSED
TO IRENE P. MCCOY AND
FEBBER B. MCCOY
You have been made Defend-
ants in a lawsuit filed in this A. POE, DECEASED, AND ALL
Court by the Columbus Re-
development Authority to con-
demn by eminent domain cer-
tain real property located in
Block 22 North of Main, Colum- ATED IN SECTION 16, TOWN-
bus, Mississippi, and being
Lowndes tax parcel
61W090004800. The property MISSISSIPPI, BEING TAX PAR-
is necessary to renew and re-
development blighted condi-
tions in accordance with the
Urban Renewal Plan (Burns
Bottom) of the City of Colum-
bus, Mississippi.
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You are summoned to appear
and defend against the com-
plaint or petition filed against demn by eminent domain cer-
you in this action at 9:30
o’clock a. m. on the 17th day
of September, 2020, in the
second floor County Court
courtroom of the Lowndes
County Courthouse in Colum-
bus, Mississippi, and in case
of your failure to appear and
defend, a judgment will be
entered against you for the
money or other things deman-
ded in the complaint or peti-
tion.
You are hereby further given
notice that not less than ten
(10) days prior to the date of
the trial on September 17,
2020, you are required to file
the Statement of Values pursu-
ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27-
7, which shall be treated as
pleadings in this action. The
date of the filing of the Com-
plaint herein is the 30th day of
March, 2020, and the name
and address of the attorney for
the Plaintiff is Martha Bost
Stegall, P. O. Box 7120, Tu-
pelo, Mississippi 38802. Oth-
er than the Statement of Val-
ues you are not required to file
an Answer or other pleading
but you may do so if you de-
sire.
Issued under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this 10th
day of June, 2020.
TERESA BARKSDALE, CLERK
SPECIAL COURT OF EMINENT
DOMAIN,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MS
BY: Ann Marie Langford, D.C.
Publish: 6/16, 6/23 &
6/30/2020
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
COLUMBUS REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY PLAINTIFF
VS.
RENATA JENNINGS, ET AL. DE-
FENDANTS
NO. 2020-0009-ED2
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-
LAW AND DEVISEES OF GLOR-
IA MARTIN, DECEASED, THE
UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW AND FORD, ANTHONY FRIERSON,
DEVISEES OF MARIE JOHN-
SON, DECEASED, THE UN-
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KNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW AND DE- POE,
VISEES OF IRENE MCCOY, DE-
CEASED, THE UNKNOWN
HEIRS-AT-LAW AND DEVISEES
OF FEBBER MCCOY, AND ALL
PERSONS OR ENTITIES HAV-
ING OR CLAIMING A LEGAL OR SOUTH, RANGE 18 WEST,
EQUITABLE INTEREST IN CER-
TAIN REAL PROPERTY LOC-
ATED IN BLOCK 22, NORTH OF 61W080007700, LOCATED AT
MAIN, ON 3D STREET NORTH,
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI IN
SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 18
SOUTH, RANGE 18 WEST,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI, BEING TAX PARCEL NO.
61W090004800 ASSESSED
TO IRENE P. MCCOY AND
FEBBER B. MCCOY
You have been made Defend-
ants in a lawsuit filed in this
Court by the Columbus Re-
development Authority to con-
demn by eminent domain
tain real property located in
cer-
Block 22 North of Main, Colum- SHIP 18 SOUTH, RANGE 18
bus, Mississippi, and being
Lowndes tax parcel
61W090004800. The property CEL NO. 61W080007700,
tions
Urban
in accordance
Renewal Plan
with
(Burns
the
Bottom) of the City of Colum-
bus, Mississippi.
You are summoned to appear
and defend against the com-
plaint or petition filed against
you in this action at 9:30
o’clock
of
a.
September,
m. on the
2020,
17th
in the
day
second floor County Court
courtroom of the Lowndes
County Courthouse in Colum-
bus, Mississippi, and in case
of your failure to appear and
defend, a judgment will be
entered against you for the
money or other things deman-
ded in the complaint or peti-
tion.
You are hereby further given
notice that not less than ten
(10) days prior to the date of
the trial on September 17,
ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27-
7, which shall be treated as
pleadings in this action. The
date of the filing of the Com-
plaint herein is the 30th day of defend, a judgment will be
March, 2020, and the name
and address of the attorney for money or other things deman-
the Plaintiff is Martha Bost
Stegall, P. O. Box 7120, Tu-
pelo, Mississippi 38802. Oth-
er than the Statement of Val-
an Answer or other pleading
but you may do so if you de-
sire.
Issued under my hand and the 7, which shall be treated as
seal of said Court, this 10th
day of June, 2020.
TERESA BARKSDALE, CLERK
SPECIAL COURT OF EMINENT
DOMAIN,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MS
BY: Ann Marie Langford, D.C.
6/30/2020
IN THE SPECIAL COURT OF EM- Issued under my hand and the
INENT DOMAIN
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
COLUMBUS REDEVELOPMENT
V.
FAVAN FARMS, L.L.C., STATE
OF MISSISSIPPI,
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI, CITY OF COLUMBUS,
FORD, ANTHONY FRIERSON,
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW
AND DEVISEES OF JOHN A.
POE, DECEASED, AND ALL PER-
SONS OR ENTITIES HAVING OR
CLAIMING A LEGAL OR EQUIT-
ABLE INTEREST IN CERTAIN
REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN
SOUTH, RANGE 18 WEST,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
61W080007700, LOCATED AT
621 4TH STREET NORTH
FENDANTS Looking for goods
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, DE-
NO. 2020-0004-ED2 or services?
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-
LAW AND DEVISEES OF JOHN
OTHER PERSONS OR ENTITIES
HAVING OR CLAIMING A LEGAL
OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN
CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY LOC-
Find it in the
SHIP 18 SOUTH, RANGE 18
WEST, LOWNDES COUNTY,
CEL NO. 61W080007700,
classifieds!
LOCATED AT 621 4TH STREET
NORTH, COLUMBUS, MISSIS-
SIPPI
You have been made Defend-
ants in a lawsuit filed in this
Court by the Columbus Re-
development Authority to con-
tain real property located at
621 4th Street North, in Lot 6,
Square 34, North of Main, Fish-
erman’s Addition, Columbus,
Mississippi, and being
Lowndes tax parcel
61W080007700. The property
is necessary to renew and re-
development blighted condi-
tions in accordance with the
The best place for personalized
Urban Renewal Plan (Burns
Bottom) of the City of Colum-
bus, Mississippi.
You are summoned to appear
advertising in your community.
and defend against the Second
Amended Complaint or petition
filed against you in this action
at 9:30 o’clock a. m. on the
9th day of September, 2020,
in the circuit courtroom,
second floor, of the Lowndes
County Courthouse in Colum-
bus, Mississippi, and in case
of your failure to appear and
defend, a judgment will be
entered against you for the
money or other things deman-
ded in the Second Amended
Complaint or petition.
You are hereby further given
notice that not less than ten
(10) days prior to the date of
the trial, you are required to file
the Statement of Values pursu-
ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27-
7, which shall be treated as
pleadings in this action. The
date of the filing of this law-
suit is the 21st day of January,
2020, and the name and ad-
dress of the attorney for the
Plaintiff is Martha Bost Stegall,
P. O. Box 7120, Tupelo, Mis-
sissippi 38802. Other than the
Statement of Values you are
not required to file an Answer
or other pleading but you may
IN THE SPECIAL COURT OF EM-
INENT DOMAIN
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
COLUMBUS REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY, PLAINTIFF
V.
FAVAN FARMS, L.L.C., STATE
OF MISSISSIPPI,
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI, CITY OF COLUMBUS,
MISSISSIPPI, NAOMI BRAD-
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW
AND DEVISEES OF JOHN A.
Legal Notices
DECEASED, AND ALL PER-
SONS OR ENTITIES HAVING OR
CLAIMING A LEGAL OR EQUIT-
ABLE INTEREST IN CERTAIN
REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN
SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 18
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI, BEING TAX PARCEL NO.
621 4TH STREET NORTH
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, DE-
FENDANTS
NO. 2020-0004-ED2
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-
LAW AND DEVISEES OF JOHN
A. POE, DECEASED, AND ALL
OTHER PERSONS OR ENTITIES
HAVING OR CLAIMING A LEGAL
OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN
CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY LOC-
ATED IN SECTION 16, TOWN-
WEST, LOWNDES COUNTY,
MISSISSIPPI, BEING TAX PAR-
LOCATED AT 621 4TH STREET
NORTH, COLUMBUS, MISSIS-
SIPPI
You have been made Defend-
ants in a lawsuit filed in this
Court by the Columbus Re-
development Authority to con-
demn by eminent domain cer-
tain real property located at
621 4th Street North, in Lot 6,
Square 34, North of Main, Fish-
erman’s Addition, Columbus,
Mississippi, and being
Lowndes tax parcel
61W080007700. The property
is necessary to renew and re-
development blighted condi-
tions in accordance with the
Urban Renewal Plan (Burns
Bottom) of the City of Colum-
bus, Mississippi.
You are summoned to appear
and defend against the Second
Amended Complaint or petition
filed against you in this action
at 9:30 o’clock a. m. on the
9th day of September, 2020,
second floor, of the Lowndes
County Courthouse in Colum-
bus, Mississippi, and in case
of your failure to appear and
entered against you for the
ded in the Second Amended
Complaint or petition.
You are hereby further given
(10) days prior to the date of
the trial, you are required to file
the Statement of Values pursu-
ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27-
pleadings in this action. The
date of the filing of this law-
suit is the 21st day of January,
2020, and the name and ad-
dress of the attorney for the
Plaintiff is Martha Bost Stegall,
P. O. Box 7120, Tupelo, Mis-
sissippi 38802. Other than the
Statement of Values you are
not required to file an Answer
or other pleading but you may
do so if you desire.
seal of said Court, this 19th
day of May, 2020.
TERESA BARKSDALE, CLERK
SPECIAL COURT OF EMINENT
DOMAIN,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MS
BY: /s/ Ann Marie Langford,
D.C.
Publish: 6/2, 6/9 &
6/16/2020
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pleadings in this action. The
date of the filing of this law-
suit is the 16th day of March,
2020, and the name and ad-
dress of the attorney for the
Plaintiff is Martha Bost Stegall,
P. O. Box 7120, Tupelo, Mis-
sissippi 38802. Other than the
Statement of Values you are
not required to file an Answer
or other pleading but you may
do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this 18th
day of May, 2020.
TERESA BARKSDALE, CLERK
SPECIAL COURT OF EMINENT
DOMAIN,
LOWNDES COUNTY, MS
BY: /s/ Ann Marie Langford
,D.C.
Publish: June 2, June 9, June
16, 2020
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Notice is hereby given that
sealed bids or electronic bids
will be received for the project
named below by Starkville Util-
ities, 200 North Lafayette
Street, Starkville, Mississippi
until 2:00 p.m. on Thursday,
July 9, 2020. Bids may be sub-
mitted directly to the location
GARAGE SALES
reject any and all bids on any 200 NORTH LAFAYETTE
or all projects and to waive in- STREET
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39759
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named below by Starkville Util- AREA BUSINESS
ities, 200 North Lafayette
Street, Starkville, Mississippi
is seeking a mature,
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COLEMAN
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needs General Laborer. level increases from
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VEHICLES
full baths. No HUD,
Material Suppliers are required ies on CD. Cost of CD (pdf ated, contracted carrier for Columbus City school
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ments at www.jbhmplans.com. uments are non-refundable and
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ies on CD. Cost of CD (pdf Questions regarding website re- tion, valid driver's license house or make application.
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@ 130 Hillcrest Drive.
five percent (5%) of the Base and post Performance Bond in Open Tues−Sat, 7a−5p
Bid; such security to be for- the form and amount within the corporate apts. ADS STARTING AT $25 662−386−8591
feited as liquidated damages, time specified. The Bid Bond, if 24−HOUR PROFESSIONAL
GYM. ON SITE SECURITY. Call for pricing.
not penalty, by any bidder who used, shall be payable to the
fails to carry out the terms of Owner. ON SITE MAINTENANCE. Lots & Acreage
the proposal, execute contract ON SITE MANAGEMENT.
and post Performance Bond in Bids on the Project must be re-
the form and amount within the ceived on or before the period
24−HOUR CAMERA 1.75 ACRE LOTS.
Good/Bad Credit Options.
Five Questions:
SURVEILLANCE. Benji &
time specified. The Bid Bond, if scheduled for the Project and Ashleigh, 662−386−4446. Good credit as low as 10%
used, shall be payable to the no bid withdrawn after the
1 Circle
down, $299/mo. Eaton
Owner. scheduled closing time for the Apts For Rent: West Land, 662−361−7711.
Project for a period of forty-five
Bids on the Project must be re- (45) days. Waterfront Property

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ceived on or before the period
scheduled for the Project and All bids submitted in excess of
NEWLY RENOVATED three 2 Hanging ten
Rentals
no bid withdrawn after the $50,000.00 by a Prime or Sub-
scheduled closing time for the contractor to do any erection, bedroom, two 1/2 bath
Project for a period of forty-five building, construction, repair, home in private community
(45) days. maintenance, or related work
must comply with the Missis- Apartments & Houses
with community boat
landing. Property sits on
3 Canada
All bids submitted in excess of sippi Contractors Act of 1985,
1 Bedrooms
Tibbee Creek and is
$50,000.00 by a Prime or Sub- by securing a Certificate of Re-
4 Ice-T
conveniently located to
contractor to do any erection, sponsibility from the State
building, construction, repair, Board of Contractors. Each bid, 2 Bedroooms West Point, Columbus, and
Starkville. Home has a ACROSS
3 Bedrooms
maintenance, or related work exceeding $5,000.00, must be
must comply with the Missis- accompanied by the Bidder's screened in back patio with
1 Ballpark feat
sippi Contractors Act of 1985, certified check or a bid bond,
by securing a Certificate of Re- duly executed by the Bidder as Furnished & Unfurnished
a deck that overlooks
Tibbee Creek. $198,800. 5 Battle of Mara- 6 Got wind of
sponsibility from the State principal and having surety
Board of Contractors. Each bid, thereon, a surety company ap- 1, 2, & 3 Baths
662−549−2768 thon 11 Tickle
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accompanied by the Bidder's signed by an agent, regularly Lease, Deposit slang
certified check or a bid bond, commissioned and licensed to
duly executed by the Bidder as transact business in Missis- & Credit Check 13 Prince song
principal and having surety sippi, in the amount of five per- viceinvestments.com 15 Wisdom
327-8555
thereon, a surety company ap- cent of the bid. All bid bonds
proved by the Owner and must be accompanied by the bringer
signed by an agent, regularly appropriate Power of Attorney. 16 Noah’s boat
commissioned and licensed to No Power of Attorney is neces-
transact business in Missis- sary with a certified check. 17 “— appetit!”
sippi, in the amount of five per- 18 Riding needs
cent of the bid. All bid bonds The Owner reserves the right to
must be accompanied by the reject any and all bids on any 20 Low number
appropriate Power of Attorney. or all projects and to waive in- 21 “You betcha!”
No Power of Attorney is neces- formalities.
sary with a certified check.
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