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MSU, MUW, EMCC plan hybrid of online, in-person classes
Though students, professors will be on campus,
universities plan to enforce social distancing,
mask-wearing when campuses reopen
BY GARRICK HODGE
ghodge@cdispatch.com
Mississippi State University, Mis-
sissippi University for Women and
East Mississippi Community College
all plan on utilizing a hybrid method of
in-person and online courses this fall.
Classes for all three schools are
scheduled to begin on Aug. 17. MUW
and MSU plan on finishing the semes-
ter around Thanksgiving, with both
electing to not have a fall break this
year. EMCC will have an abbreviat-
ed Thanksgiving break and plans to
conclude the semester by early De-
UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME
Analysis:
Confederate
monuments
undergo
renewed scrutiny
Southern Poverty Law
Center: At least 50
Confederate monuments
and statues on public
property in Mississippi
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — A growing number
of Mississippi counties are planning
to move Confederate monuments
that have stood outside courthous-
es for more than a century. And the
University of Mississippi last week
moved a rebel soldier statue that has
long been a divisive symbol on the
Oxford campus.
Research by University of Missis-
sippi history professor Anne Twitty
provides context for understanding
the white supremacist message be-
hind the monuments.
In mid-June, Twitty found a de-
tailed newspaper account of the
May 10, 1906, dedication ceremony
for the rebel soldier statue near the
Lyceum, the main administrative
building on campus. The speaker
was Charles Scott, “a candidate for
governor who often campaigned in
his Confederate uniform,” Twitty
wrote on Twitter.
“In their eyes, Confederate sol-
diers’ greatest achievement did
not come during the Civil War, but
rather during Reconstruction, when
they ensured, through force of arms,
that Black people would remain sub-
jugated,” Twitty wrote.
She transcribed Scott’s speech
from the report in the Vicksburg
Herald.
“There was a time, I grant you,
during the nightmare called the re-
construction, when these men bold-
ly, aggressively and intentionally
overrode the letter of the law that
they might maintain the spirit of the
law and preserve Anglo Saxon civi-
lization as a priceless heritage for
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cember. At each institution, both staff
and students will be required to wear a
face covering while on campus.
“The guidance from the state col-
lege board is for all public universities
in Mississippi to return for the fall
2020 semester,” said MSU Chief Com-
munications Officer Sid Salter. “At this
point, there’s been no contradiction of
that policy since it was adopted, so we
have no choice but to comply with that. Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
A sign reading “Face mask is required to enter” is posted on the door of Colvard Stu-
Obviously with the daily (COVID-19)
dent Union on Thursday on the Mississippi State University campus in Starkville. MSU,
reports, it certainly appears to be a along with Mississippi University for Women and East Mississippi Community College,
fluid situation. … We can’t wait until are all planning a mixture of in-person and online classes when the fall semester be-
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MONDAY PROFILE
Business owner to host back-
to-college drive from her salon
Antranik Tavitian/Dispatch Staff
Courtney Harris cuts Vella Tate’s hair on Friday at her hair salon IAMCOURTNEY in Columbus. Harris, who has owned
the salon for five years, will host a back-to-college drive there on Aug. 1 for people to donate cleaning supplies,
non-perishable food and other items for college students to take with them when they go back to school this year.
‘I didn’t want to forget about those young adults that need household
necessities, cleaning supplies and non-perishable items’
BY GARRICK HODGE She is the only employee, offering disinfecting policy long before the
ghodge@cdispatch.com what she describes as intimate one- pandemic came to the United States.
F
on-one haircut appointments inside Plus, only one other person is in the
or nearly two decades, Court- the salon. salon with Harris at a given time.
ney Harris has been a hair After taking an extended period
“I never had a lot of people in the
stylist in Columbus. away from the salon from a combina-
salon,” said Harris, a professional
She’s seen various sides of the tion of COVID-19-mandated restric-
stylist in the Golden Triangle for the
beauty industry, working at different tions and maternal leave after she
last 17 years. “Only one at a time.
salons within city limits, providing recently had a baby, Harris returned
But some people are waiting to re-
house calls and eventually starting to her business just a few weeks ago.
turn to the salon. Because I used to
her own small business. Returning to work in the middle of
provide services such as house calls,
For the last five years, Harris has a pandemic wasn’t too odd, Harris
I’m still offering those now.”
operated her own salon, titled IAM- said, because she had already sub-
COURTNEY LLC, in Columbus. scribed to a rigorous cleaning and See HARRIS, 6A
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Board of Supervi-
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its name with a 1995 hit song by Deep Blue County Board of
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Cost, hassle of stamps questioned

as mail-in voting surges
Lawsuits: Stamps
Amid a pandemic, election officials seek poll workers
constitute a monetary THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

requirement akin to an CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Wanted: Poll workers willing to brave a

illegal poll tax
BY JULIE CARR SMYTH
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Even if it
weren’t for her disability and fear of
catching COVID-19, Delinda Bry-
ant said getting the necessary post-
age to cast a ballot this year will be
a struggle.
Bryant, 63, doesn’t have $10 for
a book of stamps, a printer to make
them at home or a working car.
“My car needs its transmission
fixed, but my utilities are so high
I can’t afford it,” the south Georgia
woman said in testimony for a feder-
al voting rights lawsuit. “Ten dollars
for a book of stamps is a hardship.”
As more states embrace mail-in
voting amid the coronavirus pan-
demic, the often overlooked detail
of postage has emerged as a parti-
san dividing line.
Questions over whether postage
will be required for absentee ballot
applications and the actual ballots,
who pays for it and what happens to
envelopes without stamps are the
subject of lawsuits and statehouse
political brawls.
Lawsuits filed in Florida by the
Democratic super PAC Priorities
USA, in Georgia by Black Voters
Matter and elsewhere argue that
stamps constitute a monetary re-
quirement akin to an illegal poll
tax. Voting-rights groups say stamp
requirements are another imped-
iment that hits lower-income and
minority communities hardest.
global pandemic in November.
Governments across the country are scrambling to find people to
staff polling places for the presidential election this fall as the corona-
virus sows doubt about how safe it will be to cast a ballot in person and
thins out an already scarce pool of workers.
Recruitment efforts are increasingly targeting younger people, who
are less at risk of developing serious illness from the virus, as officials
and advocates aim strategies toward professional associations, students
and sports teams to make sure election sites stay open. Still, a big un-
known remains.
“Everything having to do with this election will be determined by
where we are with the virus, and obviously, indicators are not very en-
couraging,” said Neil Albrecht, former executive director of the Milwau-
kee election commission, which had worker shortages and was forced
to shutter all but five of the city’s 180 polling places earlier this year.
Experts say finding enough poll workers is always difficult, even
when there isn’t a pandemic killing thousands of people, forcing wide-
spread shutdowns and spawning a series of evolving safety rules. Nor-
mally, long hours, low pay and lots of stress might keep folks away. Now
add face shields, protective barriers and fears of getting sick.
More than two-thirds of poll workers are over age 61, putting them
at higher risk of the COVID-19 disease. Scores of workers dropped out
during this year’s primary season, taking with them decades of experi-
ence as the pandemic stifled efforts to train replacements.
“Charging money for the right tions and the ballots themselves.
to vote is unconstitutional, whether So far, the GOP-led Legislature has
it’s a penny or a dollar,” said Sean resisted.
Young, legal director of the ACLU Opponents of the proposal by
of Georgia, which is representing Secretary of State Frank LaRose ar-
Black Voters Matter. “Many voters gue that pre-paying postage could
lack internet access. Many voters lead to more mail-in ballots being
lack a credit card, which is required requested than used. Voters who
to buy stamps online. One voter did requested a mail-in ballot but for
not receive his book of stamps for whatever reason — choose to vote
two weeks after he ordered it.” in person on Election Day will have
The postage debate has become to cast a provisional ballot so local
vehement in Ohio, where the state election boards can be sure they did
elections chief, a Republican, has not vote twice. About 20 percent of
asked for the authority to pre-pay provisional ballots are typically re-
postage on absentee ballot applica- jected.

Mississippi gov: Education ‘essential,’ even during pandemic

School districts
face a July 31
deadline to submit
their pandemic
reopening plans
BY EMILY
WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
finished the final few
weeks of the academic
year with online classes
or with packets of work
that were sent to their
homes.
Before the governor’s
news conference, several
educators rallied outside
the state Capitol to ex-
schools for masks, hand
sanitizer and protective
press concerns about the
safety of in-person class-
equipment.
“There is no safe way
es. They said social dis- to abandon education,” he
tancing will be difficult. said.
Reeves said at least
$150 million is going to

JACK-
SON — Mis-
sissippi Gov.
Tate Reeves
said Friday
that even
as corona-
virus cases
continue to Reeves
grow, it will be important
for children to return to
classes, either in person
or online.
Mississippi has a de-
centralized education
system, with local school
districts deciding how
to reopen. The academic
year begins in the next
few weeks, and districts
face a July 31 deadline to
submit their pandemic re-
opening plans. Some have
said they will offer a com-
bination of in-person and
online schedules.
“I can think of noth-
ing more essential than a
child’s education,” Repub-
lican Reeves said Friday.
“Missing so much time,
especially early on in
their schooling, could and
would destroy lives. ...
Those that are privileged
have an advantage, while
kids without fancy iPads
and without parents who
can watch them full-time
may never recover.”
Reeves closed Mis-
sissippi schools in mid-
March as the virus start-
ed to spread, and students

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Mississippi could expand COVID restrictions to more counties
‘Every day we add 1,000 new cases, statistically that’s another 170
patients that are going to likely be in the hospital ...’
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi
Gov. Tate Reeves says he is
likely to extend the time for
restrictions in counties with
rapidly expanding cases of the
new coronavirus, and he could
add several other counties to
the list.
The current restrictions
started Monday in 13 of the 82
counties, and they include a re-
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their children’s children
and for the benefit of our
common country, the peo-
ple of the north as well as
the people of the south,”
Scott said. “Indeed, do
you know that I regard
this act as the crowning
glory of the Confederate
soldier. It overshadows all
his brilliant victories on
the field of battle.”
Since late May, wide-
spread protests over ra-
cial injustice in the Unit-
ed States have focused
new attention on the pub-
lic display of Confederate
monuments and other
symbols.
The Southern Poverty
Law Center says about
780 Confederate monu-
ments and statues stand
on public property in the
U.S., and at least 50 of
those are in Mississippi.
Many of the monu-
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there’s certainty to make
those plans, hence the
Safe Return document on
our website.”
According to MSU’s
Comprehensive Health
and Safety Plan, in-per-
son classrooms can be
no more than 50 percent
full. All residential stu-
dents will be required to
complete a temperature
screening every 24 hours,
while all employees will
be required to conduct a
self-screening daily prior
to coming to work. Test-
ing for students that show
COVID-19 symptoms will
be facilitated through the
Longest Student Health
Center.
Students will have an
extended move-in period
over the course of several
days. Meanwhile, Hous-
ing and Residence Life
will require face cover-
ings in all common spac-
es. Visitors to residence
halls will be limited. Res-
idential MSU students
who have tested positive
for COVID-19 or are sus-
pected to have COVID-19
will be isolated in a sepa-
rate location.
According to Salter,
residence halls on MSU’s
campus have a capacity of
4,826 beds. He added the
residence halls will be at
full capacity with a mix of
double and single rooms,
but said there will not be
any triple rooms available
this fall. All first-year stu-
dents have been accom-
modated and upper-divi-
sion students who could
not be accommodated
were referred to College
View, an apartment com-
plex in Starkville.
Density of dining halls
and campus eateries will
follow physical-distancing
guidelines and state pub-
lic health guidance.
According to Salter,
since the inception of
COVID-19 in Mississippi,
MSU has tested a total
of 700 individuals with
45 positive cases and no
deaths. Salter said the
university has not set
a policy regarding how
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quirement for masks in public
and a prohibition on large gath-
erings.
The existing restrictions
are in some of the most heavily
populated counties in the state:
Hinds, Madison and Rankin in
the Jackson area, DeSoto Coun-
ty in the north and Harrison
and Jackson counties on the
coast. The restrictions are also
in smaller counties with high
rates of the virus: Claiborne,
ments were put up in the
early 20th Century, as
groups such as United
Daughters of the Con-
federacy pushed a “Lost
Cause” narrative that
minimized slavery as a
central cause of the Civil
War.
After historic votes
in the Mississippi Leg-
islature in late June, the
state retired a 126-year-
old banner that was the
last state flag in the U.S.
with the Confederate
battle emblem. A com-
mission will design a new
flag that cannot have the
emblem and must have
the phrase, “In God We
Trust.” That lone design
will go on the statewide
ballot in November.
During the past few
weeks, supervisors in
Mississippi’s Bolivar, Le-
flore, Lowndes, Noxubee
many positive COVID-19
case numbers it would
take to be considered an
outbreak.
“In terms of an out-
break, I don’t think we’ve
set a defi-
nition that
isn’t in line
with the
CDC or the
state de-
partment
of health,”
Salter said. Salter
Salter
said if there is an out-
break on campus, the uni-
versity’s board of trustees
will determine contingen-
cy plans.
“Right now, that’s the
guidance we are bound
to operate under, and we
will continue to do that
until the circumstanc-
es change,” Salter said.
“Those changes will filter
through what the CDC
and the state department
of health and the gover-
nor’s office and the state
college board gives us.”
‘There will be COVID on
this campus’
At MUW, President
Nora Miller said in 2019,
52 percent of courses
were offered online. She
estimates that number
will leap to around 75 per-
cent in 2020.
“We’re still finalizing
class schedules and de-
termining what is best
taught face-to-face,” Mill-
er said. “Our class sizes
are relatively small with
most being under 20. But
most classrooms with
physical distancing will
only hold six to eight peo-
ple safely.”
MUW is exploring
adding cameras to vari-
ous classrooms to capture
lessons for students to ac-
cess virtually, according
to Miller.
Miller said each day
“remains fluid,” and the
university could switch
to online only should any
potential outbreak occur.
Miller said there isn’t a
set amount of confirmed
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State health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs
Grenada, Jefferson, Quitman,
Sunflower, Washington and
Wayne.
The Republican Reeves said
Friday that he is also looking
“very closely” at setting the re-
strictions in 12 other counties:
Bolivar, Covington, Forrest,
Humphreys, Jones, Lamar, Pa-
nola, Simpson, Sunflower, Tal-
lahatchie, Tate and Walthall.
Mississippi recently has had
several day-to-day increases
and Washington coun-
ties have voted to move
Confederate statues away
from courthouses.
Supervisors in Ne-
shoba and Lauderdale
counties could consider
requests Monday.
A Mississippi law en-
acted in 2004 says no
war monument may be
“relocated, removed, dis-
turbed, altered, renamed
or rededicated.” But the
law also says: “The gov-
erning body may move
the memorial to a more
suitable location if it is
determined that the loca-
tion is more appropriate
to displaying the monu-
ment.”
Lafayette County su-
pervisors voted unani-
mously July 6 to leave a
Confederate monument
outside the old court-
house on the Oxford
cases that would necessi-
tate a shutdown of cam-
pus.
“We don’t have a mag-
ic number,” Miller said.
“It’s going
to fluctuate
based on
what’s hap-
pening in
the commu-
nity, what
the avail-
ability is Miller
of hospital
beds are and what the ad-
vice is from the CDC and
the state department of
health.”
When asked about
the feasibility of getting
through the fall semes-
ter without an outbreak
occurring, Miller said
intuition will just have to
handle it case-by-case.
“There will be COVID
on this campus,” Miller
said. “I hope there won’t
be, but I just think with
the way it is we are likely
to have some cases here.
We will have space for
quarantine and for self
isolation, but we are go-
ing to encourage students
who come down with it to
go to their permanent res-
idence if they can.”
MUW has the capac-
ity for about 550 stu-
dents to live in residence
halls, Miller said. Miller
couldn’t give a definitive
number on how many stu-
dents MUW will house
on campus this fall but
estimated it would be
less than 400. As for the
remaining students who
would normally occupy
the residence halls but
will not in 2020, Miller
said she’s hopeful that sit-
uation will resolve itself.
“A good many of them
will have all online class-
es, so they may not have a
need for housing and will
be able to stay at home,”
Miller said. “For others,
we do have university
apartments that are avail-
able for students that for
one reason or another
cannot be accommodat-
ed in the residence hall.
Other than that, we’ll be
MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 3A
of 1,000 or more reported cas-
es. Several hospitals have also
cant ongoing stress within our
hospital system.”
reported having a shortage or Mississippi has a population
complete lack of beds in their of about 3 million. The Health
intensive care units. Department said Sunday that
The state health officer, Dr. the state has had at least 42,638
Thomas Dobbs, said that on confirmed cases and at least
Thursday night, one Mississip- 1,335 deaths from the corona-
pi patient had to be sent to Ala- virus as of Saturday evening.
bama after officials were unable That was an increase of 792 cas-
to find an intensive care bed in es and 10 deaths from numbers
either Mississippi or Louisiana. reported the day before.
“Every day we add 1,000 new At least 3,142 cases of the
cases, statistically that’s anoth- virus have been confirmed in
er 170 patients that are going to long-term care facilities such as
likely be in the hospital in the nursing homes, with at least 647
next couple of weeks,” Dobbs virus-related deaths in those fa-
said. “So, we anticipate signifi- cilities, the department said.
Pandemic devastates
square, within walking
distance of where the
similar statue stood on
Mississippi Choctaw
the university campus.
Forrest County super-
visors said in June that
Native Americans
they will let voters decide
in November whether to Mississippi Band of Choctaw
move a Confederate mon-
ument that was donated Indians has more than 11,000
to the county in 1910.
In Harrison County
members in eight communities
on the Gulf Coast and in
Lee County in northeast-
across 10 Mississippi counties
ern Mississippi, residents BY ERIN KELLY
have asked supervisors to The Meridian Star
remove Confederate sol-
dier statues. PHILADELPHIA — Drive down Highway 16
Some of the statues near Philadelphia and you can’t miss the giant
could be moved to ceme- moon towering above the Pearl River Resort, wel-
teries or museums. The coming visitors to the games below.
one at the university was But on the ground is the reminder of the coro-
moved to a site where navirus that has swept through Neshoba County,
Confederate soldiers killing dozens of people and sickening hundreds
are buried in unmarked more.
graves in a remote corner The casino parking lot is nearly empty and bar-
of campus, behind a for- ricades block the entrance. Upbeat music blasts
mer basketball arena. out of a speaker for no one.
At a nearby gas station, signs remind you to
keep your distance and wear a mask.
Jerry Kinsolving, a member of the Mississippi
Band of Choctaw Indians, has avoided contracting
COVID-19, but he has seen what the illness has
done to the community in less than four months.
referring them to apart-
He knows 15 people who have died from the
ments in the community.”
virus. Some were his cousins, uncles and aunts.
At EMCC, seats in
“It’s affected a lot of people,” Kinsolving said.
classrooms will be spread
“It seems like every other house has got it.”
out with a focus on social
The MBCI has more than 11,000 members in
distancing.
eight communities across 10 Mississippi coun-
“Our classrooms may
ties. Pearl River, in Neshoba County, is the larg-
look a little different,”
est. It’s also the tribal community with the high-
E M C C
est number of COVID-19 cases.
P resident
Of 968 positive cases, 455 were identified in
Scott Also-
the Pearl River community as of Wednesday, ac-
brooks said
at a Clay cording to MBCI.
C o u n t y Records show 69 deaths from the tribe.
Board of Su- Neshoba County had the second highest num-
per visors ber of deaths in the state, 74, and the seventh
m e e t i n g Alsobrooks highest number of cases, 1,022, as of Thursday’s
last week. update from the Mississippi State Department of
EMCC will ensure Health.
every classroom will be Neshoba County Coroner John Stephens is fa-
equipped with a camera miliar with the names behind the numbers. He
this fall, giving classes owns John E. Stephens Chapel, which handles the
the opportunity to lives- funeral services for the MBCI.
tream their lectures for “We’ve had over 70 COVID deaths in the last
students that don’t feel two to three months that come through my funer-
safe attending in-person. al home,” Stephens said Wednesday.
EMCC’s Mayhew cam- All but five of the victims were tribal members,
pus does not have student he said.
housing, so all students “People that I know, people that I’m friends
will live off campus. with,” Stephens said. “It’s very devastating.”
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POSSUMHAW
Living the farm life
“Country life has its ad- bream are bedding up. If garage, noticing he was standing there so good.
vantages, ‘he used to say.’ You you’ve never seen a bream smiling. “Did you see that?” He pointed We’d probably miss a lot of the farm
sit on the veranda drinking bed it’s quite interesting. to one of my no-kill traps hanging on life if we weren’t sheltering. No telling
tea and your ducklings swim Looking through clear wa- the wall. There inside the trap was a how long that raccoon would have hung
on the pond, and everything ter, the beds look like you’d raccoon standing up and looking at us. on the wall.
smells good ... and there are imagine moon craters. That He was pretty cute. But how on earth Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of
gooseberries.” small fish swishes its tail did he lower himself into the trap and Columbus at msdeltachild@msn.com.
— Anton Chekhov (1860- like a broom clearing away hit the trigger plate closing the trap-
1904), Russian playwright debris until she has a nice door? He was quiet and sweet and I
and short story writer. round circle. It’s there she’ll could see why folks would want one for
lay her eggs. She’ll diligent- a pet. It is illegal to own a wild animal

T
he longer we stay
home sheltering the Shannon Bardwell
more I start feeling
like a farm girl. If there
had to be a sheltering time, spring and
summer seasons were good choices.
The grass gets mowed more often, the
fields get bushhogged regularly. Birds
are in their nesting places as we try to
keep the cats away. The hummingbirds
feed with a vengeance. We do some
bird watching though we’re not really
good at it. Sam says he thinks we have
correctly identified the little brown
bird, the black bird, the blue bird, the
red bird and the yellow bird.
The shrubs are green, the flowers
bloom and the trees are lush. The
ly swim in circles around
her bed to ward off preda-
tors like a larger bass.
One morning while I was
sipping coffee on the front porch the
lone doe appeared. She was nibbling
along the grass, moseying toward the
pear tree. I sat still as a mouse and
watched. Surprisingly, she came right
up to the tree then looked over at me.
She stomped her hoof once and stayed
her ground. I stayed mine. I guess she
decided I wasn’t safe enough so she
snorted and ran toward the woods. I
wondered if she might be the mother of
the twin fawns. She’ll be back for sweet
pears, I’m sure.
Another morning I joined Sam in the
in Mississippi, even if we wanted to
keep him. He didn’t really look that
wild.
As usual we released him and
watched him running around a tree
trunk and peering back at us; we said
our goodbyes and he took off. There’s
no figuring how he managed to get
himself in that trap and set it off.
We had two bare spots in the front
yard that never seemed to amount to
much. I know the Extension horticul-
turist said don’t plant things where
nothing grows, but we keep trying
anyway. This time Sam built up a flower
bed with bricks and new soil. I pur-
chased some plants and repurposed a
rosemary bush that was failing. So far,

STATE OF THE NATION

Bari Weiss was too honest for The New York Times
B
ari Weiss Landmine. done” as the original tweet was in 2016?” she asked. rights; there are many referenc-
brought keen Her colleagues at worded. Sheesh. The person She also contributed a es to the Uighurs, Hong Kong
intelligence the Times were who said “asians don’t matter” deeply researched piece on the and other oppressed people.
and broadminded outraged. It turns continued, posting “sorry, but Women’s March that took aim The story of Weiss’ tense
liberalism to the ed- out that Nagasu is I felt that tweet denied Mirai at figures like Linda Sarsour parting with the Times will
itorial pages of The not an immigrant her full citizenship just as the and Tamika Mallory, citing doubtless provide several days’
New York Times. herself but is the internment did. and nothing their fondness for Fidel Castro worth of fodder for the right.
So, naturally, she daughter of two will be done because no one and Louis Farrakhan. Weiss will become, for a while,
had to go. The right immigrants from was offended! (since we don’t In response to the #MeToo a right-wing pin-up — a symbol
will cackle that this Japan. When some- count)” movement, Weiss demonstrat- of the dangerous cancel culture
proves how dan- one responded with To which the only proper ed balance and perspective. that Democrats want to impose
gerous the left is. “she was born in response is: Get a grip! Weiss Neither a traditional conserva- on the whole nation.
They’re not totally Mona Charen California,” Weiss was obviously celebrating tive like me, nor a woke activist But the right has lost
wrong, but they tweeted “Yes, yes, Nagasu, cheering her on and like Alyssa Milano, she sound- credibility on this. If the left
need to look in the I realize. Felt the taking pride in immigrants’ ed a note of caution. Recogniz- is woke, the right is bespoke;
mirror. poetic license was kosher.” contributions to America. The ing that the phrase “believe all it has become tailored around
Many Twitter denizens first It wasn’t. At least not ac- lyric from “Hamilton,” origi- women” was empowering, she one person. Look at conserva-
became aware of former New cording to the many indignant nally sung by the Hamilton and nonetheless worried about it tive publications and search for
York Times writer and editor Times staffers who aired their Lafayette characters in a scene being abused: Trump critics. They are thin on
Weiss, who resigned on July dissatisfaction on the paper’s about the Battle of Yorktown “The huntresses’ war cry the ground. National Review
14, when she was dragged for Slack channel. Weiss was for God’s sake, was also made — ‘believe all women’ — has parted ways with David French
tweeting about an ice skater. labeled a racist for “othering” into a music video about immi- felt like a bracing corrective to and Jonah Goldberg. The Wall
It was during the Olympics, in Nagasu. A leaked transcript of grants. a historic injustice. ... In less Street Journal lost Bret Ste-
February of 2018. An American the Slack conversation featured Weiss might seem an unlike- than two months we’ve moved phens and Weiss. Fox News
skater named Mirai Naga- complaints that Weiss was ly target of wrath. She left The from uncovering accusations staffed up with fulsome Trump
su became the first female “doubling down” when she Wall Street Journal editorial of criminal behavior (Harvey enthusiasts but dispensed with
American to land a triple axel denied ill-intent. One wrote, page in protest of its gradual Weinstein) to criminalizing George Will’s services.
at the Olympics. Weiss tweeted “i guess it’s too much to even surrender to Trump. One of behavior that we previously This narrowing of the Amer-
an image of her whirling body expect a ‘we’re sorry you’re her early pieces for the Times regarded as presumptuous and ican mind is making everyone
and jauntily retweeted an NBC offended’ apology since asians traced the (limp) response of boorish (Glenn Thrush).” dumber and nastier. Bari Weiss
Sports tweet: “’HOLY COW!’ don’t matter.” They nitpicked many conservative-leaning Three years later, when Tara stands for dispassionate analy-
You just witnessed a historic at her because, in a follow-up think tanks to the Trump phe- Reade demanded uncritical sis in a world that increasingly
triple axel from Mirai Nagasu. tweet, she had misquoted nomenon. “Will the Trumpists trust, many feminists found favors zealotry and intolerance.
#WinterOlympics.” Weiss add- herself quoting “Hamilton,” capture the principled conser- new wisdom in Weiss’ hesitan- That’s why her fate matters.
ed a line from “Hamilton,” the rendering the line as “Immi- vative intellectual establish- cy. Mona Charen is a Senior
musical, “Immigrants: They grants: We get the job done!” ment in 2017 as easily as they Weiss’ Twitter feed is char- Fellow at the Ethics and Public
get the job done.” instead of “they get the job captured the Republican Party acterized by concern for human Policy Center.

Is America up for a naval war with China?

I
s the U.S., pre-
occupied with a
pandemic and
a depression that
medical crisis cre-
ated, prepared for a
collision with China
over Beijing’s claims
to the rocks, reefs
and resources of the
South China Sea?
For that is what
Mike Pompeo ap- Patrick Buchanan
peared to threaten
this week.
“The world will not allow
Beijing to treat the South China
Sea as its maritime empire,”
thundered the secretary of
state.
“America stands with our
Southeast Asian allies and
partners in protecting their
sovereign rights to offshore
resources ... and (we) reject any
push to impose ‘might makes
right’ in the South China Sea.”
Thus did Pompeo put Beijing what we see as its lawful rights
on notice that the U.S. does not
recognize its claim to 90% of
the South China Sea or to any
exclusive Chinese right to its
fishing grounds or oil and gas
resources.
Rather, in a policy shift, the
U.S. now recognizes the rival
claims of Vietnam, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Brunei and the
Philippines.
To signal the seri-
ousness of Pompeo’s
stand, the U.S. sent
the USS Ronald
Reagan and USS
Nimitz carrier battle
groups through the
South China Sea.
And, this week, the
guided-missile de-
stroyer USS Ralph
Johnson sailed
close by the Spratly
Islands.
But what do Mike Pompeo’s
tough words truly mean?
While we have recognized
the claims of the other littoral
states of the South China Sea,
does Pompeo mean America
will use its naval power to de-
fend their claims should China
use force against the vessels of
those five nations?
Does it mean that if Manila,
our lone treaty ally in these
disputes, uses force to reclaim
in the South China Sea, the
U.S. Navy will fight the Chi-
nese navy to validate Manila’s
claims?
Has Pompeo drawn a red
line, which Beijing has been
told not to cross at risk of war
with the United States?
If so, does anyone in Wash-
ington think the Chinese are
going to give up their claims to
the entire South China Sea or
retreat from reasserting those
claims because the U.S. now
rejects them?
Consider what happened
to the people of Hong Kong
when they thought they had the
world’s democracies at their
back.
For a year, they marched and
protested for greater political
freedom with some believing
they might win independence.
But when Beijing had had
enough, it trashed the Basic
Law under which Hong Kong
had been ceded back to China
and began a crackdown.
The democracies protest-
ed and imposed economic
sanctions. But the bottom line
is that Hong Kong’s people
not only failed to enlarge the
sphere of freedom they had,
but also they are losing much of
what they had.
The Americans, seeing
Hong Kong being absorbed
into China, are now canceling
the special economic privileges
we had accorded the city, as the
British offer millions of visas
to Hong Kong’s dissidents who
fear what Beijing has in store
for them.
In June, Pompeo also
charged Beijing with human
rights atrocities in Xinjiang:
“The world received disturbing
reports today that the Chinese
Communist Party is using
forced sterilization, forced
abortion, and coercive family
planning against Uyghurs and
other minorities in Xinjiang, as
part of a continuing campaign
of repression.”
These reports, said Pompeo,
“are sadly consistent with
decades of CCP practices that
demonstrate an utter disregard
for the sanctity of human life
and basic human dignity.”
China has rejected U.S. pro-
tests of its treatment of Uighurs
and Kazakhs and of its han-
dling of Hong Kong as interfer-
ence in its internal affairs and
none of America’s business.
As for the South China Sea,
China dismissively replied, the
U.S. seems to be “throwing its
weight around in every sea of
the world.”
These American warnings,
and Beijing’s response, call to
mind the darker days of the
Cold War.
So, again, the question: Is
America prepared for a naval
clash in the South China Sea
if Beijing continues to occupy
and fortify islets and reefs she
claims as her own? Are we pre-
pared for a Cold War II -- with
China?
While China lacks the strate-
gic arsenal the USSR had in the
latter years of the Cold War,
economically, technologically
and industrially, China is a far
greater power than Soviet Rus-
sia ever was. And China’s popu-
lation is four times as large.
Can we, should we, begin to
assemble a system of alliances
similar to what we had during
the Cold War -- with NATO
in Europe and Asian secu-
rity pacts with Japan, South
Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan,
Australia and New Zealand?
Should we adopt a policy of
containment of Communist
China, which, says Pompeo, is
an expansionist and “imperial-
ist” power?
Should we start issuing war
guarantees to China’s neigh-
bors? Should we start putting
down red lines China will not
be allowed to cross?
Before we plunged into our
half dozen Middle East wars,
we didn’t think through where
those would end. Have we con-
sidered where all our belated
bellicosity toward Beijing must
invariably lead, and how this all
ends?
Patrick J. Buchanan, a
nationally syndicated columnist,
was a senior advisor to presi-
dents Richard Nixon, Gerald
Ford and Ronald Reagan. His
website is http://buchanan.org/
blog.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 5A

Biden eyes GOP supporters while GOP leaders, Trump to discuss

virus aid as crisis deepens
Trump focuses on his base BY LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent

Some GOP operatives believe the suburbs are lost while the polls for months. The
Democrats’ reluctance to WASHINGTON — Top Republicans in Con-
a contingent of high-profile Republicans are openly enjoy the current moment
reflects the sting of that
gress were expecting to meet Monday with Pres-
ident Donald Trump on the next COVID-19 aid
questioning the president’s reelection message loss, Biden’s nagging vul- package as the administration panned more virus
testing money and interjected other priorities
nerabilities and Trump’s
BY STEVE PEOPLES to discuss strategy. Ka- who otherwise found him mountain of campaign that could complicate quick passage.
AP National Political Writer sich is among a handful of distasteful. cash. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was
high-profile Republicans And in crucial bat- Trump’s campaign has prepared to roll out the $1 trillion package in a
In the likely to become more ac- tleground states such reserved $146 million in matter of days. But divisions between the Senate
four months tive in supporting Biden as Florida, some Demo- television advertising this GOP majority and the White House posed fresh
since Joe in the fall. crats are concerned that fall led by a $36.3 million
Biden effec- challenges. Congress was returning to session
Trump, meanwhile, is Biden’s current standing investment in Florida this week as the coronavirus crisis many had
tively won doing virtually nothing to could be a high-water alone, according to data
the Demo- hoped would have improved by now only wors-
expand his appeal beyond mark. Some polls suggest compiled by Advertising
cratic presi- ened — and just as earlier federal emergency re-
his most loyal supporters. Biden’s strength comes Analytics. That’s more
dential nom- lief was expiring.
Some GOP operatives more from voters’ displea- than double the next clos-
ination, he Biden believe the suburbs are sure with Trump than ex- est state, Ohio, where
Trump insisted again Sunday that the virus
has focused lost while a contingent of citement over Biden him- Trump has reserved would “disappear,” but the president’s view did
on con- high-profile Republicans self, whose regular gaffes, $18.4 million. Biden, so not at all match projections from the leading
sol idat ing are openly questioning long Washington record, far, hasn’t reserved any health professionals straining to halt the U.S.’s
the party’s the president’s reelection and recent attempts to ap- fall advertising, although alarming caseloads and death toll.
divergent message. In an acknowl- pease progressives leave he’s amassed a fortune in McConnell and House GOP leader Kevin Mc-
and often edgment of the mounting him in a tougher spot than recent months that will al- Carthy were set to meet with Trump and Trea-
warring fac- challenges, Trump named some Democrats would low him to compete, even sury Secretary Steven Mnuchin “to fine-tune” the
tions. As a new campaign manager like to believe. if he can’t match Trump legislation, acting chief of staff Mark Meadows
the closing Trump last week. Florida Agriculture dollar for dollar. said on Fox News.
stretch of the campaign With about 100 days Commissioner Nikki
nears, that effort will ex- until Election Day, there’s Fried, the only Democrat
pand to include Repub- time for sudden devel- elected to statewide of-
licans disaffected with opments that could shift fice there, praised Biden’s
President Donald Trump. the trajectory of the message and said he
Former Ohio Gov. John campaign. The Friday could appeal to rural and
Kasich, a Republican and announcement that Su- middle-class voters. But
frequent Trump critic, preme Court Justice Ruth she says “it’s way too ear-
has been approached and Bader Ginsburg’s cancer ly” to predict a victory.
is expected to speak at the has returned was a re- “As we get closer, polls
Democratic National Con- minder of the potential are going to get tighter,”
vention on Biden’s behalf volatility ahead. In 2016 Fried said.
next month, according Trump effectively used That happened in 2016
to a person with direct the prospect of Supreme when Trump narrowly
knowledge of the plans Court appointments to won the election after
who requested anonymity win over conservatives trailing Hillary Clinton in

Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality

‘We are ... building a country where ditions, living wages and
healthcare,” said Hender-
Black lives matter in every aspect of son, who is also co-exec-
utive director of the Ten-
society — including in the workplace’ nessee-based Highlander
Ash-Lee Henderson, an organizer with Research and Education
the Movement for Black Lives Center.
Among the strikers
BY AARON MORRISON will either picket during will be essential workers:
The Associated Press a lunch break or observe nursing home employees,
moments of silence to hon- janitors and delivery men
NEW YORK — Orga- or Black lives lost to police and women. Fast food,
nizers of a national work- ride-share and airport
violence, organizers said.
ers strike say tens of thou-
“We are ... building a workers are also expect-
sands are set to walk off
country where Black lives ed to take part in planned
the job Monday in more
matter in every aspect of events.
than two dozen U.S. cities
to protest systemic racism society — including in the The strike continues an
and economic inequality workplace,” said Ash-Lee ongoing global reckoning
that has only worsened Henderson, an organizer on race and police bru-
during the coronavirus with the Movement for tality set off by the death
pandemic. Black Lives, a coalition of George Floyd, a Black
Dubbed the “Strike for of over 150 organizations man who died at the hands
Black Lives,” labor unions, that make up the Black of Minneapolis police in
along with social and ra- Lives Matter movement. late May. At noon in each
cial justice organizations “The Strike for Black U.S. time zone on Monday,
from New York City to Los Lives is a moment of reck- workers are expected to
Angeles, will participate oning for corporations take a knee for about eight
in a range of planned ac- that have long ignored the minutes — the amount
tions. Where work stop- concerns of their Black of time prosecutors say a
pages are not possible workforce and denied white police officer held
for a full day, participants them better working con- his knee on Floyd’s neck.

‘Black Lives’ mural outside Trump Tower defaced for third time
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A “Black Lives Mat-
ter” mural painted on the street in front of
President Donald Trump’s namesake New
York City tower has quickly become a tar-
get for vandalism, defaced with bucketfuls
of paint three times in less than a week.
In the latest incident, two women were
arrested around 3 p.m. Saturday after po-
lice said they poured black paint on the
block-long mural outside Trump Tower on
Manhattan’s chic Fifth Avenue.
Bystander video showed police officers
surrounding one of the women as she
rubbed the paint on the mural’s bright yel-
low letters and screamed: “they don’t care
about Black lives” and “refund the police.”
6A MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Starkville considering another

water/sewer rate increase
Options include
base rates of
$8 to $10 and
variable rates of
$3.75 to $4.25
per 1,000 gallons
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

Starkville will increase

water and sewer rates and
adjust its rate structure to
help fund more planned
infrastructure upgrades,
a long-term project that
started two years ago.
Nelson McGough, a
research technician at
the Mississippi Water
Resources Research In-
stitute within Mississippi
State University, present-
ed the board of aldermen
with four rate structure
options at its Friday work
session. The board will
consider the options and
choose one at a future
meeting, though not on
Tuesday.
“One of the things we
committed to two years
ago was moving (the
rates) so we could begin
the infrastructure im-
provements and maintain
them, so this board and
the next board and on-
ward seeks to take care of
the infrastructure that’s
going to keep on aging,”
Mayor Lynn Spruill said.
The city’s initial rate
increase in September
2018 began raising the
money required to replace
aging water and sewage
pipes in Pleasant Acres,
Green Oaks and Rolling
Hills, the neighborhoods
Starkville Utilities gener-
al manager Terry Kemp
said generated the high-
est volume of calls for re-
pair work in 2018.
The $1 million Pleas-
ant Acres project is re-
cently finished, several
months later than origi-
nally planned, and the city
is starting the $2.4 million
Rolling Hills project.
The current rate struc-
ture brings in more than
$6 million per year, even
with the drop in usage
after several MSU stu-
dents left town during
the COVID-19 pandemic,
McGough said. Each of
the four new structure op-
tions he presented would
bring in more than $7.5
million per year. Two of
them would keep the base
rate at $8 — $4 each for
water and sewer — and
the other two would in-
crease the base rate to $9
and $10 respectively.
The current variable
rate — or the amount
charged for every 1,000
gallons of both water and
sewage use — is $3.25.
The new structure op-
tions include a higher
variable rate, ranging
from $3.75 to $4.25.
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Nelson McGough, a research technician at the Mississippi Water Resources Re-
search Institute within Mississippi State University, presented four potential in-
creased water and sewer rate structures to the Starkville board of aldermen Friday.
The city increased its rates in 2018 to start raising money for the replacement of
aging pipes, and the next increase will continue this ongoing project.
neighboring businesses
and visibility from the
main thoroughfares when
choosing a location, and
drive-thru lanes and out-
door dining have become
increasingly important to
potential tenants due to
the pandemic, she said.
Some nationwide
businesses — such as
GameStop, AT&T and
Tuesday Morning — have
closed some stores but
have chosen to keep their
Starkville locations, Greg-
ory said. Other business-
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
es have signed new leases
Jennifer Gregory, downtown strategies president at
the retail development firm Retail Strategies, tells in Starkville, though Re-
the Starkville board of aldermen Friday that the city tail Strategies cannot an-
is “an attractive market” for businesses to start new nounce which ones, she
locations. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some said.
businesses to close and opened up new real estate, “I know that you guys
such as the JCPenney location on Highway 12, and
Retail Strategies has been advertising the vacancies are worried about sales
throughout the pandemic, Gregory said. tax revenue, and rightly
so, especially looking at
The increases in cus- president at the retail additional closures, but
tomers’ water and sewer development firm Retail we feel like Starkville is
bills would vary based Strategies. in a perfect spot to attract
on how much water they The firm is based out tenants that you want,”
use, except for one option, of Birmingham, Ala- Gregory said.
which would increase bama and has overseen
the base rate to $10 and Starkville’s retail recruit-
the variable rate to $4.10. ment since February
This option is “the most 2016, and its contract in-
equitable,” McGough cludes providing regular
said, because it would cre- updates to the mayor and
ate a 25 percent increase aldermen.
in all customers’ bills. “Starkville is an attrac-
Ward 5 Alderman tive market, and we feel
Hamp Beatty said the city really good about being
should consider the fact able to backfill existing
that not all MSU students vacancies on the com-
might return to the area mercial corridors,” said
next month as the pan- Gregory, who is also a for-
demic continues, and the mer CEO of the Greater
potential rate structures Starkville Development
might have to be adjust- Partnership.
ed accordingly in order Retail Strategies has
to still bring in the tar- been advertising vacant
geted revenue. McGough spaces such as the for-
agreed but said he “would mer Payless ShoeSource
estimate that it wouldn’t and the soon-to-close
change that much.” JCPenney, both located
Additionally, although at Starkville Crossing on
businesses everywhere Highway 12, and the for-
have taken a hit and some mer Mugshots location on
have closed due to the Main Street. Starkville’s
pandemic, “brands that weakness in real estate
are ideal for Starkville is high land prices, but
are showing an interest” Gregory said the market
in the city now that more is currently “a tenant’s
real estate is available, market” regardless.
said Jennifer Gregory, Tenants consider park-
downtown strategies ing availability, traffic,

Harris
Continued from Page 1A
Recently, something equally as
important to Harris as her business has
been on her mind, though.
Just as Harris has a passion for beauty,
she shares an equal thirst for providing
supplies for college students. So she felt
compelled to take action. After seeing
countless K-12 education drives over the
years, Harris didn’t want students seek-
ing higher education to feel left out.
For the second straight year, Harris
will host a back-to-college drive on Aug. 1
from 1-4 p.m. at her salon located at 2103
Fourth Ave. North in Columbus. Voting
registration will also be offered, along
with a raffle for a 32-inch television.
“Last year we decided to have a back-
to-college drive and it was very success-
ful,” Harris said. “Sometimes we forget
about the college students and the young
adults. We have the back-to-school drives
for middle school and elementary, so I
didn’t want to forget about those young
adults that need household necessities,
cleaning supplies and non-perishable
items.”
Donated items include non-perishable
food, cleaning supplies, disinfectants,
hygiene products, bed sheets and gift
cards. College students can request
essentials online at a student registry
online at bit.ly/backtocollegedrive.
Last year, the drive partnered with
a nonprofit organization. This year, the
drive is funded solely through donations
from sponsors and community efforts
from people dropping off items as well as
monetary donations.
“I have a senior at Rust College (in
Holly Springs),” Harris said. “I’ve always
been a hands-on mom, from kindergar-
ten to college. But I know there are some
young adults that don’t have the same
support as my son did.”
One feature Harris added this year
was inviting motivational speakers.
Scheduled speakers include Columbus
High 2019 valedictorian Marian Elise
Turner, Pioneer Historian Ezra Baker
and artist/activist David Horton II.
“We have three special guests attend-
ing this year,” Harris said. “They will
give encouragement to the students as
well as pass out those essential items.”
She encouraged any community
member who wishes to sponsor the event
to contact her online via Facebook or
directly at 662-889-9385.
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SECTION

QUESTIONS
Dillon leads 1-2 RCR finish in Cup race before fans at Texas BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — And
so another week of quar-
antine has come and
gone.
I n
Starkville,
city lead-
ers re-
upped or-
dina nces
on masks,
w h i l e
COVID-19 Portnoy
cases con-
tinue to rise nationwide.
While the time we’re
living in can be bleak
day-to-day, this week’s
mailbag is filled with
scenarios predicated on
sports actually happen-
ing this fall.
With that, let’s jump
in:

Any indication Missis-

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Austin Dillon (3) fires six shooter pistols as he celebrates winning the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 race
at Texas Motor Speedway.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH, Texas — Austin Dillon
stayed in front after a restart with two laps to
go and beat rookie teammate Tyler Reddick
to the checkered flag at Texas, giving Rich-
ard Childress Racing its first 1-2 NASCAR
Cup finish in nine years.
With spectators spread out in the stands
on a scorching Sunday, a very dehydrated
Dillon got the checkered flag and did some
celebratory burnouts on the frontstretch be-
fore going to the infield care center.
“I got a couple IVs in me, feeling great. I
felt great once I kind of got in air condition-
er. I was wanting to come back out because
it stinks to win the race and you’re falling
out,” Dillon said when finally on his postrace
Zoom call. “But I gave it all. I left it all out
there. At least I can say that, and left it all on
the track.”
Dillon raced to his third career win and
first since Daytona at the start of the 2018
season. It was Dillon and Reddick in the front
on the final three restarts, the first after an
incident with 29 laps left that shuffled the
fast car of Ryan Blaney to a lap back.
“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, huh?” Dil-
sippi State will make
alcohol sales in the
near-future?
While the bottle of
Woodford Reserve in my
liquor cabinet has taken
a steady hit during quar-
antine, there isn’t any in-
dication that or even beer
will be making its way to
Davis Wade Stadium any
time soon.
The debate about al-
cohol sales was again
drummed up this week
after USA Today released
its annual database of
athletic department
Jerome Miron/USA TODAY Sports
spending over the 2018-
19 school year. Missis-
sippi State, which made
lon, the grandson of Childress, said immedi- Texas, was fifth. nearly $13.5 million de-
ately after the race. “Tyler Reddick, he raced “Can’t ask for much more than what we spite spending over $112
me clean. 1-2 for RCR. This has been coming. got there,” said Reddick, the Xfinity Series million last year, ranked
We’ve had good cars all year. I’ve got my baby champion each of the past two seasons. “I third-to-last of the 13
Ace back home, my wife. I’m just so happy.” just wanted it to be between us. I didn’t want Southeastern Confer-
It was the first 1-2 finish for RCR in the bring other cars into it, make sure that we ence schools listed (Van-
Cup Series since Clint Bowyer won at Talla- could fight it out. We just got the restarts that derbilt was not included
dega in 2011 ahead of Jeff Burton. kept giving us opportunities.” because it’s a private in-
Childress watched the race from a com- There were an estimated 15,000-20,000 stitution and isn’t subject
mand center at the team’s race shop in North spectators at the track, where it reached 97 to the open-records laws
Carolina. degrees late in the first summertime Cup that bring these numbers
“I mean, it’s great. ... Having Tyler right race at Texas — it was supposed to be a to light).
there, to work with, he’s got a teammate that spring race nearly four months ago, before I delved into alcohol
he’s really working good with,” Childress the coronavirus pandemic postponed and sales a bit during the fall
said. “And to see both of those guys racing then shuffled NASCAR’s schedule. Inside when I broke down MSU
for the win, I knew they weren’t going to, I the cars, it was 130-140 degrees. and Ole Miss’ respec-
was hoping they didn’t wreck each other. It After leading six times for 150 laps, both tive athletic department
was pretty cool to see RCR in the front.” highs for the race, Blaney finished seventh. budgets for the 2017-18
On the final restart in Texas, Dillon got a Blaney, who had given up the lead when school year ahead of the
good jump, holding off his rookie teammate he pitted on Lap 287, fell a lap down after the Egg Bowl and the Bull-
and some veteran drivers. field got shuffled when rookie Quin Houff dogs’ neighbors to the
Joey Logano finished third, with Kyle Bus- crashed hard out of Turn 4. northwest have assured-
ch fourth a day after he finished ahead of the Cole Custer, the rookie driver for Stew- ly benefited from wetting
field in two races — his Xfinity Series victory art-Haas Racing coming off a win last week- their pallets at games.
was taken away after his car failed a postrace end at Kentucky, was one of 11 drivers in- Following its Oct.
inspection, and he then won the Trucks Se- volved in a chain-reaction crash on Lap 218 19 loss to Texas A&M,
ries race. Series points leader Kevin Har- that brought out a red flag. His crumbled No. Ole Miss announced its
vick, the winner of the last three fall races at See NASCAR, 2B hospitality vendor Cen-
terplate had sold 15,400
beers for a total revenue

Chad Thrash’s patience pays off for Governor’s Cup win at The Mag
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Chad Thrash had had
enough of the dirty air.
More than halfway
through Saturday night’s
40-lap Mississippi State
Championship Chal-
lenge Series Super Late
Models race at Magno-
lia Motor Speedway, the
driver from Meridian was
still stuck behind Justin
McRee, who started sixth
but took the lead on the
third lap. The currents of
air produced by McRee’s
No. 25 car made Thrash’s
trailing 1C car feel tight at
times and loose at others.
By the 27th lap, he
could wait no longer.
“It was time to pull the
trigger,” Thrash said.
He did, shooting past
McRee, pulling away
from pole winner Spen-
cer Hughes off a subse-
quent restart and winning
by more than a second
to claim the $3,000 first
prize at Saturday’s Gov-
ernor’s Cup event at The
Mag.
“Any time you get
clean air, it’s a lot better,”
Thrash said.
Thrash continued his
string of success, win-
ning for the second time
in as many MSCCS races
this year. He’s also been
successful in the Street
Stock division, winning
the feature at the General
Tire Clash at The Mag on
June 20.
“He’s hard to beat,”
said McRee, who is from
Woodstock, Alabama.
McRee thought he
had the chance to best
his “good buddy” and fel-
low racer Saturday night
when he led 24 laps of the
MSCCS feature race, ben-
efitting from the “grip”
offered by the water The
Mag promoter Johnny
Stokes sprinkled on the
track before the race.
“I tried to take advan-
tage of it as quick as I
could to get out front, and
it was going to work for
us,” McRee said.
But his car was run-
ning hot, and McRee tried
not to risk anything if he
could help it.
“I was trying to run
as smooth as I could and
keep the motor tempera-
ture down as much as
possible,” he said.
He knew he would
have some challengers
in the second half of the
race, and Thrash showed
him just how right he was
when he took the lead on
the 27th lap.
McRee’s car tempera-
ture spiked as he attempt-
ed to gun the throttle
to make up ground. Not
wanting to risk damag-
ing an expensive motor,
he pulled out of the race,
prompting a caution.
“We’d been struggling
really, really bad, so this
is like a win just lead-
ing some laps tonight,”
McRee said.
Thrash took advan-
tage, shooting past
Hughes and never threat-
ening to give up first place
until taking the check-
ered flag 13 laps later.
“We’ve got a little work
to do,” Thrash said, “but
we pulled it out.”
Hughes, Jamie Elam,
Brian Rickman of Colum-
bus and Michael Arnold
rounded out the top five.
Rick Rickman of Co-
lumbus was eighth, Mark
Dodson of Caledonia was
11th, and David Breazeale
of Starkville was 19th.
Sportsman
Brett White waited
until the last possible mo-
ment to make his move in
Saturday’s 15-lap Glenn’s
BBQ and Fish Late Model
Sportsman feature race,
and as usual, he delivered.
The Kosciusko driv-
er watched Steens racer
Mike Pickard and Tyler
Burgess trade the lead
through four cautions and
14 laps, then shot past
Burgess on Turn 4 of the
event’s final lap to grab
the checkered flag.
Burgess, Tony Shelton
of Steens, Colby Ponds of
Caledonia and Caleb Pick-
ard of Columbus rounded
out the top five.
Mike Pickard was
10th, Josh Guest of West
Point was 16th, and Ja-
cob Wooten of Pheba was
19th.
Late Models
Jeremy Shaw of Mill-
port, Alabama, kept up
his dominance in the
Crate Racin’ USA Late
Models division with a
win in Saturday’s 20-lap
feature race.
Shaw beat out Bryant
Marsh, Randall Beck-
with, Grant Pearl and Ja-
mie Pickard of Columbus
for the victory.
Hunter Carroll of Co-
lumbus was 10th, with
Mark Stokes of Steens
11th.
Street Stocks
Shay Knight of Steens
took home the win in Sat-
urday’s Three Star Tire
and Auto Street Stock
race, finishing more than
four seconds ahead of
second-place Hunter Hol-
loway.
Bryan Fortner, Lee
Ray of Columbus and
Doug Dodd comprised
See MAG, 2B
of $128,000 at that game
alone.
MSU has been reticent
to comment on alcohol
sales beyond that others
in the SEC are partaking,
and the understanding is
this will ultimately fall on
university President Dr.
Mark E. Keenum’s shoul-
ders should the school
want to sell booze.
That said, there are
ample issues ahead of
this on the docket at the
moment and it’d be sur-
prising if one were drink-
ing anything beyond
cheap whiskey from a
flask stashed into an un-
dergrad’s boot anytime
soon.
When can we expect a
decision from Robert
Woodard on the NBA
Draft?
While MSU men’s bas-
ketball coach Ben How-
land has done a valiant,
if not wildly impressive
job filling his roster this
offseason with a slew of
transfers and late addi-
tions, the Bulldogs would
assuredly welcome back
See PORTNOY, 2B
2B MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Rahm’s wild day ends with Memorial win

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBLIN, Ohio — The
drama was more than Jon
Rahm wanted. The result
was what he always imag-
ined.
Rahm became the No.
1 player in the world Sun-
day with a victory in the
Memorial in which he
watched an eight-shot lead
at the turn shrink to three
shots with three holes to
play, and then hit what he
called the greatest shot of
his life that turned into a
bogey because of a penal-
finished today with some
clutch up-and-downs. As a
Spaniard, I’m kind of glad
it happened that way.”
The fiery emotion is his
hallmark. He showed it
with a tee shot that sailed
left into a creek on the 11th
hole, Rahm slamming his
club into the ground in a
pique of anger. And it was
evident with that ferocious
fist-pump when his flop
shot from deep rough be-
hind the 16th green rolled
into the cup.
Birdie or bogey, it was
a winner, a shot that would
76 the inaugural year.
The rough wasn’t cut
all week. The greens were
allowed to go to the edge
because they are being re-
placed. Crews already had
stripped the entire fifth
green as the leaders were
on the back nine.
Rahm looked to be
playing a different course.
He played bogey-free on
the front nine with birdies
on the two par 5s. That put
him eight shots clear on
his way to No. 1.
And then he made bo-
gey on the 10th. Not a
the back bunker, though
the rough was not a great
option with how fast the
greens were running.
Rahm was thinking any-
thing inside 10 feet would
be good. This was perfect,
the ball landing on the
fringe and sliding down
the slope into the cup.
As for the penalty?
“It doesn’t change the
outcome of the tourna-
ment,” he said. “It just puts
a little bit of an asterisk in
it in the sense of I wish I
could just keep that birdie
because it was one of the
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chip-in behind the 16th
green, Rahm closed with
3-over 75 for a three-shot
victory over Ryan Palmer.
Rahm got up-and-down
on the final four greens,
which made it feel even
sweeter.
“One of the best per-
formances of my life,”
Rahm said. “Yesterday
was probably one of the
best rounds of my life, and
ball — he finished at 9-un-
der 279 for his 10th career
victory, fourth on the PGA
Tour.
Muirfield Village
played its toughest in 42
years, with only five play-
ers under par, the fewest
for the final round since
this tournament began in
1976. Rahm’s 75 was the
highest finish by a winner
since Roger Maltbie shot
the 14th.
Just like that, the lead
was three shots.
Only a week ago at
Muirfield Village for the
Workday Charity Open,
Justin Thomas had a
three-shot lead with three
holes to play and wound up
losing in a playoff to Collin
Morikawa.
Rahm was worried
his tee shot might find
pandemic, shot 76 and tied the same number only once. The difficulty level
for 40th. increases from Monday to Sunday.
“Tough, tough condi-
tions to start out my first
week back, Thursday and
Sunday,” Woods said. “But
it was good to get the feel
and the flow of competing
again.”
Matthew Fitzpatrick
had a 68 for the low score
of the final day to finish
third.
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NASCAR
Continued from Page 1B
41 Ford came to rest near the exit
of pit road.
That pileup on the frontstretch
came the lap after restart with most
of the cars still jammed together as
they came off the fourth turn, when
Blaney appeared to be among sev-
eral cars to get loose, though he
was out in front of the melee when
cars started crashing.
Track workers took water to
drivers in their parked cars on their
track during the red flag that lasted
more than 11 minutes.
It was 30 degrees warmer than
it was on March 29, when the race
had been scheduled before the pan-
demic. Texas will host a playoff race
Oct. 25.
Before four-time Super Bowl
champion quarterback Terry Brad-
shaw gave an emphatic command
to start engines, he shouted hello to
the “beautiful people” in the stands.
It was the first major sporting
event in Texas in more than four
months to allow spectators, and
one of the largest gatherings of any
kind in the state during the pan-
demic. The spectators were spread
out along the frontstretch, which
was fully shaded late in the race,
and there were also people in about
40 suites.
Speedway Motorsports, which
owns Bristol and Texas, is a pri-
vate company like NASCAR, and
does not release official attendance
numbers. But there appeared to be
about 20,000 fans at Bristol for the
All-Star race last Wednesday night,
and a similar crowd had been ex-
pected at Texas, where current reg-
ulations would have allowed 50% ca-
pacity at the track that seats about
135,000.
“These are the folks that want-
ed to be here. We never were try-
ing to set an attendance record and
I told y’all you’re going to turn on
the TV and go, ‘nobody’s there,’”
TMS president Eddie Gossage said
during the race, without confirming
any figures. “The truth is, there’s a
pretty good number here. But still,
a massive place.”

MAG
Continued from Page 1B
the rest of the top five in the 15-lap event. ACROSS
Dusty Dupler of Columbus finished 10th.
Modifieds 1 Chickens and
Jason Byrd of Carbon Hill, Alabama, led the five- turkeys
car field in Saturday’s 10-lap Open Wheel Modified 5 Misbehave
Factory Stocks division, claiming victory over Shane Burns. 10 Land mea-
John Johnson IV of Ethelsville, Alabama, won the
15-lap Ranch House Diner Factory Stock feature on Brent Burns of Steens, Wesley Cribbs and Chad sure
Saturday. Murray rounded out the field. 11 Moon feature
Johnson beat out Aidan Fletcher and John A. Beard 13 Place for
snorkeling
Jr. — both of Columbus — as well as Justin Comer and
Brandon Whitley to claim the prize.
Hot Shots 14 Nemesis of
Eli McKinney of Plantersville got the best of three Ness
Daniel Wiggins of Starkville was sixth, Bobby
Barksdale of Columbus was eighth, and Thomas Gable other cars to win the eight-lap Hot Shots feature Sat- 15 Banish
of West Point was 13th. urday night. 17 Skillet
Scooter Ware of West Point was 21st, and Tyler Hailey Wade finished second, followed by Riley 18 Get excited
Beard of Columbus was 23rd. Sheedy. Ed Caulder of Columbus was fourth. 19 Country
lodgings
Sunday’s answer
Portnoy
20 Refinery
supply counter bottle 12 Jeremy of
21 Track event 39 From the U.S. “The Avengers”
Continued from Page 1B 22 Spanish 40 Run-down 16 For us
sophomore Robert Woodard II from should be relatively deep. Clem- The Athletic’s Dane Brugler farewell 41 Deep voice 21 Boxing hit
the NBA Draft son’s Trevor Lawrence, North Da- marked Costello as the No. 6 senior 25 Worker with 22 Floating
Woodard, a Columbus native kota State’s Trey Lance and Justin quarterback in the class, though a pick DOWN aimlessly
and former top-65 recruit national- Fields are the likely first three he could move up that chart. 26 Soft shot in 1 Door-slamming 23 Personal logs
ly, has kept relatively quiet on the quarterbacks off the board, but If recent history tells us any- tennis comedy 24 Powerful
NBA Draft to this point and with from there it gets interesting. thing (i.e. Garnder Minshew and 27 Saloon vessel 2 Pacific, for one 25 A lot of
the deadline now being pushed Florida’s Kyle Trask has the tools Anthony Gordon), Costello will put 28 Mouse’s 3 Take by force 27 Stephen King
back to Aug. 3 for underclassmen to to succeed at the next level, but his up video game numbers in coach cousin 4 Boxing hit novel
withdraw their names from the pro- inexperience at the college level Mike Leach’s air raid offense. That 29 Crusading 5 Point a finger 29 Appraised
cess, it’s unlikely we hear anything coupled with the years he spent coupled with his previously elite king at 30 Kitchen
before then. behind former Houston signal-call- pedigree as a top-100 recruit in 33 Fury 6 Packing box come-on
That said, MSU has factored er and current Miami Hurricane the class of 2016 and the extreme 34 Butt holder 7 Keg need 31 Yard tools
Woodard into its current scholar- D’Eriq King as a high schooler, arm talent he possesses, Costello 35 Limited 8 Perfect 32 Fabric
ship situation and remain in the makes him green, at best. could hear his name in the second 37 Gag 9 Act of contri- workers
running for Alabama transfer Javi- Texas A&M’s Kellen Mond and or third round, if not sooner. 38 Fragrance tion 36 Mineral suffix
an Davis. Davis — who released a Texas’ Sam Ehlinger are both more
top-six of MSU, Xavier, George- than likely to intrigue a handful of
town, Western Kentucky, Tulane teams, but profile more as great col- Ben’s best
lege quarterbacks and it remains to Having lived in a fraternity
and Wake Forest — announced house for four years of college, my
Sunday via Twitter that he’d reveal be seen what their true NFL pros-
pects are. cooking skills upon graduation in
his decision on July 27. the fall of 2018 were not exactly up
MSU would benefit hugely from Georgia quarterback Jamie New-
man is one name that could jump up to snuff.
Woodard’s return given the depar- I’ve taken this time during quar-
tures of Reggie Perry and Tyson draft boards with a big season for
the Bulldogs, but with J.T. Daniels antine to right that wrong and get
Carter, but the Bulldogs have done
now immediately eligible in Athens, to working toward someone who
enough to fill the roster that they’ll
it’s unclear whether Newman will can actually serve a legitimate
survive should he end up a first-
even start a game in the red and meal. Here are a couple of my fa-
round selection this fall.
black, let alone be an NFL quarter- vorite dishes I’ve concocted (with
back. some help from my girlfriend, to
Where will K.J. Costello be And now we get to Costello. In say the least):
selected in the 2021 NFL Draft? four years at Stanford, the former 1. My mom’s chicken parmesan
To say there’s a lot of ifs, ands Santa Margarita High School sig- with angel hair pasta
and buts regarding K.J. Costello’s nal-caller totaled 6,151 yards and 49 2. Stir fry beef over Japanese
draft stock would be an understate- touchdowns to just 18 interceptions pan noodles
ment. But hey, it’s the middle of in 28 games played for the Cardinal. 3. Chicken piccata, side of as-
July, so what the hell? Costello’s best season came as a ju- paragus and squash
Costello is assuredly one of the nior when he guided Stanford to a 4. Ricotta stuffed shells
more experienced and battle-hard- 9-4 record while throwing for 3,540 5. Mozzarella and asparagus
ened quarterbacks in a class that yards and 29 touchdowns. stuffed chicken breasts
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 3B

Players plead with NFL to address health, safety concerns

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NFL players are publicly
pleading with the league to
address several health and
safety concerns on the eve of
training camp.
The league informed
teams on Saturday that train-
ing camps will open on time
even though discussions with
the players’ union regarding
testing for the coronavirus
and other health and safety
protocols are ongoing.
Rookies for Houston and
Kansas City are set to report
Monday and rookies for oth-
er teams are due on Tues-
day. Players for all teams are
scheduled to report by July
28.
Many prominent players
expressed their thoughts in a
social media blitz Sunday.
“We need Football! We
need sports! We need hope!”
Saints quarterback Drew
Brees wrote on Twitter. “The
NFL’s unwillingness to follow
the recommendations of their
own medical experts will pre-
vent that. If the NFL doesn’t
do their part to keep players
healthy there is no football in
2020. It’s that simple. Get it
done @NFL.”
Seahawks quarterback
Russell Wilson said he is con-
cerned because his wife, Cia-
ra, is pregnant.
He wrote: “My wife is preg-
nant. @NFL Training camp is
about to start.. And there’s
still No Clear Plan on Player
Health & Family Safety. ????
We want to play football but
we also want to protect our
loved ones. (hashtag)We-
WantToPlay.”
NFL Players Association
executive director DeMau-
rice Smith and President JC
Tretter addressed the union’s
concerns in a 90 -minute vid-
eoconference call with re-
porters on Friday.
They want players tested
daily for the virus. A joint
committee of doctors, train-
ers and strength coaches
formed by the NFL and NFL -
PA recommended testing ev-
ery other day.
Other outstanding issues
include number of presea-
son games. The league has
planned to cut the exhibition
schedule from four games to
two while the union wants
none.
Players also wanted a
45 -day acclimation period
to help avoid injuries. The
league asked them to report
early but the union declined.
Questions remain on protec-
tions for players who want to
opt out of playing.
All 32 teams have sent the
union their Infectious Dis-
ease Emergency Response
that have been approved by
joint infectious disease ex-
perts and NFL chief medical
officer Dr. Allen Sills, ac-
cording to a person familiar
with the details. The person,
speaking to The Associated
Press on condition of ano-
nymity because protocols
haven’t been finalized, said
the union has approved sev-
eral and continues to review
them.
On Friday, the league sent
players and teams an Educa-
tion Protocol for camp which
requires clubs to distribute
joint educational materials
and to conduct educational
sessions for players, staff and
family members.
Tretter, a center for the
Browns, wrote: “What you
are seeing today is our guys
standing up for each other
and for the work their union
leadership has done to keep
everyone as safe as possi-
ble. The NFL needs to listen
to our union and adopt the
experts’ recommendations
(hashtag)wewanttoplay.”
Under the collective bar-
gaining agreement, the NFL
has the right to impose report
dates and teams can fine play-
ers who don’t report.
The NFLPA could file a
grievance to argue the league
isn’t providing a safe work
environment under the labor
deal.

Comics & Puzzles

DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY: man you are mostly B.S.
After using currently seeing, My fear is that her family will
online dating unless it is to interfere with their marriage and
for almost a enlighten him that expect her to still take care of
year, I have met even well-educat- her lazy relatives. She has told
someone, and it’s ed, successful them things will change once
getting serious. people can be she’s married, but because she
Problem is, during gullible under the is easily manipulated, they will
some of our first right circumstanc- expect her to continue taking
conversations, he es. Fortunately care of their household. How
talked about his for you, you can I convince her to set bound-
previous online weren’t seriously aries without sounding like I’m
ZITS experiences. One damaged by the trying to manipulate her myself?
involved a woman person’s failure to — ONLY WANTS THE BEST FOR
who asked him for repay you. (Other THEM
money and how intelligent, but DEAR ONLY WANTS: Creating
stupid she must’ve trusting, people boundaries is going to be a
thought he was. Dear Abby have suffered new experience for this young
Another time, he irreparable woman. While it may eventually
told me he couldn’t understand damage.) be liberating, it probably won’t
how a person could send money Because you feel you were be comfortable in the beginning.
to someone they met online and taken advantage of, it couldn’t Thankfully, she will have your
had never met in person. hurt to notify the authorities. Yes grandson at her side to reinforce
Well, this person (me), who it’s embarrassing, but human her.
he thinks is so smart and suc- beings make mistakes. If you Befriend her and listen when
cessful, is one of those who was were preyed upon and the per- she needs to talk. With parents
drawn in by an online person. I son was a scammer, you might as controlling as you describe,
GARFIELD sent money several times. I am
a well-educated and successful
be doing someone else a favor
by reporting it.
she’s going to need all the sup-
port and validation she can get.
professional who is so ashamed DEAR ABBY: My granddaugh- When she needs to strengthen
of this that I haven’t gone to ter-to-be is an absolute doll. her backbone, remind (don’t
the authorities. I cut ties with She’s perfect for my grandson, lecture) her that as a married
the person to whom I loaned and I think they were meant woman, her first priority must be
the money. He promised to pay for each other. My concern is her husband and — if they are
me back, but I haven’t seen a her family. They treat her like blessed with any — her children,
penny. Cinderella. and repeat that important mes-
I haven’t told a soul I did She cleans, cooks, does sage often.
this. Should I disclose this to my laundry and takes care of her Dear Abby is written by
boyfriend? I want to be honest disabled sister. She is 21, but Abigail Van Buren, also known
with him, but I also wonder if because she’s living with her as Jeanne Phillips, and was
what’s in the past should be left parents until she and my grand- founded by her mother, Pauline
in the past. Please advise me. — son are married, she has to ask Phillips. Contact Dear Abby
ASHAMED SOUTHERN LADY permission to go anywhere or at www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
CANDORVILLE DEAR LADY: I see no reason do anything. She also believes Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA
for you to discuss this with the everything they tell her, which is 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July
20). Your body becomes stron-
ger, and your emotional body fol-
lows suit. There will be a sense
that a pressure is off of you for
now and you’re able to do what
makes you feel most complete.
It was a luxury before, and now
it’s just part of your life. A power
BABY BLUES shift will be most favorable for
you. Give it a little time to settle
in. Virgo and Capricorn adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 4,
30, 22, 1 and 17
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Don’t know where to start? The
best place is here and now. The
trouble with here and now is,
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
sometimes, it can be hard to
accept. Then again, it’s really
the best and only thing worth
accepting.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You could save someone from
making a mistake, but if they
really want to, they’ll make it
anyway. You feel a strong sense
of responsibility for others, and
the world is better for it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
As you respond predictably,
you’ll earn someone’s trust.
This is good. You want the
person to be comfortable but
should not let him or her get too
comfortable. An impulsive twist
will come to mind.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Seek the best in all things but
especially in people. No matter
who you deal with this week,
you’ll resonate with their better
angels. There will be a teacher
for whatever you want to learn.
To get help, all you have to do
is ask.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You
don’t need courage to do brave
things. Act as if you are that
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of it. Follow through time and
again. Boom! You’re brave.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Belonging isn’t about fitting
together perfectly; rather, it’s
about accepting one another
and being willing to rub against
those rough parts that don’t
quite fit.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You like those who, like you,
lack pretension, are adverse
to striving and are too chill for
social climbing. Your values are
right in line with all that it takes
to create meaningful, lasting
friendships.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Psychologically, you are
large and in charge today, while
other systems may be trying to
catch up with that vibe. Your
mind is powerful and will lead
all.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). Be proud of the little
steps; they’ll add up. Small
improvements make a big dif-
ference. The person who makes
slow progress makes progress
indeed.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). You give all the stuff they
need. You tend to the matters
that matter to them. You need
a return on this investment. It’s
not a shallow thing to expect.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Pressing emotional needs
crop up. It’s vital that your
presence be not only known but
also understood. Stick close
to nurturing types. You require
tenderness.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Your ability to take care
of yourself is usually a given,
but when things get very busy,
everything changes. The parts
that you sometimes take for
granted need attention.

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How does COVID-19 affect kids? Science has answers and gaps
Several studies suggest, but don’t prove, that children are less likely to
become infected than adults, more likely to have only mild symptoms
BY LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
What role children play in
the coronavirus pandemic is the
hot-button question of the sum-
mer as kids relish their free time
while schools labor over how to
resume classes.
The Trump administration
says the science “is very clear,”
but many doctors who specialize
in pediatrics and infectious dis-
eases say much of the evidence
is inconclusive.
“There are still a lot of unan-
swered questions. That is the
biggest challenge,” said Dr. Son-
ja Rasmussen, a pediatrics pro-
fessor at the University of Flor-
ida and former scientist at the
U.S. Centers of Disease Control
and Prevention.
Several studies suggest, but
don’t prove, that children are
less likely to become infected
than adults and more likely to
have only mild symptoms.
An early report from Wuhan,
China, where the outbreak be-
gan last winter, found that fewer
than 2 percent of cases were in
children. Later reports suggest
between 5 percent and 8 percent
of U.S. cases are in kids.
The CDC says 175,374 cas-
es have been confirmed in kids
aged 17 and under as of Friday,
accounting for roughly 6 percent
of all confirmed cases. The num-
ber of kids who have been infect-
ed but not confirmed is almost
certainly far higher than that
though, experts say, because
those with mild or no symptoms
are less likely to get tested.
The CDC says 228 children
and teens through age 17 have
died from the disease in the U.S.
as of Thursday, about 0.2 per-
cent of the more than 138,000
Americans who have died in all.
One early study examining
infections in children comes
from a Wuhan hospital. Of 171
children treated there, most had
relatively mild illness. One child
died, and only three needed in-
tensive care and ventilator treat-
ment. Perhaps more worrisome
was that 12 had X-ray evidence
of pneumonia, but no other
symptoms.
A CDC study involving 2,500
children published that same
month, in April, echoed those
findings. About 1 in 5 infected
children were hospitalized ver-
sus 1 in 3 adults; three children
died. The study lacks complete
data on all the cases, but it also
suggests that many infected
children have no symptoms.
“We’re trying to figure out
who those kids are,” Rasmussen
said. “We need to figure out the
impact on kids and on the rest
of the community, their par-
ents and their grandparents. If
they’re transmitting a lot to each
other, and then bringing it home
to their families.”
Not knowing if children are
infected makes it difficult for
schools to reopen safely, many
experts say. Scarce data on
whether infected children — in-
cluding those without symptoms
— easily spread the disease to
others complicates the issue,
said Jeffrey Shaman, a Colum-
bia University infectious disease
specialist.
A National Institutes of
Health-sponsored study seek-
ing to answer that question and
others is under way.
A JAMA Pediatrics study
from May, cited Thursday by
White House Press Secretary
Kayleigh McEnany, involved
just 48 children treated in U.S.
and Canadian intensive care
units. As McEnany indicated,
most were not critically ill. Still,
she did not mention that 18, or
almost 40 percent, needed venti-
lator treatment and two died.
McEnany was correct that
children appear less likely
to become critically ill from
COVID-19 than from the flu. But
the CDC says COVID-19 can be
more contagious and has been
linked with more “superspread-
ing” events than the flu, mean-
ing it can quickly spread and
infect lots of people.
Also, blood clots and organ
damage have been found in chil-
dren with COVID-19, including
those who develop a related in-
flammatory illness. The most re-
cent count shows 342 U.S. chil-
dren and teens have developed
that condition, called multisys-
tem inflammatory syndrome in
children.
The condition is rare but can
occur in children with current
or recent COVID-19 infections.
Symptoms include fever and
problems in at least two organs,
often including the heart. Diges-
tive problems are common, and
some cases have been mistaken
with Kawasaki disease and toxic
shock syndrome.

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SULLIGENT, Ala. —
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July 18, 2020, at North
Mississippi Medical
Center of Hamilton.
Funeral services are
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Funeral Home Chapel,
with Danny Millican
officiating. Visitation
is one hour prior to
services at the funeral
home. Otts Funeral
Home of Sulligent is
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ments.
Mr. Dillard was born
Oct. 2, 1951, in Pickens
County, Alabama, to
the late William Clyde
and Willie Banks Dil-
lard. He was formerly
employed as a truck
drive and a welder. He
was a member of Shiloh
North United Method-
ist Church.
In addition to his par-
ents, he was preceded
in death by his siblings,
Virginia Faulkner,
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grandchildren; and one
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Billy Murphy
VERNON, Ala. —
Billy Murphy, 80, died
July 12, 2020, at Di-
versicare in Winfield,
Alabama.
Funeral services
with Military Honors
were Friday, at Otts
Funeral Home Chapel,
with Butch King offici-
ating. Burial followed
in Christian Chapel
Cemetery. Otts Funeral
Home of Sulligent was
in charge of arrange-
ments.
Mr. Murphy was
born Oct. 7, 1939, in La-
mar County, Alabama,
to the late Harvey Mur-
phy and Mattie Fortner.
He was a U.S. Navy vet-
eran where he was an
airplane mechanic. He
was formerly employed
with Marathon.
In addition to his par-
ents, he was preceded
in death by his siblings,
Earnest Murphy, Dan
Murphy and Dorothy
Murphy Allen.
He is survived by
his children, Wil-
liam Wayne Murphy,
Brian Keith Murphy
and Sherry Suzanne
Murphy; and siblings,
Kenneth Murphy and
Edna Brown.
Johnnie Wise
GAT TMAN —
Johnnie Wise, 86, died
July 18, 2020, at River
Place Nursing Home of
Amory.
Funeral services
will be at 11 a.m. today,
at Otts Funeral Home
Chapel, with Glenn
Hughes officiating.
Burial will follow in
Lockhart Cemetery.
Otts Funeral Home of
Sulligent is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Wise was born
Feb. 9, 1934, in Sulli-
gent, to the late Clovis
D. and Alice Mae Smith
Downey. She was a
member of Gattman
First Baptist Church. Hilda Ratliff
In addition to her Graveside Services:
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parents, she was pre- will be held today.
ceded in death by her Memorial Gardens
Burial
husband, James Harold Memorial Gardens
Wise; son Donald Gene 2nd Ave. North Location
Wise; and siblings, Dor-
othy “Dot” Brown, Don-
ald “JimBob” Downey
and Arlin Downey.
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her son, Glenn Wise;
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Howard Downey and
Billy Downey; and two
grandchildren.

Can a pregnant woman spread

the coronavirus to her fetus?
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Can a pregnant woman
spread the coronavirus to
her fetus?
It’s possible, but it
seems to be relatively rare
and scientists think they
know why that is.
Many viruses can
cross the placenta and in-
fect a fetus in the womb,
and evidence has been
growing that the corona-
virus sometimes can too.
Researchers in Italy
studied 31 women with
COVID-19 who delivered
babies in March and April
and found signs of the vi-
rus in several samples of
umbilical cord blood, the
placenta and, in one case,
breast milk. But this sort
of testing can just detect
bits of genetic material —
it doesn’t mean there is
virus capable of causing
infection in those places.
In one case, there was
strong evidence suggest-
ing the newborn had the
virus at birth because
signs of it were found in
umbilical cord blood and
in the placenta. In anoth-
er, a newborn had certain
coronavirus antibodies
that are unable to cross
the placenta, so they
could not have come from
the mother.
A report from France
gave even stronger evi-
dence of in-the-womb in-
fection, and that newborn
was very ill at birth.
Meanwhile, research
led by the National Insti-
tutes of Health gives a
possible reason for why fe-
tuses aren’t infected more
often: cells in the placenta
rarely make the two tools
that the coronavirus typi-
cally uses to gain entry. In
contrast, they found plen-
ty of what Zika and anoth-
er type of virus use.
Most research so far
has been on women who
were in late stages of
pregnancy when they got
the virus; more research
is needed on what hap-
pens if infection occurs
earlier in pregnancy.
The advice to pregnant
women remains the same:
wear a mask in public,
wash hands often and stay
at least 6 feet away from
others to avoid infection.

Doctor who survived COVID-19 bewildered by public disregard

BY JAY REEVES
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
— Dr. Michael Saag
spends much of his time
treating patients fighting
for their lives and work-
ing with colleagues who
are overwhelmed and
exhausted by the relent-
less battle against the
COVID-19 pandemic.
But he enters a differ-
ent world when he walks
out the door of his Ala-
bama clinic: one where
many don’t wear masks,
keep their distance from
others or even seem
aware of the intense strug-
gle being waged against a
virus that has cost about
140,000 lives nationwide
and made so many — in-
cluding the doctor — seri-
ously ill.
The disconnect is dev-
astating.
“It’s a mixture of emo-
tions, from anger to being
demoralized to bewilder-
ment to frustration,” Saag
said.
Confirmed cases of
COVID-19 have increased
an average of more than
1,500 a day over the past
week in Alabama, bring-
ing the total to more than
62,100 since the pandem-
ic began in March. At
least 1,230 people have
died and health officials
say fewer than 15 percent
of the state’s intensive
care beds are available for
new patients. Some hospi-
tals are completely out of
room.
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