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Former NFL star McNair killed in Tennessee 

Alcorn great 

was married 

to woman 

from Vicksburg 

By The Associated Press 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 

Former NFL quarterback 

Steve McNair was shot multiple 

times, including once 

in the head, and a pistol was 

discovered near the body of 

the 20-year-old woman found 

dead with him Saturday in a 

downtown condominium. 

Nashville police spokesman 

Don Aaron identified 

Steve McNair 

On B1 

Former teammates remember 

“Air McNair.” 

the woman as Sahel Kazemi, 

whom he called a “friend” of 

McNair’s. She had a single 

gunshot wound to the head. 

Police said the 36-year-old 

McNair was found on the 

sofa in the living room, and 

Kazemi was very close to 

him on the floor. Aaron said 

the gun was not “readily 

apparent” when police first 

arrived. 

Autopsies were planned for 

today. 

Aaron said McNair’s wife, 

Mechelle, is “very distraught.” 

Mechelle Cartwright 

McNair grew up 

in and wed McNair in 

Vicksburg. 

“At this juncture, we do 

not believe she is involved,” 

Aaron said. “Nothing has 

been ruled out, but as far as 

actively looking for a suspect 

tonight, the answer would 

See McNair, Page A11. 

The associaTed press 

Police gather outside the condominium where Steve McNair was found shot to death 

Saturday. 

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Fireworks errupt from a barge in the Yazoo Diversion Canal behind the Levee 

Street Depot Saturday night as a crowd estimated by Vicksburg Police Department 

officials of up to 9,000 people sat wherever they could to watch. Below, Desiree 

Turner watches as her mother, Judy Turner, twirls a pinwheel in her hair as her husband, 

Dennis Turner, waves an American flag. At left, Clifton Lee and Zedy Ates, 

both of Redwood, dance to the music of the Krackerjacks before the fireworks. 

By Ben Bryant 

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Independence Day revelers 

flocked to downtown 

Vicksburg on Saturday night, 

enduring humid weather to 

take in live music from the 

Greenville-based Krackerjacks 

as well as a subsequent 

fireworks show staged from a 

barge stationed in the Yazoo 

Diversion Canal. 

Vicksburg Police Sgt. 

Michael Bryant said about 

9,000 people were “in and out 

of the area.” 

The crowd included locals 

such as Clifton Lee, a Redwood 

resident soaked with 

sweat after gyrating to the 

rock standards covered by 

the Krackerjacks. 

“I’ve been dancing all my 

life,” the rail-thin 50-year-old 

said. “I think I like dancing 

more than I like eating.” 

The celebration also drew 

party-goers from other cities 

who said they were searching 

for a family-friendly environment 

for July 4th fun. 

Judy and Dennis Turner 

of Monroe were sitting with 

their daughter, Desiree, who 

was celebrating her 21st 

birthday. Judy Turner said 

that she read about the city’s 

July 4 plans online while 

looking for alternatives to 

feting Independence Day in 

Monroe. 

“We thought Vicksburg 

would be safe,” she said. 

“And it has great hotel rates.” 

The event also provided 

money-making opportunities 

for downtown businesses, 

with members of the crowd 

passing in and out of restaurants 

and bars. 

Also, members of Warren 

Central High School’s Big 

Blue marching band were 

selling cold drinks to partygoers, 

hoping to use proceeds 

to help fund a trip to New 

York in April, band director 

Alan Arendale said. 

Humid conditions prevailed 

throughout the evening, and 

the temperature stood at 85 

degrees Fahrenheit when the 

fireworks show concluded at 

about 10 p.m. 

City officials had said 

$30,000 was to be spent on the 

extravaganza. It was funded 

by the city and casinos, city 

communications manager 

Barry Graham had said. 

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Palin links resignation to ‘higher calling’ 

Alaska governor blasts media, calls in patrol for ‘party’ 

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — 

Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah 

Palin on Saturday laid the 

groundwork to take on a 

larger, national role after leaving 

state government, citing a 

“higher calling” with the aim 

of uniting the country along 

conservative lines. 

A day after surprising 

even her closest friends by 

announcing she would step 

down as Alaska governor 

more than a year before her 

term was up, the controversial 

hockey mom was still keeping 

details of her future plans 

under wrap. But in a statement 

posted on Palin’s Facebook 

account, she suggested 

that she had bigger plans and 

a national agenda she planned 

to push after she resigns at 

the end of the month. 

“I am now looking ahead and 

how we can advance this country 

together with our values of 

less government intervention, 

greater energy independence, 

stronger national security and 

much-needed fiscal restraint,” 

she said. 

Palin also cast herself as a 

victim and blasted the media, 

calling the response to her 

announcement “predictable” 

and out of touch. 

“How sad that Washington 

and the media will never 

understand; it’s about country,” 

the statement said. “And 

though it’s honorable for 

countless others to leave their 

positions for a higher calling 

and without finishing a term, 

of course we know by now, for 

some reason a different standard 

applies for the decisions 

I make.” 

Palin’s personal spokesman, 

Meghan Stapleton, confirmed 

to The Associated Press that 

the Facebook posting was 

written by the governor. 

The abruptness of her 

announcement and the mystery 

surrounding her plans 

has fed widespread speculation. 

But Palin attorney 

Thomas Van Flein on Saturday 

warned legal action may 

be taken against bloggers and 

publications that reprint what 

he calls fraudulent claims. 

“To the extent several 

Websites, most notably liberal 

Alaska blogger Shannyn 

Moore, are now claiming 

as ‘fact’ that Governor 

Palin resigned because she is 

‘under federal investigation’ 

for embezzlement or other 

criminal wrongdoing, we will 

be exploring legal options this 

week to address such defamation,” 

Van Flein said in a 

statement. “This is to provide 

notice to Ms. Moore, and those 

who re-publish the defamation, 

such as Huffington Post, 

MSNBC, the New York Times 

President Obama says Iraq will see difficult days ahead 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President 

Barack Obama warned on Saturday 

“there will be difficult days ahead” in 

Iraq and said the U.S. will remain a 

strong partner to Iraq for its security. 

Obama, speaking to military families 

at the White House for Independence 

Day festivities, praised Iraq’s 

independence and thanked troops for 

their service. Because of the courage, 

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Friday at a hastily called 

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All of her public communication 

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capability and commitment of soldiers 

who have served in Iraq, the country 

is now “taking control of its own destiny,” 

he said. 

“Iraq’s future now rests in the hands 

of its own people. As extraordinary an 

accomplishment as that is, we know 

that this transition won’t be without 

problems,” Obama said. “We know 

there will be difficult days ahead. And 

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Twitter was spreading a false 

rumor that there was to be a 

party at her suburban home 

in Wasilla, outside Anchorage. 

Palin was afraid her home 

would be mobbed, and security 

was dispatched, Murrow 

said. 

With only a few weeks before 

she steps down on July 26, and 

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell takes her 

place, the governor spent the 

Fourth of July weekend in the 

state capital, Juneau, but was 

only spotted briefly on the 

sidelines of the city’s parade. 

She had been invited to ride 

in a convertible, as she did last 

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whether she would attend. 

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Sarah Palin, right, with daughter Bristol, husband Todd, son Trig and grandson Tripp at a 

July 4th parade in Juneau, Alaska, Saturday. 

banners in case Palin showed 

and was willing to take part. 

As the last of the parade’s 

clowns and marching bands 

headed past her, Sztuk gave 

up on Palin. “What governor 

wants to be at the end of the 

parade?” she asked. 

Her low-profile and vague 

Internet messages left mounting 

questions about her plans 

for the future shrouded in mystery. 

Will she lay the groundwork 

for a 2012 presidential 

bid? Will she find a high-profile 

place in the private sector, 

maybe on the speech circuit? 

Will she drop out of the limelight 

and focus on her five 

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Her constituents, for one, 

wanted to know, especially in 

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their security and prosperity.” 

Combat troops this week withdrew 

from Iraqi cities as part of a security 

pact that calls for a full withdrawal by 

the end of 2011. 

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Juneau, where she has struggled 

to win over residents. 

“I think she owes it to Alaskans 

to tell us why,” said state 

Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, 

the son of Alaska’s first governor, 

Bill Egan. 

Egan, hosting a 50th anniversary 

statehood ceremony, 

said he was disappointed Palin 

decided not to finish out her 

term, which was scheduled to 

end in 2010. 

“It’s sad she abandoned us at 

this critical time,” said Egan, 

who was appointed by Palin to 

an open seat on the last day of 

the legislative session in April, 

after a protracted battle with 

Senate Democrats. 

Palin’s departure can’t come 

soon enough for Laurel Carlton, 

a waitress at the Capital 

Cafe in the Baranof Hotel, 

where the city’s political 

movers and shakers meet 

every morning before walking 

a few blocks to the Capitol. 

“I think she has a game plan 

that’s not Alaska, and hasn’t 

been for a while,” Carlton 

said. 

She noted Palin has a book 

deal, and seems headed for 

the national stage. 

“If you’re really not going 

to stay and do your job every 

day, you should leave anyway, 

and so the sooner the better 

so somebody can step in and 

actually do the job,” Carlton 

said. 

And as far as Carlton is concerned, 

Palin doesn’t need to 

explain why she’s leaving. 

“We don’t care. We just want 

her gone,” she said. 

Palin, whose popularity in 

Alaska has waned amid ongoing 

ethics investigations, gave 

many reasons for stepping 

down: She didn’t want to be a 

lame-duck governor; she was 

tired of the tasteless jokes 

aimed at her five children, 

including her son Trig, who 

has Down syndrome; she felt 

she could do more in another, 

still-to-be-defined role. 

Sen. John McCain didn’t rule 

out a return to politics for his 

former running mate, saying 

Saturday he believes “she will 

continue to play an important 

leadership role in the Republican 

Party and our nation.” He 

gave no other details. 

Even Parnell, who plans to 

run for re-election after finishing 

out Palin’s term, said he 

was shocked at first when he 

learned of his boss’ decision. 

“But then as she began to 

articulate her reasons, I began 

to understand better,” he 

said. “And nobody — unless 

they’ve been in her position 

and understood what she has 

gone through and dealt with 

and who she is as a person — 

really understands.” 

House South Lawn. He told the service 

members they were “the latest, 

strongest link in that unbroken chain 

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Army.” 

Speaking to service members who 

have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, 

Obama said the U.S. military has taken 

on the terror and extremism that 

threatens the world’s stability. 

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60 votes not so super for Obama, Senate Democrats 

WASHINGTON (AP) — 

Congress returns for its midsummer 

session Monday with 

a Senate supermajority not 

super enough for President 

Barack Obama’s top priorities 

to pass without Republican 

support. 

The seating of Minnesota 

Sen. Al Franken will give 

Democrats the filibuster-proof 

60-40 majority in the Senate, 

but only on paper. Absences 

by two ailing senators mean 

the party can count only 58 

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herd two independents and 

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others behind Obama’s biggest 

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Republicans are well aware 

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It’s a fragile supermajority 

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Expect the state’s notfor-profit 

hospitals to 

draw increased scrutiny 

over matters like 

executive salaries, 

assets, indigent care 

delivered and other 

financial measures 

of their economic 

health. 

Truce on hospitals 

will be lifted 

as soon as 2010 

We’re losing. 

So far this year, Vicksburg police have 

filed 270 criminal charges against juveniles. 

At today’s rate, that will be 540 

by year’s end, compared to 395 in all of 

2008 and 304 in all of 2007. 

And many of the charges aren’t for 

the prankish crimes of youth — vandalism, 

underage drinking and the like. 

This city has people born as recently as 

1993 awaiting trial for murder, armed 

robberies in which victims were pistolwhipped 

and carjacking. 

Their lives are being wasted despite 

everything — an inspirational president, 

heroic efforts by church and civic 

OUR OPINION 

Budget 

Many states in a much deeper funding hole 

People who have had the stomach to 

keep up with the Mississippi Legislature’s 

seeming dysfunction this year 

are probably in no mood to be grateful. 

There is, however, at least one reason 

they should be: It’s worse elsewhere. 

And in some cases it’s a lot worse. 

Within hours of the new fiscal year 

starting on Wednesday — and after 

the House took time for a resolution to 

honor entertainer Michael Jackson — 

Mississippi lawmakers passed almost 

all components of a $6 billion assortment 

of taxing and spending to carry 

most state functions through until June 

30, 2010. They’ll come back later and 

do the rest, including the Mississippi 

Public Service Commission, which fell 

to the cutting room floor. 

It was an unusual year, as has been 

said, because the session, which would 

normally have ended in late March or 

early April, was delayed to see how 

funding cracks could be chocked with 

federal stimulus millions. The politics 

of the situation ran amuck, too. But 

there’s nothing unusual about that. 

And in the final analysis they did get 

the job done. 

The suddenness and depth of the 

national economic slowdown hit almost 

all states hard starting last fall. With 

the flow of cash from sales, property 

and income taxes shut off, dozens of 

states that operate on dollar-in, dollarout 

budgets were suddenly in crisis. 

While Mississippi was no exception, 

it is states such as California and New 

Jersey and Florida that already had 

almost insurmountable deficits and/or 

aggressively growing social programs 

that today remain in a funding vise 

from which there is no release in sight. 

Unlike Mississippi, several states’ debt 

Teen criminals issuing a challenge 

groups and millions of dollars being 

spent to provide recreational facilities. 

Everyone wants to know why, and 

there are no quick or easy answers or 

quick or easy solutions. Poverty and 

a lack of opportunity are often used 

as excuses, but how does that explain 

charges against teens who’ve had 

plenty of advantages? 

Frankly, we’re really tired of the familiar 

lament that taxpayers aren’t doing 

enough to entertain young people so as 

to divert them from launching careers 

as criminals. Public and private programs 

are doing more than ever, but 

we’re still losing ground — and lives 

service payments are so large they’ve 

had to borrow more money to pay for 

basic services for years. 

All across America, public agencies 

are having to come to grips with 

the fact that the private sector is not 

a bottomless pit for revenue. When 

commerce slows, the effects are farreaching. 

Gov. Haley Barbour has cautioned 

the Legislature in this regard, trying to 

make sure everyone understands that 

even as the economy sputters toward a 

recovery, the nation’s economic engine 

won’t be coughing up as much tax 

money as it was. 

A lesson should be taken from California, 

now paying vendors with IOUs, 

and from states where employees may 

not get paid this month: Failing to 

stay within a state’s means is courting 

disaster. 

Mayfield in the middle as new terms start 

Civil servants, in Vicksburg limited 

to rank and file police and firefighters, 

are to receive and keep their jobs 

based solely on their ability to do the 

work. They are not to be fired, hired, 

promoted, transferred or anything else 

based on which candidates they did or 

didn’t support for elective office. Many 

think this system was designed to protect 

the civil servants, make their jobs 

“safe.” It might have that effect, but 

the real purpose is to assure the public 

that qualified people are responding to 

emergencies and investigating crimes 

— not merely somebody’s brother’s 

cousin who helped out at the polls. 

The top jobs — the bosses of the 

civil servants and, in Vicksburg, other 

municipal employees — are 100 percent 

political. 

People hired to be police chief or fire 

chief, city attorney, city judge, city 

clerk or in any number of other positions 

know going in — or should know 

— that how well they perform in their 

professional capacities will have little 

to nothing to do with whether they are 

retained when the next administration 

begins. 

In many ways, this mirrors the Cabinet 

system in federal government. 

Hillary Clinton might prove to be the 

best secretary of state the nation has 

ever had. But when President Barack 

Obama departs the White House, she 

will be replaced by the new president. 

Sometimes presidents keep in the Cabinets 

appointees of a previous administration. 

But rarely. 

Tuesday, Vicksburg’s new elected 

leaders have their first business session. 

The city’s charter directs them 

to make specific appointments and, by 

tradition, other top municipal posts are 

often filled, too. 

Much to be admired is that Mayor 

Paul Winfield has put his cards on the 

table — listing the nominations he 

plans to make. 

South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman 

responded that he doesn’t favor any 

replacements, based on his assessment 

that all of the incumbents are thoroughly 

knowledgeable and have performed 

commendably for the public. 

And that leaves North Ward Alderman 

Michael Mayfield as the man in 

the middle. It’s not a comfortable position, 

to say the least. Mayfield has 

worked daily with each of the appointees, 

and he voted to hire most if not all 

of them four years ago. 

He said he’ll be studying what to do, 

weighing his options and meeting with 

each appointee. Doubtless, he feels 

pulled in two directions. The Civil Service 

model says performance is the 

only consideration. The political model 

says those who’ve done excellent work 

have no apologies to make when their 

terms are not renewed. 

Any way he goes, Mayfield will be 

praised by some observers, disdained 

by others. Even in a small town, public 

service is no cakewalk. 

— to an epidemic of nihilism unprecedented 

in the city and nation. We must 

feel challenged by this to respond with 

more than rhetoric. 

With no apologies, we say there simply 

has to be a return to the old ways of parenting, 

where loving a child was best 

demonstrated by setting expectations 

and standards high and brooking few if 

any excuses. The best parents are those 

who provide what a child needs, not 

everything a child wants. 

As a community and as a people we 

can’t just be observers and victims as 

teen crime rises. No challenge is more 

important. 

When the proverbial white smoke 

appeared above the state Capitol on Tuesday 

and it appeared that lawmakers and 

Gov. Haley Barbour had reached a compromise 

on Medicaid to complete the state’s 

budget process, it was evident that while 

Barbour and the Mississippi Hospital Association 

had buried the political hatchet — 

the handle was still sticking up. 

The surprisingly personal political battle 

between Barbour and 

the leadership of the 

MHA over Barbour’s 

“hospital tax” lasted 

some three years. 

When I first began 

reporting on the “hospital 

tax” question in 

mid-2006, Barbour and 

the Division of Medi- 

SID 

SALTER 

caid said that the Legislature 

had known for 

years that the state’s 

Medicaid Disproportionate 

Share Hospital 

funding plan was questioned by the federal 

government. 

Both said that the public health committees 

in both houses were specifically 

advised during the 2006 regular session 

that the feds would disallow the former 

funding plan effective June 30, 2006. But 

lawmakers like respected state Rep. Cecil 

Brown, D-Jackson, disputed that claim. 

“We did not know there was a problem for 

2007,” Brown told me on July 16, 2006. “Certainly 

if we had known about this during 

the session, we would have addressed it 

somehow. It was never mentioned in the 

(2006) tobacco tax debate, which would 

have been the logical place for it to come 

up.” 

The federal Medicaid disallowance of the 

state’s former DSH funding mechanism 

left the state’s Medicaid program short 

$90 million that had previously been used 

to draw down another $270 million in federal 

matching funds, according to Division 

of Medicaid Executive Director Bob 

Robinson. 

MHA in 2006 said Medicaid and the Barbour 

administration had known prior to 

2006 that the DSH mechanism would be 

rejected. MHA president Sam Cameron 

said in 2006, and has maintained that a 

hospital tax is “taxation without representation” 

of the state’s hospitals. 

The “hospital tax” raged for three years 

between Barbour, the Division of Medicaid 

and the state Senate on one side and Cameron, 

the MHA and the House on the other. 

House leaders like Brown called the “hospital 

tax” a “tax on the sick.” 

The Barbour administration responded 

by saying that the funding assessment 

was in place prior to Barbour taking office 

in 2004 and that the basic assessment plan 

had been created and approved by the association 

in conjunction with the Division of 

Medicaid and the Legislature. 

It was from that long and bitter battle 

that a Medicaid compromise was forged 

last week at the Capitol. It’s hard to identify 

many winners from that fray. 

But one thing is certain — there are hard 

feelings on both sides. 

Expect the state’s not-for-profit hospitals 

— including North Mississippi Medical 

Center, Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, 

St. Dominic, Baptist Memorial, Rush 

and Jeff Anderson — to draw increased 

scrutiny over matters like executive salaries, 

assets, indigent care delivered and 

other financial measures of their economic 

health. 

How profitable are Mississippi’s “not-forprofit” 

hospitals? 

As the economy worsens, the answers to 

those questions may prove vital in addressing 

the next Medicaid “crisis” — one that 

if history holds will come as soon as, well, 

next year. 

• 

Sid Salter is Perspective editor of The Clarion-Ledger. 

Phone him at 601-961-7084 or e-mail ssalter@ 

clarionledger.com.


WEEK IN 

VIcKsburg 

There was actually a cool snap 

of sorts, with lows dipping into 

the mid-60s two nights during 

the week in Vicksburg. Otherwise, 

highs were all in the 90s 

and 99 degrees was recorded 

on one day. On five nights, lows 

were in the 70s. A quarter-inch 

of rain was recorded one day 

when a storm moved through. 

The Mississippi River fluctuated 

little on the Vicksburg 

gauge, starting the week at 33.4 

feet and ending at 31.4 feet. The 

forecast was for a reading of 29.7 

feet today. 

LeTourneau Technologies 

got the go-ahead to resume 

work on a third oil rig. The company 

said the decision will not 

increase employment, but it will 

provide work for those already 

on the company payroll. 

A crew of German filmmakers 

tracking the Mississippi River 

passed through town, noting one 

difference to be that Americans 

are more conversational. 

A series of signing was set by 

historian Gordon Cotton for his 

new book profiling women of 

strength during the Civil War. 

Five months after the stabbing 

death of Shawn Sponholz 

and subsequent disappearance 

of Benjamin Bearrick, who took 

Sponholz to the hospital, Warren 

County authorities divulged 

little about the progress of their 

investigation. No arrests have 

been made. 

Moving day came for Trey and 

Jennifer Smith. Still wracked 

by the May 17 loss of their two 

young sons when their home 

burned, the couple said they 

were in awe of the outpouring of 

support. 

Steady play led Eddie Buckner 

to the Vicksburg Country Club 

championship, despite a nine on 

the 13th hole. 

Dynamite sent the steel 

superstructure of the U.S. 61 

bridge over Yazoo River crashing 

down into the water below. 

The 59-year-old crossing was 

replaced by a new bridge 

erected to the west. 

Three men and two juveniles 

were arrested and charged with 

a series of vehicle break-ins. 

In a feature article, her 

daughters said Pecolia Sims, 

unable to hear or speak all her 

life and blind for the past 24 

years, still prefers to live alone. 

Numbers show 270 charges 

filed against juveniles by Vicksburg 

police at the midpoint of 

the year. On the same date in 

2008, only half as many charges 

had been filed. 

Ahead of a public ceremony, 

Paul Winfield, elected June 2, 

took the oath to become Vicksburg’s 

new mayor. At the public 

ceremony, he repeated the oath 

along with North Ward Alderman 

Michael Mayfield and 

South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman, 

who were re-elected without 

opposition. 

Meeting with Vicksburg’s 

aldermen, Mayor Paul Winfield 

said he will nominate several 

replacements for top city posts. 

Included are Charles Atkins for 

fire chief, Walter Armstrong for 

police chief, Lee Davis Thames 

Jr. for city attorney and Allen 

Derivaux for city judge. Winfield 

said he favors retaining one 

official, Walter Osborne, as city 

clerk. 

NRoute commissioners 

said they’ll seek an increase to 

$250,000 in city funds to complete 

a $816,000 budget. Fares for 

the public transit system cover 

10 percent of the cost. 

Joseph “Joe” Crevitt Jr., one 

of Warren County’s three justice 

court judges, died at 72 years of 

age. 

Director Michael Gaul said 

the E-911 Dispatch Center needs 

more money for raises and more 

staff in the coming year. He’s 

seeking $1.35 million. 

In addition to inaugural events, 

Independence Day weekend in 

Vicksburg included a series of 

musical events and fireworks at 

City Front. 

After touring the Vicksburg 

airport, Mayor Paul Winfield 

said it appears clear the city will 

need to support its continued 

operation along with Vicksburg 

Tallulah Regional in Mound. 

In addition to Judge Crevitt, 

deaths during the week included 

Audie “Sis” Davis, James 

Edward Seymour, Eloise Stewart 

Chambliss, Harvey E. Lewis, 

William H. “Red” Gerrard, 

Albert S. Johnson and Samuel 

Thomas Barnes. 

Once, there was a rebellion against arrogance 

Ever wonder how the Declaration 

of Independence might read if it were 

written by a Mississippian in 2009 as 

opposed to the vernacular of colonists 

in 1776? 

Here’s an attempt: 

• 

Every once in a while, you’ve gotta 

step back and decide what’s what. 

And if people are getting a bad deal 

from their government, they’ve got 

to do whatever it takes to start over. 

It helps to make a list of reasons. 

First, though, let’s start with the 

fact that nobody’s better than anybody 

else. We’re all born in different 

situations, but God made us all the 

same in terms of the ability to make 

up our own minds about things. 

Fact is, the main reason to have any 

government at all is to protect our 

born-in desire to run our own lives. 

Remember, a government is not 

a natural thing. It’s a people-made 

thing and the only reason to have 

government or to let government 

exist is to protect people’s born-in 

rights. 

Now if the time comes when a government 

is not assuring that people 

can make their own way without 

needless interference or— worse — 

is the source of the interference, well 

that’s got to stop. 

This isn’t light stuff. Got to think 

about it long and hard. 

On the one hand, folks can put up 

with a lot without doing anything 

drastic about it. Nobody has it easy. 

There are always problems. That’s 

the way it is, and it might even be a 

good thing. But when push comes to 

If there is a benefit to emerge from 

the recent White House report on 

climate change, it is the growing 

awareness that water scarcity may 

be one of the most serious political 

and environmental challenges 

of our time. 

The White House report, a joint 

scientific undertaking of 13 federal 

agencies, said that climate change 

is already affecting residential and 

agricultural water supplies, and 

that the impact 

of global warming 

is expected 

to become more 

severe in coming 

years. At the 

same time, population 

growth is 

placing increased 

C.T. 

cArLEY 

demands on 

water resources. 

The government 

estimates that at 

least 36 states will face water shortages 

within five years. 

As well, a recent Wall Street Journal 

article detailed the manner 

that solar power, especially in the 

desert southwest, is being slowed 

or halted by a lack of sufficient 

water supply. 

With so much of the country at 

risk, what can be done about it ? 

The solutions should come from 

the local level, rather than through 

a state or federally ordained 

system. 

High priority should go to conserving 

water and reusing and 

recycling wastewater for crop irrigation. 

Efficient drip irrigation is 

far more frugal than spray or flood 

irrigation. Increased storage in reservoirs 

would help reduce the loss 

of rainwater due to runoff. And 

the replacement of aging, leaking 

water pipes could save billions of 

gallons daily. 

But there is also a technology 

developed in the United States 

that could help meet the growing 

demand for fresh water: nuclear 

desalination. 

For more than a half a century, 

U.S. nuclear submarines have used 

reactor-powered desalination systems 

to supply potable water. The 

reactor is attached to a desalination 

unit wherein heat from the 

reactor forces water under high 

pressure through membranes in 

CHARLIE 

MITcHELL 

shove, people have to decide what’s 

more important — themselves or 

their government. It’s all about balance. 

Will we serve a government or 

will a government serve us? 

If making a list is smart, here’s the 

situation. 

• When lower levels of government 

make laws and do things that make 

sense, the highest level puts a stop 

to it. 

• The highest level of government 

continually refuses to recognize 

large groups of people unless the 

groups recognize the government’s 

authority as the only authority. 

• We are getting worn out with 

paperwork and getting the runaround 

about everything we need 

from the government only because 

the government hopes we’ll give up 

and stop asking for what we’re due. 

• If a lower level of government 

disagrees with the highest level and 

says so, the highest level just ignores 

or abolishes the lower level. Then, no 

new people are chosen for the jobs 

unless they kow-tow 100 percent to 

the highest level. 

Nuclear power also an answer 

to stable supply of clean water 

a process known as reverse osmosis 

that separates fresh water from 

salty seawater. 

Although most of the world’s 

desalination plants rely on energy 

from fossil fuels, several countries, 

including India and Japan, have 

plants that use nuclear energy to 

supply fresh water for everyday 

needs and crop irrigation. 

Pakistan is planning to use 

nuclear desalination, and countries 

in Europe, the Middle East 

and South America are considering 

it. 

Now, with growing public concern 

about global warming and the 

ramp-up in fossil fuel costs, nuclear 

power is gaining new support in 

the United States. 

Nuclear plants capable of producing 

both electricity and heat 

for desalination make the most 

sense. Several years ago, researchers 

at Argonne National Laboratory 

determined that such reactors 

— known as cogeneration 

plants — would be more economical 

for desalination than plants 

using oil or natural gas. Given the 

sharp increase in fossil fuel prices 

in recent years, nuclear cogeneration 

would be an even better deal 

today. 

Water is our most important 

natural resource. But we seem to 

have ignored the ever-increasing 

demand for water by assuming that 

supplies would always be there. 

That’s shortsighted. Water consumption 

has doubled since World 

War II, and projections show it’s 

expected to increase by 30 percent 

by 2050. 

During last year’s severe drought 

in the Southeast, a political battle 

over dwindling water supplies 

broke out between Georgia, Alabama 

and Florida. 

If we want to avoid a severe water 

crisis in coming years, then fundamental 

decisions need to be 

made now about conservation and 

increasing the supply of water with 

nuclear desalination. Otherwise 

the economic and political costs 

will be high. 

• 

C.T. Carley, a native of Vicksburg, is professor 

emeritus of mechanical engineering at 

Mississippi State University. E-mail reaches 

him at ctcarley@bellsouth.net 

‘Based on the founders’ understanding 

about what people 

are supposed to do with their 

lives and the examples they 

gave of King George being an 

obstacle, it was their duty, they 

said, to start over without him.’ 

• Judges? Either we don’t have 

them or they’re powerless or they, 

too, have to kow-tow to what the government 

wants. 

• And not just judges, but there are 

too many government agents who 

regulate anything and everything. 

Not only that, we have to pay and 

feed them to interfere with us. 

• Way too much emphasis is placed 

on police and the military, and they 

answer to the government, not the 

people. 

• There’s no end to the number of 

taxes we pay, some we know about, 

some we don’t and it’s like we have 

no say at all. 

• There’s lots of other stuff, but government 

is also constantly stirring 

the pot to divide us into groups and 

encouraging us to turn on each other 

instead of looking at the real source 

of a problem and come up with a 

straightforward solution. 

Add it all up and we’ve just had 

enough. 

We declare ourselves shed of it. 

And we mean it. 

• 

I am so proud of the citizens of 

Vicksburg. You are well on your 

way to seeing a community that 

will come together. 

I am very hopeful that Walter 

Armstrong becomes the new police 

chief. I have known Walter since 

my days of traveling to Alcorn State 

University and he patrolled U.S. 61 

South near the Natchez Trace. 

He is a very dedicated man of service 

and a Christian man, who will 

operate accordingly. I know that 

Mayor Paul Winfield and Walter, 

whom he identified as his nominee 

for chief, will serve as excellent 

administrators, as well as give guidance 

to many of the troubled youth 

in the community of Vicksburg. 

May God bless them both, their 

lovely wives and children. 

Pam Johnson 

Cedar Hill, Texas 

Editorial erroneous 

On behalf of all of us who knew 

and loved — and will always continue 

to love — Jann Terral Ferris, 

I wanted to thank you for your 

kind and loving tribute to Jann in 

The Vicksburg Post. Your words of 

praise for this remarkably gifted 

woman were unfailingly accurate 

and captured her spirit beautifully. 

As you said, she was a brilliant 

advocate for the place of the 

arts in public education, and her 

devotion to children everywhere 

and her belief in the singular and 

undeniable worth of every single 

child, made her an agent of significant 

social change in an educational 

system that is often resistant 

to change. 

Jann used her fine and beautifully 

trained intellect, her rigorous 

educational standards, her vast 

experience as a teacher, her shining 

talents as an artist and her considerable 

personal charm to melt 

that resistance from one end of the 

state to the other. She turned institutional 

hostility into public support 

and made believers of skeptics 

everywhere she went. Jann was a 

powerhouse. 

I feel compelled to say that she 

was not “...a small, quiet woman...” 

as your editorial suggested, but a 

charismatic and passionate leader. 

LETTErs TO THE EDITOr 

In 1776, colonists used words such 

as “unwarrantable” and “consanguinity” 

while declaring freedom 

from the King of England, their 

sovereign. 

Every Fourth of July since, we’ve 

celebrated them reaching the point 

of saying “enough is enough.” 

But their language is not the 

only thing that has become more 

and more unfamiliar through the 

decades. So has their reasoning. 

It was, simply, that they had no 

choice. 

It becomes “necessary,” the declaration 

says, “to dissolve the political 

bonds” at certain times. And, 

based on the founders’ understanding 

about what people are supposed 

to do with their lives and the examples 

they gave of King George being 

an obstacle, it was their duty, they 

said, to start over without him. Their 

government was both arrogant and 

wholly out of touch. It was self-serving, 

not people-serving. 

Around Independence Day there’s 

always a lot of rhetoric about the 

proper role of government. 

That we continue to think about 

that is, perhaps, the greatest legacy 

of the founders. 

What they established, simply said, 

is that the natural order is for the 

people to be in charge and anything 

else is intolerable. 

• 

Charlie Mitchell is executive editor of The 

Vicksburg Post. Write to him at Box 821668, 

Vicksburg, MS 39182, or e-mail cmitchell@ 

vicksburgpost.com. 

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She had a big brain, a gargantuan 

spirit and a generous heart. She 

filled the room with her bright presence, 

and without ever wanting to 

do so, she often made herself the 

center of attention, simply because 

people of every kind were deeply 

and instinctively drawn to her by 

the strength of her personality and 

the depth of her convictions. Jann 

was never small or quiet. She was 

always grand. 

Kos Kostmayer 

Vicksburg 

Golf course? Not really 

A Warren County Public Golf 

Course? 

Not really. 

Well, yes, it is public — but it is 

debatable whether it is really a golf 

course. 

Why continue to operate a halfhearted 

attempt when the course 

at Delhi, La., draws a crowd at comparable 

fees? If it is the perception 

that people would prefer to pay 

high fees just to play on a pasture 

near Vicksburg rather than travel 

45 minutes to a first-class venue, 

then I suppose that melds with the 

idea that Vicksburg is a great tourist 

attraction with lots of places to 

see and things to do. 

Mike Davis 

Vicksburg


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lived the experience until you’ve gone up to the crown.’ 

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New York Democrat 

NEW YORK (AP) — The 

first visitors allowed into the 

Statue of Liberty’s crown in 

nearly eight years made the 

arduous climb Saturday on 

an Independence Day journey 

laden with symbolism of freedom, 

national pride — and for 

one couple, romance. 

Aaron Weisinger, 26, got 

down on one knee on the 

crown’s small floor, pulled out 

a diamond ring and proposed 

to his girlfriend, Erica Breder. 

Stunned, Breder squeezed her 

eyes shut as tears rolled down 

her cheeks, and whispered an 

immediate yes. 

“To propose in the crown 

was perfect,” 25-year-old 

Breder said later. 

Cheering the Walnut Creek, 

Calif., couple, fellow visitors 

also felt the gravity of the 

occasion. 

“I feel the Statue of Liberty 

represents global unity, a sign 

that our world must unify,” 

said Barbara McLean, 57, of 

Atlanta. After ascending the 

total of 354 steps to the statue’s 

crown, she sang “America the 

Beautiful” — her deep voice 

resonating off the low, rounded 

ceiling of the crown’s interior 

— before fellow visitors broke 

into a hefty applause. 

“I don’t think people’s hardships 

are over when they come 

to America, but I still think 

that it is a beacon of hope.” 

she said. “Even in a difficult 

economy and in a war, still the 

dream and ideology it represents 

is beyond words.” 

The statue was closed to the 

public after the Sept. 11, 2001, 

attacks. The base, pedestal 

and outdoor observation deck 

were reopened in 2004, but the 

crown remained off-limits. 

The National Park Service 

says the crown remained 

closed because the narrow, 

double-helix staircases could 

not be safely evacuated in 

an emergency and didn’t 

comply with fire and building 

codes. Tourists often suffered 

heat exhaustion, shortness 

of breath, panic attacks, 

claustrophobia and fear of 

heights, spokesman Darren 

Boch said. 

New handrails have since 

been installed to help with the 

climb, and only 30 people per 

hour are allowed up the dark, 

narrow staircase. 

Weisinger was drenched in 

sweat as he reached the top, 

but not just because of the 

workout. He had planned for 

months to propose in a place 

full of personal significance — 

his grandparents, immigrants 

from Eastern Europe, arrived 

at nearby Ellis Island. A generation 

later, his fiancee’s parents 

also arrived in New York 

as immigrants from Eastern 

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“I was nervous on the way 

up, but I blamed it on the 

hike,” Weisinger said later. He 

and Breder, who have been 

together for three years, both 

cried after his proposal. 

Rep. Anthony Weiner, 

D-N.Y., pushed for years for 

the crown to be reopened, 

once calling the decision to 

close it off “a partial victory 

for terrorists.” 

The reopening “represents 

some personal vindication,” 

he said Saturday. 

“It’s nice to pat Lady Liberty’s 

toes. It’s nice to stand 

and breathe the air on Liberty 

Island, but you really haven’t 

lived the experience until 

you’ve gone up to the crown,” 

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LAKELAND, Fla. — A 

lightning strike at a Fourth 

of July gathering in central 

Florida killed one person and 

18 others were taken to hospitals, 

officials said Saturday. 

About 100 people from a 

church group were outside 

playing soccer and volleyball 

in Lakeland, about 30 miles 

east of Tampa, when a lightning 

bolt or series of strikes 

hit nearby, seemingly out of 

nowhere, Polk County Sheriff 

Grady Judd said. 

Benjamin Gonzalez, 30, who 

was playing soccer, was hit 

and collapsed. He was taken 

to a nearby hospital and 

pronounced dead. Eighteen 

others were hospitalized 

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scene. 

Fireworks explosion 

kills two people in N.C. 

OCRACOKE, N.C. — 

A truckload of fireworks 

exploded Saturday morning 

on a dock at a remote North 

Carolina island, killing two 

workers and critically injuring 

three others preparing 

for an Independence Day celebration, 

authorities said. 

The explosion shook homes 

and businesses and was heard 

across a village on the southern 

end of Ocracoke Island, 

which is the only inhabited 

part of the 15-mile spit of land, 

accessible only by boat. 

Dock master Robert 

Raborn noticed the workers 

unloading the truck from the 

Anchorage Marina about 200 

yards away and described 

the explosion as one of the 

loudest things he has ever 

heard. 

“It was like 40 minutes 

worth of fireworks going off 

in 4 seconds,” Raborn said. 

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were sold for the event, 

which would mark the biggest 

crowd for Bush since he 

left office in January. 

Bush spoke of the bravery 

of injured soldiers he’d met 

throughout his presidency, 

and thanked members of the 

military for their service. He 

joked with the crowd, telling 

them it was “nice of you to 

give a retired guy something 

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Celebrate Jackson’s art, 

Colin Powell says 

WASHINGTON — Colin 

Powell says Michael Jackson 

had controversy in his life, 

but in death his art should be 

celebrated. 

The retired general and former 

secretary of state said 

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Jackson’s 

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quite of my 

generation 

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‘Bring Harry home’ 

Tax help 

drawing 

filmmakers 

to Louisiana 


A honor guard of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp 1506 Sons of Confederate Veterans at the grave of Harry Warfield Coleman 

Vicksburg lad buried in foreign soil 

The gravestone shows 

its age. No mention of the 

departed’s military service 

is visible. A poem that once 

appeared is worn away. 

No matter. To Carole Heffley, 

a retired publisher 

and historian from Pennsylvania, 

the significance 

of the stone is much more 

than the letters that once 

adorned it. The stone is 

a link to a lad of 14 from 

Vicksburg who volunteered 

to serve in the Confederate 

Army. He died at the age 

of 18 in a prisoner of war 

camp. It’s a symbol of a man 

laid to rest on foreign soil. 

“I wanted to know who 

this Confederate soldier 

was and why he was buried 

in Easton, Pennsylvania,” 

Heffley said. 

Since she’s learned, Heffley 

decided she wants to 

return him home. 

Now a resident of North 

Carolina, Heffley has made 

Harry Warfield Coleman 

her historical mission. She 

SEAN MURPHY 

POST WEB EDITOR 

To help 

Anyone with knowledge 

of the Colemans of Vicksburg 

or anyone believing 

they may be descendents 

of Harry Warfield Coleman 

is asked to reach out 

to Carole Heffley. Her e- 

mail is carole2easton@yahoo.com. 

penned an article “Lt. Harry 

Warfield Coleman, CSA, 

The Lost Confederate Soldier” 

and wants to complete 

the final chapter. 

“All (Harry) knew was 

Carole Heffley speaks during a ceremony a the grave of 

Harry Warfield Coleman 

war,” Heffley said. “When 

you realize how determined 

he was for the Southern 

cause, you can’t imagine 

him being buried up North.” 

Harry W. Coleman was 

born in 1846 in Vicksburg, 

one of seven children of 

Nicholas D. Coleman and 

Lucy Marshall. He had four 

sisters and two brothers. 

His oldest brother, James 

submitted to the VicKsburG Post 

T., served in South America 

before joining the Miles 

Legion, Louisiana, at the 

outbreak of the Civil War 

in 1861. Charles and Harry 

were students at Hanover 

Academy in Virginia at the 

outset of the war. With permission 

from their father, 

Charles and Harry enlisted 

in a Virginia militia. The 

brothers likely saw action 

near Centreville, Va., on 

Dec 15, 1861. Due to either 

illness or injury, Harry 

was discharged on Jan. 

7, 1862, and four months 

later enlisted alongside his 

brother in the Miles Legion 

Louisiana. 

Charles survived the 

Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, 

but was killed in action at 

Spotsylvania Court House, 

Va., a region that saw 

more than 100,000 men fall 

between 1862 and 1864. 

At the 1863 Battle of Port 

Hudson, a lesser-known 

See Coleman, Page A10. 

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana 

lawmakers have offered 

Hollywood a gift, hoping 

that studios will continue to 

send in film crews to make 

moves and to pump money 

into the state’s economy. 

That gift? Sweetening and 

making permanent Louisiana’s 

tax credit system. 

The move was driven, at 

least in part, by fear that 

other states’ financial incentives 

would begin luring 

movie business away. And 

it came over some legislators’ 

concerns that Louisiana 

is getting into a no-end 

bidding war with moviefriendly 

states like Michigan 

and Georgia — potentially 

worsening their state 

budget woes. 

One Georgia movie producer 

called worries of a 

bidding war unfounded. 

“I don’t think it’s going to 

continue being this competitive,” 

said Scott Tigchelaar, 

president of RiverWood Studios, 

an independent film 

facility in Senoia, Ga. “You 

get to the point where it’s no 

longer fiscally responsible” 

for states. 

Louisiana’s Legislature 

approved two slightly different 

bills, though both 

propose raising the state’s 

current tax credit for movie 

makers from 25 percent to 

30 percent. 

Both would keep it at 

30 percent, eliminating a 

planned phase-down to 15 

percent in current law. 

“They’re strong bills. They 

send the right message to 

the industry — Louisiana’s 

commitment to the industry,” 

said Lampton Enochs, 

owner of Louisiana Producers, 

a Shreveport-based 

movie production firm. 

Where Gov. Bobby Jindal 

stands is unclear. Jindal 

initially supported keeping 

the credit at 25 percent and 

eliminating the phase-down 

to 15 percent. But, more 

recently, he has avoided 

specific questions about 

his support for several tax 

break bills approved by 

lawmakers. 

Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, 

a sponsor of one of the 

bills, said he expects the 

governor to veto one and 

sign the other. 

Signing either bill into law 

would reduce state tax revenue 

by $10 million a year 

beginning in the 2010-11 

fiscal year, and by $100 million 

over five years, according 

to the Legislative Fiscal 

Office. 

The legislation would 

grant movie producers a 

transferable 30 percent state 

tax credit on their expenses, 

such as catering, hotels, costumes, 

equipment, trucks 

and lighting. They get an 

additional tax break by 

hiring Louisiana workers. 

South Mississippi disappearance case is nine years cold 


LONG BEACH — A cab 

driver from Long Beach vanished 

nine years ago, leaving 

personal items in an abandoned 

taxi more than 400 

miles from his home. 

Daniel Murry Dutton was 

known to jokingly tell relatives 

his vision was so bad 

he needed to wear his eyeglasses 

to take a shower. 

Police discovered his glasses, 

checkbook and some receipts 

in his cab in July 2000 after 

the taxi was found in the 

parking lot of a hotel in Lake 

City, Fla. 

Dutton wasn’t registered 

at the hotel. To his family’s 

knowledge, he didn’t know 

anyone in Florida, wasn’t 

prone to travel great distances 

alone and had little or 

no money to make a trip. 

Police found a bent golf club 

and half a roll of duct tape in 

the trunk. 

“We found no traces of 

blood and no viable fingerprints,” 

said Long Beach 

Police Chief Wayne McDowell. 

“He just vanished. A 

person doesn’t go missing for 

nine years without popping 

up somewhere.” 

Records generated by routine 

transactions, such as a 

new driver’s license, can help 

investigators locate or track 

the movement of persons 

of interest. McDowell has 

reopened the cold-case file 

of Dutton’s disappearance 

but has found no trace of him 

since July 9, 2000. 

“I do not believe he is 

alive,” McDowell said. 

“There’s just too many 

strange things about this 

case.” 

Dutton, a Long Beach 

High School graduate, was 

28 when he went missing. 

He lived with his parents 

on Buena Vista Drive and 

worked for Yellow Cab, then 

based in Biloxi. 

Family and others have 

described Dutton as a loner 

who was quiet and spent his 

time off watching movies in 

his bedroom. His parents 

have since died. His father, 

Donald Dutton, was a retired 

oceanographer at Stennis. 

His mother, Midori Koike 

Dutton, worked at Treasure 

Bay. His younger brother, 

Dennis Dutton, had left to 

join the Army. His older 

sister, Yoko Demmons, had 

married and moved away. 

McDowell was the detective 

who took the missing-person 

report and handled the 

investigation. 

“It’s stuck in my mind,” 

McDowell said. “I’ve always 

wondered what happened to 

him.” 

Dutton had been gone nine 

days when his father filed 

a missing-person report on 

July 17, 2000. Dutton’s last 

fare was logged July 8, 2000, 

to a Gulfport address at 8:50 

p.m. His father said he last 

saw him at home around 11 

p.m. The father said he found 

a note the next morning. It 

said, “Dad, I’ll be away from 

the house for a few days. 

See Case, Page A10.


A view from the top 

Historic photos taken in and around Vicksburg are featured on Sundays in The Vicksburg Post. Many of the photos are from the J. 

Mack Moore Collection at the Old Court House Museum. Though not all photos were taken by Mr. Moore, they are part of the collection 

given to the museum by longtime Vicksburg Post managing editor Charles J. Faulk. Appropriate photos from the public will also 

be accepted and published. To submit a photo, contact Karen Gamble at 636-4545. 

Vicksburg attorney and just-retired Circuit Judge Frank 

Vollor brought in this photo of his father, W.J. “Bill” Vollor, 

standing on the back of a truck at the dedication of the 

Yazoo River bridge in 1950. The bridge, which has been 

replaced by a concrete span without a superstructure, 

Case 

Continued from Page A9. 

Dan.” 

Dutton’s mother immediately 

feared her son was 

dead, McDowell recalled. 

Dutton’s cab turned up in 

Florida at a Days Inn parking 

lot on July 13, 2000. The 

hotel called the cab company 

instead of calling Lake 

City police, McDowell said. 

The cab company called Dutton’s 

house to check on him 

and arranged to have the car 

towed to Biloxi. 

Long Beach police checked 

the cab for evidence. Items 

found in the car raised suspicions 

but don’t indicate he 

was hurt in the car. 

McDowell learned Dutton 

hadn’t accessed his checking 

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campaign for control of the 

Mississippi River near Baton 

Rouge, La., the South surrendered 

the garrison five days 

after Vicksburg fell. 

Because they were officers, 

Harry and James were 

taken prisoner. Heffley’s 

research, which took nearly 

a year, shows the men transported 

to New Orleans on the 

Steamer Zephyr on July 13, 

1863. 

James escaped on Aug. 5, 

1863, but Harry remained a 

prisoner, eventually being 

transferred to Fort Columbus 

in New York Harbor. He then 

was transferred to a POW 

camp on Johnson’s Island, 

Ohio. 

In 1865, Harry was transferred 

to Fort Delaware, 

known by prisoners as “The 

Death Pen.” The captors 

offered the Southern soldiers 

oaths of allegiance to 

the North in return for early 

release, but Harry refused. 

Harry’s brother-in-law, 

Theodore Randolph, a New 

Jersey native who lived in 

Vicksburg in the 1840s while 

pursuing business interests, 

married Harry’s sister, 

Fannie, and moved back to 

Jersey City to further pursue 

business interests. After the 

war, he served in the New 

Jersey Senate and became 

the state’s governor in 1869. 

Theodore Randolph wrote 

several letters to prominent 

judges in an effort to 

get Harry released, but with 

little effect. 

Harry fell ill on May 17, 

1865. Three days later he 

died of “inflammation of 

the lungs.” More than 2,400 

Confederate soldiers died at 

Fort Delaware and most of 

them were interred in a soldier’s 

burial ground in Salem 

County, N.J. 

Randolph’s influence 

spared Harry from an anonymous 

grave and instead 

arranged to have Harry 

taken to the family’s plot in 

Easton. Theodore Randolph’s 

father, James F., moved 

his family to Easton while 

Theodore was still living in 

Vicksburg. They purchased 

a family plot in 1855 to bury 

an infant child, Heffley’s 

research showed. 

Ten years later Harry was 

laid to rest in the same cemetery, 

though he likely had 

never been to Easton or met 

any of his in-laws, Heffley 

wrote. 

James T. Coleman survived 

the war and moved back to 

Vicksburg. He had two sons 

named after his fallen brothers, 

Charles Loyd and Harry 

Warfield. 

Heffley’s push now is to find 

any descendant of James T. 

Coleman to come forward 

and allow Harry’s remains 

to be brought back to Vicksburg 

for burial. 

Anyone with knowledge of 

the Colemans of Vicksburg, 

or anyone believing they 

may be descendents of Harry 

Warfield Coleman, is asked 

to contact Heffley. Her e-mail 

is carole2easton@yahoo.com. 

Heffley said she has no 

idea what remains of Harry. 

Embalming at the time was 

rare, but the Randolphs were 

very well off. He could be 

buried in a wooden coffin or 

a lead coffin. Likely there is 

little left besides dust and 

dirt, but her journey will 

not end until Harry is back 

home. 

“It’s nothing more than a 

family member saying, ‘Yes, 

we want the body here,’” Heffley 

said. “There is probably 

very little there, but this is 

more symbolic for me. After 

writing Harry’s story, I know 

he doesn’t want to be buried 

in Pennsylvania.” 

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McNair 


be no.” 

The bodies were discovered 

Saturday afternoon by 

McNair’s longtime friend 

Wayne Neeley, who rents the 

condo with McNair. 

Aaron said Neeley told 

authorities he went into the 

condo, saw McNair on the 

sofa and Kazemi on the floor 

but walked first into the 

kitchen before going back 

into the living room, where he 

saw the blood. 

Neeley then called a friend, 

who alerted authorities. 

Police said a witness saw 

McNair arrive at the condo 

between 1:30 and 2 a.m. Saturday 

and that Kazemi’s vehicle 

was already there. 

Two days ago, Nashville 

police arrested Kazemi on 

a DUI charge while driving 

a 2007 Escalade registered 

to her and McNair. McNair 

was in the front seat, but 

didn’t break the law and was 

allowed to leave by taxi. 

The arrest affidavit said 

Kazemi had bloodshot eyes 

and the smell of alcohol on 

her breath, but refused a 

breathalyzer test, saying “she 

was not drunk, she was high.” 

Police remained at the 

condo Saturday night after 

the bodies were removed, but 

most of the bystanders had 

gone home. 

Fred McNair, Steve McNair’s 

oldest brother, said some 

family members likely 

will travel to Nashville on 

Monday to consult with Steve 

McNair’s wife. 

“It’s still kind of hard to 

believe,” Fred McNair said in 

Mount Olive, McNair’s hometown 

and where he still owns 

a home. “He was the greatest 

person in the world. He gave 

back to the community. He 

loved kids and he wanted to 

be a role model to kids.” 

He said he did not know 

who Kazemi was. 

Fred McNair said his 

brother just finished a football 

camp for teenagers on 

June 25 in Hattiesburg. 

No funeral arrangements 

had been made. 

McNair was 36 and played 

13 seasons before retiring in 

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Judge B.J. Crevitt Jr. 

Judge B.J. “Joe” Crevitt Jr. 

died Thursday, July 2, 2009, at 

St. Dominic Jackson Memorial 

Hospital. He was 72. 

Born in Vicksburg, he was 

the son of the late Berchman 

Joseph Crevitt Sr. and Katherine 

Lowman Crevitt. He 

was a graduate of St. Aloysius 

High School, Class of 

1956, where 

he exemplified 

the 

class motto 

of “Tough as 

nails, hard as 

bricks, we are 

the Class of 

1956.” 

Judge B.J. 

He enlisted 

Crevitt Jr. 

with the 155th 

Infantry Regiment, 31st 

Infantry Dixie Division in 

October of 1954. He served 

in administrative positions 

in the Dixie Division and 

re-enlisted with the 168th 

Engineer Group in August of 

1970. Judge Crevitt retired on 

April 8, 1977, as a chief warrant 

officer with a total of 37 

years of military service. 

Judge Crevitt retired from 

Westinghouse with 25 years 

of service and was employed 

by Marathon-LeTourneau for 

three years. 

He was elected Warren 

County Justice Court judge 

for the Southern District in 

1997, a position he held at the 

time of his death. 

He was a member of the 

31st Dixie Division Military 

Group, a member of 

the Board of Trustees of 

the Yokena Water Club, a 

member of the State of Mississippi 

Justice Court Judges 

Association and other professional 

organizations. Judge 

April 2008. Aaron said authorities 

were still investigating 

the shootings and that no suspects 

were in custody. 

“I don’t have any answers 

for you now as to what’s happened, 

who’s responsible,” 

Aaron said. 

“There are persons who 

were around the complex 

today, visitors, who have been 

taken to headquarters for 

questioning, just to see what 

they know, what they may 

have seen,” he said. 

Aaron said officers went 

to the scene after receiving 

a call about injured people 

inside the condo. 

“When police officers 

arrived in response to that 

call, they found two individuals 

who had been shot to 

death inside the residence,” 

he said. 

The condominium is one 

that McNair was known to 

frequent, but police spokeswoman 

Kristin Mumford said 

she didn’t know if he was the 

owner. 

About 50 people crowded 

just beyond police tape outside 

the complex in the 

upscale Rutledge Hill neighborhood, 

some wearing 

Titans hats. The condominium 

is located within walking 

distance of an area filled with 

restaurants and nightspots, a 

few blocks from the Cumberland 

River and within view of 

the Titans’ stadium. 

In June, McNair opened a 

restaurant near the Tennessee 

State University campus. 

It was closed Saturday evening, 

but had become a small 

memorial, where flowers, 

candles and notes had been 

placed outside the door. 

On the restaurant’s windows 

were messages: “We 

will miss you Steve” and “We 

love you Steve.” 

A note attached to a small 

blue teddy bear read, “We 

will never forget you, Steve. 

Once a Titan, always a Titan.” 

McNair, a four-time Pro 

Bowler, led the Titans within 

a yard of forcing overtime in 

the 2000 Super Bowl, which 

they lost 23-16 to the St. Louis 

Rams. He also played for the 

Baltimore Ravens before 

retiring in April 2008. 

His most noted drive, the 

last one in that Super Bowl, 

Crevitt enjoyed music and 

playing the drums. He was 

an avid outdoorsman and 

traveler and a member of the 

168th National Guard Hunting 

Club. He was a member 

of Redbone United Methodist 

Church. 

He is survived by his wife, 

Sandra McMillan Crevitt 

of Vicksburg; his daughter, 

Toni Crevitt Lane and her 

husband, Tom, and a granddaughter, 

Erin; three sons, 

Marty Crevitt and his wife, 

Cindy, and a granddaughter, 

McMillan, Jeff Crevitt 

and Chris Crevitt; and other 

family members, including 

John T. Crevitt, Bernie 

and Helen Crevitt and Kim 

Dearman. 

He was preceded in death 

by a granddaughter, Nicole 

“Nikki” Crevitt; a sister, Elizabeth 

Crevitt; a brother and 

sister-in-Law, Franklin E. 

Crevitt and Edna B. Crevitt; 

and a nephew, Franklin E. 

Crevitt Jr. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. 

Monday at Riles Funeral 

Home Chapel with the Rev. 

Thomas Shreve, pastor of 

Redbone United Methodist 

Church, and the Rev. Billy 

Brumfield, pastor of Immanuel 

Baptist Church, officiating. 

Burial will be at Green 

Acres Memorial Park with 

full military honors. Visitation 

will be from noon 

Monday until the hour of the 

service. 

Pallbearers will be Pat Tustian, 

Al Blackwell, Greg Hoggatt, 

George Cronia, Joe Langlinais, 

Bill Raymond, Harold 

Youngblood and Charlie 

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Steve McNair and his new bride, Mechelle Cartwright, take 

directions during a photo session after their wedding at 

Bowmar Avenue Baptist Church in Vicksburg on June 21, 

1997. 

came when he led the Titans 

87 yards in the final minute 

and 48 seconds, only to come 

up a yard short of the tying 

touchdown. Kevin Dyson 

caught his 9-yard pass, but 

was tackled at the 1-yard line 

by the Rams’ Mike Jones. 

McNair accounted for all 

of Tennessee’s yards in that 

drive, throwing for 48 yards 

and rushing for 14. The rest of 

the yardage came on penalties 

against the Rams. Before 

that, he brought the Titans 

back from a 16-0 deficit to tie 

the game. 

“We don’t know the details, 

but it is a terrible tragedy and 

our hearts go out to the families 

involved,” NFL commissioner 

Roger Goodell said in a 

statement. 

“We are saddened and 

shocked to hear the news 

of Steve McNair’s passing 

today,” Titans owner Bud 

Adams said in a statement. 

“He was one of the finest players 

to play for our organization 

and one of the most 

beloved players by our fans. 

He played with unquestioned 

heart and leadership and 

led us to places that we had 

DEATHS 

Honorary pallbearers will 

be Sheriff Martin Pace, Judge 

Eddie Woods, Judge Richard 

Bradford, Ricky Johnson, 

Gary Olin, Cecil Geter, 

Jack Wood, Chester Day, 

Pete Buford, John Bell, Paul 

Barrett, members of the 

31st Infantry Dixie Division, 

employees of the Warren 

County Justice Court and the 

constables of Warren County. 

Memorials may be made to 

the Vicksburg Child Abuse 

Prevention Center, 1529 

Walnut St., Suite A, Vicksburg, 

MS 39180. 

Doyle M. Rogers 

Doyle M. Rogers died 

Thursday, July 2, 2009, at 

River Region Medical Center. 

He was 67. 

A native of Spring Hill, 

La., he was the son of the 

late Adren and Wallie Cox 

Rogers. He had made his 

Judge B. J. “Joe” Crevitt Jr. 

Service 

2 p.m. Monday, 

July 6, 2009 

Riles Funeral Home Chapel 

Interment 

Green Acres Memorial Park 

Visitation 

Noon Monday 

until the hour of service 

Memorials 

Vicksburg Child Abuse 

Prevention Center 

1529 Walnut Street Suite A 


Mrs. Ruth Havens 

Memorial Service 

to be held at a later date 

5000 Indiana Avenue 

601-629-0000 

www.charlesrilesfuneralhome.com 

FILe•The Vicksburg PosT 

never reached, including our 

only Super Bowl.” 

“If you were going to draw 

a football player, the physical 

part, the mental part, everything 

about being a professional, 

he is your guy,” former 

Ravens and Titans teammate 

Samari Rolle said. “I can’t 

even wrap my arms around it. 

It is a sad, sad day. The world 

lost a great man today.” 

McNair became a nationally 

known college football star 

playing for Alcorn State University 

in Lorman, a Division 

I-AA school. His performance 

in the Southwestern Athletic 

Conference was so dominant, 

he became a Heisman Trophy 

contender and national media 

flocked to the schoo to get 

look at “Air McNair.” He still 

holds the Division I-AA (now 

known as Football Championship 

Subdivision) records for 

career yards passing (14,496) 

and total offense (16,823). 

McNair began his NFL 

career in 1995 with the Houston 

Oilers, who eventually 

became the Titans, and finished 

with 31,304 yards passing 

and 174 touchdowns. 

McNair played with pain for 

home in Redwood for some 

50 years. 

Mr. Rogers was an avid 

hunter and fisherman and 

loving grandfather. 

He retired from International 

Paper Company with 

some 33 years of service. 

Mr. Rogers was a member 

of the First Baptist Church in 

Natchez. 

He is survived by his wife, 

Bobbie Rogers of Vicksburg; 

son Kyle and wife Beth 

Rogers of Baton Rouge, La.; 

daughters Adrianne and 

husband Olivier Poulard of 

Atlanta, Ga., Babbette and 

husband Jeff Skipper of 

Vicksburg; six grandchildren, 

Hayden Skipper, Cameron 

Rogers, Kylie Rogers, 

Lola Rogers, Adren Poulard, 

Camille Poulard, closest 

friends Butch Cross and 

Thomas Sanderford. 

Funeral services will be 10 

a.m. Monday, July 6, 2009, at 

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several years, and the injuries 

ultimately forced him to 

retire. 

“On the field, there isn’t 

player that was as tough as 

him, especially at the quarterback 

position,” the Ravens’ 

Derrick Mason said. “What I 

have seen him play through 

on the field, and what he dealt 

with during the week to get 

ready for a game, I have never 

known a better teammate.” 

During a five-game stretch 

at the end of the 2002 season, 

McNair was so bruised he 

couldn’t practice. But he 

started all five games and 

won them, leading the Titans 

to an 11-5 finish and a berth in 

the AFC championship game 

for the second time in four 

seasons. 

McNair played all 16 games 

in 2006, his first season in 

Baltimore, and guided the 

Ravens to a 13-3 record. But 

he injured his groin during 

the season opener last season 

and never regained the form 

that put him in those Pro 

Bowls. 

“I am deeply saddened to 

learn of today’s tragic news 

regarding the death of Steve 

McNair. He was a player 

who I admired a great deal,” 

said New England Patriots 

senior football adviser Floyd 

Reese, who was GM of the 

Titans when McNair played 

for them. “He was a tremendous 

leader and an absolute 

warrior. He felt like it was 

his responsibility to lead by 

working hard every day, no 

matter what.” 

Titans coach Jeff Fisher was 

out of the country, taking part 

in the first NFL-USO coaches 

tour to Iraq. 

Ozzie Newsome, Ravens 

executive vice president 

and general manager, said 

he immediately thought of 

McNair’s four sons. 

“This is so, so sad. We 

immediately think of his 

family, his boys. They are all 

in our thoughts and prayers,” 

he said “What we admired 

most about Steve when we 

played against him was his 

competitive spirit, and we 

were lucky enough to have 

that with us for two years. 

He is one of the best players 

in the NFL over the last 20 

years.” 

Fisher Funeral Home Chapel 

with the Rev. Brian Ivey officiating. 

Burial will follow at 

Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

Pallbearers will be Todd 

Huskey, Robert Geoghagan, 

Jerry Walsh, Trace Cross, 

Gary Hinson, Thomas Sanderford, 

Allen Hathaway and 

David Jefferies. 

Honorary pallbearers will 

be Jeff Harrell, John Elfer, 

Ray McLaurin, Raymond 

Baker, Ben Blansett and 

Hosie Thomas. 

Visitation will be 3 to 5 p.m. 

Sunday at Fisher Funeral 

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July 6, 2009 

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Green Acres Memorial Park 

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10 a.m. Tuesday, 

July 7, 2009 

St. Michael Catholic Church 

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Cedar Hill Cemetery 

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BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST 

BARBIE BASSSETT 

TODAY 

94° 

TONIGHT 

72° 

Chances for showers and 

thunderstorms — some severe 

— move into the area 

today and linger through 

the entire week. 

WEATHER 

This weather package is 

compiled from historical 

records and information 

provided by the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, the 

City of Vicksburg and The 

Associated Press. 

LOCAL FORECAST 

monday-tuesday 

Partly cloudy Monday 

with a chance of showers 

and thunderstorms; partly 

cloudy Tuesday with highs 

in the lower 90s 

STATE FORECAST 

tonIGHt 

Mostly cloudy with severe 

thunderstorms possible 

in the evening; lows in the 

lower 70s 

monday-tuesday 

Partly cloudy Monday 

with a chance of showers 

and thunderstorms; partly 

cloudy Tuesday with highs 

in the lower 90s 

ALmAnAC 

HIGHs and Lows 

High/past 24 hours............N/A 

Low/past 24 hours .............N/A 

Average temperature .......N/A 

Normal this date .................. 82º 

Record low .............61º in 1968 

Record high ...........99º in 1978 

RaInfaLL 

Recorded at the 

Vicksburg Water Plant 

Past 24 hours .....................None 

This month .........................None 

Total/year ............. 25.79 inches 

Normal/month ......... 0.52 inch 

Normal/year ....... 30.51 inches 

soLunaR tabLe 

Most active times for fish 

and wildlife Monday: 

A.M. Active ........................... 4:42 

A.M. Most active ..............10:55 

P.M. Active ............................ 5:07 

P.M. Most active ...............11:20 

sunRIse/sunset 

Sunset today ....................... 8:11 

Sunset tomorrow .............. 8:11 

Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:01 

RIVER DATA 

staGes 

Mississippi River 

at Vicksburg 

Current: 30.5 | Change: -0.9 

Flood: 43 feet 

Yazoo River at Greenwood 



Yazoo River at Yazoo City 



Yazoo River at Belzoni 

Current: 16.4 | Change: None 


Big Black River at West 



Big Black River at Bovina 

Current: 7.0 | Change: None 


steeLe bayou 

Land ...................................77.8 

River ...................................77.6 

mISSISSIPPI RIVER 

FORECAST 

Cairo, Ill. 

Monday ................................. 21.3 

Tuesday ................................. 20.8 

Wednesday .......................... 20.1 

Arkansas City 

Monday ................................. 18.8 

Tuesday ................................. 17.0 

Wednesday .......................... 15.0 

Greenville 

Monday ................................. 30.7 

Tuesday ................................. 29.0 

Wednesday .......................... 27.5 

Vicksburg 

Monday ................................. 28.9 

Tuesday ................................. 27.7 

Wednesday .......................... 26.0


Marines march in grueling Afghan sun for July 4 

NAWA, Afghanistan (AP) 

— Taliban militants were 

nowhere in sight as the columns 

of U.S. Marines walked 

a third straight day across 

southern Afghanistan. But the 

desert heat proved an enemy 

in its own right, with several 

troops falling victim Saturday 

to temperatures topping 100 

degrees Fahrenheit. 

The Marines carry 50-100 

pounds (23-45 kilograms) on 

their backs. But because they 

are marching through farmland 

on foot, they can’t carry 

nearly as much water as their 

thirst demands. 

Few even realized the date 

was July 4, but once word of 

the holiday spread through 

the company, several said they 

knew relatives would be holding 

lakeside celebrations — a 

world away from the strenuous 

task Bravo Company of 

the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine 


A U.S. Marine walks through some of the rare vegetation 

at Helmand. 

Regiment was taking on. 

“Happy 4th of July, dawg. 

Happy America,” said Lance 

Corp. Vince Morales, 21, of 

Baytown, Texas, said to one 

of his Marine buddies while 

resting during a break. 

Some Marines ate watermelon 

from a farmer’s field as 

the evening sun set, but there 

were few other signs of a holiday 

celebration here. 

Some 4,000 Marines are 

moving through southern 

Helmand to take back Taliban-held 

territory and pinch 

the insurgents’ supply lines. 

Bravo Company has seen a 

lot of walking but up to now 

little fighting, though other 

Marines in the operation have 

had extended battles. 

So far, the worst danger 

facing Bravo is the heat. Temperatures 

are well above 100 

degrees (37.8 Celsius), and 

medics treated several heat 

casualties Saturday. 

“When (body) temperature 

goes up past 104 (40 Celsius), 

your brain starts cooking, 

and that’s what we’re trying 

to prevent,” said Simon Trujillo, 

an HM3 Navy Medic from 

Dallas. 

The high heat, heavy packs, 

limited water and three 

straight days of walking 

through tough farmland terrain 

were taking a toll, he said. 

Several Marines threw up or 

were dry-heaving from the 

heat. Three passed out, and 

other Marines rushed to share 

the weight and pour water on 

overheated bodies. 

One cruel irony: A helicopter 

dropped off a load of water to 

the Marines early Saturday, 

but because they hadn’t yet 

reached their final destination, 

they took only what they 

could carry and left hundreds 

of bottles behind for Afghan 

villagers to drink. 

The sun in southern Helmand 

is blazing by 8 a.m., and 

the troops seek out any sliver 

of shade available. Trees grow 

along the manmade water 

canals the farmers use to survive, 

but there is little relief. 

Sweat pours off faces as 

Marines shift heavy weapons 

from shoulder to the other. 

“It’d be so great if we took 

contact. We’d lose so much 

weight,” said Lance Corp. 

Michael Estrada, 20, of Los 

Angeles. 

Soldier in 

pink boxers 

back home 

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) 

— The soldier who was photographed 

fighting the Taliban 

in his pink boxer shorts 

said Saturday he was glad to 

be back home in Texas after 

his yearlong deployment to 

Afghanistan — especially for 

the Fourth of July. 

Specialist Zachary Boyd said 

he initially thought he’d get 

in trouble after an Associated 

Press photo first transmitted 

in May showed him with other 

soldiers behind sandbags 

wearing his “I love NY” boxers 

— plus flip-flops, a helmet and 

a bulletproof vest. 

The Fort Worth soldier 

jumped up from a nap when 

his unit came under fire. 

“Every second counts,” he 

said. 


U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, left, and Russia first lady 

Svetlana Medvedev 

Michelle Obama’s glamour 

might face Russia challenge 

MOSCOW (AP) — Michelle 

Obama brings her superstar 

glamour to Moscow this weekend 

as she accompanies her 

husband on his summit with 

the Russian president. 

But the American first lady, 

who has wowed publics in the 

U.S. and Europe with her easy 

elegance and charm, will perhaps 

face a bigger challenge 

in winning over a Russian 

public that has scant respect 

for women who grab the limelight 

from their powerful 

husbands. 

In a country where a presidential 

candidate once 

quipped he’d sooner pack 

his wife off to a convent than 

allow her to dabble in politics, 

Russia still has trouble with 

the concept of an empowered 

woman behind the throne. 

“The institution of first lady 

in Russia is still quite young,” 

said Alyona Doletskaya, editor 

of Russian Vogue and doyenne 

of the Moscow fashion scene. 

“So there are no huge expectations 

on the part of Russian 

public.” 

Russian President Dmitry 

Medvedev’s wife, Svetlana, is 

pious and discreet and met 

her husband while she was 

a schoolgirl. She supports 

charity and the arts, but has 

assumed no independent voice 

on issues facing the country. 

She dresses conservatively, 

lacking the edgy fashion sense 

that has attracted a nationwide 

following for Michelle 

Obama. 

Russia has known one iconic 

first lady in modern times: 

Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the 

last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, 

who was much loved 

around the world for breaking 

with tradition by appearing 

regularly in public with 

her husband, embracing high 

fashion and firing off wisecracks 

during official foreign 

trips. 

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SPORTS 

sunDAY, julY 5, 2009 • SECTION B 

PUZZLES B11 

Steve Wilson, sports editor | E-mail: sports@vicksburgpost.com | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 142 

SCHEDULE 

ALL-STAR GAMES 

MAC basketball 

July 11, 1 p.m. 

at Miss. College 

Bernard Blackwell 

football 

July 16, 7 p.m. 

at Miss. College 

ON TV 

Noon TBS - Find out who 

will be playing in the Major 

League Baseball All-Star 

Game in St. Louis on July 

14 as 32 of the 33 players 

voted on by the fans will 

be revealed today. 

WHO’S HOT 

CONDREA COLLINS 

Warren 

Central 

track star 

won the 

age 15-19 

group in 

the 5k Watermelon 

Classic on 

Saturday with a time of 

21:05. 

SIDELINES 

Woods, Kim tied for 

lead at Congressional 

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — 

Anthony Kim finally gets a 

crack at Tiger Woods, and 

when he says he has been 

practicing for a moment 

like this all his life, Kim isn’t 

kidding. 

As a 10-year-old growing 

up in Los Angeles, in 

those final hours of twilight 

as he waited for his 

father to pick up from the 

golf course, Kim imagined 

he was in the final pairing 

with Woods and had a 10- 

foot putt for the victory, 

with the world’s No. 1 player 

watching. 

“Man, they were going in 

a lot,” Kim said, laughing. 

He can only hope fantasy 

meets reality Sunday in the 

AT&T National. 

Kim kept his cool after 

a couple of blunders at 

Congressional, saving par 

from 84 yards with a creative 

chip he had been too 

scared to try in competition, 

then making birdie on 

the 16th that led to a 2-under 

68 and his name atop 

the leaderboard. 

Woods, having lost a 

three-shot lead in a span 

of two holes with a double 

bogey on the 11th, found 

one last birdie with a putt 

up the slope of the 16th 

green to tap-in range that 

allowed him to salvage a 

roller-coaster round at 70. 

That gave him a share of 

the lead with Kim at 10-under 

210, and gave Congressional 

a Sunday showdown 

a bustling gallery has been 

craving since the tournament 

began Thursday. 

Woods is tournament 

host. Kim is the defending 

champion. 

Woods is the guy who 

made golf cool, a multiracial 

talent who shattered 

records during his rise to 

No. 1. Kim is perfecting 

cool, a bundle of energy at 

24 who practices with music 

blaring from his iPod. 

They are separated by 

just under 10 years, but 

this generation gap seems 

wider than that. Woods 

also grew up in Southern 

California. 

LOTTERY 

La. Pick 3: 0-7-0 

La. Pick 4: 4-2-0-4 

Easy 5: 5-8-14-17-19 

La. Lotto: 1-2-31-33-24-6 

Powerball: 4-9-22-41-44 

Powerball: 14; Power play: 3 

Weekly results: B2 

Stewart wins at Daytona 

By Jenna Fryer 

AP auto racing writer 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. 

— Tony Stewart led lap after 

lap around Daytona International 

Speedway, using 

a flawless pit-road performance 

to inch closer to his 

second win as owner of his 

race team. 

Then Kyle Busch slid outside 

in a last-lap bid to snatch 

the victory away from his 

former teammate. 

The frantic 2.5-mile chase 

Saturday night led to a violent 

wreck that sent Busch 

sailing into the wall while 

Stewart skirted by for a 

somber victory. 

Stewart celebrated Saturday 

night with a bit of 

heartache. 

Busch left the speedway 

with a definite headache. 

Just another wild restrictor-plate 

finish for NASCAR, 

Passing of a legend 

By Jeff Byrd 

and Steve Wilson 

sports@vicksburgpost.com 

The sudden death of 

former National Football 

League All-Pro quarterback 

Steve McNair has left not 

only his friends and family 

shocked but also his former 

Alcorn State University 

teammates. 

McNair, 36, was found dead 

of a gunshot wound to the 

head at a Nashville condominium 

Saturday afternoon 

by Nashville police. 

The body of an unidentified 

woman was found with 

McNair’s. 

Current Madison Parish 

football coach Toriano 

Wells, who played with 

McNair for two seasons 

at Alcorn, was like many 

shocked and distressed by 

McNair’s death. 

“It’s a pretty sad situation. 

I played with him for 

two years at Alcorn State. 

I got the news from two 

of my Alcorn teammates, 

Calvin Robinson and Derek 

Mason,” said Wells, who 

was finishing up a clinic put 

on by the Louisiana Coaches 

Association. 

“Right now, we’re just 

trying to offer condolences 

to the family and the Alcorn 

family. That... and just trying 

to figure out what happened. 

The biggest thing is trying 

to help out Steve’s family as 

much as possible.” 

Wells, who played his 

high school ball at Vicksburg 

High School and then 

later coached under coach 

Alonzo Stevens for three 

seasons before taking the 

head coaching job at Madison 

Parish, fondly remembers 

McNair’s impact at 

Alcorn State. 

“I’ll remember his work 

ethic the most,” said Wells, 

who played cornerback for 

the Braves from 1992 until 

1997. “Every game, Steve 

gave it everything he had. 

He was also a great people 

person. 

“This is so shocking, you 

just can’t believe it. You’re 

trying to sift through all the 

information and see who’s 

heard anything,” Wells said. 

Port Gibson assistant principal 

and football coach 

Lynn Lang, who played with 

McNair in 1992 and 1993, 

remembered McNair as the 

man who put Alcorn on the 

map. McNair led Alcorn to a 

which is still smarting from 

April’s frightening crash at 

Talladega Superspeedway, 

where Carl Edwards went 

airborne into the fence on 

the final lap in a similar lastlap 

crash. 

“That’s not the way I 

wanted to do it,” said Stewart, 

who won the summer 

Daytona race for the third 

time in five years. 

Stewart usually takes every 

win any way he can. But 

after wrecking Busch in the 

frantic finish, he wasn’t in 

the mood to gloat. 

Busch passed Stewart right 

before the final lap to take 

the lead, but Stewart chased 

him down and calculated his 

next move. He closed in on 

Busch’s bumper, and slight 

contact sent Busch drifting 

up the track. 

Busch slid back down to 

maintain his lead, then tried 

to slide in front of Stewart to 

ThE aSSociaTEd PrESS 

Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair rolls out of the pocket during the second 

quarter against the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta on Jan. 30, 2000. 

McNair was 36 and retired in April 2008. 

nfl 

Southwest Athletic Conference 

title in 1992. 

“He was Alcorn,” Lang 

said. “He meant everything 

to Alcorn. The biggest thing 

I’ll remember about him 

is that he was a true professional. 

No matter how 

injured he was, when the 

lights came on, you couldn’t 

tell. 

“He was one of the superstars 

you could touch. A lot 

of athletes lose touch, but he 

never lost sight of his roots. 

He had such an approachable 

attitude and demeanor. 

He was just one of the guys.” 

Alcorn State sports information 

director Latoya 

Shields issued this statement 

from the university. 

“His collegiate career 

was one that exemplified 

the heart and spirit of an 

Alcornite. In his 13-year 

block Stewart’s next move. 

The cars were too close 

together and Stewart hooked 

Busch’s right corner to send 

Busch sailing into the wall. 

It triggered a multiple 

crash behind them, but 

Stewart sailed through for 

his second points win of the 

season. 

“I went where I had to go, 

and he went where he had to 

go,” Stewart said. “You hate 

seeing a guy that’s been up 

front all day, especially a guy 

that’s helped me the whole 

race, wreck like that. You’re 

kind of forced in that position. 

But I made my move 

to the outside and he went 

to block us and we were 

already there.” 

Jimmie Johnson was 

second, followed by Denny 

Hamlin, Busch’s teammate. 

Edwards was fourth, and 

Kurt Busch finished fifth. 

Marcos Ambrose was sixth. 

Former teammates react to McNair’s death 

Reaction to 

McNair’s death 

Comments on the death 

of former NFL quarterback 

Steve McNair on Saturday: 

“He was one of the finest 

players to play for our organization 

and one of the 

most beloved players by 

our fans. He played with 

unquestioned heart and 

leadership and led us to 

places that we had never 

reached, including our only 

Super Bowl.” —Titans owner 

Bud Adams. 

NFL career, he proved to be 

a professional and a great 

leader on the field as well as 

a contributor to the community 

off of the field. 

“While his on-the-field 

exploits will always be 

remembered, his passion for 

the game and life will never 

be forgotten. Our thoughts 

ThE aSSociaTEd PrESS 

Tony Stewart is covered in confetti as he celebrates in victory 

lane after winning the Coke Zero 400 race at Daytona 

International Speedway on Saturday. 

“This is so, so sad. What we 

admired most about Steve 

when we played against 

him was his competitive 

spirit, and we were lucky 

enough to have that with 

us for two years. ” —Baltimore 

Ravens general 

manager Ozzie Newsome. 

“There wasn’t a tougher 

quarterback out there. I’ve 

seen him take his shots, pull 

himself up off the ground 

and get back up in the 

huddle and not say a word.” 

—Former Tennessee wide 

receiver Kevin Dyson. 

—The Associated Press 

TENNIS 

Serena, left, and Venus Williams 

celebrate after defeating 

Samantha Stosur and 

Rennae Stubbs in the women’s 

doubles final on the 

Centre Court at Wimbledon 

on Saturday. 

Serena 

scores 

pair of 

crowns 


WIMBLEDON, England — 

Serena Williams won a pair 

of Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon 

on Saturday, just like 

her sister Venus did last year. 

Serena added the women’s 

doubles title to her take at 

this year’s tournament, teaming 

with big sister Venus 

to beat Rennae Stubbs and 

Samantha Stosur of Australia 

7-6 (4), 6-4. It’s their fourth 

Wimbledon title together, 

part of their haul of nine 

Grand Slam women’s doubles 

championships. 

“There’s nothing like winning 

a title with your sister,” 

said Serena, who has won 

11 major singles titles. “It’s 

really a good feeling.” 

Earlier Saturday on Centre 

Court, Serena beat Venus 7-6 

(3), 6-2 in singles to win her 

third Wimbledon title — she 

beat her older sister in each 

final. 

A year ago, Venus beat 

Serena in the championship 

match to win her fifth Wimbledon 

singles title, and the 

pair then teamed up to win 

the doubles. 

“One out of two’s not bad,” 

Venus said. “I really wanted 

to win the singles, but 

they’re two separate events. 

If I won the singles and not 

See McNair, Page B3. See Wimbledon, Page B3.

B2 Sunday, July 5, 2009 The Vicksburg Post 

on tv 


AUTO RACING 

Noon ABC - IRL, Camping World 

Grand Prix 

AVP VOLLEYBALL 

3:30 p.m. NBC - Coney Island Open 

CYCLING 

7:30 a.m. Versus - Tour de France 

Noon Versus - Tour de France (tape) 

7 p.m. Versus - Tour de France (tape) 

GOLF 

7 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, 

Open de France 

Noon TGC - PGA Tour, AT&T National 

2 p.m. CBS - PGA Tour, AT&T National 

3 p.m. ESPN2 - LPGA, Jamie Farr 

Classic 

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 

Noon TBS - All-Star Game Selection 

Show 

1 p.m. TBS - Milwaukee at Chicago 

Cubs 

1 p.m. WGN - Chicago White Sox at 

Kansas City 

7 p.m. ESPN - Tampa Bay at Texas 

MOTORSPORTS 

4 p.m. FOX - MotoGP World 

Championship(tape) 

12 Mid. Speed - AMA Pro Racing 

(tape) 

TENNIS 

8 a.m. NBC - Wimbledon Championships, 

men’s championship match 

(live and tape) 

sidelines 

from staff & AP reports 

cycling 

Cancellara wins 

Tour’s 1st stage 

MONACO — Lance Armstrong 

put in a solid performance in his 

comeback at the Tour de France on 

Saturday, finishing the first stage 

ahead of 170 riders many years 

younger and a respectable 10th 

behind winner Fabian Cancellara. 

Armstrong’s Astana team was 

dominant in the time trial through 

the hills and hairpin turns of 

Monaco, led by the cyclist who 

would be his heir as Tour titan — 

Alberto Contador of Spain. 

The Texan, who has a record 

seven Tour victories, is making his 

return to cycling’s showcase event 

after ending a 3 1/2-year retirement 

this winter. The 37-year-old Armstrong, 

one of the oldest riders in 

the pack, had a chance to test out 

his legs and state of mind. 

“I was nervous, I was excited, and 

trying to focus on doing the right 

race specifically in terms of starting 

easy and finishing good,” he said. 

“When I finished, I was tired — 

yeah, it was a hard race.” 

Cancellara took the yellow jersey 

by finishing the 9.6-mile time trial 

in 19 minutes, 32 seconds — 18 seconds 

ahead of Contador, the 2007 

Tour winner. 

“I didn’t expect to win or to take 

the jersey. I didn’t expect a super, 

super performance,” Armstrong 

said. 

The race against the clock, in 

which riders set off one by one, 

offered an early shakeout about 

the potential contenders to win the 

three-week cycling showcase. 

Contador was forced to sit out last 

year because of doping problems at 

Astana before he joined. He is a far 

better climber than Cancellara, and 

the Pyrenees loom in Stage 7. 

NBA 

Turkoglu headed 

to Toronto Raptors 

TORONTO — Free agent Hedo 

Turkoglu will join the Toronto Raptors 

after spurning the Portland 

Trail Blazers, according to multiple 

reports. 

The 6-foot-10 forward helped 

Orlando to the NBA finals last 

season. 

flashback 


July 5 

1947 — Larry Doby becomes the 

first black to play in the American 

League. He strikes out as a pinchhitter 

for the Cleveland Indians in a 

6-5 loss to the Chicago White Sox. 

1968 — The Philadelphia 76ers 

trade Wilt Chamberlain, basketball’s 

greatest offensive player, to 

the Los Angeles Lakers after they 

are unable to sign him to a contract. 

1993 — Rickey Henderson of 

the Oakland Athletics opens both 

games of a doubleheader with a 

homer to become the first player to 

accomplish the feat in 60 years. 

1997 — Martina Hingis, 16, 

becomes the youngest player to 

win Wimbledon since 1887. Hingis 

comes back for a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory 

over Jana Novotna. 

SCOREBOARD 

baseball 

American League 

East Division 

W L Pct GB 

Boston...........................48 32 .600 — 

New York......................47 33 .588 1 

Tampa Bay...................44 37 .543 4 1/2 

Toronto..........................42 40 .512 7 

Baltimore.......................36 44 .450 12 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Detroit............................44 36 .550 — 

Chicago.........................42 39 .519 2 1/2 

Minnesota......................42 40 .512 3 

Kansas City...................34 46 .425 10 

Cleveland......................33 49 .402 12 

West Division 

W L Pct GB 

Los Angeles..................43 35 .551 — 

Texas............................43 35 .551 — 

Seattle...........................42 38 .525 2 

Oakland.........................33 46 .418 10 1/2 

——— 

Saturday’s Games 

Seattle 3, Boston 2 

N.Y. Yankees 6, Toronto 5, 12 innings 

Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 4 

Minnesota 4, Detroit 3 

Cleveland 5, Oakland 2 

Tampa Bay at Texas, (n) 

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, (n) 

Today’s Games 

Oakland (G.Gonzalez 0-2) at Cleveland (Cl.Lee 

4-7), 12:05 p.m. 

Toronto (Cecil 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Chamberlain 

4-2), 12:05 p.m. 

Seattle (Morrow 0-3) at Boston (Lester 7-6), 12:35 

p.m. 

Chicago White Sox (Richard 3-1) at Kansas City 

(Bannister 5-6), 1:10 p.m. 

Detroit (Porcello 8-5) at Minnesota (Blackburn 6-4), 

1:10 p.m. 

Baltimore (R.Hill 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Saunders 

8-5), 2:35 p.m. 

Tampa Bay (Garza 6-5) at Texas (Feldman 6-2), 

7:05 p.m. 

Monday’s Games 

Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 p.m. 

Kansas City at Detroit, 6:05 p.m. 

Oakland at Boston, 6:10 p.m. 

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. 

Baltimore at Seattle, 9:10 p.m. 

National League 

East Division 

W L Pct GB 

Philadelphia...................41 37 .526 — 

Florida...........................42 40 .512 1 

Atlanta...........................39 41 .488 3 

New York......................39 41 .488 3 

Washington...................23 55 .295 18 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Milwaukee.....................43 38 .531 — 

St. Louis........................44 39 .530 — 

Cincinnati......................40 39 .506 2 

Chicago.........................39 39 .500 2 1/2 

Houston.........................38 41 .481 4 

Pittsburgh......................37 44 .457 6 

West Division 

W L Pct GB 

Los Angeles..................51 30 .630 — 

San Francisco...............44 36 .550 6 1/2 

Colorado........................42 37 .532 8 

San Diego.....................35 45 .438 15 1/2 

Arizona..........................31 49 .388 19 1/2 

——— 


Washington 5, Atlanta 3 

Milwaukee 11, Chicago Cubs 2 

Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 2 

San Francisco 9, Houston 0 

San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers 4 

Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Mets 1 

Florida 5, Pittsburgh 3 

Arizona at Colorado, (n) 


Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 7-6) at Florida (Nolasco 5-6), 

12:10 p.m. 

St. Louis (C.Carpenter 5-3) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 

8-7), 12:10 p.m. 

Atlanta (D.Lowe 7-6) at Washington (Olsen 1-4), 

12:35 p.m. 

N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 9-6) at Philadelphia (Blanton 

4-4), 12:35 p.m. 

Milwaukee (Burns 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lilly 7-6), 

1:20 p.m. 

Arizona (Haren 7-5) at Colorado (Jimenez 6-7), 

2:10 p.m. 

Houston (Oswalt 4-4) at San Francisco (Ra.Johnson 

8-5), 3:05 p.m. 

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 9-4) at San Diego (Banks 

1-0), 3:05 p.m. 


Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m. 

Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m. 

Pittsburgh at Houston, 7:05 p.m. 

Washington at Colorado, 7:40 p.m. 

San Diego at Arizona, 8:40 p.m. 

Florida at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m. 

REDS 5, CARDINALS 2 

St. Louis 

Cincinnati 

ab r h bi 

ab r h bi 

Schmkr lf 4 0 2 0 Dickrsn lf 4 0 1 0 

Rasms cf 3 1 1 1 Tavers cf 5 1 3 0 

Ludwck rf 1 0 1 0 Votto 1b 4 1 2 2 

Pujols 1b 3 1 1 0 BPhllps 2b 3 2 1 0 

Duncan lf 2 0 0 0 Bruce rf 4 0 1 0 

BrRyan 2b 1 0 1 0 Encrnc 3b 4 0 0 0 

Ankiel cf 4 0 0 0 Hrstn ss 4 0 1 1 

YMolin c 4 0 1 0 RHrndz c 4 0 1 0 

Thurstn 3b 3 0 1 0 Owings p 3 1 1 1 

Hwksw p 0 0 0 0 Herrer p 0 0 0 0 

TMiller p 0 0 0 0 Masset p 0 0 0 0 

LaRue ph 1 0 0 0 Rhodes p 0 0 0 0 

BThmp p 1 0 0 0 L.Nix ph 1 0 1 0 

JHoffpr 3b 2 0 0 0 Corder p 0 0 0 0 

TGreen ss 4 0 0 0 

Totals 33 2 8 1 Totals 36 5 12 4 

St. Louis...................................100 001 000 — 2 

Cincinnati.................................111 020 00x — 5 

E—Y.Molina (2), T.Greene (4). DP—St. Louis 

1. LOB—St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 9. 2B—Hairston 

Jr. (12), L.Nix (19). 3B—Votto (1). HR—Rasmus 

(9), Votto (10), Owings (3). SB—Taveras (16). 

CS—Br.Ryan (4). S—B.Thompson. 

IP H R ER BB SO 

St. Louis 

B.Thompson L,2-5 5 9 5 4 2 4 

Hawksworth 2 1-3 3 0 0 0 0 

T.Miller 2-3 0 0 0 0 1 

Cincinnati 

Owings W,6-8 6 2-3 6 2 2 2 6 

Herrera 0 1 0 0 0 0 

Masset H,7 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 

Rhodes H,15 1 1 0 0 0 0 

Cordero S,20-21 1 0 0 0 0 1 

Herrera pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. 

Umpires—Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Jim 

Wolf; Second, Brian O’Nora; Third, Fieldin Culbreth. 

T—2:39. A—37,371 (42,319). 

NATIONALS 5, BRAVES 3 

Atlanta 

Washington 

ab r h bi 

ab r h bi 

McLoth cf 3 1 2 1 Morgan cf 3 0 0 0 

Prado 1b 4 1 1 0 NJhnsn 1b 3 1 1 0 

MGnzlz p 0 0 0 0 Zmrmn 3b 4 1 1 2 

Moylan p 0 0 0 0 Dunn lf 3 1 2 2 

OFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 WHarrs lf 0 0 0 0 

C.Jones 3b 4 0 1 1 Wlngh rf 4 0 1 1 

GAndrs lf 4 0 2 1 MacDgl p 0 0 0 0 

YEscor ss 3 0 0 0 CGzmn ss 4 0 0 0 

M.Diaz rf 3 0 2 0 AHrndz 2b 4 0 1 0 

D.Ross c 3 0 0 0 Nieves c 2 0 0 0 

McCnn ph 1 0 0 0 Bellird ph 1 1 1 0 

Conrad 2b 4 1 1 0 Kearns rf 0 0 0 0 

Hanson p 2 0 0 0 Lannan p 2 0 0 0 

Ktchm 1b 0 0 0 0 J.Bard ph-c 0 1 0 0 

Totals 31 3 9 3 Totals 30 5 7 5 

Atlanta......................................001 002 000 — 3 

Washington..............................000 000 14x — 5 

DP—Washington 4. LOB—Atlanta 5, Washington 

5. 2B—Prado (17), M.Diaz (8). HR—Dunn (22). 

S—Hanson, Morgan. 

IP H R ER BB SO 

Atlanta 

Hanson 7 3 1 1 1 5 

M.Gonzalez L,3-1 H,7 1-31 3 3 2 0 

Moylan BS,3-3 0 1 1 1 0 0 

O’Flaherty 2-3 2 0 0 0 2 

Washington 

Lannan W,6-5 8 9 3 3 1 1 

MacDougal S,4-4 1 0 0 0 2 0 

Moylan pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. 

WP—MacDougal. 

Umpires—Home, Jerry Layne; First, Tony Randazzo; 

Second, Chris Guccione; Third, Mike Winters. 

T—2:34. A—23,708 (41,888). 

BASEBALL LEADERS 

AMERICAN LEAGUE 

G AB R H Pct. 

ISuzuki Sea..................... 72 318 41 116 .365 

Rolen Tor........................ 70 263 44 87 .331 

MiCabrera Det................ 78 296 48 96 .324 

Morneau Min................... 81 309 55 99 .320 

Crawford TB.................... 80 323 55 103 .319 

Figgins LAA.................... 77 302 57 95 .315 

MYoung Tex................... 75 308 42 96 .312 

Podsednik CWS.............. 56 231 28 72 .312 

JRivera LAA.................... 70 268 33 83 .310 

Lind Tor........................... 80 311 48 96 .309 

BATTING—ISuzuki, Seattle, .365; Rolen, Toronto, 

.331; MiCabrera, Detroit, .324; Morneau, Minnesota, 

.320; Crawford, Tampa Bay, .319; Figgins, Los 

Angeles, .315; MYoung, Texas, .312; Podsednik, 

Chicago, .312. 

RUNS—Damon, New York, 60; Scutaro, Toronto, 

59; CPena, Tampa Bay, 58; BRoberts, Baltimore, 

58; Figgins, Los Angeles, 57; Pedroia, Boston, 57; 

Kinsler, Texas, 56. 

RBI—Bay, Boston, 70; Morneau, Minnesota, 67; 

Longoria, Tampa Bay, 63; Teixeira, New York, 61; 

TorHunter, Los Angeles, 59; VMartinez, Cleveland, 

57; AHill, Toronto, 56. 

HITS—ISuzuki, Seattle, 116; AHill, Toronto, 105; 

Crawford, Tampa Bay, 103; Morneau, Minnesota, 

99; Cano, New York, 97; MiCabrera, Detroit, 96; 

Lind, Toronto, 96; MYoung, Texas, 96. 

DOUBLES—Byrd, Texas, 26; Lind, Toronto, 25; 

Markakis, Baltimore, 25; BRoberts, Baltimore, 25; 

Scutaro, Toronto, 25; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 24; 

Rolen, Toronto, 24; MYoung, Texas, 24. 

TRIPLES—DeJesus, Kansas City, 6; Andrus, 

Texas, 5; Bloomquist, Kansas City, 5; Crisp, 

Kansas City, 5; Cuddyer, Minnesota, 5; Figgins, 

Los Angeles, 5; JAnderson, Detroit, 4; Gardner, 

New York, 4; Span, Minnesota, 4; Zobrist, Tampa 

Bay, 4. 

HOME RUNS—CPena, Tampa Bay, 23; Branyan, 

Seattle, 20; Morneau, Minnesota, 20; Teixeira, 

New York, 20; Bay, Boston, 19; NCruz, Texas, 

19; Dye, Chicago, 19; AHill, Toronto, 19; Kinsler, 

Texas, 19. 

STOLEN BASES—Crawford, Tampa Bay, 40; 

Ellsbury, Boston, 35; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 29; Figgins, 

Los Angeles, 24; BAbreu, Los Angeles, 17; 

Bartlett, Tampa Bay, 17; Gardner, New York, 17; 

Jeter, New York, 17; ISuzuki, Seattle, 17. 

PITCHING —Halladay, Toronto, 10-2; Slowey, 

Minnesota, 10-3; Wakefield, Boston, 10-3; Greinke, 

Kansas City, 10-4; Beckett, Boston, 9-3; Buehrle, 

Chicago, 8-2; FHernandez, Seattle, 8-3. 

STRIKEOUTS—Verlander, Detroit, 130; Greinke, 

Kansas City, 120; FHernandez, Seattle, 114; Lester, 

Boston, 114; Beckett, Boston, 99; ABurnett, 

New York, 99; Halladay, Toronto, 98. 

SAVES—Fuentes, Los Angeles, 23; Nathan, Minnesota, 

22; MaRivera, New York, 21; Papelbon, 

Boston, 20; Jenks, Chicago, 19; Sherrill, Baltimore, 

18; Aardsma, Seattle, 17; Rodney, Detroit, 17. 

NATIONAL LEAGUE 

G AB R H Pct. 

HaRamirez Fla................ 78 298 51 103 .346 

Pujols StL........................ 82 277 64 93 .336 

Beltran NYM................... 62 241 40 81 .336 

Sandoval SF................... 75 279 37 93 .333 

DWright NYM.................. 79 301 51 99 .329 

Hawpe Col...................... 72 256 46 84 .328 

Braun Mil......................... 79 303 58 99 .327 

Tejada Hou..................... 78 317 44 103 .325 

Pierre LAD...................... 73 246 37 79 .321 

FSanchez Pit.................. 74 304 42 96 .316 

BATTING—HaRamirez, Florida, .346; Pujols, St. 

Louis, .336; Beltran, New York, .336; Sandoval, 

San Francisco, .333; DWright, New York, .329; 

Hawpe, Colorado, .328; Braun, Milwaukee, .327. 

RUNS—Pujols, St. Louis, 64; Braun, Milwaukee, 

58; Utley, Philadelphia, 55; Victorino, Philadelphia, 

55; Zimmerman, Washington, 55; Werth, Philadelphia, 

54; 5 tied at 51. 

RBI—Pujols, St. Louis, 82; Fielder, Milwaukee, 75; 

Howard, Philadelphia, 60; HaRamirez, Florida, 60; 

Dunn, Washington, 59; Ibanez, Philadelphia, 59; 

Braun, Milwaukee, 58. 

HITS—HaRamirez, Florida, 103; Tejada, Houston, 

103; Braun, Milwaukee, 99; DWright, New York, 

99; FSanchez, Pittsburgh, 96; Victorino, Philadelphia, 

96; Zimmerman, Washington, 94. 

DOUBLES—HaRamirez, Florida, 26; Tejada, 

Houston, 26; Hawpe, Colorado, 25; FSanchez, 

Pittsburgh, 25; Sandoval, San Francisco, 23; 

DWright, New York, 23; 6 tied at 22. 

TRIPLES—Bourn, Houston, 6; Victorino, Philadelphia, 

6; Kemp, Los Angeles, 5; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 

5; Morgan, Washington, 5; GParra, Arizona, 

5; 7 tied at 4. 

HOME RUNS—Pujols, St. Louis, 31; AdGonzalez, 

San Diego, 24; Dunn, Washington, 22; Ibanez, 

Philadelphia, 22; Reynolds, Arizona, 22; Fielder, 

Milwaukee, 21; Howard, Philadelphia, 20. 

STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Houston, 26; Pierre, 

Los Angeles, 22; DWright, New York, 20; Kemp, 

Los Angeles, 19; Morgan, Washington, 19; Bonifacio, 

Florida, 18; Taveras, Cincinnati, 16. 

PITCHING —Marquis, Colorado, 10-5; Cain, San 

Francisco, 9-2; Lincecum, San Francisco, 9-2; 

Billingsley, Los Angeles, 9-4; JSantana, New York, 

9-6; Cook, Colorado, 8-3; Cueto, Cincinnati, 8-4. 

STRIKEOUTS—Lincecum, San Francisco, 141; 

JVazquez, Atlanta, 130; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 114; 

Haren, Arizona, 113; Billingsley, Los Angeles, 110; 

JSantana, New York, 104; Wainwright, St. Louis, 

101. 

SAVES—Bell, San Diego, 23; BWilson, San Francisco, 

21; FrRodriguez, New York, 21; Broxton, 

Los Angeles, 20; Franklin, St. Louis, 20; Cordero, 

Cincinnati, 20; Street, Colorado, 19. 

minor league baseball 

Southern League 

North Division 

W L Pct. GB 

West Tenn (Mariners)... 8 5 .615 — 

x-Huntsville (Brewers)... 7 6 .538 1 

Tennessee (Cubs)........7 6 .538 1 

Chattanooga (Dodgers).6 6 .500 1 1/2 

Carolina (Reds).............3 10 .231 5 

South Division 

W L Pct. GB 

Jacksonville (Marlins)...8 4 .667 — 

Mobile (Diamondbacks).6 5 .545 1 1/2 

Montgomery (Rays)......6 6 .500 2 

Mississippi (Braves)...5 6 .455 2 1/2 

x-B-ham (White Sox)....4 6 .400 3 

x-clinched first half 

——— 


West Tenn 10, Huntsville 2 

Tennessee 7, Carolina 4 

Jacksonville at Mississippi, (n) 

Chattanooga at Mobile, (n) 

Birmingham at Montgomery, (n) 


West Tenn at Huntsville, 1 p.m. 

Jacksonville at Mississippi, 1:05 p.m. 

Chattanooga at Mobile, 6:05 p.m. 

Birmingham at Montgomery, 6:05 p.m. 

Tennessee at Carolina, 6:15 p.m. 


West Tenn at Huntsville, 7 p.m. 

Birmingham at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m. 

Jacksonville at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m. 

Chattanooga at Mobile, 7:05 p.m. 

Tennessee at Carolina, 7:15 p.m. 

nfl 

Steve McNair 

Career Passing Stats 

Year Team Comp Att Pct Yds TD Int 

1995...... Oilers 41 80 51.3 569 3 1 

1996...... Oilers 88 143 61.5 1197 6 4 

1997...... Oilers 216 415 52.0 2665 14 13 

1998...... Oilers 289 492 58.7 3228 15 10 

1999......Titans 187 331 56.5 2179 12 8 

2000......Titans 248 396 62.6 2847 15 13 

2001......Titans 264 431 61.3 3350 21 12 

2002......Titans 301 492 61.2 3387 22 15 

2003......Titans 250 400 62.5 3215 24 7 

2004......Titans 129 215 60.0 1343 8 9 

2005......Titans 292 476 61.3 3161 16 11 

2006... Ravens 295 468 63.0 3050 16 12 

2007... Ravens 133 205 64.9 1113 2 4 

Totals:............. 2733 4544 60.1 31304 174 119 

2009 NFL Training Camp Dates 

Rookie and veteran reporting dates 

(Dates subject to change) 

AFC 

BALTIMORE RAVENS—McDaniel College, Westminster, 

Md., July 27; July 29. 

BUFFALO BILLS—St. John Fisher College, Pittsford, 

N.Y., both July 25. 

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Georgetown College, 

Georgetown, Ky., both July 30. 

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Browns Training Facility, 

Berea, Ohio, July 24; July 31. 

DENVER BRONCOS—Paul D. Bowlen Memorial 

Centre, Englewood, Colo., both July 30. 

HOUSTON TEXANS—Methodist Training Center, 

Houston, July 26; July 31. 

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Rose-Hulman Institute, 

Terre Haute, Ind., both Aug. 2. 

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Municipal Stadium, 

Jacksonville, Fla., both Aug. 2. 

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Wisconsin-River Falls, 

River Falls, Wis., both July 31. 

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Dolphins Training Center, 

Davie, Fla., both Aug. 1. 

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Gillette Stadium, 

Foxborough, Mass., July 26; July 29. 

NEW YORK JETS—Cortland State, Cortland, 

N.Y., July 27; July 30. 

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Napa Valley Marriott, 

Napa, Calif., both July 29. 

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Saint Vincent College, 

Latrobe, Pa., both July 31. 

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Chargers Park, San 

Diego, July 26; July 31. 

TENNESSEE TITANS—Baptist Sports Park, Nashville, 

Tenn., both July 30. 

NFC 

ARIZONA CARDINALS—Northern Arizona U., 

Flagstaff, Ariz., both July 29. 

ATLANTA FALCONS—Falcons Training Facility, 

Flowery Branch, Ga., both July 31. 

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Wofford College, Spartanburg, 

S.C., both Aug 2. 

CHICAGO BEARS—Olivet Nazarene, Bourbonnais, 

Ill., both July 31. 

DALLAS COWBOYS—Alamodome, San Antonio, 

both July 29. 

DETROIT LIONS—Lions Training Facility, Allen 

Park, Mich., both July 31. 

GREEN BAY PACKERS—St. Norbert College, De 

Pere, Wis., both July 31. 

MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Minnesota State-Mankato, 

both July 30. 

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—New Orleans Saints 

Training Facility, Metairie, La., both July 30. 

NEW YORK GIANTS—U. of Albany, N.Y., both 

Aug. 3. 

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Lehigh U., Bethlehem, 

Pa., July 26; July 29. 

ST. LOUIS RAMS—Russell Training Center, Earth 

City, Mo., July 30; July 31. 

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Marie P. DeBartolo 

Sports Center, Santa Clara, Calif., July 28; July 

30. 

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Virginia Mason Athletic 

Center, Renton, Wash., July 30; July 31. 

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—One Buccaneer 

Place, Tampa, Fla., both July 31. 

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Redskins Park, Ashburn, 

Va., both July 29. 

golf 

AT&T NATIONAL SCORES 

Saturday 

At Congressional Country Club Course 

Bethesda, Md. 

Purse: $6.2 million 

Yardage: 7,255; Par: 70 

Third Round 

(a-denotes amateur) 

Anthony Kim....................................... 62-70-68 -10 

Tiger Woods....................................... 64-66-70 -10 

Michael Allen...................................... 67-69-65 -9 

Cameron Beckman............................. 68-67-66 -9 

Jim Furyk............................................ 66-67-69 -8 

Rod Pampling..................................... 67-64-71 -8 

Lucas Glover....................................... 69-66-68 -7 

Ryuji Imada......................................... 69-69-66 -6 

Cliff Kresge......................................... 70-67-67 -6 

Ryan Moore........................................ 69-66-69 -6 

Danny Lee.......................................... 68-67-69 -6 

Bryce Molder....................................... 64-70-70 -6 

Boo Weekley....................................... 67-69-69 -5 

George McNeill................................... 70-66-69 -5 

Stuart Appleby.................................... 66-69-70 -5 

Brandt Snedeker................................. 68-70-68 -4 

Steve Marino....................................... 73-65-68 -4 

Hunter Mahan..................................... 69-69-68 -4 

Davis Love III...................................... 69-67-70 -4 

Daniel Chopra..................................... 66-68-72 -4 

D.A. Points.......................................... 64-70-72 -4 

Matt Bettencourt................................. 70-71-66 -3 

Fred Couples...................................... 72-67-68 -3 

Justin Rose......................................... 67-71-69 -3 

Robert Garrigus.................................. 70-68-69 -3 

Mark Wilson........................................ 70-67-70 -3 

Ryan Palmer....................................... 69-67-71 -3 

Nathan Green..................................... 71-71-66 -2 

Marc Leishman................................... 70-71-67 -2 

Charley Hoffman................................. 71-69-68 -2 

Tim Petrovic........................................ 68-71-69 -2 

Ted Purdy........................................... 73-66-69 -2 

James Nitties...................................... 71-67-70 -2 

Vijay Singh.......................................... 70-68-70 -2 

Y.E. Yang............................................ 67-71-70 -2 

Kevin Streelman................................. 70-67-71 -2 

Jason Bohn......................................... 72-70-67 -1 

Sean O’Hair........................................ 69-72-68 -1 

Aaron Baddeley.................................. 72-68-69 -1 

Charles Warren................................... 73-67-69 -1 

Bill Lunde............................................ 70-68-71 -1 

Steve Elkington................................... 65-73-71 -1 

Dean Wilson....................................... 69-69-72 E 

Scott McCarron................................... 72-65-73 E 

J.J. Henry............................................ 76-66-69 +1 

Chez Reavie....................................... 70-71-70 +1 

Rocco Mediate.................................... 70-69-72 +1 

Nick O’Hern........................................ 71-70-71 +2 

Bo Van Pelt........................................ 69-72-71 +2 

Jason Dufner...................................... 72-69-71 +2 

Steve Flesch....................................... 69-72-71 +2 

Peter Lonard....................................... 70-70-72 +2 

Jeff Quinney........................................ 69-73-71 +3 

Webb Simpson................................... 74-67-72 +3 

John Senden....................................... 71-70-72 +3 

Nicholas Thompson............................ 71-70-72 +3 

Bart Bryant.......................................... 68-72-73 +3 

Harrison Frazar................................... 69-70-74 +3 

Nick Watney........................................ 70-72-72 +4 

Notah Begay III................................... 70-72-72 +4 

Mike Weir............................................ 71-71-72 +4 

Joe Ogilvie.......................................... 69-72-73 +4 

Paul Goydos....................................... 73-68-74 +5 

a-Matt Hill............................................ 71-69-75 +5 

Brian Davis......................................... 70-72-74 +6 

Chris DiMarco..................................... 70-72-74 +6 

Michael Letzig..................................... 68-74-74 +6 

David Mathis....................................... 71-71-74 +6 

Chris Stroud........................................ 74-67-75 +6 

Kevin Stadler...................................... 69-73-75 +7 

Ricky Barnes....................................... 70-72-75 +7 

Martin Laird......................................... 70-71-76 +7 

Troy Matteson..................................... 69-71-77 +7 

Jeff Maggert........................................ 72-70-77 +9 

James Driscoll.................................... 70-70-80 +10 

Marc Turnesa...................................... 71-69-80 +10 

auto racing 

NASCAR Sprint Cup-Coke Zero 400 Results 

Saturday 

At Daytona International Speedway 

Daytona Beach, Fla. 

Lap length: 2.5 miles 

(Start position in parentheses) 

1. (1) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 160 laps, 141.5 

rating, 195 points. 

2. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 160, 117.1, 170. 

3. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 160, 128.1, 170. 

4. (5) Carl Edwards, Ford, 160, 104.8, 160. 

5. (4) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 160, 107.5, 160. 

6. (18) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 160, 89, 150. 

7. (17) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 160, 86.2, 146. 

8. (10) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 160, 105.3, 147. 

9. (12) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 160, 80.3, 138. 

10. (23) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 160, 94.7, 134. 

11. (22) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 160, 84.1, 130. 

12. (43) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 160, 65.5, 127. 

13. (31) David Ragan, Ford, 160, 90.4, 124. 

14. (8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 160, 109.1, 126. 

15. (13) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 160, 90.7, 118. 

16. (16) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 160, 101.1, 120. 

17. (30) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 160, 86.6, 112. 

18. (9) Greg Biffle, Ford, 160, 58.9, 109. 

19. (21) Joey Logano, Toyota, 160, 77.9, 106. 

20. (7) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 160, 57.6, 108. 

21. (28) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 160, 58.7, 100. 

22. (34) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 160, 50.9, 102. 

23. (33) Paul Menard, Ford, 160, 57.3, 94. 

24. (36) Brad Keselowski, Chevrolet, 160, 45.7, 91. 

25. (24) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 160, 61.2, 88. 

26. (27) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 160, 62.2, 85. 

27. (35) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 160, 46.9, 87. 

28. (2) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 160, 58.4, 84. 

29. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 159, 67.6, 76. 

30. (42) Tony Raines, Dodge, 158, 32.4, 73. 

31. (37) Scott Speed, Toyota, accident, 152, 52.2, 70. 

32. (25) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 152, 67.3, 67. 

33. (26) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 146, 50.6, 64. 

34. (20) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 144, 62.3, 61. 

35. (32) David Stremme, Dodge, 129, 58.2, 58. 

36. (14) David Reutimann, Toyota, 127, 58.3, 55. 

37. (29) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 124, 36.7, 52. 

38. (11) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 79, 45.8, 49. 

39. (19) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 

76, 45.5, 46. 

40. (38) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, accident, 76, 

35.2, 43. 

41. (39) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, transmission, 25, 

25.4, 40. 

42. (41) Patrick Carpentier, Toyota, engine, 18, 

28.5, 37. 

43. (40) Dave Blaney, Toyota, overheating, 2, 

26.3, 34. 

——— 

Race Statistics 

Winner’s Average Speed: 142.461 mph. 

Time of Race: 2 hours, 48 minutes, 28 seconds. 

Margin of Victory: 0.110 seconds. 

Caution Flags: 8 for 30 laps. 

Lead Changes: 23 among 10 drivers. 

Lap Leaders: J.Gordon 1; T.Stewart 2; Ku.Busch 

3; D.Hamlin 4-14; T.Stewart 15-31; D.Hamlin 

32-45; T.Stewart 46; D.Hamlin 47; T.Stewart 

48-58; R.Newman 59; M.Kenseth 60-62; D.Hamlin 

63-71; T.Stewart 72; D.Hamlin 73-79; J.Andretti 

80; T.Stewart 81-82; D.Hamlin 83-103; R.Gordon 

104; T.Stewart 105-126; J.Burton 127-128; 

T.Stewart 129-158; Ky.Busch 159; T.Stewart 160. 

IRL Camping World Grand Prix Lineup 

After Saturday qualifying; race today 

At Watkins Glen International (road course) 

Watkins Glen, N.Y. 

Lap length: 3.4 miles 

(Car number in parentheses) 

1. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Dallara-Honda, 1:28.5970 

(136.935). 

2. (18) Justin Wilson, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.3106 

(135.841). 

3. (9) Scott Dixon, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.7279 

(135.209). 

4. (5) Mario Moraes, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.8003 

(135.100). 

5. (10) Dario Franchitti-x, Dallara-Honda, no time 

(no speed). 

6. (24) Mike Conway, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.1715 

(136.052). 

7. (7) Danica Patrick, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.2076 

(135.997). 

8. (26) Marco Andretti, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.3539 

(135.775). 

9. (11) Tony Kanaan, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.4131 

(135.685). 

10. (13) E.J. Viso, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.5661 

(135.453). 

11. (4) Dan Wheldon, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.9137 

(134.929). 

12. (27) Hideki Mutoh, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.7943 

(135.109). 

13. (3) Helio Castroneves, Dallara-Honda, 

1:29.8662 (135.001). 

14. (15) Paul Tracy, Dallara-Honda, 1:30.6167 

(133.883). 

15. (02) Graham Rahal, Dallara-Honda, 1:29.9526 

(134.871). 

16. (14) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Dallara-Honda, 

1:30.4001 (134.203). 

17. (06) Robert Doornbos, Dallara-Honda, 

1:30.6266 (133.868). 

18. (2) Raphael Matos, Dallara-Honda, 1:30.4981 

(134.058). 

19. (23) Milka Duno, Dallara-Honda, 1:33.6824 

(129.501). 

20. (98) Richard Antinucci, Dallara-Honda, 

1:31.1910 (133.039). 

21. (20) Ed Carpenter, Dallara-Honda, 1:31.6852 

(132.322). 

x-Franchitti lost his two fastest laps for causing a 

full-course caution during Firestone Fast Six. Rahal 

was penalized 10 grid positions after his car failed 

post-qualifying technical inspection. 

LOTTERY 

Sunday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 4-7-2 

La. Pick 4: 0-5-6-1 

Monday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 4-7-4 

La. Pick 4: 4-5-6-1 

Tuesday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 8-3-7 

La. Pick 4: 0-0-7-8 

Wednesday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 0-6-8 

La. Pick 4: 8-4-2-1 

Easy 5: 17-29-1-12-13 

La. Lotto: 19-20-15-30-7-1 

Powerball: 9-32-38-52-53 

Powerball: 15; Power play: 2 

Thursday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 1-6-9 

La. Pick 4: 6-1-8-7 

Friday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 9-5-0 

La. Pick 4: 6-6-4-2 

Saturday’s drawing 

La. Pick 3: 0-7-0 

La. Pick 4: 4-2-0-4 

Easy 5: 5-8-14-17-19 

La. Lotto: 1-2-31-33-24-6 

Powerball: 4-9-22-41-44 

Powerball: 14; Power play: 3

The Vicksburg Post Sunday, July 5, 2009 B3 

Manny, Dodgers fall 


Manny Ramirez’s first home 

run since returning from a 50- 

game drug suspension wasn’t 

enough to help Los Angeles 

overcome Everth Cabrera’s 

three RBIs as the San Diego 

Padres beat the Dodgers 7-4 

on Saturday. 

Ramirez homered in his second 

game and fifth plate appearance 

back. It was his seventh 

homer of the season and 

534th of his career, tying Jimmie 

Foxx for 16th on the alltime 

list. Up next is Mickey 

Mantle with 536. 

San Diego scored three runs 

in the seventh inning and added 

three unearned runs in the 

eighth. Cabrera hit a go-ahead, 

two-run single in the seventh. 

He added an RBI infield single 

in the eighth, with a second 

run scoring on the play on 

third baseman Casey Blake’s 

throwing error. 

Greg Burke (1-0) got two 

outs in the seventh for the 

win. Heath Bell earned his 

23rd save getting the final five 

outs. 

Brewers 11, Cubs 2 

Rookie Casey McGehee had 

a career high four hits and 

five RBIs to help the Brewers 

pound Rich Harden and 

the Cubs. 

Mike Cameron and J.J. Hardy 

also went deep to back a 

solid effort by Braden Looper 

(7-4). 

Giants 9, Astros 0 

Tim Lincecum ran his career-best 

scoreless innings 

streak to 23 in winning his 

third straight start and also 

scored the first run in the Giants’ 

victory over the Astros. 

Phillies 4, Mets 1 

Jamie Moyer pitched neatly 

into the seventh inning, Jimmy 

Rollins hit a two-run double 

and the Phillies beat the 

Mets. 

Nationals 5, Braves 3 

Atlanta’s Tommy Hanson extended 

his scoreless innings 

streak to 26 before Adam 

Dunn’s 300th career homer 

and the Nationals rallied for 

four eighth-inning runs and a 


Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez connects for 

a groundout during the fourth inning of a baseball game 

against the San Diego Padres on Saturday. 

inning dropped behind a partially 

draw-in infield to score 

baseball 

victory over the Braves. the go-ahead run and lift the 

Mariners over the Red Sox. 

Reds 5, Cardinals 2 

Micah Owings homered and 

pitched into the seventh inning 

to help the Reds beat the 

Cardinals. 

Joey Votto also homered and 

drove in two runs and Willy 

Taveras had three hits to help 

lift the Reds to their third win 

in their last four games. Owings 

(6-8) allowed six hits and 

two runs in 6 2/3 innings with 

two walks and six strikeouts. 

Marlins 5, Pirates 3 

Hanley Ramirez homered 

and Andrew Miller pitched effectively 

into the seventh inning, 

leading the Marlins to a 

victory over the Pirates. 

Yankees 6, Blue Jays 5 

Jorge Posada hit a gamewinning 

RBI single in the 12th 

inning to lift the New York 

Yankees to a victory over the 

Toronto Blue Jays. 

Mariners 3, Red Sox 2 

Chris Woodward’s basesloaded 

pop up in the ninth 

Royals 6, White Sox 4 

Alberto Callaspo drove in 

three runs and the Kansas 

City Royals eclipsed their run 

total from their previous four 

games in a victory over the 

White Sox that snapped Chicago’s 

seven-game winning 

streak. 

Twins 4, Tigers 3 

Justin Morneau had four 

hits, including a homer and 

the tying single in the seventh 

inning, and the Twins came 

back to beat the Tigers. 

Indians 5, Athletics 2 

Carl Pavano earned his first 

win in five starts, helping the 

Indians to a victory over the 

Athletics. 

Ben Francisco and Grady 

Sizemore hit homers off Vin 

Mazzaro (2-4) for Cleveland, 

which won consecutive games 

for the first time since June 

11-12. 

McNair 

Continued from Page B1. 

and prayers are with the 

McNair family at this time.” 

McNair played for Alcorn 

from 1991 to 1994, following 

in the footsteps of his older 

brother Fred. His younger 

brother, Tim, played later at 

Alcorn as a wide receiver. 

McNair, initially known 

as “Air II,” after his brother 

Fred was known as the original 

“Air,” set the NCAA 

record for career total yardage 

with 16,823 yards. He was 

also second on the NCAA 

all-time passing yardage list 

with 14,496 and was third 

with 119 touchdown passes. 

Steve McNair finished third 

in the Heisman Trophy balloting 

in his final year, 1994, 

when he led the Braves to a 

8-3-1 record. He completed 

304-of-530 passes for a Division 

I-AA-record 4,863 yards 

with 44 touchdowns and 17 

interceptions. He rushed 119 

times for 936 yards and nine 

more scores. 

He was taken third in 

the 1995 NFL Draft by the 

Houston Oilers, who later 

moved to Memphis and then 

Nashville. 

After taking over as the 

starting quarterback for the 

Titans in 1997, McNair led 

Tennessee to Super Bowl 

XXXIV in Atlanta in 2000. He 

was just a yard shy on a pass 

to Kevin Dyson on the final 

play of the game that would 

have won the contest for the 

Titans. 

In 2003, McNair shared 

Associated Press MVP 

honors with Peyton Manning, 

as he set career-highs 

with 3,350 passing yards, 264 

completions and 21 touchdowns. 

In 2006, McNair was 

traded to the Baltimore 

Ravens, where he led the 

Ravens to an AFC North 

Division title and the first 

round of the NFL playoffs. 

In 2007, his final season, 

he missed nine games and 

announced his retirement in 

April 2008. 

Jackson returns to Lakers 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil 

Jackson will return to coach 

the Los Angeles Lakers next 

season, getting a clean bill 

of health following a record 

championship season. 

The Hall of Fame coach turns 

64 in September and said on 

the team’s Web site Friday he 

got the go-ahead for another 

season after consulting the 

team doctor. 

Jackson led the Lakers to 

their 15th NBA championship 

and his 10th title in June, 

breaking the mark he shared 

with the late Boston Celtics 

coach Red Auerbach. 

“I feel confident that I can 

gainfully pursue an NBA 

season with another long playoff 

postseason,” he said. “All 

things point to go!” 

He signed a two-year contract 

extension last season 

and holds the option on a 

second year. 

Last season, Jackson missed 

two West Coast road games 

because of pain and swelling 

in his lower legs caused by 

plantar fasciitis, a problem he 

had checked out. He blamed 

late-night flights that aggravated 

the condition. 

He has undergone two hip 


Phil Jackson, talking with Kobe Bryant during the 2009 NBA 

playoffs, will return next year to the L.A. Lakers. 

replacement operations since 

October 2006 — using a cane 

at various times — and walks 

with a noticeable hitch in his 

step. He underwent an angioplasty 

in 2003 to open a clogged 

artery in his heart. 

Jackson became the Lakers’ 

coach in 1999, and guided the 

team to NBA titles in each of 

his first three seasons. He left 

together, we’ll keep your car running newer, longer. 

following the 2003-04 season 

but returned the following 

season. 

Jackson coached the Chicago 

Bulls to six championships 

in the 1990s. His .705 

regular-season winning percentage 

is tops in league history 

and his 1,041 victories are 

sixth best. 

Federer aims for history 

against archrival Roddick 

By Howard Fendrich 

AP tennis writer 

WIMBLEDON, England — 

A year ago, plenty of people 

were feeling sorry for Roger 

Federer. 

They were sending him letters 

with good wishes or — 

believe it or not — tennis tips. 

They were offering advice 

about how to deal with a perceived 

drop in performance 

and ideas for how to beat 

Rafael Nadal. 

“If you achieved a lot, like 

I did, for so many years, and 

then you don’t win some 

tournaments, people say, ‘Oh, 

you’re already on the decline,’ 

very quickly,” Federer said 

Saturday. “I hope it just opens 

some eyes, these last few 

months.” 

Yes, indeed. Look at Federer 

now. 

When he steps onto Centre 

Court to face No. 6-seeded 

Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon 

final today, Federer will 

be trying to collect his 15th 

Grand Slam singles championship, 

breaking a tie with 

Pete Sampras for the most in 

history. 

Also at stake for Federer: 

—a sixth Wimbledon title; 

—a chance to become only 

the third man in 40 years to 

win the French Open and 

Wimbledon in the same 

season; 

—a return to No. 1 in the 

rankings, a spot he ceded 

to Nadal 1 1/2 months after 

losing to the Spaniard in last 

year’s epic final at the All England 

Club. 

“Obviously, you can’t really 

say enough to kind of signify 

what Roger’s career has 

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the doubles, it’s still not the 

same.” 

Against the Australians, 

the Williams sisters traded 

breaks in the first set, with 

Stosur and Stubbs taking a 

2-1 lead off Serena’s opening 

service game. But the 

been to this point,” said Roddick, 

who is hoping to win his 

second major championship. 

Asked about Federer’s bid for 

No. 15, the American replied: 

“I’d love to delay it for another 

Grand Slam.” 

Federer is playing in his seventh 

consecutive Wimbledon 

final and 20th Grand Slam 

final overall, both records. It’s 

also his 16th final in the past 

17 major championships. 

The only one he missed in 

that span was at the 2008 Australian 

Open, where Federer 

lost to eventual champion 

Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. 

Federer later said he’d 

been recovering from mononucleosis 

at that time, but 

still, the chatter began: What’s 

wrong with Roger? 

“Sometimes,” he said, “it’s 

not fair towards certain 

players.” 

Federer then lost to Nadal in 

the French Open and Wimbledon 

finals, and fell to No. 2 in 

the rankings after a record 237 

weeks at the top. But Federer 

won a fifth consecutive U.S. 

Open in September and, after 

a five-set loss to Nadal in the 

Australian Open final in January, 

completed a career Grand 

Slam by winning his first 

French Open title last month. 

Americans eventually broke 

back to 4-4 when Stosur put a 

backhand volley into the net. 

In the tiebreaker, Venus put 

the sisters up a mini-break 

on the second point with a 

return of serve that Stubbs 

couldn’t get back over. 

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We welcome your items for the Sports 

Arena. Submit items by e-mail (sports@ 

vicksburgpost.com), postal service 

(P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), 

fax (634-0897), or delivered in person 

to 1601-F N. Frontage Road by Monday 

for publication Wednesday or Friday for 

publication Sunday. 

sports arena 

Vicksburg Buccaneers 

summer registration 

The Vicksburg Buccaneers 

youth football team is currently 

taking applications for 

players ages 6-12 for the 2009 

season. All practices are held 

at the practice field at Vicksburg 

Junior High. For information, 

call Amanda Haggard 

at 601-529-8462 or Perri 

Johnson at 601-456-1104. 

Clear Creek 

Couples Scramble 

The Clear Creek Golf Club 

Couples Scramble is scheduled 

for July 11 with a shotgun 

start at 9 a.m. 

The entry fee is $100 per 

team. Sign up in the pro shop 

or call Kent Smith at 601-638- 

9395. 

Clear Creek Ladies’ 

Golf Association Report 

On Wednesday, the Ladies 

of Clear Creek hosted their 

monthly retirees’ scramble. 

Top winners of the Independence 

Day event were: longest 

drive, men’s no. 7, Alvin 

Taylor; ladies’ no. 12, Karen 

Carroll; closest to pin, men’s 

no. 4, Alvin Taylor, men’s no. 

13, David Wright; and ladies’ 

no. 2, Pam Thomas. Chip-ins 

were Bob Walters, Joe Tom, 

Max Reed, Max Dornbusch, 

Jack Farren, Jerry Harmon 

and David Williams. The 

first-place team was Pam 

Thomas, Larry Cook, Leon 

Jacobs and Tommy Johnson. 

The second-place team was 

Alvin Taylor, Tom Rosser, 

Larry Grant and Vi Krisker. 

The third-place team was 

Dusty Rhodes, David Wright, 

Dan Marble and Mary 

Harmon. 

Junior golf camp 

at The Golf Center 

The Golf Center at the 

Vicksburg Factory Outlets 

will host a golf camp July 

7-10. Children ages 7-10 are 

scheduled for 9 a.m. until 

10:30 a.m. each day, while 

ages 11-17 will be from 10:30 

a.m. until noon. For information, 

call Kathy Hester at 601- 

529-9007. 

Jerious Norwood 

Football Camp 

The Jerious Norwood Football 

Camp is scheduled for 

July 11 at the Brandon High 

School football stadium. This 

camp is free and open to boys 

between the ages of 9-17. 

Registration will begin 

at 8:30 a.m. the day of the 

camp, and activities will end 

around 1 p.m. 

All campers are required 

to have a signed parental 

release form, which will 

be available the day of the 

camp. All campers, however, 

are asked to pre-register at 

www.officialjeriousnorwood. 

com. For information, e-mail 

rosalea@b-c-sports.com. 

Soccer Summer Camp 

planned for Bovina 

The Vicksburg Soccer 

Organization’s Soccer 

Summer Camp is scheduled 

for July 13-17 at the Bovina 

Soccer Complex. With registration 

fees you get a T-shirt 

and soccer ball. You can register 

online at www.vsosoccer.org 

or e-mail kacmullins@bellsouth.net. 

Madison Parish 

AAU tourney 

The Madison Parish End 

of Summer AAU Basketball 

Tournament is scheduled 

for July 31-Aug. 2 at Madison 

Parish High School in 

Tallulah. 

The tournament is open 

to boys and girls ages 13-17. 

Each team is guaranteed 

three games. 

The registration fee is $150 

per team and the registration 

deadline is July 24. Before 

submitted to The Vicksburg Post 

The Vicksburg Cardinals are the 2009 7-year-old league champs. First row, from left, are, 

Barrington Barnes, Tyler Karel, Ken Hall, Zane Flaharty, Miles Harris and Kendrick Bershell. 

Second row, from left, are, Mason Patterson, Kyle Dupree, Aaron David, Brandon Heggins, 

Nick Barrett and Kaleb Boler. Third row, from left, are, coaches Mike Dupree and Nathan 

Karel. 

The Vicksburg Sting 10-year-old baseball team won the Baseball Players Association State 

Championship on June 28 in Flowood. First row, from left, are, Garrett Hutchins, Camden 

Kurtz, Walt Hopson, Brice Wood and Brandon Teller. Second row, from left, are, Landon 

Middleton, Joshua Brown, Josh Lieberman, Rett Verhine and Joshua Fautheree. Third row, 

from left, are, coaches Johnnie Middleton, Butch Kurtz, Scott Verhine and Ronnie Brown. 

Also on the team are Austin Willis and Casey Griffith. 

The 12-year-old Vicksburg Red Sox won the U12 USSSA State Tournament in Tupelo recently 

with a 5-0 record. First row, from left, are, Clint Fuller, Jacob Breeden, Jake Smith, George 

Tzotzolas, Chris Prentiss and Connor Smith. Second row, from left, are, coach Rick Smith, 

Drake Dorbeck, coach Charlie Jones, Tristan Lowry, Derek Dolan, coach Carl Smith, Zach 

Cox and coach Butch Henley. 

July 20, the registration fee is 

only $100. 

There will be a $50 fee 

assessed to all late registrants. 

Please make checks 

or money orders payable to 

Lamia R. Ewell, 1111 Bayou 

Drive, Tallulah, La. 71282. 

The tournament is hosted 

by the Virginia Beach, Virginia 

Storm AAU Basketball 

Program. For information on 

the tournament, call Curtis 

O. Ewell at 757-348-9245, 

Lamia Ewell at 318-493-1143 

or Wayne Ewell at 318-493- 

1072. 

Gymsouth Gymnastics 

Fall/Spring registration 

GymSouth Gymnastics 

Club is currently registering 

for fall and spring classes. 

Classes are offered for children 

ages 3 and up in gymnastics, 

cheerleading and 

tumbling. 

For information, visit Gym- 

South at 3422 Wisconsin 

Avenue or go to www.gymsouthinc.com. 

MSU Alumni Paul Geer 

Memorial Golf tourney 

The Warren County Chapter 

of the Mississippi State 

University Alumni Association 

will hold the 19th annual 

Paul Geer Memorial Bulldog 

Classic scholarship golf tournament 

on July 22 at Vicksburg 

Country Club. 

The entry fee for the tournament 

is $75 per player and 

will include food and beverages 

on the course during 

and after the tournament 

and a gift bag. Registration 

and lunch will begin at noon 

and there will be a 1 p.m. 

shotgun start. For information, 

contact Allen Hudspeth 

at 601-630-2330. 

Rebel Reunion 

party in Jackson 

The Central Mississippi 

Ole Miss Club will present 

the annual “Rebel Reunion” 

party on July 14 at the Mississippi 

Trade Mart in downtown 

Jackson featuring Ole 

Miss football coach Houston 

Nutt, baseball coach Mike 

Bianco, women’s basketball 

coach Renee Ladner, 

athletic director Pete Boone 

plus other athletic coaches 

and officials. The social 

hour begins at 5 p.m. with 

the program starting at 6:30 

p.m. Tickets for the Rebel 

Reunion are $20 for adults 

and $10 for kids ages 5 to 18 

and will be available at the 

door. For information, call 

Erica Stutzman at 601-500- 

0707, John Raines at 601-594- 

4558 or Glen Waddle at 601- 

506-3186. 

Mississippi Braves 

baseball camp 

The Mississippi Braves are 

scheduled to host a baseball 

camp at Trustmark Park on 

July 28-30. The camp is open 

to boys and girls ages 5-14. 

Cost is $150 per child. Registration 

forms can be found at 

www.mississippibraves.com. 

For information, call 601-932- 

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Florida football coach Urban Meyer holds up the BCS Championship 

trophy in Gainesville, Fla., during a ceremony honoring 

the team on Jan. 11. There have been 24 arrests involving 

Florida players over the last four years under Meyer. 

Arrests add up 

for BCS champs 

QUEST 

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) 

— Former Florida offensive 

lineman Drew Miller remembers 

all the team meetings, the 

lengthy lectures about hanging 

out with the right people, 

making smart decisions and 

avoiding situations that would 

draw negative attention. 

To Miller, it seemed like 

Gators coach Urban Meyer 

or one of his assistants was 

always talking about staying 

out of trouble. 

Miller also knew that message 

wouldn’t reach all his 

teammates. 

“It’s not going to get to 

everyone,” said Miller, who 

graduated last year and is 

trying to catch on in the NFL. 

“There’s so many players. You 

can’t baby-sit them all. There’s 

too many guys to keep them 

all out of trouble. Someone’s 

going to screw up.” 

That’s certainly been the 

case at Florida, where there 

have been 24 arrests involving 

Gators over the last four years 

under Meyer. 

Although the number of Florida 

players arrested is similar 

to that of its rivals, the Gators 

are getting attention because 

they have won two national 

titles in the last three years 

and have a coach who emphasizes 

good behavior. 

Meyer points out that college 

students often make 

mistakes and that the majority 

of the charges have been 

misdemeanors. 

“This group of players we 

have now are by and large a 

pretty good group,” Meyer 

said in a statement. “Like most 

young people, they are trying 

to find their way. 

“It is a continual part of our 

program to mentor and guide 

our players, and it is not an 

exact process. Although we 

have been very successful 

with most, we are by no means 

perfect. We are disappointed 

when we encounter some 

issues along the way, but we 

are going to continue to educate 

and teach our players.” 

The latest issue involved cornerback 

Janoris Jenkins, one 

of the team’s top defenders. 

He was charged with misdemeanor 

affray and resisting 

arrest without violence after 

his alleged involvement in a 

fight outside a Gainesville 

nightclub. 

According to police, Jenkins 

hit a man in the head on May 

30 and threw another punch 

after officers ordered him 

and others to stop fighting. 

An officer then shot Jenkins 

with a Taser stun gun. Jenkins 

attempted to run, but was 

caught about a block away. 

Jenkins’ attorney, Huntley 

Johnson, said his client acted 

in self-defense against someone 

trying to steal his necklace 

and that the charges 

could be dismissed. 

Even though Jenkins and 

walk-on running back Marquis 

Hannah, charged with 

unarmed burglary — a second-degree 

felony — are the 

only current players with 

pending criminal cases, the 

recent arrests provided Internet 

message boards with 

plenty of fodder. Some even 

called the school “The University 

of Felons.” 

“No one here condones our 

players stepping out of line, 

and everyone here wants to 

get better,” athletic director 

Jeremy Foley said in a statement. 

“However, Urban Meyer 

and his staff are the best that I 

have seen in modifying behavior, 

and at the end of the day, 

the majority of the players 

who come through this program 

will make us all proud 

and not just because they are 

good football players.” 

Florida’s opponents have 

also had their problems. 

Florida State’s football program 

has dealt with 13 arrests 

over the same four-year 

period, according to research 

by The Gainesville Sun, while 

Tennessee has had 21 arrests 

and Georgia 30. 

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Pujols gets most All-Star votes 

Story behind the 

By Mike Fitzpatrick 

AP Baseball Writer 

Give the fans a hand for an 

All-Star performance. 

Albert Pujols, absolutely. Joe 

Mauer, right on the money. 

Chase Utley and Evan Longoria, 

no doubt about it. 

Fan balloting for All-Star 

game starters has been a contentious 

issue in baseball for 

years. Some complain the 

process is merely a popularity 

contest that often puts 

big names on the field at the 

expense of more deserving 

players. 

This season, however, a look 

at the numbers shows fans 

were hitting for their highest 

average in years. 

When vote counts were 

released early in the week, 

with only a few days of balloting 

left, most of the players 

leading at their positions merited 

those spots. 

Pujols was the top vote-getter, 

as he should be. The big 

first baseman has been the 

best player in the game all 

season and he figures to own 

the spotlight July 14 at his 

home ballpark in St. Louis. 

But it wasn’t just Pujols, 

an easy selection. Fans were 

throwing strikes all around 

the horn. 

Utley at second base, 

Hanley Ramirez at shortstop, 

David Wright at third for the 

National League. 

Over in the AL, it was the 

same thing: Mauer behind the 

plate, Longoria at third, Jason 

Bay in the outfield. 

Even a couple of close races 

made sense. Kevin Youkilis 

vs. Mark Teixeira at first 

base, though Justin Morneau 

shouldn’t be forgotten. Ian 

Kinsler was neck-and-neck 

with Dustin Pedroia at second, 

though Aaron Hill was getting 

overlooked. 

Unlike previous years, the 

New York Yankees, Boston 

Red Sox and Chicago Cubs 

weren’t dominating the votes. 

And big stars who were suspended 

(Manny Ramirez) or 

slumping (Alex Rodriguez) 

were on the verge of getting 

left out. 

That’s a good thing, because 

their spots figure to be filled 

by worthy and exciting newcomers 

such as Justin Upton 

and Brandon Inge. 

Of course, fans don’t get to 

vote for the pitching staffs. 

But after such an astute performance 

this season, maybe 

it’s time that changed. After 

all, there are tough decisions 

to be made on the mound. 

Zack Greinke or Roy Halladay 

starting for the American 

League? Francisco Rodriguez 

or Trevor Hoffman closing 

for the NL? Does 42-year-old 

knuckleballer Tim Wakefield 

make his first All-Star team? 

“The players are the show,” 

AL manager Joe Maddon of 

the Tampa Bay Rays said. “My 

basic job is to pretty much get 

out of the way.” 

Rosters were expanded from 

32 to 33 players this year, with 

the extra spot going to a 13th 

pitcher in each league. But 

every team must be represented, 

so the choices remain 

difficult. 

Starting with the AL: 

•First Base — Morneau’s big 

numbers for Minnesota earn 

him the start, barely edging 

Teixeira and Youkilis. Russell 

Branyan is having a surprise 

season with Seattle. Detroit 

slugger Miguel Cabrera and 

Tampa Bay’s Carlos Pena also 

make it at a power-packed 

position. Youkilis, Branyan 

and Cabrera all have extensive 

big league experience at 

third base, so one or two of 

them could come off the bench 

and play there. 

•Second Base — Kinsler is 

the leadoff man with pop that 

makes Texas’ offense go. He 

gets a slight nod over Hill, who 

is having a terrific year for 

Toronto after missing much of 

last season with a concussion. 

Ben Zobrist of the Rays earns 

a spot here, too. Enjoying a 

breakout season while filling 

in for injured second baseman 

Akinori Iwamura, Zobrist can 

also play the outfield. Pedroia, 

the 2008 AL MVP, falls short 

this year. 

•Shortstop — Even at 35, 

Derek Jeter remains a consistent 

offensive force for the 


St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, right, is congratulated by Ryan Ludwick 

after hitting his first home run against the San Francisco Giants on June 30. 

baseball 

On TV 

Today, Noon, TBS 

All-Star selection show 

July 14, 7 p.m. Fox 

At Busch Stadium, St. Louis 

Yankees. His backup is Tampa 

Bay’s Jason Bartlett, previously 

a light-hitting glove man 

who has suddenly developed a 

dangerous stick. 

•Third Base — Last season’s 

Rookie of the Year, Longoria 

makes it all four Rays infielders 

on the All-Star team. The 

Tigers finally moved Inge out 

from behind the plate for good 

and let him play third every 

day. He’s rewarded them with 

great defense (as expected) 

and plenty of pop (more than 

expected). 

•Catcher — Mauer is 

making a run at .400 with the 

Twins, and now he’s hitting 

for power, too. His numbers 

are mind-boggling considering 

he missed all of April 

with a lower back injury. The 

backup is Cleveland slugger 

Victor Martinez, also having 

a huge year. He splits time 

between catcher and first 

base, but stays behind the 

plate for this one. 

•Outfield — Torii Hunter of 

the Los Angeles Angels starts 

in center, flanked by Bay in 

left and Chicago’s Jermaine 

Dye in right. Seattle’s Ichiro 

Suzuki is on the bench and 

Matt Holliday represents lastplace 

Oakland, which costs 

Johnny Damon a spot. 

•Starting Pitchers — Zack 

Greinke beats out Halladay 

for the start, capping a 

remarkable ride for an elite 

prospect who walked away 

from the game for a while 

because of social anxiety disorder. 

Greinke would join Bret 

Saberhagen (1987) as the only 

Royals pitchers to start an All- 

Star game. Also on the staff 

are Tigers teammates Justin 

Verlander and Edwin Jackson, 

Mariners ace Felix Hernandez, 

Texas’ Kevin Millwood, Angels 

right-hander Jered Weaver, 

White Sox lefty Mark Buehrle 

and Boston’s Josh Beckett. 

Although a spot for Wakefield 

would make for a nice story, 

his ERA is too high. 

•Relievers — Yankees closer 

Mariano Rivera recently 

reached 500 saves. He’s joined 

in an imposing bullpen by Boston’s 

Jonathan Papelbon, Minnesota’s 

Joe Nathan and Baltimore 

lefty George Sherrill. 

——— 

And in the NL: 

•First Base — Stacked with 

power-hitting stars in the 

National League, too. Coming 

off his second MVP award, 

Pujols reached 30 homers 

before July and was leading 

the majors in RBIs as 

well. He’s joined by Milwaukee 

bopper Prince Fielder, 

San Diego’s Adrian Gonzalez, 

Houston switch-hitter Lance 

Berkman, Colorado’s Todd 

Helton and Philadelphia’s 

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter follows through 

on a second-inning RBI-single against the New York Mets 

on June 14. 

Ryan Howard. 

•Second Base — Utley had 

hip surgery in the offseason 

but returned quickly and 

immediately found his swing. 

He’s a runaway winner, backed 

up by Pittsburgh’s Freddy 

Sanchez. 

•Shortstop — Hanley 

Ramirez is giving the Marlins 

the pop and production 

they envisioned when they 

dropped him from leadoff to 

the No. 3 spot in the lineup. 

He has blossomed into one of 

the game’s best offensive players. 

Houston’s Miguel Tejada 

earns a reserve role. 

•Third Base — Wright’s 

home run and RBI totals are 

way down, partly because of 

the New York Mets’ cavernous 

new ballpark, Citi Field. 

But he’s still hitting for a high 

average and stealing plenty of 

bases while trying to carry an 

injury-depleted team. Behind 

him is first-timer Mark Reynolds 

of the Arizona Diamondbacks. 

His impressive power 

numbers are enough to overcome 

all those strikeouts. 

•Catcher — Perhaps baseball’s 

best defensive backstop, 

Yadier Molina is rewarded 

with the start in his home ballpark. 

Atlanta’s Brian McCann 

also makes it after rebounding 

quickly from an eye problem 

that cost him some time. 

•Outfield — Phillies newcomer 

Raul Ibanez starts in 

left, assuming he returns from 

a groin strain without any 

problems. It’s the first All-Star 

appearance for the 37-year-old 

pro. Colorado’s Brad Hawpe is 

in right and the athletic Upton 

slides over from his regular 

spot in right to play center. 

Reserves are Milwaukee slugger 

Ryan Braun, Washington’s 

Adam Dunn and the Dodgers’ 

Matt Kemp, who fills a void 

in center created by the knee 

injury that costs Carlos Beltran 

a trip. 

•Starting Pitchers — Strikeout 

specialist Tim Lincecum 

is following up his Cy Young 

season with an outstanding 

encore. He gets the start, 

just edging Giants teammate 

Matt Cain and Arizona ace 

Dan Haren. They are joined 

by Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto, 

Florida’s Josh Johnson and 

Los Angeles’ Chad Billinglsey. 

Left-hander Ted Lilly represents 

the Cubs, denying Milwaukee’s 

Yovani Gallardo a 

spot in a very difficult snub. 

•Relievers — Hoffman 

(Brewers) and Francisco 

Rodriguez (Mets), both 

record-setting closers, have 

been nearly untouchable with 

their new teams. Give the ball 

to K-Rod in the ninth inning 

— Hoffman already blew a 

chance to end the NL drought 

a few years back. This deep 

bullpen also includes Jonathan 

Broxton (Dodgers), Heath 

Bell (Padres), Francisco Cordero 

(Reds) and Ryan Franklin 

(Cardinals). 

swords on the wall 

I had a couple of late nights 

the past week — nothing that 

a little age hasn’t made more 

important — and after we got 

home from church and ate 

lunch, Betsy announced her 

desire for a nap in the air-conditioned 

bedroom by her ownself. 

I headed out to the swimming 

hole, but was stopped 

by the sudden appearance 

of a thundercloud, appropriately 

enough announced by 

a clap of thunder and flash of 

lightning. I headed back to the 

house and decided to pile up 

on the den sofa under the ceiling 

fan whilst it thundered — 

and maybe rained, the which 

we hadn’t had much of this 

month. 

Sleep didn’t come — Lyme 

Disease, you know? Might as 

well go to the computer and 

knock out next week’s column. 

I had been cogitating on a Fofa 

July theme. When one is lying 

on the den sofa, one is looking 

at the wall by the gun cabinet, 

whereon hangs the coat-ofarms 

that my mother hooked 

nearly half a century ago. 

I was looking at it now, and 

while the most notable aspect 

of it is the Bloody Hand of 

the O’Neill Clan, the sword 

clasped in a mailed fist is what 

drew my attention today. Just 

on the other side of the den 

door from the Coat-of-Arms 

hang three real swords: one 

dating from the Franco-Prussian 

War, one from the Revolutionary 

War and one from 

the War Between the States. 

You can still see the outline of 

a fourth sword: my own Navy 

sword, which I presented to 

Matt Morgan when he graduated 

from the Navy Pilot Program 

at Corpus Christi, Texas 

at the top of his class. Matt 

went on to fly Tomcats in 

Afghanistan, was flying air 

cover in the vicinity of the airliner 

that went down in Pennsylvania 

on 9/11, and went on 

to be an instructor at the Top 

Gun school. 

All those swords are right 

next to the gun cabinet. Neills 

and O’Neills have been rather 

warlike over the centuries. 

Supposedly, the highest 

price offered for a man’s head 

by the British government 

was for Sean O’Neill, then his 

son Hugh O’Neill in the early 

1600s before the Brits decided 

to drive all the Irish noblemen 

out of the country. They got 

Sean’s head, but Hugh made it 

to the Vatican for refuge and is 

buried there. 


The soldiers expressed their 

gratitude over and over to the 

NFL coaches who made the 

trip to Iraq. 

“They kept thanking us,” 

said the Tennessee Titans’ 

Jeff Fisher. “We kept thanking 

them.” 

Fisher, the New York Giants’ 

Tom Coughlin, the Baltimore 

Ravens’ John Harbaugh, 

former Pittsburgh Steelers 

coach Bill Cowher and former 

robert hitt 

neill 

My namesake ancestor was 

the survivor of three brothers 

who fought the Brits in our 

Revolutionary War, our part 

of the clan having migrated to 

the Carolinas by then. A Colonel 

Paul Neill was leading the 

too-late relief column to the 

Alamo. My great-grandfather 

Gilbreath Falls Neill (named 

for the Revolutionary Army 

captain who commanded 

the Neill brothers’ company) 

formed the 30th Mississippi 

under General Braxton 

Bragg, and later (after recovering 

from wounds) was General 

Nathan Bedford Forrest’s 

aide-de-camp toward the end 

of that war. 

Betsy’s daddy Adam Henrich 

fought through the terrible 

battles of World War I, and 

his regimental picture is hung 

in our den, along with some 

medals he brought back. My 

Uncle Mickey was shot down 

over Germany in WWII, and 

spent the rest of the war in a 

Stalag that was liberated by 

the Russians. When the POWs 

were told they could get anything 

they wanted from the 

Stalag and head west toward 

the American forces, he 

grabbed a 50-pound sack of 

potatoes and hit the road with 

something to eat. 

Big Robert didn’t get to serve 

in WWII, being a farmer, but I 

graduated from Ole Miss with 

an ROTC commission in the 

U.S. Navy, and was in combat 

during a war that was not successful 

or popular, although 

my own fight we eventually 

won. I had a sword, as noted 

earlier, but was more reliant 

on a Thompson .45-caliber 

submachine gun for my own 

personal use. Don’t be bringing 

a knife to a gunfight, is the 

old saying. 

This started out to be a Fofa 

July column. Maybe it is. 

Some of us have been there to 

fight when we needed to, win 

or lose. My hat is off to the 

men and women who fight our 

battles today. May God Bless 

and keep you. 

• 

Robert Hitt Neill is an outdoors writer 

and he lives in Leland, Miss. 

NFL coaches visit Iraq 

nfl 

Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach 

Jon Gruden are taking part 

in the first NFL-USO coaches 

tour this weekend. 

In a long first day Thursday. 

In a phone interview from 

Baghdad, Cowher recalled 

talking to military members 

on their second or third 

deployment who described 

how much the bombs and 

casualties have decreased 

from several years ago. 

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Brown named head 

of Personnel Board 

A Vicksburg man has 

been named chairman of 

the Mississippi State Personnel 

Board. 

Donald G. Brown, 54, has 

served on 

the board 

since 2005, 

when 

he was 

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Haley 

Barbour. 

Brown was 

vice chairman 

this 

Donald G. 

Brown 

past fiscal year. He was 

named chairman at the 

board’s June meeting. 

Brown is Warren 

County director of Warren-Yazoo 

Mental Health. 

He and his wife, Cheryl, 

have four children. 

The State Personnel 

Board oversees the state’s 

government agencies. 

Flathau’s named 

company to watch 

Flathau’s Fine Foods 

has been named a Mississippi 

Companies to Watch 

award winner for 2009. 

In its inaugural year, the 

contest attracted over 50 

submissions. The cookie 

manufacturer, in Petal, 

prevailed along with seven 

others to receive the distinction 

of being named to 

the inaugural class. 

Flathau’s Fine Foods is 

owned and operated by 

Jeff Flathau, formerly of 

Vicksburg, and his wife, 

Heather. The company, 

created in 1996, manufactures 

several cookies 

and snack products. 

Flathau’s also produces 

the Maddy’s Sweet Shop 

line, which is sold to grocery 

and mass merchandisers. 

The Flathau’s Fine 

Foods brand can be found 

in upscale gift, gourmet 

and catalog companies 

across the United States. 

The company also exports 

to several countries. 

The company has won 

nine national awards. In 

addition, Flathau’s was 

featured on the Food Networks 

“Unwrapped” and 

has been Snack of the 

Day three times on “The 

Rachael Ray Show.” 

Writer-actor 

to speak at Chamber 

Writer and actor John 

Maxwell will be the guest 

at the Vicksburg-Warren 

County Chamber of Commerce’s 

July members 

luncheon. 

Maxwell, who has performed 

in 12 countries, has 

starred in the one-man 

show, “Oh, Mr. Faulkner, 

Do You Write?” since 1981. 

The luncheon will be at 

noon July 15 at the Southern 

Cultural Heritage 

Center. Cost is $12, and 

reservations are required. 

Call 601-636-1012. 


Dredging, relief walls among projects funded via stimulus 

By Ben Bryant 

bbryant@vicksburgpost.com 

The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers has apportioned 

Congress-approved stimulus 

spending among several 

local projects intended 

to reduce flood damage, 

improve environmental 

habitats and maintain navigable 

conditions on waterways, 

according to a release 

from the Corps’ Vicksburg 

District. 

The allocations include: 

• $535,000 for dredging 

at the Vicksburg Harbor 

intended to provide for 

“smoother traffic” at the 

facility. 

• $423,000 for dredging at 

NASA chief 

aims to 

sell cheaper 

trip to moon 


WASHINGTON — Like 

a car salesman pushing 

a luxury vehicle that the 

customer no longer can 

afford, NASA has pulled 

out of its back pocket a 

deal for a cheaper ride to 

the moon. 

It won’t be as powerful, 

and its design is a 

little dated. Think of it as 

a base-model Ford station 

wagon instead of 

a tricked-out Cadillac 

Escalade. 

Officially, the space 

agency is still on track 

with a 4-year-old plan to 

spend $35 billion to build 

new rockets and return 

astronauts to the moon in 

several years. However, 

a top NASA manager is 

floating a cut-rate alternative 

that costs around $6.6 

billion. 

This cheaper option 

is not as powerful as 

NASA’s current design 

with its fancy new rockets, 

the people-carrying 

Ares I and cargo-lifting 

Ares V. But the cut-rate 

plan would still get to the 

moon. 

The new model calls for 

flying lunar vehicles on 

something very familiarlooking 

— the old space 

shuttle system with its 

gigantic orange fuel tank 

and twin solid-rocket 

boosters, minus the shuttle 

itself. There are two 

See NASA, Page B9. 

Online 

All Corps projects funded 

under the American Recovery 

and Reinvestment 

Act: www.usace.army.mil/ 

recovery 

Lake Providence Harbor. 

• $80,000 for dredging at the 

Madison Parish Port. 

• $55,000 for dredging at 

the mouth of the Yazoo River 

near Vicksburg. 

• $1,884,000 for construction 

of dikes and chevrons 

designed to keep the Mississippi 

River’s shipping channel 

unobstructed at Delta 

Point/False Point, La., located 

across from Issaquena 

County. 

• $5,006,000 for dike construction 

near Below Belle 

Island and Marshall Brown, 

both sites near Vicksburg. 

• $4,300,000 for three relief 

wells, structures that help 

relieve flood conditions by 

providing alternative outlets 

for high waters. One of 

the wells will be located near 

Mayersville in Issaquena 

County. 

• $1,000,000 for surfacing 

levees with gravel to ease 

access to the levees during 

flood-fighting and inspection 

trips. The gravel work will 

start at the Little Sunflower 

Diversion Canal, north of 

the Yazoo River in Warren 

County, and extend northeast 

into Sharkey County. 

• $240,000 to repair stoplogs 

in water-control structures 

at Muddy Bayou, near Eagle 

Lake in Warren County. Stoplogs 

are wooden devices that 

can slow the flow of water 

through flood control mechanisms 

to accommodate maintenance 

work. 

• $175,000 for standardization 

of electrical control 

panels at Delta National 

Forest pumping stations 

that facilitate the deliberate 

flooding of wetland areas to 

accommodate waterfowl. 

• $50,000 for the Delta 

National Forest’s Greentree 

Reservoir pumps, which 

help flood wetland areas for 

waterfowl. 

The lunar business 

In all, the Vicksburg District 

received $220 million of 

the $4.6 billion doled out to 

the Corps under the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act, signed into law by 

President Barack Obama on 

Feb. 17. 

The District then divided 

that money between a host of 

projects, showing preference 

to work that could be completed 

quickly and “result 

in high, immediate employment,” 

according to a news 

release. 

A full list of Corps projects 

funded under the stimulus 

act can be found at www. 

usace.army.mil/recovery. 

It’s all about the heat: Peppers grow hottest in warm weather 

One of our callers last week 

wanted to know why the peppers 

from his garden were 

not as hot as he expected. 

Today’s column will discuss 

the factors that give peppers 

their hotness and how hotness 

is rated, as well as some 

types of peppers. 

A pepper’s hotness is chemically 

different from its flavor. 

The source of the fiery sensation 

is a group of naturally 

occurring chemicals called 

capsaicins. The effects of capsaicins 

have been described 

as a slow burn on the tongue 

and mid palate. 

Flavor, on the other hand, is 

associated with the pigments 

that give the fruit its color. 

Most peppers begin their 

development in some shade 

of green, then change to red, 

orange, yellow or purple as 

they ripen. Generally, the 

deeper the color, the stronger 

An artist’s rendering of the Ares I crew launch vehicle, left, and the Ares V cargo launch vehicle 

john COCCARO 

county extension Director 

the flavor. 

Capsaicin content is dependent 

on many factors, including 

genetics, climate, geographic 

location and stage of 

ripeness. Our warm region 

generally produces hotter 

peppers. Warm nights seem 

to be responsible for higher 

capsaicin content. Capsaicin 

production in peppers begins 

at one month and increases 

with maturity. 

Wilbur Scoville, inventor 

of the Scoville Heat Index, 

ranked peppers in order 

from mildest to hottest. 

The index starts with zero 

— the mildest — and goes 

over 1,000,000 to indicate the 

hottest peppers. Using this 

index, it is not uncommon 

for the same type pepper — 

jalapeños, for example — to 

have a wide range of hotness 

depending upon their growing 

conditions. The Scoville 

Heat Index for jalapeños can 

range anywhere from 2,000 to 

8,000, for example. 

Gardeners wanting really 

hot peppers should first 

select a type of pepper genetically 

capable of producing 

the heat desired. Then, 

allow the peppers to stay on 

the plant until fully mature, 

to minimize watering near 

harvest time and to hope 

for sunny, dry weather. Less 

mature, overwatered peppers 

will result in a milder 

taste. Cloudy weather as few 

as three days before harvest 

can also reduce hotness. 

Using the Scoville Index, 

one could probably either 

start with bell peppers or 

pimiento peppers. The index 

for bell peppers is zero and 

pimiento peppers have an 

index of about 500 — very 

mild. Beyond the jalapeño is 

the serrano pepper. Serranos 

look much like jalapeños, 

but are much hotter. On 

the Scoville Index, they will 

range from 10,000 to 25,000, 

which places them in the 

same heat range as cayenne 

peppers. Cayennes are usually 

dried and used in powder 

form. 

Tabasco peppers used to 

make Tabasco sauce range 

from 30,000 to 60,000 on the 

Scoville index. One of the 

hottest peppers commonly 

used today is the habanero 


chili pepper — 150,000 to 

350,000. The Naga Jolokia, 

however, is the hottest 

pepper in the world with a 

Scoville heat index of more 

than 1,000,000. It is said 

that just one seed from this 

pepper can burn for as many 

as 30 minutes. 

Hot peppers are quite versatile 

in that they can be 

used fresh, dried or frozen 

and are a good source of vitamins. 

In fact, green hot peppers 

have more vitamin C 

per weight than citrus fruit, 

and red hot peppers have 

more vitamin A than carrots. 

Hot peppers are low in calories, 

too. 

• 

John C. Coccaro is county Extension 

director. Write to him at 1100-C Grove 

St., Vicksburg, MS 39180 or call 601- 

636-5442. E-mail him at jcoccaro@ext. 

msstate.edu.


online 

NASA video of the 

Shuttle-Derived Heavy 

Lift Launch Vehicle: 

www.youtube.com/ 

watch?vxOnlAUpYWoc 

NASA 


new vehicles this rocket 

would carry — one generic 

cargo container, the other an 

Apollo-like capsule for astronaut 

travel. 

Those new 

vehicles could 

both go to the 

moon or the 

international 

space station. 

What’s most 

remarkable 

about this 

idea is who it 

John 

Shannon 

came from: NASA’s shuttle 

program manager John 

Shannon. He recently presented 

it to an independent 

panel charged with reviewing 

NASA’s costly spaceflight 

plans. And he was urged 

to do so by a top NASA 

administrator. 

It shows that top officials 

in NASA, an agency of engineers 

who regularly make 

contingency plans, worry 

that their preferred moon 

plan is running into trouble, 

space experts said. 

Shannon says he likes the 

present return-to-the-moon 

design. But he said, “I think 

the cost numbers are going 

to give us problems.” So for 

the past three years, Shannon 

and a handful of others 

have casually tinkered 

with the shuttleless shuttle, 

an idea that has been 

kicked around by NASA for 

decades. The Shannon team 

did so with the permission of 

NASA and is not connected 

with another group of space 

program workers who drew 

up a different alternative 

to Ares and did so anonymously 

for fear of retribution 

from NASA officials. 

“What I was doing was 

not a break from NASA,” 

Shannon said in a telephone 

interview. “I don’t care what 

launcher we use; I just want 

to go to the moon.” 

This is all happening while 

NASA’s new moon program, 

called Constellation — as 

well as the entire human 

spaceflight program — gets 

a hard look from an outside 

board as part of President 

Barack Obama’s science 

policy. 

And that panel’s first reaction 

to Shannon’s presentation 

was positive. 

“Terrific, very well done,” 

said panel chairman Norman 

Augustine, a longtime aerospace 

executive who noted 

he liked a similar proposal 20 

some years ago. 

Both the Augustine panel’s 

reaction and the upper-level 

management fingerprints on 

the Shannon proposal suggest 

to space experts that 

NASA management may be 

shifting gears, or at least signaling 

its doubts about the 

costlier plan. 

Howard McCurdy, an 

American University public 

policy professor who has 

written books about the 

space agency’s decisionmaking, 

believes NASA management 

worries there won’t 

be enough money for the 

Cadillac version. 

“They are hedging their 

bets,” agreed Keith Cowing, 

a former NASA engineer 

who runs Nasawatch.com, 

which acts as a watchdog on 

the space agency. “It clearly 

reflects some doubts among 

senior agency folks in the 

overall veracity of their current 

approach.” 

NASA spokesman Michael 

Curie said Shannon was 

encouraged to make the presentation 

“in the spirit of 

sharing the options we’ve 

studied in the past.” 

But he added: “NASA 

believes the best plan is to 

fully fund the current architecture... 

This does not indicate 

a lack of confidence in 

or support for the current 

program.” 

The Pacifica is a large Craftsman 

bungalow designed for 

construction on a view lot that 

slopes down at the rear. This 

appears to be a single-level 

home, but another floor is 

below. Basement rooms are as 

richly windowed as the main 

floor living areas. 

An eye-catching king post 

with angled struts accents 

the front porch gable, while 

tapered stone veneer bases 

support side posts that flank 

the entry. Stone veneer wainscoting 

spans the front facade, 

and an array of Craftsman 

windows adds to the overall 

charm. 

Vaulted ceilings are found 

throughout. They start at the 

front porch and move inside to 

the foyer and great room. The 

den, owners’ suite, and upper 

deck are also vaulted. 

To the left of the foyer, 

double doors open into a den 

where windows fill most of the 

front wall. Built-in bookcases 

fill another wall and wrap 

around to a third wall that has 

a built-in desk as well. A wide 

opening on the right side of 

the foyer leads into the dining 

room. This room, too, is awash 

in natural light. 

To get to the great room, you 

house plans 

Pacifica designed for view 

pass around the back side of 

the fireplace. Heading around 

it to the left puts you closer 

to the home entertainment 

center and window seat. Going 

around on the right takes you 

by the kitchen’s raised eating 

bar and on to the eating nook. 

Two sets of sliding glass doors 

at the rear open onto the covered 

deck. 

Luxurious amenities in the 

owners’ suite include a large 

walk-in closet, corner spa tub, 

walk-in shower, and totally 

private toilet. Two more bedrooms 

and bathrooms are 

downstairs, along with a 

family room with a fireplace 

and home entertainment 

center. 

For a review plan, including 

scaled floor plans, elevations, 

section and artist’s 

conception, send $25 to Associated 

Designs, 1100 Jacobs 

Dr., Eugene, OR 97402. Please 

specify the Pacifica 30-683 and 

include a return address when 

ordering. A catalog featuring 

more than 550 home plans is 

available for $15. For more 

information, call 800-634-0123, 

or visit our Web site at www. 

AssociatedDesigns.com. 

Dine out without eating into wallet 

By Consumer Reports editors 

If you want to save your 

cash and eat out, too, you’re 

in luck. Experts predict a 

sales decline at restaurants 

this year, so diners are in the 

driver’s seat. 

Consumer Reports’ survey 

of 70,403 subscribers who 

made 158,744 visits to 101 

restaurant chains revealed 

good meals, good deals and 

choices for every budget and 

taste. Readers gave 21 chains 

top marks for food, and five 

very different chains earned 

exceptional scores for value: 

Black-eyed Pea (home-style 

comfort food), Sonny’s Real Pit 

BBQ, Azteca Mexican Restaurant, 

Cheddar’s Casual Café 

(eclectic American), and First 

Watch (eggs, pancakes, and 

sandwiches). 

At the other end of the spectrum, 

with lower marks across 

the board, were Buffalo Wild 

Wings Grill & Bar, Joe’s Crab 

Shack and Friendly’s. 

Where to eat? 

For great meals for less than 

$20, CR’s readers recommend: 

Mimi’s Café, Abuelo’s, Cheddar’s 

Casual Café, Elephant 

Bar Restaurant and Texas 

Roadhouse. Those restaurants 

earned better-than average 

marks for food and value. 

First Watch and The Original 

Pancake House were also 

standouts for food and value, 

but are limited to breakfast 

and lunch fare. 

When dining at a chain for 

a special occasion, Houston’s, 

J. Alexander’s, Biaggi’s Ristorante 

Italiano, Bravo Cucina 

Italiano, Maggiano’s Little 

Italy, Il Fornaio, Bonefish Grill, 

McCormick & Schmick’s, The 

Capital Grille, Morton’s The 

Steakhouse, Ruth’s Chris 

Steak House and The Melting 

Pot all earned the highest 

marks for food, mood and 

service. 

Not many respondents 

ordered take-out food, but 

at more than 70 percent of 

visits, people who picked up 

consumer 

reports 

food were very satisfied with 

the service. Respondents cited 

Famous Dave’s, Carrabba’s 

Italian Grill, Olive Garden and 

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro as 

better choices. 

What’s the problem? 

While respondents were 

generally satisfied with their 

overall dining experience, 

they did have at least one complaint 

on 43 percent of restaurant 

visits. 

Noise (from loud customers 

and crowded tables) was the 

complaint cited most often. 

The Texas Roadhouse, Buffalo 

Wild Wings Grill & Bar, 

and Hooters were among 

the chains cited with higher 

than average noise complaints. 

Sloppy service (waiters 

or waitresses were inattentive 

or slow to bring food 

or the check) was next. The 

Rainforest Café, Friendly’s 

and the Cheesecake Factory 

were among the eight chains 

with above average complaint 

rates. 

Friendly’s, Shoney’s and 

Logan’s Roadhouse were 

among the chains cited for 

lack of cleanliness (bathrooms 

or floors were dirty, tableware 

was grimy). There were also 

complaints about long waits, 

which were more likely than 

average at The Cheesecake 

Factory, Rainforest Café, 

Texas Roadhouse, Houston’s, 

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and 

Outback Steakhouse. 

Dine for less 

CR found that diners are all 

but guaranteed to come out 

ahead if they try any of the following 

great ways to save: 

• Look for bargains on the 

menu. CR found plenty: buyone-get-one-free 

appetizers 

and entrées; all-you-caneat 

specials; lower prices for 

smaller portions; off-peak 

dining specials; and low-cost 

upgrades (add chicken to a 

salad for $1). 

• Sign up for e-mail alerts. 

Chain Web sites are the best 

source of menu specials, discounts 

and other promotions. 

That’s how CR learned about 

IHOP’s national free-pancakeday 

campaign and Denny’s 

Grand Slam and Grand Slamwich 

breakfast giveaways. 

• Time your visit. On weekdays 

and at off-peak hours, 

there are many chances to 

economize. 

• Order takeout. Getting food 

to go at least saves the cost 

of a tip, and the list of chains 

accepting online and telephone 

orders is growing. 

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS 

The 2008 Delinquent Tax Sale for all city and county taxes 

will be held on August 31, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. 

To avoid publication and other additional charges, 

all taxes must be paid before August 1, 2009. 

NO CHECKS ACCEPTED FOR PROPERTY TAXES AFTER 

JULY 15, 2009 

CASH, MONEY ORDERS, CASHIER’S CHECKS, 

MASTERCARD OR VISA ONLY AFTER THIS DATE. 

Antonia Flaggs-Jones 

Warren County Tax Collector 

MC to host sessions 

on MBA degree 

The Mississippi College 

School of Business will host a 

series of sessions on its master’s 

in business administration 

degree program. 

The workshops will be from 

6 to 7:30 p.m. July 28, Oct. 20 

and Dec. 1. Information will 

include admission requirements 

and prerequisites. The 

class is free. 

Call 601-925-7715 or 601- 

925-3420 or e-mail eduardo@ 

mc.edu. 

Agronomics day 

set for July 16 

The 2009 Agronomics Field 

Day will be from 8 a.m. to 1 

p.m. July 16 at Mississippi 

State University’s Delta 

Research and Extension 

Center in Stoneville. 

The featured discussion will 

be on efficient water management 

and usage. Other topics 

will include rice, soybean, 

cotton and corn production. 

The event is free. Call 662- 

686-3214 or e-mail jstovall@ 

drec.msstate.edu. 

State PERS gets 

highest honor 

The Public Employees’ 

Retirement System of Mississippi 

has received the U.S. 

government’s highest recognition 

in financial reporting 

and accounting. 

portfolio 

PERS was given, for the 

22nd consecutive year, the 

Certificate of Achievement 

for Excellence in Financial 

Reporting by the Government 

Finance Officers Association 

of the United States 

and Canada for the 2008 

fiscal year. 

PERS is the retirement 

system for nearly all nonfederal 

public employees in 

the state. It serves employees 

of the state, public schools, 

municipalities, counties, 

community colleges, state 

universities and other public 

entities, such as libraries and 

water districts. 

Delta business growth 

subject of seminar 

The GrowDelta Initiative 

will host a small business 

workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 

p.m. Saturday at the Cutrer 

House/Coahoma Higher Education 

Center, 109 Clark St., 

in Clarksdale. 

The workshop will teach 

participants how to manage 

small business finances, tap 

into local resources, market 

and brand a business and 

find a great business idea. 

A question-and-answer segment 

will also be conducted. 

Cost is $10 per person and 

includes lunch. The deadline 

to register is Wednesday. 

For information, visit www. 

growdelta.com or call 662- 

915-7236. 

casino tax revenue 

Vicksburg’s five casinos pay 

a 3.2 percent revenue tax to 

the State of Mississippi that 

is divided — with 10 percent 

going to schools, 25 percent 

to Warren County and 

65 percent to the city. A second 

revenue tax is a 0.8 percent 

share of the state’s 8.8 

percent revenue tax. It is split 

based on population proportions 

between Vicksburg and 

Warren County. Each casino is 

also required to pay $150 for 

each gaming device annually 

to the city. Two casinos have 

paid the device fee thus far 

this year, and two had paid to 

this point last year. These are 

the latest receipts. 

April 2009 

City ............................ $494,610.17 

County ..................... $233,283.16 

Schools .......................$63,295.08 

Fiscal year to date 2009 

City .........................$4,077,012.67 

County ........................$1,737,671 

Schools ...........................$471,803 

April 2008 

City ............................ $456,921.03 

County ..................... $215,329.13 

Schools .......................$58,456.53 

Fiscal year to date 2008 

City .........................$3,969,322.11 

County ........................$1,717,266 

local occupancy rates 

Occupancy rates and average daily rates at 14 of Vicksburg’s 31 

hotels and motels during May, as reported to Smith Travel Research. 

One hotel is under construction in Vicksburg. 

May 2009 

Occupancy rate ...............57.3% 

Average daily rate ............ 69.09 

May 2008 


Average daily rate ..........$74.30 

land transfers 

Year to date 2009 



Year to date 2008 



No commercial land transfers were recorded in the office of 

Chancery Clerk Dot McGee for the week ending July 3, 2009. 

ANTIBIOTICS BEFORE DENTAL PROCEDURES? 

Patients with hip prostheses 

may have heard that it is advisable 

to take antibiotics prior to undergoing 

tooth cleaning, scaling, and 

other procedures to address the 

potential release of bacteria into 

the bloodstream caused by these 

treatments. For people with 

replacement joints, the concern is 

that bacteria in the bloodstream 

(“bacteremia”) could cause an 

infection by attaching to the artificial 

joint or surrounding tissues. 

However, such infections are 

quite rare. In fact, the American 

Dental Association recommends 

against the use of antibiotics prior 

to dental procedures with the sole 

intention of preventing infections 

in artificial joints. Exceptions to 

this recommendation involve 

patients who are very susceptible 

to infection or are having a procedure 

that carries a higher risk of 

bacteremia. 

We are a caring, friendly team 

Dr. Thomas’ 

Dental Update 

by Brent Thomas DMD, PA 

of dental professionals committed 

to providing a comfortable dental 

experience. This column has been 

brought to you by the office of 

BRENT THOMAS, DMD, PA. 

in the interest of better dental 

health. We believe in an informed 

patient approach to achieving 

optimum dental health. We are 

dedicated to saving and restoring 

your teeth and helping you look 

your best. Call us to schedule an 

appointment for superior oral 

health care. Beautiful smiles are a 

team effort. 

P.S. Pre-treatment antibiotics 

may be indicated for immunecompromised 

patients and those 

who have inflammatory arthritis, 

type 1 diabetes, or hemophilia. 

DR. BRENT THOMAS DMD, PA 

Cosmetic & General Dentistry 

1805 Mission 66 • 601-638-2361


TONIGHT ON TV 

n MOVIE 

“Borat” — Mockumentary follows the 

misadventures of a Kazakh journalist, Sacha 

Baron Cohen, as he interacts with real 

people on a road trip across America on 

a quest to marry Pamela Anderson./8 on 

USA 

n SPORTS 

Tennis — Breakfast at Wimbledon comes 

with a side of history this year. Roger 

Federer tries for his record-setting 15th Sacha Baron Cohen 

Grand Slam championship in the men’s final./8 a.m. on NBC 

n PRIMETIME 

“Desperate Housewives” — Susan and Edie accidentally lock 

themselves in a basement; Bree encounters someone who’ll 

stand up to her; Gaby loses control of her girls and turns to Carlos 

for help./8 on ABC 

THIS WEEK’S LINEUP 

n EXPANDED LISTINGS 

TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in 

Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. 

com 

MILESTONES 

n BIRTHDAYS 

Huey Lewis, singer, 59; Edie Falco, actress, 46; Brent Flynn, 

country musician, 40; Dale Godboldo, actor, 34; Ryan Hansen, 

actor, 28. 

n DEATHS 

Allen Klein — The no-holds-barred businessman who bulldozed 

his way into and out of deals with the Beatles and the 

Rolling Stones, died Saturday. He was 77. He was one of the 

most powerful figures in the music business in the 1960s but 

ended up feuding with some of his biggest clients. Klein died at 

his New York City home of Alzheimer’s disease. 

PEOPLE 

Queen Latifah’s rap album due in August 

Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ quickly goes out of style 

By Christy Lemire 

AP movie critic 

LOS ANGELES — The problem 

with “Bruno” is Bruno 

himself. Compared to Borat — 

and it’s impossible to avoid the 

comparison — there simply 

isn’t enough to the character 

to build an entire featurelength 

film around him. 

Both spring from the brash 

and creative mind of British 

comic Sacha Baron Cohen, 

who unleashed them upon 

the world through his sketch 

comedy program “Da Ali G 

Show.” Borat, the bumbling 

journalist at the center of 

the 2006 smash “Borat: Cultural 

Learnings of America 

for Make Benefit Glorious 

Nation of Kazakhstan,” provided 

a prism through which 

to explore people’s prejudices, 

hypocrisies and foibles. Sure, 

Baron Cohen frequently shot 

fish in a barrel, but as Borat 

traveled across the United 

States trying to understand 

what makes us tick, the 

uncomfortable discoveries he 

made seemed endless. More 

importantly, for a comedy, 

they were usually funny. 

Bruno is a one-joke character 

in a one-joke movie, and 

it’s a joke Baron Cohen beats 

into the ground. He’s a flamboyantly 

gay Austrian fashion 

correspondent who repeatedly 

shocks people with his flam- 

RELEASE DATE—Sunday, July 5, 2009 boyant gayness. The end. 

Queen Latifah, in New Orleans for the 15th annual Essence In small doses — on the TV 

Music Festival, says she’s excited about her latest project — her show and at the film’s highenergy 

start — 

Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle 

he can be a 

first rap album in a decade that will be released in August. 

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols hoot. Lewis Here, big laughs come 

Entitled “Persona,” she says the release includes influences 

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family? 

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activity 

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about him. 

9 Opening frames 95 Inn group 

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32 Turn on one Gulf of __ 91 Like many 

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97 Troop troupe 4 Completely foot Another 58 Hack’s question fundamental mammals flaw 

Bill Cosby 18 19th draws century talecrowd sponsor, briefly to Essence 

loses it 

33 “Earth in the in 61 “Bruno” Point in timeis that 92 Spongy it’s much cake 

of South Seas 98 Frequently 5 High range Balance” author 

Hundreds packed a huge hall at the Morial Convention Center 

in New Orleans to hear from comedian, activist and educa- 

more 62 Slur obvious over which 93 Bitter gags are 

travel 

traded, in the 6 Ketch kin 34 Balearic Islands 

staged 

64 Symbols 

and 

of 

which 

94 Underground 

are truly 

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spontaneous. Much of the fun 

tor Bill Cosby, 21 a featured Girl George? speaker 99 1942 at ballet the withEssence 8 Paul Anka’s Music “__ Festival’s 35 Carrier that 65 Crypt 

95 “What hath God 

22 Lobby for 

a hoedown Beso (That merged with 66 Kind of round wrought?” 

annual gathering of leaders charged with finding solutions to 

23 Cookie made 100 Create financial Kiss!)” 

Piedmont in 67 Get all gooey sender 

problems facing with urban Chianti America. trouble for 9 Lapidary’s 

1989 

69 Metal playing 96 Commercial 

Cosby, who’s often instead of criticized figs? 105 Squall for his at sea? scolding product tone when 36dis- 

cussing ills facing the African American community, was warmly 

River through marble 

developers 

25 Wood for 107 “I never forget a 10 Item on a forged the Lake of 71 Basso Cesare 99 Route for Bob 

sashes? 

face,” e.g.? document, 

Geneva 72 Remove, as a and Bing 

received Saturday, 27 Like some drawing pens 109 applause Tartan and positive perhaps reactions 37 Entices 

brooch 100 Industrial haze 

throughout his 28 nearly Collect little 90-minute by wraparound conversation. 11 Gopher’s 38 Choir offering Dear 73 Word Abby: spoken I’m 101 a 15-year-old 

It’s a drag 

little 

110 Discontinue home?: Abbr. 39 ’80s Bond girl and with a I twofingered 

sign measured by a 

have 102 always Phenomenon had a 

30 Snack maker’s 111 Conjure up 12 Physique 

portrayer 

fear of heights. But my mother 

gizmo 

112 Work in the 13 Brief visit 42 Buckwheat dish 76 Gets into shape marigraph 

31 Need a doctor ANd ONE cutting room MOrE14 Price factor 43 Sharp quality and 77sister Forever love thrill 103 Oklahoma rides. cityAs 

32 Samples from a 113 Citrus 

15 Hooey 

44 Strings of a result, partner? we often 104go Trawling to theme gear 

Cops, doughnuts doctor taken refreshers to new 16 David heightislands? 

parks. 79 Fade When away we 106 do, President I’ll usually pro __ 

33 Atheistic 114 German 

Copperfield’s 45 Nothing more 80 Double 108 Costar of Teri, 

“Cops & Doughnuts” is more than a punchline. It’s now a bakery 

in Michigan relative? — owned by nine full-time employees of the 

go on a couple of the “kiddie 

34 Blue Danube seaport 

second wife than 

checker? 

Felicity, et al. 

39 Lovey-__ 

Clare, Mich., Police Department. 

40 Symbol of 

The newly renamed penance bakery opened Wednesday, offering 

doughnuts, cookies, 41 Dismayed muffins, cry brownies and bread. It also has 

mugs and T-shirts 

42 Carpenter 

bearing 

who 

the “Cops & Doughnuts, 100 Percent 

sang 

Cop-Owned” 43 logo, Mooch and phrases including “You Have the Right 

to Remain Glazed” 46 Vientiane and “Handcuffs and Cream Puffs.” 

Officer Al White native says the officers were concerned when the 

47 Highest in order 

Clare City Bakery’s 48 Ray or owners Jay decided to throw in the towel. The 

113-year-old 49 bakery Scout outing would have become the sixth empty storefront 

in Clare’s 50three-block Discovery of the downtown. 

mother lode? 

The officers 53 were Malt drier on hand for the grand reopening but have 

hired a manager 55 Yankees’ and will employ local students as staff. 

captain 

56 Small biological 

cavities 

TOMOrrOW’S HOrOSCOPE 

in “Borat” came from watching 

the unpredictability of 

Baron Cohen’s interactions 

with regular people, holding 

our collective breath to see 

how his unsuspecting victims 

would react to the awkward 

and politically incorrect 

things he did and said. While 

the structure and intentions 

of “Bruno” are nearly identical 

— both films come from 

director Larry Charles, with 

Baron Cohen among a team 

of writers — the supposedly 

daring moments play out a 

little too neatly. 

What seemed likely when 

“Bruno” was announced 

appears to have happened: 

Baron Cohen is simply too 

famous to go undercover 

with his preferred modus 

operandi. 

As the movie begins, Bruno 

is the host of the Austrian 

style and pop culture program 

“Funkyzeit.” He determines 

what’s in and what’s 

out, schmoozes with celebs 

and parades around in a wild 

array of butt-hugging outfits. 

But after he crashes the stage 

of a Milan fashion show, he’s 

banished from this glittering 

world. Naturally, he decides 

to reinvent himself as a superstar 

in the United States. 

So he moves to Los Angeles 

with his put-upon but worshipful 

assistant, Lutz (Gustaf 

Hammarsten), but there isn’t 

nearly the friction or chemistry 

Borat shared with his 

portly prodder, Azamat. 

He copies some of the tactics 

he’s seen other celebrities 

use to achieve and maintain a 

place in the spotlight, such as 

adopting an African baby or 

making a sex tape — seriously 

easy pickings. When Bruno 

undresses and hits on Ron 

Paul in a hotel room under the 

guise of interviewing him for 

a talk show, the former presidential 

candidate reacts to 

being ambushed by a stranger 

the way anyone would — male 

or female, gay or straight. No 

real revelations to be found 

there. 

You have to give Baron 

Cohen credit for keeping a 

straight face regardless of 

the silly situation. But at the 

end, the cameos in a “We Are 

the World”-style anthem from 

Elton John, Bono, Snoop Dogg 

and others confirm what you 

may have suspected all along: 

Baron Cohen has become part 

of the very establishment he’s 

parodying. 

“Bruno,” a Universal Pictures 

release, is rated R for 

pervasive strong and crude 

sexual content, graphic nudity 

and language. Running time: 

88 minutes. One and a half 

stars out of four. 

Thrill-loving mom has no sympathy for scared daughter 

rides,” which is what Mom 

calls “mild” rides. Mom and 

my sister try to drag me on the 

roller coasters, but I always 

say no. 

After I refuse a few times, 

Mom will finally snap. The 

last time it happened she 

said: “You know what? I’m not 

paying for your ticket if you’re 

going to wimp out and not go 

on any rides.” 

I have been driven to tears 

more than once. She won’t 

stop even if my friends are 

with us. I wish I could stay 

home when they go, but then 

my mom accuses me of being 

“antisocial.” 

Please tell me what I can do 

or say to her to make her stop 

doing this. — Tired Teen in 

Colton, N.Y. 

Dear Tired Teen: Your 

mother may think that your 

refusal to go on the roller 

coaster (etc.) is a bid for attention, 

but she is wrong. She isn’t 

taking into consideration how 

severe a fear of heights can be 

— some people require professional 

intervention to overcome 

it, and it costs a heck of 

a lot more than a ticket to a 

theme park. Because you can’t 

seem to get through to her, 

appeal to one of her friends or 

57 “I’ll say!” 

59 More than just 

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60 Had rights to 

Cancer (June 6321-July Unit of work22) — Even if the spirit is willing, should 

the flesh be weak, 65 “My Cousin all those tasks you planned to complete may 

Vinny” Oscar 

go untouched. winner 

Leo (July 23-Aug. 68 To boot 22) — It’s wise not to rely too heavily on others 

or their promises, 70 Abates especially involving career matters. Have a 

74 Hot spots 

backup plan. 75 Money maker 

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 76 Put an “X” 22) — There is a strong possibility you 

could leave numerous where you want projects unfinished, causing all kinds of 

to cut the cord? 

disarray to quickly 78 Buck, develop. 

for one 

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 79 Only just23) — Trying too hard to be clever and 

unique could be managed, a major withcontributor to your foolish behavior. 

“out” 

Scorpio (Oct. 8124-Nov. Eats into 22) — Although there is nothing wrong 

with your material 83 UV index prospects, you could bank too heavily on 

luck and not enough monitor on effort, causing only losses. 

84 Letters on a 

Sagittarius (Nov. lunch 23-Dec. menu 21) — If you’re smart, you won’t let 

an associate arrange your schedule and throw you off course. 

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Although you should be curtailing 

all extravagant urges, instead you might yield to desire and 

a close relative to help you get 

imprudently increase your spending. 

ANSWER TO TODAY’S PUZZLE 

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — In order to impress some hotshot, 

you could put on some airs and affectations that don’t become 

you. 

Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Unjustified optimism could cause 

you to think that everything will turn out successfully without 

you lifting a finger. 

Aries (March 21-April 19) — You have excellent earning potential, 

but sadly you may also have strong surges of extravagance. 

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — It’s wonderful to be a solid friend 

upon whom a good pal can depend, but this doesn’t mean you 

should condone poor judgment on his or her part. 

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — You’re quick to assess developments 

accurately, but what you do with this knowledge will be 

another story. If your conclusions don’t match your desires, you 

could deny its value. 

7/5/09 

Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno 

fILM rEVIEW 

DEAR 

ABBY 

ABIGAIL 

VAN 

BUrEN 

Unscramble these six Jumbles, 

the one message letter to each across. square, Believe 

to form six ordinary words. 

me, you have my sympathy. 

Dear BITLEG Abby: In December, 

right before Christmas, my 

NEW JUMBLE NINTENDO 

daughter www.jumble.com/ds and I went shopping. 

We visited STYMIC several stores in a 

strip mall in the small town 

where we live. After returning 

to my CUGATH vehicle, I left the wheelchair 

I use for long distances 

at the back for my daughter 

to load. ZIRDAL 

We were getting ready to 

leave town. I hurried home, 

wrapped KHEELS the gifts I had 

bought, then rushed out 

again to deliver them in the 

next 

STOLCY 

town. When we reached 

our next stop, I realized I had 

left my wallet in the pocket of 

my wheelchair. When I asked 

A 

my daughter to retrieve it, she 

looked at me and said, “You 

took the wheelchair out?” 

GIBLET 

MYSTIC 

Answer : 

CAUGHT 

LIZARD 

SHEKEL 

COSTLY 

What the magician considered the 

easy card trick — 

A SLIGHT 

SLEIGHT 

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That was when we realized 

she had forgotten to load it. 

I started calling the stores 

to ask if anyone had turned 

in a wallet and wheelchair. 

The answer was no. When I 

decided to call the sheriff’s 

by department Mike Argirion and and Jeff Knurek ask if anyone 

had turned the items in, the 

dispatcher began asking me 

all kinds of questions about 

my whereabouts and safety. 

Abby, they thought I had been 

kidnapped! I felt terrible for 

upsetting everyone. 

I would like to thank the 

good Samaritan who turned in 

my wheelchair and my wallet, 

intact, with nothing missing. 

The items in it could have 

been replaced, but there is 

no way I could have replaced 

the wheelchair because it was 

expensive. 

I would also like to thank the 

sheriff’s department, which 

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new on the shelves 

The Warren County-Vicksburg 

Public Library reports on 

new books regularly: 

• “Terror on the High Seas: 

True Tales of Modern-Day 

Pirates” by Daniel Sekulich 

takes us on an eye-opening 

voyage into the world of highseas 

piracy, a multinational, 

multibillion-dollar enterprise 

controlled by organized crime 

syndicates and local warlords. 

Sekulich sailed through some 

of the most dangerous waters 

on the planet to chronicle this 

threat to national and international 

security. He meets with 

victims of attacks, those fighting 

the perils and even pirates 

themselves. To many, the word 

pirates conjures up images of 

swashbucklers in the 18th century. 

The very idea that pirates 

might still ply the seas today 

seems preposterous and farfetched. 

But pirates definitely 

still exist. And, as this book 

shows, their violent activities 

on the other side of the globe 

can have a wide-reaching 

effects — whether on our economy 

or the war on terror. 

• “The Pirate’s Pact” by 

Douglas R. Burgess tells of the 

secret alliances between history’s 

most notorious buccaneers 

and Colonial America. Thomas 

Tew, Rhode Island gentleman 

and infamous pirate; Blackbeard; 

Captain Kidd; Henry 

Every — almost every infamous 

scoundrel of the Golden Age of 

Piracy (roughly 1660 to 1725) — 

did their plundering under the 

sponsorship and protection of 

England’s colonial governors 

in the Americas. And virtually 

every governor was on the take. 

Pirates entertained merchants 

and their families aboard ship 

in New York Harbor and auctioned 

booty from the docks 

of Virginia’s port towns. Combining 

true tales of derring-do 

with revelations he unearthed 

from forgotten government 

archives in England, the Carolinas, 

Rhode Island, Jamaica 

and elsewhere, the author demonstrates 

how the flaunting of 

England’s prerogatives helped 

shape the American character 

and notions of independence. 

• “Eat Cheap but Eat Well” 

by Charles Mattocks, star of 

“The Poor Chef,” has spent 

years demonstrating that it’s 

possible to serve up healthy, 

tasty meals for $7 or less. Now, 

in this practical cookbook, 

Charles collects the all-time 

best, penny-pinching recipes 

from his TV appearances. 

• “The Whole Death Catalog” 

by Harold Schechter 

is a lively guide to the bitter 

end. With his trademark fearlessness 

and bracing sense of 

humor, Schechter digs deep into 

a wealth of sources to unearth 

a treasure trove of surprising 

facts, amusing anecdotes, practical 

information and timeless 

wisdom about that undiscovered 

country to which we will 

all one day travel. From the 

cold, hard facts of death to lessons 

in the art of dying well, 

this book leaves no gravestone 

unturned. 

• “Jane Brody’s Guide to the 

Great Beyond” by Jane Brody 

is the complete guide to everything 

you need to know to prepare 

for the end of life. A road 

map to putting your affairs 

in order — or helping loved 

ones do the same — this comprehensive 

book will answer 

virtually every question you 

might have about what does 

and does not help smooth the 

transition between life and the 

great beyond. No matter your 

age or current health, preparing 

for the inevitable when you 

are still fully in control of your 

faculties ensures that you’ll be 

in a far better position to enjoy 

the time you have left. 

• “Faith Under Fire” by 

Roger Benimoff is an Army 

chaplain’s memoir. As he left 

for his second tour of duty in 

Iraq, Benimoff noted in his 

journal he was excited, scared 

and on fire for God. But, not 

long after returning to Iraq, the 

burden of his job — the memorial 

services for soldiers killed 

in action, the therapy sessions 

after contact with the enemy, 

the perilous excursions “outside 

the wire” while under 

enemy fire — began to overwhelm 

him. Amid the dust, 

heat and blood of Iraq, Benimoff 

felt the pillar of strength 

he’d always relied on —his 

faith in God — begin to crumble. 

Unable to make sense of 

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the senseless, he turned to his 

journal using it to spell out his 

doubts. Upon his return home, 

his spiritual crisis heightened 

and he was eventually diagnosed 

with post traumatic 

stress disorder. And so began 

the greatest battle of his life. 

• “Loon” by Jack McLean 

is a Marine’s story. Jack 

McLean was not your average 

Vietnam grunt. He had a 

privileged upbringing in New 

Jersey and was a classmate 

of George W. Bush. Nearing 

graduation in 1966, he decided 

on a different path from his 

peers. Rather than attend an 

elite college, he enlisted in the 

Marines. From his first night at 

the Marie Corps boot camp at 

Parris Island, McLean felt circumstances 

begin to outstrip 

his ability to deal with them. 

After some time spent serving 

stateside, in 1967, he was sent 

to Vietnam. Nothing prepared 

him for the horror of Landing 

Zone Loon: the battle that took 

place over three days in June 

1968 on a remote hill tucked 

into the border of North Vietnam 

and Laos. On a long knoll 

with little relief from the pounding 

sun and no cover from the 

lurking enemy, McLean and 

his company endured a brutal 

assault that would kill 27 men, 

wound nearly 100 others and 

leave several dozen survivors 

to defend an ever-shrinking 

perimeter with little water 

or ammo. McLean returned 

home weeks later to a country 

that was ambivalent to his service. 

Having applied to college 

from a foxhole the previous 

fall, he became the first Vietnam 

veteran to attend Harvard 

University. 

• 

Denise Hogan is reference interlibrary 

loan librarian at the Warren County- 

Vicksburg Public Library. Write to her at 

700 Veto St., Vicksburg, MS 39180. 

Unscramble these six Jumbles, 

one letter to each square, 

to form six ordinary words. 

NEW JUMBLE NINTENDO 

www.jumble.com/ds 

A 

BITLEG 

STYMIC 

CUGATH 

ZIRDAL 

KHEELS 

STOLCY 

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A FArEWELL TO PIGGOTT 

Arkansas town forgotten haven for Hemingway 

By Jon Gambrell 

The Associated Press 

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suggested by the above cartoon. 

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PIGGOTT, Ark. — The quail 

rose out of the cornfields and 

briars of northeast Arkansas, 

giving the young writer just 

enough time to swing his shotgun 

up like a pitchfork toward 

their flight. 

Ernest Hemingway still 

remained years away from 

depression and turning 

another shotgun on himself as 

he picked off the birds along 

Sugar Creek in Piggott. The 

man collecting his kills had 

won the attention of the literary 

world with “The Sun Also 

Rises,” but remained reliant 

on the handouts of friends, 

including F. Scott Fitzgerald 

and others. 

In Piggott, the family of Hemingway’s 

second wife, Pauline 

Pfeiffer, gave generously to the 

writer as the Great Depression 

took hold of the country. 

He wrote about 100 pages of “A 

Farewell to Arms” from a converted 

studio over an old barn 

near their home before the 

heat of an Arkansas summer 

— and his own restlessness — 

drove him away. 

Now, 80 years after the publication 

of the tale of love 

and loss, the Arkansas home 

where Hemingway stayed 

has seen an increase in the 

number of visitors coming to 

the out-of-the-way museum. 

That likely would come as a 

shock to Hemingway, who 

dismissed the town as the 

unbearably hot “disease cultural 

center of America.” 

“He was not social with Piggott. 

He came here because 

he could get away from everybody 

and he could write,” 

said Deanna Dismukes, an 

education coordinator at the 

museum. He thought that 

“nobody’s going to bug him, 

because there aren’t any 

important people like (James) 

Joyce.” 

You have to want to go to Piggott 

to get there, even today. 

It’s a three-hour car trip from 

Little Rock or St. Louis to the 

town, about 10 miles from the 

Missouri border in the upper 

reaches of northeast Arkansas. 

The drained swamp land 

surrounding the city of 3,500 

holds rice fields and an occasional 

corn crop. 

Paul Pfeiffer saw a new life 

for himself in the lands surrounding 

Piggott. Pfeiffer, who 

established a successful chemicals 

company with his brothers, 

purchased 63,000 acres 

around the city and moved 

his family there from St. Louis 

in 1913. His daughter Pauline 

would later graduate from 

journalism school in Missouri 

and take on several reporting 

jobs before landing in Paris to 

work for Vogue. 

There, among the Lost Generation 

writers of the Left 

Bank, Pauline Pfeiffer met 

Hemingway and his then-wife 

at a party. Soon, the sharpdressed 

and sharp-minded 

reporter won over Hemingway, 

who divorced in 1927 

and married Pfeiffer a month 

later. 

Their marriage, though 

likely based on lust and mutual 

respect for their writing styles, 

also included a financial incentive 

as well, said Ruth Hawkins, 

who heads the Arkansas 

State University program that 

manages the Piggott museum. 

The trust fund of Hemingway’s 

first wife had dwindled 

to “almost nothing” by the end 

of their marriage, she said. 

“I think he found she was a 

good editor and came from 

a family with money. Those 

were important to Ernest,” 

Hawkins said. “Until he could 

get established as a writer, 


Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, are shown 

as they arrive in New York aboard the ocean liner Paris in 

1934. 

“HEARD DOWN 

UNDER” 

By RICHARD 

SILVESTRI 

ACROSS 

1 Titanic obstacle 

5 Day care 

denizen 

9 Opening frames 

14 Try 

18 19th century tale 

of South Seas 

travel 

19 Reach via radio 

21 Girl George? 

22 Lobby for 

23 Cookie made 

with Chianti 

instead of figs? 

25 Wood for 

sashes? 

27 Like some pens 

28 Collect little by 

little 

30 Snack maker’s 

gizmo 

31 Need a doctor 

32 Samples from a 

doctor 

33 Atheistic 

34 Blue Danube 

relative? 

39 Lovey-__ 

40 Symbol of 

penance 

41 Dismayed cry 

42 Carpenter who 

sang 

43 Mooch 

46 Vientiane 

native 

47 Highest in order 

48 Ray or Jay 

49 Scout outing 

50 Discovery of the 

mother lode? 

53 Malt drier 

55 Yankees’ 

captain 

56 Small biological 

cavities 

57 “I’ll say!” 

59 More than just 

big 

60 Had rights to 

63 Unit of work 

65 “My Cousin 

Vinny” Oscar 

winner 

68 To boot 

70 Abates 

74 Hot spots 

75 Money maker 

76 Put an “X” 

where you want 

to cut the cord? 

78 Buck, for one 

79 Only just 

managed, with 

“out” 

81 Eats into 

83 UV index 

monitor 

84 Letters on a 

lunch menu 

85 Woolly, in a 

way 

86 Brilliance 

87 Jellied garnish 

89 Incline 

90 Female 

chiropractor? 

92 Thanksgiving 

activity 

95 Inn group 

97 Troop troupe 

sponsor, briefly 

98 Frequently 

traded, in the 

stock market 

99 1942 ballet with 

a hoedown 

100 Create financial 

trouble for 

105 Squall at sea? 

107 “I never forget a 

face,” e.g.? 

109 Tartan 

wraparound 

110 Discontinue 

111 Conjure up 

112 Work in the 

cutting room 

113 Citrus 

refreshers 

114 German 

seaport 

he knew he had to have some 

source of income.” 

By late 1927, Pfeiffer became 

pregnant with their son Patrick 

and wanted to return 

to the U.S. to have the child. 

They spent time in Key West, 

Fla., before returning to the 

farm home. 

At Piggott, the Pfeiffers built 

a writer’s studio for Hemingway 

in a loft over the old 

horse barn they used to store 

steamer trunks and other 

goods. The studio included a 

bathroom, bed and a slanted 

ceiling, but it offered a more 

important luxury — distance 

between the writer and his 

new in-laws as he struggled to 

decide what to do with Frederic 

Henry, the protagonist of 

“A Farewell to Arms.” 

Henry, like Hemingway, 

worked as an ambulance 

driver on the Italian front and 

suffered a knee injury during 

a mortar attack. By the time 

the writer reached Piggott, 

Henry already lay in a hospital 

bed, trying to grapple with 

his injury. 

Hemingway wrote about 100 

pages of the book in Arkansas, 

later excising much of 

it. The full sticky heat of an 

Arkansas summer descended 

RELEASE DATE—Sunday, July 5, 2009 

115 On in years 

116 Carmine’s 

family? 

DOWN 

1 He beat 

Holyfield twice 

2 Islamic title 

3 Columnist 

Barrett 

4 Completely 

loses it 

5 High range 

6 Ketch kin 

7 Toy with a tail 

8 Paul Anka’s “__ 

Beso (That 

Kiss!)” 

9 Lapidary’s 

product 

10 Item on a forged 

document, 

perhaps 

11 Gopher’s 

home?: Abbr. 

12 Physique 

13 Brief visit 

14 Price factor 

15 Hooey 

16 David 

Copperfield’s 

second wife 

17 Round at the bar 

20 Fire trucks 

24 They’re at your 

fingertips 

26 God for whom 

Wednesday was 

named 

29 2001 U.S. Open 

champ Hewitt 

32 Turn on one 

foot 

33 “Earth in the 

Balance” author 

34 Balearic Islands 

capital 

35 Carrier that 

merged with 

Piedmont in 

1989 

36 River through 

the Lake of 

Geneva 

37 Entices 

38 Choir offering 

39 ’80s Bond 

portrayer 

42 Buckwheat dish 

43 Sharp quality 

44 Strings of 

islands? 

45 Nothing more 

than 

on Piggott each day, with the 

small rectangular windows of 

Hemingway’s loft only funneling 

in more dense, humid air. 

Soon, he and Pauline traveled 

to Kansas City for the baby’s 

birth by cesarean section, an 

experience that later would 

enter the tragic final act of “A 

Farewell to Arms.” The two 

returned to Piggott weeks 

later, but Hemingway soon 

cut out to Wyoming to finish 

the novel as Pauline and his 

new son waited at the Pfeiffer 

family home. 

Hemingway “was not one to 

be in one place for a terribly 

long time,” Dismukes said. “He 

suffered from some depression 

and in order to alleviate the 

depression and get him writing 

again, he needed a new 

locality. He needed to meet 

new people, see new things, 

have new experiences.” 

The Pfeiffer family accepted 

that and Pauline’s uncle 

even helped fund an African 

safari for the couple at a cost 

of $25,000 during the Great 

Depression. That uncle even 

helped pay for Hemingway’s 

deep-sea fishing boat and the 

couple’s apartment in Paris. 

Hemingway returned dutifully 

to Piggott for holidays, 

sometimes writing short stories 

and storing manuscripts 

in a local bank vault. But the 

fame of being Ernest Hemingway 

soon found its way to 

Piggott. Paramount Pictures 

sent telegrams to Hemingway 

urging him to attend a premiere 

of the 1932 film adaptation 

of “A Farewell to Arms” 

— at a movie theater in Piggott. 

Hemingway declined the 

offer. 

As Hemingway became more 

popular, his relationship with 

Pauline strained. 

They divorced in 1940 and 

Hemingway remarried 

quickly, later speaking poorly 

of Pauline in letters and among 

friends. 

Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle 

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 

47 Optic layer 

49 Talmud tongue 

51 Tertiary Period 

epoch 

52 “American 

Psycho” author 

54 USN VIPs 

55 Knight game 

57 Arabian Sea’s 

Gulf of __ 

58 Hack’s question 

61 Point in time 

62 Slur over 

64 Symbols of 

might 

65 Crypt 

66 Kind of round 

67 Get all gooey 

69 Metal playing 

marble 

71 Basso Cesare 

72 Remove, as a 

brooch 

73 Word spoken 

with a twofingered 

sign 

76 Gets into shape 

77 Forever 

partner? 

79 Fade away 

80 Double 

checker? 

82 Colts’ home 

before Lucas Oil 

Stadium 

85 Oil source 

87 Ore analysis 

88 Third-party 

candidate, 

perhaps 

89 Is frugal 

91 Like many 

mammals 

92 Spongy cake 

93 Bitter 

94 Underground 

gate 

95 “What hath God 

wrought?” 

sender 

96 Commercial 

developers 

99 Route for Bob 

and Bing 

100 Industrial haze 

101 It’s a drag 

102 Phenomenon 

measured by a 

marigraph 

103 Oklahoma city 

104 Trawling gear 

106 President pro __ 

108 Costar of Teri, 

Felicity, et al. 

7/5/09 xwordeditor@aol.com 

©2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 

ANSWER TO TODAY’S PUZZLE


Hansen’s patient, former inmate writes of life in Carville, La. 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 

Driving the River Road to the 

National Hansen’s Disease 

Museum in Carville, it is easy 

to get lost in time. That green 

levee, those majestic oaks are 

the stuff of a vintage, timeless 

Louisiana landscape. Closer 

to present memory, though, is 

the Louisiana National Guard 

installation, with its post- 

Katrina and Rita trailers, its 

young soldiers training in 

the summer sun, its signs for 

the Job Corps and the Youth 

Corps. 

Then there is the museum, 

which preserves the prehistory 

of the place, its early days 

and long years (1894-1999) as 

a treatment center for people 

with the long-misunderstood 

disease. It is filled with haunting 

remnants of a closed world, 

where residents who came 

(or were brought by force) 

often surrendered their given 

names upon admission (for 

fear of shame to their families) 

and then their rights. (Carville 

patients did not receive the 

right to vote until 1946.) 

The chapels, Catholic and 

Protestant, are still beautiful. 

A stained glass window in the 

Catholic chapel depicts Jesus 

curing the leper, saying “Take 

up thy bed and walk.” The 

lovely little cemetery, resting 

place of 600 or more souls, is 

filled with white military-issue 

headstones, engraved with 

death dates and patient numbers. 

Louis Arlt, patient No. 1, 

was buried here in 1923. 

Two new memoirs bring the 

fading yet vivid world of Carville 

to light. “Squint: My Journey 

with Leprosy,” by Jose 

Ramirez Jr. (University Press 

of Mississippi, $28), is a painfully 

honest chronicle of life 

as a patient there, a call for 

dignity for Hansen’s sufferers. 

“In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: 

A Memoir” (William Morrow, 

$25.99) is by magazine publisher 

Neil White, sentenced 

to an 18-month term in Carville 

for check-kiting during 

the brief and uneasy time 

when part of the facility was 

a federal prison. 

In “Squint,” Ramirez puts a 

Neil White, author of “In the Sanctuary of 

Outcasts: A Memoir” stands in a corridor 

— part of 2 1/2 miles of covered walkways 

— at Carville, La., where a federal prison 

books 

The book “In the Sanctuary 

of Outcasts: A Memoir” 

new face on Hansen’s disease. 

From a large Hispanic family 

in Laredo, Texas, Ramirez 

underwent various diagnoses 

and attempted cures (including 

the ministrations of curanderas, 

or healers) before an 

official diagnosis and banishment 

to Carville in 1968. 

He arrived in a hearse. Once 

there, he struggled; as a 20 

year-old, he was just beginning 

his life, with plans for 

continuing his education and 

hopes of marrying his childhood 

sweetheart. His time in 

Carville delayed his plans, but 

he was unstoppable. 

Now a social worker, he 

travels the world, educating 

people about Hansen’s disease 

and advocating for an 

end to the term “leper,” with 

its pejorative associations. He 

still struggles with the notion 

that his parents believe his illness 

was punishment for their 

sins. 

It took him a long time to 

write his book. “I was healing 

for a long period,” he said 

by phone from his office in 

Houston. “I go back to Carville 

a minimum of twice a 

year. Magdalena (his wife) 

and I stay at the facility. We 

visit with the 15 residents 

there. They all call me son. 

They were the age of my parents 

when I got there, and now 

they’re elderly. 

“It’s become a second home. 

When I was there, all I could 

think of was how much I 

wanted to get out, but I could 

appreciate the beauty of all 

the people there.” 

While living at Carville, 


briefly shared the grounds of a hospital 

that treated Hansen’s disease patients from 

1894 to 1999. 

Ramirez earned his degree in 

social work; later he worked at 

New Orleans City Hall when 

Moon Landrieu was mayor. 

Ramirez specializes in the 

human cost of stigma; hence, 

his advocacy of eliminating the 

“L” word. “I’ve always maintained 

that this disease has 

carried the greatest stigma of 

any illness,” he said. 

“I’m trying to get the religious 

sect to be able to understand 

that yes, the term is in 

the Bible, and it is very specific 

and does refer to sin, but 

we need to talk about it in 

contemporary times. I saw so 

many things at Carville and 

learned so much. I’ve been 

inspired by hundreds and 

hundreds of residents.” 

“Squint” alludes to an architectural 

feature in medieval 

churches that let people with 

leprosy view the Mass without 

participating. It also refers 

to the narrowed view in the 

photograph on his book cover. 

“It’s similar to one of the roads 

along the levee by Carville,” 

he said. “There’s that feeling 

of going into the unknown, not 

knowing if there’s danger or 

friends right over the hill, and 

nothing behind you.” 

Neil White, who once ran 

New Orleans Magazine and 

Louisiana Life magazines, 

arrived at Carville on May 3, 

1993, and soon realized that his 

situation would make a splendid 

memoir a la George Plimpton. 

His tale carries that kind 

of wit and dark humor, that 

insight into the human condition 

— from the residents to 

the inmates (and some of the 

latter are amazingly funny). 

But all of that hubris, all that 

sense of separation, vanishes 

when his wife files for divorce 

and threatens to take his children 

away. White realizes he 

is right where he belongs. 

“Finally, in a sanctuary for 

outcasts, I understood the 

truth. Surrounded by men and 

women who could not hide 

their disfigurement, I could 

see my own,” he writes. 

Today, 15 years after his 

release, White lives in Oxford 

and is married to a law professor. 

He has shared custody 

of his two children and has 

launched a publishing business. 

He has created, for all practical 

purposes, a second life. 

“I go to Carville probably two 

or three times a year,” he said 

by phone from his office. “I 

go visit Harry, one of the residents 

who is still living there. 

The time before last he needed 

a new telephone because his 

speed dial was broken. The 

last time I was donating my 

papers to the museum there. 

You have no idea how odd it 

feels to be a former inmate 

and have a museum actually 

interested in my papers.” 

“In the Sanctuary of Outcasts” 

moves forward in time 

through White’s prison sentence, 

then back in memory, 

recalling how he got there. 

“Being across the sanctuary 

from people who had suffered 

from leprosy played a huge 

role in keeping me sane there. 

If I had been in a prison where 

there was physical abuse — if I 

had been sent to a real prison 

with bars — this would be a 

very different book, a story of 

survival.” 

Both men describe Carville 

as sacred space — and, in 

the museum and chapel and 

cemetery, it is easy to feel the 

struggling spirits of those who 

have lived and died there, that 

sense of a closed, almost vanished 

world created as a radical 

response to the disease. 

“I think, if you are intuitive, 

you are aware of the unbelievable 

suffering — physically 

and emotionally — that was 

endured by the people who 

were brought there,” White 

said. “And you couple that 

with the amazing healing that 

happened there, it sends chills 

down my spine. 

“You’re in a place in the 

United States where people 

who are citizens of this country 

were the last people who 

were imprisoned because they 

had a disease. What that did to 

them and how they responded 

... I was in awe of the place.”


TOPIC 

SUNDAY, jU lY 5, 2009 • SECTION C 

LOCAL EVENTS CALENDAR C2 | WEDDINGS C3 


THIS & THAT 


Red Hat queen 

seeking others 

A Vicksburg native who 

is head of a Jackson-area 

chapter of the Red Hat 

Society, is seeking to meet 

with society members in 

the River 

City. 

Cheryl 

Arazny 

Rivers is 

queen of 

the Bella 

Donna 

Cheryl Arazny 

Rivers 

Dolls of 

Flowood. 

She graduated 

from H.V. Cooper 

High School and was 

a member of Hawkins 

United Methodist Church 

for 18 years until she 

moved to Jackson in 1968. 

The Red Hat Society is 

an international group of 

women who don signature 

red and purple and lavender 

and pink outfits. 

For more information on 

the Bella Donna Dolls, call 

601-919-8713. 

Learn to ID snakes 

at Extension program 

The Warren County 

Extension Office will host 

Identifying Snakes, a free 

program at 9:30 a.m. July 

13. 

Steven George will lead 

the program. Registration 

is required by Friday. 

The office is located at 

1100-C Grove St. Call 601- 

636-5442. 

The Chill to play 

at ACS fundraiser 

A Vicksburg band will 

play at a Jackson event 

to benefit the American 

Cancer Society. 

The Chill will perform 

at Jamaica Me Crazy, set 

for 7 to 11 p.m. July 31 in 

the Sparkman Auditorium 

at the Mississippi 

Agricultural and Forestry 

Museum. The party will 

feature dinner, a cash 

bar, ball drop and silent 

auction. 

Tickets are $45 per 

couple or $35 for individuals. 

Call 601-321-5500. 

Artwork on display 

at MLC in Jackson 

The Mississippi Library 

Commission will present 

a display of artwork by 

Mississippi artists Tom 

Harmon and Faye Speed 

through Aug. 31. 

Harmon is a multimedia 

artist. Speed is an acrylic 

painter. 

A free reception will 

be at 5 p.m. July 30; both 

artists will attend. The 

exhibit is free, and hours 

are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Monday-Friday. 

The MLC is located at 

3881 Eastwood Drive in 

Jackson. Call 601-432- 

4056, or visit www.mlc.lib. 

ms.us. 

Ark. watercolorist 

is ORAG July artist 

The Ouachita River Art 

Gallery’s July artist is 

Marlene Gremillion of Hot 

Springs Village, Ark. 

Gremillion, a former resident 

of West Monroe, is a 

multimedia artist whose 

watercolor florals will be 

displayed at the gallery. 

The exhibit is free, and 

the hours are 10 a.m. to 5 

p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 

The gallery is located 

at 308 Trenton St., West 

Monroe. Call 318-322-2380, 

or visit www.orag.org. 

KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg PosT 

Surrounded by photos of former pageant queens, Josie Smith looks at Miss Mississippi 

programs from years past. 

Josie Smith has hosted 

Mississippi’s queens 

Josie Smith has participated in more pageants 

than just about anyone else. When the Miss Mississippi 

Pageant gets started next week, it will be her 

49th — and that’s more than half of her life. 

Josie will be 97 in October. 

She began hosting contestants in 1960, and that 

has been her main role. It began when Betty Bullard 

asked her to be a hostess, she said, “and I’ve 

been there ever since.” 

She retired officially two years ago, after 47 years, 

and now, she said, “They let me do what I want to 

do.” She’ll be there, dining with the contestants 

occasionally and going to the competition each 

night. 

She was never in 

a pageant of any 

kind, she said, but 

attended some here 

in the early days 

when Vicksburg 

began hosting the 

event. As a hostess, 

she said, “I’ve loved 

every minute of it,” 

and always cheered 

for her girls. 

When Josie 

became a hostess, 

the contestants 

stayed at the Vicksburg 

Hotel and 

then at All Saints’. 

She stayed with 

them during the 

day, a job she said 

was “really like 

chaperoning,” for 

she went everywhere with them. 

for 49 years 

GorDoN 

COTTON 

If you go 

The 2009 Miss Mississippi 

Pageant will be July 15-18 

at Vicksburg Convention 

Center. Tickets are $100 

for all four nights, $25 for 

Wednesday, $25 for Thursday, 

$30 for Friday and $50 

for Saturday. Call 601-638- 

6746 or visit www.missmississippipageant.com. 

Josie met Mary Ann Mobley and Lynda Lee 

Mead, the two famous Miss Americas, and though 

she never was hostess for a national winner, she 

remembers all as “nice, lovely girls — and no two 

were alike.” Though the competition was keen, it 

Just one of 

the girls 

was wholesome 

— all the girls got 

along. 

Though Josie 

said she never 

had favorites, 

one of 

her girls has 

maintained 

friendship 

and 

contact 

with her 

since 1960. She 

was Miss Mendenhall Molly 

McGee. The year she competed was 

Josie’s first time as a hostess. 

One of Josie’s duties was that of eling hostess, accompanying girls to 

travthe 

national competition in Atlantic City. 

Those trips proved to be exciting for her 

and the girls. When Molly had to go from 

North Mississippi to the Coast in a matter 

of hours, she and Josie were transported by 

highway patrolmen in relays — from one district 

to another, where the next driver was 

waiting. It was also during a series of Miss 

Mississippi appearances that she took her first 

appearances around the state and to 

helicopter ride. 

There were stories she’ll not forget, such 

as the one when a highway patrolman stopped 

a speeding young lady who tearfully told him 

of her dying grandmother — and of course 

she was sent on her way. A few months later, 

it happened again — same girl, same patrolman, 

same grandmother — only the patrolman 

remembered. 

It wasn’t one of her girls, Josie was quick to 

say. 

In 1999, Josie was recognized by the Miss Mis- 

G 

COTTON 

See Smith, Page C2. 

M & 

ILLUMINARY GAZING BALLS 

& 

Concrete 

Statuary 

MROCKS 

Changes to 

3 Colors! 

Mary 

Ann 

Mobley, 

Miss 

America 

1959 

5 

A photo of Josie 

Smith from the 

1999 Miss Mis- 

sissippi Pageant 

book 

3 

Mary Ann Mobley 

crowns Lynda Lee 

Mead, Miss Amer- 

ica 1960 

VICKSBURG’S LARGEST OUTDOOR GIFT SHOP 

•Open Fridays & Saturdays 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 

(any other time call 601.218.3850) 

•1830 Hwy 80 • 601.630.0003

C2 Sunday, July 5, 2009 The Vicksburg Post 

Tallulah Independence Day Activities 

Thursday: 2 p.m., Abraham Lincoln Impersonator Richard Fritz 

Klein will speak, Hermione Museum, 315 N. Mulberry St.; 7 p.m.; 

Lincoln’s dinner presentation by Klein, Tallulah Communication 

Center at Beal and Neal streets, $20; 318-574-0082 or 318-341- 

1937. 

Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People 

6-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Hinds Community College Raymond 

campus; Wednesday, Vicksburg campus; $80 per person; 

601-857-3773. 

2009 Miss Mississippi Pageant 

July 15-18; Vicksburg Convention Center; tickets: $100 

for all four nights, $25 for Wednesday, $25 for Thursday, 

$30 for Friday, $50 for Saturday; 601-638-6746 or www. 

missmississippipageant.com. 

Southern Cultural Heritage Center 

Reservations required for each event: 601-631-2997 or 

info@southernculture.org; Fairy Tale Cooking: 10-11 a.m. 

Tuesday, ages 10 and younger, $15 per child, free for parents; 

Southern DramaKids: 9-11 a.m. July 13-17 and July 

20-24, ages 12-18, $50 per child; Stained Glass workshop: 

10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays in July; $160 for members, 

$170 for nonmembers; includes stained glass and basic 

supplies; Christmas in July: 10 a.m.-noon July 25; $35 for 

members, $40 for nonmembers; Irish Dance Workshop: 

Saturday; 4-5 p.m. for ages 6-12, $15; 5-6 p.m. for ages 13- 

18, $20; 6-8 p.m. for adults, $35 for SCHC members and 

$40 for nonmembers; Art of Dance Workshop: Wednesdays 

in July, 1:30-2:30 p.m. for ages 6 to 8, 2:30-3:30 p.m. 

for ages 9 to 12, and 3:30-4:30 p.m. for ages 13-18; $5 per 

child. 

Historic Jefferson College EXPLORE! Classes 

July 18: Slime Science; Aug. 15: Rocks and Minerals; Sept. 

Mississippi Deep-Sea Fishing Rodeo 

Biloxi, today: Live entertainment, arts and crafts, rides, food 

and, of course, lots of fish; 228-863-3713, www.mississippideepseafishingrodeo.com. 

local events & ENTERTAINMENT 

26: Ancient Flying Reptiles; 10-11:30 a.m. for ages 6-8; 

2-3:30 p.m. for ages 9-12; $10 per child; 601-442-2901 or 

hjc@mdah.state.ms.us. 

Lorelei Book-signings 

Vicki Allen: 4 p.m. Friday, “Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett”; 

David Beckwith: 2 p.m. July 15, “A New Day in the 

Delta: Inventing School Desegregation As You Go”; Sam 

Haskell: 2 p.m. July 18, “Promises I Made My Mother”; Ann 

McKee: 4 p.m. Aug. 7, “Historic Photos of Mississippi”; Robert 

Dalby: 4 p.m. Aug. 14, “A Piggly Wiggly Wedding”; Lorelei 

Books, 1103 Washington St.; 601-634-8624 or www. 

loreleibooks.com. 

Vicksburg Theatre Guild 

“Gold in the Hills”: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays July 10- 

Aug. 1; $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and younger; all 

shows at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; 601-636-0471 

or www.e-vtg.com. 

Westside Theatre Foundation 

“Gold in the Hills”; Coral Room at The Vicksburg on Clay 

Street; 8:15 p.m. Aug. 14-15, Sept. 18-19, Oct. 16-17, Nov. 

7 and Dec. 18-19; $10 for adults, $5 for children; 601-636- 

4146. 

2009 Holly Days Arts and Crafts Show 

Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation accepting applications 

for 2009 event, set for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 5; vendor 

space limited, acceptance based on images of crafts or art; 

exhibit space: $40 for SCHF members, $50 for nonmembers; 

applications must be postmarked no later than Aug. 

1; acceptance letters will be sent by Sept. 1; 601-631-2997 

or www.southernculture.org. 

2009 Farmers’ Market 

8-11 a.m. Saturdays and 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays through 

southern travel calendar 

Aug. 29; lot at Grove and Levee streets; produce, arts and 

crafts, Master Gardeners and live entertainment Saturdays; 

produce only Wednesdays; 601-634-4527 or www. 

vicksburgfarmersmarket.org. 

LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT 

Ameristar Casino, 4116 Washington St., 601- 

638-1000 

• Doug Allen — Variety; tonight in Cabaret Lounge; free. 

• Gary Goin and G3 — Variety; Friday-Saturday in Bottleneck 

Blues Bar; free. 

• Groove Inc. — Variety; Tuesday-July 12 in Cabaret 

Lounge; free. 

• Memphis All Stars — Variety; July 17-18 in Bottleneck 

Blues Bar; free. 

Highway 61 Coffeehouse, 1101 Washington St., 

601-638-9221, www.61coffee.com 

• 7 p.m. Thursday — Lee H. Abraham & the Boone Brothers 

of Vicksburg, pop and jazz; free. 

Courtyard at the Marriott, East Clay Street near 

Outlets at Vicksburg, 601-636-8788 

• 6:30-9:30 p.m. each Wednesday — Jazz Nite with Mr Bee; 

free. 

Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge, 4451 Clay St., 

601-636-3761 

• 6-10 p.m. Thursday — Ted Holman; in dining room; free. 

• 6-10 p.m. Friday and 9:15 p.m. Saturday — Snazz; in lounge; 

cover charge. 

Borello’s, 1306 Washington St., 601-638-0169 

• 6-10 p.m. Friday — Ronnie Owen; free. 

Paducah Summer Festival 

Paducah, Ky., July 23-25: A week of markets, hot air balloons, 

a parade, live music, fireworks and children’s events; 800-723- 

8224, http://paducah.travel. 

Crab Festival 

Bay St. Louis, Miss., today: Crabs, live music, arts and crafts; 

228-467-6509, www.olgchurch.net. 

Choctaw Indian Fair 

Choctaw, Miss., Wednesday-Saturday: Four days of Choctaw 

culture with tribal arts and crafts, demonstrations and stickball; 

601-650-7450, www.choctawindianfair.com. 

Grandfather Mountain Highland Games 

Linville, N.C., Thursday-July 12: Massive highland festival featuring 

a whole world of Celtic activities; 828-733-1333, www. 

gmhg.org. 

Uncle Dave Macon Days 

Murfreesboro, Tenn., Friday-July 12: Fun fiddling festival featuring 

old-time music and dancing; 800-716-7560, www.uncledavemacodays.com. 

Beaufort Water Festival 

Beaufort, S.C., Friday-July 19: A week of live entertainment, a 

parade, a fishing contest and Coast Guard cutter tours; 843-524- 

0600, www.bftwaterfestival.com. 

Mangomania Tropical Fruit Fair 

Fort Meyers, Fla., Saturday-July 12: Tangy event featuring 

rides, live entertainment and mango and tropical fruit beverages 

and specialties; 239-283-4842, www.mangomaniafl.com. 

Georgia Mountain Fair 

Hiawassee, Ga., July 15-25: Live music, agriculture, antique 

shows and more; 706-896-4191, www.georgiamountainfairgrounds.com. 

Festival of Native Peoples 

Cherokee, N.C., July 17-18: Native American dance, art, music 

and culture; 828-259-9910, www.cherokee-nc.com. 

Smith 

Continued from Page C1. 

sissippi Scholarship Pageant as the Volunteer 

of the Year. Recounting her years of 

service, the award also stated, “Her love for 

the Miss Mississippi Pageant is evidenced 

through her care and concern for every 

young woman who participates. Motherly 

kindness and maternal nurturing are 

Josie’s trademarks. Weary contestants are 

constantly uplifted by her gentle words and 

broad grin. A friendly smile awaits fellow 

staff members... The Miss Mississippi Corporation 

thanks Josie Smith for her faithfulness 

and loyalty.” 

Josie grew up in Utica, born in the old 

Price home just outside of town on Fisher’s 

Ferry Road. Her father was a justice of the 

peace. When she finished high school, she 

came to Vicksburg, working at The Valley 

and for Ellis Koury. She married Marshall 

Smith after a long courtship because “it 

was during the depression, and we couldn’t 

afford a marriage license.” 

She remembers going to Tchula as a girl 

when you had to flag down the train. When 

her father made the 100-mile trip in his 

Maxwell, it took all day on gravel roads. 

Josie and Marshall had a daughter, who 

submitted to The Vicksburg Post 

Honor the “Father of the Blues” at the W.C. Handy Music 

Festival, set for July 17-26 in Florence, Ala. 

W.C. Handy Music Festival 

Florence, Ala., July 17-26: Bluesy event celebrating the “Father 

of the Blues”; 256-766-7642, www.wchandyfest.com. 

Hemingway Days 

Key West, Fla., July 21-26: Readings, book-signings and a lookalike 

contest honoring the Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author; 

800-275-5397, www.hemingwaydays.net. 

is deceased, as is Marshall. Josie has two 

grandsons, Paul and Glen Campbell. 

“I’m not driving anymore,” Josie said, 

parking her car some months back because 

“I might have a wreck and kill somebody 

or kill myself.” She told the grandsons she 

had decided to quit and left the car in the 

carport — and one day she looked out and 

it was gone. She mused that they had taken 

it because “they thought I might change my 

mind.” 

The boys are good about taking her places, 

though, as are the members of Gibson 

Memorial United Methodist Church, where 

she attends. 

“Don’t call and ask me to go if you don’t 

want me to,” she said, “because I’ll go. Don’t 

invite me if you don’t want me.” 

There’s no doubt where she’ll be when the 

Miss Mississippi Pageant is under way, and 

she’s already made up her mind about one 

thing. 

“I’m going to have a good time.” 

• 

Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in 

Vicksburg. 

Chef Robert St. John 

set for Starkville event 

The sixth annual StarShine 

Weekend, sponsored by the 

Starkville Area Arts Council, 

will be Aug. 7-8 at the 

Bistro at the State Theatre in 

Starkville. 

The culinary arts event will 

kick off with a Southern cookoff 

and will feature a cooking 

class led by Hattiesburg chef, 

restaurant owner and author 

Robert St. John. 

Local artists will also display 

and sell their works. 

The Bistro at the State Theatre 

is located at 217 E. Main 

St. For tickets, call 662-324- 

3080 or visit www.starkvillearts.org. 

Indian replicas 

for show on Trace 

The Natchez Trace Parkway 

Visitor Center in Tupelo 

Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo 

Grand Isle, La., July 23-25: 87th international fishing rodeo 

featuring lots of partying and a chance to see these monstrous 

fish up close; 985-787-2500, www.tarponrodeo.org. 

Floyd World Music Festival 

Floyd, Va., July 23-26: Festival featuring performers and artists 

from around the world; 540-745-3378, www.floydfest.com. 

Belle Chere 

Asheville, N.C., July 24-26: The largest free outdoor street festival 

in the Southeast; 828-259-5800, www.belecherefestival.com. 

Grainger County Tomato Festival 

Rutledge, Tenn., July 24-26: Juicy festival featuring a Civil War 

encampment, live entertainment, arts and crafts and a tomato 

war; 865-828-3433, www.graingercountytomatofestival.com. 

Neshoba County Fair 

Philadelphia, Miss., July 24-31: An old-fashioned, small town 

house party; 601-656-8480, www.neshobacountyfair.org. 

Feliciana Hummingbird Celebration 

St. Francisville, La., July 25: A natural festival featuring a weekend 

of bird-watching fun; 800-488-6502, www.audubonbirdfest.com. 

World Championship Cardboard Boat Races 

Heber Springs, Ark., July 25: Wacky race where all boats are 

built out of corrugated cardboard; 800-774-3237, www.hebersprings.com. 

Virginia Highlands Festival 

Abingdon, Va., July 25-Aug. 9: Two-week event featuring arts 

and crafts, performing arts, family events and living history exhibits.; 

800-435-3440, www.vahighlandsfestival.org. 

take note 


will present a free display of 

prehistoric American Indian 

replicas from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Saturday. 

The display was assembled 

by the center’s volunteer historian, 

Pat Arinder, and will 

feature stone tools, knives, 

spears, bows and arrows, 

atlases, grinding stones and 

a bow drill. 

The center is located along 

the parkway at milepost 266. 

For more information, call 

662-680-4027 or 1-800-305-7417. 

Comics, kids’ books 

on exhibit at USM 

The University of Southern 

Mississippi Museum of 

Art will present the exhibit 

Comic Strips and Children’s 

Books (and why not a Picasso?) 

through Aug. 25. 

The exhibit will feature a 

local collection of 20th-century 

comics as well as books 

from the de Grummond Children’s 

Literature Collection 

and selections from the permanent 

collection. 

Admission is free, and 

summer hours are noon to 5 

p.m. Tuesday-Friday. 

Call 601-266-5200 or 601-266- 

4972, or visit www.usm.edu. 

Musical comedy 

on tap at Carey 

Carey Dinner Theatre 

will present “Secrets Every 

Smart Traveler Should 

Know” at 7 p.m. Tuesday- 

July 18 in the O. L. Quave 

Theatre at William Carey 

University, Hattiesburg 

campus. 

Admission is $27.50 per 

person and includes dinner, 

the show and a program 

book. The box office is open 

10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily except 

Sunday, or call 601-318-6221.

The Vicksburg Post Sunday, July 5, 2009 C3 

Darlinda Lanese Jackson 

Engaged to marry 

Kelvin Lorenzo Dee 

Miss Jackson, Mr. Dee 

to recite vows Aug. 15 

The engagement of Darlinda 

Lanese Jackson to Kelvin 

Lorenzo Dee, both of Vicksburg, 

is announced today. 

Vows will be exchanged at 3 

p.m. Aug. 15, 2009, at Calvary 

M.B. Church on Klein Street. A 

reception will follow at Vicksburg 

Municipal Auditorium. 

All relatives and friends are 

invited to attend. 

Miss Jackson is the daughter 

of Louis Edward Jackson Sr. 

of Vicksburg and Charlinda 

Faye Chambers of Nashville, 

Tenn. She is the granddaughter 

of James Jackson and the 

late Mary Jane Wells Bingham 

of Vicksburg and the late 

Flora Mae Chambers of Nashville. 

Her guardian is Bobbie 

Bingham Morrow, aunt of the 

bride-elect, of Vicksburg. 

Mr. Dee is the son of Leroy 

Dee Sr. and Daisy Dee of 

Vicksburg. He is the grandson 

of Para Lee Dorsey and 

the late Alex Dorsey Jr. of Port 

Gibson and Kelly Dee Sr. and 

the late Jewel Marie Dee of 

Pattison. 

The bride-elect is a 2002 

graduate of Warren Central 

High School, where she was 

a member of Choices and the 

varsity, concert and women’s 

choirs. She served as president 

of the Vicksburg Warren 

NAACP Youth Council. 

She received a Bachelor 

of Business Administration 

degree in management from 

Jackson State University and 

is pursuing a degree in cosmetology 

from Hinds Community 

College in Utica. 

Miss Jackson is a sales associate 

at Simply Fashions. 

The prospective groom is a 

2002 graduate of Vicksburg 

High School, where he was 

a member of the marching 

band. 

He attended Alcorn State 

University. 

Mr. Dee is a salesman at 

Vicksburg Ford-Lincoln- 

Mercury. 

Mr. and Mrs. William Henry McGarrity 

The bride is the former 

Elizabeth Nicole Bilbo 

McGarrity, Miss Bilbo 

recite vows on June 13 

William Henry McGarrity 

and Elizabeth Nicole Bilbo 

were married at 4:30 p.m. 

June 13, 2009, at Luckett Lodge 

Chapel in Brandon. The Rev. 

John Gordon officiated at the 

ceremony. 

The bride is the daughter 

of Lynn and Sandra Bilbo of 

Vicksburg. She is the granddaughter 

of Dewitt and Janis 

Bilbo of Meadville and the 

late Dan and Inez Russell of 

Ozark. 

The groom is the son of 

Debbie Hicks and Bill and 

Linda McGarrity of Greenwood. 

He is the grandson 

of Sam McGarrity of 

Greenwood. 

Given in marriage by her 

father, the bride’s chosen 

colors were blue and purple. 

Maid of honor was Amy 

Hurley of Jackson. Bridesmaids 

were Leighann VanDevender 

and Ashley Brown, both 

of Vicksburg, and Mandie Ellis 

of Oxford. 

Drew Henderson of Fort 

Worth, Texas, served as best 

man. Groomsmen were Chris 

Jennings of Ridgeland, Jason 

Allen of Clinton and Chad 

Colemon of Lexington, Ky. 

Usher was Michael Bilbo of 

Vicksburg. 

Flower girl was Emma Grace 

Dillard of Brandon. Cody Little 

of Greenwood served as ring 

bearer. 

A reception followed at the 

lodge. 

For a wedding trip, the 

couple traveled to San Francisco. 

They will make their 

home in Ridgeland. 

The bride is employed at 

Warren-Yazoo Mental Health, 

and the groom is employed at 

Central Access. 

Margaret Elizabeth Pikul 


Seth Reynolds Hester 

Miss Pikul, Mr. Hester 

to recite vows Aug. 22 

The engagement of Margaret 

Elizabeth Pikul of Vicksburg 

to Seth Reynolds Hester 

of Hattiesburg is announced 

today. Vows will be exchanged 

at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 22, 2009, at 

Escape to the Shores in 

Orange Beach, Ala. A reception 

will follow. 

Miss Pikul is the daughter of 

Peter Pikul of Vicksburg and 

Melissa Sasser of Brookhaven. 

She is the granddaughter of 

the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter 

Pikul of Vicksburg and Grace 

Salter and the late Mike Salter 

of Philadelphia, Miss. 

Mr. Hester is the son of 

Robert and Marsha Hester of 

Hattiesburg. He is the grandson 

of the late John and Josephine 

Hoelting of Carlinville, 

Ill., and the late Robert and Mildred 

Hester of Greenwood. 

The bride-elect graduated 

with high honors from St. 

Aloysius High School in 2005. 

She was a Student Council officer 

and varsity cheerleader. 

She received a Bachelor of 

Arts degree in speech communication 

from the University 

of Southern Mississippi. She 

was selected to Who’s Who 

and was a member of Kappa 

Delta sorority and Southern 

Style 2007. 

Miss Pikul is employed at 

Trustmark National Bank in 

Hattiesburg. 


2003 graduate of Hattiesburg 

High School, where he was a 

member of the golf, soccer and 

swim teams. 

He received a Bachelor of 

Science degree in finance, economics 

and international business 

from the University of 

Southern Mississippi. He was 

a member of Sigma Chi fraternity 

and Southern Style 2006. 

Mr. Hester is a sales representative 

for Puckett Machinery 

of Hattiesburg. 

Meghan Elizabeth Eaton 


John Milton Teeter 

Eaton, Teeter to wed 

in evening ceremony 

William and Carol Eaton of 

Fayetteville, Ark., announce 

the engagement of their 

daughter, Meghan Elizabeth, 

to John Milton Teeter. Mr. 

Teeter is the son of Milton 

and Donna Teeter of Russellville, 

Ark. 

Miss Eaton is the granddaughter 

of the late William 

Eaton and Mary Ann Eaton of 

Jonesboro, Ark., and the late 

Robert and Esther Lee Crafton 

of Paragould, Ark. 

Mr. Teeter is the grandson 

of the late Grady and Lorena 

Geurian of Dardanelle, Ark., 

and the late Silas and Crystal 

Teeter of Russellville. 


graduate of St. Aloysius High 

School. She attended the University 

of Mississippi. 

Miss Eaton is employed at 

The Pinnacle Group. 


2002 graduate of Russellville 

High School. He received a 

civil engineering degree from 

the University of Arkansas. 

Mr. Teeter is employed with 

CDI Contractors. 

Vows will be exchanged 

at 7 p.m. July 11, 2009, at St. 

Joseph’s Church in Tontitown, 

Ark. A reception will follow 

at the Fayetteville Country 

Club. 

Amy Nicole Katzenmeyer 


Scott Rowell Holman 

Miss Katzenmeyer to 

marry Holman Aug. 8 

Mike and Shelia Katzenmeyer 

of Vicksburg announce 

the engagement of their 

daughter, Amy Nicole of Jackson, 

to Scott Rowell Holman, 

also of Jackson. Mr. Holman 

is the son of Steve and Mary 

Jane Holman of Atlanta. 

Miss Katzenmeyer is the 

granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

Bill Berry, Lt. and Mrs. Hardy 

Katzenmeyer and Sandra 

Melsheimer, all of Vicksburg. 

Mr. Holman is the grandson 

of the late Mr. and Mrs. 

Harry Holman of Lawrence, 

Mass., and the late Mr. and 

Mrs. George Darrah of Peru, 

N.Y. 


graduate of Warren Central 

High School. She received a 

Doctorate of Pharmacy from 

the University of Mississippi. 

Miss Katzenmeyer is a pharmacist 

in the Neonatal ICU 

at Blair E. Batson Children’s 

Hospital. 

The prospective groom 

is a 2002 graduate of Woodward 

Academy in Atlanta. He 

received a Bachelor of Arts 

degree in history from the 

University of Mississippi. 

Mr. Holman is general manager 

of the Mellow Mushroom 

in Flowood. 

Vows will be exchanged at 

3 p.m. Aug. 8, 2009, at Hawkins 

United Methodist Church. 

A reception will follow at the 

B’nai B’rith Literary Club. 

All relatives and friends are 

invited to attend. 

Chevonne Antionette Purvis 


Mack Charles Pampley III 

Purvis and Pampley 

to recite vows Sept. 5 

Donald and Yvonne Purvis 

of Jackson announce the 

engagement of their daughter, 

Chevonne Antionette of 

Flowood, to Mack Charles 

Pampley III, also of Flowood. 

Mr. Pampley is the son of Fran 

Pampley and the late Mack 

Pampley Jr. of Vicksburg. 

Miss Purvis is the granddaughter 

of Lola Crawley 

and Annie Battle, both of 

Jackson. 

Mr. Pampley is the grandson 

of Sadie Pampley of Vicksburg 

and Janet Hartman of Chambersburg, 

Pa. 

The bride-elect is a 2002 graduate 

of Wingfield High School, 

where she was named Prom 

Queen and was a member of 

the National Honor Society, 

Not Here Club and Junior 

Achievement. 

She attended Jackson State 

University. 

Miss Purvis is employed at 

East Lakeland Ob-Gyn & Associates, 

Baptist Medical Clinic. 

The prospective groom is 

a 1999 graduate of Warren 

Central High School, where 

he played football and was a 

member of the National Honor 

Society, Beta Club, FBLA and 

Student Council. 

He attended the University 

of Southern Mississippi, 

where he served as vice president 

of the Mu Xi chapter of 

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He 

was a leadership scholar and 

a member of Lambda Sigma 

honor society. 

Mr. Pampley is employed 

at Warren Yazoo Mental 

Health. 

The wedding will be at 5 p.m. 

Sept. 5, 2009, at Word and Worship 

in Jackson. A reception 

will follow at the Mississippi 

e-Center.


Leashleigh Anderson Kaleesia Bowman Robert Bunch Jr. Kelli Clark 

RaShonda Dotson Brittney Eubanks Adrienne Gamble Brandy Jackson 

Reva Mace Jeremy Meekins Chandria Murrell DaLesia Sanders 

Kathleen Bethay Jeffries 


Joshua Marion Rodgers 

Jeffries and Rodgers 

to marry in Starkville 

Dewayne and Lesa Jeffries 

of Starkville announce the 

engagement of their daughter, 

Kathleen Bethay, to Joshua 

Marion Rodgers. Mr. Rodgers 

is the son of Richard and 

Renée Rodgers of Vicksburg. 

Miss Jeffries is the granddaughter 

of the late Curtis Jeffries 

and Jean Jeffries of Eden, 

N.C., and John and Laverre 

Bethay of Montgomery, Ala. 

Mr. Rodgers is the grandson 

of Dewey and Mickey Rodgers, 

the late Bradford Jones and 

Irene Jones, all of Vicksburg. 


homeschool graduate. She is 

a senior at Mississippi State 

University, where she is majoring 

in educational psychology 

with an emphasis in children 

and family studies. 

Miss Jeffries is a receptionist 

at SemiSouth Laboratories. 

The prospective groom 

is a 2006 graduate of Porters 

Chapel Academy. He is 

a senior at Mississippi State 

University, where he is majoring 

in chemical engineering. 

Mr. Rodgers is a member 

of the MSU co-op program 

and is employed at MSU and 

SemiSouth Laboratories. 

The wedding will be at 6 p.m. 

Dec. 18, 2009, at First Baptist 

Church of Starkville. A reception 

will follow at the church. 

50th anniversary 

Danielle White Emily Wildee Diamonde Wilkerson Kierra Young 

VHBC awards scholarships to 16 seniors 

Winners of the Vicksburg Homecoming 

Benevolent Club scholarships were 

recognized at the club’s annual scholarship 

banquet during a celebration Saturday 

night at St. Mary’s Center. More 

than $15,000 in scholarships was awarded 

by the club, which reunites former and 

current Vicksburg residents and offers 

various assistance to college-bound 

students. 

The recipients: 

• Leashleigh Anderson — Los Angeles 

Chapter Scholarship; Vicksburg High 

graduate, plans to major in secondary 

education at Alcorn State University. 

• Kaleesia Bowman — Founder’s Scholarship; 

Vicksburg High graduate, plans 

to major in pre-medicine at Mississippi 

State University. 

• Robert Bunch Jr. — James and Josephine 

Wallace Scholarship; Warren Central 

High graduate, plans to major in 

nursing at Hinds Community College. 

• Kelli Clark — Harry Powell Memorial 

Scholarship; Warren Central High graduate, 

plans to major in psychology at the 

University of Southern Mississippi. 

Travis J. Wilson and 

KaShondru L. Reynolds 

announce the birth of an 

8-pound, 3-ounce daughter, 

ShunTraya J. Wilson, on May 

12, 2009, at River Region Medical 

Center. 

Grandparents are Mattie 

Reynolds, Felix Robinson, 

Thomas Powell and Gwen 

Wilson. Great-grandparents 

are Lucinda Williams, Charles 

L. Williams and the late Napoleon 

Reynolds. 

• 

Jeffrey and Jaime Oldenburg 

Coon announce the birth 

of an 8-pound, 4-ounce daughter, 

Josie Clarice, on June 8, 

2009, at River Region Medical 

Center. 

Grandparents are David and 

Yvonne Oldenburg, the late 

Charlotte Oldenburg, Martha 

and Sonny Harpole and Homer 

and Sharon Coon. 

July 11 

• Angelia M. Harris and Kelly H. 

Donaghe 

2 p.m. at Gibson Memorial United Methodist 

Church 

• RaShonda Dotson — Alfred Dillard 

Memorial Book Scholarship; Warren 

Central High graduate, plans to major 

in computer science at Hinds Community 

College. 

• Brittney Eubanks — Edward and 

Ernestine Williams Scholarship; Warren 

Central High graduate, plans to major in 

forensic accounting at the University of 

Southern Mississippi. 

• Adrienne Gamble — St. Mary’s Catholic 

Church Scholarship; Vicksburg High 

graduate, plans to major in accounting at 

Meridian Community College. 

• Brandy Jackson — Wanzie and Josephine 

Anderson Memorial Scholarship; 

Vicksburg High graduate, plans to major 

in secondary education at Jackson State 

University. 

• Reva Mace — Percy and Merinda 

Coleman Memorial Scholarship; Warren 

Central High graduate, plans to major in 

nursing at Alcorn State. 

• Jeremy Meekins — Beulah Lockett 

Memorial Scholarship; Vicksburg High 

graduate, plans to major in sports science 

at Jackson State. 

arrivals 

forms proviDed through area hospitalS 

• 

Marcus J. Berry and Toni 

S. Campbell announce the 

birth of a 7-pound, 3-ounce 

son, Marcus Jerome Berry 

Jr., on June 9, 2009, at River 

Region Medical Center. 

Maternal grandmother is 

Vallessa Grissom. Paternal 

grandmother is Tracy Berry. 

• 

Jake and Megan Bell 

announce the birth of a 

4-pound, 15-ounce daughter, 

Avery Elizabeth, on June 9, 

2009, at Woman’s Hospital in 

Flowood. 

Maternal grandparents are 

Laura and Sid Beauman of 

Vicksburg. Paternal grandparents 

are Faye and Maurice 

Bryant of Braxton. 

• 

Dailon L. and Jana Jobe 

Huskey announce the birth 

of an 8-pound, 7-ounce daughter, 

Darcy Rayne, on June 9, 

2009, at River Region Medical 

Center. 


Jeff and Patty Jobe. Paternal 

grandparents are Doug and 

Barbara Huskey and Becki 

and Michael Logue. 

Great-grandparents are 

Lamar and Sue Roberts, Dorothy 

Jobe, Grace Fields and 

Joyce Huskey. Great-greatgrandparent 

is Bobbie Floyd. 

• 

Lenella Syndar and Ashley 

D. Walls announce the birth 

of a 6-pound, 6-ounce son, 

Lenella Da’Andre Syndar 



Grandparents are Anthony 

and Janice Thomas, Vickie 

Harron and Maricus Durall. 

• 

Antoine L. Walker and 

Catonya R. Damper announce 

upcoming weddings 

Reception to follow 

• Stephanie A. Swillie and Matthew L. 

Durham 

2 p.m. at First Baptist Church 

Reception at B’nai B’rith Literary Club 

Friends and relatives are invited 

• Chandria Murrell — Strait-Way 

Church Scholarship; Warren Central 

High graduate, plans to major in biology 

at Hinds Community College. 

• DaLesia Sanders — Chicago Metropolitan 

Area Chapter Scholarship; 

Warren Central High graduate, plans 

to major in nursing at the University of 


• Danielle White — James and Josephine 

Wallace Scholarship; Warren Central 

High graduate, plans to major in computer 

engineering at the University of 


• Emily Wildee — Los Angeles Chapter 

Scholarship; Vicksburg High graduate, 

plans to major in nursing. 

• Diamonde Wilkerson — Hattie Knox 

Memorial Scholarship; Warren Central 

High graduate, plans to major in accounting 

at Mississippi State or University of 

Mississippi. 

• Kierra Young — Rosa Queen Memorial 

Scholarship; Vicksburg High graduate, 

plans to major in nursing at Alcorn 

State. 

the birth of a 5-pound, 9-ounce 

son, Antoine Lamond Walker 



Grandparents are Ida and 

Richard Banks and the late 

Henry Truitt of Hermanville 

and the late Eugene Anderson 

and Ruby Lee Walker of 

Port Gibson. 

• 

Janeiro C. and Melissa W. 

Smith announce the birth 

of a 7-pound, 12-ounce son, 

Joseph Corbyn, on June 13, 

2009, at Woman’s Hospital in 

Jackson. 


the Rev. Johnny and Brenda 

Williams of Vicksburg. Paternal 

grandparents are Juanita 

Smith and the late Dr. Joseph 

Smith of Utica. 

• Mary Kathryn Hullum and Christopher 

Lee Evans 

5 p.m. at First Baptist Church in 

Clinton 

Reception to follow 

Friends and relatives are invited 

Mack and Marguerite Parker celebrated their 50th wedding 

anniversary June 13, 2009, at the Rainbow Room. 

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The Vicksburg Post Sunday, July 5, 2009 C5 

Missing items from National Archives stolen or simply disappeared 

WASHINGTON (AP) — 

National Archives visitors 

know they’ll find the Declaration 

of Independence, the U.S. 

Constitution and the Bill of 

Rights in the main building’s 

magnificent rotunda in Washington. 

But they won’t find 

the patent file for the Wright 

Brothers’ Flying Machine or 

the maps for the first atomic 

bomb missions anywhere in 

the Archives inventory. 

Many historical items the 

Archives once possessed are 

missing, including: 

• Civil War telegrams from 

Abraham Lincoln. 

• Original signatures of 

Andrew Jackson. 

• Presidential portraits of 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

• NASA photographs from 

space and on the moon. 

• Presidential pardons. 

Some were stolen by 

researchers or Archives 

employees. Others simply disappeared 

without a trace. 

And there’s more gone from 

the nation’s record keeper. 

The Archives’ inspector general, 

Paul Brachfeld, is conducting 

a criminal investigation 

into a missing external 

hard drive with copies of sensitive 

records from the Clinton 

administration. On the 

hard drive were Social Security 

numbers, including one 

for one of former Vice President 

Al Gore’s daughters. 

Because the equipment also 

may include classified information, 

Sen. Charles Grassley, 

R-Iowa, calls it a major 

national security breach. 

Brachfeld has documented 

thousands of electronic storage 

devices, including computers 

and servers, that have gone 

missing over the past decade 

from the National Archives 

and Records Administration. 

Grassley, who has demanded 

an accounting of all missing 

items, said the loss of historical 

documents “robs our 

nation of its history and is 

completely unacceptable.” 

The Archives’ stewardship 

of the nation’s records 

has been questioned before. 

In a well-publicized incident, 

former President Bill Clinton’s 

national security adviser, 

Sandy Berger, took documents 

from the Archives in the fall of 

2003 while preparing, along 

with other ex-Clinton administration 

officials, for testimony 

to the Sept. 11 commission. 

In September 2005, Berger 

was sentenced to two years of 

probation, 100 hours of community 

service, a $50,000 fine 


A photocopy of a map created by the Army Air Corps to plan the dropping of an atomic 

bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II 

The first of the three-page patent application 

#821,393, dated May 21, 1903, submitted 

by Orville and Wilbur Wright to the U.S. 

Patent Office for their Flying Machine 

and loss of his security clearance 

for three years. 

Some records have been 

missing for decades from the 

Archives’ 44 facilities in 20 

states and the capital, including 

13 presidential libraries. 

“When I came here nine 

years ago, there was no 

acknowledgment that we had 

a problem,” Brachfeld said in 

an interview with The Associated 

Press. 

Since then, he has started 

a recovery team that attends 

trade shows and Civil War 

re-enactments, and enlists 

the help of dealers and 

researchers to recover historical 

items that belong to the 

government. 

The agency has two missions 

that sometimes are in 

conflict: preserving documents 

and making them available 

to the public in monitored 

research rooms with surveillance 

cameras. 

“We do not have item-byitem 

control,” said Archives 

spokeswoman Susan Cooper. 

“We can’t. We have 9 billion 

documents. We don’t know 

exactly what’s in each of those 

boxes. There’s no point in preserving 

materials that cannot 

A photocopy of a telegram dated June 24, 1846, written in 

the hand of President Abraham Lincoln to his wife, and reads 

to “Mrs. A. Lincoln, Boston, Mass., All well, and very warm 

— Tad (their son) and I have been to Gen. Grant’s army — 

Returned yesterday safe and sound. A Lincoln” 

The Archives’ inspector general, Paul Brachfeld, is 

conducting a criminal investigation into a missing 

external hard drive with copies of sensitive records 

from the Clinton administration. On the hard drive 

were Social Security numbers, including one for one of 

former Vice President Al Gore’s daughters. 

be used.” 

Each missing historical item 

has its own story. 

• From 1969 to 1980, the 

patent file for the Wright 

Brothers Flyer was passed 

around multiple Archives 

offices, the Patents and Trademarks 

Office and the National 

Air and Space Museum. It was 

returned to the Archives in 

1979, and was last seen in 

1980. 

• In 1962, military representatives 

checked out the target 

maps for the atomic bombs 

dropped on Hiroshima and 

Nagasaki, Japan. The maps 

have been missing ever 

since. 

• In May 2004, one of FDR’s 

grandsons asked to see a portrait 

of his grandfather at the 

Roosevelt presidential library 

in Hyde Park, N.Y. It couldn’t 

be found, and hasn’t been seen 

since 2001. 

• Shaun Aubitz, a former 

employee at the Archives’ facility 

in Philadelphia, pleaded 

guilty and was sentenced to 

21 months in prison in 2002 for 

stealing — among other items 

— 71 pardons signed by Presidents 

James Madison, James 

Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard 

Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, 

James Buchanan, Andrew 

Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, 

Rutherford B. Hayes and Lincoln. 

The Archives recovered 

59 of the records that had been 

sold to manuscript dealers 

and collectors. 

• In 2005, researcher Howard 

Harner was sentenced to two 

years in prison, two years probation, 

and a $10,000 fine after 

pleading guilty to stealing 

more than 100 Civil War-era 

documents from the Archives 

between 1996 and 2002. Fewer 

than half were recovered. 

• A 40-year-old National 

Archives intern in Philadelphia 

stole 160 Civil War documents. 

About half were sold on 

eBay. The documents included 

telegrams about the troops’ 

weaponry, the War Department’s 

announcement of Lincoln’s 

death sent to soldiers, 

and a letter from famed Confederate 

cavalryman James 

Ewell Brown Stuart. 

A financially strapped Denning 

McTague was sentenced 

in the case to 15 months in 

prison in 2007. He had told 

a psychiatrist that he was 

angry that his internship was 

unpaid. 

Celebrity wranglers make bank booking talent, brokering services 

NEW YORK (AP) — By 

day, Lori Levine’s all girl from 

Long Island, her head full of 

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Kim 

Kardashian and the Shiny Toy 

Guns as she holes up in her 

office with a smart young staff 

and a pooch named Sukie. 

By night, she’s all rock ’n’ roll, 

working a runway at the Hard 

Rock Cafe having “wrangled” 

said celebrities for the Power 

of Leather party, making sure 

they don’t fall off their stilettos, 

experience a wardrobe malfunction 

or otherwise screw 

up in front of the cameras. 

Reggie Bush and Kardashian 

show up 30 minutes late, leaving 

Levine to work her Black- 

Berry like a steely pro, never 

taking her eyes off the staircase 

until they arrive. She 

reassures Bush, the private 

NFL star, he doesn’t have to 

speak. 

Levine, 38, commands fees 

of $10,000 to $25,000 from corporate 

giants and high-profile 

charities for the talent booking 

and brokering services her 

Flying Television company 

provides. Through Levine, 

her clients sometime pay the 

famous five and six figures 

for walking through the door, 

not to mention pricey swag, 

transport, per diems and lots 

of other things they ask for 

this side of the law. 

But she’s that and more: 

event planner, publicist, 

brand marketer through her 

boutique firm of a decade. 

That’s a lifetime for some in 

show business. Not bad for 

the daughter of a fire claims 

adjuster from Roslyn, N.Y. 


Lori Levine, right, positions Kim Kardashian and Reggie 

Bush as she works the red carpet at the Hard Rock Cafe in 

New York. 

“I’ve actually had to spend a 

lot of time disciplining myself 

on my BlackBerry,” Levine 

said. “I used to never be someone 

who’d shut it off at night, 

ever. And then I got to a point 

where I was like, ‘OK, that’s 

enough of that.’ I’ve had to 

be careful. My father was a 

complete workaholic and had 

triple bypass surgery and 

three heart attacks, and still 

worked from his hospital bed 

until the day he died.” 

Taming of her BlackBerry 

aside, the former Conan 

O’Brien talent booker and 

Lifetime television producer 

works 14 hours a day plus 

as she trots from New York 

to Los Angeles, Las Vegas 

to South Beach, Montauk to 

Dubai serving her clients. 

When she’s not wrangling 

celebrities to show up at parties, 

film festivals and charity 

fashion shows, Levine 

turns her attention to other 

clients. There’s popchips and 

Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob 

and Bethenny Frankel, the 

Real Housewife of New York 

who’s trying to reach beyond 

her best-selling “Naturally 

Thin.” 

She does it with an electronic 

Rolodex of 14,000 contacts 

and counting, including 

her recent score of Beyonce’s 

e-mail address after one of 

the singer’s Madison Square 

Garden shows. 

It’s a sucker’s bet that without 

Levine and the likes of 

Levine, fame today might look 

and feel hugely different, perhaps 

more like the innocent 

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” block 

print of Audrey Hepburn that 

Levine picked up at Ikea for 

$75 and has hanging above 

her desk. 

Levine recalls her early 

days when the stakes began 

creeping higher for the corporate 

world, and the corporate 

world came a callin’ for help 

with its hip factor. 

“I could see there was a 

change in the climate of the 

media and all of a sudden 

everything became acutely 

about celebrity, celebrity, 

celebrity,” Levine said. “At 

these hoity-toity events 

where you had seen a ton 

of press they were saying, 

‘Well, if John F. Kennedy Jr. 

shows up it’ll be great but if 

he doesn’t there’s nothing to 

write about.”’ 

Kit Yarrow, a professor of 

psychology and business at 

Golden Gate University in 

San Francisco, cites the overwhelming 

choices consumers 

face for the influence of celebrity 

to sell products. 

“Celebrity endorsements 

work and that’s why businesses 

are willing to pay big 

bucks to get their clothes on 

the right backs, their food 

in the right mouths and 

their equipment in the right 

hands,” she said. “This is 

especially important today as 

consumers spend less time 

with words and more time 

with images.” 

Levine was a student at the 

Fashion Institute of Technology, 

which calls itself the 

“crossroads between commerce 

and creativity.” She 

was 18. After her father died, 

her mother remarried and 

moved to Florida, but Levine 

stayed put in New York, living 

with her sister and going to 

school, working as the manager 

of a clothing store to help 

pay her bills. 

She soaked up the party life 

and thought about glamour, 

the kind of glamour she loves 

in “Gigi” and “My Fair Lady.” 

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Signing at 4:00 p.m. 

“I knew everything about 

pop culture. It’s what I was 

interested in and then a friend 

of mine was producing a show 

for Bill Cosby and said, ‘Can 

you come work here?”’ 

It was the Cosby spinoff and 

1992 flop starring Malcolm- 

Jamal Warner called “Here 

and Now.” The NBC show 

lasted only one season and 

Levine moved on, landing 

in 1998 at “Late Night with 

Conan O’Brien” and towering 

30 Rockefeller Plaza, home to 

NBC smack in the middle of 

Manhattan. 

“I thought this was it. I 

looked at 30 Rock like it was 

THE best address. I loved it, 

loved it, loved it, and then you 

grow not to love it anymore.” 

So with her contact list 

expanding, Levine branched 

out on her own, learning to 

dissect contracts like a lawyer. 

In the early days, she brokered 

retainers and fees for 

wrangled celebrities about 25 

percent of the time. Now, it’s 

more like 50-50. 

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Homemaker 

Volunteers 

Flower Show 

Winners of the Warren 

County Homemaker Volunteers 

flower show are, 

from left, Pearl Ballard, first 

place for Persian shield and 

second place for tropical 

hibiscus; Ardiss Marshall, 

first place, rosette first 

place and Best of Show 

for philodendron; and 

Joelyn James, first place 

for hydrangea angela, first 

place for day lily and first 

place and rosette first place 

for shasta daisy. Three 

people entered a total of 

six entries. The local Homemaker 

Volunteers are a 

chapter of the state organization, 

which is administered 

by the Mississippi 

State University Extension 

Service. 

suzanne feliciano•The Vicksburg Post 

Rucker, aka ‘Hootie,’ 

finds country success 

By John Gerome 

AP entertainment writer 

NASHVILLE — After 15 

years of being recognized as 

“Hootie” from Hootie & the 

Blowfish, Darius Rucker was 

caught off guard recently 

while checking into a Baltimore 

hotel. 

“It’s the same hotel I stay 

in all the time, and there’s a 

new clerk back there and she’s 

looking at me and 

staring at me and 

I’m expecting 

‘Hey, aren’t you 

Hootie’ or ‘Aren’t 

you the guy from 

Hootie and the 

Blowfish.’ And 

she looked at me 

and said, ‘Aren’t 

The group’s 

decline seemed 

cemented when 

Rucker portrayed a 

singing cowboy in 

a 2005 Burger King 

commercial. 


Darius Rucker performs at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, 

Tenn. 

music 

you Darius 

Rucker the country 

singer?’ 

“It really took me back,” said 

Rucker, who at 43 looks about 

the same as he did belting out 

“Only Wanna Be With You” or 

“Let Her Cry” in the mid-’90s. 

Rucker is getting used to 

being called a country singer. 

He’s had a pair of No. 1 country 

singles from his CD “Learn to 

Live” — “Don’t Think I Don’t 

Think About It” and “It Won’t 

Be Like This For Long” — and 

his latest, “Alright,” is in the 

top 10. 

Country Music Television 

showed a special, “Invitation 

Only: Darius Rucker” Friday. 

Rucker said he’s certainly 

surprised by his country 

music success. 

“There was never a fullpage 

ad in Billboard magazine 

saying ‘The new Darius 

Rucker album is coming out. 

Darius has gone country, and 

here’s his first single.’ There 

wasn’t any of that. It was me 

in the car with a buddy driving 

around to 85 radio stations.” 

Rucker’s showing is even 

more unlikely considering the 

hard time black singers have 

cracking the country charts. 

His “Don’t Think I Don’t 

Think About It” was the first 

No. 1 hit by a black artist since 

Ray Charles’ “Seven Spanish 

Angels” duet with Willie 

Nelson topped the charts in 

1985. 

“I’m not going to change 

what happened in the past or 

anything,” said the Charleston, 

S.C., native. “I’d like to 

think the reason it happened 

for me is the songs. 

“I thought being in Hootie 

was going to hurt a lot, but it 

got me in the door,” he continued. 

“Everyone saw me 

because of Hootie. At the radio 

stations, they sat me down 

and got to know me and listened 

to my songs. And I got 

in because I was in Hootie & 

the Blowfish.” 

After selling 16 million 

copies of their 1994 big-label 

debut, “Cracked Rear View,” 

Hootie & the Blowfish never 

came close to matching their 

early heights. They released 

four more studio albums, 

their last, 2005’s “Looking for 

Lucky,” peaking 

at No. 47 on the 

Billboard 200. 

The group’s 

decline seemed 

cemented when 

Rucker portrayed 

a singing 

cowboy in a 

2005 Burger King 

commercial. 

Still, Rucker 

says the band will 

record and tour again at some 

point. Right now, though, he’s 

focused on his country career 

— a shift that felt natural to 

him. He’d always liked the 

genre and thought a lot of 

Hootie & the Blowfish songs 

could be country songs. 

When he got a deal with 

Capitol Records Nashville, he 

began co-writing with some of 

Nashville’s top tunesmiths and 

working with producer Frank 

Rogers, best known for helping 

craft albums by Brad Paisley 

and Trace Adkins. Paisley, 

Alison Krauss and Vince Gill 

all make guest appearances 

on the CD. 

Rucker fretted: “I thought if 

it didn’t work I was going to be 

the biggest joke in music.” 

His other concern was that 

“Learn to Live” was coming 

out at the same time as country 

offerings by Jessica Simpson 

and Jewel. 

“I was afraid of being lumped 

in with that — just another 

pop guy making a country 

record. I didn’t feel it was that 

way at all,” he said. 

And neither did listeners. 

Rucker has become a staple on 

country radio and a fan favorite. 

He toured with Paisley and 

Rascal Flatts and performed 

on the main stage of the Country 

Music Association festival 

this summer. “Learn to Live” 

topped the country albums 

chart last year. 

“He didn’t try to do ’80s rock 

on the country format,” offered 

Julie Stevens, program director 

at KRTY-FM in San Jose, 

Calif. “Everybody thinks that 

country music is really exclusive 

and that we get mad when 

they cross over, but we really 

don’t. We just want them to 

give us a country song.” 

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THE•VICKSBURG•POST ■ SUNDAY•JULY 5•2009 

Kelsey McMaster 

01. Legals 

VICKSBURG MUNICIPAL 

AIRPORT 

VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI 

CONTRACT 1- INSTALL 

PAPI AND AWOS 

CONTRACT 2- REHABILI- 

TATE TAXIWAY AND RE- 

CONSTRUCT APRON 

A.I.P. Project 3-28-0073- 

002-2009 

Sealed bids for airfield improvements 

to be performed 

at the Vicksburg Municipal 

Airport will be received by 

The City Clerk, or Appointed 

Designee for the City of 

Vicksburg, until 9:00 AM 

(Central Time) on the 3rd 

day of August, 2009, at the 

office of the City Clerk, 1401 

Walnut St., Vicksburg, MS 

39180. Proposals received 

after this time will be returned 

unopened. Bids will 

be publicly opened and read 

aloud at 10:00 AM on the 

same date at the City Board 

Meeting. 

Bids will be received for work 

associated with two separate 

contracts. Contract 1 will include 

work associated with 

the installation of an Automated 

Weather Observation 

System (AWOS), Precision 

Approach Path Indicator 

(PAPI). Contract 2 will include 

Milling and Overlay of 

an existing taxiway 

(450'x40') and demolition 

and reconstruction of an existing 

apron with PCC Pavement 

(3,900 sy +/-). All work 

associated with the project 

will be performed during the 

day, between the approximate 

hours of 7:00 AM and 

6:00 PM. 

Contractors may bid on either 

or both contracts. Bids 

for each contract will be evaluated 

independent of the 

other contract. 

Contract Time for Contract 1 

is 60 consecutive calendar 

days. Liquidated Damages 

in the amount of $500 per 

calendar day will be assessed 

thereafter. Contract 

Time for Contract 2 is 60 

consecutive calendar days. 

Liquidated damages in the 

amount of $500 per calendar 

day will be assessed thereafter. 

The work performed shall be 

in exact accordance with the 

Construction Plans, Technical 

Specifications (on file at 

the office of the said Owner), 

Proposals and Special Provisions, 

under the direct supervision 

and to the entire satisfaction 

of the Owner and in 

accordance with the laws of 

the State of Mississippi. All 

project related work will also 

have to be completed in accordance 

with current FAA 

guidelines for work in Airport 

Operational Areas and in secured 

airfield areas. 

Contractors must be quali- 

VICKSBURG MUNICIPAL 

AIRPORT 

VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI 

CONTRACT 1- INSTALL 

PAPI AND AWOS 




A.I.P. Project 3-28-0073- 

002-2009 





quired work. 

be submitted on the Standard 

Form of Bid Proposal 

A pre-bid conference is 

planned for this project on for that contract, and must include 

a Bid Bond or other ac- 

going into its house and The City sticking Clerk, or its Appointed head out July for 23, 2009 a gander at 10:00 about. AM in 

Designee for the City of the Conference Room at the ceptable bid guarantee in the 

Vicksburg, until 9:00 AM office of the Airport Director, amount of 5% of the bid. 

Cynthia Boler (Central Time) on the 3rd 1401 Walnut St., Vicksburg, The successful bidder will be 

day of August, 2009, at the MS 39180. It is strongly recommended 

that prospective dard Form of Contract and 

required to execute the Stan- 


Walnut St., Vicksburg, MS bidders attend the pre-bid Agreement. The Bidder shall 

39180. Proposals received conference. Any questions guarantee to hold his bid(s) 


unopened. Bids will should be directed to the air- 

his bid(s) for a period of nine- 

that bidders might have good and may not withdraw 

be publicly opened and read port's engineering consultant, 

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., the scheduled closing time 

ty (90) calendar days after 


same date at the City Board Ridgeland, MS, to the attention 

of Tom Henderson, This project is subject to the 

for receiving bids. 


Bids will be received for work (601) 898-3358 (phone), or requirements of the Davisassociated 

with two separate (601) 898-3358 (fax). Bacon Act, as amended. The 


work associated with be sent to the City of Vicks- 

comply with wage and labor 

All bids that are mailed shall Contractor is required to 


Weather Observation Attention City Clerk's Office mum wages in accordance 

burg at the address below: provisions and to pay mini- 

System (AWOS), Precision City of Vicksburg, Mississippi with the schedule of wage 

Approach Path Indicator 1401 Walnut St. 

rates established by the United 

States Department of La- 


Milling and Overlay of (601) 634-4553 

bor. 



The Contract Documents Award of contract is also 

(450'x40') and demolition (Specifications, Proposal subject to the following Federal 

provisions: 


apron with PCC Paveined 

at the following loca- 

Executive Order 11246 and 

Forms, etc.) may be examment 

(3,900 sy +/-). All work tions: 

DOL Regulation 41 CFR 

associated with the project Airport Director's Office, City PART 60 - Affirmative Action 

will be performed during the of Vicksburg, 1401 Walnut to Ensure Equal Employment 


hours of 7:00 AM and Vicksburg, Mississippi DOL Regulation 29 CFR Part 

St. 

Opportunity 

6:00 PM. 

39180; (601) 801-3525 5 - Davis Bacon Act DOT 


or both contracts. Bids Highland Colony Parkway - Governmentwide Debar- 

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., 1022 Regulation 49 CFR PART 29 


independent of the 39157; (601) 898-3358; Governmentwide Require- 

Ridgeland, Mississippi ment and Suspension and 


(601) 898-8485 (fax) 

ments for Drug-free Workplace 

Contract Time for Contract 1 Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports District Office, DOT Regulation 49 CFR 


days. Liquidated Damages 100 West Cross Street, Suite PART 30 - Denial of Public 

in the amount of $500 per "B", Jackson International Works Contracts to Suppliers 


thereafter. Contract 39208-2307; (601) 664-9900 Countries that Deny Con- 

Airport, Jackson, Mississippi of Goods and Services of 

Time for Contract 2 is 60 Office of Aeronautics, Mississippi 

Department of Trans- 

and Services of Countries 

tracts to Suppliers of Goods 


Liquidated damages in the portation, 401 North West that Deny Procurement Market 

Access to U.S. amount of $500 per calendar Street, Jackson, Mississippi 

Contrac- 











01. Legals 









Contractors must be qualified 

under Mississippi Law 

and be registered with the 

State of Mississippi and as a 

licensed general contractor 

capable of performing the required 

work. 


planned for this project on 

July 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM in 

the Conference Room at the 

office of the Airport Director, 

1401 Walnut St., Vicksburg, 

MS 39180. It is strongly recommended 

that prospective 

bidders attend the pre-bid 

conference. Any questions 

that bidders might have 

should be directed to the airport's 

engineering consultant, 

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., 

Ridgeland, MS, to the attention 

of Tom Henderson, 

(601) 898-3358 (phone), or 

(601) 898-3358 (fax). 

All bids that are mailed shall 

be sent to the City of Vicksburg 

at the address below: 

Attention City Clerk's Office 

City of Vicksburg, Mississippi 

1401 Walnut St. 


(601) 634-4553 

The Contract Documents 

(Specifications, Proposal 

Forms, etc.) may be examined 

at the following locations: 

Airport Director's Office, City 

of Vicksburg, 1401 Walnut 

St. 

Vicksburg, Mississippi 

39180; (601) 801-3525 

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., 1022 

Highland Colony Parkway 

Ridgeland, Mississippi 

39157; (601) 898-3358; 

(601) 898-8485 (fax) 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports District Office, 

100 West Cross Street, Suite 

"B", Jackson International 

Airport, Jackson, Mississippi 

39208-2307; (601) 664-9900 

Office of Aeronautics, Mississippi 

Department of Transportation, 

401 North West 

Street, Jackson, Mississippi 

(601) 359-7850 

ABC Plan Room, 805 East 

River Place, Jackson, Mississippi, 

39202 

AGC Plan Room, 2093 Lakeland 

Drive, Jackson, Mississippi, 

39236-2367 

Copies of the Contract Documents 

may be purchased at 

the office of Neel-Schaffer, 

Inc., for $75.00 for each set, 

by certified or cashiers check 

made payable to the NEEL- 

SCHAFFER, INC. The purchase 

price of the contract 

documents is non-refundable. 

Bidder's attention is invited to 

section 100 of the General 

Conditions relative to Pre- 

PAPI AND AWOS 




A.I.P. Project 3-28-0073- 

002-2009 





The City Clerk, or Appointed 

Designee for the City of 

Vicksburg, until 9:00 AM 

(Central Time) on the 3rd 

day of August, 2009, at the 


Walnut St., Vicksburg, MS 

39180. Proposals received 


unopened. Bids will 

be publicly opened and read 


same date at the City Board 


Bids will be received for work 

associated with two separate 


work associated with 


Weather Observation 

System (AWOS), Precision 

Approach Path Indicator 


Milling and Overlay of 


(450'x40') and demolition 


apron with PCC Pavement 

(3,900 sy +/-). All work 

associated with the project 

will be performed during the 


hours of 7:00 AM and 

6:00 PM. 


or both contracts. Bids 


independent of the 


Contract Time for Contract 1 


days. Liquidated Damages 

in the amount of $500 per 


thereafter. Contract 

Time for Contract 2 is 60 


Liquidated damages in the 

amount of $500 per calendar 
























capable of performing the re- 

(601) 359-7850 



39202 



39236-2367 




01. Legals 









Conditions relative to Preaward, 

Equal Employment 

Opportunity, and Requirements 

of Non-segregated 

Facilities. 

Bids for each contract must 

be submitted on the Standard 

Form of Bid Proposal 

for that contract, and must include 

a Bid Bond or other acceptable 

bid guarantee in the 

amount of 5% of the bid. 

The successful bidder will be 

required to execute the Standard 

Form of Contract and 

Agreement. The Bidder shall 

guarantee to hold his bid(s) 

good and may not withdraw 

his bid(s) for a period of ninety 

(90) calendar days after 

the scheduled closing time 

for receiving bids. 

This project is subject to the 

requirements of the Davis- 

Bacon Act, as amended. The 

Contractor is required to 

comply with wage and labor 

provisions and to pay minimum 

wages in accordance 

with the schedule of wage 

rates established by the United 

States Department of Labor. 

Award of contract is also 

subject to the following Federal 

provisions: 

Executive Order 11246 and 

DOL Regulation 41 CFR 

PART 60 - Affirmative Action 

to Ensure Equal Employment 

Opportunity 

DOL Regulation 29 CFR Part 

5 - Davis Bacon Act DOT 

Regulation 49 CFR PART 29 

- Governmentwide Debarment 

and Suspension and 

Governmentwide Requirements 

for Drug-free Workplace 

DOT Regulation 49 CFR 

PART 30 - Denial of Public 

Works Contracts to Suppliers 

of Goods and Services of 

Countries that Deny Contracts 

to Suppliers of Goods 

and Services of Countries 

that Deny Procurement Market 

Access to U.S. Contractors 

(Foreign Trade Restriction). 

TITLE 49 United States 

Code, CHAPTER 501 - Buy 

American Preferences 

Contractors must also comply 

with the Mississippi Employment 

Protection Act at 

MCA Sec. 71-11-1. 

The City of Vicksburg may 

award Contract 1, Contract 

2, or both contracts. The 

City of Vicksburg also reserves 

the right to reject any 

and all bids and to waive any 

and all informalities or irregularities 

in the bids received 

on either or both contracts. 

CITY OF VICKSBURG, MIS- 

SISSIPPI 








capable of performing the required 

work. 


planned for this project on 

CLASSIFIEDS 

July 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM in 

the Conference Room at the 

office of the Airport Director, 

1401 Walnut St., Vicksburg, 

MS 39180. It is strongly recommended 

that prospective 

bidders attend the pre-bid 

conference. Any questions 

that bidders might have 

should be directed to the airport's 

engineering consultant, 

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., 

Ridgeland, MS, to the attention 

of Tom Henderson, 

(601) 898-3358 (phone), or 

(601) 898-3358 (fax). 

All bids that are mailed shall 

be sent to the City of Vicksburg 

at the address below: 

Attention City Clerk's Office 

City of Vicksburg, Mississippi 

1401 Walnut St. 


(601) 634-4553 

The Contract Documents 

(Specifications, Proposal 

Forms, etc.) may be examined 

at the following locations: 

Airport Director's Office, City 

of Vicksburg, 1401 Walnut 

St. 

Vicksburg, Mississippi 

39180; (601) 801-3525 

Neel-Schaffer, Inc., 1022 

Highland Colony Parkway 

Ridgeland, Mississippi 

39157; (601) 898-3358; 

(601) 898-8485 (fax) 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports District Office, 

100 West Cross Street, Suite 

"B", Jackson International 

Airport, Jackson, Mississippi 

39208-2307; (601) 664-9900 

Office of Aeronautics, Mississippi 

Department of Transportation, 

401 North West 

Street, Jackson, Mississippi 

(601) 359-7850 



39202 



39236-2367 












Conditions relative to Preaward, 

Equal Employment 

Opportunity, and Requirements 

of Non-segregated 

Facilities. 

Bids for each contract must 

tors (Foreign Trade Restriction). 

TITLE 49 United States 

Code, CHAPTER 501 - Buy 

American Preferences 

Contractors must also comply 

with the Mississippi Employment 

Protection Act at 

MCA Sec. 71-11-1. 

The City of Vicksburg may 

01. Legals 

award Contract 1, Contract 

2, or both contracts. The 

City of Vicksburg also reserves 

the right to reject any 

and all bids and to waive any 

and all informalities or irregularities 

in the bids received 

on either or both contracts. 

CITY OF VICKSBURG, MIS- 

SISSIPPI 

By: 

Jr. 

Walter W. Osborne, Jr. 

City Clerk 

Date: June 25, 2009 

Publish: 7/5, 7/12(2t) 


PHOTOS BY OUR READERS 

Thirteen-year-old Kelsey McMaster of Vicksburg took her time to grab these photos of a bluebird 

Cynthia Boler of Vicksburg said this group of daddy 

longlegs didn’t stay too long after congregating on a 

porch in Vicksburg. 

GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT! 

The Vicksburg Post will accept for 

publication photos submitted by 

readers. The photos should be current 

and of interest to the public, either 

because of their subject matter 

or their oddity, or the photographic 

skill shown. These are the criteria that 

will be used in determining which 

photos will be published. Submitted 

photos should be accompanied 

by complete caption information 

and include a phone number for 

the photographer, which will not be 

published. Photos may be submitted 

electronically at newsreleases@ 

vicksburgpost.com, in person at Post 

Plaza or by mail to The Vicksburg 

Post, News photos, P.O. Box 821668, 

Vicksburg, MS 39182. 

/s/ Walter W. Osborne, 

02. Public Service 

FREE BLOND 

LABRADOR to good 

home. Beautiful, ready 

for a permanent family. 

Call 601-618-3778. 

FREE KITTENS TO 

good homes. Lots of 

colors, 8 weeks old, 

ready to go! 

Call 601-618-3778. 

FREE TO PUBLIC. We 

haul off junk cars, trucks, 

vans, buses, etcetera. Call 

601-940-5075, if no answer 

please leave message. 

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G.W. Lee Jr. 

It’s Not Free! 

SGT Edgar S. Rush 

US Air Force 

3rd Bomber Group 

SPC4 Anthony M. 

Sanders 

Ft. Stewart, GA 

SECTION D 

G.W. Lee Jr. of Vicksburg was lying in wait for the fox squirrel to pose for 

his camera. 

Travis Passmore 

Travis Passmore of Vicksburg was visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast when 

he found this goose barnacle covered log on the beach in Bay St. Louis. 

Garrick D. Williams 

US Marine Corp 

Charlotte, NC 

would like to wish 

you and your’s a safe, fun-filled 4th of July Holiday weekend.

D2 Sunday, July 5, 2009 The Vicksburg Post 

AFFORDABLE HOUSING 

CALL ANDREA UPCHURCH 

601-831-6490 

JONES & UPCHURCH, INC. REAL ESTATE 

LICENSED IN MISSISSIPPI & LOUISIANA 

1224 PROSPECT 3BR/1B REMODELED 

$ 

74,500 OWNER PAYS CLOSING 

905 HILLCREST 2/BR/1/B LARGE HOME 

OWNER PAYS CLOSING 

79 CLAYTON 3BR/1B REMODELED 

SEP. DINING ROOM,LG YARD $87,700 

403 BELVA 3BR/1.5 B REMODELED 

FENCED BACK $93,000 

4012 HALLS FERRY-JUST REDUCED 

3BR/1B, HARDWOOD,FENCED, $85,900 

305 LINDA CIRCLE-3BR/1.5B fenced, shop, 

$89,900 

BETH MAZZANTI 

& Coldwell Banker All Stars 

PRESENTS 

106 LAKEWOOD HILLS 

$499,000 

Custom built with 

an attention to 

detail, this 5 

bedroom, 

4.5 bath home 

is situated on a 

wooded double 

lot in coveted Lakewood Subd. The majestic foyer opens into 

formal & casual living areas that feature 12 ft. ceilings, pecan 

hardwood floors, exquisite moldings, & custom 10 Ft. windows. 

Call Beth today for a private tour @601-218-2489. 

601-634-8928 or 601-638-6009 

homesofvicksburg.com 

Eagle Lake Properties 

NEW LISTINGS 

McMillin 

And 

Beverly McMillin 

601-415-9179 

310 Eagle Lake Shores 

The best of Eagle Lake. Incredible home. 3300 sq.ft 

with additional full basement w/ parking garage 

for at least 2 vehicles. 31' x 39' upper deck, pecan 

floors, vaulted ceiling, cypress walls, open 

floorplan with huge island, 6 burner Viking stove. 

220 Belle Island 

Eagle Lake lakefront property. Upstairs 

4 bdrs, 2 bths, vaulted ceiling in family 

room, screened porch w/ view of the lake. 

Downstairs separate area for guests or 

teens. 2 bay garage, a pier. 

Real 

Estate 

Home for Sale? Show it to the world 

at www.vicksburgrealestate.com 

224 Fairways Drive 

OPEN FLOOR PLAN features over 2800 sf, scored 

concrete floors, fireplace and built-ins, screened 

porches, fenced back yard, three spacious bedrooms 

and closets,three bathrooms, large bonus room and 

oversized garage. Great condition. 

$ 

289,900 

LEECH REAL ESTATE OF VICKSBURG, INC. 

www.leechrealestateofvicksburg.com 

530 INGLEWOOD DR. 

Presented By 

Anita Tarnabine 

“SERVING BUYERS AND SELLERS 

SINCE 1994” 

There is an 

abundance of 

space here, 

inside and out. 

Large living 

areas including 

formal and 

informal, 

3 large custom designed bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms. Tavertine 

countertops through out. The wood used includes river birch, red 

oak, yellow poplar and cypress. Call me to find out about an 

additional 1000 square feet +/-of living space not included in the 

cost. All this on a corner lot & at a price designed to sell. $145,000 

601-415-5097 

anita.tarnabine@coldwellbanker.com 

$ 

155,000 

106 PECAN BLVD. 

Reduced $10,000. Seller will pay up to $5,000 in 

closing cost. Openwood 3 B/R, 2.5 Baths, Living 

Room, Bonus room. Family room has wood burning 

stove. Eat in Kitchen, ceramic floors and granite 

counter tops. House remodeled recently. 

MARY BARNES 

REALTOR ASSOCIATE® 

2008 TOP PRODUCER 

(601) 966-1665 

Email: marydbarnes@wmconnect.com 

JONES & UPCHURCH, INC. 

1803 Clay Street 

100 W. Pecan Tree Lane 

Openwood Plantation. Large tree shaded lot with azaleas 

galore! Plenty of room for children to play or maybe 

a garden. Good condition. 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. 

Living/dining plus family room. Large front porch and rear 

covered patio, fenced back yard, two car garage and a shop. 

2735 Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • 601-638-6243 

107 Alfa Drive 

Presented By 

V alorie Spiller 

REALTOR ASSOCIATE ® 

Very nice 

3BR/2ba sits 

on a large lot 

very private 

back-yard. 

Large open 

kitchen with 

french doors 

that leads 

into a spacious family room. Don't miss this one! 

Call Valorie now for a private showing at (601)456-6234. 

$124,900 

601-634-8928 

601-456-6234 

JUST REDUCED 

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05. Notices 

05. Notices 

07. Help Wanted 





EMERGENCY 

CA$H 

BORROW $100.00 

PAYBACK $105.00 

BEST DEAL IN TOWN 

VALID CHECKING 

ACCOUNT REQUIRED 

FOR DETAILS CALL 

601-638-7000 

9 TO 5 MON.- FRI. 

ENDING HOMELESS- 

NESS. WOMEN with children 

or without are you in 

need of shelter? Mountain 

of Faith Ministries/ Women's 

Restoration Shelter. 

Certain restrictions apply, 

601-661-8990. Life coaching 

available by appointment. 

05. Notices 05. Notices 


Is the one you 

love 

hurting you? 

Call 

Haven House Family 

Shelter 

601-638-0555 or 

1-800-898-0860 

Services available to 

women & children who are 

victims of 

domestic violence and/or 

homeless: Shelter, counseling, 

group support. 

(Counseling available by 

appt.) 

KEEP UP WITH all the 

local news and sales...- 

subscribe to The Vicksburg 

Post Today! Call 

601-636-4545, 

ask for Circulation. 


✯ ATTENTION ✯ 

THE CITY OF VICKSBURG 

IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS 

FOR ENTRY LEVEL POLICE OFFICERS 

•Beginning salary $13.65 hr. 

•Great benefits package which includes: 

Merit raises; Employee Paid Health, Life, 

Dental & Vision; State Retirement; 

9+Holidays; Sick/Personal Accrued Leave 

Hiring Qualifications: 

✓ 

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Classifieds Really Work! 

Warren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community 

Action Agency in Greenville has announced that 

funds are available through the Weatherization 

Assistance Program (WAP) to provide service 

designed to reduce energy costs. The weatherization 

process will make the homes of eligible homeowners 

more energy efficient. The program assists primarily 

the elderly, disabled or low-income families with 

young children. 

The Weatherization services reduce the amount of 

energy to heat or cool a home. It saves energy dollars, 

increases comfort in the home, and addresses 

health and safety concerns. Energy education is also 

provided to teach families to make “greener” choices 

and make their homes more energy efficient. 

Warren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community 

Action Agency serves a thirteen (13) county area that 

includes: Desoto, Humphreys, Issaquena, Panola, 

Quitman, Sharkey, Sunfower, Tallahatchie, Tate, 

Tunica, Warren, Washington and Yazoo. For more 

information on the Weatherization Program or to get 

an application, contact Warren-Washington- 

Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action Agency at 

1-800-820-8204 or 662-378-8663. Additional information 

can be found at: wwiscaa.com 

21 years of age 

United States Citizen 

High school gradiate (GED acceptable) 

If any military service, must have honorable 

discharge 

Pass fitness agility test 

Score 70% or better on Civil Service written 

examination 

Pass background check. Cannot have a 

felony conviction. 

Pass a Computerized Voice Stress 

Analyzation (CVSA) 

Pass drug screen and physical examination 

Receive satisfactory psychological evaluation 

Hold valid driver’s license 

Application packets may be picked up at 

the Human Resources Department, 1415 

Walnut Street, Vicksburg, MS beginning 

Monday, June 29, 2009 and deadline to 

return is Monday, July 13, 2009. Test 

date is Saturday, July 18, 2009. For more 

info. call 601-631-3710 Ext. 1 or visit 

www.vicksburg.org 

✯ The City of Vicksburg is an 

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Runaway 

Are you 12 to 17? 

Alone? Scared? 

Call 601-634-0640 anytime 

or 1-800-793-8266 

We can help! 

One child, 

one day at a time. 

06. Lost & Found 

LOST A DOG? 

Found a cat? Let The 

Vicksburg Post help! 

Run a FREE 3 day ad! 

601-636-SELL or e-mail 

classifieds@vicksburg 

post.com 

MEDIUM SIZED MIXED 

breed, clipped, flea/red collar. 

Henry Road area. Call 

636-3275. 

CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE 

YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY. 

“ACE” 

Truck Driver Training 

With a Difference 

Job Placement Asst. 

Day, Night & Refresher 

Classes 

Get on the Road NOW! 

Call 1-888-430-4223 

MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124 

ALLPRO AUTO seeking 

Automotive Technician, 

ASE certified preferred. 

Apply in person at: 

2127 Washington Street. 

ASSISTANT DIETARY 

MANAGER 

Basic computer skills, supervisory 

skills, must be familiar 

with sanitation and dietary 

guidelines and able to control 

cost and budgets. EOE 

Apply in person 

Monday-Friday at 

Covenant Health & Rehab 

of Vicksburg 

2850 Porters Chapel Road. 

FILLED! 

07. Help Wanted 07. Help Wanted 

Covenant Health & Rehab 

of Vicksburg, LLC 

is currently seeking to fill the following position: 

FULL-TIME RN FOR 

MDS ASSESSMENT COORDINATOR 

- Current MS licensure required 

No Phone Calls 

Please apply in person to: 

Covenant Health & Rehab of Vicksburg, LLC 

2850 Porters Chapel Road, Vicksburg 

EEOC 

THE VICKSBURG CONVENTION 

AND VISITORS BUREAU 

is seeking applications for the position of 

TRAVEL COUNSELOR. 

Ideal candidate must be out-going and 

friendly with knowledge of 

Vicksburg’s visitor attractions. 

Candidate must be able to 

work weekends and holidays. 

Applications are being accepted for 

both full and part-time positions at the 

Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau 

Visitor Information Center 

at 3300 Clay Street. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 

EARN EXTRA MONEY 

Deliver the new AT&T Real 

Yellow Pages in the Vicksburg 

area. FT/PT, daily work, quick 

pay, must be 18 yrs+, have 

drivers license & insured vehicle 

(800)422-1955 Ext. 4 

8:00A-4:30P Mon-Fri 

COUNTER MAN & 

DELIVERY DRIVER 

NEEDED 

*Full Time Position 

*Excellent Benefit 

Package 

*No Phone Calls 

Apply in Person at: 

Auto Supply 


Vicksburg, MS 

Seeking a personable 

and energetic individual 

for the position of 

Executive Director of 

a Not-for-Profit 

organization. 

Candidate should have 

a Masters Degree in 

Social Work or a related 

field or executive management 

experience. 

Duties will include: 

Administrative responsibilities, 

personnel management, 

programmatic 

responsibilities, fiscal 

management, board 

relations and community 

responsibilities. Strong 

organizational, interpersonal, 

oral communication 

skills, excellent 

writing and computer 

proficiency is required. 

Mail cover letter and 

resume to 

P.O. Box 1003, 


stdom.com 

Apply at stdom.com OR 

Fax resume: 601.200.6722 

969 Lakeland Drive 

Jackson, MS 39216-4699 

BARBER AND BEAUTI- 

CIAN booth for rent at Perfect 

Image, Halls Ferry 

Road. 601-636-3962. 

DRIVER TRAINEES NEEDED 

NO CDL? 

No Problem! 

Earn up to $900/wk. 

Home weekends with 

TMC 

Company endorsed 

CDL Training. 

1-800-350-7364 

IMMEDIATE OPENING 

FOR a hard working, enthusiastic 

Community Education 

Director to promote 

Swing Bed, inpatient Geripsych 

and outpatient programs 

at Patient's Choice 

Medical Center of Claiborne 

County in Port Gibson, MS. 

Experience needed. LPN or 

Social Worker preferred. 

Competitive salary and topnotch 

benefits. Submit resume 

to humanre 

sources@rhdhealthnet.com 

or call 662-840-0196. 

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 

The Warren County Port 

Commission will be accepting 

resumes for the position 

of Project Manager. Resumes 

may be submitted to 

the Warren County 

Chancery Clerk's office located 

on the first floor of the 

Warren County Courthouse 

with the deadline for submission 

being July 10, 

2009, 5:00 p.m. Minimum 

requirements for consideration 

include at least a Bachelor's 

Degree from an accredited 

university in economic 

development, marketing, 

business administration 

or related fields. 

Classifieds Really Work! 

Nurse Manager 

Neurology/Neurosurgery Unit 

A great opportunity in Jackson, Mississippi 

Our growing Neurology/Neurosurgery department 

is looking for an energetic leader to manage this 

 

3-5 years of recent Neurology/Neurosurgery 

experience. Hospital management experience is 

 

 

BARBER, STYLIST, 

NAIL TECHNICIAN needed. 

Call 601-618-7468. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOW HIRING 

Medicare Nurse 

Case Manager 

Must be RN 

Experience preferred, 

will train if necessary. 

Must be able to 

multi-task, good with 

paper work, good 

nursing skills, good 

with people, work well 

under pressure, supervise 

staff, flexible 

working hours. 

Competitive Salary & 

Benefits 

Contact in person: 

Administrator Heritage 

House Nursing Center 

3103 Wisconsin Ave. 


NEWS AMERICA MAR- 

KETING is seeking part 

time merchandiser. 21+ 

years with reliable vehicle. 

Monday- Friday, up to 32 

hours per week + miles. 

Background check required. 

Jwilburn@newsamerica.com 

662-234-9350 

PART-TIME APART- 

MENT manager for small 

complex. Manager will live 

on-site. Duties include 

monthly rent collection, 

weekly inspections and office 

paperwork. Must be 

honest, dependable, hard 

working and able to work 

well with the public. Serious 

inquiries only. Fax resumes 

to: 318-352-1929. 

Everybody’s s Doing D 

It! I 

Teachers, stay at home parents, college students, 

nurses...they’re all delivering the newspaper in their 

spare time and earning extra income! 

No Wonder Everybody’s Doing It! 

To join The Vicksburg Post newspaper team you must be 

dependable, have reliable transportation, and be able to deliver 

Monday-Friday and early mornings Saturday and Sunday. 

OPENINGS AVAILABLE IN: 

Openings Available in: 

VICKSBURG & EDWARDS, MS; 

TALLULAH Vicksburg & ST. JOSEPH, LA 

601-636-4545 ext. 181 

601-636-4550 

Your Hometown Newspaper! 

Louisiana Company 

Has Opening for an 

Accountant 

MAINTENANCE PER- 

SON NEEDED. Apply in 

person at front desk, Cedar 

Grove, 2200 Oak Street, 

11am-4pm. No phone calls, 

and previous applicants 

need not apply. 

TEMPORARY PART 

TIME Front Desk clerk 

needed at Best Western. 

Applications taken 10am- 

2pm Monday- Friday. Absolutely 

no phone calls. 

TO BUY OR SELL 

AVON 

CALL 601-636-7535 

$10 START UP KIT 

10. Loans And 

Investments 

“WE CAN ERASE your 

bad credit- 100% guaranteed.” 

The Federal Trade 

Commission says the only 

legitimate credit repair 

starts and ends with you. It 

takes time and a conscious 

effort to pay your debts. 

Any company that claims to 

be able to fix your credit 

legally is lying. Learn about 

managing credit and debt at 

ftc.gov/credit 

A message from The 

Vicksburg Post and the 

FTC. 

11. Business 

Opportunities 

EXCEPTIONAL FRANCHISE 

OPPORTUNITY 

Seeking hands-on 

entrepreneurs for unique 

restaurant ownership. 

Opportunities available 

in Vicksburg, MS. 

Minimum $200K liquidity 

and $500K in assets. 

Contact Randy Gilmer 

(800)418-9555 x 1333 

www.huddlehouse.com 

Qualifications: 

• Accounting Degree, required 

• 5 Years Experience in Automated 

Accounting Office 

• Experience in GL, Financials, A/R, A/P, 

Inventories, Account Reconciliation 

• Proficiency with Excel, Standard 

Computer Software and Internet 

Mail Resume to: 

Dept. #3695 

c/o The Vicksburg Post 

P. O. Box 821668 

Vicksburg, MS 39182

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Opportunities 

Dollar & Dollar Plus 

Mailbox, Party, Discount 

Clothing or Teen Store 

From $51,900 Worldwide! 

100% Turnkey 

Call Now 

1-800-518-3064 

www.drss3.com 

13. Situations 

Wanted 

I WILL SIT with your love 

one or do house work. Call 

me 601-634-8229. 

14. Pets & 

Livestock 

2 YEAR OLD Bay/ Tennessee 

Walking horse. 

Green broke, female. 

Needs lots of attention. 

$500. 601-529-8149 or 601- 

634-0997. 

AKC ENGLISH BULLDOG 

puppies sired by CH Hurricane 

Tank II. $1500 each. 

Email: www.jbsbullbabies.com 

or call 479-970-7237, cell. 

AKC FEMALE BULLMAS- 

TIFF puppy, large, over 50 

pounds. Also Toy Poodle 

puppies. 318-341-7697. 

AKC LABRADOR 

PUPPIES. 

White and yellow. 

$200 each. 

Call 318-574-3199 

or 318-235-9167. 

18. Miscellaneou s 

For Sale 

BUSINESS & SERVICE DIRECTORY 

Score A Bullseye With One Of These Businesses! 

• Glass 

Barnes Glass 

Quality Service at Competitive Prices 

#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement 

Vans • Cars • Trucks 

•Insurance Claims Welcome• 

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESS 

Jason Barnes • 601-661-0900 

• Bulldozer & 

Construction 

BUFORD 

CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. 

601-636-4813 

State Board of Contractors 

Approved & Bonded 

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt, 

Rock & Sand 

All Types of Dozer Work 

Land Clearing • Demolition 

Site Development 

& Preparation Excavation 

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking 

• Lawn HandyMan Care 

Services 

From helping with 

small repair projects to 

upgrading your home... 

Joe Rangel - Owner 

601.636.7843 

601.529.5400 

Joe@RiverCityHandyman.com 

Call today for free estimate. 

We’re not satisfied until you are. 

RIVER CITY HANDYMAN 

• Construction 

ROSS 

CONSTRUCTION 

New Homes 

Framing, Remodeling, 

Cabinets, Flooring, 

Roofing & Vinyl Siding 

State Licensed & Bonded 

John Ross 601-638-7932 

FRANK KEEN BUILDERS 

New Construction 

Renovations & Painting 

Quality Cabinets 

30 years Experience 

601-218-4263 

601-630-4111 

• Lawn Dirt Services Care 

Services 

• Bush Hogging 

• Box Blading 

• Yard Work 

• Tree & Debris - 

Removal & Distribution 

GEORGE MARTIN & SONS 

601-885-8508 • 601-218-9480 

• Employment 

Service 

Let Us Help You With 

All Your Labor Needs. 

General Cleanup & More! 

We pay all 

Workers’ Compensation, 

Unemployment, Payroll, 

Taxes and Liability 

Insurance 

Call us for a free quote! 


601-638-0083 

• Septic Service 

SHEFFIELD RENTALS 

WE PUMP & CLEAN SEPTIC 

TANKS & GREASE TRAPS. 

1255 Highway 61 South 

601-636-0088 

Open: 

Mon.-Fri. - 7:30am-5pm 

WE ACCEPT MOST 

MAJOR CREDIT CARDS. 

e y r 

• Printing 

SPEEDIPRINT & 

OFFICE SUPPLY 

• Business Cards 

• Letterhead 

• Envelopes 

• Invoices 

• Work Orders 

• Invitations 

(601) 638-2900 

Fax (601) 636-6711 

1601-C North Frontage Rd 


• Signs 

PATRIOTIC 

• FLAGS 

• BANNERS 

• BUMPER STICKERS 

• YARD SIGNS 

Show Your Colors! 

Post Plaza 

601-631-0400 

1601 N. Frontage Rd. 


All Business & Service Directory Ads 

MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE! 

We hope our 

readers all enjoy 

a happy & safe 

4th of July!!! 

14. Pets & 

Livestock 

APBR/ CKC registered Pit 

Bull puppies. Parents on-site, 

ready now. $300 each. 601- 

397-0131, 601-218-1807. 

CUTE LITTLE 

PEKINGESE babies. 8 

weeks old, first shots, 

wormed, Certified Pet Registered. 

$250- $300. Delhi, 

318-680-2100. 

VICKSBURG WARREN 

HUMANE SOCIETY 

Highway 61 South 

601-636-6631 

Currently housing 128 unwanted 

and abandoned animals. 

56 dogs & puppies 

71 cats & kittens 

1 Guinea Pig 

Please adopt 

today! 

Call the Shelter for more information. 

HAVE AHEART, SPAY 

OR NEUTER YOUR PETS! 

Look for us on www.petfinder.com 

VICKSBURG WARREN 

HUMANE SOCIETY 

Hwy 61 S. • 601-636-6631 

PET OF THE WEEK 

“Jeremiah” 

I’m just 13 weeks 

old, and ready to 

find a new home 

with you today. 

Please adopt today! 

Call the Shelter for more information. 

HAVE AHEART, SPAY OR 

NEUTER YOUR PETS! 

Look for us on www.petfinder.com 

MINIATURE 

DACHSHUNDS. CKC registered, 

shots and wormed. 

$275. 601-618-9099. 


For Sale 

WE PAY CASH! 

for gold, silver, 

diamonds & coins 

Scallions Jewelers 

1207 Washington St. • 601-636-6413 

COME CHECK US OUT TODAY 

YOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR 

HOME HERE 

Great Location, Hard-Working Staff 

14. Pets & 

Livestock 

Please have 

your pets 

spayed and 

neutered. 

www.pawsrescuepets.org 

PRETTY, PRETTY, 

PRETTY Chihuahua babies. 

Light fawn and white 

with gold, first shots, 

wormed, small size, Certified 

Pet Registered. Delhi, 

318-680-2100. 

15. Auction 

LOOKING FOR A great 

value? Subscribe to The 

Vicksburg Post, 601-636- 

4545, ask for Circulation. 

16. Antiques 

WAYNE’S ANTIQUES 

624 1st St. • Delhi, LA 71232 

318-878-5900 

www.waynesantiques.com 

Mon - Tue Closed 

Wed- Fri 10am-5pm 

Sat 9am-5pm 

Sun 1pm-5pm 

17. Wanted To 

Buy 

I BUY AND HAUL off junk 

cars, trucks, vans, buses, 

etcetera. Call 601-218- 

0038. If no answer, please 

leave message. 

WE BUY ESTATES. 

Households and quality 

goods. Best prices. You 

call, we haul! 601-415-3121, 

601-661-6074. www.msauctionservice.com 


For Sale 

24 FOOT ROUND pool, 

complete. 3 years old, excellent 

condition. With deck, 

$1500; without deck, $1200. 

Buyer must disassemble. 

2003 4-wheeler, needs 

work, $300. 318-341-4334. 

29. Unfurnished 

Apartments 


For Sale 

12 FOOT X 36 foot offwhite 

new roll carpet and 

padding, $250. Fabric 

Couch, $75. 601-638-3906. 

ANTIQUE ORIENTAL RUG, 

small rugs 9 feet 1 inch, large 8 

feet 8 inch. Authentic Middle 

Eastern, handwoven, 100 years 

old. Excellent condition. Roll top 

desk, velvet mahogany settee, 

antique sofa. 601-638-5953. 

BRAND NEW KING size 

pillow top mattress set. New 

in plastic. Can deliver. 

$245. 601-573-6930. 

BRAND NEW QUEEN 

size mattress set. In plastic, 

with factory warranty. 

$145. 601-573-6930. 

CHEST FREEZER, $85. 

Wooden bunk beds with 

mattresses, $200. Green 

microfiber sofa bed, $250. 

Mirrored wardrobe, $20. 

601-638-0457. 

LIVE 

CRAWFISH 

Cheapest Prices 

in Town 

Grits-N-Gravy 

Saturday, July 4th 

9PM-1AM 

STRICK’S SEAFOOD 

601-218-2363 

FOR LESS THAN 45 

cents per day, have 

The Vicksburg Post 

delivered to your home. 

Only $14 per month, 

7 day delivery. 

Call 601-636-4545, 

Circulation Department. 

✿ Mattress Sets 

✿ Dining Room Sets 

✿ Living Room Sets 

✿ Bedroom Sets 

✿ Special Orders 

Shop & Save! 

DISCOUNT 

FURNITURE BARN 

601-638-7191 


Apartments 

MAGNOLIA MANOR 

APARTMENTS FOR 

ELDERLY & 

DISABLED CITIZENS! 

• Rent Based On Income 

3515 MANOR DRIVE 

VICKSBURG, MS 

Toll Free 1-866-238-8861 

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 

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For Sale 

CLASSIC WHITE WED- 

DING gown. Designer- 

Mora Lee, size 6, under 

skirt, train, veil. $350 or best 

offer. 601-218-8585, 601- 

636-4698, leave message. 

MATTRESS SET. FULL 

size, brand new in plastic. 

With warranty. $125. 601- 

573-6930. 

ON SALE! Boots, Wrangler 

jeans, belts, ecetera. 

Call 601-638-7800. 

SOFA AND RECLINER. 

New, beautiful, still packaged! 

Only $799! Can deliver. 

601-209-0872. 

SQUARE HAY FOR 

SALE. Call 601-831-0073 or 

601-631-6838 for prices. 

STORE CLOSING SALE! 

All merchandise 50% off(Excludes 

custom framing). 

Racks and fixtures available. 

The Craft Store, 

3412 Pemberton Square 

Boulevard, Suite 6 

THE PET SHOP 

“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique” 

2106 Cherry Street 

Pond fish are here: Koi, Xlarge 

goldfish & more. Also all kinds 

of tropicals including Cichilds, 

lots of blue & bright colors. 

Dwarf & mini bunnies, guinea 

pigs, parakeets, cockatiels. 

Loads of collars & harnesses. 

Pets Welcome! 

USED KAWAI HOME 

Studio piano with cherry finish. 

$3000. 601-638-2206. 

VESSELL'S ORGANIC 

BLUEBERRIES. You pick. 

$9 Per gallon. 

Call 601-636-0552. 

19. Garage & 

Yard Sales 

What's going on in 

Vicksburg this weekend? 

Read The Vicksburg Post! 

For convenient home delivery 

call 601-636-4545, ask 

for circulation. 

20. Hunting 

DEER CAMP! 2,000 plus 

acres of hunting land at 

Russellville Hunting Club located 

in the Oak Ridge 

Community. Family oriented 

camp that offers turkey, 

deer and squirrel hunting. 

$750 hunting dues per year. 

If interested in becoming a 

member. Contact Carl 

Brock 601-301-0028, Randy 

Stubbs 601-636-0538 or 

Larry Brock 601-415-4108. 


Apartments 

21. Boats, 

Fishing Supplies 

1997 JET SKI with trailer 

and accessories. $2500 or 

best offer. 601-529-2204. 

What's going on in Vicksburg 

this weekend? Read 

The Vicksburg Post! For 

convenient home delivery, 

call 601-636-4545, ask for 

circulation. 


Services 

D.R. PAINTING AND CON- 

STRUCTION. Painting, roofing, 

carpentry service. Licensed 

bonded. Free estimates! 

Call 601-638-5082. 

DAVE'S TOTAL LAWN 

CARE. Free estimates! Call 

601-618-5798. 

DIRT AND GRAVEL 

hauled. 8 yard truck. 601- 

638-6740. 

ELVIS YARD SERVICES. 

General yard clean-up, rake 

leaves, grass cutting, tree 

cutting, reasonable. 601- 

529-9730. Quick response. 

River City Lawn Care 

You grow it we mow it! 

Affordable and professional. 

Lawn and landscape 

maintenance. 

Cut, bag, trim, edge. 

601-529-6168. 

TNT HANDYMAN. All 

types home maintenance, 

additions, painting, roofing, 

electrical, flooring, patios, 

decks. 601-631-4879, 817- 

584-3050. 

HELPING PEOPLE FILE 

UNDER THE 

“BANKRUPTCY CODE” 

CHAPTER 7 - $600 

CHAPTER 13 - $300 DOWN, 

THE REST IN THE PLAN 

SPEAK DIRECTLY TO AN 

ATTORNEY 

TYE ASHFORD 

(601-924-8670) 

26. For Rent 

Or Lease 

MODERN OFFICE SPACE. 

600 square feet, downtown 

near courthouse, kitchenette, 

shower, parking. $450 

monthly. 601-529-6093. 


Apartments 

S HAMROCK 

A PARTMENTS 

Be the first to live in one of our 

New Apartments! 

Available January 1st, 2009 

SUPERIOR QUALITY, 

CUSTOM OAK CABINETS, 

EXTRA LARGE MASTER BEDROOM, 

& WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS 

SAFE!!! 

ALL UNITS HAVE 

CALL 601-636-SELL 

AND PLACE YOUR 

CLASSIFIED AD TODAY. 

AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEM 

SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT 

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333 

Bienville 

Apartments 

26. For Rent 

Or Lease 

OFFICE SPACE LOCATED 

on Wisconsin Avenue. 500 

square feet. Electricity included. 

$450 monthly. 601- 

634-6669. 

OFFICE SPACE LOCATED 

on Wisconsin Avenue. 3000 

square feet, perfect for 

medical/ dental clinic. $1200 

monthly. 601-634-6669. 

27. Room s For 

Rent 

DIXIANA MOTEL. 

NIGHTLY, weekly and 

monthly rates! 4041 Washington 

Street, near casinos, 

Vicksburg, MS. 601-631- 

6940. 

WEEKLY RATE: $80. 

MONTHLY RATE: $320. 

NO deposit required. 

Completely furnished 

with bed and TV. 

All utilities paid with 

central heat and air. 

601-631-0222 

28. Furnished 

Apartments 

1 BEDROOM WITH 

kitchen and bathroom, utilities 

furnished. 601-529- 

9804. 

COMPLETELY FURNISHED 

CORPORATE APARTMENT 

All utilities paid, laundry 

room provided, 1 bedroom. 

$900 monthly. Studio apartment 

$750. 601-415-9027, 

601-638-4386. 

CONSTRUCTION 

WORKERS DREAM. 1 

Bedroom apartment for 

rent, completely furnished. 

Call 601-883-9942. 

CORPORATE STUDIO 

APARTMENT. Utilities, 

cleaning, laundry, dinner 

Monday-Friday, off street 

parking. 601-661-9747. 

PRE-VIEW VICKS- 

BURG'S FINEST furnished 

apartments on-line at www. 

vicksburgcorporatehousing. 

com 601-874-1116. 


Apartments 

1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOM 

APARTMENTS, downtown. 

$400 to $600 monthly, deposit 

required. 601-629-4348. 

2 BEDROOMS, 2½ baths. 

Openwood Townhouse. 1,400 

plus/ minus square feet. $650 

monthly. $400 deposit. 601- 

831-8900. Leave message. 

2 bedrooms, Living room, 

kitchen, bath. Private, quiet 

area near River Region. 

Stove, refrigerator, water 

furnished. Washer/ dryer 

hook-up. $450 monthly. 

References required. No 

Pets. 601-638-4685. 

4 BEDROOM DUPLEX. 

$500 rent. 2 bedroom townhouse, 

$400 rent. Both 

have refrigerator and stove. 

$200 deposit. 601-634- 

8291. 

We now have immediate availability. 

Don’t miss out!! 

1, 2 & 3 bedrooms and townhomes. 

Call 601-636-1752 

www.bienvilleapartments.com 


Apartments 

3, 2 AND 1 bedrooms 

available from $550 to $400. 

$300 deposit on each. 601- 

631-0805, management. 

Vicksburg’s Most 

Convenient Luxury 

Apartments! 

• Cable Furnished! 

• High Speed Internet 

Access Available! 

601-636-0503 

2160 S. Frontage Rd. 


BEAUTIFUL 

LAKESIDE LIVING 

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts. 

• Beautifully Landscaped 

• Lake Surrounds Community 

• Pool • Fireplace 

• Spacious Floor Plans 

HIGH SPEED INTERNET 

AVAILABLE 

601-629-6300 

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com 

501 Fairways Drive 

Vicksburg 

CONFEDERATE 

RIDGE 

APARTMENTS 

OFFERING 4TH OF 

JULY SAVINGS! 

Starting at 

$458 monthly! 

For details & 

availability 

Call 601-638-0102 

MANAGER’S SPECIAL 

River Oaks Apartments 

601-638-2231 

Office located at 

Commodore 

Apartments 

605 Cain Ridge Road 

DOWNTOWN, BRICK, Marie 

Apartments. Total electric, central 

air/ heat, stove, refrigerator. 

$500, water furnished. 601-636- 

7107, trip@msubulldogs.org 

SPACIOUS 2 BEDROOM 

apartment. 61 South area. 

601-619-9789. 

WE ARE BLOOMING TO 

PLEASE Apartment Homes! 

Newly remodeled 2 and 3 

bedrooms. Pay cable water 

and trash, washer/ dryer and 

microwave included. 601- 

638-5587 or 601-415-8735. 

30. Houses 

For Rent 

100 DOVE ROAD 

4 bdrm, 2 ba, double wide. 

$675 mth, $675 deposit. 

2811 CLAY STREET. 

3 bed, 1 bath; will rent 

unfurnished w/ 1 yr lease 

$575/mth. Rent furnished 

with short term lease 

$1200/mth with utilities. 

References required. 

Call 1-888-919-3222, 

leave message or go to 

www.CICrentals.com 

Owner/ Broker 


Apartments 

AUDUBON UDUBON PLACELACE 

For those adults who like a safe 

community setting with the best 

neighbors in Vicksburg. 

Discount for Senior Citizens available 

415-3333 • 638-1102 • 636-1455 

Bradford Ridge 

Apartments 

Live in a Quality Built Apartment 

for LESS! All brick, 

concrete floors and double walls 

provide excellent soundproofing, 

security, and safety. 

601-638-1102 * 601-415-3333 

LOST 

YOUR 

NINE 

IRON? 

Check the classifieds 

daily or sell 

the rest with a 

fast action 

classified ad. 

601-636-SELL

The Vicksburg Post Sunday, July 5, 2009 D5 

30. Houses 

For Rent 

33. Commercial 

Property 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

39. Motorcycles, 

Bicycles 

$436 MONTHLY! 6 BED- 

ROOM, 3 bath. 5% down, 

15 years at 8%. For listings 

800-620-4856 x G681. 

101 SEA ISLAND Drive. 

Duplex, 3 bedrooms, 2 

baths, water and electric 

furnished. $850 monthly, 

deposit/ lease required, 

boat ramp available. For appointment, 

601-218-5348. 

217 MONTAIGN DRIVE 

near WES off Porters 

Chapel. 3 bedroom, 2 bath 

with 4 th room options. $1250 

monthly, includes water. 

Available July 1 st . Call 601- 

529-6312. 

8929 FISHER FERRY. 

3/2 brick, large workshop. 

$900/ month, $900 deposit. 

Carla, Jones & Upchurch. 

601-415-4179. 

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2 

Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage. 

Close in, nice, $795 monthly. 

601-831-4506. 

31. Mobile Homes 

For Rent 

MEADOWBROOK 

PROPERTIES. 3 bedroom 

mobile homes, Highway 61 

South area. Deposit required. 

601-619-9789. 


For Sale 

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath 

double wide with land. 

Fenced-in yard with shop. 

$57,900. Owner financing. 

601-218-6403. 

Available NOW! 

28x80 4 BR, 2 BTHS, 

New Carpet- Skirting- 

Deck, Large Lot. 

FHA FINANCING! 

Call 601-218-0140 

$39,995 

3 bedroom, 2 bath 

28x52 

$4,000 dn 

$312 p/m 

Classic Double Wide Village 

601-636-6433 



Our ePost now 

available! 

Call 601-636-4545 



Apartments 

✰✰ FOR LEASE ✰✰ 

1911 Mission 66 

Office or Retail 

Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft. 

Lots of Parking Space 

Brian Moore Realty 

Connie - Owner/ Agent 

318-322-4000 

NEW OFFICES FOR 

rent. All amenities. $500- 

$1000 monthly. Call Jim 

Hankins, 601-629-4348. 

SPACE FOR LEASE! 

1601-A North Frontage 

Road, Post Plaza, 5400 

square feet retail/ warehouse 

combination- 3250 

square feet heated/ 

cooled office/ retail area, 

2150 square feet heated 

warehouse with drive-in 

overhead door, high traffic, 

great exposure, ample 

parking, common traffic 

area, maintenance included 

in rent. 2 restrooms 

(one ADA) in heated/ 

cooled portion. New 

construction in 1996. 

Located in the I-20 North 

Frontage Road at the 

Halls Ferry Road exit. Offered 

by The Vicksburg 

Post, P.O. Box 821668, 

Vicksburg, MS 

39182-1668. 

Jimmy Clark, 

601-636-4545. 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

Eagle Lake 

Waterfront lots, new listings, 

waterfront homes. 

Call Bette Paul Warner, 

601-218-1800 

www.Lakehouse.com 

McMillin Real Estate 

106 Singing Hill Cove 

4 Bdrm, 3 bath home, 

3000 sq. ft., located on 

lake front property, has 

stainless steel appliances, 

granite counter tops, ceramic 

& wood flooring. 

Call 601-629-7426 

for more information. 

OPENWOOD PLANTATION 

1107 NOTTINGHAM RD. 

3 bdrm., 2 bath, painted, 

clean & move-in-ready! 

1882 sq. ft., 2-car garage, 

gas logs, sunroom, 

quiet cul-de-sac. 

$149,900!! MUST SEE!! 

Call 601-631-0422 

or 601-738-8825. 


Apartments 

1.5 STORY HOME, 5 

bedrooms, 2.5 baths. 2200 

square feet. Will consider 

rent. 601-218-6075. 

2 AND 3 BEDROOM 

HOMES! For sale, lease to 

own or rent. Also 2 bedroom 

apartments for rent. 601-415- 

0067, 601-831-3493. 

203 DRUSILLA 

3 bdrm, 1.5 bath 

Totally remodeled. 

All Appliances. 

Home Warranty. 

• Agents Welcome • 

$79,500!! MUST SEE!! 

Call 318-341-8717 

2104 BAKER STREET. 4 

bedroom, 1.5 baths, newly 

renovated. $70,000. 601- 

529-5376. 

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths. 

Custom built brick garden 

home in Pear Orchard, 

1737 square feet, 2 inch 

wood blinds, ceramic and 

wood floors in kitchen, dining 

room, landscaped yard, 

9 years old. $189,500. For 

appointment, 601-661-6354. 

4 bdrm, 2 ba., nice recently 

updated home. New laminate, 

ceramic in kitchen & baths, 

fresh paint. Great county 

location, minutes from town, 

quiet cul-de-sac, spacious 

yard, 12x20 workshop. 

All for $149,000. 

Call 601-415-3022 for 

more info or appointment. 

4 BED, 3.5 BATH. Beautiful 

great custom built home, intown 

location. $369,000. 601- 

529-9685. 

BEVERLY 

MCMILLIN 

Realtor 

“Simply the Best” 

601-415-9179 

M cMillin 

Real Estate 

VicksburgMsRealEstate.com 

Judy Harrell.............601-618-3227 

Brian Breithaupt......601-218-1945 

Ronnie Johnston......601-831-2319 

Yvonne Winstead....601-218-1964 

Jess Willis.................601-218-1457 

Dixie Breithaupt, BROKER 

601-638-6243 




Apartments 

4 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS, 

3.5 acres, newly remodeled. 

Culkin area. Reduced! 

$97,000. 601-301-0145. 

A FORECLOSURE! 4 

bed, 1 bath. Only $21,900! 

For listings 800-620-4856 

extension S131. 

Ask 

Us. 

■ 

FHA & VA 

■ 

Conventional 

■ 

Construction 

■ 

First-time 

Homebuyers 

Candy Francisco 

Mortgage Originator 

Mortgage 

Loans 

601.630.8209 

Member FDIC 

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.com 

Open Hours: 

Monday-Friday 

8:30am-5:30pm 

Saturday - 9am-5pm 

Sunday - 1pm-5pm 

601-634-8928 

2170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd. 

www.ColdwellBanker.com 

www.homesofvicksburg.net 

Big River Realty 

601-636-0660 

John Arnold...............601-529-7376 

Sue L. Richardson.... 601-415-0957 

DeowarskiMcDonald.601-529-5703 

David A. Brewer........601-631-0065 

Visit us today at 

Bigriverhomes.com 

COUNTRY HOME • MADISON PARISH 

3 BR., 2.5 BTH., APR. 2900 SQ. FT. 

HEATED/COOLED, DEN, GAME 

ROOM, POOL W/ PATIO COVER, 

FENCED YARD, APR. 8 ACRES W/ 

PRODUCING PECAN TREES, BARN, 

DOG PEN. 

318-574-2478 (LEAVE MESSAGE) 


Apartments 


Real Estate 

601-636-8193 

VicksburgRealEstate.com 

EDWARDS ESTATE!!! 

6,000 sq. ft. 5BR/4FB/2HB 

remodeled home w/ pool on 

18 wooded acres! 

Call Theresa Wooten, REALTOR 

601-613-5792 

Wooten Evans Properties 

FOR SALE BY OWNER 

Quality custom built 4 br/2.5 bath 

home on 7.9 acres. 2 custom 

detached bldgs, ample storage 

(closets & built-ins), oversize 

laundry, sewing/craft room, 

2 heated/ cooled closets in garage 

(1 cedar-lined). 601-636-4290. 

Serious inquiries only. $249,000. 

To view pictures, go to 

forsalebyowner.com 

ID#22086479 

FOR SALE BY OWNER. 

319 Blake Drive, well 

maintained with updates, 

3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 

1500 square feet, large 

den, fireplace/ gas logs, 

appliances, central air/ 

heat, fenced private back 

yard, large wired storage 

building, Redwood 

School district. $125,000. 

For appointment, 601-636- 

7244, 601-218-9665. 

FORECLOSED HOME 

AUCTION 

MISSISSIPPI STATEWIDE 

500+ Homes Must Be Sold! 

REDC | Free Brochure 

www.Auction.com 

Brkr 6505355610 

Call Your 

Hometown Specialists! 

Licensed in MS and LA 

Jones & Upchurch 

Real Estate Agency 


www.jonesandupchurch.com 

Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012 

Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 

Judy Uzzle..................601-994-4663 

Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665 

Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 

Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490 

Broker, GRI 

601-636-6490 


Apartments 

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INTO THE GOOD LIFE! 

Apartment Homes 

Spacious 1, 2, and 3 bedroom 

apartment homes! 

• CABLE FURNISHED 

• HIGH SPEED INTERNET 

ACCESS AVAILABLE 

• NUMEROUS LAVISH AMENITIES 

• SPARKLING SWIMMING POOL 

• BASKETBALL COURT 

• VOLLEYBALL COURT 

www.gfprop.com 

601-636-0503 • 2160 S. Frontage Rd. 

Search 

Homes For Sale, 

Photos & Details 

in the 

MLS of Vicksburg 

at 

www.VicksburgRealtors.com 

THIS IS THE ONE! 

132 Pebble Beach Drive 

Fairways, Lake front, 

4 bed, 2.5 bath, 1.3 acres, 

pool, many amenities. 

601-630-5177 • 601-638-9050 

$309,900 

jxnlaw1@aol.com for 

information/ pictures. 

First Time Buyers Take 

Advantage of $8,000 

Government Incentive 

while it’s still 

available. 

3 Jil Marie 

Openwood S/D, great family 

home. Big corner lot with 

fenced yard. 

409 Lake Forest 

Large kitchen with custom 

cabinets. Vaulted ceilings in 

family room & master bdrm. 

2364 Dana Road 

2072 sq. ft. home built 2004. 

Priced to sell at $82.00 a foot. 

3 bdrms, 2 baths, two living 

areas, 1 acre lot, 2 car garage. 

110 Dogwood Lake 

Built in 2003. Open floorplan 

with 2000 sq. ft. Large master 

bdrm, bath w/ whirlpool tub. 

13 Riverwood Circle 

Incredible view of the river & 

bridges. Once its gone, there 

will not be another chance for 

a view like this. 

1475 Timberlane 

15.1 beautiful acres, 1655 sq. 

ft. brick home, built 1982. 

Large shop. 

310 Willow Creek Drive 

13.3 acres and a great family 

home and barn. 

213 Grinder's Place 

Upscale, designer inspired 

custom home. 3000 sq. ft. 

4 bdrms, 3 ba, lge bonus room. 

112 Green Hill Drive 

Great family home, big 

workshop. 3 large lots go with 

this property. $109,900. 

310 Eagle Lake Shore 

3 bdrm, 4 ba, 3300 sq. ft., 

pecan floors, cypress walls, 

open floor plan. 


4 bdrm, 2 bath, lakefront, 

vaulted ceiling, garage, pier, 

covered shed for boat. 

BEVERLY 

MCMILLIN 

601-415-9179 


40. Cars & Trucks 

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 

Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 

Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 

Bob Gordon........601-831-0135 

Tony Jordan........601-630-6461 

Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 

Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 

Kai Mason...........601-218-5623 

Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549 

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 

Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 

Angie Presley.....601-218-2458 

Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211 

ARNER 

REAL ESTATE, INC 

VJIM HOBSON 

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER 

601-636-0502 

208 Willow Way. 3BR, 2.5BA, 

1.4 acres. Bovina school district. 

808 Queens Street. 2BR, 1BA, 

remodeled, new A/C. $54,400. 

916 National Street. 2BR, 

2BA, central air & heat. 

NINA ROCCONI 

601-415-4503 • 601-636-5947 

Leech Real Estate of Vicksburg, Inc. 

35. Lots For Sale 

CANTRELL COVE 

SUBDIVISION 

Owner: Ollie Cantrell, Jr. 

Reduced to: $20,000 Each 

Quiet, country living, 

easy access to 

Vicksburg & Tallulah! 

Approximately 

1.5 Acre Lots 

Mound, LA 

Exit - Highway 602 

(1 Mile South of I-20 

Interstate) 

318-574-3610 

36. Farms & 

Acreage 

10.23 ACRES, 893 FEET of 

frontage on 61 South, 1 mile 

south of Walmart. $150,000 or 

best offer. Call Bobbie, 601- 

636-7297. 

115 ACRES. NORTH 

Hinds County, excellent 

hunting/ timber, possible 

owner financing. 136 acres. 

Scutalo Hills Claiborne 

County. 245 acres hunting/ 

timber- White Oak Creek 

Southwest Utica. Joan Vickers 

Real Estate, 601-969- 

2042. 


The Car Store 

Trucks 

2007 KAWASAKI NINJA. 

Good condition, 6,000 

miles. $3700. 601-529- 

4012. 


1958 FORD FAIRLANE 

500. 2 door, hardtop, V-8, 

automatic transmission. 

Restoration started. $3500 

or best offer. 601-831-0833 

601-638-7832. 

1989 FORD 250 diesel, 

5-speed, loaded. $3000 or 

best offer. 601-218-4873. 

1990 NISSAN 300ZX. 

Midnight blue, 230,000 

miles, upgraded sound system 

with XM radio, upgraded 

engine and exhaust system, 

new paint and tires, 

cold air, 160 miles per hour 

top speed. $8000. 601-529- 

5376. 

1993 CHEVROLET S10 

Blazer. 2 door, V6, power 

windows, runs good, good 

tires. Excellent student car. 

$3500. 601-218-5205, 601- 

218-8585. 

1993 FORD RANGER. 

Runs like new! $500 or best 

offer. For listings 800-619- 

3924 extension 1864. 

1996 CHEVROLET CA- 

MARO V6 $850! Runs good! 

Must see! For listings. 800- 

619-3924 extension 4898. 

2000 FORD F150 Lariat. 

Chrome wheels, chrome 

Nerf bars, bedliner, leather, 

like new! 601-218-9654, 

601-636-0658. Dealer. 

2005 CHEVROLET SIL- 

VERADO 4x4. Must sell, 

make an offer. 601-218- 

9646. 

BOTTOM OM LINE 

AUTO O SALES 

WE FINANCE 

Drive a little, Save a Lot! 

601-529-1195 

8 mi. out of town 

on Fisher Ferry Rd. 

PICK YOURS TODAY! 

97 Ford Explorer 

$1000 down-$250 per month 

02 Mercury Sable 


98 Jeep Grand Cherokee 


NO CREDIT CHECK 

Gary’s 601-883-9995 

99 FORD WINSTAR VAN V1376R ............15 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1090 Down 

99 KIA SPORTAGE V1858 ........................24 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1255 Down 

01 KIA SPORTAGE 4x4 V1846 ................24 mos.@ $240 Per Month $ 1285 Down 

03 SATURN VUE AWD V1857..........................24 mos.@ $290 Per Month $ 1555 Down 

03 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LT V1861..........24 mos.@ $300 Per Month $ 1630 Down 

97 CHEVY 1500 Z71 4x4 V1848....................24 mos.@ $310 Per Month $ 1915 Down 

01 DODGE LARAMIE SLT V1864 ....................23 mos.@ $300 Per Month $ 1930 Down 

03 JEEP LIBERTY 4x4 RV1856......................24 mos.@ $300 Per Month $ 1945 Down 

04 FORD ESCAPE XLT V1850..........................24 mos.@ $310 Per Month $ 2020 Down 

01 FORD F150 XLT 4 door V1865 ............23 mos.@ $310 Per Month $ 2225 Down 

SOLD 

SOLD 

SOLD 

Cars 

SOLD 

02 DODGE NEON V1667R..............................18 mos.@ $240 Per Month $ 1045 Down 

02 DODGE STRATUS SE V1514RR ............17 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1115 Down 

03 FORD FOCUS ZTS V1840 ...................... 24 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1150 Down 

01 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT V1844 ...... 24 mos.@ $280 Per Month $ 1165 Down 

00 FORD TARUS SEL V1559R.................... 12 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1210 Down 

00 FORD CROWN VICTORIA LX V1652R 22 mos.@ $260 Per Month $ 1325 Down 

WE FINANCE OUR OWN ACCOUNTS 

SOLD 

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*Plus Tax & Title, 0% APR WAC 

601-638-6015 • 2800 Clay Street • Vicksburg, MS

The Vicksburg Post Sunday, July 5, 2009 D5 

30. Houses 

For Rent 

33. Commercial 

Property 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

39. Motorcycles, 

Bicycles 

$436 MONTHLY! 6 BED- 

ROOM, 3 bath. 5% down, 

15 years at 8%. For listings 

800-620-4856 x G681. 

101 SEA ISLAND Drive. 

Duplex, 3 bedrooms, 2 

baths, water and electric 

furnished. $850 monthly, 

deposit/ lease required, 

boat ramp available. For appointment, 

601-218-5348. 

217 MONTAIGN DRIVE 

near WES off Porters 

Chapel. 3 bedroom, 2 bath 

with 4 th room options. $1250 

monthly, includes water. 

Available July 1 st . Call 601- 

529-6312. 

8929 FISHER FERRY. 

3/2 brick, large workshop. 

$900/ month, $900 deposit. 

Carla, Jones & Upchurch. 

601-415-4179. 

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2 

Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage. 

Close in, nice, $795 monthly. 

601-831-4506. 


For Rent 

MEADOWBROOK 

PROPERTIES. 3 bedroom 

mobile homes, Highway 61 

South area. Deposit required. 

601-619-9789. 


For Sale 

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath 

double wide with land. 

Fenced-in yard with shop. 

$57,900. Owner financing. 

601-218-6403. 

Available NOW! 

28x80 4 BR, 2 BTHS, 

New Carpet- Skirting- 

Deck, Large Lot. 

FHA FINANCING! 

Call 601-218-0140 

$39,995 

3 bedroom, 2 bath 

28x52 

$4,000 dn 

$312 p/m 

Classic Double Wide Village 

601-636-6433 



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Apartments 

✰✰ FOR LEASE ✰✰ 

1911 Mission 66 

Office or Retail 

Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft. 

Lots of Parking Space 

Brian Moore Realty 

Connie - Owner/ Agent 

318-322-4000 

NEW OFFICES FOR 

rent. All amenities. $500- 

$1000 monthly. Call Jim 

Hankins, 601-629-4348. 

SPACE FOR LEASE! 

1601-A North Frontage 

Road, Post Plaza, 5400 

square feet retail/ warehouse 

combination- 3250 

square feet heated/ 

cooled office/ retail area, 

2150 square feet heated 

warehouse with drive-in 

overhead door, high traffic, 

great exposure, ample 

parking, common traffic 

area, maintenance included 

in rent. 2 restrooms 

(one ADA) in heated/ 

cooled portion. New 

construction in 1996. 

Located in the I-20 North 

Frontage Road at the 

Halls Ferry Road exit. Offered 

by The Vicksburg 

Post, P.O. Box 821668, 

Vicksburg, MS 

39182-1668. 

Jimmy Clark, 

601-636-4545. 

34. Houses 

For Sale 

Eagle Lake 

Waterfront lots, new listings, 

waterfront homes. 

Call Bette Paul Warner, 

601-218-1800 

www.Lakehouse.com 


106 Singing Hill Cove 

4 Bdrm, 3 bath home, 

3000 sq. ft., located on 

lake front property, has 

stainless steel appliances, 

granite counter tops, ceramic 

& wood flooring. 

Call 601-629-7426 

for more information. 

OPENWOOD PLANTATION 

1107 NOTTINGHAM RD. 

3 bdrm., 2 bath, painted, 

clean & move-in-ready! 

1882 sq. ft., 2-car garage, 

gas logs, sunroom, 

quiet cul-de-sac. 

$149,900!! MUST SEE!! 

Call 601-631-0422 

or 601-738-8825. 


Apartments 

1.5 STORY HOME, 5 

bedrooms, 2.5 baths. 2200 

square feet. Will consider 

rent. 601-218-6075. 

2 AND 3 BEDROOM 

HOMES! For sale, lease to 

own or rent. Also 2 bedroom 

apartments for rent. 601-415- 

0067, 601-831-3493. 

203 DRUSILLA 

3 bdrm, 1.5 bath 

Totally remodeled. 

All Appliances. 

Home Warranty. 

• Agents Welcome • 

$79,500!! MUST SEE!! 

Call 318-341-8717 

2104 BAKER STREET. 4 

bedroom, 1.5 baths, newly 

renovated. $70,000. 601- 

529-5376. 

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths. 

Custom built brick garden 

home in Pear Orchard, 

1737 square feet, 2 inch 

wood blinds, ceramic and 

wood floors in kitchen, dining 

room, landscaped yard, 

9 years old. $189,500. For 

appointment, 601-661-6354. 

4 bdrm, 2 ba., nice recently 

updated home. New laminate, 

ceramic in kitchen & baths, 

fresh paint. Great county 

location, minutes from town, 

quiet cul-de-sac, spacious 

yard, 12x20 workshop. 

All for $149,000. 

Call 601-415-3022 for 

more info or appointment. 

4 BED, 3.5 BATH. Beautiful 

great custom built home, intown 

location. $369,000. 601- 

529-9685. 

BEVERLY 

MCMILLIN 

Realtor 

“Simply the Best” 

601-415-9179 

M cMillin 

Real Estate 

VicksburgMsRealEstate.com 

Judy Harrell.............601-618-3227 

Brian Breithaupt......601-218-1945 

Ronnie Johnston......601-831-2319 

Yvonne Winstead....601-218-1964 

Jess Willis.................601-218-1457 

Dixie Breithaupt, BROKER 

601-638-6243 




Apartments 

4 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS, 

3.5 acres, newly remodeled. 

Culkin area. Reduced! 

$97,000. 601-301-0145. 

A FORECLOSURE! 4 

bed, 1 bath. Only $21,900! 

For listings 800-620-4856 

extension S131. 

Ask 

Us. 

■ 

FHA & VA 

■ 

Conventional 

■ 

Construction 

■ 

First-time 

Homebuyers 

Candy Francisco 

Mortgage Originator 

Mortgage 

Loans 

601.630.8209 

Member FDIC 

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.com 

Open Hours: 

Monday-Friday 

8:30am-5:30pm 

Saturday - 9am-5pm 

Sunday - 1pm-5pm 

601-634-8928 

2170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd. 

www.ColdwellBanker.com 

www.homesofvicksburg.net 

Big River Realty 

601-636-0660 

John Arnold...............601-529-7376 

Sue L. Richardson.... 601-415-0957 

DeowarskiMcDonald.601-529-5703 

David A. Brewer........601-631-0065 

Visit us today at 

Bigriverhomes.com 

COUNTRY HOME • MADISON PARISH 

3 BR., 2.5 BTH., APR. 2900 SQ. FT. 

HEATED/COOLED, DEN, GAME 

ROOM, POOL W/ PATIO COVER, 

FENCED YARD, APR. 8 ACRES W/ 

PRODUCING PECAN TREES, BARN, 

DOG PEN. 

318-574-2478 (LEAVE MESSAGE) 


Apartments 


Real Estate 

601-636-8193 

VicksburgRealEstate.com 

EDWARDS ESTATE!!! 

6,000 sq. ft. 5BR/4FB/2HB 

remodeled home w/ pool on 

18 wooded acres! 

Call Theresa Wooten, REALTOR 

601-613-5792 

Wooten Evans Properties 

FOR SALE BY OWNER 

Quality custom built 4 br/2.5 bath 

home on 7.9 acres. 2 custom 

detached bldgs, ample storage 

(closets & built-ins), oversize 

laundry, sewing/craft room, 

2 heated/ cooled closets in garage 

(1 cedar-lined). 601-636-4290. 

Serious inquiries only. $249,000. 

To view pictures, go to 

forsalebyowner.com 

ID#22086479 

FOR SALE BY OWNER. 

319 Blake Drive, well 

maintained with updates, 

3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 

1500 square feet, large 

den, fireplace/ gas logs, 

appliances, central air/ 

heat, fenced private back 

yard, large wired storage 

building, Redwood 

School district. $125,000. 

For appointment, 601-636- 

7244, 601-218-9665. 

FORECLOSED HOME 

AUCTION 

MISSISSIPPI STATEWIDE 

500+ Homes Must Be Sold! 

REDC | Free Brochure 

www.Auction.com 

Brkr 6505355610 

Call Your 

Hometown Specialists! 

Licensed in MS and LA 

Jones & Upchurch 

Real Estate Agency 


www.jonesandupchurch.com 

Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012 

Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 

Judy Uzzle..................601-994-4663 

Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665 

Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 

Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490 

Broker, GRI 

601-636-6490 


Apartments 

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INTO THE GOOD LIFE! 

Apartment Homes 

Spacious 1, 2, and 3 bedroom 

apartment homes! 

• CABLE FURNISHED 

• HIGH SPEED INTERNET 

ACCESS AVAILABLE 

• NUMEROUS LAVISH AMENITIES 

• SPARKLING SWIMMING POOL 

• BASKETBALL COURT 

• VOLLEYBALL COURT 

www.gfprop.com 

601-636-0503 • 2160 S. Frontage Rd. 

Search 

Homes For Sale, 

Photos & Details 

in the 

MLS of Vicksburg 

at 

www.VicksburgRealtors.com 

THIS IS THE ONE! 

132 Pebble Beach Drive 

Fairways, Lake front, 

4 bed, 2.5 bath, 1.3 acres, 

pool, many amenities. 

601-630-5177 • 601-638-9050 

$309,900 

jxnlaw1@aol.com for 

information/ pictures. 

First Time Buyers Take 

Advantage of $8,000 

Government Incentive 

while it’s still 

available. 

3 Jil Marie 

Openwood S/D, great family 

home. Big corner lot with 

fenced yard. 

409 Lake Forest 

Large kitchen with custom 

cabinets. Vaulted ceilings in 

family room & master bdrm. 

2364 Dana Road 

2072 sq. ft. home built 2004. 

Priced to sell at $82.00 a foot. 

3 bdrms, 2 baths, two living 

areas, 1 acre lot, 2 car garage. 

110 Dogwood Lake 

Built in 2003. Open floorplan 

with 2000 sq. ft. Large master 

bdrm, bath w/ whirlpool tub. 

13 Riverwood Circle 

Incredible view of the river & 

bridges. Once its gone, there 

will not be another chance for 

a view like this. 

1475 Timberlane 

15.1 beautiful acres, 1655 sq. 

ft. brick home, built 1982. 

Large shop. 

310 Willow Creek Drive 

13.3 acres and a great family 

home and barn. 

213 Grinder's Place 

Upscale, designer inspired 

custom home. 3000 sq. ft. 

4 bdrms, 3 ba, lge bonus room. 

112 Green Hill Drive 

Great family home, big 

workshop. 3 large lots go with 

this property. $109,900. 

310 Eagle Lake Shore 

3 bdrm, 4 ba, 3300 sq. ft., 

pecan floors, cypress walls, 

open floor plan. 


4 bdrm, 2 bath, lakefront, 

vaulted ceiling, garage, pier, 

covered shed for boat. 

BEVERLY 

MCMILLIN 

601-415-9179 



Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 

Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 

Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 

Bob Gordon........601-831-0135 

Tony Jordan........601-630-6461 

Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 

Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 

Kai Mason...........601-218-5623 

Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549 

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 

Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 

Angie Presley.....601-218-2458 

Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211 

ARNER 

REAL ESTATE, INC 

VJIM HOBSON 

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER 

601-636-0502 

208 Willow Way. 3BR, 2.5BA, 

1.4 acres. Bovina school district. 

808 Queens Street. 2BR, 1BA, 

remodeled, new A/C. $54,400. 

916 National Street. 2BR, 

2BA, central air & heat. 

NINA ROCCONI 

601-415-4503 • 601-636-5947 

Leech Real Estate of Vicksburg, Inc. 

35. Lots For Sale 

CANTRELL COVE 

SUBDIVISION 

Owner: Ollie Cantrell, Jr. 

Reduced to: $20,000 Each 

Quiet, country living, 

easy access to 

Vicksburg & Tallulah! 

Approximately 

1.5 Acre Lots 

Mound, LA 

Exit - Highway 602 

(1 Mile South of I-20 

Interstate) 

318-574-3610 

36. Farms & 

Acreage 

10.23 ACRES, 893 FEET of 

frontage on 61 South, 1 mile 

south of Walmart. $150,000 or 

best offer. Call Bobbie, 601- 

636-7297. 

115 ACRES. NORTH 

Hinds County, excellent 

hunting/ timber, possible 

owner financing. 136 acres. 

Scutalo Hills Claiborne 

County. 245 acres hunting/ 

timber- White Oak Creek 

Southwest Utica. Joan Vickers 

Real Estate, 601-969- 

2042. 


The Car Store 

Trucks 

2007 KAWASAKI NINJA. 

Good condition, 6,000 

miles. $3700. 601-529- 

4012. 


1958 FORD FAIRLANE 

500. 2 door, hardtop, V-8, 

automatic transmission. 

Restoration started. $3500 

or best offer. 601-831-0833 

601-638-7832. 

1989 FORD 250 diesel, 

5-speed, loaded. $3000 or 

best offer. 601-218-4873. 

1990 NISSAN 300ZX. 

Midnight blue, 230,000 

miles, upgraded sound system 

with XM radio, upgraded 

engine and exhaust system, 

new paint and tires, 

cold air, 160 miles per hour 

top speed. $8000. 601-529- 

5376. 

1993 CHEVROLET S10 

Blazer. 2 door, V6, power 

windows, runs good, good 

tires. Excellent student car. 

$3500. 601-218-5205, 601- 

218-8585. 

1993 FORD RANGER. 

Runs like new! $500 or best 

offer. For listings 800-619- 

3924 extension 1864. 

1996 CHEVROLET CA- 

MARO V6 $850! Runs good! 

Must see! For listings. 800- 

619-3924 extension 4898. 

2000 FORD F150 Lariat. 

Chrome wheels, chrome 

Nerf bars, bedliner, leather, 

like new! 601-218-9654, 

601-636-0658. Dealer. 

2005 CHEVROLET SIL- 

VERADO 4x4. Must sell, 

make an offer. 601-218- 

9646. 

BOTTOM OM LINE 

AUTO O SALES 

WE FINANCE 

Drive a little, Save a Lot! 

601-529-1195 

8 mi. out of town 

on Fisher Ferry Rd. 

PICK YOURS TODAY! 

97 Ford Explorer 


02 Mercury Sable 


98 Jeep Grand Cherokee 


NO CREDIT CHECK 

Gary’s 601-883-9995 

99 FORD WINSTAR VAN V1376R ............15 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1090 Down 

99 KIA SPORTAGE V1858 ........................24 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1255 Down 

01 KIA SPORTAGE 4x4 V1846 ................24 mos.@ $240 Per Month $ 1285 Down 

03 SATURN VUE AWD V1857..........................24 mos.@ $290 Per Month $ 1555 Down 

03 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LT V1861..........24 mos.@ $300 Per Month $ 1630 Down 

97 CHEVY 1500 Z71 4x4 V1848....................24 mos.@ $310 Per Month $ 1915 Down 

01 DODGE LARAMIE SLT V1864 ....................23 mos.@ $300 Per Month $ 1930 Down 

03 JEEP LIBERTY 4x4 RV1856......................24 mos.@ $300 Per Month $ 1945 Down 

04 FORD ESCAPE XLT V1850..........................24 mos.@ $310 Per Month $ 2020 Down 

01 FORD F150 XLT 4 door V1865 ............23 mos.@ $310 Per Month $ 2225 Down 

SOLD 

SOLD 

SOLD 

Cars 

SOLD 

02 DODGE NEON V1667R..............................18 mos.@ $240 Per Month $ 1045 Down 

02 DODGE STRATUS SE V1514RR ............17 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1115 Down 

03 FORD FOCUS ZTS V1840 ...................... 24 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1150 Down 

01 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT V1844 ...... 24 mos.@ $280 Per Month $ 1165 Down 

00 FORD TARUS SEL V1559R.................... 12 mos.@ $250 Per Month $ 1210 Down 

00 FORD CROWN VICTORIA LX V1652R 22 mos.@ $260 Per Month $ 1325 Down 

WE FINANCE OUR OWN ACCOUNTS 

SOLD 

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SOLD 

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*Plus Tax & Title, 0% APR WAC 

601-638-6015 • 2800 Clay Street • Vicksburg, MS

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