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Morgan works with the ‘smart people’
Tumor registrar Maxine Morgan, right, and radiation oncologist Deborah Phelps look over cancer data
at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle’s Cancer Center on Friday. Morgan has collected data on
diagnosis and treatment for every cancer patient who has gone through Baptist since 2006, and sends
that data to the Mississippi Cancer Registry for further research into the disease.
Baptist’s tumor registrar collects data on cancer
patients, helps doctors come up with plans of care
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN receives all the data on diag-
ialtman@cdispatch.com nosis and treatment for each
M
cancer patient.
axine Glenn Morgan
State and federal laws re-
knows every cancer
quire hospitals keep a database
patient who has visited
of information on cancer cases
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Gold-
and send them to the Mississip-
en Triangle since 2006, though
pi Cancer Registry in Jackson.
most of them have never met
That information is then turned
her.
over to a national registry that
The Columbus native is the
uses it for research.
sixth of eight children, a step-
For Morgan, that means col-
mother and fan of gardening,
lecting information on between
cooking and Mississippi State
550 and 600 new patients each
sports. She also has worked at year, plus keeping up with addi-
Baptist in one capacity or an- tional information on returning
other for almost 40 years, most patients. She consults with
recently as the tumor registrar doctors and records all diagnos-
for the hospital’s cancer center tic information, such as the type
— meaning she is the one who and stage of each cancer case,
Fire Station 5 reaches full
capacity after 10 years
the tools and skills they need to re-
Cochran: ‘It gives us spond to an emergency.
manpower, (and) you The hiring of Classen, Grandfield
and two other entry-level firefight-
don’t ever have enough.’ ers allows Fire Station 5 to be fully
staffed, for the first time since it was
BY TESS VRBIN built a decade ago. The new hires
tvrbin@cdispatch.com will be at Fire Station 1 on Lampkin
Street, but more experienced fire-
STARKVILLE — George Grand- fighters will be transferred to Station
field and Ryan Classen’s first day as 5 on Reed Road, Starkville Fire Chief
Starkville firefighters two weeks ago Charles Yarbrough said.
began with cleaning the bathrooms The Starkville board of aldermen
at Fire Station 1. approved the new hires and the pro-
Housekeeping is part of the job,
motion of five firefighters to lieu-
they said, and they will be training tenant and sergeant positions at its
for the next several weeks, learning See Fire station, 6A
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Elm Lake,
three other
neighborhoods
to get fiber
optic internet
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
C Spire has chosen the first
four areas of Lowndes County and
Columbus to lay fiber optic infra-
structure and begin the process of
bringing gigabit internet service to
the county.
Company spokesperson Dave
Miller confirmed C Spire will be-
gin construction on the infrastruc- Miller
ture at the Elm Lake subdivision
off Highway 82 west of Columbus; Pennington
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
Lake neighborhood off Ridge Road; Bent Tree
neighborhood off Holly Hills Road; and the area of
Dogwood Boulevard off Spivey Road.
Each of the residential areas contains at least
600 homes, Miller said.
C Spire and Lowndes County board of super-
visors entered a 25-year agreement in August al-
lowing C Spire to lay, construct, maintain, replace,
repair and operate fiber optic cables throughout
the unincorporated areas of the county, though
Miller said the first phases also include areas in
Columbus. Harry Sanders, president of the board
as well as information on sur- of supervisors, said the county has entered into
geries, chemotherapy, radiation similar arrangements with companies like AT&T
and Sparklight in the past. C Spire’s will be the
and other types of therapy. At
the end of six months collecting fastest internet service available to these resi-
dents, however.
data on a patient, she sends that
C Spire will be responsible for maintaining and
data to the state registry.
restoring the areas where infrastructure is built,
It was certainly never a
and the county will receive 5 percent of customer
position Morgan expected to
revenue from C Spire’s television service, accord-
take when she enrolled at Mis-
ing to previous reporting by The Dispatch.
sissippi University for Women’s
The four residential areas were chosen based
nursing program back in the
on both the areas’ population density and interest
late 1970s, but it didn’t take
from residents, Miller said. C Spire uses a crowd-
long for her to realize nursing
based marketing model in which interested home-
wasn’t for her. She was attracted
owners can report their addresses to C Spire on-
instead to the business aspect of
line.
medicine.
“If we have enough interest in those areas,
“It seems like I was destined
those are the next areas we build in,” he said.
for healthcare,” she said.
Construction on the cables should start near
Upon learning Baptist would
the end of March or beginning of April and is ex-
See Morgan, 6A pected to take a couple of months.
He said there are some other areas within Co-
See C Spire, 3A
Firefighter Steven
Lane, right, shows
new hires Ryan Clas-
sen, left, and George
Grandfield the equip-
ment, including lad-
der belts and a tool
kit, in a compartment
of a fire truck at Fire
Station 1 on Lampkin
Street in Starkville
on Jan. 8. Classen
and Grandfield were
hired the previous
day by the board of
aldermen, and the
department now has
enough employees
to keep Fire Station
5 on Reed Road fully
staffed 24/7, for the
first time since it was
built, Chief Charles
Yarbrough said.
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
Calendar Local Folks Public
Today annual Martin Luther King meetings
Jr. Unity Breakfast and Day Jan. 21: Colum-
■ MLK Day commemora-
of Service. Complimentary
tion: A community obser- bus City Council
breakfast begins at 8 a.m.
vance of Martin Luther King regular meeting,
MSU’s director for African
5 p.m., Munici-
Jr. Day in Columbus begins
American studies Donald
at 8 a.m. with a compli- pal Complex
Shaffer discusses the “Road
mentary breakfast at Trotter Jan. 27:
to Reconciliation.” MLK
Convention Center downtown Columbus-
Day of Service activities
(as space allows). Scott Lowndes
Colom is keynote speaker. follow. For more information,
Convention and
Afterward, volunteer with visit mvc.msstate.edu/
blog/volunteer-mlk-day-ser- Visitors Bureau
United Way of Lowndes
vice-2020/. Board regular
and Noxubee for a teacher
■ West Point observance: meeting, 4 p.m.,
supplies service project. To
A 9 a.m. march and parade CVB office
volunteer, email volunteer@
uwlc-ms.org. Register for from MLK Drive to Mary Feb. 3: Lown-
breakfast at muw.edu/mlk. Holmes College gym is des County
■ Unity Breakfast: followed at 9:45 a.m. with Alina Putnam, 11, Board of Super-
Doors open at 7:30 a.m. a program at the college. enjoys climbing trees, visors regular
at The Mill, 600 Russell State NAACP president Rob- playing video games and meeting, 9 a.m.,
St., Starkville, for the 26th ert Jones is speaker. annoying her brothers. Courthouse
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IN THE NATION
Virginia’s capital braces for gun-rights rally
Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary state
of emergency days ahead of the rally
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Va. — Gun-rights
activists — some making deliberate
displays of their military-style rifles
— began to descend on Virginia’s
capital city Monday to protest plans
by the state’s Democratic leader-
ship to pass gun-control legislation.
Several thousand activists —
mostly white and male, many
clothed in camouflage and waving
flags with messages of support for
President Donald Trump — ap-
peared hours before the 11 a.m.
rally was set to begin.
Gov. Ralph Northam declared a
temporary state of emergency days
ahead of the rally, banning all weap-
ons, including guns, from the event
on Capitol Square. The expected
arrival of thousands of gun-rights
activists — along with members of
militia groups and white suprema-
cists — raised fears the state could
again see the type of violence that
exploded in Charlottesville in 2017.
The Virginia State Police, the
Virginia Capitol Police and the
Richmond Police planned a huge
police presence with both uni-
formed and plainclothes officers.
Police limited access to Capitol
Square to only one entrance and
have warned rally-goers they may
have to wait hours to get past secu-
rity screening. Authorities started
letting people in at the sole public
entrance just before 7:30 a.m.
Authorities will be looking to
avoid a repeat of the violence that
erupted in 2017 in Charlottesville
during one of the largest gather-
ings of white supremacists and
other far-right groups in a decade.
Attendees brawled with counter-
protesters, and an avowed white
supremacist drove his car into a
crowd, killing a woman and injur-
ing dozens more. Law enforcement
officials faced scathing criticism for
what both the white supremacist
groups and anti-racism protesters
said was a passive response.
An RV festooned with Trump
material and selling Trump mer-
chandise parked in front of the line
to the square, but was booted by a
police officer shortly after it parked
Monday: “You got two minutes be-
fore it’s towed. Clock’s ticking.”
Monday’s rally is being orga-
nized by an influential grassroots
gun-rights group, the Virginia Cit-
izens Defense League. The group
holds a yearly rally at the Capitol,
typically a low-key event with a few
hundred gun enthusiasts listening
to speeches from a handful of am-
bitious Republican lawmakers. But
this year, many more are expect-
ed to attend. Second Amendment
groups have identified the state as
a rallying point for the fight against
what they see as a national erosion
of gun rights.
Virginia Beach carpenter Andy
Kincaid, 59, got up at 2 a.m. to come
to Richmond, but said he thinks the
number of attendees was probably
overstated, as the cold weather and
rumors of anti-fascist infiltrators
may have kept some away.
The pushback against proposed
new gun restrictions began imme-
diately after Democrats won major-
ities in both the state Senate and
House of Delegates in November.
Much of the opposition has focused
on a proposed assault weapons ban.
Virginia Democrats are also
backing bills limiting handgun pur-
chases to once a month, implement-
ing universal background checks
on gun purchases, allowing locali-
ties to ban guns in public buildings,
parks and other areas, and a red
flag bill that would allow authorities
to temporarily take guns away from
anyone deemed to be dangerous to
themselves or others.
Kem Regik, a 20-year-old private
security officer from northern Vir-
ginia, brought a white flag with a
picture of a rifle captioned, “Come
and take it.”
“I don’t like what the legislature
is doing and I’m here to let them
know that,” he said.
Jesse Lambert was dressed in
mix of colonial era minute-man
garb and cargo pants, with an colt
rifle strapped across his back. He
said he traveled from Louisiana to
show opposition to the gun control
bills. He said their efforts would
unfairly punish law-abiding gun
owners, particularly those who
own AR-Style rifles.
“These are your average com-
mon people carrying firearms that
are in common use,” he said.
The rally coincides with the Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. holiday, which
is typically a chance for everyday
citizens to use a day off work to
lobby their legislators. However,
the threat of violence largely kept
other groups away from the Capitol
on Monday, including gun control
groups that hold an annual vigil for
victims of gun violence.
When that event was canceled,
a group of students from March for
Our Lives, the movement launched
after 17 were killed at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in
2018, decided they had to do some-
thing.
A group of about 15 college stu-
dents and one high schooler came
to Richmond on Sunday and slept
overnight in the offices of two
Democratic lawmakers to ensure
they could make it into the Capi-
tol area safely. Del. Dan Helmer,
who’s sponsoring a bill that would
block the National Rifle Associa-
tion from operating an indoor gun
range at its headquarters, and Del.
Chris Hurst, a gun control advocate
whose TV journalist girlfriend was
killed in an on-air shooting in 2015,
camped out alongside them.
The students planned to spend
the day lobbying.
Michael McCabe, a 17-year-old
high school senior from northern
Virginia, said he started lobbying
at the General Assembly after the
Sandy Hook mass shooting, when
he was 11 years old.
In an interview in Helmer’s of-
fice, McCabe said the students
wanted to be a voice for other
gun-control advocates.
“Our main goal is not to engage
with gun extremists today,” Mc-
Cabe said. “We are really here to be
present in the legislature to make
our voices heard.”

DID YOU HERE?

Prince Harry: ‘Powerful
media’ is why he’s
stepping away
LONDON — Prince
Harry took aim at the jour-
nalists who have dissected
his life since the day he
was born as he expressed
regret for the way he has
had to step down from roy-
al duties.
In a personal speech that
referenced his late mother,
Princess Diana, who died in
a car accident in 1997 while
being pursued by paparaz-
zi, Harry said Sunday he
had “no other option’’ but
to step away so that he and
his wife, Meghan, could
seek a more peaceful life.
The comments were
Harry’s first public remarks
since Saturday night, when
his grandmother, Queen
Elizabeth II, announced
the terms under which
the prince and his wife
will walk away from most
royal duties, give up public
funding and try to become
financially independent.
The couple are expected to
spend most of their time in
Canada while maintaining
a home in England near
Windsor Castle.
Meghan has already re-
turned to Canada, where
the couple spent a Christ-
mas break with their
8-month-old son, Archie.
Harry, 35, continued in his
royal role Monday, attend-
ing a U.K.-Africa invest-
ment summit in London
alongside British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson.
It was not clear how soon
Harry will join Meghan,
Archie and the couple’s
dogs in Canada, or where
in the country they plan to
live. The couple spent the
holiday season on Vancou-
ver Island, and Meghan
worked for seven years in
Toronto as an actress film-
ing the TV series “Suits.”
SOURCE: AP
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UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

Analysis: Troubled prison system requires intense attention

The Associated Press
JACKSON — Top Missis-
sippi officials acknowledge
the state is facing a crisis with
its prison system, with five in-
mates killed and others injured
in recent mayhem.
Two days after he was inau-
gurated last week, Republican
Gov. Tate Reeves described
the violence as a “catastro-
phe.” He appointed a group to
conduct a nationwide search
for a new commissioner to lead
the Mississippi Department of
Corrections.
Although the flash of vio-
lence was shocking, prison
problems festered over time
and many were well document-
ed. Corrections commission-
ers have told lawmakers for
years that prisons are under-
staffed, largely because of low
pay and dangerous working
conditions for guards.
Even as the corrections de-
partment requested more mon-
ey, legislative budget writers
went the opposite direction by
shrinking prisons’ budgets in
recent years.
Reeves was lieutenant gov-
ernor the past eight years and
served on the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee, alternat-
ing chairmanship of that group
with Republican House Speak-
er Philip Gunn. The commit-
tee makes the first recommen-
dations each year for how the
state should spend its money,
and the speaker and lieutenant
governor are hugely influen-
tial throughout the long bud-
get-writing process.
Reeves said Thursday that
some leaders lost confidence
in the budget requests made
by the Department of Correc-
tions, believing that the de-
partment’s spending should
have been more efficient.
Back in 2014, Mississippi
legislators and then-Gov. Phil
Bryant sought to control pris-
on costs and to reduce an in-
carceration rate that was one
of the highest in the nation. Re-
publican Bryant signed House
Bill 585 into law to make sev-
eral changes in the criminal
justice system.
The measure became law
July 1, 2014. It was modeled
on criminal-justice changes
enacted in Texas, Georgia and
other states with Republican
‘I’m a prosecutor. It’s my job to put people in the Mississippi
Department of Corrections. But they should be treated fairly.’
Ricky Smith, district attorney for Warren, Sharkey and Issaquena counties
governors who campaigned as
being tough on crime.
The Mississippi law said
anyone convicted of a vio-
lent offense will be required
to serve at least 50% of a sen-
tence, and anyone convicted of
a nonviolent offense will have
to serve at least 25%.
It gave judges more flexibili-
ty to impose alternate sentenc-
es, such as ordering treatment
for drug users. Circuit courts
were authorized to establish
treatment programs for mili-
tary veterans who might have
traumatic brain injuries, de-
pression or drug and alcohol
problems.
For the first time, Mississip-
pi law specified which crimes
are classified as violent, for
sentencing purposes.
A criminal justice task force
has been meeting for years to
evaluate how Mississippi is
applying the 2014 law and to
make recommendations for
improvements. The group is
led by Circuit Judge Prentiss
Harrell of Hattiesburg and
includes representatives from
the attorney general’s office,
the state public defender’s of-
fice, prosecutors, the Depart-
ment of Corrections and law
enforcement agencies.
“The Department of Correc-
tions is overworked and over-
burdened,” Harrell said when
the task force met Friday.
The group’s members are
considering recommendations
to make to the Legislature this
year, including one to improve
transitional housing to help in-
mates as they leave prison and
return to communities.
Ricky Smith is district attor-
ney for Warren, Sharkey and
Issaquena counties, and he
represented prosecutors at Fri-
day’s meeting. He said Missis-
sippi also needs to strengthen
mental health counseling and
drug counseling for inmates as
they leave prison.
“I’m a prosecutor. It’s my job
to put people in the Mississippi
Department of Corrections,”
Smith said. “But they should
be treated fairly.”
The task force on Friday
heard from inmates’ relatives
and others who pleaded for
the state to quickly improve
conditions inside prisons. Pho-
tos from the Mississippi State
Penitentiary at Parchman have
shown broken toilets, moldy
walls and discolored drinking
water.
Sharon Brown, an advocate
for inmate safety, said she un-
derstands that the task force
members don’t have the ulti-
mate control over policy-mak-
ing and state spending. Those
decisions are made by mem-
bers of the House and Senate,
with approval of the governor.
“We must put pressure on
the legislators,” Brown told
other advocates.

Starkville to consider further renovations at Moncrief Park

Logan: Park needs an aesthetic update
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE —
­ The
planned additions and renova-
tions at Moncrief Park have had
a “significant change in scope”
over the past few months, Rob-
ert Luke, principal architect
at Meridian-based LPK Archi-
tects told the board of aldermen
at its Friday work session.
Aldermen approved in Sep-
tember the designs for the addi-
tions of new restrooms at Mon-
crief Park, Patriot’s Park and
the J.L. King Park football field.
The board also approved the ad-
dition of the Moncrief pool deck
and pool house to the project.
Parks and Recreation Direc-
tor Gerry Logan said Moncrief
first and foremost needs an aes-
thetic update.
“It’s in overall good shape,
but when you pull up in the
parking lot, it does not look
very attractive,” he said.
The updated plans for Mon-
crief include a more ADA-ac-
cessible pavilion, pergolas for
shade, a concessions area and
more open space for seating
and socializing, Luke said. The
design of the open-air changing
facilities is up for debate for per-
sonal privacy reasons, he said.
He described the plans as
“like having an entirely new fa-
cility there.”
“We want something people
will be attracted to,” he said.
“It’s your pub-
lic resort, not a
thing as pretty as possible for
that.”
plan to the board in September.
The parks department ini-
private resort. Additionally, the board will tially considered replacing
(It’s) something likely take bids at their first Moncrief’s water filtration sys-
taxpayers will be February meeting on the con- tem, but Logan said Friday that
excited to talk struction of new bathrooms the system is in good shape and
about.” at J.L. King Park and Patriot’s does not need to be replaced
The pavilion Park, Logan said. The city and even though it is six decades
will hopefully be Logan LPK Architects will then turn old.
put to regular use their attention to the plans for The Moncrief Park pool is
for birthday par- Moncrief and decide whether
set to open this summer regard-
ties and family to move forward with the pro-
less of future renovation plans,
reunions, he said. posed changes to the plans, he
Logan said.
“Every time said.
Mayor Lynn Spruill said she
we have talked to J.L. King Park will have
is looking forward to the poten-
people for public some solar panels so it can be
tial improvements at the park.
and private ven- “as much off the grid as possi-
tures lately, the Spruill ble (and) reduce city services “I went there not too long ago
big problem peo- and costs there,” Luke said. and had flashbacks (because) it
ple have is where to have par- The renovations and addi- smells just like it did when I was
ties,” Luke said. “Every (place) tions to all three parks are part a kid,” Spruill said. “Having a
that has a party venue stays of a three-year capital project new identity for it would be real-
packed, especially for birthday plan beginning with the current ly nice, so hopefully we can put
parties, so we want to make this fiscal year. Logan presented the that into play.”

C Spire
Continued from Page 1A
lumbus that could receive
the infrastructure after
the first four neighbor-
hoods.
Residents in the four
neighborhoods will have
access to gigabit internet,
or 1,000 megabits per sec-
ond, which allows multiple
devices to use the inter-
net at one time while still
reducing buffering time
— something that is in-
creasingly important in
a world where more and
more home devices can
connect to the internet,
Miller said.
“To us, it’s about the
connection to the home,”
he said.
Those devices can in-
clude everything from
live-streaming TV and
digital voice assistants
like Siri and Alexa to
home security cameras
and lighting.
“If you look at how peo-
ple using these gigabit
connections to the home,
it’s about transforming
today’s home into a smart
home,” he added. “... All of
that on a robust, quality,
consistent internet con-
nection and then good Wi-
Fi services in the home.”
He said even residents
who don’t become C Spire
customers will receive
benefits, as property val-
ues increase by about 3
percent just by being in
proximity of fiber optic
infrastructure.
While Sanders pointed
out that C Spire is starting
with the more financially
feasible large neighbor-
hoods to begin laying the
infrastructure, he is still
happy about increasing
access to fiber optic infra-
structure, which he said
is faster and more secure
than satellite internet and
other forms of internet
providers.
“I think it’s great,” he
said. “There are some
areas that you can’t even
have internet out in the
county unless you sign up
for very expensive stuff.”

AROUND THE STATE

Coroner: Inmate dies,
found hanging at a
state prison
PARCHMAN — An
inmate at a Mississippi
prison that was a focus
of recent deadly unrest
was found hanging in his
cell by two corrections
officers over the weekend
and pronounced dead, a
coroner said Sunday.
Coroner Heather Bur-
ton said she was called
Sunday to the Mississip-
pi State Penitentiary at
Parchman where inmate
Gabriel Carmen was
found hanging in his cell
Saturday evening. She
said corrections officials
reported the inmate had
claimed several lives.
According to the state-
ment, a person cleaning
the hall then alerted two
corrections officers at
6:40 p.m. Saturday that
the inmate was hanging
and the officials immedi-
ately ran to check on Car-
men.
“They attempted to
enter the cell, but the cell
lock was jammed from
the inside with a pipe the
offender had removed
from the toilet,” the state-
ment said. “Maintenance
had to respond to assist in
opening the cell door” to
let medical staff in.
Carmen was pro-
nounced dead at 7:21 p.m.
Saturday by a doctor and
to explain why and how
their loved ones died in
recent disturbances.
The coroner said she
spoke to the inmate’s par-
ents, offering condolenc-
es and seeking to answer
their questions.
Between Dec. 29 and
Jan. 3, five inmates were
killed and an undisclosed
number of others were
injured in violence inside
the prisons.
More than two dozen
inmates sued the state
recently, saying under-
staffed state prisons are
“plagued by violence” and
inmates are forced to live
in decrepit and danger-
ous conditions. All of the
plaintiffs have been in- SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates

been irate and throwing his body was removed mates at Parchman.
peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Mon. Tues.
Major 9:10p 10:05p
feces before his death. from the unit by medical State prison officials Minor 4:42a 5:46a
The statement by the staff before the remains for several years have Major 9:38a 10:33a
4:16p
Minor 3:28p
Sunflower County coro- were taken to the state been asking lawmakers Courtesy of Mississippi Department
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

ner said the inmate was medical examiner’s office for tens of millions of dol-

last seen by corrections
officers during a security
check at 6:20 p.m. Satur-
day. It said officers noted
Carmen was throwing fe-
ces against a wall in the
hall at Unit 29, a cellblock
at the heart of recent un-
rest in state prisons that
for a planned autopsy.
The coroner said the
cause and manner of
death are pending autop-
sy results.
Burton’s statement not-
ed complaints from rela-
tives of inmates that the
state hasn’t done enough
lars to renovate Parch-
man’s Unit 29, citing de-
crepit conditions. After
the unrest, Mississippi
signed an emergency con-
tract to move 375 of those
inmates to a private pris-
on nearby.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Excerpted)

April 16, 1963
My Dear Fellow Clergymen,
While confined here in the
Birmingham City Jail, I came
across your recent statement
calling our present activities
“unwise and untimely.” Sel-
dom, if ever, do I pause to
answer criticism of my work
and ideas … But since I feel
that you are men of genuine
good will and your criticisms
are sincerely set forth, I would
like to answer your statement
in what I hope will be patient
and reasonable terms.
I think I should give the
reason for my being in Bir-
mingham, since you have been
influenced by the argument of
“outsiders coming in.” I have
the honor of serving as presi-
dent of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, an
organization operating in every
Southern state with headquar-
ters in Atlanta, Georgia. We
have some 85 affiliate organi-
zations all across the South …
Several months ago our local
affiliate here in Birmingham
invited us to be on call to
engage in a nonviolent direct
tional community. We were not
unmindful of the difficulties
involved. So we decided to go
through the process of self-pu-
rification. We started having
workshops on nonviolence and
repeatedly asked ourselves
the questions, “are you able to
accept the blows without retali-
ating?” “Are you able to endure
the ordeals of jail?”
You may well ask, “Why
direct action? Why sit-ins,
marches, etc.? Isn’t negotia-
tion a better path?” You are
exactly right in your call for
negotiation. Indeed, this is the
purpose of direct action. Non-
violent direct action seeks to
create such a crisis and estab-
lish such creative tension that a
community that has constantly
refused to negotiate is forced
to confront the issue.
My friends, I must say to
you that we have not made
a single gain in civil rights
without legal and nonviolent
pressure. History is the long
and tragic story of the fact
that privileged groups seldom
give up their privileges volun-
tarily. Individuals may see the
moral light and give up their
unjust posture; but as Reinhold
and see the tears welling up
in her little eyes when she is
told that Funtown is closed to
colored children, and see the
depressing clouds of inferior-
ity begin to form in her little
mental sky, and see her begin
to distort her little personality
by unconsciously developing a
bitterness toward white people;
when you have to concoct an
answer for a five-year-old son
who is asking in agonizing
pathos: “Daddy, why do white
people treat colored people so
mean?” when you take a cross
country drive and find it neces-
sary to sleep night after night
in the uncomfortable corners
of your automobile because no
motel will accept you; when
you are humiliated day in and
day out by nagging signs read-
ing “white” men and “colored”
when your first name becomes
“nigger” and your middle name
becomes “boy” (however old
you are) and your last name be-
comes “John,” and when your
wife and mother are never giv-
en the respected title of “Mrs.”
when you are harried by day
and haunted by night by the
fact that you are a Negro, living
constantly at tip-toe stance, Photo courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress

action program if such were
deemed necessary. We readily
consented.
In any nonviolent campaign
there are four basic steps: 1)
collection of the facts to deter-
mine whether injustices are
alive; 2) negotiation; 3) self-pu-
rification; and 4) direct action.
We have gone through all of
these steps in Birmingham …
Birmingham is probably the
most thoroughly segregated
city in the United States. Its
ugly record of police brutality
is known in every section of
the country. Its unjust treat-
ment of Negroes in the courts
is a notorious reality. There
have been more unsolved
bombings of Negro homes
and churches in Birmingham
than in any city in this nation.
These are the hard, brutal,
and unbelievable facts. On the
basis of these conditions Negro
leaders sought to negotiate
with the city fathers. But the
political leaders consistently
refused to engage in good faith
negotiation.
Then came the opportunity
last September to talk with
some of the leaders of the
economic community. In these
negotiating sessions certain
promises were made by the
merchants—such as the prom-
ise to remove the humiliating
racial signs from the stores.
On the basis of these promises
Reverend Shuttlesworth and
the leaders of the Alabama
Christian Movement for
Human Rights agreed to call
a moratorium on any type of
demonstrations. As the weeks
and months unfolded we real-
ized that we were the victims
of a broken promise. The signs
remained. As in so many ex-
periences in the past, we were
confronted with blasted hopes,
and the dark shadow of a deep
disappointment settled upon
us. So we had no alternative ex-
cept that of preparing for direct
action, whereby we would pres-
ent our very bodies as a means
of laying our case before the
conscience of the local and na-
Niebuhr has reminded us,
groups are more immoral than
individuals.
We know through painful
experience that freedom is
never voluntarily given by the
oppressor; it must be demand-
ed by the oppressed. Frankly
I have never yet engaged in a
direct action movement that
was “well timed,” according
to the timetable of those who
have not suffered unduly from
the disease of segregation. For
years now I have heard the
word “Wait!” It rings in the ear
of every Negro with a piercing
familiarity. This “wait” has
almost always meant “never.” It
has been a tranquilizing Tha-
lidomide, relieving the emo-
tional stress for a moment, only
to give birth to an ill-formed
infant of frustration. We must
come to see with the distin-
guished jurist of yesterday that
“justice too long delayed is
justice denied.” We have waited
for more than 340 years for our
constitutional and God-given
rights. The nations of Asia and
Africa are moving with jetlike
speed toward the goal of polit-
ical independence, and we still
creep at horse and buggy pace
toward the gaining of a cup of
coffee at a lunch counter.
I guess it is easy for those
who have never felt the sting-
ing darts of segregation to
say wait. But when you have
seen vicious mobs lynch your
mothers and fathers at will and
drown your sisters and broth-
ers at whim; when you have
seen hate-filled policemen
curse, kick, brutalize, and even
kill your black brothers and
sisters with impunity; when
you see the vast majority of
your 20 million Negro broth-
ers smothering in an airtight
cage of poverty in the midst
of an affluent society; when
you suddenly find your tongue
twisted and your speech stam-
mering as you seek to explain
to your six-year-old daughter
why she can’t go to the public
amusement park that has just
been advertised on television,
never quite knowing what to
expect next, and plagued with
inner fears and outer resent-
ments; when you are forever
fighting a degenerating sense
of “nobodiness”—then you
will understand why we find it
difficult to wait. There comes
a time when the cup of endur-
ance runs over, and men are
no longer willing to be plunged
into an abyss of injustice where
they experience the bleakness
of corroding despair. I hope,
sirs, you can understand our
legitimate and unavoidable
impatience.
I must make two honest
confessions to you, my Chris-
tian and Jewish brothers.
First, I must confess that over
the last few years I have been
gravely disappointed with
the white moderate. I have
almost reached the regrettable
conclusion that the Negro’s
great stumbling block in the
stride toward freedom is not
the White citizens’ “Council-
or” or the Ku Klux Klanner,
but the white moderate who
is more devoted to “order”
than to justice; who prefers a
negative peace which is the
absence of tension to a positive
peace which is the presence
of justice; who constantly says
“I agree with you in the goal
you seek, but I can’t agree with
your methods of direst action”
who paternalistically feels that
he can set the timetable for
another man’s freedom; who
lives by the myth of time and
who constantly advises the
Negro to wait until a “more
convenient season.” Shallow
understanding from people of
good will is more frustrating
than absolute misunderstand-
ing from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance is much
more bewildering than out-
right rejection.
You spoke of our activity in
Birmingham as extreme. At
first I was rather disappointed
that fellow clergymen would
see my nonviolent efforts as
those of an extremist. I started
thinking about the fact that
I stand in the middle of two
opposing forces in the Negro
community. One is a force
of complacency made up of
Negroes who, as a result of
long years of oppression, have
been so completely drained
of self-respect and a sense of
“somebodiness” that they have
adjusted to segregation, and
a few Negroes in the middle
class who, because of a degree
of academic and economic
security, and at points they
profit from segregation, have
unconsciously become insen-
sitive to the problems of the
masses. The other force is one
of bitterness and hatred and
comes perilously close to advo-
cating violence. It is expressed
in the various black nationalist
groups that are springing up
over the nation, the largest and
best known being Elijah Mu-
hammad’s Muslim movement.
This movement is nourished by
the contemporary frustration
over the continued existence
of racial discrimination. It is
made up of people who have
lost faith in America, who have
absolutely repudiated Christi-
anity, and who have concluded
that the white man in an incur-
able “devil.”
The Negro has many pent-
up resentments and latent frus-
trations. He has to get them
out. So let him march some-
time; let him have his prayer
pilgrimages to the city hall;
understand why he must have
sit-ins and freedom rides. If
his repressed emotions do not
come out in these nonviolent
ways, they will come out in om-
inous expressions of violence.
This is not a threat; it is a fact
of history. So I have not said to
my people, “Get rid of your dis-
content.” But I have tried to say
that this normal and healthy
discontent can be channeled
through the creative outlet of
nonviolent direct action.
In spite of my shattered
dreams of the past, I came to
Birmingham with the hope that
the white religious leadership
in the community would see
the justice of our cause and,
with deep moral concern, serve
as the channel through which
our just grievances could get
to the power structure. I had
hoped that each of you would
understand. But again I have
been disappointed. I have
heard numerous religious
leaders of the South call upon
their worshippers to comply
with a desegregation decision
because it is the law, but I have
longed to hear white ministers
say follow this decree because
integration is morally right and
the Negro is your brother. In
the midst of blatant injustices
inflicted upon the Negro, I
have watched white churches
stand on the sideline and mere-
ly mouth pious irrelevancies
and sanctimonious trivialities.
In the midst of a mighty strug-
gle to rid our nation of racial
and economic injustice, I have
heard so many ministers say,
“Those are social issues with
which the Gospel has no real
concern,” and I have watched
so many churches commit
themselves to a completely oth-
er-worldly religion which made
a strange distinction between
body and soul, the sacred and
the secular.
I hope this letter finds you
strong in the faith. I also hope
that circumstances will soon
make it possible for me to meet
each of you, not as an integra-
tionist or a civil rights leader,
but as a fellow clergyman and
a Christian brother. Let us
all hope that the dark clouds
of racial prejudice will soon
pass away and the deep fog of
misunderstanding will be lifted
from our fear-drenched com-
munities and in some not too
distant tomorrow the radiant
stars of love and brotherhood
will shine over our great nation
with all of their scintillating
beauty.
Yours for the cause of Peace
and Brotherhood,
M. L. King, Jr.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Voice of the people
Believes Republicans don’t ‘walk the walk’
I have observed something we can all learn from
our President: how to live in a superlative world.
When the President speaks, it is nearly always in
superlatives. A perfect phone call. The best President
ever. The very best nominees. The worst witch hunt
ever. His use of superlatives may exceed his use of lies
and insults. His example has shown us how to escape
the humdrum world of mere comparisons.
To move from the President to his party, the letter
from James Hodges reinforces something I have
long believed. The Republican Party, from the time
of Andrew Johnson, has been the party dedicated to
the preservation of privilege, and the concentration
of wealth. How does such a party get its candidates
elected when its policies favor so few? In my view, they
claim issues that are popular as their own. Evangelical
movements swept the country during Reconstruction
and alert Republicans took up their issues. But it is all
talk. If banning abortion made rich people money, it
would be the law of the land. Selling guns to one and
all does make people money, so that IS the law of the
land.
Worse than this hypocrisy is the adoption of
hate-mongering as a political tool. The beauty of
this is that, even more than evangelical issues, all
it requires is talk. No actual action is ever needed.
The elected Republicans can cut taxes, subsidize
industries, bail out banks, deregulate pollution, make
laws favoring moving factories to the cheapest labor,
and wage incessant war on any Federal program that
serves ordinary people. And ordinary people vote for
them because they talk the talk. As Mr. Hodges point-
ed out, they do not walk the walk.
Bill Gillmore
Columbus
Comments on abortion
It continues to amaze me how people continue to
erroneously opine that abortion is the law of the land.
Congress makes laws. Congress has never passed a
law legalizing abortion. It is only the opinion of five
U.S. Supreme Court justices who believe that the
Constitution can be interpreted to support their views
on any subject. May God have mercy on America. We
certainly need it.
Ray Crane
Columbus
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AROUND THE WORLD

China’s Xi says coronavirus outbreak must be taken seriously
The virus has infected 217 people in the country
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — Chinese
President Xi Jinping said
Monday that it’s “extreme-
ly crucial” to take every
possible measure to com-
bat a new coronavirus that
has infected 217 people in
the country.
His remarks, cited by
state broadcaster CCTV,
came the same day that
the country reported a
sharp rise in the number
of people infected by the
novel form of viral pneu-
monia, including the first
cases in the capital.
The outbreak comes as
the country enters its bus-
iest travel period, when
millions board trains and
planes for the Lunar New
Year holidays.
“The recent outbreak
of novel coronavirus pneu-
monia in Wuhan and other
places must be taken seri-
ously,” Xi said, according
to CCTV. “Party commit-
tees, governments and rel-
evant departments at all
levels should put people’s
lives and health first.”
They should “ensure
that the masses have a
quiet, peaceful and joyous
Spring Festival,” he add-
ed.
Health authorities in
the central city of Wuhan,
where the viral pneumo-
nia appears to have orig-
inated, said an additional
136 cases have been con-
firmed in the city, which
now has a total of 198 in-
fected patients. As of the
weekend, a third patient
had died.
Five individuals in Bei-
jing and 14 in southern
China’s Guangdong prov-
ince have also been diag-
nosed with the new coro-
navirus, state broadcaster
CCTV reported Monday
evening. A total of sev-
en suspected cases have
been found in other parts
of the country, including
in Sichuan and Yunnan
provinces in the south-
west and in Shanghai.
The outbreak has put
other countries on alert
as millions of Chinese
travel for Lunar New Year.
Authorities in Thailand
and in Japan have already
identified at least three
cases, all involving recent
travel from China.
South Korea report-
ed its first case Monday,
when a 35-year-old Chi-
nese woman from Wuhan
tested positive for the
new coronavirus one day
after arriving at Seoul’s
Incheon airport. The
woman has been isolated
at a state-run hospital in
Incheon city, just west of
Seoul, the Korea Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention said in a state-
ment.
At least a half-dozen
countries in Asia and
three U.S. airports have
started screening incom-
ing airline passengers
from central China.
Videos posted online
show people in protective
suits checking one-by-
one the temperatures of
plane passengers arriving
in Macao from Wuhan.
A man surnamed Yang
who works for the Macao
Health Bureau confirmed
over the phone that such
checks are taking place
in the southern Chinese
region.
Many of the initial
cases of the coronavirus
were linked to a seafood
market in Wuhan, which
was closed as authorities
investigated.
Since hundreds of peo-
ple who came into close
contact with diagnosed
patients have not gotten
sick, the municipal health
commission maintains
that the virus is not eas-
ily transmitted between
humans, though it has
not ruled out limited hu-
man-to-human transmis-
sion.
China’s National Health
Commission said experts
have judged the current
outbreak to be “prevent-
able and controllable.”
“However, the source
of the new type of corona-
virus has not been found,
we do not fully understand
how the virus is transmit-
ted, and changes in the vi-
rus still need to be closely
monitored,” the commis-
sion said in a statement
Sunday.
Coronaviruses cause
diseases ranging from the
common cold to SARS, or
severe acute respiratory
syndrome. SARS first in-
fected people in southern
China in late 2002 and
spread to more than two
dozen countries, killing
nearly 800. The Chinese
government initially tried
to conceal the severity of
the SARS epidemic, but its
cover-up was exposed by a
high-ranking physician.
“In the early days of
SARS, reports were de-
layed and covered up,”
said an editorial in the na-
tionalistic Global Times.
“That kind of thing must
not happen again in Chi-
na.”
“We have made great
strides in medicine, so-
cial affairs management
and public opinion since
2003,” the editorial said.
Xi instructed govern-
ment departments Mon-
day to promptly release
information on the virus
and deepen international
cooperation.
China has notified and
maintained close commu-
nication with the World
Health Organization and
other relevant countries
and regions, Chinese For-
eign Ministry spokesman
Geng Shuang said at a
regular news briefing.

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James Dean revival spurs debate on raising the digital dead
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LOS ANGELES — The
men bringing James Dean
back to life for a forth-
coming film are aiming
not just to give his digital
likeness a role, but a whole
new career.
Dean’s planned appear-
ance in the Vietnam War
movie “Finding Jack,” and
the possibility of future
parts, comes as digital
de-aging and duplication
of real actors has tipped
from cinematic trick into
common practice. And it’s
giving new life to old argu-
ments about the immortal-
ity and dignity of the dead.
“Our intentions are to
create the virtual being
of James Dean. That’s not
only for one movie, but
going to be used for many
movies and also gam-
ing and virtual reality,”
said Travis Cloyd, CEO
of Worldwide XR, who is
leading the design on the
Dean project. “Our focus
is on building the ultimate
James Dean so he can live
across any medium.”
Legally, they have
every right to do it, via
the full agreement of the
Dean estate and his sur-
viving relatives.
“Our clients want to
protect these valuable in-
tellectual property rights
and the memories that
they have of their loved
ones,” said Mark Roesler,
CEO of CMG Worldwide,
the legal and licensing
company that has long
owned the title to Dean’s
likeness. “We have to
trust them. ... They want
to see that their loved
one’s image and memory
continues to live on.”
Dean is an obvious
candidate for revival with
his embodiment-of-Holly-
wood image and the brev-
ity of his life and career
— he died at 24 and made
just three films: “East of
Eden,” “Rebel Without a
Cause” and “Giant.”
Roesler and Cloyd have
not obtained the rights
from Warner Bros. to use
footage from those films,
but they have a large trove
of photos and Dean’s doz-
ens of TV roles.
“There are thousands
of images that we do have
to work with,” Cloyd said.
“What we typically do is
we take all those images
and videos and we run
them through machine
learning to create that as-
set.”
That will be added to
the work of a stand-in ac-
tor using motion-capture
technology as commonly
done now with CGI char-
acters, along with the
overdubbed voice of an-
other actor.
The announcement of
the role last year caused
a quick backlash, with re-
sponses like that of “Cap-
tain America” star Chris
Evans on Twitter: “Maybe
we can get a computer to
paint us a new Picasso. Or
write a couple new John
Lennon tunes. The com-
plete lack of understand-
ing here is shameful.”
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Education
STARKVILLE HIGH AND STARKVILLE ACADEMY
The Oktibbeha Young Leaders, 10th grade students from Starkville High School and Starkville Academy, visited
the Capitol on Tuesday, and met Senator Josh Harkins, (left), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee during
their trip.
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Morgan
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pay for students to attend
East Mississippi Com-
munity College’s nursing
assistant program, she
applied to be a nursing
assistant at Baptist while
simultaneously receive
more training from
EMCC. Within a few
months, she was hired as
the director of nursing’s
secretary, a position she
kept for more than 20
years — the majority
of her career — until
February 2006, when
the hospital’s tumor
registrar approached her
about taking over the
registry.
“We didn’t even know
each other,” Morgan
said. “We just happened
upon each other one
day and she said, ‘I’m
leaving. Would you be
interested in applying
for my job?’ I said, ‘What
is your job? I’ve never
heard of the tumor regis-
try before.’”
Morgan has found the
tumor registrar position
Fire Station
Continued from Page 1A
meeting on Jan. 7. Yar-
brough said recently pro-
moted Lt. Greg Cochran
will be one of the Fire Sta-
tion 5 staff.
“Having those folks
closer in case we have a
fire or something, it gives
us manpower, (and) you
don’t ever have enough,”
Cochran said.
The city’s fire stations
are supposed to be fully
staffed 24-7, with fire-
fighters working in 24-
hour shifts and having 48
hours off in between. Fire
Station 5 is near the inter-
change of Highways 82
and 25, where Yarbrough
said car wrecks regularly
happen, and the station
was closed every third
day. The department was
lucky the lack of staff nev-
er heightened an existing
emergency in the city,
Yarbrough said.
“We just prayed noth-
ing major happened,” he
said.
‘This was a must-have’
The city’s property tax
increase of 1.5 mills is ex-
pected to generate about
99.49%
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more challenging than
working as a secretary,
partially because it in-
volves constant training.
“The face of cancer is
changing so rapidly,” she
said. “And the treatment
of cancer is changing so
rapidly.”
One of her favorite
parts of the job comes
with her seat on the hos-
pital’s cancer committee,
where twice a month she
organizes tumor confer-
ences with radiologists,
medical oncologists, res-
idents and other doctors
who work with cancer
patients. Each month,
those doctors choose a
patient for Morgan to put
together a history based
on the data she’s collect-
ed. The board of doc-
tors — called the tumor
board — then meets to
come up with an inter-
disciplinary approach for
how to treat that patient.
“They choose interest-
ing cases or cases that
are challenging, and we
$400,000 to cover a vari-
ety of costs. Yarbrough
said he advocated for a
means of staffing Fire
Station 5 and appreciated
the board of aldermen’s
“progressive and for-
ward-thinking” attitude
for choosing to address
the longstanding need.
“We told them that this
was a must-have because
for one shift out there (ev-
ery few days), the people
in that area weren’t pro-
tected,” Yarbrough said.
The fire department
built the fifth station in
order to keep up with the
city’s growth but was not
able to continue meeting
those needs with new
hires. The department
has added and adjusted
resources over time, and
some of those resources
depend on manpower,
recently promoted Lt.
Sam Wilkes said. In his
16 years with the depart-
ment, it has implement-
ed ladder trucks at two
stations, and three peo-
ple are required to oper-
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sit down as a group ... chemotherapy toward
and come up with a plan immunotherapy, which
of care,” Morgan said. activates the immune
“I think it is just one of system. It’s also moved
those things that people to a more individualized
may not be aware of, path of care looking at
that you get this special-
the patient, rather than
ized plan of care that is
the disease, she said.
formed by this group of
physicians. But her favorite part,
“We learn a lot about she said, is getting to
medicine and about the know the doctors and
different drugs that nurses who work with
are being used to treat patients every day.
patients, learn about how “I get to work with a
to interpret the radiology lot of smart people,” Mor-
portion of the scans that gan said. “Just by sitting
they’re showing,” she under our doctors, I get
added. “... It’s really in- to learn from them.”
teresting that you can sit
in on something like this
and see the physicians
working to improve the
patients’ care.”
Over the years, she’s
seen how the diagnosis
and care of cancer has
changed. She can tell
you which types of can-
cer have become more
common at Baptist, and
that treatment has been
slowly moving away from
including medical calls,
and require two firefight-
ers apiece, Wilkes said.
“They’re just growing
needs of the fire service,”
he said. “Fifteen years
ago, we didn’t need this
stuff. We didn’t respond
to nearly the medical
calls (that we do now). We
responded to a lot more
structure fires. It evolves,
it’s changing and it will
continue to change.”
Yarbrough emphasized
that “the citizens are go-
ing to reap the benefits”
of their tax dollars paying
for new firefighters.
Classen grew up in
Macon, and Grandfield is
from London, England,
and has lived in Starkville
for 10 years. Both said
helping others fueled
their career choice, and
Grandfield said his mili-
tary background means
he wanted to continue
working with a tight-knit
group of people who share
the same mission.
“And I feel like I’m
too young to sit behind a
desk,” Grandfield said. “I
like being out in the field.”
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MSU preparing for top-10 matchup with South Carolina

Jim Lytle/Special to The Dispatch

Mississippi State’s Jessika Carter (4) shoots over Louisiana State’s Faustine Aifuwa (24) during the first half of their NCAA college basketball game Thursday in Starkville.

By Ben Portnoy the Bulldogs boast the
bportnoy@cdispatch.com momentum in recent
years, having won three
STARKVILLE — Ri- of the past four meetings
valries are two-sided. At heading into Monday’s
least in Mississippi State renewal of the rivalry in
coach Vic Schaefer’s Columbia.
mind they are. “We’re 4-0 (in the
While MSU’s annual SEC) and have a chance
contests with in-state again to go on the road,”
foe Ole Miss consistent- Schaefer said Friday.
ly garners attention in “This has become a re-
Starkville and Oxford, ally competitive series,
it’s the Bulldogs’ meet- and we’re going to have
ings with Dawn Staley’s to play really well on
South Carolina squads Monday night for it to
that have garnered far continue. I know our
more intrigue in recent kids will be ready. I’m
years. excited to see us play in
Since 2017, South Car- that environment and in
olina leads the overall that ballgame.”
series 4-3 — including a While MSU has taken
win in the 2017 national its lumps in the early go-
title game. Despite that, ing this season — most
notably a home loss tremely well,” Staley said Schaefer on the USA der Briggs, of Florida.
to No. 17 West Virgin- during her media avail- Pan-American team this Sitting at 16-2 and with
ia Dec. 8 — Schaefer’s ability Sunday. “They’re past summer. wins in its opening four
bunch have responded in efficient and calculated “I have so much re- SEC games, MSU is in
recent weeks. on their floor for their spect for Ty and what she position to take an early
Riding the consistent players and we’ve got to does for her team and hold on the regular sea-
offensive output of senior make sure we win those how she goes about her son conference title race
guard Jordan Danberry battles — we can’t allow business,” Schaefer said. should it spring an upset
and freshman forward them to play in the space “She’s a pro.” on the road. And while
Rickea Jackson, MSU is that they’re comfortable Beyond Harris, fresh- the Bulldogs have a major
averaging 77.5 points per playing.” man sensation Aliyah opportunity before them,
game over its past eight Beyond South Caroli- Boston and senior Mikiah it remains a squad that is
contests — all wins. By na’s stingy defense, the Herbert Harrigan com- green to games like the
contrast, in losses to Gamecocks also boast prise a prolific frontcourt one awaiting them Mon-
West Virginia and then- a prolific offense led by that will give Jackson and day.
No. 3 Stanford, the Bull- senior guard Tyasha sophomore center Jessika “Let’s be honest, some
dogs averaged just 63.5 Harris and a capable Carter all they can handle. of our young kids are
points per game. supporting cast of young Boston — the No. 3 recruit getting used to playing
For context, the and old. Harris — who in the class of 2019 — is in front of 8,000 here at
Gamecocks enter Mon- is averaging 11.8 points currently fourth among all home,” Schaefer said. “I
day’s contest allowing and 3.6 rebounds per SEC freshmen in points think the only way to re-
just 56.6 points per game — will anchor per game with 13.0 — ally prepare for that is you
game. the USC backcourt and trailing Jackson, Vander- just have to experience
“They do things ex- previously played under bilt’s Koi Love and Laven- it.”

Former MSU standout Jones, Mostert lifts 49ers

Chiefs advance to Super Bowl to Super Bowl with
The Associated Press

K ANSAS CIT Y, Mo. — With

his best imitation of a tightrope
walker, Patrick Mahomes high-
wired the Kansas City Chiefs
into their first Super Bowl since
1970.
Oh sure, Mahomes did his
usual superb job passing, but it
was his 27-yard tap dance down
the left sideline late in the first
half that gave the Chiefs their
first lead. From there, they out-
ran the run-oriented Tennessee
Titans and star back Derrick
Henry for a 35 -24 victory Sunday
in the AFC championship.
Meanwhile, the Chiefs’ de-
fense was bolstered by defensive
lineman Chris Jones, a former
Mississippi State standout, who
was questionable
to play entering
the contest. Jones
finished with two
tackles.
At last, for the
third time overall,
the Chiefs (14-4) Jones
are Super Bowl
bound.
In two weeks in Miami, they
will play San Francisco, which
rolled to a 37-20 win over Green
Bay in the NFC title game.
“I mean, it’s amazing. It really
is,” said Mahomes, who had 294
yards passing and three touch-
downs. “To be here, to be a part
of Chiefs Kingdom and to be able
to do it here at Arrowhead, these
people deserve it. And we’re not
done yet.”
Adding to the joy of the
achievement, coach Andy Reid
and owner Clark Hunt accept-
37-20 win vs Packers
ed the Lamar Hunt Trophy —
The Associated Press Journeyman Raheem
named after his father — em- Mostert rushed for 220
blematic of the AFC title. It was SANTA CLAR A, yards and four touch-
handed over to them by Chiefs Calif. — Coach Kyle downs to make quarter-
Hall of Famer Bobby Bell, with Shanahan received the back Jimmy Garoppolo
Mahomes and safety Tyrann NFC championship mostly a spectator, Nick
Mathieu jumping for joy on the trophy from his Super Bosa harassed Aaron
makeshift stage. Bowl-winning father Rodgers from the start
Next up: chasing the Vince Mike and raised it to and the 49ers beat the
Lombardi Trophy. the sky. Green Bay Packers 37-
“Very excited and very emo- The San Francisco 20 for the NFC champi-
tional to win the trophy that has 49ers have gone on a onship on Sunday.
my dad’s name on it,” Hunt said. surprising journey from “I did have a lot of
“Yeah, 50 years were too long, No. 2 pick in the draft doubters and naysay-
but we’re going to another Super to one of the last two ers,” said Mostert,
Bowl. teams standing. They who has been cut sev-
“Chiefs Kingdom, we are go- have one of the most un- en times in his career.
ing to the Super Bowl.” likely playoff heroes to “Now I get to actually
See chiefs, 3B thank for it. See 49ers, 3B
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BRIEFLY After cashing in on QB gambles, Niners, Chiefs in Super Bowl

The Associated Press Chiefs coach Andy terback-in-waiting in title game Sunday. He to get to the title game
College Basketball Reid disagreed. He New England, despite is helped by a bruis- than the Chiefs.
Missouri storms past Ole Miss women A little more than gave up a first-round a limited resume as ing running game re- The team that lost
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team fell behind two years ago, a pair pick in the following Tom Brady’s backup. cently anchored by to Green Bay in the
as many as 22 points in the first quarter to Missouri of teams gambled on year’s draft to move up But with the Patriots Raheem Mostert (220 very first Super Bowl,
Sunday, digging itself too deep a hole en route to a quarterbacks who had to select Mahomes in not ready to part ways yards and four TDs returned three years af-
71-57 loss in Oxford. all kinds of potential 2017. Now, in his third with their franchise on Sunday). And the ter that, in 1970, to win
Ole Miss (7-11, 0-5 SEC) was led by junior Deja but were far from a season, Mahomes is a cornerstone, and with Niners have found a its first NFL champi-
Cage, after she contributed 19 points in the loss. sure thing. Super Bowl quarter- Garoppolo’s contract game-wrecking defen- onship. The Chiefs had
“I thought today we started off slow for whatever
Both teams guessed back. He has 11 post- running out, the quar- sive end in rookie Nick their ups and downs in
reason,” Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin
right. season touchdown terback became ex- Bosa. The second pick the decades since. The
said in a news release. “I’m glad that we were able to
pick it up and we made a strong push, but we just ran
The Kansas City passes, not a single pendable. San Francis- in the 2019 draft had a stat that stuck out the
out of gas. What we take from this is that we can’t have Chiefs will meet the interception, and has co acquired him in the sack Sunday to go with most was their 3-8 home
starts like this. We have to give ourselves a chance from San Francisco 49ers in even led the Chiefs in middle of the 2017 sea- the nine he recorded playoff record since that
the beginning. We are just going to continue to fight and the Super Bowl on Feb. rushing the last two son for a second-round over the regular sea- victory over the Vikings
continue to push.” 2 in Miami. Oddsmak- weeks. With its 35-24 pick. son to fuel a defense in 1970 that marked the
Missouri (5-14, 2-4 SEC) was bolstered by Aijha ers opened the line at win over Tennessee Garoppolo won his that gave up the fewest last game before the
Blackwell, who scored 20 points and grabbed eight pick ‘em in a title game on Sunday in the AFC first five starts in San passing yards this sea- NFL and its old rival, the
rebounds. featuring one fran- title game, Kansas Francisco and, before son. AFL, officially merged
Ole Miss is back in action Thursday in a road chise, the Niners, try- City became the first the season was out, It all helped the and began playing as a
matchup against Auburn. ing to win a record-ty- team in NFL history he had a five-year con- 49ers return to the single league the next
The W women falter against Oakwood ing sixth Lombardi to go from trailing by tract extension that, at Super Bowl for the season.
My’Neka Frazier contributed her ninth double-dou- Trophy against anoth- double digits to win- the time, included the first time since Col- Now, in a season filled
ble of the season Sunday, but it wasn’t enough as the W er, the Chiefs, making ning by double digits highest average yearly in Kaepernick took with celebrations for the
fell to Oakwood 70-52. their first appearance in consecutive playoff salary in NFL history. them in 2013. The de- 100th anniversary of
Frazier finished with a team-high 18 points and in the big game in 50 games. “When you find the parture of coach Jim the NFL, the Chiefs are
12 rebounds. Senior guard Autumn Taylor contributed years. “Everybody liked right guy at that posi- Harbaugh and Kaeper- back, coached by Reid,
12 points to the effort while freshman forward Rachael Their quarterbacks: this guy,” Reid said, in tion, it’s really good for nick’s kneeling saga whose 14 postseason
McGrew trailed Frazier with 11 boards. Patrick Mahomes 2017, about the reac- your franchise,” Nin- ushered in a period of wins compiled over 20
As a team, the Owls (4-13) went 21-for-65 (32.3 (KC) and Jimmy Ga- tion from the Kansas ers GM John Lynch instability. It included seasons do not include a
percent) from the field and 4-for-14 (28.6 percent) in
roppolo (SF). City front office and said, not long after the a carousel of four head ‘W’ in the biggest game
three-point range. At the line, the Owls made 6 of 11
Mahomes, whose scouting department trade. coaches in four years of all.
free throws.
gaudy college stats after they’d spent time Though Garoppo- that finally settled Could the quarter-
The Owls will be back in action on Wednesday
when they host Tougaloo College. Tipoff is set for 5:30
(his 5,052 passing with Mahomes in ad- lo’s 102 passer rating when Kyle Shanahan back he took a chance
p.m. yards led the coun- vance of the draft. this season was only — the son of two-time on — a nimble-footed,
Source: From Special Reports try in 2016) were a “Everybody fell in 3.3 points less than Super Bowl winning strong-armed, next-gen-
byproduct of playing love with the kid and Mahomes’, San Fran- coach Mike Shanahan eration talent — be the
at pass-happy Texas how he went about cisco doesn’t depend — got the job in 2017 one to finally put him
CALENDAR Tech, was generally
viewed as no better
his business and how
he played. That’s not
on its franchise QB the
way Kansas City does.
and soon was joined by
Garoppolo.
over the top?
Garoppolo, to say
Today than the second-best something that hap- Exhibit A: Garop- But when it comes to nothing of San Francis-
Prep Girls Basketball quarterback in a 2017 pens every year.” polo threw only eight Super Bowl droughts — co’s running game and
Starkville at MLK Classic, East Central draft that wasn’t con- Garoppolo, a sec- passes and totaled only outside of the Jets and its top-ranked pass de-
Community College, TBA sidered strong on ond-round pick by the 77 yards in San Fran- a handful of teams who fense, will have plenty
Prep Boys Basketball quarterbacks to begin Patriots in 2014, was cisco’s 37-20 win over have never been, no- to say about that two
West Lowndes at MLK Classic, East with. considered the quar- Green Bay in the NFC body has waited longer weeks from now.
Central Community College, TBA
Starkville, Heritage Academy at Rumble
in the South, Madison, TBA
Women’s College Basketball
Mississippi State at South Carolina, 6

Happy families: Osaka, Williams win openers in Australia

p.m.
MUW at MLK Classic, TBA
Tuesday
Prep Girls Basketball
The Associated Press becoming Olympia’s son in particular who here last year to Osaka, Fucsovics, who has
Caledonia at Shannon, 6 p.m. mom. She managed to was there only for Osa- advanced 6-1, 6-0 over made a habit of taking
West Point at Starkville, 6 p.m.
MELBOURNE, Aus- end one drought last ka. Katerina Siniakova on out the No. 13 seed in
West Lowndes at Noxapater, 6 p.m.
tralia — Naomi Osaka week when she won the “My dad watched my Margaret Court Are- Melbourne.
Leake Academy at Heritage Academy, won the tournament’s title in Auckland, New match from my box for na in a mid-afternoon Shapovalov berat-
6 p.m. opening match for her Zealand — her first the first time during a match that continued ed the umpire and re-
Winston Academy at Starkville Acade- dad at the Australian since the Australian ti- Grand Slam,” Osaka, while play was suspend- ceived a code violation
my, 6 p.m. Open. Serena Williams tle three years ago. who won back-to-back ed because of rain on for spiking his racket
Starkville Christian at Columbus Chris- won hers for her daugh- “I hadn’t been able majors at the 2018 U.S. the the outside courts. after the third set.
tian Academy, 6 p.m. ter. to win as a mom, so it Open and last year’s Osaka is aiming to be “I didn’t break it. If I
Oak Hill Academy at Carroll Academy, The first two match- was nice to finally be Australian Open, tweet- only the ninth woman break it, 100% code me,”
6 p.m. es on center court at the able to win a tourna- ed. “I feel so happy.” to successfully defend Shapovalov yelled at
Hebron Christian at Kemper Academy, Australian Open were ment with a 2-year-old She later explained: the Australian Open umpire Renaud Lichten-
6 p.m. all about families for now,” Williams said of “He’s just superstitious. title. She wasn’t able to stein. “You’re not doing
Prep Boys Basketball two champions. her Auckland win. “I’ve Because, like, he liter- do that at the U.S. Open your job. You’re just
Caledonia at Shannon, 7:30 p.m. For something new, been pretty close, but it ally -- because, like, be- last year, when she lost finding reasons to code
West Point at Starkville, 7:30 p.m. Osaka’s father, Leon- was special for me and fore when he used to sit in the fourth round, but me.”
West Lowndes at Noxapater, 7:30 p.m. ard Francois, was in the for her. I hope for her.” in my box I would just says she learned some Fucsovics also beat
Leake Academy at Heritage Academy, crowd watching as the Williams has lost look at him and com- valuable lessons there. the 13th seed last year
7:30 p.m. defending champion four Grand Slam finals plain a lot, but I have “Definitely, it was re- at Melbourne Park, that
Winston Academy at Starkville Acade- reeled off the last four since her last title, and matured over the past, ally tough for me trying time Sam Querrey in
my, 7:30 p.m. games after dropping is determined to end like, three or four years to control my nerves,” the second round.
Starkville Christian at Columbus Chris- serve for the only time that streak. he hasn’t sat in my box.” she said of her first- “Usually this is not
tian Academy, 7:30 p.m. to beat Marie Bouzkova She won seven Father-of-four Roger round win. “I’m really a lucky number, but for
Oak Hill Academy at Carroll Academy, 6-2, 6-4. straight games until Federer had a routine glad I was able to finish me, my favorite num-
7:30 p.m. Next up, Williams Potapova held serve 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over it in two. ber,” he said. “I played
Hebron Christian at Kemper Academy, started her bid for a first and changed the mo- Steve Johnson in his Other seeded play- some of my best tennis
7:30 p.m. major title as a mom mentum — for a lit- first tournament of the ers advancing on the today. Everything was
Prep Girls Soccer when she beat 18-year- tle while at least. The year, saying he was con- women’s side included working well.”
Tishomingo County at West Point, 5 old Anastasia Potapo- Russian got a service tent with his form after No. 13 Petra Martic No. 8 Matteo Ber-
p.m. va 6-0, 6-3. Williams break, but broke Wil- a vacation and some and No. 14 Sofia Kenin. rettini and No. 22 Gui-
Mississippi School for Mathematics has won the title seven liams rallied quickly to heavy off-season train- Martic had a 6-3, 6-0 do Pella also advanced
and Science at New Hope, 5:30 p.m. times in Australia, and get back on track. ing. He’s 21-0 in first- win over Christina along with Querrey,
Greenville at Starkville, 5:30 p.m. is aiming for an all-time Osaka thanked the round matches at the McHale and Kenin beat who beat 25th-seeded
Columbus at Caledonia, 5:30 p.m. record-equaling 24th crowd after her match, Australian Open, where Italian qualifier Marti- Borna Coric 6-3, 6-4,
Grand Slam singles ti- saying “You probably he’s won six of his 20 na Trevisan 6-2, 6-4.. 6-4, and Dan Evans,
tle. She hasn’t added to didn’t come for me, but major titles. Denis Shapovalov who rallied from two
her career tally since thanks for filling up the Two-time Wimble- lost an ill-tempered sets down to beat Mack-
on the air victory at the 2017 Aus-
tralian Open, and then
stadium.”
There was one per-
don winner Petra Kvi-
tova, who lost the final
match 6-3, 7-6 (7),
6-1, 7-6 (3) to Marton
enzie McDonald 3-6,
4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3.
Today
COLLEGE BASKETBALL(MEN’S)
4 p.m. — Sacred Heart at Robert Mor-
ris, CBSSN
6 p.m. — Bucknell at Colgate, CBSSN
6 p.m. — North Carolina State at

Andrew Landry regroups to win The American Express

Virginia, ESPN
6 p.m. — Texas at West Virginia,
ESPNU
8 p.m. — Oklahoma at Baylor, ESPN
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) The Associated Press have a 7-, 8-footer to look the majority of players much attention to the opened with a 66 on the
5 p.m. — Michigan State at Rutgers, at. ... Thankfully, it went out here are going to leaderboard,” Ancer Stadium Course, shot
BTN LA QUINTA, Calif. in and kind of made 18 a have them, four, five, said. “And then that’s 64 in the second round
6 p.m. — Mississippi State at South — Andrew Landry was
Carolina, ESPN2 little bit easier.” six times a year and when I noticed and I at La Quinta Country
6 p.m. — Alabama at Tennessee, SECN reeling after blowing a He closed with a top-10 players are going was like, ‘All right, well, Club and had a 65 on
7 p.m. — Indiana at Maryland, BTN six-stroke lead on the 6-foot birdie putt on the to have them a little bit we got to make two oth- Saturday on PGA West’s
GOLF back nine Sunday in par-4 18th for a 5-under more often.” er birdies.’ I made the Jack Nicklaus Tourna-
1 p.m. — Korn Ferry Tour: The Ba- The American Express.
hamas Great Abaco Classic, Second 67 and a two-stroke vic- Trying to become the putt there on 17, which ment Course for a share
Round, Great Abaco, Bahamas, GOLF “I don’t want to be a tory, winning two years third Mexican winner in was big, and then just of the third-round lead
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL (BOY’S) part of something like after losing a playoff to PGA Tour history and couldn’t make it happen with Scottie Scheffler
10 a.m. — Rancho Christian (Calif.) that ever again,” the Jon Rahm at PGA West. first since 1978, Ancer on 18. But I played good, — four strokes ahead of
vs. Dematha (Md.), Springfield, Mass., 32-year-old Texan said.
ESPNU “This is a golf course matched the Stadium man. I’m proud of how I third-place Rickie Fowl-
Noon — Paul VI (Va.) vs. Sierra Canyon He regrouped — tell- that has suited me very Course record with a 63. played.” er.
(Calif.), Springfield, Mass., ESPNU ing caddie Terry Walk- well in the past,” Landry “All week, really, I hit Landry appeared to The anticipated duel
2 p.m. — Oak Hill Academy (Va.) vs. er, “Let’s go get this job said. “And just to look the ball great off the tee be cruising to victory between Landry and
Bishop Gorman (Nev.), Springfield, done, like, quit messing
Mass., ESPNU back on some of the and iron shots, and in when he birdied the Scheffler fizzled early.
4 p.m. — McEachern (Ga.) vs. Mont- around” — to win his things that happened the first three rounds, I first three holes on the Scheffler bogeyed
verde Academy (Fla.), Springfield, second PGA Tour title a couple years ago and feel like I didn’t score as back nine to open the the par-4 first after
Mass., ESPNU with a shot to spare. then now, just to be able low as I should have for six-shot lead. He bo- his drive went left and
NBA BASKETBALL Landry broke a tie
1:30 p.m. — Toronto at Atlanta, NBATV to finally get it done. I how good I hit the ball,” geyed the next three rolled back down a hill
4 p.m. — New Orleans at Memphis, with Abraham Ancer didn’t want to have to Ancer said. “But stayed holes, made a par on the into a large divot. He
TNT with a 7-foot birdie putt go back into a playoff patient and today the par-5 16th that felt like also dropped strokes on
6:30 p.m. — LA Lakers at Boston, TNT on the 17th hole, the again.” putts started to fall in.” another bogey, and was the par-5 fifth and long
9 p.m. — Golden State at Portland, TNT jagged rock-ringed, is- The former Univer- Playing two groups tied when Ancer ran in par-3 sixth to fall four
NHL HOCKEY
2 p.m. — Detroit at Colorado, NHLN land-green par 3 called sity of Arkansas player ahead of Landry, Anc- a 25-footer on 17. shots behind Landry.
TENNIS Alcatraz. won after missing seven er birdied No. 16 and “Just kind of calmed On the water-guarded
2 a.m. — The Australian Open: First “That was probably of eight cuts to start the 17 and parred the 18th, myself down and said, fifth, his aggressive
Round, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2 the shot of the tourna- season. missing from 35 feet ‘Hey, look, these are play with a fairway
6 p.m. — The Australian Open: First
Round, Melbourne, Australia, TENNIS ment for me,” Landry “That’s why you just and saving par with a 4 two holes that we can go wood from a downhill
8 p.m. — The Australian Open: First said. “Just to be able to got to keep grinding it 1/2-footer. out and get, they suit my lie near a right-side
Round, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2 go over there and, to out,” said Landry, also He realized he was game very well, espe- bunker went well left
2 a.m. (Tuesday) — The Australian that right hole location, the 2018 Texas Open tied for lead just before cially 18,’” Landry said. and, after a long chip,
Open: First Round, Melbourne, Austra-
lia, ESPN2 and just hold one up and winner. “We all search teeing off on 17. Landry finished he missed a 3-footer for
hit a good distance and for these weeks, and “I wasn’t paying at 26-under 262. He par.
 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Monday, January 20, 2020 3B

Rodgers again falls short of another Super Bowl appearance

The Associated Press
SANTA CLAR A, Ca-
lif. — These playoff de-
feats when he is oh so
close sting a bit more
for Aaron Rodgers now,
at this later stage in his
career.
“It’s a little raw right
now. It definitely hurts
I’d say a little more than
early in your career just
because you realize
just how difficult it is to
get to this spot,” Green
Bay’s veteran quarter-
back said after another
season fell short of the
Super Bowl. “... Then
you realize I don’t have
the same number of
years ahead of me as I do
behind me, so it’s slight-
ly more disappointing.”
A sack and fumble one
series, a muffed snap he
couldn’t handle the next,
then an interception that
grounded Green Bay for
good.
By halftime.
Rodgers’ latest fail-
ure in the NFC champi-
onship game kept him
out of the Super Bowl
once again, the Packers’
season ending just short
with an another forget-
table playoff loss to the
San Francisco 49ers, 37-
20 on Sunday.
Rodgers hasn’t ad-
vanced past the confer-
ence title game since
his lone Super Bowl trip
— and triumph — after
the 2010 season. His dis-
appointment showed on
the sideline, where Rod-
gers stood stone-faced,
hands on his hips.
Sure, Rodgers com-
pleted his first eight
passes but the Packers
(14-4) never found an of-
fensive rhythm and had
no answers for Jimmy
Garoppolo or dynamic
running back Raheem
Mostert on the other
side of the ball.
Rodgers made anoth-
er futile return to the Bay
Area where he starred
for the University of Cal-
ifornia at Berkeley, with
far less chatter these
days about the 49ers trailing 34-13 that set
passing on him in favor up Jace Sternberger’s
of Alex Smith as the No. 8-yard TD reception.
1 overall pick in the 2005 That gave Rodgers
NFL draft. The 36 -year- 40 career playoff touch-
old Rodgers, born in down passes, breaking
the Northern California Brett Favre’s franchise
town of Chico, finally led record of 39. Rodgers’
a scoring drive to begin night ended with an in-
the second half when he terception by Richard
connected with Aaron Sherman at the 5.
Jones on a 9-yard touch- The rambunctious
down pass. Jones ran for and raucous Cheeseh-
a 1-yard score early in eads couldn’t even help
the fourth. his cause in a surpris-
“It was too big a hole ingly red-clad sellout
to climb out of,” Pack- crowd given Green Bay
ers coach Matt LaFleur fans typically travel well.
said. Last week in Wisconsin,
Rodgers wound up 31 they watched him play
of 39 for 326 yards, two one of his best games of
touchdowns and two in- the season to beat the
terceptions with a 97.2 Seahawks.
passer rating while drop- Rodgers appreciates
ping his third straight this season because the
conference title game Packers proved those
over a six-year stretch. people wrong who never
He also lost in the NFC thought they would win
championship after the their NFC North divi-
2014 and ’16 seasons. sion let alone get this far.
His highlight Sunday And something else
came with a 65-yard he loved about these
completion to Davante close-knit, player-led
Adams with his team Packers: “This one will
always be special be-
cause it became fun
again.”
Rodgers went 8 of 8
to start for 66 yards, but
the Packers were forced
to punt their first two
possessions. Rodgers
fumbled when sacked
by K’Waun Williams
for a 15-yard loss their
next time and Green Bay
punted again — totaling
just 18 yards of offense
in its first three offen-
sive series. The Packers
trailed 27-0 by halftime
gaining only 93 yards.
Rodgers was sacked
on his second third-
down conversion at-
tempt of the game for
a loss of 13 yards. Nick
Bosa came at the quar-
terback again from the
right edge.
In the postseason,
Rodgers has a rough his-
tory on San Francisco’s
home field.
Most notably: He was
the reigning NFL MVP
when Colin Kaepernick
thoroughly outshined
him in the NFC division-
al round in January 2013.
Postseason first-timer
Kaepernick ran for a
quarterback playoff re-
cord 181 yards and two
touchdowns in leading
the Niners back to the
conference champion-
ship with a 45-31 victory
over Green Bay.
Rodgers never got in
sync that night at Can-
dlestick Park and fin-
ished 26 of 39 for 257
yards with two touch-
downs. He also lost 23-
20 to San Francisco in
the wild-card round the
next season at Lambeau
Field.
Rodgers remains opti-
mistic about the Packers
getting back to a Super
Bowl. He believes in
Green Bay’s leadership,
from the top down.
“The window’s open,”
he said, “and I think
we’re going to be on the
right side of one of these
real soon.”

49ers
Continued from Page 1B
tell them, ‘Look where I’m at now.’
“I never gave up on my dreams.”
The Niners (15-3) also had their
skeptics after winning just 10 games
in the first two seasons under Shana-
han and general manager John Lynch.
But they put pieces and systems
in place during those rough two sea-
sons and now have advanced to the
franchise’s first Super Bowl in seven
years. The Niners will play the Kan-
sas City Chiefs in two weeks in Miami
when Shanahan tries to join his father
as coaching champions.
“It was pretty special,” Shanahan
said of getting handed the trophy
from his father at the postgame cere-
mony. “To get a trophy handed to you
by anyone is really cool. ... It was pret-
ty cool it happened there at the end.”
After giving a second thorough
beating of the season to Rodgers and
the Packers (14-4), the 49ers are the
third team to make it to the Super
Bowl a year after winning four or few-
er games.
Cincinnati did it in 1988 and the
Rams 1999, with the Rams the only
team to go from four wins to a cham-
pionship in one year.
“It’s still kind of surreal,” lineback-
er Fred Warner said. “With the stuff
this team has gone through, this or-
ganization, it’s special. Its the pinna-
cle of football right here.”
Bosa, the prize for last year’s rough
season as the No. 2 overall pick,
helped set the tone when he ended
Green Bay’s second drive of the game
with a 13-yard sack of Rodgers.
Mostert, a former special teams
standout, did much of the rest in a re-
markable redemption story for a for-
mer surfer who carried the ball only
eight times in his first three seasons
in the NFL while bouncing between
teams.
But he has become a key part of
the NFC’s top team this year, leading
the Niners with 772 yards rushing in
the regular season and delivering a
performance for the ages in the NFC
title game.
He had the second-most yards
rushing in a playoff game to Eric
Dickerson’s 248 for the Rams on Jan.
4, 1986, and was the first player to
rush for at least four TDs and 200
yards in a playoff game.
He got started when he burst 36
yards on a third-and-8 trap play to
open the scoring on San Francisco’s
second drive and kept ripping off long
runs behind impressive blocking.
“He’s so fast,” tackle Joe Staley
said. “He’s incredibly fast. He’s fear-
less going through the hole. He has
trust in the linemen to block it up.
He’s a great running back.”
He added TD runs of 9 and 18
yards in the second quarter and had
160 yards rushing at the half, becom-
ing the only player in NFL history to
rush for at least 150 yards and three
TDs in the first half of a playoff game.
Mostert added a 22-yard TD run in
the third quarter.
“The lanes that we saw and the
way he was running we just wanted
to keep feeding him,” Shanahan said.
“I know he was feeling it. That wasn’t
too hard to see.”
Rodgers and the Packers were un-
able to match that performance as
they got overwhelmed by San Fran-
cisco’s dominant front for a second
time this season.
Rodgers had a career-low 3.15
yards per attempt in a 37-8 loss here
back in November and wasn’t much
better in the first half of the rematch.
He lost a snap from center to end
Green Bay’s only promising drive of
the half, threw an interception to Em-
manuel Moseley late in the half and
didn’t convert his first third down
of the season — in 18 attempts —
against the Niners until connecting
on a 6 -yard pass to Aaron Jones on the
opening drive of the second quarter.
“We just weren’t very consistent
the first half,” Rodgers said. “Made
a couple of mistakes personally that
hurt us and kind of let it get away
from us.”
Rodgers capped that drive with a
9-yard TD pass to Jones, but the game
was too far out of hand by that point.
He led Green Bay to two more TDs
and finished with 326 yards passing,
but it wasn’t nearly enough as the
Packers lost the NFC title game for
the third time since their last Super
Bowl trip following the 2010 season.
“Right now, they are the gold stan-
dard in the NFC,” Packers coach Matt
LaFleur said of the 49ers.
Quiet day
The Niners asked very little of Ga-
roppolo, who threw only eight passes
thanks to the big-play running game
and lopsided score. He went 24 minutes
of game time between his sixth and
seventh passes and finished with six
completions for 77 yards. It was tied for
the second fewest passes thrown in a
playoff game. Miami threw six and sev-
en passes on the Super Bowl following
the 1973 season.
Passing Favre
Rodgers’ two TD passes gave him
40 in his playoff career, breaking Brett
Favre’s franchise record of 39. Rodgers
also has seven straight playoff games
with at least two TD throws, one shy of
Joe Flacco’s record.
Injuries
Packers: S Adrian Amos left after
injuring his pectoral muscle in the first
half. ... CB Jaire Alexander left in the
second half with a thumb injury.
49ers: RB Tevin Coleman left in the
first half with a shoulder injury.
Up next
49ers: The team’s seventh appear-
ance in the Super Bowl against the
Chiefs on Feb. 2.

Chiefs
Continued from Page 1B
The Chiefs lost in 1967 in the first
AFL -NFL Championship Game —
nope, it wasn’t called the Super Bowl
yet — to the Lombardi Packers 35 -
10. Three years later, one year after
the New York Jets shocked Baltimore
to lay claim to the A FL being equal
to the long-established NFL, Kan-
sas City was back. This time, it was
known as the Super Bowl — indeed,
Lamar Hunt is credited with coming
up with the name — and his Chiefs
hammered Minnesota 23-7 with the
typical Wild West offensive f lair and
a staunch defense. Those are char-
acteristics that helped carry KC this
season.
Reid isn’t as animated as Hall of
Famer Hank Stram, who famously
urged the Chiefs team to “keep ma-
triculating the ball down the field,
boys.” Caught up in the moment Sun-
day, Reid said, “It’s awesome,” be-
fore asking the crowd to chant “How
about those Chiefs?”
Moments later, standout tight end
Travis Kelce proclaimed, “You gotta
fight for your right to party.”
There will be plenty of partying
on South Beach for Chiefs King-
dom heading into the championship
matchup.
“Fired up to go to Miami, got to get
on a diet so I can fit into my clothes,”
Reid said. “Very proud.”
As they had done in their past three
“elimination” games, the sixth-seed-
ed Titans (11-8) got started quick-
ly. The difference at Arrowhead as
opposed to Houston, New England
and Baltimore was that the Chiefs
had Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Sammy
Watkins and Damien Williams on of-
fense, and a vastly upgraded defense
from when they lost in last year’s
A FC title game. Henry was held to 7
yards rushing in the second half.
“They were doubling all these
guys,” Mahomes said of his spectacu-
lar TD run on which he barely stayed
in bounds. “I just ran it and got some
good blocking at the end and found a
way to get in the end zone.”
A week after they overcame a 24-0
deficit against Houston, the Chiefs
had to rally again.
Down 10 -0 and 17-7, Kansas City
didn’t f linch, building a 35 -17 lead
while controlling the clock with
a strong ground game. Naturally,
Mahomes complemented that with
sharp passing, spreading the ball on
short and deep throws. The dagger
came with a 60 -yard completion to
Watkins for the Chiefs’ 28th straight
point midway in the final period.
Mahomes thrust both arms in the
air as the crowd sang Whitney Hous-
ton’s “I Wanna Dance With Some-
body.”
That somebody will be the 49ers in
two weeks.
A fter taking a 3-0 lead on Greg
Joseph’s first field goal — with Ten-
nessee’s penchant for scoring in the
red zone, he hadn’t been called upon
in his previous four games with the
team — the Titans got a huge break.
Bashaud Breeland appeared to make
a diving interception, but replay
review showed the ball hitting the
ground.
Helped by consecutive offside pen-
alties and a a fourth-down pass to
Adam Humphries for his first career
playoff reception, the Titans convert-
ed on, what else, Henry’s 4-yard run.
Then the Chiefs got rolling, scor-
ing on three successive series. Hill
took it in on a shovel pass, later beat
top Titans cornerback Logan Ryan for
a 20 -yard reception, and Mahomes
finished the half with his brilliant
jaunt down the left sideline with half
the Tennessee defense seemingly ex-
pecting him to step out of bounds.
That gave the Chiefs a 21-17 lead.
It went to 28 -17 on Williams’ 3-yard
run to cap a seven-minute drive.
Then Watkins toasted Logan for the
clinching long pass.
Henry was held to 69 yards on 19
carries after rushing for 588 yards in
the past three games as an unstoppa-
ble force.
“I feel like our backs were against
the wall the whole season,” Hen-
ry said. “But we kept on fighting
and kept on believing in each oth-
er. I think it speaks volumes about
the team we have. We just came up
short.”
The Chiefs easily outrushed the
Titans on Sunday. Mahomes led the
way with 53 of those yards and also
was 23 for 35 for 294 yards passing.
Reid’s return
Reid goes back to the Super Bowl
for the first time since the 2004 sea-
son, when his Eagles lost to New En-
gland. That gap is second longest to
Dick Vermeil’s hiatus.
“So much effort that went into
this,” said Reid, who joined the
Chiefs in 2013 after 14 years in Phil-
adelphia. “It takes an army, it is not
one guy at all. I appreciate the effort
by everybody.”
Trickery
Last week, Henry threw a jump
pass for a touchdown against Balti-
more. On Sunday, Dennis Kelly em-
ulated his coach, Mike Vrabel. He
sneaked free for Ryan Tannehill’s lob,
falling back awkwardly but holding
on for Tennessee’s second TD. The
backup tackle is the only offensive
lineman since 2000 with two TDs re-
ceiving in a season. He also had one
against Jacksonville.
Vrabel caught 12 touchdown pass-
es as a linebacker, including one in
the Super Bowl when his Patriots
beat Reid’s Eagles.
Fourth downs
Displaying the gambling nature
of both coaches, fourth-down con-
versions were key on early scoring
drives. Humphries, who missed the
last six games with an ankle problem,
caught a 3-yarder on fourth-and-2
at the KC 29. Two plays later, Henry
scored.
On the Chiefs’ ensuing possession,
they went for it on fourth-and-2 from
the Titans 28. Travis Kelce’s 4-yard
reception continued a march to Hill’s
first TD.
Local ties
Two Golden Triangle natives played
for the Titans Sunday in wideout A.J.
Brown and defensive lineman Jeffery
Simmons. Brown, a Starkville native,
caught three passes for 51 yards. Sim-
mons, a Macon native, did not record
a tackle.
Up next
Titans: Figuring out if they ran out
of gas or were beaten by a more tal-
ented team as they head into the off-
season.
Chiefs: The Tomahawk Chop will
be heard at Hard Rock Stadium in the
Super Bowl.
4B Monday, January 20, 2020
Chiefs shut down Henry, Titans game plan in AFC title game
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K ANSAS CITY, Mo.
— The Tennessee Ti-
tans hoped to follow the
same game plan against
the Kansas City Chiefs
that had carried them to
playoff wins in Baltimore
and New England, giving
the ball to running back
Derrick Henry as much
as possible.
It was a bad sign that
their bruising star never
got a carry in the fourth
quarter.
The Chiefs minimized
the impact Henry had on
the AFC championship
game Sunday, holding
him to a mere 7 yards
after halftime, when
Patrick Mahomes and
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Co. were capping off 28 heavily on Henry down
consecutive points. The the stretch, and they
result was 35-24 victory won nine of their next
that sent Kansas City to 12 games — and three
its first Super Bowl in straight — to reach their
50 years and the Titans sixth AFL or AFC cham-
home after an incredible pionship game and first
postseason ride. since 2002.
“I feel like our backs Their route as a wild-
were against the wall the card team took them to
whole season,” said Hen- New England and Bal-
ry, who finished with 19 timore, yet they even
carries for 69 yards and managed to clear those
a touchdown. “We kept hurdles with ease. They
on fighting and kept on turned away Tom Brady
believing in each other. in Foxborough and shut
I think it speaks volumes down Lamar Jackson and
about the team we have. the rest of the Ravens.
We just came up short.” They couldn’t pull off
Indeed, the Titans one more upset in Arrow-
were languishing around head Stadium, though.
.500 when they beat They couldn’t finish
the Chiefs in Week 10. off their first trip to the
They proceeded to lean Super Bowl in two de-
FAMILY CIRCUS
cades.
“I felt like we got off
to the start that we want-
ed,” Titans coach Mike
Vrabel said. “But I think
when you play teams like
this or teams that are as
good as the Chiefs, as
explosive as they are, we
knew they were going to
make a run.”
Henry carried three
times on an opening
drive that net Tennes-
see a field goal, then he
capped their next drive
by taking a direct snap
and waltzing over the left
side into the end zone.
Henry added 29 yards
rushing on their third
drive, a churning 75-yard
march that consumed
more than 9 minutes and
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I married
someone
who turned out to
be very abusive
and controlling of
me and the kids.
I felt powerless to
leave with them
because of the
emotional control,
and I had no way
to make a living
to support them.
They are all
adults now, and
three of them
have been in Dear Abby
unhealthy relation-
ships. I know their
example of a good marriage or
a long-term relationship was
awful because of how their
father treated me. I live with
the guilt and pain of that, but
beyond that, seeing three of
my four kids in similar abusive
relationships is painful.
When two of my girls reach
out to me when things are not
going well, I’m supportive and
I try to be helpful. I guess my
question is, given my example
of an unhealthy marriage, will
any advice I give them fall on
deaf ears? Should I just listen?
I don’t feel like anything I say
will help. — UNHAPPY MOM IN
THE SOUTH
DEAR UNHAPPY MOM:
Of course you should listen,
but that doesn’t mean you
shouldn’t also weigh in on what
is happening to them. It could
be very helpful if you point out
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan.
20). Your mind lights up with big
ideas, and soon you’ll have sev-
eral exciting projects on deck.
Narrow it down. Plan well. Guard
your time. With an accountabili-
ty partner, you’ll keep everything
on course. March brings a prize.
You’ll journey with a kindred
spirit. There’s a healing in April
that brings relief to your whole
family. Leo and Cancer adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 4,
44, 48, 9 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Figuring out your priorities will
be fun, easy and worthy work.
The clearer you get about your
values, the higher the quality
of your thoughts will be. Your
mind will organize itself to
kept Kansas City’s potent
offense off the field.
By the time big of-
fensive lineman Dennis
Kelly grabbed a touch-
down pass, the Titans
had taken a 17-7 lead and
the raucous environment
of Arrowhead Stadium —
which was so energized a
week ago, when Kansas
City scored 41 straight
points to rally past the
Houston Texans — was
about as quiet as a church
on a Sunday afternoon.
That’s when the Chiefs
caught fire.
And it’s when every-
thing went downhill for
Tennessee.
Mahomes finished a
quick scoring drive with a
touchdown pass to Tyreek
to them that what
they witnessed
while growing up
was not normal —
and explain what
IS acceptable be-
havior in an adult
relationship.
You might also
apologize for not
being stronger
earlier on, and
explain that their
father had eroded
your self-esteem
to such an extent
that you were
paralyzed. If
their experiences
mirror your own,
point that out,
too, and offer them the number
of the National Domestic Vio-
lence Hotline (800-799-7233).
If you do, it might not only open
their eyes, but also give them
the escape they need.
DEAR ABBY: My siblings and
I have always enjoyed spend-
ing quality time together, and
every eight to 10 weeks or so
we get together for “Siblings
Day.” There’s no set schedule
or particular date; one of us will
call the others and say, “I need
some siblings time.” (There are
five of us, all over 60.) Some-
times we meet at one of our
homes and play board games
or cards, or dance in the living
room and enjoy the laughter
that comes with it. It’s a time
when we just enjoy being family.
Our brother’s lady friend, a
very nice person, has arrived,
uninvited, the last three times
rally around what you deem
important.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Negative thought loops are
caused by too much introspec-
tion, rumination and self-involve-
ment. The remedy is simple.
Tune into other people’s needs
and see what you can do. Sud-
denly, you’re 10 times happier.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
There are small words that fly
on mighty wings. Love is in that
mix. So is the admission of hu-
mility that comes in the simple
series, “I don’t know.” That one
can open worlds.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Maybe your work is self-explana-
tory, but the truth is that people
still need help understanding.
Hill, starting a run of
28 consecutive points to
rival their streak in the
divisional round. Then,
the Chiefs stuffed Hen-
ry twice on the following
drive when the Titans
seemed to be trying to
get to halftime, getting
the ball back at the 2-min-
ute warning. And with
11 seconds left, their
star quarterback tip-toed
down the sideline for a 27-
yard touchdown run that
completely deflated the
visitors.
“They were playing
a little double-coverage,
they were doubling every-
body we covered, and it
just opened up,” Mahomes
said. “I just found a way to
get into the end zone.”
we have gotten together. Talk
about a party-pooper. We have
explained, as graciously as we
know how, that these times
are very important to us. Our
brother has asked her to please
allow us this time for family,
but she just laughs and says
it’s silly for grown people to be
so needy of each other. (She
has six siblings who live close
by and with whom she keeps in
contact.)
We all love each other and
are aware that life is truly short
and that we are very lucky to
still have this close bond when
so many families do not. Can
you suggest what we can do to
make her understand what this
time together means to us and
that she is the ultimate uninvit-
ed guest? — JUST THE SIBS IN
LOUISIANA
DEAR SIBS: What gall! Your
brother’s girlfriend does not
have the right to judge your
family spending time with one
another as “silly.” It’s the height
of rudeness. Please point out
to him that her behavior is an
important red flag for him to
consider. The next time she
drops by uninvited, your brother
should put his foot down and
not let her intrude.
DEAR READERS: Today we
remember the birthday of Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., who
in 1968 was martyred in the
cause of civil rights. In that
time of insanity, his was a voice
of reason when he eloquently
preached, “Love is the only
force capable of transforming
an enemy into a friend.”
Tell, show them, and then teach
it again in a different way. Do
what it takes to hook them.
Then, hop on the success train.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). On
the highway of life, you have
to be willing to change lanes,
slow down and leave via the exit
once in a while. Sure, there’s
life in the race, but it really
pales when compared with life
beyond those exits.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
When you look around, you’ll ei-
ther observe a powerful beauty
or feel a beautiful power. You’ll
commit wholly to the moment,
seeking to understand and be a
part of this.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Today’s mystic image is the
tarot card “strength,” in which
a woman tames a lion using
only tenderness. An infinity halo
hovers, a reminder that forti-
tude is a crown from the eternal
realms. You couldn’t shake it if
you tried.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). While there’s no real glee
in having to scrape together
resources, there’s something
oddly satisfying about this
excuse to call on people and
find out the extent of generosity
in their nature.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You will allow yourself to
dissolve into the contemplation
of creating. The workaday world
evaporates as you’re snatched
out of the constant flux and
thrust into the world of ideas.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Though you do everything
to aim your being toward joy,
you’ll relate to the Romantic
poet William Wordsworth when
he wrote of “that sweet mood
when pleasant thoughts bring
sad thoughts to the mind.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). There’s an irreversible
friction between a feeling and
its opposite. Knowing what the
opposite actually is will be a
helpful processing tool, i.e.:
admiration and loathing, fear
and anger, anticipation and
surprise, etc.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Because things are more
beautiful when they are true,
you’ll think twice about certain
so-called improvements, es-
pecially if they are costly and
aimed toward meeting some
sort of societal ideal.
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at the Oktibbeha County Court- 2/3/2020
house in Starkville, Missis-
sippi, and in case of your fail-
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16th day of January 2020.
CINDY GOODE, CHANCERY
CLERK
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
(SEAL)
BY: /s/ Shantrell W. Grander-
son, D.C.
PUBLISH: 1/20, 1/27, &
2/3/2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF EDNA B. BOONE, DE-
CEASED
CAUSE NO. 2019-0250
CECELIA A. JONES PATE AND
PERRY DONALD JONES, JR.,
CO-EXECUTORS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary have
been granted and issued to CE- of Two Hundred Dollars
CELIA A. JONES PATE and
PERRY DONALD JONES, JR.,
Co-Executors of the Estate of
EDNA B. BOONE, deceased, by
the Chancery Court of Lowndes
County, Mississippi, on the
23rd day of December, 2019.
This is to give notice to all per-
sons having claims against
said estate to Probate and Re-
gister same with the Chancery
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi, within ninety (90) days
from this date. A failure to so
Probate and Register said
claim will forever bar the same.
THIS the 2nd day of January,
2020.
/s/ Cecelia A. Jones Pate
CECELIA A. JONES PATE, Ex-
ecutor
/s/ Perry Donald Jones, Jr.
PERRY DONALD JONES, JR.,
Executor
PUBLISH: 1/6, 1/13, &
1/20/2020
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-
SIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF JOSEPHINE H. JONES, Proposals shall be submitted in time of her death Shirley Ann
DECEASED
CAUSE NO. 2020-0006
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary having
been issued to the under-
signed by the Chancery Court
of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi on the 9th day of January,
2020 as Executrix of the Es-
tate of Josephine H. Jones, de- equal to five percent (5%) of
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given to all
persons having claims against bidder will be required to fur-
said estate to have the same
probated, registered, and al-
within ninety (90) days from the cent (100%)
date of first publication of this
notice, and failure to do so, will
This the 9th day of January,
2020.
J. KIZER JONES
ATTORNEY AT LAW
POST OFFICE BOX 117
PHONE: 662-252-3788
PUBLISH: 1/20, 1/27, &
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
RENTAL CAR PARKING LOT EX-
PANSION
ASPHALT PAVING PROJECT
GOLDEN TRIANGLE REGIONAL
AIRPORT
Sealed bids will be received by will not be discriminated
the Golden Triangle Regional
Airport in the Administrative
Boardroom at 2080 Airport
Road, Columbus, MS 39701,
until 10:00 A.M., Local Time,
on Wednesday, February 12,
2020 for supplying all labor
and materials (as specified) ne- waive any informalities or irreg- STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
cessary for construction of
“RENTAL CAR PARKING LOT EX-
PANSION, ASPHALT PAVING
PROJECT.”
The work generally consists of
placement of asphalt pave-
ment as detailed in the plans
and specifications.
The above general outline of
the work does not in any way
limit the responsibility of the
Contractor to perform all work
and furnish all plant, labor,
equipment and materials re-
quired by the specifications
and the drawings referred to
therein.
The contract time is 30 calen-
dar days. Liquidated damages
will be assessed in the amount
($200.00) for each calendar
day the Work has not achieved PETITION TO ESTABLISH HEIRS 2, 2021
Substantial Completion.
Special Damages – In addition
to the amounts provided for li-
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in the event of such default,
shall pay the Owner the actual
costs reasonably incurred by
Owner for engineering and in-
spection forces employed on
the work after the time stipu-
lated for the completion of the
work.
CERTIFICATE OF RESPONSIBIL-
ITY: Each contractor submit-
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$50,000.00 must show on his
bid and on the face of the en-
velope containing the bid, his
Certificate of Responsibility
Number, as required by Sec-
tion 31-3-21 and 21-3-15, Mis-
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hour and date herein before
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of the opening thereof.
Each Bidder must deposit with John Does, 1-10; In the United
his proposal, a Bid Bond or
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his bid, payable to the Golden Action No.: 1:18-cv-00003-
Triangle Regional Airport, as
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nish a Payment Bond and Per-
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amount of one hundred per-
cent (100%) of the contract
amount.
Bid documents are being made
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id email address for registra-
tion. Bid documents are non-re-
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please contact Plan House
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The Golden Triangle Regional
Airport hereby notifies all Bid-
ders that it will affirmatively in-
sure that in any contract
entered into pursuant to this
advertisement, disadvantaged
and women’s business enter-
prises will be afforded the full
opportunity to submit bids in
response to this invitation and
will not be discriminated
against on the grounds of race,
color, or national origin in con-
sideration for an award.
The Golden Triangle Regional
Airport reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids and to
waive any informalities or irreg-
ularities therein.
BY: /s/ Mike Hainsey
shall pay the Owner the actual
costs reasonably incurred by
Owner for engineering and in-
spection forces employed on
the work after the time stipu-
lated for the completion of the
work.
CERTIFICATE OF RESPONSIBIL-
ITY: Each contractor submit-
ting a bid in excess of
$50,000.00 must show on his
bid and on the face of the en-
velope containing the bid, his
Certificate of Responsibility
Number, as required by Sec-
tion 31-3-21 and 21-3-15, Mis-
sissippi Code of 1972. If the
bid does not exceed
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stating must appear on the
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EVIDENCE: No bid will be
opened, considered or accep-
ted unless the above informa-
tion is given as specified.
a sealed envelope and depos-
ited with the Golden Triangle
Regional Airport prior to the
hour and date herein before
designated. No bidder may
withdraw his bid within ninety
(90) days after the actual date styled as Shirley Barrett and
of the opening thereof.
Each Bidder must deposit with John Does, 1-10; In the United
his proposal, a Bid Bond or
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his bid, payable to the Golden
Triangle Regional Airport, as
bid security. The successful
nish a Payment Bond and Per-
formance Bond each in the
amount of one hundred per-
of the contract
amount.
Bid documents are being made ies of the unknown heirs at law
available via original paper
copy or digital file. Plan hold-
ers are required to register for
an account at www.neel-schaf-
ferplans.com to view and order 5. Stanley Barrett, the surviv-
Bid Documents. All plan hold-
ers are required to have a val-
id email address for registra-
tion. Bid documents are non-re-
fundable and must be pur-
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Electrical bids shall be submit- rett and the only persons en-
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gistration, online orders, or
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The Golden Triangle Regional
Airport hereby notifies all Bid-
ders that it will affirmatively in- claring and recognizing Stanley
sure that in any contract
entered into pursuant to this
advertisement, disadvantaged
and women’s business enter-
prises will be afforded the full
opportunity to submit bids in
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against on the grounds of race, premises.
color, or national origin in con-
sideration for an award.
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January 20, 2020
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
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RETT, DECEASED
STANLEY BARRETT, PETITION-
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heirs at law of Shirley Ann Bar-
rett, deceased, pursuant to
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amended, and in support there-
of would show the following:
1. Petitioner is adult resident
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wood Drive, Caledonia, Missis-
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Barrett died on April 26, 2019.
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said Shirley Ann Barrett was an
adult resident of and had a
fixed place of residence in
Lowndes County, Mississippi.
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property and very little person-
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1270 or 662−425−9116.
3 BEDROOMS 1 “I have a
2 Bedroom, 2 full bath
Large 1 Bedroom, upstairs Instruction & School dream” speaker
LEASE, brick house for sale. Large
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apartment for rent. $450/ lot. House has living room, 5 Fishhook
month and $450 deposit.
Water, Sewer, and Trash
DEPOSIT 2 bedrooms, kitchen/ feature
included. No Pets. No AND dining and step down den.
9 Fable ending
Great starter home or
Smoking. Located between CREDIT CHECK rental property. $12,000. 10 Spanish
Columbus and CAFB. 662−574−2617. farewell
$450.00. 205−243−3653.
662-329-2323 Houses For Sale: New Hope
12 Stage com-
ment
1BR/1BA DUPLEX APT. 2411 HWY 45 N 16 WIDNER IN NEW HOPE 13 Vietnam’s
1015 11th Ave. N. $300/ COLUMBUS, MS Newly remodeled. 3BR/ capital
Christian Women’s Job
mo. Water furnished. Call 2BA home. Approx. 1,500 Corps Class Spring 14 Behind in the
Doris, 662−630−0208,
Commercial Property For Rent sq. ft. Has 25’x30’ wired 2020−FREE TRAINING score
metal shop w/ roll−up front
& side door. $164,900.
Evening classes in 16 Collins base
RESTAURANT SPACE 662−549−9298.
Computer Training, 17 At any time
FOX RUN APARTMENTS AVAILABLE. 1200 sq. ft. Resume Writing &
18 Broadcasting
1 & 2 BR near hospital.
$595−$645 monthly.
$1100/mo. Serious
inquiries only. 662−328− Houses For Sale: Caledonia
Interview Skills for Job
Seeking Women. 21 Urgent call Sunday’s answer
Military discount, pet area, 8655 or 662−574−7879. Enrolling now for Tues & 22 Restaurant DOWN 20 Brazilian city
FSBO: 3BR/2BA ON 2.5
pet friendly, and furnished
ACRES. 1600 sqft.
Thurs starting February activity 1 Balkan region 22 Fred and
corporate apts. Houses For Rent: North 4th at Christian
24−HOUR PROFESSIONAL Completely remodeled. Women’s Job Corps. 23 Wild dog of 2 Showy flowers Wilma’s pet
GYM. ON SITE SECURITY. COLONIAL TOWNHOUSES.
$178,000. 662−386− Min H.S. Diploma or Australia 3 Lowest point 23 Comfy room
ON SITE MAINTENANCE. 2 & 3 bedroom w/ 2−3
7113. Equivalent required. Call 24 Hot dog 4 Secluded 24 Walking in
ON SITE MANAGEMENT. bath townhouses. $625 to 662−722−3016 or visit 26 Ammo for a valley water
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SURVEILLANCE. Benji &
$675. 662−549−9555. Red Ryder 5 Derisive cry 25 Evasive
Ashleigh, 662−386−4446.
Ask for Glenn or text.
1 ACRE OF LAND on Sand 29 Big shooter 6 Oklahoma city maneuver
Houses For Rent: East Rd. Has a mobile home w/ Pets 30 Opera solo 7 Welcome, as a 26 Delivers
Apts For Rent: West
water, lights, septic tank & 31 Throw in new year 27 Benders
elevated. 662−241−7384. AKC GERMAN SHEPHERD
2BR/1BA. Gas heat & PUPPIES. Exc. ped. Blk/ 32 Staring 8 Like opposition 28 Wise ones

VIP
stove. Convenient to red. Vet checked, w/s, 34 Squad car fans 29 Wine barrel
shopping. 133 King St. LAND FOR SALE. wormed. Ready to go! 662 sound 30 Blue hue
9 Bulls and
Rentals
$525/mo. Call 662−352− Caledonia School District.
4776. Cleared Acreage ready to
−213−4609. 37 Fencing move bucks 33 Homecoming
build. Approx 6.5 acres @ Pet Supplies / Accessories 38 Coach 11 Join the choir guest
Apartments & Houses 3 OR 4BR/1.5BA @ 804
corner of Dale & Cal− Rockne 15 Making 35 Seventh
Happy Jack® LiquiVict 2x: 39 Yens
Kolola roads. For more
Cypress St. Newly headway Greek letter
1 Bedrooms
info, call 662−549−8507.
recognized safe & effective 40 Pesky insect
renovated, w/d hookup, all 19 “Picnic” 36 Badminton
2 Bedroooms 41 Clutter
stainless steel appliances by U.S. CVM against hook
included, fenced backyard. WINTER SPECIAL. 1.75 & round worms in dogs. playwright need
3 Bedrooms Call 662−425−6954. acre lots. Good/bad credit.
10% down, as low as
At Tractor Supply.
(www.kennelvax.com)
Furnished & Unfurnished 4BR/2.5BA BRICK HOME
$299/mo. Eaton Land.

Five Questions:
662−361−7711.
1, 2, & 3 Baths
located on large lot w/ 2
car garage. Fresh paint &
Lease, Deposit tile floors in kitchen &
& Credit Check bathrooms. Located at

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495 Emerald Dr. $1,200/
viceinvestments.com mo + dep. Available 2/1.

327-8555
770−658−7726.

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more. $435/mth with
approved credit.
4 Vine
WANTED FREON R12.
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Hope school dist. $500/ R12 R500 R11.
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