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1922: The Lincoln Memo-rial is dedicated in Wash-ington in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln. 1958: Unidentified Ameri-can service members killed in World War II and the Korean War are interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arling-ton National Cemetery.

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More than a million people travel to Vicksburg from across the globe each year for the city’s distinctly Southern sights. At least 75 in the River City this weekend are here principally for the sounds.

Sacred Harp singers — some local, but most from Alabama, Texas, Loui-siana, Nebraska, Michigan, Minne-sota, Wisconsin and other states — are closing out their fourth year of conducting a distinct style of com-munal choir in the Old Court House Museum today. The singers spent all day Saturday sending selections from “The Sacred Harp” songbook to the ceiling of the museum’s historic courtroom, and also held a jam ses-sion in the evening with the Old Time Music Society at the Battlefield Inn.

“The sound — it’s all about the sound,” Bill Beverly said when asked what brought him and his wife, Martha, to Vicksburg from their Kal-amazoo, Mich., home. “There’s really nothing else quite like it.”

The sound, at least to the ear of a newcomer, settles somewhere between a barbershop quartet and Southern church choir. The name Sacred Harp refers to the only natu-ral instrument we have, the human

voice. It is an a cappella tradition unique to the United States today, but one that dates back to 18th century England. It has been experiencing a resurgence in popularity in recent decades after nearly being driven into cultural extinction.

The Beverlys have been coming to Vicksburg for the Holt Collier Mis-sissippi Bear Hunt Memorial Sing-ing annually since 2006, when the Old Court House Museum played host to the event. The event grew out of a smaller, unnamed gathering that was formed about three years ear-lier at the former Jordan’s Chapel, off Campbell Swamp Road in south Warren County.

Like many Sacred Harp singers, the Beverlys travel to a number of similar events throughout the South and Midwest each year. They’ve been involved in the Sacred Harp com-munity for about 12 years — rela-

If you goThe Sacred Harp singers will be in the Old Court House Museum courtroom today from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. There is no admission fee, and all are invited to participate or listen.

Today• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — “Military Through The Ages” at the Vicksburg National Mili-tary Park visitors center. Park admission charged.Monday• 10 a.m. — The Parade of Veterans along Washington Street. Free. • 11 a.m. — Memorial service at the Vicksburg Auditorium, featuring keynote speaker Col. William C. Schneck, Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans, 412th Engi-neer Command. Free. • 12:30 p.m. — Wreath-laying ceremony at the National Cemetery in the Vicks-burg National Military Park, with a mo-torcade to the cemetery by way of Fort Hill Drive.• 7 p.m. — American Wind Sympho-ny Orchestra concert at City Front. Free. Bring lawn chairs. • 8 p.m. — Before You Exit concert at Vicksburg Convention Center. Sponsored by Miss Mississippi’s Outstanding Teen pageant and benefits Children’s Miracle Network; $10 in advance at Crown to Heels, Michel’s Music, Paper Factory and Outlets at Vicksburg and $12 at the door.

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By Danny Barrett [email protected]

Warren County has seen an 18 percent drop in the number of active registered voters on the voting rolls heading into Tuesday’s pri-mary elections, a routine update showed.

Active registered voters listed by the Secretary of

State’s Office for Vicks-burg and Warren County is 30,306 — about 18 percent fewer than the 2008 general election, a ballot headlined by the presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain. Voter turnout set a local record for that election, in terms of total ballots cast.

Rolls are routinely

purged during each elec-tion cycle to reflect names deemed inactive for a number of reasons, most commonly because they have either moved or died.

Election commission-ers in each county meet between January and March to revise the roll. Circuit Clerk Shelly Ash-ley-Palmertree confirmed

the state’s total based on the size of the inactive list.

Statewide registration also dropped since 2008. Active voters in Mississippi total slightly more than 1.8 million, down about 5 percent.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for primary voting in Missis-

2010 2008*• Warren County..........30,306................36,957• Statewide...............1,800,271.........1,893,786* denotes final reported totals prior to the 2008 general election

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for primary voting in Mississip-pi’s 2nd Congressional District.

Warren County sees 18 percent drop in registered voters

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Henry McGuire of Florence sings during the annual Sacred Harp event at the Old Court House Museum on Saturday. The singers will be performing again today.

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ROBERT, La. — The most ambitious bid yet to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history ended in failure Saturday after BP was unable to over-whelm the gusher of crude with heavy fluids and junk. President Obama called the setback “as enraging as it is heart-breaking.”

The oil giant immedi-ately began readying its next attempted fix, using robot sub-marines to cut the pipe that’s gushing the oil and cap it with funnel-like device, but the only guaranteed solu-tion remains more than two months away.

The company determined the “top kill” had failed after it spent three days pump-ing heavy drilling mud into the crippled well 5,000 feet underwater. It’s the latest in a series of failures to stop the crude that’s fouling marsh-land and beaches, as esti-mates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire.

The spill is the worst in U.S. history — exceeding even the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — and has dumped between 18 million and 40 million gal-lons into the Gulf, according to government estimates.

“This scares everybody, the fact that we can’t make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven’t succeeded so far,” BP PLC Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said Sat-urday. “Many of the things we’re trying have been done on the surface before, but have never been tried at 5,000 feet.”

Frustration has grown as drifting oil closes beaches and washes up in sensitive marshland. The damage is underscored by images of pelicans and their eggs coated in oil. Below the sur-face, oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death.

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At nearly every step since the Deepwater Horizon exploded more than a month ago, caus-ing the worst oil spill in U.S. history, rig operator BP PLC has downplayed the severity of the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

On almost every issue — the amount of gushing oil, the environmental impact, even how to stop the leak — BP’s statements have proven wrong. The erosion of the com-pany’s credibil-ity may prove as difficult to stop as the oil spew-ing from the sea floor.

“They keep m a k i n g o n e mistake after another. That gives the impres-sion that they’re hiding things,” said U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who has been criti-cal of BP’s reluc-tance to publicly release videos of the under-water gusher. “These guys either do not have any sense of accountability to the public or they are Neanderthals when it comes to public relations.”

Take one of the most obvi-ous questions since the April 20 explosion: How much oil is leaking? Official estimates have grown steadily — first the word was none, then it was 42,000 gallons, then 210,000 gal-lons. And now a team of sci-entists say the leak may well be five times that, making the spill worse than the Exxon Valdez.

All the while, BP has been slow to acknowledge the leak was likely much worse than the public had been told.

The oil giant’s behavior has led to accusations that it has been motivated to keep the leak estimate low because under federal law the size of eventual fines is tied to the size of the leak.

Nelson said that he believes BP has delayed release of everything from the actual flow rate to the videos because of a federal law that allows the government to seek penalties

of $1,000 to $4,300 per barrel — 42 gallons — of oil spilled in U.S. waters. “And so natu-rally they want to minimize what people were thinking they were going to spill.”

High-end estimates by BP, the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration reached 588,000 gallons per day in late April, BP spokes-man David Nicholas acknowl-edged Friday to The Asso-ciated Press after weeks of the company sticking with

the lower esti-mate. But it wasn’t until Thursday that officials had conceded that the leak was considerably larger than the 210,000-gallon-a-day figure that had been floated as the best estimate for the prior four weeks.

Even before the accident, there were indi-

cations that BP could vastly underestimate an oil spill’s likely size. In its regional spill response plan for the Gulf, the formula BP proposed to use to estimate the volume of oil in a surface sheen was smaller by a factor of 100 from the accepted international stan-dard, which is also the basis for estimates by NOAA, the federal agency tasked with such calculations.

Nicholas said he doesn’t know where the numbers in BP’s plan “were derived, but they were not used” in calcu-lating the amount of oil that had reached the Gulf’s surface since the accident. He also emphasized that the official estimates were not BP’s alone, but rather a collaboration with government agencies.

With criticism continuing to mount, when he was pressed Friday about BP’s perceived lack of transparency, Chief Operating Officer Doug Sut-tles said: “We’re trying to provide as much data as we can. We’re in the middle of this operation. ... There’s a tre-mendous amount of transpar-ency here.”

Asked late Friday why BP had downplayed so may issues related to the spill and why BP had been wrong on so many issues, Nicholas did not answer directly, saying, “This event is unprecedented; no company, no one, has ever had to attempt to deal with a situ-ation such as this at depths such as this before. BP, the Unified Command, the federal authorities and the hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals engaged on this effort, are doing everything we can to bring it under con-trol and make it good.”

Nicholas said only Friday that daily estimates from April 27 through April 30 were based on two scientific standards. The “low end” was always around 42,000 gallons per day, the “best guess” was between 210,000-252,000 gal-lons per day, and the “high end” varied from 504,000-to-588,000 gallons per day, he said.

The 210,000-gallon estimate that became the official talk-ing point for weeks turned out

to be wrong, too. A team of sci-entists from the government and academia said Thursday that the leak is really spewing somewhere between 500,000 and a million gallons a day.

The new estimates were between 12 and 24 times greater than what was first offered, and instantly made the Deepwater Horizon spill the worst in U.S. history. Even using the low end of the esti-mates, nearly 18 million gal-lons have spilled so far. At the high end, the well could have gushed as many as 39 million gallons.

To be sure, experts say there’s no easy way to mea-sure a leak 5,000 feet deep. Some estimates were based on satellite images or fly-overs. The federal govern-ment has worked closely with BP, and Obama has acknowl-edged shortcomings, but it’s BP that controls much of the

technology, like underwater robots that capture video of the leak.

Obama noted that BP kept video of the leak and didn’t make it public.

“At that point, BP already had a camera down there, but wasn’t fully forthcoming in terms of what did those pic-tures look like? And when you set it up in time-lapse pho-tography, experts could then make a more accurate deter-mination. The administration pushed them to release it,” Obama said. “But they should have pushed them sooner.”

BP’s downplaying of the situ-ation may have began with a phone call, some 16 hours after the rig exploded and killed 11 workers, leaving behind an inferno that burned for two days and has been leaking at least ever since the rig sank.

At first, the Coast Guard said there was no leak from the vast reservoir of oil more than a mile below the Gulf’s surface. Then, after analyzing images taken underwater by remote-controlled cameras, the Coast Guard estimated 42,000 gal-lons a day were leaking. A week after the explosion, that rose to 210,000 gallons.

“From the get go, every aspect of the situation has been downplayed,” she said. “This thing has been out of control in terms of informing the public and transparency from day one.”

As Spill grew, BP’s credibility faded

‘These guys either do not have any sense

ofaccountability to the

public or they are Neanderthals when

it comes to public relations.’

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Petroleum giant downplayedoil spill’s magnitude from start

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is developing plans for a unilateral attack on the Pakistani Taliban in the event of a successful ter-rorist strike in the United States that can be traced to them, The Washington Post reports.

Planning for a retalia-tory attack was spurred by ties between alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and elements of the Pakistani Taliban, the Post said in an article posted on its website Friday night, quoting unidentified senior military officials.

The military would focus on air and missile strikes but also could use small teams of U.S. Special Operations troops currently along the border with Afghanistan, the Post said.

The CIA already conducts unmanned drone strikes in the country’s tribal regions. Officials told the Post that a U.S. military response would be considered only if a ter-rorist attacks persuaded President Barack Obama that the CIA campaign is ineffective.

Obama: Memorial Daytime to honor troops

WASHINGTON — More than barbecues and family time, Memorial Day is the chance to honor members of the military who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country, President Barack Obama said.

Obama, who has sent thou-sands of troops into war in Afghanistan, used his weekly radio and Internet address to reflect on what the nation owes those men and women who died in uniform.

“In short, by serving all those who have ever worn the uniform of this country — and their families — as well as they have served us,” the president said.

Obama has been criticized by some veterans groups for planning to attend a holiday service Monday at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery outside Chicago, instead of going to Arlington National Cemetery, as he did last year. Vice President Joe Biden will attend the memorial at Arlington this year.

Report: U.S.weighs planfor attacksin Pakistan

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Crimping his carefully crafted outsider image and undercut-ting a centerpiece of his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama got caught playing the usual politics — dangling a job offer for a political favor in the hunt for power.

His lawyer admitted as much in a Friday report. It detailed how Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, sent former President Bill Clinton on a mission: try to persuade Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., to abandon his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., by offer-ing an executive branch post. Sestak said no, stayed in the race and beat the incumbent.

“I can assure the public that nothing improper took place,” Obama said Thursday.

True or not, Obama has a political problem.

Because what did take place was backroom bargaining, political maneuvering and stonewalling, all of which run counter to the higher — per-haps impossibly high — bar Obama has set for himself and his White House to do things differently.

The White House’s reluctant acknowledgment of the chain of events shone a light on the unseemly, favor-trading side of politics — and at an inop-portune time for Obama and Democrats as they seek to keep control of Congress.

This election year, angry voters have made clear they have little patience for poli-

tics generally and Washing-ton politics specifically. And they are choosing candidates who promise to change the system — and ousting incum-bents who fail to deliver.

But what may be even more troubling for the president is the question the episode raises: Has Obama become just like every other politician?

The answer could have impli-cations for him ahead of con-gressional elections this fall and his likely re-election race in two years.

The White House tried to blunt the media maelstrom by releasing the report on the Friday before a long Memo-rial Day weekend, when fewer

people are paying attention to the news.

White House counsel Robert Bauer said what transpired was neither illegal nor unethical.

But Obama has held him-self to a different standard. By that measurement, and in this case, he failed to deliver.

As a candidate, Obama cast himself as above partisan sniping and political maneu-vering — even as he proved to be a shrewd politician able to broker deals. He promised voters turned off by politics and Washington — and yearn-ing for change that this fresh-faced, political newcomer offered — that he would do

things differently from his predecessors.

As president, Obama has turned that vision into real-ity, albeit with some excep-tions. He has trumpeted his goal of an open and transpar-ent administration. He bristles at the notion that his White House is anything but. And in a frustrated tone, he rou-tinely talks like an outsider doggedly working to change the ways of Washington.

It all began when Specter, a veteran GOP senator facing a difficult Republican primary, chose to become a Democrat last year at the White House’s urging. Obama quickly endorsed him and pledged to campaign for him. The White House tried to clear the Demo-cratic field for him.

But Sestak entered the Dem-ocratic primary anyway.

At one point during his campaign, he said that a job was offered but he provided no details. The White House deflected repeated questions about the claim, insisting offi-cials did not behave inappro-priately while also declining to elaborate.

It wasn’t until Sestak upset Specter in the Democratic primary May 18 that Republi-cans renewed their pressure on the administration to dis-close what happened.

In the end, Bauer’s report said this: Emanuel enlisted Clinton’s help as a go-between with Sestak. Clinton agreed to raise the offer of a seat on a presidential advisory board or another executive board if Sestak remained in the House and dropped his bid, “which would avoid a divisive Senate primary.”

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In this 2008 photo, former Navy Vice Admiral and Demo-cratic Congressman Joe Sestak introduces former President Bill Clinton, at a campaign event.

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Year-to-date, it appeared the tedious process expected to lead to a new detention facility to serve Vicksburg and Warren County was gaining speed. After all, the consultant hired after a fact-finding mission to Colorado by locals in 2007 said site selection should be completed by August.

Now, however, it appears the board of supervisors has applied the brakes. There’s one reason: money.

“Until we find out exactly what this economy’s going to do, what the state’s going to do, I don’t see us doing any-thing,” District 1 Supervisor David McDonald said last week during a ses-sion with an informal committee exam-ining court processes.

Again, supervisors are to be com-mended for keeping the process open and for being candid with taxpayers who foot the bills for decisions they make. Making every notion public probably invites more criticism than is warranted, but we’re all stakeholders in what will likely be the most expen-sive building ever built with local funds.

It’s too soon to say supervisors need to go back to square one, but it’s not too soon to point out that consultants offered up a “Cadillac” plan. The pro-posal is for a jail on a 30- to 50-acre site with enough space to expand to 650 inmates plus an immediate tripling of staff.

There may be less costly alterna-

tives that cover local needs for several decades, as any design should.

As unlikely as it may sound, this is as good a time as any to start serious talks with Vicksburg officials about moving forward on a joint project. Urban sites, of which there are several, should also remain under consideration.

Warren County and Vicksburg will never have “extra money” to spend on a jail or anything else. That’s just not the nature of any government at any level. Providing safe, decent detention facili-ties is, however, a clear and unavoid-able duty. Hard decisions need to be made, and with all deliberate speed.


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OUR OPINION

DecideThere’s no epidemic of violent crime

against pedestrians in Vicksburg.It’s the responsibility of Vicksburg’s

elected officials, police and our entire community to see that one doesn’t start.

Nothing, anywhere says we have to fall into the pattern other cities, large and small, have experienced. But it will take concerted action on many fronts.

Summer’s here. School’s out. Police Chief Walter Armstrong says, and we believe him, that if crimes by school-aged youths could be stopped, there would be as much as a 75 percent reduction in thefts from stores, cars and homes. In the smattering of strong-arm robberies that have been reported,

the victims almost always report two or more youthful attackers jump them, rough them up and run away into the darkness.

“The guy was just so strong. He didn’t hit me. He pulled my pocketbook, and he dragged me,” said Barbara Prabhu, a vacationer from Texas who sustained a broken arm and a facial gash in an attack eight days ago. The victim, 70, and her husband, 73, had enjoyed a pleasant day in Vicksburg and what they termed an excellent meal down-town. Their “mistake” was choosing to walk several blocks back to the bed and breakfast where they were staying.

That attack and the others are not the fault of police. They patrol. The attacks

are not the fault of elected officials. We have good laws and ample public funds for law enforcement. They’re not the fault of ministers, educators, judges, most parents or most young people. But every person in every one of those categories needs to be challenged to do more to stop the thugs and would-be thugs among us.

Crimes by youth and the numbers of youth arrested have blossomed to unprecedented levels. We can’t sit around and theorize about causes and cures anymore. Either we all work harder or an epidemic is sure to come. Decide to do what you can, where you can — or we’ll see our town held captive.

It’s time to make hard decisions on new jail

Rev. Watkins’ life spent in service to othersBig people can come from small

towns, and Vicksburg was blessed to have such a person among us for many years.

The Rev. Bill Watkins, who was born in Florence and died last week, was such a man. Unimposing. Undemand-ing. He led a life of Christian example and effectiveness.

Twenty years ago, when Good Shep-herd Community Center, founded here by Rev. Watkins, received a day in the national spotlight via President George H.W. Bush’s 1,000 Points of Light Foun-dation, Rev. Watkins was, no doubt, pleased. But what he cared about that day, every day before and every day since, was each individual served by the center and how offerings could be tailored to contribute to his or her per-sonal growth.

That the center, under the direction of the Rev. Tommy Miller since Rev. Wat-

kins retired 12 years ago, continues to thrive is his legacy. It’s a testament to how well Good Shepherd’s programs fill local gaps in education, motivation, health and spiritual needs.

After graduating from Moss Point High School, Rev. Watkins served in the Navy in both World War II and in Korea. He then graduated from Mill-saps College and Candler School of Theology at Emory University. The Methodist Church first assigned him to a congregation of Star, Braxton and Greenfield residents. He moved, as Methodist clergy do, and among other assignments served as superintendent of the Vicksburg-West Jackson District.

Then, fairly late in his ministry, he got support and worked with others to create Good Shepherd in a boarded up and abandoned elementary school at the north end of Cherry Street. Its broad-based yet specifically targeted

outreach programs succeeded because they worked. That sounds simple, but the success would not have been attained without the faith and insight of Rev. Watkins and his wife of nearly 55 years, Meta Dixon Watkins, who has been his ministerial partner, too.

“What drove him was his deep love for Jesus Christ,” said the Rev. Chris Young, his pastor. “He had a passion for people and the needs of others that grew directly out of his faith.”

“He was trying to help us all be better Christians and better folks,” said Oren Bailess, a friend of Rev. Watkins and board member at Good Shepherd.

Big people can come from small towns. Vicksburg was blessed that much of Rev. Bill Watkins’ life of Chris-tian witness and service was here among us.

Republican gubernatorial primaries have historically been heavy on organization and low on suspense.

That could change in 2011. Two viable Repub-lican candidates have made their intentions known for 2011 and another is rumored to be strongly considering jumping into the race.

Since 1987, when Tupelo businessman Jack Reed easily dispatched Doug Lemon in the

GOP primary for the right to face eventual Demo-cratic Gov. Ray Mabus in the general election, Mis-sissippi Republicans have generally kept their pri-maries small and free of heavy political artillery.

In 1991 , po l i t ica l unknown Kirk Fordice overcame the favored Pete Johnson and Bobby Clan-ton to win the GOP nom-ination. The GOP runoff was a lesson in political

hand-to-hand combat in Republican vote-rich Rankin County that Fordice won on the way to unseating Mabus in the 1991 general election.

Fordice faced token GOP primary opposi-tion in 1995 from Richard O’Hara and George “Wagon Wheel” Blair on his way to defeating Democratic nominee Dick Molpus in the gen-eral election.

But in 1999, Republicans saw a wide open gubernatorial race develop between former GOP Lt. Gov. Eddie Briggs, former U.S. Rep. Mike Parker, then-state Rep. Charlie Williams, Crystal Springs Mayor Dan Gibson and peren-nial candidates Shawn O’Hara and Blair.

Parker won the nomination outright in the primary by eight-tenths of a percent — but Briggs in second place took only 27.9 percent. Parker lost the general election to Democratic Lt. Gov. Ronnie Musgrove in one of the clos-est elections in Mississippi history — one that had to be decided by the Mississippi House of Representatives.

The 2003 race saw Haley Barbour crush political newcomer Mitch Tyner in the GOP primary with 83 percent of the vote. Barbour won 52.6 percent of the general election vote over Musgrove and a handful of minor party candidates.

In 2007, Barbour skated through a GOP pri-mary with Frederick L. Jones, taking 93 per-cent of the vote. Barbour won the general election by 57.9 percent of the vote over Demo-cratic challenger John Arthur Eaves Jr.

In 2011, it’s clear that Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant is all but already running for the GOP nomination. Bryant’s made no secret of his intention to run and hasn’t been coy when asked about it. He’s running.

While not formally declared, Gulf Coast busi-nessman Dave Dennis is likewise not being particularly coy about his intentions to make the 2011 Republican gubernatorial primary. It seems a certainty that Dennis will run.

In the last few weeks, there is growing talk that Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is close to entering the race. Hose-mann isn’t exactly bushwhacking reporters to put a stop to those rumors, either.

But the last time I directly asked Hosemann about it — some six weeks ago — he was coy about it with no definitive answer either way.

Out of the gate, Bryant is the clear favorite in a statewide race. He’s never lost one in three races and against tough GOP primary oppo-nents. Neither has Hosemann, but then he’s only run one. Hosemann did lose a 1998 con-gressional bid in the old 4th District to Demo-cratic former U.S. Rep. Ronnie Shows.

Dennis has never made a statewide race — has never made a political race period — which in this political season may prove more of a positive than a negative. Bryant is the favorite, but in a crowded GOP primary any-thing can happen. Dennis is a true outsider and Hosemann reshuffles the deck for Bryant. But Bryant’s strength in Rankin and DeSoto counties remains his best hole cards.

•Sid Salter is Perspective editor of The Clarion-Ledger. Phone him at 601-961-7084 or e-mail [email protected].

Bryant’s made no se-cret of his intention to run and hasn’t been

coy when asked about it. He’s running.

For now,Bryant leaderin GOP race

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‘Fervor’ or not, Thompson wrote book on retail politicsThere was the “Massachusetts

Miracle” that sent Republican Scott Brown into the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy. Then there were gubernatorial elec-tions that ousted Democrats. Next came early primaries with grim news for incumbents without much regard to their political stripes, including the ouster of 30-year U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Last week there was an election in President Barack Obama’s childhood district in Hawaii. It resulted in the election of Charles Djou to the U.S. House, making him only the third Repub-lican ever dispatched to D.C. from America’s 50th state.

This week, primary voters set the stage for the November elections to select four Mississippians to serve in the U.S. House in the 112th Con-gress, yet while the Constitution says electoral power is with the people, a more accurate statement might be that party committees pick most of the winners and losers well before voters cast their ballots. Anti-incum-bent fervor or not, the strategic alloca-tion of gobs of money that flow to and through party bank accounts makes the difference in many districts.

The best friends of Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie C. Thompson, who has represented Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District since 1993, continue to be those who control Republican Party funds. From all appearances, they have again decided Thompson’s 23-county, mostly Delta district is not “in play” despite all the pro-conservative activity elsewhere.

This is not a change of position for the GOP. The party hasn’t really backed any candidate who has challenged Thompson in well over a decade, even though the former Bolton mayor and Hinds County supervisor does have what would nor-mally be considered vulnerabilities.

For example, his own website lists only 19 legislative initiatives during this congressional session and many of them have been to name buildings. And despite his 17 years of pledging to bring about lasting improvements in his district — one of the poorest in the nation — statistical indicators on teen pregnancy, aid dependency, jobs, education quality, infant mor-

tality and many others have steadily grown worse.

There are other factors. Most of the money for his campaigns and for the PAC he controls comes from outside the district and he is a reliable “yes” on any party initiative, including cap and trade, which, if passed by the Senate, would cause his constituents’ fuel and power bills to soar.

In the arena of scandal, Thomp-son was with Congressional Black Caucus members who participated in an illegally-funded “fact-finding mis-sion” to the Caribbean. Thompson and most others on the junket had sufficient deniability about who paid the expenses to convince the House Ethics Committee to give them a pass. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., wasn’t so lucky. Though Rangel, the trip organizer, said his staff may have known about the funding arrange-ments, he insisted he wasn’t told. Still, he’s had to temporarily step aside from his chairmanship of the

House Ways and Means Committee.Thompson reportedly remains

under an ethics investigation in another matter. According to The Washington Post, eyebrows went up when the Homeland Security Com-mittee, which Thompson chairs, held hearings on adding regulations to credit card company operations. The curiosity was because domestic com-merce is not normally in the national security arena. Thompson’s response was that he wanted to learn more about identity theft, perhaps because terrorists sometimes use fake IDs.

Anyway, as things unfolded, some of the companies donated to Thomp-son’s campaign fund and no legisla-tion has been offered. The Post said a Thompson staffer — one of 10 who served only short stints with the chairman before leaving — reported what smelled like extortion and said she was fired for reporting her sus-picions. As with Rangel, Thompson said he knew nothing about any of

this and the fact that no legislation followed the hearings and dona-tions was purely coincidental. “We do hearings all the time,” he said. “Sometimes we are able to generate legislation earlier, and sometimes we have to (build) a public record.”

And speaking of coincidence, Thompson also held hearings for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster housing contrac-tors and in the ensuing weeks, two of the companies’ executives, their lobbyists and family members felt moved to help Thompson with re-election funds.

Thompson won’t be challenged on these matters in his district and lack of funding for opponents is just one reason.

Another is that Thompson excels in what’s called retail politics. Rep. Thompson’s constituents know him. If they have a difficulty with local, state or federal government, they know they can call him. He oper-ates person-to-person, not speech-to-speech.

Perhaps this is why Republican donors and party officials have chosen not to fund a serious cam-paign. “Can’t win ’em all,” has been their posture to date, and that will likely continue through November.

•Charlie Mitchell is executive editor of The Vicksburg Post. Write to him at Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182, or e-mail [email protected].

Voters increasingly aware of real health reform costsAttack on visitors

is a call to actionI think the attack on

our guests in our city is beyond atrocious. (The Vicksburg Post, May 24).

To say that this is an “isolated incident” or was a “random attack” is no consolation to the injured lady. The thugs who behave in this manner do not deserve to be walking the streets of any city!

It is very sad when people work all of their lives and save for retire-ment and travel to have an assault of any kind made on them by low-lifes who know nothing about working for a living, saving to buy anything or having any regard for another human being.

Hopefully, more of a police presence in down-town Vicksburg will turn the tide and prevent fur-ther incidences of this nature against not only our visitors and guests in the city, but residents as well.

Marie RenaudVicksburg

Climb out of the pitI am so tired of being

left out of the loop. The communists, crooks and community organizers in Washington don’t need me when they can ram legislation through Con-gress with a promise to fix it later. They don’t care whether I get it or not as long as they get what they want.

I am so tired of being lied to by people with access to the press. The press lets politi-cians butter its bread. The press is vociferous. I mean that its voice car-ries much further than yours or mine. It car-ries the facts it decides to report. It spins those facts with words it chooses to use. And it makes the skeptical and critical out to be not only incorrect, but evil as well.

The parameters of public discussion used to be Standard English, rational and moral integ-rity, a firsthand knowl-edge of the issues and the best interests of our country. Now, most of those standards have been demonized as politi-cally incorrect vestiges of white supremacy and oppression.

We need to break free from the straitjacket of this propaganda. We need to climb out of the multi-cultural and socialist pit, which is being dug deeper every day as the umarked grave of what was once the greatest nation on Earth. And we need to do it now.

Zip RibarLong Beach

WEEK INVIcKsburg

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WASHINGTON — In closing the deal on health care reform, Democratic leaders assured wavering legislators that the plan would grow more popu-lar with time as its benefits became clear. “We have to pass the bill,” argued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, so that the public “can find out what is in it.” Presidential adviser David Axelrod predicted that Republicans would pay a polit-ical price for their opposition. “Let’s have that fight,” he said. “Make my day.” Consistent with this belief, the adminis-tration recently has been roll-ing out attractive elements of the law, including coverage for dependents up to age 26.

But after a brief bump, sup-port for Democratic health reform has declined. Accord-ing to a recent Rasmussen poll, 63 percent of voters sup-port repeal of the law, the highest level since passage. A Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows erosion in the intensity of support. Last month, 23 per-cent of Americans held “very favorable” views of the law. This month, that figure is 14 percent, with most of the falloff coming among Dem-ocrats (Republicans and independents already being skeptical).

On the theory that the dis-tribution of lollipops usu-ally doesn’t provoke riots of resentment, opposition to the health entitlement requires explanation.

One cause is simply eco-nomic. At a time when Amer-icans are focused on recovery and job creation — and how deficits and debt may even-tually undermine both — the economic case for Demo-cratic health reform has been weak, contrived, even decep-tive. Recent events in Con-gress make the point. Two months after passing a law that supporters claimed would reduce federal deficits, largely through Medicare cuts, the House is moving toward a tem-porary “doctor fix” that would add tens of billions in Medi-care costs. Even more expen-sive fixes are likely in the future. Congressional leaders knew this spending would be

necessary when they passed health reform in March. Yet they didn’t include this liabil-ity in the law, in order to hide the overall cost of the entitle-ment. In a failing corporation, this would be a scandal, inves-tigated by Congress. In Con-gress, this is known as legis-lative strategy.

The economic arguments for reform — that it would reduce the deficit and health inflation — were questionable from the beginning. Now they have been revealed as absurd. There is a social justice case for expanding health cover-age. But Americans have not found it credible that the cre-ation of a massive new entitle-ment will somehow help the economy.

There is, however, a deeper explanation for public skep-ticism about health reform. Since the New Deal, Demo-crats have viewed times of economic crisis as opportuni-ties for government expansion. In the current case, govern-ment itself was implicated in the crisis. According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, public satisfaction with gov-ernment plunged just as the financial collapse took place. Twenty-two percent of Amer-icans report that they trust government all or most of the time — among the lowest levels in 50 years. One and a half years after a financial meltdown that some supposed would be a crisis for capitalism itself, 58 percent of Americans agree that “the government has gone too far in regulating business and interfering with the free enterprise system.” Favorable opinion of the Dem-ocratic Party — now firmly associated with the stimulus package, assorted bailouts and health reform — has fallen 21 points in one year.

In this ideological environ-ment, the administration’s emphasis on publicizing the desirable details of the health law is beside the point. Ameri-cans are troubled with health reform, not because they lack knowledge of its provi-sions, but because they are uncomfortable with social democracy.

When entitlements began in America, they were mainly focused on the elderly (through Social Security and Medicare) and the poor and disabled (through Aid to Fami-lies with Dependent Children and Medicaid). Benefits for the middle class were largely given through tax deductions for mortgage interest and the purchase of health coverage by businesses. America eventu-ally retreated from some enti-tlement commitments to the poor because they involved a moral hazard — discouraging work and responsibility. Enti-tlements for the elderly have remained a strong, national consensus.

But the idea of a middle-class entitlement to health care, achieved through an individ-ual mandate, subsidies and aggressive insurance regu-lation, seems to change the nature of American society. Entitlements in the Obama era are no longer a decent provision for the vulnerable; they are intended for citizens at every stage of life.

Americans resist taking this lollipop precisely because America is not Europe — which even Europe, it seems, can no longer afford to be.

•Michael Gerson writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. E-mail reaches him at [email protected].

MICHAELgErsON

In a failing corporation, this would be a scandal, in-vestigated by Congress. In Congress, this is known as

legislative strategy.

CHARLIEMITcHELL

The best friends of Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie C. Thompson, who has represented Mississip-pi’s 2nd Congressional District since 1993, continue to be those who control Republican Party

funds.

After several days of what seemed like indecision, the Mis-sissippi River topped out at 42.8 feet on the Vicksburg gauge — ending a rare third surge toward flood stage this year. The river started the week at 42.7 feet and ended at the same reading. The forecast was for a level of 42.6 feet today.

Highs reached into the lower 90s on five days during the week, indicated a summer pattern set-tling in. Lows hovered around 70 degrees. No rain was recorded.

Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality person-nel began monitoring placement of a foot of clay soil to seal about 20 acres off Rifle Range Road that was the site of a chemical plant. The project will last a year and cost about $8 million.

Most letters received so far by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History favor the plantation house at the Ceres industrial park, owned by Warren County since 1987, be declared a state landmark.

Bowmar second-graders took a field trip to Roca, a local res-taurant, for cooking tips, includ-ing tossing pizza dough.

Campers and counselors remembered good experiences at Warner-Tully YMCA Camp in Claiborne County. Operated by the Vicksburg Y, the camp had its first summer sessions 50 years ago.

A periodic refueling of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station provided a big boost for motel owners who had been seeing occupancy rates fall. About 1,000 temporary workers were added for the placement of new rods, maintenance and other work.

AmeriCorps officials announced plans for a gradua-tion event after a year in the city. The federal volunteer center here is one of six in the United States that dispatch teams to community projects. Partici-pants earn a stipend and tuition money.

A 70-year-old Texas woman, vacationing in Vicksburg with her husband, sustained a broken arm and a facial laceration when mugged on Washington Street. She described the assailants as two young men who attacked the couple as they walked from a restaurant back to the inn where they were staying.

The Rev. William “Bill” Wat-kins, veteran Methodist minis-ter and founder of Good Shep-herd Community Center, died at 82. Friends praised him for his life of Christian faith in action.

Bunge-Ergon asked for lower fee-in-lieu assessment because ethanol production did not reach predicted levels.

Vicksburg officials were told relocating a crucial water line near Washington and Jackson streets may require service to be interrupted. The city engineer said the shift would be done starting at midnight and take no more than four hours.

An unscheduled perfor-mance of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra was set for 7 p.m. on Memorial Day at City Front. The orchestra was to have performed in Natchez from its stage, which is on a barge, but currents there were too swift.

Warren Central students Aliesha Phillips, Trey Mathes, Caley Barela, Elizabeth Ogle and Della Loflin will travel to Aus-trialia as members of the Missis-sippi Lions All-State Band.

Consultants hired to aid in the search for a new Vicksburg Warren School District super-intendent reported to trustees on informal meetings with area residents. People want a “visi-ble” superintendent who attends school events and projects a pos-itive image.

District 1 Supervisor David McDonald said tight financial times have derailed any notion of getting a new detention facil-ity sited and built anytime soon.

State regulators gave their blessing to the sale of Rainbow Casino. Its owner, Bally Technol-ogies, will transfer operations to Isle of Capri for a reported $80 million. For now, the Rainbow name will be retained.

In addition to the Rev. Wat-kins, deaths during the week included James White Jenkins Sr., Fannie Lois Rachal, Johnann M. Tidwell, Tony Lamar Col-lins Jr., Fannie B. Taylor, Lester Badeaux, Michael Brown, Susan Henderson Payne and Everett M. Ezell.

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PHOENIX — Thousands of people from around the country marched to the Ari-zona state Capitol on Sat-urday to protest the state’s tough new crackdown on ille-gal immigration.

Opponents of the law sus-pended their boycott against Arizona and bused in pro-testers from around the country. Organizers said the demonstration could bring in as many as 50,000 people.

Supporters of the law expected to draw thousands to a rally of their own Sat-urday evening at a baseball stadium in suburban Tempe, encouraging like-minded Americans to “buycott” Ari-zona by planning vacations in the state.

Critics of the law, set to take effect July 29, say it unfairly targets Hispanics and could lead to racial profiling.

The law requires that police conducting traffic stops or questioning people about possible legal violations ask them about their immigra-tion status if there is “reason-able suspicion” that they’re in the country illegally.

Jamaica police vowto nab reputed kingpin

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s top cop insisted security forces will cap-ture a reputed underworld boss who escaped a bloody, four-day assault on his slum stronghold, while more people in the battle zone said innocents died during the fighting.

Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said authorities

believe Christopher “Dudus” Coke, wanted by the U.S. on drugs and gun traffick-ing charges, is hiding some-where on this tropical island of 2.6 million inhabitants.

“We will catch him, we will execute that warrant, and he will face justice,” Ellington told reporters. He said the “best intelligence we have” indicates Coke remains in Jamaica.

U.S. authorities say Coke has been trafficking cocaine to the streets of New York City since the mid-1990s.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a U.S. law enforcement official in New York said a lawyer for Coke has been in negotiations with the U.S. Justice Department about his client’s possible safe removal to New York to face charges.

China facing pressureto punish North Korea

SEOGWIPO, South Korea — Pressure was rising on regional giant China to sup-port efforts to punish North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship — the issue that was dominat-ing a three-nation weekend summit.

China showed no signs publicly Saturday of join-ing South Korea and Japan in rebuking Pyongyang, but Premier Wen Jiabao said he hoped their summit would help achieve peace.

An international investiga-tion concluded that a North Korean torpedo struck and sank the Cheonan in March, killing 46 sailors in the South’s worst military loss since the Korean War.

North Korea has repeatedly denied responsibility.

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Celiac Disease Seminar FreeCeliac disease is a chronic, lifelong condition caused by a reaction of the small intestinal tissue to gluten, which is present in lots of foods. The treatment for the disease is a gluten-free diet, which can be very difficult to follow and maintain. Baptist for Women will host a seminar with Gastroenterologist April Ulmer, MD, to provide information about the disease and related health problems. It’s also an opportunity for families and patients to exchange valuable information and experience with regards to maintaining a gluten free lifestyle. There will be other speakers as well. Join the celiac blog at http://msceliacconnection.wordpress.com/ and get connected to others battling this disease.

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June 30, 11:45 a.m., Baptist Madison Campus, Community Room

Regular Treatments for Irregular BeatsIf you have an irregular heart beat, or cardiac arrhythmia, you know that treatment may be range from medicine to a pacemaker. But do you know all the available options? Join J. Michael Bensler, MD, to find out how specialists in heart rhythm abnormalities treat this condition.

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What You Need To Know About Clinical TrialsParticipation in clinical trials may be a good option for some people being treated for cancer. Attend this free seminar with guest speaker Teresa Davis, RN, BSN, OCN, of Jackson Oncology Associates, for help deciding if it’s right for you.

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THE VICKSBURG POST

News is free,but deliverywith answersmust cost

Nearly a month has passed since The Vicks-burg Post’s launch of the new website. The launch has been met with some excitement, some disap-pointment and a few of George Carlin’s favorite words.

Still, though, confusion exists on several levels.

Viewers who want to access the site — both pay and free content — must register. This is not unlike so many other sites other than newspapers.

By registering, read-ers have access to the site’s free content, which includes obituaries, clas-sified advertising and the My Community section, which is a valuable tool for anyone trying to orga-nize a reunion, sched-ule youth ball practice or get reconnected with old friends.

Premium access has a charge, but with that charge comes every piece of information The Vicks-burg Post prints every day. The payment model for newspapers’ websites is still in its infancy, but more and more are head-ing that way. The New York Times — the Old Gray Lady — is beginning to offer a premium pay service. The Wall Street Journal is heading toward a pay model. Some Mis-sissippi papers other than this one are implementing pay models as well.

Many online readers responded to the pay model with shock, writ-ing that the news should be free.

Technically, the news is free. If a barge on the Mississippi River slams into the old bridge, those standing on the shore-line are watching news happen. But why did the boat slam the bridge? Who was captain of the boat? Who owned it? Will charges be filed?

Those answers will not come from the cap-tain getting on shore and announcing to whomever will listen as to what hap-pens. Those questions are answered between offi-cials and paid reporters, then constructed in a fac-tual way for the readers.

Can anyone imagine 100 years ago the paper boy standing on the street corner screaming “Extra! Extra! Read all about it,” only to give away copies of the paper to anyone who wants to read — for free?

Whether the news is delivered electronically or with smudge-causing ink, the news has to be delivered. That delivery — from reporter, to editor, to press operator to website manager — costs money.

The Vicksburg Post is not the first to move to a subscription-based web-site, and this newspaper will not be the last. The alternative might be no newspaper at all.

•Sean P. Murphy is web editor. He can be reached at [email protected]

SEAN MURPHYPOST WEB EDITOR

At festival,seafoodnot oiled,but taintedBy The Associated Press

BELLE CHASE, La. — Things were a bit on the glum side Saturday at the Plaquemines Parish Sea-food Festival.

His voice shaking, one of the organizers told newly crowned seafood queen Alexandria Belair how much they were counting on her to be an ambassa-dor for the parish seafood industry.

The shrimpers of Plaquemines Parish are not fishing these days. Many boats lie tied up at marinas as nearby fish-ing grounds are closed because of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

There is fresh Gulf sea-food available. It’s caught in the clean waters off Acadiana and closer to Texas, where the oil hasn’t reached, and it’s being inspected to ensure it’s safe.

Only 30 percent of the Gulf has been closed to fishing, and even there it’s only a precaution — not a sign of contamination, said Ewell Smith, execu-tive director of the Louisi-ana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board.

“We have plenty of the world’s greatest seafood,” Smith said. “The prob-lem is people think there is none, or if there is it’s contaminated. We are working hard to dispel that image, but it’s still out there.”

Just as the constant news of destruction after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, so the stories on the massive oil spill being seen around the world are tainting the image of Gulf Coast seafood.

“It’s very serious, very dangerous,” said John Besh, a cookbook author and one of New Orleans’ most celebrated chefs. “This is a way of life for us. It supports whole vil-lages, whole parishes, a big chunk of the state, and rumors that it’s unsafe or not good may do far more harm than the spill.”

On Saturday, the Louisi-ana Department of Wild-life and Fisheries and other state agencies sent BP a detailed proposal for a 20-year plan to safe-guard the industry which generates $4 billion annu-ally. They also asked BP for $457 million to imple-ment the 20-year program.

“As the oil spill has impacted our coastal areas, and as BP has uti-lized efforts to disperse the oil, the state has taken several steps to both ensure the safety of the product and instill a sense of confidence among con-sumers in the safety of the product,” the press release read.

On the rOad again


RAYMOND — The figure even startled the man behind the wheel.

In 39 years of driving two 28-foot tractor trailers on runs across the Southeast, 63-year-old Robert Morali of Raymond has logged 5.2 mil-lion miles. And without an accident.

“I had no idea it was that many,” Morali said, shak-ing his head. “After they told me, I had to sit down. I was like ’Doggone, that is a lot of miles.”’

Morali has seen a lot of highway stripes go by.

Out of 102,000 UPS drivers worldwide, Morali is one of 60 to drive 39 years without an accident.

“Reaching 5 million miles is extremely rare,” said Brad Stotler, media relations man-ager for the American Truck-ing Association. “In the last five years, we’ve heard of only two or three drivers doing it.”

“In the public, if someone goes five or 10 years without an accident it’s a pretty good accomplishment,” said Dan McMackin, spokesman for UPS in Atlanta.

“Traffic has become more intense than ever. And distracted driving — cell phones, texting — has made it even tougher on our nation’s highways. When you think of what Robert has done in that environment, it’s absolutely astonishing.”

For the skeptics, grab a pencil or calculator: Morali’s current run is roundtrip from

Jackson to Heflin, Ala., near the Georgia line. The trip is 630 miles. He drives it five days a week, or 3,150 miles.

Multiply that by 45 weeks (he has seven weeks’ vaca-tion) and that comes to 141,750 miles annually. Then multiply that by 39 years and that comes to 5.5 mil-lion miles. A few sick days through the years — such as when he had heart stints inserted in 1996 and 1997 — have knocked him down to 5.2 million. (2 of 3)

That number is growing daily. Morali gets up at mid-night, arrives at the UPS center in Jackson at 1 a.m. and is on the road by 1:30. He makes one brief stop, at the Love Truck Stop in Toom-suba, on the way over. He arrives in Heflin around 6:30 a.m., and by 7 he is on his way back to Jackson. He usu-ally pulls in around noon.

He sleeps from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., gets up to eat supper and spend 30 minutes on a treadmill, then goes to bed until midnight. He is off every Saturday and Sunday.

Not once does Morali use the word “lucky” when talk-ing about driving 39 years without an accident.

“We are so well trained, and we are constantly reminded of the five ’seeing habits’ that we go by every day,” he said. “We’re check-ing our mirrors every two seconds. It has become a habit. If you know your sur-roundings and give yourself plenty of cushion from the driver ahead of you, your chances of having an acci-

dent are greatly reduced.“Plus, I never leave this

place without saying a prayer. I ask that I not injure anyone and that I not be injured. If there is such a thing, that’s my good luck charm.”

“I love my job. I wonder how many people truly love what they do? Maybe three out of 10? When I’m on vaca-tion, I start missing it. And driving my pickup ... it wears me out. But when I’m in that (UPS) truck, I’m excited, I’m locked in. It’s just different.”

Morali has made a good living.

“The average UPS driver makes around $70,000 a year,” McMackin said. Morali earns considerably more.

He has worked for every penny, beginning at age 11 when he delivered grocer-ies on foot for a store in his hometown of Pass Christian. At 13, he began staying after closing time to mop the floor

for extra money.He and Carol married in

1968 and lost everything when Hurricane Camille rav-aged the Gulf Coast a year later. “The only thing I found was the stock of my daddy’s old .22 rifle,” he said.

They moved to Jackson. Morali worked for American Can for a few months, then for Ryder Truck Rental.

“A friend of mine asked me if I was looking for a better job and told me that UPS was hiring drivers,” he said.

He started driving in 1971.The Moralis’ oldest son,

Bobby, is 42, lives in Gluck-stadt and also drives for UPS in its freight division. Their youngest, Jay, is 40 and works for a pharmaceutical company in Baltimore.

Robert Morali has retire-ment in his sights.

“Maybe in October, when I turn 64, or next year when I would have 40 years in with the company.”

Police arrest 19, serve 18 warrants during Click It or Ticket campaignVicksburg Police made 19

misdemeanor arrests and served 18 outstanding war-rants on Friday evening as the department wrapped up its two-day Click It or Ticket roadblock campaign, said Chief Walter Armstrong.

“Most of those 19 put in jail were for DUI, suspended license, no license, no seat-belt and things like that,”

said Armstrong. “It was very successful. We have a lot of people coming through town this weekend, and we’re just basically trying to be safe, buckle up and refrain from using drugs and alcohol if they’re going to be on the roads.”

Roadblocks at various loca-tions throughout the city were set up Thursday and Friday.

While Armstrong did not have an exact tally of arrests made Thursday, he said it was similar to the number made Friday. Because it accepts certain federal grants, the Vicks-burg department is required

to participate in the nation-wide campaign and officers are paid for conducting the roadblocks via grant funds. Similar campaigns take place during other holiday week-ends throughout the year, including the July 4 and New Year’s Eve.

“Our next roadblock will be coming in June,” Armstrong said.

Jackson man jailed on forgery charges

A Jackson man was in the Warren County Jail Satur-day charged with two counts of uttering a forgery. Terrell M. Orey, 27, 1160 Woodvelley Drive, was jailed by Vicks-burg police around noon Saturday.

Bond was set at $10,000.

UPS driver has traversedthe Southeast for 39 years


Robert Morali of Raymond, right, and UPS transportation manager Donny Gray chat on their way to the Jackson office.

Below, Morali in the cab of his UPS truck. Morali has driven more than five million miles wihout an accident.

5.2M wreck-free miles for Raymond driver

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Historic photos taken in and around Vicksburg are featured on Sundays in The Vicksburg Post. Many of the photos are from the J. Mack Moore Collection at the Old Court House Museum. Though not all photos were taken by Mr. Moore, they are part of

the collection given to the museum by longtime Vicksburg Post managing editor Charles J. Faulk. Appropriate photos from the public will also be accepted and published. To submit a photo, contact Karen Gamble at 636-4545.

A view from the top

Ice clogged the river at Vicksburg in 1940. In the fore-ground is the Coiner, a government boat, and behind it is the Tennessee Belle, the last old-time steamboat to ply

the Mississippi River. Only at one other time has ice been known to clog the river here, in 1899. The photo is from the Old Court House collection.

Conservative activist’s cell phone video deletedNEW ORLEANS — Con-

servative activist-videog-rapher James O’Keefe said video he shot of conversa-tions with staffers of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu was deleted when his cell phone was returned after he and three others pleaded guilty to charges in a caper he orchestrated at the Demo-crat’s New Orleans office.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said Sat-urday that U.S. Magistrate Daniel Knowles III ordered the footage removed. O’Keefe made the claim Friday in a posting on his Twitter social networking site.

O’Keefe, 25, and the others pleaded guilty on Wednes-day to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses. They were sentenced by Knowles.

They were sentenced to probation, community ser-vice and fines.

minn. firm buysmiss. pulp recycler

NATCHEZ, Miss. — A U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved the $8.2 million sale of pulp recycler Mississippi River Corp. to a Minnesota firm that registered Monday with the Mississippi Secre-tary of State.

The Natchez Democrat reports that the buyer, Mis-sissippi River Pulp LLC, has

one listed officer: Wayzata Investments Partners LLC of Wayzata, Minn.

A bankruptcy court order states that the buyer took responsibility for MRC’s debt, including $684,206.93 in back property taxes owed to Adams County and $309,660.75 owed to the county for loans to expand warehouse space.

Ultralight crashesin median, killing pilot

FENTON, La. — Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ricky Edwards says an ultralight plane flew into some high power lines and crashed near Fenton, killing the pilot.

He says the pilot was 56-year-old Richard A. Martin of Orange, Texas, a member of the Southwest Louisiana Ultralight Club.

He says it apparently headed north from an air strip on Frontage Road at Interstate 10 and Louisiana Highway 165. He says wit-nesses told deputies it hit the power line and went straight down.

Glitch cuts tulaneclasses in madison

MADISON, Miss. — When a Tulane University satel-

lite campus opens Tuesday in Madison, only three of the classes that were set for a June start will begin.

Branch director Sherry Chance tells the Madi-son County Herald that a “bureaucratic glitch” can-celed seven summer courses.

Richard Marksbury, dean of Tulane’s School of Continu-ing Studies, said the three classes beginning on Tues-day will cover both summer semesters, and their students don’t need financial aid.

Alliant techsystemscancels plant in miss.

IUKA, Miss. — The Missis-sippi Development Author-ity says a Minneapolis-based company has canceled plans to add 600 jobs in Tishom-ingo County, and has repaid $30 million in state incentive payments.

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported Sat-urday that Alliant Techsys-tems Inc. cited the economic downturn and a need to consolidate work on Airbus

airplanes.

Chalmette womanmauled by pit bull

CHALMETTE, La. — Police in St. Bernard Parish say a Chalmette woman suf-fered severe injuries from being mauled by a pit bull.

The sheriff’s office has not named the 51-year-old victim, but says she was taken to a New Orleans hospital for injuries to an eye, her chest and an arm.

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tive newcomers by compari-son to most who annually converge at the Old Court House Museum to harmo-nize together.

“I’ve been singing this stuff for 60-plus years, literally my whole life,” said John Mer-ritt of Oxford, who annually helps organize the Vicks-burg gathering. “Most of the folks here are like me; they learned these songs from their parents, grew up sing-ing them and have just kept with it.”

Although a number of locals and tourists filtered in and out of the historic court-room on Saturday to have a listen, there is no applause after the group finishes a song. Instead, a new singer is chosen to lead the group, who are seated in a square facing one another; tenors across from the altos and basses across from the tre-bles. The new singer then selects the next song, calls out the page number and begins directing the sing-ers from the center of their square with the soft wave of a hand.

Standing in the center of the Sacred Harp singers as they reach a crescendo is an aural experience like none other. As the individual sing-ers’ voices rise above the group and then recede back into the choir over and over, the waves of sound — some raw and wailing; some sparse and somber — become col-lectively hypnotizing.

The reason for the almost indescribable sound of Sacred Harp singing is quite technical. Its uniqueness lies in its distinctness as a form of “shape note singing.”

In the four-shape note Sacred Harp system, each of the four shapes is connected to a particular syllable: fa, sol, la and mi. The shapes help the singers identify the notes on the musical scale, and even though only four

are used, the singers are able to cover the full scale because most of the shapes cover two distinct notes. Because the shapes and notes designate the musical scale by degrees only, pitch is not absolute in the singing, which also accounts for the unique sound.

“There are a lot of levels you can connect on,” Bill Beverly said. “There are a number of people in this room who regard this as worship.”

Other Sacred Harp singers are drawn to the communal bond between the partici-pants — many of whom have formed long-distance friend-ships through the years after meeting up again and again at events such as the one in Vicksburg this weekend. Others still are attracted to the history surrounding Sacred Harp singing and the ritual behind it.

“The tradition goes back hundreds and hundreds of years, all the way to Elizabe-than England in the 18th cen-tury,” Merritt said. “Shake-speare wrote about sacred singing in four notes, which is what we still do today.”

When “The Sacred Harp” was first published in 1844, it was just one of more than 100 hymn books published in the United States. The book has been continuously updated ever since, and a number of different editions are used by Sacred Harp singers today. In most editions, more than 500 a cappella hymns, odes, and anthems are included.

“One ironic thing about most of this poetry, as I con-sider it, is it’s very gloomy stuff, yet most of the melo-dies are quite joyful and everyone singing here is joyful, too,” Bill Beverly said.

Singing schools and shape-note singing flourished in the early 19th century as a popular form of recreation in the expanding southern

and western frontiers of the United States. However, the distinct style of shape-note singing began to be discred-ited as in the 1820s as Euro-pean-influenced reformers began introducing church music composed with the kind of straight-forward harmonizing heard in most Christian churches today.

“It wasn’t the lyrics of the songs they didn’t like or anything like that, it was strictly the sound; the way

the songs were being sung. It was pretty much chased into the mountains of Georgia and Alabama, which remain the real hotbeds of Sacred Harp singing to this day,” Bill Beverly said. “It was slowly dying out until about 25 or 30 years ago when a lot of northerners like myself dis-covered it and began bring-ing it back.”

Today, a number of states hold annual Sacred Harp singing conventions that

draw in hundreds. Hundreds of smaller events like the Holt Collier Mississippi Bear Hunt Memorial Singing take place across the country, and many individual singers also host events at their homes. The non-profit Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Associa-tion began a summer Sacred Harp singing camp in 2003, and annually circulates its directory to 2,800 singers across the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom.

TONIGHT

We’ll see another round of showers and storms. Rain

should develop by late morning and scattered storms are expected.

66°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTMONdAy

90°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTMonday-wednesday

Partly cloudy; chance of showers and thunder-

storms; highs around 90, lows in the upper 60s

STATE FORECASTTonIGHT

Partly cloudy; chance of showers and thunder-

storms; lows in the mid 60s

Monday-wednesdayPartly cloudy; chance of showers and thunder-

storms; highs in the upper 80s, lows in the mid 60s

ALmAnACHIGHs and Lows

High/past 24 hours............. 89ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 71ºAverage temperature ........ 80ºNormal this date .................. 76ºRecord low .............50º in 1984Record high ...........97º in 1977

RaInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ........................N/AThis month .............2.70 inchesTotal/year ............. 17.34 inchesNormal/month .....4.25 inchesNormal/year ....... 26.27 inches

soLunaR TabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Sunday:A.M. Active ........................... 7:40A.M. Most active ................ 1:27P.M. Active ............................ 8:06P.M. Most active ................. 1:53

sunRIse/sunseTSunset today ....................... 8:03Sunset tomorrow .............. 8:03Sunrise tomorrow ............. 5:58

RIVER DATAsTaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 42.6 | Change: -0.1Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 18.6 | Change: -0.1

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City


Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 20.3 | Change: -0.2

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West


Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 9.3 | Change: +0.1

Flood: 28 feet

sTeeLe bayou saTuRday

Land ...................................85.1River ...................................90.5

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Monday ................................. 35.8Tuesday ................................. 33.8Wednesday .......................... 32.0

MemphisMonday ................................. 27.0Tuesday ................................. 25.9Wednesday .......................... 24.4

GreenvilleMonday ................................. 47.9Tuesday ................................. 47.8Wednesday .......................... 47.6

VicksburgMonday ................................. 42.7Tuesday ................................. 42.7Wednesday .......................... 42.6

SingersContinued from Page A1.

ElectionContinued from Page A1.

sippi’s 2nd Congressional District.

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thomp-son, D-Miss., is unopposed in the Democratic primary and is assured a place in the Nov. 2 general election for a ninth full term in Congress. Thompson, 62, was first elected in 1993 and chairs the House Homeland Security Committee.

Three Republicans will vie for the GOP nod — George Bailey, Richard Cook and Bill Marcy. A runoff election will be June 22 if no candidate receives a majority of votes.

The district covers all or part of 23 counties, from Tunica to Jefferson coun-ties along the Mississippi River. It also includes most of Jackson and stretches to Attala County on its eastern boundary.

All three primary candi-dates have run for office pre-

viously. Cook, 51, a Jack-son middle school teacher, lost to Thompson in the 2008 general election. Marcy, 64, a Meridian resident and former Chicago police offi-cer, ran unsuccessfully the past two years for state House and Senate seats and for mayor in his east Missis-sippi hometown. Bailey, 65, a Texas-born minister who lives in Clinton, ran for the GOP nod for governor in New Mexico in 2006.

Circuit Court judges M. James Chaney and Isadore Patrick and Chancellor Vicki Roach Barnes drew no oppo-sition and are uncontested for election in November.

Warren County voters will have one contested judicial race on the November ballot, State Court of Appeals Dis-trict 2. Incumbent Judge Tyree Irving faces Vicksburg attorney Ceola James.


Fishermen complain there’s no end in sight to the catas-trophe that’s keeping their boats idle.

News that the top kill fell short drew a sharply worded response from President Barack Obama, a day after he visited the Gulf Coast to see the damage firsthand.

“It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimized by this manmade disaster are made whole,” Obama said Saturday.

In the days after the spill, BP was unable to use robot submarines to close valves on the massive blowout pre-venter atop the damaged well, then two weeks later ice-like crystals clogged a 100-ton box the company tried placing over the leak. Earlier this week, engineers removed a mile-long siphon

tube after it sucked up a dis-appointing 900,000 gallons of oil from the gusher.

In the latest try, BP engi-neers pumped more than 1.2 million gallons of heavy drill-ing mud into the well and also shot in assorted junk, including metal pieces and rubber balls.

The hope was that the mud force-fed into the well would overwhelm the upward flow of oil and natural gas. But Suttles said most of the mud escaped out of the damaged pipe that’s leaking the oil, called a riser.

Suttles said BP is already preparing for the next attempt to stop the leak that began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, killing 11 people.

The company plans to use robot submarines to cut off the damaged riser, and then try to cap it with a contain-ment valve. The effort is expected to take between

four and seven days.“We’re confident the job

will work but obviously we can’t guarantee success,” Suttles said of the new plan, declining to handicap the likelihood it will work.

The permanent solution to the leak, a relief well cur-rently being drilled, won’t be ready until August, BP says.

Word that the top-kill had failed hit hard in fishing com-munities along Louisiana’s coast.

“Everybody’s starting to realize this summer’s lost. And our whole lifestyle might be lost,” said Michael Ballay, the 59-year-old man-ager of the Cypress Cove Marina in Venice, La., near where oil first made landfall in large quantities almost two weeks ago.

Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his busi-ness during what’s normally

the best time of year — and there’s no end in sight.

“If fishing’s bad for five years, I’ll be 60 years old. I’ll be done for,” he said after BP’s announcement.

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U.S.: Fight for Kandahar will be like no otherWASHINGTON (AP) — In

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The goal of U.S.-led NATO forces will be to avoid inspir-ing support for the Taliban even as the coalition tries to root them out when the Kan-dahar operation begins in ear-nest next month.

The ancient silk road city — a dust-covered, impover-ished jumble of one- and two-story concrete and mud brick — may not look like much of a prize.

But Kandahar, with a popu-lation of more than a million, was once the Taliban’s infor-mal capital and an al-Qaida stronghold. It has served for centuries as a smuggler’s crossroads and trading hub linking southern Afghanistan to the Indian subcontinent.

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Haji Raaz Mohammad, a 48-year-old farmer from Kan-dahar, said he has never under-stood why the U.S. is trying to drive out the militants.

“I don’t know why they are doing it,” he said. “The Tali-ban are not outsiders. They are our own people.”

Because the task in Kanda-har is so delicate, U.S. com-manders talk about squeez-ing rather than driving out the Taliban. The military has struggled to come up with a description of the upcoming fight, avoiding terms like cam-paign, operation and battle because those words and others have annoyed Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

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U.S. military leaders say that unless it succeeds, the rest of the plan for pacifying Afghani-stan is hollow.

Kandahar is not under direct Taliban control, but there is partial and ever-shifting Tali-ban influence. The insurgents’ authority overlaps with that of local criminal gangs, war-lords, shakedown artists and drug operators.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said that a traditional offen-sive in Kandahar inevitably would cause civilian casual-ties and damage property, winning propaganda points for the insurgents.

“This is not Fallujah,” Secre-tary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said. That’s a ref-erence to the city in western Iraq, which in 2004 saw the most intense urban combat undertaken by the U.S. mili-

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In the past two weeks, insur-gents have launched two bold assaults on the largest U.S. and NATO military bases in Afghanistan, including the sprawling, fortified Kandahar airfield. Both attacks were quickly repelled, but dem-onstrated the militants can strike even foreign military bastions at will.


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SCHEDULEYOUTH SWIMMINGStamm Family InvitationalJune 4-6, at City Pool

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Race fans have plenty to be excited about today. The Indianapolis 500 begins at noon, and the Sprint Cup Series’ Coca-Cola 600 will go deep into the night af-ter its 4 p.m. start.

WHO’S HOTCOLBY RUSHING

Porters Chapel cen-ter fielder started and went 1-for-3 with an RBI single and a sto-len base, helping the South beat the North 7-3 in Saturday’s MAIS Class A baseball all-star game.

SIDELINESPetal knocks offMadison for 6A title

Petal didn’t blow its sec-ond chance at a state championship.

The Panthers jumped on Madison Central for four runs in the first inning, then blew the game open with eight runs in the third and went on to beat the Jaguars 15-7 in Game 3 of the Class 6A championship series at Trustmark Park.

Petal (30-4) won its fifth state championship over-all, but first since 1999.

Madison Central (31-4) concluded a tough cham-pionship series. It lost Game 1, 2-1, then had to rally from five runs down in Game 2 to win 6-5 and force a deciding game.

In Game 3, Petal pounced early and never let up. The Panthers knocked out Madison ace L.J. Hollins in the second inning. A three-run double by Brandon Smith and an RBI single by Jacoby Langley in the first gave them a 4-1 lead.

In the top of the third, Taylor Byrd’s two-run triple and three RBI singles led to the eight-run rally that made it 12-1.

Madison cut it to 12-7 in the fifth inning on Spencer Turnbull’s two-run single, but Petal put the game away with a run in the sixth and two in the seventh.

LOTTERYFriday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-3-2La. Pick 4: 3-7-1-0

Because of technical diffi-culties at Louisiana Lottery headquarters, Saturday’s results were not available. They will appear in Sun-day’s editions.

Saturday’s Powerball numbers were 1-3-24-28-41. The powerball was 10 and the power play was 4.

MLB

HalladaypitchesperfectoBy The Associated Press

MIAMI — Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halla-day threw the 20th perfect game in major league his-tory, delivering the mar-quee performance of his All-Star career in a 1-0 win over the Florida Mar-lins on Saturday night.

It was the second perfect game in the majors this month alone. Unher-alded Dallas Braden did it for Oakland against Tampa Bay on May 9. It’s the first time in the modern era that there were a pair of perfectos in the same season. Colo-rado’s Ubaldo Jimenez threw a no-hitter, too, in April.

Halladay struck out 11, then got pinch-hitter Ronny Paulino to ground out to end it, and was cheered by a crowd of 25,086 throughout much of the night.

“I don’t know what to say,” Halladay said. “Early in my bullpen I was hit-ting spots more than I have been. I felt like I just carried that out there.”

While there were a couple of good plays behind him — short-stop Wilson Valdez went deep into the hole for a grounder, backup third baseman Juan Castro went to his knees for another — Halladay didn’t need any great defensive work in this gem.

The 33-year-old righty known as Doc was a veri-table one-man show.

“It’s never something that you think is possible,” Halladay said. “Really, once I got the two outs, I felt like I had a chance. You’re always aware of it. It’s not something that you expect.”

Always stoic on the mound, Halladay (7-3) broke into a big smile as his teammates rushed in to congratulate him.

“That’s a big emotion for him,” Phillies left-hander Jamie Moyer said, laugh-ing in the clubhouse. “It’s fun to watch.”

When it was over, the Phillies mobbed Halla-day, surrounding him in a circle as stadium work-ers immediately ran out to sweep the mound and plate area.

The Marlins said they would give Halladay the pitching rubber as a sou-venir, leading to a slightly surreal scene. The lights at Sun Life Stadium went out and fireworks began exploding two minutes after the game ended, with the field crew pre-paring for a postgame concert behind second base.

Working in the dark, four men went to work on the mound, digging up the slab where Halladay made history.

“You’ve got to take your hat off to Doc,” Marlins manager Fredi Gonza-lez said. “That’s why he is who he is. That’s what they got him for.”

Southern Miss takes C-USA crownFrom staff reports

Southern Miss slowed down Conference USA’s juggernaut and sped off with the league championship.

The Golden Eagles scored four runs in the top of the first inning, and Todd McIn-nis and Scott Copeland kept Rice’s high-octane offense in check long enough to scratch out a 7-4 victory in the C-USA Tournament championship game Saturday night.

The Golden Eagles (35-22) avenged a loss to Rice (38-21) in last season’s C-USA final and earned an automatic berth to the NCAA Tour-

nament — their eighth in a row. It is USM’s second C-USA title overall and first since 2003.

Rice had crushed its first three tournament opponents by a total of 53-6. It had scored at least 11 runs in all three games, but couldn’t do much against the effective tag team

of McInnis and Copeland.McInnis gave up four runs

on 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings. Three runs came in the fifth inning, when Michael Ratter-ree hit a two-run double and scored on Jimmy Comerota’s single to cut USM’s lead to 5-4.

After McInnis walked Michael Fuda to put runners at first and second, Cope-land came on in relief and slammed the door. He struck out Steven Sultzbaugh to get out of the jam, then threw four more scoreless innings to earn the victory.

Copeland, who went eight innings and thew 106 pitches

in USM’s tournament opener on Wednesday, allowed no runs, no hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out three and improved to 10-0 on the season.

After the Golden Eagles jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first, B.A. Vollmuth hit a solo homer to lead off the fifth for what turned out to be the winning run. Taylor Walker’s RBI single in the sixth and an unearned run in the seventh padded the lead.

Vollmuth, Walker and Copeland were named to the all-tournament team. Cope-land was selected tourna-ment MVP.

Crimson Tide rolls over FloridaBy The Associated Press

HOOVER, Ala. — Adam Morgan scattered six hits in a seven-inning game and Alabama beat Florida 5-2 on Saturday to advance to the Southeastern Conference title game.

The Tide (37-21), which has won eight straight games, will face eighth-seeded LSU today for the tournament championship in a matchup of the bottom two seeds. Both have skated through with-out a loss largely with strong starting pitching.

Morgan (6-4) kept that

going, striking out five and walking none. Tide pitchers haven’t issued a walk in 24 innings of tournament play.

“Adam Morgan was out-standing. He pitched ahead of the count, didn’t walk any-body and we had too many fly outs,” Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan said. “You have to give credit to him; he pitched up and down the zone which was very effective. If he pitches like that next week-end, whoever plays them will have lots of trouble. He was outstanding.”

The Gators (42-15) are still expected to host a regional

and be a top seed.“We are going to take this,

keep working hard and pre-pare for next weekend,” Flor-ida second baseman Josh Adams said.

Sunday’s championship game will mark the first time a No. 7 and 8 seed have met for the SEC tournament title. Alabama will be playing in its ninth SEC championship game and is 7-1 in its previ-ous appearances.

The Saturday games were shortened to seven innings because of rain, but the weather was clear and sunny for much of the day’s finale.

LSU cruises past Ole Miss, into SEC finalBy The Associated Press

HOOVER, Ala. — Ben Alsup tossed a one-hitter to lead LSU back into the Southeastern Conference championship game with an 8-0 victory over Ole Miss on Saturday.

Making just his second start of the season, Alsup (4-0) struck out seven and walked two in a game that was delayed 90 minutes and shortened to seven innings because of rain. He faced only two batters over the minimum thanks to a double play, and the hit he gave up was an infield single that trickled off his glove in a reflexive stab that might have kept second baseman Tyler Hanover from turning

it into an out.“If I let that ball go, I have

full confidence in Tyler making that play,” Alsup said.

It was one of his only regrets on the day.

Blake Dean homered and drove in three runs for the Tigers (39-20), who move on to face fellow tourney unbeaten Alabama for the title today. The defending national champions have won the past two SEC tour-naments but squeaked into the field as the No. 8 seed after late-season struggles.

The Tigers have won 12 of their last 13 SEC tournament games and are seeking their ninth title.

Ole Miss (38-22) went 2-2 in the tournament after ending the regular season on a five-game skid, but fizzled at the end. The Rebels had to beat the Tigers twice to move on to the final but gave up three runs in the first three innings of the opener and never rebounded.

“I thought they were tre-mendous today and just totally outplayed us in every phase of the game,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said.

Ole Miss played until the late evening on Friday before beating Auburn in 10 innings and nearly 4 hours, but Bianco wasn’t prepared

to blame his team’s play on a quick turnaround.

“I was disappointed with our energy,” he said. “I don’t have an answer but they had a lot more energy than we did and played better than we did.”

Alsup didn’t give up a hit until Matt Smith led off the fifth with a grounder up the middle. He then set down the side with two strikeouts and a flyout.

“I thought he was abso-lutely marvelous,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. “He was in complete control and he was fearless out there.”

Added Ole Miss’ Smith: “He got ahead the majority of the time and was just mixing it

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LSU’s Ben Alsup pitches against Ole Miss during Saturday’s Southeastern Conference tournament game. Alsup threw

seven shutout innings as LSU won 8-0 and advanced to today’s championship game against Alabama.

Alabama’s Adam Morgan, right, celebrates with catcher Brock Bennett after beating Florida 5-2 in the SEC Tour-nament on Saturday.

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May 301911 — Ray Harroun wins the

first Indianapolis 500 in 6 hours, 42 minutes, 8 seconds with an average speed of 74.59 mph.

1912 — Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500 in 6:21:06. Ralph Mulford is told he has to com-plete the race for 10th-place money. It takes him 8:53 as he makes sev-eral stops for fried chicken. The fin-ishing rule is changed the next year.

1955 — Bob Sweikert, an India-napolis native, wins the Indianapo-lis 500. Bill Vukovich, seeking his third consecutive victory, is killed in a four-car crash on the 56th lap.

2009 — Travis Tucker hits an RBI single with one out in the top of the 25th inning to give Texas a 3-2 victory over Boston College in the longest baseball game in NCAA history.

basEbaLLIndians pitcher OKafter shot to head

NEW YORK — Cleveland Indians pitcher David Huff was back with the team only a few hours after he was hit above the left ear by Alex Rodriguez’s line drive Saturday and carted off the field.

Huff was taken to New York-Pres-byterian Hospital in Manhattan for a CT scan, which was negative. The Indians said the 25-year-old left-hander never lost consciousness or experienced memory loss.

“He’s doing well, we’ll find out more tomorrow,” Indians manager Manny Acta said after the team ral-lied from a big deficit for a 13-11 vic-tory. “He did not have any concus-sive symptoms right now.”

Huff returned to Yankee Stadium by the ninth inning, saw a couple of teammates, showered and took the team bus with his brother, Tim, and their parents.

He received a phone call from Rodriguez, who was going to the hospital after the game but was told to turn around after Huff was discharged.

GOLfDavis, Molderlead the Colonial

FORT WORTH, Texas — Brian Davis had his second consecutive 65 on Saturday while Bryce Molder shot 67, putting them both at 16 under entering the final round at the Colonial.

Both players are seeking their first PGA Tour win, along with the champion’s plaid jacket and a check of more than $1 million.

Kenny Perry’s tournament-record mark of 19 under, which he set when winning in 2003 and 2005, could be in serious jeopardy. The next-best score for a Colonial was 17 under by three players last year, when Steve Stricker won a two-hole playoff.

There are 17 players at 11 under or better going into the final round.

Zach Johnson (64) was a stroke behind the leaders. Ben Crane (64) joined first-round co-leaders Jeff Overton (66) and Jason Bohn (68) in a tie for fourth at 14 under.

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBTampa Bay ...................34 16 .680 —New York ......................29 20 .592 4 1/2Toronto .........................29 22 .569 5 1/2Boston ..........................28 23 .549 6 1/2Baltimore ......................15 35 .300 19

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota .....................29 20 .592 —Detroit ...........................25 23 .521 3 1/2Chicago ........................21 28 .429 8Kansas City ..................21 29 .420 8 1/2Cleveland ......................18 29 .383 10

West Division W L Pct GBOakland ........................27 23 .540 —Texas ............................26 23 .531 1/2Los Angeles .................24 27 .471 3 1/2Seattle ..........................19 29 .396 7

Saturday’s GamesCleveland 13, N.Y. Yankees 11Toronto 5, Baltimore 2L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 1, 10 inningsMinnesota 8, Texas 3Oakland 6, Detroit 0Tampa Bay 8, Chicago White Sox 5Boston 1, Kansas City 0

Today’s GamesCleveland (Masterson 0-5) at N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 5-2), 12:05 p.m.Oakland (Braden 4-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 1-4), 12:05 p.m.Baltimore (Guthrie 3-4) at Toronto (R.Romero 4-2), 12:07 p.m.Kansas City (Chen 1-0) at Boston (Lester 5-2), 12:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Peavy 3-4) at Tampa Bay (J.Shields 5-2), 12:40 p.m.Seattle (Snell 0-3) at L.A. Angels (J.Saunders 3-6), 2:35 p.m.Texas (Holland 2-0) at Minnesota (S.Baker 4-4), 7:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesCleveland at N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 p.m.Oakland at Detroit, 12:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 1:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.Minnesota at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

Perfect GamesBy The Associated Press

Perfect games thrown in major league baseball history:Roy Halladay, Philadelphia at Florida, 1-0, May

29, 2010.

Dallas Braden, Oakland vs. Tampa Bay, 4-0, May

9, 2010.

Mark Buehrle, Chicago (AL) vs. Tampa Bay, 5-0,

July 23, 2009.

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Randy Johnson, Arizona at Atlanta (NL), 2-0, May

18, 2004.

David Cone, New York (AL) vs. Montreal, 6-0, July

18, 1999.

David Wells, New York (AL) vs. Minnesota, 4-0,

May 17, 1998.

Kenny Rogers, Texas vs. California (AL), 4-0, July

28, 1994.

Dennis Martinez, Montreal at Los Angeles (NL),

2-0, July 28, 1991.

Tom Browning, Cincinnati vs. Los Angeles (NL),

1-0, Sept. 16, 1988.

Mike Witt, California at Texas (AL), 1-0, Sept. 30,

1984.

Len Barker, Cleveland vs. Toronto (AL), 3-0, May

15, 1981.

Catfish Hunter, Oakland vs. Minnesota (AL), 4-0,

May 8, 1968.

Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles vs. Chicago (NL), 1-0,

Sept. 9, 1965.

Jim Bunning, Philadelphia at New York (NL), 6-0,

June 21, 1964.

x-Don Larsen, New York (AL) vs. Brooklyn (NL),

2-0, Oct. 8, 1956.

Charles Robertson, Chicago at Detroit (AL), 2-0,

April 30, 1922.

Addie Joss, Cleveland vs. Chicago (AL), 1-0, Oct.

2, 1908.

Cy Young, Boston vs. Philadelphia (AL), 3-0, May

5, 1904.

x-World Series

Prior to modern eraJohn Richmond, Worcester vs. Cleveland (NL),

1-0, June 12, 1880.

John Ward, Providence vs. Buffalo (NL), 5-0, June

17, 1880.

Unofficial perfect gamesy-Ernie Shore, Boston vs. Washington (AL), 4-0,

June 23, 1917.

z-Harvey Haddix, Pittsburgh vs. Milwaukee (NL),

0-1, 13 innings, May 26, 1959.

a-Pedro Martinez, Montreal at San Diego, June 3,

1995, 1-0, 10 innings.

y-Entered game after starter Babe Ruth walked

Ray Morgan and, following an argument, was

ejected by umpire Brick Owens. Morgan was

caught stealing and Shore retired the remaining

26 batters.

z-Pitched 12 perfect innings, lost in 13th on an

error, sacrifice bunt, walk and double.

a-Pitched 9 perfect innings, allowed leadoff double

in 10th and was replaced by Mel Rojas, who fin-

ished one-hitter in 1-0 win.

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National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................28 20 .583 —Atlanta ..........................27 22 .551 1 1/2New York ......................25 25 .500 4Washington ...................25 25 .500 4Florida ...........................24 26 .480 5

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati ......................30 20 .600 —St. Louis .......................28 22 .560 2Chicago ........................24 26 .480 6Milwaukee .....................21 28 .429 8 1/2Pittsburgh .....................20 30 .400 10Houston ........................16 33 .327 13 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego ....................29 20 .592 —Los Angeles .................27 22 .551 2San Francisco ..............26 22 .542 2 1/2Colorado .......................26 23 .531 3Arizona .........................20 30 .400 9 1/2

Friday’s Late GamesAtlanta 7, Pittsburgh 3L.A. Dodgers 5, Colorado 4Washington 5, San Diego 3San Francisco 5, Arizona 0

Saturday’s GamesChicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 0Cincinnati 12, Houston 2Milwaukee 8, N.Y. Mets 6Philadelphia 1, Florida 0Atlanta 6, Pittsburgh 3Colorado 11, L.A. Dodgers 3San Diego 4, Washington 2San Francisco 12, Arizona 1

Today’s GamesHouston (F.Paulino 0-7) at Cincinnati (Leake 4-0), 12:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Moyer 5-4) at Florida (Ani.Sanchez 4-2), 12:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Maholm 3-4) at Atlanta (Kawakami 0-7), 12:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Dickey 1-0) at Milwaukee (Wolf 4-4), 1:10 p.m.St. Louis (Wainwright 6-3) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 3-4), 1:20 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 4-3) at Colorado (J.Chacin 3-2), 2:10 p.m.Arizona (I.Kennedy 3-3) at San Francisco (Wel-lemeyer 3-4), 3:05 p.m.Washington (L.Hernandez 4-3) at San Diego (Gar-land 6-2), 3:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Atlanta, 12:05 p.m.Milwaukee at Florida, 12:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.Washington at Houston, 1:05 p.m.Colorado at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.Cincinnati at St. Louis, 3:15 p.m.Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets at San Diego, 9:05 p.m.

cOLLEGE basEbaLLconference usa Tournament

At Houston, TexasWednesday’s Games

Southern Miss. 8, Memphis 2Rice 11, East Carolina 3Houston 11, Marshall 7

Thursday’s GamesEast Carolina 8, Southern Miss 1Marshall 10, Memphis 7Rice 24, Houston 3

Friday’s GamesMemphis 3, East Carolina 2Rice 18, Marshall 0Southern Miss 10, Houston 6

Saturday’s GameSouthern Miss 7, Rice 4, Southern Miss wins championship

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sEc TournamentAt Hoover, Ala.

Double-eliminationWednesday’s Games

Alabama 7, Auburn 1Ole Miss 3, South Carolina 0LSU 10, Florida 6Vanderbilt 2, Arkansas 0

Thursday’s GamesAuburn 3, South Carolina 1, 12 innings, South Carolina eliminatedFlorida 5, Arkansas 4, Arkansas eliminatedLSU 7, Vanderbilt 5Alabama 6, Ole Miss 3

Friday’s GamesOle Miss 10, Auburn 7, 10 innings, Auburn eliminatedFlorida 5, Vanderbilt 2, Vanderbilt eliminated

Saturday’s GamesLSU 8, Ole Miss 0, Ole Miss eliminatedAlabama 5, Florida 2

Today’s GameLSU vs. Alabama, 1 p.m.

PREP basEbaLLMHSAA championship schedule

All games at Trustmark ParkMay 25

St. Stanislaus 5, Amory 4

St. Aloysius 6, Myrtle 0Sumrall 12, Water Valley 2

Richton 8, Hamilton 4

May 26Long Beach 2, Ridgeland 1

Petal 2, Madison Central 1

Myrtle 5, St. Aloysius 4Richton 5, Hamilton 0, Richton wins Class 2A

championship

May 27Sumrall 11, Water Valley 1, Sumrall wins Class 3A

championship

St. Stanislaus 6, Amory 0, St. Stanislaus wins

Class 4A championship

Long Beach 2, Ridgeland 1, Long Beach wins

Class 5A championship

Madison Central 6, Petal 5

FridaySt. Aloysius 18, Myrtle 1, St. Aloysius wins Class 1A championship

SaturdayPetal 15, Madison Central 7, Petal wins Class 6A

championship

nbaNBA Playoff ScheduleCONFERENCE FINALS

(Best-of-7)(x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCEBoston 4, Orlando 2

May 16: Boston 92, Orlando 88May 18: Boston 95, Orlando 92May 22: Boston 94, Orlando 71May 24: Orlando 96, Boston 92, OTMay 26: Orlando 113, Boston 92May 28: Boston 96, Orlando 84

WESTERN CONFERENCEL.A. Lakers 4, Phoenix 2

May 17: L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107May 19: L.A. Lakers 124, Phoenix 112May 23: Phoenix 118, L.A. Lakers 109May 25: Phoenix 115, L.A. Lakers 106May 27: L.A. Lakers 103, Phoenix 101Saturday: L.A. Lakers 111, Phoenix 103

NBA FINALS(Best-of-7)

(x-if necessary)Boston vs. L.A. Lakers

Thursday: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.June 6: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m.June 8: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.June 10: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.x-June 13: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m.x-June 15: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.x-June 17: Boston vs. L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m.

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LakERs 111, suns 103L.A. LAKERS (111)Artest 10-16 1-2 25, Gasol 2-9 5-6 9, Bynum 3-5 4-5 10, Fisher 4-9 3-3 11, Bryant 12-25 10-11 37, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Odom 3-12 0-1 6, Farmar 3-4 0-0 8, Vujacic 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 39-83 23-28 111.PHOENIX (103)Hill 2-7 1-1 6, Stoudemire 7-20 13-15 27, Lopez 0-1 0-0 0, Nash 8-11 3-3 21, Richardson 3-7 5-6 13, Frye 5-7 0-0 12, Dudley 1-3 0-0 3, Barbosa 3-9 0-0 7, Dragic 5-9 2-2 12, Amundson 1-1 0-2 2. Totals 35-75 24-29 103.L.A. Lakers 37 28 26 20 — 111Phoenix 34 19 21 29 — 1033-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 10-24 (Artest 4-7, Bryant 3-8, Farmar 2-3, Vujacic 1-2, Fisher 0-4), Phoenix 9-26 (Frye 2-4, Nash 2-5, Richardson 2-6, Dudley 1-2, Hill 1-2, Barbosa 1-3, Stoudemire 0-1, Dragic 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 52 (Odom 12), Phoenix 42 (Frye 13). Assists—L.A. Lakers 18 (Farmar 5), Phoenix 19 (Nash 9). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 23, Phoenix 19. Technicals—L.A. Lakers defensive three sec-ond. Flagrant Fouls—Vujacic. A—18,422 (18,422).

nhLNHL Playoff ScheduleSTANLEY CUP FINALS

(Best-of-7)(x-if necessary)

Chicago 1, Philadelphia 0Saturday: Chicago 6, Philadelphia 5Monday: Philadelphia at Chicago, 7 p.m.Wednesday: Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Friday: Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.x-June 6: Philadelphia at Chicago, 7 p.m.x-June 9: Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.x-June 11: Philadelphia at Chicago, 7 p.m.

nascaRSprint Cup

Coca-Cola 600 LineupAfter Thursday qualifying; race today

At Charlotte Motor SpeedwayConcord, N.C.

Lap length: 1.5 miles(Car number in parentheses)

1. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 187.546 mph.2. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 187.292.3. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 187.188.4. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 187.169.5. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 186.974.6. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 186.825.7. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 186.767.8. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 186.728.9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 186.528.10. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 186.053.11. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 186.021.12. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 185.803.13. (83) Casey Mears, Toyota, 185.535.14. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 185.459.15. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 185.452.16. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 185.052.17. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 184.932.18. (43) AJ Allmendinger, Ford, 184.906.19. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 184.856.20. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 184.634.21. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 184.609.22. (36) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 184.464.23. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 184.407.24. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 184.344.25. (21) Bill Elliott, Ford, 184.344.26. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 184.326.27. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 184.181.28. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, 184.093.29. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 184.049.30. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 184.037.31. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 183.949.32. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 183.855.33. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 183.586.34. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 183.542.35. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 183.306.36. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 183.281.37. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 182.599.38. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 182.562.39. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, owner points.40. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, owner points.41. (38) Travis Kvapil, Ford, owner points.42. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, owner points.43. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 183.243.

Sprint Cup standingsThrough May 22

1. Kevin Harvick ............................................. 1,7682. Kyle Busch ................................................. 1,6993. Matt Kenseth .............................................. 1,6424. Jimmie Johnson ......................................... 1,6375. Denny Hamlin ............................................ 1,6186. Jeff Gordon ................................................ 1,6057. Greg Biffle .................................................. 1,5818. Jeff Burton ................................................. 1,5699. Kurt Busch ................................................. 1,53110. Carl Edwards ........................................... 1,48711. Mark Martin .............................................. 1,47512. Martin Truex Jr. ....................................... 1,43413. Ryan Newman ......................................... 1,40414. Tony Stewart ............................................ 1,39715. Clint Bowyer ............................................. 1,392

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Nationwide SeriesTECH-NET Auto Service 300 Results

SaturdayAt Charlotte Motor Speedway

Concord, N.C.Lap length: 1.5 miles

(Start position in parentheses)1. (6) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 203 laps, 128.6 rating, 190 points, $58,145.2. (3) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 203, 134.7, 180.3. (13) Joey Logano, Toyota, 203, 119, 170.4. (11) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 203, 103.2, 160.5. (4) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 203, 104.6, 155.6. (18) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 203, 101.3, 150.7. (40) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 203, 100, 146.8. (20) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 203, 95.1, 142.9. (1) Carl Edwards, Ford, 203, 101.7, 143.10. (26) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 203, 90.6, 134.11. (9) Jamie McMurray, Chevy, 203, 88.7, 135.12. (36) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 203, 75.4, 127.13. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 203, 109.1, 129.14. (17) Michael Annett, Toyota, 203, 79.1, 121.15. (21) Brian Ickler, Ford, 203, 82.2, 118.16. (31) Jeremy Clements, Chevy, 202, 74.5, 115.

17. (2) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 202, 81.8, 112.18. (12) Paul Menard, Ford, 201, 65.7, 109.19. (29) Jason Keller, Chevrolet, 201, 75, 106.20. (35) Michael McDowell, 201, 67.4, 103.21. (10) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 201, 73.3, 100.22. (14) Willie Allen, Chevrolet, 200, 68.8, 97.23. (42) Robert Richardson Jr., 200, 55.5, 94.24. (38) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 200, 64.7, 91.25. (33) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 200, 58.1, 88.26. (5) Kasey Kahne, Toyota, 199, 114, 90.27. (15) Chad McCumbee, Ford, 199, 50.7, 82.28. (37) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 199, 47.2, 79.29. (34) Eric McClure, Ford, 199, 45.8, 76.30. (19) Scott Lagasse Jr., Ford, 199, 50.7, 73.31. (27) Danny Efland, Chevrolet, 197, 42.1, 70.32. (41) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 173, 43.1, 67.33. (8) Brian Scott, Toyota, 159, 51.2, 64.34. (7) Steve Arpin, accident, 127, 31.4, 61.35. (28) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 98, 30.1, 58.36. (39) Morgan Shepherd, handling, 42, 44.2, 55.37. (32) Kevin Lepage, ignition, 31, 42.9, 52.38. (24) Danny O’Quinn Jr., handling, 19, 40, 49.39. (23) Dennis Setzer, vibration, 13, 38.8, 46.40. (22) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, accident, 8, 36.5, 43.41. (30) David Gilliland, accident, 8, 35, 40.42. (43) Josh Wise, Ford, electrical, 5, 32.4, 37.43. (25) Mark Green, Chevy, accident, 3, 29.9, 34.

Nationwide Series standings1. Brad Keselowski ......................................... 1,9462. Kyle Busch .................................................. 1,9453. Kevin Harvick .............................................. 1,8524. Carl Edwards .............................................. 1,6895. Justin Allgaier ............................................. 1,6816. Paul Menard ............................................... 1,5137. Joey Logano ............................................... 1,3988. Greg Biffle ................................................... 1,3689. Jason Leffler ............................................... 1,35010. Tony Raines .............................................. 1,249

iRLIndianapolis 500 Lineup

Race todayAt Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Lap length: 2.5 milesPosition, Car numbers, driver, time, speed; All cars Dallara-Honda; r-rookie

Row 11. (3) Helio Castroneves, 2:37.9154, 227.970.2. (12) Will Power, 2:38.1876, 227.578.3. (10T) Dario Franchitti, 2:38.5970, 226.990.

Row 24. (6) Ryan Briscoe, 2:38.9027, 226.554.5. (77) Alex Tagliani, 2:39.0178, 226.390.6. (9) Scott Dixon, 2:39.1277, 226.233.

Row 37. (30) Graham Rahal, 2:39.6319, 225.519.8. (20) Ed Carpenter, 2:40.3514, 224.507.9. (06) Hideki Mutoh, 2:41.0831, 223.487.

Row 410. (99) Townsend Bell, 2:39.9313, 225.097.11. (22) Justin Wilson, 2:39.9647, 225.050.12. (2) Raphael Matos, 2:39.9798, 225.028.

Row 513. (32) Mario Moraes, 2:40.0794, 224.888.14. (21) Davey Hamilton, 2:40.1053, 224.852.15. (24) Mike Conway, 2:40.2969, 224.583.

Row 616. (26) Marco Andretti, 2:40.3030, 224.575.17. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, 2:40.3227, 224.547.18. (4) Dan Wheldon, 2:40.3821, 224.464.

Row 719. (8T) E.J. Viso, 2:40.4424, 224.380.20. (23) Tomas Scheckter, 2:40.5270, 224.261.21. (25) r-Ana Beatriz, 2:40.5402, 224.243.

Row 822. (78) r-Simona de Silvestro, 2:40.5511, 224.228.23. (7) Danica Patrick, 2:40.5584, 224.217.24. (36) r-Bertrand Baguette, 2:40.5785, 224.189.

Row 925. (33) Bruno Junqueira, 2:39.5305, 225.662.26. (19) Alex Lloyd, 2:40.1543, 224.783.27. (34) r-Mario Romancini, 2:40.2557, 224.641.

Row 1028. (43) John Andretti, 2:40.3438, 224.518.29. (67) Sarah Fisher, 2:40.4033, 224.434.30. (14) Vitor Meira, 2:40.4367, 224.388.

Row 1131. (5) r-Takuma Sato, 2:40.5865, 224.178.32. (11T) Tony Kanaan, 2:40.6628, 224.072.33. (29) r-Sebastian Saavedra, 2:40.9776, 223.634.

Sunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-8-4La. Pick 4: 1-1-2-7Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-5-7La. Pick 4: 0-1-5-1Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-7-1La. Pick 4: 6-3-0-4Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-0-8La. Pick 4: 5-1-4-7Easy 5: 8-19-20-32-34La. Lotto: 7-11-20-25-27-40Powerball: 1-6-10-13-20Powerball: 32; Power play: 4Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-3-0La. Pick 4: 4-5-9-8Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-3-2La. Pick 4: 3-7-1-0Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: n/aLa. Pick 4: n/aEasy 5: n/aLa. Lotto: n/aPowerball: 1-3-24-28-41 Powerball: 10; Power play: 4

Southern LeagueNorth Division

W L Pct. GBTennessee (Cubs) ........29 20 .592 —West Tenn (Mariners) ..25 23 .521 3Huntsville (Brewers) .....23 26 .469 6Carolina (Reds) ............23 26 .469 6Chattanooga (Dodgers) 21 28 .429 8

South Division W L Pct. GBJacksonville (Marlins) ...30 18 .625 —Montgomery (Rays) ......26 22 .542 4Mississippi (Braves) ..24 24 .500 6Mobile (Diamondbacks) 24 24 .500 6Birm. (White Sox) .........17 31 .354 13

———Saturday’s Games

Birmingham 4, Huntsville 2West Tenn 4, Carolina 2Chattanooga 2, Jacksonville 1Tennessee 3, Montgomery 0Mississippi at Mobile, ppd., rain

Today’s GamesBirmingham at Huntsville, 1 p.m.West Tenn at Carolina, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Montgomery, 2:05 p.m.Mississippi at Mobile, 6:05 p.m.Chattanooga at Jacksonville, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesCarolina at Jacksonville, 12:05 p.m.Mobile at Huntsville, 4 p.m.West Tenn at Chattanooga, 5:15 p.m.Tennessee at Birmingham, 7:05 p.m.Montgomery at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m. GOLf

PGA TourColonial Par Scores

SaturdayAt Colonial Country Club

Fort Worth, TexasPurse: $6.2 million

Yardage: 7,204; Par: 70Third Round

Brian Davis .......... 64-65-65—194 ......................-16Bryce Molder ....... 65-62-67—194 ......................-16Zach Johnson ...... 65-66-64—195 ......................-15Ben Crane ........... 68-64-64—196 ......................-14Jeff Overton ......... 63-67-66—196 ......................-14Jason Bohn ......... 63-65-68—196 ......................-14Bill Haas .............. 65-68-64—197 ......................-13Boo Weekley ....... 67-63-67—197 ......................-13Kris Blanks .......... 65-64-68—197 ......................-13Bo Van Pelt ......... 67-66-65—198 ......................-12John Merrick ........ 66-66-66—198 ......................-12Corey Pavin ......... 67-64-67—198 ......................-12Lee Janzen .......... 70-66-63—199 ......................-11Matt Jones ........... 69-66-64—199 ......................-11Scott Verplank ..... 67-66-66—199 ......................-11Kenny Perry ........ 68-64-67—199 ......................-11Ricky Barnes ....... 66-66-67—199 ......................-11Jerry Kelly ........... 67-70-63—200 ......................-10Pat Perez ............ 69-68-63—200 ......................-10Kevin Na .............. 67-68-65—200 ......................-10Kyle Stanley ........ 68-66-66—200 ......................-10K.J. Choi .............. 67-67-66—200 ......................-10John Mallinger ..... 65-66-69—200 ......................-10Rickie Fowler ....... 70-67-64—201 ........................-9Nick Watney ........ 68-66-67—201 ........................-9Blake Adams ....... 63-70-68—201 ........................-9

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The Vicksburg Post Sunday, May 30, 2010 B3

Kairos team releases another gospel CD

We had another recording session here at “Studio 61” recording studio in Leland, the closest town of note to Brownspur, with members of the Mississippi Kairos Prison Ministry Music Team, to add a bass and tenor line to the vocals and instrumental tracks we’ve been working on for a couple of months.

I got to the studio a little early to find owner Eric Fowler busy recording “Strawberry Wine” and “Long Black Train” by a little girl with a big voice: Peyton Pierce from Vicksburg, who was accompanied by her mother and godmother. They were headed afterward to Tupelo to enter her in the Col-gate Country Showdown com-petition. The proud mother, April, was confident that God has something great in store for her 9-year-old daughter, and they were putting feet to their prayers as God seems to be opening a very special door for their family.

Rusty, the tenor, arrived just as Eric finished the CDs, and we wished them well as they went on their way. I told April that they reminded me of my favorite poem, which was stuck by a rusty knife to the mess hall wall at the Wood-stock Hunting Club.

It goes: “He was a very cau-tious man, he never romped or played; he never fished, or played baseball, or even kissed a maid. And when he up and passed away, insurance was denied: for since he hadn’t ever lived — they claimed he never died.”

The point being that some-times you step out on faith that God has opened a door, or given you a talent or gift that will bless others, if you have the courage to go ahead and start the journey.

The Mississippi Kairos Music Team stepped out on a simi-lar journey of faith more than three years ago. I’ve led the music for dozens of Kairos and Emmaus Walk weekends over 20 years, but the Music Team for the CMCF Men’s Kairos No. 16 is the first one to stick together. We’ve played con-certs in several states as fund-raisers for Kairos, and last year when Studio 61 had its grand opening, Eric recorded

our live performance and we released it as a CD in Novem-ber, strictly as a Kairos fund-raiser, the which it has done very well in Mississippi.

Encouraged by the recep-tion of the songs and sales, we’re almost ready to release a second CD of praise and worship music, and have had contacts from Christian radio stations from coast to coast, literally. Who knows where this will go?

I lead the music at Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, and have for seven years come August, but one of the things I’ve missed the most about leading choir and con-gregational singing is that one cannot lead by singing the bass line of the songs. I’ve sung bass in choirs, choruses, and groups ever since my voice changed — in high school, col-lege, the Navy, and several churches since coming home to stay. When the Presbyteri-ans had a national schism 40 years ago, I joined a Baptist choir for two years before I ever joined a Baptist church, so I learned all the Baptist hymns in the bass line.

Rusty and I were involved this day in laying down bass tracks, and I cannot tell you how good it felt to be able to sing that again. What a blessing.

We’ll finish up this CD during June, and if you’d like to get a copy, you can drop your Uncle Bob a line at P.O. Box 6, Ston-eville, MS 38776, with $15 plus $3 shipping and handling, or e-mail me at unclebob@yahoo. com and we’ll git ‘er done.

All proceeds go to the MS Kairos Prison Ministry. God opened the door, and we stepped through it, and He blessed this ministry with our music.

•Robert Hitt Neill is an outdoors writer and he lives in Leland, Miss.

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Americans endure rough day in ParisPARIS (AP) — Serena Wil-

liams looked ill, and not only because she had lost five games in a row at the French Open.

Battling a cold, Williams received a visit during a changeover from a trainer, who checked her tempera-ture and gave her pills. Then came a third-set surge, and Williams beat 18-year-old Rus-sian Anastasia Pavlyuchenk-ova on Saturday, 6-1, 1-6, 6-2.

There was no prescription to help Andy Roddick, who lost to Russian qualifier Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Rod-dick threw rackets and argued with the umpire, but the fits of temper failed to produce a turnaround against an oppo-nent ranked 114th.

Four-time champion Rafael Nadal won in straight sets but still needed nearly 2 1/2 hours to eliminate feisty No. 28 Lley-ton Hewitt 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

Unseeded Robby Ginepri, the only remaining American in the men’s draw, also reached the fourth round by beating 2003 champion Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-4.

The top-ranked Williams appeared in danger when she fell behind 5-love in the second set and summoned the trainer.

“I felt really dizzy out there,” she said. “Just ran out of a little energy out there, just fighting a cold and fighting sickness.”

Soon Williams’ court move-ment improved, her strokes steadied and she advanced to the fourth round.

“Doesn’t matter the score, especially against her,” Pavly-uchenkova said. “She’s a good fighter. She’s really confident and she is Serena.”

The seesaw victory assured Williams of retaining the No. 1 ranking after the tournament.

No. 18-seeded Shahar Peer won and plays Williams next. Other winners included Yaro-slava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and wild card Jarmila Groth of Australia, who both advanced to the fourth round at a major tournament for the first time.

The third-round showdown between four-time champion Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova was suspended because of darkness at one

set apiece. Henin led 6-2, but her streak of 40 consecutive sets won at Roland Garros ended when Sharapova took the second set, 6-3.

No. 3 Novak Djokovic, a two-time semifinalist, beat Victor Hanescu 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Djok-ovic will play Ginepri, who came into the tournament with a 1-7 record this year.

Top-seeded American twins Bob and Mike Bryan were upset in the second round of doubles by unseeded Brazil-ians Marcelo Melo and Bruno

Soares 6-3, 7-6 (6).Roddick, the No. 6 seed in

the men’s draw, never looked good. Playing on his worst surface, he was always on the defensive against Gabashvili, who even had the more domi-nating serve with a 9-4 edge in aces. Roddick never broke and lost serve four times.

The weather and clay on Court Suzanne Lenglen — which Roddick considers par-ticularly slow — robbed his shots of some zip.

“I got outplayed from the first ball,” he said. “It was a tough matchup for me in these conditions. He has pretty big swings and gets good length on the ball. I’m a little shorter and wasn’t able to penetrate the court quite as well. He was getting in control of the rallies

most of the day.”Roddick’s mood was sour

almost from the start. During a first-set changeover, he threw two wrapped rackets because he was angry about the way they had been strung.

During another changeover three games from the end, he engaged in a long, heated dis-cussion with the umpire about the tarps behind the baseline. They were wet from rain, and balls rolling into them became heavy.

“It’s something that I’ve been pretty adamant about complaining about behind closed doors for a long time,” Roddick said. “I don’t think that’s something that needs to happen all the time.”

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Par-Bustersgolf tournament

The 35th annual Par-Busters Golf Club Commu-nity Service Tournament is scheduled for June 4-6 at Clear Creek Golf Course. The tournament begins at 8 a.m. each day, and fea-tures 36 holes of stroke play. There will be seven flights, based on a full field, with places for the top four in each flight. The registration fee is $160 per person and includes a Friday practice round, dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday. Prizes will be awarded Saturday for longest drive and closest to the pin in the men’s, women’s and seniors divisions.

Golfers can register at The Rainbow Hotel on Friday from 6 to 10 p.m., or by mail-ing a completed entry form — along with check or money order — to Par-Bust-ers Golf Club, 810 First North Street, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

For information, call Aaron Bell at 601-415-9481.

Clear Creek Ladies Golf Association report

On Wednesday, the Ladies of Clear Creek will host their monthly retirees scram-ble. Tee time is 8:30 a.m. and check-in is at 8. Sign-up sheets are in the Clear Creek clubhouse or call 601-638-9395 to be signed up.

Clear Creek SeniorMen’s golf association

The Clear Creek seniors held a three-man scramble tournament at Whisper Lake Golf Course on May 27. The team of Bob Walters, Jerry Harmon and Hal Morgan was first with a 129. In second was the trio of Del Cox, Bob Walsh and John Nassour with a 130. In third were Brad Heisler, Al Ford and Don Wait with a 139. Fourth place went to David Williams, Tom Engdahl and V.O. Martin with a 139. In fifth was the team of Pete Johnson, Larry Cook and Jack Farren with a 139.

Closest to the hole on No. 3,was Al Ford, and Tom Eng-dahl was closest on No. 17.

Home of Championsbaseball camp

The Home of Champions baseball camp at Viking

Field for ages 5-15 is sched-uled for Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. until noon. Cost is $100 and includes a $60 deposit, T-shirt and an evaluation. Campers need to bring a hat, one pair of base-ball shoes, one pair of tennis shoes, glove and socks. The deposit is non-refundable. For information, call Tipp Nutt at 601-630-5720.

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Clear Creek Golf Course will host a junior golf camp June 28-July 1, from 9-11 a.m. each day. Cost is $70 and instructors are Kent and Chase Smith. Chase Smith will also offer summer instruction every Tuesday and Thursday during June from 9-10 a.m. at Clear Creek. The cost is $10 per lesson.

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Clear Creek Golf Course is scheduled to host the Bud Light two-man Scramble June 19-20. Entry fee is $220 per team and includes mul-ligans, green and cart fees, lunch, practice round green fee and drinks.

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up and we were a tick late on his fastball and couldn’t hit the breaking ball. We’ve got to hit one or the other. You can’t give him both.”

Mainieri said he might have found a third starter in Alsup. It was the third straight strong outing by one of his starting pitchers in the tournament, with both Austin Ross and Anthony Ranaudo pitching into the eighth.

Alsup said his mentality was to get ahead in the count and play aggressively.

“If you hit it, I’ve got a great defense behind me. Take your chances,” he said.

Dean also drove in two runs on sacrifice flies. He is now 7-for-11 in the tournament with four RBIs.

Tyler Hanover went 3-for-4 with a double and three runs batted in. Mikie Mah-took scored three times and reached on all four plate appearances.

Mason Katz had two hits and an RBI.

The Tigers tacked on three runs in the sixth.

The weekend was still a

nice rebound for the Rebels going into an NCAA regional.

“I think it was definitely a confidence builder for us,” Smith said.


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LSU’s Mikie Mahtook (8) is forced out at second by Ole Miss’ Alex Yarbrough during Saturday’s SEC Tournament game.

Wittels’ hitting streak at 53 gamesBy The Associated Press

Garrett Wittels used a head-first slide to keep his hitting streak alive. It helped extend Florida International’s season as well.

Wittels pushed his hitting streak to 53 games, five away from Robin Ventura’s NCAA Division I record, with an infield single Saturday in the eighth inning of FIU’s game against Florida Atlantic in the Sun Belt Conference Tourna-ment at Murfreesboro, Tenn.

FIU wound up getting four runs in the eighth, winning the game 11-9 and clinching a spot in today’s title game with a guaranteed spot in the NCAA Tournament at stake.

“Down two runs in the eighth inning, I was going up to bat knowing I needed to be a baserunner,” Wittels said. “I looked over at coach (Turtle)

Thomas, he just said, ‘Get a hit,’ and I decided right then I wasn’t going to chase anything out of the zone.”

Wittels worked a 2-0 count, then hit a fastball off FAU pitcher Taylor Everist’s glove.

“One of the hardest balls I ever hit,” said Wittels, who finished 1-for-5. “And just out of the excitement, I decided to dive headfirst into the base. I didn’t even know if their guy had a play. I don’t even know if there was a throw.”

The excitement didn’t stop there. The next FIU batter,

Jeremy Patton, put the Golden Panthers ahead for good with a three-run home run.

Wittels has come up huge for FIU with both his bat and his arm in the Sun Belt Tournament.

Florida International and Florida Atlantic were meeting for the second time in about 14 hours on Saturday. Flor-ida International won Friday night 18-16 in 11 innings, a marathon that ended at 12:31 a.m. — 4 hours, 51 minutes after it began.

The Sun Belt’s player of the year, Wittels pitched the final three innings of that game, making just his fourth appear-ance on the mound this year.

“Our whole team was tired today,” Wittels said. “But all year long we’ve been preach-ing conditioning. It’s paying off.”

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Blackhawks win wildGame 1 over Flyers

CHICAGO (AP) — From the first faceoff, the Stanley Cup opener between the Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers was like a track meet on ice.

Tomas Kopecky had the go-ahead goal in the third period, and the Blackhawks beat the Flyers 6-5 on Saturday night.

Fast-paced, up-and-down, the game was played at break-neck speed. Two teams trying to get off to a quick start traded goals for the first two periods. It was almost a ques-tion of who would score last in this meeting of franchises who have experienced long title droughts.

On this night it happened to be the Blackhawks.

“You lose the first game of the Stanley Cup finals and it’s hard to sit here and thumb through the positives right now,” Flyers coach Peter Lavi-olette said. “We’ll take a look at it tonight and tomorrow. We’ll be ready to go.”

Game 2 is Monday night at the United Center.

Kopecky, who had been scratched the previous five playoff games and was in the lineup because of an injury to Andrew Ladd, scored from the left side with a sharp-angled shot that beat backup goalie Brian Boucher at 8:25 of the third.

The Flyers failed to hold three one-goal leads.

“They came out strong, they were playing really physical,” Chicago forward Kris Ver-steeg said. “We had to match them, and once we did that, I think we did well.”

Danny Briere and Scott Hart-nell had a goal and two assists apiece for the Flyers.

Chicago’s Troy Brouwer scored two goals, the second putting the Blackhawks ahead 5-4 in the second period and prompting the Flyers to replace starter Michael Leigh-ton with Boucher.

“I just wanted to be ready. We wanted to go out and be a dangerous line every time we were on the ice,” Brouwer said.

Ville Leino, Blair Betts and Arron Asham also scored for the Flyers.

Dave Bolland had a short-handed, breakaway goal for the Blackhawks, and Patrick Sharp and Kris Versteeg also scored for Chicago.

The Blackhawks are in their first final series since 1992 and are aiming for the franchise’s first championship since 1961. The Flyers, who last made the finals in 1997, are shooting for their first title since the Broad Street Bullies won the second of two straight championships in 1975.

The Flyers weren’t too bull-ish Saturday night. They played the entire game with-out a penalty.

Brouwer’s second goal, on a pass from Marian Hossa who reversed himself behind the net, came from the left circle with 4:42 left in the second, sending ex-Blackhawks goalie Leighton to the bench.

Leighton had been brilliant since taking over in the second round. He entered the game with a 6-1 record, including three shutouts, after replac-ing an injured Boucher in the Eastern Conference semifi-nal series against the Boston Bruins. Leighton entered with a 1.45 goals-against average and save percentage of .948. He was pulled after giving up his fifth goal in just 20 shots.

Chicago’s Antti Niemi made 27 saves for the win.

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Lakers slide past Suns to reach FinalsPHOENIX (AP) — Get

ready, Boston, for a rematch with Kobe Bryant and his Los Angeles Lakers.

Bryant wrapped up a mag-nificent series with 37 points, Ron Artest added 25 and the Lakers held off the Phoenix Suns 111-103 on Saturday night to win the Western Con-ference finals in six games.

The Lakers and Celtics, the NBA’s premier teams for much of the league’s history, will meet in the finals for the 12th time with Game 1 Thurs-day night in Los Angeles.

“We’ll see how much we matured,” Bryant said. “They challenged us extremely well in the finals a couple years ago. Now is a chance to see how much we’ve grown.”

Bryant scored nine points in the final two minutes, includ-ing what looked like an impos-sible 23-footer with Grant Hill in his face and 34 seconds to play. The basket put Los Ange-les up 107-100 and the scrappy Suns were finished.

Amare Stoudemire, in what may have been his last game with the Suns, scored 27 points but struggled to a 7-of-20 shooting night. Steve Nash had 21 points and nine assists in his 118th playoff game, the most for anyone who has never reached the finals.

Bryant, with his 10th 30-point performance in his last 11 post-season games, moved ahead of Jerry West and into a tie with Kareem Abdul Jabbar for second-most 30-point playoff games at 75. He has a ways to go for the record — 109 held by Michael Jordan.

Channing Frye had 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Suns, who have reached the finals only twice in their history and never have won a champion-ship. Goran Dragic scored 10 of his 12 points in a fourth-quarter rally that got Phoenix within three points.

The Lakers led by as many as 18 late in the second quar-ter and were up by 17 enter-ing the fourth. But four Suns

reserves plus Stoudemire got them back into it after Los Angeles took a 91-74 lead into the fourth quarter.

“With a 3-point shooting team like Phoenix,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said, “you know that any lead is not impossible.”

With Bryant on the bench for a brief rest, Dragic scored the first eight points of the quar-ter to slice Los Angeles’ lead to 91-82 with 10:27 left.

The Lakers’ Sasha Vujacic drew a flagrant foul for an elbow to the face of his fellow

Slovenian with 11:18 to play. Dragic made both free throws, then blew by Vujacic for a layup to cut it to 91-80 with 11:12 left. Dragic drove for another layup the next time as Bryant made a hasty return to the court.

Suns coach Alvin Gentry stayed with the lineup, and the run reached 16-4 on Stou-demire’s layup after a slick pass from Dragic under the basket to cut it to 95-90 with 6:09 to play.

Nash and Jason Richardson finally re-entered the game with 3:26 to play and Los Angeles leading 99-92. Stou-

demire made two free throws, then Nash cut it to 99-96 on a layup with 2:19 left.

Bryant sank a 21-footer, Lamar Odom stole Nash’s pass and Bryant made two free throws to stretch it to 103-96 with 1:43 to go.

Four straight points by Stou-demire cut it to 100-95 with 53.1 seconds left, but Bryant responded with his dagger over Hill and the surpris-ing playoff run of the under-sized, overmatched Suns was finished.

“I just got a little separation,” Bryant said, smiling.

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The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, right, shoots over Phoenix Suns guard Jason Rich-ardson in the second half of Game 6 of the Western Conference finals Saturday.

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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch stayed calm even when nothing was going right. He even told his crew they could do something they’ve never done before: Come back from two laps down to win.

“Let’s do it,” Busch said.Then he did. Busch overcame

some early troubles to win the Nationwide race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, his second straight victory in NASCAR’s second-tier series.

Busch, the defending series champ, battled back for his fourth win in eight races.

Brad Keselowski finished second, followed by Joey Logano, Justin Allgaier, Ryan Newman and Kevin Harvick.

Busch went a lap down after an unscheduled pit stop early and dropped another lap when he got penalized for speeding on pit road. Showing plenty of poise, Busch got back on the lead lap, moved to the front with a speedy pit stop late and then held on over the final 58 laps.

Busch and Keselowski stayed out when others pitted with about 15 laps to go. But none of those cars had anything for the leader.

Keselowski had one last chance on the final restart, but Busch held him off during a green-white-checkered finish thanks to some blocking help from teammate Logano.

“It was all about the restart and he just beat us,” said Kes-elowski, who was hoping to get team owner Roger Pen-ske’s big weekend off to a strong start.

Keselowski remained the series points leader — he leads Busch by a point — and might be able to pull away as Busch turns his attention solely to

his Sprint Cup team.

“I’m really going to miss him,” Kesel-owski said. “We bring out the best and worst in each other.”Busch called

walking away a “bummer,” but said it was something he needed to do to avoid the strain that would come with trying to drive both series at different tracks over the next month.

That stretch begins today at Charlotte, where he’ll run in the Coca-Cola 600 for the surging Joe Gibbs Racing team. JGR drivers Busch and Denny Hamlin have won five of the last seven Sprint Cup points races. The hot streak has come since NASCAR in March ditched the despised rear wing to return to the more traditional spoiler.

“I feel like we had a fast car last weekend, which will translate into this weekend. I feel like we can really capi-talize on our season and try to keep strong momentum going,” Busch said.

Four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson dominated last week’s All-Star race at Charlotte. He easily led 56 of the 100 laps and proba-bly would have won if not for a quirky format that required a four-tire pit stop before the final sprint to the finish.

Lucky for everyone, Johnson didn’t bring that same Chevro-let back for today’s race.

“It’s a different car so we’re sitting here thinking we wish we had the other car,” John-son said.

Penske, Ganassi looking to double upCONCORD, N.C. (AP) —

Thanks to a later starting time at Indianapolis, it’s not possi-ble for a driver to race in both the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day anymore.

Yet car owner Roger Penske is poised to finally pull off his own IndyCar-NASCAR double.

With defending champion Helio Castroneves on the pole and his drivers in three of the top four starting spots, Penske is the favorite to win an unprecedented 16th Indy 500 title.

Penske’s stunning success at Indy is contrasted with his 0-for-forever drought at Char-lotte Motor Speedway, where he’s never had a winning car in a points race.

That could change with Kurt Busch starting second today after winning last weekend’s All-Star race at the track.

“It’s funny how many wins

he has on Memorial Day week-end up in Indy versus what he doesn’t have down here in Charlotte,” Busch said. “Hope-fully, it comes this weekend. It would be pretty special for us to do that.”

Busch pulled away from the field in the 10-lap finale last Saturday for the $1 million first prize. It came hours after Castroneves captured the Indy 500 pole.

Busch followed his All-Star win with a solid qualifying run in the No. 2 Dodge on Thurs-day. Busch will try to become the seventh driver to win the All-Star race and the 600 in the same year.

Penske teammates Sam Hornish Jr. will start 14th and Brad Keselowski 37th.

“He’s got the best opportu-nity to do it,” Busch said of Penske’s quest for two wins today. “He’s got the best odds to do it this weekend with three cars up there and three cars down here.”

Penske isn’t the only car owner trying for a double today.

If Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti or Townsend Bell wins the Indy 500, Chip Ganassi would become the first team owner to win the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500 in the same season.

“It would be something, wouldn’t it?” Ganassi said. “It’s certainly crossed my mind. But I try to stay focused on the job at hand and let other people think about those kind of things.”

He’s not the first to pursue

an unprecedented IndyCar-NASCAR double.

A.J. Foyt had a chance to win both races as a driver in 1972. Several drivers, includ-ing John Andretti and Tony Stewart, have tried to win Indy and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day. Two years ago Penske tried to complete his own triple crown by winning Indy, Daytona and Sebring in the same year.

Dixon scuttled those cel-ebration plans, winning the 500 by nearly 1.75 seconds. Now Penske might be ready for payback.

“Roger Penske tried it and Chip ruined it for him, so I think Roger probably wants to ruin it for Chip,” said John Andretti, a NASCAR regular who is making his 11th career Indy start. “But it’s amazing to even have a shot at being able to do that, to be that competi-tive in both series.”


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Moment of remembrance honors fallen defendersDear Abby: As a nation,

we Americans are at our best when we come together bonded by a noble purpose. It is my privilege to invite our citizens to unite for the National Moment of Remem-brance at 3 p.m. (local time) on Memorial Day. Our hope is that your readers will pause at that moment, whether at a ballgame or barbecue, in the swimming pool or at the shop-ping mall, in respectful silence to honor America’s fallen.

To unite the country in remembrance, Congress offi-cially established the National Moment of Remembrance in 2000. And as has been done in the past, in observance of this National Moment, Major League Baseball games will stop, Amtrak trains will blow their whistles and the National Grocers Association and Food Marketing Institute will have customers and staff pause in more than 30,000 stores throughout our country.

Abby, your patriotism and compassion, united with that of your millions of readers, have helped us — and con-tinue to help us — unite our country in remembrance of our fallen on Memorial Day.

Dear Carmella: Thank you for your beautiful letter. I accept your kind invitation on behalf of myself and Dear Abby readers everywhere. This act of unity on Memorial Day will be a time of respect, reflection and commitment in memory of the almost 2 mil-lion men and women who have died in the service of our nation. Their sacrifices for us live on in each constitutional

right we practice, and in our hearts always.

Dear Abby: I am 14 and will attend a private high school in the fall. Both of my sisters were star athletes at the same school. I am gifted in both aca-demics and athletics, and I’ll be taking two honors classes.

My dad recently pointed out that I am required to play a sport. I believe if I do, I will be too stressed out and my grades will slip. He wants me to be this “super child” that I am not and go to Harvard. Everyone who knows me over-estimates me. How should I approach him to tell him how I really feel? — Pushed to My Limits in Albuquerque

Dear Pushed: If you’re unsure about your ability to carry the load, approach your

father as you have approached me. However, before you do, I wish you would take into consideration that participat-ing in a sport can be an effec-tive way of releasing stress — including academic pres-sure. If sports are a require-ment at your school, there is a good reason for it. So please, at least give it a try. If it’s too much for you, talk to your par-ents, as well as your counselor

at school.P.S. As to “everyone who

knows you overestimating you,” has it occurred to you that you may be UNDEResti-mating yourself?

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‘Easy Rider’ Dennis Hopper, film icon, dies at 74LOS ANGELES (AP) —

Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in “Rebel Without a Cause,” an improbable smash with “Easy Rider” and a classic character role in “Blue Velvet,” has died. He was 74.

Hopper died Saturday at his Venice, Calif., home, sur-rounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. Hopper’s manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The success of “Easy Rider,” and the spectacular failure of his next film, “The Last Movie,” fit the pattern for the talented but sometimes uncontrolla-ble actor-director, who also had parts in such favorites as

“Apocalypse Now ” a n d “Hoosiers.” He was a two-time Acad-emy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

After a promising start that included roles in two James Dean films, Hopper’s acting career had languished as he developed a reputation for throwing tantrums and abus-ing alcohol and drugs. On the set of “True Grit,” Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun.

He also married five times and led a dramatic life right

to the end. In January 2010, Hopper filed to end his 14-year marriage to Victoria Hopper, who stated in court filings that the actor was seeking to cut her out of her inheritance, a claim Hopper denied.

“Much of Hollywood,” wrote critic-historian David Thom-son, “found Hopper a pain in the neck.”

All was forgiven, at least for a moment, when he collabo-rated with another struggling actor, Peter Fonda, on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-dealing hippies on a motorcy-cle trip through the Southwest and South to take in the New Orleans Mardi Gras.

On the way, Hopper and Fonda befriend a drunken young lawyer (Jack Nich-olson, whom Hopper had resisted casting, in a breakout

role), but arouse the enmity of Southern rednecks and are murdered before they can return home.

“‘Easy Rider’ was never a motorcycle movie to me,” Hopper said in 2009. “A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.”

Fonda produced “Easy Rider” and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. The film caught on despite tension between Hopper and Fonda and between Hopper and the original choice for Nicholson’s part, Rip Torn, who quit after a bitter argu-ment with the director.

Hopper was married and divorced several times.

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The Warren County-Vicks-burg Public Library reports on new books regularly:

• “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing Book Shar-ing Guide to Life” by Kathy L. Patrick is about her jour-ney. When Kathy lost her job as a publisher’s rep, she took that lemon and made margaritas. She opened Beauty and the Book, the world’s only combination beauty salon/bookstore. Soon after that whirlwind success, Kathy founded the Pulpwood Queens of East Texas, a book club that, almost overnight, became a nationwide phenomenon. She set out to change the world, one reader at a time. Now, in candid and hilari-ous stories, Kathy shares her guiding principles, wild-est escapades and favorite titles.

• “What to Read When” by Pam Allyn explains how choosing the right books can shape thoughtful, cre-ative, curious children with a love of reading to last a lifetime. This book is a guide to the life cycle of childhood — the occa-sions, big and small, that offer opportunities for par-ents to bond with their chil-dren, and the words and pic-tures that will bring clarity and connection. What sets this book apart is the com-pletely unique annotated list of more than 300 titles addressing powerful child-hood themes that range from friendship to thankful-ness, courage, separation, creativity, spirituality and more.

• “Promised Land: 13 Books That Changed America” by Jay Parini examines the life and times of the books that changed America. Each of the books has been a watershed, gath-ering intellectual currents already in motion and mark-ing a turn in American life and thought. Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in these essays Parini demonstrates how these books have altered how we think and act in the world.

• “Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empower-ment” by Emma W. Hamil-ton offers a fresh approach to discovering the joys of reading, and includes more than 150 ways to engage even the most reluctant reader. You’ll discover how

to build or restore the criti-cal connection between reading and pleasure and how to find the best books for young readers — plus hundreds of activities, resources, recommenda-tions and tools for building the foundation for a lifelong love of reading.

• “The Book Whisperer” by Donalyn Miller offers to awaken the inner reader in every child. Miller takes us inside her sixth-grade class-room to reveal the secrets of her powerful, but unusual, instructional approach. Rejecting book reports, comprehension worksheets and other aspects of con-ventional instruction, Miller embraces giving students an individual choice in what they read combined with a program for independent reading. She also focuses on building a classroom library of high-interest books and, above all, in modeling appropriate and authentic reading behaviors. Her zeal for reading is infectious and inspiring, and the results speak for themselves.

• “The Book Shopper: A Life in Review” by Murray Browne is a spirited and witty guide to the world of disheveled used-book stores and dusty basements where shelves sag under the burden of books. This book will make you laugh as it helps you find your way to titles and authors you’ll really want to read. With a combination of zeal and irreverence, the author writes about bookstores, online booksellers and the off-center kind of folks who inhabit them.

• “Thanks, But This Isn’t for Us” by Jessica Page Morrell is a guide to why our writing is being rejected. All good writing is unique, but it has a lot in common — it engages our senses, stirs our imagi-nation and lingers in our memory. Bad writing has a whole lot in common, too. From dull dialogue to con-trived characters, these deadly but common mis-takes drive agents and edi-tors to the stock rejection letter, telling aspiring writ-

ers thanks but no thanks and leaving many to wonder what they’re doing wrong. In 15 to-the-point chapters — with checklists, exercises, takeaway tips and a glos-sary — Morrell helps read-ers transcend these mis-takes so they don’t have to learn the hard way.

• “Reading Together” by Diane W. Frankenstein tells everything you need to know to raise a child who loves to read. This engaging guide includes book recom-mendations and questions to help children make sense of what they read; guide-lines for selecting appro-priate books, in terms of reading level and emotional readiness; tips that support your efforts in raising read-ers; and conversation start-ers for some of the many challenges of childhood, including bullies and peer pressure.

• “The Man Who Loved Books Too Much” by Alli-son H. Bartlett is the true story of a thief, a detec-tive and a world of liter-ary obsession. Unrepen-tant thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Unlike most thieves, who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love — the love of books. Equally obsessive, though, is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed detective driven to catch him. With a mixture of sus-pense, insight and humor, Bartlett has woven this cat-and-mouse chase into a narrative that not only reveals exactly how Gilkey pulled off his crime and how Sanders eventually caught him, but also explores the romance of books, the lure to collect them and the temptation to steal them.

•Denise Hogan is reference interlibrary loan librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. Write to her at 700 Veto St., Vicksburg, MS 39180.

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Streisand design book coming in fallBy Hillel ItalieAP national writer

NEW YORK — Creating the perfect house is more than a passion for Barbra Streisand. It’s almost primal.

The 68-year-old singer-actress-director, promot-ing her upcoming book about design, said her many searches for cherished house-hold objects is a way of com-pensating for her father’s dying when she was just 15 months old.

“The fact I didn’t have a father, I think this has to do with this need of finding something you’re looking for,” Streisand said Tuesday at BookExpo America, where she was interviewed by Gayle King on stage at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

Streisand’s “My Passion for Design,” a coffee-table book, is scheduled to come out in the fall.

Wearing black slacks, a black top, platform sandals and a full-length coat, seated before some 2,000 booksellers and other industry officials, Strei-sand spoke of channeling her exacting filmmaking style into her domestic life. She showed slides of a mill house and an “elegant barn” she had built and shared anecdotes about various topics, including her “Wizard of Oz” storm cellar, the leather embossed draw-ers in the barn and a custom-made bed in her Malibu, Calif., house that she sized between a king and a queen.

She confided sharing a prob-lem known to many home-

owners — being overbilled by contractors — and said her voice was hoarse for years from shouting over buzz saws and other equipment.

Streisand also reiterated what she said last year, that

she had also written a few chapters of a memoir. But she found she wasn’t ready for her life story.

“I better write about my house,” she decided.

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Corps’MVDdoles outhonorsFrom staff reports

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missis-sippi Valley Division has announced its annual award winners.

The honors, including Length of Service certifi-cates for 27 employees with a total of 700 years, were handed out in a ceremony Wednesday.

• Brian Chewning, an economist and program manager for the New Orleans Dis-trict Support Team, pro-grams direc-torate, received the Ernest P. Blankenship Engineer/Scientist Award. Chewn-ing was the MVD’s point of contact for the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduc-tion System. At $14.7 bil-lion, it is the Corps’ largest civil works project. He was also the MVD’s lead for the team that obtained the first Environmental Protection Agency approval plan for an EPA-designated wetland.

• Alisa Russo, a program analyst within the Civil Works Integration Division, received the Ernest P. Blan-kenship Professional Award. Her responsibilities include regional financial manage-ment of the MVD’s $1.1 bil-lion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program, as well as management of financial data on civil works programs and the Flood Control & Coastal Emer-gency initiative.

• Edie Whittington, an adminis-trative officer for the Mis-sissippi River Commis-sion, received the Ernest P. Blanken-ship Techni-cal/Administrative Award. Whittington coordinates public hearings and execu-tive sessions for the MRC, and prepares reports and other correspondence related to the meetings.

• Barbara Kleiss, direc-tor of Louisi-ana Coastal Area Sci-ence and Technology, was named Woman of the Year. Kleiss, a 30-year federal employee, organized a team to develop plans for Louisiana coastal area projects and wrote a report on applying the Engi-neering Circular on Relative Sea Level Rise concept. She also created wetland loss maps. Kleiss has led teams in the effort to develop a Mississippi River Region Model and the Diversion Summit.

• Jim Hannon, former deputy director of regional business for the MVD, received the Commander’s

Oil spill means mini job boom in GulfBy The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Much as he hates to say it, Mark Leonard knows it’s true: The oil spill that is fouling the Gulf of Mexico might save his family’s business.

Leonard, 34, is operations manager for Coastal Tank Cleaning, a company called in to help set booms to pre-vent oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak from getting into Lake Pontchartrain. The Morgan City-based company has sent 10 work-ers and equipment to a stag-ing area at Fort Pike, on the eastern tip of New Orleans.

“We don’t want this to happen,” he said. “We didn’t want this to be our saving grace to keep the company going. But this is something that I think is helping a lot of companies that were down, and possibly wondering, ‘When is it finally going to pick up? When can we start working again and staffing again and paying our bills?’”

The spill, now more than a month old, could end up killing the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen, res-taurant workers, charter boat captains and tourism employees.

But for now, it’s triggering a mini-boom in other jobs across a five-state region.

In coastal Louisiana, it’s reminiscent of the job boom that followed Hurricane Katrina as thousands were put to work cleaning up debris, gutting houses and rebuilding public buildings and entire neighborhoods. In St. Bernard Parish, a sub-urban New Orleans commu-nity where fishermen are working for BP in a fight to save their fishing grounds, the hurricane, which struck Aug. 29, 2005, damaged vir-tually every building and sank much of the fishing fleet.

Five years later, the area’s economy is among the healthiest of major metro areas, says The Associ-ated Press Economic Stress Index, which assigns coun-ties a score of 1 to 100 based on unemployment, foreclo-sure and bankruptcy data.

Some analysts believe the economic resilience pow-ered by tens of billions in federal rebuilding aid is unsustainable. Once the money is spent, they say, the tourism-based economy and lower-wage jobs that domi-nated before Katrina are likely to re-emerge.

BP has spent more than $750 million so far in oil spill response initiatives. Spokes-man John Curry said the company has hired more than 20,000 people as part of the response to the April 20 accident and its aftermath. Some are contractors and subcontractors, some are laborers hired to set boom.

Many have taken up resi-dence at staging areas along the coast in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

In the fishing village of Cocodrie, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, the staging area sprouted up in a vacant lot at pier 56, next to Coco Marina.

“BP has basically moved in and taken the place of the recreational customers,” said Michael Glover, whose family runs the 23-room Coco Marina. “We’re feed-ing them three meals a day, and they’ve rented all my rooms. My kitchen staff, my waitstaff, the housekeepers are all doing well, working a little more than usual. We’re busy nonstop, every day.”

Unskilled labor is getting a boost, too.

In Pensacola, Fla., 4,000 people in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties showed up at recruiting events to apply for 500 potential clean-up jobs.

The Workforce Escarosa Career Center hosted the recruiting for a Texas com-pany looking for people with environmental or haz-mat certification. Only about 400 of the applicants actu-ally had those — of more

than 4,000 who applied at four events over a week’s time, said Brittany Bailey, a spokeswoman for the center.

“We were surprised by the number of people who came,” Bailey said. “These were dirty jobs. One require-ment was you had to be able to lift 40 pounds. These were not desk jobs. It shows how desperate people really are at this point. We’ve never had lines wrapped around the building.”

In fishing-reliant Gulf communities like Bayou La Batre, Ala., captains barred from fishing are signing con-tracts to pull the barriers across bays and shorelines, or to maintain the booms.

“It has helped to a point, but there’s a limited number of people who have been able to get these jobs,” said oyster harvester Avery Bates, vice president of the Organized Seafood Associa-tion of Alabama.

The skippers must get Coast Guard safety certifi-cations before signing con-

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Out-of-work fishermen hired by BP gather up oil booms off the coast of Louisiana.

John Rahim, a boom deployment coordinator for St. Bernard Parish, La., enlists out-of-work fishermen to place oil booms.

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ERDC lab chiefsets retirement

Dr. Michael Pass-more, deputy director of Environmental Labo-ratory at the Engineer Research and Develop-ment Center, will retire in June.

Passmore has nearly 30 years of experience with the Corps, with 15 spent at ERDC. He began his career as a wildlife biol-ogist in the Walla Walla, Wash., District, where he became chief of the Envi-ronmental Resources Branch. From 1991 to 1992, worked on a devel-opmental assign-ment at ERDC’s Environ-mental Lab. In 1996, he became the chief of the Ecological Resource Branch in the Corps’ Vicksburg District. In 2005, he was named acting deputy director of the Environmental Lab. He became permanent deputy director in 2007.

Throughout his career, Passmore had worked with The Wildlife Soci-ety and the National Military Fish and Wild-life Association. He has instructed the Army Leadership Educa-tion and Development Course.

Passmore has bach-elor’s and master’s degrees from Oregon State University, and a doctorate from Texas A&M. He and his wife, Elise, have three chil-dren, four grandchildren and one on the way.

ERDC engineer getssociety’s high honor

Paul F. Mlakar, a regis-tered professional engi-neer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center, has received the American Society of Civil Engineers’ highest honor.

Mlakar was named a Dis-tinguished Member of the ASCE for his work in forensic civil engi-neering.

Mlakar partici-pated in the inves-tigation of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, led an ASCE team during the 9/11 Pentagon building perfor-mance study and led the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force assessing performance of the New Orleans hurricane protection system after Hurricane Katrina.

Mlakar graduated second in his class from the U.S. Military Academy. He has a master’s degree and a doctorate in engineer-ing science from Purdue University.

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Award for Outstanding Achievement in Equal Employment Opportu-nity. Hannon has been a committee member for the Affirmative Employ-ment Program/EEO Com-mittee. He has helped in the recruitment of minorities, women and the disabled. He is part of the federal govern-ment’s Senior Executive Service and, as a result, was promoted to director of regional business for the Corps’ Southwestern Division, Dallas.

The MVD is responsi-ble for the Corps’ water resources programs in a 370,000-square-mile area, extending from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and encompassing parts of 12 states. The MRC, head-quartered in downtown Vicksburg at the MVD, oversees operations for the entire Mississippi River.

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tracts to do the work, Bates said, and many must also be trained to handle hazard-ous materials. The demand for work is so great that boat workers quickly filled up a class held at a small church.

“We thought 300 would show up, and then 600

showed up. People couldn’t even get in the building, and they had to reschedule another session,” said Bates. “A few hundred have gotten work (but) we are still a long way from getting there.”

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Officers, from front left, are Lynn Foley, past president; Michele Willis, vice president; Derek Adams, president; and Sabrina van den Nieuwboer, treasurer. On the back row,

from left, are Laura Beth Lyons, public rela-tions special events chair; Brandy Boyd, membership chair; Lori Burke, nominating chair; and Diane Gawronski, programs chair.

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Occupancy rates and average daily rates at 13 of Vicksburg’s 32 hotels and motels during February, as reported to Smith Travel Research.

local occupancy rates

February 2010Occupancy rate.............49.9%Average daily rate.........$69.27

February 2009Occupancy rate.............46.7%Average daily rate.........$72.03

Year to date 2010Occupancy rate.............43.9%Average daily rate.........$69.56

Year to date 2009Occupancy rate.............46.8%Average daily rate.........$72.89

The City of Vicksburg receives 18.5 percent of all sales taxes col-lected by businesses in the city limits. Here are the latest month-ly receipts:

sales tax

April 2010 ......................$650,028Fiscal year to date ..$4,194,043

April 2009....................$631,3912009 fiscal year to date $4,447,112

casino tax revenueVicksburg’s five casinos pay a 3.2 percent revenue tax to the State of Mississippi that is divided — with 10 percent going to schools, 25 percent to Warren County and 65 percent to the city. A second revenue tax is a 0.8 percent share of the state’s 8.8 percent revenue tax. It is split based on population proportions between Vicksburg and War-ren County. Each casino is also required to pay $150 for each gaming device annually to the city. To date, two casinos have paid the gaming device fee. These are the latest re-ceipts:April 2010City ............................ $461,797.80County ..................... $217,885.73Schools .......................$59,102.91

Fiscal year 2009-10 to dateCity .........................$3,780,425.66County ........................$1,630,553Schools ...........................$442,620

April 2009 City ............................ $494,610.17County ..................... $233,283.16Schools .......................$63,295.08

Fiscal year 2008-09 to dateCity .........................$4,077,012.67County ........................$1,737,671Schools ...........................$471,803

Main Street awardsJune 24 in Jackson

The 21st annual Mississippi Main Street awards ceremony will be June 24 at the King Edward/Hilton Garden, 235 W. Capitol St., Jackson.

A blues reception will be at 10:30 a.m., followed by an awards luncheon at 11:30.

Cost is $40 per person, and the deadline to make reser-vations is June 21. Call 601-944-0113 or e-mail [email protected].

May & Companyreceives kudos

A Vicksburg CPA firm and one of its associates have been recognized by the Mississippi Business Journal.

May & Company is runner-up in the Small Business cat-egory for the Best Places to Work in Mississippi award. The annual award was cre-ated in 2005 to recognize com-panies with a positive work-ing environment and high employee retention. Win-ners were chosen based on employee surveys.

Also, May & Company’s H. Riley Nelson was named one of the journal’s Top 40 Under 40, which recognizes young professionals. Nelson is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Missis-sippi State University Warren County Alumni Association and the Vicksburg Catholic Schools Alumni Association. Nelson and his wife, Jenni-fer, have a daughter. He is a member of St. Paul Catholic Church.

Also receiving the Top 40 Under 40 designation was former Vicksburg resident

Joel Neely, who is vice presi-dent of Trustmark Bank in Ridgeland. In addition to its Vicksburg office, May & Com-pany operates in Tallulah and Lake Providence, La., and in Millport, Ala.

Hospital’s CEOreceives award

The chief executive officer of River Region Medical Center has been recognized for his leadership in the health care field.

Vance Reyn-olds received the Outstand-ing Achieve-ment Award from Commu-nity Health Systems, a network of general acute-care hospitals that includes River Region and more than 120 others in 29 states.

River Region operates a main campus on U.S. 61 North, another on North Frontage Road and various clinics.

Insurance firmreceives kudos

Hennessey, Thames & Leavitt, a Vicksburg insur-ance firm, has been awarded the Agency Excellence Award by The Leavitt Group, an organization of independent insurance agencies.

The award, presented during the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas, is based on client and employee surveys.

John Hennessey and Don Thames are co-owners of the agency on Belmont Street.

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THIS & THATfrom staff reports

Harmonica, guitaroffered by SCHF

The Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation will present two music work-shops this summer.

A four-day harmonica workshop for youths and adults will be Tuesdays in July.

Sherman Lee Dillon will instruct the course, which costs $50 per person and includes a harmonica. The workshop for ages 6 to 8 will be from 9 to 10 a.m.; from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. for ages 9 to 12; from 1 to 2 p.m. for ages 13 and older; and from 6 to 7 p.m. for adults.

Also in July will be a four-day guitar blues basics workshop. Sessions will be from 6 to 8 p.m. July 1, 8, 15 and 22.

Richard McComas will instruct. Cost is $100 for SCHF members and $115 for nonmembers, and includes handouts and a CD.

Space is limited and res-ervations are required for each workshop.

Call 631-2997 or e-mail [email protected] for more information and registration.

Extension Serviceto offer programs

The Warren County Extension Service will offer two events in June. Both are free and will be at the Extension office, 1100C Grove St.

How to Revive a Tired Lawn-Yard/Garden Design Basics, part of the First Tuesday Garden-ing series, is set for noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday. City of Vicksburg landscape architect Jeff Richardson will speak.

Set for noon to 1 p.m. Thursday is QuickBites, an interactive video presentation.

Mississippi State Uni-versity florist manager Lynette McDougald will present “Something Old, Something New — Some-thing Borrowed, Some-thing Blue.”

For more information, call 601-636-5442.

MSO tells plansfor camp, concert

The Mississippi Sym-phony Orchestra will present its annual Pre-mier Orchestral Institute, a summer camp for string instrumentalists, Monday-June 5 in Madison. The six-day camp is open to strings players of all skill levels.

Instructors include MSO’s concert mistress Marta Szlubowska, local strings teachers, and pro-fessors and instructors from the University of New Mexico, Northwest Florida State College, Weber State University in Utah and the University of Southern Mississippi.

The camp will close with a concert at noon June 5.

Cost is $250 per stu-dent, and scholarships are available. The camp will be at St. Joseph’s Catholic School, 308 New Manns-dale Road. For more infor-mation, call MSO director of education Alex Encinas at 601-960-1565 or e-mail him at [email protected].

Visit www.msorchestra.com or call 601-960-1565 for more information on the MSO.

Briarfield teacher opening doors through the art realm

LAKE PROVIDENCE — “It’s just another canvas,” is the way Cherie Thorn-hill described a recent art endeavor by some of her stu-dents at Briarfield Academy in Lake Providence.

There are 11 canvases, not just one — and they’re large, about 3 feet wide and 7 feet tall.

And they’re not even canvas or cloth, they’re metal. The gallery is the Per-kins Door Museum on Main

Street in the northeast Loui-siana town.

The only criterion was that each painting had to have a Louisiana theme. Some look much like the shore-

line along the lake from which the town got its name. Others depict crayfish, deer, a pelican, the Saints, catfish, a sailboat and Mardi Gras masks, along with docks, flowers and cypress trees. Of course there’s a fleur-de-lis.

The colors are bright and vivid, but before those oil-based hues could be applied there was a lot of cleaning to be done.

For all to see

GorDoNCOTTON

Cherie Thornhill talks about her students and their art. See Doors, Page C2.

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Doors painted by Cherie Thornhill’s students dry outside the Perkins Door Museum, located on Main Street in Lake Providence.

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Kentucky artist’s clay creations headed to MC galleryAn exhibit by Kentucky

artist Jana John will be fea-tured at Mississippi College’s Gore Galleries this summer.

John’s Clay Explorations will be on display June 25-Aug. 6, with an opening reception from 2 to 4 p.m. June 27.

John is a features assis-tant at Louisville’s Courier-Journal and co-owner of the Gallery Janjobe. She is a member of the Louisville Artisans Guild, Mississippi Guild of Artists and Crafts-men, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the Amer-ican Craft Council.

The gallery, located on the Clinton campus, is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and from 9 a.m. to noon Friday. Admission is free. Call 601-925-7770 or e-mail [email protected].

Potts Camp gearingup for annual picnic

The fifth annual North Mis-sissippi Hill Country Picnic has been set for the end of June.

The two-day music fes-tival will be from 3 p.m. to midnight June 25 and from 10:30 a.m. to midnight June 26 at Potts Camp, off Mis-sissippi 349 in Marshall County. Entertainers will include bluesman and festi-val founder Kenny Brown, Duwayne Burnside, The North Mississippi All-Stars, Jimbo Mathus, Rising Star Fife and Drum Band.

A music workshop led by Brown will be June 24. Cost is $100, plus fees.

Festival tickets are $25 to $65, plus fees, and are avail-able at www.nmshillcoun-trypicnic.com.

Audubon club setsJune nature events

The Jackson Audubon Soci-ety will host two events in June.

A monthly bird walk, led by experienced JAS birders, will be from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, 115 Lakeland Terrace, Jack-son. The park entry fee is $3 per car.

A wildflower/birding field trip will be June 19 at Har-rell Prairie Hill at Bienville National Forest in Forest. Participants will meet at 8 a.m. at the Pearl Cracker Barrel, off Interstate 20 at exit 48, near the Bass Pro Shop. The free field trip will be led by a botanist from the Mississippi Museum of Natu-ral Science and a member of Audubon Mississippi.

For more information, call 601-956-7444 or visit www.jacksonaudubonsociety.org.

McAllister’s charitysets fundraiser

The Catch 22 Founda-tion, a char-ity founded by former New Orleans Saints and Ole Miss player Deuce McAllister, will host a dinner in July honoring the retiring football player.

Celebrating A Saint will be from 6 to 10 p.m. July 9 at The Jackson Convention Center, 105 E. Pascagoula St.

Cost has not been set. Pro-ceeds will benefit the orga-nization. Corporate sponsor-ships are being sought.

McAllister played football at Ole Miss, and was drafted by the Saints in 2001. He retired this year, after the Saints won the Super Bowl.

Call 601-665-3147 or e-mail [email protected].

Ole Miss authorset for lecture

The William Winter Insti-tute for Racial Reconciliation of the University of Missis-sippi will host a free reading and lecture by Alex Heard, an author and editorial direc-tor of Outside magazine.

Heard, author of “The Eyes

of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South,” will discuss events surrounding the 1940s case that inspired his book at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Overby Center Audito-rium on campus.

Heard, a Mississippi native and Ole Miss alumnus, has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post,

Slate and other publications.For more information, visit

www.winterinstitute.org.

Alabama memberto play at Harlow’s

Harlow’s Casino Resort Hotel in Greenville will present a June 25 con-cert by Jeff Cook and the Allstar Good-time Band.

Cook is a member of Alabama, a Grammy-winning country group. He is part of the Coun-try Music Hall of Fame and a CMA Artist of the Decade recipient.

Opening for Cook will be the Trey Hawkins Band.

Tickets are $10 with a Delta rewards casino card. The casino is located at 4280 Har-lows Blvd. Call 866-524-5825 or visit www.harlowscasino.com.

Dream Home rafflecloses this evening

Raffle tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home will be available until 4 p.m. today.

Tickets are $100. The raffle will be shown at 5 this eve-ning on WLBT, local cable Channel 3. Proceeds will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The $550,000 home, built by Brian Burkley of Deep South Custom Homes, is located in the Arbor Landing Commu-nity in Brandon.

Visit www.dreamhome.org or call 800-371-6789.

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Kentucky artist Jana John holds one of her pieces, from John’s Clay Explorations, that will be on display at Mississippi College’s Gore Galleries this summer.

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Memorial Day WeekendToday: Until 3 p.m., Military Through The Ages at Vicksburg Na-tional Military Park; Monday: 10 a.m., Parade of Veterans along Washington Street; 11 a.m., memorial service at City Auditori-um; 12:30 p.m., wreath-laying ceremony at the National Cem-etery at military park, motorcade to the cemetery by way of Fort Hill Drive; 7 p.m., American Wind Symphony Orchestra at City Front.

Miss Mississippi’s Outstanding Teen pageant8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; tickets: $50 for all three nights, $20 each for Thursday and Friday and $25 for Saturday; City Audito-rium; www.missmississippipageant.com or 601-638-6746.

Before You Exit concert8 p.m. Monday; Vicksburg Convention Center, sponsored by Miss Mississippi’s Outstanding Teen pageant, $10 in advance at downtown shops, $12 at door, proceeds benefit Children’s Mir-acle Network.

Holt Collier Mississippi Bear Hunt Memorial SingingUntil 2 this afternoon; Old Court House Museum, 1008 Cherry St.; free.

Faith Fest7 to 10 p.m. Friday at River Stage Plaza, Crawford and Washing-ton streets; free, but donations to charity accepted; 601-218-3578 or 601-218-3577.

Southern Cultural Heritage CenterReservations required for each event: 601-631-2997 or [email protected]; Ballroom dance lessons: 5-7 tonight; the salsa; 5-7 p.m. June 13 and 27; the east coast swing; James Frechette, instructor; $20 per person; Knitting 101: 9 a.m.-noon Saturday and June 12; Leslie Tedder, instructor; $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers; bring size 11 knitting needles, Redheart acrylic yarn and a row counter; Jumpstart Art: 8-11

a.m. June 7-8; ages 3-5; Kathy Gibson, instructor; $20 per child, includes supplies and snack; Multicultural Arts Camp: 8 a.m.-noon June 21-25; ages 6-12; Kathy Gibson and Tracy Gardner, instructors; $50, includes supplies, materials, snack; Beginners stained glass workshop: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday and June 8,15 and 22; the Rev. Mark Bleakley, instructor; $160 for members and $170 for nonmembers; Photography workshop: 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 13 and 20; Ron Klages, instructor; $30 for members, $40 for nonmembers; bring film, camera and batteries; Begin-ners lace workshop: 9 a.m.-noon July 24 and 31; Leslie Tedder, instructor; $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers, bring 135 yards of DK weight yarn and size 6 knitting needles.

Vicksburg Theatre Guild“Gold in the Hills”: July 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 and 30-31; Fairy Tale Theatre: June 24-27; all events at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; Friday and Saturday shows at 7:30 p.m., Sunday shows at 2; $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older, $5 for 12 and younger; 601-636-0471 or www.e-vtg.com.

Book-signingsSteve Yates: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, “Morkan’s Quarry”; Allie Pov-all: 4 p.m. June 8; “The Time of Eddie Noel”; Lorelei Books, 1103 Washington St.; 601-634-8624 or loreleibooks.com.

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LD’s Kitchen1111 Mulberry St., 601-636-9838• 8:30 p.m. each second and fourth Tuesday — Central Missis-sippi Blues Society Band, local artists; free.• 7 p.m. each first and third Tuesday — Soul Idenatee and Sounds Unlimited; call for cover.

Ameristar Casino, 4116 Washington St. 601-638-1000, www.ameristar.com• Passion — Variety; tonight at Cabaret Lounge; free.• LaNise Kirk — Variety; Tuesday-June 6 at Cabaret Lounge; free.• BB Secrist — Oldies; June 8-13 at Cabaret Lounge; free.

• Party Planet— Variety; Friday and Saturday at Bottleneck Blues Bar; free.• Dr. Zarr’s Funkmonster — Variety/funk; June 11-12 at Bottle-neck Blues Bar; free.• Brian McKnight — R&B; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 14 at Bottleneck Blues Bar; tickets on sale June 7, $50-$60; must be 21.

DiamondJacks Casino, 3990 Washington St.601-636-5700, www.diamondjacks.com• Willie Clayton — R&B; 7 tonight; tickets: $30.

Eddie Monsour’s at the Biscuit Company1100 Washington St., 601-638-1571• 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays — Open mic.• 8 p.m. Thursday — Blue Triangle; free.• 10 p.m. Friday — Mark Doyle, $5.• 10 p.m. Saturday — Mayhem String Band, call for cover.

Jacques’ Cafe at Battlefield Inn 4137 N. Frontage Road, 601-638-5811• 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday — Karaoke in the lounge; free.• 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday — Richard Ahlvin; call for cover.

Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge4451 Clay St., 601-636-3761• 7-10 p.m. Wednesday — Live music in lounge; free.• 9:15 p.m. Friday-Saturday — Rachett; call for cover.

Mississippi Welcome Center4210 Washington St., 601-638-4269• 1-4 p.m. every third Sunday — Old Time Music Society; free.

Roca Restaurant & Bar127 Country Club Drive, 601-638-0800• 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays — Ben Shaw; free.

Then the metal was primed, much like the floodwall murals in Vicksburg. Paint-ing on the doors was not easy, Cherie said, and the students did preliminary sketches with grease pencils after the backgrounds were applied because they could be easily wiped off. Once the paintings were finished — and it took a long time to dry — they were sealed with clear varnish. In most cases, Cherie said, the stu-dents mixed the colors; they didn’t just come straight out of a can.

The doors look like they might have come from a motel, Cherie said, “and my students had to paint around

handles and peep holes.”The paintings were com-

pleted in early May, and Cherie said it began with Lynn Thom, a math teacher at Briarfield, who asked her about getting students to get involved in the project. Evelyn Kelly, who had the inspiration for the display “to help pretty up the town,” had the doors. Right now, they’re leaning against the walls, but Pete Peterson plans to hang them for permanent display.

Nine students partici-pated “because I offered them bonus points,” Cherie joked, but she thinks all had a good time, and each signed his work. Several helped clean, prime and paint back-

grounds. The designs and scenes are the works of Aryn Brown, Sara Jo Brown, Ridge Creech, Katie Frith, Kaylyn Hernandez, Saman-tha Patrick, Mary Roland, Sha’Nikqua Ward and Tyeeta Williams.

Cherie grew up in West Carroll Parish, and lives on the farm her family has owned for over a century. She and her husband raise horses and cattle. She earned a degree in journalism at Northeast in Monroe, and returned for a second degree in English with a minor in art. She did all the work for a master’s in counseling with a major in psychology — except write her thesis,

“when I found out it would be only $30 difference in my salary, and I just didn’t see it.” Besides, she said, she was expecting her first (and only) child.

She taught at Pioneer (her alma mater), at Kilbourne and at Oak Grove before retiring after 33 years.

“I retired, but I didn’t stop,” she said, for she went right on over to Lake Provi-dence and Briarfield Acad-emy, “where there are small classes, no tension, and the state doesn’t tell you what you have to do or what you have to teach. Any teacher who stays in it after they retire has got to love what they do.”

Cherie believes that talent can be natural — or it can be acquired — for “it’s like any other subject. It just takes practice to perfect it. One has to have an interest in art, be willing to devote time to it, and be willing to practice, practice, practice. The more one works, the better one gets.”

She starts her students with pencil, then goes to charcoal, color pencil, water-color, pen and ink, then oils.

“I really have some tal-ented students,” she said. “Most of them came into my classroom saying, ‘I can’t even draw a stick man.’ I told them what I tell my classes each year: ‘You may not be

good at everything, or even like everything, but there will be something that I teach that you will do well.’ All anyone has to do is go and view their work.”

What’s next?“I think I’ve knocked a

domino over,” Cherie said, “because now they’re talking about painting a mural at the school next year.”

She also mentioned paint-ing benches because, “I like hands-on art. You do, you create.” But, she laughingly added: “I may have created a monster.”

•Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in Vicksburg.

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3-D entering new dimension as viewers’ expectations riseBy Jake CoyleAP entertainment writer

NEW YORK — With “Avatar” now out of theaters, the industrywide 3-D jugger-naut is itself entering another dimension.

The immense box-office suc-cess of James Cameron’s sci-fi epic proved the considerable draw of 3-D, and subsequent 3-D releases benefited from the buzz.

But the next wave of 3-D films — though still good bets for continued fortune — may not have it so easy.

Moviegoers, warming to technical terms like “conver-gence” and “stereospace,” have become more cognizant of the difference between good and bad 3-D. Critics have weighed in on its shortcom-ings. And the general aura of novelty was never going to last forever.

“People are definitely start-ing to see the difference,” said Jon Chu, director of “Step Up 3-D.” “All these people put-ting Hollywood in check on why we’re doing 3-D, why we’re raising prices, I think it’s a good thing for the art because it makes sure every-one is using 3-D for the right reasons.”

The next 3-D release will be “Shrek Forever After” (May 21), the fourth installment of the animated franchise from DreamWorks. Six 3-D films will arrive this summer, including the animated films “Toy Story 3” (from Pixar) and Universal’s “Despicable Me.”

Despite the feeble history of 3-D, Hollywood has told us that this time is different, that 3-D will soon take its place along-side sound and color as tech-nological advancements that have become the norm.

There are few signs to contra-dict that forecast, but the envi-ronment awaiting the coming 3-D films has changed.

Two of the top three post-“Avatar” 3-D releases — “Alice in Wonderland” and, espe-cially, “Clash of the Titans” — were disparaged for their poor 3-D. Each was originally shot in 2-D and converted to 3-D in post-production.

And the most influential film critic in the land, Roger Ebert, made his strongest denunciation yet of 3-D. In a recent Newsweek article,

“Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too),” Ebert wrote: “Our minds use the principle of perspective to provide the third dimension. Adding one artificially can make the illu-sion less convincing.”

Taken together, these events don’t constitute a backlash, only the hints of one. After all, “Alice” earned $879 million worldwide at the box office and “Clash” took in $427 million.

Seemingly sensing a threat to 3-D’s image, Cameron and Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — the two most prominent 3-D evangelists — have publicly chastised “Clash of the Titans” and hasty 2-D conversions.

Katzenberg recently told Variety that Hollywood is at “a genuine crossroads” and that substandard conversions like that of Warner Bros.’ “Titans” “snookered” audiences, jeop-ardizing 3-D’s long-term growth.

More films like “Titans,” Katzenberg said, will result in a backlash: “It will be a whip-lash. They will walk away

from this so fast.”If Hollywood executives nor-

mally admonished each other for bad movies, they would run out of breath. But Katzen-berg has been especially vocal because he recognizes the cur-rent situation is fragile — and that there’s a lot riding on it.

Alexandre Aja, director of

the upcoming horror flick “Piranha 3-D” from the Wein-stein Co., says he and the studio made the decision to shoot in 2-D and later convert the film to give more flexibil-ity while shooting. He main-tains that conversion can work if enough time is taken in the painstaking process of

rotoscoping — tracing each image to add dimension.

“‘Clash’ could have been a great conversion if they had more time,” said Aja, break-ing from the editing room and sounding somewhat haggard from his own “very long, long, long” process of conversion. He’s currently two months

in and expects to be work-ing right up until the movie’s August release.

Aja also said it’s far better to know in advance that you’ll later be converting to 3-D: “During the shooting, we did a lot of things to get that pro-cess a little more technically accurate and to get ready for that final conversion.”

Studios are remaking their entire production pipelines to benefit from the popularity and premium ticket prices of 3-D films — generally about $3 more than regular tickets. Following dwindling DVD rev-enues and increased compe-tition from home entertain-ment, Hollywood sees 3-D as the revolution it desperately needed to galvanize the the-atrical experience.

But the infrastructure isn’t yet fully established. Theaters equipped for 3-D continue to be added, but 3-D televisions and DVD players are in their infancy. “Avatar” may be the biggest box-office success of all time ($2.7 billion world-wide), but for now, it’s only available in 2-D on DVD.

Yet despite the inevitable growing pains, it does feel like 3-D ubiquity is coming. Few days go by without the announcement of some new 3-D endeavor, including recent offerings from such disparate media companies as ESPN, Nintendo and Playboy.

Whether the next crop of 3-D movies — from “Shrek” to “Tron Legacy” — will con-tinue to wow audiences will go a long way to determining if the new 3-D is here to stay, or yet another three-dimen-sional fad.

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Tim Burton (who directed “Alice in Wonder-land” and is a festival juror) said expectations should be measured.

“People like to say, ‘Oh, this is the way.’ To me, it’s another tool. It’s like using color or sound or whatever,” said Burton. “I think too much is placed upon that as becoming the be-all and end-all — you know, saving the world and the economy. I think it’s best to keep it as another tool that is sometimes fun and useful to deal with.”


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‘Airbender,’ ‘Prince of Persia’ were whitewashed, critics sayBy Deepti HajelaThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — The hopes of many are resting on the shoul-ders of 12-year-old Aang.

Ever since he first came out of a block of ice in the Nickel-odeon cartoon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” the other tribes in his fictional, Asian-inspired world saw Aang and his power over the elements as their last chance for peace after a century of conflict.

Now Paramount Pictures and director M. Night Shyamalan also have high hopes for Aang: that he will attract audiences to see their big-screen — and big budget — version of “The Last Airbender,” opening July 2.

Yet fans of the original TV series say whatever hopes they had for the live-action movie have been dashed by what is known as “whitewashing” — the selection of white actors to fill the main hero roles instead of the people of color they say the source material requires.

“To take this incredibly loved children’s series, and really dis-tort not only the ethnicity of the individual characters but the message of acceptance and cultural diversity that the origi-nal series advocated, is a huge blow,” said Michael Le of Race-bending.com, a fan site calling for a boycott of the martial-arts fantasy.

Paramount defends the film’s casting, noting more than half of the credited speaking roles were filled by people of color.

“Night’s vision of ‘The Last Airbender’ includes a large and ethnically diverse cast that rep-resents cultures from around the world,” Paramount said in a statement.

That doesn’t impress the movie’s critics, who claim most of that diversity is found among secondary characters and background extras.

They say “Airbender” cast-ing is just the latest example of a long history in Hollywood of demeaning people of color — from having white actors in makeup portray minorities to sidelining them in second-tier roles to replacing them entirely, as they say is the case with “Airbender.”

They point to examples like the 2008 film “21,” which was based on a book inspired by the true-life story of a mostly Asian-American group of card play-ers, yet was cast with mostly white actors in the main roles.

They also note this weekend’s release of “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” a live-action adaptation of a video game that stars white actor Jake Gyllen-haal in the title role instead of an actor with a Middle Eastern background.

“This part really needed to go to someone who’s Persian,” said Jehanzeb Dar, a blogger and independent filmmaker who is a fan of the video game but has no intention of support-ing the movie.

“It’s not only insulting to Per-sians, it’s also insulting to white people. It’s saying white people can’t enjoy movies unless the protagonist is white,” he said.

Disney did not return an e-mail asking for comment on the casting.

“It becomes very clear that it’s part of the historical pat-tern of Hollywood and it’s not an isolated incident and it’s not because they happen to be fic-tional characters,” Le said. “It’s because this is the standard procedure for Hollywood films, and it really shouldn’t be. It’s 2010.”

But 2010 is also a time of huge stakes in the movie business — when only a small fraction of the films that are released make the vast majority of the industry’s profits, said econom-ics professor Arthur De Vany, author or “Hollywood Econom-ics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry.”

Because of the financial risk, studios try to control anything that goes into a movie before its release in an effort to maximize box office receipts — from the storyline to the cast to the mar-keting, De Vany explained.

During the era of segregation in this country, Hollywood rou-

tinely considered race when making and releasing a film. For example, actress Lena Horne, who died May 9 at 92, saw her parts in movies cut out when those films were shown in the South.

Over time, “it’s what has become habitual practice,” said Chon Noriega, professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA. “I think it’s the default setting and it takes a conscious choice to change,” he said.

“Airbender’s” creators, Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, have said they pur-posely chose to base their car-toon in an Asian-inspired set-ting as opposed to a European one, incorporating different kinds of martial arts, as well as other cultural elements like Chinese calligraphy. At least some of the main characters were drawn as people of color.

Yet when it came time to cast the movie, unknown Noah Ringer was picked to play Aang. Nicola Peltz was chosen to play Katara, the girl who finds Aang in the ice, and “Twilight” actor Jackson Rathbone was named for the role of Sokka, Katara’s brother. Jesse McCartney was originally slated to play the anti-hero Zuko, but dropped out due to scheduling reasons and was replaced by Dev Patel of “Slumdog Millionaire.”

That the initial casting had four white actors in the main roles, and that the three heroes are still all played by whites, is

an outrage, said Guy Aoki of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans.

“It speaks volumes when the initial casting decision was to cast four white leads,” he said. “For them to be comfortable with that ... it’s embarrass-ing, it says a lot about their attitudes.”

Le said Racebending.com has organized a letter-writing campaign to Paramount, but has received no response. Aoki said his organization had sent a letter asking for a meeting, but was ignored until filming had already started. The group met later with Paramount president Adam Goodman, who offered a prescreening.

But that hasn’t happened yet, Aoki said, even though Para-mount has expressed confi-dence that people will embrace the film once they see it.

“The filmmaker’s interpreta-tion reflects the myriad quali-ties that have made this series a global phenomenon,” Para-mount said in its statement.

Yet Harvard journalism instructor Martha Nichols said that while there are times when the case can be made for a movie to change something from the source material, this isn’t one of them. She’s the mother of an adopted 8-year-old Asian boy who is a big fan of the cartoon series, in part because of its homage to Asian cultures and characters.

The moviemakers “seem to have no clue that there’s this huge fan base of young Asian-Americans who were delighted to see themselves” on screen,” said Nichols, who blogs at Ath-ena’s Head.

‘It’s not only insulting to Persians, it’s also insulting to white people. It’s saying white people can’t enjoy

movies unless the protagonist is white.’

Jehanzeb DarBlogger and independenT filmmaker


Gemma Arterton and Jake Gyllenhaal in “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”

Dev Patel in “The Last Airbender”

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Odom to wed WilkinsJune 11 in Maryland

Amanda Odom of Hunting-town, Md., and Jeremy Wilkins of Tallulah are pleased to announce their engagement and approaching marriage. The wedding will be June 11, 2010, at The Pointe at Broomes Island, Md. A reception will follow. All relatives and friends are invited to attend a recep-tion at the First United Meth-odist Church of Tallulah from 2 until 4 p.m. July 24.

Miss Odom is the daughter of Rona Fox and Pat Odom of Huntingtown. She is the granddaughter of Diane and Todd Hays and Louise Odom and the late William Odom, all of Dunkirk, Md.

Mr. Wilkins is the son of Julie and Jimmy Wilkins of Tallulah. He is the grandson of Lavern Fielder and the late Jack Fielder of Newton, Texas,

and the late Eula and Luke Wilkins of Tallulah.

The bride-elect is a graduate of Calvert High School. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Shep-herd University, where she was a member of Delta Zeta sorority.

Miss Odom is a registered nurse at Georgetown Univer-sity Hospital in Washington, D.C.

The prospective groom is a graduate of Tallulah Academy. He is pursuing an associate degree in homeland security from the College of Southern Maryland.

Mr. Wilkins is a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, 11th Security Forces Squad-ron, Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.

Causey to wed Tiltonin Oregon on June 16

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Causey of Vicksburg announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Cindy May, to James Carr Tilton of Aloha, Ore. Mr. Tilton is the son of Donald and Joyce Tilton of Cornelius, Ore., and Kitty and Thomas Harmon of Portland, Ore.

The bride-elect is a gradu-ate of Warren Central High School and attended college in Utah.

She has worked as a nanny, teacher’s aide and certified nursing assistant.

The prospective groom is a graduate of Columbia River

High School in Vancouver, Wash., and received a Bach-elor of Science degree in elec-trical engineering from the University of Portland.

He is a software engineer for Intel Corp.

Vows will be exchanged June 16, 2010, at the Portland, Ore., Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lake Oswego, Ore. Receptions in their honor will be held June 19 in Vicksburg and June 26 in Aloha. Following a hon-eymoon cruise to Alaska, the couple will make their home in Aloha.

Gordon weds Caisonin private ceremony

Mr. and Mrs. George Lee of Hattiesburg and William King Caison of Tampa, Fla., announce the marriage of their daughter, Carla Michelle Caison, to Jeffery Matthew Gordon. Mr. Gordon is the son of C. Jeff Gordon and Mr. and Mrs. Pete J. Montalbano Jr., all of Vicksburg.

The bride is the grand-daughter of Frances Martin of Hattiesburg and the late Donald Martin and the late Mr. and Mrs. Al Caison, all of Hattiesburg.

The groom is the grandson of Omega Gordon of Clinton and the late Charles B. Gordon of Vicksburg and Grace Mead-ows of Byram and the late Mil-lard C. Meadows of Jackson.

The bride and groom were married in a private ceremony May 5, 2010, in Tallahassee,

Fla. A reception was held at the bride’s home in Hatties-burg. A wedding reception will be held in Vicksburg at a later date.

The bride is a graduate of Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in therapeutic recreation from the University of Southern Mississippi and is pursuing a degree in nursing at Florida State University.

The groom is a graduate of Vicksburg High School. He received a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in fine arts and sculpture from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Florida State University. He is an adjunct professor at Florida State University.

• Laura Lee Claypool and Dustin Louis Pambianchi4 p.m. at Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church, ClevelandReception at the church’s parish centerFamily and friends are invited

Vernon E. Montgomery and Josephine L. Warren announce the birth of a 7-pound daughter, Alyssa Renae Montgomery, on April 21, 2010, at River Region Medi-cal Center.

Grandparents are Velma Marie Warren, Mark Taylor, Alyssa Renae Montgomery and Vernon “Ricky” Luckett.

•Tramain Luster and

Rhonda Jones announce the birth of a 6-pound, 7-ounce daughter, Mariah Gabrielle Luster, on May 5, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Shir-ley and Andrew Hyder and Janette and Troy Luster.

•Larry Davis Jr. and Sha-

Corey Williams announce the birth of a 6-pound son, Landyn Anthony Davis, on May 5, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Montoya and John Parson, the late Fre-drick Freeman and Larry and Tiffany Davis.

•Alton R. Bell and April L.

Myles announce the birth of a 7-pound, 14-ounce Ray’darius Ke’Shun, on May 6, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparent is Sammie Lee Jones.

•Steven and Whitney Porter

announce the birth of a son, Connor Steven, on May 6, 2010,

at St. Dominic-Jackson Memo-rial Hospital.

Maternal grandparents are Tim and Laquitta Smith of Wiggins. Paternal grand-parents are Stanley and Beth Porter of Vicksburg.

•LaKelia Smith announces

the birth of a 5-pound, 11-ounce son, Dalen J’Shun Smith, on May 7, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are George Sr. and Lizzie Smith.

The baby is welcomed by a brother, Amarrious Parker.

•Detriche D. Butler and

Lucy A. Branch announce the birth of a 6-pound, 2-ounce daughter, Detrianna Ladajah Butler, on May 7, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Asyline W. Branch and the late Fred-die L. Branch, Debra Butler and Charles Patterson.

•Michael D. and Diane M.

Warfield announce the birth of a 6-pound, 3-ounce daugh-ter, Aryn MaKayla, on May 8, 2010, at River Region Medical Center.

Grandparents are Jesse R. Warfield Sr. and Gladys War-field of Vicksburg; George and Rosemary Jackson of Kenosha, Wis.; and Vogel and Carla Banks of St. Louis, Mo.

Amanda OdomEngaged to marry

Jeremy Wilkins

Cindy May CauseyEngaged to marryJames Carr Tilton

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Matthew GordonThe bride is the formerCarla Michelle Caison

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Women older than 40 can be fabulousBy Samantha CritchellAP fashion writer

NEW YORK — There’s a telling scene early in “Sex and the City 2” when 52-year-old Samantha, played by 53-year-old Kim Cattrall, spots a gold, beaded bustier minidress that she thinks will be perfect for a big red-carpet moment.

The saleswoman is the first doubter. “Is it maybe a little young?” she asks.

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda have fashion con-fidence like few others — on film or in real life. But the se-quined armor these women wear along with their micro-minis, harem pants and stilet-to heels suffers a few chinks over one issue: Do they dress their age?

Samantha’s friends ques-tion the minidress, too. But an even more important movie moment is when Samantha rocks the dress, putting con-ventionalists and teenager Mi-ley Cyrus, who is on the same red carpet in the same dress, in their place.

Throughout the movie the posse parades around in the most au courant clothes, seem-ingly not deterred at all by the fact that designers often use lithe, lean teenage runway models as muses instead of the 40-plus successful shopaholics the characters now represent.

Some of the outfits are knock-outs and incredibly flattering — like the pleated, flame-col-ored sundress worn by Car-rie (Sarah Jessica Parker) on the beach, and the plunging V-neck gown with metallic studs worn by Miranda, Cynthia Nix-on, to a wedding — but there also are the misses.

It shouldn’t be assumed, though, that Charlotte’s, Kris-tin Davis, dorky strapless candy-cane get-up or Carrie’s ill-conceived logo-T-and-pou-fy-ballskirt combination would

look any better on a 25 year old.

“I think it’s all about where the individual is in what they are comfortable and confident wearing,” says accessories de-signer Brian Atwood, who craft-ed two pairs of 6-inch heels for Carrie’s closet, including stud-ded, purple-suede peeptoes. “I don’t like to dictate boundaries to anyone. I think it’s the whole package. I’ve seen older women in their ’80s-style rhinestone jackets with short miniskirts, but anyone would look ridicu-lous in that.”

A chic, sophisticated stiletto is another story, Atwood says. “Some women just like high heels. They help give you great legs and they give you height. Women like how they feel in heels and what it projects.”

An honest analysis of one’s assets — and trouble spots — as well as lifestyle and person-al style will get you farther in developing a flattering, appro-priate wardrobe than count-ing birthday candles, say the experts.

“You need to know what parts of your body should be shown off,” advises Deborah Lloyd, co-president and cre-ative director of Kate Spade

New York. The actresses in “Sex and the City” surely work hard at keeping their figures in good shape so they can pull off some daring things, she says, but they also stay true to their characters’ fashion per-sonalities.

Lloyd points to first lady Mi-chelle Obama as an example of a woman who highlights her strengths — those toned arms, in particular — and maintains a youthful, modern look with interesting silhouettes and bright colors, while never try-ing to dress too young. “Fash-ion as you get older is about an evolution, not just about changing your look because you’re older. You can’t get stuck,” Lloyd says.

“It will never be an exact sci-ence on how to dress to flatter as we age, regardless of life-style and budget,” says Avril Graham, executive fashion edi-tor at Harper’s Bazaar. “How-ever, women should always consider that elegance and good taste generally go hand in hand, regardless of age. And common sense should al-ways prevail. The best-dressed women, past and present, all seem to have embraced that sensibility.”

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NEW CONSTRUCTION,HALEY'S POINTSUBDIVISION

PICK YOUR COLORS!Affordable luxury with 3 Bedroom 2 Bath, dining,

living, fenced back.

Over 32 years of experience put to work for you!EMAIL: [email protected]

JONES & UPCHURCH, INC.Call Andrea at

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Andrea Upchurch

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LEECH REAL ESTATE OF VICKSBURG, INC.601-415-4503

The Steigleman Home built in 1840 wasrenovated in 2000 and is a perfect setting

for a Bed & Breakfast or family home.Beautiful hardwood floors, 12' ceilings, agrand 3 story staircase, formal living &

dining room. Large,fabulous bedrooms. Agrand foyer that welcomes you. 2 largecovered back porches lend a stunning

view of the River. Beautiful!

1005 Main Street This refurbished 10 Unit CorporateApartment complex is built of Solid Brick

& has 12 ft ceilings. It is in the historicdistrict of Vicksburg with beautiful viewsof the River & Old Courthouse. Complexis gated & has a private courtyard forrelaxing or grilling. There is a Seperate

Laundry Facility. There are 6 OneBedroom Apt. and 4 Studio apt.

An additional lot w/ workshop/heatA/C.included.

1104 Monroe Street

212 WellsRoad

Private, Secluded, yetConvenient HilltopLocation just east of Hwy 61 N and just northof the turn to Oak Ridge Road. 1 Acre, 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, LivingRoom, Dining Room, Kitchen, Den, Inside Laundry, Fireplace, 3 StorageBuildings, Established Lawn and Gardens--All Meticulously Maintained.Seller anxious for a quick sale.

REALTY LTD.

David Mitchell

1022 Monroe St. • Vicksburg, MS [email protected]

601-634-8303 Office601-218-8201 Mobile

New Price $139,500

McMillinBeverly McMillin

601-415-9179

And

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6207 Indiana Ave.Brick 4 bedroom, 2 bathhome with new laminatefloors in Oak Park S/D.

Great backyard with covered patio, privacyfenced and workshop.

420 Lake Forest5 bedrooms, 3 bathsover 2600 sq ft. New

addition with incrediblemaster suite.

$219,900.

BETH MAZZANTI& Coldwell Banker All Stars601-634-8928 or 601-218-2489

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721 Lake Forest DriveThe 3 bedroom 2 bath home is spacious with large rooms

& an additional sun room that runs across the back of the home which gives additional living space. The shaded back yard is

fenced and perfect for children & animals!$159,500

NewListing!

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

Remodeled within past 5 years. 2492 Sq. Ft. plus finished basement. Unfinished basement 257 SF. Entrance from

Monroe & Walnut Streets. 16 Parking spaces.OWNER WILL CONSIDER A LEASE.

1511 WALNUT STREET KELLYE CARLISLE

601-529-4215

Lovely Home in The Trace,

Features include 3Bedrooms, 2 Baths,1983 SF, Split Plan,Large Family Roomwith Tray Ceiling,

Recessed Lighting and Gas Fireplace, Formal Dining, Open Floor Plan,Large Kitchen with Custom Cabinets, Bar and Breakfast Area,

Spacious Laundry, New Paint! $199,900

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108 OLDE TRACE

109 Maison RuePRESENTED BY

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PRICE REDUCED to $398, 000!

Prestigious Acadia Hillshome on Country ClubGolf Course. Openfloor plan w/customwoodwork throughout!

Gourmet kitchen, formal dining room, master suite + 2nd bdrm,& office downstairs. Two more bdrms & 2nd den upstairs. Frontand back porches, 3 car garage, outdoor waterfall, & workshop

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FREE GOURDS! Variousshapes and sizes. Call 601-638-7624.

KEEP UP WITH all the lo-cal news and sales...Sub-scribe to The VicksburgPost TODAY!! Call 601-636-4545, Circulation.

KITTIES FREE TOGOOD HOMES! 3 tabbies,3 months old. 5 tabbies anda Siamese, 5 months old.Call 601-415-4569, if no an-swer, please leave mes-sage.

07. Help Wanted

05. Notices

Center ForPregnancy ChoicesFree Pregnancy Tests

(non-medical facility)· Education on All

Options· Confidential Coun-

selingCall 601-638-2778

for apptwww.vicksburgpregnan-

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EMERGENCYCA$H

BORROW $100.00PAYBACK $105.00

BEST DEAL IN TOWNVALID CHECKING

ACCOUNT REQUIREDFOR DETAILS CALL

601-638-70009 TO 5 MON.- FRI.

ENDING HOMELESS-NESS. WOMEN with chil-dren or without are you inneed of shelter? Mountainof Faith Ministries/ Wom-en's Restoration Shelter.Certain restrictions apply,601-661-8990. Life coach-ing available by appoint-ment.

GARAGE SALE,HAWKINS United MethodistChurch, 3736 Halls Ferry,

Saturday, June 5th, 7am- until, come out and

find a bargain! All proceedsto benefit 2010 Mexico

Mission Team trip.

07. Help Wanted

05. Notices

Is the one youlove

hurting you?Call

Haven House FamilyShelter

601-638-0555 or1-800-898-0860

Services available towomen & children who are

victims of domestic violence and/or homeless: Shelter, coun-seling, group support.(Counseling available by

appt.)

KEEP UP WITH all thelocal news and sales...-subscribe to The Vicks-burg Post Today! Call

601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

05. NoticesONE DAY COIN show.

Vicksburg Battlefield Inn.June 5. 9am- 5pm. Spon-sored by Vicksburg CoinClub. Information 601-638-1195.

RunawayAre you 12 to 17?Alone? Scared?

Call 601-634-0640 any-time or 1-800-793-8266

We can help!One child,

one day at a time.

07. Help Wanted

06. Lost & Found

$200 REWARD LOSTsmall (2 ½ pounds) Blackand White Female Fox Ter-rier. Near Mosswood Coun-try Club. Highway 61 Southof Port Gibson. Wearingsmall pink collar. 601-437-5920 or 601-660-7428.

07. Help Wanted

06. Lost & Found

FOUND!MEN'S STAINLESS

STEEL wedding ring.Please call with description,601-636-8886, leave mes-sage.

FOUND!SET OF KEYS. Found in-

tersection of Mission 66 andClay Street. 601-631-0980,601-415-7397.

LOST A DOG? Found a cat? Let The

Vicksburg Post help! Run a FREE 3 day ad!

601-636-SELL or e-mail classifieds@vicksburg

post.com

MISSING FROM WAR-RIORS Trail/ Highway 27area. Small FemaleDachshund. Blue eyes.Dappled colored. If found$200 REWARD! Call 601-966-1619 or 601-529-3943.

07. Help Wanted

“ACE”Truck Driver Training

With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.

Day, Night & RefresherClasses

Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124

PATIENT’S CHOICE

MEDICAL CENTER

has immediate openings for

• LPN (PRN)• RN (Full Time)Please contactDebora Greer

DON at 601-437-5141

ext. 230

07. Help Wanted

****************************Attention Students!SUMMER WORK-$15 Starting Pay

-Flexible Schedules-Customer Sales/Service

-All Ages 17+Call NOW 601-501-4598

TRUCK DRIVERneeded for delivery of

storage containers.Must have minimum

Class A License.Apply in person @Sheffield Rentals1255 Hwy. 61 S.Vicksburg, MS

DRIVERS NEEDED!!

1-877-285-8621

CALL M - F 8am-5pm

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

07. Help Wanted

CONFEDERATE RIDGEAPARTMENTS now accepting applicationsfor Certified HVAC maintenance person. Experience is a must!

Call 601-638-0102, for information.

DUE TO INCREASEDbusiness, an ExperiencedService Technician positionis now open at VicksburgHonda. Must have owntools. Contact George at601-636-1800 for interview.


07. Help Wanted

JOURNEYMANPLUMBERS:COMMER-CIAL experience. Mini-mum 5 years. Licensepreferred. Benefits of-fered, Pay DOE. Call

MDES for appointment,662-321-5441. 212 St. PaulSt., Pearl, MS 39208. Ivey

Mechanical Company,AA/EOE

Be a Part of A GrowingEntertainment Company.Under new management,

Tropicana Entertainment Inc.FULL TIME POSITIONS

¥¥ Director of CasinoOperations

¥¥ Security Officer¥¥ Maintenance Person

¥¥ IT Manager¥¥ Food Server

PART TIME POSITIONS¥¥ Housekeeper¥¥ Food Server

¥¥ CashierBenefits Include 401K, Health, Medical, Dental,

Vision, Company paid uniforms, employeemeals.

If interested in this position, please fax yourResume to Human Resources at

601-630-2026, or apply online at

www.horizonvicksburg.com

WE PAY CASH!for gold, silver, diamonds & coinsScallions Jewelers

1207 Washington St. • 601-636-6413

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YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.Classifieds Really Work!

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Ft. Leonardwood, MO

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NATO HeadquartersEurope

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Spc. Daniel JusticeUS Army

5th Signal CommandMannheim, Germany

Roosevelt (Tenine)Darden, Sr.

US Army - South KoreaRifle Sharpshooter

M. Kyle MattesonAirman

US Air ForceWichita Falls, TX

John McBroomKorea

Master Sgt. HughieLee Newman, Sr.

US Air ForceRetired

Robert F. PayneCaptain US Army

Iraq

SGT Brian A. LittlejohnUSMC Corp Optics Chief

2nd ANGLICOCamp LeJeune, NC

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Welcoming New Residents!Spacious 1, 2, & 3 bedroom units available for rent.

Only $420 / $470 / $520 a month! BETTE PAUL WARNEREagle Lake Specialist

Phone: 601-218-1800Email: [email protected]

www.Eaglelakems.comMcMillin Real Estate & Appraisals

Angela Daquilla, Rph Michael Jones, Rph

•Convenient Drive-thru Window•Fast, Friendly Service

•Most Insurance Cards Accepted•Most Major Credit Cards Accepted•The Ability to add flavor to liquid

medicine for kids!

Monday-Friday 9am- 7 Saturday 9am- 3

1670 Hwy 61 N. Vicksburg, MS601-631-6837

*1,2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments*Beautifully Landscaped *Lake Surrounds

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Beautiful LakesideLiving L

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WV

Roll Off Containers •DemolitionServices •Class 1 Rubbish Landfill

Located at:130 Hwy 80 Pit Road •Vicksburg, MS

Specializing In: Remodeling,Additions,

Storm & Fire Damage Repairs,Drainage & Erosion Control

Johnny Sanders601-629-7808

Licensed by the State of MS& The City of Vicksburg

BuildersHollingsworth SH

Sanders

Wells & LaHatteMonday - Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm *Saturday 8:30am -1pm

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“Your Local Toyota Dealer”

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• Printing

SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY

• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices

• Work Orders• Invitations

(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711

1601-C North Frontage RdVicksburg, MS 39180

Score A Bullseye With One Of These Businesses!

BUSINESS & SERVICE DIRECTORY

• Glass

Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900

• Construction

ROSSCONSTRUCTION

New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding

State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932

• Signs

• Bulldozer &Construction

BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

601-636-4813State Board of Contractors

Approved & Bonded

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand

All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition

Site Development& Preparation Excavation

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

PATRIOTIC• FLAGS

• BANNERS• BUMPER STICKERS

• YARD SIGNSShow Your Colors!

Post Plaza601-631-0400

1601 N. Frontage Rd.Vicksburg, MS 39180

• Construction

• Lawn Care• HandyMan Services

River CityLandscaping, LLC

• Dozer / Trackhoe Work• Dump Truck •

• Bush Hogging • Box Blade• Demolition • Debris Removal

• Lawn Maintenance• Deliver

Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally• Gravel • Sand • Rock

Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins.Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner)

601-529-0894

All Business & Service

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your ad is viewed daily

by over 33,500 readers!

RIVER CITY HANDYMANJoe Rangel - Owner

601.636.7843 • 601.529.5400From small repair projects to

home upgrades...We’re notsatisfied until You are. Call

today for your Free Estimate!

Call today about our special long term ad runs

available in the Business Directory.

We offer specials from 3 months to

12 months at a great price deal !

ROY’S CONSTRUCTIONRESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL

New Construction & RemodelingLICENSED • BONDED • INSURED

CABINETS, ADDITIONS,METAL ROOFS,

VINYL SIDING, PATIO DECKS,DOZER & EXCAVATOR WORK,

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June 24, 2010 • Salute toTell your family story as only you can.

This is one of our most popular sections everyyear with our readers and advertisers alike. Business

Publication Date:Thursday, June 24, 2010

Advertising Deadline:Tuesday, June 08, 2010

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in person. 1001Haining Rd. Bringcurrent CDL and

health card.

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QUALITY TRANSPORTINC. Regional drivers need-ed for bulk petroleum prod-ucts. Must have Class awith X end. Good drivingrecord required. Companypaid health insurance,401K, and other benefits.SIGN ON BONUS. Newequipment. Call 800-734-6570.

REGIONAL FULL SER-VICE beauty distributor.Needs motivated self starterfor salon sales. Experiencehelpful. Will train. Send re-sume to fax: 318-325-0696.

SMALL BUSINESSSUPPLIERS NEEDED.L.W. Matteson, Inc. is a Ma-rine and Dredging contrac-tor working on the Ouachitaand Mississippi Rivers. Weare currently seeking quali-fied Small Business ven-dors registered with theFederal Government in theareas of marine supplies,diesel fuel, hardware and/or general supplies. Pleasecontact our office at 319-754-6705 or [email protected]. Allvendors must have a validregistration in the FederalContractors Registry (CCR).

THE CEDAR GROVEMissionary Baptist (MB)Church is currently seekinga full time Pastor to providestrong, visionary and spiritu-al leadership to the congre-gation and community.Please send your resume toP.O. Box 821373, Vicks-burg Ms. 39182, AttentionPastor Search Committee.

TO BUY OR SELL

AVONCALL 601-636-7535

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29. UnfurnishedApartments

10. Loans AndInvestments

“WE CAN ERASE yourbad credit- 100% guaran-teed.” The Federal TradeCommission says the onlylegitimate credit repairstarts and ends with you. Ittakes time and a consciouseffort to pay your debts.Any company that claims tobe able to fix your creditlegally is lying. Learn aboutmanaging credit and debt atftc.gov/credit

A message from TheVicksburg Post and theFTC.

11. BusinessOpportunitiesNEIGHBORHOOD GRO-

CERY STORE for rent orlease. 601-218-9117 formore information.

13. SituationsWanted

WILL SIT WITH elderly.Kind, gentle, compassion-ate care provided. Refer-

ences. 601-831-2762.

11. BusinessOpportunities


14. Pets &Livestock

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED

YORKIES, Poodles and Schnauzers

$200 to $700!601-218-5533,

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VICKSBURG WARRENHUMANE SOCIETYHighway 61 South

601-636-6631Currently housing 84 unwanted

and abandoned animals.

43 dogs & puppies41 cats & kittens

Please adopt today!Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAYOR NEUTER YOUR PETS!Look for us on www.petfinder.com


14. Pets &Livestock

FULL BLOODED REDnose Pitt Puppies. 6 Weeks.8 Females.$200.All Redand White. 601-885-8860.

VICKSBURG WARRENHUMANE SOCIETY

Hwy 61 S. • 601-636-6631

Call the Shelter for more information.HAVE A HEART, SPAY OR

NEUTER YOUR PETS!Look for us on www.petfinder.com

DON’TDON’T SHOPSHOP......Adopt Today!

LAB PUPPIES. 3 male, 5female. All chocolate. AKC6 weeks on 6/5. 601-636-8062 or 601-415-6278.

littlecreekpuppies.comCKC Shih tzus ready now.$250 and up. 318-237-5156.

Foster aHomeless

Pet!

www.pawsrescuepets.org

POODLE PUPPIES. 3 jetblack males, shots,wormed, 10 weeks old. 601-636-4564, 601-415-1786.

15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great

value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

17. Wanted ToBuy

CASH PAID FOR COINS,war relics, antique booksand collectibles. Call 601-618-2727.

WE BUY ESTATES.Households and qualitygoods. Best prices. Youcall, we haul! 601-415-3121,601-661-6074. www.msauc-tionservice.com

WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-940-5075, if no answer,please leave message.



Spring Into Savings at

DISCOUNT

FURNITURE BARN

YELLOW TAG SALE!600 Jackson Street

601-638-7191


BLUE CLOTH LOVE seatand couch. $200 love seatand $300 couch. Goodshape. 601-636-4961.

BRUNSWICK POOL TA-BLE with accessories,$2500. Calders Spa withcover, seats 6, $800. 601-636-6602.

FIREWOODCITY

Oak Firewood.Delivered, $90 load.

1/2 cord. Call 601-415-6326.FOR LESS THAN 45

cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post

delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,

7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,

Circulation Department.

GO GREEN! SAVE ongas! Increase gas mileage 7percent 14 percent, for gasor diesel. Call for details,601-629-6231.

MOTORIZED SCOOTERCHAIR. Good condition.Asking $500. 769-203-2630.

NEW, BOWLENS YARDTRACTOR, used twice. 42inch cut, 15.5 horse powerBriggs and Stratton engine.$700. 601-636-1861.

PEAVY BASS AMP andBass. $400. 601-661-6136.

No Wonder Everybody’s Doing It!To join

The Vicksburg Postnewspaper team

you must bedependable, haveinsurance, reliabletransportation, and

be available to deliverafternoons Monday -

Friday and earlymornings Saturday

and Sunday.

Teachers, stay-at-homeparents, college students,nurses. . . they’re alldelivering the newspaperin their spare time andearning extra income!It’s easy - and it’s a greatway to earn extra cash.

Your Hometown Newspaper!Openings Available in:

Vicksburg &Culkin areas

601-636-4545 ext. 181



THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”Bring Your Best Friend to our

NEW LOCATION, 3508 South Washington Street

Not so far, just 1 milesouth of Belmont St.

Same Great Pet Merchandise, Just More Room!

USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.

WACKER 5600 WATTCommercial Generator. 11horse power. $600 cash.601-638-0066, 12 noon-8pm.

K and K Crawfish

318-207-6221

318-574-4572

Purged 5 sacksand up $1.25 a

pound.Under 5 sacks

$1.50 a pound.


WEDDING DRESS.Strapless, size 8, ivory,comes with slip. $500. 601-218-8583, leave message.

19. Garage &Yard SalesSTILL HAVE STUFF

after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.


22. MusicalInstruments

VARIOUS MUSICAL IN-STRUMENTS for sale. 601-831-8788 or 601-619-0279.


24. BusinessServices

AFFORDABLE PAINTING.Quality work, interior/ exteri-or, pressure washing. Ref-erences. 601-218-0263.

BARBARA'S LAWN SER-VICE. Grass too tall, giveus a call. Low prices, greatservice. 601-218-8267, 601-629-6464, leave message.

• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13

• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce

Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law

601-636-1109

1, 2, & 3 bedroomsand townhomes

available immediately.

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Don’t send that lamp to thecurb! Find a new home for itthrough the Classifieds. Areabuyers and sellers use theClassifieds every day.Besides, someone out thereneeds to see the light. 601-636-SELL.

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24. BusinessServices

DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.

ELVIS YARD SERVICES.General yard clean-up, rakeleaves, grass cutting, treecutting, reasonable. 601-415-7761. Quick response.

FOR HOME REPAIR. 13years experience. Plumbing,electrical, carpentery,painting. Call R. Smith. 601-638-2606 or 601-415-1710.

J & H TREE SERVICES.Experienced, Licensed and

Insured. Free estimates!Cut, trim, remove, no jobtoo big or small. 601-415-

6074 or 601-618-0407

JOHNSON PAINTINGAND MORE

Interior & Exterior Painting,Faux Finishing, Staining,Sealing, Power-washing,

Drywall & Minor Carpentry. 601-634-8709 (Hm)601-415-8554 (Cell)

River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-

sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.

Framing, additions, decks,porches & painting.

All types remodeling & repairs.Metal roofs & buildings.Mobile home repairs.

No job too small.Dewayne Kennedy

601-638-0337601-529-7565

26. For RentOr Lease

DUPLEX-2 UNITS. Centralair/ heat, tile flooring, 1 bath,3 bedrooms, fenced back-yard. $650. 601-218-4543.

OFFICE WITH RECEP-TION AREA for rent. Deskfiling room. 800 square feet.114 Monument Place. $700monthly plus electricity. Gasand water paid. Not zonedfor retail. Call Joey at 601-529-6312.

Rent or Lease this largefamily home. Fisher FerryRoad, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,bonus room, office. $1350monthly, deposit/ refer-ences. 601-218-0214.

27. Room s ForRent

NIGHTLY, WEEKLY,MONTHLY RATES.

Between Ameristar andDiamond Jacks Casino.

Multiple night discounts, nodeposit, best prices in town.

DIXIANA MOTEL 4041 WASHINGTON

STREET VICKSBURG, MS.

28. FurnishedApartments

1 BEDROOM. FUR-NISHED, with utilities, wash-er/ dryer, wireless internet,cable, garage. $200 weekly.601-638-1746.

BOARDING HOUSE. $100weekly, includes cable and util-ities. $150 Deposit. Refer-ences required. 601-218-4543.

CORPORATE APARTMENT.Fully furnished. $800 monthly,utilities, weekly cleaning, offstreet parking. 601-661-9747.

LUXURY CORPORATEAPARTMENT.

Newly furnished 1 BR,hardwood floors, utilities,

12 ft ceilings, wirelessInternet, cleaning

(2x/ month). $900 mthly. 601-456-4398662-822-9222

NEWLY RENOVATED.Completely furnished corpo-

rate apartment. All utilities pro-vided including cable andinternet. Laundry room,

courtyard, security entrance.Great location. $750 - $900

month. 601-415-9027,601-638-4386.


1 Bedroom $400. 2 bed-room $425. 3 bedroom $450.All have $200 deposit. Refrig-erator and Stove Furnished.

601-634-8290.

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1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOMAPARTMENTS, downtown.$400 to $650 monthly, depositrequired. 601-638-1746.

2 BEDROOMS, 1 bath.1214 Main Street, centralair/ heat. $495 plus deposit.601-831-1728.

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped

• Lake Surrounds Community• Pool • Fireplace

• Spacious Floor Plans601-629-6300

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com501 Fairways Drive

Vicksburg

Voted #1 Apartments in the2009 Reader’s Choice

Classic Elegancein Modern Surroundings

601-630-2921801 Clay Street • Vicksburg

SpringMove-In Special

• 1 & 2 BedroomStudios & Efficiencies

• Utilities PaidNo Utility Deposit Required

• Downtown Convenienceto Fine Restaurants, Shops,Churches, Banks & Casinos

FF From $495.00 FFSecure High-Rise Building •

Off Street Parking •9 1/2 Foot Ceilings •

Beautiful River Views •Senior Discounts •

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

34. HousesFor Sale

30. HousesFor Rent

118 WOODLAND DRIVE2 bedroom 2 bath, sunroom, screen porch. $850monthly. 601-218-7449.

3 BEDROOMS, 1 bath.Great city location, newlyremodeled. $750 monthlyplus deposit. 601-831-1728.

30. HousesFor Rent

BEAUTIFUL HOME ONColonial Drive. 4 BEDROOM,3 BATH. On quiet cul-de-sac.Fireplace. 2 Kitchens. Over3,000 square feet. $1200monthly. Call 601-831-4506.

LARGE FAMILY HOME.Fisher Ferry Road, 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, bonusroom, office. $1350 month-ly, deposit/ references. 601-218-0214.

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

2 BED, 1 BATH, GrangeHall Road. Application, de-posit required. Call 601-831-4833.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.61 South area, deposit re-quired. 601-619-9789.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

34. HousesFor Sale

33. Commercia lProperty

1713 CLAY STREET.1,200+ square feet avail-able/ office space. Call 601-618-8659 or 601-429-5005.

1800 SQUARE FOOT onHighway 61 North. Closeto River Region Hospital.

601-218-2582.

PPPPFOR LEASEPPPP

1911 Mission 66Office or Retail

Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.Great Location!

Easy Access!High Visability!

Brian Moore RealtyConnie - Owner/ Agent

318-322-4000

EXECUTIVE PLAZA.North Frontage Road, #11,on front. Available June 1st.$600 monthly. Call 601-529-3666.

I-20 AREA. 2,000 squarefeet. Commercial. Call601-218-9631.

MODERN OFFICE SUITENEAR CORPS Museum.Kitchenette, shower, Wi-Fi,parking, 600 square feet.$495. 601-529-6093.

34. HousesFor Sale

1411 ELM STREET. 2bedroom, 1 bath, centralheat and air, new roof.$16,000. 601-529-5376.

2104 BAKER STREET. 4bedroom, 1.5 baths, newlyrenovated. Central air.$62,000. 601-529-5376.

2104 BAKER STREET. 4bedroom, 1.5 baths, newly

renovated. Central air.$62,000. 601-529-5376.

455 DOGWOODLAKE DRIVE. Byowner. Custom built,4000 square feet brickhome on 10 woodedacres on lake front. 4bedrooms, 3.5 baths, for-mal living and diningrooms, family room withfireplace, built-in book-cases and entertainmentcenter. Large kitchenwith breakfast room,office, laundry roomupstairs and downstairs.Bonus room, walk-inattic over 3-car garage.Appointment only.$495,000. 601-636-6823, 601-218-3600.

JOHN ARNOLD601-529-7376

NEED BUYERS: I have accessto homes in all prices & sizes to

show you, as well as land &commercial property.

Central Drive: Nice homew/hardwood floors, freshly painted inside & out, fenced

backyard, workshop & 16x16covered back porch. $69,000.

Call John Arnold, Vicksburg Realty, LLC.

AskUs.

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.comMember FDIC

! FHA & VA! Conventional! Construction! First -timeHomebuyers

Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator

MortgageLoans601.630.8209

40. Cars & Trucks

34. HousesFor Sale

By owner- 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathcompletely remodeled brick

home. Bovina area, hardwood& ceramic flooring, new metal

roof, approx. 1558 sq. ft.$135,000.

For appointment,601-415-4518

Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

Rental includingCorporate Apartments

Available

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Rely on over 19years of experience

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DAVID A. BREWER601-631-0065

600 Blossom Lane

HELP!!!My property listings in this ad keepselling! I need MORE LISTINGS!Give me a call to discuss puttingyour property on the market and

IN THIS AD.

3 BR, 2BA home

withingroundpool &large

workshop.

Call JenniferGilliland

McMillin Real Estate601-218-4538

•Mission Park Dr, Mission 66Commercial lots, $50,500.

•Pear Orchard Offices 1000 sq ft$73,500.

•Redwood Rd 1 acre lots $20,000.•Newit Vick, 6 acres $72,500.

•898 National St. Duplex $44,500.•Openwood, Clubhouse Cir., Shop

5000 sq ft $69,900.•Openwood 1112 Choctaw Tr.2600sq ft built in 1985. Swimming pool,

deck, fenced in yard. $249,900.•100 Wigwam 4 BR 2 BA

$107,900. •1 Grey Creek 30 acres off

Freetown Rd $187,500.•1800 Hwy 61 N 4750 sq ft

$385,000.•Hwy 61 N Port Gibson 16,800 sq

ft on Black River $220,000•Savannah Hills lot $39,900.

40. Cars & Trucks

34. HousesFor Sale

BIDS ARE BEING Con-sidered for home at 114Hillside Circle. Bid periodcloses Friday June 11th,2010. Call 601-636-2483For Details.

McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193

VicksburgRealEstate.com

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Rick McAllister..601-218-1150Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV

JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

BEVERLYMCMILLIN

601-415-9179McMillin Real Estate

2418 Drummond St Circa1900. 4300 sq. ft. 4 BR and 3BA, custom kitchen.ive.17727 Hwy 465 Eagle Lakefrontage. 3076 sq. ft. on 1.7acres.203 John Allen St. Adorablehome, ready to move in. 3bdrms, 1 baths. 1253 sq. ft.$89.900.420 Lake Forest. 5 BR, 3BA, over 2600 sq. ft. Newaddition with incrediblemaster suite. $219,900.225 Boundary Line. 20acres,new home withInground pool. 100x150 ridingarena.3774 Ring Road. Affordablehome, well maintained insouth county. $93,900. 114 Grey Oaks Precious bun-galow off Rifle Range Road.Perfect starter home. 304 Linda Dr Affordable 3BR, 2 BA, 1766 sq. ft. Largeflat yard with storage bldg andgarden spot.6207 Indiana Avenue Brick 4BR, 2 BA Oak Park home.New laminate floors, coveredpatio, workshop.250 Amberleaf BovinaSchool District and in theCounty. Split plan with 3 B/R2 Baths. Tremendous masterbath with tall ceilings. Trayceilings in Master and Den.Den has a gas log fireplace.Over an acre lot.1100 National St 4 BR, 2.5BA, 2106 Sq. ft. Whirlpooltub, 2-story w/ basement.$129,000.

34. HousesFor Sale

Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Rip Hoxie, Land Pro....601-260-9149Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Judy Uzzle-Ashley....601-994-4663Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

135 Sullivan CoveEagle Lake, 3/2, lakeview,

private street, community pier/boat launch.

Call Bette Paul Warner,601.218.1800

McMillin Real Estatewww.lakehouse.com

35. Lots For Sale

CANTRELL COVESUBDIVISION

Owner: Ollie Cantrell, Jr.Reduced to: $20,000 Each

Quiet, country living,easy access to

Vicksburg & Tallulah!Approximately 1.5 Acre Lots Mound, LA

Exit - Highway 602(1 Mile South of I-20

Interstate)

318-574-3610

36. Farms &Acreage

• 10.46 acres Freetown Rd.,Bovina, rolling pasture,

beautiful home sites, $55,000. • 21.52 acres China Grove

Road, wooded, $85,000 (financing available) May & Campbell Land Co.,

601-634-8255

37. RecreationalVehicles

2005 KEYSTONE. 27foot, 1 slide, bumper pull,with hitch. New condition.$6,500. 601-638-3653 or601-218-1838.

2008 HONDA TRX 500.Power steering, 63 hours,Mud Runners with rims,Front and rear racks. $5,000.Day time 601-636-7551.

40. Cars & Trucks

1991 Chevrolet Extendedcab 1500 truck. 6 cylinder,cold air. 145,000 miles.Needs paint. $2,000. 601-218-1448.

1995 FORD PICK UP.4X4. Excellent condition.Well maintained. HighMileage. $4,000. Call 601-279-6210 or 601-540-1827

40. Cars & Trucks

1999 ¾ TON DODGEDiesel. 20 miles per gallon,no known mechanical de-fects. $5900. 817-705-8245.

2004 TOYOTA 4-RUN-NER. Like new, low miles,extra nice vehicle. Call 601-634-0320.

2005 CHEVROLET IM-PALA. 86468 miles, large 4door sedan. Great for familyruns, clean! Must sell! Only$8977. Call Charlie Beldenat 601-529-6677. Dealer.

2005 DODGE RAM pick-up. 2 door. With Hemi,29,000 miles. $13,000. 601-218-4714.

2006 CHEVROLETTRAILBLAZER. Pewter, haspassed 117-point Certifica-tion inspection. Lots of extrawarranty for only $13,977.Call Charlie Belden at 601-529-6677. Dealer.

2006 GMC SIERRA.Short wheel base, like new,power windows, locks,seats, only 48,000 miles.Call Bobby, 601-636-0658,601-218-9654.

2007 DODGE CHARG-ER. 84,000 miles. $9,000.Call 601-415-0760.

2008 GMC SIERRA SLE.Red, extended cab, 2 wheeldrive. Certified. Call CharlieBelden at 601-529-6677.Dealer.

2008 SATURN VUE XR.A great crossover SUV forthe family. White, only37,020 miles with a 100,000mile power train warranty.Call Charlie Belden at 601-529-6677. Dealer.

BAD CREDIT?NO PROBLEM!1999 Ford Explorer

1999 Ford Expedition2000 Ford F150

2001 Chrysler Sebring2004 Saturn L200

More to Choose FromGary Cars *Hwy 61

South601-883-9995For pre-approval*www.garyscfl.com

BIG DEAL AUTOSALES

Retail Our Price‘03 Chevy Silverado

8,675 5,550‘97 Mazda Miata conv.

5,325 3,995‘96 Ford Explorer XLT 4dr.**56,000 actual miles

5,425 3,600‘01 Nissan Quest V6SE

5,400 2,900

3438 Halls Ferry Road601-940-8480601-218-7356

BOTTOM LINE AUTO SALES

We finance with no creditcheck! Corner of Fisher

Ferry Road and JeffDavis Road. 601-529-1195.

GAS SAVER! 2005 HON-DA Civic Hybrid. Great forcollege or town. Only$10,477. Call CharlieBelden at 601-529-6677.Dealer.

TOYOTA CAMRY.CLEAN, low miles. Financ-ing available, no creditcheck. Call 601-634-0320.

WANT A NEW Car, Truckor SUV? Please call CharlieBelden at Atwood Chevrolet601-529-677, Dealer.

Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

www.coldwellbanker.comCall Coldwell Banker All Stars

today at 601-634-89282170 South Frontage Rd. • Vicksburg, MS 39180

SUNDAY, MAY 31OPEN HOUSE

Herb JonesREALTOR-ASSOCIATE®601-831-1840

Open 2:00 - 4:00203 Charleston Drive

Make an offer on this Madison quality finished home - four bedrooms,3.5 Baths. Living room, dining room, kitchen open design. Beautiful

antique heart pine floors in living area. Exquisite moldings, 8 ft.exteriorCypress doors. 10 ft. ceilings, Rinnai hot water system. Double hungGorrell windows. This home is not ordinary. Call Herb 601 831-1840.

2007 Nissan Sentra S, 4 dr., auto $11,995 2008 Honda Civic EX, power roof $16,995

2006 Mercury Grand Marquis LS $12,995 2007 GMC Sahara Crew Cab $18,998

2007 Ford Fusion, 4 dr., all power, low mi. $12,995 2009 Altima 2.5S, 4 dr. $18,998

2006 Dodge Dakota Club Cab $12,998 2007 Honda CRV EXL, loaded, power roof $20,995

2008 Mazda 6, 4 dr., 40,000 mi. $13,998 2010 Chevrolet Impala LS $20,998

2008 Buick LaCrosse CXL $16,995 2009 Ford Taurus Ltd. $21,995

‘10 Honda Cross Tour EXL ‘10 Honda Civic LX

VOTED AS ONE OF THE BEST NEW & USEDCAR DEALERS IN 2009 READER’S CHOICE!!

‘10 Honda Accord LX

MSRP $33,280

Sale Price $30,887MSRP $22,595

Sale Price $20,534MSRP $19,115

Sale Price $17,667

The Car Store

601-638-6015 • 2800 Clay Street • Vicksburg, MS*Plus Tax & Title, 0% APR WAC

WE FINANCE OUR OWN ACCOUNTS

CARS • CARS • CARS• CARS• CARS

TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS • TRUCKS00 FORD EXPLORER XLS V1485RR ........17 Months @ $270 per month ......

$880*down

00 DODGE DURANGO SPORT 4X4 V1981 24 Months @ $340 per month ..$1090*down

00 FORD F150 XLT EXT CAB V1910 ....24 Months @ $390 per month ..$1465*down

03 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LT RV1995 24 Months @ $390 per month$1570*down

02 FORD EXPEDITION EDDIE BAUER V2004 24Months @ $370 per month ..$1735*down

00 CADILLAC CATERA V1326AR................24 Months @ $270 per month ......$775*down

02 NISSAN SENTRA GXE V1915 ..........24 Months @ $320 per month ......$835*down

06 CHEVY COLBALT LS V1973 ..............24 Months @ $360 per month ......$925*down

02 FORD FOCUS SE V1778R ..................10 Months @ $260 per month ......$980*down

02 BUICK LESABRE V2003 ......................24 Months @ $270 per month ......$985*down

00 BUICK CENTURY LIMITED V1976 ....24 Months @ $280 per month ..$1060*down

95 TOYOTA AVALON XLS V1984 ..........24 Months @ $310 per month ....$1075*down

99 FORD MUSTANG V2001......................24 Months @ $310 per month ....$1075*down

04 CHEVY CAVALIER LS V1982..............24 Months @ $330 per month ....$1120*down

04 CHEVY MALIBU LS V1986 ................24 Months @ $350 per month ....$1165*down

Mon - Fri 9am-5pm • Sat 9am-1pm

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2008 CadillacEscalade

$36,995

BlackBeauty

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2010 CadillacSRX

$35,495

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2008 AcuraTL

$25,795

SilverBeauty

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2007 CadillacSRX

$25,495

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2009 CadillacCTS

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2009 BuickEnclave

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GMProgram

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2009 CadillacSTS

$32,995

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2009 CadillacSTS

$33,995

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2009 LincolnTown Car

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SignatureLimited

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2007 CadillacCTS

$19,995

LeaseTurn-in

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2009 CadillacDTS

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2009 CadillacDTS

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2009 CadillacSTS

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2009 CadillacSRX

$28,995

NavigationSystem

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2009 CadillacDTS

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