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Supes enact curfew, require protective measures from depts

Road department employee tests positive for coronavirus
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
The Oktibbeha supervisors
unanimously passed a 30-day
curfew at Monday’s board
meeting in response to the
continued spread of COVID-19
coronavirus.
The curfew will be effective
immediately and lasts from 10
p.m. to 5 a.m., with the excep-
tion of essential travel.
Board President and District
1 Supervisor John Montgom-
ery suggested the curfew in
addition to Gov. Tate Reeves’
17-day “shelter-in-place” order
that went into effect Friday at
5 p.m. Montgomery said he re-
ceived a call from a constituent
on Friday who wanted to social-
ize anyway, and a curfew “gives
the sheriff’s department a little
more teeth.”
Sheriff Steve Gladney said
the department had to deal with
an influx of visitors from Clay
and Lowndes counties for two
weekends in March.
“We ran them off in several
different places (and) we broke
up several parties at the apart-
ment complexes,” Gladney
said. “This weekend we didn’t
have that problem, but that was
the problem we were having
because the other two counties
had a curfew and we didn’t.”
Montgomery, District 2 Su-
pervisor Orlando Trainer and
District 5 Supervisor Joe Wil-
liams voted for the curfew. Su-
pervisors Marvell Howard of
District 3 and Bricklee Miller
Montgomery Gladney
of District 4 both left the meet-
ing early.
Earlier in the meeting, the
board voted unanimously to
require all county departments
to send the board a list of mea-
sures they are taking to prevent
their employees from contract-
ing and spreading the virus
and to notify the board when
an employee has been tested.
The board will have the ability
to modify and approve the lists
of measures.
Both votes came after a de-
bate over whether county em-
ployees who have possibly been
exposed to the coronavirus
should still come to work if they
have not experienced symp-
toms. The discussion started
when road manager Fred Hal
Baggett told the board that one
See SUPES, 3A

MORNING RUN Aldermen

to consider city
hiring freeze,
suspending
scheduled pay
raises
Spruill: Cost-saving
measures will lessen
the impact of revenue
lost during pandemic
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com

Starkville alder-
men will consider
three measures this
evening to limit the
impact of the sales
tax revenue short-
fall that Mayor Lynn
Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
Spruill said will inev-
Rokiesha Orr and her son, C.J. McMillian, 10, go for a run around the track next to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle Spruill
itably come from the
Tuesday morning. Orr said the two of them often visit the park by the hospital and sometimes run together. McMillian is also
the son of Christopher McMillian, Sr. COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Spruill shared her three sugges-
tions with the board of aldermen at
its Friday work session, which was
held via teleconference. The mea-
sures are suspending pay raises
‘SHE LOVED THE STORE’ the board approved for some city
See ALDERMEN, 3A

Carolyn Sullivan, Starkville’s unofficial ‘Matriarch of Main Street’

and co-founder of Sullivan’s Office Supply, passes away at 89
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com
F
or someone who grew
up on a small farm
in Pontotoc, Carolyn
Sullivan didn’t seem to re-
tain very much of her rustic
roots.
She was not an early ris-
er, for example, often sleep-
ing in until late in morning
before turning her attention
to work. She didn’t seem to
cater much to the plain, sim-
ple clothing you associate
with a “country girl,” either.
She had an eye for style. She
dressed well, always seemed
to be perfectly put-together
— elegant and refined in her
tastes.
But there was one quality
Courtesy photo/The Sullivan family
Carolyn Sullivan
she retained from her De-
pression-era upbringing.
“Her work ethic. That’s
what stands out to me,” said
Steve Langston, Carolyn
Sullivan’s son-in-law and
now CEO of Sullivan’s Office
Supply Inc., a business
founded 61 years ago by Car-
olyn and her husband, Dan.
Carolyn Sullivan, 89,
died Wednesday following
a stroke and was laid to rest
Sunday in a small private
ceremony necessitated by
restrictions related to the
COVID-19 virus.
In normal circumstanc-
es, her funeral might have
been among the largest such
gatherings in Starkville, giv-
en her ties to the communi-
ty. After the business moved
from Eupora to downtown
Starkville in 1963, Sullivan’s
has remained an important
cornerstone downtown
through good times and bad.
Sullivan’s deep devotion
CMSD ends
to downtown was reflected
relationship
not only in the growth of
with GTECHS
the family business, but
throughout downtown.
“She was always con-
cerned about all of the BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
ialtman@cdispatch.com
businesses downtown,” said
Peggy Buckley, whose own
Columbus Munic-
family has been operating
ipal School District’s
downtown businesses since
board of trustees vot-
the 1940s. “We had a down-
ed unanimously to
town association at first,
cut ties with the Gold-
then we started the first
Main Street Association and en Triangle Early
now we have the (Greater College High School
Starkville Development) during its meeting Labat
Partnership. Carolyn was in- Monday evening, cit-
volved in all of them over the ing additional costs to continue with
years, and actively involved. GTECHS and a more pressing need
She just had that determined to divert that funding elsewhere.
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Fifth grade, Annunciation
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72 Low 66
and one mind-blowing twist? edition of the dated School
High 5 What creatures were irrefutably linked as de- paper. We want
scendants of dinosaurs when amino acids were District Board of
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Congress, White House reach high for next virus bill
House Speaker: Another $1T needed,
beyond the just-passed $2.2T effort
BY LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WA S H -
INGTON —
Congressio-
nal leaders
are jolting
ahead with
another
coronavirus
rescue pack- Trump
age as Pres-
ident Don-
ald Trump
indicated
that Amer-
icans will
need more
aid during
the stark Pelosi
pandemic and economic
shutdown.
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi said another $1 tril-
lion is needed, beyond the
just-passed $2.2 trillion
effort. She wants another
round of direct payments
to Americans and more
money for companies
to keep making payroll.
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell has
said in recent days that
health care should top the
list, signaling his intent to
get to work on a new bill.
“We’re going to take
good care of our people,”
Trump said Monday at
Virus puts UK PM in intensive
care; Japan declares emergency
Boris Johnson is world’s first known
head of government to fall ill with virus
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — British
Prime Minister Boris
Johnson was in intensive
care Tuesday fighting
the coronavirus, while
authorities in New York
and elsewhere in Europe
hoped that an apparent
plateau of deaths and new
hospitalizations signaled
that key epicenters in
the global pandemic had
turned a corner.
The 55-year-old John-
son, the world’s first
known head of govern-
ment to fall ill with the
virus, was conscious in
Asian shares rise, echoing Wall St optimism on virus battle
BY YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
TOKYO — Asian shares
rose Tuesday, echoing the
rally on Wall Street, amid a
few glimmers of hope that
the coronavirus pandemic
could be slowing.
Japan’s benchmark Nik-
kei 225 gained 1.3 percent
to 18,808.53 while South
his daily White House
briefing. “It was not their
fault.”
It’s a rare sign of
emerging consensus as
Washington responds to
the public health emer-
gency and severe eco-
nomic fallout that is
ransacking communities
nationwide, a crisis on par
with a war effort or the
Great Depression.
The contours of the
package are still being
debated and any votes
in Congress remain a
logistical conundrum.
The House and Senate
adjourned for most of the
month, as part of strict
stay-at-home orders from
public health officials to
prevent the spread of the
highly contagious virus.
On an afternoon con-
ference call with House
Democrats, Pelosi told
lawmakers at least an-
other $1 trillion would
be needed, according to
a person unauthorized to
discuss the call and grant-
ed anonymity.
The California Demo-
crat has vowed to put the
next package together in
time for a House vote this
month.
Former Federal Re-
serve chief Janet Yellen
a London hospital and
needed oxygen overnight
but was not on a ventilator,
Cabinet minister Michael
Gove said Tuesday. Brit-
ain’s foreign secretary,
Dominic Raab, has been
designated to take over
with Johnson sidelined
by an illness that can be
debilitating even for those
with access to the world’s
best medical care.
“We’re desperately
hoping that Boris can
make the speediest possi-
ble recovery,” Gove said.
Japan’s prime minister
on Tuesday declared a
monthlong state of emer-
Korea’s Kospi gained 1.2
percent to 1,812.87. Hong
Kong’s Hang Seng added
0.7 percent to 23,907.52,
while the Shanghai Com-
posite jumped 1.7 percent
to 2,814.09.
Australia’s S&P/ASX
200 edged 0.3 percent
lower to 5,297.90. Shares
rose in Taiwan and most of
Southeast Asia, but fell 0.9
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Trump, Biden spoke by phone about virus outbreak
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Biden campaign that the Democrat American people in meeting the
offered “suggestions” on how to ad- challenges facing the nation.”
WASHINGTON — President dress the pandemic. Biden had pre- The conversation was the culmi-
Donald Trump said he had a “real- viously said he’d like to share with nation of a dayslong effort by aides
ly wonderful, warm conversation” Trump some lessons he learned to get the two on the phone, after
with Joe Biden on Monday about from dealing with similar crises White House adviser Kellyanne
the coronavirus outbreak. during the Obama administration. Conway called on the former vice
“He gave me his point of view, But Trump added: “It doesn’t president to “offer some support”
and I fully understood that, and we mean that I agree with those sug- to Trump. Biden, the prospective
just had a very friendly conversa- gestions.” Democratic presidential nominee,
tion,” Trump said at his daily press Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s dep- has in recent weeks released a se-
briefing. uty campaign manager, said in a ries of proposals for responding to
The president said he and Biden statement that the two had a “good the pandemic and has criticized
agreed not to share the details of call” where Biden gave Trump the Trump administration for act-
their conversation, but confirmed some advice and “expressed his ing too slowly to halt the virus’
an earlier statement from the appreciation for the spirit of the spread.
joined the private call and a 30 percent contraction The earlier relief pack- keep making payroll. It
warned Democrats the of GDP this year, but has age, approved in late also included a boost of
economic fallout will de- seen models as high as March, included one-time unemployment pay, mon-
pend on the public health 50 percent, according to a $1,200 direct payments ey for hospitals and a
response to the pandem- Democratic aide unautho- to Americans, along with $500 billion fund for big-
ic, the person said. As rized to discuss the call forgivable small business ger corporations and in-
businesses shutter to stop and granted anonymity. loans for companies to dustries.
the virus’ spread, it has
hurled the U.S. economy
toward a recession.
Yellen said it was im-
possible to know how
deep and long the reces-
sion would be, and added
that it would depend on
the health response.
The former Fed chair
also told them the na-
tion’s unemployment rate
is now at least 13 percent
and this week’s jobless
report will show higher
numbers than last week’s.
Yellen said she expects
gency for Tokyo and six
other prefectures after a
spike in infections there
but it came in the form of
a stay-at-home request —
not an order — and viola-
tors will not be penalized.
Japan has the world’s old-
est population, a worrying
target for a virus that has
been killing the elderly at
much higher rates than
other age groups.
In New York, Gov. An-
drew Cuomo announced
the first, faint signs the
outbreak there may be
nearing its peak but said
it’s not time yet to relax
social distancing restric-
tions.
“The numbers look
like it may be turning,”
Cuomo said.
percent in Indonesia.
China on Tuesday re-
ported no new deaths from
the coronarivus over the
past 24 hours and had 32
new cases, all from people
who returned from over-
seas. The country that
gave rise to the global pan-
demic has recorded 3,331
deaths and 81,740 total
cases.

Lowndes supes OK $8,800 equipment purchase to livestream meetings
County’s meetings will soon be available via
website, Facebook, YouTube
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
Lowndes County residents
can soon watch livestreams of
board of supervisors’ meetings
online amid the COVID-19 pan-
demic.
Supervisors unanimously
approved Monday the purchase
Supes
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of his employees tested
positive for the virus.
The employee received
his test results on Satur-
day and had not worked
since March 30, when he
did not show symptoms
at work but felt sick after-
ward, Baggett said. The
road department employ-
ees had been practicing
social distancing, includ-
ing limiting its trucks to
one occupant each, wear-
ing gloves and using hand
wipes, but did not have
hand sanitizer available,
he said.
Miller asked if the
department needed to
use a “skeleton crew” to
work on county roads in
order to limit interper-
sonal contact even if that
means fewer projects are
finished.
“I think citizens are
more concerned about
the health and welfare of
people in the community
and would be understand-
ing if a pothole did not get
patched right now,” Miller
said. “I don’t think spray-
ing mosquitoes or haul-
ing gravel on Saturday
Aldermen
Continued from Page 1A
employees in September,
a hiring freeze with the
exceptions of two critical
jobs and a suspension of
all travel and equipment
purchases except for on-
going projects. Each mea-
sure will last 60 days but
could be extended with a
later vote.
“There’s absolutely no
doubt that we’re going to
have a severe drop in our
sales tax revenue,” Spruill
said. “How severe, we
don’t know yet, and part
of what we control is not
our revenue but our costs,
so this is a first step as far
as I’m concerned.”
The board might have
to take more steps at its
April 21 meeting, and one
option is reducing city
employees’ workweek to
32 hours, Spruill said.
The board will revis-
it the hiring freeze and
suspension of travel and
equipment purchases at
its June 2 meeting, and
the pay raises would be
suspended through the
pay period ending June
18. The raises are for
specific city jobs, such
as utility linemen, police
and firefighters, that pay
below the salary rate in
similar or equivalent mar-
kets, according to a study
the city authorized last
year.
Fire Chief Charles Yar-
brough and utilities gen-
eral manager Terry Kemp
said the delayed pay rais-
es will not be a problem
for their departments in
of new cameras and computer
equipment to livestream public
meetings on the county’s web-
site, Facebook page and You-
Tube channel.
The cost totals roughly
$8,800, said County Adminis-
trator Ralph Billingsley, and will
come from this year’s operating
Miller Howard
are a necessity right now.”
Baggett said the board
has to authorize the use
of a skeleton crew, and
County Administrator
Emily Garrard said some
departments might as
well shut down. Howard
said shutting down de-
partments was unrealis-
tic but each one needs to
have protective measures
in place, especially since
someone can spread the
virus without showing
symptoms themselves.
“This thing is still flu-
id, it’s ever-changing and
you sort of have to learn
to make decisions on the
fly,” Howard said.
Howard said protec-
tive measures should be
up to individual depart-
ment heads, but Garrard
and board attorney Rob
Roberson both said they
Kemp Yarbrough
the short term. The utili-
ties department has a few
open entry-level jobs but
can complete both rou-
tine and emergency main-
tenance without filling
them, Kemp said.
“I think we can man-
age without sacrificing
service for the next two
or three months,” he said.
The fire department
had two recent depar-
tures and was going to fill
one of the job openings on
Tuesday but took the new
hire off the meeting agen-
da, something the depart-
ment has never done be-
fore, Yarbrough said.
“Those (open) slots
could affect us a little bit,
could cause a little bit
more overtime, but from
the standpoint of hav-
ing enough personnel,
there are too many health
risks,” he said. “We un-
derstand what the city
has to do, so we’re going
to make adjustments the
best we can to make sure
the city’s still fully cov-
ered.”
The Starkville Police
Department reached full
staffing capacity just be-
fore the pandemic start-
ed, Chief Mark Ballard
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budget. The deci-
sion to livestream
the meetings
came after the
governor issued a
statewide “shelter
in place” order
in the face of the
coronavirus pan- Billingsley
demic last Wednesday, prohib-
iting public gatherings of 10 or
more people.
The county already records
meetings on a DVD system, said
would prefer that the
board make a decision
that applies to all depart-
ments.
Operational
changes at OCH
As of Monday morn-
ing, there were 85 con-
firmed cases in the
OCH Regional Medical
Center’s seven-county
service area with 27 in
Oktibbeha County. Less
than 30 percent of those
patients require hospi-
talization, OCH Disaster
Preparedness Officer
Wes Andrews said.
Andrews, OCH CEO
Jim Jackson and Chief
Medical Officer Todd
Smith gave the supervi-
sors a report on the hospi-
tal’s state of operations as
the pandemic continues
to escalate. An 89-year-
old woman died of the
virus at OCH on Sunday,
becoming Oktibbeha
County’s first COVID-19
fatality.
The hospital has re-
vised its visitation policy,
canceled clinic appoint-
ments and eliminated
said, and the department
understands the city’s
reasons for possibly sus-
pending pay raises. The
biggest challenge for a
police department during
a pandemic is to maintain
a strong presence in the
community while taking
measures to protect itself
from the virus, he said.
“It’s something that
demands a lot of network-
ing and re-
search, and
every day
you come in
with a new
plan,” Bal-
lard said.
The two
exemptions Ballard
to the pro-
posed hiring freeze are
the Parks and Recreation
executive director and a
water treatment operator.
Spruill and Kemp both
said a new water treat-
ment operator is “essen-
tial and critical,” especial-
ly since the city only has
one at the moment
Gerry Logan stepped
down from the parks di-
rector position March 30
after nearly a year and
nine months in the po-
sition. David D’Aquilla,
a member of the design
team for Cornerstone
Park, is serving as the in-
terim director.
Ward 2 Alderman
Sandra Sistrunk said she
hopes the federal govern-
ment will indicate any up-
coming aid for small cit-
ies by the April 21 board
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020 3A
county Information Technology
Director Al Quinn. However, he
more public access during the
pandemic. Faced with a boosting
said, the county does not have
the equipment to convert the
demand for livestream equip-
ment on the market, he said, the
DVD files to videos accessible cost would likely rise the longer
online, and the current cameras Lowndes County waited.
need to be replaced. “At some point, we are proba-
“The cameras are pretty bad bly going to have to (livestream
regardless,” Quinn said. “The the meetings) anyway,” he said.
video quality is … pretty bad.” “It’s probably going to cost more
District 4 Supervisor Jeff down the road if we wait.”
Smith said many Mississippi cit- Billingsley said it may be
ies and counties are already lives- weeks before the equipment is
treaming their meetings to allow delivered and installed.
would be reasonable to
assume everyone has it
in order to take adequate
precautions, Smith said.
OCH has been a point
of distribution for person-
al protective equipment
for other medical facili-
ties and will soon get its
own PPE from the Missis-
sippi State Department of
Health, Andrews said.
“We’ve watched as
those facilities have come
and picked up PPE from
our loading docks, we’ve
sorted it for them and
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OCH Regional Medical Center CEO Jim Jackson, stand- we’ve staged it for them,
ing, gives the Oktibbeha County board of supervisors we’ve loaded it onto their
an update on how the hospital has adjusted to the trucks when they’ve
escalating COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic Monday come,” he said. “Day af-
morning at the Chancery Courthouse. OCH has been a ter day we’ve seen those
point of distribution for personal protective equipment
for other medical facilities and will soon get its own trucks come, and none of
those were set aside for
PPE from the Mississippi State Department of Health,
OCH until now.”
said OCH Disaster Preparedness Officer Wes Andrews,
second from left. The county Emergen-
cy Management Agency
elective surgeries, mean- Those who have been is setting up a hotline to
ing that “anything that exposed to the virus but answer questions about
generates revenue, we’ve do not show symptoms COVID-19, and the board
been told to stop,” Jack- should wear a mask to unanimously approved a
son said. Surgeons are keep from spreading it contract with C Spire to
being trained to provide
through secretion, and it create the hotline.
bedside care in the ab-
sence of surgeries, he
said.
meeting.
Congress
passed a
$2 trillion
C OV I D -19
relief pack-
age last
month that Sistrunk
provides
funding for large cities,
large businesses and
small businesses, as well
as improved unemploy-
ment benefits, but does
not designate any funds
specifically for small cit-
ies.
“By the 21st, hopefully
we’ll have a better feel for
if there are going to be
relief measures out there
beyond the things that we
can control right now, like
these cost-saving mea-
sures,” Sistrunk said.
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OUR VIEW
A tradition that needs to end
O
n Friday, Mississippi
Governor Tate Reeves
signed two official doc-
uments.
One, an executive order
declaring a two-week “shelter
in place” throughout the state,
was signed with much fanfare
during a Facebook Live broad-
cast and can be found on the
state’s official website.
The other, a proclamation
declaring April as “Confeder-
ate Heritage Month” in Missis-
sippi, was done quietly. Reeves
has made no mention of the
proclamation and it is not to be
found on the state’s website,
even though it is an official
state document the public
should be able to access.
We do not suggest that
these two documents carry
equal weight. The shelter
order has a direct and immedi-
ate effect on the lives of every
Mississippian. By contrast, the
Confederate Heritage Month
proclamation can be embraced
or ignored and requires noth-
ing of us.
Yet we believe continuing
to set aside a month to honor
Confederate heritage damages
the reputation of a state that
struggles to create a new nar-
rative of a Mississippi that is
inclusive and fair-minded. In a
state that still displays Confed-
erate imagery in its state flag,
the state’s stubborn devotion
to the Confederacy is more
than just a little contradictory.
That the Governor’s procla-
mation was made as quietly as
possible is revealing.
Reeves, in his first term as
Governor, is continuing the
tradition of his predecessor,
Phil Bryant, who proclaimed
April as Confederate Heritage
Month in each of his eight
years as governor.
Bryant’s claims in the
proclamation were dubious
in their own right. Reeves’ is
even more so. Unlike Bryant’s
proclamation, Reeves’ ver-
sion assigns no blame to the
Confederacy for the war. It
says we should remember the
“successes and failures” of the
Confederacy.
It is unclear what possible
success could have come from
what Reeves’ proclamation
said is “reportedly” the cost-
liest and deadliest war every
fought on American soil.
The use of the word “report-
edly” is no accident. Reeves
apparently believes there may
be some question of just how
costly and deadly the Civil
War actually was. Fake News?
Reeves leaves it an open ques-
tion. It’s yet another absurd
attempt to rationalize Missis-
sippi’s culpability in fighting
a war to preserve and sustain
slavery.
There is a reason that Ger-
many does not celebrate “Nazi
Heritage Month,” even though,
in respect to “successes” Ger-
many has a better argument
than Mississippi. Germany’s
war-time innovations in engi-
neering and architecture and
sciences are well documented.
What contributions to
humanity did the Confedera-
cy make? We cannot recall a
single example.
Germany does not celebrate
its Nazi heritage because it
was abhorrent and inhumane.
There is no effort among
decent Germans to rehabilitate
that heritage or change the
narrative to cast it in a more
charitable light.
Mississippians should not
celebrate its Confederate
heritage for precisely the same
reasons.
There are few arguments
that could be made in defense
of Confederate “heritage” that
could not be made of Nazi
“heritage.”
Did our Confederate ances-
tors fight with great skill and
courage, often against formi-
dable odds? Did they fight for
their homeland? Certainly.
Cannot the same can be said
of the soldiers of the Third
Reich?
Were all Confederate sol-
diers slave-owners? No. Were
all German soldiers Nazis?
Same answer.
That this need be debated is
discouraging.
Confederate Heritage
Month continues to be a stain
on our state’s image and an
insult to all decent Mississip-
pians.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR MUSINGS

Voice of the people
A hope the world continues to unite
Humans have created many things
that we generally call “man-made.” Some
of the man-made things include different
religions, faiths, borders between differ-
ent countries, caste and race systems,
to mention the few. These man-made
things are the root-cause of our misery
and in-fights. Over the centuries humans
have fought several wars to maintain and/
or expand borders of their respective
countries. We constantly have wars and
arguments over superiority of one reli-
gion over the other. Among ourselves we
have created a notion of superiority and
inferiority based on color and creed. But
a small tiny invisible microorganism has
broken all of these man-made boundaries
and infiltrated every single country, every
religion and every ethnic group without
any discrimination. The whole world has
now forgotten all of their quarrels instant-
ly. Every single country, friends and foe
alike, is now having just one aim — that
is how to contain this coronavirus. The
virus is teaching us that all of the man-
made creations are simply useless. What
is more important is on how to sustain this
beautiful human life and health on this
planet earth. Once the dust settles down,
I hope that humans across the globe,
irrespective of religion and country, will
be more united and will fight for only one
cause that is how to maintain love, harmo-
ny, health, and safety for all.
Ghanshyam D. Heda
Columbus
Being of two minds
“B
eing of two minds” has
a ring to it, but misses
a strategic something
I call my SELF. I tend toward
the comforts, regulations that
have brought me thus far. Mind,
however, or brain, tends toward
updates from TV and the Times,
truths that SELF wants to
negate, the better to stick with
my mother’s belief that God’s in
His heaven, “all’s right with the
world.” (Robert Browning wrote Marion Whitley
it; my SELF wants to go along,
but BR AIN is warning, “Wait
just a cotton pickin’ minute!”)
There’s a line in Hamlet, Act I that goes, “Some-
thing is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Marcellus said
it. But why? (I reread Act I searching for the why and
found it. There’s contagion in the land allowing ghosts
(and viruses?) to roam abroad. Reason enough to quote
the bard, but there’s another reason to recall that line.
I’ll explain anon.”
Back to SELF. Yes, my personal being is bracing to
face the pandemic that has emptied ancient and mod-
ern Rome of life that’s been known there. No place to
bury the victims. That’s what BR AIN is hearing from
TV, and I’m being told to “shelter in place” because
the virus that killed those Italians is already in New
York City, limiting my socializing to 10! (I don’t have
10 friends to avoid, but the handful I do have are under
the same mandate. They’re at home washing their
hands and avoiding door knobs. SELF resents MIND’s
scary news! I mean, a whole lot of good it did for Italy!
I vow to list the wishy-washy truths intended to fog up
my brain with pleasantries: “as soon as possible”, “with
all due expediency”, “we’re working on that”, “we’ll see
what happens and let you know the latest as soon as
tests become available.” (BR AIN input starts burrow-
ing into SELF with images of Rome, with the fountains
of the newly projected months? And how to ration 24
eggs and a sack of potatoes till July? I’d dress up a bed
of spinach with slices of hard boiled eggs! Nutritious,
even attractive. (I am whistling in the dark.) As for po-
tatoes, butter and sour cream would have to do. Break-
fast? With 12 English muffins and 10 packets of grits
on hand, I fell to pretending I was well provisioned,
even predicting I’d end up with a surplus.
The news coverage: so repetitive when not down-
ward plunging. Cowardly, I turned away from the
battle of SELF’s “sunny side of life,” versus BR AIN’s
surreal reality of spring 2020, to feel a welcome spurt
of energy for tackling a physical chore. I’d wash the
windows! Nobody had warned of a Windex shortage.
While sheltering in place, I’ll have a clearer view of the
greening wisteria vine come spring. (SELF says there
will be Spring. BR AIN? Not so much.)
nnn
Emma Ody Pohl is a legend. Everybody ever affili-
ated with The W knows that. She was not of this world.
Trust me. I’d never been one of her dancers... knew her
only from afar. I kept my distance so I could watch her
walk across campus accompanied by a breeze tug-
ging at the hem of her navy blue coat, and strands of
her graying hair. She was no friend of modernity that
might loosen strictures on rules of dating, of allowing
cars on campus, of handsome Air Force Cadets at the
wheel.
I came upon her at the corner one Saturday. The
noon whistle had sounded, the campus gates were
opened allowing the inflow of cars, driven by hand-
some “fly boys” from CAFB to pick up their dates for
the weekend. She stood there, in the date-charged
atmosphere ‘til it fanned out to the several dorms.
“Something is rotten,” she said, shading her eyes
from the noon sun, “but it’s not in Denmark.” She
wasn’t speaking to me. I was just there, but somehow I
dared, “Excuse me Miss Pohl?”

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A MOMENT OF CALM
The bend in the road
Sometimes we come to
life’s crossroads
And we view what we
think is the end.
But God has a much wider vision
And He knows it’s only a bend -
The road will go on and get smoother
And after we’ve stopped for a rest,
The path that lies hidden beyond us
Is often the path that is best.
So rest and relax and grow stronger,
Let go and let God share your load
And have faith in a brighter tomorrow
You’ve just come to a bend in the road.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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turned off.)
Am I really putting on my shoes to go food shopping
“Never mind, Shakespeare said it. It’s in there some-
where, or was”. She crossed over in that breeze that
without a mask? I saw no masks during yesterday’s for- stirred the leaves at her feet. “Denmark” was the only
ay for eggs, potatoes and toilet tissue, so it can’t be bad clue she’d left me, hence my search of “Hamlet.”
as all that! Anyway, there are no masks to be had. I’d al- Marion Whitley lives in Manhattan where she reads,
ways made my own clothes, so SELF’s fashioning a fold writes and remembers. Her email address is Whijmar8@
of tissue held in place over nose and mouth with rubber aol.com.
bands seemed a no brainer ‘til advised by a medical
professional that Kleenex was no barrier against “in-
coming fire,” effective only if I’m the sneezer.
(But might it frighten the virus away?) Don’t count
on it, and don’t count on attempted humor to lighten
the mood of the world in the spring of 2020 (‘cause too
much is not right with it!)
MIND persuaded me to make a run for groceries,
thinking of eggs as a substitute protein, and potatoes
with butter and sour cream to fill the plate. Though
maskless, I blend right in. Not one mask on the side-
walk! (That’s SELF talking, trying to maintain normal-
cy in times of stress.) But inside, BR AIN snaps back,
“A Ha! Not one egg to be had, NOR a lowly potato.
SELF says, “Did I get it wrong? Who said, ‘On a war-
time footing, on the way to becoming Italy!’”
Early Saturday, confident but concerned, I took up
my cart for a more successful foray for food. Ahead, a
block-long line-up of produce trucks unloading sacks
of potatoes to feed the regiment of men on a relay line!
I watched awed, wanting to say “thank you, guys,” but
how? Blow a kiss to the incredible scene, (even with
the intrusive picture of an empty Italian street over my
shoulder.)
And inside? Eggs! In pastel-colored cartons! (In-
tended for Easter?) Stacked higher than I could reach!
That’s better! More like my America. ”We will get
through this together.” Those men out there, lifting,
tossing, toting, stocking the shelves are but one un-
sung link in the enormous “together” that, the pundits
say, will bring us to the “other side.” By summer? Courtesy photo
Eggs and potatoes, fine for two weeks, but what Emma Ody Pohl

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Rate of deaths, illness among Poll: Americans increasing

effort to avoid infection
black residents alarms cities BY SAR A BURNET T AND HANNAH FINGERHUT
The Associated Press

‘We can’t simply stand by and let this disease wreak
havoc in our communities. Lives are truly at stake.’
BY K ATHLEEN FOODY
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Chicago’s mayor
pledged an aggressive public health
campaign aimed at the city’s black
and brown communities Monday
amid alarm that an overwhelming
number of African American resi-
dents were among the people to die
of COVID-19 in early data.
Black residents accounted for 72
percent of deaths from COVID-19
complications in the city and 52 per-
cent of positive tests for the coro-
navirus, despite making up only
30 percent of the city’s population,
according to the city’s public health
agency.
Public health experts in Chicago
said the trend was unsurprising to
anyone familiar with decades-old
barriers to health care in the geo-
graphically divided city; residents
of the city’s South and West sides
historically have poorer access to
health care, higher poverty rates
and jobs that require them to keep
showing up while others are able to
work from home.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Similar conditions mark other
large cities with large black pop-
ulations that are considered hot
spots for the coronavirus, includ-
ing New York, Detroit, Milwaukee
and New Orleans. Figures released
Monday by Michigan’s Department
of Health and Human Services
showed African Americans, who
make up 14 percent of the state pop-
ulation, make up about 33 percent
of cases statewide and 41 percent of
deaths.
Still, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said
the disparities in Chicago “take
your breath away” and required an
immediate response from the city,
community activists and healthcare
providers.
A new team of city and communi-
ty representatives will focus on con-
tacting residents who are older than
50 and those considered vulnerable
to the virus because of other health
conditions to share information
about prevention and resources for
those who do become ill.
The city’s transit system will
increase monitoring on its buses
and add vehicles to lines still being
heavily used, and city inspectors
will visit grocery or corner stores
to enforce social distancing limits
there too, she said.
“We can’t simply stand by and
let this disease wreak havoc in
our communities,” Lightfoot said.
“Lives are truly at stake.”
The city’s public health commis-
sioner also ordered all healthcare
providers in the city to collect data
on COVID-19 patients’ race and eth-
nicity, seeking to address existing
gaps. The department’s leader, Dr.
Allison Arwady, said one-quarter of
testing results sent to her agency
so far have not included that critical
information.
A national civil rights group
on Monday said that’s a problem
across the country and demanded
more transparency on race and eth-
nicity among the COVID-19 testing
results, cases and patient outcomes
reported by federal health authori-
ties and state health agencies.
“Equal access to healthcare
is a critical civil rights issue, and
during this novel pandemic, the
public deserves nothing less than
full transparency from this admin-
istration and state public health
officials,” Kristen Clarke, president
and executive director of Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law, said in a statement.
CHICAGO — Americans in overwhelming
numbers are actively avoiding others as much
as possible and taking additional steps to protect
themselves from the coronavirus, according to a
survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center
for Public Affairs Research that shows how con-
cerns about infection have grown sharply in the
past six weeks.
The survey finds Americans are increasing-
ly isolating, washing their hands and avoiding
touching their face. Large portions of the coun-
try are confronting lay-offs and pay cuts and are
adjusting to kids forced home from school and
day care amid the coronavirus pandemic, which
has upended American life and the nation’s econ-
omy.
Half of Americans now say they are extremely
or very worried that they or a family member will
be infected by the virus. That compares with 31
percent who said the same in mid-March and 22
percent who said so in February. Another 34 per-
cent are somewhat worried, while just 16 percent
say they are not worried.
The spike in concern comes as the number
of confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease
caused by the virus, has grown to about 1.3 mil-
lion worldwide and about 340,000 in the U.S., ac-
cording to Johns Hopkins University.

Financial hits pile up for colleges as some fight to survive

Dozens of colleges have instituted
hiring freezes, and many are halting
construction projects so they have
enough money to pay employees
BY COLLIN BINKLEY
AND JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
Colleges across the
nation are scrambling to
close deep budget holes
and some have been
pushed to the brink of
collapse after the corona-
virus outbreak triggered
financial losses that could
total more than $100 mil-
lion at some institutions.
Scores of colleges say
they’re taking heavy hits
as they refund money
to students for housing,
dining and parking af-
ter campuses closed last
month. Many schools
are losing millions more
in ticket sales after ath-
letic seasons were cut
short, and some say huge
shares of their reserves
have been wiped out amid
wild swings in the stock
market.
Yet college leaders
say that’s only the start
of their troubles: Even if
campuses reopen this fall,
many worry large num-
bers of students won’t re-
turn. There’s widespread
fear that an economic
downturn will leave many
bill signed by President
Donald Trump last month
sures,” Ted Mitchell, the
group’s president, wrote
provides $14 billion for
higher education. The
in a letter to Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos.
American Council on Ed- Even colleges with
ucation, an association of deep reserves are expect-
college presidents, had ing a painful financial
requested $50 billion and blow from the pandemic.
Americans unable to af- called the package “woe- Brown University was
ford tuition, and universi-
fully inadequate.” among the first to an-
ties are forecasting steep “This crisis is caus- nounce a hiring freeze,
drop-offs among interna- ing massive disruption citing “dramatic reduc-
tional students who may to students, institutional tions in revenue.” Yale
think twice about study- operations and institu- University followed on
ing abroad so soon after a tional finances. On some March 31, asking depart-
pandemic. campuses, it is creating ments to update budgets
“If you play out the sce- an existential threat, po- in preparation of a “signif-
narios that are out there, tentially resulting in clo- icant loss” in revenue.
it really makes you ner-
vous,” said Mary Papa-
zian, president of San Jose
State University, which
estimates it will lose $16
million by the end of May.
“We may be looking at
cutting academic pro-
grams if it comes to it. We
may be looking at laying
off people. It’s a dire situa-
tion if the worst comes to
pass.”
Dozens of colleges
have instituted hiring
freezes, and many are
halting construction proj-
ects so they have enough
money to pay employees.
But university presidents
say the savings will only
stretch so far, and many
are asking the federal
government for a second
stimulus package to avoid
deeper cuts.
The $2 trillion rescue
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Health
HEALTH TIP
n Don’t shop without a list: There are two important
strategies to employ when you go grocery shopping: make
your list ahead of time and don’t go to the store hungry. Not
knowing exactly what you need makes room for impulse
buying, while hunger can further exacerbate your impulses.
Source: healthline.com

Health tips from Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen

Making up your mind about the
right way to do hand-washing
“Indecision is like a stepchild: If
he does not wash his hands, he is
called dirty; if he does, he is wast-
ing water.” That African proverb
pretty well sums up many Amer-
icans’ wild swing between hand
sanitizer hoarding and cavalier dis-
regard for effective handwashing.
We figure that’s because it’s hard
to know exactly how to effectively
KO the most dastardly germs.
So here’s the latest info from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
1. You want to clean (rinse
off microbes) and disinfect (kill
them). Soap generally works by
clearing germs off your hands,
although it does rupture and kill
some microbes. New info indicates
that includes the novel coronavirus.
2. Washing your hands — top,
bottom, between the fingers, on
the wrist and under the nails —
with plain, sudsy soap removes
around 99 percent of contaminants.
That’s as effective as antibacterial
soaps. Soap is usually more effec-
tive than 60 percent alcohol hand
sanitizer. Most folks put sanitizer
on dirty, greasy or damp hands and
don’t let it dry before moving on.
3. The 20-second hand-washing
rule is spot-on. If you can’t stand to
sing a chorus of “Happy Birthday,”
check out the 20-second chorus
of Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” or
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” Dr. Mike’s
favorite? Twenty seconds of Anita
Franklin singing “Respect.”
Bonus: Cleaning surfaces first,
then disinfecting is a powerful
one-two punch. Environmental
Protection Agency-approved ingre-
dients for use on emerging viral
pathogens and human coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 (that’s what causes
CoVID-19) are listed at www.epa.
gov/pesticide-registration/list-
n-disinfectants-use-against-sars-
cov-2. If you look at ingredient lists
on disinfecting wipes, you’ll see
these listed.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The
Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen,
M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and
Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleve-
land Clinic. To live your healthiest,
tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit
www.sharecare.com.

CMSD
Continued from Page 1A
CMSD Superintendent
Cherie Labat recommend-
ed the board not renew the
district’s memorandum
of understanding with
GTECHS, which would
have allowed the district
to continue sending stu-
dents to the early college
high school on East Mis-
sissippi Community Col-
lege’s Mayhew campus
next school year. The dis-
trict’s current agreement
with GTECHS will end on
June 30.
Labat said the move
would allow the district to
move more than $130,000
to programs within the
district, such as dual en-
rollment and distance
learning programs that al-
low students to take class-
es online.
As the spread of
COVID-19 coronavirus
forces schools to close
and districts to implement
distance learning, Labat
said teachers can use on-
line education to reach
students who had been
choosing GTECHS over
Columbus High School
because they are socially
introverted or want small-
er class sizes.
“I feel like a lot of the
things that we developed
with GTECHS are no lon-
ger relevant,” Labat said
during Monday’s meeting,
which was held over Zoom
in accordance with social
distancing.
GTECHS, which
opened in the 2015-16
school year, allows select
area high school students
to take college courses and
graduate high school with
associates degrees. In ad-
dition to CMSD, it accepts
students from Lowndes
County, Noxubee County,
West Point Consolidated
and Starkville-Oktibbeha
Consolidated school dis-
tricts on an application
basis. The school boasts
small class sizes and a
stringent application pro-
cess specifically geared
toward students who don’t
thrive, either socially or
academically, in tradition-
al high school environ-
ments.
But Labat said the pro-
gram’s cost will increase
next year from $100,000
to $130,000, not including
transportation. There are
more than 220 students
enrolled at GTECHS, 42
of which are CMSD stu-
dents.
“If you want to put that
in perspective, we serve
141 students for our dual
enrollment program and
our budget (for that) is
$100,000,” Labat said. “So
the numbers I want you
to pay significant atten-
tion to is we’re serving 42
students for a budget of
$130,000 for dual enroll-
ment and ... smaller class
sizes.”
Board president Ja-
son Spears pointed out
$100,000 for 141 students
equals roughly $709 per
student. For another
$130,000, plus the money
the district would save on
transportation and some
other costs, he said, the
district could add more
than 200 students to its
own dual enrollment pro-
gram.
But some board mem-
bers questioned wheth-
er CMSD’s schools are
the right option for the
type of students who at-
tend GTECHS. Telisa
Clay Young pointed out
GTECHS targets at-risk
students and students who
would be the first in their
families to attend college.
Josie Shumake said she
had interviewed students in 2019 of
who attended GTECHS more than
last year, though she said 97 percent.
none were from Colum- Howev-
bus. er, he said
“The big takeaway he was still
for me was these, at least looking
the students that I inter- forward to Alsobrooks
viewed, really would ben-
working
efit from smaller classes,”
with CMSD, particularly
Shumake said. “Most of
them … seemed to be with dual enrollment.
the kinds of students that “I think there’s a great
might be bullied. So I just future for young people,
want to put that out there. particularly on the tech-
Those weren’t CMSD kids nical side,” he said. “Folks
and I don’t know if that that want to go to work
would apply across the sooner rather than later
board.” and get some skills while
Labat said she had they’re in high school,
considered those factors, those type students. We
pointing out CMSD’s want to work with Colum-
teachers are more focused bus and all our districts
now on at-risk students on helping students get in
than they were four years technical fields early.”
ago. She added socially in-
troverted students are ex-
actly the sort of students
who might thrive taking
some classes online.
“They could have great
teachers online, interac-
tive, and not necessarily in
a classroom with anyone,”
Labat said.
GTECHS students
from Columbus will finish
out the year at the early
college high school and go
back to attending CMSD
schools next school year,
Labat said.
East Mississippi Com-
munity College President
Scott Alsobrooks said
he’d had “no idea” CMSD
was planning to take its
students out of GTECHS
and that he hadn’t gotten
a chance to talk to Labat
about the matter.
“I look forward to
talking with (Labat) and
seeing what their strategy
is but I really don’t know
much about it,” he said.
He added that GTECHS
boasted a graduation rate

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way about her to make
things better.”
Buckley, then Peggy
Mullins, and her hus-
band, Sonny Mullins,
opened Mullins Depart-
ment Store in 1955. The
Mullins’ son, Larry, now
owns a financial services
firm on the same block
as Sullivan’s on Lafayette
Street.
The two families
quickly formed a bond
that has lasted six de-
cades.
Langston was dating
the Sullivans’ daugh-
ter, Linda, at the time
he started work at the
company in 1970 while
studying engineering at
Mississippi State. Soon,
he became drawn to the
business and never left.
Larry Mullins, mean-
while, worked with his
parents at their depart-
ment store. Larry’s family
and Steve’s family are the
closest of friends.
“Carolyn and my mom
were both very active in
the downtown and Main
Street programs,” Larry
Mullins said. “They
both really poured a lot
of time and energy into
downtown in good times
and bad. Carolyn had
so much pride in down-
town.”
Downtown Starkville
was once the domain of a
handful of family-owned
businesses that had
operated downtown for
decades. In 2000, Sonny
Mullins died and the
department store closed,
leaving Carolyn Sullivan
as the unofficial Matri-
arch of Main Street.
“Aside from her
Sunday school class, she
really didn’t have any
hobbies,” Langston said.
“The business was where
she devoted her time and
energy, real right up until
near the end.”
Buckley marveled at
her friend’s drive, even as
she moved into her 80s.
“She’d be up at the
store all hours, some-
times to midnight or lat-
er,” Buckley said. “I think
even before Don passed,
she had a lot more say in
what went on there than
she let on. She was very
much in the middle of
everything.”
Langston said his
mother-in-law genuinely
enjoyed the work, espe-
cially some of the more
mundane tasks.
“She loved writing the
checks,” Langston said.
“And she liked going to
the post office, too. She
would usually come in
around lunch time, have
lunch at her desk and
stay there late. I think
she liked being there at
night, when she could
take her time and relax.
She lived only about four
blocks from the store, so
she was never far away.
She loved the store and
loved working in it.”
Sports
SCHAEFER REFLECTS ON MISSISSIPPI STATE TENURE Jones
IN TEXAS INTRODUCTORY PRESS CONFERENCE
Former Mississippi State women’s basketball coach Vic Schaeferwas formally introduced at Texas Monday afternoon. Schaefer brought MSU to
two national championship appearances in his tenure with the Bulldogs.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — hen for this opportunity
Having traded his ma-
roon and white for burnt
orange, Vic Schaefer was
officially introduced as
the new head women’s
basketball coach at Texas
Monday.
Sitting down with
the Longhorn Network,
Schaefer was questioned
on his departure from
Mississippi State, why he
ended up at Texas and his
vision for the sustained
success of the women’s
basketball program in
Austin.
“I also want to take
this time to thank Mis-
sissippi State,” he said in
his opening remarks. “To
thank Dr. Mark Keenum,
Scott Stricklin — who
hired me eight years
NBA coaches prepare for possible intriguing playoff matchups
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
With NBA games in-
definitely on hold there
has been a lot of discus-
sion about postseason
possibilities — including
by coaches around the
league.
They’re preparing for
what a resumption of
the season that was shut
down March 11 could
look like in the wake of
the coronavirus pandem-
ic.
Toronto coach Nick
Nurse said he’s trying
to prepare for every pos-
sibility that would allow
the Raptors a chance to
defend their title.
“We’re ready for
whatever is thrown at
MSU OL
MISSISSIPPI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
enters
transfer
portal
ago, my former (athletic
director) — and current
en Aston’s contract, Del
Conte spoke with famed
athletic director John Co- Texas women’s basket-
ball coach Jody Conradt,
here. among others, regarding
To our fanbase — the the open position.
Bulldog family — for Conradt, who led the
their love of my family, Longhorns to a national
my staff out program, my championship in 1986
players here at Mississip- and compiled a 900-306
pi State. This has been a record over her 38-year
great eight years and it coaching career, sug-
has been a tremendous gested Del Conte look to
state. So many wonder- northeast Mississippi for
ful people, the state of Texas’ next head coach.
Mississippi has just been “I gave her what I was
tremendous for us.” going to do and she said,
Speaking with The ‘You know what you need
Longhorn Network’s to do? Go to Mississippi
Lowell Galindo, Texas State and get Vic Schae-
Athletic Director Chris fer.’” Del Conte recount-
Del Conte also provided ed.
insight into the timeline Following a day’s
of Schaefer’s hiring. worth of conversation
Following the decision and a contract discus-
to not renew since-de- sion Saturday, Schaefer
parted head coach Kar- and Del Conte shook on
us,” Nurse said recently ule played without fans
during a conference call to the very real possibili-
with reporters. “I don’t ty of jumping straight to
think it really matters. the playoffs to ensure a
What matters is that we season is completed be-
attack the title in what- fore the end of summer.
ever format it’s going to Milwaukee coach
be presented in and we Mike Budenholzer said
go for it.” he has spent part of this
No one knows what hiatus studying the Or-
will be thrown at the lando Magic and Brook-
NBA or the rest of the lyn Nets — the Bucks’
sports world. Looking two most likely first-
at guidelines from the round playoff foes — as
Centers for Disease Con- well as other Eastern
trol and Prevention, if Conference teams.
NBA games do resume Nurse had already be-
this season the calendar gun thinking postseason
will play a major factor before the season was
in how the league pro- suspended.
ceeds. “When we hit March
The ideas are many, 1, we’ve got a kind of
from a shortened version playoff prepping plan
of the remaining sched- thing that kicks in,” the
a deal.
“When we say that
‘The winning traditions
of the University of Texas
are not trusted to the tim-
id nor the weak,’ he’s not
weak,” Del Conte said.
“He understands it and
I knew when he started
talking about our pro-
gram and the entire his-
tory I was just trying not
to get too excited.”’
For Schaefer, the
draws to Texas were
natural. A former Texas
A&M assistant coach, he
spent a decade in College
Station under Gary Blair
— helping the Aggies to
the 2011 national champi-
onship.
The Houston native
also spent eight years as
the head coach at Sam
Houston State in Hunts-
ville, Texas before he left
Raptors coach said. “We
spread the teams around
our staff members and
they prepare a pretty
detailed couple of hour
video sessions.
“They would normal-
ly come into my office
and start showing that
to me one-on-one. It’s a
two-hour video that we
go through probably in
about three hours on cer-
tain teams in the East and
then a handful of them in
the West as well.
“The coaches were
started in on that already
and they’ll continue on
that. The only difference
is there’s no real one-one-
one time with me yet.
They’ll probably just have
to send me their edit and
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for an assistant coaching
job at Arkansas.
“I am 65 miles from
where both my mother
and father are buried,”
he said, referencing
Austin. “It’s a town of
La Grange,Texas where
I grew up as a young
child on weekends at my
grandmother’s house.
I’m two-and-a-half hours
from my sister — who
was actually my kinder-
garten teacher and my
spelling teacher from the
first through the eighth
grade — and it’s a state
that’s tremendous in
women’s and girls high
school basketball.”
Schaefer also took the
time in a teleconference
with reporters to address
the vacancy he left be-
hind in Starkville. While
See VIC, 2B
then I’ll just have to watch
them and talk to them on
the phone.”
There would be several
intriguing matchups if the
NBA resumes the season
with the start of the post-
season. Nurse and Toron-
to would be the No. 2 seed
in the East and would host
No. 7 Brooklyn. Other
matchups would be: No.
1 Milwaukee vs. No. 8 Or-
lando; No. 3 Boston vs No.
6 Philadelphia; No. 4 Mi-
ami vs No. 5 Indiana.
In the West: No. 1 LA
Lakers vs No. 8 Memphis;
No. 2 LA Clippers vs No.
7 Dallas, No. 3 Denver vs
No. 6 Houston; No. 4 Utah
vs No. 5 Oklahoma City.
See NBA, 2B
SPORTS LINE
662-241-5000
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SECTION
BY DISPATCH STAFF
STARKVILLE — For
the second time in three
days, a Mississippi State
football player is seeking
a transfer.
A source with imme-
diate knowledge of the
situation confirmed to
The Dispatch that fresh-
man offensive lineman
Brevyn Jones has entered
his name into the transfer
portal.
J o n e s
a nnounced
the news
officially
via Twitter
Monday af-
ternoon.
A consen-
Jones
sus three-
star recruit
out of Center Point, Ala-
bama, Jones redshirted
this past season. He was
rated the No. 33 player
in Alabama and the 56th-
best offensive tackle in the
2019 class by ESPN.
Redshirt freshman Fa-
bien Lovett also entered
the transfer portal late last
week in the wake of a con-
troversial tweet from head
coach Mike Leach that in-
cluded an image of a wom-
an with a noose.
Lovett responded to the
since-deleted tweet with
the caption, “Wtf.”
Alexander
named MUW
soccer coach
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
Mississippi University
for Women Director of
Athletics Jason Trufant
announced Louis Alexan-
der as the new head coach
of The W’s men’s soccer
program in a news release
Monday.
Alexander comes to
The W after spending one
season as the head coach
of the girls’ varsity soc-
cer program at Henry W.
Grady High School and
three seasons leading
the boys’ and girls’ varsi-
ty and junior varsity pro-
grams at Caledonia High
School.
While at Caledonia, the
programs with his leader-
ship saw a combined re-
cord of 51-31-7 with four
playoff appearances. The
boys’ team had an overall
record of 29-20-4 which
included one district
championship season
and the girls were 22-11-3
with two successive dis-
trict championship sea-
son. Under his direction,
22 players were named to
All-District Teams.
“We are very excited to
have Louis join the Owls
family as our head men’s
soccer coach,” Trufant
said. “His vast experience
and success speak for it-
self. I have no doubt he
will continue to elevate
the tradition of excellence
athletically and academi-
cally with our department
and soccer program.”
Prior to becoming the
head coach at Caledo-
nia, Alexander spent two
seasons as the assistant
coach for both programs
at Starkville Academy.
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NBA
Continued from Page 1B
As good as the matchups look
on paper there could be some
sloppy postseason basketball.
Celtics center Enes Kanter
estimates it would take a min-
imum two to three weeks for
players to get their bodies in
game shape. Part of the reason,
he said, is the shear time players
have had away from the court.
Kanter believes a second
training camp-like period would
probably be needed.
“You can’t just say ‘OK, we’re
going to play the games a week
later.’ Some players are doing
some things. Some players are
in their apartments not doing
anything,” Kanter said during
a conference call. “We need to
make sure everybody is doing
their stuff and is in good shape
to go out there and compete if we
jump straight into playoffs.”
Kanter said a training camp
setting would also help play-
ers refocus. He said while he’s
staying in shape, he’s also taken
up other endeavors to avoid go-
ing stir crazy such as reading,
watching documentaries and
teaching himself to cook and
play the piano.
It is clear time is not the
NBA’s friend.
Monday marked the 26th day
of the shutdown, a stoppage that
has already cost the league more
than 100 games. And the CDC is
recommending that all in-per-
son events involving 10 or more
people be extended through the
end of April as the U.S. fights
the spread of the pandemic.
That extends beyond the 30-day
shutdown the NBA put in place
March 11.
Kanter said if a decision is
made to jump straight to the
postseason, he hopes the length
of the series won’t be affected.
“We’re competitors, man. We
want to go out there and push
through and finish the season,”
he said. “It’s crazy because we
have a really good chance to
go out there and get a champi-
onship. So, it’s like for sure you
want to go out there and com-
pete.”

Vic
Continued from Page 1B
nothing official has been announced, MSU associ-
ate head coach Johnnie Harris — who has spent the
past 13 years on staff with Schaefer — has quickly
emerged as a candidate to fill the head coaching
role.
And though Harris could still follow Schaefer to
Austin, she received her former bosses’ blessing to
take over a Bulldog roster that was tabbed No. 3 in
the country in ESPN’s way-too-early Top 25.
“If Johnnie can be the head coach here at Mis-
sissippi State, I’d love that,” Schaefer said Monday.
“And there wouldn’t be anyone happier for her or
more proud.”
Rounding out his first interview with Texas’ in-
house network, Schaefer also offered a new twist on
his usual press conference outro.
“Praise the lord and Hook ‘em Horns!” he ex-
claimed.

Comics & Puzzles

DILBERT
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY:
My husband and
I want to host a
college graduation
party for our son.
The problem is,
one of my sisters
has four children
— three teenagers
and an 11-year-
old who doesn’t
behave at parties.
ZITS My sister calls her
“Our Little Pre-
cious.” She and
her husband come
to events, ignore
the kids and want
this to be their
time to “relax.” Another sister
has two teenagers who are very
well behaved.
My husband wants to
ban Little Precious from the
graduation party and invite
the well-behaved teenagers. I
agree with my husband that I do
GARFIELD not want another party ruined,
especially since my son worked
so hard to graduate. But I don’t
want to cause a permanent rift
in the family either. My sister is
very stubborn, hot-tempered and
clueless. Advice? — SISTER IN
THE MIDDLE
DEAR SISTER: Your son
deserves to celebrate the mile-
stone he has earned without
the distraction of an unruly
child casting a shadow over the
event. Consider having a small
gathering for immediate family
CANDORVILLE only, and something larger at an-
other time that in-
cludes your son’s
friends as well as
your own. Or invite
your sister and
her family with
the proviso that
if Little Precious
acts up, they will
leave and take her
home. Precious,
my foot!
DEAR ABBY:
At 73, I am
blessed with
excellent health
Dear Abby and stamina. The
only nod to my
age is that I like
to have a 20-minute nap after
lunch. However, my kids and
others treat me like I’m 90. They
keep asking how I feel and if
I’m tired. My son-in-law “Dave”
is anxious when I babysit my
4-year-old granddaughter unless
it’s at their home. How can I
make clear to them that I’m
as capable as I was 25 years
ago without either insulting or
angering them? — NAPPING
GRANDMA IN L.A.
DEAR NAPPING: Your daugh-
ter and son-in-law are lucky.
Their daughter has a healthy,
caring grandma who is WILLING
to look after her grandchild
while Mom and Dad do ...
whatever. Not all parents are so
fortunate.
These days, 73 is not over
the hill. Could Dave’s concerns
about your health be caused
by ageism? Or does he prefer
you do your babysitting at their
house because he thinks yours
isn’t sufficiently childproof?
As to offending your daugh-
ter and her husband, if you
prefer to babysit at your house,
that should be your choice. But
if they don’t agree with that,
suggest they hire someone be-
cause you will be playing tennis,
a round of golf or training for a
marathon.
DEAR ABBY: An acquain-
tance I see occasionally has a
grooming problem I’m reluctant
to tell him about because I don’t
know him well: He has hairs
growing out of his nose, and
they are not only noticeable but
distracting. How can I apprise
him of this without embarrass-
ing him and myself? — DIPLO-
MAT IN SAN FRANCISCO
DEAR DIPLOMAT: Allow
me to answer that question
by quoting an ancient Chinese
proverb: “When in doubt, do
nothing.” While your intent is
to be helpful, it would cause
embarrassment, and I don’t
recommend it.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also known
as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline
Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box
69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April
7). You’re a team player who
will be a part of many different
groups, including ones you as-
semble. You’ve a talent for bring-
ing together excellent matches
for others and yourself. You’ll
forge the friendships and alli-
ances that bring your desire to
hand. In August, your reverence
for a subject will be the start of
BABY BLUES an adventure. Aries and Virgo
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 9, 30, 2, 22 and 17.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Your audience is becoming
more important than they need
to be. If the only person who
needed to be impressed by you
was you, where would you take
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
this show? How might you wow
yourself?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Durability is not the same as
rigidity. The way to withstand
the strong gales of life is to be
as flexible as the mighty oak
whose branches bend and sway,
moving with the wind whilst
firmly rooted.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
It would be wonderful if the con-
ditions were just right, but they
do not appear to be... until you
open up your mind to the idea
that “all wrong” is sometimes
“just right.”
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
The conflict you face is the
same for any animal. Crea-
tures compete for territory and
resources. Today’s options are
to fight, outsmart, avoid, hide or
wander.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
People play in the Dead Sea
— bobbing in water too salty
to sink into and impossible for
fish and plants to live in. This is
what saltiness does. Use a little
for fun, and then pull back. Too
much is toxic.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
One thing that makes it easy
to be with another person is
a shared language — not just
the region and words, but the
way you use them, the subtle
meanings that you understand
together. Without this, much is
missing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
The poet Molly Brodak suggest-
ed that “wind works like beauty
works, not attached to what it
moves.” You’ll be inclined to
mind your own business so as
not to let the favorable reactions
of others have undue influence.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Certain people are like volcanos.
When they heat up, the world
around them goes on high alert.
You could do without that dra-
ma, so you’ll move your picnic
somewhere else.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You want to feel free. One
way is to aim your work toward
nourishing the truly needy and
worthy instead of catering to
people who should be able to
help themselves.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). This is a time to put your
efforts into something that
makes sense to you, translates
easily to your people and leaves
little room for doubt, speculation
and interpretation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). As the director of this epic
film called “My Life,” you recog-
nize that into every scene a little
conflict must fall. Otherwise, it’s
a boring story indeed! You don’t
ask for trouble, nor will you back
down from it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). The big difference between
a cage and a room is a locked
door. Get the key, and the cage
becomes just a room. Even if
nothing else about it is altered,
having that key changes every-
thing.

Little white lies

SOLUTION:
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Sidewalk notes bring smiles to hospital staff during virus

‘It definitely meant a lot to me and thank you for what you’re
about to do,” says one.
largest hospitals in the
area, has been so over-
resident Leslie Miller,
who works in the hospi-
coronavirus has taken
stress and anxiety to an-
was a surprise, a colorful surprise, And a little further
along: “You are extraordi-
whelmed that regular
patient rooms have been
tal’s pediatric care unit.
Miller said hospital
other level. The messages
are a balm.
walking out and going home to go to nary.”
And for those finishing
converted into ICU-like
wards to accommodate
employees are used to They “give us hope,”
dealing with heightened said lab technician Min-
bed after a long shift’ their shifts: “If you are the surge in patients. stress but for many, the erva Martin.
New Orleans’ Ochsner Medical Center leaving, thank you … Rest Someone has taken
first-year resident Leslie Miller well.” note, and has reached out
The hospital workers in chalk to tell Ochsner
BY STACEY PLAISANCE ner Medical Center who have been under strain. staffers that they are ap-
The Associated Press take the familiar stroll The region has been hard preciated, The message
from the parking lot to hit by the coronavirus, so has been received, loud
NEW ORLEANS — much so that the state’s and clear.
The messenger is anony- the main entrance have
governor said earlier this “It definitely meant a
mous — but the messages been greeted with expres- week it might run out of lot to me and was a sur-
are heartfelt, and appreci- sions of gratitude from an breathing machines by prise, a colorful surprise,
ated. unnamed artist, sketched the weekend and hospital walking out and going
In recent days, work- out on the sidewalk. beds next week. home to go to bed after a
ers at New Orleans’ Ochs- “If you’re just arriving, Ochsner, one of the long shift,” said first-year

J.D. Reed Margie Maynard

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Chekita Stewart
COLUMBUS —
Chekita Alandra Stew-
art, 43, died March 25,
2020, at her residence.
A private service will
be at 11 a.m. Wednes-
day, at Sandfield
Cemetery, with Burt
Richardson officiating.
Visitation
is from 2-5
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Mrs. Stewart was
born Aug. 23, 1976, in
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Debora Richardson.
She was preceded in
death by her children,
Rakia Stewart and Dil-
lan Welch; and brother,
Joshua Richardson.
In addition to her
parents, she is survived
by her stepmother,
Lillie Richardson; chil-
dren, Xavier Richard-
son and Quincy Welch
both of Columbus;
and siblings, Kimber-
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Richardson and Johna-
than Richardson all of
Columbus.
Clara Orr
COLUMBUS —
Clara Mae Orr, 66, died
April 5, 2020, at her
residence.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
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Funeral Services of
Columbus.
See OBITUARIES, 4B
John David “J. D.” Reed, age 82, of West Point,
MS, passed away April 5, 2020, at his residence.
A private family graveside service will be held
at Memorial Gardens of Columbus, with Larry
Ferguson officiating. Memorial Gunter Peel
Funeral Home & Crematory 716 2nd Ave. North
location is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Reed was born January 11, 1938, in Bruce,
MS, to the late George W. and Gertie Lee Reeves
Reed, Sr. He was a graduate of S. D. Lee High
School. Mr. Reed retired as a manager for the
Mississippi Employment Security Commission
and was a member of the First Christian Church.
He enjoyed hunting, fishing and boating.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Jimmie
Reed of West Point, MS; nephews, Mark Reed,
Glenn Reed, Greg Reed, all of Jacksonville,
FL, Mitchell Reed of Clearwater, FL and Keith
Ferguson of Bay St. Louis, MS; nieces, Cindy
Ferguson of Brandon, MS, Amber Coleman of
Brandon, MS and Pamela Shepherd of Gulfport,
MS; brother, George W. Reed, Jr. of Jacksonville,
FL; and sister, Dudley Ferguson of Brandon, MS.
Pallbearers will be Tim Andrews, Blake
Prescott, Mark Reed, Mitch Reed, Craig Reed,
Glenn Reed, Keith Ferguson and Joe King.
Memorials may be made to the donor’s favorite
charity. The family wishes to respectfully request
no visitors or food.
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Daryle Elmore
Daryle Cook Elmore, age 86, of Reform, AL
passed away April 5, 2020, at Hospice of West
Alabama.
A private service will be 1:00 PM Wednesday,
April 8, 2020, at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel
with eulogy delivered by Randy Elmore. Burial
will follow in Greenhill Memorial Gardens with
Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing.
Survivors include her beloved husband of
Margie Ann Maynard, age 91, died Thursday,
April 02, 2020, at Brookdale Senior Living in
Tallahassee FL.
A family graveside service will be held at
Memorial Garden Park Cemetery in Starkville,
with a celebration of Mrs. Mayard’s life at a later
date. Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home 2nd
Ave N. Columbus is in charge of arrangements.
The eldest daughter of Wiley Nash Buckner,
and Aleen Hutchinson Buckner, she was beloved
by family and friends. Mrs. Maynard was born
on September 10, 1928, in Birmingham, AL.
She grew up in Hunter Street Baptist Church,
Birmingham where she married Charles
Maynard during a double ring ceremony with
her sister Betty Buckner and Roy H. Randle.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in
death by her husband, Charles Abrey Maynard;
her sister Betty Randle; and her brother Eugene
Buckner.
She is survived by her sons, Stanley Charles
Maynard (Dodie), Scott Nash Maynard (Sandy);
grandsons, Bradley Scott Maynard (Vanessa),
Lewis Abrey Maynard; great-grandchild, James
Bradley Maynard.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to,
Faith Baptist Church, 1804 South Montgomery
Street, Starkville MS 39759.
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Carolyn Sullivan
Carolyn Nolan Sullivan
passed away on April 3, 2020,
at OCH Regional Medical
Center in Starkville, MS with
her daughter Linda and son
Terry at her side. Carolyn was
89. She was born and reared in
Pontotoc, MS and married her

Katherine Phillips
Katherine Langford Phillips,
51, of Columbus, MS passed
away on April 2, 2020, at her
residence.
She was born in Starkville,
MS April 20, 1968, to the late
Larry Langford and Margenia
Halbert Murphree.
She is survived by her
mother, Margenia Halbert
Murphree (Durant, MS); her daughter, Rayne
Phillips (Columbus, MS); brother Allen (Mysty)
Langford (Madison, MS); a nephew, nieces and
many cousins.
After graduating from Lee High in 1986,
Katherine went on to earn a degree in psychology
at Mississippi State University. While at MSU,
she was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority.
She loved the 80’s and her Kappa Delta sisters.
Katherine was kind, humble and genuine. She
was a southern girl, sweet and funny! She met
many people and friends through her jobs at
C-Spire, Gifts, Etc., and WCBI. Her spirit and
laughter were contagious and her smile would
light up a room. She loved theater, art, and
decorating, even having several roles in local
plays.
The two things Katherine loved the most
were her daughter, and her savior, Jesus Christ.
She would refer to her daughter as “My Baby”
(Rayne), who has a big heart, just like her
mother. There is no doubt she is quoting words
of the Bible and giving lots of hugs in Heaven.
Besides her family, Katherine leaves behind
so many beloved friends. If you were a friend, you
were her friend for life! Until we meet again, our
sweet Kat, we will all miss you.
A family graveside service was held on
Saturday, April 4 at Friendship Cemetery. A
celebration of life will be announced at a later
date.
Memorial donations may be given, in memory
of Katherine Phillips, to Russellville Dream
Center, 206 Coffee Ave NE, Russellville, AL
35653.
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716 Second Avenue North • Columbus, MS
69 years, Joseph S. Elmore of Reform, AL;
son, Randy Elmore (Linda) of Huntsville, AL;
daughters, Robin Craft (Rocky) of Aliceville, AL,
Rita West (Bill) of Columbus, MS and Roxanna
Mooney ( Rod) of Tuscaloosa, AL; grandchildren,
Joshua Elmore (Michelle) of Clanton, AL, Joey
Elmore of Orlando, FL, Chelsey Hamlin (Andy)
of Aliceville, AL, Jake Craft of Hoover, AL, Will
West of Nashville, TN, Joanna West of Jackson,
MS, Blake Elmore of Tuscaloosa, AL, Hogan
Ricks of Birmingham, AL and Holland Ricks of
Athens, AL; great-grandchildren, Nola Elmore,
Gentry Elmore, Emma Elmore, Andrew Hamlin
and Elizabeth Hamlin; brother, Joe Cook (Faye)
of Reform, AL; brothers-in-law, George Elmore
(Carol) of Murray, KY and Larry Elmore
(Martha) of Chattanooga, TN and a number of
nieces and nephews.
Daryle was born September 3, 1933, in
Millport, Alabama to the late O.U. Cook
and Elizabeth Golden Cook. She graduated
valedictorian of Pickens County High School
and attended Florence State University. She
worked as a secretary at Westinghouse, Huyck
Felt Company, Darby Drive Church of Christ
and Pickens Academy and was owner of Cooks
General Merchandise. She was a member of North
Pickens Church of Christ. She enjoyed singing
and playing the piano. As a teenager, Daryle
played for various singing schools throughout
the area. Being the wife of a coach, she was very
knowledgeable about sports and their home
remained an open door to former students and
athletes. Mama Joe was a devoted wife, mother,
grandmother and great-grandmother and will be
greatly missed.
Her grandsons will serve as Pallbearers .
Special thanks to caregivers Debbie
Constantino, Christy Shelton, Pam Guy, Amy
Hudson and Harvey Hill.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests
memorials to North Pickens Church of Christ,
21837 Hwy 82, Reform, AL 35481 or Hospice of
West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road, Tuscaloosa, AL
35404.
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late husband Donald Sullivan
from Okolona, MS.
Carolyn and Don began
their life together in Nashville, TN where Don
attended the Southern School for Printing after
serving in World War II. Don’s brother, Herbert,
invited them to move to West Point, MS and
work with him in the printing and office supply
business. While living in West Point their two
children, Linda and Terry, were born.
Later, Carolyn and Don purchased their own
print shop and office supply in Eupora, MS. This
is when Carolyn became directly involved with
the operations of the business and would later
tell stories of how young Linda and Terry would
play at Sullivan’s while she and Don operated the
printing presses.
Approximately four years later the Sullivans
moved their business to downtown Starkville.
Carolyn remained active in the business and was
one of the few founding business owners of her
generation remaining on Main Street.
As founder and owner of Sullivan’s Office
Supply, Carolyn received numerous awards
including a Preservation Award for the restoration
of 123 Main Street Building into its original form,
allowing for retail and professional space. The
Mississippi Downtown Development award for
“Outstanding Storefront Design Improvements”
for the restoration and combining of three Main
Street properties into what is today Sullivan’s
Office Supply at 204 Main Street as well as other
preservation and downtown promotional awards.
The Joy Sunday School Class at First Baptist
Church in Starkville was a vital part of her life.
So many friends, loving , caring and ministering.
Carolyn was the last remaining sibling of the
three daughters of Mattie and Carroll Nolan. She
is survived by her daughter Linda (Steve), son
Terry (Jackie), four grandchildren, Lorin (Will)
Chancellor, Tyson Langston, Zachery Sullivan,
Nicholas Sullivan, and five great grandchildren,
Caroline and Emily Chancellor, Nolan, Carter
and Carlisle Langston.
Due to virus regulations there was a private
family service performed by former employee,
family friend and now minister, Bill Murphy at
Odd Fellows Cemetery in Starkville. Memorials
may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital,
262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105
or donors@stjude.org or to the charity of your
love.
You can leave the family a condolence at: www.
welchfuneralhomes.com.
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4B TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020
After virus fades, service industries may be changed forever
Service economy accounts for 84 per-
cent of private-sector employment
BY PAUL WISEMAN
AND ANNE
D’INNOCENZIO
AP Business Writers
WASHINGTON — For
years, personal trainer
Amanda Tikalsky didn’t
have to worry much about
her job. The U.S. econo-
my’s record-breaking 11-
year expansion offered se-
curity to service workers
like her.
Then came the coro-
navirus, which closed the
Milwaukee athletic club
where she worked for 15
years. She scrambled to
Amid coronavirus pandemic, black
mistrust of medicine looms
Some call such skepticism the ‘Tuskegee effect’ — distrust
linked to the U.S. government’s once-secret study of black
men in Alabama who were left untreated for syphilis
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Just as
the new coronavirus was
declared a global pandem-
ic, gym members in New
York City frantically called
the fitness center where
Rahmell Peebles worked,
asking him to freeze their
memberships.
Peebles, a 30-year-old
black man who’s skeptical
of what he hears from the
news media and govern-
ment, initially didn’t see
the need for alarm over
the virus.
“I felt it was a complete
hoax,” Peebles said. “This
thing happens every two
Obituaries
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LeScha’ Brundage
COLUMBUS — LeS-
cha’ Monae Brundage,
29, died April 4, 2020,
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Austin Peat Jr.
CRAWFORD —
Austin Peat Jr., 67, died
April 6, 2020.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
Doris Granderson
COLUMBUS — Do-
ris R. Granderson died
April 5, 2020, in Pica-
yune.
Arrangements are
incomplete and will be
announced by Carter’s
Funeral Services of
Columbus.
John David Reed
Services:
A private family graveside
serivce will be held.
Memorial Gardens
2nd Ave. North Location
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buying groceries online.
The pandemic is al-
most sure to leave a mark
on the way people work,
organize online exercise shop and socialize, per-
sessions to keep money haps permanently shift-
coming in. About 25 per- ing the way many ser-
cent of her clients made vice industries operate.
the jump with her. Consumers will think
“It’s an adjustment for harder about the health
everybody,’’ she said. “We implications of squeezing
are used to being face to into crowded restaurants
face.” and movie theaters. More
But even when the businesses will accept the
virus threat is gone, Ti- effectiveness of employ-
kalsky predicts that many ees who work from home,
customers will continue to and the move to online
exercise from home. The shopping will accelerate.
shutdown is also likely to “We’ve never had a cri-
change her own shopping sis where we couldn’t so-
habits. She has a new ap- cially gather with people,”
preciation for the ease of said John Gordon, found-
or four years. We have an “I’ve just been condi-
outbreak of a disease that tioned not to trust,” said
seems to put everybody in Peebles, who is now obey-
a panic.” ing the state’s stay home
Peebles is among order and keeping his dis-
roughly 40 million black tance from others when
Americans deciding min- he goes out.
ute by minute whether Some call such skep-
to put their faith in gov- ticism the “Tuskegee ef-
ernment and the medical fect” — distrust linked
community during the to the U.S. government’s
coronavirus pandemic. once-secret study of black
Historic failures in gov- men in Alabama who were
ernment responses to di- left untreated for syphi-
sasters and emergencies, lis. Black people already
medical abuse, neglect suffer disproportionately
and exploitation have jad- from chronic conditions
ed generations of black like diabetes and heart
people into a distrust of disease and are far more
public institutions. likely to be uninsured.
If you don’t read The Dispatch, how are you gonna know?
er of Pacific Management
Consulting Group in San
Diego, which advises
restaurants.
Until March, service
workers — from dish-
washers to real estate
agents — had been en-
joying a record winning
streak in the job market.
U.S. service jobs had ris-
en for a decade.
The sector appeared
almost immune to blips
in the economy. Not even
low-wage competition
overseas or automation
seemed to threaten ser-
vice jobs that require di-
rect contact with custom-
ers.
Then the virus arrived.
How the government
and medical community
responds to the crisis will
be especially crucial for
outcomes among black
Americans, civil rights
advocates and medical ex-
perts say.
“We are right to be
paranoid and to ask tough
questions,” said U.S. Rep.
Ayanna Pressley of Mas-
sachusetts who joined oth-
er congressional leaders
in asking the government
to collect and release in-
formation about the race
and ethnicity of people
who are tested or treated
for the virus that causes
COVID-19.
“History has shown us,
when we do not” ask ques-
tions, said Pressley, who
is black, “the consequenc-
es are grave, and in fact
life and death.”
It upended the service
economy, which accounts
Fed Chair Janet Yellen
predicted that unemploy-
for 84 percent of U.S. pri-
vate-sector employment.
ment rates could climb to
Great Depression levels.
It wiped out 659,000 ser- But because the economy
vice jobs in March — 94 was in solid shape before
percent of the jobs that the outbreak, she added,
vanished last month as the return to normal em-
the U.S. economy plunged ployment could happen
into recession. much faster than during
It is sure to claim many the Depression or after
more. In an interview the 2007-2009 Great Re-
Monday on CNBC, former cession.
MarieWilliams
A few weeks into her 97th year, on April 3,
2020, Marie Polk Williams died peacefully in her
bedroom at Garden Hills Assisted Living Center,
Columbus. While the last few weeks of her life
saw isolation and social distancing as the order
of the day, she still had daily visits “through the
window” with her family.
Marie was born Mae Ree Polk in the Flint Hill
Community of Lowndes County on February 24,
1924, the daughter of Julius Gilly Polk, known
in the community as Uncle Jule, and Elizabeth
Irene Honnoll. She and her older brother Thomas
Melvin were children of the Great Depression
and young adults during World War II, when he
fought in Europe and she worked in a factory
making uniforms for her older brother, her future
husband and thousands of other soldiers.
Her name Mae Ree proved too confusing
to family and friends. Somewhere along the
way, she became Marie. Marie only regained a
middle name after the War when she married
Wm. Bardwell Williams, who had fought in the
Pacific Theatre at Midway and Guadalcanal,
and became for the rest of her life Marie Polk
Williams. Marie and Bard put down roots in the
same community where she had grown up on
land that had been in her family since the 1820’s.
Over the years, they were partners in farming,
raising cattle and for a few years in the 1950’s and
early 60’s running a country store. Their most
challenging endeavor, though, was raising their
three children, Tommy born in 1955, Dorothy in
1958, and Harold in 1960.
Her children still remember that deceptively
sweet voice at an ungodly early hour, singing
“School Days, School Days, Dear Old Golden
Rule Days.” Which meant “Don’t make me go to
the next line ‘Reading, Writing and ‘Rithmetic,
Taught to the Tune of a Hick’ry Stick.’” Marie was
an adherent to the Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
Philosophy, administered with love, and hickory
switches played prominently in the childhood
of at least one of her children, spared the
embarrassment of identification here. She was
determined her children would take advantage
of the opportunities for college and beyond she’d
missed because of a Depression and a War, and
Marie succeeded in that.
From the breakfasts they never wanted but
were forced to eat to the best fried chicken, pot
roast, fresh vegetables “cooked down” and fresh
coconut cake, Marie loved cooking for family and
friends. Her children joked that all came to an
end when she discovered the concept of healthy
eating at about the same time she learned how to
make a casserole. Besides cooking, Marie loved
the outdoors, gardening and caring for her yard,
visiting with family and friends, and in her later
years being an active member of Flint Hill United
Methodist Church, which became an important
part of her life as she lived independently after
Bard’s death in 1985.
Marie was born of strong pioneer stock,
and that physical strength and strength of will
shaped her entire life. Into her late 80’s she
insisted on riding her big mower and taking
care of her 2-acre yard, planting her annual
vegetable garden, taking care of herself without
bothering anyone else. The last three years saw
that strength diminish, but even after going to
live at Garden Hills, there was a part of Marie
that wanted to be back home, puttering in the
kitchen, waking whoever was around early
because she’d just made a big breakfast. Her life
was built around taking care of others, and that
endured as long as she did.
Marie was predeceased by her parents; her
husband, Bard; and her brother, Melvin.
She leaves three children, Thomas (Elise) of
Ridgeland, Dorothy (Jack Langford) and Harold
(Sandy) of Caledonia; her grandchildren whom
she loved dearly Dr. Frazier Williams (Dr. Jessica)
of Tupelo, Arie Carlton (Brandon) and Morgan
Williams of Columbus, Ann Marie and Faith
Langford of Caledonia, Heather Popescu (Nick)
of McLean, VA, Swayze Williams of Gallatin,
TN and Marie Elise Griffin (David) of Franklin,
TN. She was thrilled in her last years to meet
her six great grandchildren Ellie Carlton, Farrah
and Hugo Williams, Alex and Sydney Popescu,
and Charles Thomas Griffin. Marie also leaves a
number of nieces and nephews including Charles
and Karl Williams who were always checking on
“Aunt Mae-Ree”.
Marie will be laid to rest beside Bard with
a short private committal service at Egger
Cemetery, the fifth generation of Polks and
Honnolls buried there. At an appropriate time
her family will plan a Celebration of Marie’s life.
If you are inclined to make a donation in
memory of Marie, her favorite causes were Flint
Hill Methodist Church 1012 Freeman Road
Caledonia, MS 39740 or Egger Cemetery Fund
P.O. Box 73 Caledonia, MS 39740.
Sign the online guest book at
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JERRY O. BUTLER, EXECUTOR
CAUSE NO.: 2020-00063-RPF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
Letters Testamentary have
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undersigned upon the Estate of
BESSIE WILL BUTLER, De-
ceased, by the Chancery Court
of Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi, on the 1st day of April,
A.D., 2020. This is to give no-
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claims against said estate to
Probate and Register same
with the Chancery Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days from
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SIGNALIZATION OF THE INTER-
SECTION OF POOHOUSE ROAD
AND OLD HWY NO. 25
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Mississippi at the Oktibbeha
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construction of Signalization of
the Intersection of Poorhouse
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COLEMAN JOHN DEERE MODEL M
given
TRACTOR. A set of one row object
so thatnumbers.
column is andtoeach
place
The 9 5 4 6 3 1 8 2 7
each row, each
3x3 the
box 3 8 6 7 9 2 4 5 1
RENTALS
entered against you for the cultivators w/ hydraulic lift, numbers
contains the1sameto 9 number
in
the empty spaces so 6 3 1 8 4 5 9 7 2
TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS
money or other things deman- has been repainted, looks
ded in the complaint or peti-
1 BEDROOM good & runs good, $3500. that only once. The difficulty 2 4 5 9 1 7 6 8 3
tion. each row, each
Call 662−436−2037. level increases from
2 BEDROOMS column and each 8 9 7 2 6 3 5 1 4
You are hereby further given Furniture Monday
3x3 boxtocontains
Sunday.
3 BEDROOMS Difficulty Level 4/06
notice that not less than ten
(10) days prior to the date of the same number only once. The difficulty level
the trial, you are required to file LEASE, Furniture 5 pc. wooden
increases from Monday to Sunday.
© The Dispatch
the Statement of Values pursu- bedroom suite $200, tan
ant to Miss. Code Ann. §11-27- DEPOSIT micro fabric sofa $150, lg
7, which shall be treated as
pleadings in this action. The AND drum washer. used only 6
months. $200, and dryer
date of the filing of the Com- CREDIT CHECK $125. Prices negotiable.
plaint herein is the 21st day of Serious inquiries only. Call
662-329-2323
January, 2020, and the name
and address of the attorney for 662−523−8662.
the Plaintiff is Martha Bost
Stegall, P. O. Box 7120, Tu-
pelo, Mississippi 38802. Oth- 2411 HWY 45 N LIVING ROOM SET
Loveseat & chaise for sale.
er than the Statement of Val-
ues you are not required to file
COLUMBUS, MS NEW!! $300.
662−242−2884. Leave a
an Answer or other pleading
but you may do so if you de- Commercial Property For Rent message.
sire.
General Merchandise
FOR RENT LOCATED NEAR
Issued under my hand and the
seal of said Court, this 18th
DOWNTOWN. 3,000 sq. ft.
WANTED FREON R12.
day of March, 2020.
truck terminal, 9,500 sq.
We pay CA$H.
ft. shop & 3,200 sq. ft.
office/shop. Buildings can R12 R500 R11.
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