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Hospitality Association head: About 11 percent

of state’s restaurants will shutter due to pandemic
Fontaine says restaurants need to ‘generate sales to said. Now the
“new normal”
INSIDE
n OUR VIEW: Restaurants, shops
for restaurants
offset the decrease in their dine-in business’ in Mississippi
is that some —
face an uncertain future. Page 6A

BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Pat Fontaine started serving
food at civic club meetings, in-
cluding the local Rotary Club,
when he was 8 years old at the
motel and restaurant his family
owned in Pascagoula.
He “performed about every
duty that you can in a restau-
rant and motel setting,” and the
establishment had to weather a
few hurricanes over the years,
but Fontaine told Columbus Ro-
tary Club in its virtual meeting
Tuesday that he “could have
never imagined” a crisis like
the COVID-19 coronavirus pan-
demic.
“The devastation from a hur-
ricane was quite severe and the
setbacks difficult, but you could
always begin your recovery ef-
forts the next day, and that’s
just not the case with corona-
virus,” said Fontaine, who has
been executive director of the
Mississippi Hospitality and
Restaurant Association since
January 2019.
Consumers had “more din-
ing options prior to the pan-
demic than have ever been
available,” from food trucks to
convenience store meals, he
about 11 percent
— will close per-
manently, and the
rest will operate Fontaine
differently than they did before
the pandemic.
The restaurant industry
used to employ about 10 percent
of the state’s workforce but now
employs “half the level it did
two months ago,” and it might
take several years for the indus-
try to return to the $5.1 billion
in sales it used to generate, Fon-
taine said.
About 30 to 40 percent of
restaurants, both nationwide
and in Mississippi, closed at
least temporarily since the pan-
demic began in March. Dine-in
sales had already declined 40
percent before Gov. Tate Reeves
issued a “shelter in place” order
See FONTAINE, 8A

West Point extends face mask CMSD weighing

requirement for retail with split vote plans for
operating its
transportation
system
Board hires director
for new system Monday,
still waiting on whether
to buy new buses
BY SLIM SMITH
ssmith@cdispatch.com

Six days after end-

ing its four-year con-
tract with Ecco Ride
to provide its bus
transportation, the
Garrick Hodge/Dispatch Staff Columbus Munici-
From center, West Point Mayor Robbie Robinson, Ward 3 Selectman Ken Poole and Ward 2 Selectman William Binder listen pal School District
to a discussion at the West Point Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday. The selectmen voted to extend an ordinance that Board of Trustees
requires patrons to wear a face covering while shopping at retail providers through May 25 by a vote of 3-2. knew only a couple of Labat
things for sure.
Selectmen argue whether businesses should have choice en Triangle. Oktibbeha (five deaths)
and Lowndes (three deaths) counties
First, it knew it would have to de-
velop its own transportation system
whether to require employees, customers to wear masks had 91 confirmed cases each as of 6
p.m. Tuesday, according to the data.
and, second, it would need some-
one with experience to operate it.
BY GARRICK HODGE Ward 4 Selectman Keith McBrayer “We’re testing more but we’re not During Monday’s regular meet-
ghodge@cdispatch.com argued at City Hall during Tuesday’s getting as many positive tests as we ing, the board considered a plan
meeting a mandate on citizens is no lon- were anticipating,” McBrayer said be- outlining what that system might
WEST POINT — A narrow 3-2 Board ger necessary and that citizens should fore moving to end the face mask re- look like, as well as hired Willie
of Selectmen vote Tuesday extended instead be “highly encouraged” to wear quirement immediately. “… After the Stewart, who has managed Ecco
an ordinance requiring employees and masks or other face coverings while discussions with the city of Starkville Ride’s transportation system for
customers to wear a face covering while shopping at local retailers. He cited and what they’ve learned from their ac- the district, as its director at a sala-
shopping in retail stores until at least Mississippi State Department of Health tions, I feel like we can learn from that ry of $61,500.
May 25. data showing Clay’s 68 confirmed cas- and move in a better direction. It should But everything else, much like
The rule was first implemented to es of the virus, including three deaths, be left up to the individual businesses.” the upcoming school year itself, re-
help curb the spread of COVID-19, but represent the lowest totals in the Gold- See WEST POINT, 8A See CMSD, 3A

Court of appeals reverses judge’s decision to grant new trial to murder convict
Verina Childs sentenced to life Ch i lds ’
a t t o r n e y,
the jury did not list Ok-
tibbeha County as the
Childs was sentenced
to life in prison for the
aspect of their trial was
unfair. In Childs’ case,
for killing her husband in 2009 Matt Kitch- venue in which the crime 2009 murder of her hus- she filed the PCR on the
ens of Crys- took place. However, on band, Doug Childs. grounds of newly discov-
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN a new trial to a woman tal Springs, Tuesday the court of ap- Following her con- ered evidence and inef-
ialtman@cdispatch.com convicted in 2011 of kill- argued she peals reversed Howard’s viction, Childs filed an fective assistance of trial
ing her husband. was entitled decision, saying Childs application for post-con- counsel, among other
The Mississippi Court
of Appeals has reversed a In February 2018, to a new tri- Childs should have received viction relief (PCR) with issues. Her application
two-year-old decision by Judge Lee Howard over- al because permission from the su- the Mississippi Supreme did not raise the issue of
an Oktibbeha County cir- ruled the conviction of in her first, the instruc- preme court to make the Court, which defendants venue.
cuit court judge to grant Verina Childs, 47, after tions the court gave to venue-instruction claim. can file to argue that an See CHILDS, 8A

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GOP senators give Democrats’

$3T relief bill a cold shoulder
Virus aid package includes $1 trillion for states
and cities, ‘hazard pay’ for essential workers and
a new round of cash payments to individuals
BY LISA MASCARO
AND ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi un-
veiled a more than $3
trillion coronavirus
aid package, a sweep-
ing effort with $1 tril-
lion for states and cit-
ies, “hazard pay” for Pelosi
essential workers and a new round
of cash payments to individuals.
The House is expected to vote on
the package as soon as Friday. But
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc-
Connell has said there is no “urgen-
cy.” The Senate will wait until after
Memorial Day to consider options.
“We must think big, for the peo-
ple, now,” Pelosi said Tuesday from
the speaker’s office at the Capitol.
“Not acting is the most expen-
sive course,” she said.
Lines drawn, the latest pandem-
ic response from Congress will test
the House and Senate — and Pres-
ident Donald Trump — as Wash-
ington navigates the extraordinary
crisis with the nation’s health and
economic security at stake.
The Democrats’ Heroes Act is
built around nearly $1 trillion for
states, cities and tribal govern-
ments to avert layoffs, focused
chiefly on $375 billion for smaller
suburban and rural municipalities
largely left out of earlier bills.
The bill will offer a fresh round
of $1,200 direct cash aid to individ-
uals, increased to up to $6,000 per
household, and launches a $175 bil-
lion housing assistance fund to help
pay rents and mortgages. There is
$75 billion more for virus testing.
It would continue, through Janu-
ary, the $600-per-week boost to un-
employment benefits. It adds a 15
percent increase for food stamps,
new subsidies for laid-off workers
to pay health insurance premiums
under a COBRA law and a special
“Obamacare” sign-up period. For
businesses, it provides an employee
retention tax credit.
There’s $200 billion in “hazard
pay” for essential workers on the
front lines of the crisis.
Pelosi drew on U.S. history —
and poetry — to suggest “no man
is an island” as she called on Amer-
icans to respond to the crisis with
a strategy of science, virus testing
and empathy.
“There are those who said, ‘Let’s
just pause,’” she said. “Hunger
doesn’t take a pause. Rent doesn’t
take a pause. Bills don’t take a
pause.”
But the 1,800-page package is
heading straight into a Senate road-
block.
Republicans are wary of anoth-
er round of aid and McConnell de-
clared the Democratic proposal a
grab bag of “pet priorities.” He said
Tuesday it is not something that
“deals with reality.”
House Republicans also took a
pass. “I can’t believe that that would
be real,” said Rep. Andy Biggs,
R-Ariz., leader of the hard-right
House Freedom Caucus, said in an
interview.

As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job

Recent figures show a surge of coronavirus infections in
meatpacking and poultry-processing plants
BY DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — Even
as President Donald
Trump urges getting peo-
ple back to work and re-
opening the economy, an
Associated Press analysis
shows thousands of peo-
ple are getting sick from
COVID-19 on the job.
Recent figures show
a surge of infections in
meatpacking and poul-
try-processing plants.
There’s been a spike of
new cases among con-
struction workers in Aus-
tin, Texas, where that
sector recently returned
to work. Even the White
House has proven vul-
nerable, with positive
coronavirus tests for one
of Trump’s valets and
for Vice President Mike
Pence’s press secretary.
The developments un-
derscore the high stakes
for communities nation-
wide as they gradually
loosen restrictions on
business.
“The people who are
getting sick right now
are generally people who
are working,” Dr. Mark
Escott, a regional health
official, told Austin’s city
council. “That risk is go-
ing to increase the more
people are working.”
Austin’s concerns will
likely be mirrored in com-
munities nationwide as
the reopening of stores
and factories creates new
opportunities for the vi-
rus to spread.
To be sure, there are
plenty of new infections
outside the workplace —
in nursing homes, and
among retired and unem-
ployed people, particular-
ly in densely populated
places such as New York
City, Chicago, Philadel-
phia and urban parts of
New Jersey and Massa-
chusetts.
Yet of the 15 U.S.
counties with the highest
per-capita infection rates
between April 28 and May
5, all are homes to meat-
packing and poultry-pro-
cessing plants or state
prisons, according to data
compiled by the AP.
The county with the
highest per-capita rate
was Tennessee’s Trous-
dale County, where near-
ly 1,300 inmates and 50
staffers recently tested
positive at the privately
run Trousdale Turner
Correctional Center.
In the federal prison
system, the number of
positive cases has in-
creased steadily. As of
May 5, there were 2,066
inmates who’d tested pos-
itive, up from 730 on April
25.

Virus conspiracy-theory video shows challenges for big tech

Video has gained a massive audience
in Facebook groups that oppose
vaccines or are protesting governors’
stay-at-home orders
BY AMANDA SEITZ
AND BARBARA ORTUTAY
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — One
by one, tech companies
across Silicon Valley
scrambled to take down a
slickly produced video of
a discredited researcher
peddling a variety of con-
spiracy theories about the
coronavirus.
It was all too late.
The 26-minute doc-
umentary-style video
dubbed “Plandemic,” in
which anti-vaccine activist
Judy Mikovits promotes
a string of questionable,
false and potentially dan-
gerous coronavirus theo-
ries, had already racked
up millions of views over
several days and gained a
massive audience in Face-
book groups that oppose
vaccines or are protesting
governors’ stay-at-home
orders.
Its spread illustrates
how easy it is to use social
media as a megaphone to
swiftly broadcast dubious
content to the masses, and
how difficult it is for plat-
forms to cut the mic.
Mikovits’ unsupported
claims — that the virus
was manufactured in a
lab, that it’s injected into
people via flu vaccinations
and that wearing a mask
could trigger a coronavi-
rus infection — activated a
social media army already
skeptical of the pandemic’s
threat.
Amid uncertainty and
unanswered questions
about a virus that has up-
ended everyone’s lives,
and a growing distrust of
authoritative sources, peo-
ple shared the video again
and again on the likes of
YouTube, Facebook and
Instagram until it took on a
life of its own even after the
original was taken down.
“The other video has al-
ready been deleted by You-
Tube. … Let’s get it to an-
other million! Modern day
book burning at its finest,”
read one post on a private
Facebook group called Re-
open California.
“Once it’s available, it
has an infinite lifespan,”
said Ari Lightman, a pro-
fessor of digital media at
Carnegie Mellon Univer-
sity.
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Quitman High School principal to take over at SHS

Outgoing principal McDonnall will
still be involved with SOCSD
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Starkville
High School
will have a
new princi-
pal starting
July 1.
Starkville
- Okt ibbeha
Consolidat- Savage
ed School
District
Board of
Tr ustees
hired How-
ard Savage
to lead the
high school McDonnall
after almost
two hours of
executive session during
its Tuesday meeting. Sav-
age is currently principal
of Quitman High School in
Clarke County, where he
leads teacher mentoring,
recruitment and retention,
according to a press re-
lease from SOCSD.
Savage started his 14-
year education career as a
teacher in the Hattiesburg
School District, where he
became lead teacher and
later assistant principal at
Hattiesburg High School.
He has received five Ad-
ministrator of the Year
honors from the Missis-
sippi Department of Edu-
cation, the most recent in
2018.
His first goal when he
takes his new position
will be to meet with ev-
ery teacher and student at
SHS so he can get to know
the school, “where they
think the school is right
now and where they want
to see it go.”
“I believe that collabo-
ration is the key to success
in any learning organi-
zation, so that’s my first
goal, to meet everybody
and get myself involved, to
be visible and accessible
to parents and community
members,” Savage said.
He will succeed Sean
McDonnall, who told The
Dispatch he “decided
months ago to take a step
back from being a head
principal” but will “still be
in the district serving stu-
dents in other ways.” He
spent four years as SHS
principal and was previ-
ously an assistant princi-
pal.
“I graduated from
Starkville High School
and my kids are still stu-
dents in the district, so
my ties go far beyond a job
title,” McDonnall said. “I
am still 100 percent a Yel-
low Jacket.”
McDonnall’s new role
hasn’t been formally des-
ignated, he said.
SOCSD Superinten-
dent Eddie Peasant de-
scribed Savage in the
press release as “a pas-
sionate, data driven in-
structional leader.”
“He has a proven track
record of teaching and
leading with best instruc-
tional practices that im-
prove and sustain student
achievement,” Peasant
said.
In Savage’s last two
years in Quitman, he has
served under superinten-
dent Toriano Holloway,
who serves as an SOCSD
assistant superintendent.
Possible distance
learning for summer
school
SOCSD has set up task
force committees in each
of its schools to come up
with plans to reopen the
buildings, whether that
happens this summer or
fall, Peasant said during
the meeting.
The plans from the task
forces are due at the end
of the week for district ad-
ministration to review, he
said, and district person-
nel are discussing their
options for summer school
in the meantime.
“We’re talking about a
potential virtual plan and
a face-to-face plan, but
we just don’t know what
we’re going to be able to
do,” Peasant said. “We
might have to do virtual
(learning) in June, and we
might finally be able to do
face-to-face (learning) in
July, but if we’re allowed
to do face-to-face in June,
we’re hoping to be able to
do some level of face-to-
face, especially for those
students who need it the
most.”
Board President Deb-
ra Prince asked Peasant
if the district should con-
sider local numbers of
confirmed cases over per-
mission from the state to
reopen, since Oktibbeha
County saw a recent spike
of about 30 cases, and Sec-
retary Jamila Taylor said
the city of Starkville could
impose restrictions that
differ from the state’s.
“Whatever we’re al-
lowed to do to make our
own decisions, we’ll get
together and determine
what we think we can do,”
Peasant said.
The district’s meal dis-
tribution program that
started in March will con-
tinue in June if summer
school must be conduct-
ed via distance learning,
Peasant said. The pro-
gram serves about 900
students per week.
SHS students will not
be required to take final
exams, but about 140 stu-
dents have chosen to take
them in order to increase
their grades, Peasant said.
The final exams will con-
sist of 20 questions cover-
ing the entire school year,
including information
from nine weeks of dis-
tance learning, Public In-
formation Officer Nicole
Thomas told the board.
The board will hold a
special-call meeting May
21 at 10 a.m. to discuss
how the points from the
final exams will be award-
ed.
In other business, the
board voted unanimous-
ly to change the job title
and description for the
district’s director of tech-
nology to the director of
instructional technology
and distance learning.
Peasant said the technolo-
gy department is “about 10
to 12 years behind” in how
it is run.
“Today’s technology
leader in a school district
needs to be an educator
and needs to understand
the purpose of technology
in curriculum and instruc-
tion,” he said. “This pan-
demic has highlighted this
more than ever. We have
got to shift our focus in our
technology department to
more instruction-oriented
leadership to make deci-
sions. We’re not where we
need to be as far as the
number of devices that we
need in our district and a
lot of the other (technolo-
gy) infrastructure needs.”

One person injured in Louisville Street apartment fire

DISPATCH STAFF REPORT

An apartment fire on Louisville Street in

south Starkville injured one person on Mon-
day afternoon, Starkville Fire Marshal Stein
McMullen said.
Starkville Fire Department is still investi-
gating the blaze, which started in the kitchen
and laundry area and caused “lots of heat and
smoke damage” to the rest of the unit, Mc-
Mullen said. The resident of the apartment
received “some burns to his arms” by trying
to put out the fire, and he was treated at the
scene.
SFD responded to the fire at 4:45 p.m.
Monday, and it did not spread to any other Courtesy photo
units in the apartment complex, Fire Marshal One person was injured in an apartment fire on Louisville Street
Mark McCurdy tweeted Tuesday morning. in south Starkville on Monday.

CMSD
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mains up in the air.
“We’re taking a close
look at everything, but
the difficulty is that it’s
hard to assess exactly
what our needs will be un-
til we get a clearer idea of
what school is actually go-
ing to be when we return,”
Superintendent Cherie
Labat said. “We’re excited
to have Mr. Stewart come
on board because he’ll be
able to help us with the lo-
gistics. We know we can’t
wait until the last minutes
to calculate our needs,
hire drivers and develop
routes. But we also don’t
want to move too quickly.
How many students are
coming back? What are
their needs? When will
the school year start? Will
students attend every
day? There are so many
questions that we don’t
have answers for right
now.”
During Monday’s
meeting the board re-
viewed a plan for what
the transportation needs
might look like based on
previous years.
As a result of the ended
contract, Ecco Ride has
reclaimed five buses.
Without replacing
those buses, CMSD esti-
mated the cost of a year’s
transportation service at
$2,065,311, about $14,000
more than the three-year
average costs for trans-
portation under Ecco
Ride.
erational, but fewer than
half (29) are less than 10
years old, which is typ-
ically the length of the
engine warranty on a new
bus.
Labat said the major-
ity, if not all, of the bus
drivers will be former
Ecco Ride drivers.
The alternate plan in-
cludes the purchase of
six new buses, at a cost
of $95,700 each, for a
total of $568,200. That
plan would increase the
district’s supply of buses
under warrant by 35 over
the next 10 years.
By purchasing the six
buses, the cost for run-
ning its own transporta-
tion department would be
$582,150 more than the
three-year Ecco Ride av- “It would be much eas-
erage. ier if we had statewide
Labat said the uncer- guidance on this,” Labat
tainty surrounding the said. “But there could also
district’s budget and be a situation where indi-
transportation needs vidual school districts will
makes it difficult to com- be making many of the de-
mit to either plan. cisions. Right now, we’re
If the district choos- collecting information,
es not to purchase new looking for alternatives
buses, or perhaps fewer and weighing our options.
new buses, it might turn At this point, that’s really
to other options such as all we can do right now.”
extending or doubling
routes by implementing
staggered starting times
for its schools.
Labat said, in the mean-
time, the district hopes to
learn more from a survey
it is sending out to parents
and awaiting direction
from the state department
of education.
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Gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election

‘You never want to pray for something you’re
unwilling to be the answer to. So if we pray
for a reduction in gun violence, we have to be
ready to act on that prayer.’
BY ELANA SCHOR
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A leading
gun control advocacy group
has enlisted more than a dozen
religious leaders to boost voter
turnout this fall in support of can-
didates who support measures to
prevent gun violence.
Everytown for Gun Safety,
which expects to spend $60
million on this year’s elections,
is forging its interfaith effort
amid ongoing concerns about
shootings at houses of worship.
The group’s partners include
representatives from Christian,
Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh
backgrounds, several of them
well-known progressive activists.
Rev. Rob Schenck
Among those joining Ev-
erytown’s initiative, details of
which were shared with The
Associated Press ahead of its
official announcement, are
evangelical Shane Claiborne,
president of the group Red Let-
ter Christians, and Rev. Traci
Blackmon, a United Church of
Christ executive minister and
a central member of the Black
Lives Matter movement.
Another is Rev. Rob Schenck,
a former evangelical anti-abor-
tion activist who has since shift-
ed to support the Roe v. Wade
decision and sought to redefine
a “pro-life” agenda as one that
supports gun control.
Schenck described gun vio-
lence as a “life or death issue,
which makes it a supreme mor-
al consideration.”
“Churches, especially white
evangelical churches, have
largely ignored this question —
I think, much to their own detri-
ment and to the detriment of the
people they’re called to serve,”
said Schenck, president of the
Washington-based nonprofit
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute.
In addition to reaching out
to clergy on gun policy issues,
Schenck said, the Everytown
interfaith project would aim to
educate rank-and-file faith vot-
ers about candidates’ stances
on gun matters.
“You never want to pray for
something you’re unwilling to
be the answer to,” he added. “So
if we pray for a reduction in gun
violence, we have to be ready to
act on that prayer.”
Everytown, co-founded by
former New York Mayor Mi-
chael Bloomberg, counts 6 mil-
lion supporters and already has
endorsed former Vice President
Joe Biden, the presumptive
Democratic nominee for presi-
dent. Biden released a proposal
last month to boost security at
houses of worship.
“The faith community has
seen firsthand the devastating
effects of gun violence in places
of worship and feels more than
ever that they have an urgent
moral responsibility to stop
the scourge of gun violence
in America — and they’re do-
ing so by mobilizing their net-
works around candidates who
support broadly popular gun
safety measures in 2020,” An-
gela Ferrell-Zabala, chief equi-
ty, outreach and partnerships
officer at Everytown, said in a
statement.
President Donald Trump is
campaigning for reelection as
a proponent of gun rights after
previously weighing, then walk-
ing back, calls for Congress to
strengthen gun laws. Several
members of Everytown’s inter-
faith initiative are known as reli-
gious critics of Trump’s record,
including Schenck, Blackmon
and Michael McBride, a Cali-
fornia-based pastor who’s active
in helping communities of color
during the pandemic.
Whether gun control advo-
cates can make new inroads
with voters of faith remains an
open question. Michael Ham-
mond, legislative counsel at
the Gun Owners of America,
recalled then-presidential can-
didate Barack Obama’s 2008
comment that some disaffected
working-class voters “cling to
guns or religion” to help identi-
fy a nexus between faith-driven
and gun-rights voters.
Hammond said he sees “a
social milieu, a series of val-
ues that surround the sorts of
people who value the Second
Amendment. Those values
normally include a deep faith,
a love of country — generally
a conservative social issue out-
look.”

Counterfeit masks reaching Wuhan to test all residents

after handful of new infections
frontline health workers in US THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BANGKOK — Authorities in the Chinese city

BY JULIET LINDERMAN
AND MARTHA MENDOZA
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — On
a day when COVID-19
cases soared, healthcare
supplies were scarce
and an anguished doctor
warned he was being sent
to war without bullets, a
cargo plane landed at the
Los Angeles International
Airport, supposedly load-
ed with the ammo doctors
and nurses were begging
for: some of the first N95
medical masks to reach
the U.S. in almost six
weeks.
Already healthcare
workers who lacked the
crucial protection had
caught COVID-19 after
treating patients infected
with the highly conta-
gious new coronavirus.
That very day an emer-
gency room doctor who
earlier texted a friend
that he felt unsafe with- sick, the mission shift-
out protective supplies ed to medical supplies.
or an N95 mask, died of To date, Operation Sto-
the infection. It was the len Promise, spearhead-
first such death reported ed by Immigration and
in the U.S., according to Customs Enforcement’s
the American College of Homeland Security Inves-
Emergency Physicians. tigations, has netted 11
But the shipment ar- arrests and 519 seizures.
riving that night in late And yet counterfeit goods
March wasn’t going to continue to pour in — not
solve the problem. An just masks, but also mis-
Associated Press inves- labeled medicines, and
tigation has found those fake COVID-19 tests and
masks were counterfeits cures, according to the
— as are millions of med- agency.
ical masks, gloves, gowns “It’s just unprecedent-
and other supplies being ed,” said Steve Francis,
used in hospitals across HSI’s assistant director
the country, putting lives for global trade investiga-
at risk. tions. “These are really
Before the pandem- bad times for people who
ic, federal trade law are out there trying to
enforcement agencies do the right thing and be
were focused on busting helpful, and they end up
knockoffs such as luxu- being exploited.”
ry goods and computer The story of how one
software, mostly from brand of counterfeits has
China. As America fell infiltrated America’s sup-
ply chains illustrates how
the lack of coordination
amid massive shortages
has plunged the country’s
medical system into cha-
os.
AP identified the coun-
terfeit masks when re-
viewing film of the Los
Angeles shipment. The
telltale sign: these masks
had ear loops, while au-
thentic ones have bands
that stretch across the
back of the head, making
for a tighter fit.
The blue and yellow
boxes being unloaded
in a Southern California
warehouse bore the name
of the Chinese factory
Shanghai Dasheng.
where the coronavirus pandemic began were mov-
ing forward Wednesday with efforts to test all 11
million residents for the virus within 10 days after
a handful of fresh infections were found there.
The U.S. government’s top infectious disease
expert, meanwhile, issued a blunt warning that
cities and states could see more COVID-19 deaths
and economic damage if they lift stay-at-home or-
ders too quickly — a sharp contrast to President
Donald Trump, who is pushing to right a free-fall-
ing economy.
“There is a real risk that you will trigger an
outbreak that you may not be able to control,” Dr.
Anthony Fauci warned a Senate committee and
the nation Tuesday as more than two dozen states
have begun to lift their lockdowns.
The tension in balancing people’s safety from
the virus against the severe economic fallout is
playing out in many other countries, too. Italy par-
tially lifted lockdown restrictions last week only
to see a big jump in confirmed coronavirus cases
in its hardest-hit region.

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Biden’s VP pick isn’t the biggest

issue for Latino activists
Candidate is viewed
with skepticism among Basement-bound Biden campaign
some Latinos for his
ties to deportation
worries some Democrats
BY BILL BARROW AND STEVE PEOPLES

policies during the The Associated Press

Joe Biden has no foreseeable plans to resume in-person campaigning

Obama administration
BY WILL WEISSERT
AND NICHOLAS RICCARDI
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden
would have to do more than select
a Latina running mate to win over
Hispanics whose support could be
crucial to winning the presidency,
according to activists who are warn-
ing the presumptive Democratic
nominee not to take their communi-
ty for granted.
Biden is viewed with skepticism
among some Latinos for his ties
to deportation policies during the
Obama administration. Hispanics
also strongly sided with Bernie
Sanders during the Democratic pri-
mary.
That presents a challenging dy-
namic for Biden, who is trying to
build a multiracial, multigeneration-
al coalition to take on President Don-
ald Trump. He’s promised to pick a
female vice president, and many
African Americans say he could
lock in the black vote if he chooses a
black running mate. But some Lati-
no leaders say Biden will have to go
further to win their backing.
“I’m more interested in knowing
if Latinos are rooted in their cam-
paign strategy,” said Stephanie Va-
lencia, who runs EquisLabs, a poll-
ing and data operation analyzing
Latino politics.
amid a pandemic that is testing whether a national presidential election
can be won by a candidate communicating almost entirely from home.
The virtual campaign Biden is waging from Wilmington, Delaware,
is a stark contrast with President Donald Trump, who is planning trav-
el despite warnings from public health experts about the coronavirus’s
spread. It also intensifies the spotlight on how Biden, the presumptive
Democratic nominee, will manage his campaign, with some in his party
fretting that his still-developing approach isn’t reaching enough voters.
For now, Biden and his aides are brushing back hand-wringing from
Democrats and mockery from Republicans who argue that the 77-year-
old is “hiding in his basement.”
“Voters don’t give a s— about where he’s filming from,” campaign
manager Jen O’Malley Dillon told The Associated Press. “What they
care about is what he’s saying and how we connect with them.”
Biden was more diplomatic in assessing the situation on Tuesday.
“The idea that somehow we are being hurt by my keeping to the
rules and following the instructions that (have) been put forward by
doctors is absolutely bizarre,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Biden has established a com- Warren or Michigan Gov. Gretchen
mittee to lead the vetting of a po- Whitmer, who are white.
tential running mate that includes Mayra Macías, executive direc-
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, tor of the political advocacy group
whose family has ancestral roots Latino Victory, said Grisham and
in Mexico. His short list of possible Cortez Masto, as well as other high-
candidates is believed to feature two ly qualified Hispanics, have largely
Latinas, New Mexico Gov. Michelle been overlooked in the speculation
Lujan Grisham and Nevada Sen. around Biden’s choice.
Catherine Cortez Masto. “For us, it was a glaring omission
Neither has the national profile to not see Latinas included in the
of two black women thought to be conversation from the onset,” said
among the finalists, California Sen. Macías, whose group endorsed the
Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams, Democratic primary’s lone Hispanic
the former Democratic nominee candidate, former Obama admin-
for governor in Georgia. They’re istration housing chief Julián Cas-
also less well known nationally tro, before eventually switching to
than Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Biden.

Supreme Court appears likely to reject Trump immunity claim

Court seemed less
clear about how to
handle subpoenas
for Trump’s tax,
bank and financial
records
BY MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
related issues on Twitter,
about Elon Musk reopen-
strong approval ratings
for their handling of the
interest rates, his likely
opponent in the Novem-
ing Tesla’s California virus outbreak, the anger ber election and his crit-
ics.
plant in defiance of local Asian Americans feel “at
authorities, the credit he what China has done to
deserves for governors’ our Country,” oil prices,

WASHINGTON —
The Supreme Court on
Tuesday appeared likely
to reject President Donald
Trump’s claim that he is
immune from criminal in-
vestigation while in office.
But the court seemed less
clear about exactly how to
handle subpoenas from
Congress and the Man-
hattan district attorney
for Trump’s tax, bank and
financial records.
The court’s major
clash over presidential
accountability could af-
fect the 2020 presidential
campaign, especially if
a high court ruling leads
to the release of personal
financial information be-
fore Election Day.
The justices heard ar-
guments in two cases by
telephone Tuesday that
stretched into the early
afternoon. The court,
which includes six jus-
tices age 65 or older, has
been meeting by phone
because of the coronavi-
rus pandemic.
There was no apparent
consensus about wheth-
er to ratify lower court
rulings that the subpoe-
nas to Trump’s accoun-
tant and banks are valid
and should be enforced.
The justices will meet by
phone before the end of
the week to take a prelim-
inary vote on how those
cases should come out,
and decisions are expect-
ed by early summer.
On the same day
Trump’s lawyers were
telling the court that the
subpoenas would be a
distraction that no pres-
ident can afford, Trump
found the time to weigh
in on a long string of un-

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OUR VIEW
Restaurants, shops face
an uncertain future
P
at Fontaine grew up on the Mississippi Coast and
was working in his family’s restaurant since he was
8. As executive director of the Mississippi Hospi-
tality and Restaurant Association, Fontaine has seen just
about every conceivable threat to the industry, including
of course the hurricanes that were always a threat to his
family’s business.
Until a couple of months ago, he could not have imag-
ined anything more debilitating to a restaurant than a
hurricane.
But the threat posed by the arrival of COVID-19
represents a greater existential threat to the restaurant
industry than even the worst national disasters.
“The devastation from a hurricane was quite severe
and the setbacks difficult, but you could always begin
your recovery efforts the next day, and that’s just not the
case with coronavirus,” Fontaine told a joint audience
from the Columbus Rotary Club and the Columbus Lown-
des Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.
Restaurants, confined to curbside service for most of
the month of April, were allowed to reopen their dining
rooms last week, albeit under certain restrictions, includ-
ing a rule that allows restaurants to operate their dining
rooms at no more than half-capacity.
While reopening the dining rooms will help offset the
STATE OF THE NATION

Why fat black lives must not really matter

losses, it’s likely to be a case of “too little, too late” to
ensure the survival of some restaurants. Fontaine expects
roughly 10 percent of Mississippi’s restaurants to shut-

ter for good in an industry where, even before the virus,
single-digit profit margins were the norm.
No amount of expanded carry-out service will make up
that deficit. Restaurants need every customer they can
get.
It’s important to note dining isn’t just always just about
a meal. It’s also a form of entertainment and, sometimes,
a place where business is conducted. It’s likely that some
day — when we better learn to effectively cope with the
virus — restaurants will again be able to serve that pur-
pose.
But no one knows when that day will come, nor how
many of our restaurants will survive long enough to see
that day.
The same is true with retail stores, too, which already
faced the encroachment of online shopping.
Finally, consumers will likely have the ultimate say.
Will they return? When? Will they dine out and shop our
stores less often?
No one knows the answers to those questions.
That’s probably the biggest challenge of all — the
unknown.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I
t’s a sure sign you’ve from the establishment’s meat smokers, local black
reached maturity in leaders protested that the voiced health concerns
life when you stop try- of the (mostly white) neighbors masked a racist
ing to have it both ways. vendetta against the Hut’s black business owners.
As an adult, you shouldn’t Again, as a mature adult, you tend to learn you
expect to be able to eat can’t have it both ways. And yet, Cooper persists.
all the ice cream in the As if suppressing a glint of self-awareness — as in
fridge every night and still awareness of the preventable underlying condition
avoid the long-term health that increases not only all-cause morbidity but also
effects of a poor diet. And the comorbidity associated with increased rates
yet, when it comes to of critical infection and death from COVID-19 —
COVID-19, it’s as if many Cooper Twitter-shouts: “Black Lives Matter. Black
in the black community Armstrong Williams Lives with hypertension, diabetes, and asthma
who suffer disproportion- matter ... All Black Lives Matter. Fat Black Lives
ately from comorbidities expect the entire country matter.”
to remain closed until they are no longer at risk of But she doesn’t really seem to believe that. If
COVID-related illnesses. she did, perhaps she would sue fast-food restau-
Such was the substance of the heated rants rants to prevent them from reopening in black
of a Rutgers University professor who last week neighborhoods until there is, say, a 70% reduction
blamed “Trump supporters” and state officials in in diabetes, hypertension and obesity among black
Georgia, Utah and Florida who are beginning to folks. That form of protest would seem to be more
lift the restrictions on commerce and social isola- congruent with her self-righteous contention that
tion put in place as emergency measures to stem black lives matter. But the glint of self-awareness
the tide of the virus. Brittany Cooper, a tenured quickly dims in the opportunity for political invec-
professor in the dubiously named Women’s and tive.
Gender Studies Department, blamed it all on the
white man, stating in a rage-filled Twitter rant,
Cooper is hardly alone in spilling her misplaced
ire into the Twittersphere. When U.S. Surgeon

Voice of the people

In response to unsigned letter: United or untied
To call Bush an influential and powerful voice leaves a bad
taste in my mouth.
This man, as our president, lied to the American people to
go to war with Iraq because they possessed WMD’s, when in
fact it was because of their oil and we needed it.
Iraq’s oil will pay for the war, Bush says. When Iraq’s
government becomes like ours, it will spread all over the
Middle East, he states. The words, “mission accomplished”,
that he spoke three months after the invasion of Iraq are still
ringing in my ears almost two decades later with nothing
accomplished. After all the money we spent and still are, and
the number of lives lost, both military and civilian, whatever
kind of government Iraq has now is on the verge of collaps-
ing.
No president in my lifetime has caused more human mis-
ery, both at home and abroad, than Bush. And at the end of
his leadership, he goes on national TV, asking the taxpayers
for $700 billion, or our economy will collapse. From this, our
economy didn’t recover until 2018. It’s called the lost decade
under Bush.
And now, with the Trump administration, if someone tells
the truth or points out corruption, they are sidelined or fired.
When Trump and his allies hear the truth, they call it fake.
Bush’s message “rise as one” was directed more toward
the administration.
James Hodges
Steens
“Not only do white conservatives not care about
Black life, but my most cynical negative read of
the white supremacists among them is that they
welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks
in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up
political power.”
By “massive winnowing of Black folks” Cooper
was referring to the fact that as many as 80% of the
reported hospitalizations from COVID-19 in Geor-
gia occurred among African Americans. But at a
reported total of 1,035 deaths thus far in Georgia
attributed to COVID-19, even if all of them were
African American (they are not), that would hardly
constitute a “winnowing” of the black population.
Georgia’s African American population is roughly
3.5 million, and the leading cause of mortality for
African Americans in Georgia is heart disease.
In 2017, nearly 18,000 Georgians died of heart
disease, and African Americans, at roughly 31%
of the Georgia population, accounted for nearly
half of those deaths — or 9,000. In other words,
heart disease is 10 times more likely to kill African
Americans than COVID-19.
And yet, not one of those prognosticators would
even think about advocating closing down busi-
nesses offering fried foods, confectionery items
or barbecue because black people are at higher
risk of contracting deadly heart disease from poor
dietary habits. In fact, when in 2019 neighbors in a
Houston suburb formed a coalition to petition the
city to shut down the black-owned Turkey Leg Hut
because of concern over noxious fumes emanating
General Jerome Adams, a black man, advised
African Americans this month to take preventative
measures to address the COVID-19 threat — in-
cluding, horror of horrors, “avoid(ing) alcohol,
tobacco and drugs” — he was widely criticized
for pandering to African Americans. Adams was
excoriated by PBS NewsHour’s White House
correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor, for “offending”
African Americans because he used informal and
idiosyncratic speech, urging people of color: “We
need you to do this, if not for yourself, then for
your abuela. Do it for your granddaddy. Do it for
your Big Mama. Do it for your Pop-Pop.”
It made no difference that Adams himself has
acknowledged on several occasions that he, too,
suffers from underlying conditions, including
asthma and high blood pressure, which he attri-
butes to a “legacy of growing up poor and black in
America.”
It would be absolute pandering of the most
cynical variety for health officials to fail to advise
African Americans of their increased susceptibil-
ity to COVID-19 given disproportionate rates of
comorbidity factors among blacks. And it would be
downright criminal for a responsible surgeon gen-
eral to fail to suggest practical means of strength-
ening our health in the midst of this pandemic.
But that would be true only if fat black lives really
mattered.
Armstrong Williams is an American political
commentator, entrepreneur, author, and talk show
host.

OTHER EDITORS
DHS scandal gets a lot bigger
News earlier this year about spending
practices at the Mississippi Department
of Human Services made the agency a
shameful example of corruption. But
further revelations this week are almost
turning it into a punchline for humor.
State Auditor Shad White, whose
investigators discovered $94 million
worth of questionable spending at the
agency during a recently completed
audit, summed it up nicely when he said,
“If there was a way to misspend money, it
seems DHS leadership or their grantees
thought of it and tried it.”
Six people, including the founder of
Greenwood’s North New Summit School
and a former DHS director, were indicted
in February on charges of embezzling $4
million. At the time White called it one
of Mississippi’s largest public corruption
cases, but this week’s revelations are
poised to increase the graft many times
over.
If even a portion of the $94 million
flagged by auditors turns out to be
wasteful, corrupt spending, this could
go down as one of Mississippi’s largest
financial scandals of any kind. It’s even
more embarrassing because it involves
taxpayer money that was supposed to
help poor people but instead got horribly
and shamefully misdirected.
The net of embarrassment will be
wide.
Nancy New, a Greenwood native who
was heralded for years as an innovative
leader in special needs education, was
one of the supposed ringleaders in the
scheme. According to the criminal
indictment against her and the audit
report, New used her Mississippi Com-
munity Education Center, which was sup-
posed to help show the poor the way out
of poverty, as a front to funnel money and
luxuries to family, cronies and herself.
Among the purchases made with federal
welfare funds, according to the auditors,
were three vehicles, each worth more
than $50,000, for New and two sons. In
fact, according to White, MCEC received
$52 million of grant money from DHS
over three years, and nearly all of it was
either misspent or auditors were unable
to verify the expenditures were lawful.
Brett Favre was another supposed
MCEC beneficiary. The Hall of Fame
quarterback got paid $1.1 million to
make at least three speeches, but White
said his auditors verified that Favre
did not attend the events in question.
Though Favre will not face criminal
charges, if the story laid out by the
auditor is accurate, the former NFL star
ought to give the money back to the
state.
John Davis, the former DHS head
whom White fingers as the kingpin in
the fraud, allegedly brought a wicked
crooked streak to the agency when
former Gov. Phil Bryant promoted him
in 2016. But there also was a conserva-
tive ideology on which Davis, New and
others seem to have capitalized. Welfare
reformers for the last couple of decades
have said the nation needs to wean the
poor off handouts — to implement the
proverbial teach them to fish rather than
giving them fish.
The philosophy was fine, but it also
put a whole lot more money on the table
for the unscrupulous to rake in — appar-
ently with lax oversight at several levels,
including from the Legislature.
It was not too long ago that legislative
policymakers, determined to reduce
fraud in the many programs DHS runs,
devised ideas such as making sure that
state welfare recipients passed a drug
test before getting assistance.
The policymakers were looking for
ripoffs in the wrong place.
Even if some DHS beneficiaries
tricked the system into giving them
more benefits than they deserved, it was
small potatoes.
The real fraud was obviously occur-
ring at the agency itself, perpetrated by
those deciding how to spend the money.
Greenwood Commonwealth

Ahmaud Arbery case puts spotlight on community’s race legacy
‘I’m sure there are people who have
hidden feelings about race, on an
individual level. But I’ve seen this
community come together.’
Brunswick, Georgia, Mayor Cornell Harvey
BY RUSS BYNUM
AND A ARON MORRISON
The Associated Press
The people who call
Brunswick, Georgia,
home say it’s not the
monstrous place it might
appear to be in the wake
of the slaying of Ahmaud
Arbery after a pursuit by
two armed white men.
Yes, it is one of Geor-
gia’s poorest cities where
much of the black work-
ing population has strug-
gled to find opportunities
for advancement and
where one black resident
says he walks on tip toes
to avoid racist insults.
But it’s also a city with
a black mayor and one
where longtime residents
say black and white peo-
ple — all the way back
to the civil rights move-
ment — have long worked
together to solve thorny
questions about racial
equality.
Now, Arbery’s slaying
as well as the subsequent
investigation criticized for
being too slow have put
Brunswick in the national
spotlight and raised ques-
tions about whether re-
Cold cases get colder as
coronavirus pandemic wears on
Nation’s police have to put some investigations on hold
as they detail detectives to help out with social distance
patrols, or cover for colleagues out sick with COVID-19
BY STEFANIE DAZIO
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
Cold cases are getting
colder. Detectives are
struggling to connect with
victims through thick
masks, and investigators
accustomed to wearing
plainclothes are digging
out their dusty uniforms
for patrol duty as the coro-
navirus pandemic rages.
Police departments
nationwide are grappling
with changes the virus
has wrought on their in-
vestigations, even as law
enforcement agencies
report major decreases
in crime due to stay-at-
home orders. Authorities
say enough wrongdoing
abounds to keep police
busy, and detective work
must still be in-person
and hands-on, despite
COVID-19. Evidence has
to be collected, state-
ments must be taken in
person and death notifi-
cations need to be made
face-to-face.
cent events reflect some-
thing rotten in the coastal
city’s culture.
On the contrary, res-
idents say, Brunswick
has often stood out for its
ability to work through
troubled times peacefully,
though it is far from per-
fect.
“I don’t think a few
bad white people have
defined this whole com-
munity,” Mayor Cornell
Harvey told The Associat-
ed Press. “I’m sure there
are people who have hid-
den feelings about race,
on an individual level. But
I’ve seen this community
come together.”
Arbery was killed Feb.
23 in a subdivision called
Satilla Shores that is just
outside the city limits but
considered part of the
broader Brunswick com-
munity. A white father and
son told police they pur-
sued him in their truck
because they suspected
him of being a burglar. An
autopsy showed Arbery
was killed by three shot-
gun blasts, and cellphone
video of the shooting led
to a national outcry when
“You put on gloves and
you put on masks and
you’ve still got to go out
there and do it,” said Los
Angeles Police Capt. Jon-
athan Tippet, head of the
elite Robbery-Homicide
Division.
Police around the coun-
try have to put some inves-
tigations on hold as they
detail detectives to help
out with social distance
patrols, or cover for their
colleagues out sick with
COVID-19.
It’s worrisome to for-
mer New York Police
Department Sgt. Joe Gia-
calone, who is concerned
about criminals across the
country who will go unde-
tected in the meantime.
“That becomes a big-
ger problem down the
road,” Giacalone, a former
cold case detective now a
professor at the John Jay
College of Criminal Jus-
tice. “Investigators pre-
vent further victimization
by getting these guys off
the streets.”
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Local prosecutors under investigation in Georgia slaying
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — The Georgia
prosecutors who first handled the
fatal shooting of a black man, be-
fore charges were filed more than
two months later, were placed un-
der investigation Tuesday for their
conduct in the case, which has
fueled a national outcry and ques-
tions about whether the slaying
was racially motivated.
Georgia Attorney General
it hit the internet last
week — both for the gris-
liness of the footage but
also because the men had
not been arrested, two
months after the killing.
Gregory McMichael,
64, and Travis McMi-
chael, 34 were charged
with felony murder and
aggravated assault soon
after the video leaked.
Brunswick, with a
population of more than
16,000 residents, is more
than half black. Surround-
ing Glynn County is more
reflective of the state’s ra-
cial makeup: It has more
than five times as many
people as Brunswick and
is 63 percent white, 27
percent black and 7 per-
cent Hispanic.
The Rev. John Per-
ry III, president of the
Brunswick branch of the
NAACP, moved to the
city 13 years ago, and was
“pleasantly surprised that
Despite fewer detec-
tives in bureaus, police
are finding workarounds
and high-profile cases
are still getting the nec-
essary attention. The Los
Angeles district attorney
filed an additional sexual
assault charge against dis-
graced film mogul Harvey
Weinstein in April and in-
vestigators in New York
continue to delve into an
unsolved Long Island se-
rial killer case after they
revealed new evidence
earlier this year.
In some cases, like
cyber or financial crime,
interviews can be tran-
sitioned to the phone to
preserve social distanc-
ing. But others, such as
sexual abuse, in-person
interviews are a necessity.
For traumatized chil-
dren who need to be com-
forted, Los Angeles Coun-
ty sheriff’s detectives give
“air hugs” and teach the
kids phrases like “I love
you” in sign language to
overcome the impersonal
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2020 7A
Chris Carr announced that he Gregory and Travis McMichael
asked the Georgia Bureau of Inves- were not charged with murder un-
tigation and federal authorities to til last week, after the release of a
investigate how local prosecutors video of the Feb. 23 shooting.
handled the killing of 25-year-old “Unfortunately, many questions
Ahmaud Arbery, who was pursued and concerns have arisen” about
by a white father and son before the actions of the district attorneys,
being shot on a residential street Carr said Tuesday in a statement.
just outside the port city of Bruns- As a result, the attorney general
wick. Arbery’s relatives have said asked the GBI to review the matter
he was merely jogging through the “to determine whether the process
subdivision at the time. was undermined in any way.”
the people here have a people they know, and “The difference be-
great heart,” he said. often the people in power tween me and Ahmaud
But he remains con- are white. is I live a life where I take
cerned by socioeconom- But Ryan Marshall, a tippy-toe steps to avoid
ic inequality in the city.
27-year-old black man who things,” such as the vi-
Much of Brunswick’s
has lived in the Bruns- olent confrontation in
black workforce is blue
wick area since he was which Arbery died, said
collar, he said, and many
a young boy, says he has Marshall, who was among
lack opportunities to move
experienced more direct hundreds attending a
up the ladder. A recent prejudice: His co-workers protest Friday outside
review of median annual
have called him a racist the Glynn County court-
household income data
slur “if I don’t do exactly house. “I shouldn’t have
by 24/7 Wall St. found
what I’m supposed to do.” to live in fear.”
Brunswick was Georgia’s
poorest city. The city has
a 39 percent poverty rate,
compared to 16.9 percent
in the state overall.
“It’s not that we don’t
have a black base that has
gone out and educated
themselves,” Perry said.
“Too many people have
been overlooked for bet-
ter opportunities.”
Still, he does not think
the problem is one of “ra-
cial hatred.” Instead, he
points to the fact that peo-
ple in power tend to help
nature of masks and so-
cial distancing.
“They’ll do anything
they can to make these
kids and these victims feel
safe,” said Carlos Mar-
quez, a detective division
commander in the Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department.
Detectives elsewhere
have been forced to in-
vestigate crimes that are
outside their normal spe-
cialties. In the hardest-hit
part of New Jersey, inves-
tigators in the Bergen
County Prosecutor’s Of-
fice have been moved out
of their individual squads
— such as narcotics or
sex crimes — into “one
big detective bureau.”
That bureau is now
made up of three mixed
35-person platoons, which
work from home part of
the time. The goal is to
avoid an entire specialty
squad contracting — or
spreading — the virus and
leaving the office without
an important skill set.
“We can’t have the ho-
micide squad coming in
and out of the building left
and right, infecting peo-
ple,” Chief of Detectives
Robert Anzilotti said.
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from April 3 to April 27
that required restaurants
to restrict their services
to drive-thru, carry-out
and delivery.
Restaurants are now
allowed to provide 50 per-
cent of their dine-in ser-
vice capacity to groups of
six people or fewer with
everyone six feet apart,
and employees that in-
teract with customers
must wear protective face
masks. However, some
restaurants will not open
their dining rooms yet if
they cannot turn a profit
that way, Fontaine said.
“The focus is on off-site
sales, and this crisis has
expedited the move to this
focus,” he said. “Restau-
rants are looking at their
pickup and delivery busi-
ness, event catering and
mobile units, (or) food
trucks. They have to look
at ways to generate sales
to offset the decrease in
their dine-in business,
and you will see that con-
tinue to be a trend.”
Impact on local
restaurants
Anthony’s, a Ca-
jun-Creole steakhouse in
West Point, was frequent-
ly “packed to the gills”
before the pandemic and
therefore did not allow
carry-out at certain times,
owner Ray Hamilton told
The Dispatch. Hamilton
also owns Magnolia’s at
the Ritz. He closed the
dining rooms in both
restaurants on March 15
out of safety concerns and
reopened them Tuesday,
and both provided car-
ry-out and curbside pick-
up in the meantime.
“Before, we’d fill up
and take reservations,
and now we have specific
time slots,” he said. “That
will allow us to get as
many people in (as possi-
ble) in a controlled man-
ner so we can follow the
safeguards.”
The sharp increase
in carry-out business at
Proffitt’s Porch in Co-
lumbus had customers
and employees “running
steps like crazy” since
the restaurant is upstairs,
owner Campbell Proffitt
told The Dispatch. The
restaurant has done some
delivery but not much,
mostly because it doesn’t
have “the staff or the ve-
hicles” for it, Proffitt said,
but he will consider ex-
panding the service.
Fontaine said some
restaurant owners fear
bringing their entire staff
back to work in case they
have to lay off their em-
ployees again due to a
lack of dine-in business.
Proffitt’s Porch usually
hires new employees for
the summer, mostly col-
lege students, but Prof-
fitt said he has not made
those hires this year for
financial reasons.
Hamilton said he is
bringing both the staff
and the menus back to
both his restaurants in
phases. He completely
closed both restaurants
in mid-March out of safe-
ty concerns and reopened
them Tuesday.
“I didn’t feel comfort-
able being in there (in
March), so I wasn’t going
to ask my staff to be in
there,” he said.
Proffitt’s Porch re-
opened Thursday, the
first day it could open for
dine-in service, and has
been receiving customers
since then, Proffitt said.
“I wish someone could
give us an answer as to
when we can open back
up to full capacity,” he
said. “I’m already experi-
encing some issues with
customers wanting to
gather in groups larger
than six, and we’ve had
several reservations al-
ready for groups larger
than six. We sat the tables
separately, so there were
only six at a table, but the
customers don’t like that.”
Despite the hardships
facing the industry, Fon-
taine said he is confident
that many restaurants will
return to serve loyal cus-
tomers, provide first jobs
to young people and be a
source of togetherness for
friends and family.
“We are an industry of
problem solvers,” he said.
“We deal with a variety of
problems each and every
day, from a broken dish-
washer to a food delivery
not being made, so simply
give us time (and) we will
figure it out.”
Proffitt said the ability
to figure it out will deter-
mine which restaurants
survive and which do not.
“The businesses that
can navigate this time, I
think, are going to be few
and far between, honest-
ly,” he said.

Reeves tightens virus rules in 7 hard-hit counties

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov.
Tate Reeves said Tuesday that he
is tightening regulations in parts of
the state seeing the fastest spread
of the new coronavirus.
The target area is seven largely
rural counties in the east central
part of the state: Attala, Leake,
Scott, Jasper, Neshoba, Newton and
Lauderdale. Reeves said authorities
are seeing a rapid increase in cases
relative to their populations.
While Reeves previously sug-
gested people wear masks in pub-
lic, his new executive order makes
that mandatory in some situations
in the seven counties. Masks must
be worn by people at outdoor events
such as flea markets or auctions,
and by those shopping inside retail
businesses such as grocery stores.
The new order also requires busi-
nesses to provide masks for their
employees in retail settings, and it
requires the employees to wear the
masks while working.
In addition, businesses are re-
quired to screen employees for
COVID-19 symptoms at the start of
each shift, to provide hand sanitiz-
er and ensure employees remain at
least 6 feet apart wherever possible.

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It wasn’t until after
the supreme court grant-
ed her PCR that Childs
amended her application
to claim the jury instruc-
tions in her initial trial
should have included
venue.
“The trial court al-
lowed that to happen
without getting permis-
sion from the supreme
court first, without Ver-
ina Childs requesting
permission from the
supreme court,” said
District Attorney Scott
Colom, whose office ap-
pealed Howard’s decision
in 2018.
Venue is defined as
“the time and place
charged in ... the indict-
ment and testified about”
in a criminal case, ac-
cording to court docu-
ments. In a separate case
in 2017, the Mississippi
Court of Appeals ruled
the failure of jury instruc-
tions to list venue as one
of the elements of the of-
fense is a reversible error,
meaning a defendant can
receive a new trial if the
instructions to the jury do
not include it. However, in
that case, the defendant
had specifically alleged
venue-instruction in the
post-conviction relief ap- that the murder took
plication, whereas Childs place in Oktibbeha Coun-
amended her application ty,” he said. “Nobody
after the fact. challenged that. Verina
“Because Verina Childs, in the trial, didn’t
Childs did not originally challenge that.”
include that issue when Childs’ attorney, Matt
she asked for the supreme Kitchens, who lives
court to give her permis- in North Carolina and
sion for a PCR, that meant
has an office in Crystal
that she couldn’t get it
Springs, did not respond
through the trial court,”
to a message from The Tell your child a bedtime story.
Colom said.
He added that Childs Dispatch by press time.
can still take the issue all
the way to the state su-
preme court, but that he
thinks the conviction will
likely be upheld.
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William Binder of employees or customers and to soften the penal-
Ward 2 offered a substi- in banks or accounting of- ties.
tute motion to extend the fices. Restaurant employ- Both of those motions
ordinance, however, say- ees are required to wear died without a second.
ing the timeline should masks. Violating the face mask
match Gov. Tate Reeves’ “The confusion is, ordinance carries a penal-
“Safer at Home” executive where am I supposed to ty of up to a $1,000 fine
order, although the state wear it and where am I not and up to 90 days in jail.
order does not require cit- supposed to wear it?” Mc- “We can’t take the
izens to wear masks. Brayer said. teeth out of it and expect
“The governor extend- After a vote extended to enforce it,” Binder said.
ed his order for two more the ordinance, for which “If we’re going to do it,
weeks, I say we do it for McBrayer and Ken Poole we’re going to do it right.”
two more weeks,” Binder of Ward 3 were opposed, In other business, se-
said. McBrayer offered two lectmen extended the
Ward 5’s Jasper Pitt- amendments — to only city’s moratorium on
man, who along with Leta require retail employees shutting off utilities for
Turner of Ward 1, carried with direct contact with delinquent customers
the vote to extend the customers to wear masks through June 10.
requirement, pointed to
MSDH data as a sign the
city ordinance and other
implemented safety mea-
sures were helping.
“The question we have
to ask ourselves, do we
have the lowest number
because of the measures
we take to stay safe?” Pit-
tman said. “Because at
one time, Starkville’s and
our cases were almost the
same. When Starkville
dropped the (mask) re-
quirement, their numbers
went up. Columbus never
did have a requirement.
… If we say, ‘We’re good
with nobody wearing a
mask and doing what you
want to do,’ and let the
numbers peak up like ev-
eryone else, we failed. We
failed as elected officials
to do what’s right and
keep people safe. It’s not
a partisan thing or a pro-
tect your rights thing. It’s
a safety thing.”
McBrayer countered
by arguing the ordinance
does not require cus-
tomers to wear masks in
restaurants, which are
allowed to be open for
dine-in services up to 50
percent capacity, nor are
they required for either
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BREAKING DOWN MSU’S QUARTERBACK ROOM
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — With
spring commencement at
Mississippi State now of-
ficially passed, summer
has arrived in Starkville.
And while the MSU
football team has yet to
endure its usual regimen
of spring practices due to
the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, there remains
a growing optimism a
2020 football season will
be played — though an
exact start date and the
logistics behind such an
occurrence remain un-
known.
Over the past week-
plus, we’ve dived into the
Bulldogs’ depth chart
heading into the summer
and what it might look
like once competition is
allowed to begin.
Following last week’s
three-part look at the de-
fense and a foray into the
offense, it’s time we round
out the series with a look
at the quarterback room.
In an offense predicat-
ed on the aerial attack,
there’s perhaps no posi-
tion more crucial to Mike
Leach’s success at MSU
than under center — or,
rather, in the shotgun.
For Leach, his first few
weeks in Starkville were
busy devising a coaching
staff while also scroung-
ing the graduate transfer
market for a potential
quarterback to run the
show this fall — or when-
ever football does return.
“It’s a new resource
nowadays,” Leach said of
the transfer portal at his
introductory press con-
ference Jan. 10. “It’s both
positive and negative,
but it can be a resource.
The Mag to return with NJCAA to lift in-person recruiting ban BY THEO DEROSA
Thursday night event
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Magnolia Motor Speed-
way in Columbus will re-
turn to action Thursday
evening with the Magno-
lia Mayhem 40, headlined
by a Super Late Model
program with a $5,000
prize for first place.
The Mag had an-
nounced the week of
March 23 that it was
closed indefinitely due to
the coronavirus pandem-
ic.
Promoter Johnny
Stokes announced the
news Monday evening,
noting that the raceway’s
grandstand and speed
zone areas will be closed.
Eight people per race car
will be allowed in the pits,
and attendees will be en-
couraged to wear masks
and bring hand sanitizer.
“We’ve had some prac-
tice sessions the past few
weeks, and worked on
developing pit parking
and strategies that would
allow us to have our first
race of the year,” Stokes
said in a news release from
The Mag. “I’m very excit-
ed to have this event, but
I can’t stress enough how
important it will be for the
teams to please maintain
Stanford quarterback K.J. Costello is tackled by Oregon linebacker Isaac Slade-Matautia during the third quarter
Sept. 21 at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California. Costello figures to be Mississippi State’s starter at quarter-
back this season, but sophomore Garrett Shrader should be a solid backup for the Bulldogs.
I don’t think it can be ig-
nored for any position.
Football’s a competitive
sport, and you’re always
trying to upgrade. Of
course, everybody, re-
gardless of position, re-
members somebody that
played from whenever.
But if you can upgrade,
that’s the point of a team
game.”
In response, the
Bulldogs landed a com-
mitment from Stanford
quarterback K.J. Costel-
lo — a two-time Pac-12
all-Academic honorable
mention, a second team
all-conference honoree in
2018 and a former Cardi-
their distance in the pit
area. We want to make
sure that we go above and
beyond to meet all of the
requirements that have
been laid out for us.”
The winner of the 40-
lap Super Late Model will
receive $5,000, with sec-
ond place getting $2,500
and third place receiving
$1,100. Those who finish
between 16th and 24th
will receive $300; the
entry fee for the event is
$100.
The event can be
seen online at www.
DirtOnDirt.com or www.
FloRacing.com.
The pit gate opens at
4 p.m., and the event will
kick off at 6:30 p.m. with
hot laps. Qualifying, heat
races and B-mains will all
precede the 40-lap feature
race.
Glenn’s BBQ and Fish
will host a complete Late
Model Sportsman pro-
gram with $500 going to
the winner, $350 going
to second place and $50
guaranteed for 13th to
24th place finishers.
The 20-lap race, pre-
ceded by hot laps, heat
races and B-mains, will
close Thursday’s event.
MISSISSIPPI STATE FOOTBALL
nal team captain.
Though nothing has
been settled, the lack of
spring practices takes a
particular toll on the quar-
terback position. Leach
had hoped to have his
competition narrowed to
two possible candidates
heading into the summer,
but with little to no time
on the field in April, he
never got the chance.
That said, Costello is
the most experienced op-
tion of the four scholar-
ship quarterbacks MSU
currently carries. In 28
career games at Stanford,
he completed 495 of 791
passes for 6,151 yards
tderosa@cdispatch.com
East Mississippi Com-
munity College athletic
director and women’s
basketball coach Sharon
Thompson said virtual re-
cruiting during the coro-
navirus pandemic has
gone well considering the
circumstances.
On Monday night,
Thompson talked to an
out-of-state point guard
and the player’s high
school coach, a productive
conversation the Lions’
coach hopes will yield re-
sults down the line.
Thompson said that,
unsurprisingly, her world
has been a lot of talking,
texting and FaceTime as
she navigates the recruit-
ing waters with junior col-
lege coaches around the
country all in the same
boat.
That dynamic might
change later this week
for other programs in the
wake of Monday evening’s
announcement by the Na-
tional Junior College Ath-
letic Association that the
ban on in-person recruit-
ing will be lifted at 11:59
p.m. local time Friday.
But Thompson stressed
Tuesday that EMCC’s
current recruiting prac-
tices won’t be undergoing
any upheaval soon. In ac-
cordance with Mississippi
Association of Communi-
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and 49 touchdowns to
just 18 interceptions. His
best year in a Cardinal
uniform came as a sopho-
more, throwing for 3,540
yards and 29 touchdowns
while guiding his team to
a 9-4 record.
“He’s one of those
take-charge guys — very
dedicated, competitive,”
former Santa Margarita
High School head coach
Rick Curtis said of his
one-time signal-caller.
“One of the great things
about him is he really
could rally his teammates
around him. He liked that
role, and they kind of
gravitated toward him.”
EMCC coach and athletic director Sharon Thompson is
in no hurry to resume in-person recruiting just yet.
ty & Junior Colleges pol-
icy, in-person recruiting
will be prohibited through
May 31, and the ban could
be extended. A meeting
with the conference’s ath-
letic directors and school
presidents — including
Thompson — led to the
restriction.
Thompson told The
Dispatch on Tuesday
worried about the safety
of bringing recruits onto
campus or visiting play-
ers’ homes, said she’s fine
with that and has directed
her fellow coaches not to
recruit in person until at
least the end of the month.
“How much are we
really about the lives of
the people, or are we just
about getting out and
recruiting?” she said. “I
know me personally, I’m
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While Costello has
yet to arrive on campus,
there shouldn’t be much
competition from those
already enrolled at MSU
for the starting job.
Sophomore Garrett
Shrader is the most ex-
perienced incumbent
following junior Keytaon
Thompson’s transfer to
Virginia. Despite being
held out of the Music City
Bowl due to a broken nose
suffered in a reported
skirmish with since-de-
parted linebacker Willie
Gay Jr., Shrader com-
pleted 88 of 153 passes
for 1,170 yards and eight
touchdowns while adding
Jason Clark/EMCC Athletics
not gonna do it. I’m not
gonna do it, and we’re not
gonna allow coaches to do
it.”
The Lions will lose at
least two more weeks of
in-person recruiting due
to the MACJC’s policy,
but Thompson said that’s
a trade-off she’d be willing
to make every single time.
“I don’t see where 16
more days is gonna make
that big of a difference
when we are just trying to
make sure that we’re not
rushing back into this,”
Thompson said.
With the wearing of
protective face masks
encouraged, social dis-
tancing measures recom-
mended by the Centers for
Disease Control and Pre-
vention in place and bans
on gatherings of more
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another 587 yards and six
touchdowns rushing.
More of a dual-threat
option, it’s likely Shrad-
er serves as the backup
to Costello in 2020 while
potentially garnering a
redshirt to keep his year
of eligibility intact.
Other names to watch
in the MSU quarterback
room include mid-year
enrollee Will Rogers and
Vanderbilt transfer Allan
Walters. A Brandon native
— the same hometown as
former Washington State
quarterback and current
Jacksonville Jaguar Gard-
ner Minshew II — Rogers
was previously recruited
by Leach’s regime in Pull-
man before he pledged to
the Bulldogs.
As for Walters, he’s
a former three-star re-
cruit in the class of 2018.
In limited action during
his two seasons in Nash-
ville, he completed two of
nine passes for 36 yards
in three games for the
Commodores. Walters is
expected to join MSU as
a walk-on and sit out this
year due to NCAA trans-
fer rules but could be put
on scholarship down the
line.
Former four-star pros-
pect Jalen Mayden also
still resides on the MSU
roster heading into the
summer, though whether
he sees anything beyond
garbage time snaps re-
mains to be seen.
Since 2014, Leach-led
offenses have led the na-
tion in passing four times.
With an able-bodied
Costello as the presumed
starter, that trend stands
to continue in Leach’s
first season at the helm in
Starkville.
than 10 people inside and
20 people outside, Thomp-
son and the Lions are in
no hurry to resume nor-
mal operations too soon.
She said neither she nor
her fellow coaches have
scheduled any in-person
visits in June or beyond.
“As long as those CDC
guidelines are in place,
we’re gonna kind of stick
to that,” she said.
EMCC has canceled re-
cruiting camps scheduled
for June and told players
and their high schools
that plans for camps in
late July or early August
are tentative at best, sub-
ject to the whims of the
pandemic.
For now, it’ll be more
phone calls, texts and
FaceTime as Thompson
and the Lions navigate
the virus and exercise
caution. She said athlet-
ic directors and school
presidents — including
Dr. Scott Alsobrooks at
EMCC — will get togeth-
er toward the end of the
month and revisit the sit-
uation.
Until then, Thompson
is encouraging everyone
to exercise caution when
traveling, wear masks and
generally try to help out
to ensure a faster return
to normal life.
“I challenge everybody
to make sure we’re doing
our part,” Thompson said.
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Pandemic could change landscape of minor league sports

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
As North America’s
pro football, basketball,
baseball and hockey
leagues try to play again
in a pandemic, minor
league sports face a more
treacherous climb to re-
turn.
While the NFL, NBA
or Major League Base-
ball can run on television
revenue, it’s virtually im-
possible for many minor
leagues to survive with
empty stadiums. The
possibility of no games
in 2020 could put some
teams in jeopardy and
change the landscape for
attendance-driven sports
in the short- and long-
term future.
“There’s no future for
minor league sports with
empty stadiums. There’s
zero,” said Gary Green,
who owns Triple-A and
Double-A baseball teams
and an expansion fran-
chise in the United Soccer
League that plays in sub-
urban Omaha, Nebras-
ka. “If some of the teams
don’t have deep-pocketed
ownership groups or
owners, I don’t know how
they’re going to pay their
bills.”
It is by far the most
pressing question facing
Minor League Baseball,
the American Hockey
League, ECHL, USL and
others. The minors are
deeply baked into the
North American sports
landscape as talent devel-
opers for the majors and
cheap, family-friendly
entertainment in towns
big and small. Experts
are divided on how they
will survive and how soon
they can bounce back.
MLB Commissioner
Rob Manfred estimated a
40% loss of revenue if base-
ball is played with no fans
and Herrick Feinstein
sports law group co-chair
Irwin Kishner estimated
it is probably twice that
for minor league sports.
As it is, Green doesn’t ex-
pect minor league base-
“There’s no future for minor league sports with empty stadiums. There’s
zero. If some of the teams don’t have deep-pocketed ownership groups or
owners, I don’t know how they’re going to pay their bills.”
ball this year, while both
the ECHL and the AHL
canceled the rest of their
hockey seasons.
Plans for 2020-21 in-
clude the grim possibility
of empty or near-empty
arenas.
“There’s a million
questions that need to be
answered,” minor league
hockey player Nathan
Paetsch said. “What’s
next season going to look
like? What’s the possibil-
ity of it starting? What
type of season is it going
to look it? Is there going
to be fans or no fans? Is
it going to be the same
length of the season?”
Smith College eco-
nomics professor Andrew
Zimbalist agreed with
Green that ownership
will affect which teams
survive. He also pointed
to the ill-fated second at-
tempt by the XFL as a cau-
tionary tale.
“Some of the younger
leagues that are out there
I think are really, really
fragile,” Zimbalist said. “I
suspect that we’re going
to see a lot of organiza-
tions and some leagues
going out of business.”
There already were
40 minor league baseball
teams scheduled to lose
their MLB affiliations be-
fore the pandemic under
a restructuring plan that
would have to try to make
it independently.
Beyond those teams,
Syracuse University
sports analytics professor
Rodney Paul is worried
about the status of oth-
ers as the crisis goes on.
He said there could be a
redistribution of teams
in multiple sports around
the U.S. and Canada
— and perhaps smaller
leagues.
“Maybe it’s the same
number of teams, but it’s
in different cities based of the elite level. Foreign vaccine gets things back
upon how things have prospects could stay to normal eventually. But
changed over time,” Paul home longer to play. the end of the pandem-
said. “Some of those ar- Or North American ic may not be enough to
eas that can’t afford that minor leagues could dis- pack minor league arenas
level of team because of cover different ways to
and stadiums if Zimbalist
either population change make money. Kishner
or income change in the suggested mascot, coach is correct about the situa-
area or something like or player appearances or tion and economic down-
that changes to a differ- selling ad space outside turn changing people’s
ent area. But my guess stadiums or arenas, and behaviors.
gets to be that the longer Paul pointed to gambling “It’s just going to
this goes out, the fewer of or daily fantasy game take several years to get
those minor league teams possibilities as potential through it all, in my view,
in total we’ll have.” sources of revenue. and while that adjustment
That worries Profes- AHL Rochester Amer- or recuperation is happen-
sional Hockey Players icans GM Randy Sexton ing, it means that there’s
Association executive said he thinks minor
going to be higher rates
director Larry Landon league hockey teams can
because jobs will be lost get going as long as 1,000- of unemployment, lower
rates of income and peo-
ple are going to be more
careful about how they
spend their free income,
their leisure income,”
Zimbalist said. “So I don’t
Gary Green, minor league team owner
expect the leagues to real-
if teams fold, and players 2,000 people are allowed ly start flourishing again
like Cameron Gaunce in buildings. It might not
for several years.”
might be left trying to be a full season, either.
make ends meet. “I think it may force us Paul, whose parents
“I think you’d be naive to be more creative,” AHL are season ticket holders
if guys weren’t worried president and CEO David for the Single-A base-
about it,” Gaunce said. Andrews said. “I think ball Daytona Tortugas,
“I’ll make sure that I plan we need to be really flex- is more bullish on minor
far enough in advance ible as we look ahead as league sports in the near
and I’ll have a contingen- to what the league might future because of their
cy plan in place, whether look like and be open to affordability and value to
that’s getting something whatever we need to be communities.
to supplement my income open to to do the best we “Those types of enter-
or whether that is playing can.”
tainment experiences,
in a league that is going.” Green already has
Pro leagues elsewhere thought ahead to what we’re still craving those
could be operating, pro- “socially distanced” type of things,” he said.
viding other opportuni- crowds might look like “Hopefully this doesn’t
ties to baseball, hockey and hopes that treat- destroy that for the super
and soccer players short ments and a coronavirus long term or forever.”

AP source: No MLB economic plan in 1st session with players

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Major
League Baseball did not
include an economic pro-
posal during its opening
presentation to the play-
ers’ union on terms to
start the coronavirus-de-
layed season.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritz-
ker criticized big leaguers
for not being willing to cut
pay further at a news con-
ference on Tuesday, and
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey
said his state is open to
games without spectators
for all the major sports
starting Saturday.
The electronic meet-
ing of MLB and the play-
ers’ association lasted
between three and four
hours and consisted of
baseball officials explain-
ing their view of the eco-
nomics, science and logis-
tics of getting the season
under way, several people
familiar with the ses-
sion told The Associated
Press. The people spoke
on condition of anonymity
because no details were
announced.
Owners gave the go-
ahead Monday for a pro-
posal that players receive
the percentage of their
2020 salaries based on
a 50-50 split of revenues
MLB receives during the
regular season and post-
season, a person familiar
with that plan told the AP.
That person also spoke
on condition of anonymity
because the plan was not
announced.
The concept would cut
the expenses of teams
worried about playing in
empty ballparks due to
the pandemic. The union
views revenue sharing as
a salary cap, which it has
said it will never agree to,
and the concept was not
presented.
If empty stadiums or
neutral sites are used, an
agreement with the play-
ers’ association is needed
to play ball.
Opening day was to
have been March 26.
MLB’s plan could lead
to the season starting
around the Fourth of July
with an 82-game regular
season, playoffs expand-
ing from 10 teams to 14
and the designated hitter
used for the first time in
games between National
League teams.
MLB officials showed
slides during the meeting
and the union delegation,
which included players,
caucused and asked ques-
tions. Baseball officials
explained how they would
use a lab in Utah to give
the sport its own testing
ability, the people said.
Baseball officials
also expressed concern
about a second wave of
the coronavirus in the
fall and their worries it
could force cancellation
of the postseason. While
players are paid their sal-
aries during the regular
season, the bulk of MLB’s
national broadcasting
revenue derives from the
postseason.
Players agreed March
26 to a deal in which they
would be paid prorated
shares of salaries based
on the portion of the 162-
game regular-season
schedule that is played.
As part of that agreement,
if no games are played
they would receive ser-
vice time for 2020 match-
ing what they earned last
year.
The average MLB sal-
ary is $4.4 million at full
price if the season had
started on time.
“I realize that the play-
ers have the right to hag-
gle over their salaries, but
we do live in a moment
where the people of Illi-
nois and the people of the
United States deserve to
get their pastime back,
to watch, anyway, on tele-
vision,” Pritzker said in
response to the last ques-
tion of his news confer-
ence.
“If they’re able to come
up with safety precau-
tions, as has been sug-
gested by Major League
Baseball, that works, I
hope that the players will
understand that the peo-
ple of our United States
need them to recognize
that this is an important
part of leisure time that
all of us want to have
during the summer, to
watch them play baseball,
to root for our favorite
teams,” the Illinois Dem-
ocrat said. “We need that
back, that normalcy back,
and I hope they’ll be rea-
sonable as they negotiate.
But I must say I’m disap-
pointed in many ways that
players are holding out for
these very, very high sala-
ries and payments during
a time when I think every-
body is sacrificing.”
A member of the family
that controls Hyatt hotels,
Pritzker’s net worth has
been estimated by Forbes
at $3.4 billion. as parts of Kentucky’s Program. But it said the gram,” Hillerich & Brads-
The players’ associa- economy reopened after cash infusion was instru- by spokesman Rick Red-
tion declined comment on weeks of shutdowns be- mental in restoring all 171 man said in a statement
his remarks, spokesman cause of the coronavirus furloughed employees — Tuesday.
Chris Dahl said. outbreak. The bat factory or about 90% of its work Many of the furloughed
Players and teams had been idled for near- force — to the payroll last employees have returned
committed in the March ly two months amid the week. to work, including sev-
deal to “discuss in good global pandemic. “Ending furloughs and eral dozen who work in
faith the economic feasi- The company did not putting everyone back on the factory, Redman said.
bility of playing games in disclose the amount of payroll was made possi- Others are being phased
the absence of spectators the loan it received under ble when H&B received back into various opera-
or at appropriate neutral the Paycheck Protection funds from the PPP pro- tions, he said.
sites.” Union head Tony
Clark has said that nego-
tiation is over, and many
players have said they
already have deal with
terms for 2020 and see no
need to bargain more.
Baseball Commission-
er Rob Manfred has said
about 40% of MLB reve-
nue is tied to gate, includ-
ing concessions, parking,
ballpark advertising, lux-
ury suites and programs.
Union officials and
players have cited the
March agreement as set-
ting economic terms and
say they have no inclina-
tion for additional cuts.
Players are more in-
terested in medical proto-
cols and testing designed
to protect them from and
detect the new coronavi-
rus.
Ducey announced
“Major League Baseball,
the NBA, the NHL, the
NFL, MLS are able to
participate and play in the
state of Arizona after May
15.” Under some of base-
ball’s possible plans, a
portion of teams and pos-
sibly all would be based
in the Phoenix area, but
the first preference of late
is to play in empty regu-
lar-season ballparks.
“Of course, this would
be with CDC guidelines,
and protecting the public
health,” the Republican
said. “We have had dis-
cussions with leaders of
some of these leagues
and they all know they are
welcome to operate, play
and perform in the state
of Arizona.”
Bat maker says loan
resulted in return of
furloughed workers
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
— The manufacturer of
Louisville Slugger bats
says it put 171 furloughed
employees back on the
payroll after receiving a
loan from a government
program aimed at helping
small businesses.
Hillerich & Bradsby
Co. resumed production
at its wood bat factory
in Louisville on Monday
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Kobe Bryant’s sports academy retires ‘Mamba’ nickname

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2016. Bryant, who spent
20 seasons with the Los
LOS ANGELES — Angeles Lakers and
The Southern California helped the franchise win
sports academy previ- five NBA championships,
ously co-owned by Kobe joined in 2018.
Bryant has retired his Games were being
“Mamba” nickname and played at the academy
rebranded itself nearly when the news broke of
four months after the bas- Bryant’s death. Players
ketball icon’s death in a immediately stopped and
helicopter crash. many people in the gym
Bryant, his 13-year- burst into tears when
old daughter Gianna and
told that Bryant was
seven other people were
aboard the helicopter that
killed Jan. 26 as they crashed.
flew to a basketball tour- The academy is under
nament at the Mamba consideration as a home
Sports Academy. base for an NBA minor
The Thousand Oaks- league program that will
based facility said it provide one year of prepa-
would return to its origi- ration, on and off the
nal name of Sports Acad- court, for some elite play-
emy. It was founded in ers who chose to bypass
college but are not yet el-
igible for the NBA draft.
Bryant is the only NBA
player to have his team
retire two numbers in his
honor. He was selected
last month for the Na-
ismith Memorial Basket-
ball Hall of Fame. A cere-
mony is scheduled for late
August though it may be
delayed until at least Oc-
tober because of the coro-
navirus pandemic.
Bryant’s production
company, Granity Stu-
dios, has remained active
since his death. The latest
children’s book released
by Bryant’s company last
month — “The Wizenard
Series: Season One” —
became his fifth book to
reach No. 1 on The New
York Times’ best-seller
lists.
The helicopter crash
remains under investi-
gation by the National
Transportation Safety
Board.
In February, Bryant’s
widow, Vanessa Bryant,
sued the estate of pilot
Ara Zobayan and the char-
ter company that owned
the helicopter, Island
Express. She claimed
Zobayan failed “to use
ordinary care in piloting
the subject aircraft” and
alleged negligence.
On Friday, Zobayan’s
brother, Berge Zobayan,
said in a court filing that
Kobe Bryant knew the
risks of helicopter flying
and his survivors aren’t
entitled to damages from
the pilot’s estate, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
Island Express re-
sponded in court papers
Monday saying they are
not responsible for dam-
ages, calling the crash,
among other things, “an
act of God” and “an un-
avoidable accident” that
was beyond their con-
trol. The charter compa-
ny also said the Bryants
knew of the risks and
dangers of flying in a he-
licopter and “voluntarily
assume(d) the risk of the
accident, injury, and dam-
ages” when they got on
the chopper.
Vanessa Bryant sep-
arately last week filed a
claim — a precursor to a
lawsuit — against the Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department after depu-
ties were accused of shar-
ing unauthorized photos
of the crash site. The
claim was first reported
by PEOPLE; the investi-
gation into the deputies’
photos was initially pub-
lished by the Times. The
sheriff has declined to
comment, citing the on-
going litigation
The survivors of crash
victims Sarah Chester
and her daughter Payton
filed a complaint Monday
against the helicopter
company and the pilot’s
estate. Families of other
victims previously filed
lawsuits.

Comics & Puzzles

DILBERT
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I love your
column.
Some years ago,
you printed a
recipe for baked
beans. I believe
they were called
St. James’ Baked
Beans. I have lost
my copy. I would
get lots of compli-
ZITS ments about how
great they were at
family gatherings
and potlucks.
Would you please
reprint the reci-
Dear Abby
pe? — SHIRLEY
IN BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
DEAR SHIRLEY: Thank you
for your kind words and for
letting me know how much
you enjoyed that recipe. It’s in-
cluded in my Cookbooklet set,
which contains more than 100
tasty recipes for soups, sal-
GARFIELD ads, appetizers, main courses
and desserts that can be used
when friends and family get
together to celebrate holidays
and special occasions. Shirley,
I am pleased to share it,
knowing you will continue to
enjoy it.
ST. JAMES’ BAKED BEANS
(Serves 8)
6 slices bacon, diced
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 (16-ounce) can pork and
beans, drained
1 (16-ounce) can lima
CANDORVILLE
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May
13). After feeling you were at
the whim of unforeseen circum-
stances, you’ll get back into the
driver’s seat, where you belong.
You’ll be a leader who brings
those around you into a state
of harmony and production.
Style innovations make a huge
difference, as they represent
an attitude and approach that
BABY BLUES wins you love and other gains.
Libra and Virgo adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 5, 25, 3, 38
and 10.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
You’ll be fixing something. There
are those around you who can’t
admit that the thing is broken.
Ignore them; they’ll be of little
help. Fix quietly while keeping
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
FAMILY CIRCUS
beans, drained
1 (15-ounce)
can kidney
beans, rinsed
and drained
1 (10-ounce)
package sharp
cheddar cheese,
cubed
1 cup ketchup
3/4 cup firmly
packed dark
brown sugar
1 tablespoon
Worcestershire
sauce
Heat oven
to 325 de-
grees. Butter a
1 1/2-quart casserole. In a
small skillet, saute the bacon
and onions until the bacon is
crisp and onions are lightly
browned; drain well. In a large
bowl, combine the remaining
ingredients. Add bacon-onion
mixture; mix well. Pour bean
mixture into prepared casse-
role. Bake uncovered at 325
degrees for 1 1/2 hours.
For readers who are
interested in having my cook-
booklets, they can be ordered
as a set. Once you start
reviewing “Cookbooklet II”
you will discover that a sweet
tooth runs in my family. The
pecan pie recipe has won blue
ribbons at county fairs, while
others were featured on the
covers of women’s magazines.
The booklets can be ordered
your eyes peeled for allies.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Real love moves freely between
people. If the current only goes
one direction, it’s not real love.
It’s just positioning, and the per-
son downstream will continue to
get all the benefit.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
People will come to you. You
won’t necessarily have the
answers, though you will have
the empathy to make them
feel understood, and the ability
to convincingly articulate that
“this, too, shall pass.”
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Feeling good is the wellspring
from which all other felicity will
flow. So anything you do to bring
health, excellent vibes, positive
by sending your name and
address, plus check or money
order for $16 (U.S. funds) to:
Dear Abby — Cookbooklet Set,
P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris,
IL 61054-0447. I know the
recipes will become among
your favorites because dinner
guests, family members — as
well as many readers — have
raved about them.
Also included in this collec-
tion are tips on entertaining,
when those days return, for
anyone who is inexperienced
or nervous about it. Remem-
ber, although what you put
on the table is important, it’s
WHO you put on the chairs
that makes for a great party.
DEAR ABBY: I am seeing
a guy whose roommate is a
sex offender. I found out after
I typed the address on the
internet. I’m not sure how to
ask my friend about it. Should
I come right out and ask, or
just leave it alone? I’m not
sure he knows, but I would be
surprised if he didn’t. I don’t
want it to be awkward when I
ask. — SHOCKED IN VIRGINIA
DEAR SHOCKED: There are
various levels of sex offenses,
and the roommate’s offense
may be minor. Double-check
to make sure the roommate’s
name, address and photo
match what you found on the
site. Tell the man you are see-
ing what you discovered, but
not in an alarmist manner.
thinking and levity to your spirit
will sunny up the whole scene.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Re-
jection is a tough feeling to give
or get. Luckily, today it is totally
avoidable. Furthermore, you are
tolerant of those who believe
differently than you, because
you know that a person is more
than the beliefs they hold.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
No matter your area of focus,
the desire to communicate with
greater truth and love will allow
you to break open the barriers
that were keeping you stuck in
an unsatisfying dynamic.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You want to master your own
mind and habits, which seems
like it would be the easiest thing
in the world to do but instead
ranks among the hardest
things.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Sure, you generally know
what you want right away. But
the methodical weighing of the
facts is still necessary. The
best answers will come when
you refuse to give in entirely to
the part of you that makes snap
decisions.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Tell yourself what you need
to hear to move in the direction
you want to go. It’s funny that
you can manipulate yourself in
this way, but you may as well
use the quirks of humanity to
your advantage!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). The paradox of wanting
better is its seed of malcontent.
Try a different approach. Try the
seeds of gratitude by maintain-
ing a deep appreciation of your
circumstance. It only grows
richer from there.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Author Nassim Nicholas Ta-
leb claimed: “Mild success can
be explainable by skills and la-
bor. Wild success is attributable
to variance.” Which success is
the most satisfying, though? For
you, it’s the one you work for.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You will seize the opportu-
nity to inhabit, ever so briefly,
the experience of another per-
son. You have your empathy to
thank. Empathy is always worth
developing. It is the skill that
allows you to be more people
than one.

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from the coronavirus. You must take extra care of yourself.

Stay home if you can.

Wash hands frequently with soap and water for at least
20 seconds.
Avoid touching your face.
Disinfect frequently touched objects.
Wash up after being in public spaces.
Stay about six feet away from others.
If you’re sick, stay home and away from others.
If you have symptoms of fever, dry cough and shortness
of breath, call your health care provider before going to
their office.

We are all at risk, and some more than others. In challenging times, the
choices you make are critical. And their impact is significant. Help slow
the spread of coronavirus.

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Like mama used to make

culinary.net
This maple breakfast braid starts
the day with a combo of savory and
sweet.

Deliver maple
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morning
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I
t’s hard to beat a fresh, ov-
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day, especially one loaded with
sausage and eggs complemented
by the sweetness of diced apples
and maple syrup. This Maple
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weekend morning with loved ones.
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MAPLE BREAKFAST BRAID

1 package (16 ounces) breakfast sau-
sage
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup green onions, sliced
Jan Swoope/Dispatch Staff 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced
Pam Rhea holds an apricot nectar cake Monday at her home in north Columbus. The frosted cake is a mandarin 1 1/2 cups dry herb stuffing mix
orange cake, with mandarin oranges in the cake and pineapple in the frosting. While working from home since 1 package (17 1/4 ounces) frozen puff
March 17, Rhea has been making some of her mother’s signature recipes. pastry, thawed
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon water

A mother’s recipes: n Heat oven to 400 F.

n In large bowl, combine sausage, syrup,
beaten eggs, green onions, diced apples

The ultimate and stuffing mix.

n Dust surface with flour; roll out
pastry sheet to 12-by-18-inch rectangle.

comfort food
Transfer pastry to large baking sheet with
parchment paper. Spoon half of sausage
mixture down center of pastry.
n Make 3-inch cuts down sides of pastry.
BY JAN SWOOPE Fold one strip at a time, alternating sides.
jswoope@cdispatch.com Fold both ends to seal in filling. In bowl,
beat egg whites and water; brush over

P
pastry.
am Towery Rhea has a list. A “to-do” n Repeat steps for second pastry sheet.
of things she’d like to tackle when she Bake 25-30 minutes, or until brown, rotat-
retires. She is business manager of the ing pans after baking 15 minutes.
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System
and, as the Rev. Deacon Rhea, serves the
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in
Columbus, and St. John’s Episcopal Church in
Aberdeen.
Rhea recently began checking off a few
line items on the list — but not because of re-
Preview a menu
tirement. That’s still off in the future. Instead,
shelter-in-place has kept Rhea at home, with
made for summer
extra hours to devote in the kitchen.
“I’ve been working from home since
March 17, and I’ve done a lot more cooking,”
indulgence
FAMILY FEATURES
Rhea said. “I’ve had this list of things I’d like

to do when I retire, and one was to cook some
of Mama’s recipes that I remember from
growing up.”
Fried peach pies and cream cheese pound
cake have been among the mouth-watering
results.
“And I’ve made so much cornbread — and
Johnny cakes on top of the stove, because
my daddy used to love those,” said Rhea. Her
mother, the late Jean Towery, was born in
Smithville and moved to Columbus soon after
marrying her sweetheart, Coley, upon his
return from World War II.
See RHEA, 6B
A
summer weekend won’t be
complete until you fire up
the grill, but flame-kissed
steaks are just the start to an un-
forgettable meal that celebrates all
the best of the season.
To create the perfect main dish,
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like Omaha Steaks’ Private Re-
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Thick, juicy and full of flavorful
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Recipes in Jean Towery’s own handwriting are treasured by her marbling, these premier steaks
daughter, Pam Rhea. are meticulously aged for optimal
taste and tenderness with robust,
beefy flavor brought out when
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Biscuits? Everybody’s got time for that

F
irst of all — there are things I bother making my own. biscuits and discovered the off on my own. I plan to learn
and I hope treasure now that I Fast forward a few years. technique for mixing the but- hers when it’s safe for me to
this goes never did before. These days, I cook breakfast termilk into the flour. be at her elbow again. In the
without saying, but One of those for my family every morning. I also live next door to the meantime, I turned to my old
I’m going to say it things is making Panic-buying resulted in bis- biscuit master — my mama. friend, the back of the flour
anyway just in case biscuits. I know, I cuits flying out of coolers, so She’s perfected her technique bag.
— I would never know ... it sounds I was able to buy flour but no and recipe over many years. So the recipe I started with
wish COVID-19 on stupid. Really biscuits. Suddenly, Mary B’s But I’ll be honest with you: I came from the back of the
anyone. I’m sorry stupid. looked a lot less convenient. didn’t ask her for tips. I knew White Lily self-rising flour
that it’s here and I But I can re- Luckily, I had a few aces learning her recipe the way bag. I’ve made some adjust-
would make it go member a friend up my sleeve. I’d watched my she does it would probably ments for taste and ease, per
away if I could. Amelia Plair once asking if I had friend Michelle — the Biscuit require my standing next to my usual. Ordinarily, I’d sug-
However, this any biscuit-making Lady herself — cut out a batch her in her kitchen. But we are gest trying other types of flour
quarantine has tips. I laughed and of biscuits once, and I knew practicing strict social distanc- as well, but White Lily is made
taught me a lot of things. said I’d never make biscuits her dough was far wetter than ing, primarily in an effort to from a variety of wheat that is
There are things that felt because it’s far too easy to I otherwise would have tried. keep her and Daddy safe. ideally suited for biscuits, so if
important before that no buy a bag of frozen Mary B’s I also watched a video of an So I decided to try a simple you have access to it, use it.
longer feel important now. And or Pillsbury biscuits for me to older Southern lady making recipe I thought I could pull See BUTTER TOGETHER, 6B
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Ways to make hearty meals at home with pantry staples

FAMILY FEATURES four and ready in just 20 minutes. n In large skillet, bring chickpeas, toma-
Virtually any canned seafood can toes, zucchini, olives and tuna to boil; stir

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tocking up on pantry essen- be used from salmon to tuna in constantly.
tials is a productive practice, place of more traditional proteins
n Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered,
5 minutes.
especially as people across the used in this pasta and many other n Spoon mixture over cooked pasta. Top
country spend more time at home. dishes. with Parmesan cheese.
However, having all those ingredi- If your family prefers to stick (Substitution: Use any canned seafood
ents on-hand doesn’t do as much to tradition, Mom’s Favorite Tuna such as salmon in place of canned tuna.)
good if you aren’t sure how to use Noodle Casserole provides a warm,
them or feel as if you’re constantly
whipping up the same dishes.
hearty meal with a hint of nostalgia MOM’S FAVORITE TUNA
while gathering loved ones around
For example, canned protein the dinner table. Ingredients in NOODLE CASSEROLE
is a popular pantry item as it cuts these recipes can be easily substi- Total time: 40 minutes
down on prep time and holds a long Servings: 6-7
tuted for similar options you may
shelf life while adding important already have on hand, such as an- 2 cans (10 3/4 ounces each) cream of
nutrients to family meals. Canned
Sudoku
other dried pasta in place of penne mushroom soup YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
seafood, in particular, is a versatile or carrots in lieu of peas. 1 cup milk
choice that can be used in a variety Find more filling family recipes 2 cups frozen peas
of easy recipes or simply eaten on
its own.
at chickenofthesea.com.
2 cans (12 ounces each) Chicken of the
Sea Chunk Light Tuna in Water, drained Sudoku
Sudoku is a number-
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4 cups medium egg noodles, cooked Sudoku
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Sea Chunk Light Tuna in Water, 2 tablespoons butter, melted
Total time: 20 minutes based onthe
is to place a 9x9
numbers 1 2 8 3 6 9 5 7 4
which is 99 percent fat free and a Servings: 4
n Heat oven to 400 F. grid
1 to 9with
in theseveral
empty spaces 7 4 1 5 9 2 3 8 6
good source of protein and heart-
n In bowl, stir soup and milk until given
so that numbers.
each row, eachThe 2 6 9 8 7 3 4 5 1
healthy omega-3s, makes for an 1 package (16 ounces) penne pasta
1 can (15 ounces) chickpeas, drained smooth. object
column and each 3x3 the
is to place box
easy and versatile addition to
numbers 3 8 5 6 4 1 7 2 9
contains the1same to 9 number
in
1 can (14 1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes n In 3-quart casserole dish, combine
dishes like pasta. A 5-ounce can with basil, garlic and oregano peas, tuna and noodles with soup mix- the empty spaces so 8 7 3 9 5 4 1 6 2
contains 24 grams of high-quality ture. only once. The difficulty 9 1 2 7 3 6 8 4 5
1 medium zucchini, sliced 1/4-inch thick that each row, each
protein, making it a nourishing 2 tablespoons sliced ripe olives n Bake 30 minutes, or until warm and level increases from
bubbling; remove from oven and stir. column and each 6 5 4 1 2 8 9 3 7
source of energy while helping to 1 can (5 ounces) Chicken of the Sea Monday
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easily satisfy hunger.
Try adding some modern flair to
the table with this Mediterranean
Tuna Pasta, perfect for a family of
Chunk Light Tuna in Water, drained
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
n Cook pasta according to package
directions.
In bowl, mix breadcrumbs with melted
butter; sprinkle over tuna mixture. Bake 5 the same number only once. The difficulty level
minutes, or until golden brown. increases from Monday to Sunday.
(Substitution: Use any frozen vegetable in
place of frozen peas.)

Rhea
Continued from Page 5B
“Mama was not a
fancy cook, but she made
a sweet at least once or
twice a week,” said Rhea
who enjoyed working
from her mother’s small
spiral-top recipe note-
book and an assortment
of other recipes she’d
jotted down. Like many
practiced cooks, Jean was
so familiar with how to
make her favorite dishes,
some instructions were
along the line of “put
in enough flour until it
thickens,” so replicating
the exact recipe required
a little experimentation.
As Rhea thought back
to familiar foods from
earlier years, she dis-
covered she didn’t have
a recipe from her parent
for some of them. She
sought out alternatives
from other sources, like
the internet.
“I did an apricot nectar
cake she would make.
There are 50 different
recipes for it, and I have
tried them until (I found
one that) tasted more like
I remember hers tasting,”
Rhea remarked.
The recipes in her
mother’s handwriting,
however, are the most
special of all — like
Jean’s specialty ham and
egg pie that was a signa-
ture dish on holidays, or
a tasty orange slice cake
she baked.
Rhea shares three
recipes today for desserts
her parent often served.
Two are below. (Go to
cdispatch.com for the
recipe for fried peach
pies.)
The culinary excur-
sion into her mother’s
cache of recipes has been
comforting, Rhea said.
Hours in the kitchen
with no pressure, no time
limits. This is “memory
food,” and few times are
better suited for it than
the season surrounding
Mother’s Day.
MANDARIN
ORANGE CAKE
(also known as Pea Pickin’
Cake)
1 butter-flavored cake mix
1/2 cup oil
4 eggs
1 11-ounce can mandarin
oranges (drained)
1 8-ounce tub whipped
topping
1 large can crushed pineapple
(drained!)
1 large vanilla instant pudding
mix
n Preheat oven to 325 F.
Grease and flour three round
cake pans.
n Mix together cake mix, oil,
2 minutes medium speed.
n Add mandarin oranges and
mix 1 more minute.
n Pour batter cake pans and
bake for 25 minutes or until
brown.
n When cakes are done,
remove from oven and cool in
pans 10 minutes.
n Remove from pans and cool
on wire rack until completely
cooled.
n Prepare frosting by mixing
the whipped topping, crushed
pineapple and vanilla pudding
mix. Refrigerate until set.
(Source: Jean Towery, via her
daughter, Pam Rhea)
APRICOT NECTAR CAKE
Cake:
1 yellow cake mix
1 small package lemon Jello
1 cup canned apricot nectar
1/2 cup oil
2 tablespoons fresh lemon
juice
4 eggs
Glaze:
3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon
juice
4 tablespoons canned apricot
nectar
n Preheat oven to 325 F.
Grease and flour a 10-inch
tube pan or Bundt pan.
n Mix together cake mix,
oil, apricot nectar and lemon
juice.
n Add eggs one at a time
and mix until batter is golden
yellow.
n Pour batter into cake pan
and bake for 50 minutes.
n Cool in pan for 10 minutes,
then turn out into a cake
plate. While cake is warm pour
glaze over top.
(Source: Pam Rhea)

Butter Together
Continued from Page 5B
Amelia Plair is a mom
and high school teacher
in Starkville. Email
reaches her at mamabad-
gerplair@gmail.com.
BEGINNER’S DROP
BISCUITS
2 cups White Lily self-rising
flour (you can use other
types, but White Lily is best
for biscuits)
4 tablespoons solid fat
(shortening or lard)
Approximately 2 cups full-fat
buttermilk
2-3 tablespoons butter,
melted
n Preheat oven to 425 F.
Grease a 10- or 12-inch cast
iron skillet or round cake
pan. In a medium mixing
bowl, pour flour.
n Add the shortening. Use
a pastry cutter, two knives,
or a fork to work the fat into
the flour. Do not use your
fingers, even though you may
be tempted to do so. You do
not want the fat to get warm
enough to melt because
those little chunks of fat will
make the biscuits light and
airy. When the fat is fully
incorporated, the mixture will
resemble coarse sand.
n Use a wooden spoon or sil-
icon spatula to push the flour
to the edges of the bowl and
create a hole in the middle
of the bowl. Pour buttermilk
into the hole until it reach-
es the very top of the hole.
Place spoon in the middle
ACROSS
1 Spanish inn
7 Aid in crime
11 Zoo resident
of the buttermilk. Working cream scoop or quarter-cup 12 Newspaper
from the inside out, begin measure would also work, as part
working the flour into the would two large spoons. 13 “Raging Bull”
buttermilk. Try not to retread n Try to space the biscuits star
an area where you’ve already evenly around the pan; I
mixed. The easiest way to do usually get eight biscuits 14 Pressing
this is to work in concentric need
circles that get larger as you around the edge and two in
the center. Be aware that the 15 Sofa type
go. Stop when your mixture
resembles cottage cheese. biscuits will rise and probably 17 Corn cores
Yes, cottage cheese. Not cot-
tage cheese covered in flour,
run together as they cook;
this is fine. When all the
20 Massage
targets
but literally so close to cot- dough is in the pan, pour a
tage cheese that your child tiny bit of melted butter over 23 King Kong,
might think that’s what is in for one
the top of each pile of dough.
the bowl. If the outside edges Place the pan in the oven. 24 Bitter brew
of the bowl still have dry flour
Mine take about 15 min- 26 Spying org. DOWN 22 Nose dividers
on them, that is OK. Toss it utes to cook through; start
out when you are done. 27 Annoy 1 Spot to jot 24 Heaps
checking around 13 minutes.
n Begin dropping biscuits
When they are done, they will
28 Quick taste 2 Low digit 25 Verb for you
into the prepared pan. They
appear pale on top but dry. 29 Track meet 3 Immoral act 30 Fatal
will look funny. You will doubt
me. But I promise they will The bottoms will be golden event 4 Wrong 33 Bedeck
taste great. I use a large and taste a bit fried. Serve 31 Braille bit 5 Be bold 35 Lacking slack
cookie scoop for this. An ice hot. 32 Game host 6 Heaps 36 Writer Ferber
33 Nick and 7 Each 37 Greek X

Steaks
Continued from Page 5B
cooked properly on the
grill.
If you’re opting for
burgers, elevate your
menu with a flavorful
accompaniment like crisp
candied bacon for a menu
you won’t soon forget.
Find more ideas for
upgrading the grilling
experience in your
own backyard at Oma-
haSteaks.com.
DRY-BRINED NEW YORK
STRIPS WITH GRILLED
BROWN BUTTER
BALSAMIC ONIONS
Prep time: 1-12 hours
Cook time: 30-40 minutes
Servings: 4
Dry brine:
4 tablespoons Kosher salt
1 tablespoon coarse ground
pepper
4 (11-ounce) Omaha Steaks
Private Reserve Boneless New
York Strips, thawed
Butter and balsamic:
4 tablespoons salted butter
2 tablespoons balsamic
vinegar
2 teaspoons fresh thyme
Grilled onions:
2 large sweet onions
4 wooden skewers, soaked
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
n To make dry brine: Combine
salt and pepper; season
steaks generously on all
sides. Place steaks on elevat-
ed rack on baking sheet and
refrigerate at least 1 hour or
overnight.
n To make butter and bal-
samic: Heat small skillet to
medium high heat. Add butter
and cook until butter begins
to brown and smell nutty.
Remove from heat and add
balsamic vinegar and thyme.
Set aside.
n To make grilled onions:
Peel off outer layers of onions.
Slice into 1/2-inch slices. Lay
Nora’s dog 8 What those 38 Spicy
34 Survived without tools 40 Weaver’s
37 Libya neigh- work with creation
bor 9 Sense of self 41 Building wing
onions on flat surface. Push
skewers through centers of CANDIED BACON 39 Found darling 10 Toe count 42 Do fabric
onions; two onion slices per Prep time: 5 minutes 43 Coyote call 16 Negotiations work
skewer. Brush onions with Cook time: 25 minutes 44 Misbehaving 17 Secret store
olive oil and season with salt Servings: 8 45 Wee 18 Poppy yield
and pepper, to taste. 46 Snarl
n To cook steaks and on- 1 pound (1 package) Omaha 19 Big pastries
ions: Make two-zone fire on Steaks Applewood Smoked 21 “Cats” poet
charcoal grill with coals on Steak-Cut Bacon
one side and no coals on the 1 tablespoon fresh ground
other. black pepper
n Place onions on cool side 1 cup packed light brown
of grill; flip and rotate every 10 sugar
minutes until golden brown,
approximately 25-30 minutes. n Heat oven to 375 F.
Total time will depend on n Place wire rack on foil-lined
how hot coals are and how baking sheet. Place strips
close onions are to fire. When of bacon on wire rack and
onions are golden and tender,
brush with brown butter bal-
sprinkle with black pepper.
Lightly pat brown sugar on top
samic mixture. of bacon in thin layer.
n On hot side of grill, during
last 15 minutes of cook time n Place baking sheet on cen-
ter rack in oven and bake 25
for onions, cook steaks to
desired temperature. When minutes, or until brown sugar
melts and bacon is crisp.
steaks are 5 F from desired
temperature, remove from grill n Remove from oven and
and let rest 5-10 minutes. cool 10 minutes. Using tongs,
n Remove onions from grill. transfer bacon to parch-
Carefully remove onions from ment-lined baking sheet and
skewers and place in serving cool to room temperature.
dish. Top with remaining Store in airtight container up
brown butter balsamic mixture to 3 days at room tempera-
and serve with steaks. ture.

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Myers Estates, Lowndes
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Beginning at the Southeast
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cery Clerk of said county (said
corner being in the centerline
of a ditch) as the POINT OF BE-
GINNING; thence North 44 de-
grees 47 minutes East along
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79.7 feet; thence South 59 de-
grees 38 minutes East for 34.6
feet; thence South 29 degrees
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South side of a public road
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built) (20 feet from centerline)
for 67.8 feet; thence South 44
degrees 56 minutes East along
said South side of road for 57
feet; thence South 39 degrees
49 minutes West for 30 feet to
the centerline of a ditch;
thence North 59 degrees 10
minutes West along said
centerline for 163 feet to the
point of beginning, containing
0.2 acres, more or less, and ly-
ing in the Northeast Quarter of
the Southeast Quarter of Sec-
tion 8, Township 16 South,
Range 17 West, Lowndes
County, Mississippi.
I will convey only such title as
vested in me as Substituted
Trustee.
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLC
Substituted Trustee
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLC
244 Inverness Center Drive
Suite 200
Birmingham, AL 35242
(205) 970-2233
Publication dates: April 29,
2020,
General May 6, 2020, May 13,
Services
2020, May 20, 2020
CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY
$545 plus Filing Fee
CHAPTER 13 BANKRUPTCY
All Attorney Fees Through The Plan
Jim Arnold, Attorney
662-324-1666 • 601-656-6914
104 South Lafayette Street, Starkville
Lawn Care / Landscaping
JESSE & BEVERLY’S
LAWN SERVICE
Mowing, cleanup,
landscaping, sodding,
& tree cutting.
662−356−6525
LAWN CARE
Mowing, weed eating,
blowing, etc.
Free estimates.
Reasonable prices.
662−549−3790
SAM’S LAWN SERVICE
No lawn too large or too
small. Mowing, trimming &
weedeating.
Call 662−243−1694
fice on November 5, 2018 in
Book MORT 2018, Page
23508; and
Ads appear in The Commercial Dispatch,
WHEREAS, Default having been
made in the terms and condi-
The Starkville Dispatch and Online
tions of said deed of trust and
the entire debt secured thereby
having been declared to be due
and payable in accordance with
the terms of said deed of trust,
Wells Fargo Bank, National As-
sociation, as Trustee for Struc-
tured Asset Securities Corpora-
tion Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2007-BC1,
the legal holder of said in-
debtedness, having requested
the undersigned Substitute
Trustee in said deed of trust,
LegalonNotices
will May 21, 2020 offer for
sale at public outcry and sell
within legal hours (being
between the hours of 11:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at the
main front door of the County
Courthouse of Lowndes County
in Columbus, Mississippi, to
the highest and best bidder for
cash the following described
property situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to wit:
TRACT 1:
Lot Number Twenty-Two (22) of
Myers Estates, Lowndes
County, Mississippi, as shown
by plat recorded in Plat Book 3,
page 61, in the Chancery
County, Mississippi.
SUBJECT TO those restrictive
tained in deed from Donald F.
Myers and Sid Myers, Jr. to
thia L. Dexter, dated Novem-
ber 5, 1978, filed for record
pearing of record in Book 600, (205) 970-2233
page 495, of the land records
in the office of the Chancery
SUBJECT, ALSO, to the reserva-
tion or easements for utility
and drainage installation as set
forth in said restrictive coven-
ants and as shown by said re-
TRACT 2:
Beginning at the Southeast
corner of Lot 22 of Myers Es-
in Lowndes County, Missis-
county (said
the East side of said lot for
grees 38 minutes East for 34.6 Computer skills a must.
03 minutes East along the
South side of a public road
known as Sanders Lane (as
built) (20 feet from centerline)
for 67.8 feet; thence South 44
degrees 56 minutes East along FULL TIME Experienced
said South side of road for 57
feet; thence South 39 degrees 3 years minimum experi-
the centerline of a ditch;
minutes West along said
centerline for 163 feet to the
point of beginning, containing
0.2 acres, more or less, and ly- ground check. Must be
ing in the Northeast Quarter of able to legally work in the
tion 8, Township 16 South,
I will convey only such title as
vested in me as Substituted
Trustee.
Substituted Trustee
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLC
244 Inverness Center Drive
Suite 200
Birmingham, AL 35242
Publication dates: April 29,
2020, May 6, 2020, May 13,
2020, May 20, 2020
Painting & Papering
Lloyd’s Painting
For All Your Residential
Interior & Exterior
Painting Needs,
Call Shelby Lloyd.
662−836−6016
QUALITY PAINTING.
Ext/Int Painting.
Sheet Rock Hang, Finish &
Repair. Pressure Washing.
Free Estimates. Ask for
specials! Larry Webber,
662−242−4932.
SULLIVAN’S PAINT
SERVICE
Special Prices.
Interior & Exterior Painting.
662−435−6528
Grow your business
in the classifieds.
TRACT 2:
Beginning at the Southeast
corner of Lot 22 of Myers Es-
tates, a residential community
in Lowndes County, Missis-
sippi, as shown by plat thereof
recorded in Plat Book 3 Page
61 in the office of the Chan-
cery Clerk of said county (said
corner being in the centerline To place ads starting at only $12,
of a ditch) as the POINT OF BE-
call 662-328-2424 or visit ads.cdispatch.com
GINNING; thence North 44 de-
grees 47 minutes East along
the East side of said lot for
THE DISPATCH
79.7 feet; thence South 59 de-n CDISPATCH.COM n WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 , 2020 n 7B
grees 38 minutes East for 34.6
feet; thence South 29 degrees
03 minutes East along the
South side of a public road
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known as Sanders Lane (as Real Estate Mobile Homes for Rent
built) (20 feet from centerline)
for 67.8 feet; thence South 44 REAL ESTATE office needs RENT A CAMPER!
degrees 56 minutes East along Administrative Office CHEAPER THAN A MOTEL!
said South side of road for 57
Assistant to work 35 hours Utilities & cable included,
feet; thence South 39 degrees
49 minutes West for 30 feet to weekly, M-F. Must possess: from $145/wk − $535/mo
the centerline of a ditch; organizational skills with Columbus & County School
thence North 59 degrees 10 attention to detail; com- locations. 662−242−7653
minutes West along said puter skills including or 205−442−2011.
centerline for 163 feet to the Microsoft office, Excel,
point of beginning, containing Outlook & QuickBooks; pro- RV/MOBILE HOME SITE
0.2 acres, more or less, and ly-
ing in the Northeast Quarter of
fessional and courteous East or West Columbus or
the Southeast Quarter of Sec- communication skills with near CAFB, Caledonia
tion 8, Township 16 South, clients, public & co-work- schools. 601−940−1397.
Range 17 West, Lowndes ers. Send resume' to
County, Mississippi. Blind Box 674 c/o The Office Spaces For Rent
Commercial Dispatch,
I will convey only such title as P. O. Box 511, OFFICE SPACE FOR
vested in me as Substituted LEASE. 1112 Main St.,
Trustee.
Columbus, MS 39703.
Ste. 5. 3700 sq. ft.
Plenty of private parking.
Rentals
Substituted Trustee 662−327−9559.
Jauregui & Lindsey, LLC
244 Inverness Center Drive
Ads starting at $25
Real Estate
Suite 200
Birmingham, AL 35242
Apts For Rent: West
Publication dates: April 29, Ads starting at $25
VIP
2020, May 6, 2020, May 13,
2020, May 20, 2020
Lots & Acreage
Rentals
Employment Apartments & Houses
1.75 ACRE LOTS.
Good/Bad Credit Options.
Good credit as low as 10%
down, $299/mo. Eaton
Call us: 662-328-2424 1 Bedrooms Land, 662−361−7711.
2 Bedroooms
Accounting / Finance
3 Bedrooms
Garage Sales
WANTED: BOOKKEEPER.
Furnished & Unfurnished
662-574-4221
1, 2, & 3 Baths Two free signs
Customer Service Lease, Deposit
& Credit Check Estate Sales
ing Receptionist/Secretary. viceinvestments.com ESTATE SALE
Previous experience
327-8555
116 GARDENIA DR.
Thur/Fri/Sat/Sun, 7a−5p.
Furniture, appliances, etc.
job109@cdispatch.com
Apts For Rent: Caledonia 337−766−1363 for info.
2 BR, 1 BA w/ W/D
Merchandise
General Help Wanted connections. Application
Fee, Background and Credit
Checks required. $500.00
Heavy Equipment Operator. 662−436−2255
Apts For Rent: Other
Ads starting at $12
loader, dozer, excavator,
and off-road haul truck. 1ST MONTH − RENT FREE! Bargain Column
1−2 BR Apt: $350−435
Must be able to pass a
drug screen and a back- 1−2BR TwnHm: $625−650 Drill bit set. 19 bits by
Lease, Dep, Credit Check. Irwin. $8. 662−244−5861.
Coleman Realty
662−329−2323 Fire Place tools, never
United States. Apply in per- used. Poker, Shovel and
son at Bacco Materials, broom. Black in color, $8.
Inc., 1771 Stinson Creek 662−244−5861.
Road, Columbus, MS
39705. No phone calls.
Turquoise Ring, Size 10,
Large green stone, Sterling
CALEDONIA BUSINESS Silver .925 stamped.
needs General Laborer. Never worn. $11.
Valid driver's license, 662−244−5861.
transportation & experi-
ence helpful. Will train on Farm Equipment & Supplies
the job if needed. Call
Jesse & Beverly's Lawn JOHN DEERE MODEL M
Service at 662-356-6525. TRACTOR. A set of one row
cultivators w/ hydraulic lift,
has been repainted, looks
THE COMMERCIAL good & runs good, $3500.
DISPATCH seeks a motiv-
Call 662−436−2037.
ated, contracted carrier for
the Brooksville & Macon General Merchandise
area. Excellent opportunity
to earn money for college. 2018 40FT Gooseneck
Must have good transporta- Trailer w/ 5ft dovetail, 12
tion, valid driver's license ton axles, 10−4inch straps
& insurance. Delivers on & tarps. $8,500. 662−251
Sunday morning and Mon-
COLEMAN
−3001.
Fri afternoons. Apply at The
Commercial Dispatch, 516 RENTALS USED METAL Roofing. For
Main Street in Columbus. TOWNHOUSES & APARTMENTS Sale. $5−$10 per sheet.
No phone calls please. 662−497−1388.
1 BEDROOM
Medical / Dental
2 BEDROOMS WANTED FREON R12.
We pay CA$H.
Clinical Medical Assistant 3 BEDROOMS R12 R500 R11.
We are looking for a Clinic- Convenient.
al Medical Assistant for our LEASE,
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Certified professionals.
fast paced OB/GYN office
in Columbus, MS. Experi- DEPOSIT 312−291−9169
RefrigerantFinders.com/ad
ence as a medical assist- AND
ant in an OB/GYN setting
or other clinical medical CREDIT CHECK
WHITE POSTER BOARD
setting is required. Re-
662-329-2323
24"x23"
sponsibilities will include $0.50 each
patient care and office sup- 100 in stock
port. Full job description 2411 HWY 45 N Visit 516 Main Street
will be discussed at the or call 662−328−2424
time of interview. This is a COLUMBUS, MS
part-time or full-time posi-
tion. Availability needed
Commercial Property For Rent
Monday-Friday. Benefits
Vehicles
offered for full-time posi- FOR RENT LOCATED NEAR
tion after waiting period.
Email resume to
DOWNTOWN. 3,000 sq. ft.
truck terminal, 9,500 sq.
job108@cdispatch.com ft. shop & 3,200 sq. ft. Ads starting at $12
Sell idle items
office/shop. Buildings can
be rented together or
Campers & RVs
with a quick action separately. All w/ excellent
access & Hwy. 82 visibility. 2012 JAYCO EAGLE 5th
classified ad. 662−327−9559. WHEEL, 39ft, 4 slide−outs.
2BR, 48" TV & 27" TV.
Houses For Sale: Other $26,500. 662−386−9605.
Motorcycles & ATVs
1993 KAWASAKI
VOYAGER XII Only 25,500
miles. Runs & looks good.
No problems. $3000 OBO.
Can be seen local.
501−545−7750.
Community
Ads starting at $12
Pets
Akc German Shepards
Puppies ready for pick up
June 30th, with papers and
1st shots, great with
children, good protection!
$500.00 662−341−0862
Five Questions:
1 Carat, cut,
clarity, color
2 Michigan
3 Fox
4 Dodo bird
5 Schroeder
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