MSU 62, TROY 7 Bulldogs rout Trojans Sports, 1B OTHER SCORES #1 Alabama 31, Colorado St. 6 #6 LSU 35, Auburn 21 #10 Florida 31, Tennessee 17 #9 Georgia 45, N. Texas 21 #5 Stanford 42, #23 Arizona St. 28 #22 Notre Dame 17, Michigan St. 13 ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM $1.25 NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 22, 2013 Eurocopter plant to add assembly line table decrease in work orders U.S. military. With seques- Partial line for AS350 choppers to expand for the UH-72A Lakota heli- tration cuts, those orders are BY NATHAN GREGORY Columbus plant will be up- copters, which the Columbus not guaranteed.
[email protected] graded into a full assembly facility also has a full produc- While moves have been line. tion line for. Employees have made to sustain production Eurocopter offi- The upgrade is set to be produced an average of 40 of of the Lakota — such as a re- cials announced Fri- complete late next year. those aircraft for the past sev- cent agreement to manufac- day that the partial The move will preserve eral years but are only con- ture six for the government assembly line for AS350 local jobs. It is also being im- tracted to produce 31 next of Thailand — American helicopters produced at the plemented to offset an inevi- year and 10 in 2015 for the See EUROCOPTER, 3A Resident files complaint with What REALLY happened to state auditor Alleges Noxubee Co. dump truck sprayed Jimmie Lee Griffith slag on private road BY NATHAN GREGORY
[email protected] A Lowndes ONLINE County resident ■ COMPLAINT: has filed a com- View the plaint with the resident’s Mississippi Of- complaint filed with the State fice of the State Auditor’s office at Auditor alleg- cdispatch.com ing a Noxubee County employee spread slag on a private road.