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FIRE DAMAGES ARTESIA HOME Inside, See page 3A ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY WEDNESDAY | JANUARY 21, 2015 AUTHORITIES: CHILD’S DEATH WAS MURDER des County Jus- mother, Amy micide following Barksdale’s Child allegedly shot with rifle at Sobley tice Court. Richardson, had autopsy in Jackson early Tues- Officers re- gone to work and day. Road residence Monday sponded just af- left her son alone On Tuesday, a burial fund ter 8 a.m. Mon- with Chambers for Barksdale was created at BY ZACK PLAIR arrested 27-year-old Patrick day to reported — her boyfriend gofundme.com. [email protected] Chambers on Tuesday, ac- shots fired at a who lives with The fundraising goal, ac- cording to Capt. Ryan Rickert. A Lowndes County man is in residence at 1784 her. Chambers cording to the site, is $4,000. Barksdale Chambers custody for murder in the Mon- Chambers is also accused of Sobley Road, allegedly shot the As of this morning, $2,125 had day morning shooting death of being a felon in possession of a east of Colum- child with a rifle been raised through 39 dona- his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son. firearm. bus, where they found Brayden inside the house, Rickert said. tions. Deputies with the Lowndes He will be arraigned and for- Barksdale dead from a gunshot County Coroner Greg Mer- To access the site, go to go- County Sheriff’s Department mally charged today in Lown- wound. Rickert said the child’s chant ruled the shooting a ho- fundme.com/kih7l0. BIG READ KICK-OFF Courtesy photo John Dickerson, who coached at Hunt High School and Lee High School, died on Monday. John Dickerson, legendary coach, Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff Sisters Alli Knight, 4, and Cami Knight, 6, hold hands at the Rosenzweig Arts Center in Columbus during the “Big Read” dies at 86 kick-off event on Saturday. Allie and Cami are the daughters of Angie and Kenny Knight of Columbus. The city-wide event’s theme is Peru, and the book being read is, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” by Thornton Wilder. See today’s food section on pages 5&6B for the Peruvian recipe of Causa Relleno de Guerra, a potato salad with chicken and avocados. Former player: ‘We all looked up to him. He demanded respect’ BY WILLIAM BROWNING [email protected] Four now vying for CMSD board posts John Dickerson, a Columbus native who in- stilled character in an untold number of young Terry appointed to CVB Mississippi Com- people and who also played a quiet, but import- munity College, ant, role in integration during a historic career board during meeting Shumake joins as an educator and coach, died Monday. three other ap- He was 86. BY ZACK PLAIR plicants — RE/ “You’re talking about a class individual in [email protected] MAX Realtor Ste- John,” Billy Brewer, who coached alongside phen Jones, Mis- A fourth applicant is now seeking sissippi School for Dickerson at Lee High School in the early 1970s, Jones Pierce Shumake Thomas told The Dispatch on Tuesday. “A fine guy who appointment to the Columbus Mu- Math and Science came from a fine family.” nicipal School Board. foreign language Lewis, who resigned from the board In addition to Lee High School, Dickerson Columbus Mayor Robert Smith teacher Lori LeVar Pierce and in- in December after accepting the Co- coached at Hunt High School, at Amory High told the city council Tuesday that dependent insurance agent Eric lumbus-Lowndes Parks Authority’s School and at what is now Mississippi Valley Josie S. Shumake had submitted Thomas — who are vying for two director’s position. His unexpired State University. At each stop, success followed. her application that afternoon. An school board positions. term runs through March 2, 2019. At Hunt High School the football team under adjunct instructor of English at East The council must replace Greg See SCHOOL BOARD, 8A his guidance compiled a 27-2-1 record. He also coached baseball. That team won two Little Six Conference Championships. He once led the football team in Amory to a 22-game winning streak. Before all that, though, Dickerson was the Young to retire from East Mississippi son of a Memphis Town grocery store owner. He Young has been with EMCC for fell in love with athletics at an early age. When College president to step down in June the Mississippi Senate passed a resolution hon- 40 years. He started as a marketing oring Dickerson in 2005, it was noted that as BY ANDREW HAZZARD credited with helping professor and rose to vice president a small child “he could always be found in any [email protected] lead EMCC to prom- of EMCC’s Golden Triangle campus, place allowing him running space and a space inence among Mis- a position he held for many years be- to huddle.” The man who has led East Missis- sissippi’s community fore becoming president. Dickerson graduated from the now-defunct sippi Community College forward in colleges and expand- “His aggressive pursuit of excel- Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs, the 21st century has announced his ing the school’s capac- Young lence in all areas of the college has where he lettered in baseball and football. Then retirement. ity to educate people brought EMCC into the national the cherub-faced young man with a hoarse Dr. Rick Young has served as throughout the region. He will offi- spotlight, enhancing the value and See DICKERSON, 8A EMCC’s president since 2004. He is cially retire on June 30. See EMCC, 8A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC 1 Which city is the home of more than MEETINGS Thursday, Jan. 22 Jan. 26: Colum- 40 percent of the entire population of ■ “On the Ancient Inca Road”: In conjunc- bus-Lowndes Conven- the Hawaiian Islands? tion with The Big Read, the Columbus Arts tion & Visitors Bureau 2 What name is given to the comput- Council screens this PBS “Conquistadors” er-created version of 20th century segment at 6:30 p.m. at the Rosenzweig Arts Board meeting, CVB life in a 1999 movie starring Keanu Center. For information, call 662-328-2787. Office, 4 p.m. Reeves? ■ Gordy Series honors Kirkpatrick: The Feb. 2: Lowndes Natalie Donaldson 3 What language did King Robert the County Supervisors, Third grade, Annunciation Mississippi University for Women Gordy Bruce hold his parliaments in? Honors College Forum Series opens with a County courthouse, 4 Which country originated opera? talk by 2014 Faculty Member of the Year Mary 9 a.m. High 61 Low 40 5 How many engines does a 747 pas- Jo Kirkpatrick at 6 p.m. in Nissan Auditorium, Feb. 13: Lowndes Mostly sunny senger jet have? Parkinson Hall on campus. Free to the public. County Supervisors, Full forecast on Answers, 8B For information, contact Dr. Thomas Velek County courthouse, page 2A. at 662-241-6850 or visit muw.edu/honors/ 9 a.m. forum. Feb. 13: Lowndes ■ Exhibit reception: The Starkville Area County School Board, Arts Council hosts a reception from 5:30-7 11 a.m. INSIDE p.m. at the Greater Starkville Development March 2: Lowndes Partnership, 200 Main St., Starkville, for the County Supervisors, Classifieds7B Obituaries 4A exhibit “Barns,” featuring work by 10 area Marcia Lovegreen lives in County courthouse, 135TH YEAR, NO. 267 Comics 4B Opinions 6A artists. Columbus. 9 a.m. DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com DID YOU HEAR? 1 of Mark Wahlberg’s victims says he shouldn’t be pardoned Wednesday THE ASSOCIATED PRESS kid — a punk — in the mean streets of Boston. He didn’t REGIONAL BUSINESS AFTER HOURS BOSTON do it specifically because he Business After Hours at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport Jan. — A victim of was a bad kid. He was just a 15 drew participants from throughout the three-county area. one of Mark follower doing what the oth- Wahlberg’s Scene&Seen er kids were doing.” racially moti- The 43-year-old former vated attacks rapper, Calvin Klein model as a teenage and “Boogie Nights” actor delinquent in wants official forgiveness Wahlberg segregated for a separate, more severe Boston in the attack in 1988, in which he 1980s insists he shouldn’t assaulted two Vietnamese be granted a pardon for his men while trying to steal crimes. beer. That attack sent one of Kristyn Atwood was the men to the hospital and among a group of mostly landed Wahlberg in prison. black fourth-grade stu- Wahlberg, in a pardon dents on a field trip to the application filed in Novem- beach in 1986 when Wahl- ber and pending before berg and his white friends the state parole board, ac- began hurling rocks and shouting racial epithets as knowledges he was a teen- they chased them down the age delinquent mixed up street. in drugs, alcohol and the “I don’t think he should wrong crowd. He points get a pardon,” Atwood, now to his ensuing successful 38 and living in Decatur, acting career, restaurant Georgia, said in an inter- ventures and philanthropic view with The Associated work with inner city youths Jeff Farnham, Andy Hughes, Jeff Overstreet and Mike Davis Press. as evidence he’s turned his “I don’t really care who life around. he is. It doesn’t make him “I have apologized, many any exception. If you’re a times,” he told the AP in De- racist, you’re always going cember. “The first opportu- to be a racist.