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SPORTS INSIDE Wildcats win first two CHS presents ‘Crazy for baseball contests. You’ Friday and Saturday. See page 8 See page 9 “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” VOLUME 107 • NUMBER 17 75 ¢ ESTABLISHED 1882 — Jeremiah 29:13 Prison break escapees all recaptured Ark. Simpson County on murder "They were caught in a charges. Last inmate turned in by family member 1987 Toyota truck which was Roberts, of McComb, has stolen from here in town," been in jail sin Dec. 22, 2007 Eight inmates, but didn't. in the northeast part of Marion McKinney said. The truck for burglary of a dwelling and By Don Hill Toney T. Clark, The Marion County County. Toney T. Clark was wasn't reported stolen because possession of stolen property, Editor John David Sheriff's Office spearheaded spotted by deputy sheriff the owner was working as an auto theft, and breaking and Smith, Brandon the massive manhunt, enlisting Brandon Carney, who chased over-the-road truck driver. "He entering. Johnson, of All eight escapees Silas, Ricky Chadwick the help of the United States Clark down after he Columbia, was in jail recaptured in 36 hours Roberts, Mickah Lott, David Marshalls, Mississippi fled into the woods. for two counts of Seven of the eight Marion Lavon "Buddy" Johnson, Highway Patrol, Mississippi Clark, 21, of burglary, felony fleeing, Walthall Correctional Facility Derrick Rainey and Eric Ball Bureau of Investigations, Lumberton, has been receiving stolen inmates who escaped Monday used square tubing from a bed Mississippi Bureau of in jail since Jan. 6 for property, possession of morning experienced less than to chisel their way through a Narcotics, Mississippi felony possession of burglary tools auto theft 19 hours of freedom, as law cell wall made of concrete and Department of Corrections, stolen property. and breaking and enforcement officials cider block brick Monday Mississippi Department of About 2 p.m., John entering. Johnson and coordinated efforts to track morning about 3 or 4 a.m. The Transportation, Columbia David Smith and Roberts also have a them down and return them to inmates, dressed in their prison Police Department, Brandon Silas were pervious felony escape prison. The final inmate was issued orange jumpsuits split Mississippi Department of apprehended by the charge, as they climbed recaptured less than two days up in two groups after leaving Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, K-9 unit from the the roof and fences of later. the common room of about 30 Marion-Jeff Davis Civil Rayburn Correctional Institute the Marion County men. Defense and other agencies, of Washington Parrish, after was out of town; he didn't Correctional Institute Jan. 5, THIS EDITION: "Three went to Arkansas including the Forrest and they were also discovered in know it was gone." 2008. At that time, they fled to and the other five left Lamar sheriff's offices and the the Improve area. The three in the stolen truck Purvis, stole a 1991 Nissan JAIL DOCKKET: together," said MCSO Arkansas State Police. "The dogs tracked right to reportedly side-swiped three truck and a 1999 Ford truck Page 3 investigator Scott McKinney. "It is all part of law them," McKinney said. "They vehicles and drove reckless on from Franklinton, La. They The hole in the wall led to a enforcement," Hall said. were hiding in the woods." EDITORIAL: construction John David Page 4 area, so a Smith Jr., 18, has perimeter been in jail on a TIMELINE: fence was not capital murder OBITUARIES: up at the time. charge since Nov. Monday, February 23, 2009 Page 5 Marion 12, 2008. Smith • Teri Anne Emler County is was originally 3am - 4am: Eight prisoners escape from the Marion • Bruce "Tobe" Irvin Sr. adding arrested for the Walthall Correctional Facility in Columbia • Edna Luster additional jail shooting death of space to the Joe Von Stringer 5:20am: A prison guard inside • H. Doyle Buckley facility, which of Foxworth. the facility discovers the • Mary Jefferson will add 110 Brandon Silas, escape • Rev. Allen Smith beds. 18, of Columbia, • Grace Hathorn "On has been in jail 11:30am: Clark captured by the MCSO in the • Jack Henry Reagan average we since June 12, keep 425 The eight escapees chiseled a hole in the wall of 2008, for Improve area • Elsula James Haynes inmates on their jail cell. aggravated • Vollie "Pop" Dukes any given assault and 2pm: Smith and Silas • Johnie Ruth McPhail day," said Marion County "Everybody was working aggravated domestic tracked and captured in Sheriff Berkley Hall. "We do together. We put out a call for violence. the Improve area by a CAALENDAR: the best we can to keep them help and everyone responded Around 3 p.m., The K-9 unit from in. They chopped through a from the Federal Marshalls on Arkansas State Police caught Washington Parish Page 6 solid wall, so somebody down. It is called teamwork." Ricky Chadwick Roberts, 18, 3pm: Lott, Johnson and SPORTS: Roberts taken into custody in Page 8 Little Rock, Ark. by Arkansas State Police

FOOD: 10pm: Rainey discovered in a motel room Page 10 south of Hattiesburg by US Marshalls, MBI, Forrest Co. Sheriff’s Office and MCSO LEGALS/ CLLASSIFIEDS: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009 at 3:30pm: After hiding out in the Harmony community, Hall is brought in Page 11-15 to the MCSO by a family member. UPCOOMING Interstate 40, and were were out for two days before WEATHER eventually pulled over by the they were recaptured in Arkansas State Police. It was Forrest County. FRIDAY then discovered the truck was Monday night, the United Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers stop and search vehicles on Highway 98 at stolen, and the three were States Marshalls, Mississippi Foxworth Monday afternoon. 73 / 52 intoxicated. Bureau of Investigations, the Lott, of the Goss Forrest County Sheriff's Office SATURDAY (working in the jail) didn't do Roadblocks were set Mickah Lott, 28, and David their job. We are going to find throughout the county, Lavon "Buddy" Johnson Jr., Community, had just returned and the Marion County out who didn't do their tracking teams with dogs were 23, just south of Little Rock, to jail on a court order on Feb. 68 / 45 See ‘Escape,’ Page 7 perimeter check, who didn't go deployed and the 17 after being in jail in SUNDAY in the zone and do a check, or MHP searched Marion 68 / 44 what just happened. We have from the roads County an internal investigation going and the sky with Sheriff’s on." a helicopter. MONDAY Deputies Hall said the inmates took "(Thecollect 70 / 47 the piece of pipe and worked escapees) had a information on making a hole from about 6 good plan on and photos TUESDAY p.m. Sunday until they how to get out," of the escaped in the early morning McKinney said. escapees 74 / 54 hours Monday, taking turns "But they didn't early chipping away at the concrete have good plans Monday WEDNESDAY and brick wall. They had to after that." morning 80 / 54 bust a hole between the rebar The first before they to escape. Hall wants to know inmate was begin their how this activity was caught about THURSDAY search. unnoticed. The sheriff also 11:30 a.m. 81 / 55 said the rest of the inmates in Monday around that "zone" could have fled, the Improve area

The Marion County Development Partnership is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization. Contact us today to find out how YOU and MCDP can help YOUR business and community prosper. 412 Courthouse Square Columbia, MS • PH: 601.736.6385 • EM: [email protected] • ww.mcdp.info This ad partially funded by The Columbian-Progress, a MCDP member. Working toward a more prosperous, vibrant, and resilient Marion County. THURSDAY 2 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009 2009 City Elections Explosion leads to More qualify for city offices meth lab busts By Don Hill Editor by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. glad it didn’t blow up on our guys,” By Don Hill The MBN Hazardous Material Cleanup McKinney said. Editor With less than three weeks left to qualify to run for city team confirmed it was a meth lab that McKinney said they didn’t collect offices, three more have added their names to run for a exploded. any “finished product” of meth, couple of aldermen spots. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office “In the process of cleaning up and because one blew up, one was cooked made a major drug bust Sunday, as an Todd Pittman and Gregory A. Keen have jumped into executing proper search warrants, we with no drugs left, another getting ready the Alderman Ward 4 race, Pittman as a Democrat and explosion led to the discovery of four discovered a total of four labs,” to be cooked and another set of methamphetamine labs. Keen as a Republican. They join Jason Moree who is McKinney said. The area consisted of ingredients (precursors) were in a back also seeking that position. Carolyn Finley currently holds “We received a call about an citizens living in mobile homes, where pack. explosion on Highway 13 South,” said this alderman spot, but she has decided to run for Mayor. the labs were found in two of them. The MCSO and PRBNTF arrested four Also joining the election fray is Clarence Ray Odom, MCSO investigator Scott McKinney. explosion was in one of the mobile people in connection with the labs and “After a brief investigation, we as he signs up to run for the Alderman Ward 1 spot. homes, which received damage to only charged them with manufacturing a Odom joins David McKenzie to run against incumbent believed it was a meth lab.” one room. controlled substance. Arrested were McKinney said an ambulance picked Wendell Hammond for the position. Alerted to suspicious activity in that Tiffany Ann Hodge, 27, and James For Mayor of Columbia, Finley and Reed Houston of up Daniel Augie and took him to area, MCSO and PRBNTF had the road Allen Smith, both of 213 County Line Marion General, were he was later Houstons Columbia Cleaners have signed up to run as near the Lamar County line under Road South; Tony Allen Murry Jr., 26, Democrats and former Columbian-Progress publisher transported by helicopter to the burn surveillance. 152 Copper Road, Purvis; and unit at the University of South Ken Prillhart will run on the Republican ticket. Current “There was some stuff going on Benjamin Clay Stringer, 20, 25 Mayor Harold Bryant will not seek another term. Alabama. down there we needed to be aware off,” McRainey Road. Deputies and investigators with the Stephanie Wilson has declared for the Ward Three was the tip told to McKinney. “We were As of Tuesday morning, bond has not Alderman post, joining incumbent James Manning, and Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force watching them, but the meth lab blew been set and the MCSO and PRBNTF arrived on the scene, later to be joined current Alderman Cheryl Bourne has signed up for the up before we could get to them. I’m just continues to investigate the crime. Ward 2 position without an opponent. Vance B. Berry and Marvin Webber will vie for the Alderman-at-Large position, which now belongs to David McCance, who has not announced if he will seek another term. •Bad Credit •No Credit All candidates are running as Democrats, except for Prillhart, Keen and Bourne, who are running as Republicans. •Bankruptcy Also on the ballot will be those seeking positions on the Democratic Executive Committee. They are Bonnie M. Dillon, Claire Von Gahlen, Anna Evans, John Conerly, Sandra Sutton and Betty Upton. •Repossesion Potential candidates have until Friday, March 6 to qualify. The primary election will be Tuesday, May 5, with a runoff election scheduled for Tuesday, May 19. The general election will by Tuesday, June 2.

Aultman participates in inauguration Army National Guard Warrant Officer 1 Dustin M. Aultman participated in the 56th Presidential Inauguration Jan. 20 as part of the largest ever contingent of National Guard members to serve in Washington, D.C. More than 7,000 Army and Air National Guard members CREDIT PROBLEMS ARE NO PROBLEM AT from 31 states and territories provided the 2009 Presidential Inauguration with military working dogs, consequence management planning and ceremonial, logistics and medical support through the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee. National Guard members also assisted local authorities with crowd management, traffic MACK GRUBBS control and emergency services operations. The Armed Forces Inaugural Committee is established every four years by the Secretary of Defense as a joint service organization to coordinate military ceremonial Ford/Mercury participation and support inaugural events. Aultman, an aviator, is a member of the 111th Aviation based in Meridian. The guard member has served in the military for seven years. He is the son of Randy Aultman of Katy, Texas and Victoria M. Lawrence of Columbia. His wife, Rachel, is the daughter of James W. and Linda S. Moulder of Brookhaven. The warrant officer graduated in 2000 from Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg.

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Thank You 22000044 FFOORRDD 22000055 HHYYUUNNDDAAII 11999977 BBUUIICCKK The Family of Mr. Roosevelt Peavy FFRREEEESSTTAARR VVAANN SSAANNTTAA FFEE LLEESSAABBRREE would like to take this time to say thank you for all the acts of kindness in our hour of sorrow. Thank you to our friends and family for everything you did, especially for your prayers. Special thanks to Cook and Galloway Funeral Home, Eaton Temple Church of SOLD God in Christ, Song Health and Rehab of Columbia, Pinebelt Clubhouse, Bo Greer, 22000055 FFOORRDD 22000033 MMAAZZDDAA 22000022 HHYYUUNNDDAAII Microtel Inns and Suites of Columbia and the Columbia Police Department. TTAAUURRUUSS 66 SSOONNAATTAA May God keep you and forever bless you. HighwayHighway 9898 EastEast •• Columbia,Columbia, MSMS The Family of Elder Peavy, Michal, 601-736-3432/601-731-1953601-736-3432/601-731-1953 Rose, Mary Ann, Daisy and Louise THURSDAY February 26, 2009 www.columbianprogress.com 3 JAIL DOCKET (Editor’s Note: Information arrested by Victor Charles Smith, 23, with reckless driving, DUI 1116 Game Reserve Rd., Douglas Johnson, 40, 98 printed in the “Jail Docket” MCSO/PRBNTF, charged 1215 Hwy 43, arrested by 1st RT. arrested by MCSO, charged Author B. Johnson, arrested column is solely the with manufacturing a MCSO, charged with failure with DUI 1st, other by CPD, charges unknown. responsibility of the Marion controlled substance. to obey law enforcement Jessica Marie Coulter, 22, substance. County Sheriff’s officer, resisting arrest. 339 Speights Rd., Carson, Randy Conerly, 49, 88 Department, the Columbia James Allen Smith, 22, 213 arrested by CPD, charged Robert M. Robbins, 25, Water Valley Rd., arrested Police Department and County Line Rd. S, arrested Kathy Whitehead, 52, 186 with careless driving, open 27639 Hwy 35, arrested by by CPD, charged with DUI other law enforcement by MCSO/PRBNTF, Hwy 35, arrested by MCSO, container, DUI 1st RT, no MCSO, charged with DUI. Refusal, expired tag, DUS. agencies listed below. charged with manufacturing charged with GJI-bad check tag. Please report any errors to of a controlled substance. violation. Marie S. Jefferson, 32, Julia Mooney, 26, 910 the arresting agency, which Eddie Joe Lambert, 50, 42 57468 Cedar Ave., Apt. A, Jackson Ave., arrested by will provide any corrections Benjamin Clay Stringer, Tommy Allen, 47, 1028 West Jackson St., arrested by arrested by MCSO, charged CPD, charged with needed to The Columbian- 20, 35 McRaney Rd., Pearce St., Laurel, arrested CPD, charged with DUI. with contempt. misdemeanor possession of Progress.) arrested by by MCSO, on hold for Jones marijuana. PRBNTF/MCSO, charged Co. Ashley Nicole Perkins, 24, David Holmes, 29, 1006 Correction from February with manufacturing of a 1932 Leesburg Rd., arrested Taylor Rd., arrested by Kevin M. Broom, 32, 787 19: Benny Beasley, 31, 204 controlled substance. Sam Lee Young, 28, 9 by MCSO, charged with MCSO, charged with Williamsburg Rd., arrested Carroll Loop/51 Holly McCall St., arrested by public drunk. contempt. by CPD, charged with DUS Springs Rd., Foxworth, Melvin Perkins, 41, 717 MCSO, charged with DUI, disregard for traffic device, arrested by MCSO, charged Avenue E., McComb, disregard for traffic device Richard Smith, 31, 1109 Dezmon Brent, 22, 165 possession of marijuana in with trespassing, public arrested by WCSO, charged x2, driving on wrong side of Carolyn Ave., arrested by Russell Ln., arrested by motor vehicle. drunk, DUS, simple assault with aggravated assault, the road, no proof of CPD, charged with grand CPD, charged with burglary. warrant. armed robbery. insurance, seatbelt violation, larceny. Anteneo Jefferson, 38, 61 failure to yield to blue lights. Rome Johnson, 28, 120 Roosevelt Ln., Prentiss, Celina Smith, 34, 1038 James K. Polk, Jr., 1113 David Miller, 38, 30617 Foxworth Dr., arrested by arrested by CPD, charged Eight Point Dr., arrested by Carolyn Ave, arrested by Rebecca Brumfield, 57, Tim Woodard, arrested by MCSO, charged with grand with DUI 2nd, DUS. WCSO, charged with CPD, charged with public address unknown, arrested MCSO, charged with DUI larceny, contempt, burglary. drunk, carrying a concealed by MCSO, charged with 1st. disturbing the peace, child Brittney Godbolt, 21, 6490 weapon. contempt warrant, warrant support. Hwy 49, Apt. 90, Barry Craig Gipson, 55, for MDOC. Mary Jones, 52, 86 Hattiesburg, arrested by 211 Gipson Ln., arrested by Paul Raymond Daniels, 19, Riverband Rd., arrested by Elijah Ivan Cox, 29, 294 MCSO, charged with aiding MCSO, charged with 1201 Park Ave., arrested by Chris Cortez Peters, age CPD, charged with Owen Cole Rd., arrested by and abetting. possession of a controlled CPD, charged with unknown, 2335 Hwy 43 S, disturbance of business. MCSO, charged with substance. disorderly conduct. arrested by CPD, charged Natasha C. Blackwell, 33, contempt.

Tiffany Ann Hodge, 27, Travis Kendricks, 809 213 County Line Rd. S, Beavior St., arrested by arrested by PRBNTF, PRBNTF, charged with 4:00 until charged with manufacturing obstruction, giving false HOURS: 9:00 p..m.. of a controlled substance. information to a law enforcement officer. Jamie Michael Dunaway, Thursday - Saturday Special 29, 1627 Dawsey Dr., Tajuan Kendricks, 19, 46 arrested by MDOC/CPD, Harrison Jefferson Dr., FILET TOURNEDOS charged with parole arrested by PRBNTF, Two petit filets topped with crabmeat and hollendaise sauce. violation. charged with 2 cts. sale or Comes with a vegetable and a salad. transfer of a controlled Tony Allen Murry, Jr., 26, substance withint 1500 ft. of 731-9966 ] 362 Shiloh-Firetower Rd. 152 Copper Rd., Purvis, a church. In Loving Memory Town Club Christmas Party Bradley Farlow Town Club members celebrated the Christmas holiday September 29, 1985 - February 24, 2005 with a delightful party at six o'clock on December 1, 2008, You will be remembered at The Back Door Restaurant. Ann Pittman, Hazel Pope and When the flowers bloom in spring Ginger Pittman served as hostesses. President Marilyn In the summertime, remembered Griffin greeted members as they arrived with Christmas In the fun that summer brings gifts. Judy Smyly gave the invocation before members You will be remembered enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner. When fall brings leaves of gold Following the meal, program chairman, Judy Smyly, led In the wintertime, remembered a Christmas game in which members exchanged gifts to the In the stories that are told reading of the Christmas poem, “The Night Before Christmas.” You will be remembered The club voted to make their annual Christmas donation Each day right from the start to the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army. In For the memories that we shared conclusion, President Griffin wished everyone, “Happy Forever live within our heart Holidays” and reminded members that the club would not meet again until February 5. Members present were Kay Newson, Cheryl Bourne, Debbie Gray, Brenda Pounds, Gayle Knight, Carolyn Young, Darren Hathorn, Paula White, Margaret Sandifer, Anna Hough, Judy Griffith, Marilyn Griffin, Myrtis Sims, Judy Smyly, Ann Pittman, Lisa Stringer, Sandra Sutton, Nioma Webb, Fran Ginn, Joy Brooks, Betty Lynn Reaves, Ginger Pittman and Margie Hathorn. Features & Benefits: We Must Preach ‘Jesus’ • Consistent Thermal Performance By JIMMY W. COX • Better Coverage. Attic Protector In Acts chapter 2, we learn the Holy Spirit came to guide the Apostles to preach the makes it easy to insulate hard- Gospel of Christ. Philip was sent toward Gaza to-reach areas. to preach to an Ethiopian, Acts 8; Peter, in a vision, was told to go preach to the household • Moisture Tolerant of Cornelius, Acts 10; and Paul, in a vision, • Non-Corrosive was told to go Macedonia to preach, Acts 16: • Non-Combustible But notice, it was a human being that did the preaching-not an angel, nor even the Holy • Fast, Clean Application Spirit in person. That is why we learn in II Cor. 4:5-7 “we have this treasure (Jesus Christ as Lord) in earthen vessels.” So men must teach the Gospel Free Use Of Machine With of Christ, or it won’t be preached. In I Cor. 15:1-4, we have the facts of the ® Gospel-Christ died for our sins; He was buried, and He was raised on the third. day, Purchase Of Attic Protector according to the Scriptures. But there are also commands of the Gospel- Faith (Heb. 11:6); Repentance (Acts 2:38) Blow-In Fiber Glass Confess Christ before men (Matt. 10:32); Put on Christ in Baptism (Acts 2:38; Rom. 6:3-6) Live a Godly, faithful life. (Rev. 2:10). Promises- Remission of sins, eternal life. FREE ESTIMATES Example: In Acts 8- The Ethiopian eunuch was reading Isa. 53 about the death and suffering of Jesus. Then Philip started preaching Jesus to him. In doing so, he told the Professional Installation Available Ethiopian all about Christ, the Son of God, including the facts, commands and promises of the Gospel. After hearing the Gospel, the Ethiopian asked “could he be baptized,” Philip asked about his faith in Jesus and then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, where Philip WOLFE baptized the eunuch. The man from Ethiopia, then “went on his way rejoicing.” He had reason to rejoice - he was now a Child of God, having been cleansed from his sins. Columbia Church of Christ LUMBER YARD 1120 Broad Street - Columbia - P. O. Box 427 Jimmy W. Cox – Preacher – Phone (601) 736-0900 South High School Ave. Columbia 736-4539 THURSDAY 4 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009 OPINION & EDITORIAL OUR VIEWS RESOLUTIONS AND REVELATIONS by Julie Johnson Don’t overcomplicate Are we really safe here? school ratings Anytime I’ve ever tried to describe Columbia to our prisoners locked up. friends and family living in other cities, I’ve always I’m not so much It never fails. Just when the public gets a handle on what educators used the reference of Mayberry. Like the picturesque, complaining about the job are talking about, they change it up and get everyone confused again. family-environment, open door, apple pie on the our law agencies are So it is with the proposal of the Mississippi Department of Education window-sill, couldn’t be more perfect than if it were doing as I am about our to change the terminology used in rating the public schools. made for television community, our town is also community’s overall For the past several years, the schools have been assigned a quiet, peaceful and safe. Or is it? moral decline. Our family numerical rating from 1 to 5. Schools that hit Level 5 threw a party, and Lately it seems like we’ve started to drift from the structure has changed. those that fell to Level 1 were scrutinized. The Department of Education innocent and secure way of living that our area is The independence of our assigned words to describe what each level meant, but in common known for into something more convoluted and youth has been amplified. usage, the public stuck mainly with the numbers. disturbing. Access to graphic and Now, the Department of Education not only wants to throw out the Maybe it’s not just Columbia…. Maybe we’re just improper images and numbers, but it proposes increasing the possible levels from five to starting to reflect the trends of what the rest of our ideas has grown JULIE JOHNSON seven. There are still two levels above the “passing” mark, but now country and larger cities face on a regular basis. But exponentially. And whose twice as many below it. I’m not sure I’m ready to accept that this is all just a fault is all this? We’re waiting to hear what distinguishes a school that’s labeled sign of the times. Now, mind you, these changes don’t take place “academic watch” from “at risk of failing” from “low performing.” You would have to be living under a rock if you didn’t overnight, but as the revolution of time marches on, it We’re certain there’s some type of statistical explanation, but it’s hear about the prison break at the Marion Walthall becomes the responsibility of individuals to make probably one that most parents and other non-educators won’t be able to Correctional Facility on Monday. I watched Fox intentional choices to change this declining behavior. follow.Why complicate matters? News anchor Shepard Smith interview MCSO The only way we can make a change on the whole, is Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds was right that detective Scott McKinney live to inform the entire to make a change on our own. Mississippi’s standards for success on state-mandated tests had been set nation of what was transpiring in our little corner of I truly believe that Columbia is an excellent city to too low. But you don’t have to make the accreditation labels more Mississippi. I watched with amazement as the news raise a family, to retire, to run a business and to just complicated in raising the degree of difficulty. show used contemporary technology to display an live life. But if we don’t open our eyes to the changes The public could digest Levels 1 to 5. There’s no good reason to interactive map, pinpointing in great detail exactly that are all around us, whether we want to accept it or abandon them. where Columbia is located, and I sadly realized that not, this community will begin to deteriorate, and this was not the kind of public relations that cities become a statistic like so many others. seek to achieve. We have so many worthwhile There was a sign of hope in the midst of the Eliminating a qualities that are deserving of national attention, yet depressing and scary drama our city endured on it’s always the negative situations that seem to find Monday. the limelight. The room where the prisoners at the MWCF broke bitter legacy Mississippi is continuously listed at the top of the roll out of was a common room filled with approximately on reports regarding illiteracy, teen pregnancy, 20 to 30 other convicts. When the wall was broken News that the FBI is reopening investigations into 43 civil rights obesity, and low income levels. And why is it that the through, only eight escaped out of the building. The crimes that occurred in Mississippi before 1970 is bound to irritate a daytime talk shows always seem to have women with rest of the inmates stayed. It was nearly two hours good many people, especially whites who believe with justification that, ten children by ten different fathers from our later before the prison guards discovered the escape while tragic and regrettable, these actions happened so long ago that it’s apparently wayward state? I always want to yell at the and there was plenty of time for others to follow suit. best for the state to move forward. television, “We’re not really like that!” But they did not. The proper response, of course, is that there is no statute of Marion County boasts beautiful landscapes, vibrant I’m not sure what the reason was the rest of those limitations for the prosecution of a homicide. Many black people surely industries, thriving family-owned businesses, prisoners stayed. But I like to think that maybe it was believe that since there are documented cases in which law enforcement successful schools, active community organizations an intentional choice. Maybe it is possible to receive was, at the very least, ambivalent about doing its duty, they deserve a and responsible, loving, compassionate people. But I rehabilitation in jail. Maybe there is hope that things second look. Convicting even one person who killed someone five guess those qualities don’t prevent us from having our can change for the better. decades ago would be justice. share of problems either. Drug use is on the rise; I It is worth noting that the money for the investigations is coming hear of petty crimes more and more frequently these Julie Johnson is the publisher of the from a bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress. Only two members of days; police are constantly having to patrol our Columbian-Progress. She can be reached at the House of Representatives voted against it, and the Senate approved neighborhoods and now we can’t even seem to keep [email protected] it by unanimous consent. President Bush signed the bill into law last year. The feds have until 2017 to wrap up their investigations. REASONABLY RIGHT by Brian Perry It is also worth noting the high probability that no charges will be filed in many of the 43 Mississippi cases because the suspects involved have died. To that extent, the time and money spent on such cases will be an exercise in futility. But there is no harm in applying modern investigative techniques to these cases — along with any others that Partners cooperating on Scruggs III? remain unsolved. The position that the homicides of the civil rights years should be left Two developments in the ongoing Scruggs General Hood to get his alone simply makes no sense. In the first place, no killing should be scandals recently have folks asking, “Who’s next?” dispute with State Farm ignored, even if it occurred 45 or 50 years ago, just because it makes Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Norman explained resolved to “pave the way people uncomfortable. Dickie Scruggs is now a cooperating witness, “His for Scruggs to settle his But primarily, these crimes are a burden on Mississippi’s back that cooperation has opened several doors we need to State Farm cases.” cannot be completely cast off until a good-faith effort is made to investigate.” And, the prison report dates for former Balducci said, “We were investigate them. There have been too many successful prosecutions of State Auditor Steve Patterson and former attorney successful.” He and civil rights-era killers to forget about those that remain unsolved. Timothy Balducci were set so they could testify Patterson returned to tell The state’s image will not be rehabilitated until this work is before another federal grand jury prior to March 25. Scruggs “we had undertaken. It may be unfair, but this legacy exists, and it will not be put In Scruggs I, Dickie Scruggs and his completed the job that he to rest until the state works relentlessly to bury it. To say it plainly: Let’s coconspirators sought to corruptly influence had hired us to do....”. get it over with. Lafayette County Circuit Judge Henry Lackey with Balducci and Patterson These investigations also must be put in proper context. Mississippi $40,000 delivered through Balducci, whom Lackey met with Hood in late BRIAN PERRY has made great progress on race relations since the 1960s. Given the considered a friend. Scruggs wanted a favorable 2006. In January 2007, strict segregation of that period, it could be argued that our state has ruling in a $26.5 million lawsuit fee dispute. after presenting information to a Jackson County come further than any other. Perfect? Not yet. But indisputably much In Scruggs II, Joey Langston divulged that Scruggs grand jury, Hood declined to prosecute. Shortly better. Opportunities like education, voting and employment are paid him, Patterson, and Ed Peters $3 million as a afterward, the Scruggs Katrina Group settled with available for all who choose them. reward for exerting influence on Hinds County State Farm. Note to Congress: Civil rights crimes are far from the only cold cases Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. The conspirators Hood admitted he met with Balducci and in Mississippi. There are plenty of unsolved killings in the period not exploited DeLaughter’s friendship with Peters and Patterson, but remains firm that their meeting had covered by this investigation — 1970 forward. The results of these dangled a federal judicial appointment to seek nothing to do with his decision to drop his criminal crimes were just as painful to families of those who died. favorable rulings. DeLaughter reduced a $15 million pursuit of State Farm. He issued a statement, “The It would help if law enforcement agencies had the money and recommendation against Scruggs to $1.5 million. decision on whether to indict State Farm Insurance manpower to take a second look at unsolved killings with fewer years Last week, DeLaughter plead not guilty to a five- Company was based solely on the advice of senior behind them. count indictment. prosecutors in our office…the majority of the The odds are that more of those witnesses or suspects would still be The March grand jury could lead to indictments prosecutors working on this case determined with a alive for questioning. cleaning up residual players in the first two high level of certainty that no fact pattern existed that conspiracies. While Peters appears to be cooperating, fell squarely within the insurance fraud statute. I neither he nor P.L. Blake (described by Balducci as made my decision that there was insufficient evidence Scruggs’ “bagman”) have been publically charged to uphold a conviction of State Farm…I am too with wrongdoing. Following the methodology of the hardheaded to be influenced by outside forces — I do first two cases, it would not surprise me to see the what I think is right for the working people of Department of Justice looking toward a Scruggs III. Mississippi.” In a FBI report and subsequent testimony before a In February 2008, during a civil lawsuit against federal grand jury, Balducci described a plan by Hood, a State Farm attorney suggested in his Scruggs to influence Mississippi Attorney General questioning that Patterson and Balducci told Hood Jim Hood to drop his criminal investigation of State that if he didn’t cooperate, Scruggs would fund a Farm Insurance so they would come to a civil candidate against him for Attorney General. Hood settlement with the Scruggs Katrina Group involving replied that such was “absolutely not” the case and “if $20 million in fees. you’re asking me did somebody come to me and Julie Johnson, Publisher PRODUCTION On November 27, 2007, Balducci told the grand threaten me, the answer is no.” jury, “You had on the one hand the Scruggs Group At a press conference later that month, Hood said Bonnie Hudson, Office Manager Paul Barry, Production Manager which was suing State Farm and aggressively of the meeting, “If I knew they were getting paid that Janice Robertson, Assistant Jeni Blanton, Production Assistant pursuing them in civil litigation. And at the same time much I would have told them to get out of the office you had the Attorney General who was investigating because it just didn’t smell right.” When asked about EDITORIAL CIRCULATION and threatening to indict the company and prosecute a political threat from Scruggs he said, “I didn’t care Don Hill, Managing Editor Delaney Lombardo, Circulation them criminally.... State Farm was not going to settle who (Scruggs) supported. I wasn’t crazy about being Lori Watts, Reporter these civil cases unless they could be assured that the attorney general anyway.’’ Attorney General was not going to prosecute them Balducci, Patterson, and Scruggs appear to have criminally… me and my partner Steve Patterson have attempted to inappropriately influence Mississippi’s ADVERTISING had a long relationship with the Attorney General. Attorney General. For his sake, and the sake of the Kim Gingell, Account Executive And the Attorney General in fact is distantly related to state, I hope they failed. Trent Pittman, Account Executive Steve, my partner. And General Hood and I have known each other for a long time going back to when Brian Perry is a partner with Capstone Public For advertising rates and information, or for subscription information please call (601) 736-2611 or visit our he was the DA here and when I was a practicing Affairs, LLC and a columnist for the Madison website at www.columbianprogress.com. The Columbian-Progress (USPS 124-320) (TSSN 1044-9977) is lawyer here. We had a close relationship.” County Journal. Reach him online at published twice weekly by Marion County Publishing. Second Class postage paid at Columbia, MS 39429. Balducci went on to explain that Scruggs paid him [email protected]. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Columbian-Progress, P.O. Box 1171, Columbia, MS 39429. and Patterson $500,000 to meet with Attorney THURSDAY February 26, 2009 www.columbianprogress.com 5 OBITUARIES TERI ANNE EMLER at Smith Funeral Home Chapel. Church of God with interment in the Richland Creek Funeral services for Teri Anne Emler were held Monday, Smith Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Cemetery. Visitation was on Friday, February 20, from 5 to February 16, at Emmanuel Baptist Church. She was 35 years 9 p.m. at Colonial Funeral Home. old and died February 11, at EDNA MONTGOMERY LUSTER Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. her home. Burial was at the Funeral services were held on Saturday, February 14, at 12 church cemetery. p.m. for Edna Montgomery Luster, 62, of Alorton, Ill. Who GRACE HATHORN She is preceded in death died Saturday, January 31, at Memorial Hospital in Funeral services were held Tuesday, February 17, at 10 by her grandparents, Belleville, Ill. Services were at Holy Hill C.O.G.I.C. with a.m. for Mrs. Grace Hathorn, 92, of Columbia, who died Howard and Wydell King interment in the Holy Hill C.O.G.I.C. Cemetery. Visitation Saturday, February 14, in Columbia. Visitation was Monday, and J.W. Dunaway and was Saturday, February 14, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at West February 16, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Colonial Funeral Home. Mary Black. Holy Hill C.O.G.I.C. Services were held at the Colonial Funeral Home Chapel Survivors include her Smith Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. with interment in the Columbia City Cemetery. husband, Robby Emler and Mrs. Hathorn was preceded in death by her husband, 6 year old son, Clay, her H. DOYLE BUCKLEY Hollaway Hathorn; brother, Guy Hathorn; sisters, Gladys parents, Terry and Robin Funeral services were held Monday, January 26, at 10 a.m. Tyrone, Gwen Price and Jimmie Parkman. She is survived King, her sister, Rebecca for Mr. H. Doyle Buckley, 78, of Columbia, who died in by her daughters, Susan Murphree of Columbia and Beth Baker all of Columbia; her Hattiesburg on January 22. Services were held at Goss Matherne of Houma, La.; son, Elliott Hathorn of Clearwater, brother, Jarred King of Baptist Church with interment in Society Hill Cemetery. Fla.; sister, Midge Buckley of Columbia; five grandchildren, Hattiesburg and her godmother Scottie Ball, of Robbins. Visitation was Sunday, January 25, from 5 to 9 p.m. at three great-grandchildren and a number of nieces, nephews, Services were officiated by Bro. Ralph Sanford and Perry Colonial Funeral Home and on Monday, January 26, from 9 friends and family. Robbins. Pallbearers were Blake Vann, Ricky Everhart, Mac to 10 a.m. at the church. Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Hudson, Sheldon Speights, Keith Graff, John Cooper, Sean Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Everhart and Dustin Brumfield. Music was provided by JACK HENRY REAGAN Donna Sinclair and Christ Turnage. Pianist was Penny MARY JEFFERSON Funeral services were held Sunday, February 22, at 2 p.m. Graves. Funeral services were held Saturday, February 14, at 1 for Mr. Jack Henry Reagan, 59, of Sandyhook, who died The family wishes to thank everyone for their compassion p.m. for Mary Jefferson, 67, of Columbia, who died Friday, February 20, at his residence. Services were at the and love during this difficult time and most of all, their Thursday, February 5, at Marion General Hospital. Services Chapel of Colonial Funeral Home with interment in the prayers. were at Smith Funeral Home with interment in the John H. Hopewell Methodist Church Cemetery. Elder Jimmy Barber Jefferson Cemetery. Visitation was Friday, February 13, officiated at the service and was assisted by Rev. Dewayne BRUCE "TOBE" IRVIN, SR. from 3 to 6 p.m. at Smith Funeral Home Chapel. Moree. Visitation was Saturday, February 21, from 5:30 to 9 Funeral services were held Monday, February 16, at 1 p.m. Smith Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. p.m. at the funeral home. from Mr. Bruce "Tobe" Irvin, Sr., 94, of Columbia, who died A native of Marion County, Mr. Reagan was a disabled oil Wednesday, February 11, at Marion General Hospital. REV. ALLEN SMITH field construction worker and a member of the Baptist faith. Services were at Smith Funeral Home with interment in the Funeral services were held Saturday, February 21, at 11 He was preceded in death by his parents, Floyd and Birdie Rest Haven Cemetery. Visitation was Sunday, February 15, a.m. for Rev. Allen Smith, 55, of Foxworth, who died McNabb Reagan and a sister, Jill Reagan Goar. February 18, in Jackson. Services were held at Mt. Carmel Survivors include his See ‘Obituary’ Page 7

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NOW’S THE TIME TO ADVERTISE THURSDAY 6 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009 CALENDAR Dulcimer Festival, February 26-28 Church Homecoming, March 1 Dixie Youth Baseball, March 4 The Southern Strings Dulcimer Festival will be held Feb. Homecoming at Crystal Springs Baptist Church in If you would like to sign your child up for baseball and 26-28 in Hattiesburg. It will feature 2006 National Tylertown will be on March 1. Dr. Jerry Barlow and Dr. Joe softball, sign up will be each Saturday in February through Mountain Dulcimer Champion Jeff Hames from Madison. Boatwright will be the guest pastors. Services will begin at March 4. Registration will be from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the There will be pre-festival activities and jam sessions, 10 and 11 a.m. Lunch will be at noon with afternoon service park pavilion office. dulcimer classes and sessions. If you play, or would like to at 1:30 p.m. For more information please call 601-876- They are also in need of more coaches and umpires. If you learn, or if you just like to listen, come to the Forrest County 5873. would like to coach and/or umpire, please contact Ronnie Multi-Purpose Extension Building. For more details, call Brown at 601-466-3275 or Larry Jenkins at 601-310-7437. (601)583-6424; or go to www.mississippidulcimer.com. Ordination, March 1 The members of Truevine M.B. Church invite you to join Audubon Society Meeting, March 5 Women’s Conference, February 27-28 them and witness the ordination of Brother James Abrams Pine Woods Audubon Society invites members and the Mt. Carmel Church of God, 573 Mt. Carmel Church on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m. public to the Thursday, March 5, program at 7 p.m. by Sheri Road, Foxworth, invites all ladies to attend the 2009 Glowinski Matamoros on the Economical Impacts of Women’s Conference on February 27 and 28. The keynote School of Ministry class, March 2 Birding. speaker will be Rev. Teresa Miley. The conference will The New Life Fellowship School of Ministry will be The meeting will be at the Education Building in the begin at 7 p.m. on Friday and 6 p.m. on Saturday, with choir holding a class on Paul the Man, instructed by Dr. Terry L. Hattiesburg Zoo at Kamper Park. Refreshments will be rehearsal at 5 p.m. on Saturday. For more information Weems on Monday, March 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. The class will served. For local chapter information call 601-264-9654. contact Diane Gammill at 601-736-0390. be held at the Columbia Campus at 1210 Park Ave. Home study is also available. For more information call 601-249- Garage Sale, March 7 Black History Celebration Dinner, 3242. The St. Paul UMC youth department will be having a February 28 garage sale on MArch 7, from 6 to 11 a.m. The garage sale The 21st Marion County Black History Celebration Spring Revival, March 2-6 will be held at Regan’s General in the Cheraw Community. Dinner will be held Saturday, February 28, from 6:30 to 8 New Jerusalem COGIC cordially invites you to their Please come out to support the youth. p.m. Highlights this year will include fabulous door prizes, Spring Revival that will convene March 2-6. Evangelist for a dance to “At Last”, Marion County tribute song. Tickets the week is Elder Lionel Husband, formerly of Foxworth. Mission Trip Fundraiser, March 7 are only a $25.00 donation. He now resides in Prince George, Virginia. Services will New Hope Baptist Church, 508 New Hope Church Rd., If you have an employee that has worked for over 20 being nightly with prayer at 7 p.m. Foxworth, will be holding a Silent Cake Auction and years or is in a management position and is still working, Womanless Pageant Fundraiser to benefit their Peru please let them know as they want to honor them. Annual Spring Revival, March 2-6 Mission Trip on March 7. The Silent Cake Auction will be Volunteers are welcome. The dinner will be held at the The pastor and members of New Jerusalem Church of at 5 p.m. and the Pageant will be at 6 p.m. Exposition Center. For more information contact Ernestine God in Christ cordially invite you to attent their Annual The audience will determine the winner ofthe pageant Lewis at 601-736-2092 or email [email protected]. Spring Revival from Monday night, March 2, thru Friday based on how much is given for each contestant during the night, March 6. Service will begin each night at 7 p.m. The pageant! Tickets are $2 at the door. Door prizes will be Family Reunion, February 28 revivalist for the week will be Elder Linell Husband of given. Popcorn and drinks will be sold. The Rayes Family Reunion will be held February 28 at Virginia. the Columbia Activity Center on Hwy 13, beginning at 11 Open House, March 14 a.m. Bring a dish. Spring Revival, March 2-6 The Family History Center will be having an open house Antioch M.B. Church of East Lampton’s Spring revival on Saturday, March 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. There will be Softball Tournament, February 28 will be March 2-6. The speaker for the week will be Dr. displays of 16 generation Pedigree charts, each with old A softball tournament will be held at Columbia Water Johnnie Pittman, Jr., pastor of Little Zion Baptist Church of pictures of the people from the charts. There will be over Park on February 28. The tournament will be limited to the Slidell, La. and Palestine Baptist Church of Oakvale. 500 pictures displayed, all from 1800 to 1930’s. Skits of first 20 teams that call and it will be played on three fields. Service will begin each night at 7. The public is invited to tales from the past and local histories will also be presented. For more information contact Jamie Rogers at 601-441- attend. Fiddling artist, Bill Rogers and his group will be featured. 3797, 601-799-1217 or [email protected] Also performing will be Anita Powell and her daughter, Military Support Group, March 3 Carrie. Everyone is invited and it is free to all. Annual Church Anniversary, March 1 The Marion County Military Support Group, formed to For more information contact Barbara at 601-441-0090 or Sweet Home M.B. Church, Columbia, invites you to their support and provide assistance to the families of the soon to [email protected]. Annual Church Anniversary on March 1. The evening be deployed soldiers from the local unit, will meet at 6 p.m. service will begin at 2 p.m. If you cannot attend, please pray on Tuesday, Mar. 3, at the First Methodist Church, 411 Fly-In, March 28 for them. Church St., Columbia. Anyone interested in becoming part The Columbia Airport Pilots Association will host a Fly- of this group is encouraged to attend. For more information In, Saturday, March 28. It will begin at 9 a.m. and will have call the Main Street light sports planes on display, a flight school display, Columbia office at 601- skydiving exhibition, radio-control airplane exhibition, 736-5034. flour-bomb competition and a medical helicopter display. Plane rides will be available along with children's activities. The Woodlawn Youth Choir will provide music and lunch plates will be available. THURSDAY February 26, 2009 www.columbianprogress.com 7

Brandon Silas David Johnson Derrick Rainey Eric Ball

Marion County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Jeff Broom, left, with Mississippi Highway Patrol’s Roger Blackmon, center, and MHP helicopter pilot Lt. Jason Seal wait to take to the air again after they landed in the Improve Community. photos by Don Hill Escape continued from Page 1 Sheriff’s Office tracked Rainey and his “We knew what room they were in and we John David Smith Mikah Lott Ricky Roberts Toney Clark girlfriend, Brittany Godbolt, to a motel room kicked the door in and apprehended them near the south gate of Camp Shelby in Forrest without incident,” McKinney said. Godbolt, All eight Marion County Correctional Facility inmates were County. 21, of 6490 Highway 49, Apt. 90, Hattiesburg, recaptured less than 36 hours from the time they escaped. was arrested for aiding and abetting a felon. Rainey, 22, of Columbia, has been in jail since Aug. 28, 2008, for conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Finally, Eric Ball was turned over to the sheriff’s office Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. “A family member called and wanted to know if I wanted him,” Hall said. “He was hiding in the Harmony Community.” The family member brought Ball to Sheriff Hall’s office to deliver the escapee. “He wanted to turn Ball into me personally,” Hall said. “I welcomed him with open arms.” Ball has been in jail since June 12, 2008 for breaking and entering of a dwelling, simple assault and felony fleeing. The escape brought international attention to Marion County, as news Marion County Sheriff Berkley Hall pours agencies such as Fox News and CNN through the information about the escapees news reported the break out. early Monday Morning. Obituary INVENTORY continued from Page 5 wife, Rhelda Moree Reagan of Sandy Hook; Smith Funeral Home was in charge of daughter Samantha and Jake Abrams of arrangements. REDUCTION SALE Columbia; sons Scottie and Mellie Moree of Columbia; Doug and Kellie Reagan and JOHNNIE RUTH GARNER Joshua Reagan all of Sandy Hook; sister MCPHAIL Joann Reagan of Cheraw; grandchildren Funeral services were held Monday, We’ve attended 2 flooring shows in January Hailey and Kaela Moree, Zackery Reagan, February 23, at 11:00 a.m. at Bunker Hill Aby Gale, Anabel and Aliyah Abrams as well Baptist Church in Columbia with internment ---- New Stock Arriving Soon ---- as a number of nieces, nephews, family and to follow at New Bunker Hill Cemetery for friends. Mrs. Johnie Ruth Garner McPhail, age 93, of Need to make room for it! Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of Columbia formerly of Carson, who passed arrangements. away February 21, at The Myrtles Nursing Care Facility in Columbia. Visitation was ELSULA JAMES HAYNES Sunday, February 22, beginning at 5:00 p.m. *WOOD*WOOD CeramicCeramic && Funeral services were held Saturday, at Bunker Hill Baptist Church. February 21, at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Elsula James Mrs. McPhail was born in rural Carson on FLOORING*FLOORING* REAL WOOD PorPorcelaincelain TILETILE Haynes, 54, of Columbia, who died June 27, 1915, the daughter of John W. ¢ ¢ Sq. Ft. Wednesday, February 11, at Song Health and Garner and Clara Polk Garner. She was Starting @ 50 Sq. Ft. 50 Rehabilitation Center of Columbia. Services married to the late Garland Leroy McPhail were held at Smith Funeral Home Chapel and had a son, James “Jimmy” McPhail. She with interment in the Fortenberry Cemetery. was a graduate of Pearl River Junior College Commercial *LAMINATE Residential Visitation was held Friday, February 20, from and attended Mississippi Normal College, FLOORING* CARPET 2 to 6 p.m. at Smith Funeral Home. which is now USM. She was a former school CARPET 1ST QUALITY ¢ ¢ ¢ Smith Funeral Home was in charge of teacher and retired as the owner of the 61 Sq. Ft. Sq. Ft. Starting @88 Sq. Ft. arrangements. Country Store. She was a member of Bunker 89 VOLLIE “POP” DUKES Hill Baptist Church. She is survived by her Funeral services were held Saturday, son, James L. “Jimmy” McPhail and wife, February 21, at 11 a.m. for Vollie “Pop” Becky of Carson; granddaughter, Lori Ann 6 lb. Carpet *BERBER Glue-Down Dukes, 94, of Columbia, who died Friday, Niven and husband, Alan and a great- February 13, in Columbia. Services were at granddaughter, Emily Grace Niven. She was PADDING CARPET* VINYLVINYL ¢ ¢ ¢ Friendship M.B. Church with interment in preceded in death by her parents and her 22 Sq. Ft. 77 Sq. Ft. 43 Sq. Ft. the Friendship M.B. Church Cemetery. husband. Visitation wa Friday, February 20, from 10 Saulters-Moore Funeral Home was in a.m. to 6 p.m. at Smith Funeral Home. charge of arrangements. *COMMERCIAL *WALL *WALL *FIBER TILE* BORDERS* PAPER* VINYL* Starting @ Starting @ ¢ ¢ ¢ 55 Sq. Ft. Ea. $1Dble Roll 77 Sq. Ft. TAX REFUND 50 SALE BRING US YOUR REFUND AND CASH IN ON BIG SAVINGS! NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CREDIT WE CAN FINANCE YOU NO CREDIT? BAD CREDIT? BANKRUPTCY? REPOSSESSION? HARRY TAYLOR DISCOUNT BUILDING MATERIAL, Inc Courthouse Square 736-7138 MACKHwy GRUBBS 98 Columbia FORD 601-731-1953 MERCURY (Orange Buildings Behind Courthouse) THURSDAY 8 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009 POLITICAAL ANNOUNCEEMENT PRIMARY ELECTTIONS: TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009 The following candidates have authorized and paid a fee to the Columbian Progress to announce their candidacy for the office of: Lady Eagles stop at South State CIITY ALDERMAN reflects the foul record that of the girls that stayed with it The East Marion boys By Lori Watts was heavily weighted all year," Brown said. "We finished up their season with AT LARGE Staff Writer against the East Marion overcame some adversity, a loss to Hines Agricultural team. EM was three for eight lost some players early on High School in the first • Vance B. Berry (D) The East Marion Lady free throws while Scott during the season, but the round of the south state Eagles' successful season Central racked up 15 points girls that we ended up with tournament with an overall wrapped up Thursday when from 26 free throw attempts. really put in some great record of 10-17. The Eagles Scott Central took a 50-40 Shantrice Peters led East effort. Twenty-seven and went 6-6 in district play win against them in the Marion in scoring with 11 four is a great record," he where they finished in fourth Thank You South State quarter-finals. points, followed by Arnissa said. place, compared to sixth Our family would like to express its overwhelming They finished the year with a Galloway who scored 10. Only two seniors will place last year. gratitude for the love shown to us due to the death 27-4 record and won the Scott Central went on to leave the Lady Eagles for Several senior boys will District Eight 2A of our loved one, Jack Quin. Your outpouring of win the south state next season. Shantrice Peters leave the team. Arian Taylor, Championship. championship. East Marion and Carnitra Lott will finish Nick Aikens and Travell kindness through the many prayers, visits, food, Against Scott Central, coach Calvin Brown said their high school careers this Whiteside will all move on flowers and support in our time of sorrow was East Marion had some foul Scott Central and his team year. but most of the starters are greatly appreciated. trouble in the first quarter but had been rated as the two top Brown said, "If these girls returning. the Lady Eagles went into May God bless you all. teams in the tournament and will continue to do the work "We expect the boys to the dressing room, at the The Jack Quin Family they happened to meet in a that needs to be done, we have a better season next half, down by only two game previous to the finals. should have another year, too," Brown said. points. The final score "I couldn't be more proud successful year next year. The Round Table Choctaw Central snips off “True Southern Hospitality” Wildcats’ return to the Big House games. fourth quarter was pure season with a 27-5 record, By Don Hill The Wildcats took on offense as the teams put up a second place in Region 8-3a Editor Choctaw Central at the combined 65 points. standings and in the Morton Tournament In his last game as a tournament. The Columbia Wildcat Thursday, falling 86-78 to Columbia Wildcat, senior Last Thursday, the Lady basketball teams each fell a the Warriors. Nick Magee poured in 31 Wildcats season ended a couple of game short of Choctaw Central mounted points. Donavan Newton Southeast Lauderdale going to the Mississippi a 26-16 first quarter lead scored 20, Dominique Tovell downed CHS 82-49. The High School Activities before CHS could close the hit 14, Marques Garner Lady Wildcats ended their Association State gap, 34-32 at halftime. By scored six, Jaquaa Peters hit season at 21-9 and second SERVING GOOD HOME COOKIN’ SINCE 1940 Tournament in Jackson, as the time the third quarter five and David Osgood place in Region 8-3A play. they lost in second round ended, the Warriors clung to scored two points. South State Tournament a 51-44 advantage. The The Wildcats ended the • Meats • Vegetables • Salads • Desserts • Casseroles • Breads Diamond Wildcats open with two wins Monday - Friday 11:00 - 2:00 By Don Hill blasting North Forrest 8-2, as The Wildcats took a 4-0 was the losing pitcher as he centerfielder Chance advantage going into the lasted only two innings. The Sunday 11:00 - 3:00 Editor Montgomery led the team bottom of the fourth inning. Wildcats had eight hits, with with four hits and four RBI Lumberton's offense got on Dion Jefferson getting two 318 Church St.. 736-3438 Columbia opened the from his leadoff position. board with two runs, and by singles. Ellis hit a double 2009 baseball season by Second baseman Landon the time the top of the while Montgomery, Ellzey, Stewart hit two singles and seventh inning rolled around, Simmons, Galloway and catcher Lionel Galloway hit a the Panthers closed the gap to Dungan each singled. triple. The Wildcats tallied 11 a 7-6 contest. CHS was able On the same day, the hits, as infielder Conner to plate four runs in the top of Wildcats record fell to 2-2 on Brady, third baseman Tyler the last inning, then held off the season, as they fell to Simmons, shortstop Aaron Lumberton as they scored Richland 4-3 in eight innings. Ellzey and left fielder Ty three in their last at bat. The teams went into the extra Randall all singled. The Wildcats' nine hits inning tied 1-1, but Columbia Ellzey started on the were all singles, as scored two runs in the top of mound and picked up the Montgomery, Ryan the inning to take the 3-1 win, pitching three innings Ellis,Galloway and Dungan advantage. Richland, while giving up three hits and each had two hits while however, scored three runs two runs. Simmons tossed Conner Brady hit a single. on two hits and a walk to win the next three, pitching Ellis took the win, the game. hitless and scoreless innings. pitching six innings, giving Simmons took the loss, Forrest Dungan pitched the up 10 hits, six runs and four but Ellzey pitched seven last inning, giving up a hit walks. He struck out five. innings, giving up three hits and a walk. Montgomery, Stewart and and one earned run. He On Tuesday, Feb. 17, CHS Brady all pitched the last struck out 10. defeated Lumberton 11-9, as inning, as Brady ended up Columbia hit six singles, the Wildcats had nine hits with the save. as Montgomery and and the Panthers had 11 hits. Thursday, the Wildcats Simmons each hit two and Lumberton committed seven were whipped by St. Van Morris and Channing errors to Columbia's four. Andrews' 16-6. Simmons Henry each singled. THURSDAY February 26, 2009 www.columbianprogress.com 9 Library offers amnesty

By Lori Watts And we need the things to be After March, the amnesty in good condition,” she said. period will be over. “We will Editor “We work on a tight begin a system after March budget with staff salaries, that links all the members of During the entire month of utilities and all. We’ve been a family together. At that March, the Marion County hit with some funding cuts time, if one member of the Library will be offering “fee from the state, and that family has overdue materials amnesty” to anyone who means it will be harder for us then all members of the brings in all the overdue to update materials, so we family will be blocked from materials they have, along really need to get all these checking out items,” Bracey with a donation for the materials in,” Bracey said. said. “We don’t want to have Marion County Animal “It is frustrating when we to start using a collection Shelter. If you have any get in new items and before agency so we have to take a library books lying around the people of the community somewhat stricter line,” she that you just haven’t been have time to benefit from it, said. able to get back to the library, someone does not return it,” “Of course, we understand and now it’s been so long she said. “It's lost to the that accidents happen. People there is the embarrassment other citizens.” have house fires and other factor that keeps you from The length of a check out disasters, so if they can show returning them, along with term for most items at the us that has happened we will the fine you know awaits, library is two weeks. For work with them on the return Curtain raises on “Crazy For You” then March is your lucky DVD’s and some other items of the item,” Bracey said. available from 8 a.m. to 2 tons of laughs, great dancing month. it's one week. When an item “We also hope that we won’t By Lori Watts “It's amazing the amount p.m. through Friday, Feb. 27 and beautiful Gershwin is three weeks overdue a have anyone try to take Editor for $10 at the high school music. There's something for of material we have out that reminder is sent to the holder. advantage of the situation, so is not returned. It’s a problem principal’s office. At the everyone in this show,” The library staff then sends we do have to have some The curtain goes up on the every library faces,” said door, tickets will be $12. Wood said. one notice per week for three restrictions on the amnesty,” Columbia High School Marion County Library The cast and orchestra Above, Cowboys turn weeks. This means that an she said. “If someone owes musical production of “The Director Gail Bracey. "Some began full dress rehearsals Zangler's Follies into human item can be out for a period $20 for a book and brings in New Gershwin Musical systems in Mississippi even Monday night. Director bass fiddles when they team of eight weeks before the a $2 item for the animal Comedy, Crazy For You” at use collection agencies to Connie Wood said that up for the dance number to holder is charged with the shelter, we will have to give 7:30 p.m. on Friday and track down materials,” she “Crazy For You” is a true “Slap That Bass” during cost of the material. After the them proportional credit. Saturday night, Feb. 27 and said. musical comedy in every dress rehearsal Monday first two weeks, a 5-cent per This will apply to those who 28. Advance tickets are sense of the word. “It’s got night. Bracey said they thought day accrues on the book- have returned items but have partnering with the animal holder’s account until the not cleared their fines, as shelter would also entice item is returned. For DVD’s well,” Bracey said. people to take advantage of and audio books the fee is $1 “Check your couch the “amnesty.” “The shelter per day. cushions, car seats and under does such a service for the TAX REFUND SALE The library offers many beds to see if there is community, protecting services besides books to the anything that belongs to the BRING US YOUR REFUND animals and citizens. We community. They have free library,” Bracey said. “Now thought this would be great check-out of DVD’s and is the time to return it.” AND CASH IN ON BIG SAVINGS! way to work together to audio book CD’s. They offer The library is open NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CREDIT achieve the two goals of free wi-fi access, as well as Monday through Thursday gathering needed items for free public access to the eight 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday NO CREDIT? BAD CREDIT? them and recovering lost desk-top computers and eight 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and items for the library,” she laptops. They have many Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. BANKRUPTCY? REPOSSESSION? said. “They always need dry reference materials and You can call to find out if dog and cat food and bleach, magazines and have offered there are any items out about as well as other cleaning everything from computer which you’ve forgotten or WE CAAN FINANCEE YOU materials,” Bracey said. classes to tax preparation any fines on your account of Jane Bear, Animal Control workshops. The library has which you weren’t aware. officer, said that their most hosted book signings, art and Remember to bring a urgent needs are laundry craft exhibits, book clubs and donation of dry dog food, cat detergent, for the 8-10 loads other literary events. food or bleach, dishwasher of bedding they wash each The library has a public detergent or laundry day, and automatic fax and copy machine, detergent and help keep two MACK GRUBBS FORD MERCURY dishwasher detergent, used although a minimum fee is great community services Hwy 98 Columbia 601-731-1953 for sanitizing the animals’ charged for copies and running efficiently. food bowls. “Of course, we printing. always need dry dog food. Some upcoming events in Right now we don't have the planning stages are a many cats, although we novice computer class, for LIMITED SAVE YOU MONEY know more will be coming those who have no computer and we are always using knowledge at all, and a bleach for sanitizing and pine genealogy workshop, with QUANTITY oil for cleaning,” Bear said. access to a genealogy According to the library’s database. records, since 2005, there are According to the Library unreturned materials out Research Service in there with a total retail worth Colorado, the services of $55,725. provided by the library have Bracey said the main goal an estimated monetary value of the “amnesty” is to of $1,548,580 for the 38,427 recover these items. “We citizens of Marion and would just like to see a lot of Jefferson Davis counties material retrieved,” she said. whom it serves. “There are some people out “We are here to serve the there with several items they community and only want to haven't returned so we will encourage use of the library’s require that they bring in all services,” Bracey said. “But materials they have out we have to have items before we’ll waive any fees. returned,” she said. 66 Daylin WAS $1000 NOW $555 Full Set

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RHONDA BRASSEAL With the seasons For those with a taste for life and leisure comes change MEDIA GENERAL SYNDICATION SERVICES The year I began first grade, the landscape of my world changed. Until then, I’d lived in unlettered bliss. My Grandma Hanks’ house: full of nooks and crannies; ornate with European finery, yet war of the warm with her baking and songs. My Grandma Collins’s farm with chickens, pigs, cows, horses, and gardens, poke sallet, homemade berry jam, and hot, buttered bis- cuits, hugs, and kisses. sweeteners I had not even attended kindergarten. I’d stayed home Sugar substitutes spur a debate about what’s right, what’s good and what works with my Mama, little sister, and new baby brother. There By Tammie Smith sugar-substitute companies. The compa- just in the U.S. but all over the with baked goods, it’s not just the our neighborhood overflowed MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE nies also compete to have their products world. sugar. It’s the carbohydrates,” with playmates, mud holes, Celeste Cooper usually reaches for a in commercially produced foods. Added to the all the company Cooper said. “ If I am buying prod- wild flowers, fruit trees and little packet of the blue stuff or the yellow With so much at stake, there has been bickering and posturing is the ucts in the store, I never buy climbing trees, swing sets stuff to sweeten her coffee or tea. a sweetener war of sorts going on. debate about the safety of artificial sugar-free. Often, they really are and hedges to hide in. Sugar substitutes are known by the The company that makes Equal sued sweeteners, and whether, as one the same, and the sugar-free prod- I owned only church color of their individual packets. The blue the makers of Splenda over advertising study suggested, sugar substitutes ucts are much more expensive.” clothes and play clothes. I stuff is aspartame — Equal. The yellow that claimed Splenda was “made from may promote weight gain. knew how to hide my eyes stuff is sucralose — Splenda. sugar so it tastes like sugar.” Since So what’s a consumer who just Tammie Smith is a staff writer and count to 10 for hide-and- “They taste about the same,” said Splenda hit U.S. tabletops, it has grabbed wants a little sweetness in their for the Richmond Times-Dispatch seek. I could run fast enough Cooper, a registered nurse and certified significant market share from Equal. The morning coffee to do? in Virginia. to catch a lightening bug and diabetes educator who has diabetes. parties agreed to settle the case last year “Any form of sugar, whether it’s hold still enough to drop it in Being able to have a sweet drink helps but kept the terms secret. corn syrup, high-fructose corn a jar. her feel less deprived. The Sugar Association also sued syrup, sugar, brown sugar, is cer- When summer heat over- “You don’t feel like you are giving up Splenda’s maker. Splenda has since mod- tainly not helpful,” said Lise whelmed me, I could sit anything; that is the goal,” said Cooper, ified its advertising to say “But it’s not Gloede, a registered dietitian and under the window unit with a who works at St. Francis Medical Center sugar,” but the company has also counter- president-elect of the Virginia glass of Kool-Aid and some outside Richmond, Va. sued the Sugar Association, claiming a Dietetic Association. “We can doc- cookies until the gusts of Millions of Americans, while trying to smear campaign. ument the negative effects on cool, autumn air began to lose weight or dealing with diabetes and Not to be left out, the Corn Refiners blood sugar, weight gain, cavities toss colorful leaves about. watching their blood-sugar levels, turn to Association, tired of high-fructose corn on the teeth; so any form of it real- Nothing held me from bound- sugar substitutes to get the taste of syrup being badmouthed, has gone on ly is something to look out for. You ing through our screen door sweetness. the defensive with a television advertising really have to look at all forms and and joining the leaves, revel- The sugar substitute market is expand- campaign. Some have suggested that be able to cut back on all forms.” ing to express myself with ing, as is the competition for market high- fructose corn syrup, a sweetener As for the sugar substitutes — silly songs. share. Sweetener products sold for table- used in dozens of processed foods, is don’t overdo it. I needed only to tell Mama top use are part of the product portfolio of contributing to the obesity epidemic, not “They are chemicals,” Gloede how cold winter was causing said. “You want to use them in me to feel, and she would Not bad but not sugar, testers say moderation. ... If you know you skillfully tuck away my chills can’t stop at one or two diet drinks, with a soft blanket and allow you need to be careful.” me to hibernate for as long as Most of the artificial sweeteners available for home use do Cooper tells her clients not to I wanted. No one lifted a fin- well at sweetening beverages, but they can’t handle the heat of be so focused on “sugar free” ger against me when the thrill cooking or baking, or they deliver results with a lot to be desired. labels when evaluating foods. Splenda is an exception, able to withstand high cooking tem- “You’ve got to remember that of spring jostled me loose, peratures and maintain its sweetness. offering me warm sunshine in But does it pass the taste test? which to grow and green An informal poll of co-workers who tasted chocolate-chip grass to feel under my feet. cookies made with Splenda, and similar cookies made with reg- Then one morning, in one ular sugar, showed that they overwhelmingly preferred the cook- of the uniform rows of desks ies made with sugar. They found the Splenda cookies accept- in Sister Monica’s first-grade able. classroom, I took my seat. “Needs sugar,” said one tester. Though none was told which Mama watched from the cookies were which, everyone figured it out fairly quickly. doorway. I tucked my red and The cookies with Splenda had more of a cakelike texture and blue book bag under my were soft, while the cookies made with sugar were brown and crunchy. desk, looked at Mama, The Splenda cookies were made with a recipe from the waved. She smiled and www.splenda.com Web site. Though the Splenda folks say the waved back. Then she was granulated sweetener can be substituted 1-to-1 for sugar in gone. some recipes, the packaging notes that the texture of foods will And though school things be affected in some recipes and suggests replacing less of the were much better than bad, sugar with Splenda or using a Splenda blend available at stores. as Pooh would say; and though I am eternally grateful for my education, I'm glad that I learned early in life to play in leaves and appreciate a good mud pie. Then I could gather them and feel their brittle edges as I crumpled them in my hand.

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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF Citizens Bank, Columbia, Mississippi, Marion County, Mississippi; run thread of the stream of Jones Creek, thereof conveyed by instruments FORECLOSURE SALE which deed of trust is of record in thence West along the boundary line being also the Western boundary line recorded in Book 23 at Page 538 and STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Book 1386, at page 58, of the land aforesaid, for a distance of 650 feet; of parcel of land conveyed unto Oscar in Book 27 at Page 199 of the land COUNTY OF MARION deed of trust records as contained in and to the Northeast corner of parcel Ray Cooper by instrument recorded records of Marion County, Mississippi, WHEREAS, on the 5th day of the office of the Chancery Clerk of of land conveyed unto Homer Pope, in Book 177 at Page 87 of the land and also LESS that part thereof con- March, A.D., 2004, J.T. Blansett, Jr. Marion County, Mississippi; and by instrument recorded in Book 238 records of Marion County, Mississippi, veyed by instrument recorded in and Ruth A. Blansett, adults, execut- WHEREAS, on March 21, 2003, at Page 316 of the land records of and to the Northwest corner of parcel Book 65 at Page 202 of the land ed and delivered that certain deed of Grading Services, Inc., executed a Marion County, Mississippi; run of land so conveyed unto Oscar Ray records of Marion County, Mississippi, trust recorded in Book 1443, at Page deed of trust to R. Andrew Foxworth, thence South along the East bound- Cooper as aforesaid; run thence West and also LESS that part thereof con- 333, in the Office of the Chancery trustee for the benefit of Citizens ary line of said parcel of land so con- and to a point 462 feet West of the veyed by instrument recorded in Clerk of Marion County, Mississippi, Bank, Columbia, Mississippi, which veyed unto Homer Pope as aforesaid, Eastern boundary line of said Book 177 at Page 87 of the land conveying unto the Trustee therein deed of trust is of record in Book for a distance of 555 feet, and to the Fractional Section 31, said point records of Marion County, Mississippi, named the property hereinafter 1416, at page 680, of the land deed Southeast corner of said parcel of being the Southwest corner of parcel and also LESS that part thereof lying described, to secure the payment of of trust records as contained in the land so conveyed unto Homer Pope of land described and conveyed by and being situated East of that parcel an indebtedness as therein described office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion as aforesaid; run thence West along instrument recorded in Book 34 at of land conveyed by instrument and owing unto J.T. Blansett and County, Mississippi; and the South a boundary line of said par- Page 503 of the land records of recorded in Book 177 at Page 87 of Elois Blansett; and, WHEREAS, on March 21, 2003, cel of land so conveyed unto Homer Marion County, Mississippi; run the land records of Marion County, WHEREAS, on May 4, 2007, Elois Grading Services, Inc., executed a Pope as aforesaid for a distance of thence North and along the Western Mississippi, and also LESS that part Blansett departed this life, leaving deed of trust to R. Andrew Foxworth, 555 feet, and to the Southwest cor- boundary line of lands so described thereof lying and being situated East behind her Last Will & Testament, trustee for the benefit of Citizens ner of said parcel of land so conveyed and conveyed by instrument record- of the West margin of the Old which named as her sole devisee J.T. Bank, Columbia, Mississippi, which unto Homer Pope as aforesaid, being ed in Book 34 at Page 503 as afore- Columbia and Monticello Public Road, Blansett, said Last Will & Testament deed of trust is of record in Book also to the Western boundary of line said, for a distance of 900.24 feet as the same now runs between having been probated in Marion 1435, at page 158, of the land deed of said Southeast Division of said back to the point of beginning. (Said Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, County Chancery Court No. 2007- of trust records as contained in the Fractional Section 31; Run thence parcel of land here described being and Popetown, Marion County, 0061-P-D, title to all property, real, office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion South along the Western boundary further described and identified as all Mississippi.) The parcel of land here personal and mixed, of whatsoever County, Mississippi; and line of said Southeast Division, being of the Southeast Division of described contains thirty-five (35) kind and character, and wheresoever WHEREAS, on May 1, 2008, also the Eastern boundary line of Lot Fractional Section 31, Township 4 acres, more or less, and is a part and situated, which she owned at the Grading Services, Inc., executed a No. 12 of said Fractional Section 31, North, Range 18 West, LESS the parcel of the Southeast Division time of her death having been vested deed of trust to R. Andrew Foxworth, and to the North or East bank of Pearl North forty acres thereof (being the (sometimes designated as Lot No. in J.T. Blansett pursuant to said trustee for the benefit of Citizens River; run thence in a Southeasterly North 320 yards thereof), and also 13) of Fractional Section 31, Court's Judgment Approving Final Bank, Columbia, Mississippi, which direction along the North or East LESS that part thereof conveyed unto Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Accounting dated September 3, deed of trust is of record in Book bank of Pearl River and to the thread Homer Pope as per instrument Marion County, Mississippi. 2008; and 1578, at page 602, of the land deed of the stream of Jones Creek; run recorded in Book 238 at Page 316 of Together with all improvements WHEREAS, default has been made of trust records as contained in the thence in a Northerly or the land records of Marion County, and appurtenances thereon situated in the payment of said indebtedness, office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion Northeasterly direction following the Mississippi, and also LESS that part or thereunto appertaining. the said J.T. Blansett, as the sole County, Mississippi; and owner and holder of the same, and of WHEREAS, default having been said Deed of Trust, has requested the made in the terms and conditions of undersigned as such Trustee, pur- said deeds of trust, and the entire suant to such authority, default and debt secured thereby having been request, to foreclose said Deed of declared to be due and payable in Trust as therein provided, and the accordance with the terms of said undersigned has accordingly taken deeds of trust, Citizens Bank, possession of said property for such Columbia, Mississippi, the legal hold- purpose; er of said indebtedness, having NOW, THEREFORE, Notice is here- requested the undersigned trustee to by given by the undersigned, as such execute the trust and sell said land Substituted Trustee, pursuant to such and property in accordance with the authority, default and request, that terms of said deeds of trust and for he will, during legal hours (after the the purpose of raising the sums due hour of 11:00 A.M., and before the thereunder, together with attorney's hour of 4:00 P.M.), on Friday, the fees, trustee's fees, and expenses of 27th day of February, A. D., 2009, at sale. the North or front door of the court- NOW THEREFORE, I, R. Andrew house of Marion County, in Columbia, Foxworth, trustee in said deeds of Mississippi, offer for sale and will sell trust, will on the 27th day of at public auction for cash to the high- February, 2009, between the hours of est bidder, that certain property situ- 11:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., being legal ated in the City of Columbia, Marion hours of sale, offer for sale at public County, Mississippi, more particularly outcry at the North front door of the described as follows, to wit: Courthouse of Marion County, Lot 1 in Block 1 of the Hawkins Mississippi, in the City of Columbia, and Smith Addition to the City of Mississippi, to the highest bidder for Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, cash, the following described land as per map or plat thereof on file in and property situated in Marion the office of the Chancery Clerk of County, Mississippi, to wit: Marion County, Mississippi. All that part of the following ALSO, a strip of land in Lot No. 2 described parcel of land lying and of Block 1 of the said Hawkins & being situated in the Southeast Smith Addition to the City of Division ( also known as Lot No. 13) Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, of Fractional Section 31, Township 4 being 15 feet wide and 205 feet long North, Range 18 West, Marion and abutting on said Lot No. 1 of County, Mississippi, to-wit: Block 1 of said Hawkins & Smith Commence at the Northwest cor- Addition to the City of Columbia, ner of the SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Marion County, Mississippi, as per Section 32, Township 4 North, Range map or plat thereof on file in the 18 West (said point being one-quar- Office of the Chancery Clerk of ter mile North of the Southeast cor- Marion County, Mississippi. ner of Fractional Section 31, Title to said property is believed to Township 4 North, Range 18 West) be good, but the undersigned at such and run thence West for a distance of sale will sell and convey only such 462 feet, and to the Northwest corner title as is vested in him by said Deed of parcel of land conveyed unto Mrs. of Trust. Louise Summer et vir, as described in THIS the 5th day of February, A.D., instrument recorded in Book 139 at 2009. Page 529 of the land records of Forest M. Dantin, Trustee Marion County, Mississippi, said point Feb5,12,19,26 being the point of beginning of the TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE parcel of land here described; run WHEREAS, on December 3, 1999, thence West for a distance of 148 Grading Services, Inc., executed a feet, and to the Southwest corner of deed of trust to R. Andrew Foxworth, a parcel of land conveyed unto J.R. trustee for the benefit of Citizens Newsom, as described in instrument Bank, Columbia, Mississippi, which recorded in Book 65 at Page 202 of deed of trust is of record in Book the land records of Marion County, 1303, at page 726, of the land deed Mississippi; run thence North, along of trust records as contained in the the Western boundary line of said office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion parcel of land so described in instru- County, Mississippi; and ment recorded in Book 65 at Page WHEREAS, on November 13, 202 aforesaid, for a distance of 360 2000, Grading Services, Inc., execut- feet, and to the Northwest corner of ed a deed of trust to R. Andrew said parcel of land so described in Foxworth, trustee for the benefit of instrument recorded in Book 65 at Citizens Bank, Columbia, Mississippi, Page 202 aforesaid, and being also to which deed of trust is of record in the Northern boundary line of lands Book 1325, at page 100, of the land conveyed unto Hamilton Mayson by deed of trust records as contained in instrument recorded in Book D. at the office of the Chancery Clerk of Page 75 of the land records of Marion Marion County, Mississippi; and County, Mississippi, and being also WHEREAS, on November 13, the Southern boundary line of land 2000, Grading Services, Inc., execut- conveyed unto Harris Pope, Sr., by ed a deed of trust to R. Andrew instrument recorded in Book M at Foxworth, trustee for the benefit of Page 193 of the land records of THURSDAY 12 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009 LEGAL LEGAL LEGAL LEGAL LEGAL

AND ALSO: The easement for o' clock a.m. and 4 o' clock p.m.), at TOYIA BOURN, TEDD BOURN and 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for The Marion County Board of ingress and egress over and across public outcry, offer for sale and will TRAVIS BOURN. sale and will sell, at the North front Education hereby gives notice of the the following described lands as sell, at the front door of the court- You are not required to file an door of Marion County Courthouse at changing in classification of land recorded in Book 808 at Page 316 of house of the Marion County answer or other pleading but you may Columbia, Mississippi, for cash to the located in the following Section and the land deed records of Marion Courthouse at Columbia, Mississippi, do so if you desire. You must take highest bidder, the following Township located in Marion County, County, Mississippi. The SE 1/4 of for cash to the highest bidder, the fol- immediate action to protect your described land and property situated Mississippi, in compliance with the Section 31, Township 4 North, Range lowing described land and property rights. in Marion County, Mississippi, to-wit: requirements of Section 29-3-39, 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi, situated in Marion County, Mississippi, Issued under my hand and seal of Commence at the Southwest cor- Mississippi code of 1972, as amended. sometimes designated as Lot No. 13 to-wit: this Court, this the 2nd day of ner of the North 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of The following parcels will be re- of Fractional Section 31, Township 4 COMMENCING AT THE SOUTH- February, 2009. the NE 1/4 of said Section 35; thence classified from FARM RESIDENTIAL to North, Range 18 West, Marion County, EAST CORNER OF THE NORTHWEST (SEAL) run South 89 degrees 39 minutes 59 FOREST: Mississippi. QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST CASS BARNES, CHANCERY CLERK, seconds East and along the South line NW ¼ of NW ¼ of SW ¼ in SUBJECT, further, to such right of QUARTER OF SECTION 31, TOWN- MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI of the said North 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 16, Township 2 North, Range way or easement privileges affecting SHIP 4 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, By: Joy D. Baughman, D.C. the NE 1/4 for 698.26 feet to the Point 12 East, containing 10 acres, more or said parcel of land, as may exist by MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AND JAMES C. RHODEN of Beginning; thence run North 00 less. virtue of instrument recorded in Book THENCE RUN NORTH, A DISTANCE Attorne at Law degrees 13 minutes 18 seconds East Any interested parties desiring to 104 at Page 384 of the land records of OF 740 FEET; THENCE RUN WEST A Post Office Box 487 for 614.71 feet to the centerline of a object to this classification must sub- Marion County, Mississippi. DISTANCE OF 20 FEET TO THE WEST 326B Second Street public road; thence run South 73 mit such objection in writing to the LESS AND EXCEPT the property MARGIN OF KATHERINE DRIVE, THE Columbia, Mississippi 39429 degrees 38 minutes 46 seconds East Chancery Clerk of Marion County conveyed to Homer Pope in deed POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE RUN (601) 731-1188 Telephone and along the centerline of said road within 30 days from the day of final dated March 27, 1980, and recorded WEST A DISTANCE OF 136 FEET; (601) 736-9593 Facsimile for 39.52 feet; thence run South 61 publishing of this notice. in Book 808 at Page 273 of the land THENCE RUN NORTH A DISTANCE OF Feb12,19,26 degrees 24 minutes 38 seconds East MARION COUNTY BOARD OF EDU- deed records of Marion County, 80 FEET; THENCE RUN EAST A DIS- Substitute Trustee's and along the centerline of said road CATION Mississippi and more particularly TANCE OF 136 FEET; THENCE RUN Notice of Sale for 183.32 feet; thence run South 57 Ronald Fortenberry, Superintendent described as follows, to-wit: SOUTH A DISTANCE OF 80 FEET STATE OF MISSISSIPPI degrees 16 minutes 11 seconds East Marion County Schools Commence at the Northwest corner of BACK TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; COUNTY OF Marion and along the centerline of said road February 2, 2009 SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of Section 32, SAID PARCEL BEING SITUATED IN WHEREAS, on the 27th day of for 240.55 feet; thence run Southerly Feb19,26,Mar5 Township 4 North, Range 18 West and THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE October, 2004 and acknowledged on along the centerline of said road and Affidavit of thence run West 610 feet; thence run NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION the 27th day of October, 2004, Tim E. along a curve to the right for 116.19 Abandonment Notice: North 360 feet; thence run West 650 31, TOWNSHIP 4 NORTH, RANGE 18 Bates aka Timothy E. Bates and Judy feet, said curve having a central angle Under the Mississippi Abandoned feet; thence run South 555 feet to the WEST MARION COUNTY MISSISSIP- Bates aka Judy L. Bates, Husband and of 72 degrees 13 minutes 33 seconds Motor Vehicle Law, Miss Code Ann. point of beginning of the land here PI. Wife, executed and delivered a certain and a radius of 92.17 feet; thence run Section 63-23-1, et seq., as ammend- described and conveyed; thence run Indexing Instructions : NW1/4 of Deed of Trust unto William H. Glover, South 14 degrees 57 minutes 22 sec- ed, I/we being persons defined therin West 555 feet; thence run South 29.5 NE1/4 Section 31, Township 4 North, Jr., Trustee for Wells Fargo Bank, NA, onds West and along the centerline of authorized to proceed do hereby cer- feet; thence run North 89 degrees 20 Range 18 West, Marion County, Beneficiary, to secure an indebtedness said road for 76.22 feet; thence run tify that on the 10th day of January, minutes East 555 feet along an exist- Mississippi therein described, which Deed of Southerly along the centerline of said 2009 one 1998 Chevy S-10 VIN# ing fence; thence run North 23 feet to 159 31 000 02 065 PPIN 6006 Trust is recorded in the office of the road and along a curve to the left for 1GCCS1946W8166438 was aban- the point of beginning and being Title to the above described prop- Chancery Clerk of Marion County, 189.73 feet, said curve having a cen- doned on my premises. I hereby cer- located in the Southeast division erty is believed to be good, but I will Mississippi in Book 1462 at Page 439 tral angle of 54 degrees 08 minutes tify to the best of my knowledge the sometimes designated as Lot No. 13 convey only such title as is vested in and rerecorded in Book 1476 at Page 06 seconds and a radius of 200.81 odometer reading of 213,000 miles of Fractional Section 31, Township 4 me as Substituted Trustee. 480; and feet; thence run South 39 degrees 10 reflects the amount of mileage of the North, Range 18 West, Marion County, WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this WHEREAS, on the 23rd day of minutes 44 seconds East and along vehicle described herein. Mississippi. the 30th day of January, 2009 January, 2009, Wells Fargo Bank, NA, the centerline of said road for 45.15 Tony’s Small Engine 116 South High The undersigned trustee believes Christian Mayer assigned said Deed of Trust unto Bank feet to the South line of the said School Avenue, Columbia, MS 39429 his title as such trustee is good, but Christian Mayer, Vice President of America NA sbm to LaSalle Bank, North1/2 of the SW1/4 of the NE1/4; This advertised vehicle will be sold he will convey only such title as is Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. NA as Trustee for Structured Asset thence run North 89 degrees 39 min- on or after Friday, March 6, 2009 at vested in him as trustee. 1587 Northeast Expressway Securities Corporation Trust 2005- utes 59 seconds West and along the 10:00 a.m. This foreclosure sale is subject to Atlanta, Ga 30329 WF1, by instrument recorded in the South line of the said North1/2 of the Feb19,26,Mar5 the redemption rights of the Internal (770) 234-9181 ext 1156 office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk SW1/4 of the NE1/4 for 490.04 feet to REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Revenue Service. 0718947MS in Book 1599 at Page 228; and the Point of Beginning; containing 5.0 The State of Mississippi, Division of EXECUTED ON THIS the 12th day of Feb12,19,26 WHEREAS, on the 23rd day of acres, more or less, and being a part Medicaid is soliciting proposals to January, A.D. 2009. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF January, 2009, the Holder of said of the SW1/4 of NE1/4 of Section 35, lease 6800 - 7200 square feet of office R. Andrew Foxworth, Trustee MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI Deed of Trust substituted and Township 5 North, Range 19 West, space in Columbia. Location must be Feb5,12,19,26 GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC appointed Emily Kaye Courteau as Marion County, Mississippi. contained on one floor and be easily STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA PLAINTIFF Trustee in said Deed of Trust, by Less and Except: accessible from major highways. IN THE FAMILY COURT VS. instrument recorded in the office of Commencing at the Southwest cor- Length of lease will be negotiable. THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRC NO. 2008-0402H the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book ner of the N1/2 of the SW1/4 of the Interested parties should contact Alice COUNTY OF GREENVILLE OMA L. THOMPSON, LEANNA 1599 at Page 229; and NE1/4 of Section 35, Township 5 Stuart, Division of Medicaid, South Carolina Department of AINSWORTH COX and JAMES WHEREAS, default having been North, Range 19 West, and thence Enrollment Bureau, 550 High Street, Social Services, Plaintiff, ERIC COX made in the payments of the indebt- run South 89 degrees 39 minutes 59 Suite 1000, Jackson, MS 39201-1399 SUMMONS AND NOTICE DEFENDANT edness secured by the said Deed of seconds East and along the South line or call (601) 576-4112 for leasing vs. Case Number: 2008-DR-23- COURT SUMMONS Trust, and the holder of said Deed of of the N1/2 of the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 information. The deadline for receipt 0553 THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Trust, having requested the under- a distance of 698.26 feet; thence con- of proposals is Monday, March 9, John Cartier, Beth Allison TO: LEANNA AINSWORTH COX signed so to do, on the 5th day of tinue South 89 degrees 39 minutes 59 2009. Waterfield,Defendants. and JAMES ERIC COX March, 2009, I will during the lawful seconds East along the South line of E.O.E. In the Interest of: Jessica Cartier, You have been made Defendants hours of between 11:00 a.m. and the said N1/2 of the SW1/4 of the Feb19,26 DOB: 5/21/1992 Minors Under the in the suit filed in this Court by Green 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for NE1/4 a distance of 300 feet to the Substitute Trustee's Age of 18 Tree Servicing LLC, successor in inter- sale and will sell, at the North front point of beginning of the land herein Notice of Sale TO: DEFENDANT John Cartier est to Origen Financial L.L.C. door of Marion County Courthouse at described: Thence run North 00 STATE OF MISSISSIPPI YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and (“Plaintiff”), seeking judgment in Columbia, Mississippi, for cash to the degrees 13 minutes 18 seconds East a COUNTY OF Marion required to answer the Complaint for favor of Plaintiff and against highest bidder, the following distance of 150 feet; thence run WHEREAS, on the 20th day of Intervention filed against you, the Defendants for possession of one (1) described land and property situated South 89 degrees 39 minutes 59 sec- September, 2004 and acknowledged original of which has been filed in the 2002 Buccaneer Manufactured Home, in Marion County, Mississippi, to-wit: onds East to the centerline of a public on the 21st day of September, 2004, Office of the Clerk of Court for Model 16449 Series II, Serial No. Tract I road; thence run in a Southerly direc- Rev. M. D. Sterling and wife, Barbara Greenville County on February 7, BM02MS0448713, 16x80, together Lot 18 and 19 of Block 11, or the tion along the centerline of said pub- Sterling, executed and delivered a 2008, a copy of which will be deliv- with Air Conditioning, Steps and Village of Foxworth, formerly West lic road to the South line of the afore- certain Deed of Trust unto American ered to you upon your request, and to Skirting. Oma L. Thompson is also a Columbia, as per map or plat made by said N1/2 of the SW1/4 of the NE1/4; Title Company, Trustee for The serve a copy of your Answer to said Defendant in this matter. E. Blanchard, on October 25, 1907, thence run North 89 degrees 39 min- Hurricane Mortgage Company, Inc., Complaint upon the undersigned You are required to appear before and on file in the office of the utes 59 seconds West along the South Beneficiary, to secure an indebtedness attorney for the Plaintiff to A. Devorea the Circuit Court of Marion County at Chancery Clerk of Marion County line of the said N1/2 of the SW1/4 of therein described, which Deed of Spriggs, Greenville County the Pearl River County Courthouse in Mississippi. the NE1/4 a distance of 190.04 feet, Trust is recorded in the office of the Department of Social Services, P.O. Poplarville, Mississippi, on Friday, Tract II more or less, back to the point of Chancery Clerk of Marion County, Box 10887, Greenville, S.C. 29603 March 13, 2009, at 9:00 a.m., to Lot 17 of Block 11 of the Village of beginning; containing 0.50 acre, more Mississippi in Book 1462 at Page 649; within thirty (30) days following the answer the Plaintiff’s Complaint filed Foxworth, formerly West Columbia as or less, and being located in the N1/2 and date of service upon you, exclusive of herein, and for a hearing to determine per map or plat made by F. Blanchard of the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section WHEREAS, by various assignments the date of service, and if you fail to the rights of the parties herein as to on October 25, 1907, and on file in 35, Township 5 North, Range 19 West, on record said Deed of Trust was ulti- answer said Complaint within the time possession of the Manufactured Home the office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion County, Mississippi. mately assigned to stated, Plaintiff will apply for a described in the Complaint, and to Marion County, Mississippi. Also less and except: Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Trustee. Judgment by Default against you for show why the Defendants should not I will only convey such title as is Commence at the southwest cor- Pooling and Servicing Agreement the relief demanded in the Complaint. be adjudged in contempt of Court if vested in me as Substitute Trustee ner of the N 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of the dated as of November 1, 2004. Asset they remove said Manufactured Home WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this day NE 1/4 of said section 35; thence run Backed Pass-Through Certificates A. Devorea Spriggs from the jurisdiction of this Court February 2, 2009 S 89 degrees 39 minutes 59 seconds Series 2004-WWF1., by instrument Staff Attorney, South Carolina pending a final judgment herein. If Emily Kaye Courteau E and along the south line of the said recorded in the office of the aforesaid Department of Social Services you do not appear as summoned, a Substitute Trustee N 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 for Chancery Clerk in Book 1523 at Page Post Office Box 10887 Judgment will be entered against you 2309 Oliver Road 698.26 feet; thence run N 00 degrees 516; and Greenville, South Carolina 29603 for the money or other relief demand- Monroe, LA 71201 13 minutes 18 seconds E for 614.71 WHEREAS, on the 21st day of (864) 467-4875 ed in the Complaint. (318) 330-9020 feet to the centerline of a public road August, 2006, the Holder of said Deed Feb12,19,26 ISSUED, this the 23rd day of sdr/F08-3627 and the point of beginning, thence of Trust substituted and appointed SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S January, 2009. Feb12,19,26 run S 73 degrees 38 minutes 46 sec- Emily Kaye Courteau as Trustee in NOTICE OF SALE JESSE LOFTIN, Circuit Clerk Substitute Trustee's onds E and along the centerline of said Deed of Trust, by instrument STATE OF MISSISSIPPI of Marion County, Mississippi Notice of Sale said road for 39.52 feet; thence run S recorded in the office of the aforesaid COUNTY OF MARION By: Ashley Douglas, D.C. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI 61 degrees 24 minutes 38 seconds E Chancery Clerk in Book 1523 at Page WHEREAS, on April 28, 2006, Feb12,19,26 COUNTY OF Marion and along the centerline of said road 517; and Tanya Rideout and Demarcus A. IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF WHEREAS, on the 17th day of for 183.32 feet; thence run south to WHEREAS, default having been Rideout executed and delivered a cer- MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI March, 2006 and acknowledged on centerline of power line; thence con- made in the payments of the indebt- tain Deed of Trust unto Ray J. IN THE MATTER OF the 17th day of March, 2006, Julie L tinue to run south for 100 feet; thence edness secured by the said Deed of Richard, Trustee for the benefit of THE ESTATE OF Radomski AKA Julie Radomski Single run West to a point S 00 degrees 13 Trust, and the holder of said Deed of Grand Bank for Savings, fsb, to secure CHARLES BOURN, DECEASED woman, executed and delivered a cer- minutes 18 seconds W from the point Trust, having requested the under- an indebtedness therein described, CAUSE No. 2009-0004-P-D tain Deed of Trust unto Donovan O of beginning; thence run N 00 signed so to do, on the 12th day of which Deed of Trust is recorded in the SUMMONS McComb, Trustee for Mortgage degrees 13 minutes 18 seconds E and March, 2009, I will during the lawful office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., back to the point of beginning. hours of between 11:00 a.m. and County, Mississippi in Book 1509, COUNTY OF MARION Beneficiary, to secure an indebtedness I will only convey such title as is 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for Page 674; and TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT therein described, which Deed of vested in me as Substitute Trustee sale and will sell, at the North front WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was LAW OF CHARLES BOURN, Trust is recorded in the office of the WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this day door of Marion County Courthouse at subsequently assigned unto DECEASED Chancery Clerk of Marion County, February 4, 2009 Columbia, Mississippi, for cash to the Countrywide Home Loan Servicing LP, NOTICE TO DEFENDANT(S) Mississippi in Book 1572 at Page 617; Emily Kaye Courteau highest bidder, the following by instrument recorded in the Office You have been summoned to and Substitute Trustee described land and property situated of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in appear and defend against the PETI- WHEREAS, on the 17th day of 2309 Oliver Road in Marion County, Mississippi, to-wit: Book 1599, Page 098; and TION TO ESTABLISH HEIRS AT LAW December, 2008, the Holder of said Monroe, LA 71201 Begin at the Northeast corner of WHEREAS, the holder of said Deed OF CHARLES BOURN, DECEASED, at Deed of Trust substituted and (318) 330-9020 the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 15, of Trust substituted and appointed 9:30 a.m. on the 13th day of April, appointed Emily Kaye Courteau as cls/F08-3364 Township 3 North, Range 13 East, and Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as 2009, in the Courtroom of the Marion Trustee in said Deed of Trust, by Feb19,26,Mar5 run thence West 82 feet; thence run Trustee in said Deed of Trust by County Courthouse at Columbia, instrument recorded in the office of Marion County Schools North 89 degrees and 14 minutes instrument recorded in the Office of Mississippi, and in case of your failure the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book Sixteenth Section Land West 250 feet; thence run South 0 the aforesaid Chancery Clerk Book to appear and defend, a judgment will 1596 at Page 51; and Ronald Fortenberry, degrees and 46 minutes West 98 feet; 1599, Page 103; and be entered against you for the money WHEREAS, default having been Superintendent thence run West 267 feet to the point WHEREAS, default having been or other things demanded in the made in the payments of the indebt- 1010 Highway 13 North, Suite 2 of beginning: Thence continue West made in the payments of indebted- PETITION TO ESTABLISH HEIRS AT edness secured by the said Deed of Columbia, Mississippi 39429 100 feet; thence run South 10 ness secured by said Deed of Trust, LAW OF CHARLES BOURN, Trust, and the holder of said Deed of Phone: (601) 736-7193 degrees and 24 minutes West 151.3 and the holder of said Deed of Trust, DECEASED. Defendants other than Trust, having requested the under- FAX: (601) 736-6274 feet; thence run South 87 degrees having requested the undersigned so you are: TWYLA B. SWANNER, TIMO- signed so to do, on the 12th day of Sixteenth Section Public Notice and 36 minutes East 100 feet; thence to do, on March 5, 2009, I will, during THY BOURN, THADDRA B. HATFIELD, March, 2009, I will during the lawful CHANGING LAND run North 10 degrees and 24 minutes legal hours (between the hours of 11 TODD BOURN, TARA B. SMITH, hours of between 11:00 a.m. and CLASSIFICATION East 155.5 feet, back to the point of THURSDAY February 26, 2009 www.columbianprogress.com 13 LEGAL LEGAL LEGAL LEGAL RETAIL SPACE beginning. Said parcel contains 0.34 January, 2008, Mortgage Electronic lands, to a new 80-acre oil unit ate in accordance with the evidence February, A.D. 2009. acres, more or less, and is located in Registration Systems, Inc., assigned described as follows: presented. CASS BARNES, CHANCERY CLERK the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section said Deed of Trust unto RMS NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 and NW 1/4 of DATED at Jackson, Mississippi, OF 15, Township 3 North, Range 13 East, Residential Properties LLC, by instru- NE 1/4 of Section 21, Township 4 this the 2nd day of February 2009. MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI Marion County, Mississippi. ment recorded in the office of the North, Range 13 East, Marion County, MISSISSIPPI STATE OIL AND GAS /s/ Cass Barnes Being the same property conveyed aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book Mississippi. BOARD Feb26,Mar5,12,19 to Rev. M.D. Sterling and wife, 1567 at Page 371; and The Petition seeks to force inte- By: /s/ Lisa A. Ivshin LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLICA- Barbara Sterling by deed from Kevin WHEREAS, on the 21st day of grate all interests in the new unit, Lisa A. Ivshin TION OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Dwayne Ward and wife, Deborah March, 2005, the Holder of said Deed with those owners in the new unit State Oil and Gas Supervisor OF CONTRACT Gaye Ward filed for record in Book of Trust substituted and appointed who were force integrated with alter- PETITIONER'S ATTORNEY: Notice is hereby given that the 1266, Page 655, Registers Office for Emily Kaye Courteau as Trustee in nate charges in the original unit to be Jefferson D. Stewart, Esq. contract between the Board of Marion County Mississippi, dated said Deed of Trust, by instrument and remain subject to alternate J. Jeffrey Trotter, Esq. Supervisors of Marion County, 11/20/98. Metes and Bounds recorded in the office of the aforesaid charges; approve the exception loca- Adams and Reese, L.L.P. Mississippi, on the one part and Dial, I will only convey such title as is Chancery Clerk in Book 1473 at Page tion of the Well; designate Petitioner Post Office Drawer 24297 Inc., on the other part, dated October vested in me as Substitute Trustee 714; and to continue to act as operator; and, Jackson, Mississippi 39225-4297 20, 2004, for the construction of WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this day WHEREAS, default having been authorize Petitioner to produce the Telephone: (601) 353-3234 Project No. SAP 46 13 S being a sec- February 11, 2009 made in the payments of the indebt- Well with a full allowable. Feb26 tion of Roads A-N in Marion County, Emily Kaye Courteau edness secured by the said Deed of Take notice that the above and Legal Notice Mississippi, has been fully and com- Substitute Trustee Trust, and the holder of said Deed of foregoing matter will be heard by this Columbia Storage, LLC of 54 pletely performed and final settle- 2309 Oliver Road Trust, having requested the under- Board at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on the Columbia-Purvis Rd., Columbia, MS ment thereunder has been made on Monroe, LA 71201 signed so to do, on the 12th day of 18th day of March, 2009, in Suite E, 39429, makes notice that the con- January 12, 2009. (318) 330-9020 March, 2009, I will during the lawful 500 Greymont Avenue, Jackson, tents of the following units rented by This notice is given under Section lhs/F06-0953 hours of between 11:00 a.m. and Mississippi, at which time and place the following individuals will be sold 31-5-53, Mississippi Code of 1972, in Feb19,26,Mar5 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for all interested parties may appear and to the highest bidder at 54 Columbia- pursuance of the authority conferred IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF sale and will sell, at the North front contest said matter. Purvis Rd., Columbia, MS 39429 at upon me by order of the Board of MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI door of Marion County Courthouse at If you intend to contest the dock- 9:00 a.m. on March 7, 2009; # 153 Supervisors of Marion County, in IN THE MATTER OF Columbia, Mississippi, for cash to the et or request a continuance, you Alicia D. Neal; #19 Rose Jefferson; Minute Book 52, Page __. THE ESTATE OF highest bidder, the following must notify the Board and Petitioner's #111 Robin Fagan; #63 Comfort Inn. Dated, this the 17th of February, HULON MORGAN, DECEASED; described land and property situated representative of your intention in Feb26,Mar5 2009. CIVIL ACTION in Marion County, Mississippi, to-wit: writing not later than 5:00 p.m. on ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS /s/Cass Barnes NO. 2008-0109-P-D Commencing at the Northwest Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (seven (7) Notice is hereby given that the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors MICHAEL LEE CARTER, corner of the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of days prior to the date stated above Board of Supervisors of Marion Marion County, Mississippi ADMINISTRATOR. Section 30, Township 2 North, Range for the hearing). Failure to so notify County, Mississippi, will receive Feb26 SUMMONS 13 East, and thence run East a dis- the Board and Petitioner shall be a sealed bids in the office of the Marion BEFORE THE STATE OIL AND THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI tance of 525 feet to the point of waiver of your right to contest or County Board of Supervisors, 215 GAS BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI TO: LEE ANNA CARTER TURNAGE, beginning: Thence continue East a request continuance. Broad Street, Columbia, Mississippi RE: PETITION OF J. R. POUNDS, whose mailing address is unknown distance of 345 feet to a point on the You are advised that the Board 39429, until the hour of 10:00 o'clock INC. TO DRILL THE BUCKLEY after diligent search and inquiry forty line a distance of 30 feet North may adopt orders concerning a peti- A.M. on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, for 28-4 WELL NO. 1, TO BE You have been made a Defendant of the Northwest corner of that cer- tion which may differ from the relief the purchase of the following, to wit: LOCATED IN SECTION 28, in the suit, filed in this Court by tain parcel of land conveyed to Albert requested by Petitioner, and the One (1) new or used trailer- TOWNSHIP 5 NORTH, RANGE 19 Michael Lee Carter, Plaintiff, seeking Homer, Jr., per deed of record in Book Board will enter such order or orders mounted spray injection road repair WEST, MARION COUNTY, to establish the heirs at law of Hulon 605, at page 154, as contained in the as in its judgment may be appropri- machine for use by Supervisor's MISSISSIPPI, GREENS CREEK Morgan, deceased. Defendants other office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion ate in accordance with the evidence District No. 4, Marion County, FIELD, APPROVE AN EXCEPTION than you in this action are the County, Mississippi; thence run South presented. Mississippi, together with lease-pur- LOCATION, APPROVE THE WELL unknown heirs at law of Hulon a distance of 631.5 feet; thence run STATE OIL AND GAS BOARD OF chase financing therefor. AS AN INCREASED DENSITY Morgan. West a distance of 345 feet; thence MISSISSIPPI The above to be according to WELL, FORCE INTEGRATE ALL You are summoned to appear and run North a distance of 631.5 feet By: /s/ Lisa A. Ivshin specifications therefor on file in the INTERESTS, AND OBTAIN defend against said Petition to back to the point of beginning; being Lisa A. Ivshin office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion RELATED RELIEF Establish Heirs at Law, filed against a part and parcel of said NW 1/4 of State Oil and Gas Board Supervisor County, Mississippi. DOCKET NO. 111-2009-418 you in this action at 9:30 o'clock A.M. the SE 1/4 of Section 30, Township 2 ATTORNEYS FOR PETITIONER The Board of Supervisors reserves PUBLIC NOTICE on the 13th day of April, 2009, in the North, Range 13 East, Marion County, C. Glen Bush (MBN 7589) the right to (1) take advantage of the To all owners and persons courtroom of the Marion County Mississippi, and containing five (5.0) Glenn Gates Taylor (MBN 7453) provisions of Section 19-13-17 of the interested in the following Courthouse at Columbia, Mississippi, acres, more or less. John H. Geary, Jr. (MBN 101540) Mississippi Code of 1972, as amend- described lands: and in case of your failure to appear Being the same property as con- COPELAND, COOK, TAYLOR & BUSH, ed, and pay for said road equipment All of Section 28, Township 5 and defend, a judgment will be veyed to Derek S. Pittman and Dana P.A. in installments, or (2) to take advan- North, Range 19 West, entered against you for the money or F. Pittman in a Warranty Deed dated 1076 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite tage of the provisions of Section 31- Marion County, Mississippi, in other things demanded in the October 22, 1999 and filed for record 100 7-13(e) of the Mississippi Code of Greens Creek Field. Petition. on October 22, 1999 in Book 1296 at Post Office Box 6020 1972, as amended, and lease-pur- TAKE NOTICE that J. R. POUNDS, You are not required to file an Page 453. Ridgeland, Mississippi 39158 chase said road equipment, or (3) to INC. has filed a petition with the answer or other pleading but you I will only convey such title as is (601) 856-7200 pay cash, in its discretion. Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board may do so if you desire. vested in me as Substitute Trustee Feb26 The Board of Supervisors reserves requesting that the Board grant the Issued under my hand and the WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this BEFORE THE STATE OIL AND the right to reject any and all bids following relief: approve the drilling seal of said Court, this 11th day of day February 11, 2009 GAS BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI and to waive any and all informalities. of the Buckley 28-4 Well No. 1 (the February, A.D. 2009. Emily Kaye Courteau DOCKET NO. 81-2009-467 This the 3rd day of February, A. D. "Well") on the above described unit /S/Cass Barnes Substitute Trustee AMENDED PUBLIC NOTICE 2009. at an exception location; approve the Clerk of Court Marion County, 2309 Oliver Road To all persons interested in the S & /s/ Cass Barnes Well as an increased density well and Mississippi Monroe, LA 71201 S Petroleum, LLC - Board of Cass Barnes, Clerk the second well on the said unit to By: Joy D. Baughman, D.C. (318) 330-9020 Education No. 1 Well located in the Marion County Board of Supervisors produce from the same pool; force (SEAL) cls/F05-0547 following described 320-acre unit: (SEAL) integrate all of the above described Feb19,26,Mar5 Feb19,26,Mar5 Beginning at the Southwest corner Feb26,Mar5 lands and all interests; designate IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF Advertisement for Bids of Section 16, Township 4 North, NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF Petitioner to act as operator with the MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI Sealed Bids for: Contracts for fire Range 13 East, Marion County, MARILYN SUE POWELL right to charge each non-consenting IN THE MATTER OF insurance, automobile insurance and Mississippi; run thence Northerly Letters of Administration having owner in the proposed unit such THE ESTATE OF casualty insurance will be received by along the West line of said Section 16 been granted on the 17th day of charges as are allowed by law; grant HULON MORGAN, DECEASED; the Pearl River Basin Development for 2647.1 feet, more or less; thence February, A.D. 2009, by the Chancery the Well a full allowable; and grant CIVIL ACTION District, 2304 Riverside Drive, P. O. Easterly and parallel to the South line Court of Marion County, Mississippi, related relief, as more particularly set NO. 2008-0109-P-D Box 5332, Jackson, MS 39296-5332 of said Section 16 for 5122.7 feet, to the undersigned, upon the estate forth in the Petition. MICHAEL LEE CARTER, until 10:00 a.m. local time, Tuesday, more or less, to a point on the cen- of Marilyn Sue Powell, deceased, The Well is proposed to be drilled ADMINISTRATOR April 07, 2009, at which time they will terline of the Pearl River; thence notice is hereby given to all persons at a location that is 1047 feet South SUMMONS be publicly opened and read. Southeasterly along the centerline of having claims against said estate to of the North line and 600 feet East of THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Specifications for these contracts are the Pearl River for 497.6 feet, more or present the same to the clerk of said the West line of said Section 28 to a TO: The Heirs At Law of on file at the office of the Pearl River less; thence Southerly along the East court for probate and registration total depth of 16,500 feet to test and Hulon Morgan Basin Development District and line of said Section 16 for 2175.0 according to law within ninety (90) produce the Hosston Formation and You have been made a Defendant copies will be furnished upon request feet, more or less; thence Westerly days from the date of the first publi- all other formations and pools which in the suit filed in this Court by (601) 354-6301. All bids must be in along the South line of said Section cation of this notice, or they will be may be encountered. Petitioner Michael Lee Carter, Plaintiff, seeking accordance to the specifications out- 16 for 5280.0 feet, more or less, to forever barred. seeks authority to produce the Well to establish the heirs at law of Hulon lined in the provided documents. the Point of Beginning. The above THIS the17th day of February, A.D. simultaneously from the same pool Morgan, Deceased. Defendant's The District reserves the right to described tract is situated in Section 2009. as is produced by the J. R. Pounds, other than you in this action are Lee waive any irregularities and reject 16, Township 4 North, Range 13 East, /s/ Inc.-Rogers 28-11 Well No. 1. The Anna Carter Turnage. any and all bids. All bids must be East Morgantown Field, Marion Gannon L. Rogers Well will be located less than 3000 You are summoned to appear and addressed to the Pearl River Basin County, Mississippi and contains 320 Administrator feet from the Roundtree-Barnes 29-1 defend against the complaint or peti- Development District, P. O. Box 5332, acres. Feb26,Mar5,12,19 Well, which is located in adjacent tion filed against you in this action at Jackson, MS 39296-5332 and plainly Please take notice that beginning IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF Section 29, and from the Will-Drill- 9:30 O'clock A.M. on the 13th day of marked on the outside envelope at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI Black Stone Minerals 28-5 Well No. 1, April, 2009, in the courtroom of the "Bids on Contracts for Insurance." 18, 2009, in the hearing room, Suite IN THE MATTER OF which is located in Section 28. Marion County Courthouse at Pearl River Basin Development E, 500 Greymont Avenue, Jackson, THE ESTATE OF TAKE NOTICE that the above and Columbia, Mississippi, and in case of District Mississippi, the State Oil and Gas CAUSE NO. 2009-0010-P-D foregoing matter will be heard at the your failure to appear and defend a By: Mike Davis Board will hear the Petition of Range MARILYN SUE POWELL, regular March 2009 meeting of the judgment will be entered against you Executive Vice President Production Company, the offsetting DECEASED Board to be held at 10:00 a.m. on for the money or other things Feb19,26 operator, requesting the Board to SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION March 18, 2009 at 500 Greymont demanded in the complaint or peti- BEFORE THE STATE OIL AND revise the allowable for the S&S THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Avenue, Suite E, Jackson, Mississippi, tion. GAS BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI Petroleum, LLC - Board of Education To: THE HEIRS-AT-LAW OF 39202, at which time and place all You are not required to file an RE: PETITION OF RANGE PRO- No. 1 Well, to an allowable equal to MARILYN SUE POWELL, interested parties may appear and answer or other pleading but you DUCTION COMPANY FOR one-half of its maximum efficient rate DECEASED contest said matter. may do so if you desire. AUTHORITY TO REFORM THE of production, as demonstrated by You have been made defendants If you intend to contest the dock- Issued under my hand and the UNIT FOR THE POWELL 21-3 semi-annual gas deliverability tests in that certain petition filed in the et or request a continuance, you seal of said Court, this 11th day of NO. 1 WELL, SECTION 21, conducted in accordance with within cause by Gannon L. Rogers, must notify the Board and Petitioner's February, 2009. TOWNSHIP 4 NORTH, RANGE 13 Statewide Rule 34.B, in order to com- Tanya Michelle Rogers and Trina representative of your intention in /S/ Cass Barnes EAST, MARION COUNTY, MIS- ply with the mandatory requirements Dawn Powell, petitioners, seeking to writing not later than 5:00 o'clock Chancery Clerk of Marion County, SISSIPPI, EAST MORGANTOWN of Miss. Code Ann. § 53-3-5(d). establish the identity of the heirs-at- p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Mississippi FIELD, APPROVE AN EXCEPTION A copy of said Petition is on file in law of Marilyn Sue Powell, deceased, (seven (7) days prior to the date stat- By: Joy D. Baughman, D.C. LOCATION, FORCE INTEGRATE the office of the State Oil and Gas pursuant to the provisions of Sections ed above for the hearing). Failure to (SEAL) AND OBTAIN RELATED RELIEF Board, Suite E, 500 Greymont 91-1-27 and 91-1-29, Mississippi so notify the Board and Petitioner Feb19,25,Mar5 DOCKET NO. 101-2009-467 Avenue, Jackson, Mississippi and may Code of 1972, and alleging that shall be a waiver of your right to con- Substitute Trustee's PUBLIC NOTICE be there examined by any persons Gannon L. Rogers, Tanya Michelle test or request continuance. Notice of Sale To all owners, operators and per- interested. At said hearing, all inter- Rogers and Trina Dawn Powell are You are advised that the Board STATE OF MISSISSIPPI sons interested in the following ested persons may appear and be the sole and only heirs-at-law of said may adopt orders concerning a peti- COUNTY OF Marion described lands, well and unit located heard. Marilyn Sue Powell, deceased. tion which may differ from the relief WHEREAS, on the 12th day of in the East Morgantown Field, Marion If you intend to contest the dock- You are summoned to appear and requested by Petitioner, and the December, 2003 and acknowledged County, Mississippi: et or request a continuance you must defend against the petition filed in Board will enter such order or orders on the 12th day of December, 2003, Section 21, Township 4 North, notify the Board and the Petitioner's this action at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, as in its judgment may be appropri- Derek S. Pittman and Dana F. Range 13 East, Marion County, attorney of your intention in writing March 30, 2009, in the Chancery ate in accordance with the evidence Pittman, husband and wife, executed Mississippi. not later than 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, Courtroom of the Marion County presented. and delivered a certain Deed of Trust TAKE NOTICE that Range March 10, 2009. Failure to so notify Courthouse in Columbia, Mississippi, STATE OIL AND GAS BOARD OF unto Lawyers Title, Inc., Trustee for Production Company has filed a the Board and the Petitioner shall be and in case of your failure to appear MISSISSIPPI Mortgage Electronic Registration Petition with the State Oil and Gas a waiver of your right to contest or and defend, a judgment by default By: Systems, Inc., Beneficiary, to secure under Docket No. 101-2009-467 request continuance. will be entered against you for the LISA IVSHIN an indebtedness therein described, requesting that the Board grant the You are advised the Board may relief sought in the petition. State Oil and Gas Board Supervisor which Deed of Trust is recorded in following relief: alter, reform and adopt orders concerning a Petition, You are not required to file an ATTORNEYS FOR PETITIONERS: the office of the Chancery Clerk of establish the new unit for the Well as which may differ from the relief, answer or other pleading but you Glenn Gates Taylor (MBN 7453) Marion County, Mississippi in Book requested, the existing 640-acre gas requested by the Petitioner and may do so if you desire. C. Glen Bush (MBN 7589) 1436 at Page 201; and unit for the Powell 21-3 No. 1 Well, Board will enter such order or orders Issued under my hand and official COPELAND, COOK, TAYLOR & BUSH, WHEREAS, on the 7th day of comprised of the above described as in its judgment may be appropri- seal of this court, this the 17th day of P.A. THURSDAY 14 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009 LEGAL AUTOMOBILES HELP WANTED HOMES FOR RENT MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS SERVICES

600 Concourse, Suite 1999 Ford Taurus. Atlas2BR/1BA duplex, 2002 Sunshine New Year Special, Homegrown pro- David Cooper’s 100 116k miles, 4-door, all Manufacturing is covered parking, nice 32x70 double wide, 3 For Sale: 2009 16x80, duce for sale by Painting & 1076 Highland Colony electric. no smoking in now accepting appli- area of town. No pets BR/2 BA; has fire- 3 bedroom, 2 bath, Emma Dale. 465 Old Carpentry, vinyl sid- Parkway vehicle ever. Good cations for Production or smoking inside. place, dining room, vinyl siding w/wood River Rd. South, ing, home repairs, P. O. Box 6020 clean condition. Welders. Experience $425/mo. with $375 full kitchen & 2 dens. backer, shingle roof, Columbia. 601-736- renovations, decks, Ridgeland, Mississippi Asking $2,500. 601- with large diameter deposit. 601-731- $45,000. 601-736- thermopane windows, 6736. Stand on fences, ceramic & 39158 736-0631 or 601-731- flux-core wire a plus. 0783 (3/5) 0594 or 601-441-4521 oak cabinets, fiber- Lumberton Rd. wood floors, house 601-856-7200 8104 (3/21) Apply in person at 622 (3/7) glass tubs & showers, closed. (3/7) leveling & washing. 601-856-7626 (fax) E. McPherson Drive, House for rent 601- plywood floor, refrig- 601-794-8976 or 601- Feb26 2004 Z71 loaded, Monticello, MS. Phone 441-5863 (TFN) For Sale: 2001 erator, stove, dish- For sale: Tony Little 436-1323 (3/5) ADVERTISEMENT 112k miles, $11,000. 601-587-4511 (2/26) 3BR/2BA, asking washer, washer/dryer, Gazelle, antique 10 FOR BIDS 1997 Tahoe 4x4 3 BR brick home for $19,000. 601-467- Ashley furniture and gallon pickling crock Professional cabi- Notice is hereby loaded, $6,000. 736- Atlasrent. References 7051 please call much more. and 14 ft. fishing net building and all given that the Board 0317 or 467-3033 Manufacturing is required. 601-736- before 5 p.m. (2/28) Delivered, set-up, boat. Call 601-736- types of carpentry of Supervisors of (3/21) now accepting appli- 7890 (TFN) skirted, a/c. All for 3459 or 601-441-9959 work. 601-736-0068 Marion County, cations for Steel We carry mobile only $301.39 per (2/28) or 601-736-2867 (3/5) For rent: 3BR/2BA Mississippi, will 2005 GMC Yukon in Fabrication Fitters. home doors, win- month wac. Call house. 601-736-9340 receive sealed bids in excellent condition, Experience with heavy dows, and plumbing Simmons Housing at Bus Tour leaving R & R Lawn Care - (2/26) the Boardroom of the loaded with leather, steel fabrication a supplies and portable 1-888-346-9998. Tylertown September Off season yard main- CD, navigation, DVD must. Excellent health buildings. Call or 4-14, 2009, $1015. tenance, leaves, Marion County Board For rent, sale or (2/28) only one owner for benefits. Apply in per- come by G & J Grand Canyon, Las mulching, house pres- of Supervisors located lease. Royce Rental. only $16,500.00. Call son at 622 E. Building. 601-736- New Year Vegas, Oklahoma, sure washing, flower at 215 Broad Street, Owner financed selec- 601-270-8884. (TFN) McPherson Drive, 1197. (TFN) Clearance, For Sale: Albuquerque, Dallas, beds, grass mainte- Columbia, Mississippi, tion of houses and until the hour of Monticello, MS. Phone 2008 32x80, 4 bed- Wilda 601-876-2907, nance, aerator. Call 2007 Premium apartments. 601-736- 3 BR/ 2 BA, 16x80 10:00 o'clock A. M. on 601-587-4511 (2/26) room, 2 bath, ply- 601-876-1874, 601- 601-441-9706. (TFN) Mustang GT, loaded, 2329 or 601-441- mobile home for sale. Tuesday, March 17, wood construction, 876-2122, 958-515- satellite radio, has 2617. (TFN) $16,000. 601-441- Spring cleaning 2009, for the sale, "as Atlas huge kitchen, glamour 5929. (3/7) extended warranty, Manufacturing is 7136 (2/28) special. Will tear is", to the highest bid- House for rent at bath w/tub, computer automatic, 48k miles, now accepting appli- BUSINESS SERVICES down old structures, der, for cash, of the 561 Hwy 586. 3BR/2 room, living room & no down payment, cations for Qualified “TAX RETURN remove & haul away following, to wit: full BA, living room, den w/fireplace, assume loan. Industrial Painter. SUPER SALE” for unwanted items. No One (1) 1980 dining room, play- Ashley furniture, Got lawn work? We $27,000, 601-740- Must have experience sale: All homes job too big or small. Caterpillar D5B dozer, room, kitchen & car- washer/dryer and can help! K&D Lawn 1456 (2/26) using Bulldog 33:1 include upgrade appli- Free estimates. 601- bearing Serial Number port. Rent $550/mo much more. Service. Call Kelli at airless equipment, ances, “Ashley 467-1252 (3/19) 25X1483, heretofore with deposit. 601- Delivered, set-up, a/c, 601-736-1670 or 601- 2005 Toyota applying coal tar Furniture”, plywood used by Marion 736-7884 or 504-451- skirted. All for only 543-4271 (3/21) Tundra, 4 wheel Epoxy and other spe- construction, wash- Perfection Plus: County Supervisor's 7985 (2/28) $493.87 per month drive, $8,500. 2000 er/dryer and skirting. We do plumbing, construction, carpen- District No. 1; said cialty paints. Also wac. Call Simmons Ford F250, $5,000. #1-2008 16x80 3 bed electrical, carpentry try, remodeling, con- dozer may inspected experience using con- 2BR/1BA cabin on 9 Housing at 1-888- 601-731-5541 or 601- + 2 bath Southern and all types of crete, painting & at the District 1 ventional spray equip- acres, C/H/A, very 346-9998. (2/28) 441-6395 (2/26) Dream loaded with repairs. Free esti- more. Professional Equipment Barn locat- ment applying enamel clean, at 1200 Shiloh cabinets and awe- mates. 601-467-1252 high quality work at ed at 30 Gates Road, paints required. Firetower Rd. MISCELLANEOUS HELP WANTED some master bath (4/16) your convenience. Columbia, Mississippi, Please apply in person $500/mo with at Atlas only $299 per mth. Free estimates. Tony during normal busi- $500/dep. 601-736- HUGE reptile cage. Now Hiring: Manufacturing, 622 E. #2-2009 16X80 3 bed Home repairs & Murray 601-466-2269 ness hours. 4956 (3/5) 2 ft. x 4 ft. Wood with Companies desperate- McPherson Drive, + 2 bath Sunshine remodeling by Tim or Ray Anderson 601- The Board of screened & hinged ly need employees to Monticello, MS 39654 “President” (a must Wascomb 601-731- 688-1254 (6/27) Supervisors reserves WANTED top and removable assemble products at or call 601-587-4511 see) only $399 per 4149 (3/21) the right to reject any mth. #3-2009 Plexiglass front. $200 Paul’s Tree Service, home. No selling, any (2/26) and all bids and to obo. 601-441-8913 Will care for your trees trimmed up to hours. $500 weekly Wanted to buy: Southern 28x48 3 bed waive any and all leave message. (TFN) loved one in home. 50 ft or complete potential. Info. 1-985- BOATS wide flat bottom boat. + 2 bath double-wide informalities. 10+ years experience. removal. No bucket 646-1700 Dept. MS- 601-736-5387 (3/7) includes stainless This the 19th day of steel pkg. fireplace Kimball Piano- was Local & distant refer- required. Stump 2019 (3/7) February, A. D. 2009. 1991 Astro 18 ft. Wanted to buy: rid- and much more only just tuned. Price ences. Weekends ok, grinding. Free esti- /s/ Cass Barnes bass boat, 150 HP reduced $1,000. Call Now Hiring: compa- ing mowers, tillers, $399 per mth. #4- reasonable rates. 601- mates. 601-797-9483 Cass Barnes, Mercury motor. 24 volt 601-441-1289. (TFN) nies desperately need plow horses, go carts 2008 Southern “King 441-5667 (3/7) or 601-641-0729 (2/28) Chancery Clerk trolling motor. 2 depth employees to assem- & push mowers. Will Kong” 32x80 4 bed (SEAL) finders. 2 live well, Hastings piano. Southwest Tree BLDGS FOR RENT ble products at home. buy running or not +2 bath double-wide Feb26,Mar5 rod box, plenty stor- Cherry wood, good Service: Tree No selling, any hours. running. 601-731- with den, Hollywood age, galvanized trailer condition. $1,200 removal, stump grind- Retail Space Legal All lands $500 weekly poten- 1505 (3/14) bath and much more with new tires and 601-740-1618 (3/7) ing. Free est. Bonded Available for rent on belonging to Ora tial. Info. 1-985-646- only $529 per mth. spare. Excellent con- HEAVY EQUIPMENT & insured. Craig Second Street. Call Mondy, Myles Mondy 1700 Dept. MS-2019 Call Southern Colonel For Sale: 20” Rims now 601-736-4104. dition. 601-731-8629. Homes in Laurel at 1- Sterling 601-248-9399 and Lawrence Mondy (3/7) & tires. Good condi- (TFN) (TFN) (5/7) are posted against 1940 9N Ford trac- 866-428-8218. (2/28) tion. $800 firm. 601- High energy person any and all forms of 2001 17.5 ft. all tor, recent restora- 441-2958 (2/26) with good driver’s To place a classi- trespassing. (12/31/09) weld boat. 70 hp tion, includes 5 ft. View the e-edition online at license. Can start fied ad call us at 736- Yamaha with custom bushog, ready to Business service? now. $11.70- 2611 or stop by 318 www.columbianprogress.com ANNOUNCEMENTS trailer, like new mow. $2,500. 601- Advertise it! 736-2611 $27.75/hour. No cold Second Street. $7,500. 601-731-9574 467-0015 (3/5) calling. Company van or 674-0940 (3/14) WEDDING RECEP- provided. No experi- Why advertise in BUSINESS SERVICES TION? PARTY? ence necessary, will APTS. FOR RENT the Columbian- Reunion? Columbia train a motivated per- Progress classifieds? son. 877-364-2927 We make it easy and Country Club has the Dozer/Truck Services place for you! Call (3/19) Broadmeadow affordable. 736-2611 Porky’s Apts. $300 move in Free Estimates 601-736-0383 and Home & Lawn Care YES! Avon can be special. 1, 2 & 3 BR 601-441-7148 book your activity APARTMENTS the answer. Contact available. 13th month Licensed, Bonded & Insured now. (TFN) Dianne, Ind. Sales free. 601-587-5677 Dozer, Bobcat, Tractor, Dump Trucks 601-441-0962 or 601-441-9003 Rep. 601-225-7460 PETS (4/18) Call for free estimates (2/26) •Leveling •Dirt, Gravel, Sand Efficiency •Demolition •Fill Dirt, Top Soil, Mulch Insured & Bonded Pine Belt Animal Fitness center seek- Apartment. Newly •Bush Hog, Disc •Tree Removal •Site Preparations •Driveways Hwy 35 South Jimmy Walters Rescue has dogs and ing certified personal remodeled. 1-2 per- trainers. Call for more **No job too big or small **Lowest price guaranteed Foxworth, MS 39483 Owner cats available for son max. No children information. 985-969- or pets. $550.00 adoption. Call for 3396 (2/26) month. Utilities more information included. 736-7167 or REAL ESTATE 601-736-5828 or 601- Driver Trainees 736-7165 (3/19) 270-6142 (TFN) Needed. Local CDL Training. $800 per wk. Newly constructed Want to place a Werner Enterprises Cedar Lane classified ad? Call us (EOE). 1-800-350- Apartments. at 736-2611, stop by 7364. (3/28) 2BR/2BA, walk-in www.columbianprogress.com our office at 318 closets, all appliances. New business seek- House for Sale Second Street or visit On Cedar Lane Rd. off ing a tattoo artist. Call 404 Sunset Dr. our website at National Guard Rd. 601-740-0259 (3/19) columbianprogress.com $700/month 601-441- Large 3BR/2BA 2368 (3/14) We make it easy! AVON: Buy or Sale $79,000 Start your own busi- Want to place a 601-441-7966 STORAGE SPACE ness for just $10.00. classified ad? Call the Call 601-731-2543 or SPACE AVAILABLE: Columbian-Progress 601-736-2891. (TFN) 30’ x 40’ Commercial at 736-2611 or stop by our office at 318 storage space avail- Classified? 736-2611 Second Street. able. Northside Self Storage. 601-441- House For Sale 3672. (TFN) HELP WANTED *Brand New Construction *Possible Rent to Own STORAGE SPACE *Notes around $625/month *Minimum monthly income $1,800 601-441-7148 COME LIVE IN THE COUNTRY! THIS IS IT! CAREER OPPORTUNITY Enjoy the privacy of a split bedroom plan. This jewel of a home Great place to hang your heart. This cheerful 3 bedroom, 2 bath features 3 bedrooms, 2 baths+ indoor laundry facilities, incred- manufactured home boasts cozy romantic fireplace, convenient ible view, and extensive decking. Attractive, cathedral ceiling. modern appliances, and large master bath. Quiet country living. Hudson's Dirt Cheap in Prentiss To see it is to want it. $149,900. Radiant sunroom. Architecturally designed for energy efficien- is now accepting applications for the position(s) of Richard Lokey, realtor cy. Large covered deck. $105,000. MANAGER and 601-441-0986 ASSISTANT MANAGER 934 N. Main St. • Columbia, MS NEW PRICE www.richardlokey.homesandland.com Successful applicants will have retail and at least [email protected] one year managerial experience. Hudson's offers tremendous career advancement potential as well as above-average wages for hard working, honest and ambitious individuals. For an Updated THE PERFECT HOME! All Hudson's locations are closed on Sundays. Other benefits List of Property CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO SEE ME!!!! What more could you ask for? 3 bedrooms, 2 baths with good 3Br/1.5Ba Brick home, completely remodeled. Sheetrock include Health, Dental and Life Insurances, 401(k), Vacation schools, handyman's workshop, and central heat & air. Quiet neighborhood. Compare at $74,500. walls, Hardwood and Ceramic floors. Large utility room. Gas and Holidays after meeting eligibility requirements. logs, Dishwasher, covered patio & fenced back yard. A must FOR SALE see!!! If you are interested in applying for one of these positions, you may apply: “Check My Website Daily” IN PERSON: Prentiss Dirt Cheap, 660 Columbia Ave., Prentiss www.RichardLokey.homesandland.com ONLINE: www.hudsonsdirtcheap.com by clicking on the 'Empldyment' option LAND, LAND, LAND!!! We have 100-300 acres FAX: 1.775.317.9751 of hunting land, timber land and cut-over available for sale in Marion County. Call Richard today EMAIL: [email protected] REALTOR© for more information on this property. THURSDAY February 26, 2009 www.columbianprogress.com 15

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* LISTINGS * SALES * RENTALS * PROPERTY MANAGEMENT NEW LISTINGS! * SELF STORAGE RENTALS - 417 PEARL STREET* • CRAWLEY ROAD - 3 BR/1 BA on 1 acre. Metal roof and vinyl siding. NEW LISTING! • GILL STREET - New to market. 3 or 4 BR/2 BA. Excellent location. NEW LISTING! • MINIATURE HORSE DRIVE - 3 BR/2 BA with 158+ acres. Pearl River frontage and extensive NEED A CHURCH? road frontage NEW LISTING! • ROCKY BRANCH ROAD - Newer 3 BR/3 BA on 14 secluded acres. NEW LISTING! FOR SALE • GILL STREET - Recently renovated large 3BR/2BA. 3,000 +/- sq. ft. heated and cooled. NEW LISTING! 1713 NORTH MAIN STREET • WEST LAVEVIEW DRIVE - 3 BR/2 BA on large lot with fenced backyard and detached shop. NEW LISTING!

• BRIARWOOD DRIVE - Executive residence with income producing capability. • CONIFER DRIVE - Secluded, executive home on 3 +/- acres. • BROAD STREET - Restaurant with fixtures. Access available from Broad and Pearl Streets. LEASED! • LAKESHORE DRIVE - Delightful 3 BR / 2 BA with roomy sun room and lovely pool on corner lot. NEW PRICE! • WEST LAKEVIEW DRIVE - 3 BR/2 BA with fireplace, bonus room, and large bedrooms. DRASTIC REDUCTION! • HICKORY BEND - Comfortable 3 BR/2 BA with large backyard and greenhouse. NEW PRICE! • MCCOMB - Prime commercial locations close to Interstate 55 and Highway 98. ONLY Church bldg., fellowship hall, multipurpose bldg. and approx. 3 TWO LOCATIONS REMAINING! acres. 4 BR/2 BA brick parsonage can be purchased also located • CHURCH STREET - 4BR/2BA cottage on deep lot. Owner moving. Must sell. PRICED TO SELL! • BROAD STREET- Fixer upper on 1.3 acres in excellent location. PRICE REDUCED! beside the church. • PEARL STREET - Duplex on large lot. Ideal investment property. SOLD! • PINE COURT - New roof. New exterior siding. Interior partially renovated. DRASTICALLY REDUCED! FOR LEASE • WILLIAMSBURG ROAD - 2 BR/1 BA fixer-upper on 1 acre mol. SOLD! 418 PEARL STREET • TRESTLE ROAD - 41 acres +/- with creek frontage. NEW LISTING! • I-55 SOUTH & HWY 568 (OUTSIDE MAGNOLIA) - 122 acres mol. - Excellent access. Commercial or development. NEW PRICE! • OFF HWY 35 N - 108 +/- acres. Abundant wildlife. Hunters paradise. Reasonable offers encouraged. • DALE STREET - 3.5 acres. Ideal for residential lots. • NORTH MAIN - 3.5 acres with old house to be torn down. • OLD SUMRALL ROAD - 2.6 acre residential building site. SOLD! • CORNER ORCHARD & GAIL - Residential building site. ASKING ONLY $15,000! • BELLEWOOD - Residential building sites. VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS ON THESE AND OTHER PROPERTIES. WE NEED LISTINGS! CALL FOR INFORMATION ON OTHER LISTINGS! Church bldg. available for lease. Restrooms, sanctuary including pews & several classrooms. Call for information on both of these properties.

Merri Anne Fortenberry - 441-0693 Tammy Harris - 441-6390 Tanyaa Hollaand - 736-4213

BEARD DOUGDOUG REAL ESTATE & APPRAISERS, LLC. RUSHINGRUSHING REALREALTYTY 736-5374 WWW.DOUGRUSHINGREAL.DOUGRUSHINGREALTY.COM.COM www.beardreandappr.com • 410 Courthouse Square • Shelton Ball, Broker & Appraiser GA-114 • [email protected] Office 601-731-3900 • Fax 601-731-3931 • Hwy. 98 Bypass, Columbia, MS INTEREST RATES HAVE DROPPED...... YOU MAY QUALIFY HOMES FOR A LOAN AT AN INTEREST RATE OF LESS THAN 6%. IF YOU ARE READY • PEARL RIVER FISHING CAMP - Very nice 1200 SF camp or home located in Riverveiw Estates. It has 600 SF of living with an additional 600 SF of porches.This would be PERFECT TO BUY, NOW IS THE TIME, CALL OUR OFFICE AND LET OUR YEARS OF for a getaway or a home because of its access to the Pear River and all the recreational SERVICES GO TO WORK FOR YOU. opportunities it offers! $53,000 • IMPROVE COMMUNITY - Nice 3 bedroom, 1 bath home on 3 acres central heat and air, new metal roof, shop and storage shed and a pond. All for $85,000. NEW LISTING NEW LISTING • WALTHALL COUNTY - Home on lot, out in the country asking $49,500. • 75 HWY. 587, FOXWORTH, MS 75587 - 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath home full of southern charm, approx. 2000 sf. built just for your family. asking $119,500. • PRENTISS, MS - 3 Bedroom home with central H/A nice location. $57,000. • 707 TURNAGE CHAPEL ROAD - Brick home on 5 acres, 3 bed, 2 baths, secluded, Asking $159,500. • HOME ON 20 ACRES - Marion County 3 bedroom, 2 bath immaculate home on 20 pristine acres. Gotta call on this one!! $279,000 • WALTHALL COUNTY - This 3,000 sq. ft. almost new home has it all. 4 BR, 2 BA 2 car carport and both front and back porches to enjoy the country scene while being close to town. Asking NEW LISTING $215,000 LAND Clean and Cute as can be. Large master NEW LISTING • 95 ACRES - Rolling hills and scattered pines inside a huge gated community. Great for home or camp with private bath, split plan. Located on 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath camp on Foot's Lane. and a small farm; or hunting and relaxing on your own private property on a private road. $4,250 per 2 acres in the city schools. Nice shop Cannot beat the price!!!!!!!! acre or owner will divide for $4,690. with plumbing and above ground pool. • 60 ACRES - 2 miles west of Sumrall about 20 acresopen, balance in nice pine timber, with a small pond. $5,000 per acre. • 44+/- ACRES - With community water, power and septic system already in place. Property is about 8 acres open land, 36 acres wooded and has two ponds. Nice piece of property at a nice price! $92,000. NEW LISTING NEW LISTING • 60 ACRES - Good hunting tract, north of Columbia and just off the Pearl River. 60 acres of pines with some nice hardwoods mixed in at the end of a dead end paved road. $3,500 per acre. • 4 ACRES - Just off Stringer Bullock Road. Nice homesite with scattered 15+ year old pines. Deeded access. West Marion School District. Priced at $18,000 • 18 ACRES - Stringer Bullock Road. Property has natural 15+ year old pines scattered throughout and would make a great homesite. Deeded access. Proced at $68,400 • 25 ACRES MARION COUNTY - North of 98 between Columbia and Tylertown. Abundant with wildlife, owner will sell for less acreage. $110,000 • 47.7 ACRES MARION COUNTY - 4 wheeler trails throughout, great hunting, excellent neighborhood. $2,750 per acre. • LA HWY 21 - 40 acres in 9 year old pines just north of Angie, La. Great hunting/ timber investment. $2,250 per acre. NEW LISTING NEW LISTING • CAVANAUGH ROAD - 47 acres located in Marion Co. property is ready for homesite with Great commercial location on broad Wonderful home for a first time buyer or electricity and spetic tank. You can also enjoy the spring fed creek. $3,000 per acre. street. Very High traffic area. Great for • 40 ACRES of rolling hills in the Sumrall school district. Property is approx. half 14 year old pines and a retiring couple. Large lot with 4.3 half open land. Community water and 2000 feet of road frontage in Lamar county on Rocky Branch office or retail. Don’t let this one slip by acres. City School District. You can fish in you at this great price. Freestanding Rd. $460,000 the creek or simply enjoy a quiet, lazy • 60 ACRES on 1-55 and Hwy 13 in the edge of Lumberton and in Pearl River County. 1392 ft. on I- building-located in a mix of commerical afternoon. 55 and 200 ft. on Hwy 13. Portion of property is zoned commercial and has city water and sewer. on Broad Street and surrounding Commercial opportunity listed at $319,000 adjacent residential areas. • 84 ACRES in Lamar County. Property is mostly 14 year old natural pine growth with 2000 ft of road frontage and rolling hills. Trails throughout the property. Would be a great hunting property or home site! Priced at $3,000 per acre. John McNeese Maureen Breakfield • 192 ACRES - On the Leaf River in Forrest County. Full of wildlife and easy to get to since it’s just Jan Cavanaugh off Evenlyn Gandy Parkway. Priced at $3,500 per acre. Better hurry, getting a lot of calls on this one!! (601)736-3675 (601)731-3045 (601)736-7758 • 119 ACRES - with 20 acre spring fed lake with white sand beach. The water level and springs make Cell (601)441-5165 Cell (601)441-7067 the water a beautiful green color. Just north of Columbia, MS. Great recreational property listed at Cell (601)441-0501 $3,500 per acre. • 24 WOODED ACRES - Marion County, located 15 miles NE of Columbia. Property is rolling hills Michelle Stanley Rita Shea with hardwood and pines. Recently Surveyed. Asking $70,800. Cell (601)441-6464 (601)441-1030 WE ARE LOOKING FOR LISTINGS OF ALL SIZES!! WE HAVE THE BUYERS. CALL TODAY!! THURSDAY 16 www.columbianprogress.com February 26, 2009