ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM FREE! FRIDAY | JULY 28, 2017 Area man trying to trademark N-word accepted his application and as- the products should be live next Merchandiser hopes to change term’s meaning signed it to an examiner for re- week, and the Nigga_brand view, a process Bordenave said Instagram page — which had BY ALEX HOLLOWAY Consulting, markets and sells a trademark ap- could take up to a year. 16 followers as of Friday morn- [email protected] clothing and other merchandise plication in June In the meantime Business ing — features mockups for the aimed at promoting unity, equal- with the U.S. Moves Consulting is gearing For 20 years, Curtis Borde- products. ity and understanding, he said. Patent and Trade- up to produce products for the nave said he has spotted oncom- In a roundabout way, he mark Office for brand. Bordenave said it had “Our vision for the brand is ing trends and gotten out ahead claims that mission is exactly “Nigga,” shortly Bordenave already designed T-shirts and not to disparage people, but to of them. Mostly recently, that’s why he is trying to trademark following a U.S. plans to produce soap, shaving change the narrative and the involved efforts to profit from a the N-word. Supreme Court decision that cream, moisturizer and finger- meaning of the word,” Borde- racial slur. Bordenave of Columbus, now allows trademarking dis- nail polish. He said a website nave said. “Products were sold His business, Better Moves who is African American, filed paraging language. The office where customers can purchase See TRADEMARK, 6A Auditor IN THE WEEDS demands almost $102K from deceased Oktibbeha clerk Office pursuing money from Banks’ bond holder BY CARL SMITH [email protected] Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pick- ering’s office is work- ing to collect almost $102,000 in taxpayer funds owed by de- ceased Oktibbeha County Chancery Clerk Monica Banks. Banks The annual state auditor’s report of Fiscal Year 2017 exceptions list- ed two Golden Triangle embezzle- ment claims in the Golden Triangle — one against Banks and another Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff against Susan Holder, a former Bill Samaras pulls up weeds around the entrance to Mississippi University for Women on Tuesday. “This is nut grass and it Mississippi State University em- comes out of who knows where. It’s a weed and if you don’t tend to it they can grow as tall as some bushes,” he said. “Peo- ployee indicted last year for taking ple call me Mr. Bill, and I’ve been a groundskeeper here for 10 years,” he added. more than $25,000 in grant funds awarded to the 4-H Foundation. While the state auditor’s office issued a formal demand to Hold- er last year for $81,946.47 and her case progresses through Oktibbe- Oktibbeha’s circuit clerk field grows to 4 ha County Circuit Court, Pickering spokesperson Logan Reeves said Turner, a MSU administrative assistant, is the latest nator Teresa Davis, Oktibbeha Coun- his office is pursuing restitution ty Deputy Elections Clerk Sheryl El- through the holder of Banks’ public to qualify for Nov. 7’s special election more and Starkville Municipal Court bond as an elected official. Banks, Administrator Tony Rook in the Nov. 7 58, died in September 2016 after a BY CARL SMITH versity employee Elaine Turner filed non-partisan race. lengthy illness. [email protected] her candidacy forms Thursday. Davis is a former candidate for cir- The Dispatch could not deter- Turner, who works as an admin- cuit clerk who lost to the race’s even- mine the identity of the bond holder Four people have now qualified to istrative assistant for MSU’s Center tual winner, Glenn Hamilton, by about by press time. become Oktibbeha County’s next cir- for Advanced Vehicular Systems, will 1,000 votes in 2011. See AUDITOR, 6A cuit clerk after Mississippi State Uni- face MSU Receiving Services Coordi- See CANDIDATES, 6A Golden Triangle Oktibbeha County funds industrial park LINK attorney Chris Pace, left, and LINK Attorneys see multiple paths forward with zoning matter CEO Joe Max BY CARL SMITH Higgins speak September, and work on INSIDE on the proposed [email protected] designing and installing ■ OUR VIEW: industrial park infrastructure improve- Starkville’s in Oktibbeha Oktibbeha County and Starkville ments — roads, sewer industrial park County during a leaders took what Ward 3 Alderman Da- and water — could soon a step closer joint city-county vid Little called “a bold step forward” to reality. follow, putting the park Page 4A board meet- Thursday, passing a combined $14 mil- on track for marketing by ing at the lion bond issuance that will fund an the Golden Triangle De- courthouse in Starkville on almost 400-acre industrial park in the velopment LINK next fall at the earliest. Thursday. northern part of the city. Aldermen voted 4-2 to support Little’s Deanna Robinson/Dispatch Staff The issuance could come as early as See INDUSTRIAL PARK, 6A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC 1 Which Japanese company acquired Co- MEETINGS lumbia Pictures for $3 million in 1989? Today Aug. 1: ■ Mississippi Characters: Columbus Com- 2 Which one of the Seven Wonders of the Starkville Board munity Theatre youth bring characters from World was believed to have been built by of Aldermen, 5: King Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife? state history to life. Tours are 6:30, 7, 7:30 30 p.m., City 3 Which English author worked as a writ- and 8 p.m. at the Rosenzweig Arts Center, er for the RAF in World War II under the Hall 501 Main St. Free, but ticket required (only 15 name Flying Officer X? Aug. 7: Oktibbe- 4 What is the name of the science which people will be scheduled per tour session). Ashlyn Gloven ha County Board dates and interprets climatic events Sign up for preferred time at columbus-arts. Seventh grade, Annunciation of Supervisors, through the study of the tree rings? org or call 662-328-2787 (closed Mondays). 5 What design feature to improve the 9 a.m., county speed of rowing boats first appeared in High 87 Low 77 the Oxford-Cambridge university boat courthouse Chance of t-storms race of 1873? Today and Saturday Aug. 11: Full forecast on Answers, 8B ■ SCT: Unplugged 3: Starkville Community Starkville Board page 2A. Theatre presents a showcase of music from of Aldermen the ’70s to today with a diverse group of area work session, 11 singers and musicians. Performances are a.m., City Hall INSIDE 7:30 p.m. at the Playhouse on Main, 108 Aug. 15: Classifieds8B Obituaries 5A E. Main St., Starkville. Tickets are $25. A Starkville Board Comics 5B Opinions 4A dessert reception follows. Limited seating; Jacob McGee is a City Bagel of Aldermen, Crossword 7B Religion 7B make reservations between 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at employee and Sage Coffee and 5:30 p.m., City Dear Abby 5B 662-323-6855. Books volunteer. Hall DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2017 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com SAY WHAT? DID YOU HEAR? “I am not sure we have the swagger I want to see them have. We may be another season away from that, but I think they’re getting to White House tensions catch the point they know they’re good ...” fire with Scaramucci interviews Friday Heritage Academy soccer coach Tom Velek. Story, 1B. Communications director accused unidentified senior officials of trying A THOUSAND WORDS to sabotage him and committing a felony by leaking information BY JULIE BYKOWICZ mitting a felony by leak- AND JONATHAN LEMIRE ing information. But the The Associated Press personal financial infor- mation that he said some- WASHINGTON one had “leaked” about — President Donald him had simply been ob- Trump’s new communi- tained through a public cations director exploded records request. the smoldering tensions Then in an interview at the White House into a full-fledged conflagration published by The New Thursday, angrily daring Yorker late Thursday, an Trump’s chief of staff angry Scaramucci used to deny he’s a “leaker” an expletive to accuse and exposing West Wing Priebus of being a “f------ backstabbing in language paranoid schizophrenic” more suitable to a mob- and White House chief ster movie than a seat of strategist Steve Bannon presidential stability. of trying to burnish his In a pull-no-punches, own reputation. impromptu CNN inter- He also threatened to view that he said was au- fire White House staffers thorized by the president, who leaked about a din- Anthony Scaramucci went ner he had with the pres- after chief of staff Reince ident. Priebus in graphic terms. “They’ll all be fired by “The fish stinks from the me,” Scaramucci told the head down,” he said. “I magazine. “I fired one guy can tell you two fish that the other day. I have three don’t stink, and that’s me to four people I’ll fire to- and the president.” morrow. I’ll get to the Not even a week into person who leaked that to his new job, Scaramucci you. Reince Priebus — if accused unidentified se- you want to leak some- nior officials of trying to thing — he’ll be asked to sabotage him and com- resign very shortly.” CONTACTING THE DISPATCH Sarah Dutton/Dispatch Staff Steve Marlow serenades the audience at Open Mic Night with a cover of Robert Johnson’s “Love in Vain” at Office hours: Main line: The Pop Porium in Starkville on Tuesday. Marlow has been playing guitar for the past four years and attempts to n 8 a.m.-5 p.m.