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PUBLIC MEETINGSApril 6: Lowndes County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m., CourthouseApril 7: Columbus City Council, 5 p.m., Municipal ComplexApril 10: Lowndes County School Board, 12:30 p.m., Central OfficeApril 13: Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees, 6 p.m., Brandon Central Services

PHOTO ESSAY: Communities respond to COVID-19, See page 5B

MONDAY PROFILE

A NOTE ON NEWS■ Many COVID-19 coronavirus related stories are changing extremely quickly, sometimes as soon as we publish a print edition of the paper. We want to assure our readers that we are making every attempt to print accurate, timely news. Online sto-ries are updated throughout the day at cdispatch.com.

COVID-19 PUBLIC NOTICESVirus testingOfficials at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle and OCH Regional Medical Facility urge those with COVID-19 symptoms or who want testing to call their health care provider for instructions. They ask those with symptoms not to visit ERs or urgent care facilities in person because that risks spreading the virus to others.

Hospitals change visiting policiesBoth Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus and OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville announced changes to their visitation policies Monday, limiting hours and access to some entrances and canceling scheduled events and group meetings. For details on the new visitation policies, visit the OCH website at www.och.org or the Baptist site at www.baptistonline.org/locations/golden-triangle.

Canaan Baptist ChurchThe March 29 singing, featuring Jesse Reece has been canceled. For more infor-mation, call 662-327-7448.

Market Street FestivalThe 25th Annual Market Street Festival has been postponed. The new date for the festival is September 11 & 12, 2020.

International Fiesta CanceledThe 30th Annual International Fiesta on April 4 sponsored by the World Neighbors Association and the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center at Mississippi State University has been canceled.

Columbus Light & WaterThe Main Office, 420 4th Ave South, will still be conducting business with new

Slim Smith/Dispatch StaffColumbus firefighter Corey Hayes, center, goes through his workout under the watchful and encouraging eye of personal trainer Tony Phinisey during a workout earlier this month. Phinisey likes to use different terrains to push his clients to use various muscle groups in different ways, something he said goes back to his own childhood.

BY SLIM [email protected]

Tony Phinisey has been a full-time personal trainer for about three years now, but

his passion for fitness goes back 50 years or more.

“You remember Jack Lalanne?” Phinisey asked. “That was my guy, my inspiration.”

Lalanne became an American

fitness and nutrition guru, largely through his syndicated TV show, which he started at age 37 and hosted for an incredible 34 years (1951-1985). Lalanne continued his personal daily workout routine until his death in 2011 at age 96.

“I remember, when I was just a little kid, his TV show would come on and I’d run to kitchen and grab a couple of cans of my mom’s beans and use them for dumb bells,” said

Phinisey, 57. “As long as I can re-member, fitness and living healthy was my passion. I think it’s some-thing God put into my DNA.”

Phinisey also knew someday he would turn that passion into a career.

By the end of his 32 years with UPS, he was already operating a fit-ness business on the side, leading a group of men through rigorous workouts on Saturdays, something he still does today.

When he retired from UPS in 2017, Phinisey was at last in a po-sition to turn to personal training full-time.

Phinisey turns lifelong love of fitness into inspiration for others

‘As long as I can remember, fitness and living healthy was my passion. I think it’s something God put into my DNA’

249 cases of COVID-19 in MississippiLowndes, Oktibbeha numbers increase over the weekendDISPATCH STAFF REPORT

There are nearly 250 confirmed cases of COVID-19 novel corona-virus in Mississippi, including two new cases in Lowndes County and three in Oktibbeha County.

Mississippi State Department of Health reported 249 cases this morning, a jump of more than 100 from Saturday when the depart-ment reported 140 cases. There are six cases in Lowndes County, five in Oktibbeha and one in Clay. The counties with the most cases re-ported are Hinds (24), De Soto (23) and Harrison (21).

Both Columbus and Starkville have passed restrictions on busi-nesses and public gatherings amid the growing number of cases. Restaurants in both cities are now limited to serve customers via take-out, drive-through or delivery only, and all gatherings are restricted to 10 or fewer people. Columbus also imposed a curfew from 10 p.m.-6 a.m., excepting essential travel by those over 18 years old.

Nationally, there have been more than 35,400 cases of COVID-19 re-ported so far, and 473 deaths, ac-cording to national media.

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Shanqunni Smith’s life went from sta-ble to unstable very quickly, she said.

“I really had everything mapped out (with) my bills, and now I’ve got to fig-ure out how I’m going to pay everything,” said Smith, a single mother of four.

She used to work more than 40 hours

Hotels ‘barely keeping the lights on’ during outbreak

See HOTELS, 3AJennifer Mosbrucker/Special to The Dispatch

Guests check in to

the La Quin-ta Inn on

Saturday in Starkville.

Due to COVID-19, the hotel

placed hand sanitizer

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stopped serving dine-in

breakfast. They now

offer a sack breakfast.

Occupancy rate for Hilton Garden, Hyatt Place decreased from 75 percent to less than 20 percent

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BY ANDREW TAYLOR, JONATHAN LEMIRE AND LISA MASCARO The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Top-level ne-gotiations between Congress and the White House churned late into the night over a now nearly $2 tril-lion economic rescue package, as the coronavirus crisis deepened, the nation shut down and the first U.S. senator tested positive for the disease.

As President Donald Trump took to the podium in the White House briefing room and prom-ised to help Americans who feel afraid and isolated as the pandemic spreads, the Senate voted Sunday against advancing the rescue pack-age. But talks continued on Capitol Hill.

“I think you’ll get there. To me it’s not very complicated: We have to help the worker. We have to save the companies,” Trump said.

Later, the Republican president suggested the remedies may be more harmful than the outbreak, vowing to reassess after the 15-day mark of the shutdown. “WE CAN-NOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” he tweeted.

Inside the otherwise emptied out Capitol, the draft aid bill was declared insufficient by Demo-crats, who argued it was tilted to-

ward corporations and did too little to help workers and health care providers. Republicans returned to the negotiating table.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, exiting the Capitol just before midnight, struck an opti-mistic note: “We’re very close,” he said, adding negotiators would work through the night.

“Our nation cannot afford a game of chicken,” warned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., his voice rising on the Sen-ate floor Sunday night. His goal is to vote Monday. The Senate will re-convene at noon.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sounded an optimistic note.

“This bill is going to affect this country and the lives of Americans,

not just for the next few days, but in the next few months and years — so we have to make sure it is good, he said. “There were some serious problems with the bill leader Mc-Connell laid down. Huge amounts of corporate bailout funds without restrictions or without oversight — you wouldn’t even know who is get-ting the money. Not enough money for hospitals, nurses, PPE, masks, all the health care needs. No mon-ey for state and local government, many of whom would go broke. Many other things.”

But Schumer said they were making progress in dealing with those issues. “We’re getting closer and closer. And I’m very hopeful, is how I’d put it, that we can get a bill in the morning.”

Congressional rescue talks churn as viral crisis expands‘This bill is going to affect this country and the lives of Americans, not just for the next few days, but in the next few months and years — so we have to make sure it is good’

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Fallout of ‘08 bailout looms over Washington negotiationsBY JULIE PACE AND STEVEN SLOAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In the fall of 2008, an unlikely alliance of law-makers, regulators and Bush administration officials banded together to rescue an economy they feared was hours away from collapse. They also unwittingly reshaped American politics, unleashing a populist fu-ror that lingers in both parties to this day.

More than a decade later, those same political forces are shadowing a new debate over emergency government spending — only with far more taxpayer money at stake and even greater uncertainty over Amer-icans’ futures.

On the table: a nearly $2 trillion rescue package for major industries, small businesses and individuals impacted by the fast-moving corona-virus.

Though more emergency money could be needed, this package is already larger than the $700 billion bank bailout President George W. Bush requested in 2008 and the almost $800 billion his successor, President Barack Obama, sought in stimulus in 2009. That response stabilized the economy, but upended politics and helped fuel President Donald Trump’s path to power.

The circumstances that led to each extraordinary moment are dif-ferent, one a financial crisis prompted by risky Wall Street investments, the other a pandemic that has crippled airlines, restaurants and scores of other businesses. But they both put the onus on Washington to act quickly to address complex matters, leaving leaders with decisions that could define their careers.

BY MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press

W A S H -INGTON — Sen. Rand Paul of Ken-tucky has tested posi-tive for the novel coro-navirus, be-coming the first case of COVID-19 in the Senate and raising fears about the further transmission of the virus among Re-publicans at the Capitol.

Paul, an eye surgeon, went into quarantine Sun-day after learning his re-sults. He said he has not had symptoms and was

tested out of an abun-dance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. He said he was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person.

His announcement led Utah’s two GOP sen-ators — Mike Lee and Mitt Romney — to place themselves into quaran-tine, stepping away from negotiations as the Sen-ate worked on an eco-nomic rescue package for the coronavirus cri-sis. At least five senators, including Paul, were in self-quarantine Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

“The coronavirus has

hit the Senate today,’’ said McConnell, R-Ky. “It’s not just back in our states but right here in the Senate.’’

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona elected in 2018, chastised Paul on Twitter, saying his decision to return to the Capitol after he was tested — but before he learned the results — was “absolutely irrespon-sible.’’

Sinema said she has “never commented about a fellow Senator’s choic-es/actions. Never once.’’

But she added: “This, America, is absolutely irresponsible. You can-not be near other people while waiting for corona-virus test results. It en-dangers others & likely increases the spread of the virus.’’

Other senators, includ-ing Ted Cruz of Texas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, had gone into self-quarantine while they awaited the results of a coronavirus test. Both were negative.

Responding to criti-cism on Twitter, Paul’s office said, “We want to be clear, Senator Paul left the Senate IMMEDIATE-LY upon learning of his diagnosis. He had zero contact with anyone & went into quarantine. In-sinuations ... that he went to the gym after learning of his results are just com-pletely false & irresponsi-ble!’’

Paul’s office did not say when he was tested. Rep-resentatives of his office could not immediately be reached for comment.

Sen. Rand Paul tests positive for virus, forcing quarantines

Paul

McConnell: At least five senators, including Paul, were in self-quarantine

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JACKSON — Revenue from the Mississippi Lottery continues to increase.

The state has collected more than $27 million from the lottery that started operating in Novem-ber.

The Mississippi Lottery Corpo-ration said Friday that it deposited $11.6 million into the state trea-sury. That is the net proceeds from lottery games played during Febru-ary.

The state received $8.4 million from lottery games played during January and $7.6 million from lot-

tery games played during Decem-ber.

Mississippi legislators voted in 2018 to create the games of chance as a way to generate money for infrastructure. Mississippi was one of six states with-out a lottery, but people from the state were driving to Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee to buy tickets.

Mississippi collects more than $27M from lottery in 3 months

BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS The Associated Press

JACKSON — The Mississip-pi Capitol is a germ and virus factory during any normal legis-lative session because of all the glad-handing, back-slapping and random hugging. It was clearly in line to become more perilous than usual during the coronavirus pandemic.

Legislators voted last week to suspend their session until at least April 1, acting on the recommendation of the state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs.

“It’s been said that the full Legislature is a hub for this disease,” Senate President Pro Tempore Dean Kirby, a Repub-lican from Pearl, told his col-

leagues. “Let’s try to keep this situation under control as much as we can. ... This is a tough sit-uation we’re in right now. It’s a crisis and we all know it.”

By leaving the Capitol, Kirby said, “I feel like we’ll help our constituents and we’ll be doing the right thing.”

Hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of people mingle in the Capitol on any given day when the House and Senate are in Jackson. In addition to the 174 legislators, the regulars in the building are legislative staffers, lobbyists, journalists and tour guides.

It’s a place where social dis-tancing is difficult. Advocacy groups set up tables and give away food in the central gather-ing spot on the first floor. High

school students by the hun-dreds pass through the build-ing — 4-H kids in blue corduroy jackets, athletes in letter jack-ets, choirs wearing all-black outfits.

Not long before fear of the coronavirus started spreading in the United States, hundreds of parents and children wearing matching red T-shirts gathered inside the state Capitol and con-tinued their yearslong — and, so far, unsuccessful — effort to get lawmakers to loosen Mississippi’s mandates for vac-cinations that are needed be-fore children can attend public or private schools. The state’s vaccination requirements for measles, chickenpox and other diseases are among the most stringent in the U.S.

Researchers are working to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health says that even if research goes well, a vaccine is at least 12 to 18

months from widespread avail-ability.

April 1 is the earliest that lawmakers would return to the Capitol to resume their session. They could return later if that’s what Lt. Gov. Delbert Hose-mann and House Speaker Phil-ip Gunn decide is the best thing for public health.

Before Dobbs took the top job at the Mississippi State De-partment of Health, he was the state epidemiologist. Gunn said he and Hosemann will seek ad-vice from Dobbs about when it might be safe for legislators to return to work.

“We’ll pick up right where we left off,” Gunn said.

Mississippi legislators nor-mally meet the first three months of each year. Because this is the beginning of a four-year term, they were supposed to have a four-month session this year, from early January until early May. The extra month allows time for organi-

zational matters such as assign-ing members to House and Sen-ate to committees. It also gives new legislators a chance to meet their colleagues and learn the legislative process.

Legislators are at roughly the halfway point of their work process this year. General bills have been considered in the chamber where they were filed — House bills in the House and Senate bills in the Senate. The two chambers are exchanging bills and will do more work on those after they return.

Legislators will also start the final decision-making process about money matters. State agencies submitted spending requests several months ago for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The coronavirus is expect-ed to deliver an economic gut punch with the likelihood that tax collections will decrease at the same time that demand for state services increases.

Analysis: Mississippi wise to close Capitol because of virusLegislators voted last week to suspend their session until at least April 1, acting on the recommendation of the state health officer

UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME


JACKSON — An in-mate serving a life sen-tence for capital murder has died at the South Mis-sissippi Correctional Insti-

tution in Leakesville, the prison said in a statement released Sunday.

The Mississippi De-partment of Corrections said foul play is not sus-pected in the death. An

autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death, prison officials said.

The prison system said Troy Michael Daughtery, 48, was found unconscious in his bed Saturday eve-

ning. He did not respond to CPR.

Daughtery had been incarcerated for nearly 21 years. He was sentenced June 1, 1999 in Harrison County.

Inmate found dead at south Mississippi prison

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per week and now works about 25 as a housekeep-er at LaQuinta Inn and Suites in Starkville. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic makes travel in-advisable and all sporting events are canceled for the foreseeable future. Smith and other local hotel em-ployees relied on both for a steady paycheck.

Hotel staffing is mostly based on occupancy, and their workers have either had their hours signifi-cantly reduced or been laid off entirely. LaQuinta usually had six or seven housekeepers working at once but now only needs one at a time, and break-fast staff are no longer needed since the hotel serves grab-and-go break-fasts in paper bags now, general manager Jordan Gillentine said.

The hotel is “barely keeping the lights on” less than two weeks after the pandemic shut down sports and restricted trav-el, he said.

“We’re not just forci-bly cutting hours to save money,” Gillentine said. “There is no demand for the hourly employees. It’s a cause-and-effect rela-tionship.”

LaQuinta had nine occupied rooms Friday night, and the Hilton Gar-den Inn just across High-way 12 had 13. The total occupancy rate in both the Hilton Garden Inn and the Hyatt Place in Columbus has decreased from 75 per-cent to between 15 and 20

percent, said Sunny Sethi, who owns both hotels.

“We’re trying to do a lot of deep cleaning and extra work for our long-term employees so they have a steady paycheck until the federal government de-cides how they’re going to help people overcome this,” Sethi said. “Our em-ployees are our family and we have to help take care of them as much as we can.”

But there is a limit on how much work there is to do and how much the hotel can afford to pay employees when rooms are not being rented, Sethi said. Both of his hotels saw a total of more than $270,000 in canceled March and April bookings from March 14 to Friday, he said.

Sports are hotels’ pri-mary financial buoy in the spring, including the NCAA basketball tourna-ment that was supposed to be this past weekend, so the suspension of all sporting events has been “devastating to the entire (travel) market,” Gillen-tine said.

“That was the magnet that pulls all the travelers to town in the spring, and it’s gone,” he said. “This pandemic and all the clo-sures haven’t taken some of our business — they’ve taken all of it.”

The Starkville Holiday Inn lost about 15 groups, both teams and fans, that would have stayed there for Mississippi State Uni-

versity sporting events, general manager Freder-ick Chase said.

“We’re just trying to stay afloat through this crisis and we’re trying to carry our staff through the best we can,” Chase said.

John Roorda and his family of five stayed Fri-day night at LaQuinta on their way home to Iowa from Florida, where they cut their vacation short by one day. He said every hotel he saw had a nearly empty parking lot.

“I’ve seen it from the Gulf Coast all the way up to here, and it’s devastat-ing,” Roorda said while packing luggage into his family’s minivan Saturday morning.

Tracy Gurdian of Chi-cago was one of many parents who came to Starkville to help their children move out of the MSU residence halls. She and her daughter also stayed at LaQuinta for one night only, and she said the staff was friendly and the room was clean.

“They have hand san-itizer at the front (desk), but we used precautions and brought our own wipes to wipe down the TV remote and all surfac-es,” Gurdian said.

If the pandemic and the resulting lack of business last six to nine months, owners and managers will “have some tough deci-sions to make” about the future of local hotels, Gil-lentine said.

Kelvin Gaulding, an MSU student who works at the Holiday Inn front desk, said he would have to move back to his par-ents’ home in DeSoto County if he gets laid off.

Smith said she and her children might also have to leave Starkville, where she has lived her entire life, but their next steps would be less stable. Her job is her family’s only source of income, and unemployment insurance would not provide the same security, she said.

“I’d have to look for something else, but who knows how long it would take to even get another job?” she said.

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Safe and sound at home

“I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.”

Joan Jett, American rock singer-song-writer

If ever there was a good season to draw close to home, this would have to be it. The sun shines, the flowers bloom, the clover multiplies, the birds sing, the bees buzz. Dandelions open fully in the mornings. Rabbits love dandelions, the flower, the stems, all of it. One couldn’t get closer to “farm to table” than harvesting dandelions. There’s also clover. I forage for clover as it gets taller and taller while the rabbits wait expectantly in their pens. I had hoped rabbits could roam free-range, but rabbits are prey for ev-erything and anything here in the Prairie. Sam built an exercise pen out of an old trampoline frame some years ago. After a few times of digging and hopping, they resisted being taken from their cozy hutches. Rabbits prefer a safe, cozy place with food and water, sunshine and dandelions. It’s home.

On the other hand, as the nights grow warmer the cats, Harry and Wilhelmina, have begun to stay outside overnight, much to my dismay. Sam makes the last round at night when I can’t find them. One night Sam’s flashlight illuminated Harry’s cat eyes while he peeked from behind a tree. Then Harry scampered away into the darkness. The next morning Sam arose around 5 a.m. to go fishing. When I left for the day the cats had not ap-peared, which was a little unusual.

After work I returned home and still no cats. I slid into my mud boots and began to search. Harry has extremely good hearing and eyesight. I knew if I came anywhere near him, he’d see or hear me. I started yelling a loud “Harry” about every five seconds as I made my way across the fields and into the woods. Immediately, Wilhelmina appeared and was agreeable to being carried home. Still no Harry.

I searched and called again. The most likely reason a curious cat goes missing is being caught in a place they can’t escape. Our Prairie house is located on a dead-end gravel road with four neighbors covering a lot of acreage. My work was cut out for me. I searched a small abandoned shack, but no Harry. Most of the trees were just beginning to leaf out so visibility was good. No sign of Harry. I checked up and down the road. No Harry.

Sam returned at suppertime. I told him Harry was missing. Sam reported having seen him before he went fishing; Harry was on the porch. That made me feel better as then he had been missing for 12 hours rather than 24.

Then Sam remembered that while parking his boat he heard a noise coming from above the garage. There’s a bedroom over the garage so we hurried to check. Sure enough, the door to the bedroom was opened, and as we approached the awakening Har-ry stood up on the bed, yawned and stretched. Harry had never left home.

Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of Columbus at [email protected].

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Voice of the peopleFeels Billingsley conflict is personal

I read and re-read the article regarding the Board of Supervisors intention to replace the County Administrator, wondering if I missed something the first time.

I realize that the intention to remove the Administrator is considered a personnel matter, and so any information released by the board at this time would be claiming they won’t discuss it due to that reason. After read-ing the article a couple of times, and still not seeing a reason that made sense, I came to the personal conclusion that this is a personality conflict, and not a professional one, and that no proof has been provided that he has been inefficient in his job.

It doesn’t appear that Mr. Billingsley has been accused of any wrong doing in his duties, or someone would have mentioned it. If there has been no problem with his job per-formance, and this is personal, then it makes me wonder if our leaders are considering what is best for the county in other areas, or are they just doing business with people they owe favors.

Mr. Hairston is a first time supervisor with no elected political experience. Why he is able to bring forth such a major change to the county without any evidence of profession-al wrongdoing smacks of the good ole boy system at work. If there was any misconduct or insubordination, he should have at least been suspended first. This is not the time for such changes to be made. Our whole country is in the middle of a crisis. We need to rely on experienced, level heads to get us through it. It would seem that the Board of Supervisors is lacking that quality if they continue on with this intent to remove a vital member of our county administration at this time.

I never thought I would ever 100% agree with Leroy Brooks, but his statement that replacing Mr. Billingsley during this national crisis not being a smart decision is probably the most logical thing I can remember him saying in a while. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Hair-ston are the most experienced and the least experienced supervisor on the board at this time. Personally, I feel better with the most experienced one leading a major decision of change.

Carol Anne BeardColumbus

Wants more facts from our leadersWe are in the midst of a national emergen-

cy.Emergency, you say? Really? Have we ever

had daily press briefings on anything else? Um, no. In fact, until the virus began to really spread on American soil there had not been a press briefing - at all - in over a year.

But we’re having them daily now. After five states have basically gone into quarantine with more surely to follow. And, since I first wrote this sentence 20 hours ago, four more have.

Why then did President Trump waste my time Friday by referring to the State De-partment as the “Deep State Department?” That served only to insult a lot of dedicated career people. Why do I have to hear daily of the greatness of everything the task force is doing? I don’t care about any of that. Just give me information. Just tell us what you’re doing to help us. That your team is routing more masks, more test kits, more protective cloth-ing to which specific states - that you are on top of the details. Or that, at least, someone is.

Honestly, I generally feel worse after the president’s remarks, not better. I am 67 years old and though I think of myself as being rel-atively healthy, thus more resistant than most my age, I also see cases where healthy people in their 30’s die from this virus. There were 9,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. Thursday morning. Sunday morning there were 27,000. Mississippi has 140 confirmed cases and 1

death. I have no confidence that there are not thousands in our state. Who’s systematically checking? How would we know?

Instead of feeling like a corner is getting turned in this country, I am counting down un-til the next state goes into lockdown. Will we?

And waiting for the first signs of a fever. Guess I’ll just self-quarantine if that happens. I have great confidence in our local health care people but it’s unclear still whether or not they have the resources they need to test and care for patients under the current circum-stances.

Paul MackColumbus

A mea culpa on gunsDr. Ford has found me out. I was sloppy and

did inadequate research. I allowed myself to be guided by experience and cursory review.

In Danang, I was responsible for a machine gun emplacement. We never set it up for real, as we were never attacked. I was trained in its use and handling, though. The only time I held a .45 was in boot camp.

I never met a tank crewman, but his having a pistol makes sense.

Soldiers on special missions are issued spe-cial armament, so SEALs and other special forces often carry sidearms.

Pistols are terrible infantry weapons. There have neither the range nor the penetrating power of a military rifle. Even the brief range training the Army gets with rifles will enable soldiers to hit a basketball at 200 yards. A man with a pistol would be hard-pressed to hit the basketball at 20 yards. Most, even trained, cannot do so at less than 20 feet as witness the errant fusillades of police officers everywhere.

So, typically, grunts do not carry sidearms.The occasional soldier with a pistol may

embarrass me for carelessness, but in no way invalidates the point that hand guns are poor weapons for defense and worse for hunting.

Their only virtue is that they can be con-cealed.

A buy-back program is designed to accom-modate the 5th Amendment’s taking clause, protecting us from uncompensated seizing of property by government. It is not designed as an enticement; certainly not as an enticement to gangsters.

Robert Heinlein was a naval officer and a Hugo-winning science fiction novelist. He once wrote that “an armed society is a po-lite society.” I think it is obvious that he was wrong. Canadians, for example, are much more polite than we. Politeness is a part of a stable and balanced way to conduct social in-teractions. In the right circumstances, anyone can become mentally unstable. Perhaps that is why so many women are shot by their hus-bands. In the bedroom. (Women tend to stab their husbands in the kitchen, but we are not discussing edged weapons.)

I have seen both bumper stickers: “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns” and “When guns are outlawed, only police will have guns.” Both are sobering. The solution to too many guns must be more guns.

Not really. Dr. Ford wrote that he disagreed with all

my propositions except punishment. I wonder what he would do with hand guns and large magazines.

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BY ALYSSA NEWTONSun Herald

KILN — Lazy Magno-lia Brewing has been on the Mississippi Coast for 15 years.

They’re known for their ales, but as cases of the new coronavirus be-gan to rise in Mississippi, co-owner Leslie Hender-son saw something distill-eries across the country were doing to help their communities.

The brewery had been looking at making flavored seltzers, thanks to the pop-ularity of White Claw and other hard seltzers over the past year. But that proj-ect was put on hold.

Instead, they decided to use those materials to make something the com-munity needed during the COVID-19 pandemic — hand sanitizer.

“We had a drum of de-natured food-grade alco-

hol,” Henderson said. “We found a recipe from the World Health Organiza-tion to make an effective hand sanitizer.”

The hand sanitizer is a liquid consistency that Henderson suggested be put into a spray bottle. They combined the alco-hol and glycerin or aloe to keep the hands mois-turized. They also use fil-tered rainwater from the roof that’s normally puri-fied and sold as Richard’s Rainwater.

The project was an-nounced on the brewery’s Facebook page March 16. When Henderson arrived 45 minutes before the doors opened, people were already lined up.

“I honestly thought I’d be making a couple gal-lons a day, and giving it to friends, family and some employees,” Henderson said.

“It was completely un-expected. It recoups cost of materials, keeps people employed, and gives the community something it needs.”

One of the people to reach out was the Bay St. Louis Police Department, which had been asking for donations. Hender-son made sure that she hand-delivered some bot-tles.

“That was the first thing I did,” she said. She also saved some bottles in reserve in case they need-ed more.

In keeping with the Centers for Disease Con-trol guidelines, the brew-ery allowed 10 people at a time inside. People lined up at the door, some with their own containers and others ready to purchase spray bottles or metal growlers usually used for beer.

One by one, each per-son’s vessel of choice was filled with sanitizer run-ning at 75 cents an ounce. Many community mem-bers came up to thank Henderson and her crew.

By 1 p.m. Tuesday, the brewery ran out of hand sanitizer. Henderson es-

timated about 50 people had come through their doors to buy hand sanitiz-er since they opened.

“The power of social media,” Henderson said.

While the brewery doesn’t plan on making hand sanitizer for long, they hope it can help their community un-til mass-produced bot-tles start populating the shelves again.

Lazy Magnolia has got-ten creative after weath-ering multiple disasters and roadblocks in their 15 years on the Coast.

The brewery started the year Hurricane Ka-trina hit the Gulf Coast. They survived the BP oil spill, the 2008 market crash and most recently the Bonnet Carré Spill-way’s impact on tourism.

This is another hard time they plan to help their community through.

“We really want to be something good,” Hender-son said. “We had to get creative and keep people employed. That’s just in our nature now, to all get together... How can we be a positive in our communi-ty?”

Brewery planned to make hard seltzer but made hand sanitizer‘We really want to be something good. We had to get creative and keep people employed. That’s just in our nature now, to all get together.’

Lazy Magnolia Brewing co-owner Leslie Henderson

BY JAY REEVES The Associated Press

The spring of the coronavirus feels a lot like the summer of oil to residents along the Gulf Coast.

Bars and restaurants are empty in Florida because of an invisible threat nearly a decade after the BP oil spill ravaged the region from the ocean floor up, and condominium reservations have taken a nosedive in Alabama. There’s no crude on the sand, just fear and uncertainty over COVID-19, the disease caused by the new threat. Some beaches are closed to limit crowds.

No one is rolling dice or playing the slots in Mississippi’s casinos, which are closed to slow the viral spread, and other businesses are seeing a slowdown. The party has all but stopped in New Orleans, where Bourbon Street is eerily qui-et, its bars and nightclubs shuttered for who knows how long.

“The parallels with 2010 are …. I don’t even know if I have the words,” said Tony Kennon, mayor of the tourist-dependent town of Or-ange Beach, Alabama.

Visitors fled the coast and the seafood industry all but closed tem-porarily after a BP well blew out and began spewing oil in April 2010, killing 11 rig workers. The sight of oily pelicans, tar-covered beaches and the stench of petroleum in the water gave the coast an apocalyptic feel.

Days of uncertainty turned into

months of worry and red ink for businesses and residents.

It was only late last year that Bob-by Williams, who runs a 46-foot-long charter fishing boat in Gulf-port, Mississippi, received his final payment from a BP oil spill claim. He was hoping for a good 2020 un-til the coronavirus upended every-thing last week.

Now, with health officials and government leaders telling people to stay home and avoid groups to prevent catching or spreading the virus, it seems the only time the phone rings is when someone else is calling to cancel a fishing trip.

“You know we went through Katrina, we went through BP. Now this. We don’t know what it’s going to do,” said Williams. “Our busi-ness has gone to zero.”

In the French Quarter, New Or-leans streets that were full of peo-ple for Mardi Gras late last month are now mostly empty. Some hotels are closed and tourist favorites like Preservation Hall are closed, their employees sent home for the du-ration. Cafe du Monde is still open around the clock, but only for take-out orders.

Just like a decade ago, Bill Brett is concerned about paying hun-dreds of employees after reser-vations for the spring plummeted starting last week at his real estate company Brett/Robinson, which manages 3,500 coastal condomini-ums in Alabama.

“The oil spill was just the Gulf

Coast, right? This is the whole country. It will be a long time before this shakes out,” Brett said.

Adrian Holland, who owns a for-mal wear and bridal shop in Missis-sippi, said she experienced a down-turn in business during the oil spill because of canceled coastal wed-dings, and she’s already seeing less business after high schools called off their spring proms because of the coronavirus.

Still, Holland is hoping for the best.

“Of course we’re seeing impact revenue-wise,” said Holland, who operates House of Tux in Gulfport. “But I’m optimistic that it’s going to not be too bad because I am seeing postponements rather than cancel-lations.”

Some places have faced anoth-er problem: Larger-than-normal spring break crowds on beaches de-spite guidelines to limit gatherings due to the virus. As many as 1,000 young people gathered on a small beach in recent days in Orange Beach, dancing, hoisting drinks and slamming into each other in videos posted to social media.

Shutdowns of bars and night-clubs in Florida helped drive large numbers of young people to Al-abama, where only some places closed. Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft closed all the city’s public beaches until April 6 to ward off the throngs; the state followed through by shutting down all beaches, pub-lic and private.

Many of Gulf Shores’ rough-ly 12,500 residents are older and more susceptible to illness, Craft said, and they are worried about encountering students who’ve not been practicing social distancing in stores and gas stations.

Coronavirus rekindles oil spill memories along Gulf Coast‘You know we went through Katrina, we went through BP. Now this. We don’t know what it’s going to do. Our business has gone to zero.’

Bobby Williams, who runs a charter fishing boat in Gulfport

BY JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — The drive-in theater, long a dwindling nostalgia act in a multiplex world, is expe-riencing a momentary re-turn to prominence.

With nearly all of the nation’s movie theaters shuttered due to the coro-navirus pandemic, some drive-in owners think they’re in a unique posi-tion to give moviegoers a chance to do something out of the house while keeping distance from others. This weekend, some drive-ins aren’t the only show in town. They’re the only show in

the country.The Showboat Drive-

In Theater in Hockley, Texas, about a 30-minute drive outside Houston, normally sees ticket sales go down about 40 percent on a weekend when they don’t have any new mov-ies. Last weekend, they saw a 40 percent increase, says the theater’s owner, Andrew Thomas. Usually open weekends, Thomas has kept screenings go-ing through the week.

“Obviously this isn’t the way you’d want it to occur, but I’m excited for the idea that there may be a new generation of peo-ple that will get to expe-

rience going to a drive-in theater and — I was going to say catch the bug,” said Thomas, laughing. “May-be some other turn of phrase.”

There are just over 300 drive-ins left in the coun-try. They constitute a small, oft-forgotten flicker in today’s movie ecosys-tem that hardly competes with the megawatt glare of the megaplex and the nation’s 5,500 indoor the-aters. But through de-cades of disruption and change in American life, they have managed to survive. They’ve some-how clung to life as relics of past Americana only to find themselves, for a brief moment anyway, uniquely suited to today

Not many drive-ins are open. It’s a seasonal busi-

ness to begin with, with many drive-ins not plan-ning to open until April. John Vincent, president of the United Drive-in Theater Owner Associ-ation, estimates about 5-10 percent were open as of last weekend, and some of those are closing due to the pandemic. In states like California and New York, restrictions on movement and gathering are being ramped up that mandate closures. As in-fections rise in other parts of the country, Vincent suspects the drive-in’s window is already closing.

“We’d love the drive-ins to shine but this is probably not the mo-ment,” said Vincent, who owns Wellfleet Cinemas on Cape Cod.

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PhiniseyContinued from Page 1A

“About 90 percent of my clients are athletes in training,” said Phinisey, who has also worked as the Heritage Academy football program’s speed and agility trainer for the past two years. “But I work with people of all ages. It’s not the same goal for everybody. What is the same is the potential to be more fit, healthier and take better care of their bodies.”

Phinisey said the key to his approach is a “whole body” workout. His Saturday workouts are illustrative of that approach.

“I take them all over town, looking for things that will challenge them in a little different way ev-ery time,” he said. “That goes back to when I was a kid, too. When I was a kid, one day, it may be at a park playing baseball. The next day it might be swimming or playing basketball. Every day was different and I was using different muscle groups and pushing my body in different ways, even though I wasn’t

thinking about it.”On a recent Saturday,

Phinisey assembled his group of about eight people, from teens to those in their 50s on the side of the Highway 82/Main Street interchange in Columbus, employing the steep hill leading up to the highways as his training ground.

The group took turns pushing a contraption — two 45-pound free weights attached to an axle and a handle — up the steep hill, probably 30 yards.

One by one, they took their turns, doubling over in pain and exhaustion as they completed the climb.

Corey Hayes, 37, is one of the participants.

“I’ve been doing this for a couple of years,” said Hayes, a Columbus firefighter. “For me, it’s all about taking care of myself and getting in shape and building on it. I could do this on my own, probably, but I don’t think I’d get as much out of it if I didn’t work with Tony. He has a way of pushing you hard, but it’s

fun because you know you’re getting something out of it.”

Phinisey’s message — fitness is for all ages — is something Hayes tries to take back to the firehouse.

“You know, as you get older, it’s easy to sort of slack off,” Hayes said. “So what I’ve been trying to do is get the guys up and moving. It’s not hard stuff. It might be just playing a game of horse, anything to get people off their feet and using their bodies.”

With an eye toward turning his passion into a profession, Phinisey earned certifications as both a strength/conditioning coach and personal trainer.

“I wanted to do this the right way,” he said. “I love doing this, but I’m also serious about it and want to make sure people have confidence in what I’m telling them. I’m always looking for new clients because, believe it or not, I learn something — some little something — from every person I

work with.”To reach Tony’s

Personal Training, call 662-549-8914.


JACKSON — Confirmed coronavirus infections climbed to more than 200 in Mississip-pi, and the governor announced plans to provide quicker access to unemployment benefits for residents affected by the out-break.

The more than 200 cases were reported as of 6 p.m. Sat-urday, according to state health department figures updated

Sunday. A single COVID-19 death has been reported in the state.

Gov. Tate Reeves on Saturday took action to help relieve bur-dens on the state’s workforce, according to a news release. He signed an executive order instructing the Mississippi De-partment of Employment Se-curity to expedite payments to unemployed workers and relax collection requirements on em-ployers.

“Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and their employees are the peo-ple who keep our economy go-ing,” the governor said in an announcement made on Face-book Live. “We have worked very closely with the Mississip-pi Department of Employment Security to help employees of small businesses that are hav-ing a difficult time keeping their doors open in these challenging times.”

Reeves waived a one-week waiting period for unemploy-ment benefits for all claims filed from March 8 to June 27. He also suspended work search require-ments that applicants must nor-mally meet to receive benefits.

The governor also suspend-

ed collection activity, including enrollment of liens and tax gar-nishments.

The city of Vicksburg is implementing a city-wide cur-few beginning Monday from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m., according to the mayor’s office. People are not allowed to be on city streets during those times, al-though people traveling to and from work, medical workers and first-responders and law enforcement would be exempt from the curfew. The city also directed restaurants to end on-site dining, but take-out and de-livery could continue.

The Mississippi Law En-forcement Officer’s Training Academy suspended operations until further notice, the Missis-

sippi Department of Public Safe-ty announced.

The vast majority of people in-fected with the novel coronavirus get only mild or moderate symp-toms, such as fever and cough, and recover in about two weeks. But many will need hospitaliza-tion. Particularly vulnerable are older adults and those with ex-isting health problems who can develop severe complications, including pneumonia.

COVID-19 testing will begin next week at the Mississippi Fair-grounds in Jackson. The drive-th-ru testing site will open by ap-pointment starting Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for those showing symptoms such as fever or respi-ratory problems, state health offi-cer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said.

Reeves seeks to help unemployed amid virus outbreakGovernor’s order instructs state Department of Employment Security to expedite payments to unemployed workers and relax collection requirements on employers

When was the last time youpicked up a piece of litter?


JACKSON — A large group of people at an auction in a northeast Mississippi city was broken up Satur-day under a directive from the city’s mayor.

Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton told the police and fire departments to break up the gathering at the Tupelo Furniture Market in light of the con-tinuing spread of COVID-19.

Mississippi now has at least 140 confirmed cases of COVID-19, up from 80 reported a day earlier, health officials said Saturday.

Of those cases, 24 percent are being treated in hospitals, the Mis-

sissippi Department of Health re-ported. In addition, the agency said its laboratory had tested more than 770 people. Positive cases have been reported in 45 of the state’s 84 coun-ties.

Only one death has been reported for the state.

“There were people from all over Northeast Mississippi,” said Shelton, who also issued an executive order banning public events and gather-ings with more than 50 people from occurring in the city.

City officials said they thought the auction was going to be postponed. Shelton told the Northeast Mississip-pi Daily Journal that his directives

were given to help slow the spread of the virus in Tupelo.

A telephone call to the furniture market for comment was not imme-diately returned.

Shelton’s orders come after the city council expressed a need for the governor or state agencies to provide more guidance during the pandem-ic.

“We’re looking for some leader-ship from the governor and his team because right now we’ve got all these municipalities making different de-cisions and some of them mesh and some of them don’t, but we need a unified stance here,” Ward 6 Coun-cilman Lynn Bryan said.

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Matt Kryger/USA TODAY SportsCanada looks on during its national anthem prior to a game against the United States in the women’s team preliminary in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Youth Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Canada announced Sunday night it won’t send a team to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics due to concerns about COVID-19.

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Former Mississippi State baseball star Mangum announces new podcastFROM SPECIAL REPORTS

Former Mississip-pi State b a s e b a l l star Jake M a n g u m is launch-ing his own p o d c a s t , M a n g u m t w e e t e d Sunday evening.

The Jake Mangum

Show will focus on “cur-rent events, all sports, life and everything in be-tween,” Mangum said.

The podcast will fea-ture guests and be re-corded in both audio and video formats, Mangum said.

“This show will not just be MSU sports,” Mang-um noted in a reply to an interested fan. “It will be for fans of any team and/

or university!”Mangum, 24, was

drafted by the New York Mets in the 32nd round of the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Play-er Draft and had 45 hits and a team-leading 17 sto-len bases for the Class A Brooklyn Cyclones in 53 games.

He set Mississippi State’s single-season hit record last year and be-

came the Southeastern Conference’s leader in ca-reer hits.

MAIS suspends sports for coming week

The Midsouth Asso-ciation for Independent Schools has suspended all activities and athletic events for a week begin-ning Monday, the MAIS announced.

The suspension will be reconsidered on a week-to-week basis, and a decision on further suspension will be made Thursday.

“The MAIS will con-tinue to evaluate this fluid situation and will provide updates as the latest in-formation becomes avail-able,” a statement from the MAIS read.

The organization had

already suspended all ath-letics and recommended its member schools close for the week of March 16-20.

Heritage Academy, Starkville Academy, Co-lumbus Christian Acad-emy, Oak Hill Academy, Starkville Christian School and Hebron Chris-tian School will be affect-ed by the decision.

Mangum

OLYMPICS

CANADA PULLS OUT AS IOC LOOKS AT POSTPONING TOKYO GAMES


LAUSANNE, Swit-zerland — The IOC will take up to four weeks to consider postponing the Tokyo Olympics amid mounting criticism of its handling of the corona-virus crisis that now in-cludes Canada saying it won’t send a team to the games this year and the leader of track and field, the biggest sport at the games, also calling for a delay.

The IOC is planning

meetings with Japanese public authorities, global sports officials, broad-casters and sponsors that will deal with scenario planning for the Olym-pics, which are scheduled to start July 24. Canceling the games is not under consideration.

IOC President Thom-as Bach sent a letter to athletes explaining the decision and why it might take so long, while also acknowledging the ex-tended timeline might not

be popular.“I know that this un-

precedented situation leaves many of your ques-tions open,” he wrote. “I also know that this ratio-nal approach may not be in line with the emotions many of you have to go through.”

But only hours after the announcement, World Athletics President Seb Coe sent a letter to Bach saying that holding the Olympics in July “is nei-ther feasible nor desir-

able.” He outlined a num-ber of reasons, including competitive fairness, the likelihood athletes would overtrain if given a com-pressed schedule and the uncertainty caused by orders in many coun-tries barring people from gyms and other workout venues.

“No one wants to see the Olympic Games post-poned but ... we cannot hold the event at all costs, certainly not at the cost of athlete safety,” he wrote.

“A decision on the Olym-pic Games may become very obvious very quick-ly.”

Then, late Sunday, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced it won’t send athletes to To-kyo unless the games are postponed by a year, be-coming the first country to threaten such a move. The committee said in a statement that it was un-safe for athletes to contin-ue training.

“In fact, it runs count-

er to the public health advice which we urge all Canadians to follow,” the committee said.

Japanese Prime Minis-ter Shinzo Abe also urged the IOC to make a quick decision, adding that a postponement would be unavoidable if the games cannot be held in a com-plete way. The Australian Olympic Committee also chimed in, advising ath-letes to prepare for an Olympics next year.

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Barefoot Hamlin wins virtual Homestead as NASCAR races againTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The stands were packed, Jimmie Johnson caused several wrecks, Denny Hamlin raced barefoot and damaged cars were repaired with the push of a button — a few virtual signs that NA-SCAR backed quite an un-real race.

NASCAR eased off the brake in the real sports world brought to a sudden halt by the coronavirus and introduced the coun-try to iRacing with some of the sports biggest stars. Hamlin, the three-time Daytona 500 winner, beat Dale Earnhardt Jr. off the final corner Sunday at virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway to win the bi-

zarre spectacle.“For the community,

the racing community, the NASCAR drivers to come together and put drivers on the racetrack with such short notice, ev-eryone is buying up simu-lation rigs this week and last week get-ting ready for the event, and for it all to come t o g e t h e r and have a great finish, I think it was definitely a success,” Hamlin said.

“iRacing got involved and emailed everyone, said, ‘Hey, this is what we’re thinking about.’ NA-SCAR got involved, televi-

sion got involved and said they’d be interested. But no one really talked to the drivers about unifying and participating. It was all free will, and that’s what’s exciting is you had full-time Cup guys out there willing to spend their time doing this.”

It was Hamlin’s 31st victory in iRacing, which is where he was first dis-covered by Earnhardt long before he made it to NASCAR. Hamlin was heavily involved in put-ting together Sunday’s pretend race, which was broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 and called by its regular team of Mike Joy and Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon.

NASCAR has suspend-ed racing until at least

May 9, and with literally nothing else to do, series executives and iRacing put together the inaugu-ral eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series in roughly one week. The first event was at Home-stead, where NASCAR was supposed to be racing Sunday before COVID-19 brought sports to a halt.

This was a one-of-a-kind competition for most watching at home, and ended up with a familiar winner.

It could serve as a pe-tri dish for other sports to try the whole gamer thing. The classic games aired across TV over the weekend will get old in a hurry, and networks are desperate for something fresh until sports resume.

Drivers showed im-mediate interest — even those with little to no simulator racing expe-rience. Some rushed to purchase “rigs” to get into the 35-driver field, and the show-and-tell on social media of the setups provided an entertaining build-up to the event.

Hamlin, racing bare-foot on an elaborate rig in the living room of his North Carolina home, had said earlier this week he’d donate $5,000 to Mi-ami families affected by COVID-19 if he won the race and Kevin Harvick said he’d match Hamlin’s pledge. Hamlin also set odds for the race and was instrumental in a group chat among the partici-pants.

Truck Series driver Ty Majeski, ranked one of the best iRacers in the world, competed from a computer propped on a wooden desk with a steering wheel attached. Kyle Larson said he spent $6,800 building his rig, while many of the less heralded drivers who use iRacing to hone their skills can build a setup for a few hundred dollars. A competitor needs only a chair, computer, steering wheel and pedals, but NASCAR’s superstars shelled out much more to trick out their simulators.

Hamlin estimated his rig cost over $40,000 — but defended the price because his simulator has motion features — and

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OlympicsContinued from Page 1B

“It’s clear the games can’t be held in July,” said Ian Chesterman, Austra-lia’s team leader for To-kyo.

Despite the pressure on the IOC, a decision probably won’t come sooner than next month.

The IOC said the sce-narios under consider-ation “relate to modifying existing operational plans for the Games to go ahead on July 24, 2020, and also for changes to the start date of the Games.”

The change in strategy followed Bach’s confer-ence call with executive board members.

Bach has consistently said organizers are fully committed to opening the games on July 24 — despite athlete training,

qualifying events and games preparations being disrupted more and more by the virus outbreak causing the COVID-19 disease.

Criticism of the stance grew in recent days from Olympic gold medalists and by an IOC member last Tuesday, before Bach finally acknowledged an alternative plan was pos-sible.

National Olympic committees in Brazil and Slovenia later called for a postponement to 2021. Norway’s Olympic body said it did not want ath-letes going to Tokyo until the global health crisis is under control.

The United States gov-erning bodies of swim-ming and track — two of

the three top-tier Summer Games sports — have called on their national Olympic officials to push for a postponement.

“There is a dramatic increase in cases and new outbreaks of COVID-19 in different countries on different continents,” the IOC said. “This led the (board) to the conclusion that the IOC needs to take the next step in its scenar-io-planning.”

The IOC said last week that roughly 4,700 of 11,000 spots in the Olym-pics have yet to be allocat-ed.

Bach acknowledged the problems that come with a compressed or rad-ically altered qualifying schedule, but also laid out several reasons that the

IOC could not rush to a decision.

It included the avail-ability of venues that are scheduled for use this summer but might not be available at a later time and the disruption of fu-ture events in the individ-ual sports.

“A decision about a postponement today could not determine a new date for the Olympic Games because of the uncertain developments in both directions: an im-provement, as we are see-ing in a number of coun-tries thanks to the severe measures being taken, or a deteriorating situation in other countries,” Bach said.

said better equipment makes no difference. He also said he raced bare-foot because “I like to feel the pedals.”

Seven-time NASCAR champion Johnson, who has been practicing sports car and IndyCar racing on the simulator in his garage, competed from a rig that appeared more suited for one of those cars than his virtu-al No. 48 Chevrolet. But Johnson proved to be a less-than-elite iRacer ear-ly with a comical crash in which his car appeared to be a ping-pong ball off the wall and several other cars.

“I hope everyone en-joyed that today. I clearly have a ton to learn,” John-son said.

Among those hit by

Johnson was Alex Bow-man, Johnson’s teammate at Hendrick Motorsports and one of the highly rat-ed computer racers. But drivers can hit a reset to “fix” the damage and con-tinue.

“No worries my virtu-al crew used a fast repair and it’s good as new. Also I’m eating an uncrust-able,” Bowman tweeted after Johnson wrecked him. “And yeah I’m still tweeting and fake driv-ing.”

Drivers took the event seriously, with most us-ing the opportunity to showcase their sponsor — Landon Cassill even signed a sponsor specifi-cally for the event — and fill fans hunger for racing. Many recruited their real spotters and crew chiefs

to help. Bowman’s real crew chief Greg Ives and spotter Kevin Hamlin both watched the event from home in team shirts giving Bowman advice.

Many of the young-er NASCAR drivers are world-ranked iRacers and use the game to work on their craft. The iRacing game is as close to real-ity as any professional sport can get because of the granular detail and precise rendering of each NASCAR track. The ven-ues are laser-scanned to capture the bumps and imperfections in the as-phalt, as well as duplicate the grandstands and bill-boards and pit lane.

The race, called the Dixie Vodka 150, was 100 laps around the vir-tual 1.5-mile Homestead

oval. Dixie Vodka said it would donate $10,000 to The NASCAR Founda-tion, which is centralizing charitable donations in the NASCAR industry to support those impacted by the COVID-19 pan-demic.

Professional iRacing drivers — NASCAR hosts a league — can create their own setups but for Sunday’s event a fixed set-up was installed.

The event gave NA-SCAR a chance to show-case its esports offering on live television while also providing entertain-ment during a time when most of the world is locked down over fears of spread-ing the coronavirus.

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Final Four stardom not always followed by a long NBA careerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jeff Sheppard works as a financial planner now, more than two decades removed from the time he helped Kentucky win the NCAA tournament.

Yet he still gets asked regularly about his role in the Wildcats’ 1998 nation-al championship.

“They remember where they were when they watched the cham-pionship game and that kind of thing,” said Shep-pard, who works in Lex-ington and lives about an hour away in London, Kentucky. “It’s definitely a lot of fun.”

Sheppard went un-drafted after that glorious run and played part of one NBA season with the At-lanta Hawks in 1998-99 before playing a few years in Italy. He is not the only most outstanding player from a Final Four to play fewer than 20 games in the NBA.

In Sheppard’s case, he decided to redshirt the 1996-97 season as a senior at the prompting of Rick Pitino, Kentucky’s coach at the time. Sheppard was stuck behind future NBA lottery picks Derek An-derson and Ron Mercer at shooting guard.

“I had a choice,” Shep-pard said. “I could battle it out for playing time with those guys or redshirt, let them be the featured play-ers in ’97 and go on to the pros, and then it was my spot to lose in ’98.’’

The wait proved worth-while. As a fifth-year se-nior, Sheppard helped that 1997-98 team win a national title for Tub-by Smith, who took over when Pitino left for the Boston Celtics job.

Sheppard scored 27 points in an 86-85 over-time semifinal victory over Stanford and 16 more in the 78-69 cham-pionship game triumph

over Utah.Staying in school an ex-

tra year meant Sheppard entered the draft at the relatively advanced age of 23, though he doesn’t think that played much of a factor in his short pro career.

“A 23-year-old going into the draft (now), it’s almost a disadvantage,” said Sheppard, who also was part of Kentucky’s 1996 championship team. “It wasn’t quite that way back then. You had a lot of guys who were four-year guys going into the NBA. I was a 6-3, 185-pound shooting guard. I was good in a lot of areas. I don’t know if I was great in any area.”

Some other former Fi-nal Four most outstand-ing players without long NBA track records:

Joel Berry, North Carolina (2017)

Berry still has time to play his way off this list because he doesn’t turn 25 until April 1, but he hasn’t yet appeared in a single NBA game.

The 6-footer scored 20 points when North Caroli-na lost 77-74 to Villanova in the 2016 championship game, and he followed that with a 22-point per-formance when the Tar Heels beat Gonzaga 71-65 in the 2018 NCAA Tour-nament final.

Berry was the first player to score at least 20 points in consecutive NCAA championship games since Bill Walton did it for UCLA in 1972-73.

He played one more season at North Caroli-na but went undrafted as his lack of height worked against him. Berry then tore his meniscus and fractured his tibia during his rookie season in the NBA G League.

He now plays for the G League’s Greensboro

(North Carolina) Swarm. He was averaging 7.9 points but had a 44-point game just a couple of weeks ago before the sea-son was put on hold be-cause of the pandemic.

“All things happen for a reason,” Berry said. “I was just happy that I was able to show that it wasn’t just a college thing for me. I can do this at the pros. I just need the opportunity and a place to do it.”

Irwin Dambrot, City College of New York (1950)

Dambrot helped CCNY go on one of the more remarkable postsea-son runs ever when it won both the NCAA Tourna-ment and the NIT in the same year. The New York Knicks made Dambrot the seventh overall pick in the 1950 draft, but he at-tended Columbia’s dental school instead.

Then his life took a dramatic turn.

Dambrot and the en-tire starting lineup of that 1950 CCNY team were arrested in 1951 as part of a point-shaving scandal. Dambrot pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor con-spiracy charge and didn’t get any jail time.

“They were kings of the town one day, and the next day they were the bums of the town, really, because of the scandal,” said Dambrot’s nephew, Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot.

Keith Dambrot said his uncle went on to a dental career. Irwin Dambrot died at the age of 81 in 2010.

Miles Simon, Arizona (1997)

Simon was an All-America guard who played for Arizona from 1994-98 and averaged 22 points in the 1997 NCAA Tournament. Simon

scored 30 points as Ari-zona edged Kentucky 84-79 in the championship game.

The 6-foot-5 Simon went to Orlando in the second round of the 1998 draft but appeared in just five games with the Mag-ic. He spent a handful of seasons playing overseas and in the Continental Basketball Association.

He is now an assistant coach with the Los Ange-les Lakers.

Keith Smart, Indiana (1987)

Smart made one of the most memorable shots in NCAA Tournament histo-ry when he sank a 16-foot-er with five seconds re-maining to give Indiana a 74-73 victory over Syra-cuse in the 1987 champi-onship game.

Smart played one more year at Indiana. He was drafted in the second round by the Golden State Warriors in 1988, but his only NBA playing time was a two-game stint with San Antonio in 1988-89.

He continued to play several seasons interna-tionally and in the CBA. He followed that with a long coaching career that has included head coach-ing stops with the Cleve-land Cavaliers (2002-03), Golden State (2010-11) and Sacramento Kings (2011-13).

Donald Williams, North Carolina (1993)

Williams scored 25 points each in North Car-olina’s semifinal victory over Kansas and its cham-pionship game triumph over Michigan.

He played two more seasons at North Carolina after that, though a shoul-der injury hindered him his junior year. Williams went undrafted and nev-er played a game in the NBA.

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MALLARD FILLMORE

HoroscopesTODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March

23). The buck in the woods grows a crown of antlers, but that alone doesn’t make make him king. The endowment is merely a chance to fight for the right to rule. You’ve such an attribute — an impressive talent that will be put to the test to prove it’s more than an adornment. You’ll use your gifts to claim territory and lead your life. Libra and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 40, 50, 18 and 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The muses will favor you with practical solutions. You’ll be in-spired, not to paint a picture or sing a song but to find the most

elegant solution to an everyday problem.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Knowing what’s going to happen doesn’t make the future con-ceivable. Life can be explained, considered, talked about until faces go blue, but it’s only lived one way, and that is through the experience.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When you love your own camara-derie, you’re never at a loss for good company. People will want to be near you today, which fortunately shouldn’t interfere with cherished solo time.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be a leader. Your ability to navigate the territory will be

envied by those who don’t have nearly the same confidence level in a place as you do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Em-pathy is at the heart of all you do today, and behind the things you don’t do. You’ll ignore the mistakes of others and overlook their shortcomings in order to praise strengths.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re looking forward to some-thing pleasant but trying not to set your expectation too high, as that would surely diminish the moment when it arrives. Happiness is mastering the art of expectation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Anyone who has told a lie (in other words, just about every-one who speaks a language) knows something about the subtle differences between lies and truths. You’ll get a lesson in this today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Someone will be intent on impressing you. Unfortunately for them, you are not easily impressed, and your reserve will only make this person try harder.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You might be able to put on your old clothes. Even so, when you do, you’re somehow not wearing them. Same goes for your old obsessions. You can go back, but when you get there, you’re never there.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The thing you are trying to do will continue to be a pain, but you shouldn’t let that stop you from doing it anyway. This is important, or you wouldn’t be so frustrated. Keep going at it from different angles.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You really don’t feel com-pelled to run your ideas by other people for approval, but you should anyway. It’s not because you’ll change your mind but because you’ll learn from your presentation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There’s an endeavor that you’d do even if you weren’t paid. You’d wake up early or stay up late to do it. If it were suddenly made illegal tomorrow, you’d risk it in secret. That’s what you should spend the bulk of your time on.

SOLUTION:Bus stop

FAMILY CIRCUS

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Charlie,”

and I have been married for seven years. We are in our mid-60s. This is the second marriage for both of us. He was wid-owed some years before we met. We have a good marriage. He is sweet and caring, but one issue causes friction between us. It’s about letters he and his late wife exchanged.

They were high school sweethearts. She kept all the letters he sent her when he was away in college, and after she died, he wanted to keep them. It bothers me that he’s still attached to them. When-ever we talk about the subject and I ask him to dispose of them, he gets defensive, says he doesn’t understand why it bothers me and accuses me of being unreasonable. He says I don’t even “let” him have a picture of his late wife among our family pictures around the house. My first marriage was very troubled, and I never wanted a picture of my late husband. But Charlie’s was a happy one.

Am I unreasonable, or is it time to let the past stay in the

past, as painful as it might be to detach from objects that were an intimate part of his previous marriage? — REASONING IN ILLINOIS

DEAR REA-SONING: Why have you not accepted that Charlie had a life before fate inter-vened, took his wife and you en-tered the picture? People who had

miserable first marriages — as yours was — often choose not to remarry. Charlie is who he is in part because of his happy marriage to his first wife. You are making a mistake by com-peting with her. Stop insisting that he get rid of the old letters, which hold great sentimental value for him. And if he would like to display a photo of his late wife, quit giving him heart-burn. She’s part of his history, and it’s his house, too.

DEAR ABBY: I am being married in a couple of months. I feel like I’m living a real-life fairy tale — but not always in a good way. My fiance’s stepfamily has made it clear that they do not approve of our union. They have gone as far as to ask me to leave him. He is appalled by their behavior

and has told them they are no longer welcome in our lives or at our wedding. They were livid and blamed me.

I don’t want my wedding to be the cause of pain, so I have tried to be understanding, gracious and forgiving, but they are toxic people. My fiance is my very own real-life Prince Charming, and I want nothing more than to spend the rest of my life with him.

Abby, I am terrified they are going to show up to our wedding anyway or try to some-how sabotage it. What should I do? If they show up, should I let them stay or have them re-moved? How do I prevent them from intruding in the future? — CINDERELLA IN NEW ENGLAND

DEAR CINDERELLA: Allow me to congratulate you and your fiance on your upcoming nuptials and offer my sympathy for your grief, which is unde-served. You may need to hire professional security to ensure the peace, or see if security is provided at the venue. The way to prevent unwanted intruders in the future would be to move as far away from his family as is feasible.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Dear Abby

Self-isolated NFL players engage in group chats, workoutsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tennessee Titans of-fensive tackle Dennis Kelly has been hunkered down with his family in the Indianapolis area since the birth of his third daughter a month ago.

He has been self-iso-lating before the spread of COVID-19, the corona-virus.

“We’re already kind of in a self-imposed quaran-tine on our own, because with a new baby and not having shots and every-thing like that, especially with it being winter and how bad the flu was this year,” said Kelly, one of hundreds of NFL play-ers who are self-isolating while the league sorts through what’s next. “We’re in week four al-

ready of kind of being separated. For most of so-ciety, obviously it’s even more extreme.”

Though it’s the offsea-son for the NFL, the need for social distancing and self-isolation by the pro football community was driven home when New Orleans coach Sean Pay-ton announced Thursday he was the first in the NFL to test positive.

NFL players usually use this time to prepare for offseason programs that traditionally start in April. With those pro-grams delayed indefi-nitely, players are trying to stay connected with teammates via group chats and social media. Workouts also are an is-sue with more gyms clos-

ing, though some players have their own equipment at home.

New Orleans Saints long snapper Zach Wood, who signed an extension just before free agency started, lives in an apart-ment and has been stay-ing away from gyms in Dallas. His workouts in-volve push-ups, pull-ups and squats and now more running outside.

“I’m just like a sprin-kler throwing sweat everywhere, which is disgusting, so I guess I better start going outside and finding ways to do something in the park or on a trail or something because the apartment is just not having it for me,” Wood said.

Ryan Tannehill, who

received a four-year, $118 million contract from Ten-nessee, normally would be busy lining up work-outs with wide receiv-ers to start honing their chemistry and timing.

“Guys getting on planes right now is not a good situation,” said Tan-nehill, who is also doing some personal training while sticking around the house with his two chil-dren and enjoying more home-cooking by his wife, Lauren. “... Hopeful-ly as a nation we can kind of get this thing turned around, flatten the curve sort to speak, and start moving forward.”

For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever

and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.

The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. According to the World Health Organi-zation, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

NFL free agency busi-ness has been one of the few things close to nor-mal in the sports world in the wake of the pandemic.

Cornerback A.J. Bouye is one of the players facing the challenge of changing teams during this isola-tion period after being

traded by Jacksonville to Denver. The group chats that Tannehill and Kelly use to stay in touch aren’t easy for a player with new teammates.

Taking care of his fam-ily is at the top of Bouye’s to-do list. His daughters are in a different state, and Bouye, who’s con-tinuing to work out at his home gym in Atlanta, also focused is on his parents and other relatives.

“Once we get every-thing situated with that, we just have to monitor when we could go back,” Bouye said. “One thing about it, I’m just focused more on working out also. I have everything set up at home. My trainer is with me, so I’m definitely good with that.”

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BY SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Airickca Gordon-Taylor, a relative of Emmett Till who spent her life educating others about the black teenage lynching victim’s legacy through her foundation, died at age 50, according to family members.

Gordon-Taylor, of sub-urban Chicago, died ear-ly Saturday, hours after a hospital stay. She had kid-ney problems for decades, including two transplants, according to her mother, Ollie Gordon, who was Till’s cousin.

“She was a great ad-vocate. She was a fighter for equal justice,” Gordon said. “She was very se-rious about her commit-ment to keep the legacy of Emmett Till going.”

Gordon-Taylor, of

Olympia Fields, also called herself Till’s cous-in, but considered her-self a surrogate daugh-ter to his mother, whom she lived with for a time. In 2009, Gordon-Taylor named her foundation af-ter Till’s mother, calling it the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation. Its mission is to honor her and her only son.

Emmett Till was killed in 1955 while visiting relatives in Mississippi, his body found weighted down in the Tallahatchie River. His mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago, where they lived, so the public could see the mutilated corpse. An all-white jury acquit-ted two white men in the killing.

Till’s death helped energize the civil rights movement.

Gordon-Taylor’s work included youth empow-erment, such as teaching young people oratory skills, and civil rights is-sues. Most recently, she advocated in Washington, D.C., for an anti-lynching bill named after Till.

“Airickca dedicated her life’s work to lifting up the legacy of her cousin, Em-mett Till, and she stood in solidarity with other fam-ilies who had lost loved ones to racial violence in our country,” said Kristen Clarke, head of the Law-yers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which works with the founda-tion. “She fought for truth and justice, and worked tirelessly to promote ra-cial healing.”

Family members said they hope to plan a public memorial event in the fu-ture.

Civil rights activist and Emmett Till relative dies at 50

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Charles E. Stafford, 83,

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Emma Jean Petty, 67, died March 16, 2020, at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.

Grave-side services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, at Great-er Mt. Oliver M.B. Church Cemetery, with

the Rev. Donald Henry officiating. Visitation is from noon-5 p.m. today at Century Hairston Funeral Home . Cen-tury Hairston Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrange-ments.

Mrs. Petty was born Oct. 5, 1952, in Colum-bus, to the late Willie B. Buchanan Moore and Alfred Givens. She was formerly employed in the finishing mill department of Johnson Tombigbee Manufac-turing Co. and as a do-mestic worker for Mr. and Mrs. John Laws.

She is survived by her children, Jerome Buchanan, Termekia Buchanan, Billy Petty Jr., Shavonne Petty all of Columbus; siblings, Joe Buchanan of Starkville, Andrew Bu-chanan, Jessie Buchan-an, Johnny Buchanan, Sammy Buchanan all of Columbus, Lena Thom-as of Tampa, Florida, Rosie Collie of Southav-en, James W. Buchanan of Jackson and Callie Buchanan of Columbus.

Pallbearers will be Cedrick Jackson, Jack Baker, Jermaine

Latham, Curtis Leech, Antonio Brown and JuDon Phillips.

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press

W A S H I N G -TON — Wood-row Wilson was more focused on the end of World War I than a flu virus that was making its way around the globe, ultimately sickening hundreds of thousands of Americans, in-cluding the president himself.

George W. Bush stood with a bullhorn on a pile of rubble after the 9/11 attacks on lower Manhattan and promised that the people who were responsi-ble “will hear all of us soon.”

Barack Obama was in office for just a few months when the first reports came in about the H1N1 virus, which would even-tually be declared a pandemic like today’s new coronavirus.

Most American presidents will confront a crisis — or cri-ses — before they leave office, whether it is a natural disaster, war, economic downturn, pub-lic health threat or terrorism.

What matters is how they re-spond, historians say.

“The number one thing a president can do in a moment like this is try to calm the na-tion,” said Julian Zelizer, a pres-idential historian at Princeton University.

It’s what Franklin D. Roos-

evelt did during an extraordi-nary 12 years in office, guiding the nation through a bleak peri-od of Depression-era unemploy-ment, a severe Midwest drought known as the Dust Bowl and battle against the Nazis and Jap-anese in World War II.

During the influenza of Wil-son’s time, which killed an esti-mated 50 million people world-wide, including about 675,000 in America, presidents were not involved in public health issues in the same way that President Donald Trump has become engrossed in the U.S. effort against the new coronavirus.

Such issues were left for pub-lic health professionals at the state and local level.

“Wilson never issued any public statement whatsoever,” said John M. Barry, author of “The Great Influenza,” a book about the 1918 flu. “He was en-

tirely focused on the war. Peri-od.”

In fact, Wilson was so fo-cused on the post-war peace talks that he was a party to in Paris that he, too, ended up stricken with the flu. He recov-ered.

Trump, on the other hand, seems intent on being the pub-lic face of the effort against what has become his most serious challenge in a reelection year. Trump, who has no scientific or medical training, now leads a daily White House briefing on coronavirus efforts by a task force he tapped the vice presi-dent to lead.

Trump styles himself as a “wartime president” fighting an “invisible enemy” respon-sible for hundreds of deaths and thousands of infections in the U.S. — numbers that will continue to rise as the virus

spreads — and a dramatic up-heaval of everyday life.

Millions of people have been ordered or urged to stay home for the foreseeable future, cut off from simple pleasures like going to restaurants, shopping malls or movies in a bid to slow the virus.

But Trump’s crisis man-agement has earned mixed re-views, with praise from many supporters and criticism from detractors, including mayors and governors who are desper-ate for Trump to more robustly use his authority to help them get much-needed protective gear and supplies for doctors and nurses.

The president’s early at-tempts to minimize the severity of the situation, and to suggest that it was under control, have been panned, though he recent-ly adopted a more urgent tone.

Presidents in health crises: Trump more hands-on than many‘The number one thing a president can do in a moment like this is try to calm the nation’

Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University

Trump

Petty

BY MICHELLE R. SMITH The Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Drive-thru sites have been opening around the United States to make it quicker and safer to test people for the new corona-virus. But much like the rest of the U.S. response to the pandemic, the sys-tem has been marked by inconsistencies, delays,

and shortages. Many peo-ple who have symptoms and a doctor’s order have waited hours or days for a test.

More than a week after President Donald Trump promised that states and retail stores such as Walmart and CVS would open drive-thru test cen-ters, few sites are up and running, and they’re not yet open to the general

public. Some states are leaving it to the private sector to open test loca-tions; others are coordi-nating the effort through state health departments.

Patients have com-plained that they had to jump through cumber-some bureaucratic hoops and wait days to get test-ed, then wait even lon-ger for a result. Testing centers opened in some

places only to be shut down shortly afterward because of shortages of supplies and staff. And while the drive-thru test centers that have opened are generally orderly, there have been long lines at some.

The slow ramp-up of the COVID-19 testing and the spotty nature now of the system makes it hard for public health officials to track the spread of the disease and bring it under control.

“We need to be testing

more broadly to fully un-derstand the scope of the public health situation we are facing,” said Joseph Wendelken, a spokesman for the Rhode Island De-partment of Health.

Dr. Brett Giroir, the federal health official tasked with overseeing testing, said at a White House briefing Saturday that so far about 195,000 people have been tested in the U.S. That figure does not include some people who have been tested in private labs.

Chaos, inconsistency mark launch of drive-thru virus testingPatients have complained they had to jump through cumbersome bureaucratic hoops, wait days to get tested

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ABOVE: The meat shelves at many grocery stores have been scarce as residents stock up on food and paper products in case they will be unable to leave their homes. RIGHT: Car-los Kemp hands a sack lunch to Kolten Robinson, 1, Aubrey Hendrix, 5, Madison Drake, 7, and Zackery Tice, 11, as Steve Denson exits the bus with an additional few lunches Friday in Starkville. “I love these kids. Our community needs it (help). Hopefully if I get down somebody will help me out,” Denson said.

ABOVE: Columbus City Councilman Ethel Stewart waits for the mayor to address council members regarding his proposed res-olution in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Saturday at City Hall. Council members voted to implement the resolution that restricts gathering sizes to 10 people, requires restaurants to switch to carry-out only orders and sets a general curfew LEFT: Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton and Sergeant Louis Alex-ander cruise around shortly after the 10 p.m. curfew Saturday in Columbus. The 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. general curfew, with the exception of essential travel for those over 18 years old, was passed by Columbus City Council members to prevent further spread of COVID-19.

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FOCAL POINT A photo exploration of life inside the Golden Triangle

Photographed by Jennifer Mosbrucker/Special to The Dispatch

TOP: The main entrance of Oktibbeha County Hospital is closed Thursday in Starkville, Mississippi. The hospital is limiting visitors for patients and screening every person who enters the hospital for illness. ABOVE: Gloria Larry takes Edmond McDavis’ temperature Thursday as a part of a screening each visitor to Oktibbeha County Hospital must go through in order to enter the facility. Visitors were also asked about any symptoms they may be experiencing and if they had traveled re-cently.

As communities around the Golden Triangle encouraged social distancing, nearly every aspect of life has been affected. People working in different sectors have responded in their own way. Hospitals have changed their intake policies, sack lunches are being distributed by school districts and laws are being hastily passed in an effort to ensure the public stays safe.

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REMODELING, BRICK

work, painting, stormdamage or additions.

Free estimates.40 years experience.

662−570−3430

Carpet & Flooring

DAVID’S CARPET &

UPHOLSTERY

CLEANING AND

DISINFECTING

1 Room − $502 Rooms − $70

3+ Rooms − $30 EARugs−Must Be Seen

Car UpholsteryCleaning Available662−722−1758

Childcare

CHILDCARE SERVICES

Look No Further!!Quality Childcare Services

Are Available For TheGolden Triangle Area!!662.343.8386 or

662.813.3672. SeriousInquiries Only, Please!!

General Services

WEEKEND WARRIORS.

You have problems, wehave answers. 30 yearsexp in roofing, drywall,

painting, flooring, decking.Free estimates. Local refs.

662−386−3658.

General Services

WORK WANTED:

Licensed & Bonded.Carpentry, minor electrical,minor plumbing, insulation,painting, demolition,gutters cleaned, pressurewashing, landscaping,cleanup work, moving help.662−242−3608.

GRAVEL, $360 OR LESS!

Local delivery, 14 yd truck.Backhoe & Dozer work.Mobile Home Pads &

Driveways.662−497−1388

100 Russell St.Starkville, MS662-268-8058

JEWELRY REPAIR

J.

PARKERSON

JE W E L E RS

Just for LadiesMossy Oak Mall • West Point662-492-4221 • Mon.-Sat.

CHILDREN’S & LADIES’ CONSIGNMENT

MONOGRAMMING

General Services

CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY$545 plus Filing Fee

CHAPTER 13 BANKRUPTCYAll Attorney Fees Through The Plan

Jim Arnold, Attorney662-324-1666 • 601-656-6914104 South Lafayette Street, Starkville

Lawn Care / Landscaping

FOR ALL YOUR SPRING &

SUMMER NEEDS CALL

ROBINSON LAWN

SERVICES.

We also specialize inlandscaping services.662−435−8746 or662−272−8746.

Free estimates available.

JESSE & BEVERLY’S

LAWN SERVICE

Mowing, cleanup,landscaping, sodding,

& tree cutting.662−356−6525

SAM’S LAWN SERVICE

No lawn too large or toosmall. Mowing, trimming &

weedeating.Call 662−243−1694

Painting & Papering

SULLIVAN’S PAINT

SERVICE. Special Prices.Interior and ExteriorPainting. 662−435−6528

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LEGALS

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF GLENN E. RICKMAN,DECEASED

NO. 2020-0048-F

ANITA RICKMAN, ADMINISTRAT-RIX

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Letters Testamentary havebeen granted and issued to An-ita Rickman, Administratrix ofthe Estate of Glenn E. Rick-man, deceased, by the Chan-cery Court of Lowndes County,Mississippi, on the 10th day ofMarch, 2020. This is to givenotice to all persons havingclaims against said estate toProbate and Register samewith the Chancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mississippi,within ninety (90) days afterthe first publication of this No-tice to Creditors. A failure to soProbate and Register saidclaim will forever bar the same.

/s/ Anita Rickman Anita Rick-man, Administratrix

OF COUNSEL:

M. Jay Nichols, MB # 10066The Nichols Firm, PLLCPost Office Box 1081Columbus, MS 39703-1081(662) [email protected]

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General Help Wanted

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RENTALSADS STARTING AT $25

Apts For Rent: South

3BR/1.5BA TOWNHOME @1705 Bell Ave, besideMUW. $600/mo + $600dep. 678−949−6877.

Apts For Rent: West

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Coleman Realty662−329−2323

DOWNTOWN: 2BR/1BA

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Apts For Rent: Other

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LEASE,DEPOSIT

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FOR RENT LOCATED NEAR

DOWNTOWN. 3,000 sq. ft.truck terminal, 9,500 sq.ft. shop & 3,200 sq. ft.office/shop. Buildings canbe rented together orseparately. All w/ excellentaccess & Hwy. 82 visibility.662−327−9559.

Houses For Rent: North

HOUSE FOR RENT

2−3 Bedroom w/ 1.5 BathFenced in yard. $675.

662−549−9555.Ask for Glenn or text.

Houses For Rent: New Hope

3 Bedroom/2 Bath Housew/ fenced back yard inNew Hope. Renovationcurrently underway w/ newceramic tile & wood floors,bathroom fixtures, kitchenappliances & all new paint.$900.00. 917−324−3347.

Mobile Homes for Rent

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Utilities & cable included,from $145/wk − $535/moColumbus & County Schoollocations. 662−242−7653

or 205−442−2011.

RV/MOBILE HOME SITE

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OFFICE SPACE FOR

LEASE. 1112 Main St.,Ste. 5. 3700 sq. ft.Plenty of private parking.662−327−9559.

REAL ESTATEADS STARTING AT $25

Houses For Sale: East

3BR/1BA @ 1521

Shepherd Rd.

Sold as is, needs work.Serious inquiries only,

769−274−4110.

2 BR, 2 bath LR, Dining/kitchen and step down den.Large lot. Needs work butis livable. Price reduced.Must sell. $9,500.00 662−574−2617

Houses For Sale: New Hope

16 WIDNER IN NEW HOPE

Newly remodeled. 3BR/2BA home. Approx. 1,500sq. ft. Has 25’x30’ wiredmetal shop w/ roll−up front& side door. $158,500.662−549−9298.

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19 ACRES with 16 acres of30 year old Timber. Closeto town/lock & dam.$45,000. Call between8a−7p, 662−386−0028.

LOT FOR SALE @ 406Cherry Street. $5,000.Call 662−328−5063 or662−436−6238,leave message.

MERCHANDISEADS STARTING AT $12

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JOHN DEERE MODEL M

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Furniture

LIVING ROOM SET

Loveseat & chaise for sale.NEW!! $300.662−242−2884. Leave amessage.

General Merchandise

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Certified professionals.312−291−9169

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BOARDS.

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Lawn & Garden

Garden Tiller Earthquake,rear tines, with reverse and6.5hp Kohler engine.Excellent condition. Mayhave five hours run time.Kept under cover. $300.00662−328−9223

VEHICLESADS STARTING AT $12

Campers & RVs

2012 JAYCO EAGLE 5thWHEEL, 39ft, 4 slide−outs.2BR, 48" TV & 27" TV.$26,500. 662−386−9605.

For Sale: 2004 Sierra5th Wheel Camper. 34 ft.

One slide. $3000.Call 662−242−2570.

Motorcycles & ATVs

1993 KAWASAKI

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Can be seen local.501−545−7750.

1999 ROADSTAR 1600

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2 RACING GO KARTS,

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2017 Harley Davidson CVO

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2015 Harley Davidson

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2014 Harley Davidson CVO

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COMMUNITYADS STARTING AT $12

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