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Friday, Sept. 16

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Katrina declared
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storm in U.S. history
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Bush offers blueprint to rebuild Coast
■ Admits
federal
Katrina response
was too slow
By TERENCE HUNT
and NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — President Bush promised Thursday
night the government will pay
most of the costs of rebuilding
the hurricane-ravaged Gulf
Coast in one of the largest
reconstruction projects the
world has ever seen. “There is
no way to imagine America
without New Orleans, and this
great city will rise again,” the
president said.
Standing in Jackson Square
in the heart of the French
Quarter, Bush acknowledged
his administration had failed to
respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina, which killed
hundreds of people across five
states. The government’s costs
for rebuilding could reach $200
billion or beyond.
“Four years after the frightening experience of Sept. 11,
Americans have every right to
expect a more effective
response in a time of emergency,” the president said. He
said when the federal government fails to meet such an obligation, “I as president am
responsible for the problem,
and for the solution.”
Bush ordered all Cabinet
secretaries to join in a comprehensive review of the government’s faulty response. In addition, he ordered the Department of Homeland Security to
undertake an immediate
review of emergency plans in
every major city in America.
He also said a disaster on
the scale of Katrina requires
greater federal authority and a
broader role for the armed
forces.
Bush proposed the establishment of worker recovery
accounts providing up to $5,000
for job training, education and
child care during victims’
search for employment.
In his speech, which lasted a
bit over 20 minutes, he also
said he would ask Congress to
approve an Urban Homesteading Act in which surplus
federal property would be
turned more than to lowincome citizens by means of a
lottery to build homes, with
mortgages or assistance from
charitable organizations.
Other proposals, according
to congressional officials
briefed by the White House,
include:
See SPEECH, Page 7-A
William Colgin/The Mississippi Press
Jeet Bindra, left, and Roland Kell, Pascagoula Chevron facility manager, right, guide President George W. Bush on a tour of the refinery
Thursday afternoon. The president visited the Gulf Coast to meet with Jackson County leaders.
President comes to Pascagoula with promises
■ Bush gets down
to business with
Jackson County leaders
CLAIR BYRD
The Mississippi Press
PASCAGOULA — With his blue
shirtsleeves rolled up, President George
W. Bush stepped out of the last of five
helicopters Thursday afternoon, ready
to meet with mayors and business leaders from Jackson, Harrison and Hancock counties.
Bush arrived at the Pascagoula Chevron Refinery for a meeting with Jackson
County mayors, including Pascagoula
Mayor Matthew Avara, Ocean Springs
Mayor Connie Moran and Moss Point
Mayor Xavier Bishop, to discuss the
recovery efforts
after Hurricane
Katrina, which hit
the Gulf Coast on
Aug. 29.
Bush made no
public statements
during the visit.
However, he promised the city officials
that he would “fight for the region from
the executive branch for whatever he
can get,” Avara said.
Chevron’s Global Refinery President
Jeet Bindra greeted Bush as he arrived
at the refinery, which was damaged in
the storm. The company is now importing refined fuel instead exporting it.
Chevron, which is handling a million gallons of gas per day, has been
distributing fuel throughout the South-
east.
Bush,
along
with U.S. Sen.
Trent Lott and
Mississippi Gov.
Haley Barbour,
met with the
group of mayors
and administrators to discuss issues
related to Hurricane Katrina, like governmental “red tape,” infrastructure,
insurance and temporary housing
needs.
The mayors had a “frank discussion”
about the recovery challenges now facing South Mississippi, according to
Moss Point Mayor Xavier Bishop. Bishop said Bush expressed his remorse
and disappointment for the government’s tardiness in addressing the prob-
lems in Jackson County.
“He got a lot of good information,”
Avara said. “I am confident that we’re
going to see more federal aid as a result
of him coming to Pascagoula.”
Avara personally requested Monday
that the president come to the city,
which had 90 percent of its homes flooded.
“It’s going to take billions for Pascagoula, to help fix homes, jobs and
infrastructure” he said.
But, Avara said the city is doing better, since the Chevron Refinery is soon
to be back online, Northrop Grumman
Ship Systems is now operating and
small businesses are wanting to rebuild.
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Mississippi attorney general sues insurers
■ Court papers filed
ance companies from asking polments.
icyholders to sign an advance Related story,
The motion seeks to require
payment agreement acknowlinsurers and to fully cover damThursday claim companies’
Page 8-B
edging that they have flood damages caused by Hurricane Kathurricane coverage
age in return for an advance on
rina by prohibiting the compadeceives policyholders
their claims.
nies from using exclusion clauses that allows
Hood announced Thursday at the Harri- them to avoid paying for damages caused by
By JOHN SURRATT
son
County Courthouse in Biloxi that he is storm surge. Katrina slammed into the Gulf
seeking
a temporary injunction against the Coast on Aug. 29 as a Category 4 storm.
BILOXI — Mississippi Attorney General
The restraining order would halt the inJim Hood has filed a motion in Hinds Coun- insurance companies to force them to stop
ty Chancery Court seeking to prohibit insur- asking policy holders to sign advance agree- surance company’s alleged actions until a
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Katrina scuttles
Coast regatta
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Katrina’s winds and storm surge, measuring as high as 30 feet in some areas,
destroyed more than 68,000 homes, apartments and condominiums in the state’s six
coastal counties, according to a preliminary
survey by the American Red Cross. Another
65,000 homes were damaged.
Authorities are still assessing the storm
See INSURANCE, Page 4-A
Hood: ‘Hope is
all the people on
the Gulf Coast
have. And I hope
they work hard
and don’t give
up and rebuild.’
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Stalled Ophelia soaks coastal N.C.
SALTER PATH, N.C. (AP) — Tropical
Storm Ophelia crawled along the North Carolina coast on Thursday, prolonging its punishment of the Outer Banks with rain and
wind as coastal residents elsewhere returned
home to damaged homes and businesses.
While the weakening storm’s center was
expected to stay just off shore, the northern
side of Ophelia’s eyewall, the ring of high
wind surrounding the eye, could remain over
the Outer Banks until midday Friday, the
National Hurricane Center said.
Earlier in the day the storm had been classified as a minimal hurricane.
Ophelia was “just beating us to death,”
said Alton Ballance, who lives on the Outer
Banks’ Ocracoke Island, just south of Hatteras. “It’s similar to the wintertime nor’easters that lay there and beat you for a couple of
days,” he said.
Gov. Mike Easley said getting a handle on
the scope of damage was difficult because of
the storm’s slow path, first affecting the
state’s southeastern coast on Tuesday and
then crawling north and east Wednesday
and Thursday to its position off the Outer
Banks.
“It’s almost like working three different
storms,” Easley said.
About 48,500 homes and businesses
wind and waves had taken a toll.
“We were not expecting this,” said Laurie
Garner, whose boyfriend’s restaurant was
severely damaged at Salter Path on Bogue
Banks, southwest of Morehead City. “It just
beat us and beat us and beat us.”
Salter Path Fire Capt. Joey Frost estimated that as many as 25 people had to be
rescued. In neighboring Emerald Isle, six
houses were destroyed and 129 had major
damage, Fire Capt. Bill Walker said.
Ophelia, an erratic storm that has looped
and meandered north since forming off the
Florida coast last week, stalled early Thursday afternoon, then resumed a drift toward
the east-northeast at about 3 mph, the hurricane center said.
Its top sustained wind speed had eased
AP back to 70 mph, below the 74 mile-per-hour
threshold for a hurricane, and it was classiFriends stop by to talk with Vernon
fied a tropical storm at 8 p.m. by the NationGuthrie, background, left, as they look
al Hurricane Center.
over the damage to his restaurant caused
Since it was weakening and its direction
by Hurricane Ophelia in Salter Path, N.C.,
was toward open ocean, a hurricane warning
Thursday.
for the North Carolina coast was reduced to
a tropical storm warning, extending from
remained without power Thursday in eastern Cape Lookout northward to Cape Charles
Light, Va., including the mouth of ChesaNorth Carolina, utilities said.
It appeared the mainland had dodged the peake Bay, the hurricane center said.
The storm was blamed for one traffic death.
severe flooding many had feared, but the
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MEANS
Mr. Bennie Means Jr.,
born July 28, 1938, in Leetochatchie, Ala., to the late
Bennie Means, Sr., and Mrs.
Alice Goldsmith Means,
passed on to eternal rest on
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005.
He was married to his best
friend and love of his life, the
former Martina Francis for 45
years. They were parents of
four sons.
He was a member of the
Church of the Living God in
Pascagoula, where he worked
on the Board of Trustee’s and
with the Men’s Ministry. He
was also a long time member
of the Magnolia Elks Lodge in
Moss Point, Miss. A graduate
of the Pascagoula City School
Systems (Carver High School)
in 1958, he also attended
Alcorn College. He retired
after 35 years of services from
Chevron Oil Refineries.
To forever cherish his memories are his wife, Martina;
sons, Bennie, III (Barbara),
Rodrick (Anita Kay), Blair
(Deborah) and Daryl (Angela);
eight grandchildren, Koryelle
Latroy, Marion, Slynthia, Gregory, Chylar, Taylor, Daryl, Jr.,
and Frances; his mother, Alice
Means; his sister, Molly Means
(Robert) Taylor; five aunts;
three uncles; special long time
friend, John Harrison; several
nieces and nephews; and a
host of other relatives and
friends.
Visitation hour will be from
10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday,
Sept. 17, 2005, with funeral
services beginning at 11 a.m.
at the Church of the Living
God, located at 2233 Telephone Road in Pascagoula.
Elder Matthew Townsend is
the Pastor, and Elder Larry
Blackmon will officiate.
Interment will be at the
Jackson County Memorial
Park.
Arrangements by Millender ’s Funeral Home, Moss
Point, Miss.
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TAYLOR
Millard Brooks Taylor,
85, of Columbia, Miss., died
Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, at Marion General Hospital. Mr. Taylor was a native of Foxworth,
Miss., and a retired restaurant owner. He served in the
Army Air Corp during WWII.
He and his wife operated Tays
Restaurant in Columbia for
many years. He was known
for his Bar-B-Que, fried chicken and his entertaining stories. He was a member of the
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Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005, at
the age of 71 years.
Maude was born to and preceded in death by her father,
James Garfield Hunter and
her mother, Laura Hunter; sister, Annie Ruth Hunter; and a
daughter, Annie Ruth Hunter.
Maude was born in Itta Bena, Miss., educated in Swift
Town, Miss., lived in Washington, D.C. for many years,
and lived the last years of her
life in Moss Point, Miss.
While living in Moss Point,
Maude married James (Cowboy) Covington and became a
member of the Meridian
Street Church of Christ where
she remained a member until
her death.
Maude is survived by her
dog, Blackgal; three sisters,
Johnnie Mae Hunter of
Pascagoula, Louella Mitchell
(John Stewart) of Moss Point
and Mildred (George) Garrett
of Philadelphia, Miss.; a special niece, Tajuana Hunter
Dinkins whom she helped to
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had no children of her own,
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Iona Morris, Aggie Wordlaw,
and Margu Banks.
Viewing will be Saturday,
Sept. 17, 2005, from 12 noon 2 p.m. at Meridian Street
Church of Christ, Moss Point.
Funeral services will begin
promptly at 2 p.m. from the
church with Brother Lloyd
Harris, officiating.
Interment will be in Scranton Cemetery, Pascagoula,
Miss.
All arrangements by Millender’s Funeral Home, Moss
Point, Miss.
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He was preceded in death
by his wife, Loyce Taylor; son,
Gilbert Taylor; his parents;
brothers, Albert, Clifford,
Lawrence, Willie Lee, and
Doug; and sister, Louise Parkman.
Survivors include his daughter-in-law, Carolyn Taylor;
one son, Dr. Austin Taylor and
wife Ariel; grandchildren, Griff
Taylor, Marie Herrin, David
Taylor, Anne Christine Taylor,
Ramsay Taylor, and Hanna
Mayfield; one great grandchild, Zachary Taylor; a number of nieces and nephews.
Memorial service will be 1
p.m., Friday, Sept. 16, 2005,
at Colonial Funeral Home
Chapel with Dr. David Young
officiating. Interment will be
in the Woodlawn Cemetery,
Columbia, Miss.
Arrangements by Colonial
Funeral Home, Columbia,
Miss.
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Mr. John A. Ledlow of
Vancleave, Miss., passed away
Aug. 31, 2005, in Pascagoula,
Miss. Mr. Ledlow was of the
Baptist faith and served in the
U.S. Army, serving in Vietnam.
He retired from International Paper Mill in Moss
Point in the Shipping Dept.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Wilbon and
Lucille Ledlow; and his brother, James Ledlow.
Mr. Ledlow is survived by
his wife, Marie Ledlow of Vancleave; one daughter, Michelle
Cornett of Niceville, Fla.; five
sons, Rev. Duane (Stephanie)
Ledlow of Ocean Springs,
Miss., Charles (Chuck) (Amanda) Ledlow of Pascagoula,
Blake (Jazbel) Lightsey of
Vancleave, Jason Lightsey of
Vancleave, Clint Lightsey of
Vancleave; one sister, Darnell
Miller of Gautier, Miss.; eight
grandchildren; a host of other
relatives and friends.
A memorial service will be
held at a later date.
Arrangements by BradfordO’Keefe Funeral Home, Ocean
Springs, Miss.
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Tuesday
2401 Academy Drive, Linda Bullard reported someone
broke into her vehicle.
2401 Academy Drive,
David Glass reported someone broke into his vehicle
and took a cassette player.
3412 U.S. 90, Legacy
Homes, James Brand reported someone went into his
mobile home and took a
receiver.
2807 Ridgeway, Candace
Ray reported someone went
into her house and took a
stereo system.
2525 U.S. 90, Jerry Lee’s,
Gene Starr reported someone broke into his vehicle
and took some money.
2800 U.S. 90, Extreme
Wireless, Jessica Dunn
reported someone took a
Nokia cell phone without paying for it.
2615 Bahama Drive,
Delores Lee filed a complaint.
2672 Mackeral Drive, Billy
Russell filed a complaint.
6350 Firestone, Chris
Ford reported someone
broke into his house.
Wednesday
Dolphin Drive, Casey
Moeger, 20, 1600 U.S. 90,
Lot 36, was arrested for driving under suspension.
Isle of Pines #36, Floyd J.
Beverly, 64, 1901 Martin Bluff
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1401 Timber Lane Dr.,
Angelo Marks reported
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2521 Oxford, Raynond
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2804 Dubarry, Apt. 103,
Katherine Cokernak reported
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U.S. 90, William Donald
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Martin Bluff Road, Timothy Mobley, 27, 2040 Victoria
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1500 Riverside Drive,
Jauquina Richardson reported someone broke into his
house.
U.S. 90, Magnolia Tree,
Demarcus Tremaine McLaurin, 27, 4161 Mouldin St.,
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Ladnier Road, Richard
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Man seriously hurt in wreck following pursuit
From Staff Reports
PASCAGOULA — A Moss
Point man was injured in a
single-vehicle accident after
he allegedly tried to elude
police early Wednesday morning.
Marlon Stallworth, 22, of
5724 Vester St. was stopped
at a National Guard checkpoint at the intersection of Old
Mobile Highway and Chicot
Street.
After stopping briefly, police
said Stallworth fled east on
Old Mobile Highway.
As he fled, police said, Stall-
worth allegedly tried to run
down other National Guard
troops at the intersection of
14th Street and Briggs
Avenue.
Pascagoula Police Officer
Jim Roe saw Stallworth and
began pursuit. Stallworth
drove north on 14th Street and
attempted to cross U.S. 90,
even though there is no median crossover there, police said.
Stallworth lost control of his
1998 Lincoln Navigator north
of U.S. 90 and struck the 14th
Street overpass.
Stallworth, whose vehicle
was traveling at approximate- tection in the aftermath of
ly 70 mph at the time at the Hurricane Katrina, are concrash, was ejected through the tinuing the investigation.
driver’s side window. He was
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Federal rural development
loans available on Coast
■ Low-, middle-
income families to
benefit from initiative
By ALLISON MATHER
OCEAN SPRINGS — More
low- to medium-income families
in Jackson county can seek
financial assistance from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Rural Development program for
rebuilding homes damaged by
Hurricane Katrina, state agency
director Nick Walters said
Thursday.
A series of waivers has been
granted that will make families
in urban areas affected by the
storm eligible for the agency’s
rural single family housing programs.
Katrina slammed the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29,
damaging more than 68,000
homes, apartments and condominiums in the state’s six southernmost counties.
Traditionally, Rural Development only serves communities
with populations of 20,000 or
less.
“The cities that this will affect
include Gulfport, Biloxi, Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, Gautier,
Moss Point, D’Iberville, Long
Beach, Pass Christian, Hattiesburg, Petal, Meridian and Vicksburg and Columbus,” Walters
said.
“We want people to know that
we are an opportunity and an
option that they may not have
had before,” he continued. “The
goal is to get people put into
homes.”
Walters said there are two primary programs offered by the
agency.
Low-income families — for
example, Walters said, a family
of four with an annual income of
$30,000 — can apply for a direct
loan.
For this program, the Rural
Housing Service is the lender for
a home loan for the purchase of
an existing home or construction of a new home.
The second option, the Loan
Guarantee Program, is targeted at middle-income families,
Walter said.
The lender is a regular bank
or mortgage company, and the
Rural Housing Service acts similarly to a co-signer, guaranteeing the payment of the loan if
the borrower defaults. Borrowers
can also finance up to 100 percent of the down payment.
“On the guaranteed side,
there’s no limit to what you can
borrow,” Walters said.
“Now we’re not talking about
somebody that has bad credit,”
he explained. “But we are talking about maybe somebody that
has a couple of hiccups in their
credit.”
“What’s great about both of
these programs is there’s no
down payment, no monthly
mortgage insurance,” Walters
said.
Both are common barriers to
home-ownership for low- and
middle-income families.
Walters said Rural Development works with homebuyers
— especially first-time buyers
— to make sure they have a good
understanding of the responsibilities of home-ownership.
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“Our default rate is about 3 ⁄2
percent,” he said.
Johnny Jones, Rural Development single family housing program director, said families can
get more information and fill out
loan applications at the Disaster
Recovery Centers and at Rural
Development county offices.
Required paperwork to begin
the application process is limited.
“They need to have a Social
Security number, that kind of
thing, for us to be able to file a
credit report,” Jones said.
“If they have a FEMA number, that would be helpful,” he
continued. “But they don’t have
to have that.”
“These are loans; they’re going
to have to show some repayment
ability.”
Call the Rural Development
area office at (601) 261-3293 for
more information.
Reporter Allison Mather can
be reached at amather@ms
pressonline.com or (251) 2195551.
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damage, but estimates could
run into the billions of dollars,
Hood said, adding that damage
from Hurricane Katrina’s storm
surge could reach $4 billion.
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency estimates
that only three in 10 houses in
portions of Mississippi and
Alabama struck by the storm
have flood insurance.
“Hope is all the people on the
Gulf Coast have,” Hood said.
“And I hope they work hard and
don’t give up and rebuild. But
they need to be compensated
what they are actually owed by
the insurance companies.”
Hood said his actions were
prompted by a complaint from a
Coast resident, who said an
adjuster representing Nationwide Flood Insurance Co.
approached her about signing
an agreement acknowledging
that she had flood damage in
her home in return for a $3,000
advance for living expenses.
The resident, who was not
named, told Hood she did not
sign the agreement.
“You don’t have to sign any
acknowledgment,” Hood said.
“These are adjusters trying to
take advantage of people at this
time. There are a lot of good
insurance companies and a lot
of adjusters who are trying to
do the right thing, but some are
not and they’re using things
like this acknowledgment. ”
Hood also said the exclusionary clauses involving flood
insurance are ambiguous and
were being used by the insurance companies to escape fully
compensating policy holders for
their total loss.
“Under Mississippi law, if
there is a total loss, they (the
insurance companies) are
responsible for paying the total
loss,” he said.
The compliant filed with the
motion for the restraining order
claims the insurance companies’ exclusion clauses violate
the state’s Consumer Protection Act, claiming the companies’ attempts to exclude coverage for storm surge damage
caused by the hurricane’s winds
“is an unfair or deceptive trade
practice” that violates a section
of the Consumer Protection Act.
A Nationwide spokesman
called Hood’s allegations
groundless.
“Nationwide wants to set the
record straight,” Nationwide
spokesman Joe Case said. “The
allegations made by the Mississippi attorney general are
unfounded. Our company is
absolutely not asking policyholders to acknowledge damage is flood related in order to
receive a check for living expenses. No such form or activity is sanctioned by Nationwide,
nor does Nationwide own any
company called Nationwide
Flood Insurance Company as
noted in the legal action filed
today.”
Case said Nationwide officials were deeply disappointed
by Hood’s allegations against
the well-established flood exclusions contained in the policies.
“If these long recognized and
relied upon exclusions were to
be deemed null and void, it
would have a significant negative impact on insurance policyholders across the country,”
he said. “There is a federal flood
insurance program available to
all individuals who desire to
purchase this coverage.
“As we have consistently said,
Nationwide will continue to
investigate each claim presented to it on its own merits before
making any coverage decision.”
Hood, however, said that
many homeowners did not purchase flood insurance because it
was not required when they
bought their homes.
“They bought hurricane
insurance, expecting that if
they had damage from a hurricane, they would be protected,”
he said. “Then they have a
storm and they find out that
they’re not going to be fully covered.”
Reporter John Surratt can
be reached at [email protected] or (251)219-5551.
Rebuilding Gulf Coast will be
most expensive federal project
By TOM RAUM
WASHINGTON — The era of big government is back.
President Bush is presiding over the
most expensive government relief and
reconstruction operation in U.S. history,
casting aside budget discipline.
Bush and his Republican allies in Congress are deferring — for now — vows to
finish the Reagan revolution against big
government and turning to some of the
same kinds of public health, housing and
job assistance programs they once criticized as legacies of the Democrats’ New
Deal and Great Society.
Bush called the project “one of the
largest reconstruction efforts the world
has ever seen” in his address to the nation
Thursday evening from New Orleans.
Estimates range to $200 billion or more.
Bush said the federal government will
shoulder most of the cost.
On Capitol Hill, the hurricane opened
the floodgates to proposals — some backed
by Bush — embracing a host of long-cherished Republican themes. These include
proposals for school vouchers for stormdisplaced children; more federal support
for “faith-based” organizations engaged
in hurricane relief; and eased environmental and labor-protection requirements.
Some fiscal conservatives are expressing
alarm.
“It is inexcusable for the White House
and Congress to not even make the effort
to find at least some offsets to this new
spending,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
“No one in America believes the federal
government is operating at peak efficiency and can’t tighten its belt.”
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.,
speaking after the president’s address,
acknowledged the recovery programs will
increase the nation’s debt. GOP leaders
are open to suggestions from lawmakers
to cut government spending elsewhere,
but the task is urgent, he said.
“Dollars add up,” he said. “For every
dollar we spend on this means a dollar
that’s going to take a little bit longer to
balance the budget.”
Government failures at the federal,
state and local levels are being widely
blamed for the anarchy and loss of life in
the early days after Katrina slammed into
the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.
“Yet now everybody says government
is the answer. It’s baffling,” said Ronald D.
Utt, who studies federal public works
spending for the conservative Heritage
Foundation.
The foundation has proposed that Congress reopen the $286.4 billion transportation bill enacted in July to remove
some $25 billion in what it deems questionable projects, including a proposed
$230 million bridge in Alaska from
Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents.
So far, Congress has sped through bills
providing $62.3 billion for Katrina relief —
and made it clear these are just first
installments.
“That’s a good start, but victims need
more,” Senate Minority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev., said as Democrats worked to
ensure they weren’t left on the sidelines in
the rush by the GOP-led Congress to open
the government’s wallets to storm victims.
Government spending on Katrina has
already dwarfed the $15.5 billion total
from all levels of government spent on
the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, $14
billion spent on last year’s Florida hurricanes and $10.8 billion spent on Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., proposed that Congress create a Gulf Coast
Redevelopment Authority, modeled after
the Tennessee Valley Authority, to oversee
the reconstruction. TVA, created during
the Depression as an independent federal
agency, is widely credited with the revitalization of the seven-state Tennessee
Valley region.
Other lawmakers have called for a
domestic version of the Marshall Plan
that helped revive Europe after World
War II, or something akin to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Work Projects
Administration, which put millions of
unemployed people to work — mainly on
road, bridge and dam projects — during
the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Gautier Mayor Pete Pope
said Bush realized national
attention was focused on New
Orleans, but was “sympathetic” to the needs of Coast residents.
“He’s a very humble man,
and he showed genuine sympathy for our people who’ve
been hurt so bad,” Pope said.
Bush said the Federal Emergency Management Agency
will have temporary housing
available as soon as possible
for those whose homes are
inhabitable, according to Pope.
Bush also expressed “how
proud he was of the people of
Mississippi,” especially city
employees, firefighters and
police officers.
Before flying out to New
Orleans, he briefly shook
hands and spoke with a group
of employees from Mississippi
Phosphates Corp., where he
landed.
When Bush addressed the
nation Thursday night from
New Orleans’ Jackson Square,
he called the recovery after
Katrina the “largest reconstruction efforts the world has
ever seen” and thanked the
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emergency response crews,
military personnel and America’s citizens.
Bishop said he asked Bush if
he would add the citizen sector,
those “all across the nation
who have stepped forward and
opened their hearts and their
pocketbooks and their homes.”
But, Bush said the affected
areas’ needs are still “urgent”
and asked that donations continue.
Bush also ordered an immediate review of emergency
plans in every major city by
the Department of Homeland
Security and a complete review
of the government’s response to
the storm.
Bush admitted the government’s response was “not well
coordinated” and that it was
“overwhelmed the first few
days.”
“We’ll do what it takes, as
long as it takes, to rebuild the
Gulf Coast,” Bush promised.
“It’s good to have him here,”
Avara said. “We’re going to be
able to get more answers
quickly because of this.”
Reporter Clair Byrd can be
reached at [email protected] or (251) 219-5551.
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OPINION
The buck
stops on
Bush’s desk
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Our Opinion
The president
in Pascagoula
President Bush has done two good things this week,
among the flood of bad press he’s received over the failures at FEMA and troubles in Iraq.
First, as good leaders should, he owned up, saying he
responsibility for the failures of the government in
response to Hurricane Katrina were ultimately his
responsibility.
Too many elected officials seek to shift blame, to point
fingers. Bush, as well as Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, have shouldered more than their share of heat. Such
is the price of power.
Second, Bush came to Jackson County. While symbolic,
the presence of a chief executive, regardless of party,
offers a glimmer of hope, a commodity in short supply
these days.
It must be said, that while our governor dispatched
Mississippi’s first lady to Pascagoula, as well as entrepreneur and philanthropist Jim Barksdale, it’s disappointing that it took President Bush to bring Haley Barbour to Jackson County.
And, it must also be said that President Bush, even
with a major speech on Gulf Coast reconstruction on the
agenda, should have been out among the everyday citizens who are hurting Instead, Bush spent his visit meeting with corporate bigwigs and local politicos.
There are many among us who can make the case that
Mississippi has been forgotten, thanks to the tragedy
that is New Orleans. By failing to see the faces of our
devastated people, he may have added to that feeling
that our problems are not as important as those of the
Crescent City.
Too, Bush missed out on a show of support among
many county residents who believe the president has
done the best he can under unprecedented circumstances.
But President Bush came. In times like this, people
need to see their leaders walking among the ruins that
we live in, daily.
These are heartbreaking times. We appreciate President Bush’s prime time address Thursday, in which he
committed to rebuild the Coast.
But we hope that he will leave Jackson County with
the understanding that just as church groups stepped up
to feed the hungry before FEMA hit the ground in Bay
St. Louis and across the Coast, the people of Jackson
County will rebuild, regardless of what the federal government does — or doesn’t do.
No disrespect intended, Mr. President. It’s simply our
way.
We hope the government will step in to help. Clearly,
there are decisions to be made as far as national priorities. A recent poll suggested that a majority of Americans favor Coast rebuilding over tax cuts.
But those are decisions not to be made today.
Instead, for now, while it was not all we hoped for, we
appreciate the president’s presence here. Beyond partisan politics, the fact that a sitting president came to
Jackson County tells us that we matter, at a time when
we really need that assurance.
And regardless of party, President Bush, Sen. Lott and
all of our elected leaders, need our prayers.
History will decide who to blame.
Now, we must rebuild.
Other Opinion
Fixing the United Nations
Let us hope that the world leaders gathering at the United
Nations will go beyond posturing and photo ops to seriously
plan for long-delayed U.N. reforms.
Among them:
• Making the U.N. Security Council more representative, by
including Japan — the world’s second-biggest economy — and
Brazil and India. Both of the latter are increasingly important
economic players, and Brazil’s membership would finally add a
Latin American component to the council. The council must
better represent international political and economic realities.
• Eliminating or reforming that home for hypocrisy, the U.N.
Commission on Human Rights, which often serves as the voice
of tyrannies represented on it.
• Taking new action to reduce the threat of genocide, a peril
still very much with us in Sudan, central Africa and other
places. In this, rhetoric has always exceeded commitment.
• Increasing rich countries’ development aid to poor ones,
but with toughened safeguards against the money’s being stolen
or otherwise misused by corrupt national or local officials.
• Giving the position of U.N. secretary-general more administrative authority, while making him or her more accountable.
The Iraq oil-for-food scandal has shown the urgent need for
such restructuring. The U.N. administration has all too frequently been badly run, and had little oversight — encouraging
corruption.
— The Providence (R.I.) Journal
Roland Kell, Chevron Pascagoula Refinery manager, left, guides
President George W. Bush on a tour of the refinery Thursday afternoon as the president visited the Gulf Coast. Thursday night, Bush
promised that the government would rebuild the storm-ravaged
Coast.
We need
a few more barns
LUCEDALE — The Coast will
rebuild. There is no doubt about
that. It is politically necessary and
vital to the nation’s economy. It
occurs to me that when it does,
there should be a few barns.
I grew up half a century ago on a
Midwestern dairy farm. We had a
barn. It was the center of our lives.
That huge old barn, with its rich
smells of alfalfa hay, molasses, animal manure and stale milk, was a
haven of warmth
on a frozen winter morning and
offered cooling
shade on a hot
August day. It
was an institution of valuable
learning. I
learned more
lessons about
life in that barn Royce
than in all of the Armstrong
classrooms I
ever visited.
One of the first lessons I learned
was how to work. There was
always work to be done. There was
feed to put in the manger, the milking parlor floor needed shoveling,
hay to kick out into the hay bunk
and the baby calves to bucket feed.
The cows had to be milked morning
and night. It was all great fun for a
small boy tagging along after his
dad. Later, when friends and school
activities became important it was
a tedious intrusion on my time. No
matter. The work came first. Play
came later, only if there was sufficient time and energy.
Another lesson learned in that
old barn was responsibility. I was
assigned certain chores. They were
mine and I was expected to do
them and do them correctly. Certain cows were mine to milk. It was
my chore to mix the artificial milk
and feed the small calves. I had
other chores as well. My dad
depended upon me to do them. As I
grew, I assumed more of the routine chores. It was there that I
learned the measure of a man is
the responsibility he is willing to
shoulder.
I also learned about dependency
in that old barn. Like all barns of
its time, ours had its assortment of
cats. The cats, too, had a role to
play.
Their job was to keep the mouse
and rat populations trimmed to
manageable levels. We always
poured fresh milk into a pan for
the cats. I learned we had to be
careful not to give the cats too
much milk. Cats, like people and
horses, are basically lazy. If you
feed them too much milk, they
spend the rest of the day napping
and not tending to rodent riddance.
We also kept pigs (hogs in the
Midwest) in that barn. If the hog
feeder became empty, those hogs
would clamor around and squeal
their heads off when I carried feed
into the pen. If I kept the feeder
filled those hogs would lie around
the pen and not give me a second
glance it I walked through.
Those hogs taught me the more
that you do for someone, the less it
is appreciated.
As I have watched the story of
Hurricane Katrina unfold, I could
not help but remember that old
barn and the lessons learned there.
Most of the stories coming from the
storm have been stories of pain,
suffering, courage and generosity.
There have also been a few others.
These stories have been about
people so dependent upon government milk that they would not take
responsibility for themselves. We
have seen people in shelters that
refused to even do so little as work
in the serving lines to help feed
others. These are the people that
sit back and ask why they did not
get more and get it more quickly.
These are the people for whom you
can never do enough, regardless
how hard you try. Some of these
people are even trying to make the
tragedy along parts of the Coast
into a racial issue.
I read an article written by an
Associated Press reporter about a
woman who had a tree on her
house. She couldn’t understand
why nobody had come to remove
the tree and repair her home. Her
conjecture was that it had to do
with race.
But the lessons of my life are
that if you have a tree on your roof,
you get a chain saw and take it off.
Or, you hire someone with a chain
saw to take it off. If you are unable
to do that, you ask family or
friends to help out. It has nothing
to do with being white, black or
Asian. It is about work, responsibility and independence. The late
author Louis L’Amour nailed it in
his descriptions of the Western
spirit. He explained that 19th century Westerners were expected to
saddle their own broncs and fight
their own battles.
Hurricane Katrina’s waning wind
was still whistling through the
trees but people in my neighborhood were already out with chain
saws and tractors, removing fallen
trees from highways and driveways. These people were black,
white and Latino. Race was not an
issue. They were also not waiting
for government help.
Lucedale was forced to temporarily close its recycling center
because residents went to work
loading personal vehicles and trailers with storm debris. Most people
had water and ice. If they were not
hooked into one of the public water
systems, they bought generators to
power wells, refrigerators and
freezers. They took personal
responsibility and went to work
caring for themselves and one
another.
Admittedly, the devastation in
George County was not nearly as
great as along the Coast or in New
Orleans. For people who learned
about life in a barn, that is only a
detail.
That is one reason I like my
adopted home in George County.
There are still a few barns standing amongst the trees.
Reporter Royce Armstrong may be
WASHINGTON — Dust off Harry Truman’s old Oval Office sign about where
the buck stops. George W. Bush finally
seems to have arrived.
Call it a significant step in the maturation process of a public official or an
attempt to regain his political footing in
the face of considerable erosion in national support for his presidency, or both. But
the fact is that President Bush’s decision
to accept responsibility for the federal
government’s failures in the disaster of
Hurricane Katrina was refreshingly welcome, if somewhat overdue.
Former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton,
along with his Republican colleague, former New Jersey Gov.
Thomas Keane, has
done as much as anyone else to point up the
country’s shortcomings
and needs in security
and first response.
Hamilton called the
president’s mea culpa
“remarkable” and
added that he takes
much “encouragement” Dan
Thomasson
in it.
“Bravo,” the one-time
Indiana congressman told reporters.
After co-chairing a bipartisan commission assigned to sort out what went
wrong regarding 9/11 and how to make it
right, Hamilton and Keane are now heading a privately sponsored effort to pressure both the White House and Congress
to follow through with more of the panel’s
recommendations. It is an endeavor
aimed at defying the historic pattern of
such commissions — which most often
make recommendations with a flourish
and then disband, never to be heard from
again, with their reports and recommendations mainly consigned to academic
scholarship, if not to the dust bin.
Bush, with an aversion to admitting
bad decisions in the past, clearly had
nowhere to hide with the current disaster.
Mistakes and incompetence occurred in
front of millions of Americans glued to television sets as the drama unfolded. But to
give the president the benefit of the
doubt, his minions had a large hand in
causing their boss a great deal of problems. He was at best uninformed or at
worst misled by those he had put in
charge.
It never ceases to amaze that politicians out of power are always demanding
that those in control confess that they are
incompetent. Since Bush took office,
Democrats have been clamoring for him
to announce that he was wrong about
Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction
and any number of mistakes.
At one of his few press conferences, he
was even asked to enumerate his errors.
Those of us who used to hang around
the White House in the old days could
only imagine how Lyndon Johnson might
have answered that question. And as a
matter of fact, Truman only talked about
the buck stopping with him. But he seldom applied the slogan when the time
came.
The same syndrome exists with judicial
confirmation hearings. Senators not from
the nominating party constantly want
candidates to destroy their chances of
approval by admitting to some outrageous
position. That is particularly true during
the consideration of a nominee to the
Supreme Court.
What the president does to change the
public’s post-Katrina view of the nationalsecurity apparatus will tell us how serious he is in accepting responsibility. Like
Hamilton, I am inclined to take him at
his word and believe he will do everything
possible to fix a security system that is
clearly broken. But even if that is the
case, there always is the problem of a
Congress so rife with partisanship it
seems often at odds with the national
interest.
Hamilton — who enjoyed 34 years of
distinguished congressional service,
including a number of them as chairman
of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
— sees today’s lawmakers as failing to
come to grips with the more profound
problems of the day. They are, he said,
always dealing around the margins. This
and other factors, he argues convincingly,
might lead to a national undoing. It is
quite possible “our problems will overwhelm us,” he says. The nation’s survival
“is not written in granite.”
Bush may have taken much of the sting
out of the blame game that already has
erupted by assuming the burden on his
own shoulders, despite the fact an investigation is bound to uncover any number of
mistakes committed at all levels of government, many in the legislative branch.
Only time will tell if the president has
grown so much in office that he can
accept and acknowledge that he is the
place where the buck must always stop.
Dan K. Thomasson is former editor of
the Scripps Howard News Service.
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HOUSE FOR SALE
Bush
Carisa Anderson/The Mississippi Press
Homeowners in St. Martin’s Porteaux Bay community kept their sense of humor after Hurricane Katrina made her
way through their home. The storm surge from Katrina, pushed by 145-mph winds, was up to 30 feet high.
Barbour arrives in Jackson County with President Bush
By NATALIE CHAMBERS
PASCAGOULA — A couple
of weeks ago the question was,
“Where is FEMA?”
Until Thursday, the question in Jackson County was,
“Where’s Gov. Haley Barbour?”
The governor, who had not
visited the county of 135,000
in the 17 days since Hurricane
Katrina pummeled the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29,
toured the area Thursday with
President George W. Bush.
The missing governor had
perplexed local officials and
citizens.
When questioned by the media this week, Ocean Springs
Mayor Connie Moran said she
was surprised the governor
has not toured the county.
She did, however, credit
Barbour with deploying a delegation — first lady Marsha
Barbour, businessman Jim
Barksdale and representatives
from the Mississippi Development Authority — to Trent
Lott International Airport on
Wednesday to initiate a longterm rebuilding strategy with
local government officials.
“When we go into a rebuilding effort, they want to be a
part of the process,” said Jackson County Supervisor President Manly Barton.
Leaders here, however, had
hoped to outline their concerns
to the first-term governor, Barton said.
Christy Wheeler, Gautier’s
city manager, said she’s OK
with or without an official vis-
it by Barbour.
“ I t t a kes t im e a wa y —
showing them around — from
doing what really needs to be
done. I want to get the job
done. We are focused on getting the job done and if the
governor supports that, that’s
all we care about,” she said.
Pete Smith, the governor’s
spokesman, said Barbour has
taken an aerial tour of the
area and planned to travel to
Jackson County in the coming days.
He said the first lady has
visited the area twice.
Smith said the governor has
been busy leading the recovery effort of the entire state
and is trying to reach as many
people as he can.
Jackson County is trying to
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recover from a major housing
loss.
Red Cross officials estimate
of the 130,000 county residents, about 100,000 have
housing needs.
A survey by the American
Red Cross estimates 68,000
homes were destroyed along
the Gulf Coast and another
65,000 damaged.
“We don’t know answers at
this point. Hopefully, we will
know answers pretty soon,”
Barton said.
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om or (251) 219-5551.
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•A 100 percent reimbursement to states to cover their
costs of health care for treating many evacuees through the
end of next year.
•$1.9 billion to reimburse
states for educating displaced
students, including some money that could go to religious
schools.
•Six-month forgiveness on
student loan interest for affected areas, at an estimated cost of
$100 million.
Bush described the hurricane’s aftermath as “days of sorrow and outrage,” and he said
the nation had “witnessed the
kind of desperation no citizen of
this great and generous nation
should ever have to know.”
He deplored scenes of victims
calling out for food and water,
criminals who had no mercy
and bodies of the dead lying
uncovered in the street.
He said the suffering of victims was tempered by acts of
courage and kindness by the
Coast Guard and other rescue
workers.
To the hundreds of thousands of people forced from
their homes, Bush said, “You
need to know that our whole
nation cares about you — and
in the journey ahead you are
not alone.”
Promising better days ahead,
Bush said, “The streets of
Biloxi and Gulfport will again
be filled with lovely homes and
the sound of children playing.
The churches of Alabama will
have their broken steeples
mended and their congregations whole.
“And here in New Orleans,
the street cars will once again
rumble down St. Charles, and
the passionate soul of a great
city will return.”
Bush faced the nation at a
vulnerable point in his presidency. Most Americans disapprove of his handling of Katrina, and his job-approval rating
has been dragged down to the
lowest point of his presidency
also because of dissatisfaction
with the Iraq war and rising
gas prices. He has struggled to
demonstrate the same takecharge leadership he displayed
after the Sept. 11 terror attacks
four years ago.
Across five Gulf Coast states,
the death toll from Katrina
climbed Thursday to 794, led
by 558 in Louisiana.
Faulting the government’s
response, Bush said that Katrina “was not a normal hurricane — and the normal disaster relief system was not equal
to it.”
State officials have blamed
the federal government for failing to respond more quickly,
and federal officials have pointed fingers at state and local
officials.
Responding to charges that
help would have been sent
more quickly if most victims
had not been poor and black,
Bush noted that the persistent
poverty, rooted deep in the Gulf
region, was broadcast for all
Americans to see.
“That poverty has roots in a
history of racial discrimination,
which cut off generations from
the opportunity of America,”
Bush said. “We have a duty to
confront this poverty with bold
action.”
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KATRINA AFTERMATH
UPDATE
JACKSON COUNTY CITIZEN INFORMATION LINE:
228-769-5870, from 8 a.m.— 6 p.m.
LAW ENFORCEMENT — NEW:
• 17 arrests made overnight (one storm-related).
• The curfew: 12 a.m. – 6 a.m.
JACKSON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:
• Volunteer Hotline: 228-875-5701.
• Rumor Hotline: 228-865-4070.
• Community Distribution Centers that need supplies should
contact the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at 228-7623391. Citizens should not call the chamber.
• Small Business Development Systems: 800-725-7232 or
[email protected].
REBUILD JACKSON COUNTY:
The Bacot/McCarty Foundation has set up the national "Hurricane Relief — Rebuild Jackson County Fund." An account at
Merchants & Marine Bank will be a clearinghouse for corporations, organizations and individuals to donate to Jackson County
residents who are recovering from the devastation of Hurricane
Katrina. The Foundation will match donations with the needs of
citizens as determined by a commission of business leaders,
local government officials and faith-based groups. Donations
can be specifically designated. All contributions to the "Hurricane Relief — Rebuild Jackson County Fund” are taxdeductible, 501(c)(3) charitable donations. For details, call Todd
Trenchard, executive director of the Bacot/McCarty Foundation,
at (228) 217-5791.
HEALTH:
Residents are reminded to practice protective measures
against mosquito bites.
• Reduce sources of standing water around home.
• Use over-the-counter larvacides to kill mosquito larvae in
standing water or damp areas.
• Repair screens to prevent mosquitoes from entering home.
• Wear long-sleeved, long legged clothing and socks.
• Use mosquito repellents with up to 35 percent DEET for
adults and up to 10 percent DEET for children.
• WIC — As part of the Mississippi Department of Health’s
(MDH) ongoing recovery efforts, the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is open weekdays from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. at
5702 Second St. in Moss Point.
SINGING RIVER HOSPITAL SYSTEM:
• Ocean Springs Hospital and Singing River Hospital are fully
operational for all services, including elective surgeries.
• Both hospital emergency room’s saw more than twice the
normal number of patients during the two weeks after the storm.
• Most physician offices in Jackson County are open and seeing patients.
• SRHS has set up assistance to help their employees with
child care, laundry and distribution of goods.
JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER:
• Jackson County Animal Control is at full capacity and has
received so many donations that it cannot accept any further
supplies at the Singing River Soccer Complex.
• Lost pets may be reclaimed at the Jackson County animal
shelter off U.S. 90 on Audubon Road in Gautier. There are 70
dogs and 20 cats waiting to be reclaimed by their owners.
• Pet food, pet supplies and crates are available at the soccer
complex adjacent to the animal shelter.
Stop at the Humane Society tent next to the shelter for assistance.
WATER NOTICES:
Health officials remind residents in storm-affected areas not
assume the water is safe to drink until it has been confirmed by
the Department of Health. The Department of Health has lifted
boil water notices for the following cities, utility districts and companies:
• Coast Water Works: Windsor Park.
• Coast Water Works: Gulf Hills.
• Sweetbriar-Twin Bayou Sewer District.
• Chevron USA.
• Mississippi Power Co.-Daniel Steam Plant.
• Cedar Grove.
• City of Ocean Springs-Sunplex.
• Krebs Trailer Plaza.
• West Jackson Utility District.
• West Jackson Utility District No. 2.
• Magnolia Coastal Utility in West Jackson County.
• City of Moss Point, including the Escatawpa Utility District.
• City of Gautier.
• City of Ocean Springs.
• City of Pascagoula.
Residents should refer to previous water bills to know their
exact water supplier and location. If the water system is not listed, customers should still continue to boil water for all consumption purposes. If this is not possible, use one-eighth teaspoon, or
eight drops, of bleach for every gallon of tap water. Let the water
stand for a minimum of 30 minutes. If it is still cloudy, repeat the
process.
ELECTRICITY — MISSISSIPPI POWER:
Nearly 174,000 of Mississippi Power’s 195,000 customers
have been restored to service since Hurricane Katrina devastated the company’s system. Workers completed initial restoration
efforts Saturday evening, restoring service to all customers who
could receive it 12 days after the storm’s landfall.
Customers can call Mississippi Power to report an outage at
800-487-3275, or the customer service number at 800-5321502.
FEMA TEMPORARY DISASTER HOUSING:
FEMA, in conjunction with MEMA, has developed several
temporary housing options for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
• Travel trailers, mobile homes and other pre-fabricated structures are being brought in to provide interim housing.
• FEMA and the state of Mississippi are coordinating the identification of citizens who need travel trailers or mobile homes. To
be eligible for either, residents must register with FEMA for
assistance at 800-621-3362.
FEMA:
• Representatives from Jackson County, cities and municipalities began working with FEMA to ensure timely flow of assistance to restore critical facilities such as fire, health, EMS and
highways.
FEMA FLOOD INSURANCE:
• The National Flood Insurance Program provides citizens
with a process to appeal decisions regarding flood insurance
claims. For general flood insurance questions, call 800-4274661.
BLUE ROOF LOCATIONS:
• Residents can sign up for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’
Blue Roof Program at FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers in
Pascagoula, Moss Point and Ocean Springs by filling out a
“Right of Entry” Form. The Blue Roof Program will be in a separate line from FEMA applications.
National Trust to survey historic buildings
By DAVID PACE
WASHINGTON — The National Trust
for Historic Preservation is sending survey teams to the Gulf Coast beginning
next week as part of a campaign to save
thousands of historic buildings damaged
by Hurricane Katrina.
Richard Moe, president of the private,
nonprofit organization, said there are
37,000 historic structures in New
Orleans alone and an estimated twothirds of them suffered wind or water
damage or both during the hurricane
and flooding.
“Our goal is not to unnecessarily lose
any historic structure,” Moe said Thursday. “We know we will necessarily lose
some, but we don’t want to lose any
unnecessarily.”
Moe said he has asked the governors of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, as
well as New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
and acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Paulison
not to make any decisions on demolition
of damaged buildings until the survey
teams have completed their work.
“The goal of recovery should be to allow
residents to come back home to healthy,
vibrant, livable places that retain the
character that makes them unique,” he
said. “You can’t do that by calling in the
bulldozers and creating vacant lots where
neighborhoods used to be.”
The National Trust has raised more
than $200,000 toward a $1 million goal to
finance the survey teams and a lobbying
campaign aimed at persuading Congress
to provide tax incentives to help owners
save and renovate historic buildings.
Moe said Congress will be asked to
ease the use of existing tax credits for
rehabilitation of hurricane damaged historic commercial buildings, create new
tax credits to rehabilitate owner-occupied historic houses, and provide $60
million in grants to preserve properties
eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
The organization also is planning an
education campaign touting the importance of the historic structures of New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Supplies plentiful at Ocean Springs distribution center
From Staff Reports
OCEAN SPRINGS — Food,
clothing and cleaning supplies
are available at the former
Swingster building in Ocean
Springs.
“There is millions of dollars
worth of stuff in there,” said
Ocean Springs Risk Manager
Jill McDonnell.
McDonnell said the site is
not the typical disaster relief.
“This is grocery store food,”
she said.
Donations of new clothing
and food have been brought in
by various sources around the
nation and are being stored
there. Greg Denehie, who is
heading the operation, said the
distribution center is so overstocked, officials are looking
for people to give the supplies
to.
“People need to use it, we
need to get it out,” Denehie
said.
There are also generators
and air conditioners available,
according to Denehie.
The Swingster building is
located at 1515 Government
St. in Ocean Springs, near
Ocean Springs Lumber. The
building is open from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m. each day.
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Residents: Too many worries, not enough action
GAUTIER — Victims of Hurricane Katrina have so many
issues lingering it’s often difficult
for them to stay focused on just
one.
It is not just homeowners, but
government and social service
officials, as well, working to restore an illusive sense of normalcy in the wake of the Category 4 storm that slammed into
Mississippi on Aug. 29.
Who is not confronting
garbage pickup delays, piles of
debris, insurance woes, homelessness — and the list is growing.
Robert Webb of Graveline
Road in Gautier said he is less
affected by the unlimited piles of
debris than his insurance.
“(Debris removal) helps the
look,” he said. “They’re working
as fast they can.”
Webb, 63, wants to see a turnaround by insurance companies
that will not cover damage
caused by the hurricane’s storm
surge, which they consider a
flood.
“The storm went through my
house,” he said.
A tractor was left inoperable,
too.
Webb now lives in a camper
located on his property.
“I got insurance on my tractor
but I don’t have flood insurance
on my house. I don’t know what
the outcome is going to be,” he
said.
Webb’s bright side is he
signed a contract to sell the
property prior to the hurricane.
The buyer still wants it, he said.
“But I am still thinking about
all the other people here,” he
said.
Less than a half-mile away,
his neighbor, Mary Penn, 74, of
Sandalwood, has gone into debt
and started rebuilding.
“I don’t have insurance. I am
looking at $70,000 or $80,000,”
she said.
Very little financial aid is coming from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
“It’s terrible. I try not to think
about it. It’s not just me. The
whole neighborhood has problems,” she said.
The whack of hammers at
work keeps the senior citizen
outside in the sweltering heat.
Fading vision, Penn feels, will
prevent her from enjoying her
restored home for more than two
or three years.
All Penn’s neighbors have a
story to tell. Some had several
feet of water in their homes and
others had a few inches. Each
house has mounds of rejected
flooring, decimated housing
materials and ruined clothing
out front as testimony to the
storm’s wrath.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has contracted Pompano
Beach, Fla.- based Ashbritt Co.
to oversee debris removal.
Municipalities and the county
are continuing to handle household garbage collection.
Jackson County spokesman
Kenny Flanagan said more than
100,000 cubic yards of debris
has been removed.
Oceans Springs Mayor Connie Moran said the city has had
one garbage pickup in Ocean
Springs.
“BFI has resumed regular
trash pickup. After the storm,
we had one day pickup at certain pickup points. That was
just for one day but people continue to bring trash to the points
and we’ve had a hard time getting enough dumpsters in to
take care of it. We should have it
cleared up by this week. We had
three haulers trying to keep up
with it,” Moran said.
She said Ashbritt has 20
crews in the city.
“They’ve picked up downtown.
Leaves will not be picked up.
People should bag leaves. After
the major debris is picked up,
they are raking everything into
nice little three-foot piles, but
those piles are going to stay
there. They need to be picked
up and bagged in order to be
removed,” she said.
Ocean Springs lost about 10
percent of its housing, or 700
homes, during the storm. The
number includes those that are
seriously damaged.
In Gautier, a 10-person team
from Kansas is conducting a
damage assessment.
“We will have a better feel for
(losses) in about eight days,” said
Ralph Hode, Gautier’s director of
community services.
Hode said there were 1,700
homes severely damaged or destroyed.
Gautier did not lose any city
vehicles but there was substantial damage to City Hall, the
public works building, senior
center and ballparks.
On the county side, purchasing agent Robert Martinez is
trying to round up some new
county vehicles to replace those
lost to the storm.
Days-old garbage has some
Moss Point residents upset.
Eddie Collier of Gulfport just
wants to see garbage picked up
at his grandparents’ Winona
Drive home in Moss Point.
A visit Tuesday left him quite
uneasy.
“It was rats and roaches running through garbage. There’s
a pile of garbage in everyone’s
house ... all through the neighborhood. They haven’t had a
garbage pickup since the hurricane. You should see the mounds
of garbage piled on the street,”
he said.
Mayor Xavier Bishop hopes
to have the garbage dilemma
resolved by the weekend.
“What has happen is since the
storm, DisposAll has been shorthanded,” he said.
Two trucks have been operational and workers were not able
to pick up normal routes.
driver which we are using in
addition to what DisposAll has
on the street,” Bishop said.
“The bottom line is we’re
working as fast as we can to
solve the problem by utilizing
services of disposal companies.”
Reporter Natalie Chambers
can be reached at [email protected] or
(866) 843-9020.
“What we have done is to contact four of the disposal companies and ask them to give us
bids on assisting for 90 days
with garbage pickup. We are
waiting to hear from them,” he
said.
“In the meantime, we have
gotten assistance from Red River, a company Pascagoula uses.
They have given us a truck and
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HURRICANE KATRINA: DAY 18
One of Jackson County's debris dumps on Miss. 57 is growing towards the top of
the water tower at the SunPlex industrial park in Ocean Springs as dump trucks are
constantly coming to and going from the site.
Debris is transferred from trucks en route to the debris dump at the SunPlex industrial park.
Salvation Army canteen hottest food stop in town
By NATALIE CHAMBERS
MOSS POINT — When the Red Cross began
issuing financial assistance checks at the Jefferson Street Services Complex in Moss Point,
the number of hot meals served at two Salvation Army canteens there almost doubled.
What started off as 1,000 meals a day just
after Hurricane Katrina escalated to almost
2,000. To date, more than 45,000 meals have
been served.
Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi
Gulf Coast Aug. 29.
The canteens, located in the service complex’s southeast parking lot, have served more
food trays than any other Salvation Army food
unit in Jackson County.
Richard Harris and his adult sister, Katrina
Sigmon of Vancleave, ate there Thursday.
Sigmon said they camped out Wednesday
night in the service complex’s parking lot in an
attempt to be among the first people issued
Red Cross checks the next day.
While waiting for their number to be called
at lunchtime Thursday, they decided to walk a
few feet to the canteen for a quick, yet nourishing meal.
“This is the first time we’ve been here. We’ve
been here since 10:30 p.m. We slept on the
concrete out there,” Sigmon said.
4:30 p.m., has fit the bill.
Sigmon lost her home and job at a Biloxi
“A couple of days there, we did 1,700 and
casino following the
1,900 meals,” Hammett
storm.
said.
“When you put in
Food items are supgood food, you put out
plied by the local Salgood food and you do it
vation Army and Harin a timely manner and
ris Teeter, a grocery
is well organized, the
store chain based in
folks will come get it,”
Matt-hews, N.C.
said Salvation Army
“We’re served about
Commandant Larry
2,400 bottles of water
Hammett of Shelby,
in a day,” Hammett
SALVATION ARMY HOT MEALS
N.C.
said.
• Roving units — Escatawpa and Nathan
A piece of grilled
Hammett’s
unit
chicken breast, ham- Hale Apartments, Pascagoula to Moss Point
arrived Tuesday giving
burgers hot dogs, Recreation Center.
a much-needed break
• Canteens — Martin Community Center,
canned fruit and a servto a disaster relief unit
ing of warm pork and Ocean Springs; Pascagoula High School;
from Charlotte, N.C.
beans has made the Fontainebleau Volunteer Fire Department,
“This is the second
Salvation Army can- Ocean Springs and Vancleave Road; and
group to come in. The
teen one of the most Farragut Street in Gautier.
first group is on their
• Volunteers should call (228) 762-7222.
popular eateries in the
way back for some
area.
much needed rest.
The canteens opened
They were here for 11
Sept. 3 and were an immediate answer to a days,” said Capt. Karl Dahlin.
community without running water and elecLarge equipment items — a portable cooker
tricity.
and two complete mobile kitchens — are owned
A warm and nutritious meal, from 11 a.m. to and brought in by the retired Marines.
“We work closely with the Salvation Army
and, when they call, we go. We respond to any
disaster in the United States upon notification of these folks,” he said.
“It’s mentally taxing. It’s tough,” he said.
Canteen workers put in about 14 to 16 hours
a day at the site. Navy personnel from the
medical ship, USNS Comfort, also assist.
“Those folks are just standing in line to volunteer to help us,” Hammett said.
Since its arrival, the Comfort has also provided lodging for the retired Marines.
There is no limit to the number of meals a
storm victim can request.
“When they come up here and tell us what
they want, we hand it to them,” he said.
Hammett said he’ll never forget Jackson
County or some of the storm accounts he has
heard when his unit is relieved Sept. 30.
Dahlin said the Jefferson Street site is one of
the more fixed sites and has done so well it
will remain open for a while.
“It’s great how all the agencies are working
together, Harris Teeter, the Salvation Army,
Marine Corps, Navy, all in one spot,” Dahlin
said.
Reporter Natalie Chambers can be reached
at [email protected] or (866)
843-9020.
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LOCAL
County tax collector
ready for business
By NATALIE CHAMBERS
James Thompson, left, and Arlene Thompson console former Ocean Springs Mayor Kevin Alves after a fire
destroyed his home at Redwing Cove on Thursday morning.
Former Ocean Springs mayor’s
home seriously damaged by fire
From Staff Reports
OCEAN SPRINGS — A late Thursday
morning fire resulted in serious damage
to the home of former Ocean Springs mayor Kevin Alves.
The Ocean Springs Fire Department
responded to the call around noon, said
Capt. Jeffery Ponson. He said the fire’s
cause had not been determined.
Ponson said the first floor of the home at
100 Red Wing Cove sustained damage and
the second floor had heavy smoke damage.
No one was in the home when the
department arrived.
Ponson said four firefighters from
Louisville, Ky., helped extinguish the fire.
They were also joined by firefighters from
north Mississippi, who are also helping
with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
as well as volunteer units from Jackson
County.
School board approves free
lunches for all students
BY ROYCE ARMSTRONG
LUCEDALE — Starting today, the food
served in George County schools will be from
the same menu but with one major difference.
It will be free.
That was the recommendation made by
Superintendent Donnie Howell and approved
by the school board last night.
The George County School Board held a special call meeting Thursday to deal with building repair issues and to approve emergency
spending resolutions.
Three of the five board members, Larry
McDonald, Wendell Fallon and David Nelson,
were present to constitute a quorum.
Howell reported 39 new students were
enrolled in the district by the end of the second
day that classes resumed. More than two
weeks of school were missed because of damage
caused by Hurricane Katrina, which hit Mississippi on Aug. 29.
Howell said the new students were anticipated as people who lost their homes relocate
to George County.
The new students may become permanent
residents or may be here temporarily. Several
of the new students have moved into the county from Louisiana and from Alabama.
Howell said more dislocated students are
expected as the Federal Emergency Management Agency brings in mobile homes and
establishes temporary housing for people who
lost their homes in the storm.
An undetermined number of these new students will qualify for the state subsidized free
lunch program, Howell said.
He also pointed out that a number of permanent George County residents have already
lost jobs or may soon lose their jobs because of
storm-related damage to businesses along the
Coast. This may qualify students who previously paid for their meals to receive free lunches.
Howell recommended to the board that it
approve free lunches for all students until the
school can determine who qualifies for the free
lunch program and who should continue to
pay for lunches.
He said the county is part of the area designated as in a state of emergency, and he said
the expense of the school lunches will be reimbursed by FEMA.
The board voted to provide free lunches for
all students beginning today through Sept.
30.
In other action the board authorized the
superintendent to make emergency expenditures, conforming to guidelines established by
state law and recommended by Gov. Haley
Barbour’s office.
The board also approved payments to Scott
Company for building repairs to date.
Howell also reported that the Gulfport
Seabees had completed the drying in work
they had promised and returned to Gulfport for
other duties. He said they had done an excellent job and helped make it possible for classes to resume this week.
Reporter Royce Armstrong may be contacted by e-mail at [email protected] or (601) 947-9933.
Singing River, Ocean Springs
hospitals ‘fully operational’
From Staff Reports
PASCAGOULA — Singing
River Hospital System officials
on Wednesday dispelled
rumors that its hospitals in
Pascagoula and Ocean Springs
were not open due to complications from Hurricane Katrina.
“We are fully operational at
both Singing River Hospital
and Ocean Springs Hospital.
We always were. We never
missed a beat during the
height of this awful storm or
after it,” said Richard Lucas,
the hospital system’s public
affairs officer.
Although the emergency
department continued to
administer care to twice the
normal patient load, Lucas said
the hospitals’ “fast track” systems have allowed hospital personnel, a number of whom lost
everything in the storm, to continue to see patients and that
large volume is starting to slow
down.
Although phone service is
still sporadic in areas, Lucas
said many doctors’ offices and
clinics have been open.
“They’re open and ready to
serve patients,” Lucas said of
local physicians, also major victims of the storm.
The hospital system has
been “full throttle,” Lucas
added, because of money and
supplies from “too many to
Our
amily...
name” national organizations,
including the local and other
states’ law enforcement,
National Guard, Jackson
County municipalities, the
Jackson County Board of
Supervisors and others that
“helped us to keep giving out
the proper health care.”
Day care and laundry facilities have also been set up for
displaced employees, Lucas
said.
PASCAG O U L A — T h e
Jackson County Tax Collector’s office has temporarily
reopened for business at the
B.E. “Mac” McGinty Civic
Ce n te r at th e c o r n e r o f
Shortcut and Hospital roads
in Pascagoula.
The tax collection office in
Ocean Springs, located at
6912 North Washington Ave.,
is also open for business.
Tax Collector Ann White
said new business hours at
both locations are 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Regular matters with the
tax collector’s office — tag
purchase, tax payment and
privilege license purchases
— can be handled.
White said a late fee will
not be attached to August tag
renewals presented.
For misplaced paperwork,
White said a tag and VIN
number is required.
People who lost cars in
Hurricane Katrina can get a
credit if the tag is brought
in, she said.
For new vehicle purchases, White said she’ll need a
copy of the dealer sticker
with the manufacturers suggested retail price.
“If it is a used car, we can
deal with it,” she said.
A signed title should be
brought in when a vehicle
purchase occurs between two
individuals, she said.
Contractors responding to
White
Barton
an abundance of work created by the hurricane are
required to purchase a privilege license.
The fee depends on the
type of job performed. The
average license cost is $20.
“A lot of people are getting
mobile homes now. We have
to r e g i ste r th e i r mo bi l e
homes. It is a $1 fee to register it and they have 90 days
to p ay tax e s o n i t, ” sai d
White.
“We didn’t get to do the
tax sale. They can still come
in and pay 2004 property
taxes. The sale will be at a
later date,” she said.
The Jackson County courth o u se s su stai n e d majo r
water damages and it would
be at least a couple of weeks
before the courthouses would
be operational, according to
Supervisor President Manly
Barton.
The tax collector ’s office
can be reached by calling
(228) 696-6267.
Reporter Natalie Chambers can be reached at
[email protected] or (866) 834-9020.
BRIEFS
Immigrant assistance center opens
BILOXI — The New Hope Center has
opened to provide information and assistance
to Gulf Coast immigrants whose primary language isn’t English.
The center is staffed by translators who
speak Vietnamese, Spanish and French. The
center is set up with computers and internet
service.
The New Hope Center is located in Biloxi on
Howard Avenue.
Annual senior citizens
prom postponed
PASCAGOULA — The 16th annual Jackson
County Senior Citizens Senior Prom has been
postponed until a later date.
The event originally had been scheduled for
4:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.
Call Melanie Caver at the Pascagoula
Senior Citizens Center at (228) 366-1551 for
more information.
Registration set
for Moss Point schools
MOSS POINT — The Moss Point School
District will have registration for new students
and students transferring within the district due
to Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, Sept. 21,
and Thursday, Sept. 22.
Registration will be from 8 a.m. to noon and
from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Carl Eley Administration
Building, located at 4924 Church St.
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A LOOK AT THE AFTERMATH
OF HURRICANE KATRINA
Death toll: Mississippi’s death toll was 218 on Thursday.
Damage: Harrison County officials say they will start
rolling out razor wire around ravaged areas on the coast
to keep looters and sightseers out of damaged homes
and businesses.
Refugees: Emergency management officials say an
estimated 10,039 refugees are in 123 American Red
Cross shelters in Mississippi with nearly 108,000 in temporary locations arranged by the Red Cross. More are in
hotels and private homes.
Power: About 26,152 homes and businesses that are
capable of receiving power were still without it on Thursday, down from 800,000 immediately after the hurricane.
The power-outage number does not include the thousands of homes and businesses that were destroyed or
are too damaged to receive electricity.
Vermont town teaming
up with Moss Point
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) —
The city is reaching out to a
small Gulf Coast city hit by
Hurricane Katrina.
Mayor Peter Clavelle announced Wednesday the establishment of a sister city relationship with Moss Point,
Miss., in Jackson County.
“For the past 20 years we
have had relationships with
communities in faraway
places,” Clavelle said, referring to sister relationships in
Nicaragua, Russia, the West
Bank of Israel and Japan.
“Doesn’t it make sense for us
to reach out to a community
that’s been affected by Hurricane Katrina?”
Moss Point is at the confluence of two rivers feeding into
Beardslee Lake, beside which
sit its downtown and historic
district. The city sustained significant damage from the Aug.
29 hurricane.
Clavelle said more than 800
homes were flooded in the
community, which faced economic challenges before Hurricane Katrina with the recent
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employers. The city has a population of about 15,000.
Moss Point Mayor Xavier
Bishop, who joined the news
conference by speakerphone,
estimated that 50 percent of
city services were back to normal.
Bishop said that about 100
people are living in a Red
Cross shelter in Moss Point,
which will be a long-term facility..
“Considerable debris” is still
on the ground, but major
roads have been cleared, he
said.
Moss Point was grateful for
Burlington’s generosity, Bishop said..
Until a survey is complete,
Burlington city officials will
collect financial donations for
a relief fund. Clavelle said
future connections with Moss
Point could include community service, church-to-church
relationships, and Burlingtonarea families adopting Moss
Point families to help meet
specified needs.
STATE/REGION
Katrina may have spilled
7 million gallons of oil
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)
— Hurricane Katrina may
have spilled more than 7 million gallons of oil — about twothirds the amount spilled from
the Exxon Valdez — from
plants, storage depots and other facilities around southeast
Louisiana.
The spills will hurt the fragile coastal marshes more than
the energy market, experts
said.
However, three-quarters of
the oil wasn’t posing a danger
to the wetlands, according to
figures released Thursday by
the Coast Guard.
Those showed that more
than 1.3 million gallons had
evaporated or dispersed, and
crews had recovered nearly 2
million gallons and had contained another 2.3 million
behind booms and other barriers.
Crews were working to get
as much of the rest as possible,
but still couldn’t reach one
1
Plaquemines Parish site 2 ⁄2
weeks after the storm.
Unlike the Exxon Valdez
wreck, which fouled 1,300
miles of the Alaskan coast 16
years ago with nearly 11 million gallons of oil, the sources
of oil spilled by the storm were
d ot t ed a round sout hea st
Louisiana.
For the most part, the total
includes only sites where at
least 10,000 gallons poured
from storage tanks, pipelines
or other facilities. There were
30 to 35 minor spills of less
than that amount, Coast
Guard Petty Officer Jennifer
Johnson said Thursday.
“A lot of these spills would
be in coastal waters, and that
in a place where we’ve already
lost about a million acres of
wetlands since the 30s. That’s
a serious problem,” said John
Hocevar, an oceans specialist
for Greenpeace. “Wetlands are
a critical nursery habitat for
just about everything in the
Gulf. So that’s pretty scary.”
State fisheries experts have
said they expect the storm to
cause at least a $1.2 billion
hit to the state, cutting commercial and sport catches
about 40 percent over the next
1 2 m ont hs i n L o u i si an a’s
waters.
Damage to oil companies’
budgets and oil price will be
“relatively minimal,” said
Agbeli Ameko, managing partner for First Enercast Financial, a Denver-based energy
research and forecasting company.
Insurance probably covers
at least part of the cleanup
costs, and oil prices will be
affected far more by shut down
refineries and offshore production than by the spills, he
said.
The worst spill was at Cox
Bay, 3.78 million gallons from
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Enterprises Production Co.,
run by the Bass family of Fort
Worth.
Just over a million gallons
more spilled from a Shell Oil
Co. facility at Pilottown, and
819,000 at the Murphy Oil Co.
refinery in Mereaux.
Johnson did not know how
mu c h sp i l l e d at Ch e v r o n
Corp.’s Empire Terminal on
the Mississippi River, and
Chevron did not return calls
from The Associated Press.
However, it reportedly totaled
966,000 gallons.
T h e i n ac c e ssi bl e si te i s
owned by Bass Enterprises at
Pointe a la Hache, where the
c o mp an y r e p o r te d i t h ad
457,800 gallons of oil in tanks
before the hurricane, Johnson
said.
Coast Guard figures indicated that nearly 500 people
were working at those and five
smaller spills around the area:
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RED CROSS SHELTERS:
• Vancleave High School (Miss. 57 and Ballpark Road).
• Riverfront Community Center (4412 Denny
Ave. Moss Point).
• Christus Victor Lutheran Church (2755
Bienville Blvd./U.S. 90 in Ocean Springs).
• Gautier Convention Center (just north of U.S.
90 on Library Lane).
• St. Paul’s United Methodist Church East
Campus (Miss. 57 and U.S. 90 in Ocean
Springs).
• Hot Kitchen at First Baptist Church (Live Oak
Avenue in Pascagoula) — food only.
SALVATION ARMY HOT MEALS (noon to 7
p.m.):
• Roving Unit — near Pascagoula High School
off Market Street.
• Roving Unit — near the intersection of Tucker
and Cook.
• Roving Unit — Nathan Hale Apartments to
Moss Point Recreation Center.
• Corner of Center Street and Main Street off
Fontainbleau Road.
• Wick Building at Jefferson Avenue and Veterans.
• Roving Unit from Gautier-Vancleave Road
and Farragut Lake Road.
• Volunteers call (228) 762-7222.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZED FOOD AND/OR
SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION AREAS:
• First Baptist Church of Gautier on De La
Pointe Drive.
• First Baptist Church of Moss Point on Main
Street.
• Head Start Center on Jefferson Street in
Moss Point.
• Swingster Building on Government Street in
Ocean Springs.
• Gay Lemon Park on Deana Road.
• East Central Lower Elementary School off
Miss. 63 in Hurley.
• Miss. 63 near Saracennia Road by United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
• Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day
Saints, call 985-649-2774 or 985-649-2776.
• Gautier United Methodist Church on U.S. 90
across from Singing River Mall.
• First Baptist Church of Pascagoula in the
front parking lot.
WATER AND ICE DISTRIBUTION:
• St. Andrews Fire Department at Maple Street
and Summer Oak.
• Vancleave Fire Department on Ballpark
Road.
• Elks Lodge in Gulf Park Estates on
Beachview Drive.
• East Central Fire Station on Miss. 614.
• St. Martin Community Center on Le Moyne
Boulevard.
• Jackson County Fair Grounds at 2902 Shortcut Road in Pascagoula.
SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK DISTRIBUTION:
• September check distribution is over. Checks
not already delivered are being returned to the
Social Security Administration. If you have not
received your September check, contact your
local Social Security office or call the Social
Security Administration at 800-772-1213.
POSTAL SERVICE:
The United States Postal Service has a retail
van at the Gautier Post Office at 1800 U.S. 90.
The Post Office is now delivering mail to residents in Gautier. Customers have access to a full
array of postal products and services from the
van.
BELLSOUTH PHONE BANKS:
Bell South is helping reconnect families torn
apart by Hurricane Katrina by providing free local
and long distance services 24 hours a day, seven
days a week at the following locations in Jackson
County:
• Moss Point, 4332 McInnis Ave.
• Gautier, at Singing River Mall.
SEN. TRENT LOTT:
Senator Lott has re-opened a Pascagoula
Office in a trailer behind the Jackson County
Emergency Operations Center off Convent Street
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The office can be reached at 762-5400.
LIBRARY OPENINGS:
The following libraries are open to the public:
• Moss Point Library at 4119 Bellview Ave. has
books, music and videos available. Computers
are available for FEMA Registration. The phone
number is 228-475-7462.
• Gautier Library at 2100 Library Lane has
Internet service available. It is Monday through
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday and
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The phone number is 497-4539.
• The Ocean Springs Library is open from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
EDUCATION:
• The Pascagoula School District is expected to
reopen Oct. 3. Administrators and guidance
counselors should report daily at 7 a.m. at
Pascagoula High School. All hourly employees
must report at 8 a.m. at War Memorial Stadium.
Call 938-6443 for details.
• Moss Point School District is expected to
reopen Sept. 26.
• Ocean Springs School District is expected to
reopen Sept. 26.
• Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
has reopened all locations and all centers
MUNICIPALITIES
GAUTIER:
• City Maintenance workers constructed a
shower for the Red Cross Shelter at the Gautier
Convention Center. Today, a clothes washer and
clotheslines will be installed for use by shelter
residents.
• Damage assessment teams are canvassing
neighborhoods evaluating the structural and
health safety of homes. If citizens need a permit,
they should call the city’s planning department at
228-497-1878.
MOSS POINT:
• Moss Point City Hall will be open from 8 a.m.
until noon Saturday. City Hall will be closed Sunday.
• Each day, will be located in a different section
of the city to provide medical services.
Thursday doctors and nurses will be near
Escatawpa Elementary School on Jamestown
Road to provide medical services. Call City Hall
at 475-0300 for future locations.
OCEAN SPRINGS:
• Day Camp for school-age children will open
Sept. 19-23 near the Swingster Building at 1515
Government St.
• Ocean Springs Department of Health can be
reached at 872-4861.
• Coast Transit Authority bus service will begin
running regular hours and regular routes today.
• Garbage pickup is running regular routes.
• Volunteers are needed to work in various city
positions. Call 875-4236 for details.
PASCAGOULA:
• The Pascagoula Recreation Department Day
Camp for children age 6-14 will resume from 7:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Lake Elementary
School on Lake Avenue.
• Gulf Coast United Football Club will host free
soccer for kids 6 and older at the Pascagoula
Soccer Complex on Tillman Street from 10 a.m.-2
p.m. Saturday, and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday. Call 218-6032 for details.
• City Hall will be open on weekends until further notice at the temporary office at 4015 14th
St. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The phone number is
762-1020. It is also open weekdays from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. at the Public Works Building. Residents
may pay utility bills and receive permits for hurricane repair work. All hurricane repairs require
permits.
• Red River began is running its regular
garbage collection routes. The recycle center on
14th Street is open for household trash weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
IMPORTANT JACKSON COUNTY PHONE
NUMBERS:
• Jackson County Citizens Information Line,
open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 228-769-5870.
• Ocean Springs Citizens Information Line,
228-875-4236.
• Jackson County Building Permits, 228-7693056.
• Pascagoula Building Permits, 228-938-6620.
• Pascagoula water, sewer and gas leaks, 228938-6623.
• Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, 877-7447642.
• Pascagoula Police Department, 228-7622211.
• Jackson/George County Library System, 228475-7462.
Homeowners eligible for Realtor aid
From Staff Reports
Homeowners in Jackson
County are eligible for up to
$2,500 in aid from the Mississippi Association of Realtors.
The association has formed
the Mississippi Realtor Hurricane Relief Fund in response to
the devastation the state sustained from Hurricane Katrina,
the Category 4 storm that hit
the Mississippi Gulf Coast on
Aug. 29.
The fund will make financial
contributions to assist with
meeting mortgage payments,
meeting insurance deductibles,
temporary housing expenses and
to provide financial relief for
uninsured damage to a primary
residence.
The fund will assist Realtors
and members of the general public in Mississippi, said Mark
Cumbest, the Fourth Congressional District representative to
the Mississippi Real Estate
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other Realtor offices.
• Call (601) 932-5241 for
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• Tax-deductible contributions are also accepted.
Commission and owner of Cumbest Realty Inc. in Jackson
County.
Eligibility will be based on
whether losses are uninsurable
or uninsured, if the loss is the
primary residence of a homeowner and the extent of the loss.
“This program is a joint effort
between the National Association and the Mississippi Association of Realtors,” he said. “It is
an effective and efficient way to
help Mississippi homeowners
who have sustained damage to
their primary residences as a
result of Hurricane Katrina.”
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Katrina scuttles Coast regatta
■ Host yacht club
destroyed by
hurricane
By DONNA HARRIS
WAVELAND — The Bay
Waveland Yacht Club was
prepared to challenge its
Coast competitors for the Lipton Cup. It did not plan to
lose to a hurricane.
The 86th annual Sir
Thomas Lipton Challenge
Cup would have been run
during Labor Day weekend,
but Hurricane Katrina
changed all that when it came
ashore slightly west of Waveland, wreaking havoc along
the entire Mississippi Gulf
Coast.
As the defending champion, Waveland’s yacht club
would have hosted the regatta, which traditionally brings
more than 100 spectator
boats to the family event.
Even when the regatta continues, the magnificent silver
trophy, presented by the
British tea magnate in 1920,
was destroyed in a fire at the
Southern Yacht Club in New
Orleans during the flooding
caused when the city’s levee
broke during the hurricane.
Of the nearly 30 Gulf
Yachting Association Clubs,
typically 25 compete each
year from as far west as
Houston, Texas, as far east
as St. Petersburg, Fla., and
as far north as Birmingham,
Ala. More than half of those
were wiped out by the storm,
losing harbors, marinas and
boats.
“They’re gone. There’s nothing there,” said Donnie Brennan of Mobile. “This storm
really had a devastating
effect.”
The Lipton Regatta started in 1920 after Lipton, the
founder of the Lipton Tea
Company and a self-made
millionaire, donated a silver
cup to the Southern Yacht
Club of New Orleans. The
challenge was between the
Louisiana club and Pensacola
Yacht Club and the Florida
sailors captured the trophy
at the first event.
By 1937, 12 yacht clubs
were participating in the Lipton Regatta that was always
held over the Labor Day
weekend. They competed in
the Fish Class, using boats
with a wooden sloop with a
keel, until many fish boats
were destroyed during Hurricane Camille in 1969.
Following that storm, the
Gulf Yachting Association
adopted the fiberglass Flying
Scot as the interclub sailboat.
New Orleans, Pass Christian and Bay Waveland have
been the teams to beat over
the past few years.
Kevin Northrop of Mobile,
originally from Pass Christian, called the event “the
Super Bowl of sailing for the
year.”
Northrop said the regatta
ended the summer for sailing
enthusiasts, and although the
event will be missed, its
absence is just a reminder of
what else was lost.
“We miss it, but obviously
there are more pressing matters to take care of,” he said.
Reporter Donna Harris
can be reached at dharris@ms pressonline.com or
(251) 219-5551.
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Bishop breaks tie to approve city budget
MOSS POINT — A vote from the mayor
Thursday approved the budget in Moss Point
for the 2005-2006 fiscal year.
With three board members in favor of the
budget, three against and one absent, Xavier
Bishop voted to break the tie, approving the
budget that he had recommended at a previous meeting.
Alderman Shorty Middleton and alderwomen
Aneice Liddell and Nancy Mims Norvel voted
against the budget.
Aldermen Al Bodden, James Smith and
Charles Molden approved it.
Alderman Tommy Hightower was absent.
POWER OR MANUAL
WHEELCHAIRS
Taxes will not be increased in Bishop’s budget, which includes total revenues of $7.2 million and total expenditures of $7.1 million.
The budget was proposed before Hurricane
Katrina and Bishop said no changes were
made to it since the storm. Thursday was the
deadline to approve a city budget, he said.
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OCEAN SPRINGS — David Sharp and John
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7 to 10 p.m. today.
The public is invited to attend the event.
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■ New Orleans to repopulate
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By BRETT MARTEL
AP
Workers with the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon
Street replace the plywood window coverings with canvas awnings on Thursday afternoon in New Orleans.
French Quarter businesses have begun to prepare to
reopen on Sept. 26.
NEW ORLEANS — In a big step
toward restoring the pulse and soul of
New Orleans, the mayor announced plans
Thursday to reopen over the next week
and a half some of the Big Easy’s most
vibrant neighborhoods, including the oncerollicking French Quarter.
The move could bring back more than
180,000 of the city’s original half-million
residents and speed the revival of its economy, which relies heavily on the bawdy,
Napoleonic-era enclave that is home to
Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras, jazz and
piquant food.
“The city of New Orleans ... will start to
breathe again,” a beaming Mayor Ray
Nagin said. “We will have life. We will
have commerce. We will have people getting into their normal modes of operations and the normal rhythm of the city.”
The announcement came as President
Bush prepared to propose a sweeping plan
for the federal government to pick up
most of the costs of rebuilding New
Orleans and the rest of the hurricaneravaged Gulf Coast — estimated at $200
billion or beyond.
“There is no way to imagine America
without New Orleans, and this great city
will rise again,” the president said in
Voyage tracks potential
storm damage in Gulf
By GARRY MITCHELL
ABOARD THE NANCY FOSTER — Scientists harvested fish
off the Mississippi coast for testing Thursday — the latest stop
on an urgent voyage tracking
Hurricane Katrina’s potential
damage to the marine environment.
Katrina’s deadly storm surge
hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29,
flooding New Orleans and wrecking the Mississippi coast while
clipping southwest Alabama.
Scientists hope to determine
the extent of any contamination
from chemical spills, sewer overflows and other toxic mixtures in
floodwaters that may have
flushed back into the Gulf of Mexico.
Aboard the Nancy Foster, a
research vessel operated by the
National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration, chief scientist
Shailer Cummings of Miami said
hundreds of fish samples have
been collected from waters off
Pensacola, Fla. to an area south
of New Orleans, South Pass.
Cummings said the NOAA vessel began its work Monday off
the Florida Panhandle. On
Thursday the vessel was near
Horn Island, dipping its net for
fish samples, and planned to be
back offshore Pensacola on Friday.
Some small boats and the
shrimping vessel Patricia Jean
helped collect the test fish. Nearby were four ships supporting the
onshore hurricane relief effort,
including a Canadian Navy
destroyer.
Ten scientists aboard the
NOAA vessel prepared fish samples for transfer to a lab in Seattle for analysis.
On the ship, Tracy Collier of
NOAA’s Seattle lab said the Katrina situation is “so new, we don’t
know what we’re looking for.”
“We’re taking samples back
focusing on fish muscle tissue,”
Collier said. He said those tests
should give some indication of
what the fish were exposed to
during the hurricane.
Samples of sediments also are
being tested. The chief concerns,
he said, are seafood safety and
environmental contamination.
During this week’s voyage, the
crew didn’t notice any rumored
oil spills or fish kills. They spotted
hurricane debris that included
refrigerators, televisions and
power poles, among other property ripped from land.
Dr. Steve Murawski, director
of scientific programs and chief
science adviser at NOAA,
described the testing as “the first
scientific effort post-hurricane to
look in a very systematic way at
what’s going on in offshore
waters.”
He said there have been many
observations of live animals in
the system. “That’s a good thing,”
he said.
His concern, however, is: “What
is the fate of water coming offshore?” That water includes the
New Orleans floodwaters being
pumped out of the city.
While the scientists also surveyed some near-shore waters in
Katrina’s path, they did not survey off Louisiana’s Grand Isle.
But Murawski said a “sustained effort” is planned, working
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National
Science Foundation.
“We’re trying to be very vigilant
in getting our arms around this
thing,” he said.
Cummings said state and local
agencies, meanwhile, are checking rivers, inlets and bays for any
possible contamination there.
Katrina’s next storm surge: Litigation
By DRU SEFTON
c.2005 Newhouse News Service
Hurricane Katrina will
prompt a tidal wave of lawsuits, potentially tying up
courts for months or years,
legal experts say.
Some litigation will be
straightforward, such as
claimants suing insurers over
coverage denial. Some could
become complex class actions:
The breaches causing flooding
were in manmade levees, so
could engineering, construction
or maintenance firms be liable?
Could officials or agencies be
sued for lackluster response?
One thing is certain, says
Guerry R. Thornton Jr., an
Atlanta attorney who has
worked on several mass-damage cases: There is precedence
for successful litigation in the
wake of levee failures.
Thornton predicts an onslaught of suits, “virtually
every type of action allowed by
our legal system,” starting in
the next few months.
Predicting how many “is like
asking the mayor how many
people perished — it’s impossible to know.”
Suits could target insurance
nonpayment, said Samuel
Bearman, a Pensacola, Fla.,
attorney who handled more
than 100 actions stemming
from Gulf Coast damage following hurricanes Opal (1995)
and Ivan (2004).
A typical scenerio: “Often
homeowners have wind storm
insurance, and a separate flood
policy. But the flood insurance
folks will say the wind did the
damage, the wind insurance
people will say the flood did it.
There’s the rub,” Bearman
said.
Even in such a typical case it
might take up to 18 months for
plaintiffs to receive compensation, he added.
Then there are communitywide issues of infrastructure
and safety liability. Levee
breaks affected tens of thousands of New Orleans residents, destroying property,
causing injuries and deaths.
“Big storms do very bad
things; no one can be faulted on
that,” said Sacramento, Calif.,
attorney Mark Wasser, an
expert in natural disaster liti-
gation. “On the other hand, it’s
the government’s obligation to
design and build public structures responsibly.
“The way those two points
mesh together has to do with
what’s reasonable to expect
under the circumstances.”
Wasser’s firm handled actions after floods from a February 1986 levee failure on the
Yuba River in California drove
24,000 residents from homes
and killed two. After years of
litigation, the state this June
reached a settlement for $400
million divided among 3,000
plaintiffs.
The potentially huge Katrina
suits might appropriately be
handled in a similar way, as a
class action, said Thornton,
who worked on the $2.5 billion
Dalkon Shield contraceptive
device case and the $16 billion
fen-phen diet drugs case.
remarks to be delivered to the nation from
the French Quarter’s Jackson Square.
Nagin said the “re-population” of the
city would proceed ZIP code by ZIP code,
starting Monday in the Algiers section, a
Creole-influenced neighborhood across
the Mississippi River from the French
Quarter. The city’s Uptown section, which
includes the Garden District’s leafy streets
and antebellum mansions, will open in
stages next Wednesday and Friday. The
French Quarter will follow on Sept. 26.
“The French Quarter is high and dry,
and we feel as though it has good electricity capabilities,” the mayor said. “But
since it’s so historic, we want to doubleand triple-check before we fire up all electricity in there to make sure that ... if a
fire breaks out, we won’t lose a significant amount of what we cherish in this
city.”
The plan came a day after government
tests showed that New Orleans’ putrid
air is safe to breathe, even if the receding
floodwaters that still cover half the city
remain dangerous from sewage and industrial chemicals.
While the areas set to be opened were
never part of the 80 percent of New
Orleans under water, they still suffered
from the failure of services that left them
prey to the looting that gripped this city
after Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29
Now, the designated neighborhoods
have 70 percent to 90 percent of their
electricity restored, and have water that
Say you saw it in
will be good for flushing and firefighting,
if not drinking. The sewer system works,
trash removal is running, and at least
two hospitals will be able to provide emergency care, authorities said.
And Nagin said the city’s convention
center, which became a symbol of the city’s
despair when thousands of weary refugees
gathered amid filth and corpses, will now
become a hub of the rebuilding effort.
Three major retailers will set up there to
sell lumber, food and other supplies.
Security will be tight in the reopened
neighborhoods. Nagin said a dusk-to-dawn
curfew will be enforced, and residents
and business owners will be required to
show ID to get back in.
If the initial resettlement goes smoothly, Nagin said other areas will slowly be
brought back to join in what he called
perhaps the biggest urban reconstruction
project in U.S. history.
“My gut feeling right now is that we’ll
settle in at 250,000 people over the next
three to six months, and then we’ll start to
ramp up over time to the half- million we
had before, and maybe exceed” that, he
said. “I imagine building a city so original,
so unique that everybody’s going to want
to come.”
Also Thursday, Nagin asked mayors
across the United States to take censuses
of displaced New Orleans residents so the
city knows where they are and can communicate with them about reconstruction.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RETURNS
Gautier, George County
square off in Lucedale
By JR. WITTNER
Christy Pritchett/The Mississippi Press
Gautier quarterback Julius Blanks hands off to fullback Matt Nelson during
the Gators’ win over Pascagoula. The Gators get back to football tonight
when they travel to Lucedale.
LUCEDALE — With a full slate
of games set for tonight in Mississippi, the hottest ticket in town
may be between Gautier and
George County.
Gautier and George County are
the only game along the Coast this
week as most other local teams
hit the road for their second games
of the season.
“It’s really like starting over,”
George County head coach Al
Jones said. “We have been able to
practice the last week or so, but
getting everyone back has been a
challenge.”
George County opened the season with a road loss to 4A No. 1
Wayne County.
Gautier, who opened the season
with win over rival Pascagoula,
has had a chance to practice over
the last week, but head coach Don
Nelson says his player’s have had
other things on their minds.
“I think everyone has had the
hurricane on their mind the last
week,” Nelson said. “Once we
started practicing again, the focus
quickly shifted back to football and
I feel like the guys are ready to
get back on the field.”
Nelson added thet many of his
Gautier players have been volunteering at the school and with the
Red Cross and Federal Emergency
Management Agency, which have
been using Gautier High School
as a check point.
“Our guys are working hard off
the field and right now that means
a little more than on the field,”
Nelson said. “They were all in good
spirits this week and I feel like
they are ready to play.”
Jones also feels like his team is
ready to get going again.
“It has been a long layoff, and I
think the guys are getting their
feet back under them,” Jones said.
“Gautier presents a tough challenge for us and we know they
have guys who can make plays all
over the field.”
Gautier did lose three players
who decided to transfer, but Nelson said the players he is depending on this season are still there.
“We’ve been focusing on conditioning and right now that is the
biggest concern,” Nelson said. “We
went back to focusing on the fundamentals during practice and I
think the guys are ready.”
George County did suffer damage to the lights from the hurricane, but Jones said the problem
has been fixed.
JR. Wittner can be reached at
[email protected] or (251)
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East Central takes
road trip to Petal
By JOSH JOHNSON
East Central hits the road tonight
against Petal in search of its first
win of the 2005 season after a twoweek layoff thanks to Hurricane
Katrina.
The postponement to the season
allowed some wounded Hornets to
heal, but head coach Toby Melton
feels the layoff has been an overall
disadvantage to his team.
“At the start of the season you
like to build from the ground up,
not during the season,” Melton said.
“I thought we fixed some things
after Greene County, but we’ve kind
of taken two steps back due to the
big layoff. We’re not where we need
to be for the third game of the season.”
However, there has been some
obvious advantages being away for
two weeks.
“Getting some rest no doubt was
an advantage,” Melton said. “We
had some tough injuries against
Greene County, but we feel those
injuries are 90 percent healed.
Everyone should be ready to go
(tonight).”
That should bode well for the Hornets against a Petal team that is
coming off a 43-21 win over Columbia. However, Melton is impressed
with the direction the Panthers
See HORNETS, Page 2-C
The Greene County Wildcats huddle up during a timeout in their season opening win over East
Central. The Wildcats face a difficult challenge after a two week layoff when they travel to West
Lauderdale.
Greene faces tough test with
game at West Lauderdale
By PAT KELLY
Vancleave lost in the final second to Long Beach two weeks ago. The
Bulldogs continue the season with a tough road trip to Mt. Olive.
Vancleave facing
tough 1A opponent
By JOSH JOHNSON
Vancleave restarts its season traveling to 1A’s No. 2 Mt. Olive tonight.
The Bulldogs have had two weeks
to rebound from a heartbreaking loss
to Long Beach in the season opener,
but obviously there’s been a lot more
on their mind than X’s and O’s.
“What has happened is horrible,”
Vancleave head football coach Jimmy
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Bloomfield said. “But, football is a
release from the mud and muck.
“Football keeps things in life in
perspective because it’s suppose to be
fun. I know everyone wants to win,
but this will give us a chance to relax
from what has gone on during the
past two weeks.”
Bloomfield said his team hasn’t
had a chance to relax over the long
layoff. Three quarters of his team
have been working with contractors
cleaning up what Hurricane Katrina
damaged in the community, while
the rest have been volunteering for
schools and local churches. However,
Bloomfield said his team is excited
about starting its season again.
“These guys are excited to play
See BULLDOGS, Page 3-C
Greene County High School
football coach Johnny Ainsworth
said the West Lauderdale team
he travels to face tonight has
averaged about 41 points during
its first two games and has a
habit of capitalizing on opponents’
mistakes.
We s t L a u d e r d a l e , 3 A s t a t e
champions last year and the team
that eliminated Greene County
in the playoffs, has moved to 4A
this year and is currently 2-0.
“We know we have our work cut
out for us,” Ainsworth said.
Greene County will take 78
players along for the away game,
and Ainsworth said the past week
of practice has done much to take
players’ minds off the recent hurricane, which devastated the
Coast along with Greene County.
“The practice has really helped
to get it back to normal,”
Ainsworth said. “I don’t think
anyone complained about return-
ing to school.”
Greene County (1-0) defeated
East Central 35-7 the Friday prior to the storm. But losing two
weeks of practice is a concern,
Ainsworth said.
According to Ainsworth, West
Lauderdale is a good football team
up front on both sides of the line
and Greene County will have to
minimize mistakes, such as turning the ball over in the red zone.
H e p r a i s e d h i s t e a m ’s e f f o r t
See WILDCATS, Page 3-C
OS getting back Moss Point
to football with continues
rough schedule
long road trip
By PAT KELLY
By JR. WITTNER
Ocean Springs High School football coach Steve
Jones said his team has had a good week-and-a-half
of practice since Hurricane Katrina battered the
Gulf Coast, and the time spent on the practice field
has had a good effect on the team.
It has allowed the players to concentrate on something other than the wreckage lying around them.
Tonight, the Greyhounds travel to Carencro, La.,
to take on a 5A team Jones says will be a tough
opponent even though the team is 0-2 on the year.
The team lost last week to West Monroe, which
was in the Louisiana finals last year.
See 'HOUNDS, Page 2-C
The Moss Point Tigers opened the 2005 football season with a win over then 4A No. 6 Picayune on the road.
Two weeks ago, the Tigers were set to take on 5A No.
1 South Panola, but Hurricane Katrina postponed that
matchup until Sept. 27.
With the current schedule of games on the Coast
pushed back a week, Moss Point’s rugged pre-region
schedule gets going again when they travel to 4A No. 1
Wayne County tonight.
“It’s kind of like playing the opening game again,” Moss
Point head coach Jerry Alexander said. “We had a chance
to watch them play last week and they have the talent to
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BY THE NUMBERS
FOOTBALL
National Football League
Glance
All Times CST
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Buffalo
1 0 0 1.000 22
7
Miami
1 0 0 1.000 34 10
New England 1 0 0 1.000 30 20
N.Y. Jets
0 1 0 .000 7
27
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Indianapolis
1 0 0 1.000 24
7
Jacksonville
1 0 0 1.000 26 14
Houston
0 1 0 .000 7
22
Tennessee
0 1 0 .000 7
34
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Cincinnati
1 0 0 1.000 27 13
Pittsburgh
1 0 0 1.000 34
7
Baltimore
0 1 0 .000 7
24
Cleveland
0 1 0 .000 13 27
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Kansas City
1 0 0 1.000 27
7
Denver
0 1 0 .000 10 34
Oakland
0 1 0 .000 20 30
San Diego
0 1 0 .000 24 28
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
N.Y. Giants
1 0 0 1.000 42 19
Washington
1 0 0 1.000 9
7
Dallas
1 0 0 1.000 28 24
Philadelphia
0 1 0 .000 10 14
South
W L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans 1 0 0 1.000 23 20
Atlanta
1 0 0 1.000 14 10
Tampa Bay
1 0 0 1.000 24 13
Carolina
0 1 0 .000 20 23
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Detroit
1 0 0 1.000 17
3
Chicago
0 1 0 .000 7
9
Green Bay
0 1 0 .000 3
17
Minnesota
0 1 0 .000 13 24
West
W L T Pct PF PA
San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 28 25
Arizona
0 1 0 .000 19 42
Seattle
0 1 0 .000 14 26
St. Louis
0 1 0 .000 25 28
————
Thursday’s Game
New England 30, Oakland 20
Sunday’s Games
Miami 34, Denver 10
Washington 9, Chicago 7
Buffalo 22, Houston 7
Pittsburgh 34, Tennessee 7
Kansas City 27, N.Y. Jets 7
Jacksonville 26, Seattle 14
New Orleans 23, Carolina 20
Cincinnati 27, Cleveland 13
Tampa Bay 24, Minnesota 13
Detroit 17, Green Bay 3
Dallas 28, San Diego 24
N.Y. Giants 42, Arizona 19
San Francisco 28, St. Louis 25
Indianapolis 24, Baltimore 7
Monday’s Game
Atlanta 14, Philadelphia 10
Sunday, Sept. 18
Detroit at Chicago, noon
Baltimore at Tennessee, noon
Pittsburgh at Houston, noon
Buffalo at Tampa Bay, noon.
Jacksonville at Indianapolis, noon
Minnesota at Cincinnati, noon
New England at Carolina, noon
San Francisco at Philadelphia, noon
Atlanta at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.
St. Louis at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.
Miami at N.Y. Jets, 3:15 p.m.
Cleveland at Green Bay, 3:15 p.m.
San Diego at Denver, 3:15 p.m.
Kansas City at Oakland, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 19
N.Y. Giants vs. New Orleans at East
Rutherford, N.J., 6:30 p.m.
Washington at Dallas, 8 p.m.
BASEBALL
National League Glance
East Division
W L
Pct GB
Atlanta
84 63
.571
—
Florida
78 69
.531 6
Philadelphia 78 69
.531 6
Washington 76 71
.517 8
New York
71 75
.486 121⁄2
Central Division
W L
Pct GB
St. Louis
93 54
.633
—
Houston
78 68
.534 141⁄2
Milwaukee
73 73
.500 191⁄2
Chicago
72 74
.493 201⁄2
Cincinnati
68 77
.469 24
Pittsburgh
58 87
.400 34
West Division
W L
Pct GB
San Diego
72 73
.497
—
Los Angeles 66 79
.455 6
San Francisco66 79
.455 6
Arizona
66 81
.449 7
Colorado
59 86
.407 13
———
Wednesday’s Games
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3
San Diego 5, San Francisco 4, 10 innings
Philadelphia 12, Atlanta 4
Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 3
Houston 10, Florida 2
Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 4, 11 innings
Arizona 2, Milwaukee 1, 12 innings
Colorado 8, L.A. Dodgers 7
Thursday’s Games
Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 5, 10 innings
Milwaukee 14, Arizona 2
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, (n)
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, (n)
Today’s Games
St. Louis (Morris 14-8) at Chicago Cubs
(Rusch 6-8), 2:20 p.m.
Cincinnati (Ra.Ortiz 9-10 and Claussen 99) at Pittsburgh (K.Wells 7-16 and Duke 6-0),
2, 4:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Smoltz 14-6) at N.Y. Mets (P.Martinez 14-7), 6:10 p.m.
Philadelphia (Lieber 14-12) at Florida
(Moehler 6-9), 6:35 p.m.
Milwaukee (Helling 2-0) at Houston (Oswalt
17-12), 7:05 p.m.
Colorado (Day 1-3) at Arizona (Nippert 0-0),
8:40 p.m.
Washington (Patterson 8-5) at San Diego
(Peavy 12-6), 9:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Penny 7-9) at San Francisco (Tomko 7-14), 9:15 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 12:20 p.m.
Philadelphia at Florida, 12:20 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona, 3:10 p.m.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Houston, 6:05 p.m.
Washington at San Diego, 9:05 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.
Milwaukee at Houston, 1:05 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.
Washington at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona, 3:40 p.m.
Philadelphia at Florida, 7 p.m.
Wild Card
W L
Pct GB
Houston
78 68
.534 —
1
Florida
78 69
.531
⁄2
1
Philadelphia
78 69
.531
⁄2
1
Washington
76 71
.517 2 ⁄2
Thursday’s Games
Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 5, 10 innings
NL Boxes
NATIONALS 6, METS 5, 10 innings
WASHINGTON
NEW YORK
abr h bi
abr h bi
Wlkrsn lf 5 1 1 1
Reyes ss 4 2 2 1
Carroll 2b 3 1 2 0
KMtsui 2b 4 1 1 0
Baerga ph 1 0 0 0
Beltran cf 4 0 1 0
DCruz 2b 0 0 0 0
Floyd lf
511 4
NJhnsn 1b 4 1 0 0
Wright 3b 4 0 2 0
PrWlsn cf 5 1 4 2
Mntkw 1b 3 0 1 0
Church rf 5 0 1 0
Piazza ph 1 0 0 0
Castilla 3b 4 0 2 2
GeWlm rf 1 0 1 0
GBnntt c 3 0 0 0
RCstro c 4 0 1 0
Zmrmn ph 1 0 1 0
Cairo rf
501 0
KKelly pr 0 1 0 0
Seo p1 0 0 0
Osik c
100 0
Jacobs ph 1 1 1 0
CGzmn ss 4 1 2 1
Tkatsu p 0 0 0 0
LHrndz p 2 0 0 0
Offrmn ph 1 0 0 0
Eschen p 0 0 0 0
Heilmn p 0 0 0 0
Hughs p 0 0 0 0
MrAnd ph 1 0 0 0
Stanton p 0 0 0 0
Looper p 0 0 0 0
JGillen ph 0 0 0 0
RHrndz p 0 0 0 0
Watson pr 0 0 0 0
Diaz ph
100 0
Brgmn p 0 0 0 0
Mjwski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38613 6
Totals 40 5125
Washington 310 000 001 1 — 6
New York
100 040 000 0 — 5
E—KMatsui (9), GeWilliams (1). DP—New
York 2. LOB—Washington 7, New York 10.
2B—Carroll (6), Wright (40). HR—CGuzman
(4), Reyes (7), Floyd (30). S—LHernandez,
KMatsui, RCastro. SF—Castilla.
IP H
R ER BB SO
Washington
LHernandez
6
9
5 5 1 1
2
Eischen
⁄3
0
0 0 2 1
2
Hughes
⁄3
1
0 0 0 1
2
Stanton
⁄3
0
0 0 0 1
Bergmann W,2-0 1
1
0 0 0 2
Majewski S,1
1
1
0 0 0 1
New York
Seo
5 10
4 4 0 5
Takatsu
1
0
0 0 0 2
Heilman
2
0
0 0 1 4
Looper
1
1
1 0 0 0
RHernandez L,6-6 1
2
1 1 1 0
LHernandez pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.
HBP—by Looper (JGuillen). Balk—Eischen.
Umpires—Home, Joe Brinkman; First, Derryl Cousins; Second, Jeff Nelson; Third, Bill
Miller.
T—3:35. A—21,441 (57,369).
———
BRAVES 6, PHILLIES 4
ATLANTA
PHILA
abr h bi
abr h bi
Furcal ss 5 2 2 0
Rollins ss 5 0 3 0
MGiles 2b 2 1 0 0
Lofton cf 3 1 1 0
CJones 3b 5 2 2 5
Mchels cf 2 0 1 0
AJones cf 4 0 0 0
Geary p 0 0 0 0
LaRche 1b4 1 2 1
Utley 2b 4 0 0 0
Ritsma p 0 0 0 0
BAbreu rf 4 2 3 2
JEstda c 0 0 0 0
Burrell lf 5 0 0 0
Frncur rf 4 0 0 0
Howard 1b 5 1 2 2
Lngrhn lf 4 0 1 0
DaBell 3b 5 0 1 0
McCnn c 3 0 1 0
Pratt c
400 0
Frnswr p 0 0 0 0
BMyers p 2 0 1 0
JoSosa p 3 0 0 0
Vctrno ph 1 0 0 0
Mcbrde p 0 0 0 0
Madson p 0 0 0 0
JuFrco 1b 1 0 0 0
Crmier p 0 0 0 0
Tucker cf 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 8 6
Totals 414124
Atlanta
003 001 200 — 6
Philadelphia000 020 101 — 4
E—Furcal 2 (15), Francoeur (3), Rollins
(11). LOB—Atlanta 6, Philadelphia 12. 2B—
Furcal (26), Langerhans (19), BAbreu (33),
DaBell (30). HR—CJones 2 (19), LaRoche
(16), BAbreu (24), Howard (18). SB—Furcal
(41), Rollins 2 (36), Lofton (14), Michaels (3),
BAbreu (29). S—MGiles.
IP H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
JoSosa W,12-3 52⁄3
7
2 2 2 2
2
Mcbride
⁄3
1
1 1 0 0
1
3
0 0 0 0
Reitsma
1 ⁄3
Farnsworth S,7 11⁄3
1
1 1 0 2
Philadelphia
BMyers L,12-8
6
5
4 4 3 7
Madson
1
3
2 2 0 1
Cormier
1
0
0 0 0 1
Geary
1
0
0 0 0 1
WP—Reitsma.
Umpires—Home, Paul Schrieber; First,
Mike Reilly; Second, Andy Fletcher; Third,
Jeff Kellogg.
T—3:04. A—27,804 (43,826).
———
ASTROS 4, MARLINS 1
FLORIDA
HOUSTON
abr h bi
abr h bi
LCstillo 2b 4 0 1 0
Biggio 2b 5 2 2 2
Conine lf 4 0 0 0
Gipson lf 4 0 0 0
MiCbra 3b 4 1 1 1
Brkmn 1b 2 0 0 0
CDlgdo 1b 3 0 1 0
Lane rf
300 0
JEcrcn r f 3 0 0 0
JVzcno 3b 4 0 1 1
Easley ss 3 0 1 0
Brntlett cf 4 0 2 0
Pierre cf 2 0 0 0
AEvrtt ss 4 1 1 0
L Duca c 3 0 0 0
Asmus c 2 1 1 1
JVrgas p 1 0 0 0
Pettitte p 3 0 0 0
Wlnhm ph 1 0 1 0
Lamb ph 1 0 1 0
IValdez p 0 0 0 0
Lidge p
000 0
Mecir p
000 0
Lowell ph 1 0 0 0
Mota p
000 0
Totals 29 1 5 1
Totals 32 4 8 4
Florida
000 000 100 — 1
Houston 001 020 10x — 4
E—Easley (9). DP—Houston 3. LOB—
Florida 2, Houston 10. 2B—Bruntlett (4).
HR—MiCabrera (32), Biggio (21), Ausmus
(3). SB—Berkman (3), AEverett (20), Ausmus (4). S—Gipson.
IP H
R ER BB SO
Florida
JVargas L,5-4
5
4
3 3 2 4
IValdez
11⁄3
3
1 1 2 1
2
Mecir
⁄3
0
0 0 0 1
Mota
1
1
0 0 0 0
Houston
Pettitte W,16-9
8
5
1 1 1 5
Lidge S,37
1
0
0 0 0 3
HBP—by IValdez (Lane). Balk—IValdez.
Umpires—Home, Bill Hohn; First, Bruce
Dreckman; Second, Doug Eddings; Third,
Ed Hickox.
T—2:31. A—35,960 (40,950).
American League Glance
East Division
W L
Pct GB
Boston
85 61
.582
—
1
New York
83 62
.572 1 ⁄2
Toronto
72 73
.497 121⁄2
Baltimore
69 76
.476 151⁄2
Tampa Bay 60 87
.408 251⁄2
Central Division
W L
Pct
GB
Chicago
88 57
.607
—
Cleveland
84 62
.575 41⁄2
Minnesota
75 70
.517 13
Detroit
66 78
.458 211⁄2
Kansas City 48 96
.333 391⁄2
West Division
W L
Pct GB
Los Angeles 81 64
.559
—
Oakland
81 65
.555 1⁄2
Texas
72 75
.490 10
1
Seattle
64 82
.438 17 ⁄2
———
Wednesday’s Games
Detroit 4, Minnesota 2
Texas 7, Baltimore 6, 10 innings
Seattle 10, L.A. Angels 9
Cleveland 6, Oakland 4
Boston 5, Toronto 3
N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 5
Kansas City 10, Chicago White Sox 9
Thursday’s Games
Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 5
Oakland 6, Boston 2
Texas 4, Seattle 3
Detroit at L.A. Angels, (n)
Today’s Games
Oakland (Kennedy 3-3) at Boston (Wakefield 15-11), 6:05 p.m.
Kansas City (Gobble 1-0) at Cleveland
(Elarton 9-7), 6:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (R.Johnson 14-8) at Toronto
(Bush 5-8), 6:07 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Kazmir 8-9) at Baltimore
(Lopez 14-9), 6:35 p.m.
Seattle (F.Hernandez 3-3) at Texas (Rupe
0-0), 7:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Garland 17-9) at Minnesota (Baker 1-2), 7:10 p.m.
Detroit (J.Johnson 8-12) at L.A. Angels
(Lackey 12-5), 9:05 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 11:10
p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 3:07 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 3:35 p.m.
Oakland at Boston, 6:05 p.m.
Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.
Seattle at Texas, 7:05 p.m.
Detroit at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Kansas City at Cleveland, 12:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 12:07 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 12:35 p.m.
Oakland at Boston, 1:05 p.m.
Seattle at Texas, 1:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.
Detroit at L.A. Angels, 3:05 p.m.
Wild Card
W L
Pct GB
Cleveland
84 62
.575 —
1
New York
83 62
.572
⁄2
Oakland
81 65
.555
3
Thursday’s Games
Oakland 6, Boston 2
AL Boxes
YANKEES 9, DEVIL RAYS 5
NEW YORK
TAMPA BAY
abr h bi
abr h bi
Jeter ss 5 1 0 0
Lugo ss 5 0 1 0
ARod 3b 5 1 2 2
Crwfrd lf 5 1 1 0
JaGbi 1b 3 0 0 0
Gomes dh 4 1 2 3
TMrtnz 1b 1 0 0 0
Huff rf
401 0
Shffield dh 5 0 3 0
Hollins cf 4 1 1 0
Wmack dh 0 0 0 0
TLee 1b 3 0 0 0
Matsui lf 3 1 2 0
ASGzlz 3b 2 1 0 0
BWllms cf 4 1 0 0
Munson ph 0 0 0 0
Posada c 5 2 2 0
EduPrz 3b 0 0 0 0
Cano 2b 5 3 3 5
THall c
402 2
Crosby rf 5 0 3 2
NGreen 2b 4 1 0 0
Totals 41 915 9
Totals
355 8 5
New York 000 016 002 — 9
Tampa Bay 020 030 000 — 5
DP—Tampa Bay 1. LOB—New York 12,
Tampa Bay 6. 2B—Matsui (42), Posada (19),
Cano (29), Gomes (10), Hollins (17), THall
(19). 3B—ARodriguez (1), Cano (3), Lugo
(6). HR—ARodriguez (42), Cano (10), Gomes
(20).
IP H
R ER BB SO
New York
Small W,8-0
62⁄3
7
5 5 0 4
1
Embree
⁄3
0
0 0 0 1
2
Gordon
⁄3
1
0 0 1 1
MRivera S,39
11⁄3
0
0 0 1 1
Tampa Bay
1
McClung L,6-10 5 ⁄3
8
7 7 4 4
1
1
0 0 2 1
TreMiller
1 ⁄3
Colome
1
1
0 0 0 0
LCarter
11⁄3
5
2 2 0 0
HBP—by McClung (ARodriguez), by Small
(ASGonzalez). WP—McClung 2.
Umpires—Home, Tim Timmons; First, Tim
McClelland; Second, Chuck Meriwether;
Third, Mike Everitt.
T—3:09. A—18,391 (41,315).
———
ATHLETICS 6, RED SOX 2
OAKLAND
BOSTON
abr h bi
abr h bi
MEllis 2b 5 1 3 2
Damon cf 4 1 1 1
Kendall c 5 1 2 0
Rnteria ss 4 0 0 0
Kotsay cf 5 1 2 2
DOrtiz dh 3 0 1 1
EChavz 3b2 0 0 0
MRmrz lf 4 0 2 0
Payton lf 5 0 2 1
Nixon rf
301 0
Httberg dh 5 0 1 0
Varitek c 4 0 0 0
DJnson 1b 3 0 0 0
Olerud 1b 3 1 0 0
Swisher rf 4 2 2 0
Mueller 3b 4 0 2 0
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TV SPORTWATCH
TODAY’S LISTINGS
College Football
7 p.m. — Houston at UTEP (ESPN2)
Golf
3 p.m. — PGA Tour: The 84 Lumber Classic (ESPN)
Major League Baseball
6 p.m. — Teams TBA (ESPN)
6 p.m. — Braves at Mets (TBS)
From Wire Reports
LOCAL SCHEDULE
Today’s Events
Game times 7:30 p.m.
Pascagoula and St.
Martin are off
Moss Point at Wayne
County
Vancleave at Mt. Olive
Scutaro ss 4 1 2 1
Totals 38 6146
Grffnno 2b 4 0 0 0
Totals
33 2 72
Oakland 210 000 120 — 6
Boston
000 001 100 — 2
DP—Boston 3. LOB—Oakland 9, Boston 7.
2B—Kendall (23), Swisher (27), Scutaro (18),
Damon (33), Mueller (33). SF—DOrtiz.
IP H
R ER BB SO
Oakland
Blanton W,10-11 61⁄3
6
2 2 2 3
1
RRincon
⁄3
0
0 0 0 0
1
0
0 0 0 2
Duchscherer
1 ⁄3
Street
1
1
0 0 0 1
Boston
Schilling L,6-8 62⁄3 11
4 4 3 3
2
MMyers
⁄3
1
1 1 0 1
1
⁄3
2
1 1 0 0
Bradford
1
⁄3
0
0 0 0 0
Gonzalez
Delcarmen
1
0
0 0 1 0
WP—Blanton.
Umpires—Home, Alfonso Marquez; First,
Rick Reed; Second, Chris Guccione; Third,
Ted Barrett.
T—3:03. A—35,079 (35,095).
———
ROYALS 7, WHITE SOX 5
CHICAGO
KANSAS CITY
abr h bi
abr h bi
Pdsdnk lf 4 0 0 0
Guiel cf
400 1
WHarrs 2b 2 2 1 0
Ambres lf 5 2 2 0
Casnva ph 1 0 1 0
MiSwy dh 4 2 2 0
Knerko 1b 5 0 1 0
Brown rf 5 1 3 2
CEvrtt dh 2 1 1 1
Berroa ss 4 1 3 2
Rwand cf 4 1 1 0
Buck c
512 2
Dye rf
412 1
Teahen 3b 4 0 1 0
Przyns c 3 0 2 0
Huber 1b 2 0 0 0
Iguchi ph 1 0 1 3
McEng 1b 0 0 0 0
Widger c 0 0 0 0
ABlnco 2b 3 0 1 0
Uribe ss 4 0 0 0
Crede 3b 4 0 2 0
Totals 34 5125
Totals 36 7147
Chicago
011 000 030 — 5
Kansas City002 000 41x — 7
E—Berroa (21). DP—Kansas City 3. LOB—
Chicago 7, Kansas City 12. 2B—WHarris (2),
Dye (27), Iguchi (24), Crede (21), Ambres 2
(7), MiSweeney 2 (37), Brown (31), Buck 2
(18), Teahen (26). HR—Dye (28). CS—
Podsednik (21). S—ABlanco. SF—Berroa.
IP H
R ER BB SO
Chicago
Buehrle L,15-8 61⁄3
9
4 4 2 3
1
LVizcaino
⁄3
3
2 2 2 1
1
⁄3
Bajenaru
0
0 0 0 0
Jenks
1
2
1 1 0 1
Kansas City
Greinke
6
7
2 2 1 2
1
2
2 2 2 0
Burgos W,2-5
1 ⁄3
1
Sisco
⁄3
2
1 1 0 1
MacDougal S,19 11⁄3
1
0 0 0 1
HBP—by Greinke (CEverett), by Buehrle
(Huber), by Greinke (WHarris). WP—Jenks.
Umpires—Home, Jerry Meals; First, Bruce
Froemming; Second, Mike Winters; Third,
Adam Dowdy.
T—2:58. A—9,258 (40,785).
NASCAR
Nextel Cup
Schedule-Winners
(x-non-points race)
Feb. 12 — x-Budweiser Shootout (Jimmie
Johnson)
Feb. 20 — Daytona 500 (Jeff Gordon)
Feb. 27 — Auto Club 500 (Greg Biffle)
March 13 — UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400
(Jimmie Johnson)
March 20 — Golden Corral 500 (Carl
Edwards)
April 3 — Food City 500 (Kevin Harvick)
April 10 — Advance Auto Parts 500 (Jeff
Gordon)
April 17 — Samsung/RadioShack 500
(Greg Biffle)
April 23 — Subway Fresh 500 (Kurt Busch)
May 1 — Aaron’s 499 (Jeff Gordon)
May 7 — Dodge Charger 500 (Greg Biffle)
May 14 — Chevy American Revolution 400
(Kasey Kahne)
May 21 — x-All-Star Challenege (Mark
Martin)
May 29 — Coca-Cola 600 (Jimmie Johnson)
June 5 — MBNA America 400 (Greg Biffle)
June 12 — Pocono 500 (Carl Edwards)
June 19 — Michigan 400 (Greg Biffle)
June 26 — Dodge/Save Mart 350 (Tony
Stewart)
July 2 — Pepsi 400 (Tony Stewart)
July 10 — USG Sheetrock 400 (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.)
July 17 — New England 300 (Tony Stewart)
July 24 — Pennsylvania 500 (Kurt Busch)
Aug. 7 — Allstate 400 (Tony Stewart)
Aug. 14 — Sirius at The Glen (Tony Stewart)
Aug. 21 — GFS Marketplace 400 (Jeremy
Mayfield)
Aug. 27 — Sharpie 500 (Matt Kenseth)
Sept. 4 — SONY HD 500 (Kyle Busch)
Sept. 10 — Chevy Rock & Roll 400 (Kurt
Busch)
Gautier at George
County
Greene County at West
Lauderdale
Ocean Springs at
Carencro, La.
East Central at Petal
Sept. 18 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H.
Sept. 25 — MBNA 400, Dover, Del.
Oct. 2 — UAW-Ford 500, Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 9 — Banquet 400, Kansas City, Kan.
Oct. 15 — UAW-GM Quality 500, Concord,
N.C.
Oct. 23 — Subway 500, Martinsville, Va.
Oct. 30 — Bass Pro Shops MBNA 400,
Hampton, Ga.
Nov. 6 — Dickies 500, Fort Worth, Texas
Nov. 13 — Checker Auto Parts 500, Avondale, Ariz.
Nov. 20 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla.
GOLF
84 Lumber Classic
Scores
Thursday
At Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa,
Mystic Rock Course
Farmington, Pa.
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First Round
Mark O’Meara
33-32 — 65 -7
Charlie Wi
32-33 — 65 -7
Jason Gore
33-32 — 65 -7
Shaun Micheel
33-32 — 65 -7
Carl Pettersson
33-33 — 66 -6
Ben Crane
34-33 — 67 -5
Zach Johnson
33-34 — 67 -5
Stuart Appleby
31-36 — 67 -5
Bob Burns
32-35 — 67 -5
Tag Ridings
35-33 — 68 -4
Joey Sindelar
32-36 — 68 -4
Brenden Pappas 33-35 — 68 -4
Pat Perez
33-35 — 68 -4
Ryan Moore
34-34 — 68 -4
Chris Smith
34-34 — 68 -4
Bo Van Pelt
36-33 — 69 -3
Ben Curtis
34-35 — 69 -3
Carlos Franco
34-35 — 69 -3
Jonathan Byrd
34-35 — 69 -3
Paul Claxton
33-36 — 69 -3
Dudley Hart
36-33 — 69 -3
Cameron Beckman 35-34 — 69 -3
Kevin Stadler
34-35 — 69 -3
Billy Mayfair
32-38 — 70 -2
Rory Sabbatini
35-35 — 70 -2
Woody Austin
35-35 — 70 -2
Rod Pampling
34-36 — 70 -2
Shigeki Maruyama 32-38 — 70 -2
John Huston
33-37 — 70 -2
Chris DiMarco
36-34 — 70 -2
Jesper Parnevik
3-37 — 70 -2
Todd Fischer
34-36 — 70 -2
Lee Janzen
35-35 — 70 -2
Stewart Cink
34-36 — 70 -2
Craig Barlow
32-38 — 70 -2
Tim Herron
35-35 — 70 -2
Glen Day
34-37 — 71 -1
John Daly
37-34 — 71 -1
Alex Cejka
36-35 — 71 -1
Michael Putnam
35-36 — 71 -1
Rob Rashell
36-35 — 71 -1
Tom Pernice Jr.
36-35 — 71 -1
Dean Wilson
36-35 — 71 -1
Mark Calcavecchia 35-36 — 71 -1
Frank Lickliter II
36-35 — 71 -1
Vaughn Taylor
36-35 — 71 -1
Heath Slocum
38-33 — 71 -1
Hidemichi Tanaka 37-34 — 71 -1
Hunter Haas
37-34 — 71 -1
Skip Kendall
36-36 — 72 E
Robert Allenby
37-35 — 72 E
Jeff Maggert
37-35 — 72 E
Ted Purdy
36-36 — 72 E
Olin Browne
35-37 — 72 E
Peter Lonard
36-36 — 72 E
J.P. Hayes
34-38 — 72 E
Omar Uresti
35-37 — 72 E
Joe Durant
35-37 — 72 E
Jeff Brehaut
36-36 — 72 E
Brett Quigley
35-37 — 72 E
D.A. Points
37-35 — 72 E
Brian Bateman
35-37 — 72 E
Vijay Singh
36-36 — 72 E
Tim Petrovic
37-35 — 72 E
Steve Flesch
36-36 — 72 E
Matt Gogel
37-35 — 72 E
Brandt Jobe
34-38 — 72 E
Rocco Mediate
35-37 — 72 E
Tjaart van der Walt 34-38 — 72 E
Scott Hend
38-34 — 72 E
Darron Stiles
36-36 — 72 E
Roland Thatcher
35-37 — 72 E
Tom Gillis
35-38 — 73 +1
Andrew Magee
36-37 — 73 +1
Ryuji Imada
36-37 — 73 +1
Justin Rose
37-36 — 73 +1
Kevin Na
39-34 — 73 +1
John Maginnes
36-37 — 73 +1
Phil Mickelson
36-37 — 73 +1
Todd Hamilton
35-38 — 73 +1
Justin Leonard
36-37 — 73 +1
Daniel Chopra
35-38 — 73 +1
Brian Gay
35-38 — 73 +1
Bradley Hughes
37-36 — 73 +1
Harrison Frazar
34-39 — 73 +1
Phillip Price
36-37 — 73 +1
David Hearn
37-36 — 73 +1
Patrick Sheehan
36-37 — 73 +1
Jim Furyk
35-38 — 73 +1
David Duval
35-38 — 73 +1
’Hounds
From Page 1-C
Carencro was originally scheduled to
play in Ocean Springs but the home field
was changed because of the conditions of
the hurricane’s aftermath. Ocean Springs
defeated St. Martin 35-12 the Friday
before the storm and is 1-0 on the season.
“At first we were just trying to get them
back on the field,” Jones said, talking
about the days following Katrina. “But
during the last week we’ve had a real
good week of practice.”
Ocean Springs will take 70 players on
the road trip but will be missing linebacker Paul Gunn, a transfer from Biloxi
for which Jones had high hopes this year.
PHILADELPHIA — Chipper Jones hit two
homers and tied his career-high with five RBIs,
helping Atlanta avert a four-game sweep with
a 6-4 victory over Philadelphia on Thursday
night.
Jorge Sosa (12-3) allowed two runs and
seven hits in 5 2-3 innings for the Braves and
Adam LaRoche had a solo homer.
Jones hit a three-run homer in the third
inning and a two-run shot in the seventh for
his 32nd career multihomer game.
Kyle Farnsworth got the last four outs for his
seventh save since joining the Braves on July
31. He retired Chase Utley on a grounder to
first to leave runners at second and third in the
eighth, but gave up a solo homer to Ryan
Howard, his 18th, in the ninth.
Brett Myers (12-8) allowed four runs and five
hits in six innings. He was 0-2 and the Phillies
lost all three of his starts during this 10-game
homestand.
Astros 4, Marlins 1
HOUSTON — Andy Pettitte allowed one run
over eight innings to win his sixth straight start
and Houston moved back in front of the wildcard race.
The Astros (78-68) took a half-game lead
over Florida and Philadelphia, which lost to
Atlanta, in the wild-card race.
Brewers 14, Diamondbacks 2
PHOENIX — Bill Hall had a career-high five
hits and Chad Moeller drove in four runs for
Milwaukee.
Nationals 6, Mets 5, 10 innings
NEW YORK — Vinny Castilla drove in the
go-ahead run with a two-out single in the 10th
inning and Washington completed the threegame sweep of New York.
Yankees 9, Devil Rays 5
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez
hit his 42nd home run and Robinson Cano
erased a four-run deficit with a grand slam,
helping Aaron Small and New York rally to
beat Tampa Bay.
Athletics 6, Red Sox 2
BOSTON — Mark Kotsay singled in two
runs before Curt Schilling recorded his first
out, and Mark Ellis also drove in a pair of runs
as Oakland beat Boston.
Royals 7, White Sox 5
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Buck hit a tworun double to key Kansas City’s four-run seventh inning, and the Royals beat Chicago 7-5
on Thursday to cut the White Sox’s lead over
idle Cleveland in the AL Central to 4 1/2
games.
WNBA FINALS
Sun 77, Monarchs 70, OT
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Taj McWilliamsFranklin scored 24 points and came up big in
overtime with a jumper, an assist and a key
defensive rebound, and the Connecticut Sun
beat the Sacramento Monarchs 77-70 Thursday
night to tie the WNBA Finals at one game each.
McWilliams-Franklin’s wide-open jumper in
the extra period was all the Sun needed as
they held Sacramento scoreless in overtime.
Game 3 is Sunday in Sacramento.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
New Orleans Bowl may
move to Lafayette this year
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Bowl
may have a bit more Cajun flavor this year.
With the Superdome awaiting massive
repairs and New Orleans projected to be
cleaning up from Hurricane Katrina for
months, the December bowl may move to
Lafayette, La., said executive director Billy
Ferrante of the Greater New Orleans Sports
Foundation.
The five-year old bowl game matches the
champion of the New Orleans-based Sun Belt
Conference with a team from Conference
USA. Louisiana-Lafayette is a Sun Belt member. This year’s game is scheduled for Dec.
20.
Hornets
Gunn’s home was destroyed and he has
moved to Batesville with his mother.
Jones said Carencro, which was scouted
last week, has traditionally been a
Louisiana powerhouse.
“They are usually in the top 10 and traditionally sign one to two players to Division I every year,” Jones said. “During
the last 10 years they have been in the
finals twice and have won the championship once.
“They will be a challenge.”
The Ocean Springs coach said he will
continue to rotate quarterbacks John
Tosch and Ryan Glonner into the offensive
lineup, depending on the situation,
yardage and down. According to Jones,
Glonner, a transfer from Las Vegas, has
the better arm but Tosch is the better allaround athlete.
Against St. Martin, Tosch took the
snaps at quarterback about 60 percent of
the time.
A lot will depend on which quarterback
might develop a hot hand. In any event,
“it’s good to have both of them,” Jones
said.
Ocean Springs will play Picayune at
home next week.
Pat Kelly can be reached at
[email protected] or (251) 2195553.
“We have been able to practice for the
last two weeks, but we haven’t played in
game-like conditions since the opening
game,” he said. “We had a couple of scrimmages, but its not like playing against
another team.”
Moss Point is ranked No. 6 in this week’s
Associated Press poll and Alexander feels
his team is ready to get back to football.
“The focus from the kids has been really
good,” Alexander said. “We had a good team
effort against Picayune and did some real-
ly good things on offense and defense. Hopefully we can still continue to play at that
kind of level.”
The Tigers are still without nine or 10
players who have yet to come back after
fleeing the storm, but Alexander said at
least 70 players were at practice on Wednesday.
Kick off in Waynesboro is scheduled for
7:30.
JR. Wittner can be reached at
[email protected] or (251) 219-5553.
Tigers
From Page 1-C
play at the 5A level and win a state championship.”
Wayne County, who has wins over two 5A
teams already, returns a host from last
year’s 4A playoff team.
The War Eagles opened the season with
a win over George County, before getting a
21-3 win over Madison Central last week.
Moss Point has been able to practice for
the past two weeks, but Alexander feels
they are still at a little disadvantage.
Chipper has
big night in
Braves’ win
From Page 1-C
have taken so far to during
the 2005 campaign.
“They have a new staff over
there, and the community has
backed them from the start,”
Melton said. “They’ve come a
long way since spring practice. They’ve had some guys
really step things up.”
Especially on the offensive
side of the ball which has
become a major concern for
Melton and his staff in preparation for tonight’s showdown.
“We’ve swapped film with
them, and Petal likes to come
out in a shotgun formation on
offense. They have an outstanding quarterback and
some pretty good receivers,”
Melton said. “They like to
sw ar m to th e f o o tbal l o n
defense, so we’ll have our
work cut out for us.”
If there has been any indication the Hornets won’t be
prepared for Petal tonight,
Melton hasn’t seen it so far
during a good week of practice.
“We have good turnouts so
far,” Melton said. “We’ve had
a good week of practice. We’ve
been working things back to
earlier in the day, and the
kids have responded.
“Morale has been pretty
strong. It’s weird for them not
going to school, but these kids
have shown all week that
they’re ready to play football.”
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
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Bulldogs
Bilbo catching
on as a receiver
By PAUL NEWBERRY
ATLANTA — Damarius Bilbo is
finally as comfortable catching passes as he was throwing them.
Georgia Tech’s ex-quarterback has
emerged as a legitimate receiving
threat in his senior season, taking
advantage of defenses focused on
keeping the ball away from super
sophomore Calvin Johnson.
Bilbo has 10 catches in the first
two games, tied with Johnson for the
team lead. The 16th-ranked Yellow
Jackets (2-0) host Connecticut (2-0)
on Saturday.
“Football has always been fun, as
long as I’m on the field,” Bilbo said. “I
mean, you can’t have too much fun on
the sideline. You have to know your
roles, and when you’re called upon,
you have to go and take advantage of
it. That’s something I haven’t done in
the past.
Essentially, Bilbo was lost for two
years, trying to figure out his role on
a team that stripped away his ambition to play quarterback. He gave
running back a shot, but that didn’t
work. He moved to receiver, which
wasn’t a natural switch for him.
“Anytime you work hard and you
see that something is removed from
you that you worked so hard to
accomplish, you kind of get discouraged,” said Bilbo, who played quarterback at Moss Point. “It took me
almost two years to get back to where
I felt like I was at that time.”
Coming into this season, Bilbo
finally let go of his desire to throw the
ball. He fully committed himself to
receiver — losing weight, getting in
the best shape of his life and spending hours working one-on-one with
quarterback Reggie Ball.
Last Saturday, the hard work paid
off.
Bilbo had a career-best day against
North Carolina, catching eight passes for 131 yards. He managed to hang
on to his first receiving touchdown, a
48-yarder, even while tumbling back-
ward into the end zone and losing
his helmet.
“D-Bo had a great game, so now a
lot of teams, they’re not sure what to
do,” Johnson said. “They can’t just
key on me. They’ve got to key on both
of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party.”
In hindsight, Bilbo was more
impressed with his performance in a
season-opening upset of Auburn, even
though he had only two receptions.
“To me, a big game is not always
defined by how many catches or how
many yards you have,” he said. “I
went back and watched the film from
the Auburn game, and I thought that
game was a better game, all-around,
for me because I got a lot of blocks
upfield that sprang P.J (Daniels) for
some extra yards and we did a lot of
things from a receiving standpoint
that didn’t necessarily show up in
the public eye.”
Just as significant, the Auburn
game marked his first career start
— a moment that was five years in
the making and took all sorts of
strange twists.
“It really broke me in and got me a
lot more comfortable,” Bilbo said.
“Playing a team like Auburn ... was a
big plus for me to go out there and do
some good things. And then to come
back to the Carolina game, that’s
when I finally started getting some
catches.”
Bilbo appeared to be Georgia Tech’s
quarterback of the future when he
got in eight games as a redshirt freshman. He played the entire second
half of the Silicon Valley Bowl, but
four interceptions left coach Chan
Gailey with serious doubts about Bilbo’s ability to handle the job.
The following year, with the opener just weeks away, Gailey made a
stunning announcement: Bilbo, who
had been working with the first-team
offense, was moved to a position to be
named later.
Ball, then just a freshman, took
over as the starting quarterback. Bilbo didn’t even get a chance to be the
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football again. We’ve had 41 of 49
players come back out,” Bloomfield
said. “They are tired from what has
gone on, but they are ready to get
back to football.
Especially one group of players,
Bloomfield added, that hope off-field
tragedy will turn into on-field triumphs.
“We have about 12 seniors on our
team, and they deserve to have a
senior season because of the four to
six years they have worked,” Bloomfield said. “They deserve something
good to happen for them.”
Obviously, there hasn’t been anything good for those involved with
the Vancleave football team during
the two week layoff except the
chance to heal some wounded players.
“There haven’t been any advantages to the layoff except getting
our team back to full recovery,”
Bloomfield said. “Interrupting practices and games hasn’t helped
things, but I think it has refreshed
our attitudes in the weightroom and
the practice field. As long as we’re
here, we’ll work hard.”
Bloomfield’s team will need to put
out the extra effort against the consistent 1A power. The Pirates are
coming off an opening week win over
1A defending state champion Mize
on Aug. 26., and Bloomfield feels
Mt. Olive is as good as advertised.
“We’re playing a very dangerous
team in Mt. Olive,” Bloomfield said.
“They have a lot of speed — the type
of speed that it doesn’t matter if
their a 5A Moss Point or a 1A Mt.
Olive, their players will be on the
field.”
Two more concerns for Bloomfield
and his team will be stopping a Mt.
Olive offense that fields a one-two
punch in its backfield.
“They have a good quarterback
and their tailback is the nephew of
Steve McNair,” Bloomfield said.
“They have a lot of problems that
they’ll present to us, but our 11 will
go against their 11.”
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
Josh Johnson can be reached at
[email protected] or (251)
219-5553.
AP
Former Moss Point quarterback Demarius Bilbo made the
switch to wide receiver two seasons ago, and now give the Yellow Jackets a solid wide out to complement All-American Calvin
Johnson.
backup.
“I came here thinking I was going
to play quarterback, played it for a
year and a half, and then changed,”
Bilbo said. “I never questioned his
decision. I was just like, why at this
time, when I felt that I could have
peaked if I had just gotten one more
chance?
“I understood that the Silicon Valley game was an up-and-down game
for me, but I felt that coming into
the next year, if I had gotten the
opportunity to start one game, I could
have shown how much I had
improved.
Now, Bilbo is getting a change to
show how much he’s improved as a
receiver. He gives much of the credit
for his change in attitude to receiver
coach Buddy Geis, who never lost
faith even in the toughest of times.
“Coach Geis was really the big
motivator for me,” Bilbo said. “He
was really the guy that said, ‘Life
goes on. You’re not the first guy that
has been moved, and you won’t be
the last, so take advantage of it.”’
Rebels announce
2006 football schedule
AP
Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison talks to quarterback Peyton Manning following a win last season.
Harrison and Manning are now the authors of the NFL’s how-to manual on flawless play.
Manning, Harrison looking
to leave bigger mark on NFL
By MICHAEL MAROT
INDIANAPOLIS — Marvin Harrison
thinks back to those first growing pains with
Peyton Manning — the miscommunications,
the errant passes, even the drops.
They’ve come a long way in eight seasons.
Harrison and Manning are now the
authors of the NFL’s how-to manual on flawless play. They’ve worked overtime to sculpt
that precision timing and uncanny ability to
read each other’s minds, and now the recordsetting duo is about to be rewarded with a
new title — the league’s greatest quarterback-to-receiver tandem.
“We went through the bumps and bruises
that first year or two,” Harrison said. “But
we’ve developed a rapport where we can do
things without speaking. Of the 83 touch-
downs we’ve had, I can’t tell you how many
we’ve come up with on the fly.”
The record-breaking game has become
routine for Manning and Harrison.
In 2002, Harrison shattered the singleseason mark for receptions by hauling in
143 passes. Last year, Manning threw an
NFL record 49 touchdowns — 15 to Harrison
— and the two combined to set a new mark
for most completions by a tandem. They
now have 708 completions, 45 more than
the previous record set by Buffalo’s Jim Kelly and Andre Reed.
Two more league records could fall for the
perennial Pro Bowl pair Sunday against
Jacksonville.
The Colts combo needs 60 yards and three
touchdown passes to become the all-time
leaders in those categories, too. Kelly and
Reed set the yardage mark (9,538), while
San Francisco’s Steve Young and Jerry Rice
hold the TD record (85).
Manning hasn’t forgotten how it all started.
“I remember that first touchdown pass in
the preseason and that first one, in the opening game against Miami,” he said. “It’s a
product of the work we’ve done, and we’re not
going to stop now.”
To Harrison, it’s never been about numbers
or pizazz, which explains his old-style celebration style.
But this touchdown mark is the rare
exception because he would supplant Rice, a
player he expressed deep admiration for
when the two met at a game in Indianapolis
last October. Rice retired earlier this month
See MANNING, Page 4-C
OXFORD (AP) — Ole Miss’
first meeting with Missouri
in 27 years highlights the
Rebels’ 2006 football schedule, athletic director Pete
Boone said Thursday.
The Rebels will play the
Tigers on Sept. 9, 2006, in
Columbia, Mo., in the first
meeting between the schools
since 1979. Missouri, a Big
12 member, will return the
trip to Oxford on Sept. 8,
2007.
“Adding them to our schedule helps broaden the exposure of our football team and
the university to another part
of the country,” Boone said.
Ole Miss will play seven of
its 12 games in 2006 at home,
including non-conference
dates with Atlantic Coast
Conference member Wake
Forest (Sept. 26) and Conference USA rival Memphis
(Sept. 2).
The Southeastern Conference’s rotating schedule
brings Georgia to Oxford on
Sept. 30 and sends the Rebels
to Kentucky on Sept. 16.
Western Division teams coming to Ole Miss include
Auburn and Mississippi
State, plus annual rival Vanderbilt.
2006 Ole Miss Football
Sept. 2—Memphis
Sept. 9—at Missouri
Sept. 16—at Kentucky
Sept. 23—Wake Forest
Sept. 30—Georgia
Oct. 7—Vanderbilt
Oct. 14—at Alabama
Oct. 21—at Arkansas
Oct. 28—Auburn
Nov. 4—Northwestern St.
Nov. 18—at LSU
Nov. 25—Mississippi St.
2006 Ole Miss
Basketball Schedule
Nov. 11—Spring Hill, 7 p.m. (exhibition)
Nov. 18—x-Southern Utah, 8:15
p.m.
Nov. 19—x-New Mexico, 6 p.m.
Nov. 20—x-South Carolina St., 2
p.m.
Nov. 26—Centenary, TBA
Nov. 29—La.-Monroe, 7 p.m.
Dec. 10—at Ill.-Chicago, 3 p.m.
Dec. 13—Saint Louis, 7 p.m.
Dec. 15—Nicholls St., 7 p.m.
Dec. 17—Memphis, 2:30 p.m.
Dec. 19—Arkansas St., 7 p.m.
Dec. 21—SE Louisiana, 7 p.m.
Dec. 30—Alcorn St., 7 p.m.
Jan. 7—at Alabama, 5 p.m.
Jan. 11—South Carolina, 7 p.m.
Jan. 14—Mississippi St., noon
Jan. 21—at Georgia, 5 p.m.
Jan. 25—at Arkansas, 7 p.m.
Jan. 28—LSU, 2 p.m.
Jan. 31—Florida, 7 p.m.
Feb. 4—at Tennessee, 3 p.m.
Feb. 8—at Auburn, 7 p.m.
Feb. 11—Alabama, 2 p.m.
Feb. 15—Arkansas, 7 p.m.
Feb. 18—at Mississippi St., 2 p.m.
Feb. 22—at Kentucky, 8 p.m.
Feb. 25—Auburn, 7:30 p.m.
March 1—Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.
March 4—at LSU, 7 p.m.
x—Jim Thorpe Classic at
Albuquerque, N.M.
Wildcats
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against East Central but said it will have to play even
better against West Lauderdale.
“We’ve got to play very good football,” he said.
Greene County will play Collins next week in its first
division game and will then face Wayne County at home.
They travel to Magee the following week.
“It doesn’t get any easier,” Ainsworth said.
Pat Kelly can be reached at [email protected]
or (251) 219-5553.
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Moving in together might
only be added income for one
Dear Annie: About 18
months ago, I met “Lorraine”
over the Internet. We are
both in our early 80s and
seemed to hit it off. Last fall,
I proposed, and
she
accepted.
A month
ago, Lorraine
asked me
to move in
with her,
in separate bedrooms.
We both
Annie’s
own our
Mailbox
homes,
and while
mine is free and clear, hers
has a substantial mortgage. I
am retired on a fixed income,
and Lorraine is semi-retired,
but since we have been seeing each other, she has had
no visible income other than
Social Security. For the past
few months, I have been
assisting her financially.
If I move into her place,
Lorraine wants me to deposit
$1,500 a month into her
checking account to cover living expenses. I proposed that
we combine our resources
into a joint account, but she
feels she would then have to
explain every check she
writes.
By moving in with Lorraine, I lose a homestead
exemption on my home, and
my taxes would increase con-
siderably. I would rent my
home on a seasonal basis to
supplement our income. If
she were to die before me, I
would return to my home as
she wants hers to go to her
son, who lives in the area.
This is a new experience
for me. I feel that if we love
each other, sharing the
expenses together is more
appropriate than a monthly
deposit into her account. I
am very uncomfortable with
that proposal. Am I wrong?
— Arnold
Dear Arnold: Lorraine is
looking for a boarder. You
pay her, she provides a room.
There is no upside for you, so
don’t feel obligated to move
in with her now.
As for the permanent
financial arrangements,
every couple does it differently. A joint account is fine,
but not mandatory. If you
and Lorraine have separate
accounts, you should each
contribute an equal percentage to the monthly upkeep,
based on your individual
incomes. We strongly urge
you to work out these details
before you marry, so they do
not become a source of trouble later.
Annie’s Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of the
Ann Landers column. Please
e-mail your questions to
anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or
write to: Annie’s Mailbox,
P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, IL
60611.
Pride in thin bride
makes her leery
of pregnancy
Dear Abby: I am a 26-yearold woman, married just over
19 months. My husband,
“Troy,” is caring and
supportive — but
he’s prejudiced
against people who
are overweight. He
makes obscene jokes
when he sees large
people in public and
generally has a bad
attitude about people with weight
issues.
Dear
We have recently
discussed starting a Abby
family. Frankly, I’m
scared to death of becoming
pregnant because of Troy’s
feelings about weight. I admit
to being vain — I’m 5-foot- 10,
a size 6, and I work hard to
stay that way. Troy loves the
fact that I’m built this way,
and he never fails to compliment me or make me feel
sexy.
I am terrified about how he
will react to me during and
after the pregnancy. Troy says
he’ll love me just the way I
am, no matter what that is,
but 10 minutes later he’ll
make a comment about how
glad he is he didn’t marry a
fat woman. I have tried talking to him about weight gain
during pregnancy. He says
pregnancy is “different,” and
I’ll lose all the weight after
the baby is born.
We both want children and
can support a child financially, but I’m very concerned
about what the pregnancy
could do to our marriage.
Have you any advice? —
Baby Blues in Charleston,
S.C.
Dear Baby Blues: Your
concern is justified. Your husband’s bias against large people has you between a rock
and a hard place. How nice to
hear that he will love you
“just the way you are, no matter what that is” — but what
if you are not able to “lose all
the weight” after the baby is
born?
You and your husband
should schedule an appointment with your ob/gyn to discuss pregnancy and all of its
ramifications, with an emphasis on the changes it brings
about during and after gestation. It takes a man to be a
husband and father — and
frankly, it appears your mate
has some growing up to do
before he becomes a father.
Dear Abby: I am
engaged to a wonderful man, “Evan,”
who has two children ages 4 and 6. I
love Evan dearly
and we get along
well in every area
except one: His
younger child,
“Melissa.” She is
very badly behaved,
and I suspect she
has AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) — but Evan
and his ex-wife refuse to take
her to a doctor.
After we are married,
Melissa will be sharing a bedroom with my daughter,
“Sasha.” Melissa is very
destructive, and I know Sasha
will not be happy when Melissa trashes her toys and
belongings.
The main reason Evan and
I have not gone forward with
our plans is Melissa. I don’t
know what to do. I’m losing
patience with my fiancé and
his unwillingness to address
his daughter’s problems.
There are problems in every
situation with Melissa —
home, school, baby sitters,
family functions, outings. I
dread taking her anywhere. A
4-year-old is controlling my
future, Abby. Please help me.
— Stepmom-to-be in Illnois
Dear Stepmom-to-be: One
way to prevent Melissa from
controlling your future is to
take back control for yourself.
The child clearly has issues
that need to be addressed,
and your fiancé appears to be
stuck in denial.
Think again how this will
affect your daughter if Melissa does not get the help she is
crying out for. If I were in
your shoes, I would give my
fiancé an ultimatum: Have
his daughter medically and
psychologically evaluated, or
no wedding. In your case that
would be a win-win situation.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also
known as Jeanne Phillips,
and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write
Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los
Angeles, CA 90069.
Obesity often caused
A magazine written by genetic factors
for nonexperts
Audrey Grant produces a
bimonthly magazine called
Better Bridge. It contains 20
colorful pages of material
aimed at
nonexpert
players.
This
deal was
one of the
hardest in
the
MarchApril
issue. If
you were
Philip
South, the Alder
declarer in
four
hearts, how would you plan
the play after West leads the
diamond king?
This article was written by
David Lindop, Grant’s husband. No auction was given,
but since the play was Lindop’s thing, I suppose it does
not matter that much. In my
sequence, South’s jump-rebid
guarantees at least six
hearts with, usually, seven
winners and 15-17 high-card
points — but what is one
point among friends when
you hold a solid suit? North’s
raise is borderline, but we
love to shoot for a vulnerable
game bonus.
When in a suit contract,
start by counting losers.
Here, you have five: two diamonds and three clubs. That
is a disappointingly high
number. Next, count winners. You should see nine:
two spades, six hearts and
one diamond. From where
will the 10th come?
Only one possibility exists:
dummy’s spade jack. Take
the first trick with your diamond ace (if you duck, West
might shift to a club), draw
trumps, and play a spade to
dummy’s jack. If the finesse
wins, you will discard two
minor-suit losers on the ace
and king of spades, making
your contract for plus 620. If
the finesse loses, you will go
three down for minus 300.
Only 920 points are riding on
the location of one card.
To subscribe, contact
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©2005, NEA
Dear Dr. Gott: You know,
you make it sound so easy to
just stop eating flour and sugar. Have
you ever
been morbidly
obese? It
isn’t as
easy as
just stopping eating. If you
do, it doesn’t always Peter
work as
Gott, M.D.
well as
you say.
Ever since my mother saw
your column, she’s like, “You
can do it if you want to.”
Thanks a lot.
Dear Reader: Your mother
is correct: you can do anything if you want to. Perhaps
this realization, if you accept
it, could make a huge difference in your future health.
For sure, no one can do it for
you, so if you tend to blame
other people for your lack of
success, quit. Admit your obesity and deal with it.
Do some people suffer from
genetic overweight? Yes. Are
they likely to lose weight simply by dieting? No. Are they
often helped by following a
reasonable and inexpensive
diet? Yes — for while. Could
they drop a few pounds and
keep them off? Absolutely.
While my “no flour, no sugar”
diet seems very easy to follow,
some patients have a problem
with it because of genetic fac-
tors. In such instances, I recommend a recommitment to
the diet plan, or any other
weight-loss program, with
close medical supervision.
Dear Dr. Gott: I have
friends who are convinced
that we all have parasites living in our colons and that
these parasites must be
extracted through herbal laxatives, as described in the
enclosed brochure. What do
you think of this theory?
Dear Reader: Not much,
I’m afraid.
Without any doubt, intestinal parasites are common in
many countries, especially
those near the equator. But,
to my knowledge, these infections are easily diagnosed by
appropriate stool analysis
and can be cured by anti-parasite medications. Moreover,
parasitic infections usually
cause signs and symptoms
such as weight loss, malnutrition and diarrhea.
In my view, the colonic
cleansing urged by the
brochure you sent is inappropriate for people who are symptom-free and live in northern
climates. It appears that this
practice is yet another way of
separating a sucker from his
bucks. Do not waste your money by buying into this crackpot scheme.
© NEA Inc. Write to Dr.
Peter Gott, c/o United Media
of 200 Madison Ave 4th
Floor, New York City, NY
10016.
7-C
NATION/WORLD
Katrina most destructive U.S. storm
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
AP
Former Alaska Attorney General Bruce Botelho, left,
and Roderick Jackson, a coach at Ensley High School
in Birmingham testify on Capitol Hill before the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Chief
Justice nominee John Roberts.
Roberts’ confirmation
hearing comes to end
■ Chief Justice nominee
could take place on
High Court by Oct. 3
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice nominee John Roberts said
Thursday there is no room for
ideologues on the Supreme
Court, declaring an “obligation
to the Constitution” and to no
other cause as he concluded
three grueling days of confirmation testimony.
“If the Constitution says that
the little guy should win, the
little guy’s going to win in court
before me,” Roberts told the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
“But if the Constitution says
that the big guy should win,
well, then the big guy’s going to
win.”
Roberts’ confirmation as successor to the late Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist appears
secure, the only question the
size of his vote total and in particular his Democratic support.
The Judiciary Committee is to
vote its recommendation next
week.
The White House and Republican leaders hope for approval
by the full GOP-controlled Senate in time for the 50-year-old
appeals court judge and former
Reagan administration lawyer
to take his seat on the opening
day of the court’s term on Oct.
3.
Conservatives pronounced
themselves satisfied as Roberts
wrapped up his appearance
before the committee.
“His testimony on the right
to privacy mirrored that of
Clarence Thomas during his
Supreme Court confirmation
hearing,” read a memo circulated by Leonard Leo and Jay
Sekulow, two prominent conservatives who head organizations working to clear the way
for confirmation.
The right to privacy is the
underpinning of the right to
abortion, and Thomas has voted
as a member of the high court to
overturn the 1973 ruling that
established a constitutional
right to abortion.
In his testimony earlier in the
week, Roberts said he believed
the Constitution provides a
right to privacy. But he offered
no hint on how he would come
down on the abortion issue,
which is expected to come before
the court in the coming year.
Despite pressure from civil
rights and other liberal groups
to oppose the nomination, some
Democrats who questioned
Roberts closely said they
remained undecided.
“I don’t really know what I’m
going to do with respect to voting for you or voting against
you,” said Dianne Feinstein of
California. “The impression I
have today is of this very cautious, very precise man, young,
obviously with staying power.”
Well-timed attacks
kill 31 in Baghdad
By SLOBODAN LEKIC
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Suicide
bombers inflicted another day of
mayhem in the capital Thursday, killing at least 31 people in
two attacks about a minute
apart that targeted Iraqi police
and Interior Ministry commandos. The carnage left nearly 200
people dead just two days.
A dozen bombings during a
nine-hour spate of terror
Wednesday killed at least 167
people and wounded nearly 600
— Baghdad’s worst day of bloodshed since the U.S.-led invasion
in March 2003.
U.S. officials blamed the bombing onslaught on efforts by the
Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency to answer the Iraqi army’s
successful offensive in the northern city of Tal Afar and to undermine the Oct. 15 referendum on
Iraq’s new constitution.
“These spikes of violence are
predictable around certain critical events that highlight the
progress of democracy,” said Maj.
Gen. Rick Lynch, the chief American military spokesman.
“Remember, democracy equals
failure for the insurgency. So
there has to be heightened
awareness now as we work our
way toward the referendum.
That’s power, that’s movement
toward democracy.”
Al-Qaida in Iraq, headed by
Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the bombing campaign
launched after an Iraqi-U.S.
force of 8,500 soldiers stormed
Tal Afar, an insurgent bastion,
this week.
Al-Zarqawi then purportedly
declared “all-out war” on Shiite
Muslims, Iraqi troops and the
government in what the United
States has called a desperate
propaganda campaign to derail
the political process.
Leaders of the Sunni Arab
minority in Iraq have vowed to
defeat the constitution, which
they claim favors the Shiite
majority and the Kurds.
Lynch said the joint force
killed 145 insurgents and captured 361 in the second operation in a year to rid Tal Afar of
militants, including foreign fighters crossing from Syria.
Now, he said, U.S. forces along
with the Iraqis were fighting to
regain control of the Syrian border, near the western insurgent
stronghold of Qaim well to the
south of Tal Afar.
“The focus is ... to restore control of the border and in this
particular case the border with
Syria,” he said. “We believe that
the terrorists and foreign fighters are entering Iraq across the
Syrian border, down the
Euphrates River Valley into
Baghdad.”
Recent violence only served
to deepen the misery in Baghdad, where streets were noticeably quieter Thursday —
deserted in the southern Dora
district where the latest bombings were concentrated.
U.S. and Iraqi forces using
loudspeakers roamed the district warning residents to stay
indoors because five more suicide car bombers were believed
to be in the area.
Many victims of Wednesday’s
attacks were killed shortly after
dawn when a bomber lured day
laborers to his small van with
the promise of work, then detonated his explosives in the heavily Shiite Kazimiyah district.
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina
has become the most destructive such
storm ever to strike the United States,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration said Thursday.
Estimates so far are that Katrina cost
the Gulf Coast area at least $125 billion in
economic damage and could cost the insurance industry up to $60 billion in claims, a
leading risk assessment firm said in updated estimates released Friday.
That’s significantly higher than the previous record-setting storm, Hurricane
Andrew in 1992, which caused nearly $21
billion in insured losses in today’s dollars.
Katrina’s sustained winds reached 175
mph and its minimum central pressure
dropped as low as 902 millibars — the
fourth lowest on record for an Atlantic
hurricane, NOAA’s National Climatic Data
Center reported.
The storm weakened slightly before it
reached landfall and had less powerful
winds than Hurricane Camille, which devastated coastal Mississippi in August,
1969.
But the size of Katrina, with hurricane
force winds extending 120 miles from its
center, was much larger and the destruction more widespread than Camille.
The central pressure in a hurricane is a
good indicator of the strength of the winds
Christy Pritchett/The Mississippi Press
Destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in South Beach Bay St. Louis.
of the storm. The strongest observed hurricane in the Atlantic basin was Gilbert in
1988 with a pressure of 888 millibars in
the northwest Caribbean. Normal average sea level air pressure is 1,016 millibars.
Katrina was the 11th named storm of a
busy season, first striking southern Florida on August 25 as a Category 1 storm. It
quickly re-intensified once it moved west
into the warm Gulf waters, which were 2
to 3 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. It’s
the evaporation from warm ocean waters
that provides energy for hurricanes.
Strong hurricanes becoming more common
By LEE BOWMAN
Scripps Howard News Service
The number of hurricanes with sustained winds in excess of 131 mph — the
catastrophic Category 4 and 5 strengths
that Katrina reached at her peak in the
Gulf of Mexico last month — has nearly
doubled around the globe in the last 35
years, according to a new study.
The study is certain to add to the debate
over whether global warming is fueling
the stronger hurricanes.
The researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Center for Atmospheric Research looked at
the strength of tropical storms in all the
world’s oceans from 1970 through 2004
and found that the number of Category 4
and 5 storms increased from about 11 a
year in the 1970s to 18 annually since
1990, according to their report published
Friday in the journal Science.
There are about 90 hurricanes — called
typhoons in the western Pacific and
cyclones around the Indian Ocean —
across the globe every year.
There has been no overall increase in
the number of tropical storms over the
past three decades, but “Category 4 and 5
hurricanes are making up a larger share
of the total number of hurricanes,” said
Judith Curry, head of atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech and a co-author of
the study.
She said the strongest storms “made
up about 20 percent of all hurricanes in
the 1970s, but over the last decade they
account for about 35 percent of these
storms.”
Peter Webster, a Georgia Tech professor
who led the study, argues that warming
sea surface temperatures — an average of
1 degree Fahrenheit worldwide as a result
of global greenhouse warming — is providing the water evaporation that fuels
hurricanes and can make them more powerful.
Separately, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration declared
Thursday that Katrina, while not the
strongest hurricane to ever make landfall
in the United States, was the most
destructive when it hit the central Gulf
Coast Aug. 29.
Although Katrina’s intensity at landfall
was about 140 mph, weaker than the
160-mph winds assigned Hurricane
Camille when it hit the same area in
1969, officials said Katrina was much
more destructive because the storm’s hurricane force winds extended over a wider
area — about 120 miles from its center.
Katrina was fueled by water 2 to 3
degrees warmer than normal in the Gulf,
and hurricane experts universally agree
that warmer-than-normal sea temperatures have prevailed in the hurricanebreeding waters of the North Atlantic
and the Caribbean since the mid-1990s.
But there’s debate about whether global warming has really had so much effect
on hurricanes. Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, who published a paper reaching similar conclusions on global hurricane intensity last month in the journal
Nature, noted that “the upswing has been
attributed by many researchers to global
warming.”
Others, like James O’Brien at Florida
State University, say there’s no evidence
that areas of warm water in the tropical
oceans are increasing in size outside of
natural cycles.
Chris Landsea, a leading hurricane
researcher now overseeing scientific operations at the National Hurricane Center
in Miami, said that while the new study
shows that the percentage of stronger
storms is up globally, neither the duration
of the storms nor their average maximum wind speeds have increased. “That’s
not physically consistent with more
intense storms, there’s something fishy in
that result,” he said.
Landsea doesn’t think the researchers
did bad science, but may have relied on
poor data — estimates of maximum wind
speeds of hurricanes obtained by contrasting the temperature of a storm’s eye
and that of adjacent cloud tops as displayed in satellite images.

Friday, Sept. 16

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