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4A HATTIESBURGAMERICAN.COM HATTIESBURG AMERICAN RECORDS HATTIESBURG Jail Docket Thursday Tralonda McBride (Dawkins), petit larceny, malicious mischief under $500 (warrant) Kejorium Diontae McKnight, 16, grand larceny: ehicle of another, burglary of building other than and entering Desmond L. Means, 29, grand larceny: vehicle of another, burglary of building ther than and entering Katrina Ann Nelson, 35, rand larceny: vehicle of another Daniel Smith, 31, shoplifting Kristi C. Thomas, 28, no license, no insurance X2, no proof of liability insurance, speeding, no child restraint, petit larceny, simple assault, disorderly conduct Niesha West, 23, failure to of traffic ontrol devices Wednesday Delores Adams, 39, shop- ifting less than $1,000 Cody Arnold, 19, shoplifting less than $1,000 Merrill Bucher, 30, fugitive other Tyler Patrick Chance, 19, ounterfeit controlled substance: false representation, attempted dwelling breaking and entering, possession of burglary tools, of stolen firearm (first offense) Andrew D. Ducksworth, 21, expired or no tag, no license, no insurance, forgery: possession of counterfeit bank notes with intention to tter ($1,000 or more) John Paul Dye, 43, suspended license, DUI first ffense, expired or no inspection sticker, no insurance, disorderly conduct Sharon Funches, 37, petit larceny under $500 Justice Kaleshia Harris, 19, hoplifting, no insurance, careless driving Israel Elmer Herrera, 34, expired or no tag, no license, no insurance Carl P. Jones, 44, disorderly conduct: failure to comply with command of law enforcement Brandy Knight, 43, shoplifting less than $1,000 (second offense), suspended license (warrant), careless driving (warrant) David Lott, 19, disorderly onduct: failure to comply with command of law enforcement, fugitive other urisdiction Johnny Lee McKines, 30, DUI first offense, disorderly onduct: failure to comply with police officer, simple domestic violence Johnathan Tyler Morgan, 25, shoplifting less than $1,000 Shomari Kahoran Nelson, 31, no insurance, no license, DUI first offense Alexis Robinson, 21, providing false to law enforcement Chynna Turner, 24, no seatbelt X2 (mittimus), suspended license (war- ant) Barry Lee Yawn, 40, shoplifting less than $1,000 PETAL Saturday calls Officers responded to three alarm calls, seven building checks, one disturbance and two accidents with no injuries.

LAMAR COUNTY Saturday calls Deputies responded to 12 alarm calls, seven accidents ith no injuries, two animal calls, two disturbances and six domestic disturbances. MISSISSIPPI IGHWAY PATROL Saturday calls Troop responded to three a ccidents with no injuries. CRIME REPORT burn ruled that if the position is not confirmed by July 10, DuPree would face a $150 daily fine. The Hattiesburg Fraternal Order of Police, which abstained on voting on nominee Mitchell Dent and issued votes of no confidence on Jimmie Gardner and Ronald Sampson said an investigation that was conducted but with the due dili- determined that Parker qualified to assume the (o)ffice of chief of In an email sent to City Council members, Lodge No. 55 President E.

Allen Murray wrote that investigation revealed that Mr. Parker has an appropriate level of training and diverse skills that demonstrates his knowledge of current police guidelines. also has a proven leadership style that has been highlighted by his former subordinates, peers and superiors. It is our belief that Mr. Parker will be committed to serving the people of the City of Hattiesburg and ill do so with a level of integrity that is beyond Chief Continued from Page 3A Shaw said the working roup had been divided into three sub-groups that ould tackle these areas each meeting once a eek for four weeks.

he idea would be to find consensus around how to achieve the three areas. A lex Pickle, research anager with the Area evelopment Partnership, is one of the community members on the orking group. He said the goals of the working roup mirrored his goals a the ADP. of the main goals i to prepare students for college and he said. a huge metric of the working group) and a goal for us (at the ADP) as well.

Our goal i to connect the business community with the chool ibodeaux, who works a a consultant to the Hatt iesburg Public School District Foundation, said he believes the community should be involved in he strategic planning rocess. I think the public has abig stake in he said. you just circle he wagons and sit inside the circle, then eaving out an important ritical element in the conversation, and he P3 Strategies also conducted interviews with ommunity members, and is soliciting responses from the community ia an online survey. So far, Pickle thinks hings are going well. I am very impressed ith P3 he aid.

think the work is going to be very data driven and measurable. been inv olved with strategic lanning before, it can be ind of pie-in-the-sky. I think going to come out of it with a strong lan. it ends, I think Superintendent James) acchus will be able to follow through on Plan Continued from Page 3A atForrestGeneralHospital. MooreFuneralChapelin Petalfollowedbyburialin theKirkFamilyCemetery.

Mr.Hollingsworthwasa surveyorwithDunnSurvey- ingfor25yearsandwasof theChristianfaith.Hewas anavidoutdoorsmanand enjoyedfishing. Hewasprecededindeath Hollingsworthandasister, SheilaBare. Heissurvivedbysix PalmerandKayla(Chad) Jodie(Josh)BeatyofEllis- alandCory(Shane)Mosley NellJeanHarveyHolling- RobinsonofMcComband Wayne)BurroughofAL; friends. VisitationwillbeTuesday neralHomeinPetal. Wayne Hollingsworth Petal Dr.EgonFranzSchnei- peacefullyonJanuary22, 2015surroundedbyhislov- ingfamily.

HewasborninGreifen- inJuneof1928.Heimmi- gratedtoGermanyafter WWIIandreceivedhis medicaleducationinVien- Germany.HemarriedIrma BittnerinOctober1951and theythenimmigratedtothe UnitedStatestoNewYork Cityin1952. topracticemedicineinGer- ternshiptomeetUSlicense requirementsataBrooklyn hospital.Thefollowingyear, hemovedtoChicagotocon- tinuehissurgicaltraining. hewantedtohaveaninde- pendentpracticeandmoved hisyoungfamilytoCarrier ingofanopportunityina smallcommunitywitha establishhispractice.He wastheprototypicalsmall surgeryattheChesterMe- hisretirementinDecember of1996. Heissurvivedbyhiswife PetraSchneider-Redden (CurtRedden)fromHatties- derfromSt.Louis,MO, Dr.ClaudiaNugent(Tracy Nugent)fromChampaign, ILandEugeneSchneider (StaciSchneider)from ReniandLorin. JointhefamilyinaCel- ebrationofLifeonJuly3rd FuneralHomeinSteel- eville.Visitationwillbegin at4pmonFridayJuly3rd tillthehourofservice.The preferredformofremem- brancearedonationstothe SteelevillePublicLibrary orHospiceofSouthernIl- linoisinhisname.Tosign theguestbookvisitwww.wil- sonsfuneralhome.net.

Dr.EgonSchneider RICHTON 601-788-6000 Mrs. Pauline Williams 10:30 a.m. Monday Jones Son Chapel Odom Cemetery Visit: 5:00 9 p.m. Sunday Mr. Fred Edmonds 3 p.m.

Monday McLain Church of God McLain Cemetery Visit: 1 p.m. until servicetime www.jonesandsonfh.com Mr. Wilborn Whiddon Purvis Services 3 p.m. Sunday Moore Purvis Chapel Interment Boone Cemetery Mr. Elmer Edwards Perkinston Graveside Services 11 a.m.

Monday Biloxi National Cemetery Mr. Wayne Hollingsworth Petal Services 1:30 p.m.Wednesday Moore Petal Chapel Interment Kirk Family Cemetery Mrs. Doris Lueninghoener Petal Arrangements Incomplete Mrs. Miriam Rouse Wiggins Services 11 a.m.Wednesday Moore Wiggins Chapel Graveside Service 11 a.m. Thursday Bay Springs Cemetery See full obituaries on our website www.moorefuneralservices.com Hattiesburg Wiggins Petal Purvis (601) 544-2141 Mr.

Clarence Vowell Services to be announced See full obituaries on our website www.hulettwinsteadfuneralhome.com Hulett Winstead Funeral Home, Inc. 601-582-1571 205 Bay Street OBITUARIES Name AGE Town Died Arrangements Edmonds, Fred 49 Laurel 23-Jun-15 Jones Son Funeral Home Hollingsworth, Wayne 56 Petal 24-Jun-15 Moore Funeral Home Schneider, Egon 86 Steeleville 22-Jan-15 Wilson Funeral Home Williams, Pauline Newell 63 Patterson 25-Jun-15 Jones Son Funeral Home Additional information in display obituaries Obits appear in print and online at www.hattiesburgamerican.com/obituaries. An electronic guest book is available for display obituaries for 30 days and may be sponsored for one year or permanently to preserve condolences offered by friends and family. Obituaries are submitted by the funeral home by 4:00 p.m. each day for the next edition.

For assistance please call 601-584-3032. For information on services please contact the funeral home listed. OBITUARIES OBITUARIES Police i Clarksdale say a suspect is in custody after an attorney was shot to death i his law office. he shooting happened riday afternoon. The Clarksdale Press Regist er reported the victim as attorney Ellis Pittman.

ittman was in his office for a deposition with other attorneys, including larksdale Mayor Bill Luckett. Luckett told the newspaper he was leaving he office when he heard the shots. He said Pittman died while being airlifted a Memphis hospital. The suspect was identified as Recardo Frazier, a local contractor and builder who was being sued by Pittman. He urned himself in to authorities hours after the shooting.

I nformation on harges was not immedi- a tely available. Luckett, who was rep- esenting Frazier, said he, he suspect and Pittman were among those at Pitt- office for a deposition. He said the day was over, and he was leaving he Pittman Law Offices when shots rang out behind him and people beg an fleeing the office on foot. was run- ing and Luckett said. Assistant Police Chief Robbie Linley said the suspect initially escaped and made his way to Tunic where he turned himself in to authorities.

Luckett, who still eemed shaken Friday vening, said he was sur- rised by the shooting. is a nonemotional he said of the eposition. had any iota of a clue that any- hing like this would happen. It was totally a shocker. Nobody knew he was a rmed, nobody knew he was Luckett had kind ords for the slain attorney.

was a worthy adv ersary as a litigator and I regarded him as a Luckett said. Clarksdale attorney shot to death; suspect in custody Associated Press Former astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr. reminded a group of attendees at a summer camp bearing his name that the same wide-eyed wonder they exhibit today helped catapult him to heights he once considered unrealis- ic. arris addressed a group of 46 elementary and middle school students on Friday to close ut the ExxonMobil Bern ard Harris Summer Scie nce Camp at the University of Southern Mississippi.

The Southern Miss camp, held June 14-27, eatured rising sixth-, eventh- and eighth- rade students from 33 different schools in 21cit- ies across the state. was basically the same age as most of you when I saw the moon landing in the summer of 1969. That event changed my said Harris, a doctor of endocrinology and president of the Harris Foundation. see human beings set foot on another heavenly body made me think that any- hing was possible. And I ade up my mind that I wanted to someday travel to outer For the past 10 years, he summer science amp has been held at 20 elect college campuses across the country.

The camp provides students an opportunity to en- ance their proficiency in cience, Technology, Eng ineering and Mathematics (STEM) education while living on a college campus all at no cost to the child or family. For the first time in the history, a Mississippi university be- ame a camp host when Southern Miss secured one of the coveted spots. were only hree new site locations iven out for 2015 and we ot one of said camp co-director Dr. Mike Davis, associate professor of biological ciences. will be valuated and graded pon the comple- tion and hopefully earn the right to be a host school again next year.

This has been a wonderful experience for all of us Campers are chosen based upon a set of criteria that includes: Be members of a traditionally under-served a nd under-represented opulation Be entering sixth, seventh or eighth grade in the fall Have a grade-point a verage of at least verall in mathematics and science Score at the median to superior level on stand ardized mathematics a nd science tests Write a 250-word essay describing their interest in the camp and STEM Be interviewed, if deemed necessary Have exhibited an interest in mathematics a nd science Have strong recommendations from their current mathematics and cience teachers. arris worked at ASA for 10 years, where he conducted research in musculoskeletal physiology and disuse osteoporo- is. Later, as head of the xercise Countermea- ure Project, he conduct- ed clinical investigations of space adaptation and developed in-flight medical devices to extend astronaut stays in space. Selected into the Astronaut Corps in January 1990, Harris was a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia D-2 in 1 993. As payload comm ander on Space Shuttle Discovery STS-63 in 1995, he served on the first flight of the joint Russ ian-American Space rogram, becoming the irst African-American to walk in space.

He has logged more than 438 hours and trav- led over 7.2 million iles in space. A nd Harris has a message for the naysayers who decry the exorbitant cost of space exploration. benefits from space travel and explora- ion are almost he said. Thanks to space exploration, we developed and refined lasers that are used in many different facets life today. The exam- les are truly endless.

he young people attending these camps are going to be the leaders in science and technology of tom orrow. important hat we do all we can to mpower Former astronaut Harris a ddresses campers at USM Special to the American.