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PAGE TWO A2 TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2005 ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI www.urttffnu-jtmai.CM CORRECTION In focus Laura Bush to visit Afghanistan her own beauty shop and works one day a week at Camellia Estates. Also, the story incorrectly identified Ann and Bob LeMas-ter's son, whose name is Robby. A story on beauty shops in the business section of Friday's Enterprise-Journal Perspective edition incorrectly stated that hairdresser Eula Strittman is a resident of Camellia Estates. Strittman has THE WEATHER a OK OS I 1 km tessa WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Partly cloudy Cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Hi: Low 80s Hi: High 70s Hi: High 60s Hi: Near 70 Hi: Low 70s Lo: Low 60s Lo: Low 40s Lo: High 40s Lo: Low 50s JL "I'm delighted to be able to bring that message to Afghanistan," she added. "This has been in the planning for quite some time.

I didn't tell anyone." She was to arrive in Kabul at midday Wednesday and spend about five hours on the ground, spending most of her time being briefed on educational initiatives for Afghan women. She also will meet with President Hamid Karzai and have dinner with U.S. forces at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. Asked what message she planned to bring to Karzai, she replied, "Just that America stands with the people of Afghanistan and how moved we are by their efforts, by the big huge vote that turned out earlier this year, how the American people are standing with the people of Afghanistan as they rebuild their country from years and years of war but also build a democracy for the first time in their history." SUBMITTED Don't Drinfc and Drive River stages Flood Stage 24 hr Stage Today change Natchez 48 28.9 Red River Lndg 48 32.3 Baton Rouge 35 18.2 New Orleans 17 5.6 Mississippi Flood Stage 24 hr Stage Today change 40 26.3 3.1 34 7.9 0.8 48 26.3 0.2 43 20.6 Cairo Memphis Greenville Vicksburg The Insurance Women of Southwest Mississippi recently distributed 'Don't Drink and Drive Prom Cards' to all the local florists and tuxedo rental shops. The members of the Insurance Women of Southwest Mississippi encourage high school students to enjoy the prom season, but to stay safe and not to drink and drive.

Pictured are, from left, Sue Holmes, owner of Cottage Flower in Magnolia, and Ruth E. Phillips, secretary, for the organization. Pearl River stages Flood Stage 24 hr Stage Today change 19 19.6 1.6 17 12.6 0.3 Budget talks hinge on education funding Flood Stage 24 hr Stage Today change Jackson Rockport LOTTERIES 8 28 17.6 25 Here are Monday's winning numbers in the Louisiana Lottery: Pick 3: 3-6-6 Pick 4: 2-9-6-3 day night remained about $60 million apart on budget suggestions for public schools. He wouldn't say how close either side was to fully funding MAEP, saying he thinks the formula is open to interpretation. "It's like a woman, the funding formula," Gordon said.

"It's all in the eye of the beholder." The House voted earlier this session to increase cigarette taxes by 50 cents a pack, but the Senate has rejected that proposal. Mississippi charges 18 cents a pack one of the lowest rates in the nation. Barbour repeated his opposition to raising taxes on cigarettes or anything else. He said cited studies showing that if cigarette taxes go up, some people will quit smoking. Relying on a cigarette tax to fund education or Medicaid is a bad idea, he said.

"I find myself wondering if next year I'll be saying, 'Smoke more for education but smoke less for Barbour told the business group. let. Diamond Cross Reg. $1,250 SALE 599 EDGEWOODMAIX irairi.rne JACKSON (AP) House and Senate leaders say they hope to finish work on budget bills today, the last day they can approve the spending plans without extending their three-month session. As bleary-eyed negotiators spent most of Monday wrangling over ways to put more money into elementary and secondary education, Gov.

Haley Barbour criticized public schools' budget request in the year that starts July 1 Barbour told about 70 business leaders that the state Department of Education is requesting 1 5 percent more for the coming fiscal year than schools received in the current year. The overall state budget is growing about 3.2 percent. The Republican governor said even if lawmakers fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, some school districts could request local tax increases. "The experience is, Whatever level you fund MAEP, it doesn't make any difference," Barbour SUBDIVISION: Paving FROM PAGE 1 He said the proposed new ordinance could help by preventing the sale of lots until supervisors approve the subdivision. But former county supervisor Theodore Bullock, who stopped by the meeting to visit, said it's a mistake to overrestrict developers.

"We need to be trying to encourage people to build subdivi To subscribe tb the Enterprise-Journal Call 684-2713 Plight of women among top priorities WASHINGTON (AP) First lady Laura Bush set out today for a quick visit to Afghanistan, a war-torn country where American forces are still battling a stubborn Taliban-led insurgency. Bush has wanted to visit Afghanistan for a couple of years but delayed the journey, mostly because of security concerns. Her trip was kept secret until just before she left from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. "I have been so looking forward to going to Afghanistan," she told reporters on the tarmac of the military base in suburban Maryland. "When I really realized the plight of the women under the Taliban, I also found that American women really stand in solidarity with the women in Afghanistan." leagues to fully fund education weeks ago.

His attempt failed. "There may be two or three states which spend less money per student on public education than Mississippi does," Bryan said Monday. 'And yet the governor is obsessed with the notion that we're spending too much money on public education. That's just sad." House and Senate negotiators on Monday traded proposals on paying for education, public safety, Medicaid and other state programs. The discussions came after the 1 4-member Joint Legislative Budget Committee met early in the day and officially added $42 million to the $3.8 billion estimate of what's available to spend.

The change was based on recommendations from experts who say Mississippi's economy is showing slow, steady growth. Senate Appropriations Chairman Jack Gordon, D-Okolona, said the House and Senate Mon- concerns getting these subdivisions," said Supervisor Venton Ray Adams. "We have roads in the county that have been dirt roads for many years, many years, and we haven't been able to get to them," echoed Supervisor Tazwell Bowsky. Supervisors agreed to let the paving ordinance stand but held off on the other proposed subdivision ordinance for now. the rapid side" and her eyes were sunken.

Doctors said Terri Schiavo, 41, would probably die within a week or two when the tube was removed on March 18. She suffered catastrophic brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped for several minutes because of a chemical imbalance. The parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, pressed again for President Bush, Congress and the president's brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, to intervene to have the feeding tube reinserted. A small group of supporters protested outside the White House gates.

At the invitation of Schiavo's parents, the Rev. Jesse Jackson visited the hospice Tuesday to pray with them. "I feel so passionate about this injustice being done, how unnecessary it is to deny her a feeding tube, water, not even ice to be used for her parched lips," Jackson said. "This is a moral issue and it transcends politics and family disputes." Enterprise- rw jf. journal Published daily, except Saturday, by J.0.

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$799." SALE 9 QQ9 McCOMB 684-6797 601-68-2421 said during a speech to the Momentum Mississippi economic-development group at the Hilton hotel in north Jackson. MAEP is a complicated formula designed to ensure that each school district has enough money to meet midlevel accreditation standards. It was written into law in 1 9 9 7 and phased in over several years. MAEP has been fully funded only once in the final budget before Barbour became governor. Barbour said more school districts raised local taxes the year MAEP was fully funded than did so in the current year, when funding for the formula was $79 million short of requests.

The state Department of Education has said 37 of the 149 school districts won't have enough local money to cover expenses in the coming year if the MAEP is funded at levels adopted earlier this session by the Senate. Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, tried to persuade his Senate col costs top supervisors' sions," he said. "That means you've got more houses, you've got more tax dollars." Supervisors countered that the high cost of blacktopping those roads led to the paving ordinance. Money spent on paving subdivisions takes away from older roads that need maintenance.

"We're getting roads that are going to pot because we don't have the money to do it, and people are 'I saw no evidence of any bodily discomfort George Felos Attorney for Michael Schiavo ents, David Gibbs III, said her family also wants an autopsy. "We would certainly support and encourage an autopsy to be done, with all the unanswered questions," Gibbs said. Felos said he had visited Schiavo for more than an hour Monday and said she looked "very peaceful. She looked calm." "I saw no evidence of any bodily discomfort whatsoever," Felos said, although he added her breathing seemed "a little on coincidence," Long said Monday. Long said police have circulated a composite drawing of a young man described by witnesses.

"We've had all sorts of tips, from DeSoto County, Memphis and Arkansas, and we've been running those down as they come in," Long said, who said detectives feel at least one other person was involved. "We believe the gunman ran from the scene to a waiting automobile," Long said. "We have several witnesses who said they heard the sound of an automobile driving rapidly away from the scene." 1 'J PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) An autopsy will be performed after Ter ri Schiavo dies to show the extent of her brain damage, her husband's attorney says. On Monday, Schiavo's 11th day without food or water, supporters of prolonging the woman's life carried their protests to the White House, while the husband's attorney said she looked "peaceful" and had a stuffed toy cat under her arm.

George Felos, the attorney for husband and guardian Michael Schiavo, said Monday that the chief medical examiner for Pinellas County, Dr. John Thog-martin, had agreed to perform an autopsy. He said her husband wants definitive proof showing the extent of her brain damage. Michael Schiavo contends his wife told him years ago she would not want to be kept alive artificially under such circumstances. An attorney for Schiavo's par- Whether it's at the end of the day or on a day off, sitting down with the Enterprise-Journal is one of the best things to enjoy in life.

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Make reading the newspaper another reason to enjoy being at home. Southaven murder investigation continues SOUTHAVEN (AP) Police say a man responsible for shooting and killing a Southaven resident this past week could have had an accomplice. And Police Chief Tom Long said it was possible that the shooter and the victim, Bruce Lewis, knew each other. Lewis, 3 7, was shot to death on Friday while fighting with a man who entered his home and demanded money from Lewis' wife. "We have reason to believe there was some reason these two men came face to face that night I and it was something other than Enterprise-Jonrna 112 Oliver Emmerich Drive, McComb, Ms.