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TheVicksburgPosthaspartneredwiththeVicksburgArtAs- sociationandVicksburgNationalMilitaryParktohighlight someofthecity’streasuresandencourageourreadersto embarkonajourneyofdiscoveryforthemselves. EachweekacluewillbepostedintheMondayeditionof thepaperalongwithanabstractimageofanartifact. Thefirstcorrectresponsewithaphotowillberevealedin thePost’sSundayeditionalongwithabriefhistoryofthe objectorarchitecturalfeature. CLUES: •IwassponsoredbyInternationalPaper. •Iam12-feetby20-feet. •IwasdedicatedMay3,2003. •IdepictanAmericanIcon. •WhatamI,andwhereamIlocated? ScantheQRcodetoemailyourfindstoart@vicksburgpost. com,withapictureofyoustanding by the object. Be sure to include your name and phone number. Participants play for pride — not prize. perspective Clues VNMPoffering battlefieldguide classTuesday By Josh Edwards josh.edwards@vicksburgpost.com Vicksburg National Military Park is mus- tering up a new crop of licensed battlefield guides, and training begins Tuesday. A welcome and orientation will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the park Visitor Center, ranger Tim Kavanaugh said. Classes continue from 6:30 to 9 p.m. each Tuesday through April 1, and conclude with two Saturday programs and tours set for 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 5 and April 12. All the programs are free and open to the public. “You do not have to be a licensed battle- field guide candidate to attend the pro- grams,” Kavanaugh said. Participants who want to become licensed guides must pass a written exam on the Civil War and the Siege of Vicks- burg. Those who pass the written exam, must also pass an oral exam, during which they bring a park ranger on an actual tour of the park to qualify for their license, Kavanaugh said. To help prepare candidates for exams, VNMP has prepared bibliographies and research material in addition to the weekly seminars. Battlefield guides are not federal or park employees, but they are licensed though the park under special Congressional leg- islation as contractors to the park and the National Park Service. Fees received by guides for tours of the park and City of Vicksburg vary depend- ing upon the size of a tour group and dura- tion of the tour. For more information about Vicksburg National Military Park, visit www.nps.gov/ vick or www.facebook.com/vicksburgnmp. nps or call the park at 601-636-0583. VCSdrawdownraisesabout$55Kthisyear By John Surratt john.surratt@vicksburgpost.com Food, a silent auction and the mys- tery of who would win or share $10,000 brought about 400 people to the Vicksburg Convention Center Sunday night for Vicksburg Catholic Schools’ annual drawdown and silent auction. The 31st version of the school sys- tem’s biggest fundraiser generated an estimated $55,000 for system’s general operating budget. “We won’t know the exact figure until we’ve had time to reconcile all the figures,” said Ann Roberson, the school system’s development director. “That will take a few days.” The first drawdown was held in 1983. “Our first one was for St. Francis, when it was on Crawford Street,” vol- unteer Lisa McMinn said. “We held it at the school.” Other drawdown venues included the St. Aloysius High School gym and the Vicksburg Auditorium before the event landed at the convention center. The early drawdowns generated 250 ticket sales, Roberson said, adding 500 tickets had been sold the previous three years. By 5:30 p.m. Sunday, 504 had been sold, and more sales were anticipated before the 6:30 p.m. cutoff. By Josh Edwards josh.edwards@vicksburgpost.com Men who just a year before had been held in slavery played a prom- inent role in defending the Union occupied Yazoo City fortification in 1864 from a Confederate force set on slaughtering them. Soldiers from the 1st Mississippi Cavalry of African Descent, which was recruited in the Vicksburg area, and the 8th Louisiana Infantry of African Decent, which was recruited in the Lake Providence, La., area, and a portion of the 11th Illinois Infantry held off an attack in February 1864 from Confederate forces at Yazoo City, park ranger Dr. David Slay told a group gathered at Vicksburg National Military Park Saturday. “It’s not a large action,” Slay said. “It’s not very meaningful in the over- all scope of the war, but it is meaning- ful socially.” Confederate Brig. Gen. Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, having sur- rounded the city, asked the white Union to surrender but said he would give no quarter to African American troops, Slay said. At first, the Union had been reluc- tant to allow black troops to enlist, but brave fighting by black troops at Milliken’s Bend in June 1863 began to change attitudes among military commanders. Thoughts among pro-Union civilians were also divided and an example of a Union newspaper established after Yazoo City was initially captured in June 1863 shows an attitude that was lukewarm at best. Slay: Black troops defendedYazoo City Corps scientists helps save lake, culture By Josh Edwards josh.edwards@vicksburgpost.com A Vicksburg ecologist is home after spending a month training scientists how to monitor and perhaps solve pollution problems plaguing South America’s largest lake and the indige- nous people living on artificial islands there. As part of the prestigious Fulbright Specialist program, Dr. Paul DuBowy, the environmental program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division, spent four weeks training scientists at a uni- versity in Peru, on how to deal with water pollution in Puno Bay of Lake Titicaca. He returned Feb. 4 after teaching courses at Universidad Nacional del Altiplano in Puno, Peru, and design- ing a program using artificial wet- lands to clean up pollution being poured into the lake. “It’s becoming something like a mini Gulf of Mexico,” DuBowy said of Puno Bay. Research has shown that plants in wetlands act as a biofilter to help remove sediments and pollutants such as heavy metals and excess nutrients from wastewater. The cleanup project presented in South America is similar to some of DuBowy’s projects for the Corps of Engineers, he said. At 12,500 feet above sea level, Lake See Drawdown, Page A2. See DuBowy, Page A7. See VNMP, Page A7. Boats made of reeds float in front artificial islands called Uros in Lake Titicaca in Peru. The islands, boats and houses are made of bulrush reeds. submitted to The Vicksburg Post Dr. Paul DuBowy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Lower Missis- sippi Valley Division.
- 2. The Vicksburg Post Monday, February 17, 2014 A7 GENEVA (AP) — An Italian passenger says the man who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines jet threatened to crash it if the pilot kept trying to get back into the cockpit. The plane from Ethiopia to Italy was hijacked Monday and diverted to Geneva by its co-pilot, who Swiss officials said locked the pilot out of the cockpit after he went to the bathroom. The Italian news agency ANSA quoted pas- senger Francesco Cuomo as saying the pilot was demanding that the hijacker open the door and tried to break it down without success. Cuomo, 25, was quoted as saying the hijacker, speaking in poor English on a loudspeaker, threatened to crash the plane in response and then the oxygen masks came down. The hijacker surrendered to police in Switzer- land and all passengers were safe. THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Liferesemblesa novelmoreoften thannovelsre- semblelife.” — George Sand, French author TheVicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their familymembersandforformerresidentsatnocharge.Familieswishingto publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option ofapaidobituary. Margaret L. Reynolds Margaret L. Reynolds died Saturday, Feb.15, 2014, at River Region Medical Center. She was 78. Mrs. Reynolds was born in Madison County and lived in Vicksburg most of her life. She retired from Super Jr. after 17 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, G.W. Reynolds; a granddaughter, Kelli Roberts; and brothers and sisters. Survivors include a son, Mike Reynolds of Louisiana; two daughters, Pat Rouse of Brandon and Sandy May of Vicksburg; a sister, Martha Jo Robertson of Yazoo City; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, at Green Lawn Gardens Cemetery with the Rev. Mike Fields officiating. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the hour of the ser- vice at Glenwood Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Kenny Wade, Richard May, Johnny Botsford, Mike Rouse, Jerry Passons and Ronnie Passons. OBITUARIES DuBowy Continued from Page A1. VNMP Continued from Page A1. WEATHER Thisweatherpackageiscompiled fromhistoricalrecordsandinfor- mationprovidedbytheU.S.Army CorpsofEngineers,theCityof VicksburgandTheAssociatedPress. TODAY Mostlycloudywith chanceofshowers HIGHS69°|LOWS48° TUESDAY PARTLYCLOUDY WITHWINDSATEAT9MPH HIGHS71°|LOWS57° WEDNESDAY PARTLYCLOUDY WITHWINDSATEAT5MPH HIGHS72°|LOWS60° Almanac HighsandLows High/past24hours............................71° Low/past24hours.............................46° Rainfall Recorded at the VicksburgWater Plant Past24hours................................0.0inch Thismonth.............................2.72inches Total/year.................................5.4inches Normal/month......................2.75inches Normal/year...........................8.22inches Sunrise/sunset Sunsettoday......................................5:50 Sunsettomorrow...............................5:51 Sunrisetomorrow..............................6:45 RIVER stages MississippiRiveratVicksburg Current:28.50|Change:NA Flood:43feet YazooRiveratGreenwood Current:22.93|Change:NA Flood:35feet YazooRiveratYazooCity Current:20.81|Change:NA Flood:29feet YazooRiveratBelzoni Current:21.81|Change:NA Flood:34feet BigBlackRiveratWest Current:10.44|Change:NA Flood:12feet BigBlackRiveratBovina Current:18.45|Change:0.0 Flood:28feet StEELEBAYOU Land..................................................76.13 River..................................................76.05 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast Cairo,Ill. Tuesday...............................................22.9 Wednesday........................................22.1 Thursday.............................................21.9 Memphis Tuesday...............................................17.4 Wednesday........................................17.2 Thursday.............................................15.2 Greenville Tuesday...............................................33.5 Wednesday........................................32.6 Thursday.............................................31.4 Vicksburg Tuesday...............................................29.2 Wednesday........................................29.1 Thursday.............................................28.7 WORLD 4 students dead after South Korea roof collapse SEOUL, South Korea (AP)— Four university students died and about 10 were feared trapped after the roof of a building collapsed in a South Korean city during a welcoming ceremony for freshmen, officials said Monday. Twentyotherstudentswererescuedandtaken to hospitals, according to an official at the state- run National Emergency Management Agency who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media. Another official with the agency, also speak- ing anonymously, confirmed the four deaths. They didn’t provide further details on injuries or rescue operations. Thecollapsecameasabout1,000studentsfrom Busan University of Foreign Studies gathered for a freshman orientation at a resort in the southeastern city of Gyeongju. About 450 of the students were in a building when the roof col- lapsed, the first official said. South Korean media reported that heavy snowfall was believed to have resulted in the collapse, but the cause still hasn’t been officially announced. Manyofthestudentsmanagedtogetoutofthe building by themselves, the first official said. Repeated calls to the university and the resort were unanswered. Titicaca situated between Peru and Bolivia, is the highest navigable waterway in the world and home to the Aymara people who live on floating islands called Uros that are made entirely of reeds. “The Aymara people who live on those float- ing islands are a really unique community. Their predecessors have been there since pre- Inca times,” DuBowy said. Pollution and raw sewage going into the Lake Titicaca from Puno, a city of about 120,000 people, has caused fish kills and low oxygen content in the water, he said. “We have many of the same problems here. I used to be a professor at Perdue and we had the same problems up there,” he said. “Too many nutrients were getting into river and they ended up in the Gulf of Mexico.” The pollution is also eating away at the reed islands constructed by the Aymara people. The islands are composed completely of bul- rush and are anchored in place with stakes and ropes. Every few months, a new layer of bulrush is laid down to replace what has decomposed underneath in a practice that dates back at least 800 years, though some scientists say the Aymara might have been living this way for up to 5,000 years. The most widely accepted explanation for the artificial islands is that when Incas became the dominant culture in Peru some- time in the early 13th century, they would enslave the Aymara people, causing them to develop their unique floating settlements. “They went as far away as they could to be safe from the Incas,” DuBowy said. The trip was the result of DuBowy’s second Fulbright Specialists Grant and one of his many teaching trips outside the United States. In 2011, he traveled to the University of Lodz in Poland where he taught in the Erasmus Mundus Master of Science Program in ecohy- drology as part of the Fulbright program. In 2012, he traveled to the University of the Algarve in Portugal and last fall he taught in both Poland and Portugal. The Fulbright program is America’s flag- ship international educational exchange activ- ity and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In its more than 60 years in existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad as part of the program. Approximately 400 Americans will teach abroad this year as Fulbright specialists. “What is to be done with the Negroes when they have gained their actual freedom as provided in the President’s proclama- tion? This question is pro- pounded as a poser, by all rebels at the South and all tories at the North. It is the easiest thing in the world. Let them alone,” The Yazoo Daily Yankee wrote on July 20, 1863, more than a month after the fight at Milliken’s Bend. The same attitude is evi- dent in the work given to Members of the 1st Mis- sissippi and 8th Louisiana after their enlistments. The black soldiers were initially given menial tasks rebuilding fortifi- cations at Vicksburg. For these troops, morale was incredibly low, Slay said. “They enlisted to fight, not do what they had been doing all their lives — working for next to nothing,” Slay said. submitted to The Vicksburg Post An Aymara woman grinds quinoa in preparation for cooking. UN letter to Kim Jong Un warns on accountability GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. panel warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday that he may be held accountable for orchestrating widespread crimes against civil- ians in the secretive Asian nation, ranging from executing and tor- turing prisoners to systematic abductions and starving mass populations. It is unusual for a U.N. report to directly implicate a nation’s leader. But in a letter accompany- ing a yearlong investigative report, the chairman of a three-mem- ber UN. commission of inquiry, retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, directly warned Kim that that international prosecution is needed “to render accountable all those, including possibly yourself, who may be responsible for crimes against humanity.” “Even without being directly involved in crimes against human- ity, a military commander may be held responsible for crimes against humanity committed by forces under the commander’s effective command and control,” Kirby wrote. “The commission urges you to take all necessary and reasonable measures within your power to prevent or repress the commis- sion of further such crimes and to ensure that the crimes against humanity that have been commit- ted are properly investigated and prosecuted,” he wrote. “To this point, the commission has found no indication that the institutions and officials of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are willing and able to iden- tify and prosecute the perpetrators of the foregoing crimes against humanity.” The investigative commission’s 372-page report is a wide-rang- ing indictment of North Korea for policies including political prison camps with 80,000 to 120,000 people, state-sponsored abduc- tions of North Korean, Japanese and other nationals, and lifelong indoctrination. Details of the find- ings were reported Friday by The Associated Press. Passenger: Hijacker threatened to crash plane