 Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Kirk Jr. will celebrate their 50th anniversary Aug. 11 from 2-4 p.m. at Concord Baptist Church. The couple first met on a blind date while they were college students. By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor
Herbie Kirk was hesitant when his college roommate asked him to join him on a double date.
It was also a blind date.
After juggling the notion of helping a friend out, he eventually agreed to come along.
But the moment Kirk saw Janice Gates walk down the stairs, he knew he’d made the right decision.
“I said, ‘that’s the girl I’m gonna marry,” he said, smiling.
It may sound like the beginning of a beautiful relationship. But both Herbie and Janice agree it took awhile for the sparks to fly.
On their first date, they pretty much kept to themselves.
“It was not very romantic,” Herbie said, with a laugh. “She sat on her side of the car, and I sat on mine.”
Both Janice and Herbie were both dating people back in their hometowns. So it wasn’t an instant romance for the two.
They didn’t meet again until two years later. And they haven’t left each other sides in 50 years.
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By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent
Yazoo City's school children will face stiffer penalties this year for misbehavior on the school buses, thanks to a new student handbook with more “teeth” in it.
That's how Dr. Arthur Cartlidge described the new edition, explaining that “the code of behavior, in particular, was the one main thing we wanted to re-address because, as you know, there were some situations last year where we needed some more teeth in the handbook.”
Trustee Lula Starling voiced opposition to a 10-day suspension for all age students from the buses for misbehavior. She said the policy was perhaps too harsh for kindergarten and early elementary students.
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Investigators say driver not at fault in fatal incident
By JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher
Investigators believe a Bentonia man was lying unconscious in the highway after a fight when he was fatally struck by a vehicle.
Lawrence Howard Swinney, 25, died after being ran over by a westbound SUV on Miss. Highway 433 Friday. Yazoo County Coroner Ricky Shivers said Swinney’s body was discovered around 9:30 p.m., and he had suffered multiple serious injuries.
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 Ken Carter, best known as “Coach Carter” after a major motion picture was made about his life, speaks with Yazoo City youth Friday about making good decisions in life.By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor
The kids were expecting a movie star, a big Hollywood actor.
They were eager for autographs, stories of movie sets.
Anxiously awaiting his arrival, the teenagers began to share stories of him as they sat alone in the room at the Triangle Cultural Center.
It’s not every day that someone famous comes to Yazoo City.
But minutes after Coach Ken Carter entered the room, he made it clear to the teenagers that he wasn’t there to talk about himself. He was there to help them make something of themselves.
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Trustees call newspaper’s coverage of budget proposals “yellow journalism”
By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent
“We have not asked for an increase (in funding from the city),” said Dr. Arthur Cartlidge, superintendent of the Yazoo City Municipal School District, Thursday during the July school board meeting as the discussion turned to the district's budget.
“We simply presented a proposal to the mayor,” Cartlidge said. “In that proposal, it did talk about what it would take to do what we want to do. However, there was no approval for us to ask for an increase, and at this point in time, we have not asked for an increase.”
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