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The ADVANCE, December 8, 2021/Page 8A
Crossword Puzzle
Solution, page 14A
CLUES ACROSS
1. Polish city
6. Very eager
10. Identifies a specific person
or thing
14. Tennis great Naomi
15. One concerned by professional
advancement
17. PGA Championship reward
19. A fashionable hotel
20. Norse mythology afterlife
location
21. Stood up
22. Car mechanics group
23. Weather forecasters use
it (abbr.)
24. Broken branch
26. Astronomy unit
29. East Asian nursemaid
31. “Airplane!” actor
32. Exclamation that denotes
disgust
CLUES DOWN
1. Quarrels
2. Right away
3. Comedian Carvey
4. Egyptian unit of weight
5. A Brit’s mother
6. Tropical tree
7. One who speaks Gaelic
8. NHL legend Bobby
9. Vacation spots
10. Military personnel
11. Shakira’s don’t lie
12. Wimbledon champ
13. Teletypewriter
16. Mistakes
18. Whale ship captain
22. Thus
23. From end to end
24. Kids love him
25. One and only
27. Fencing swords
28. Taxis
29. Basics
34. “Batman” villain
35. Downfalls
37. Philippine province
38. Once-vital TV part
39. Valley
40. Tax
41. Classic Scorcese film
43. Subway dwellers
45. Book part
46. Taxi
47. Pancakes made from buckwheat
flour
49. Swiss river
50. Founder of Babism
53. Have surgery
57. Withdrawal from a larger entity
58. Lot’s father
59. Greek war god
60. 2,000 lbs.
61. Lemur
30. Refuse of grapes
31. Go quickly
33. French ballet dynasty
35. Most open
36. Popular soap ingredient
37. US time zone (abbr.)
39. Items of food
42. Backbones
43. Infrequent
44. Blood type
46. “Let It Snow!” songwriter
47. Dutch colonist
48. Pike
49. Egyptian sun god
50. A cardinal is one
51. From a distance
52. Bolivian river
53. N. American student
organization (abbr.)
54. River (Spanish)
55. Chinese life force
56. Chinese surname
Georgia tax collections
increase in November
for fifth straight month
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
Georgia tax revenues
rose again last month, con
tinuing a positive trend of
increases that began with
the start of the current fis
cal year in July.
The state Department
of Revenue brought in
$2.29 billion in Novem
ber, up 17% over Novem
ber of last year, the agency
reported Monday,
Individual income tax
collections rose by 19%,
spurred by a 65.3% in
crease in individual tax re
turn payments.
Sales tax receipts also
were on the upswing, with
gross sales tax revenues up
18.6%.
The only decline came
in corporate tax revenues,
which fell last month by a
whopping 171%, primar
ily the result of a huge
increase of 141.6% in re
funds issued by the rev
enue department.
As has been the case
for many months, gasoline
tax collections rose again,
as more and more driv
ers hit the road after be
ing cooped up during the
coronavirus pandemic.
Motor fuels tax revenues
for November were up
8.4% over November of
last year.
Overall, November
marked the fifth consecu
tive month of higher state
tax revenues after three
straight months of de
clines. Tax collections for
the last five months com
bined ran 16.7% above the
same period a year ago.
This story is available
through a news partnership
with Capitol Beat News
Service, a project of the
Georgia Press Educational
Foundation.
Loran
continued from page 6A
the modern day Habitat for
Humanity), hog-killing to
help feed families, quilting
parties to make quilts for
the winter, we were giving
of ourselves for others.
Those were social out
ings — we enjoyed our
selves while we worked to
be good neighbors — and
we invested in community
service without realizing it.
If was natural. Many folk
learned to read by reading
the Bible. We gained the
ultimate in satisfaction in
making do.
We expected ourselves
to share, to be good neigh
bors and to be inclined to
help get our neighbor’s ox
out of the ditch.
For the record, howev
er, I would have been will
ing to starve before I would
eat chitlins, souse meat and
pickled pig’s feet. A coun
try boy knows how to sur
vive and to live off the land,
but he can also find a way
to sustain himself without
eating the worst parts of a
hog.
From the Record
THE BLOTTER
These are the reported
arrests from the Toombs
County Sheriff's Office,
the Vidalia and Lyons
police departments,
and the Montgomery
County Sheriff's Office
for the past week.
Incidents are taken
directly from police
files. All suspects are
innocent until proven
guilty.
In Lyons...
The Lyons Police
Department re
ported no arrests for
the week.
In Toombs
County...
• Peggy Glisson,
of Uvalda, was ar
rested on November
23 and charged with
Homicide by Vehicle-
2nd Degree, Stop
Signs and Yield Signs.
• Terrell Mackey,
of Vidalia, was ar
rested on November
23 and charged with
Probation Violation-
Misdemeanor, Pro
bation Violation-Fel
ony.
• Roman Massey,
of Mt. Vernon, was
arrested on Novem
ber 24 and charged
with Simple Assault/
Battery, Cruelty to
Children (2nd De
gree), Controlled
Substance-Purchase,
Possession, Manf, Dis
tribution, Sale.
• Ivan Munoz, of
Uvalda, was arrested
on November 27 and
charged with Failure
to Maintain Lane,
DUI/Alcohol/Less
Safe.
• Michael Bowen,
of Lyons, was ar
rested on December
4 and charged with
Theft by Receiving
Stolen Property, Out
of County Hold-Ap-
pling County Sheriff's
Department.
• Chrystal Castro,
of Lyons, was ar
rested on November
29 and charged with
Probation Violation-
Felony.
• Marlys Clark, of
Ailey, was arrested
on December 2 and
charged with Proba
tion Violation-Felony.
• Steven Douglas,
of Vidalia, was ar
rested on November
30 and charged with
TCDC-No Bond-Previ
ous Case.
• Edgar Heath, of
Nashville, was ar
rested on November
30 and charged with
TCDC-Out of County
Hold, Court Produc
tion Order, Coffee
County Sheriff's De
partment.
• Michael Outler,
of Vidalia, was ar
rested on December
2 and charged with
Probation-Felony
Warrant, Probation
Violation-Misde
meanor.
• Devan Phillips,
of Ludowici, was ar
rested on November
28 and charged with
Use of Multiple-Beam
Road-Lighting Equip
ment, DUI-Endanger-
ing Child Under 14
YOA While DUI, Dui/
Alcohol/Less Safe.
In Montgomery
County...
• Byron Troell
Tisby, Sr., of Sylvania,
was arrested on De
cember 1 and
charged with Unse
cured Load, Speed
ing, Open Container,
DUI, Driving With Sus
pended License.
• Simon Grimaldo
Rios, of Hazlehurst,
was arrested on De
cember 4 and
charged with Speed
ing, Driving Without
License.
In Vidalia...
• Freddie Lewis III,
of Vidalia, was ar
rested on November
29 and charged with
Child Restraint / Hit
and Run / No Driver's
License.
• Ben Kevin
Brewer, of Vidalia,
was arrested on No
vember 29 and
charged with Disor
derly Conduct.
• Triston Miranda
Braswell, of Mt Ver
non, was arrested on
November 30 and
charged with Theft
By Shoplifting.
• Ronald Lee
Kight, of Vidalia, was
arrested on Decem
ber 2 and charged
with Criminal Dam
age to Property / En
tering Auto.
• Rodney S.
Weeks, of Vidalia,
was arrested on De
cember 2 and
charged with War
rant Served (Toombs
County).
• Ashley Garrette
Page, of Brooklet,
was arrested on De
cember 2 and
charged with Theft
by Shoplifting / Ob
struction Forceful /
Theft by Taking.
Georgia man admits role
in attack on U.S. Capitol
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
A Georgia man plead
ed guilty Wednesday to as
saulting two law enforce
ment officers during the
Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
Capitol.
Kevin Douglas Creek,
47, of Alpharetta, faces up
to eight years in prison,
three years of supervised
probation and a $250,000
fine.
According to federal
court documents, Creek
struck the left hand of an
officer from the Metro
politan Washington, D.C.,
police department. The of
ficer was holding a baton
at the time.
Creek then pushed
and kicked a U.S. Capitol
Police officer. Both as
saults took place in the
West Terrace area of the
Capitol.
The attack on the Cap
itol took place following
a rally headlined by then-
President Donald Trump.
It disrupted a joint session
of the U.S. House and Sen
ate, which were count
ing the Electoral College
votes from the November
2020 presidential election
that certified Democrat
Joe Biden’s victory.
In the 10 months
since Jan. 6, more than 675
people have been arrested
in nearly all 50 states for
crimes related to the at
tack, including more than
210 charged with assault
ing or impeding law en
forcement officers.
Creek was arrested
back in June. He remains
free pending sentencing,
which is scheduled to take
place March 10.
This story is available
through a news partnership
with Capitol Beat News
Service, a project of the
Georgia Press Educational
Foundation.
Parker
continued from page 6A
good and evil, right and
wrong? Or are we a nation
defined by secular hu
manism and moral relativ
ism, where the center of
the world is not God but
man?
We have moved dra
matically in the latter di
rection over the last half-
century, and the results
are out there to evaluate.
Since the Roe v. Wade
decision in 1973, the per
centage of American
adults who have never
been married has quadru
pled, as has the percent
age of babies born to un
wed mothers.
We are moving to be
coming a childless nation.
In a recent Pew Re
search survey, 44% of
nonparents, ages 18-49,
say it is unlikely that they
will have children. Among
parents ages 18-49, 74%
say it is unlikely they will
have more children.
U.S. fertility rates have
dropped every year for
the last six years and now
are at a historic low of
1.64, well below the 2.1
necessary to keep the
population at a steady
state.
Are women “empow
ered” by being free of re
sponsibility for bringing
into the world the child in
their womb?
Per blogger Mark
Perry, for the last 12 years,
women have earned the
majority of doctoral de
grees in the country. In
2020, 53.1% of doctoral
degrees awarded went to
women. Of master’s de
grees awarded, more than
60% went to women.
Is using abortion as
birth control necessary
for women to achieve?
There is a certain
irony among liberals,
whom we can credit for
today’s politically correct,
woke culture.
We don’t want dehu
manizing racial stereo
types, but the same peo
ple obsessed with racial
categories are not at all
bothered by a culture in
which men and women
use each other as sexual
objects and women can
be free to destroy a child
that might result from a
sexual encounter if its
birth could lead to re
sponsibilities that might
disturb her career.
To get back to the
Dobbs decision and Roe
v. Wade and the issue of
viability.
In my view, these
games with language re
ally point to the victory
thus far of secular human
ism.
The true issue is if life
is sacred. If the answer is
yes, it is sacred in and out
of the womb.
If we conclude it is
not, we are on the road to
becoming a nation with
out children, where the
only love is self-love and, I
am sorry to say, without a
future.
I say no thanks to this
and hope the Supreme
Court will make the right
decision and allow Missis-
sippians to protect sacred
life.
Star Parker is president of
the Center for Urban
Renewal and Education and
host of the weekly television
show "Cure America with
Star Parker." To find out more
about Star Parker and read
features by other Creators
Syndicate writers and
cartoonists, visit the Creators
Syndicate website at www.
creators.com.
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