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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.
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thannovelsre-
semblelife.”
— George
Sand, French
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TheVicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their
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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.
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Memphis
Tuesday...............................................17.4
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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