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This issue wraps up the Journal’s 109th Year . . . Next week begins 110th Year 1 SECTI ON - 16 PAGES V OLUME /Y EAR 109, WEEK 52 (5,687th ISSUE)

ACTIVITIES CALENDAR THURS., AUG. 4 8AM-3PM High School Registration Eighth Grade THURS., AUG. 4, 6:30 P.M. Eagle Booster Club meets High School Gymnasium FRI., AUG. 5, 4:30-7:30PM Fish Fry and Bake Sale Slovak Parish Hall SAT., AUG. 6, 11:00 A.M Chandler Family Reunion American Ag Bldg-Potluck MON., AUGUST 8, 6-8 PM High School Open House Seventh grade orientation @ 5:30 p.m.

MON., AUG. 8, 7PM Pee Wee Football signup and Parent Meeting First-Sixth grades First Baptist Annex Bldg.

TUES., AUGUST 9, 6 PM Quorum Court Courthouse Annex TUES., AUGUST 9, 6-8 PM Elementary School Open House K-2: 6 pm 3-6: 7 pm THURS., AUG. 11, 6-8 PM Des Arc Pre-K Open House SAT., AUG. 13, 6PM DAHS Class of 2001 Reunion at Dondies Banquet Room

MON., AUG. 15, 8 AM Des Arc Schools in Session

WED., AUG. 17, 10:30AM Alzheimers Support Group Lwr. White River Museum

FRI., AUG. 19, 6PM Eagle Fest 2016 Hinson-Rollins Field

Obituaries Pgs. 4 & 11

Renee Saxton-Abrams, 49,NLR Edward Acklin, 69, Bryant Gazell Clark, 89, Cotton Plant Dean Cranford, 81, Searcy Robert Crawford, 73, Bald Knob Shelby Ferrell, 69, McCrory Robert Flynn, 53, Nevada T.W. Gunnell, 79, Roe Katrina Jeffery, 51, Stuttgart R.W. Leech, 97, Stuttgart Charles Nipper, 83, Cabot Maxine Robbins, 73, Searcy Celesta Rudowske, 92, Kansas Bobby Tooley, 76, Searcy Carl Whitt, 73, Harrisburg Kathryn Wortman, 77, Stuttgart

July 29 delivery of July 28 Journal sets new record of 16 straight weeks for NextDay (Friday) delivery outside Prairie County.

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Important Title I meeting announced Title 1 Annual District Directors meeting will be held at the Des Arc Elementary School on Tuesday, August 9, 2016, at 3:30 p. m ., advises Judy Denton.

Fderal guidelines require that a meeting be held in order to provide information to parents and citizens of the community concerning the use of Title E funds.

Title 1 allotment, current assessment results, Parents’ Rights to Know, and the schools’ Parental Involvement Plans are some of the topics to be discussed.

Please plan to attend this important and informative meeting, said Denton.

Contact Judy Denton at 870-256-4166 with questions, comments or suggestions.

MERRY GO ROUND ADDED AT PARK PLAYGROUND: Jerry Greenwood, right, and Tim Taylor were finishing up the installation of this new playground equipment at the Riverfront Park Playground. The tea-cup merry-go-round will accommodate up to four young children and will be a fun activitiy at the Riverfront playground.

Equalization Board ends meetings Aug 15

School Election, municipal filings underway The school election and municipal filings are keeping clerks busy at the courthouse right now.

Absentee ballots are being mailed out for the Sept. 20 school board election.

The school board election is September 20. However, the local school board approved voting only by

absentee and early voting this year.

Early voting in the school elections begins Sept. 13 and continues through Sept. 19,. The courthouse is open from 8:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday for your opportunity to vote in the school election.

There are no contested

offices in the school board elections.

Filing for municipal offices began. July 29 and will end August 19.

The clerk’s office at the couthouse in Des Arc reports the municipal; filings as of Wednesday were City Alderman Ray McVay, Ward 1, Pos. 2, Des Arc, and David Hardke, currently

recorder-treasurer on the Hazen City Council.

Alderman McVay is filing for re-election to the Des Arc City Council.

Filing for the new structure of the DeValls Bluff City Council was Jackie Adcock, Ward 1, Pos. 1.

Jurors named for next period Circuit Judge Tom Hughes has selected a jury list for duty during the period, September through December, 2016.

Judge Hughes will be conducting jury orinentation on Wednesday, August 10: 9:00 a.m. at the courthouse in DeValls Bluff and 10:30 at at the courthouse in Des Arc. Northern District 1. Wilma R Aldridge 2. Amelia L Anderson 3. Michael A Bare 4. Leah C Baxter 5. Shawn W Baxter 6. Lexie L Bell 7. Tracey D Bell 8. Mary R Bryan 9. Virginia A Castleberry 10. Leah A Chambers 11. Dewayne L Chapping 12. Bernadette A Chase 13. Devonte L Chase 14. J G Cheshier 15. Lisa J Churchwell 16. Paul B Cobb 17. Carla M Cormack 18. Hubert E Crisel 19. Marcus D Devorak 20. Charles D Devore 21. Mike L Edwards 22. Michaela E Eldridge 23. Jimmy C Eldridge, Jr 24. Harold T Evett 25. Marilyn A Files 26. Thad R Finley 27. C M Fisher 28. Rosanne E Fisher 29. Melissa D Furnell

30. Roy Gardner, Jr. 31. Terry L Gentry 32. Vanessa D Graham 33. James T Griffin 34. Larry D Gross, Jr. 35. Ann B Guess 36. John D Guess 37. Renee M Haire 38. Clifford G Hale 39. Dwight E Hill 40. Judy K Hinson 41. Billie J Holder 42. Anthony S Holland 43. Kelly J Holland 44. Romona Holland 45. Justin G Hollis 46. Barbara L Holloway 47. Sylvester Holloway 48. Syretta D Holloway 49. Rhoda M Hoover 50. Tammy M Hughes 51. Sarita M Hurst 52. Angela R Ingle 53. Casey C Ingle 54. Mark L Ingle 55. Willie H Ingle 56. James E Inman 57. Herbert A James 58. Mary A James 59. Carolyn L Kennedy 60. Joshua E Kessler 61. Randy L Kimbrough 62. Grace E King 63. Chrisana D Knupp 64. Mary E Lantrip 65. Patrick W Lantrip 66. Robert L Lewis 67. Alisha A Lisko 68. Casie J Livesay 69. Michael J Livesay

70. Erika R Lott 71. Paul E Lott 72. Pamela G Lucy 73. Charles G Mack 74. Adrian D Mayher 75. Jacob L McMullan 76. Katie J McVey 77. Richard P Medley 78. Harold R Michael, Sr. 79. Jimmie A Minton 80. Benjamin C Mirabel 81. Donald S Morton, Jr. 82. Autumn S Northcutt 83. Janice G Parker 84. Shawna C Parnell 85. Freida R Pasley 86. William R Petty 87. Tammy R Plummer 88. Dezarae B Reyna 89. Anthony L Richards 90. Lois M Roberts 91. April D Robinson 92. Kenna M Robinson 93. Rosezetta W Robinson 94. Ashley D Roebuck 95. Gary A Rowland 96. Janet L Saul 97. Janice M Sears 98. Deborah R Skarda 99. Brandon C Smith 100. Chester R Smith 101. Joshua S Snead 102. Leslie A Speight 103. Gary L Strawn 104. Drusty E Tallent 105. Kenneth D Tallent 106. Jacob L Thomason 107. May L Thomason 108. Jennifer N Ward 109. Ronnie L Ward

110. Breanda J Weatherly 114. Drew M Widener 115. Donald R Wiggins 116. Julia B Wrigley 117. Steven R Wrigley Southern District 1. Frank H Addison 2. Michael F Alberson 3. Elliott O Arnold 4. Casey R Beliew 5. Jennifer M Berry 6. Brandon P Betzner 7. Holly C Boothe 8. Roxanne W Bradow 9. Douglas A Brown 10. Teena M Browning 11. Kendrick D Burton 12. Orlando D Burton 13. Leonard L Carrell, Jr 14. Tracy A Caviness 15. Reta F Chlapecka 16. Carola B Clayton 17. Beverly A Coker 18. Carolyn S Cook 19. David D Dale 20. Zachary R Dale 21. John R D’Angelo 22. Ashley E Davis 23. Virgina L Davis 24. Robert G Derden 25. Matthew W Dixon 26. Vera A Doepel 27. James F Elder 28. Nancy L Gammons 29. Kathaleen M Garrich 30. Michael G Geisler 31. Judith G Gilmore See JURY on Page 16

August 15 is the last date to call the clerk’s office.

870-256-4254. for an appointment with the Prairie County Equalization Board.

The board will keep appointments with taxpayers through August, but will set no appointment dates after August 15.

Board members are Terrell Sutton, James Gray, Thelma Gray, Paul; Dickson and James Shelman.

Where’s the fire?

The Des Arc Volunteer Fire Department was called out around 3:04 a.m. on Monday, August 1 to the Leona Travis mobile home located on Second Street between Pike and Chester .

Firefighters extinguished the blaze that was caused from a oscillating fan in a bedroom. The occupants stated that their dog alerted them to the fire. There were burn marks near the breaker box.

There was very little smoke or water damage according to firefighters.

Pee Wee Football Signups and Parent Meeting Pee Wee Football signups and parent meeting will be held on Monday, August 8 at 7:00 p.m at the First Baptist Church Annex Building.

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Governor Asa Hutchinson is safe: His re-election bid two years distant, he need not fear repudiation by his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump. The same cycle exempts Attorney General Leslie Rutledge from The Donald’s scorn. U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, in the second year of a six-year term, is similarly immune -- but his Arkansas colleague, John Boozman, had best watch out. Boozman is on the November ballot, and unless he chooses his words carefully, minds his manners, he could find himself on the receiving end of The Donald’s outrage.

Okay, okay, they’re all safe: The Asa, The Leslie, The Tom, The John. All have endorsed The Donald, all continue to insist he is the superior presidential candidate, the better alternative to the dreaded Hillary. The Asa and The Leslie were full on in their speeches to the Republican National Convention. Cotton’s blessing may have been a bit circumspect, in the manner of a society hostess confronted by an unexpected, unwelcome poorer relation at her tea, but it got the job done with minimal damage to his own ambitions. But now Boozman has found it necessary to distance himself, if only a little, from The Donald.

It’s the Khans. It could have been any of the innumerable inanities The Donald has uttered since cementing the GOP nomination, but his comments about the Khans nudged Boozman over the line.

The Khans: the husband and wife, Muslim Americans, who lost their Muslim son, a career U.S. Army officer, to combat in Iraq. Captain Khan, we are told, sacrificed himself while attempting to save his fellow American soldiers. The Khans appeared at the Democratic convention. The captain’s father spoke, Mrs. Khan at his side, silent, as her husband questioned whether The Donald had read the U.S. Constitution, to include its prohibition against religious tests. This led The Donald to speculate that the Khans were scripted tools of the Clinton campaign, and that Mrs. Khan was forbidden either by her husband or her faith from speaking. Mrs. Khan would soon enough explain things to The Donald.

The anti-Trump backlash, from within and outside his party, quickly came to dominate coverage of the election. Boozman deemed a statement necessary.

On Monday his campaign office quoted him as saying that “those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and their families have earned our highest respect and unwavering gratitude.” No mention of The Donald.

By Monday afternoon Boozman was a little sterner, a little, telling the statewide daily that The Donald’s remarks were “out of line and unnecessary.” Still: “I support Mr. Trump…The American people, the country of America, I don’t think can stand a third term of President Obama, and Secretary Clinton has embraced that wholeheartedly.”

Never mind that the nation seems quite prepared to “stand” a third Obama term, or Hillary’s first; the most reliable polls show her, at the moment, with a smashing Electoral College victory in hand. What’s at stake for The John, and The Asa and The Leslie, is party loyalty, read as loyalty to its zaniest wing.

The Tom? "I think he should express his regret and apologize for what he said to the Khans," Cotton, the exception, told the Political Animals Club.

The Asa? Captain Khan was “an American hero” and no matter his faith. No mention of The Donald.

The Leslie mentioned The Donald. She expressed condolences to all Gold Star families, including the Khans, and said she, “like Donald Trump,” had the “utmost respect and admiration” for Americans in uniform.

Arkansas’s four U.S. Representatives, Republicans all, were equally circumspect, three of them especially: at this writing Reps. Rick Crawford, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman have offered no response to The Donald’s Khan rhetoric. Rep. French Hill, whose old boss, George H.W. Bush, wants nothing to do with his party’s candidate (who says he wants nothing to do with the former president), expressed regret that Captain Khan’s sacrifice had been “caught up in the partisan political rhetoric of the day." Yes. A shame, indeed.

The larger embarrassment is the comparative absence of any direct criticism of The Donald by any significant Republican figure in Arkansas. Yes, those with Democratic opponents are mindful that The Donald won a plurality in the state’s GOP presidential primary, and that his rival has barely a shadow of a chance of carrying Arkansas in the fall. And, sure, as soon as Republican notables elsewhere repudiate The Donald, The Donald repudiates them. But which of the Arkansans, exactly, is in any political danger? Well, give them a break: they will have other opportunities to call down their standard-bearer. Bet on it.

Why, here’s one now: in yet another mindbending turn, a retired Army officer has bestowed his Purple Heart (or a facsimile?), awarded for wounds in combat, to The Donald; proof, the fellow said, of his faith in the nominee’s resolve to bolster a defense establishment he demonstrably does not understand, and who received five Vietnam-era deferments.

"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart,” The Donald told the cheering audience. “This was much easier." Seriously.

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By Senator Jonathan Dismang Arkansas will hold its annual sales tax holiday on Saturday, August 6, and Sunday, August 7.

The legislature created the sales tax holiday by approving Act 757 of 2011.

The intent of the act is to help families with children in school, and is commonly known as the “Back to School” sales tax holiday. However, everyone benefits from the holiday, whether or not they have children of school age.

Clothing and footwear that cost less than $100 per item will qualify for the exemption. Keep in mind that if you buy an item that costs more than $100 you must pay the state and local sales taxes on the entire amount.

Here’s an example provided by the Department of Finance and Administration: a person buys two shirts for $50 each, a pair of jeans for $75 and a pair of shoes for $125. The sales tax will only be collected on the shoes. Even though the total price of the shirts and the jeans added up to $175, no sales tax will be collected on them because each individual item cost less than $100.

Accessories costing less than $50 qualify for the exemption. Examples include wallets, watches, jewelry, sun glasses, handbags, cosmetics, briefcases, hair notions, wigs and hair pieces.

School supplies also qualify, including binders, book bags, calculators, tape, paper, pencils, scissors, notebooks, folders and glue.

Textbooks, reference books, maps, globes and workbooks will be exempt from sales taxes. So will art supplies needed for art class, such as clay and glazes, paint, brushes and drawing pads.

Bathing suits and beach wear will be

exempt as long as they cost less than $100 per item. Diapers and disposable diapers will not be taxed. Boots, including steel toed boots, slippers, sneakers and sandals will be exempt from the sales tax as well.

Not exempt from the sales tax are sporting goods, such as cleats and spikes worn by baseball, soccer and football players. Recreational items such as skates, shoulder pads, shin guards and ski boots will be taxed. Computers, software and computer equipment are not exempt and you will have to pay sales taxes if you purchase those items on the holiday.

Act 757 provides that the sales tax holiday will be the first weekend of August every year. All retail stores are required to participate and may not legally collect any state or local sales taxes on qualified items during the tax holiday.

Lottery Scholarships When the state fiscal year ended on June 30, the Lottery Commission reported an increase of about $12.7 million available for scholarships.

In Fiscal Year 2015 lottery sales generated $72.6 million for scholarships and in Fiscal Year 2016 they generated $85.3 million.

Total revenue generated by the state lottery was $456 million. Most of that amount is paid as prizes to winners, or is spent on administration. More than 34,000 students received scholarships during the year, according to the Department of Higher Education.

It was the first time in four years that lottery revenues increased over the previous year. The Senate chairman of the Lottery Oversight Committee said that he hoped the favorable trend continued.

Populism Even Republicans Can Get Behind

By Jim Hightower What if organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned congress — all at once?

Yes, one sweeping campaign against all incumbents of either party who owe their jobs to Big Money.

A new campaign called Brand New Congress is trying to do just that, aiming to oust those congress critters with hundreds of coordinated campaigns running simultaneously in every state. They’ll back local candidates publicly pledged to fight for an agenda of economic, social, environmental, and political justice.

Sound impossible? Not in the minds of the plan’s architects, which include several of the former Bernie Sanders staffers who conceived and implemented the Vermont senator’s successful grassroots campaigns.

They trained and empowered tens of thousands of far-flung volunteers to be autonomous organizers, digitally linked into a nationwide network, eliminating the need

and cost of a rigid hierarchy of “leaders” to boss volunteers, recognizing instead that volunteers are already leaders.

Now they’re applying this model to Brand New Congress.

It’s a true bipartisan effort. They’re planning to run Democrats in blue districts, Republicans in solid red ones, and independents wherever that makes sense.

But wait — how can they get Republican candidates to run on progressive values? By recognizing that true populism is neither a right nor left theory, but a top vs. bottom reality that even middle-class and lower-income Republicans can relate to.

Indeed, outside of the right-wing Congress, many rank-and-file Republicans support stopping global trade scams and repealing Citizens United. Many also support health care for all, recognizing climate change, and standing up to bigotry.

A message of authentic populism and a shared agenda of populist policy proposals could finally turn the tables on Big Money.

has to die because they’re poor, or goes bankrupt for getting lifesaving care.

In fact, loving America means finding ways to make it better.

Imagine an America where citizens insisted from the start that you could only be considered patriotic by insisting that we’re number one — and that criticizing the United States at all was akin to being disloyal. We’d be stuck with a pretty troubled country.

At our founding, women couldn’t vote, slavery was legal, and enslaved people were considered three-fifths of a person. The U.S. government continued a genocidal campaign against Native Americans into the 19th and early 20th centuries.

But some found it possible to be both patriotic and critical. They called for the abolition of slavery and extending the right to vote to all citizens. Later they fought to end Jim Crow, pass civil rights and environmental legislation, and to legalize birth control use — which was once illegal for even married couples.

Each of those milestones required finding fault with our nation. I doubt you’ll find an American today who doesn’t think we’re better for it.

More recently, we’ve legalized same-sex marriage, allowed gays and

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Loving America Means Finding Fault With It

By Jill Richardson I was sitting on a bus one summer, chatting with a man behind me who’d worked all over the world in the U.S. foreign service. Like many conversations today, ours turned eventually to the many problems with our country.

That’s when his companion, who’d been silent so far, spoke. If things are so bad, he barked at me, why don’t you leave the country?

This man espoused a view I find antithetical to true patriotism. It can basically be summed up as “America — Love it or Leave it.”

There’s a lot that’s great about America, no doubt.

But nobody would say we’re flawless — especially not in a summer wracked by mass shootings and police killings.

Nobody would say we can’t become better in virtually every respect.

We’re a rich country, but we’d be better if we reduced poverty until it was no more. We’re a democracy, but we could extend our voting rights, reduce gerrymandering, or take any number of other measures to ensure each of us has a say in our government.

We have doctors and researchers who contribute so many advancements to medicine, but we can improve access to affordable health care so that nobody

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now transgender people to serve openly in the military, and passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women fight for equal pay for equal work.

And yet, we’ve got a ways to go. Women still don’t actually earn equal pay for equal work. The U.S. has the highest prison population in the world.

Decades after the civil rights movement, blacks are still worse off than whites in many ways. Not least, they’re three times as likely to be killed by police.

Pointing out these flaws with a mind to fixing them is hardly the same as “hating America.” It’s loving America enough to be honest about our shortcomings in order to make us better.

OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It. OtherWords.org.

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July 27 July 28 July 29 July 30

9.11’ 8.86’ 8.89’ 9.30’

July 31 Aug 1 Aug 2 Aug 3

9.50’ 9.24’ 9.13’ 8.93’

July 27 Forecast for AUG 1was: 8.15’ Aug 3 Forecast for AUG 8 is: 8.30’

For comparison, river crested here at 31.49’ on Jan 4, 2016 WHITE RIVER REFERENCE DEPTHS

F LOOD S TAGE . . . . . . . . 24.00’ M AY 7, 2011 CREST . . 39.43’

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Laugh-In Corner Jack, a handsome man, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 pm. He sat down next to this blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV... The 10:00 news was on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a large building preparing to jump. The blonde looked at Jack and said, "Do you think he'll jump?" Jack says, "You know what, I bet he will." The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."

Jack placed $30 on the bar and said, "You're on!"

Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy did a swan dive off of the building, falling to his death. The blonde was very upset and handed her $30 to Jack, saying, "Fair's fair... Here's your money." Jack replied, "I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5 o'clock news and knew he would jump.

"The blonde replies, "I did too; but I didn't think he'd do it again."

Jack took the money...

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Thursday, August 12, 1943

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peaking before a large group of farmers and Extension agents from Jackson and adjoining counties at the courthouse in Newport last night, Congressman Wilbur D. Mills characterizes his summer vacation in this the 2nd District, as “my most interesting trip home because of the manifested concern I have discovered in the minds of all the people over what is going on in Washington.” He said the general question is “what has happened to our democracy. I find people have a desire to govern themselves, and don’t like being pushed around by the government.”

Aviation experts are studying the possibilities unfolded by the feat of an American test pilot who shattered all world records when he succeeded in diving a P38 Lightning plane 25,000 feet or nearly five miles and achieved a speed of 780 miles an hour - approximately the speed of sound.

Pvt. Claude H. Greene of Camp Kentucky., thanks the people of Des Arc for making his twoday furlough a happy one, and some day he hopes he can make his return an indefinite furlough.

Pvt. Denzil D. McIntosh, 19, son of Walter McIntosh, has arrived at Camp Walter, Tex. to begin his basic training as an infantryman.

Russell Thetford Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Thetford of Des Arc, is enrolled in the Navy’s basic pre-flight training course at the Reusselaer Polytechnic Institure in Troy, N. Y. Mining of the bauxite on the Confederate Home property at Sweet Home should be underway by September. Deposits are estimated at 350,000 long tons.

Thursday, August 9, 1945

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he Prairie County Bank, recently chartered by the State Banking Commission and approved by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, opened its doors in Hazen on Wednesday, August 8. The new bank is capitalized at $50,000 with paid-in surplus of $10,000 and was promoted and organized by Hazen people. Officers are J. J. Screeton, Hazen attorney, rice farmer and stockman, president; L. P. Aycock, Hazen merchant, vice president, and R. C. Hartlieb, Prairie County Treasurer, cashier. Mrs. Grace Stallings will be assistant cashier. Hazen has been without adequate banking facilities the past 13 years.

The Des Arc Community Home Demonstration Club met August 5 with Mrs. J. C. Calhoun where supper was served to 13. The September meeting will be with Mrs. Arthur Brown.

Alvin Osborne advertises, “I have bought the stock of merchandise in the store operated by Ernest Norman at the junction of Highways 38 and 11 and will continue business as usual at this corner; carrying a line of fresh groceries and feed.

Mr. and Mrs. J. J. DeVore, among our most successful farmers and stock raisers, were in the city shopping Saturday afternoon.

Miss Bettie Horton, deputy county clerk, was engaged in clerical work in Cotton Plant serveral days this week.

Morris W. Quick, husband of Mrs. Emma Quick, whose home is at Des Arc, was this week awarded a Combat Infantry Badge at O’Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Mo., where he is a patient.

At a special meeting of the Des Arc Young Business Men’s Club held one night this week, it was decided to promote and hold the Annual Prairie County Livestock Show, September 23-25.

Of interest to a wide circle of friends in Des Arc and Little Rock is the announcement by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wray in Des Arc of the engagement of their daughter, Miss Hallie, to Cpl Sam Gillespie Jr. of Ft. Meade, Fla.

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Miles of barren apple and peach orchards in Northwest Arkansas testify to almost complete crop failure this year as result of last killing freeze. Indications point to a bumper yield of tomatoes with canneries paying higher prices to growers.

Miss Electa Roe, who has been connected with the FSA office at Biscoe the past year, has resigned and accepted employment in the Bank of DeValls Bluff.

Nearly one-third of the casualties now coming back from war zones overseas have some kind of mental or nervous break downs. They are unable to stand the strains incident to modern mechanized warfare, doctors at Walter Reed Hospital say.

A bunch of Mr. Jeff Burnett’s friends met at his home Sunday for a farewell dinner as he is leaving this week for the Merchant Marines.

Mr. and Mrs. Burnett served a fish dinner with all the trimmings.

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Thursday, August 14, 1958 ncumbent E. O. Hamilton defeated his opponent, S. E. (Crate) Grady 1474 to 1043 votes for the office of Sheriff and Collector of Prairie County in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary.

There were no other contested races in the county.

lessons on swimming in deep water.

Ed Rowland advises that he has leased the new Conoco Service Station located at the east end of Main Street. He is proud of the new facility and the A1 service he has to offer.

There will be a Pie Supper this Friday night at the Church of God of Prophecy with proceeds going to a building fund. Pastor A. D. Cleaver will be the auctioneer.

Joe Griffith Jr., 21, a native of Des Arc met death in a tragic head-on collision 11 miles west of Winnfield, La., last Saturday morning, August 9. Two other people were killed in the crash.

Bill Kirby of McClelland went over to Crow Lake on Friday to spend a long and happy weekend with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sullivan.

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The Bureau of Vital Statistics reports the list of babies born in Prairie County during the month of June and through July 10. They also ask if a baby was born in your home in June and no mention is made of it, please contact your doctor or midwife. There were eight white babies: among them, born to Herbert and Ethel Pitts, a daughter, Lydia Chistine. and five nonwhite babies; among them Fitzsimmon Hood, Hickory Plains, a daughter.

Pioneer citizen and native son of Des Arc, A. L. Erwin, who after a long illness, passed away at his home here Wednesday, July 25, 1945, at the ripe old age of 89 1/2. He was a successful businessman, banker, farmer, and stock raiser, and was successful in most every undertaking. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian Church where he had been a member for over 50 years, by the pastor Rev. D. C. Young, and Rev. Orrie L. Thompson, pastor of the Methodist Church.

John Gipson, foreman of the bridge maintenance crew for the Arkansas Highway Department, and his crew began work this week on the cables and other iron parts of the suspension bridge at Des Arc. This is the first of the approximately $32,000 in repairs that is to be done.

Van Baker and his crew will handle the wood work.

At the regular Lions Club meeting Tuesday night for dinner at the Parks Bungalow Cafe, three new members were given their certificates, namely, Carl Seward, Geo. G. Brock and James Ford.

Thirteen members were given their 100 percent attendance pins for the past year.

Our friend, Mr. Ernest Norman, hustling ice deliveryman for the Des Arc Ice & Storage Co., has our thanks for cash renewal subscription this week.

Our old friends, S. L. Edwards and J. M. Jackson of Hickory Plains, were in the city on business this a. m.

The swimming pool program for Girl and Boy Scouts, sponsored by the Des Arc School, got off to a fast start last Monday when 97 students went to the swimming pool in Searcy. Chaperones for the girls were Mrs. Janell Walls, Mrs. Tom Fisher, Mrs. George F. Brock and Miss Wilma West. They helped the non-swimmers while James Ford acted as lifeguard and Coaches Carl Steward and Roland Bump and George Brock, agriculture teacher, taught

Mrs. Marietta Williams, county Home Agent, says tomatoes are on the Prairie County Market now and will be available until September. Explaining that the number of ration points on canned tomatoes indicates the size of the commercial supply, she suggests that homemakers can their own.

C. J. Rister, local manager, was recipient of a 30year service award presented to him recently by Arkansas Power & Light Company division manager, W. P. Patten of Searcy.

Elmo Kirby Jr. of McClelland hitch-hiked over to Des Arc Saturday to spend the weekend with Lloyd and Floyd Black, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Black.

The Arkansas State Rice Milling Company at Stuttgart, advertises that conditions are such at the present time, they do not anticipate operating their mill at Stuttgart for the 1958 crop.

Mr. and Mrs. Porter Williams hosted a picnic at their home in Des Arc. Guests, numbering 52, were from Home Demonstration Clubs in the county. The late Franklin Delano Roosevelt in one of his popular “fireside chats” said, “Home Demonstration Clubs have done more than any other organization for the American home and their way of living because they embrace the entire family and the whole community.”

Showing at the Rice Theater in Des Arc on Friday and Saturday, a double feature “Trooper Hook” with Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, and “Up in Smoke” with Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys. Sunday matinee and night, see Clark Gable and Doris Day in “Teacher’s Pet”.

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1979 Junior Boys Track Team, District Champs

Front, l-r: Jeff Hall - Manager; Lee Bell, Willie Myers, Brian Sanner, Jesse Williams, Randy Adams, Ray Harvey, Billy Pearson, Craig Jackson, Kevin Luck Back, l-r: Mark Brazeale, Barry Nelson, Doug Sherman, Keith Kellar, Kevin Campbell, Bobby Trouten, Jay Carter, David Lee, Jeff Hambrick, Tucker Patterson - Statistician

Team Coach - Jerry Hinson (inset photo top right)

Photo from “A History of Des Arc High School” by H.K. Garth

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Maxine Robbins R. W. Leech Sr. dies at Searcy was Missouri Maxine Robbins, 73, of football player Searcy, died Wednesday,

Celesta Rudowske

Shelby Ray Ferrell

Carl Edgar Whitt

Robert P. Crawford

Celesta Rudowske, Shelby R. Ferrell native of Ulm, served in Army dies in Kansas and Marines

Carl Edgar Whitt, father of local resident, dies

Robert P. Crawford, Cotton Plant native, dies at Bald Knob

Celesta Renken Borchert Rudowske, 92, was born June 30, 1924 at Ulm, Arkansas to John Renken and Fannie Meeks Renken.

She was called to her eternal rest July 20, 2016 in Overland Park, KS. Celesta was baptized August 3, 1924 and confirmed April 2, 1939 in the Lutheran faith at Zion Lutheran Church, Ulm, Arkansas. Her confirmation verse was John 15:5 - I am the Vine.

She married August Borchert, April 4, 1945 and transferred her membership to St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stuttgart, Arkansas. She was a former member of: the Clara Kleimann Guild, Ladies Aid, and the South Arkansas Zone Lutheran Women’s Missionary League where she served as zone president from 1988 -1992. She served as treasurer of the Lone Tree Cemetery from 1978 - 2002.

She married Raymond Rudowske on October 14, 1965. He preceded her in death February 24, 2003.

She was also preceded in death by her parents and a great-granddaughter, Sarah Marie Borchert.

She moved to Belton, Missouri in March 2005 to be near her son and his family. She was a resident at Carnegie Village in Belton until her death.

She is survived by one son, Billy Borchert (Mary Ann) of Belton, MO; a granddaughter, Julie Hagglund (Erik) of Overland Park, KS; a grandson, Bradley Borchert (Mary) of Overland Park, KS; two great-granddaughters, Lauren Hagglund and Anna Borchert; three greatgrandsons, Cooper Hagglund, Nicholas Borchert and Brendan Borchert; one brother, Carl Renken of Ulm, AR; and two nieces, Donna Renken and Dana Curtis, Stuttgart, AR. Funeral service were Friday, July 29, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Stuttgart, Burial was in Lone Tree Cemetery, Stuttgart, AR. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the LWML organizations at either St. John’s Lutheran Church, Stuttgart, AR or Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Grandview, MO.

Carl Edgar Whitt of the Central community, Harrisburg, departed this life on Friday, July 22, 2016 at UAMS in Little Rock, Ark., at the age of 73 years, 4 months, 10 days. He was born Friday, March 12, 1943 in McCormick, Ark., and lived most of his life in Trumann and Harrisburg Central community. Mr. Whitt was an Army veteran, a contractor and a Godly man who loved the Lord.

Mr. Whitt was preceded in death by his parents, Willie Ed and Mary Magdeline Curton Whitt.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Marian Whitt of the home; one daughter, Kimberly Whitt Bell of Hickory Plains, Ark; one son, Stanley Carl (Paula) Whitt of Harrisburg Central; one brother, Edward Whitt of Trumann; and seven grandchildren Whitt Everett Bell, Joseph Stanley Whitt, Samuel Arthur Bell, Sarah Ellen Bell, Jedidiah Coy Whitt, John Carlton Bell, and Maddie Grace Whitt.

Funeral services were Tuesday, July 26, at 10:00 a.m. in the Central Community Church with Ron Whitt officiating.

Burial followed in the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery at Birdseye, Ark. with Thompson Funeral Home of Trumann in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers were Joey Cox, Gary Barker, Ray Kemper, Scott Kemper, Logan Kelly, and Jim Petty.

Robert Presley Crawford, Jr., 73, of Bald Knob, died Friday, July 29, 2016 at his home.

He was born July 22, 1943 in Cotton Plant a son of the late Robert Presley and Nellie Elizabeth (McFarland) Crawford.

Robert was a U.S. Marine Corp veteran and was a retired prison guard.

He is survived by his wife, Aline Crawford; daughters, Ragena Laniece Danbury (Kirk) of Percy, Illinois, Tonya Lagail Rodriguez (Joe) of Houston, Texas, Cheyenne Ranae Fulk (David) of Bald Knob and Shayla Elizabeth Crawford of Bald Knob; stepdaughter, Debbie Dodd (Carol) of Searcy; brothers, Bill Crawford (Darlene) of McCrory and Dale Crawford (Dianna) of Searcy; sisters, Julia Wilson and Joan Lloyd (Eddie) of Judsonia and Sue Middleton (Bill) of Patterson; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by 2 brothers.

Services were held on Monday, August 1, at 10:00 a.m. at the Powell Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Ralph Biram officiating.

Interment with military honors was in the Carter Cemetery by Powell Funeral Home of Searcy.

Shelby Ray Ferrell resident of Searcy left this earth to be with his heavenly father on Saturday, July 23, 2016 from his residence. He was 69 years of age.

Funeral services were at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, at the Thompson-Wilson McCrory Chapel with Bro. Barry Crain, officiating.

Interment was in White Hall Cemetery. ThompsonWilson Funeral Directors of McCrory were in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Ferrell was born in the Hilleman Community of Woodruff County on December 20, 1946 to Ray and Hazel Williams Ferrell. He graduated from McCrory Schools and then enlisted in the Army for four years in December of 1963. He met the former Miss Anna Dewitt and they married on June 27, 1969. He enlisted in the Air Force on January 2, 1970 where he retired after 18 years of service for our country. He was a job developer and speaker for Experience Works Inc. Mr. Ferrell was a member of the Midway Baptist Church of Judsonia for many years where he liked to work with Vacation Bible School, participated in many skits and was very faithful with Gideon Missions. In his earlier years, he enjoyed duck hunting, Corvette cars and watching Jaguar Football. But, most of all he had a love for his family and spending time with them.

He was preceded in death by his father, Ray Ferrell and one grandson, Michael Jacob Ferrell.

Survivors are his wife, Anna Dewitt Ferrell of Searcy; one son, Michael Ferrell and wife Paula of Cabot; one granddaughter, Jordan Skye Ferrell of Fayetteville, Arkansas; two brothers, Larry Ferrell and wife Karen, and Manford Ferrell both of McCrory; one sister, Darlene Crawford and husband Bill of McCrory, his mother, Hazel Ferrell of McCrory, and many nieces and nephews.

Active pallbearers will be David Winburn, Logan Driebelbis, Chris Dewitt, Allen Dewitt, Wayne Carter and Brian Crain. Honorary pallbearers were Chris Halk, Phillip Millwee and David Driebelbis.

Bobby Wayne Tooley dies at Searcy Bobby Wayne Tooley, 76, of Searcy passed away peaceably at his home Thursday, July 21, 2016 where he was comforted by his loving wife and Hospice of Searcy. He was born March 5, 1940 in Bono, Arkansas to the late Palas and Vestal Tooley.

Bobby graduated from Grubbs High School with the class of 1958. Bobby worked for Kohler Stainless where he retired after 30 years of service. He enjoyed fishing, bowling and being outside working in his garden and mowing the lawn.

Bobby was a member of Kensett First Baptist Church. He served on several committees at the church including vacation Bible school, meals, transportation, and also participated in Relay for Life events, and Celebrate Re-

covery.

Survivors are his wife, Debbie Colbert-Tooley; one sister, Frankie Ann Coots; two daughters, Michele Roe, and Melody Kapla (Al); one step daughter, Tina Milligan (Andy); one step son, Don Bowen; eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

In addition to his parents Bobby was preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley Pena; his second wife, Ima Tooley; and one brother, Billy Joe Tooley.

Funeral services wereheld at 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 29, at Kensett First Baptist Church with Bro. Joe Clement officiating.

Interment was at Gum Springs Cemetery witharrangementsentrusted to Searcy-McEuen Funeral Home.

Dean Cranford, Searcy resident, burial Sunday Dean Cranford, age 81 of Searcy, was welcomed into the arms of her Lord, healed and whole, on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 in Searcy.

She was born March 10, 1935 at Red Hill Community in White County, Arkansas to Monroe Leonard Nolen and Carrie Elizabeth Adkisson Nolen.

She, along with her husband, was a member of Trinity Baptist Church the past 53 years and was an employee of Kroger for 27 years.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Don Cranford of Searcy; sister Jean Price of Beebe, two daughters, Cherie Sewell and husband Bill of Searcy, Melanie Frederick and husband John of Pangburn; six grandchildren, eight greatgrandchildren; and a host of loving nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leonard and Carrie Nolen; five brothers, C. L. Nolen, Elvin Nolen, Leonard Nolen, Jr., Booth Nolen, Doyle Nolen; and six sisters, Ople Leslie, Berthell Breeding, Bernell Gaylor, Erma Arnold, Bessie Ward, and Nora Mae Nolen.

Funeral services were Sunday at 2:00 pm at Trinity Baptist Church with interment to follow at Gum Springs Cemetery.

Arrangements by Powell Funeral Home of Searcy. www.powellfuneralhome.n et

Kathryn Wortman, gift shop owner, Stuttgart, dies Kathryn Bohanan Wortman, 77, of Stuttgart passed away Thursday, July 28, 2016, at Baptist HealthStuttgart.

Wortman was born December 8, 1939, in Humphrey to Eulys and Mary Ann McKibben Bohanan. She was a graduate of Stuttgart High School and was owner of Kay Ann’s Gift Shop. She was a member of Southside Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and a nephew, Donald Wortman.

Survivors are her husband of 52 years, Bob Wortman; one brother, Ray Bohanan and wife Marie of Stuttgart; one sister, Sue Bohanan Schroder of Stuttgart; brother-in-law, William D. Wortman of Stuttgart; two sisters-inlaw, Donna Wortman Watts of Stuttgart and Shirley Wortman Baker of Cabot; and several nieves and nephews.

Graveside services, officiated by Ray Vester, were 10 a.m. Monday, August 1, at Lone Tree Cemetery chapel with burial following in Lone Tree Cemetery.

Her family requests memorials be made to Southside Baptist Church, P.O. Box 424, Stuttgart, Ark. 72160; or Animal Rescue, 12 Bennett Rd., Almyra, Ark. 72003.

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Robert M. Flynn dies while serving as terrorist analyst in Middle East Robert Michael Flynn, 53, of Las Vegas, Nevada, died July 26, 2016. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force. For the last 15 years, he worked as a Counter Terrorism Analyst in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, where he died of a heart attack.

Robert is survived by his parents, Robert (Bob) and Sue Flynn of Beebe; two sons, James H. Flynn (Kayla) of Beebe and Robert J. (Cynthia) Flynn of Las Vegas; three granddaughters, Jaylan, Kylie and Sawyer Flynn of Beebe; two sisters, Deborah

(Phillip) Whitecar of Beaver Creek, Ohio, Janice (Dan) Welker of Ferguson, Missouri; and one brother, Mark Flynn of Savannah, Georgia; one aunt, Betty (Carl) Tabor of Beebe; and numerous cousins and friends.

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death by one son, Charles Michael Flynn.

Graveside memorial service were at 10:00 a.m.

Monday, August 1, at Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens. Arrangements by Smith-Westbrook Funeral Home, a Certified Veterans Funeral Care Provider.

July 27, 2016. She was born May 12, 1943 in Wynne, Arkansas.

Maxine is survived by two sons, David Robbins and wife Becky and Charles Robbins and wife Donna; eight grandchildren, Katie, Amber, Ashton, Andrea, Mandy, Jordan, Brandy and Anthony; six great-grandchildren, Trace, Micah, Logan, Ryan, Jaiden and Avery; three sisters, Veda, Wanda and Juanita. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Charles Robbins; a sister, Virginia; and a brother Eddie.

No services are scheduled at this time. Cremation arrangements by Powell Funeral Home of Searcy.

Edward M. Acklin buried at Stuttgart Edward Michael “Mudcat” Acklin, 69, of Bryant passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at Southern Grace Nursing Home.

Michael was born May 24, 1947, in Little Rock to Eugene Wilson Acklin and Mary Alice McCuistion Acklin. He was a graduate of Stuttgart High School and the University of Central Arkansas with a mathematics degree. He also attended Louisiana State University before teaching math courses at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He also had worked at WalMart and Axicom.

Michael lived in Paris, France, for several years where he was a blues musician. He was also an avid Razorback fan.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, David Eugene Acklin.

Survivors are his sister, Shelby Acklin Churchwell of Stuttgart; two brothers, Christopher Jewel Acklin of Enola and James Charles Acklin of McHenry, Miss.; and several nieces and nephews.

A graveside service was 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Roselawn Cemetery in Little Rock with burial following by Turpin Funeral Home of Stuttgart.

Memorials may be made to either music departments at UCA or the UofA.

T. W. Gunnell, former Stuttgart banker, dies Thomas Winfield Gunnell, 79, of Roe passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at St. Vincent’s in Little Rock.

Tommy was born June 28, 1937, in Crocketts Bluff to Wilbur and Thelma Shook Gunnell. He was a graduate of DeWitt High School and was a former vice president of First National Bank in Stuttgart.

After that he farmed for several years and worked for IPSCO Pipe Supply in Stuttgart. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church and was an avid Chicago Cubs fan.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Donna Ruth Blackwell Gunnell; a brother, Nelson Gunnell; and a sister, Marge Pettigrew.

Survivors are two sons, Barry Gunnell and Denny Gunnell of Roe; daughter, Shirley Boston and husband Sam of Stuttgart; two sisters, Mary Louise Hartz of Stuttgart and Carolyn Hemme of Little Rock; three grandchildren, Brandon Boston, Brice Boston and Dylan Gunnell; and two great-grandchildren, Avery and Brayden Boston.

A memorial service, officiated by Pastor Don White, was held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at St. John’s Lutheran Church.

The family requests memorials may be made to Shiloh Cemetery in care of Eunice Montgomery, 510 West 10th Street, Stuttgart, Arkansas 72160.

Robert William Leech, Sr. died Friday, July 29, 2016 at his home in Stuttgart.

Bob was born in Greenwood, Missouri, on Aug. 1, 1918 to the late Mary Stevenson Leech and Harry Everette Leech. Besides his parents, Bob was preceded in death by his siblings, Howard, Homer, and Dorothy.

Bob graduated from Higginsville Missouri High School in 1936 where he was scouted by Coach Don Faurow and offered a football scholarship to the University of Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1940 with an Accounting/Business Degree where he was a member of the Missouri "Tiger" football team. Bob played in the Orange Bowl in 1940 and was named to the 1940 College All Star Team. Football was a big part of Bob's life even after college and he officiated Arkansas high school football for many years.

Bob met his wife of 74 years, Louine, at a dance at the Fredericka Hotel in Little Rock while stationed at Camp Robinson. They were married in 1942 in Sans Luis Obispo, California.

Bob served as an officer in the finance section of the 35th Infantry Division during WWII and was later a member of the Army reserves.

After the war, Bob and Louine returned to McGehee where he was in the grocery business with his father-in-law, Benjamin Selman. Later, besides the McGehee Store, Bob and Louine owned Sunflower Food Stores in Monticello, Dermott and Hamburg.

Bob and his family moved to Monticello in 1964 where they lived until 2012 when they moved to Stuttgart to live across the street from their son, David, and his family.

Bob was an active member of the First Methodist Church in both McGehee and Monticello. He was the first president of the Leadership Sunday School Class at First Methodist in McGehee, which is still active today. Bob served on numerous committees in the Methodist Church in Monticello throughout the years. He taught Sunday school, was chairman of the board, chairman of the finance committee, active in Methodist Men, member of Gideons and served on the Camp Tanako board for many years. Bob was president of the Rotary Club in both McGehee and Monticello with perfect attendance for 50 years.

In retirement, Bob and Louine traveled extensively all over the world, often with their children and grandchildren. They spent their time being super grandparents to their six grandchildren attending their activities, graduations and weddings.

Bob is survived by his wife, Louine Selman Leech of Stuttgart, son Robert W. Leech Jr. and wife, Pat, of Hot Springs, daughter Mary Leech Johnson and husband, Richard, of Alexandria, and son David Selman Leech and wife Jimmie Jo of Stuttgart. He is also survived by his six grandchildren, Dr. Ashley Field (Patrick), David Johnson (Emer), Doug Leech (Gretchen), Charles Robert Leech (Sarah), Matt Johnson (Maggie) Deborah Jo Leech, and seven great grandchildren, Nora, Landon, Triston, Cole, Helen, Emma and Alex.

Funeral services were at the First Methodist Church in Stuttgart on Bob's 98th birthday, Monday, Aug. 1 at 11 a.m. with Dr. David Bush officiating. Burial Service will be at the Moseley Cemetery in Warren at 3:30 p.m. Arrangements are by Frazer’s Funeral Home. Memorials can be made to United Methodist Camp Tanako, 4301 Hwy. 29, Hot Springs, AR 71913. Online guest register www.frazerfuneralhome.com

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Be Still: Savor Each Moment Scripture: Luke 10:38-42 his week we close our sermon was doing but how she was thinking series called “Be Still.” Today that was keeping her from being fully we are asking about how we present in her time with Jesus.

In John’s Gospel we read either of the use our time, and also what we spend our mental energy on. On an average same dinner party or another in which workday adults spend 8.7 hours work- Jesus was again at the home of Mary, ing, 7.7 hours sleeping, 2.5 hours are Martha, and Lazarus and it was at this spent in leisure or sports (most often time that Mary anoints Jesus feet with this is watching tv or surfing the inter- costly perfumed oil. Then Judas asks net), 1.3 caring for others, 1.1 hours on why Jesus allowed this and why this household activities, 1 hour on eating perfume couldn’t be sold and the and drinking, and 20 minutes on orga- money given to the poor. Jesus said, nizational or religious activities such as “Leave her alone - she was meant to do making a list for the next day or reading this.” Judas was concerned about the money. Mary again was present in the over a devotional.

Now you might think I am going to moment and was used by the Spirit, I critique how much of our time we actu- believe, to anoint Jesus as a sign of his ally spend in relationship with God and coming crucifixion and as a sign of that is part of it, but my concern is also great love.

So, how as Christians do we stay in thinking through where our minds are during any of the activities that we par- the moment with God and with whatever we are doing at the time? How can ticipate in.

This week our Scripture is the story we be still and savor the moment? I of Martha and Mary. Often we want to think the first and maybe the hardest label each other based around this for us to do is to resist the urge to multistory. Are you a Martha or a Mary we task. What I mean is don’t try to do often ask each other in church? Are you more than one thing at a time. Don’t try more task oriented, or are you more to watch TV and surf on the internet contemplative. We are all guilty of using with your phone. Keep your mind on what a friend is saying than trying to dethis story in this way.

I want to invite us to look at this story cide what you will cook for dinner that in a different way. Instead of focusing night. Take your time and be present in on the outward actions, let’s focus on whatever your doing.

Second make time and choose the hearts or the thoughts of the women. Both of these women along to focus on what is most important. with their brother Lazarus were follow- Take time to be with God, to be with ers of Jesus. They both loved him and family, and to do something that makes were good friends with him. They were you feel good or puts you into a positive not followers that moved from one frame of mind. Keeping up with houseplace to another but were still in their hold work is important, but if it’s a choice between a sink full of dishes or home in Bethany near Jerusalem.

They both loved Jesus and as a result playing a game with you child. Make they both wanted to make the best use time to be with your child, the dishes of their time when he got there to visit. will wait. Don’t let it be an excuse to Martha spent time preparing and being procrastinate but also don’t get so task a good hostess. Mary probably started oriented that you neglect God or the out helping Martha but when Jesus got people you care about.

Third, remember as we talked about there spending time with Jesus became most important. Martha kept working this the first week - when you feel overand working but I imagine that instead whelmed - breathe, pray, and then let it of thinking about being a good host she go. Focus on what you doing in that began to think about how irritated she moment, not everything that has to get was with her sister for leaving it all with done for the next week. Spend time orher. Her head was no longer in the mo- ganizing your work, but once it’s been ment because it was filled with a grum- organized, stay focused on what is in bling spirit toward her sister. Finally front of you.

Lastly but most importantly, practice she addressed her problem to Jesus to do something, which also showed the the presence of God throughout the level of respect that Martha gave to day. Remember that through the Holy Spirit, God is truly present with you Jesus.

Jesus then shows great compassion when you fold clothes or wash dishes or on Martha. Using or speaking her name mow the lawn. Use these times to be three times is a rhetorical device in the present with God, pray, ask for guidancient world that demonstrates com- ance, and sing hymns in your mind or passion for the person you are address- quietly under your breath as you talk to ing. Martha, Jesus said, “Mary has God about your work.

I invite you this week to be still, take chosen the better way.” Neither way was bad but Mary chose to spend time time, breathe, pray and be encouraged at the feet of Jesus. Her mind and to move forward in God’s Spirit for God thoughts were consumed with him. Kingdom.

May God bless you this week.

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Stories About Freshwater

Pearls “Delta: Rediscovered,” the touring exhibit of rare photographs of early Arkansas life along the White River, will be on display from July 1st through August 5, 2016, at DeValls Bluff ’s Prairie County Historical Museum.

A presentation by exhibit curator/author Denise White Parkinson is scheduled for

Friday, August 5 at 1:00 pm.

She will read the story “Freshwater Pearls” from her second book, a work in progress titled The River Sisters. Parkinson’s new work, a historical fiction novel for young adults, is inspired by images from the Bowers archive. Will be in the old high school auditorium!

New Exhibits at Prairie County Historical Museum DeValls Bluff, Arkansas

ASU-Beebe named safest among 450 colleges in nation BEEBE, Ark. – Arkansas State University–Beebe has been ranked consecutively first among the top 450 colleges in the nation for Safest Colleges and Universities by StateUniversity.com, based on the Clery Act reporting.

The colleges and universities are ranked for campus safety on a scale that accounts for severity of a crime as well as frequency of crime. Campus crime statistics are ranked per 100 students. ASU-Beebe has consistently received top ra nkings since first making the list in 2010.

"Safety has become a major concern for college campuses across the country, especially for those hosting residence halls, as we do," said ASUBeebe Chancellor Dr. Karla Fisher. "We are glad to let our students, parents, and communities know that we have such a strong safety record and will continue to keep safety as a top priority."

ASU-Beebe has a Uni-

versity Police Department on its Beebe, Heber Springs and Searcy campuses. The police officers are fully certified and authorized to protect the person and property of students and of the university community.

Security awareness and crime prevention programs are conducted by the University Police throughout the year.

In 2014, ASU-Beebe implemented a new emergency mobile alert system to notify students and employees of any emergency situation or inclement weather conditions. The alerts are delivered out by several methods including phone calls, text messaging, email messaging, social media, website notification, loud speaker announcements and classroom computer screen takeover. The local media are also notified in the event of an emergency.

ASU-Beebe was ranked along with other two- and four-year colleges that include Central Texas College,

Virginia Western Community College, and the University of Colorado Denver. To see the entire safest ranking list and categories, view the website at For more information on ASU-Beebe and programs offered, call (501) 882-3600 or visit the website at .

Arkansas State University-Beebe is an operationally separate, two-year institution of the Arkansas State University System. With campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy, the Little Rock Air Force Base, and online, the university offers associate degrees, certificates, and non-credit training for business and industry. The Beebe campus also collaborates with Arkansas State, a fouryear university in Jonesboro, to offer baccalaureate and graduate degrees on the Beebe campus. ASUBeebe is nationally recognized by the Aspen Institute for student success rates.

DAHS 2001 Class plan reunion on August 13 The DAHS graduating Class of 2001 will be holding their Class Reunion on Saturday, August 13 in the banquet room at Dondies White River Princess in Des Arc. Members of the Classes 2000 and 2002 are

invited to attend as well as former teachers/sponsors.

“Several classmates have been contacted through Facebook and reminders will be published in the Journal,” said Brandon Hampton, Class president.

“If you know of a classmate that may not be on Facebook, please forward this information to them or give me a call at 501-658-0595 and I will get in contact with them. I am looking forward to a great turnout.”

The Other Side of Sunday School Church Attend ance SeaWorld's Announcement

Sunday, July 31 In Des Arc

First Baptist Church 193/218 Gospel Mission....................161 Lakeside Miss. Baptist..70/106 First United Methodist........76 Faith Missionary Baptist.42/72 Family Worship Center........50 First Assembly of God39/46 Fellowship Miss. Baptist....... 38 Church of Christ................12 Church of God of Prophecy.. 20 Living Waters FullGospel......21 Faith Outreach Ministry........24 AREA chURchEs Hickory Plains Miss..66/99 Morris Chapel Miss. Baptist..27 Pleasant Ridge Miss. Bap23/30 Hickory Plains Methodist..... 38 Hickory Plains Nazarene...... 15 Judson Memorial Baptist...... 19 Sand Hill Miss. Baptist 11 Reported by churches. To report Sunday School Attendance and other church news, call 870-256-4254.

Also, if your church is not on this list and you wish it to be, call the number here to get it included.

If YOU see NEWS (Items of local interest) HAPPENING, Please call us!

In the aftermath of SeaWorld’s announcement to end its captive breeding program for orcas WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, has a launched a new campaign calling on people not to swim with captive whales and dolphins.

Pledge Never to Plunge brings to light the “forgotten whales and dolphins

that aren’t part of SeaWorld’s plan to end orca breeding and shows, and aims to raise public concern for their plight.

Campaign supporters are asked to take a pledge to never participate in a captive Swim with the Dolphin or Whale program and to share that pledge on their Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

FISH FRY and Bake Sale Sts. Cyril & Methodius

Slovak Parish Hall

Friday August 5, 2016 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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Sunday, August 7 Serving from 11:30 a. m. to 2:00 p. m.

ADULT BUFFET: $9.95

Bring Your Church Bulletin and Receive Free Beverage

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See, Save, Share these Photos in COLOR - WRJ Online From the Kitchen of Rev. Jaimie Alexander, Senior Pastor at Bella Vista, Ar United Methodist Church

Peachy Recipes From Rev. Jaimie Alexander

Peaches are a main stay in my kitchen this time of year.

I am blessed to live close to a peach orchard that has been going since 1830 in Benton County. I make weekly trips to buy peaches and nectarines.

This week’s recipes are for peaches that I hope you will enjoy.

Peaches are excellent eaten peeled and fresh or used in any of these recipes!

Quick and Easy Peach Dumplings, Peach Freezer Jam, Peach Pie, and Peach Cream Pie are delicious easy to prepare recipes the secret to success in each recipes are fresh peaches! Enjoy!

Quick and Easy Peach Dumplings

New Additions to DANRC Bird Aviary: DANRC residents welcomed two new additions to their bird aviary recently. Pictured are the father, lower left, and the mother, lowerr right, keeping a watchful eye on their newest arrivals (perched on lower branch below mother). The residents enjoy watching the birds interact with each other. This bird aviary was built and donated by Herndon Barnes in memory of his mother, Lona Belle Barnes

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by Activity Director, teresa henley

Happy Summer, Ya’ll from all of us at Des Arc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center! It has really been hot with the heat index at 105 degrees.

This really puts a strain on the air conditioners and anyone who has to work out in this heat. The heat has also caused some rough winds and storms to move through the area. The rain is welcome.

We have some new additions to the bird aviary. A pair of the birds have been blessed with two babies.

They are so cute and the residents love watching them and the other birds.

We took our DANRC Queen, Jolene Julian out shopping for a dress to wear in the District V pageant to be held in Forrest City on Wednesday, August 11. We wish Jolene good luck in the pageant.

We would like to extend a special thank you to Paul Dickson at Merchants and

Planters Bank, Farmers and Merchants Bank and James Clyde Collins for their donations to our weekly Bingo games.

The residents enjoy playing Bingo and adding your “quarters” to the winnings makes the game extra special!

Mr.. Carroll Denton stopped by on Monday for his excercise session with the residents. They are really getting their “move” on.

Tuesday, was Coloring Book Day. We also had a “Happy Hour” and enjoyed story time with Kayci Greenwood.

Wednesday, we had Bingo and some sweet watermelon and Nadey Dunn was here with her crafts and we had story time with Kayci.

Today, Thursday, Bobbie Merrell with the Des Arc Public Library is here and we will watch a movie on the Big Screen TV and have some delicious chocolate

chip cookies for a snack.

The Disciples will be here with us on Friday and the Ice Cream Truck will be here in the afternoon.

School starts Monday, August 15. Please watch out for the children.

We have lots of activities happening here at DANRC. If you would like to volunteer, stop by and speak with me (Teresa) or Molly Walker, DANRC Administrator.

Next week, we have National Dollar Day, National Book Day, the Olympic Games, the Disciples will be here, Our Queen’s Pageant is Thursday and we will have story time with Kayci and excercising with Mr. Denton That is all for this week.

Please check on your pets and the elderly in this high heat.

Have a safe and blessed rest of the week.

Teresa Henley Activity Director

1 large peach 1 (8-ounce) 8-count tube of refrigerated crescent rolls ½ cup butter (1 stick), melted ¾ cup sugar ½ teaspoon cinnamon 1½ tablespoons all-purpose flour ¾ cup lemon-lime soda Instructions: 1.

Preheat the oven to 350°F and lightly spray an 8x8 inch glass baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Peel and slice the peach into eight wedges, discarding the pit.

2. Open the can of crescent rolls and unroll them. Place one peach slice on the wide end of one crescent and roll it up in the crescent. Place them in the baking dish. Continue with other rolls.

3.

In a small bowl combine the melted butter, sugar, cinnamon, and flour and mix until just combined. Spoon the mixture over each crescent.

4. Pour the lemon-lime soda into the empty spaces between the dumplings being cautious not to pour it on top of the dumplings. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until crescents are golden brown.

Serve warm with fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Peach Freezer Jam 2½ pounds fresh, ripe peaches 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1½ cups sugar 5 tablespoons instant pectin 1.

Peel and coarsely chop the peaches. Place them in a bowl of a food processor and pulse until you reach a chunky puree. (Don't have a food processor? Simply use a potato masher to mash them up in a large bowl.) You should end up with about 3½ cups of puree.

2. Pour the puree into a large bowl and add the lemon juice and stir well.

3. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Gradually add the pectin to prevent lumps and stir very, very well. (I like using a whisk here for this part.) Spoon the jam into clean jars with tight fitting lids ensuring you leave about ½ inch of space at the top of the jar to allow for expansion in the freezer. Allow the jars to

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sit a room temperature for 30 to 45 minutes to set. Store the jam in the refrigerator or the freezer. The jam will last in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 weeks and in the freezer for about a year.

You can use any freezer-safe jar in any size for this. There are some really great plastic freezer jars available or you can use standard jelly jars with lids and bands like I did. If you don't think you'll go through 8 ounces of jelly in 3 weeks, just use the smaller 4 ounce jars and keep the rest in the freezer

Peach Pie · 9 inch double crust pie · 1 egg, beaten · 5 cups sliced peeled peaches · 2 tablespoons lemon juice · 1/2 cup all-purpose flour · 1 cup sugar · ¼ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter · 1.

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (220 degrees C).

2.

Line the bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate with one of the pie crusts.

Brush with some of the beaten egg to keep the dough from becoming soggy later.

3. Place the sliced peaches in a large bowl, and sprinkle with lemon juice. Mix gently. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, sugar,and salt. Pour over the peaches, and mix gently. Pour into the pie crust, and dot with butter. Cover with the other pie crust, and fold the edges under. Flute the edges to seal or press the edges with the tines of a fork dipped in egg. Brush the remaining egg over the top crust. Cut several slits in the top crust to vent steam.

4.

Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce the heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for an additional 30 to 35 minutes, until the crust is brown and the juice begins to bubble through the vents. If the edges brown to fast, cover them with strips of aluminum foil about halfway through baking. Cool before serving. This tastes better warm than hot.

Peach Cream Pie ( single crust pie) · 1 cup white sugar · 1/3 cup butter · 1/3 cup all-purpose flour · 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 cups fresh peaches - pitted, skinned, and sliced 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie Line a 9 inch pie pan with crust. Place peaches in the unbaked pie shell. Cream together the sugar and butter or margarine. Add the egg, flour, and vanilla; mix together completely. Spread this mixture over the top of the peaches. Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 1 hour.

New Tool Diagnoses Alzheimer's Before Symptoms Appear A Canadian team has developed a new diagnostic tool that identifies features of the brain tied to Alzheimer’s disease that could allow doctors to detect a person’s likelihood of developing the debilitating condition years before such symptoms as memory loss appear.

The advance, unveiled at the world's largest Alzheimer's conference this week, was detailed in two new studies reported

by University of Waterloo researchers.

Alzheimer's disease, which strikes about 5 million Americans, is difficult to diagnose and nearly impossible to catch early.

But the Waterloo researchers report that a new type of non-invasive eye scan — developed and patented by professor Melanie Campbell — uses polarized light to highlight deposits called amyloid proteins found at the back of patients' retinas decades before they experience cognitive decline.

New quilt project at Senior Citizens Center

Senior CitizenS C enter D ES A RC , A RK

By Barbara Williams, Site Director

www.facebook.com/desarcseniorcitizencenter Come in and beat the heat here at our Senior Center. We have plenty of activities to do.

Monday, we had Bean Bag Base Ball practice, a walking exercise and continued making a new set of bows for the candle factory.

Tuesday, we played dominoes and put puzzles together.

Wednesday was our weekly Breakfast and Bingo and music.

Thursday, we worked

on bows again and enjoyed homemade chocolate cake for our July birthdays.

Friday, we started a new quilt and had Bean Bag baseball practice.

Next week our yard sale room will not be open.

Friday, August 12th we will have a Bean and Cornbread Supper with homemade fried pies and live music from the Larry Weathers Band starting at 6:30 p.m. Donation only.

We will also have Hol-

lis House of Gifts here that night selling snap jewelry.

Everyone is welcome to come. We hope to see you here!

God Bless and have a great weekend!

Barbara Williams, Site Director Olivia Holcomb Osborn, Meals on WheelsHolcomb Osborn, Meals on Wheels

COTTON SHARECROPPERS Frank Tengle, Bud Fields and Floyd Burroughs RELAXING IN THE 1930’S - WHAT ELSE: If you have wondered what farm workers looked like in the 1930’s - this is pretty much it - that cigarette was a “roll your own.”

With the paper and loose tobacco, they could roll a smoke in seconds.

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Social Events and Announcements County’s Master Gardeners plan activities for the year

By Chris Weems Prairie County Master Gardeners discussed plans for their booth at the County Fair to be set up September 18. Janet Turnage, president, presided with 12 members present at the regular meeting July 21, at BancorpSouth in Hazen.

The groups working ont he Fair Booth need to work on a topic, find illustrations and hand-outs for the fair.

Janet asked if any members wanted to attend County 76 meeting July 26 at State Cooperaive Extension Office on S. University in Little Rock. Interested persons are to contact her.

A PNG (Plant, Nature, Grow) Clinic wil be held at Ferndale 4-H Center September 26, 27. Registration is due August 1.

Watering schedules were checked to see how they are working out. Work sheets were handed in.

Ramblings. . .

by Verna Herkamp My subject today is about scissors. Laura keeps a pair of orange handle scissors in her “office” drawer on one side of the kitchen cabinets. I keep a pair of blue handle scissors in a drawer with the ladles and tongs on the other side of the kitchen.

Somehow, her orange handle scissors ended up on my side table. My blue handle scissors disappeared. To shorten the story, I gave her scissors back to her and found my blue handle scissors in my sewing box.

Meanwhile, I borrowed one pair of Fred’s three-pair he had in the garage with his tools. He found them in an abandoned house he was filming for a reason, I can’t remember, if I ever knew. Now, Laura had her orange scissors back and I have my own orange scissors, my blue and Fred’s which has no color.

My sister called from Little Rock and I was telling her how forgetful I was. She said she lost everything that passed through her hand, even her glasses which was lost for days. One day she went to get the vacuum cleaner out of the hall closet and there on the floor of the closet lay her glasses.

One of my husband’s cousins, who lived in Indiana, sold insurance. When it came time to turn in the premiums she had collected, she couldn’t find it. They had to pay the premiums themselves. Years later they sold the house and under the large rug on the living room floor was the money for the insurance premiums where she had hidden it, though she has no memory of it.

Years ago I read an article about how even young people forget things. The article said it was caused from brain overload in these modern times. I watch a lot of crime stories on television. The real crime stories. So often when the accused is being questionsed, they will say they don’t remember, which is just an excuse to get off paying for the crime.

How can we remember things when we were three, but not what we had for dinner?

Home Energy Assistance program ends

Amy Carroll contacted members to remind them of the Rice Expo in Stuttgart Wednesday, August 10. She told member to be sure to get registered for the contests and get the materials to Stuttgart on time. For more information, members may visit www.uaex.edu/riceexpo/.

Thenext meeting will be Tuesday, August 16 at 6 p.m. at BancorpSouth.

Thirteen give at local blood Drive Thirteen donors gave the “Gift of Life” at the Red Cross Blood Drive held on Monday, July 11, 2016 at the First Baptist Church Fellowship hall.

Two donors were classified as “Double Red” donors and three were turned down for one reason or another according to Lousie Merrell, Coordinator.

Those giving were Butch Calhoun (Double Red), Ronald Eans, Jimmy Jackson, Gerald Bone, Lynn Sanner (Double Red), Johnnie Madden, Bill Calhoun, Sherry Whittaker, Robin English, Jessica Bell, Kenneth Inan, Nicholas Kirk and Merrill.

Chandler Family reunion on August 6 The Chandler Family will have their annual family reunion on Saturday, August 6, starting with a 11:00 am potluck.

The gathering wil be held in the Ag Building located on Hwy. 11 north of Des Arc.

You are Cordially Invited To A

50th Wedding Anniversary

Reception

Applications still being accepted

Prayers go out to John Stringer, Sr. who is recovering from surgery for removal of an aneurysm.

There were complications during the surgery requiring several pints of blood.

It was touch and go for a while, but son, John, says his dad is doing a little better. Mr. Stringer was the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette carrier for the area before his health prevented him from continuing. His wife, Claire, is a Home Health nurse.

--------Pat Cunningham, mother of District Court Clerk Tammy Rogers, is hospitalized at Baptist Medical Center for what is thought to be pneumonia. Get well

wishes are sent her way.

--------Several local families are on vacation this week or who left last week on vacations before school starts Monday, August 15.

--------Get Well wishes are sent to Vickie Prine as she continues her recovery from pancreatis. She has been in the hospital several days in extreme pain. She has been given pain managment meds and was to be released this week.

--------Cal King was taken to the emergency room last Thursday night and is now hospitalized at Springhill Hospital in North Little Rock. He was suffering

Breanna Fisher graduates from UALR Breanna Fisher of Des Arc earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock during commencement ceremonies held at the Jack Stephens Center May 14, 2016.

With about 11,000 students and 100 programs, UALR offers learning, research, service, social and career opportunities that can only be found at a metropolitan unversity located in Arkansas’ captial city.

Breanna is the daughter of Keith and Carol Fisher of Des Arc.

from pancreatis. His wife, Mary has been at his bedside.

Cal has been quite sick and in a lot of pain, according to his mother, Jackye Tackett.

Cal is employed withRiceland Foods at Stuttgart.

--------Lynn Mack, wife of Marion Mack, of Des Arc traveled to Mississippi recently to consult with doctors and seek treatment for swelling and pain in her leg. She is scheduled to have surgery in September. Doctors are hopeful the surgery will reduce the pain and swelling.

Lynn owns a beauty salon in Hazen and is continuing to work.

Baby Shower Honoring

Erika (Parson) and Dathan Meharg

Sunday, August 14 Two to Four o’clock in the Afternoon

Rick & Jamie Parson Home 10709 Hwy. 33 North Des Arc, Arkansas

Registered at Wal-mart

Happy Birthday!

To A Very, Very Special Young Lady!

Good Luck in the Future!

Honoring

The 2016 Summer Regular Home Energy Assistance Program closed on July 29, 2016.

Mid-Delta Community Services, Inc. will continue to accept Summer Crisis Applications until funds are depleted.

If you have any questions, please contact the commuity center location nearest to where you live.

Jesse and Jackye Tackett on

Sunday, August 14

Two to Four O’clock in the Afternoon

in the

Christian Life Center First United Methodist Church Des Arc, Arkansas

Prairie County Fair Queen Pageants Saturday, August 27

Prairie County Fairground Starting at 1:00 p.m.

Admission to Pageant: Adults $4.00 - Students: Free Teen, Miss and Mrs. Entrants Must Be From Prairie County (Does Not Apply in Other Categories)

Pageant Entry Fee: $30.00 Photo: $10.00 Both for $35.00

Entry Forms are Available at Banks in Des Arc and Hazen Contact Sheila Tosh at 870-255-5008 for Information

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FARM/HOME CROP REPORT Brent Griffin CEA-Staff Chair Prairie County Cooperative Extension Service P.O. Box 388 DeValls Bluff, AR 72041 (Office) 870-998-2614 (Mobile) 870-351-54616

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Arkansas Rice Expo at Stuttgart Aug. 10 The 2016 Arkansas Rice Expo will have plenty to offer attendees of every stripe: Those who grow, those who cook and those who eat one of the state’s top row crops. And this year’s iteration of the annual expo in Stuttgart will feature demonstrations and experts speaking about aspects of rice in Arkansas, both new and old.

The Arkansas Rice Expo returns to Stuttgart’s Grand Prairie Center, 2807 Highway 165 South. Doors open at 8 a.m. and will finish up with a complementary lunch. The annual half-day event celebrates a crop that in 2013 was valued at nearly $1.3 billion for Arkansas’ economy.

Terry Spurlock, extension plant pathologist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, will deliver a presentation on the state of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as UAV’s or “drones,” and their potential applications for agriculture.

“Drone use in Arkansas agriculture is fairly spotty right now,” Spurlock said. “There’s the hobbyists aspect of this — people that are operating small drones as hobbyists, they’re probably flying fields and don’t realize they’re not exactly following the rules when the intent becomes commercial.”

In late August, Part 107 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, which addresses small UAV’s, is scheduled to go into effect. Spurlock said the new rules will impact how the use of drones in agricultural areas is regulated.

“Use is going to escalate, and I think the hobbyist use is just going to turn into commercial applications,” he said. “The [Federal Aviation Administration] is providing a means for operators to become certified and licensed.”

Spurlock said he will also talk about the use of various sensor technologies and georeferenced data to analyze different aspects of crop fields, including disease detection, plant population density and field elevation.

Spurlock said Brad Fausett, CEO of Arkansas UAV, will be addressing attendees as a part of the presentation as well.

This year’s expo will also feature several field tours, providing attendees the opportunity to see the latest University of Arkansas rice variety re-

leases, as well as some potential variety releases still in development.

“We’ll be discussing current and future prospects for variety releases, including long grain, medium grain and hybrid programs,” said Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the Division of Agriculture. “People will get an up-close look at our two most recent releases, as well as potential releases coming in the next couple of years.

Hardke said Rice Research and Extension Center faculty hope to drain a field just in time for observation day, so that people can actually walk out into it.

“You just get a better feel for the characteristics of the variety — the panicle length, the way the plant’s structured, how it stands up,” Hardke said. “You can see its natural color, and just how it’s going to look and act in the field, which you can only do so much of from a few steps back.”

The tour will also feature presentations focusing on growing resistance issues in weeds in both rice and soybeans.

“We have a lot of concern over managing these weed populations, since the majority of our rice is rotated directly with soybeans,” Hardke said. “[Professors] Jason Norsworthy and Tom Barber will be discussing how these two crops are going to work together with the new herbicide technologies that we have coming forward in both crops, and how that’s going to work and help manage resistance in the future.”

The third stop on the tour will feature presentation on rice irrigation and water management. Assistant professor Chris Henry and irrigation educator Mike Hamilton will discuss aspects of irrigation efficiency, multiple-inlet irrigation and other practices.

“The real value of field tours is to see the in-the-field work and efforts of our research and extension faculty,” Hardke said. “It’s the opportunity to see and interact with our research and extension faculty and see what the critical areas are for us right now in rice production. We want to give growers new tools to help improve their operations.”

To learn more about the 2016 Arkansas Rice Expo, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.edu.

USDA designates seven counties in Arkansas as Primary Natural Disaster areas The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated Ashley, Chicot, Fulton, Lawrence, Lonoke, White and Woodruff counties in Arkansas as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by excessive rain, flash flooding, flooding, hail, high winds, and lightning that occurred from March 8, 2016, and continues.

“Our hearts go out to those Arkansas farmers and ranchers affected by recent natural disasters,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “President Obama and I are committed to ensuring that agriculture remains a bright spot in our nation’s economy by sustaining the successes of America’s farmers, ranchers, and rural communities through these difficult times. We’re also telling Arkansas producers that USDA stands with you and your communities when severe weather and natural disasters threaten to dis-

rupt your livelihood.”

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Arkansas also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous. Those counties are: Arkansas, Drew, Monroe, Baxter, Faulkner, Prairie, Bradley, Greene, Pulaski, Cleburne, Independence, Randolph, Craighead, Izard, St. Francis, Cross, Jackson, Sharp, Desha, Jefferson and Union.

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas on July 13, 2016, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan applica-

AGFC hears proposals for 2017 fishing regulations

tion on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. FSA has a variety of programs, in addition to the EM loan program, to help eligible farmers recover from adversity.

Other FSA programs that can provide assistance, but do not require a disaster declaration, include the Emergency Conservation Program; Livestock Forage Disaster Program;Livestock Indemnity Program; Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program; and the Tree Assistance Program. Interested farmers may contact their local USDA Service Centers for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs.

Additional information is also available online at http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov .

Still time to register for 2016 Soybean College There are still slots available to participate in the 2016 Soybean College Aug. 18 at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Newport Research Station.

The college will display and discuss current research into many of the production challenges facing today’s growers. Participants will hear presentations from Division of Agriculture and industry personnel, and have the opportunity to take part in hands-on demonstrations.

Registration is $75 and must be completed online by Aug. 10: http://bit.ly/2016ArkSoyCollege The Soybean College will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at 5 p.m. No walkup registrations will be accepted the day of the event and participants will be capped at 200, but there are still places available for participants. Fees will not be refunded because of inclement weather.

Participants will receive a sweep net, hand lens and other items. Lunch will be provided and continuing education units will be available.

To learn more about the 2016 Soybean College, contact Jeremy Ross at jross@uaex.edu.

AMERICORPS GRANTS AVAILABLE Pre-Announcement!

New AmeriCorps 2017-2018 program funding opportunity for non-profits, educational institutions & state agencies to help fulfill unmet community needs.

Inquiries may be made to AmeriCorps@Arkansas.GOV. Full details available at www.SERVEAR.org.

ARKANSAS SERVICE COMMISSION

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission heard 14 proposals to change fisheries regulations for 2017 at its August meeting.

The following proposals have been distributed to the public and public comments have been received through an online survey, which ran for 30 days in May: Implement a 10-inch minimum length on crappie at Lake Atkins; Replace 3-fish daily creel limit on striped bass in Lake Greeson with the statewide daily limit of 6 fish; Remove the ½ daily creel limit restriction on Dr. Lester Sitzes III Bois d’Arc lake for all game fish except crappie; Clarify the need for a commercial license to sell wildcaught fish; Clarify the definition of “snagging” in the AGFC code book; Clarify snagging regulations; Clarify that game fish may not be possessed while gigging; Implement a 14- to 17-inch protected slot limit with a daily creel of 10 fish, one of which may be over 17 inches, for largemouth bass on Mallard Lake; Move Dr. James E. Moore Camp Robinson Firing Range pond from Family Fishing Program rules to Community Fishing Program rules; Remove Landers Lake from the Family Fishing Program; Close commercial harvest on all species of greatest conservation need outlined in Arkansas’s State Wildlife Action Plan (available at http://www.wildlifearkansas.com/); Close a portion of the White River from Newport Access to Jacksonport Access to commercial fishing for paddlefish and sturgeon; Implement a 15- to 18-inch protected slot limit with a creel limit of 10 fish, only one of which may be larger than 18 inches, for largemouth bass on Lower White Oak Lake, and Simplify the Commercial Facility Operator’s License by having one Commercial Boat Dock Permit with an annual cost of $25 on any commercially licensed facilities on Commission property.

Commissioners are scheduled to vote on these regulations proposals at their regularly scheduled Commission meeting, Aug. 18. All approved changes would go into effect Jan. 1, 2017.

Approved a budget appropriation for chronic wasting disease monitoring and management for Fiscal Year 2017 of $1 million, with 75 percent of those funds to be reimbursed through a federal matching grant with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Days of field work:7

Top Soil Moisture: 40% Very Short, 60% adequate Sub Soil Moisture: 100% Short Livestock Condition: Poor Main Activities: Rainfall fell in areas of the county while others are very dry.

Corn has reached black layer, early rice will be drained in the coming week, soybean and cotton continue to be irrigated.

Armyworms were infesting drought stressed pasture.

High numbers of corn earworms were being observed in all soybeans.

Crop Progress: Corn: 100% Dough Soybean: 95% Bloom, 75% Setting Pods Cotton: 100% Setting Bolls Rice: 90% Headed Crop Condition: Corn: 40% Poor 60% Fair Soybean: 50% Poor 50% Fair Rice: 25% Poor 75% Fair Cotton: 100% Fair 100% Hay/Pasture: Poor

Scouting school scheduled Friday at Griffithville Quick reminder about the upcoming Scouting School! Free sweep nets will be provided to attendees.

Further details about program is included below.

Contact: Brett Gordon by at email bgordon@uaex.edu, or by phone 501-230-9974. You can also contact Prairie County Extension (870998-2614) and we will pass the information on to Mr. Gordon Soybean and Rice scouting school East of Griffithville on Friday, August 5, 2016. Your farm employees are encouraged to attend as well. Extension entomologist Dr. Gus Lorenz will be the guest speaker. You will be provided hands-on scouting techniques, proper insect identification, and research based IPM practices. Free sweep nets will be provided to attendees. The meeting will begin at 10:00 am at a soybean field 1.25 miles North of the Riceland Grain Dryer (see map below). The program will conclude with lunch at the Senior Center in Griffithville. If you or your employees would like to attend, please RSVP so I can get a head count. You can reach me by email at bgordon@uaex.edu, or by phone 501-230-9974.

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Game and Fish selects three for honors Three of Arkansas’s most influential individuals in the outdoors will be honored at the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation’s 25th annual Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame banquet Aug. 12 at the Statehouse Convention Center. “Each year, a selection committee made up of Foundation board members reviews possible candidates for the Hall of Fame,� said Chuck Dicus, AGFF president. “Lengthy discussions over each candidate’s qualifications are held before the decision is made. Each year’s inductees represent the best of Arkansas’s outdoor stewards.�

This year’s crop of candidates was no exception to that sentiment.

Steve “Wild Man� Wilson, who recently retired from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, was one of the most recognizable outdoor figures in Arkansas during his 38year career. In addition to hosting weekly television and radio shows for the AGFC, his work was extremely influential in the passage of the 1/8th-Cent Conservation Sales Tax, which helps fund conservation throughout Arkansas.

He also began Arkansas’s efforts in Project WILD in his early years with the Commission, the position that eventually led to his interesting moniker.

Rodney Herndon revolutionized the way fishing and hunting boats were made. The owner and former president of Xpress Boats introduced outdoors enthusiasts to the first all-welded aluminum boat, which set the standard for strength and durability for boats in its class. Later, Xpress introduced the first aluminum boat with a padded

hull, which offers the ride of a much more expensive fiberglass boat while retaining the solid nature of aluminum.

Under Herndon’s leadership, Xpress grew from a modest, family-run company in Friendship, Arkansas, into a 175employee enterprise with a 240,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Hot Springs.

Scott Simon has worked for The Nature Conservancy since 1996, first as Arkansas’s land steward and most recently as director of the Arkansas chapter of the organization. Simon has developed many partnerships in the last 20 years, resulting in the conservation of more than 300,000 acres of Arkansas natural lands. Simon’s steadfast work has preserved critical natural habitat for both game and nongame animals and helped restore and maintain some of Arkansas’s most treasured rivers and watersheds.

This year’s Legacy Award will go to John M. Olin (posthumously). Olin is most recognized for his company’s 23 U.S. patents in the field of arms and ammunition led Winchester Repeating Arms Company back to prominence after his family’s corporation merged with the firearms manufacturer. The businessman also was a legend in the conservation world as well as an avid hunter, founder of famous Greenbriar duck club and owner of King Buck, the black Labrador retriever found on the famous 1959-60 Federal Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp promoting the use of retrievers while waterfowl hunting.

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Anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1969, must complete a hunter education course and carry a valid hunter education card to hunt in Arkansas. Youths under 16 may hunt without hunter education as long as they are under the direct supervision of an adult who is 21 years old. There is no specific age requirement to enroll in hunter education.

Arkansas recognizes hunter education cards from other states. Arkansas’s hunter education program is recognized in all states as well as in Canada and Mexico.

AGFC offers three options to take the Hunter Education course.

The preferred hunter education method is through a 10hour instructor-led classroom and hands-on demonstration.

Find and Register for a Hunter Education Class Online Self-Study Course ($19.50 fee) Students may take an online course then schedule a supervised exam at an official testing site.

Students may call for a free self-study course on CD then schedule a supervised exam at an official testing site.

Call 501-223-6377 or 800-482-5795, or send an email with your name and mailing address to Aimee.Swaim@agfc.ar.gov and request a CD. Once students have completed the Online Self-Study Course or CD, they are required to be tested in an official AGFC facility. The testing sites are listed by county, but students may take their test at any location.The Deferred Hunter Education Code is a one-year permit that allows a person without hunter-education certification to legally hunt if they are age 16 and with an adultand possesses valid hunter education certification, or who was born on or before Dec. 31, 1968.

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By Rosetta Lockhart

Opal Crider, Correspondent

Guess Who? Cross Roads Basketball Team Chuck and Barbara (Walters) Miller came in Saturday night, July 23 because of Bully Price’s passing. They took Ms. Maxine to house to see Nell and family and took her to the Visitation early, before the crowd hit. They left for home, Hobbs, New Mexico, early Friday morning. Ms. Maxine misses them badly when they leave.

Please pray for Donna Livingston and family. Her Dad, Charles ( Buddy) Nipper passed away Friday. He had Parkinsons and was in the hospital over three weeks. Her parents live off Hwy. 89 in Cabot. A lot of us know Larry Nipper. Larry and Buddy and the late Bro. Jerry Nipper were brothers.

Mail cards to Donna Livingston, 8485 Hwy13N, Carlisle, AR 72024.

Carl and Christian Weaver had supper with me and Papaw Friday evening.

We had turkey strips and French fries. Carl had an Oreo cyclone. Papaw beat Christian in one game of Cribbage. This is the last of seeing our boys (we saw Christian more) .

Rick and Robbie Weaver helped them get moved Saturday into their apartment in Little Rock. Their school will start August 15.

They have been doing some classes online already. Carl will continue to attend UAMS, for Nuclear Medicine. Christian will attend UALR for Journalism.

Clara Clark and I attended a brunch at our Church, Gospel Mission Saturday. It was a surprise 79th Birthday Brunch for Sister Carole Pool (her bday is Aug 4th). She was totally surprised. Each of her five daughters spoke about and to her. She is truly a “PROVERBS 31 WOMAN�

There was some laughter, but more tears. Her health is slipping, so made this very special for her and all of us! There were around fifty or sixty there with plenty of good food.

Chad and Tracy Cochran and “Cochran 7� had lunch with me and Papaw Sunday. They do this every 5th Sunday. They don’t have Sunday night service on the 5th Sundays.

We had deer steak and turkey strips, etc. They had watermelon and later apple pie and ice cream. Papaw wondered why they had two desserts, but they didn’t get to fit hot dogs in between. Aunt Clara Clark came over to see them. She couldn’t get over the twins loving on her so much.

Enjoyed a visit for Beverley and Jan Waters Sunday.

They got to see all the Cochrans. Chad was asleep.

Bev said she knew he was a Cochran HA!I told them they didn’t have to return my fine china (ice cream bucket) from red beans and rice I took to their house.

They really came to show us a picture of OLD Cross Roads basketball players, No one can ID them . Hoping Ms. Walls or someone can. (In this edition.)

We thank Ernest Norman for the watermelon and okra he has been furnishing us. Clara Clark thanks him for some purple hull peas.

Thanks to David Norman for mowing the triangle at Cross Roads. Thanks to Timmy Jones when he mows the Community Building yard.

The next “Ladies Drop By� will be Tuesday, August 9th at HP Methodist Church at 1PM. Come join in on the good food, fun fellowship and GOOD MEDINCE for all!

HPOS wants to let everyone know that Tracy will serve breakfast on Sunday mornings. She will also have a Sunday lunch special for $5 .99. Dinner SPECIALS on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS! Come out & enjoy!

Please support Hickory Plains Post Office by purchasing stamps, mailing packages & etc. there. Sup-

port our OWN local Postmaster, Tammy Bruce. The Hickory Plains Post Office hours are Mon.-Fri. 12:30 PM- 2:30PM, Sat.10AM1:30PM. (REMINDER) For people to call 870-854-3703 or email me () their News.

Please call or send!!! If you want birthdays in my column and you know I don’t put them in, please let me know! I know people do things that we would all enjoy reading about.

Have a Good Week In The Lord!

Please stay out of the heat, stay hydrated and check on elderly and animals!

Happy Birthday July 30 to Henry Bush, not July 31!

(MY BAD) Happy 26th Anniversary August 4 to Rick and Robbie Weaver!

Happy Anniversary August 6 to Mary Lou and Leon Miles!

Happy Anniversary August 6 to JW and Judy Gore!

Happy Birthday August 7 to Heather Harrison!

Happy 64th Birthday August 8 to Bob Crider!

Happy Birthday August 9 to Carter Harrison, Chad Cochran and Will McArthur and Nikki Graham!

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July ended, at my house, giving up 3.6 inches of rain.

Let me set it straight about my COON----CORN story. I mentioned that Stan and I planted 7 rows of corn and was in a mind-set of worry about the Coons getting it.

WELL!! While I was in the hospital and Stan there nearly every day, we did not think about that corn— when I got home it had matured too much to eat—too hot---SO, us nor the coons got any corn.

Don’t know where the Coons are. They are not sitting on the porch grinning at me-so? Last week, Kristie, our Mrs. Preacher’s Bible Study was entitled ‘Trust not Worry�. So, was a good lesson for me.

Jim Vincent of Cotton Plant visited his auntie,Rosetta, last Friday.

Ima Jean Linsey was pleased and surprised by a visit last week from her Uncle Lecil Coles and his daughter, Wanda of Virginia. (Lecil is her Dad, Ernest’s brother.)

Sunday Ima and Vickie Lindsey accompanied

Johnny Lindsey and Savannah and her friend, Allie of Wynne to Cabot to celebrate Johnny’s grandson, Lincoln Cohen’s 1st birthday. He is Johnny’s daughter, Katie’s son.

Donny and Michelle Brown had grandsons, Carter and Tucker Brown of Cabot Thursday thru Saturday. Some tall stories have been told on those two!! Ha Jena Pfeffer spent Sunday in Searcy with Lynn and Carrie Tranum, Kristen and Avery and John McNeill. ( she told us of some scuffles between the 9 and 11 year old girls, too.) Guess that is life now as well as it was in the ‘olden’ days.

Monday, I decided I had about used up my ‘sick days’ and went to Cotton Plant to the home of Rustie Copeland to join her and her guests for lunch.

They were Billy and Carletta Duncan and Heather Duncan Trusty and daughters, Lily and Vada of Greenbrier. (Rustie and I are foster Grannie’s.) I got a review of four year old playing, with Rustie re-learning how to hold a four month

old. Fun it was.

Rowland and Karla Clark and Peyton spent a few days this week at St. Joe with Mr. and Mrs. Brent McKnight.

Mr. and Mrs. David Oltmann of Monticello spent a few days here this week with O.B. and Helen Fields.

Hayden Cooper was honored Saturday for his 10th birthday by his dad, Jason with food from the grill and cake (made by Jason) and ice cream. It was all wonderful, I know, as I was among the guests.

Others was Troy and Darlene Tims, Joe and Jean Hall, sister Chloe, Brian and Dora Cooper, Mason and Logan and his friend and Hayden’s friend, Michael.

He got so much money that we almost called Bill Patton to come and get it to the Bank that day!!!

Jared Cooper of Judsonia visited on Sunday with Jason and family and Troy and Darlene Tims.

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Aeration is key to minimizing fish death During the hot summer months, farm pond owners often face the frustrating prospect of losing some of their fish population to oxygen depletion in the water, says Larry W. Dorman, Extension aquaculture specialist at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The event – referred to as a “turnover� – is a phenomenon that is largely unavoidable. “Pond turnovers result in an all-too-common scenario around this time of year,� Dorman said. “After an evening thunderstorm blows in with strong wind and heavy rains, a landowner might go check on his pond the next morning only to find all the fish are dead. The sight often leaves farmers baffled as to what occurred.�

Pond turnovers are a result of changes in water properties, he said. In the spring, the water in a farm pond is cool and mixed, with a uniform temperature from the surface to the bottom of the pond. As spring turns to summer, surface water temperatures warm rapidly and the water density decreases. “In the summer, breezes are generally light and do not mix the pond’s water from top to bottom,� he said. “The process of pond stratification occurs when water temperatures vary at different depths. The surface of the water is near 90 degrees, while the temper-

ature at the bottom could be 20 degrees lower.�

Additionally, due to the breakdown of organic materials in the pond, the oxygen levels in the cool, bottom layer of water may have decreased drastically, he said. “Suddenly an afternoon thunderstorm brings strong winds and heavy rains, causing enough force to mix a pond’s water from top to bottom,� Dorman said. “The cool, oxygen-deficient bottom layer is abruptly mixed with the surface layer, causing severe oxygen depletion throughout the pond. This commonly results in a pond full of dead fish.�

Dorman said pond turnovers cannot be prevented because it’s impossible to change the properties of water. “After a turnover occurs, aeration of the water is key,� he said. “However, many farm pond owners do not have access to the type of aeration equipment used by catfish farmers. Small

gasoline engine pumps or irrigation pumps can help some in emergency situations, but unless that equipment is close by, landowners are at a loss.�

Dorman said if a massive fish loss occurs due to a turnover, pond owners should restock the pond with small fish and start over.

They should also fertilize the pond, as fertilization revitalizes the plankton bloom and recovers appropriate oxygen levels.

A good grade of fertilizer with elevated phosphorus levels works well, he said.

Examples of standard formulations are 10-20-10 or 18-46-0. Pond owners can contact the UAPB Aquaculture/Fisheries Center for guidance on fertilization rates.

Dorman said farm pond owners should beware of some commonly circulated myths about potential solutions for a pond turnover.

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Defense: The Senior High Eagle defense was working hard early Monday morning, August 1 during their official first day of football practice. They are shown above pushing the three-man sled.

Football Ballet: These two players seem to be performing an air ballet dance on the first day of football practice Monday morning.

Tax free Weekend starts Aug. 6

Leap of Faith: The DA Eagle quarterback was able to get the football over the outstretched fingertips of the defense to his receiver during practice on Monday.

The Arkansas Tax-Free weekend is August 6 & 7.

Parents look forward to this weekend each year to save money on items for school.

State and local sales tax will not be collected on the sale of clothing and footwear if the sales price is less than $100.00 per item, clothing accessories and equipment if the sales price is less than $50.00 per item, school supplies, school art supplies and school instructional materials.

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Des Arc Senior and Junior Eagles will scrimmage with Riverview August 23 Teams to be featured at Eagle Fest 2016 The 2016 Des Arc Senior and Junior Eagles will make their debut in scrimmage games against Riverview on Tuesday, August 23 beginning at 5:30 p.m. for the Junior Eagles and 7:00 p.m. for the Senior Eagles at HinsonRollins Field.

Eagle Fest will be held on Friday, August 19. Both teams will run short drills to give Eagle fans a taste of what is to come for the season.

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bers of the Junior and Senior Football squads:

Senior Eagles Seniors Hayden Flud-WR/DB Isaiah Williams-WR/LB Jerrod Williams-FB/DB Ontario Conway-RB/LB Austin WeatherleyFB/LB Jeffery Harrell-OL/DL Kelvin Cohen-OL/DL Spencer Wrigley-OL/DE Juniors Hunter Hill-WR/DB Dillion Conway-QB/DB Kyle Creppel-TE/DE

Tanner Estes-WR/DB Ricky Parson-OL/DE Sophomores Caeden Fields-WR/DB Jacob Moody-RB/DB Donald McCoy-RB/LB Blayne Cook-RB/LB Garrett GoodmanWR/DB Zeke Tacker-LB/FB Jeremiah WilliamsWR/DB Berghan Taylor-OL/DL Gage Alston-OL/DE Sloane HuddlestonOL/DE Chuck Crawford-OL/DL

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Junior Eagles Freshmen Jackson Morton-LB Cooper Roberts-QB Chandler MerrellWR/DB Hayden SanchezWR/DB Will Kearby-LB Hunter WhittenburgOL/DL Jeb Inman-OL/DE Caleb Jobe-OL/DE Kale Dorman-OL/DL Eighth Grade Luke Morton-RB/DB

Kizen Holland-RB/LB C.J. Conway-RB/LB Nathan CastleberryRB/DB Eyan Holloway-QB/DB Peyton Weatherley-WR Brayden Pickrell-TE Jacob Dobson-DB James Whaley-OL/DL Joseph Bailey-TE/DE Cade Smith-OL/DL Jarrett HambrickOL/DL Austin Ferguson-OL/DE Payden Hamm-OL/DL Hunter CrawfordOL/DE

Cody Creppel-OL/DL Garrett Williams-OL/DL Seventh Grade Jamieson RenfroWR/DB Jake Reidhar-QB/DB Andrew Madar-WR/DB Trey Anderson-WR?/DB Matt Kearby-RB/LB Tristan Bush-RB/DB Cooper Childers-FB/LB Tristan Ingle-OL/DL Jacob Roach-OL/DL Chance EldridgeOL/DL Dalton Sears-OL/DL Seth Lisko-OL/DL

Li ph po First Day of Summer Band Practice: The Des Arc Eagle Marching Band were well into their first day of summer band practice on Monday, August 1 beginning at 8:00 a.m. The group practiced in the shade during the morning hours and were inside the band room in the afternoons. The heat made temperatures feel like they were105 degrees. The Band will have a fundraiser carwash Saturday, August 13 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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Charles E. Nipper

C. E. Nipper Renee Saxton-Abrams Gazell Clark burial Friday at Service Saturday Gazell Clark, Salem Cemetery in Little Rock Cotton Plant Charles Edward “Buddy” Nipper, 83, of Cabot, for Biscoe native native, dies Arkansas died Friday, July 29, 2016.

He was retired from the U.S. Navy having served in the Korean War and in Vietnam. Buddy received the Service Distinguished Medal and five Good Conduct Medals. He was a farmer and a school bus driver, and a member of Country Chapel.

Charles is survived by his wife, Margie Willene Nipper of Cabot; son, Roger Nipper of Port Charlotte, Florida; daughters, Donna (Mark) Livingston of Carlisle and Janet (Jim) Chase of Port Charlotte, Florida; grandchildren, Billie Jo (Brent) Parker of Arlington, Tennessee and their children, Anabelle and Caroline; grandson, Nick Bailey of Cabot; brother, Larry (Kathy) Nipper of Lonoke; and sister, Linda (Gerald) Stevens of Cabot.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Elmer and Rothie Nipper; brothers, Lawrence and Jerry Nipper; and sister Martha Sue Plummer.

Memorials may be made to Salem Cemetery Association, C/O Larry Nipper 3684 Bethlehem Rd. Lonoke AR 72086.

Visitation is 6:00-8:00 Thursday at Smith-Westbrook Funeral Home, Beebe.

Funeral service will be 10:00 a.m. Friday at Country Chapel with burial in Salem Cemetery.

Katrina Jeffery dies at Stuttgart Katrina Yvonne Jeffery was born May 29, 1965 in Stuttgart to Blanchie Jeffery, and the late Henry "Squeaky" Jeffery. She finished Stuttgart High School in 1983.

Katrina was a homemaker. She confessed her hope in Christ at an early age. Katrina was very loving, she was the type of person who would do anything for her family and friends, she touched a lot of people with her kind heart and her outgoing personality. She will truly be missed.

She was preceded in death by her father, Henry Jeffery; one sister, Ruthie Jeffery; and three brothers, Laedan “Danny” Jeffery, Eric Jeffery and Phillip Jeffery.

She leaves to cherish her memory her mother, Blanchie Jeffery, of Stuttgart; one brother, Kenneth Jeffery, of Stuttgart; and five sisters, Betty (Jessie) Phillips of Marino Valley, California, Mary Jones, of Wilmar, Arkansas, Katrina and Angela Jeffery, of Stuttgart, and Carolyn Jeffery of Marshall, Texas. She also leaves a host of nieces, nephews, a very special friend, Sheila McKinney, and other relatives and friends.

Funeral service held Saturday, July 30, at Traveler’s Rest Missionary Baptist Church at 11 a.m.

Interment was at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in Casscoeby Relerford Funeral Home, Stuttgart.

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Benola Renee SaxtonAbrams, 49, of North Little Rock, died Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at Arkansas Hospice Center in Little Rock.

Renee was born December 3, 1966 in Brinkley, Arkansas to Arburn Saxton and Maude Howell Saxton.

Renee attended school at the Des Arc public School system. She was a 1985 graduate of Des Arc High School.

Renee grew up in Biscoe (Beulah/Upper Hill Community) attending church at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of Reverend Leo Bragg. After she relocated to North Little Rock, in early 2000, she began attending Second Baptist Church.

During her time at Second Baptist, she was a member of the church’s Kitchen Ministry and Day Care Center. She enjoyed attending and participating in activities with the church.

Renee was employed with Caterpillar Industries of Little Rock for the past six years. She was formerly employed with Falcon Jet of Little Rock for about two years and Carrier air conditioner manufacturing of Conway for more than fiveyears.

Renee enjoyed living her life to the fullest. She enjoyed events with family and friends. She enjoyed traveling, music (all types), dancing, attending concerts and numerous other activities.

Her parents, two brothers: Robert Mitchell Saxton and William Thomas Saxton, a sister Patricia Saxton and a nephew Orlando Brown all preceded Renee in death.

Survivors are: four sons: Ryan Hill, Randall Abrams Jr. and Bradley Abrams all of North Little Rock, AR; and Braylon Carter of Maumelle, AR; a daughter Bianca Abrams of North Little Rock, AR; three brothers: Jerry (Clara) Saxton of North Little Rock, AR; Larry Wayne Saxton of Biscoe, AR; and Anthony Saxton of Maumelle, AR; five sisters: Nora Jean (Sylvester) Swanigan of DeValls Bluff, AR; Hazel (William) Luckett of Milwaukee, WI; Mary (Curtis) Hooks and Emma Saxton both of Little Rock, AR; and Lucinda (Ronald) Nichols of Glenview, Ill; extended family and friends: Russell Simmons of Little Rock, AR and Randall Abrams Sr. of North Little Rock, AR; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held Friday evening August 5 from 6 until 8 PM at Branscumb Funeral Home Chapel, 911 North Main Street in Brinkley.

Funeral services will be Saturday, August 6, 10 AM at Second Baptist Church, 6111 West 83rd Street in Little Rock with Pastor Kevin Kelly officiating.

Interment will be in St. Paul Upper Hill Cemetery in Biscoe.

Pallbearers are: Corey Minor, Douglas Saxton, Edward Dunlap, Logan Penn, Umon Luckett and Keith Robinson.

From right, Diana, Philip's daughter, her children and his grandchildren, Matt Bass (the graduate), Alex (in uniform), and Jenny

Philip Fuller of Hollywood, Florida, for- Rico. We saw him, Jenny, and Ron (their mer Des Arc resident, writes, “Another dad) briefly when they spent an overnight Gazell Clark, 89, of Cot- year, another graduation! Grandson, Matt, here en route to PR. “ ton Plant, died Saturday, Ju- graduated from Eastside High in Covington, GA and is spending time with his faEd. Note: Philip, a Des Arc High School ly 30, 2016 at her home.

Gazell was born Septem- ther and paternal grandparents in Puerto graduate (1953), is a retired educator. ber 1, 1926 in Fitzhugh, Arkansas to Dave Booker and Minnie Hollis. She was the widow of Lewis Clark (1955-1996).

Nine Arkansas proper- at Fort Smith in Sebastian styles of architecture. “The Gazell was a member of ties have been listed on the County, a Mid-Century house at 621 East 16th Ash grove Missionary BapNational Register of His- Modern-style residence Street is significant as an tist Church in Cotton Plant toric Places, the country’s constructed 1963-64 and example of early 20th cenfor more than 25 years. She official list of historically designed by Ernie Jacks. tury Colonial Revival style was formerly a member of “The design of the Oscar architecture as well as its significant Morning Star Missionary The newly listed proper- Chambers House also re- role as the home of GerBaptist Church for many flects the increased rela- man immigrant and Little ties are: years. She served as the *O.D. Gunn Sale and tionship between the in- Rock businessman and real church’s clerk, church choir Trade Barn at Quitman in doors and outdoors, as well estate developer, Gustave. president, church pianist Cleburne County, a trans- as the issue of privacy in B Kleinschmidt,” according and a member of the choir. verse-crib barn built ca. house design,” according to the National Register Gazell was employed as a 1910 and clad in thin metal to the National Register nomination. “The house ilCertified Nurses’ Aide with sheathing. “The O. D. Gunn nomination. “The design of lustrates the nearly three Mercy Hospital/St. Joseph Trade and Sale Barn, as a the Chambers House, with decade period of investNursing Home in Brinkley commercial structure, was its sliding glass doors ment and development of for more than 12 years. She designed and built to af- opening onto the court- the local neighborhood by then went on to do private ford maximum utility,” ac- yard, and large windows Gustave B. Kleinschmidt, duty nursing with local the courtyard who helped to create a dicording to the National along families for many years beRegister nomination. “The façades, encouraged resi- verse and thriving commufore she retired. corner office space allowed dents and visitors to inter- nity through the construcGazell was a true “MothO. D. Gunn and his son act with the house’s sur- tion of over 40 Colonial Reer of the Community” she Fred Gunn to work in the roundings. The placement vival and Craftsman cotwas loved and respected by same structure where they of the large windows away tages. These properties all who knew and loved her. would show and sell their from the street also em- would set a pattern of deShe loved and cared for all livestock. The open bays, phasized privacy for the velopment for the surchildren in her community. where livestock of any size house’s occupants from the rounding area.”

After retirement she spent a *William Heibach House could be accommodated, street.” good portion of her time * Little Springs Mission- at Little Rock in Pulaski still allowed for easy viewjust enjoying her life. She ing and movement of both ary Baptist Church at County, built around 1910 enjoyed fishing, gardening, animals and customers. Poughkeepsie in Sharp in a design influenced by cooking, sewing, working The barn’s location, along County, built in 1943 and the Colonial Revival and crossword puzzles and the edge of the contempo- designed in the vernacular Italianate styles. “In the drawing. She would also do rary business district, also “giraffe rock” style. “The second boundary increase volunteer work at Cotton allowed for the use of adja- building has been a place nomination for the Central Plant Elementary School. cent pastures for grazing of worship, a place for wed- High School Neighborhood She also loved pets (dogs and the storage of addi- dings, funerals and various Historic District, which and cats). She genuinely tional animals while still other community func- was listed on June 4, 2012, had a deep love and appreretaining maximum visibil- tions important to the local the house at 1501 South ciation for all of God’s creity within the business area populace since the com- Summit Street was considations. of the Quitman communi- pletion of the sanctuary,” ered to be noncontributing Her parents, husband, according to the National to the district due to the inty.” and two sons: Cleo Roddy * First Methodist Church Register nomination. “The stallation of asbestos sidand Melvin Roddy; and 11 Christian Education Build- use of ‘giraffe rock’ exteri- ing and the loss of the siblings: Cora Pendleton, ing at Hot Springs in Gar- ors had its roots in the arts building’s original roofline Ermon Puckett, Searcy Leland County, a Mid-Centu- and crafts movement with and attic space,” the nominier, Archie Puckett Sr., ry Modern-style building its focus on visibility of nation says. “However, the Senola Smith, Tillman erected 1963-65. “Built in handicraft and use of local, house should now be conPuckett Sr., Henry Puckett 1963-1965, and designed natural materials. Al- sidered a contributing reSr., Hazel Roddy, Cleona Elby the noted Arkansas ar- though this stone tech- source. An ongoing project lison, David Puckett and chitect I. Granger Mc- nique is a vernacular tradi- is working to restore the Eunice Williams all precedDaniel, the First Methodist tion, it also embodies the property. The original sided her in death.

Church Christian Educa- characteristics of the larger ing has been uncovered Survivors are: a daughter tion Building, is a good ex- national aesthetic of the and is currently being reMerle (Robert) Hill of St. ample of Mid-Century- arts and crafts movement paired. In addition the roof Louis, MO; two nieces that Modern architecture incor- popular during the early and attic space are being she raised as her own: Clara redone. Although historic porating Gothic Revival 20th century.”

(Clarence Sr.) Worsham of *Walnut Ridge Army Air- documentation for the characteristics in order to Cotton Plant, AR; and pay homage to the church field Access Road at Col- property’s original roofline Yvonne (Edward) Sturm of building next door,” ac- lege City in Lawrence does not exist, the roofline Placentia, CA; a daughter in cording to the National County, a two-lane con- being constructed is based law Forrestine Roddy of Register nomination. “The crete highway constructed on similar houses in the Cotton Plant, AR; three use of arches, colonnades, under the National De- neighborhood. As a result, blended family members: and stone accents allowed fense Highway Act of 1941. the building is considered Albert (Ruby) Clark of Irmo, the building to use a mod- “Between 1941 and 1945, to be a contributing reSC; Georgia Williams and ern design while blending the funding for projects as- source in the Central High Angela Clark both of North with the design of the sociated with the National School Neighborhood HisLittle Rock, AR; and a host church. In addition, the Defense Highway Act of toric District.” of her precious grandchil*Sylvan Hills Country plan of the Education 1941was used on twentydren, great grandchildren, Building, its L-shape with four other defense-related Club Clubhouse at Sherother relatives and friends. open curved colonnade, al- projects,” according to the wood in Pulaski County, a Funeral services will be so allowed the design of the National Register nomina- 1962-63 building designed held Saturday, August 6 at 4 church building to remain tion. “Of those twenty-four in the Googie style of archiPM at Ash Grove Missiondefense-related projects, tecture. “The modern clubvisible from all sides.” ary Baptist Church, 114 Mc*Building at 187 East eleven of them only re- house was under construcMurtry Street in Cotton Main Street in the quired gravel surfaces, sev- tion from October 1962 to Plant with Reverend Odell Batesville Commercial His- en required bituminous December 1963,” accordHaggans officiating. toric District at Batesville surfaces, four concrete sur- ing to the nomination.

Interment will take place in Independence County, faces, which includes the “The architect of the Gooat Morning Star Cemetery built around 1908 in a style Walnut Ridge Army Airfield gie-style building was Rayby Branscumb Johnson & influenced by the Art Mod- Access Road, and the re- mond Branton, a local Gilchrest Funeral Home of erne style of architecture. maining two projects and North Little Rock architect, Brinkley.

“In the original nomina- funding were used to con- who mainly worked in the Pallbearers are: Melvin tion for the Batesville Com- struct bridges. Of those areas of church and school Roddy Jr., Keilon Hill, mercial Historic District, with hard surfaces, the architecture. The construcTheodore Roddy, Edward the Building at 187 East Walnut Ridge Army Airfield tion contract was bid out to Sturm, Kiemon Hill, Daniel Main (Furniture 4-Less) Access Road contains the N.P. Alessi, Inc. while the Sturm and Bobbie Ellis Jr. superintendent in charge was considered to be non- most integrity.” * Gustave B. Klein- of the clubhouse was Mr. contributing to the District due to the installation of a schmidt House at Little A.C. Ballentine. The clubmetal slipcover on the Rock in Pulaski County, a house was completed in building,” according to the 1907 residence with a de- December 1963 and looks National Register nomina- sign reflecting the Queen identical today as the day it children, Trace, Micah, Lo- tion. “However, the build- Anne and Colonial Revival was finished.” gan, Ryan, Jaiden and Av- ing should now be considery; three sisters, Veda, ered to be a contributing Wanda and Juanita. She is resource. A recent project The Price family thanks all the neighbors and friends who preceded in death by her removed the metal slipcovhelped us in any way during Bully’s illness. parents, her husband, er, exposing the original A special thanks to Arkansas Hospice and Des Arc Nursing Charles Robbins; a sister, façade that was underand Rehabilitation Center.

Virginia; and a brother Ed- neath. As a result, the building is considered to The outpouring of gifts of food and beautiful flowers after die.

No services are sched- be a contributing resource his passing were so appreciated by our family. uled at this time. Crema- in the Batesville CommerYour love, support and prayers have been a great comfort. tion arrangements by Pow- cial Historic District.”

Thank you! *Oscar Chambers House ell Funeral Home of Searcy.

Nell Price

Nine Arkansas sites on National Historic list

Maxine Robbins dies at Searcy Maxine Robbins, 73, of Searcy, died Wednesday, July 27, 2016. She was born May 12, 1943 in Wynne, Arkansas.

Maxine is survived by two sons, David Robbins and wife Becky and Charles Robbins and wife Donna; eight grandchildren, Katie, Amber, Ashton, Andrea, Mandy, Jordan, Brandy and Anthony; six great-grand-

Card of Thanks

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Traveling with Philip and Lorraine. . . .

Agriculture Show in Penrith (England Trip - continued)

Time for more laundry, so we had lots of time to chat with Krista about their ten-mile trek (kids on bikes, Krista and Cleo (the dog on loan) on foot in the cold weather (even for them).

The kids had found a baby hedgehog in the yard and Krista thought that maybe it was sickly.

We learned that the higher the cycle number of the washer, the shorter the cycle time, which made no sense at all.

Krista joined the ranks of several of the other young mothers in our acquaintance. No one seems to put much back where things belong-kind of Humpty Dumpty households.

Philip taped coins onto pieces of cardboard, planning to mail them to young relatives (Only with parents who’ll help keep them safe).

The weather played tricks on us. After hanging the third load, we trooped down the hill to town where we read email in the library.

The temperature got milder, making it a pleasure to go in and out of shops. Plus, our clothes acutally dried well.

We walked up the hill, to and through the cemetery and the golf course, where not one electric golf cart was to be seen.

We spotted a car with a large dog in the passenger seat, but it looked to us like it was in the driver’s seat and at the wheel.

We learned that Krista and the children went on a sausage picnic with her

friend and two more kids, Michael and Amy. We munched on a Cornish pasty and sausage/apple pie for supper. Dave arrived from a long day at the residential home and Richie composed a very long account of his latest two days of activities.

Lorna and Dave played a game called “Animal Snacks”. When I offered to play a game with her, we chose “Snakes and Ladders” (like our “Chutes and Ladders”).

I dug out my box with fifty games in it and taught her checkers (called “Draughts” in England).

Richie watched the end of the game and wanted to learn, too.

Philip tried out the Irish whistle for practice and attained more and higher notes than I did. The kids were fascinated with his music, especially when it shrieked a bit piercingly.

Then they tried my harmonica out and got more and more hyper-most unusual for them so late in the evening.

As Dave was tucking Lorna in, Richie expplained that he (Dave) was probably giving Lorna “Animal Kisses”. He also said quietly, “Dad spends an hour with Lorna and a minute with me”.

Krista was deciding where to spend their holiday and wanted to save money. So she decided to go camping out rather than rent a caravan (camper) for 250 pounds a week in Cornwall (she changed her mind eventualy).

The next day was spent

NOTICE FOR AMENDMENTS REFERRED TO THE PEOPLE

BY THE ARKANSAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Issue No. 1 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Pursuant to Article 19, Section 22, of the Arkansas Constitution, the 90th General Assembly refers the following constitutional amendment to a vote of the people on November 8, 2016, and will appear on the ballot as Issue No. 1. Each elector upon voting his/her ballot shall vote for or against this amendment. Underlined language would be added to the present Constitution. Stricken language would be deleted from the present Constitution. This Amendment was proposed in the Regular 2015 Session by Representative J. Ladyman and filed as HJR 1027.

ISSUE NO. 1 Popular Name PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE TERMS, ELECTION, AND ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS Ballot Title PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING ELECTED OFFICIALS; PROVIDING FOR TERMS OF OFFICE FOR CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICIALS FOR FOUR (4) YEARS; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICERS SHALL NOT BE APPOINTED OR ELECTED TO A CIVIL OFFICE DURING THEIR ELECTED TERM; ALLOWING A CANDIDATE FOR AN OFFICE TO BE CERTIFIED AS ELECTED WITHOUT APPEARING ON THE BALLOT WHEN HE OR SHE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE AT THE ELECTION; AND DEFINING THE TERM “INFAMOUS CRIME” FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS TO HOLD OFFICE. Subtitle PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE TERMS, ELECTION, AND ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND BY THE SENATE, A MAJORITY OF ALL MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE AGREEING THERETO: That the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, and upon being submitted to the electors of the state for approval or rejection at the next general election for Representatives and Senators, if a majority of the electors voting thereon at the election adopt the amendment, the amendment shall become a part of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, to wit: SECTION 1. Arkansas Constitution, Article 3, is amended to add an additional section to read as follows: § 13. Procedures for elections with one candidate. (a) As used in this section, “election” means: (1) A primary election; (2) A special primary election; (3) A general election; and (4) A special election. (b) The General Assembly may enact laws providing that if there is only one (1) person qualified as a candidate for an office after all deadlines for filing as a candidate have passed so that there will be only one (1) name listed on the election ballot for the office and no write-in candidates qualify to appear as candidates for the office on the election ballot: (1) The one (1) candidate for the office shall be declared elected and his or her name shall not appear on the election ballot; (2) The name of the candidate declared elected shall be certified as elected in the same manner as if the candidate had been voted upon at the election; and (3) The election shall not be held if no other office or issue is on the election ballot.

SECTION 2. Arkansas Constitution, Article 5, § 9, is amended to read as follows: § 9. Persons convicted ineligible. (a) No person hereafter convicted of embezzlement of public money, bribery, forgery, or other infamous crime, shall be is eligible to the General Assembly or capable of holding any office of trust or profit in this State state. (b) As used in this section, “infamous crime” means: (1) A felony offense; (2) Abuse of office as defined under Arkansas law; (3) Tampering as defined under Arkansas law; or (4) A misdemeanor offense in which the finder of fact was required to find, or the defendant to admit, an act of deceit, fraud, or false statement, including without limitation a misdemeanor offense related to the election process.

SECTION 3. Arkansas Constitution, Article 7, § 19, is amended to read as follows: § 19. Circuit clerks — Election — Term of office — Ex-officio Ex officio duties — County clerks elected in certain counties.

The clerks of the circuit courts shall be elected by the qualified electors of the several counties for the term of two four (4) years, and shall be ex-officio ex officio clerks of the county and probate courts and recorder; provided, that in any county having a population exceeding fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants, as shown by the last Federal federal census, there shall be elected a county clerk, in like manner as the clerk of the circuit court, for the term of four (4) years, and in such

at the local Agriculture Show. We tried our best to see everything and sat between the rings with cows on the right and ponies and jumpers to the left.

It took us two buses to get there, plus a walk, but was quite simple to figure out. We also purchased two more tickets for the local play the following day. We invited the children to come along.

The announcer had a good sense of humor.

“Please move the Mercedes that is parked between two trucks-possible damage to your car!” The crafts were gorgeous and the very different animals (ostriches, alpacas and llamas) were appealing.

It was interesting to note that most of the jumper riders were women, a very horse-y set. Lorraine was tempted to purchase some crystals that are suppose to keep fresh flowers fresher much longer.

The weather was mild with some people in shorts. A book by Edwin Way Teale, a naturalist from Connecticut) was also tempting about a 17,000 mile trip from Florida to Canada and only five and one-half pounds. We had to stop buying so much stuff!

We became extremely thirsty and Lorraine offered to get some cider. It was a very long wait for unchilled cider but at least it was wet.

After the Parade of Cattle, we waited and waited for the RAF parachute jumpers, but the jump was cancelled at the very last second because of the stiff

breeze.

We needed some liquor and paid 15 pounds for about one quart of good Canadian Club Whiskey.

Next trip, pack less clothing and more liquor.

Lorraine discovered a most interesting book at Dave and Krista’s called “A Last Wild Place” by Tompkies, who spent many months all alone in a very wild, deserted place in the western highlands of Scotland.

We tried the TV in our room again and ended up listening to a 300-piece orchestra/chorus performing something extremely classical, with triangle, harp and lots of different instruments.

Then we listened to tapes. “Harold” always puts us to sleep or could it just be all the fresh air and excercise?

We heard the family returning later from a garden party they all attended.

They ate supper and stayed quite late. Cleo over-indulged, Dave drank too much and Richie got a nosebleed in the middle of the night.

Krista got the kids up by 8:00 a.m. for the weekly pool visit. When Krista got upset with Barney the cat, and told her to go out and visit a neighber, Barney hissed at her.

We read the local paper, full of interesting tidbits and announcements. The blue skies returned and the temperature rose.

We walked to church, a Church of England one this time, because we were too late for the Methodist service and couldn’t make the

case the county clerk shall be ex-officio ex officio clerk of the probate court of such county until otherwise provided by the General Assembly.

SECTION 4. Arkansas Constitution, Article 7, § 29, is amended to read as follows: § 29. County judge — Election — Term — Qualifications.

The Judge of the County Court judge of the county court shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county for the term of two four (4) years.

He or she shall be at least twenty-five (25) years of age, a citizen of the United States, a man an individual of upright character, of good business education, and a resident of the State state for two (2) years before his or her election; and a resident of the county at the time of his or her election, and during his or her continuance in office.

SECTION 5. Arkansas Constitution, Article 7, § 46, is amended to read as follows: § 46. County executive officers — Compensation of county assessor.

The qualified electors of each county shall elect one (1) Sheriff sheriff, who shall be ex-officio ex officio collector of taxes, unless otherwise provided by law; one (1) Assessor assessor, one (1) Coroner coroner, one (1) Treasurer treasurer, who shall be ex-officio ex officio treasurer of the common school fund of the county, and one (1) County Surveyor; county surveyor for the term of two four (4) years, with such duties as are now or may be prescribed by law: Provided, provided that no per centum shall ever be paid to assessors upon the valuation or assessment of property by them. If a separate collector of taxes has been created by law for a county, the qualified electors of that county shall elect one (1) collector of taxes for a term of four (4) years, with duties as provided by law.

SECTION 6. Arkansas Constitution, Article 7, is amended to add an additional section to read as follows: § 53. County officers ineligible to civil office.

A person elected or appointed to any of the following county offices shall not, during the term for which he or she has been elected, be appointed or elected to any civil office in this state: (1) County judge; (2) Justice of the peace; (3) Sheriff; (4) Circuit clerk; (5) County clerk; (6) Assessor; (7) Coroner; (8) Treasurer; (9) County surveyor; or (10) Collector of taxes.

SECTION 7. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 41, is amended to read as follows: Election of county clerk.

The provisions for the election of a County Clerk county clerk upon a population basis are hereby abolished and there may be elected a County Clerk county clerk in like manner as a Circuit Clerk, circuit clerk for the term of four (4) years, and in such cases, the County Clerk may be ex officio Clerk of the Probate Court clerk of the probate court of such county until otherwise provided by the General Assembly.

SECTION 8. EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) This amendment shall be effective on and after January 1, 2017. (b) Persons elected to the following offices at the 2016 general election shall serve terms of two (2) years: (1) County judge; (2) Sheriff; (3) Circuit clerk; (4) County clerk; (5) Assessor; (6) Coroner; (7) Treasurer; (8) County surveyor; and (9) Collector of taxes. (c) Persons elected to the following offices at the 2018 general election shall serve terms of four (4) years: (1) County judge; (2) Sheriff; (3) Circuit clerk; (4) County clerk; (5) Assessor; (6) Coroner; (7) Treasurer; (8) County surveyor; and (9) Collector of taxes.

SECTION 9. BALLOT TITLE AND POPULAR NAME. When this proposed amendment is submitted to the electors of this state on the general election ballot: (1) The title of this joint resolution shall be the ballot title; and (2) The popular name shall be “PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE TERMS, ELECTION, AND ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS”.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND FIXED THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE ON THIS 1ST DAY OF MAY, 2016.

MARK MARTIN SECRETARY OF STATE STATE OF ARKANSAS

St. Andrew’s one.

The pews were very narrow and very straight. Lorraine was the only woman in slacks. The building was “only” 150 years old. It was surely a grim place, but meeting the “church warden”, a jolly and red-faced man, helped cheer things up.

The service was very sober and stiff, but easy to follow.

There were no more than 40 people present and we sounded quite pitiful singing the hymns.

All the choir members (all ancient) were dressed with the women in blue robes and high white collars and the men in white robes. The organist was excellent and the minister did a lot of chanting.

For the first time, we walked UP the hill. It wasn’t difficult at all! Philip had mentioned that Barney needed to be brushed.

When we arrived, Krista was tackling that chore.

As Krista baked the turkey, which had been defrosting for three days, Dave explained “mushy peas”.

We all got a ride to the play titled “The Emporer has no Clothes” and “Shakespeare in Love II”, with Dave and were totally impressed with the young actors and actresses, costumes and musical accompaniment.

Richie recognized a few children from school. He and Lorna loved “Emporer” but got a bit lost with”Shakespeare”.

Lorna asked for a bag of chips during intermission.

When I asked Richie what he would like, he chose an

orange chocolate.

We’d never tasted one before. It was different and delicious! Lorna decided she’d rather have one of those, too. We learned later that these were also favorites of Krista.

A woman who turned out to be the musical director, who often played as accompanist, chatted with me for a bit.

We returned to the house to enjoy a wonderful turkey supper with dressing, mushroom gravy, fresh veggies, potatoes and our contribution, fruit bars.

They took us for a walk next. Dave dropped us off after a very zig-zaggy drive on a narrow road where we began walking amongst sheep roaming about.

Richie, Kirsta, Lorraine and I walked along a fairly level place surrounded by valleys below and hills above. It was magnificent!

A surprise performance greeted us at one farm when we saw a border collie doing his job, cornering and guiding a renegade sheep to help the shepherd with his crooked staff, get the sheep to go where it was supposed to.

We met up with Dave and Lorna at the water’s edge where the kids had a great time taking turns swinging out over the water. “May I have a go at it now?”

Back at the house, we cleaned up the dishes and the kitchen while Kirsta cut up the turkey-a batch for soup and the rest for Cleo.

We had another cuppa’ and got ready to turn in.

Issue No. 2 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Pursuant to Article 19, Section 22, of the Arkansas Constitution, the 90th General Assembly refers the following constitutional amendment to a vote of the people on November 8, 2016, and will appear on the ballot as Issue No. 2. Each elector upon voting his/her ballot shall vote for or against this amendment. Underlined language would be added to the present Constitution. Stricken language would be deleted from the present Constitution. This Amendment was proposed in the Regular 2015 Session by Senator E. Williams and filed as SJR 3.

ISSUE NO. 2 Popular Name A Constitutional Amendment to Allow the Governor to Retain His or Her Powers and Duties When Absent From the State.

Ballot Title AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW THE GOVERNOR TO RETAIN HIS OR HER POWERS AND DUTIES WHEN ABSENT FROM THE STATE. Subtitle AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW THE GOVERNOR TO RETAIN HIS OR HER POWERS AND DUTIES WHEN ABSENT FROM THE STATE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND

BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, A MAJORITY OF ALL MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE AGREEING THERETO: That the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, and upon being submitted to the electors of the state for approval or rejection at the next general election for Representatives and Senators, if a majority of the electors voting thereon at the election adopt the amendment, the amendment shall become a part of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, to wit: SECTION 1. Section 4 of Amendment 6 to the Arkansas Constitution is amended to read as follows: § 4. Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor.

In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his or her removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, or resignation or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. But when When the Governor shall, with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State, in time of war, at the head of a military force thereof, he or she shall continue commander-in-chief of all the military force of the State.

SECTION 2. BALLOT TITLE AND POPULAR NAME. When this proposed amendment is submitted to the electors of this state on the general election ballot: (1) The title of this Joint Resolution shall be the ballot title; and (2) The popular name shall be “A Constitutional Amendment to Allow the Governor to Retain His or Her Powers and Duties When Absent From the State.”

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND FIXED THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE ON THIS 1ST DAY OF MAY, 2016.

MARK MARTIN SECRETARY OF STATE STATE OF ARKANSAS Issue No. 3 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Pursuant to Article 19, Section 22, of the Arkansas Constitution, the 90th General Assembly refers the following constitutional amendment to a vote of the people on November 8, 2016, and will appear on the ballot as Issue No. 3. Each elector upon voting his/her ballot shall vote for or against this amendment. Underlined language would be added to the present Constitution. Stricken language would be deleted from the present Constitution. This Amendment was proposed in the Regular 2015 Session by Senator J. Woods and filed as SJR 16.

ISSUE NO. 3 Popular Name An Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution Concerning Job Creation, Job Expansion, and Economic Development.

Ballot Title AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO ENCOURAGE JOB CREATION, JOB EXPANSION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; REMOVING THE LIMITATION ON THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS THAT MAY BE ISSUED UNDER AMENDMENT 82 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO ATTRACT LARGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; AUTHORIZING A CITY, COUNTY, TOWN, OR OTHER MUNICIPAL CORPORATION TO OBTAIN OR APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR ANY CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION, INSTITUTION, OR INDIVIDUAL TO FINANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND TO PROVIDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS UNDER AMENDMENT 62 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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Op-Ed . . .

by Harvey Joe Sanner August 2, 2016, On Facebook there is section for saying what is on your mind today.

After being driven to nausea from hearing about the Hillary Clinton Benghazi/Email “scandal”, this was on my mind. 6 hrs · On my mind today are statements from some republican friends and media stars regarding the reputation of Hillary Clinton and her reported lack of honesty.

Regarding the relentless assault on her in the Benghazi and Email Scandals, I do think I've reached a conclusion about the confusion.

If one looks into the Minority Report on the committee chaired by Republican House Member Trey Gowdy and then reviews the testimony of FBI Director James Comey, it becomes somewhat clearer than mud.

Per Director Comey's testimony before the committee, he was asked if Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI, his answer was no.

He was asked if her questions were evasive his answer was no, she gave di-

rect answers to the questions.

He was asked if the FBI subpoenaed Hillary Clinton to appear before his investigators. His answer was no. He said she called the FBI and volunteered to be interviewed, the interview was not under oath but she was still subject to charges if she had given dishonest answers.

NO, NO and NO, was the absolute answer to three key questions posed to Mrs. Clinton.

Then, you hear Chairman Gowdy and his fans repeatedly claim that Mrs. Clinton lied. It seems that most republicans and many reporters have chosen to believe Trey Gowdy versus the FBI's trained investigators.

The minority report and common sense will tell you that you can't trust partisan investigators on a mission to convict someone!

No other loss of diplomatic personnel in history has been treated as Benghazi has.

In the past, when American lives were lost, both sides in congress worked together to prevent another tragedy. Not this time.

PROJECTS; AUTHORIZING THE TAXES THAT MAY BE PLEDGED TO RETIRE BONDS ISSUED UNDER AMENDMENT 62 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; REMOVING THE REQUIREMENT OF A PUBLIC SALE FOR BONDS ISSUED UNDER AMENDMENT 62 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; AND AUTHORIZING COMPACTS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AMONG CITIES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CLASS, INCORPORATED TOWNS, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND COUNTIES. Subtitle AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO ENCOURAGE JOB CREATION, JOB EXPANSION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND BY THE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, A MAJORITY OF ALL MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE AGREEING THERETO: That the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, and upon being submitted to the electors of the state for approval or rejection at the next general election for Representatives and Senators, if a majority of the electors voting thereon at the election adopt the amendment, the amendment shall become a part of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, to wit: SECTION 1. INTENT. The intent of this amendment to the Arkansas Constitution is to encourage job creation, job expansion, and economic development.

SECTION 2. Arkansas Constitution, Article 12, § 5, is amended to read as follows: § 5. Political subdivisions not to become stockholders in or lend credit to private corporations — Exceptions. (a) No county, city, town or other municipal corporation, shall become a stockholder in any company, association, or corporation; or obtain or appropriate money for, or loan its credit to, any corporation, association, institution or individual. (b) However, a county, city, town, or other municipal corporation may obtain or appropriate money for a corporation, association, institution, or individual to: (1) Finance economic development projects; or (2) Provide economic development services. (c) As used in this section: (1) “Economic development projects” means the land, buildings, furnishings, equipment, facilities, infrastructure, and improvements that are required or suitable for the development, retention, or expansion of: (A) Manufacturing, production, and industrial facilities; (B) Research, technology, and development facilities; (C) Recycling facilities; (D) Distribution centers; (E) Call centers; (F) Warehouse facilities; (G) Job training facilities; and (H) Regional or national corporate headquarters facilities; (2) “Economic development services” means: (A) Planning, marketing, and strategic advice and counsel regarding job recruitment, job development, job retention, and job expansion; (B) Supervision and operation of industrial parks or other such properties; and (C) Negotiation of contracts for the sale or lease of industrial parks or other such properties; and (3) “Infrastructure” means: (A) Land acquisition; (B) Site preparation; (C) Road and highway improvements; (D) Rail spur, railroad, and railport construction; (E) Water service; (F) Wastewater treatment; (G) Employee training which may include equipment for such purpose; and (H) Environmental mitigation or reclamation. (d) The General Assembly, by a three-fourths vote of each house, may amend the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section so long as the amendments are germane to this section and consistent with its policy and purposes.

SECTION 3. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 62, § 1(b), concerning local capital improvement bonds, is amended to read as follows: (b) The limit of the principal amount of bonded indebtedness of the municipality or county which may be outstanding and unpaid at the time of issuance of any bonds secured by a tax on real or personal property, except for bonds issued for industrial development purposes economic development projects pursuant to Section 2 hereof, shall be a sum equal to ten percent (10%) for a county or twenty percent (20%) for a municipality of the total assessed value for tax purposes of real and personal property in the county or municipality, as determined by the last tax assessment.

SECTION 4. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 62, § 2, is amended to read as follows: § 2. Issuance of bonds to secure and develop industry — Levy of tax — Suspension of collection — Limit on tax levy. (a) In addition to the authority for bonded indebtedness set forth in Section 1, any municipality or county may, with the consent of the majority of the voters voting on the question at an election held for that purpose, issue bonds in sums approved by such majority at that election for the purpose of financing facilities for the securing and developing of industry economic development projects within or near the county or municipality holding the election.

Why? Hillary Clinton was considered a candidate for the 2016 presidential election.

There is no other logical reason for the course that the republicans set us on. It was without a doubt a partisan driven mission with a pre-determined guilty verdict driving the questioning. And that is why the inquisitors should not be trusted, impartiality is not in their genetic make up.

The FBI, said she told the truth, the partisans said she lied. I'm basing my opinion on the unbiased FBI answers, especially given that Director Comey is a Republican. And his credentials and integrity rating is above reproach from republicans as well as democrats.

In summation, the confusion was caused by a committee on a mission and it was not the truth they sought, it was the head of Hillary Clinton.

Recent polling indicates that more Americans are understanding that fact.

Thank Goodness.

Perhaps a letter to the editor???

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is seeking applications for its 2016 electronic waste (e-waste) grants program. Now in its 10th year, the E-waste Grants Program provides funding to eligible recipients for projects to recycle or dispose of electronic waste properly.

Established by state law and funded through the sale of surplus used computers and other stateagency equipment, the EWaste Grants Program awarded $117,000 to eight recipients last year. The competitive-grants program is open to both public and private entities, including schools, state or local government agencies, universities, private industry, and nonprofit organizations. Projects from preJill Stein Selects Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Vice-Presidential Running Mate Green Party presumptive Presidential nominee Jill Stein has offered her vicepresidential bid to international human rights scholar and activist Ajamu Baraka.

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(b) To provide for payment of principal and interest of the bonds issued pursuant to the section, as they mature, the municipality or county may levy a special tax, not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar of the taxable real and personal property therein. However, the municipality or county may, from time to time, suspend the collection of such annual levy when not required for the payment of its bonds. In no event shall any parcel of real and personal taxable property be subject to a special tax levied under the authority of this Section in excess of five (5) mills for bonds issued under this Section. (c) Other taxes may be authorized by the General Assembly or the legislative body to retire the bonds. (d) As used in this section: (1) “Economic development projects” means the land, buildings, furnishings, equipment, facilities, infrastructure, and improvements that are required or suitable for the development, retention, or expansion of: (A) Manufacturing, production, and industrial facilities; (B) Research, technology, and development facilities; (C) Recycling facilities; (D) Distribution centers; (E) Call centers; (F) Warehouse facilities; (G) Job training facilities; and (H) Regional or national corporate headquarters facilities; and (2) “Infrastructure” means: (A) Land acquisition; (B) Site preparation; (C) Road and highway improvements; (D) Rail spur, railroad, and railport construction; (E) Water service; (F) Wastewater treatment; (G) Employee training which may include equipment for such purpose; and (H) Environmental mitigation or reclamation. (e) The General Assembly, by a three-fourths vote of each house, may amend the provisions of subsection (d) of this section so long as the amendments are germane to this section and consistent with its policy and purposes.

SECTION 5. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 62, § 3, is repealed. § 3. Sale of bonds — Procedure.

The bonds described in Section 2 hereof shall be sold only at public sale after twenty (20) days advertisement in a newspaper having a bona fide circulation in the municipality or county issuing such bonds; provided, however, that the municipality or county may exchange such bonds for bonds of like amount, rate or interest, and length of issue.

SECTION 6. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 62, § 5, is amended to read as follows: § 5. Special tax constitutes special fund — Disbursement of surplus.

The special tax for payment of bonded indebtedness authorized in Sections 1 and 2 hereof shall constitute a special fund pledged as security for the payment of such indebtedness. The special tax shall never be extended for any other purpose, nor collected for any greater length of time than necessary to retire such bonded indebtedness, except that tax receipts in excess of the amount required to retire the debt according to its terms may, subject to covenants entered into with the holders of the bonds, be pledged as security for the issuance of additional bonds if authorized by the voters. The tax for such additional bonds shall terminate within the time provided for the tax originally imposed. Upon retirement of the bonded indebtedness, any surplus tax collections which may have accumulated shall be transferred to the general funds of the municipality or county.

SECTION 7. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 62, § 9, is amended to read as follows: § 9. Joint project of various governing bodies — Compact agreement elections. (a) Whenever two or more cities of the First or Second Class, or incorporated towns, and/or one or more counties and the school districts therein, desire to join together in a combined effort to secure and develop industries economic development projects within one or more of such cities, towns, counties, and share in the increased revenues estimated to be received by the city, town, or county, or school district, in which the industry or industries economic development project or projects are to be located, they may, upon adoption by the governing bodies of each such city, town, school district, or county, enter into a compact setting forth the terms by which each of the participating cities, towns, school districts, and counties is to share in the revenues to be derived from the location of an industrial plant economic development project within the compact area through the combined efforts of the various participating cities, towns, school districts, and counties. Upon adoption of such compact by the governing bodies of the participating cities, towns, school districts, and/or counties, the county court of each of the counties involved shall cause a special election to be called within not more than forty-five (45) days from the date of the filing of such compact with the county court. At such special election, the qualified electors of each of the cities, towns, school districts, and counties shall vote on whether to approve the compact and the method of sharing in increased revenues to be derived by the city, school district, and/or county in which the proposed industry economic development project is to be located among the various participating cities, towns, counties, and school districts. The ballot at such election shall be in substantially the following form: “FOR the establishment of an industrial economic development compact and the sharing of revenues to be derived from additional taxes to be generated by new industries economic development projects ____ AGAINST the establishment of an industrial economic development compact and the sharing of revenues to be derived from additional taxes

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to be generated by new industries economic development projects ____” Said election shall be conducted in accordance with the election laws of this State, and the results thereof tabulated and certified to the County Clerk in the manner now provided by law. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question vote in favor of the creation of the compact, and the sharing of revenues to be derived from new industries economic development projects located in the compact area, the said compact shall be implemented in accordance with the terms thereof. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on said issue vote against issue at said special election, no additional election on said issue may be held within one (1) year from the date of said election. The results of said election shall be proclaimed by the county court of each of the counties in which the county and/or cities and towns, or school districts, are located. The results of said election shall be conclusive unless attacked in the courts within thirty (30) days. (b) As used in this section: (1) “Economic development projects” means the land, buildings, furnishings, equipment, facilities, infrastructure, and improvements that are required or suitable for the development, retention, or expansion of: (A) Manufacturing, production, and industrial facilities; (B) Research, technology, and development facilities; (C) Recycling facilities; (D) Distribution centers; (E) Call centers; (F) Warehouse facilities; (G) Job training facilities; and (H) Regional or national corporate headquarters facilities; and (2) “Infrastructure” means: (A) Land acquisition; (B) Site preparation; (C) Road and highway improvements; (D) Rail spur, railroad, and railport construction; (E) Water service; (F) Wastewater treatment; (G) Employee training which may include equipment for such purpose; and (H) Environmental mitigation or reclamation. (c) The General Assembly, by a three-fourths vote of each house, may amend the provisions of subsection (b) of this section so long as the amendments are germane to this section and consistent with its policy and purposes.

SECTION 8. Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 82, is amended to read as follows: (a) In order for the State of Arkansas to effectively compete for large economic development projects, the Arkansas General Assembly, meeting in special or regular session, may authorize the Arkanas Arkansas Development Finance Authority to issue general obligation bonds to finance infrastructure or other needs to attract large economic development projects. (b) Bonds may be issued for an amount up to five percent (5%) of state general revenues collected during the most recent fiscal year. (c)(b) Infrastructure needs may include, but are not limited to: (1) Land acquisition; (2) Site preparation; (3) Road and highway improvements; (4) Rail spur, railroad, and railport construction; (5) water Water service; (5)(6) Wastewater treatment; (6)(7) Employee training which may include equipment for such purpose; (7)(8) Environmental mitigation or reclamation; and (8)(9) Training and research facilities and the necessary equipment therefore. (d)(c) The General Assembly may authorize the issuance of bonds bearing the full faith and credit of the State of Arkansas if the prospective employer planning an economic development project is eligible under criteria established by law. (e)(d) The bonds shall be paid for in full by general or special revenues appropriated by the General Assembly until the bonds have been retired and all obligations associated with the issuance of the bonds have been met. (f)(e) Bonds may be issued under this amendment pursuant to an act of the General Assembly without voter approval.

SECTION 9. SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this amendment are severable, and if any should be held invalid, the remainder shall stand.

SECTION 10. BALLOT TITLE AND POPULAR NAME. When this proposed amendment is submitted to the electors of this state on the general election ballot: (1) The title of this Joint Resolution shall be the ballot title; and (2) The popular name shall be “An Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution Concerning Job Creation, Job Expansion, and Economic Development.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND FIXED THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE ON THIS 1ST DAY OF MAY, 2016.

MARK MARTIN SECRETARY OF STATE STATE OF ARKANSAS

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District Court Hearings The following cases were heard before Judge Robert Abney in District Court Hearings held in the Courtroom at Des Arc City Hall on Monday, August 1, 2016: City Cases Jeffery C. Treadwell, Des Arc, charged with DWI-Third or More. Continued.

Devin Bonds, Des Arc, charged with Domestic Battering-Third. Continued to August 8, 2016.

James A. Norman, Des Arc, charged with Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor.

Guilty. Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $285.00.

James D. Alverson, Des Arc, charged with Violation of Cleanup Ordinance. Failed to Appear. Issue Letter.

Michael S. Hinshaw, Des Arc, charged with ATV on Highway. Continued to August 8, 2016.

Anthony S. Sanner, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Yield at Yield or Stop Sign and Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor. Guilty. Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $425.00.

Roy Alexander Calvert, charged with No Liability Insurance. Failed to Appear.

Issue Letter.

Wonda C. Steward, charged with Possession of Controlled Substance. Transfer Case to Hazen.

Jelicia M. Jackson, Des Arc, charged with Criminal Mischief-First and Battery-Third Degree-Class A Misdemeanor. Guilty.

Royce Wade Bell, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Appear on a Written Summons.

Guilty.

Ramona K. Clendenin, charged with Failure to Pay. Guilty. Sentenced to Twelve Days Prairie County Jail.

John Michael Chimbir, charged with Shoplifting.

Guilty. Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $350.00 and Five Days Community Service.

Britney Robinson, charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Plead Not Guilty.

Hearing set for September 8, 2016.

State Cases Andrew R. Gonzalez, charged with No Driver License, Exceeding Posted

Speed 79 MPH/55 Zone and Failure to Appear on a Written Summons. Failed to Appear.

Issue Letter.

Kenneth S. Morton, Ward charged with Failure to Pay. Failed to Appear. Issue Warrant.

Stanley Williams, charged with Failure to Obey Traffic Control Device. Plead Not Guilty. Hearing set for October 13, 2016.

Corey R. Lovett, charged with No Seat Belt. Bond Forfeited.

John R. Larker, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed 81 MPH/55 Zone. Plead Not Guilty by Attorney.

Richard Dixon, charged with Overweight on Registration. Continued to August 18, 2016.

Marcus T. Fisher, Des Arc, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed 91 MPH/55 Zone and Reckless Driving. Contined to August 18, 2016 by Motion of Defendant.

Jason Blake Bullock, charged with Criminal Trespass and Criminal Mischief.

Plead Not Guilty . Hearing set for September 8, 2016.

Prairie County Courthouse News The following information was obtained from the records at the Prairie County Courthouses in Des Arc and DeValls Bluff on Tuesday, August 2:

Marriage License Gary Lynn Dunlap, 45, Ward and Melissa L. Clanton, 44, Ward.

Land Transfers Quitclaim Deed Bonnie F. Reid and Marvin P. Reid, Sr, Mary A. Johnson and Delie Johnson, Glenda Gales and Leroy Gales, Carole Pool and Elbert Pool, Emma Jean Cate and William B. Cate, Aimee Riehle and

Wayne Riehle, Grantors, hand paid by James F. Felts, Grantee, the following described lands situated in the Northern District of Prairie County: A part of the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 33, T4N, R5W containing 1.0 acre, more or less.

Looking for a cooler home . . .

This young male terrier mix is being housed at the Des Arc Animal Shelter according to Dewayne Mayher, Animal Control officer. He is ready for his forever family to come and adopt him. Contact Officer Mayher, Des Arc City Hall at 870-256-4316.

Prairie County Jail Count The following inmates are incarcerated in the Prairie County Jail at Des Arc as of Tuesday, August 2, 2016, according to Sheriff Gary Burnett: Graham, Johnell Delacy, 19, charged with Aggravated Assault, Theft of Property, Theft by Receiving, Breaking or Entering and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. Intake date June 6, 2016.

Dulaney, Malary L., 31, charged with Attempted Murder, Kidnapping and Terroistic Threatening-Felony. Intake date May 5, 2016.

Monroe, Traci, 23, Commitment. INtake date May 5, 2016.

Allen, Wallace, 68, Commitment. Intake date Febr uary 24, 2016.

Metcalf, Nicoe Jerel, 28, charged with Probation Revocation. Intake date May 10, 2016.

Ward, Jacob Edward, 25, charged with Battery-First Degree. Intake date May 27, 2016.

Ramierez, Jose Rios, 31, charged with Possession of Controlled SubstanceFelony. Intake date May 14, 2016.

McGee, Nickey A., 54, Commitment.

Intake date May 19, 2016.

Earl, Teresa, 36, charged with Aggravated Assault. Intake date June 8, 2016.

Hudson, Keenan Letrell, 18, charged with Theft by Receiving, Theft of Property, Breaking or Entering and Contributing to

the Delinquency of a Minor. Intake date June 6 2016.

Cohen, Eric E., 34, charged with Possession of Firearms by Certain Persons and Delivery/Manufacture of Cocaine. Intake date June 28, 2016.

Langhorn, Necko Damein, 26, charged with Failure to Appear-Felony. Intake date June 30, 2016.

Brady, Melissa D., 38, Hold for PC Hearing. Hold for Another Department. Intake date July 11, 2016.

Johnson, Daymeun D., 18, Commitment. Intake date July 6, 2016.

Langhorn, Courtney Deontea, 32, charged with Battery-Third Degree. Intake date July 9, 2016.

Jackson, Jelecia M., 25, Commitment.

Battery-Third Degree and Criminal Mischief. Intake date July 14, 2016.

Rhyne, David Neal, 47, charged with Theft by Receiving, Resisting Arrest and Public Intoxication. Intake date July 25, 2016.

Counts, David, 39, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date July 23, 2016.

Williams, Justin W., 34, Commitment.

Intake date June 1, 2016.

Pritle, Ernest (Billy) Wilford, 61, Hold for PC Hearing. Intake date August 1, 2016.

Thomason, Trisha D., 35, charged with Possession of Instrument of Crime, Pos-

session of Controlled Substance and Endangering the Welfare of a Minor-Second.

Intake date August 2, 2016.

Bullock, Jason Blake, 37 , charged with Theft of Property, Criminal Mischief, Criminal Trespass, Theft of Property and Residential Burglary. Intake date July 26, 2016.

Anderson, Miranda Hope, 32, charged with Possession of Controlled Substance and Possession of Instrument of Crime.

Intake date August 2, 2016.

Bullock, Jennifer Rebekah, 42, charged with Theft by Receiving, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of Instrument of Crime. Intake date July 27, 2016.

Nolen, Nakeya Shauntae, 37, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date July28, 2016.

Steward, Wanda, 36, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date July 28, 2016.

Hughes, Roderick, 26, Hold for Another Department. Intake date August 1, 2016.

Carrell, Alejandro Ryan, 19, Commitment. Intake date August 1, 2016.

Sweat, Tyler Wayne, 26, charged with Residential Burglary, Theft of Property.

Hold for Another Department. Intake date July 26, 2016.

Robinson, Aaron, 53, charged with Parole Violation. Intake date August 1, 2016.

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YARD SALE: Friday & Saturday, August 5 & 6, 8 am to 1 pm. at 708 Pike Street. Furniture, women’s clothing, home décor, and much more. l 1p

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YARD SALE: Friday & Saturday, August 5 & 6, 8 am til. at 309 Willow Street (Patsy Pate).

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HUNTERS’ DREAM! Fish out the back door!! Cabin on the Lake, Lot Leased.

3 Large Rooms, plus kitchen, 1 bth, 300 sq/ ft. screened porch; Floating Boat Dock (2 boats) Horn Lake...............................................$37,000.

Woodworking Shop, 2000 sq. ft. bldg, plus Stg. Bldg. K & B Lane ............................................................................Price Reduced!......... $69,500.

3 Bdr. 2 Ba. 1612 sq ft, .73 acre, Hwy. 38 E. ........................................ $45,000.

MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE: Friday & Saturday, August 5 & 6, 8 am til. 1 PM. at 702 Erwin Street. TV’s, antiques, glassware, children’s clothing and misc. items.thing.

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YARD SALE: Saturday, August 6, 7 am til. 2 PM. at 5790 New Bethel Rd.; Quarter-mile west of 302 and 86 junction. B Ingle residence. Lots of Jeans!

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3-FAMILY YARD SALE: Friday & Saturday, Saturday, August 5 & 6, 7 am til at 302 Marion St., across from Dondie’s. Boy’s clothes, 7 & 8; girl’s clothes, 8 & 10; Women’s, Med & XL; Men’s, XL; shoes, collectibles, books, home décor, and more.

40+/-Acres Farm Land In Monroe Co. Arkansas

ON-LINE BANKRUPTCY AUCTION BIDDING ENDS WED., AUGUST 17TH AT 2:00 PM

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Consisting Of: 40+/- Acres Wetland That Is Land-Locked in Monroe County, AR. Legally Described As Tract 2: The Southwest Quarter (SW ¼) of the Northwest Quarter (NW ¼) of Section Twenty-Eight (28), Township One (1) North, Range Two (2) West. The Property Lies Between Grace Lane & Breeding Lane, East Of Clarendon, AR. A 10% Buyer’s Premium Will Apply To Purchase. All Offers Subject To Trustee’s Approval. This Property Will BE Sold Free & Clear Of All Liens. Terms: 20% Down At The Conclusion Of The Auction With The Balance Due In 30 Days At Closing. Purchaser Will Receive A Trustee’s Deed At Closing With The Courts Guarantee Of Good & Merchantable Title. See More Info At Our Website. BID NOW AT www.wooleyauctioneers.com.

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Accepting Applications The City of Des Arc is accepting applications for a Full-time Police Officer. Applicants must be ceertified.

Applications can be picked up at Des Arc City Hall.

Applications must include resume and can be returned to Des Arc City Hall or mailed to P. O. Box 389, Des Arc, AR 72040.

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DOGS FOR SALE FOR SALE: Airedale Puppies, AKC, tails docked, wormed. $475.00 each. Call 870-25653092 8/4/2c

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARKANSAS NORTHERN (DES ARC) DISTRICT PROBATE DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CASE NO. PR 2016-16 CHRISTINE CORRINE THORNTON, DECEASED NOTICE Christine Corrine Thornton, Decedent, Date of Death: April 6, 2016 Last Known Address for Decedent: 8323 New Cut Rd., Carlisle, AR 72040 On July 8, 2016, an affidavit for collection of a small estate by the distributees was filed with respect to the Estate of Christine Corrine Thornton, deceased, with the Clerk of the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas – Northern (Des Arc) District, under Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101.

All persons having claims against the estates must exhibit them, properly verified, to the distributees or his/her/their attorney within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this notice or they shall be forever barred and precluded from any benefit of the estate.

The name, mailing address, and telephone number of the distributees’ attorney is: Scott Bles, Attorney at Law ABN 97105 Bles Law Firm, PLC 906 W. Center St. P.O. Box 995 Beebe, AR 72012 501-882-6599 This notice was first published on July 28, 2016.

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22 / 45 tracked locations received last week’s JULY 28 issue on next day, FRI., JULY 29 USPS gets “A-” for delivery of JULY 28 issue

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Arkansas’ next-day-delivery reaches 16 consecutive weeks !

Group A: 9 of 10 post offices have now received WRJ on 16 consecutive Fridays (Searcy: 14 Fridays - 2 Saturdays) Sherwood has received WRJ on 15 of the last 16 Fridays (1 exception: Sat, 5/28) Hot Springs (Village) has received WRJ on 13 of the last 14 Fridays (1 exception: Sat, 7/30).

Greenbrier and Edgemont, Ar have received WRJ on 15 of the last 16 Fridays (1 exception: Saturday 5/14) Midvale, ID has received WRJ on 13 of the last 16 Mondays (3 exceptions: Tues, 5/31; Tues, 7/5; 7/21 issue still not received as of Aug 3) 6. Anaheim, CA rcvd WRJ on 11 of the last 16 Mondays (5 exceptions: Tues, 5/31, 6/14, 7/5; Sat., 4/9; 7/21 issue still not received as of Aug 3) 7. Non-proprietary deliveries for July 28 issue Mixed (97 total actual #delivery days - with 5 ”Non-Confirmations”) 8. Tracking Chart includes column for RECORD FEWEST #DAYS (quickest delivery time to date for each location); plus 4 columns showing Actual #delivery days at each location for the 4 previous issues.

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USPS Mail Facility in DATE MAILED NLR receives / distribThursday, Thursday, utes Journals to these 7 JULY 14 JULY 45 tracked locations

LOCATION (GROUP “A”) * Beebe * Cabot * Carlisle * Conway * Griffithville * Jacksonville * Lonoke * Searcy * Stuttgart * Ward

Thursday, JULY 21

ISSUES )

Thursday, JULY 28

Actual #Delivery Days (varies); Date Delivered

Record Fewest #Days

(1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)

( PREVIOUS 4

(1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)

(1) FRI., 7/8 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ”

(1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (2) (1) (1)

FRI., 7/15 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” SAT, 7/2 FRI., 7/1 FRI., ”

(1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)

FRI., 7/22 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ”

(1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)

FRI., 7/29 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ”

* Above 10 locations are each mailed in proprietary containers. The other 170± locations, including the 36 tracked below, are mixed in 7 total containers (all distributed by USPS in NLR).

GROUP “B” (21 ADDITIONAL ARKANSAS LOCATIONS) (4) MON, 7/18 (4) MON, 7/25 (4) MON, 8/1 (1) (4) MON, 7/11 Alma (1) FRI., 7/15 (1) FRI., 7/22 (2) SAT, 7/30 (1) (1) FRI., 7/8 Arkadelphia (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI, 7/29 (1) (1) FRI., ” Bald Knob (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) (1) FRI., ” Edgemont (8) FRI, 7/22 (2) SAT, 7/23 Not rcvd as of 8/3 (2) (5) TUES, 7/12 Forrest City (1) FRI., 7/15 (1) FRI., 7/22 (1) FRI, 7/29 (1) (1) FRI., 7/8 Greenbrier (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (2) SAT, 7/30 (1) (1) FRI, ” Hot Springs (5) TUES, 7/19 (5) TUES, 7/26 (5) TUES, 8/2 (2) (5) TUES, 7/12 Jonesboro (1) FRI., 7/22 (1) FRI, 7/29 ? ?

(1) Little Rock (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” ?

(1) (1) FRI., 7/8 Mabelvale (2) SAT, 7/16 ? ?

(1) (1) FRI, ” McGhee (1) FRI., 7/15 (1) FRI., 7/22 (1) FRI, 7/29 ?

North Little Rock (1) (2) SAT, 7/16 (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” Rose City, NLR (1) (1) FRI, 7/8 (2) SAT, ” (2) SAT, 7/23 (2) SAT, 7/30 (1) (1) FRI, ” Pine Bluff (4) MON, 7/25 (4) MON, 8/1 ?

(2) (4) MON, 7/11 Rogers (1) FRI., 7/15 (1) FRI., 7/22 (1) FRI, 7/29 (1) (1) FRI., 7/8 Romance (2) SAT, 7/16 Fri 7/22 & Sat 7/23 (2) SAT, 7/30 (1) (2) SAT, 7/9 Russellville (1) FRI., 7/15 (1) FRI., 7/22 (1) FRI, 7/29 (1) (1) FRI, 7/8 Sherwood (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” Tichnor, Gillette PO (1) (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) (1) FRI, ” Ulm (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) (1) FRI., ” Vilonia OUT OF STATE (14 LOCATIONS) (2) (4) MON, 7/11 Anaheim, CA Chicago/N Aurora, IL (2) (5) TUES, 7/12 (2) (2) SAT, 7/9 Dallas, TX (1) (2) SAT, ” Enid, OK Houston/Seabrook, TX (4) (4) MON, 7/11 (4) (6) WED, 7/13 Madison, AL Memphis/Bartlett, TN (1) (5) TUES, 7/12 Memphis/Millington (2) (12) TUES, 7/19 (4) (4) MON, 7/11 Midvale, ID (4) (4) MON, 7/11 Salem, OR Springfield, MO (4) (5) TUES, 7/12 (4) Not rcvd as of 7/27 Springfield, OH (2) (4) MON, 7/11 St Louis, MO W. Melbourne, FL (4) (7) THRS, 7/14 COLUMN TOTALS: (74) (109) actual days

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(4) MON, 7/25 (4) MON, ” (4) MON, ”

(4) MON, 8/1 (5) TUES, 8/2 (6) WED, 8/3

(Paper Not Mailed) Not rcvd as of 8/3 Not rcvd as of 8/3 Not rcvd as of 8/3 (4) MON, 8/1

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(6) WED, 8/3 (5) TUES, 8/2 (5) TUES, ” (5) TUES, ” (5) TUES, ”

(106) actual days

(91) actual days

(97) actual days

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WHITE RIVER JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016

World’s largest food supplier harvesting locally grown food Seneca Foods, the world’s largest food supplier, is currently harvesting pumpkins grown in the local area, according to the grower, Shawn Peebles of Augusta.The large pumpkin patch is located just east of the White County line in the Jasmine area.

Peebles, who planted and tended 240 acres of pumpkins said Wednesday ,”We grow them but they are contracted to Seneca Foods, the world’s largest food supplier. Seneca Foods does the harvesting and hauling.” The food supplier had a crew of 50 gathering the pumpkins here this week. “They have their own trucks and other equipment for harvesting,” Peebles said. He advised that these pumpkins will be going to Gerber’s and DelMonte after processing.

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According to Peebles, there will be approximately 100 trailer truck loads of the fruit shipped from the field to Princeville, Ill. “These are organic fruit no chemicals were added to their growing process,” said Peebles. He added, “We grow other organic foods including 500 acres of green beans.” He added that his father has about 15 acres of watermelons and cantaloupes in the Augusta area.

Peebles said, “You might find some of these pumpkins in cans on your grocer’s shelf come this Thanksgiving.”

Shawn Peebles and wife, Kelly, and children, Kyley, 13; Pearson, 7, and Parker, 5, and his dad, Dallas Peebles and wife, Katie, are all Augusta residents.

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YOUR NEXT PUMPKIN PIE? Liam Allwhite was checking out the pumpkins as his grandmother, Sarah Tate, was getting these pictures for the White River Journal this week. This 240-acre field of pumpkins located north of Des Arc was being harvested this week by Seneca Foods.

100 truck loads of pumpkins being harvested this week by Senaca Foods from this field in the Jasmine area north of Des Arc.

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