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INDEPENDENCE DAY BIKE PARADE These youngsters of the First Baptist Church in Des Arc were seen at 5th & Erwin on Sunday morning, July 3 honoring our nation’s Independence Day with a parade. Their various modes of transporation were decorated in a red, white and blue theme.

Photo by Beth Hill

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SAT., JULY 9 MON., JULY 11 4:30 PM Harvey’s Pony League Sr. Eagle Football travel to Crossett for Seven on Seven-Cabot State Baseball Tournament MGood ON., JLuck!

ULY 11, 2:30 - 6:30 Red Cross Blood Drive SAT., JULY 9, 6 PM First Baptist Church Movie “Abel’s Field” 4th & Erwin, Des Arc DVB Community Center MON., JULY 11, 6:00 PM MON., JULY 11,8 AM-1 PM PC Republican Party meet Football Workout Hurley House Cafe-Hazen Jr. High-11am-1pm Julie Benefield, speaker Sr. High-8-10 am.

SMATON .,.,JULY AM JULY16, 1184:30 PM Pride of the Prairie Sr. Eagle Football Football Seven onCamp Seven-Cabot Hinson-Rollins Field MON., JULY 11, 2:30 - 6:30 MRed ON-WED, JUL. 18-20,6Cross Blood Drive 8:30 PM First Baptist Church Bible 4th &School Erwin,atDes Arc Gospel Mission MON., JULY 11, 6:00 PM WPC ED., JULY 20, 8AM-3:00PM Republican Party meet Seniors Register Hurley House Cafe-Hazen Also Sr. Photos TUES., JULY 12, 12 NOON Des Arc Lions Club Methodist Church TUES., JULY, 12, 6:00 PM Prairie County Quorum Court Courthouse Annex THURS.,JULY 14,8AM-4:30PM Tax Collectors office closed for continuing education classes SAT., JULY 16, 8 AM Pride of the Prairie Football Camp Hinson-Rollins Field MON-WED,JUL18-20,6-8:30 Bible School at Gospel Mission WED., JULY 20, 8AM-3:00PM Seniors Register Also Sr. Photos

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NEWS RELEASE “Delta:Rediscovered” at Prairie County Historical Museum “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 5th, 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.

Master photographer Dayton Bowers operated the earliest known photography studio and gallery in Arkansas, active in DeWitt from 1880-1924. His photographs are recognizable for their clarity and wide range of subject matter. Bowers traveled the bayou country, photographing daily life and the rise of prosperity in Arkansas County prior to the Crash of 1929. He also photographed hundreds of portraits in his studio during this time.

Several Bowers photos are featured in the book, Daughter of the White River (History Press, 2013) written by Denise White Parkinson based on six years of research and interviews with LC Brown, a beloved historian of the White River.

This touring exhibit, a fraction of the archive donated to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies by the late LC Brown in memoriam to his wife, Anna Grace Bowers Brown, is made possible by grants from the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the Morris Foundation.

Visit the Facebook page “The Rediscovered Archives of Dayton Bowers” for updates on newly discovered Bowers photos from family albums across the region.

Prairie County Historical Museum, 715 Ash Street in DeValls Bluff, Arkansas (in the former High School Building), is open Tuesday – Friday, 10 am – 4 pm. For more info, contact Museum Curator Debbie Cook: 870-256-5171 or email: debbiecook01@yahoo.com.

Benafield DATE OF THE MEETING: June 27, 2016 speaker at MEMBERS PRESENT: Brown, Childers, Hinson, Holloway, Kennedy, Republican Morton, Reidhar, Hill meeting VISITORS PRESENT: Dena Rooks MINUTES OF THE DES ARC BOARD OF EDUCATION

Julie Benafield, Chief Deputy in the office of AtThe Des Arc Board of Education met in a regular schedtorney General Leslie Rutuled meeting on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. ledge in Little Rock, will be the guest speaker at a meetA motion to adopt the minutes of the last meeting on ing of the Prairie County May 23, 2016, was made by Mr. Kennedy, seconded by Mr. Republican Committee on Morton. The vote was unanimous.

Monday, July 11. The meeting begins at 6 p. m. and The following regular reports were given by the will be held at the Hurtley Superintendent: House in Hazen.

Benefield will address a. School District Financial Statement the group and will also anb. May Operating Fund Warrants swer any questions regardc. Federal Programs Financial Statements ing issues that will be ind. Activities Funds Financial Statement cluded on the November 8, e. Lunchroom Financial Statement 2016 General Election ballot.

A motion to approve submission of the financial report “This is an open meeting for audit was made by Mr. Morton, seconded by Mr. Holand everyone is welcome to loway, and the vote was unanimous. attend,” said Rita Dobson of Des Arc, committee ITEM I: A motion was made to adopt a board chairman. meeting calendar for the 2016-2017 school year. The moDobson is also chairman tion was made who

by Mr. Kennedy, and seconded by Mr. veterans fought INDEPENDENCE DAY: Flags were flying at the Hickory Plains Cemetery on July 4 to honor of the Prairie County ReChilders.

The vote wasClub unanimous. for America’s freedom and are buried there. The flags were placed by women of the Busy Hands Extension publican Party.

School Board accepts two resignations, approves $95,919 bus purchase The Des Arc Board of Education met for their regular monthly meeting Monday, June 27, with the following board members present: Charlie Brown, Kent Chiders, Billy Hinson, Sylvester Holloway, Eric Kennedy, Stewart Morton and Johnny Reidhar.

High School Superintendant Nick Hill and Dena Rooks, elementary principal, were also present.

A motion was made to adopt the minutes of the May 23 meeting. The vote was unanimous.

Superintendent Hill Julie Benafield, Chief gave thewith regular reports on Deputy Attorney Genfinancial activeral Lesliestatements, Rutledges office, ities, federal will be the guest;programs, speaker at lunchroom financial statethe Prairie County Republiments as meeting well as May opercan Party Monday, ating11, fund warrants.

July 2016 at the Hurley Theinmotion approve House Hazen.to The meetsubmission financial ing will beginofatthe 6:00 p.m. report for audit was unanimously approved.

Eight items of business

were introduced.

A motion was unanimously approved to adopt a Board meeting calendar for the 2016-17 school year.

The Board voted to accept the resignations of Scott Willhite, high school teacher and Katlynn Burchfield, elementary school teacher.

The vote was unanimous to employ Margaret Strain Thompson as a secondary math teacher and Danielle Mannon as a secondary social studies teacher with the condition that make adequate Sheboth will be speaking and yearly progress in the answering questions reAPPEL program. garding items that will be bidNovember from Bruce8,Sutton on Athe 2016 in the amount ofballot. $3,280.00 General Election for“Everyone mowing services at the is welcome,” elementary school Elecas said Prairie County needed for the remainder tion Commission Chairof the was unaniman Ritayear Dobson. mously accepted.

A motion was made and approved by the Board to

ITEM II: The board voted to accept the resignations of Scott Willhite, high school teacher, and Katlynn Burchfield, elementary school teacher. Mr. Holloway made the motion, which was seconded by Mr. Kennedy. A

accept a contract with Walker Physical Therapy/ Occupational Therpy for the 2016-17 school year.

The purhase of an 89passenger Blue Bird school bus at a cost of $95,915.00 from Central Bus Sales was unanimously approved.

A financial agreement with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in the amount of $1,000.00 per year for the next three years was also approved.

The transfer of funds in the amount of $85,000.00 from the Operation and Maintenance funds to the building fund was apBruce Guthrie proved unanimously on a Bruce Guthrie motion by Holloway and a second from Kennedy.

Bruce Guthrie will begin the 2016-17 school term as Yhe next regular schedprincipal of Des Arc High School. uled meeting is Monday, Principal Guthrie resides at Searcy and is married to July 25, at 7:00 p.m. Meetwife, Megan, who is Orchestra Teacher at Searcy High ings are held in the superSchool. intendent’s office at the He earned his Masters in Education Leadership at ASUhigh school.

Jonesboro. The Guthrie’s have four children, two boys and two girls. Their oldest son attends UALR-School of Law and their oldest daughter is a Senior Searcy Bruce Guthrie has ac- children, twoatsons andHigh and School.

They other children six daughters.. and one years old.oldcepted the position of prin- aretwo Their Guthrie says heArc loves spending family, deep cipal for the Des High est time son with attends UALRsea fishing and duck hunting.

Guthrieof stated,” am excitSchool, and will begin his School Law Iand their ed to be at Des I am looking forward to duties with the Arc startand of the oldest daughter is ameeting Senior the students in August”.

2016-17 school year. He at Searcy High School. The Mr. Guthrie high school princisucceeds Joshreplaces KesslerJosh in Kessler other as children are six and the contract at$227,206.05. pal. that position. one year old.

Construction i Principal Guthrie earned Guthrie says he loves s scheduled to begin in two his Masters in Education spending time with family, to four weeks, weather perLeadership at ASU-Jones- deep sea fishing and duck mitting. Completion isexboro. hunting. He stated,” I am pected in late 2016.

Guthrie and his wife, excited to be at Des Arc and Improvements are also Megan, reside in Searcy, I am looking forward to scheduled in Woodruff, where she is orchestra meeting the students in White, Monroe, Lonoke teacher at Searcy High August”. and Arkansas counties.

School. They have four

Bruce Guthrie joins Des Arc school staff as high school principal

Highway Department accepts bid for improvement in Prairie County Arkansas Highway Commission Approves Bid for Improvements in Prairie County The Arkansas State Highway Commission has approved a bid for improvements to roadways in Prairie County, according to Arkansas State Highway and Transportation De-

partment (AHTD) officials.

The purpose of this project is to reseal 9.2 miles of County Roads 11 and 12 near Hazen, County Road 14 near Crossroads and County Roads 29 and 425 near Jasamine.

Salt Creek Paving & Construction Company, Inc. of Benton was award ed

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By Steve Barnes (Guest Writer) Long-time Print and Broadcast Journalist Copyright 2000: Editorial Associates, Inc.

email Several days before the F.B.I. announced it would not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, I received an e-mail from Facebook. It seemed my wife wanted to “Friend” me. Should I consent, I had only to click “Confirm” and we could keep up with one another, exchange photographs, share memories, etc., etc.

I called my wife to express appreciation that, after 34 years of marriage, she desired to be my friend. And that now we could keep up with one another, and share memories, pictures, etc., etc.

“Have you clicked on it?” she blurted.

“No.” “Don’t!” she exclaimed. “I’ve been hacked!”

It still is not clear to me whether Facebook was compromised, or only my wife’s account; or whether the on-line interloper had merely canvassed the Internet for names and e-mail addresses to target with sinister intent. (I did learn that untold numbers of Facebook “followers” received similar messages).

It was clear to me, because the pertinent statutes were clear, that an indictment of Hillary Clinton for conducting State Department business on a private email server was exceptionally unlikely and her conviction even less so. The requirement that prosecutors demonstrate intent to deliberately share or otherwise disclose classified information with an unauthorized party is an imposing threshold. Not even Clinton’s sternest critics (to exclude the overtly nutty) suggested she knowingly shared official secrets with an adversarial government. But the F.B.I.’s examination found a number of e-mails that contained material designated by the sender as secret, directly contradicting her assertion to the contrary.

Now, I am anything but a cyber-sophisticate; a month ago I “upgraded” (at the manufacturer’s demand) to a newer version of computer operating system and I have yet to master some of its basic functions. But years before January 2008, when Clinton became Secretary of State, I realized that my system was subject to attack, random or site-specific; that my account was vulnerable to an outsider, whether a snoopy whiz kid down the street or a bank thief on another continent; and thus that any e-mails I sent or received were, subject only to an intruder’s level of curiosity, open to inspection.

So what is clear to me and, I suspect, countless others, is why an individual of Clinton’s intellect could believe that conducting public business on a private, unsecured channel was appropriate or prudent. Yes, there was the “convenience” component that Clinton and her staff cited to reporters and investigators -why carry two smartphones instead of one? But the operative element in the entire e-mail controversy can be found in the State Department Inspector General’s report, in a message Clinton sent to her aides regarding digital devices: “I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.” It is the default position on Clinton’s operating system.

Nobody wants the personal to be accessible. But it is. Nobody, save perhaps the Wikileaks gang, wants critical, operational state secrets -- troop movements, high-level negotiations, defense capabilities -- becoming accessible, but they can be, either hijacked in cyber-space or, as Edward Snowden demonstrated, copied and opened to the world.

None of the e-mails recovered from the Clinton server jeopardized the national interest, cold comfort.

An assault on the Clinton server was attempted but failed, the F.B.I. reported, though it is fair, eminently fair, to wonder whether more skilled hackers, persons or governments, might have cracked it.

That too much government data is over-classified is provable, but a discussion for another time. Not for the first time does the conversation involve Clinton’s lifelong obsession with a concept of privacy that cannot withstand the political imperatives of public life and certainly not the technology of the times. The Clinton server is but a symbol of the Clinton passion for holding the cards close to the vest, keeping outsiders at bay. The impulse is understandable, human; its ramifications in governance are unsettling.

Although the F.B.I. director was sharply critical of Clinton’s “extremely careless” reliance on a home server, my sense is that the political shelf life of her personal circuitry, like the Benghazi tragedy, has all but expired. What nags is what lurks beneath -- not the careless but the calculated. Patterns, by definition, repeat.

A come-on from a [begin ital] faux [end ital] Facebook, an invitation from an imposter, can prove annoying at a minimum and agonizing to anyone thoughtless enough, careless enough, to keep valuable information stored on their computer. The stakes are higher for those in the national security arena.

But, again, it really isn’t about e-mails. It’s about attitude.

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Trump's Logical VP: Bernie Sanders

By Fareed Zakaria Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan have explained that their core rationale in supporting Donald Trump is that only he can ensure the success of conservative, free market ideas. The alternative, Ryan notes, is Hillary Clinton, who would simply continue Barack Obama's policies. One wonders how Ryan will continue to justify his support now that Trump has made clear that he will run for the presidency as the most protectionist candidate since the 1920s. On the central issue of trade, Trump is in broad agreement with Bernie Sanders and significantly to the left of Obama and Clinton.

Free trade is at the heart of free markets. Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was in large part a critique of government's regulation, manipulation and taxation of trade, all of which, Smith argued, undermine growth and prosperity. Ryan understands this well, which is why he has voted in favor of every free trade agreement presented to him while in Congress: with Peru, South Korea, Central America, Australia, Singapore and Chile. Ryan also aggressively supported granting the Obama administration "trade promotion authority," so that it could complete a trade deal with Asian countries.

Trump, on the other hand, regards free trade as the cause of American decline. He has criticized virtually all of America's recent trade deals. For him, China's entry into the World Trade Organization has been "disastrous." On these trade matters, American manufacturing, and now Brexit, Trump's positions are largely indistinguishable from Bernie Sanders'. Yet Republicans continue to call Sanders a socialist and Trump a conservative.

The appeal of both Trump and Sanders has many politicians mouthing cliches about the deep problems with globalization. It is true that two gifted populists have been able to give voice to people's fears about a fast-changing world. But this does not alter the truth. Their central charge is false. Free trade has not caused the hollowing out of American manufacturing.

Manufacturing as a share of all American jobs has been declining for 70 years, as part of a transition experienced by every advanced industrial economy. All other developed countries from Australia to Britain to Germany — which is often seen as a manufacturing powerhouse — have seen similar declines over the

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Paul Ryan’s Hot New Idea: More Rank Corporate Giveaways

By Jim Hightower

Attention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he has an idea!

This is news because the GOP leadership hasn’t offered a new idea in years.

Instead, they’ve simply been the party of no, opposing all proposals put forward by Democrats and nixing everything that big majorities of Americans want Congress to act on — like a jobs program to repair our collapsing infrastructure and a raise in the minimum wage to above the poverty level.

So some were excited when Speaker Ryan called a major press conference to present his idea for fixing the economy.

But, sheesh.

It’s a rehash of the same old stale “idea” the GOP has for every issue: Eliminate government protections for consumers, workers, our environment, and so forth, so corporate profiteers can run roughshod over us. That’s the sole idea in the highly hyped, 57-page “economic agenda” that Ryan is peddling like a snake oil salesman.

His “fix” is to roll back hundreds of important regulations that restrain corporate rapaciousness. For example, he

wants to free Wall Street bankers, for-profit colleges, cable giants, and others from rules that prevent them from ripping off and otherwise harming consumers.

A provision in the plan also repeals “all climate change regulations under the Clean Air Act” — a sweet favor for Big Coal and electric utility companies.

Ryan would even cancel ethics rules that require retirement advisers to act in their client’s best interests, rather than taking kickbacks for persuading clients to put their savings in bad investments.

By calling these rank corporate giveaways an “economic agenda,” Ryan himself is committing a shameful, immoral fraud against the American people.

His plan would “fix” our economy in the same way a veterinarian fixes your dog.

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Saddam Hussein killed well, Trump says Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who frequently criticizes U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has praised former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruthlessness.

"Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? ... But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good," Trump told a campaign rally Tuesday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. "They didn't read 'em the rights, they didn't talk. They were a terrorist, it was over."

Trump has previously said the world would be "100 percent better" if dictators like Hussein and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi were still in power. Prior to the U.S. invasion, Iraq was

listed by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Jake Sullivan, a Clinton senior policy adviser, said Trump's "praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds."

Sullivan said such comments "demonstrate how dangerous he would be as Commander-in-Chief and how unworthy he is of the office he seeks."

Trump's foreign policy pronouncements have proved controversial, even within the Republican Party. He has said the United States is too fully engaged around the world and has questioned the role of NATO and said the United States has been taken advantage of by nations benefiting from its security cooperation and troop presence.

Some critics within the GOP have said his policies

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last several decades. Even South Korea, which has tried many kinds of protectionism, has experienced a drop in manufacturing as it has become a more advanced economy. This shift is partly a result of free trade, but serious studies show that the much larger cause is technology. One steelworker today makes five times as much steel per hour as he or she did in 1980.

Technology is transforming the global economy in ways that are not employment-friendly. At its height, Kodak, the leading image company of its day, employed 140,000 people, as Jaron Lanier has noted. Its equivalent today, Instagram, had a payroll of just 13 when it was bought by Facebook. That's not because of trade with China or Mexico.

I grew up in a country — India in the 1960s and '70s — that followed economic policies premised on the idea that free trade was disastrous and that domestic manufacturing had to be protected. Those policies of "import substitution" only ensured that India ended up with utterly inefficient, sclerotic industries that cost the taxpayers vast sums of money and kept the country poor and stagnant. The historical record is clear. Over the last 50 years, the countries that have grown the most are those that have opened themselves up to global markets.

It is not surprising that Bernie Sanders embraces the policies of failed socialist and quasi-socialist governments from decades past. Nor is it that surprising that Donald Trump, whose views on everything are a strange mishmash of gut reactions, prejudice and emotion, finds them appealing. But it is stunning that serious conservative Republicans who are devoted to free market ideas are backing Trump, looking the other way and crossing their fingers. The cost of doing so is now clear: Donald Trump will transform the GOP into a protectionist, nationalist party. The logical choice for this new party's vice president is obvious — Bernie Sanders.

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a gamechanging political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

- Ron Fournier

suggest an isolationist stance in an increasingly dangerous world.

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Laugh-In Corner Believing is believing . . .

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".

The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"

The little girl replied, "Then you ask him."

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Thursday, July 9, 1931

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fficials in Washington today acclaimed the eight-day dash around the world

by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty with a round of ovations for the hardy fliers. They received the greetings and congratulations of President Hoover and were his guests at a luncheon.

The filling station and garage formerly owned by Ackler Williams and recently bought by Mr. J. D. Shreeves, was burned to the ground about 8 o’clock Tuesday morning. The station was located on the pike, three miles west of Des Arc and was enjoying a nice patronage.

Des Arc and vicinity was hit Monday afternoon with a deluge of rain and wind storms that did considerable damage. Corn was blown down, creekbottom crops covered with water, and many nice shade and big oak trees in a narrow path across the south part of town were uprooted and broken down. W. N. Harris, E. A. Reinhardt and Mrs. Addie Brown’s property was the worst damaged in town.

Owen Walls, who has been employed at the Suitt’s Barber Shop for several months, is now engaged at the Ragan Shop down the street and invites his old friends to call on him at Tom’s Place.

The Baptist Church regular announces services will be held on the second and fourth Sunday in each month, morning and evening.

Rev. Robert Beasley, pastor, announces services at 11 a. m.

Sunday and 7:30 Sunday evening. J. W. Watson, Sunday School su-

perintendent, announces Sunday School at 9:45.

Misses Pansy Oury and Pauline Lumpkin visited friends in Hazen and attended the barbecue at Carlisle, Saturday.

Sheriff J. J. Holmes carried a couple of prisoners who wanted to plead guilty, to DeWitt Circuit Court now in session Tuesday. The prisoners received sentence and the sheriff carried them on to the penitentiary. He was accompanied on the trip by County Clerk B. R. Harrison.

Des Arc Merchants have agreed to close their stores at noon Thursdays and remain closed the rest of the day May 7 through September 24. (U. E. Brown advises: Since my competitor, Henderson Cafe, has seen fit to violate the above agreement, I hereby announce to the public that the Brown Sandwich Shop, from this date, will be open night and day, and give you prompt service and courteous treatment at all times.)

Baseball - Des Arc vs DeWitt, on the local diamond, Sunday afternoon, July 12. DeWitt has a fast team and has defeated Des Arc two games, but Des Arc battery for this game is going to make them run their socks off.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ingram of Los Angeles, Calif., arrived last week to spend several weeks with parents. We acknowledge a visit from Elmer and cash on subscription.

We’ll take a dozen nice young hens or fryers on subscription.

Bring them in - market price. Editor.

Thursday, July 8, 1943

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es Arc Young Business men’s Club affiliate has entered three bathing beauties in the “Miss Eastern Arkansas” bathing beauty contest being held in Forrest City today. The young ladies are Miss Sue Kirkwood, Miss Betty Hamilton and Miss Martha Pearl Grady. Winner at the contest will compete at Atlantic City later in the year. Members of the YBMC attending the East Arkansas YMC were J. E. Berry, N. R. Kirkwood, F. L. Grady, Louis Barlow and L. R. Brown.

Our young friends, Tommy Winchester and Louis Howard Roe of this city, recent high school graduates, left this a. m. to join the U. S. Navy.

The report of condition at the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Des Arc at the close of busness June 30, 1943, shows total resources as $425,792.17.

Aviation Radioman Wm. D. Horton, has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Nora DeVore Horton and sisters, Misses Betty and Nora Mae, in Des Arc. He recently was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. He and his plane were aboard the Wasp when it was sunk and he was ordered to the states to be stationed in California as an instructor.

Jesse Key advertises: Hound Dog Owners, I want to buy a load of hound dogs in Des Arc, the third Friday in July. I will pay you cash for Bring your them. hounds to Des Arc if you want to sell them.

Stoves may be rationed. A nice bunch of heater stoves just received at Berry Furniture Store in Des Arc. The Magic Empire Shows, one of the best

carnivals on the road, will be in Des Arc all next week. A nice clean aggregation.

Ella’s Place, next door to Caskey Hardware Store: Eat when Hungry, Drink when Dry, good eats, cold drinks, hot coffee, cigars, cigarettes.

A. P. Thomas, Mngr.

Somewhere in IRAN where the sun is like a curse; and each day is followed closely by another slightly worse; where the red brick dust blows thicker than the shifting desert sand, and a Yankee’s wishful thinking’s for a cleaner, fairer land. Somewhere in IRAN where a woman’s never seen, where the sky is never cloudy and the grass is never green, where the Jackal’s nightly howling robs a man of blessed sleep where there isn’t any whiskey and the beer is never cheap. Somewhere in IRAN where the nights are made for love, where the moon is like a spotlight and the southern cross above, sparkles like a diamond necklace on the throat of tropic night, Tis a shameful waste of beauty for there’s not a gal in sight.

Somewhere in IRAN where the postman comes so late, that a Christmas Card in April is considered up to date, where we never have a pay day so of course have not a cent, but we do not miss the money, cause we could’nt get it spent. Somewhere in IRAN, where the snakes and lizards play, where a thousand sand flies gather to replace each one you play, take me back to Arkansas, let me hear the mission bell, for this God forsaken outpost is a substitute for hell. (This composition was received a few days ago by fellow townsman, Judge W. J. Caskey from his son, Lieut. Billy Caskey from somewhere in IRAN.)

Thursday, July 12, 1958

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r . Otis Galloway of Des Arc was hired as the new superintendent of the Des Arc Consolidated Schools at the school board’s meeting last Friday night. He replaces Leon Coker as of July 1. He has been Vocational Counselor in the school here since July 1951.

At the annual outing and fish fry of the Lions Club at Whitaker’s Camp on the Bayou here Tuesday, the new officers were installed by District Governor Frank Walton of Stuttgart, following the serving of 70 members and guests. Tom E. Fisher, pres.; J. E. Berry, 1st vp; Leo Simmons, 2nd vp; Howard Ford, 3rd vp; C. J. Rister, sec.; A. L. Berry, Tail Twister; Bill Johnson, Lion Tamer, and board members, Albert Erwin Jr., Owen Walls, William Bell and Billy Garth.

Mrs. R. S. Whitaker has sold her camp at the Bayou Bridge here, home and 100 acres this week to Marshel Stephens and wife, the former Pauline Burnett. The camp has also been known in years past at the Calhoun Place, Bill Wells and J. B. Steele Fishing Camp.

Sheriff E. O. Hamilton had one young man from Pangburn in the county jail here this week charged with raising a check and for theft. He was arrested

by Deputy H. L. Forrester Sunday on complaint of Weems Filling Station in Hazen. He cashed a check for $3, which was raised to $31 made out to him by John Auersperg of DeValls Bluff for whom he had worked a half day.

and Arthur Holland and Ernest Thurmond.

Mrs. Natalie Childress, clerk of the Prairie County Draft Board, sent two for induction into service this week: Jasper Benjamin Prince Jr. of Brasfield; and Lester W. Seymore, formerly of Rt. 1, Griffithville, now of East Wilton, Maine, a transfer.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo (Mae) Simmons attended the meeting of the Production Credit Association at the Velda Rose Motel in Hot Springs, Sunday to Tuesday. Leo is a field worker for the Lonoke PCA. Mayor T. E. Atkins advises that all dogs in the Town of Des Arc must be licensed by the end of July 1958. Take your dog to Marvin King at the Palace Drug Store for rabies shots, $1.25. Take rabies tag to City Hall and get license for $1.00. Tags must be affixed to dog’s collar.

The Young Adult Class of the Des Arc Methodist Sunday School presented Mr. and Mrs. Leon Coker with a complete silver coffee service as a goingaway gift for the approximately ten years Mr. Coker taught the class.

Mr. Sid L. Edwards of Cross Roads, director of the First Electric Co-op of Jacksonville and Mrs. Edwards attended the 20th anniversary annual meeting at Heber Springs on June 20.

Mrs. Cora Leigh Wallace, owner and operator of the New Beauty Shop in Des Arc, attended the Carl Hill Beauty Show at the Ellis Auditorium in Memphis last weekend. She was the winner of a $25.00 A highway department hair styling class under crew of 18 men started Charles Colesant.

Tuesday of this week putDee Holloway, who we ting a sealing coat on Highway 38 from Little all recognize here as a Dixie to the White River White River Philosopher, Bridge at Des Arc. Of the and who has been in a crew, several are former hospital the past three residents of this commu- years, arrived back at his nity: Bill Fowler, C. B. home here this week.

Gage, R. D. Sears, Oscar

More from the Past

REVEALED: Mystery Des Arcian getting haircut 59 years ago at Ft. Chafee Several people have quizzed the Journal about who the “mystery person from Des Arc” was getting a haircut in this “1956” photo published last week (couldn’t wait to find out).

There was also an inquiry about who the man wearing the hat was ...

Linda Tucker Patterson thought it looked like, her father, Rep Tucker, who “once drove a bus taking young men to get haircuts”.

Actually the man weating a hat (first name unknown) was a barber who was instructing his son, Joe Cunningham, on giving his first-ever haircut to a brave new Army soldier named Floyd Calhoun.

Per Floyd, the picture had to have been taken in January 1957 when he first went to Ft. Chafee for basic training - and taken probably for a keepsake to

show Joe performing his first haircut.

It was only by sheer coincidence more recently, that his long-time and regular barber, Joe Cunningham, now semi-retired and known as “East Side Joe” of Searcy happened to show Floyd the above photo. Neither man realized who the other was ... until Floyd suddenly recognized himself sitting in the chair and said: “My Gosh (or something similar), That’s Me!” Obviously, both men were in absolute shock ... almost 60 years had passed, and both are now beyond 80.

Floyd still drives to Searcy to have Joe cut his hair, although he only works mornings about twice a week. His grand daughter is now the only full-time barber in the shop (located on Race St).

Joe spends most of his time now caring for his

paralyzed wife.

Floyd graduated from DAHS in 1954, was drafted Young Mystery hunter of the Northside Comin 1956, and later was munity in 1949 - Identity revealed next week based at Ft Bragg, NC and Germany.

A retired farmer, he and his wife, Ila Jean (daughter of Duke Morton) have two children: daughter Cheryl (Bill) Holland and son Keith (Michelle) Calhoun plus 4 grandchildren and 1 great- grandchild.

Last week’s June 30 issue had a larger photo of the Griffithville Hotel (above inset), built in 1916 by Elvis Presley getting haircut at William Story. Above, the Story Family in a 1913 photo, l-r: William N. Story, Eunice Story Hamilton, Ft. Chaffee (US Army 1958-’59) Stella Story (holding baby Stella, Lilly Story and Robert Story (All photos courtesy of Wendell Porter)

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Ramblings . . .

by Verna Herkamp I view the words love, compassion and emotion as cousins. We feel those words toward our pets and even the work horse who has served us well for so long.

Some of you must remember the story of the elephant and the duck that was featured on a television show a few years ago. Each day, the elephant and duck would meet near the fence where the elephant was pastured. The elephant would reach his trunk over the fence and touch the duck. One day the duck was not there and did not come back again. For a while the elephant came and waited for his friend.

Someone asked Billy Graham if there would be animals in Heaven. He quoted scripture that tells us there will be. I hope the duck and elephant will be reunited again.

How many times have we seen a mother cat move her babies to a safer place when she thinks the old nest is not safe. When baby Eagles are old enough to fly, the mother Eagle will push them out of the nest, something parents find hard to do.

Sometimes we hold places as dear to us as we do a pet. Once I went back to the farm where my husband and I started our lives together. The house burned down and I couldn’t bare to go back anymore.

I like to watch both local and national news on the same tv station. The people we see each morning and night, that lets us know both the good and bad that is going on around the world, become like friends.

The same is true with people whose music we like or entertainers who entertain us. When they leave us for the next life, we feel we have lost a personal friend.

Barnyard Roundup: The theme for the Family Worship Center Vacation Bible School being held July 5-8 is “Barnyard Roundup”. Forty children were in attendance on Wednesday evening according to Jenna Edwards, director. Bro. Mike Edwards is Pastor, There will be no closing ceremony.

O B I T U A R I E S Services at Hazen for Danna Jean Owen Shook Danna Jean Owen Shook, a resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, departed this life on Sunday, July 3, 2016, at the age of 86 years. She was born on September 6, 1929, in Hazen, Arkansas, to the late Dan C. and Ethel M. Owen. On July 4, 1947, she was united in marriage to Dr. Clayton Forrest Shook who precedes her in death.

She is survived by two daughters, Danna and husband Ronn Hearn of Eureka Springs, and Sandra and husband Bryan Simoneaux of Enterprise, Alabama; four grandchildren, Jennie Hearn Wetterman, Benjie Jean Hearn Tinonga, Bart Simoneaux, and Brent Simoneaux; and six great grandchildren, Arden, Melissa, Tanner, Sydney, Noah, and Everett.

She served faithfully in the ministry as a minister’s wife for fifty-three years. managed the She Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary

Bookstore in Minden, Louisiana, for twenty years.

After moving to Eureka Springs in 2002, she was a member of the St. John’s Berryville Hospital Auxiliary and served as Chaplain. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Berryville. At her death she was a resident of Brighton Ridge Nursing Center where she was named Ms. Brighton Ridge in 2014.

Visitation will be held from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 7, at Westbrook Funeral Home in Hazen. The funeral service will be at Calvary Baptist Church in Hazen, Friday, July 8, at 10:00 AM, with Rev Glen L. Hamilton, Rev Bryan Simoneaux, Rev Ron Province, Rev Jewel Vance, and Rev Freddie Holmes officiating.

Pallbearers are Ronn Hearn, Gregg Wetterman, Matt Tinonga, Bart SiBrent Simoneaux, moneaux, and Johnny Kee. Burial will be at Center

Teach children to swim early as possible

Services held at Carlisle for Martha D. Buffalo

Drowning #1 Cause For Unintentional Injury Death For Kids 1 to 4 Years Of Age Summer is here, which means millions of people hit the pools, beaches and lakes to cool off and take in the sun. The nation’s emergency physicians strongly advise all parents and guardians to get their children familiar with water specifically teaching them to swim safely as early as possible.

“It only takes a few seconds and a few inches of water for a child to drown,” said Dr. Jay Kaplan, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. “While it’s impossible to predict and prevent every scenario, you can take steps to protect kids, stay safe and still enjoy the water.”

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death among children between 1 and 4 years of age, with almost 400 cases reported in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Young children aren’t the only ones affected. Every day about ten people die from unintentional drowning. Overall, it ranks fifth for unintentional injury death in the United States.

More than 50 percent of drowning victims who are treated at emergency departments require extended hospitalization or longterm care.

Several factors can contribute to a person drowning and obviously not all of them can be controlled.

However, steps can be taken to keep a child and even an adult safe as possible when near or in the water.

Martha Deloris Krisell Buffalo, of Carlisle, born May 15, 1921, died June 29, 2016. She was preceded in death by parents Ernest and Jeannie Krisell; her husband Adolph Buffalo, sons, Larry Buffalo and Harry Buffalo, grandson Adam Ball, brothers Otha, Billy, Herbert, Buddy and Leonard Krisell, and sister Pearl Sanders.

She is survived by her children, Marvin (Hannah) Buffalo, Miriam (Tommy) McCallie, Brenda (Larry) Buffalo, Nancy (Harry) Buffalo, Bob (Joy) Buffalo, Judy (John) Moran, and Marsha Ball; grandchildren, Terry Buffalo, Sherri ( Jerry) Byrum, Pam (Walt) White, Willy (Erica) McCallie, John David (Tracy) Buffalo, Matt Buffalo, Ramona (Brian) Staton, Brad (Kim) Moran, Ryan (Witsy) Buffalo, Tara (John) Brewer, Bailey Buf-

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Danna J ean Shook Point Cemetery.

Memorials can be made to First Baptist Church of Berryville and Center Point Cemetery of Hazen.

Local arrangements are under the direction of Westbrook Funeral Home of Hazen. condolences Online may be sent to the family at www.westbrookfuneralhomehazen.com

falo, Rosemary (Richard) Custer and Brad (Susanne) Pate; great-grandchildren, Julie (Joel) Stone, Kathryn (Chad) Benson, Daniel (Courtney) Byrum, Luke Byrum, Zac White, Jacob (Jamie) White, Sarah White, Maria McCallie, Thomas McCallie, Jett Rose, Blake and Garret Buffalo, Hayden Moran, Erica and Emily Brewer, Sydney, Natalie, Liam and Eli Buffalo, Louis, Josie, Anna Claire and Sara Custer and Charlotte Pate; great great- grandchilden, Eden Grace and Isaiah Benson and Charlie Kate Stone, and sister-in-law Ruby (John Burl) Buffalo.

Funeral Services were at 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 1 at Hamilton Missionary Baptist Church with visitation one hour prior to service.

Arrangements were by Boyd Funeral Home, Lonoke.

Kid Fest at Assembly of God: In celebration of Independence Day, the Assembly of God Church held a Kids Fest on Saturday evening, July 2, for kids of the community. There were lots of children enjoying the games, hot dogs, the trimmings and fireworks.

Photo by Mary Weatherley

Sunda y School Church Attend ance Sunday, July 3 IN DES ARC First Baptist Church 178/185 Gospel Mission....................155 Lakeside Miss. Baptist..51/95 First United Methodist........50 Faith Missionary Baptist.53/71 Family Worship Center........50 First Assembly of God50/58 Fellowship Miss. Baptist....... 60 Church of Christ................29 Church of God of Prophecy.. 21 Living Waters Full Gospel.....21 Faith Outreach Ministry........29 AREA CHURCHES Hickory Plains Miss..63/91 Morris Chapel Miss. Baptist..24 Pleasant Ridge Miss. Bap. 31 Hickory Plains Methodist..... 28 Hickory Plains Nazarene...... 23 Judson Memorial Baptist...... 30 Sand Hill Miss. Baptist.12 Reported by churches. To report Sunday School Attendance and other church news, call 870-256-4254.

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Faith Missionary Baptist Church Announces

Special Guest Speaker

Terry Taylor Retired State Policeman

Sunday, July 10 11:00 a.m.

Pastor Jim West cordially invites the community to come hear Taylor’s testimony

Johnny Mitchell, long time Stuttgart business owner, dies Johnny Andrew Mitchell, 77, of Stuttgart passed away Sunday, June 26, 2016, at Baptist HealthStuttgart.

Mr. Mitchell was born September 24, 1938, in Paragould, Ark., to Tom Andrew and Donna Carolyn Lenderman Mitchell.

He had been employed as a machine operator at Martin’s Sprocket & Gears before purchasing Fred’s which he owned and operated at Stuttgart for 26 years. At that time he became employed with Riceland Foods where he remained until he retired.

He was a member of the Humphrey Church of Christ.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Shelbia Ann Laster Mitchell; brother, Joe Mitchell; and sister, Nancy Mitchell Wooldridge.

Survivors are three sons, Michael Mitchell and wife Sonja of Humphrey, Kelly Mitchell and wife Lisa and Heath Mitchell and wife Meredith, all of Stuttgart; seven grandchildren, Kyla Mitchell Ritter ( Jeffery, Meagan Whitson (Kevin), Brandon Mitchell (Morgan), Megan Tabor (Joe), Lauren Burns (Cody), Caleb Mitchell and Micah Kellyann Mitchell; and five great-grandchildren, Layton Tabor, Ava Grace Burns, Aubrey Whitson, Sadie Claire Mitchell and Autumn Whitson.

Graveside services, officiated by Jeremy Allen, are at 10:00 a.m. Thursday at Frazier Cemetery.

Arrangements are by Turpin Funeral Home of Stuttgart.

The family requests memorials be made to St. Jude’s or Humphrey Church of Christ.

Friday, July 8 Lakeside Missionary Baptist Church 8:00 - 5:00 - Ages: 6 Weeks to 6th Grade

We will Play, Read, Learn and Have A Great Time!

Please bring a sack lunch (snacks will be provided) Contact Garri Lynn Hambrick with Questions: 501-350-4365

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Extension Service hosts food preservation workshop The Prairie County Extension Service offered food preservation workshops June 23-24 at the Gospel Mission Church in Des Arc. Classes included the latest recommendations for drying, fermenting, water bath canning, and pressure canning along with hands-on experiences.

“The economic downturn as well as growing interest in local and organic foods has brought renewed interest to home food preservation. When folks grow some of their own food, they usually harvest more than they can use during its growing period. If they know how to properly preserve it, they can enjoy their harvest all year. Failure to adequately preserve foods in the home though, can result in foodborne illness. Some families don’t Tania Johnston and Laura Holmes prepping vegeta- actually follow food safety guidelines when preserving bles for salsa. food at home. Food preservation has evolved over time so, it’s important to use proper procedures and tested recipes to ensure safe preserved foods.” said Shea Wilson, County Extension Agent-FCS/4-H. “Foodborne botulism can be caused by using the wrong canning method,” Wilson said. “A pressure canner, rather than a boiling water bath, is necessary to kill botulism spores in low-acid foods such as meat, potatoes and other

Linda Casteel, Nicole Smith, Beverly McIntosh, and Angela Dohm making Pineapple Coconut Fruit Leather. (in blender) vegetables. For example, people still water-bath their green beans, but this is not the recommended method.

What we run into is if they’ve done it that way successfully for years, they often wonder why they should change.”

“Even if canning jars are properly sealed, botulism spores can grow. In fact, such spores can grow only in a sealed environment without oxygen along with high-moisture and low-acid conditions. Water boils at Kay Treadwell, Connie Smith, Jim Hardin, Shea Wilson, Jamie Hardin, Jane Newton, and Laure Toll on 212 degrees.

Day Two with finished carrots, salsa, fruit leather, and sauerkraut.

Local Get Well Wishes are sent to Charlene (Parker) Holloway who had gallbladder surgery at St. Vincent’s Surgery Center on Wednesday, July 6.

According to her family, she surgery went well and she is at home recovering with lots of TLC. She is the wife of Gary Holloway and they reside in the Northside Community.

Jane Newton, Lincoln County FCS Agent/Food Preservation Specialist, left and Shea Wilson, Prairie County FCS/4-H Agent taught the classes.

Recipients of the Bessie Moore Awards for the year are (L. holding certificate) Pam Setser, and Mary Vandiver. The awards, the tenth ones made, are in recognition of outstanding volunteer work for the Ozark Folk Center. In the back row, from left, Robin Shea, Dumas, and Janice Sutton, Mountain View, are past presidents of the Committee, and on the Selection committee for the Awards to honor one of the co-founders of the Committee of 100. The man seated in front is Robert Stroud, Desha. He is lovingly referred to as an honorary member because his wife was a charter member of the Committee and he often drove for carloads of women to the meetings in the early years.

Prairie County represented at meeting in Heber Springs Hall Family: Pictured front, l-r are Ozella Hall Rogers, Jo Ann Hall, Nola Hall Hampton, Bettie Hall Brannon, Della Hall and Julia Hall Hicks. Back, l-r is John Ed Rogers, Ken Hall, Ted Brannon and Robert Hicks. Ken, Ozella, Nola, Bettie, and Julia all are children of the late Howard and Latishy Hall formerly of Biscoe. Della is the wife of the late Dewey Hall. Children of the late Helen Hall Chadwick were unable to attend.

Hall Family holds annual reunion Decendants of The Howard and Latishy Hall Family held their annual reunion on Saturday, July 2 at the DeValls Bluff Community Center.

Thirty-seven family members were in attendance. Fish and all the trimmings along with desserts were served.

Howard and Latishy had seven children, two of which have passed but will never be forgotten, Helen Chadwick and Dewey Hall.

Those present were John and Ozella (Hall) Rogers of Wichita, KS; Mike and Becky Rogers of Haysville, KS; Robert and Julia (Hall) Hicks of Beebe; Drew Hampton of Jonesboro; Tony Hampton of Elkins; Brooks, Melody, Lexie, and Buckley Harrison and Austin Fletcher of Marion; Darrell, Beth (Hall) and Luke Prine of Hazen; Della Hall, Laini Brannon, Ted and Bettie (Hall) Brannon and Phillip Taylor all of Bis-

coe; Ken and Jo Ann Hall, Nola Faye (Hall) Hampton, Jeff Hall, Terry and Jenny (Hall) Gentry, Rickie, Donna, and Zachary Hampton, Cory Taylor, Bud and Shirley Overturf of Des Arc; Amos Taylor and Izzabella Taylor, Lanny and Susie Brannon, all of DeValls Bluff.

The Hall Family holds their reunion each year on the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

By Chris Weems Approximately 65 members of the Committee on the One Hundred met at the Red Apple Inn, Eden Isle, Heber Springs, Saturday June 25 for the Summer Luncheon. Barbara Satterfield, Mountain View, president of the Committee, presided.

Kay Hinkle, Mountain View, chairman for the days’ events, gave the invocation.

Barbara introduced Robin Shea, Dumas, and Janice Sutton, Mountain View, who presented the Bessie Moore Awards to Pam Setser, Mtn. View and Mary Vandiver, Little Rock.

Both are second generation members of the Committee and have worked on many committees for the

group. This is the tenth year for the Awards to be given to honor the cofounders of the Committee of One Hundred.

The other founder is Mrs. Betty Bumpers, former First Lady of Arkansas.

They selected women from each county around the state who help support the Ozark Folk Center.

Entertainment was a Fashion Show by the Golden Girls Clothing Company of Heber Springs. The six models showed styles of clothes for the present day busy woman with accessories available. The styles had possibilities of mixing with other articles shown.

Darren Dortin of Ozark Highlands radio presented the program. He told about the scheduled regular

broadcasts. Besides the live broadcasts they use recorded music from concerts and programs at the Center and other recordings that are available that pertain to the work of the Folk Center.

The president gave a special thanks to Aromatique, Golden Girls Clothing Company, and Ozark Highlands Radio for their help for the events of the day.

Rita Farris, Biscoe, and Chris Weems, Hazen, represented Prairie County on the Committee.

The next meeting will be the Fall Committee Board meeting at the Ozark Folk Center, October 21-23, 2016. The president urges all members to attend.

Lo oc a a ll Hattie Jenkins called this week with a new address in Florida.

Hattie, daughter of the late Rayford and Louise Jenkins of the East Side, has moved to Ocala, Florida to be near her daughter and family, Angela Barnes Wood, husband, Rick, and sons, Ethan, 18, and Cody, 15. Rick is regional representative for CVS Pharmacy.

Hattie resided in Little Rock for several years where she was employed Insurance Grace with Group. Now retired, she will be a fulltime Florida resident.

You Are Invited to A

Housewarming Honoring Greg & Melody Robinson 1212 Crowly Road- Hazen, Arkansas

Sunday, July 10

Will Be Honored With A

Birthday Reception Sunday, July 10 From Two to Four O’clock in the Afternoon

Two to Four O’clock in the Afternoon Registered At A Perfect Bloom, Beebe; Lynn’s Flowers & Gifts, Hazen True Value and Hazen Florist

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See these Photos in COLOR - WRJ Online Red Cross issues emergency call for blood and platelet donations The American Red Cross has issued an emergency call for blood and platelets, urging all eligible donors to give now to replenish an extremely low summer blood supply.

Blood donations have fallen short of hospital needs for the past few months, resulting in about 39,000 fewer donations than what’s needed, as well as a significant draw down of the overall Red Cross blood supply. In addition, the Independence Day holiday may have caused many regular donors to postpone donations due to vacation plans. A recent Red Cross poll revealed that more than 75 percent of donors surveyed indicated vacation plans this summer, many of them occurring the weeks before and after July 4.

“Right now, blood products are being distributed to hospitals faster than donations are coming in, which is why we are making this emergency request for donations,” said Nick Gehrig, communications director, Red Cross Blood Services.

To schedule an appointment to donate, use the free Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Donors with all blood types are needed.

Every two seconds in the United States blood and platelets are needed to respond to patient emergencies, including accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant procedures, and patients receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or sickle cell disease. The Red Cross must collect approximately 14,000 blood and platelet donations every day for patients at about 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers nationwide.

Special honor: The quilting ladies at the Senior Citizens Center in Des Arc presented Judge Mike Skarda with a quilt in appreciation for all he has done for the Senior Citizens. Pictured left to right are Virginia Eagle, Ruby Moon, Mary Sue Roe, Nola Hampton, Audrey Ingle and Judge Skarda

Senior C itizenS Center D ES A RC , A RK

By Barbara Williams, Site Director

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Come inside this summer and beat the heat here in our Senior Center! We enjoy plenty of activities inside!

Monday we took the van out to Beebe after lunch and went shopping at the Dollar Tree and Walmart.

Tuesday we read our Medicare Minutes before the Bowker House Bean Bag Baseball team arrived for our makeup game. We won 26-20, and enjoyed homemade Birthday cake for our June Birthdays after eating lunch and visiting with their team.

Wednesday we enjoyed our usual Breakfast and Bingo. As always, Mrs. Linda sang and played beautifully.

Thursday we had a 4th

of July Celebration with a practice Bean Bag Baseball game. We followed that up with Chili Dogs, chips and coleslaw for lunch, and most importantly Homemade Apple Pie and Homemade vanilla ice cream. It was all so good.

That afternoon we rested while watching the movie Dr. Doolittle.

Friday was our recycle day and got ready for our 3 day weekend.

Special thanks to Jimmy McDaniel for bringing a huge basket of garden produce for everyone to pick through.

Also thanks to Mr. Mitchell for donating corn to our Seniors. Mr. Herndon Barnes went out and picked the corn, so we

could all have some.

A special appreciation goes out to Mr. Mike Skarda. He does so much for our center and our Seniors.

We gave back to him with a special quilt that the quilters made. We are really fortunate to have such as awesome city that supports us!

Our End of Year Bean Bag Baseball season, we had 8 total wins and 4 losses. Great job Bobcats.

Our yard sale room is open every Thursday from 8-11 am.

God Bless and have a great weekend!

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

From the Kitchen of Rev. Jaimie Alexander, Minister at Bella Vista United Methodist Church

Hot Weather Recipes From Rev. Jaimie Alexander

Once again, this week's recipes are recipes for hot weather that require very little or no heat to prepare.

The No Bake Summer Dessert was a recent hit when I served it and the recipe was requested by many people.

I hated to admit how simple it is but worth the disclosure to share the recipe.

The Thai Salad, Pimento Cheese Spread and No Bake Peanut Butter Bars are simple and cool to prepare on a hot day in July!

So tie on your apron and enjoy!

Thai Salad ( so good) 1 head Napa cabbage, shredded 1 head red cabbage, shredded 1 large cucumber, julienned One 10-ounce bag shelled edamame, cooked 2 carrots, peeled and grated 2 green onions, finely sliced Sweet Lime-Cilantro Dressing: 2 cups olive oil 1 1/2 cups finely chopped fresh cilantro 1 cup sugar 2 cloves garlic, minced Juice of 2 limes 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 avocado, peeled and finely sliced For the Thai salad: In a large serving bowl, toss the cabbages, cucumber, edamame, carrots and green onions.For the sweet lime-cilantro dressing: Put the oil, cilantro, sugar, garlic, lime juice, salt and pepper in a large blender and blend until smooth.

Top each serving of salad with 2 tablespoons of the sweet lime-cilantro dressing and 2 slices of avocado for garnish.

Pimento and Cheese Two 7-ounce jars canned, sliced pimientos, drained Three 10-ounce bricks sharp cheddar, finely grated 1 cup mayonnaise White sandwich bread

WINNER! Jenny Pasley was the drawn as the winner of the Red, White and Blue afghan given away at DANRC. The afghan was made by the late Emma Jean Nannie. This was a fundraiser for the Activity Fund at DANRC.

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Hello from everyone here at Des Arc Nursing and Rehabilitation!

We hope everyone had a great Fourth of July holiday.

The weather was warm at times but the rain off and on helped cool it off some, too. The rain was welcomed due to the dry conditions.

We had our own celebration here at DANRC. We enjoyed a cookout and watched a few of the firework displays going around us.

We enjoyed homemade ice cream, playing Bingo and the residents really enjoyed the Line Dancing and “Busting a Move”!

Tuesday, we went shopping for the residents and enjoyed some fresh lemonade and sweet tea. This sure did quench our thirst!

Stevie Ray and his Band were here bringing their great musical talents on Wednesday morning.

Today, Thursday, Bobbie Merrell with the Des Arc

Public Library will be here to do a craft with us and will bring some new reading material.

We will enjoy Strawberry Ice Cream this afternoon and will have some games and a little TV time this evening.

Tomorrow, Friday, The Disciples will be with us and the Ice Cream Truck with Patsy Tate will be here in the afternoon.

Saturday, we will have our Memory Games, Music and Dominoes.

Sunday, the Des Arc United Methodist Church will be with us for morning services and Faith Missionary will be with us in the afternoon for fellowship.

Monday, Carroll Denton will be with us to help get our hearts pumping with excercises. We will need it after all the ice cream that we have eaten this weeek!

We will have Bingo at 2:00 p.m. and Karaoke afterward.

Ms. Opal and Terry will

be with us on Thursday next week bringing their sweet singing and piano playing.

The winner of the Red, White and Blue afghan was Jenny Pasley. The afghan was made by the late Emma Jean Nannie. This was a fundraiser held for the Activity Fund at the facility.

Congratulations!

We have heard reports that Donald Duck has been seen in one of the local beauty salons. He was seen posing for a picture with DANRC resident Sue Berry and Yvonne Williams of Hair Razors. Hmmm? Wonder where he will show up next! (photo next week) Come out and visit us.

We always have activities going on and volunteers are welcome!

That is all for now. We hope everyone has a blessed rest of the week!

Teresa Henley Activity Director

Place the drained pimientos in a blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Using an electric mixer, combine the pimientos and cheese, beating until smooth. Beat in the mayonnaise. Spread on slices of white sandwich bread while the mixture is room temperature. Trim the bread crusts and cut the sandwiches into triangles.

No Bake Summer Dessert 19 oz graham crackers 8 oz cream cheese, softened 1 (3.4 oz) package Vanilla Instant Pudding

FoodKeeper App Now Available in Spanish, Portuguese The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that its popular FoodKeeper application has been updated to include food storage information in both Spanish and Portuguese. Now Spanish and Portuguese speakers can use the app to better understand storage recommendations for 400+ items covered by the tool, including various types of baby food, dairy products and eggs, meat, poultry, produce, seafood, and more.

In addition, improvements were also made to how the app syncs with the calendar of smartphones and tablets to reminder users to use food before it may spoil.

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1 (3.4 oz) package White Chocolate Instant Pudding 4 cups cold milk 12 oz Cool whip (or homemade whipped cream) 1 can cherry pie filling 1 cup fresh blueberries 1 cup raspberries (can use all sliced strawberries) 2 oz. white chocolate chips Beat cream cheese and dry pudding mixes in large bowl with mixer until blended.

Gradually beat in milk.

Gently stir in Cool Whip or homemade whipped cream, reserving ½ cup.

Spread a thin layer of cool whip in a 9x13 pan just to coat the bottom.

Layer 5 graham crackers across the center of the pan, then 2 more, breaking them as needed to fit around the top and bottom edges.

Spread a layer of pudding mixture over grahams and top with cherry pie filling.

Place graham crackers on top of cherry pie filling, then pudding mixture, then the mixture of berries .

Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight until the graham crackers have softened completely.

When ready to serve, melt white chocolate chips in a bowl as directed on package and drizzle over dessert.

You can use a spoon to drizzle it over the tops of the berries or you can put it into a small zip-top bag and snip of the corner for an easy "piping bag."

No Bake Peanut Butter Bars 2 sticks salted butter, softened, plus more for greasing the pan 1 cup chunky peanut butter 2 cups powdered sugar One 12-ounce box vanilla wafers One 12-ounce bag mini semisweet chocolate chips Frosting: 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup chopped peanuts For the filling: Grease a 9-by-13-inch pan with some butter.Using a stand or electric hand mixer, mix together the butter and chunky peanut butter until smooth. Stir in the sugar a cup at a time.Add the vanilla wafers to a food processor and process until they are in crumbs. Then add the crumbs and mini chocolate chips to the peanut butter mixture. Spread it evenly into the buttered pan and set aside.For the frosting: Using a double boiler or a microwave, melt the chocolate chips and creamy peanut butter. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes, then pour over the base. Spread the frosting out evenly and sprinkle over the chopped peanuts. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, then cut into 20 bars.

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Charlene Burleson Services here today for lifelong local Linville Voiles resident, dies Mary Charlene Smith Burleson, 87, of Des Arc died Sunday, July 3, 2016 at Des Arc Nursing and Rehab Center.

She was born May 15, 1929 in Hickory Plains, Arkansas to Charlie and Pearl (Norman) Smith.

Charlene was a “stay at home” person, who loved to knit and grow a garden from which she canned the surplus. She always had beautiful flowers in her immaculate yard.

She was a 1949 graduate of Des Arc High School.

Survivors include one daughter, Kathy ( Jackie) Hill of Cabot; one son, Charles (Joyce) Burleson, of Des Arc; and one granddaughter, Heather Hill.

Charlene was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Doyle Burleson; one brother, Eugene Smith, and one sister, Billie Carpenter.

Graveside funeral services were at 10:00 a.m.

Wednesday at Lakeside Cemetery.

Garth Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Services Friday for Carl Luebker, Stuttgart resident Carl Bernard Luebker, 79, of Stuttgart came in on a broom and went out with a bang.

Carl was born October 31, 1936, in Stuttgart and passed away Monday, July 4, 2016, at Arkansas Hospice in Little Rock.

He was a retired land leveler and member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church.

Carl was a lover of the land, an avid hunter (from his truck) who was known for his marksmanship and the all-time storyteller.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Sheila Davis; parents, Bernard and Mildred Zimmerman Luebker; brother, Robert Berg; and sisters, Rita Roller, Teresa Shultz and Margaret Ann Pitts.

Survivors are daughters, Carla Eckelhoff (Louis) of Cabot, Kim Maier (Mark) of Stuttgart and Shelly Calhoun of Little Rock; brothers, William Berg Jr. and Herman, Joe and Tom Luebker; sisters, Christina Yurkovich, Mary Grace Shelton, Rozann McKinney and Mitzi Kelly; nine grandchildren, Taylor Krisell, Megan Chambers, Jeremy Wilcox, Madison Gill, Macey Shock, William Dewberry, Caleb Branscum, Marlee Maier and Meredith Maier; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Funeral mass, officiated

by Father Clayton Gould, will be said at 10:00 a.m.

Friday at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Stuttgart with burial following in Holy Rosary Cemetery.

Visitation will be 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Thursday at Turpin Funeral Home with rosary following at 7:00 p.m.

His family request memorials to Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 1815 S. Prairie, or Holy Rosary Catholic School, 920 West 19th Street.

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Linville Wayne Voiles, 70, of Des Arc died Saturday, July 2, 2016 at Springhill Baptist Hospital in North Little Rock.

Linville was such a strong, loving, and inspirational man who had a deep love for those close to him.

He was born November 30, 1945 in Des Arc, Arkansas to William E. and Lena (Long) Voiles.

For a number of years, he was employed as manager at the Patterson Sawmill in Des Arc. Linville was preceded in death by his parents, daughter, Cindy Kay Guenther; three sisters, Lorean Gage, Jessie Avants and Syble Williams, and one great grandson, Gavin Wayne Voiles.

He is survived by his wife, Kay (Graves) Voiles; brother, Clyde Voiles and wife Louise of Des Arc; two sons, Brian Voiles and wife Kathy and Robert Voiles and wife Shelly; a daughter who will forever hold his heart, Katrina Burnett and granddaughter Macy; a very special granddaughter Deborah Grady; along with five other granddaughters, Brittany and Taylor Guenther, Tonya Taylor, Haley Wilson, and Riley Voiles, one grandson, Robbie Evans, Jr., and five great grandsons, Lucas Voiles, Joshua Martin, Kayden Voiles, Gunner Grady, and Kasen Guenther.

There will be a celebration of life and visitation at 9:00 a.m. followed by a funeral service at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday July 7, at Gospel Mission Church in Des Arc where Linville dedicated his life to the Lord.

Pastor Pat Skarda and Bro. Elbert Pool will officiate.

Burial will be in Welcome Home Cemetery by Garth Funeral Home.

Pallbearers are Ryan Weems, Lynny McFarlin, Phillip Bell, Keith Seevers, Jessie Perdue and Shane Williams. Honorary Pallbearers are Rodger Patterson, Steve Bryan and Gary Weems. www.garthfuneralhome.com

Jon Scott Timmerman, 55, of Stuttgart passed away in the care of Arkansas Hospice at St. Vincent Hospital on Thursday, June 30, 2016 while surrounded my numerous family and friends.

He was born on December 1, 1960 in Stuttgart, AR to Clifford and Laverne (Trede) Timmerman.

Scott was preceded in death by his parents, Clifford and LaVerne Timmerman and his brother, Garry Timmerman.

He is survived by his wife, Cathy (Gardner) Timmerman; step-daughter, Jennifer Kerr (Scot) of Humphrey; step-son, Michael Conrad (Dana) of Stuttgart; brother, Bill Timmerman (Linda) of Sapulpa, OK; sister, Judy Terrell (Bud) of Bentonville, AR; sister Myra Powell-Traetow (Herman) of Elmira, OR; sister, Beverly Fisher of Sherwood, AR; brother, Andy Timmerman of Stuttgart; and sister, Bonnie McMains (Brad) of Tulsa, OK; grandsons, Colton and Carson Kerr and granddaughter, Kenlee Conrad and many, many nieces and nephews.

Scott graduated from DeValls Bluff High School in 1979. He was employed by Producers Rice Mill for 24 years as a field supervisor.

He attended and was an active member of Stuttgart Harvest Church.

Scott loved drag racing and you could find him underneath the hood of many different cars, even competitors. He was so proud of his 1969 yellow Dodge Charger. If he wasn’t racing, you could find him at Rick Seeman’s shop working on cars or at Harvey Gray’s or Danny Weischman’s house playing cards. Scott never met a stranger and was loved by many.

Visitation was on Friday, July 1 at 1:00 p.m. at Turpin Funeral Home, Stuttgart.

Services followed at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Harley Petty officiating.

Burial was at Lone Tree Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Stuttgart Harvest Church Building Fund at 1018 S. Main Street, Stuttgart, AR 71260.l

Plant, passed away Saturday, July 2, 2016 at Methodist University Medical Center in Memphis, TN. He was born at Batesville, Arkansas on October 18, 1942, the oldest of three children born to Roman H. and Majesty Hargrove Snellgrove.

He served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Services Medal with 2 Bronze Stars, the Vietnam Campaign Medal with Device and the Navy Unit Commendation.

He worked most of his life as an Auto Mechanic.

Robert is survived by his three sons: Kerry Lynn Snellgrove and Tommy (Candy) Snellgrove of Little Rock and Mark Snellgrove of Alexander; one daughter Amanda (Steven) Ivey of Bauxite; one brother Jerry H. Snellgrove of Wynne and one sister Jan (Raymond) Baker of Jonesboro; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 12 noon at Bob Neal & Sons Chapel-Brinkley with Rev. Joe Garner officiating.

Burial was at 4:00 pm at Maple Springs Cemetery at Rosie, Arkansas.

Kim Kissinger, McCrory, had Hazen relatives Kim (Daniels) Kissinger, age 58. of McCrory, passed away Thursday, June 30, 2016.

She was born on December 23, 1957 in Ashdown, Arkansas to Olaf Spencer and Geraldine (Youngblood) Daniels.

Kim is survived by her parents, Olaf and Gerry Daniels of Ashdown; one son, Daniel Kissinger of McCrory; one brother, Todd Daniels of Pocahontas, Arkansas; one sister, Dena Sloan and husband Sterling of Hazen; one grandchild, Kayne Gwin of McCrory; one great-grandchild, Kingston; and a host of family and friends.

A Memorial Service will be announced at a later date.

Nancy Ann Pool was formerly of Biscoe Nancy Ann Pool, of Higginson, passed away peaceably at her home on Friday, July 1, 2016. She was born September 19, 1937 in Biscoe, Arkansas to the late John and Frances (Avants) Gurley.

Nancy loved to grow flowers. She was also a collector of antique glass, matchboxes, purses, and sapphires. She was a very strong woman; strong willed, and strong hearted.

Nancy was a very loving and caring person. There were several years where she and her husband, Charles, housed the foreign exchange students from Harding University, treating them just like her own.

She cherished her family.

She loved to have the family get together for Christmas and New Year’s parties.

Nancy treasured her grandchildren and they treasured her. She loved keeping them and spending time with them. She was a loving wife for 61 years; a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and friend who will be dearly missed.

Left to cherish her memory is her husband, Charles Pool of Higginson; one son, Chuck Pool (Carol) of Searcy; three daughters, Frances Cherry (Eric) of Higginson, Stephanie Davis (Paul) of Higginson, and Melanie Pool of Augusta, Arkansas; one brother, Charles Gayon Gurley (Sue) of Burlington, North Carolina; two sisters, Lavonia Miller (Hershel) of Millington, Tennessee, and Sherry Harden (Louis) of DeValls Bluff, Arkansas; six

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Nancy Ann Pool grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.

Funeral services wereheld at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 5. at Searcy McEuen Chapel with burial following at Kensett Cemetery.

Selma Zimmerman, Carlisle, dies at age 102 Selma Zimmerman, 102, of Carlisle, died June 29, 2016 at her home. Selma was owner and administrator of Zimmerman Nursing Home for over 50 years, and had a number of real estate interests.

Selma is survived by two

sons, Wayne Marsh and John Zimmerman; one daughter; Doris Chandler; 13 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by here husband, John George Zimmerman and an infant son, George Lee Zimmer-

born on Jan. 9, 1928 in Pine Bluff to William J. Hanks and Naomi Burney Hanks, who preceded her in death, along with beloved husband, Joseph Walter (Bud) Vestal, Jr.; sisters Adarene Hanks Blair of Freemont, Neb., and Jackie Hanks Stewart, of Little Rock; and son, Joseph Walter Vestal III. Mickey is survived by sister-in-law, Wanda Blodgett Taylor, and her husband Robert; daughter Mickey Vestal Searcy, and her husband Joe; daughter Becky Vestal Newell, and son Eddy Vestal and his wife Carole, all of North Little Rock; Mickey grandchildren (Cory) Willett of Little Rock; Maggie Searcy of New York, N.Y.; Drew Newell, of Palo Alto, Calif.; Millie (Daniel) Wheeler of Conway; and William (Caitlin) Vestal of North Little Rock.

Mickey was raised in Stuttgart and graduated from Stuttgart High School and attended Arkansas State Teacher's College.

After she married Bud in 1954, they moved to North Little Rock and became active in the community.

She was an active member of Park Hill Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday school in the nursery. The children who passed through her care always remained an important part of her life, and she took joy in watching them grow through the years.

Mickey was wholeheartedly involved with her children and grandchildren's lives. She served as her daughters Brownie and Girl Scout leader and attended countless recitals, performances and sporting events.

She had a personality that would brighten any room she entered. Her zest for life was contagious and any good tune would make her feet start moving.

She shared her creativity through poetry, paintings and flower arranging.

Visitation was held Friday, July 1, at Park Hill Baptist Church at 10 a.m., followed by the funeral service at 11:00 a.m.

Burial was at Rest Hills Memorial Park.

Mickey was a Des Arc resident in the late 1940’s.

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Funeral service was at 2:00 P.M., Saturday, July 2, 2016 at the Westbrook Funeral Home Chapel in Hazen.

Interment was lin the Carlisle Cemetery.

Wayne Calender, age 55 of McCrory passed away Monday, June 27, 2016.

Wayne was born in Newport, Arkansas on July 8, 1960 to Jimmy and Frances (Taylor) Calender.

He loved being with his family and most of all his grandkids.

Wayne is survived by his wife, Cheryl Calender of McCrory; one step-son, Cory Green of McCrory; two step-daughters, Brittany Green of McCrory and Briana Green of Fort Smith; three brothers, Bo Taylor of Pleasant Plains, David Calender of Searcy, and Donny Russell and wife Janice of Benton, AR; one sister, Sherry Martin and husband Donald of Pleasant Plains; five grandchildren, Aiden Green, Kyler Green and Cordalle Green; three nieces, Jessica, Kristy, Emily; host of great nieces and great nephews; and a host of other family and friends.

Funeral Service was Saturday at 10 a.m. at Rhodes & Son Funeral Home, Augusta.

Burial was at White Lake Cemetery

Samuel “Sammy” Lee Furo, Sr., 89, of Hot Springs, went to be with the Lord on June 28, 2016. He was born December 23, 1926 in Alexandria, Louisiana to John and Lucy Furo. He is predeceased by his parents, grandson, Leon Catlett, and sisters, Dorothy Haney, Mary Landon and Diane Stimson.

Sammy was a devoted member of Grand Avenue United Methodist Church where he graciously served as greeter for more than 40 years. He was a Navy Veteran and served during World War II on the Aircraft Carrier USS Monterey. He received the Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Medal, American Theatre Medal and the Philippines Operations Medal. Sammy was an amazing athlete. While at Smackover High School he led the nation in scoring.

Exact statistics were not kept in his day, but when you consider only his touchdown run yardage, he accounted for a minimum of 3,633 rushing yards. In reality it was much more.

Sammy was honored to be the first All American selected at Magnolia A&M (now Southern Arkansas University). The oldest football record at SAU was set in 1948 when Sammy returned a punt for 80 yards for a touchdown. The record lasted for 50 years.

Sammy was inducted into SAU’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. Sammy transferred to the University of Arkansas for his final two seasons, lettering with the Razorbacks in 1949 and 1950. His love of sports continued as he coached at the YMCA, the Boys and the Girls Club.

He was also a member of the Sertoma Club.

Sammy worked in sales where he was the first million dollar salesman for National Investors Life Insurance Company. He and Kay moved to Hot Springs in1971 where he worked for Hot Springs Village and later owned a siding and construction company. He retired in 1999.

Loving survivors include his wife of 46 years, Kay Gipson Furo, of Hot Springs; son, Sam Furo Jr., of Searcy; son, Adam Furo, of Hot Springs; daughter, Patricia (Steve) Leovich, of Plano, Texas; daughter, Carol (Ken) Fisher, of Plano, Texas; daughter, Amy (Chris) Horner, of Hot Springs; grandchildren: Parker Leovich, Aaron fisher, Kasey Fisher, Katherine Horner, Christopher Horner, Max Horner and Mason Furo; sisters, Maxine (Warren) Staab, of Miraloma, California and Maryann Elliott of Phoenix, Arizona.

Visitation was from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 2, 2016 at Grand Avenue United Methodist Church. The memorial service followed at 10:00 a.m. with Rev. David Fleming officiating.

In lieu of flowers, please make memorials to Grand Avenue United Methodist Church, the Hot Springs Boys and Girls Club or The Caring Place.

Relatives attending the service were Kay’s sister, Mary Sue Roe, and brother and wife, John Hugh and Marjorie Gipson, all of Des Arc, and sister, Sylvia Morgan and family of Star City.

Kay, Mary Sue, John Hugh and Sylvia are all children of the late John H. Gipson and Katherine Bacon Gipson of Des Arc.

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Discovery Farms are empowering agricultural producers to effectively address natural resource issues Agriculture is considered by some as the leading source of nutrients delivered to the Gulf of Mexico. Excessive nutrients in the Gulf lead to a large seasonal hypoxic zone that creates unsuitable habitat for aquatic organisms. It is a serious natural resource issue that has garnered national attention from federal and state agencies alike.

Research and Education is a fundamental cornerstone to addressing this regional water quality concern. There are several different educational approaches and strategies to help agricultural producers minimize nutrient loss in runoff. A challenge with any educational program related to natural resource concerns is finding a way to get private land owners to truly engage to the point of actively addressing the issue. It's difficult for landowners to envision the connection from their land to large-scale, regional issues such as the Gulf of Mexico, especially when little to no nutrient loss data has been collected from their farm.

So what are the most effective educa-

tional approaches to engaging agricultural producers on sensitive natural resource issues, such as off-site water quality concerns? While that is a tough question to answer, one approach, the Discovery Farm Program, was initiated in Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Extension Service, and has been implemented in six States to date, (Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Arkansas, Illinois and Washington).

This Program has proven effective in getting producers actively engaged in determining their impact and finding management solutions that work on their farm for their situation.

Discovery Farms are real, working private farms that allow the monitoring and documentation of water resource parameters related to on-farm conservation management and environmental issues. Additionally, Discovery Farms serve as a platform for research, demonstration and as a centerpiece for educational efforts. Discovery Farms are based on the following principles; 1) Stakeholder Driven - Producer Led, 2) Sound Science - Research-

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based and Unbiased, and 3) Transparency and 4) Partnerships.

So why is Discovery Farms an effective educational approach?

First, The Discovery Farm Program empowers agricultural producers to take ownership and become a part of the solution in resolving concerns related to water quantity and quality by providing measured data on runoff water quality in terms of sediment and nutrient losses, water use efficiency, and soil health. It provides the farmer with data from his or her farm that has never been provided to them before.

Farmers respect data collected on and from their farms and it often serves as a catalyst for the farmer to begin thinking about alternative management strategies.

Farmers often come up with the best solutions because they best know their farm and their own capabilities. For example, if farmers see data on nutrient loss from their farming operation that they deem unacceptable, they will look for solutions as fertilizer is a major input in terms of cost.

While collecting on-farm data collection is important to the program, the value of Discovery Farms in education cannot be over emphasized. The data is certainly used by Extension and other conservation professionals in educational and outreach programs. For example, multiple field tours, workshops, and presentations are conducted in each of the participating States annually in educational efforts.

Field tours have been especially effective in educating both farm groups and the public at large. There is something enhanced in the educational effort when individuals can step foot on the farm and see first-hand the challenges and solutions, but most importantly hear from the Discovery Farmer. Which brings us to the next point; Discovery Farmers have been empowered by the program to become educators as the data provides the basis for confidently imparting knowledge to others. Farmer to farmer exchange has traditionally been one of the most effective methods to on-farm adoption of innovation and conservation practices.

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As I write this on Monday evening of July 4th Fireworks have been going off all over ,I imagine, in celebration of our freedom in our still great America. There are so very many who are trying to tear down our country and it MAY happen, but not yet!!

It seems the 4th is best celebrated with family and friends getting together and eating.

One such was here in Gregory at Lola Osier’s with Kids and grands coming. From Bella Vista came Brandon and Brittany Brown and 4 children, Carolyn Robinson of Pine Bluff, April Wood of Batesville and from Augusta Trey and Hillary Taylor and Brett, Doug Osier and Sharon Lewis.

Meeting in Augusta at the Legion Hut were the Leck Holder offspring and friends.

Those enjoying the lunch furnished by Mickey and Billye and a“concert” by Mike McCabe of Michigan (who is a professional pianist and singer, working mostly on Cruises)( and who can play and sing anything you ask him to, believe me!!) his Dad, Patrick McCabe of St. Augustine, Fla. John Holder and his daughter, Shannon and Randy Cavness of Mineral Wells, Tex.,Doris Holder Farley of Dallas, tex. Linda Eden McDonald of Victoria, Tex..Wayne and Gloria Holder Allgood of Cabot, Larry and J udy Holder Whitehead of Sherwood, Darick and Amanda Hemphill, Harrison, Jackson and Bayta of Springfield, Mo., James and Betty Holder Carey of West Memphis and granddaughters , Jessie and Brandy of Florida, Buck and Edna Holder of Lonoke, Mark Holder and Brady of Des Arc, Susan Holder Fall of Burton, Mich., Kyle and Rebecca Brown, Carter and Tucker of Cabot, Jeff and Tracye Nick and Lee Willis of McCrory, Matt Brown of No. Little Rock, Ed Gregory of Augusta and from

Gregory were Mickey and Billye Holder, Donny and Michelle Brown, Fannie Peters, Jena Pfeffer and Rosetta Lockhart. It was a FUN DAY ,so much so that I had to have a nap, at 4:15 pm.(So, I am not going to be available for anything before 9 am!!)

Sunday the Moon Family had their annual reunion at the Senior Citizen Building at Patterson with gang of us( yes , I went as I had some relatives there and many of the Moon’s grew up here and coming to the Post Office during the nearly ½ a century that I was Postmaster.)

Good food and visiting with good people there, too.

Like I always am saying : It is good to live in Woodruff County, the people treat me REAL Good! Some Cleburne County folks treat me well, too.

Friday afternoon Kathryn Sawyer Huenefeld from Heber Springs called and told me to meet her and son Paul,Jr. and wife ,Angela of Wilson , Ark. at the Tamale Factory for supper. Do you bet I went? Kathryn and I both are from downtown McClelland and married Gregory guys, so we have been friends all of her life. (I am a tad older.)(I just have to throw this in, Paul Jr. was born into and sprinkled by the Methodist and is now a Baptist minister at Wilson!!)

Dane and Shelby Collins and Dillyn spent Monday in Heber Springs with Dane’s sister Candy and family.

Fannie Peters went to Forrest City Saturday for a ‘gettogether’ with her girls, at the home of Mary Ann and Johnny Barnett and Phillip.

Virginia Davis of Caldwell joined them for a bountiful meal.

My Dear readers: At the risk of being sought out by ISIS or some such knotheads, I am appalled by the killings like in Orlando and Istanbul and anywhere.

These killers are sought by those whose job it is to keep

the peace. BUT may GOD forgive us as a Human race that we not as outraged and more over the thousands of abortions a day!!!!!

Goodnight.

Rosetta I don’t know why Elmo sent this to me, do you? I am not old. Most days, anyway.

Subject: The Joy of Old Age This is what all of you 70+ year old, and yet to be, kids have to look forward to!!

This is something that happened in an assisted living center where my wife used to work.

The people who lived there have small apartments but they all eat at a central cafeteria. One morning one of the residents didn't show up for breakfast so my wife went upstairs and knocked on his door to see if everything was OK. She could hear him through the door and he said that he was running late and would be down shortly so she went back to the dining area.

An hour later he still hadn't arrived so she went back up towards his room and she found him on the stairs. He was coming down the stairs but was having a hell of time.

He had a death grip on the hand rail and seemed to have trouble getting his legs to work right. She told him she was going to call an ambulance but he told her no, he wasn't in any pain and just wanted to have his breakfast. So she helped him the rest of the way down the stairs and he had his breakfast.

When he tried to return to his room he was completely unable to get up even the first step so they called an ambulance for him.

A couple hours later she called the hospital to see how he was doing. The receptionist there said he was fine, he just had both of his legs in one leg of his boxer shorts.

Mr. Bud Polk fell and broke the bone below his hip joint recently. He had surgery and had to be given blood the day after surgery. Now, he is in rehab.

I was so glad to see Kimmy Polk at HPOS Sunday night. She had visited her Papaw Polk that day and her great grandmother Liles. Grandma Liles has heart trouble. Keep them both in your Prayers. Send Bud Polk cards, 16245 Hwy13N, Ward, AR 72176.

Bully Price is worse and they all need Prayers for God’s Will!

Last Tuesday, Clara Clark went to visit Ethel McCall, the first time Clara has been there since Ethel lost H. L. They enjoyed each other's company, and just talking. After leaving Ethel's, Clara went to visit Charlotte Wrigley for awhile. They had a good visit. Mrs. Wrigley was expecting her granddaughter, Emily, to come in from Tennessee, where she had been to a Justin Bieber concert. Sure enough, just as Clara was leaving Emily and Kristin Wrigley came in.

I was glad to see Rodney Price and his daughters, Rebecca and Sarah and their 3 kids Wednesday.

The girls wanted to come see their Papaw and Granny Price. They just came for the day. Granny went that morning to get a kidney function test, We were praying for good report. They said she was fine and that she could come go home.

Clara Clark went to visit Nikki Kirk Wednesday. She

really enjoyed that visit also. She stayed most of the afternoon and she and Nikki watched a couple of movies that Clara really liked.

One was Miracles from Heaven. She couldn't remember the name of the other one.

Clara also went to visit Nell and Bully Price a couple of times last week.

The first time Bully was having kind of a rough time and didn't know her but the next time Bully knew exactly who she was. So, she got to talk to him awhile and he talked to her.

Bully Price is worse since Sunday night. They all need Prayers & PRAY for God’s Will!

Tuesday, Bob and I had lunch with Gary and Brenda Evans at HPOS. We had a good visit. Then Bob and I went on to Cabot to do some errands.

Please pray for Charlotte Wrigley. She has a lot of problems. Send her cards to PO Box 398, Hickory Plains, AR 72040.

“Ladies Drop By” will be Tuesday, June 12th at HP Methodist Church at 1PM. Come join in on the good food, fun fellowship & GOOD MEDINCE for all!

Giving all a heads up.

(This will be in WRJ later) Everyone needs to know ahead, that Ms. Dortha Bone will have a 90th B-day celebration July 23rd. What you all need to know, NO GIFTS, but they want all to write a memory we have of Ms. Dortha. They had us do that on her 80th and she still enjoys reading them!

HPOS wants to let every-

one 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. Support 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. Not many let me know so that’s why many weeks is about Me and Mine!

Have a Good Week In The Lord!

Happy 60th Birthday July 6th to Anita (Graham) Ingle!

Happy Birthday July 9th to Clint Evans!

Happy Birthday July 10th to Rick Weaver (our son-in-law)!

Happy Birthday July 10th to Steve Wrigley!

Happy Birthday July 12th to Bill King!!

Happy Birthday July 14th to Kevin Gardner!

Happy Anniversary July 14th to Karen and Brian Patterson!!

Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. Hebrews 12:1

­ EW­ BETHEL­ NEWS N Donna Kelly, Correspondent

We hope everyone had a great 4th of July. We have heard a lot of noise as there is a large fire cracker and noise maker just about 1 block from our house.

We went to church and had a great service Sunday and Sunday evening. We had several visitors out as Bradley Taylor came and spoke to us in the evening service. Brad gave a good message as he had a great experience. A very good

message actually.

His son’s, wife and little girl and in-laws came out to hear his message.

John and I drove up to North Little Rock Friday to Walmart. We were looking for a light weight vacuum cleaner.

Johnny came over and mowed our yard, much needed as grass really grows in this weather.

Phillip Boothe, Grant and Janet came to church.

Phillip and Grant are very busy as Grant recently graduated and is training for a new job.

We extend sympathy to the family of Linville Voiles.

Bible School is going on in alot of churches.

We were sorry to hear that Johnny Martin was hospitalized, as he had some bad falls. Bad bumps and bruises.

Out thoughts and prayers are with him.

Honoring Veterans: The Busy Hands Extension Homemakers Club women of Hickory Plains were working on Friday, July 1, at the Hickory Plains Cemetery placing flags in honor of Veterans buried there. This is just one of their annual projects. Flags are normally placed on each veteran’s gravesite but in recent weeks, the flags have been taken by someone. “This year, we decided to line the front of the cemetery with the flags,” said Busy Hands president Barbara Ingle.

“We will take the flags up and put them out again for Labor Day in September and Veterans Day in November. This group meets on the second Tuesday of each month. Other ladies of the community are welcome to join them.

Pictured left to right are Darlene Whitaker, Mary Holcomb, Alves Bonner and Barbara Ingle.

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FARM/HOME Sorghum sinks, cotton rebounds, rice gains ground

By Mary Hightower U of A System Division of Agriculture

Arkansas sorghum acres evaporated, soybean acres rose on a late-inning price rally, and rice gained acres thanks to lower fuel and fertilizer prices and in spite of flat-ish new crop futures, Scott Stiles, extension economist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture said Thursday.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service on Thursday released its 2016 “Acreage” report showing how many acres were planted of each crop. It’s the planting season bookend to the March 31 “Prospective Plantings” report, which forecast the number of acres of major crops planted in Arkansas and the rest of the nation.

Overall, the number of acres planted in principal crops in Arkansas rose to 7.28 million acres, up from last year’s 7.11 million, but down from 2014’s 7.46 million.

CORN – Corn acreage leapt to 750,000 acres in 2016, up from last year’s 460,000 acres. The “Acreage” report figure is down from the “Prospective Plantings” report which forecast 790,000 acres.

“That’s probably about right – we had some difficulty getting the corn planted,” said Jason Kelley, extension wheat and feed grains agronomist for the Division of Agriculture. One of the up sides to corn is “we’ve got a lot of weed control options.

About the time when growers were having to decide between corn and soybeans, there was a lot of talk about PPO-resistant pigweed. I think that affected the corn acres in Arkansas to some degree.”

COTTON – Cotton rebounded from its lowest-ever acreage -- 210,000 acres in 2015 -- by 76 percent to this year’s 370,000 acres. Cotton exceeded the “Prospective Plantings” forecast of 330,000 acres, rising to its highest level since 2012.

“It is exciting to see cotton acres rebound to just slightly above the levels we had in 2014,” said Bill Robertson, extension cotton agronomist for the Division of Agriculture. “This is a step in the right direction for cotton in Arkansas.

“Another step in the right direction was the cost-share assistance payments to cotton producers through the new Cotton Ginning Cost-Share program that was recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. It was implemented to help to expand and maintain the domestic marketing of cotton,” he said. “Cotton is important to the local economies in the Delta. Assistance directed towards cotton pays dividends to those on and off the farm.”

PEANUTS – The 2016 growing season was the first time Arkansas was counted among the nation’s peanut growers. The state clocked in with 20,000 acres.

RICE – Acres planted for short, medium and long-grain rice increased to 1.58 million from last year’s 1.3 million. Long grain rice dominated the fields with 1.43 million, up from 1.06 million in 2015.

Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the Division of Agriculture said he was surprised that the acreage remained static between the “Prospective Plantings” report and Thursday’s “Acreage.”

“Based on the rapid pace of planting and observations around the state throughout the season, I expected acreage had increased above my March prediction of 1.6 million to 1.65 million acres,” he said, adding that, “1.58 million acres still represents a 23 percent increase over 2015

acreage and represents the fifth largest rice acreage in Arkansas history. It would also be the highest since a state record of 1.785 million acres in 2010.”

Stiles said that “new crop rice futures were relatively flat year over year and averaged $11.13 per hundredweight during the first quarter. Lower fuel and fertilizer prices this spring helped rice returns as well.”

Weather gave growers a hand with the planting pace remaining well ahead of the five-year average until planting was complete. Many of 2015’s 270,000 “prevented planting” rice acres returned to rice with the crop gaining 275,000 acres this year.

GRAIN SORHGUM – Grain sorghum took a precipitous drop from 450,000 acres in 2015 to 40,000 acres in 2016. The figure was well below the March forecast of 140,000 acres.

“Sorghum prices are well below last year,” Stiles said. Last year, new crop basis on the Mississippi River was 70 cents above futures, but is currently 40 cents below. “That $1.10 per bushel swing in basis accounts for the majority of the decrease year over year in sorghum bids,” he said. “The weaker basis could be attributed to slower export demand. China is our No. 1 export market for sorghum and exports to China are running 18 percent below a year ago.”

“The two big reasons for that huge, huge drop were the economics of the crop and the presence of sugarcane aphids, which were really weighing on the minds of our producers,” Kelley said. “You’ve got to have a good price to make a profit.”

SOYBEANS – Soybean acreage dropped slightly to 3.15 million from last year’s 3.2 million acres planted. The figure is up from March’s 3.05-million-acre forecast.

Stiles said the increase wasn’t a surprise.

“Since trading to a low of $8.68 on March 2, the November futures contract has traded as high as $11.86 on June 13. A price surge of over $3 per bushel was a complete surprise. Given the magnitude of the rally, it appeared obvious that soybeans would pick up some additional acres.” Why the rally? The South American soybean crop was off this year, particularly in Argentina. More export demand has been diverted to the U.S. and in-turn ending stocks have tightened considerably.

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

Week of June 27 l Days of field work: 7 Top soil Moisture: 75% Short; 25% Adequate Sub soil Moisture: 75% Short, 25% Adequate Main Activities: Farmers finalized soybean planting for the first time with a few replants taking place due to dry weather. Rainfall was minimal during the week with no limitations to field work. Irrigation continues for all crops and second hay cuttings will be beginning soon. Southern rust was confirmed in corn, leaf blast was found in rice, and worms were feeding on soybean.

Crop Progress: Corn: 75% milk 30% dough Soybean: 99% planted, 98% emerged, 50% bloom, 15% setting pods Cotton: 100% squaring Rice: 2% headed

Crop Condition: Corn: 25% Poor, 75% Good Rice: 20% Poor, 80% Fair Soybean: 25% Poor, 75% Fair Cotton: 100% Fair Pasture/Hay: 50% Poor 50% Fair

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Biong your laptop for hands-on training. Please let us know if you can atWINTER WHEAT – Winter wheat tend: 870-998-2614. dropped as well, from 350,000 acres in July 19: 1PM Meeting, 2015 to 200,000 acres in 2016. Winter Advadas Diner, 11:00 a. m., wheat acres planted were also below the Dr. Gus Lorenz, Ext. EntoMarch forecast, which was 220,000 acres. mologist, and Mike HamilNationally, soybean plantings hit a ton, Irrigation Education. record high of 83.7 million acres, up 1 percent from the previous year. Corn was at its third-highest acreage since 1944 at 94.1 million acres, up 7 percent from the previous year. Cotton acreage grew across the country by 17 percent to 10 million acres.

Wheat plantings of all types fell 7 percent to 50.8 million acres.

For more information about crop production, visit www.uaex.edu or contact your county extension office.

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Manage Mosquitoes While Enjoying the Great Outdoors

By Melinda Myers Don’t let disease-carrying mosquitoes keep you indoors this summer. Instead, employ these eight tips to protect yourself and manage these pests in your yard.

Do a bit of yard and garden clean up. Remove weeds, manage neglected gardens and keep the lawn properly mowed to reduce resting spaces for adult mosquitoes.

Eliminate standing water where mosquitoes breed. Drain water that collects in buckets, kids toys, tarps, pool covers, clogged gutters and downspouts.

Clear the gutters and downspouts so water can drain freely. Store items that tend to collect water in a s2hed or garage.

Evaluate drainage patterns in your landscape.

Improve drainage by amending the soil with organic matter. Install French drains, drain tiles and other drainage systems if needed. Or turn it into a water feature. Consult your municipality first for any relevant guidelines and restrictions.

Manage water in birdbaths, fountains, ponds and rain barrels. Change water weekly in birdbaths and wading pools. Add a pump to keep water moving and prevent breeding.

Or use an organic mosquito control like Mosquito Dunks and Bits (SummitResponsibleSolutions.c om) in rain barrels and water features. The Mosquito Bits quickly knock down the mosquito larval population, while the Mosquito Dunks provide 30 days of control. They are both safe for pets, fish, wildlife and children.

Add a fan to your outdoor décor. The gentle

breeze keeps these weak flying insects away. Consider taking one to the garden when weeding.

Provide short-term relief when entertaining outdoors with the help of citronella oil or scented candles. Scatter lots of these throughout the area and within a few feet of your guests.

Cover as much of your skin as possible with loose fitting, light colored clothing. Mosquitoes are less attracted to the lighter colors and can’t readily reach your skin through loose clothing.

Further protect yourself from disease-carrying mosquitoes by using a personal repellent. For those looking to avoid DEET, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has also approved products with the active ingredient picaridin, IR3535, and the synthetic oil of lemon and eucalyptus. Avoid products that contain both sunscreen and insect repellents as you need to apply the sunscreen more often than the repellent.

Implement some of these strategies and then get ready to enjoy the outdoors mosquito-free all season long.

Gardening expert Melinda Myers has more than 30 years of horticulture experience and has written over 20 gardening books, including Small Space Gardening and the Midwest Gardener’s Handbook. She hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening For Everyone” DVD set and the nationally syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio segments.

Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Summit Responsible Solutions for her expertise to write this article. Myers’ website is www.melindamyers.com.

NRCS to help farmers measure conservation impacts on water quality By: Ciji Taylor NRCS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced the availability of $2 million to help farmers install edge-offield stations that monitor water quality as it leaves their fields, providing data to evaluate the success of various conservation efforts. The funding is available to farmers located across key watersheds in nine states and is part of

USDA's ongoing commitment to measure the effectiveness of a wide range of conservation initiatives.

"Testing the quality of water as it leaves a field helps farmers and USDA understand which conservation practices work best at preventing sediment and nutrient runoff. Verifiable data gives farmers, USDA and other partners information needed to make targeted conserva-

tion investments to improve water quality for everyone," said USDA's Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Ann Mills.

Mills announced funding for this effort, led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), in St. Louis at a meeting of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force.

Certify Crops by July 15 to Ensure Eligibility The deadline to certify spring-seeded crops is July 15. Certification is required to meet eligibility requirements for government farm programs, said Dr. Henry English, head of the Small Farm Program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Both traditional row crops such as corn, cotton, grain sorghum, soybeans and rice as well as commercial vegetables should be certified, he said. This includes okra, cucumbers, watermelons, squash, southern peas and sweet potatoes. Producers must

report each of their crops, their intended use, acreages and planting dates.

Failure to certify makes participation in disaster programs nearly impossible as many Farm Service Agency (FSA) programs require that all cropland on a farm be certified to earn FSA benefits. In some cases, vegetable producers have gone to their local FSA offices to sign up for a disaster program only to learn that no record exists of their crop being planted because of lack of certification, he said.

All crops planted by July 15 must be certified by that date. If the crop has not been planted by the acreage reporting date, the acreage must be reported no later than 15 calendar days after planting was completed. If the producer acquires additional acreage after the reporting date, that acreage must be reported within 30 calendar days after purchase or acquisition.

If a perennial forage crop is reported with the intended use of cover only, green manure, left standing or seed, then the

acreage must also be reported by July 15, he said.

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) policy holders should note that the reporting date for NAP covered crops is the earlier of the applicable dates or 15 calendar days before grazing or harvesting begins.

Arkansas producers who could not plant because of excessive rains, high winds or flooding or who planted crops that failed should file a notice of loss within 15 calendar days or when the loss becomes apparent, said Dr. English.

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Special League Awards Presented

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Pictured left to right are: Hayden Brown-Lindsay’s, Cooper Childers-LindPictured left to right are: Ben Kearby-Garth’s, Cole Eldridge-Farmers and say’s, Garrett Cook-Farmers and Merchants Bank and Tristan Ingle-Garth’s.

Merchants Bank and Jakin Cox-Lindsay’s. Rookie of the Year was Ben Overall Most Valuable Player was Garrett Cook Kearby.

Team Most Valuable Players and Team Rookies Girls 12 & Under Softball Pictured left to right are Hadley Whittenburg-MVP-Kennedy Law, Payton Bitner-Team Rookie-Kennedy Law; Brooke Adams-MVP-Stealerz, Faith Harrell-MVP-Stealerz and Kymber Buckner-Stealerz-Rookie of the Year. Overall MVP was Hadley Whittenburg. Not pictured: Jurnee Washington-Team Rookie-Stealerz

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Rutledge Reaches Settlement with Volkswagen Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has reached a settlement requiring Volkswagen to pay more than $570 million nationwide for violating laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive trade practices by marketing, selling and leasing diesel vehicles equipped with illegal and undisclosed defeat device software.

In September 2015, Rutledge joined the executive committee of a multistate investigation into Volkswagen for altering its emissions software. Rutledge says that by participating in the executive committee, attorneys within her office were able to take an active role in the investigation and resolution of this case to ensure that Arkansans receive proper compensation.

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Des Arc Baseball Association ends summer program with tournament/awards The Des Arc Baseball Association held its end of season tournaments and awards ceremonies on Thursday, June 30 at the Des Arc Baseball Complex.

The Girls-8 and under softball, Buddy League and Little League were in tournament play. The Girls 12 and

under league chose not to have a tournament due to only having two teams. These two teams have combined into a traveling team.

Also, the DABA presented awards to the winners of the League and Tournament. Special awards were presented

for the Cap Myers Award, Pete Swinney Award, Team MVP, Team Rookie, Overall MVP, and Rookie of the Year. DABA president Mike Weatherley announced the winners.

Congratulations to everyone on a great season! Pictured below are the winners.

Kennedy Law Second in League-12 & Under

Stealerz First in League-12 & Under

Front, l-r: Charleigh Patterson, Jayda Renfro, Ellie Covington, Adysen Johnston, Hadley Whittenburg Back, l-r: Calleigh Skarda, Payton Bitner, Rachel Reidhar, Jaelynn Renfro, Jenna Brown, Bella Flanagan.

Very back: Coach Chris McDonald. Not pictured: Coach Danielle McDonald and Kelly Taylor

Pictured front, l-r: Kymber Buckner, Brooke Adams, Zoey Taylor, Harleigh Holloway, Gabi Berry, Alana Lee Back row, l-r: Coach Amanda Kirk, Faith Harrell, Alaina Fields, Kirsten Wiggins, Cami Eldridge, and Coach Emily Huddleston

Farmers and Merchants FIrst in League and Tournament-Little League

Garth’s Second in League and Tournament-Little League

Front row, l-r: Landon Dobbins, Brayden Baxter, Ross Holloway, Cole Eldridge, Garrett Cook, Trevion Reed, Chandler Dobbins, Jaymison Renfro.

Back, l-r: Coach Jeff Hall, Mikey Tenison, Coach Gary Eldridge, Jacob Roach and Seth Lisko

Front row, l-r: Jack Kearby, Jack Manek, Ben Kearby, Will Gillioun, Hayden Nichols, Jonah Winkowski, Matt Kearby Second row, l-r: Coach Mike Kearby, Lucas Nichols, Tristan Ingle, Jake Reidhar and Coach B.J. Nichols

Palace Drug First in League and Tournament-Buddy League

Tortugas Second in League and Tournament-Buddy League

Front row, l-r:Liam Allwhite, Josiah Skarda, Baehr Taylor, Hunter Sanner, Sam Skarda Second row, l-r: Christian Lemoine, Levi Cook, Brady Cain, Hudson Goodman, Cane Childers and Mark Tenison Very Back row, l-r: Coach Wade Allwhite, Coach Ronnie Goodman, and Coach Kent Childers

Pictured front, l-r: Whitt Eans, Case Bell, Hayden Stuckey, Logan Bell, Maddox Tallent, Knox Eans, Canon Bell Middle Row, l-r: Skylar Smith, Bryson Duerson, Gabe Berry, Zachary Hampton, Camp Skarda, Cylas Winkowski, .

Back: Coach Jacie Bell, Coach Bill Duerson, Coach Taddy Hill and Coach Jake Eans and Assistant Hayden Childers

Wild Thangs First in League and Second in Tournament-Girls 8 & Under Softball

Red Hots First in Tournament and Second in League-Girls 8 & Under Softball

Kneeling, l-r: Talyn Johnston, Sydney Atkins, Callie Prince, Allie Collins Second row standing, l-r: Mollee McDonald, Alicia Inman, Mia Dunlap, Kyra Hughes, Kaylee McDonald.

Back row: Coach Tania Johnston, Coach Jack Johnston, Coaches Chris and Danielle McDonald

Pictured left to right are: Karly Woodall, Madison Norman, MacKenzie White, Brietyn Burgess, Preslee Brown, Layla Gardner, Kallie Joe Willeford, Trinity Milgrim.

Back row, l-r: Coach Randi Gardner, Coach Drew Widener, Marley Widener and Coach Stephanie Alverson.

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WHITE RIVER JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 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, July 5:

Land Transfers Warranty Deed Dakota Corporation, Inc., an Arkansas Corporation, Grantor, hand paid by Dwight H. Fouse and Crystal Fouse, Grantee, the following described land situated in Prairie County, Arkansas: The SE 1/4 of Section Six, T4N, R7W. Warranty Deed J.Darrel Hall and Berta Flo Hall, Grantors, hand paid by Dwight H. Fouse and Crystal Fouse, Grantees, the following lands lying in Prairie County Arkansas: The SE 1/4 of Section Six, T4N, R7W. Warranty Deed Dwight H. Fouse and Crystal Fouse, Grantors, hand paid by Norman Metcalf and Shelley Metcalf, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: The SE 1/4 of Section Six, T4N, R7W

Warranty Deed Scott Watson and Carla Watson, Grantors, hand paid by Dean A. Sanders and Melissa K. Sanders, Grantees, the following property situated in the County of Prairie, State of Arkansas: A part of the N 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 11, T3N, R4W. Warranty Deed Robert S. Price and Paula B. Price, Grantors, hand paid by JB Land Company, LLC, an Arkansas Limited Liability Company, Grantee, the following described lands situated in the County of Prairie, State of Arkansas: SW 1/4 NE 1/4; SE 1/4 NE 1/4; S 1/2 NW 1/4; SW 1/4 North of Bay; Fractional SE 1/4 SE 1/4; W 1/2 SE 1/4 North of Bay; Fractional NE 1/4 SE 1/4 Section 23, T4N, R4W containing 455.76 acres, more or less.

S 1/2 NW 1/4; SW 1/4 in Section 24, T4N, R4W contaning 240.00 acres, more or less NW 1/4; SW 1/4 West of Cache River; SE 1/4 West of Cache River; SE 1/4 East of Cache River in Section 25, T4N, R4W containing 458.42 acres, more or less.

Fractional NE 1/4 East of

Bay; Fractional SE 1/4 East of Bay; Fractional E 1/2 NW 1/4 North of Bay; Fractional E 1/2 NW 1/4 East of Bay in Section 26, T4N, R4W containign 209.43 acres, more or less. and Fractional NE 1/4 West of Cache River; Fractional NW 1/4 North of Bay;’ Fractional NE 1/4 East of Cache River; Fractional NW 1/4 East of Cache River; Fractional SW 1/4 East of Cache River; NW 1/4 SE 1/4; Fractional E 1/2 SE 1/4 in Section 36, T4N, R4W containing 383.80 acres, more or less, LESS AND EXCEPT approximately 234.01 acres conveyed to Head Coach Lodge, LLC. Also less and except in Section 23 and 24, T4N, R4W approximately 125 acres conveyed to John C. Earl.

Also less and except a Waterfowl Hunting Rights Easement Also less and except an Easement of Ingres and Egress in favor of John C. Earl.

Also less and except existing easements or grants of record.

Prairie Count y Jail Count The following inmates are incarcerated in the Prairie County Jail at Des Arc as of Tuesday, July 5, 2016, according to Sheriff Gary Burnett: Walker, James Nicholas, Intake 30, Commitment. date June 6, 2016.

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.

Branch, Aaron Antwon, 32, charged with Possession of Controlled Substance x2 and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia-Class A Misdemeanor.

Intake date March 17, 2016.

Mitchell, George W., 37, charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia x2. Intake date May 25, 2016.

Rocha, Jimmy Jesus, 24, Hold for Another Department. Intake date April 4, 2016.

Jones, Bobby Joe, 56, Hold for ADC. Intake date March 3, 2016.

Doss, Myesha, 23, Commitment. Intake date May 16, 2016.

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

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

2016.

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

Good, Lattorrey L, 36, charged with Terroristic Threadenting-Misdemeanor and Disorderly Conduct. Intake date June 4, 2016.

Nady, Timothy Wayne, 36, charged with Careless Driving, Obstructing Governmental Operations, Disorderly Conduct, Carrying a Gun/Knife/Club as Weapon, Drinking on Highway and All Other Offenses. Commitment. Intake date May 14, 2016.

Williams, Justin W., 34, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date June 1, 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.

Manjarez, Albar Diego, 24, Hold for Another Department. Intake date June 7, 2016.

Earl, Teresa, 36, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date June 8,

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McDaniel, Jeremiah Lamont, 37, Commitment. Intake date June 10, 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.

Fort, Hiram K., 51, Commitment. Intake date June 26, 2016.

Stamps, Marcel Depree, 24, Commitment. Intake date June 21, 2016.

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

Crisco, Mashelle L., 47, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date July 1, 2016.

Jennings, Jalisa Faye, 20, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date July 1, 2016.

Hurt, Aaron ., 37, charged with Contempt of Court. Intake date June 29, 2016.

Treadwell, Jeffery Carol, 46, Commitment. Intake date June 29, 2016.

Willliams, Thornell A., 31, charged with Violation of No Contact Order. Intake date June 30, 2016.

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

Soap Making Workshop at Lower White River Museum A soap making workshop is scheduled for Saturday, July 16, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Lower White River Museum State Park in Des Arc, Arkansas.

Soap making is as easy as following a recipe! Join park staff to learn the art and science of making lye soap using the cold-process method. Participants follow recipes to make different soaps, such as lavender goat’s milk, peppermint poppy seed or oatmeal clove. Please dress appropriately as some materials are caustic and can burn.

Space is limited for this class, so register now to reserve your spot.

To register please contact Monica Smith at the Lower White River Museum State Park. Phone (870) 256-3711, E-mail: monica.f.smith@arkansas.g ov.

The Lower White River Museum State Park is one of 52 state parks administered by the State Parks Division of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.

District Court Hearings District Court Hearings will resume on Monday, July 11, 2016 in the Courtroom at Des Arc City Hall. There were no hearings July 4, 2016 due to the Fourth of July holiday.

Showing July 9 at 6 pm Community Center in DeValls Bluff, AR Free popcorn and Admission!

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In the Circuit Court of the Northern District of Prairie County, Arkansas PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of Lonnie Vernon Eades, Deceased 59N PR-16-13 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Last Known Address of Decedent: 6551 Hwy. 38 East, Des Arc, Arkansas 72040 Date of Death: March 31, 2016 The undersigned was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of the above-named Decedent on June 27, 2016.

All persons having claims against the estate must exhibit them duly verified, to the undersigned within six (6) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or they shall be forever barred and precluded from any benefit in the estate.

This notice first published this 7th day of July, 2016.

Dennis Eades 1106 Eades Road Jefferson, AR 72029 Robert M. Abney, P.A. Attorney for the Estate P. O. Box 246 Des Arc, AR 72040 7/7/2c 870-256-4183

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Commer Property, 2000 sq. ft. bldg, plus Stg. Bldg. K & B Lane..........$75,000.

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

3 Bdr, 1.5 Ba, 2306 sq. ft, 411 Pike..............................REDUCED ....... $75,000.

2 Bdr. 1 Ba, Remodeled, Storm Shelter, 108 Whippoorwill.................. $44,000.

5 Acres, Near Lake Des Arc, Bayou - Owner Finance......................... $21,000.

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Price Reduced: $189,000 For more information on this beautiful home, go to www.mwrrealty.com, call Larry Montgomery at Montgomery Whiteley Realty, 870-423-2997, or email lamonty44@gmail.com.

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FOR SALE: 2001 Buick LaSabre, as is; good car, $2000.00; 1987 Dodge Ram, LWB, as is; $1500.00. Leon Holland. Call 870-854-3986. 1c

YARD SALE: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, July 7, 8, 9, 8 a.m. til. 301 Chester. Lots of clothes and other items.

C OOK B OOKS

YARD SALE

SAYGER COOK BOOKS: Recipes by local EHC ladies of the 1930’s and 1940’s. Available at Journal Office. $8.00 each.

Journal Delivery Tracking Chart 23 Tracked locations received last week’s JUNE 30 issue next day, on FRI., JULY 1 USPS gets “A-” for delivery of JUN 30 issue USPS’s delivery consistency now 12 consecutive weeks !

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Group A: 9 of 10 post offices have now received WRJ on 12 consecutive Fridays (Searcy: 10 Fridays - 2 Saturdays)

Sherwood has received WRJ on 11 of the last 12 Fridays (1 exception: Sat, 5/28) Hot Springs (Village) has received WRJ on 10 consecutive Fridays.

Greenbrier and Edgemont, Ar have received WRJ on 11 of the last 12 Fridays (1 exception: Saturday 5/14) Midvale, ID has received WRJ on 10 of the last 12 Mondays (2 holiday exceptions: Tues, 5/31 and Tues, 7/5) Anaheim, CA has rcvd WRJ on 8 of the last 12 Mondays (4 exceptions: Tues, 5/31, 6/14, 7/5; Sat., 4/9) June 30 Out-of-State delivery was Excellent: For most part, deliveries either improved on, or were the equivalent of June 23 delivery, considering the Mon, July 4 holiday 8. Tracking Chart includes a column for FEWEST #DAYS (best delivery time achieved to date at each location); plus columns for Actual #delivery days at each location - for the last 4 weeks.

USPS Mail Facility in DATE MAILED NLR receives / distribThursday, Thursday, utes Journals to these JUNE 16 JUNE 9 47 tracked locations

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

( LAST 4

FEWEST ( ) = Fewest / Actual #delivery days;

#DAYS (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)

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

FRI., 6/10 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ”

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

FRI., 6/17 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ”

ISSUES )

Thursday, JUNE 30

Thursday, JUNE 23

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

D ATE D ELIVERED FRI., 6/24 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ”

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

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

* Above 10 locations are mailed in 10 proprietary containers. Another 170± locations, including the 37 listed below, are all mailed in 7 mixed containers (sorted/distributed @ NLR Facility).

GROUP “B” (23 ADDITIONAL ARKANSAS LOCATIONS) (4) MON, 6/27 (2) SAT, 7/2 (1) (2) SAT, 6/11 (2) SAT, 6/18 Alma (1) FRI., 6/24 (1) FRI., 7/1 (1) (1) FRI, 6/10 (1) FRI, 6/17 Arkadelphia (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” Bald Knob (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) (1) FRI, ” Edgemont (4) MON, 6/20 ? ?

(2) (4) MON, 6/13 Fayetteville (7) THRS, 6/23 (6) WED, 6/29 (6) WED, 7/6 (2) (2) SAT, 6/11 Forrest City (1) FRI, 6/17 (1) FRI., 6/24 (1) FRI, 7/1 (1) (1) FRI, 6/10 Greenbrier (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI, ” (1) (1) FRI, ” Hot Springs (5) TUES, 6/21 (6) WED, 6/29 (5) TUES, 7/5 (2) (2) SAT, 6/11 Jonesboro (2) Mixed 6/17, 6/18 (1) FRI, 6/24 (2) Mixed 7/1, 7/2 (1) (1) FRI, 6/10 Little Rock (2) SAT, 6/18 (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, 7/1 (1) (2) SAT, 6/11 Mabelvale (1) FRI, 6/17 (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) (1) FRI, 6/10 McGhee (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (2) Mixed 7/1, 7/2 North Little Rock (1) (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (2) SAT, 6/25 (1) FRI, 7/1 Rose City, NLR (1) (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI., 6/24 (1) FRI, ” (1) (1) FRI, ” Pine Bluff ?

(4) MON, 6/27 (5) TUES, 7/5 (2) (2) SAT., 6/11 Rogers (1) FRI, 6/17 (1) FRI, 6/24 ?

(1) (1) FRI, 6/10 Romance (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, 7/1 (1) (1) FRI, ” Russellville (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” ?

(1) (1) FRI, ” Sheridan (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, 7/1 (1) (1) FRI, ” Sherwood (1) FRI, ” (2) SAT, 6/25 (1) FRI, ” Tichnor, Gillette PO (1) (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (2) SAT, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) (1) FRI, ” Ulm (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, 6/24 (1) FRI, ” (1) ?

Vilonia OUT OF STATE (14 LOCATIONS) (2) Anaheim, CA Chicago/N Aurora, IL 2 (2) Dallas, TX (1) Enid, OK Houston/Seabrook, TX (4) (4) Madison, AL Memphis/Bartlett, TN (1) Memphis/Millington (2) (4) Midvale, ID (4) Salem, OR Springfield, MO (4) (4) Springfield, OH 2 St Louis, MO W. Melbourne, FL (4)

(5) TUES, 6/14 (5) TUES, ” (2) SAT, 6/11 (2) SAT, 6/11 (4) MON, 6/13

(4) MON, 6/20 (4) MON, ” (4) MON, ” (2) SAT, 6/18 (4) MON, 6/20 Rcvd - Date unknown (4) MON, ” (2) SAT, 6/11 (2) SAT, 6/18 (2) SAT, ” (5) TUES, 6/21 (4) MON, 6/13 (4) MON, 6/20 (5) TUES, 6/14 (4) MON, ” ?

(5) TUES, 6/21 (5) TUES, 6/14 (5) TUES, ” (4) MON, 6/13 2 SAT, 6/18 (6) WED, 6/15 (7) THRS, 6/23

(4) MON, 6/27 2 SAT, 6/25 (5) TUES, 6/28 (4) MON, 6/27 (4) MON, ” (5) TUES, 6/28 (6) WED, 6/29 (5) TUES, 6/28 (4) MON, 6/27 (5) TUES, 6/28 (5) TUES, ” ? - vacation (4) MON, 6/27 (8) FRI, 7/1

(5) TUES, 7/5 ?

(2) SAT, 7/2 (2) SAT, ” (5) TUES, 7/5 (5) TUES, ” (6) WED, 7/6 (5) TUES, 7/5 (5) TUES, ” (5) TUES, ” (5) TUES, 7/5 (6) WED, 7/6 ?

(5) TUES, 7/5

FEWEST DAYS TOTAL: (77) (86) actual days total (97) actual days total (106) actual days total (103) actual days total

USPS Grade

A+

NEW Record-Early-Delivery

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B+

EXCEPTIONAL Delivery

APOOR Delivery

Re: Arkansas locations (Group A): Friday deliveries shown in BLACK text - later than “next-day” in RED italic.

Re: Arkansas locations (Group B): Fri/Sat deliveries shown in BLACK TEXT - Monday or later shown in RED italic.

Re: Out-of-state locations, “acceptable” deliveries shown in BLACK text - less than acceptable shown in RED italic.

Exceptional deliveries include black

“thumbs up”. Poor deliveries include RED

“thumbs down”.

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YARD SALE: Friday & Saturday, July 8 & 9, 7 am, til; 207 Willow St. Furniture, glassware, clothes, blowup boat for four, and much more.

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In the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas Northern District Jeffrey B. Calhoun and Tanya Calhoun................................................................Plaintiffs v.

59N CV-16-16 Regions Bank, Successor in Interest to Union Planters Bank, National Association.................Defendant NOTICE OF QUIET TITLE ACTION Comes Rebecca Hayley, Circuit Clerk of Prairie County, and gives notice that a complaint to quiet title was filed in this Court on May 2, 2016, in which the Plaintiffs, Jeffrey B. Calhoun and Tanya Calhoun, are seeking to quiet title on property described as follows, to-wit: Fractional Part of the West Half (W1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (NW1/4) of Northwest Quarter (NW1/4) of Section Twenty-four (24), Township Five North, Range Five West (T5N-R5W).

All persons claiming any interest in the land or a lien thereon are hereby notified to appear in court or file an objection and show cause why the title to the Petitioners should not be quieted and confirmed.

Given this 14th day of June 2016.

Rebecca Hayley Circuit Clerk Prairie County, Arkansas 6/23/4c

In the Circuit Court of the Northern District Probate Division In the Matter of the Estate of Betty Lou Stine, Deceased....................................No. PR-16-11 Last known address of decedent: 602 S. 4th St. Des Arc, AR 72040 Date of Death: May 16, 2016 AN AFFIDAVIT FOR COLLECTIONS On May 24, 2016, an Affidavit for Collection of a small estate was filed with respect to the estate of Betty Lou Stine deceased, with the Clerk of the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas under Arkansas Code Ann. Sec. 2841-101. The real property listed in the Affidavit is: N1/2 Lots 1 and 2, Block 69,Watkins in Section 11, Township 04, North Range 05 West, Prairie County, Arkansas All persons having claims against the estate must exhibit them, properly verified, to the distributee within 30 days from the date of the first publication of this notice, or they will be forever barred and precluded from any benefit in this estate.

Louis Stine,Distributee 2301 Normandy Searcy, AR 72143 501-593-1325 7/7/2c

In the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas NORTHERN DISTRICT Third Division Tiffany Warren......................................................Plaintiff vs No. DR2016-3 Cody Warren....................................................Defendant WARNING ORDER Cody Warren, is hereby warned to appear in this Court within thirty days and answer the complaint of Tiffany Warren and upon failure of Cody Warren to do so, the complaint filed herein will be deemed to be admitted. A hearing will be held on the complaint for divorce before the Domestic Relations Division of the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas, in DeValls Bluff, Arkansas on the 25th day of August, 2016, at 9:30 a. m.

WITNESS my hand and seal as Circuit Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas, this 6 day of July 2016.

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WHITE RIVER JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2016

Hallelujah!!---New Jobs Coming to Prairie County! Déjà Vu on June 25th, 2016

By Harvey Joe Sanner

The top headline is three years old and this past week we’ve noticed that the parking lot at Guess and Company has fewer empty slots. We are very pleased to announce that Paul Guess has grown his company as we approach it’s third birthday, his employee list is near thirty (30). A few of that number are part time employees and some perform work offsite. Paul utilizes some local seamstresses and other professionals who do contract work for him in their homes.

It goes without saying that the product line at Guess & Company and their “Deck the Hall’s Y’all” products are of superior quality and superbly designed. If you have not experienced the quality and workmanship at Guess and Company, please

take a look at the Lux Candles website and please keep tuned to the local papers and Facebook for open house events and opportunities to visit the operation at 2005 Highway 38-11 West in Des Arc. It is an honor for the Des Arc Industrial Development Corporation and Moving Prairie County Forward to offer Guess and Company our best wishes and a most Happy Third Birthday. We are both proud and grateful that you made the decision three years ago to locate here and to you and your talented crew, we wish the very best for you and from what we have seen thus far, the next three years should be a bright future! May your candle never dim!On behalf of the DAIDC and MPCwww.deckthehallsyall.com.

Parked cars at Guess and Company is sign of jobs created here

Hughes brothers recognized for achievements in sports

Friends gathered at Lindsay’s Pizza and Grill on Thursday, June 30, to congratulate Neva Boatright on her retirement. Boatright was Superintendent at Lower White River Museum State Park for 14 years, successfully guiding the museum through two renovations and a name change. Boatright began her career with Arkansas State Parks at Petit Jean State Park before working at Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park and Lake Catherine State Park. She was the Superintendent at Cane Creek State Park for over 20 years before transferring to Des Arc. Neva, who resides in Cabot, is pictured here with retirement party cake.

John Hughes of Reston, VA., was recognized as a “Triathlete” at the South Lakes High School spring Sports Banquet held in June. This award goes to those athletes lettering in three sports in a highly competitive metropolitan environment. John was the only athlete in the high school, one of the largest in the state of Virginia with over 2,000 students, who lettered in football, basketball and lacrosse. He was also recognized as the Senior Most Valuable Player of the Year for the Boys lacrosse team.

John will be attending the University of Arkansas, Walton School of Business, Fayetteville, this Fall. Apparently all of those visits back to Des Arc to visit with his grandparents (Faye and Kelly Hughes), cousins, aunts and uncles, made an impression on him and he decided to attend the UofA, Fayetteville, choosing it over the University

of Arizona and Kentucky.

John’s brother, Matthew, a Junior, helped lead the South Lakes lacrosse team to its first ever undefeated season in conference play, the number 3 team in the Northern Region of Virginia, and into the state championship tournament. South Lakes finished 16-3 on the season.

Matthew, a defenseman, was named Player of the Year in the Liberty conference, Defensive Player of the Year; 1st Team All State, and 1st Team All Region. He was also named to the prestigious Washington Post All Met 2nd Team, one of only two underclassmen selected from all public and private high schools in northern Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia (D.C.).

John and Matthew are the sons of Kelly and Lisa Hughes of Reston, Virginia, and grandsons of Kelly and Faye Hughes of Des Arc.

“Delta: Rediscovered” at Prairie County Historical Museum, DeValls Bluff July 1 to August 5 “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 5th, 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.

Master photographer Dayton Bowers operated the earliest known photography studio and gallery in Arkansas, active in DeWitt from 1880-1924. His photographs are recognizable for their clarity and wide range of subject matter. Bowers traveled the bayou country, photographing daily life and the rise of prosperity in Arkansas County prior to the Crash of 1929. He also photographed hundreds of portraits in his studio during this time.

Several Bowers photos

are featured in the book, Daughter of the White River (History Press, 2013) written by Denise White Parkinson based on six years of research and interviews with LC Brown, a beloved historian of the White River.

This touring exhibit, a fraction of the archive donated to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies by the late LC Brown in memoriam to his wife, Anna Grace Bowers Brown, is made possible by grants from the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the Morris Foundation.

Visit the Facebook page “The Rediscovered Archives of Dayton Bowers” for updates on newly discovered Bowers photos from family albums across the region.

Prairie County Historical Museum, 715 Ash Street in DeValls Bluff, Arkansas (in the former High School Building), is open Tuesday – Friday, 10 am – 4 pm. For more info, contact Museum Curator Debbie Cook: 870-256-5171 or email: debbiecook01@yahoo.com.

The Arnold Family Foundation and DeValls Bluff Library will be the host for a reading program (Lets Go Fishing), on July 12th at 1:00 pm. Children 12 and under are welcome to attend. We will have free popcorn and drinks for everyone. Come over to the DeValls Bluff Community Center (Old Auditorium) and enjoy this one hour program.

We will have another story time on July 19 - the topic will be posted soon. a

Dine at LaDue Family Fish Market !