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Steamboat Days events through Saturday New, bigger and better carnival makes Des Arc debut this year

l-r: Mardi Gra fun house, Bear Affair ride, Crystal Palace fun house

ACTIVITIES CALENDAR THURS., JUNE 4, 7 PM Miss Steamboat Pageant Courthouse/Main Stage

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, ALL DAY Courthouse Closed At Des Arc

FRI., JUNE 5, 9 - 11 AM Football Camp- Des Arc, Stuttgart, Barton, Lonoke Public Invited Hinson-Rollins Field

THURS.-SAT., JUNE 4-6 30th Annual Steamboat Days

THURS.-FRI., JUNE 4-5 Bible School First Baptist Church Closing program Sunday, June 7, 4:00 p.m.

The Johnson Amusement Co. of El Dorado is making its first ever appearance in Des Arc this week, having been selected by the Steamboat Days Committee to replace the carnival of recent years.

It will have 13-14 rides (many new to Steamboat Days), as well as several large “Fun Houses”. It had its preliminary “Soft Opening” Wednesday night, but will officially open tonight at 6:00 pm.

The carnival is familyowned and now operated primarily by Kenneth Johnson and his mother, Kathy.

With seven children in the family, including three involved sons; there was plenty of help in the 18year old family business.

However, one son has since died, as well as father and husband, Randy Johnson, who died two years ago on the night before he was to get his first look at a large, newly purchased carousel that Kenneth had just finished setting up.

Johnson Amusement’s last two engagements included the Mosquito Festival at McCrory and Augusta Days at Augusta. Next week they will travel to the Tomato Festival in Warren.

They have the equipment to fulfill a larger venue, in that they have over 40 total rides, one taller than the ferris wheel, the 80’ tall ‘Ring of Fire’.

Arm bands for a night of rides is $20.00 per person.

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ties will continue through Saturday evening.

Highlighting today’s events will be the Miss Steamboat Pageant at the courthouse stage at 7 p. m.

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bands, chili and barbecue cookoffs and professional entertainers.

A crew from COOL 104 radio will be in the park at 3 p.m. Friday with plans for interviewing and spreading the news of the event

on the radio.

The main stage will be located in the courthouse square area with lots of seating room.

There will be a fireworks display on both Friday and Saturday night.

White & Son Fish Market sold After 22 years, June 6 White’s last day Jim White, owner and operator of the White & Son Fish Market in Des Arc, advises that Saturday, June 6, will be his last day in the business.

The business has been sold to David Ladue of Vilonia, who will be taking over the operation the next week. The Ladue family will be moving to Des Arc, according to White.

White has been operating the business since 1993 having bought it from the late

Bill and Wilma Hayley. The fish market has been in operation at the same location on Main Street in Des Arc since the early 1950’s when Hayley and his father-in-law, Clarence Johnson, ran it. White later purchased the property from the C. J. Walls family.

White, who has been assisted in the business by his wife, Jewel; son, Jimmy, and daughter, Kristi Jones, says “we are taking a vacation next week.”

SAT., JUNE 6, 6 AM Steamboat Days Bass Tmt. Newby’s Camp Des Arc Bayou

MON-FRI,JUN.8-12,6-8:30 Vacation Bible School Lakeside M. Baptist Church

MON-FRI., JUNE 8-12, 9-12 Faith Miss. Baptist ChurchVacation Bible School

MON-FRI. JUNE 8-12, 9-3 Summer Basketball Camp DAHS Gymnasium

TUES., JUNE 9, 12 NOON Des Arc Lions Club Methodist Church

TUES., JUNE 9, 6 PM Quorum Court Courthouse Annex, Des Arc

FRI., JUNE 12, 9 AM & 1 PM Drivers Testing Des Arc City Hall Call 256-4316 for Info

SAT., JUNE 13, 7 PM Movies at DeValls Bluff Old High School Auditorium “More than Chance”

Obituaries Pg . 3

Johnny Green, 70, Hot Springs Karolyn Grice, 45, Austin Anthony Jones, 59, Hot Spgs.

Freda Miller, 86, Beebe Matilda Orlicek, 88, Des Arc Andrew Weddle, 88, DVlls Bluff Hilary Wilkins, 62, Hickory Plns

Dogs end Springdale cyclist’s 700 mile trek early Good samaritans at Des Arc & parents come to his aid Around noon Sunday, a “burning” Isaiah Coleman pedaled into Harvey’s Exxon looking for relief from pepper spray and asking for a phone to call his parents. Sherri Mack, who was working at Harvey’s and about to close early, loaned Isaiah her cell phone (his didn’t work in Des Arc area) Having left Beebe Sunday morning and cycling in heavy rain along Hwys 31 & 38, Isaiah had been accosted by dogs running out after him from at least 10 different homes between there and here. The last time, somewhere east of Johnson Chapel as he described location, two “boxer-type-looking” dogs came out and would just not stop chasing and snapping at his feet. When hollering at them didn’t help, he resorted to pepperspray by reaching across his left side with his right arm pointing at the dogs at his rear wheel. Unfortunately, he said this only

seemed to make them more determined ... and with more pepper spray getting on his clothes, left arm, hands and chest than on the dogs.

As it had been planned, the pepper spray was brought along not for dogs, but for would-be ‘human thugs’. Regardless, his attention and goals had been forcibly changed to something else. The burning of his skin kept increasing to the point that he was questioning if he was going to make it to a stopping point (civilization), which as it turned out was going to be Harvey’s Exxon.

Isaiah, 18, graduated from Harber High School in Springdale, Ark in May and had decided to start his summer by cycling 700± miles all the way to Talladega, Alabama to attend a Baptist Church Camp there June 8-12. He said he had only become a “dedicated” cyclist the past couple of years. Since then he’s cycled a 36-mile one

way (72 mi round trip) bike trail from Fayetteville to Bella Vista “more times than he can count” - and also to Missouri and Oklahoma.

His cycling had also helped him lose about 65 lbs, getting him down from 235 to 170. He says his ‘dedication’ is such that he’s decided not to go to college, but to enroll in the United Bike Institute, located in Oregon, to become a bike mechanic.

He had left Springdale Thursday, May 28, following Hwy 71 south to Alma, Hwy 64 to Beebe, and then on to Des Arc via Hwys 31 & 38 - a total of 282 miles in 3 1/2 days. He spent his first night, Thursday, camping out at Aux Arc Park on the Arkansas River at Ozark. But after a long night tormented by voracious mosquitos, he opted for a cheap hotel in Russellville and Beebe the next two nights.

Upon reaching Harvey’s after being rained on, embattled by “hundreds’of

Isaiah Coleman and parents, Laurie and Richard Lollar (with his Trek 7.1FX 2014 bike on west side of Courthouse Sunday afternoon) dogs” along the entire distance from Springdale, and then accidentally pepperspraying himself; he decided to “call it quits” ...

and call his parents to come get him. They arrived about 4:00 pm. He See CYCLIST on Page 6

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Abortion Issue

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Everything involving the abortion issue, in Arkansas and the nation, is cloaked in predictability. Everything except the final outcome of a debate that began in 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court, in [begin ital] Roe v.

Wade [end ital], supposedly ended the debate by declaring that a woman had a fundamental, constitutional right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy during the first two trimesters.

In 2013, at the behest of State Sen. Jason Rapert of Bigelow, the General Assembly approved Act 1307, the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act. One of the legislature’s most ardent social conservatives, Rapert’s sponsorship of the legislation was predictable in that he had promised to do so; its passage, in a lawmaking body predisposed to limiting abortion and now emboldened by scores of new members of like mind, was all but guaranteed.

Then-Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto of the bill was predictable because he had signaled his intent to do so, noting that its restriction on abortion after the 12th week of pregnancy was in plain violation of the standard set by the Supreme Court, said standard based on fetal viability. Which is to say, abortion is lawful until the fetus cannot survive outside the womb; 24 weeks remains the threshold.

Predictably, physicians who perform abortions challenged the new Arkansas statute, and, for precisely the reasons Beebe cited, a federal district judge, the Honorable Susan Webber Wright, quickly enjoined its enforcement. The state’s predictable appeal met with a predictable outcome: a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the lower court’s finding, noting, a la Beebe and Wright, that the Arkansas law ran counter to established federal precedent.

Predictable, too, was the pro-choice advocates’ reactions, which ranged from irritation at the taxpayer money lost in a fruitless appeal to we-told-you-so chortles. They would be well advised to stop the sighs and sneers and read the appellate court’s nine-page opinion, authored by Arkansan Lavenski Smith (with a second Arkansan, Bobby Shepherd, joining). Hardly another document better illustrates the steadily increasing political imperatives for both sides in the controversy, underscored by the steadily increasing ability of doctors to sustain life at ever earlier stages outside the womb.

Indeed the Eighth Circuit bemoaned the failure of the state, in its appeal, to provide any evidence of “medical and technological advances along with mankind’s ever increasing knowledge of prenatal life since the (Supreme) Court decided [begin ital] Roe [end ital.].” Those advances, that knowledge, Smith observed, “have moved the viability point back. “(S)tates in the 1970s lacked the power to ban an abortion of a 24-week-old fetus because that fetus would have not satisfied the viability standard of that time period,” Smith continued. “Today, however, that same fetus would be considered ‘viable,’” and thus subject to state laws forbidding its termination in utero.

True, the 12-week limit specified in the Arkansas statute was but half the gestation period in which [begin ital] Roe [end ital] allows abortion. But as noted in another, later Supreme Court decision, quoted almost gleefully by Smith, the viability standard “is clearly on a collision course with itself.”

Summarized the Eighth Circuit: “This case underscores the importance of the parties, particularly the state, developing the record…so as to present a real opportunity for the court to examine viability, case by case, [begin ital.] as viability steadily moves back towards conception [end ital]” (italics added).

One suspects Smith wanted to write it this way: You blew it, Arkansas. We were ready, even eager, to sustain your law but you didn’t give us a chance, didn’t give us any evidence. You might consider trying again. And who knows? You might even make it to the Supreme Court, and then…

Whether a new attorney general, decidedly antiabortion, will undertake such action -- an appeal for a re-hearing to the full Eighth Circuit from the smaller subdivision -- isn’t known. That the Court is overwhelmingly conservative is established. Quite unknown, as well, is what evidence the state might have presented regarding 12-week fetal viability.

Almost paradoxically, the failed appeal offers antiabortion activists fresh hope. For pro-choice advocates it represents, or seems to, a time bomb. If the constitutional question ultimately centers on a woman’s right to choose, then abortion would appear legally secure. If, however, fetal viability is the driving consideration, then prepare to see the procedure radically restricted.

And in the interim, watch medicine and technology continue to advance, along with mankind’s knowledge of prenatal life.

Interesting: in vitro fertilization, stem-cell research, cloning, some or all of which social conservatives abhor, are the product of the same scientific imperative that are pushing back the point of fetal viability. Brave new world, indeed.

Judges are political appointees. Elections, as they say, have consequences. So does science.

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The GOP bucks Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy

By Richard Kirsch Republican lawmakers celebrated Tax Day by voting to repeal the estate tax. If they get their way, the multimillionaires and billionaires who fund their election campaigns will reap a huge tax break.

First, some myth busting.

The federal tax on inheritance only applies to estates of more than $5.3 million for an individual and $10.9 million for a married couple. That’s only a few very, very rich people. For example, it only applied to 5,000 of the 2.6 million people who died in 2013.

And for the record, only 20 of those estates were small farms or family businesses. Nobody ever lost a family farm because of the estate tax.

The estate tax is a way to get a few very rich people to pay taxes they avoided while alive. A lot of the wealth subject to the tax is money made in the stock market — which is taxed at far lower rates than money earned from work.

For a more basic explanation of why we have an estate tax, a good place to start is with Republican President Teddy Roosevelt.

Roosevelt came from a wealthy family and made clear that he respected people who made “a fortune,” as long as “it is honorably obtained and well used.” He was also an avid proponent of taxing inheritances.

The way Roosevelt saw it, taxing estates was essential “to preserve a measurable equality of opportunity for the people of the generations growing to manhood.”

For this privileged man, wealth wasn’t just an individual asset. He understood that people got rich not by themselves, but because they were part of a productive society. No one gets rich on a desert island, after all.

Roosevelt also believed that massive untaxed inheritances served “no advantage” to the individual, who by inheriting “enormous fortunes” didn’t learn the virtues

of work.

He knew what he was talking about, as he saw the wasteful lifestyles and entitlement of the people he grew up with. He viewed this as anathema to core American values of equality.

Teddy Roosevelt’s values are particularly meaningful today. Highly concentrated wealth is undermining our economy and democracy. The richest 1 percent of Americans holds 40 percent of our nation’s wealth.

Put more starkly, six heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune own as much as 49 million low-income American families combined.

Eliminating the inheritance tax would be a $269 billion windfall over the next decade for these few wealthy families.

That’s almost enough to pay for free community college for 9 million students, provide pre-school for all children in working-class families, and fix the shortfall in the federal fund for roads, bridges, and mass transit.

Keeping great fortunes in the hands of a few also gives the rich a much greater voice in our democracy than the rest of us. Through their political contributions, they shape the agendas of their handpicked elected officials.

Over the years, lawmakers have slashed the taxes rich people pay while they’re alive on income from stocks and bonds — precisely the kind of income that’s most often inherited.

The estate tax is the tool we use, when the wealthy die, to insist on a fairer tax system in which they share responsibility for supporting the nation that made their wealth possible. Teddy Roosevelt understood that, but today’s Republican Party seems to have forgotten.

Richard Kirsch is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, the author of Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States, and a senior adviser to USAction. USAction.org.

Robert Reich: Income inequality will increase in next 10 years

By Dan Weil The technology revolution will exacerbate our country's unequal distribution of income over the next decade, says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

"Income and wealth will become even more concentrated than they are today," the University of California, Berkeley public policy professor writes on The Huffington Post.

"Those who create or invest in blockbuster ideas will earn unprecedented sums and returns. The corollary is they will have enormous political power."

But it won't be so hot for the rest of us, Reich says.

"Most people will not share in the monetary gains, and their political power will disappear. The middle class's share of the total economic pie will continue to shrink."

But there is hope, Reich says.

"The current trend is not preordained to last. . . . We can--indeed, I believe we must--ignite a political movement to reorganize the economy for the benefit of the many, rather than for the lavish lifestyles of a precious few."

Special: New Probiotic Fat Burner Takes GNC by Storm Meanwhile, growing income inequality represents a primary cause of last week's turmoil in Baltimore, says star economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University.

"We've seen race riots in parts of the United States because lots of people are poor and angry and resentful," he told CNNMoney.

"The solution can't just be to send more police in the streets or the National Guard. People are desperate. We have to deal with this issue of poverty, of unemployment and economic opportunities."

The median household income of African-Americans in Baltimore is just $33,610, more than 40 percent below the $60,550 total for white households.

"We have to deal with this gap because if we don't deal with it, eventually the biggest political problem is not going to be a geopolitical problem from the Middle East or Ukraine, Russia or Asia, but will be domestic," Roubini said.

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ClinHillary ton’s take on what to do about inequality is weaker Canadian than hot sauce.

It’s futile to hope that the GOP’s gaggle corporate-hugging, of right-wing presidential candidates will seriously address the issue of rising inequality in our land.

How about the Democrats?

Well, Hillary Clinton has warned that “extreme inequality has corrupted other societies.”

Uh…yes. But what about our society? Clinton says: “We have to have a concerted effort to meet a consensus about how to deal with this.”

Huh? That’s not an answer, much less a solution.

It’s a political tap dance

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around a crucial matter facing America. Why would she dodge a chance to swing away at a down-the-middle issue that’s right in the wheelhouse of her party’s populist strength?

After all, recent polls show majority public support for direct government action to reduce the wealth gap, from raising taxes on the super rich to raising the minimum wage above the poverty level.

Turns out there’s one tiny constituency whose opinion outweighs all others on this issue: the 1percenters.

Clinton and other top Democrats are weaker than Canadian hot sauce when it comes to embracing the real populism that voters want. Here’s a possible explanation for that mystery: Only 13 percent

of the super rich think government should take action to redress inequality.

These privileged Americans blame widening inequity on the very people losing their jobs, income, and wealth. They claim that hard-up people should simply improve their work ethic and character.

Why would Democrats care what these few elites think? Well, because meek Democrats like Clinton have become so dependent on rich people’s campaign checks that they let them restrict the party’s policies and message, thus alienating the workaday majority.

When both parties kowtow to money, the people’s needs are ignored, and politics becomes illegitimate.

­Quote­of­the­Week "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.".

- Oscar Wilde

LAugh-In Corner Great Awakening A blonde hadn't been to church for many, many months. She always promised to go, but never did.

One day, the pastor was astounded when she suddenly rocked up for Sunday service. Thereafter, she was at every Sunday service, every prayer meeting, every home group meeting, etc.

Three months later, one Sunday after the service, the pastor asked her, "What happened to you? You always dodged church and now it looks like you can't get enough of it?"

She replied, "It’s this new car of mine pastor; they told me the warranty will lapse if I miss even one service!"

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tained in honor of the ladies of the Methodist and Presbyterian Societies at the home of Mrs. J. H. Gipson on Wednesday afternoon.

The Prairie County Livestock Shippers Association have been shipping cattle and hogs for some time, but June 20, they will ship their first rail carload of lambs. The Association shipped three cars last Saturday to St. Louis that brought $2,500.00. There were 33 men who took part in this sh ipment.

County Judge Geo. J. Screeton advises that he has been authorized to appoint 10 students as beneficiaries of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. These appointments entitle the holder to free tuition for four years.

The Wray Bros., Chevrolet dealers and automobile merchants have erected a garage and filling station on their property at the corner intersection of highways 11 and 38, and are ready to serve the public.

Esq. D. O. Otts of Brasfield, was in the city on business Tuesday afternoon and while here he had his name added to the list of regular readers of the Journal. Mr. Otts is depot agent at Brasfield and a J. P. His little son is carrier for the Little Rock dailies.

Atty. G. H. Wimmer has been confined to his bed the past several days suffering an attack of lumbago.

Esq. T. C. Ballowe attended a meeting of the County Board of Education at DeValls Bluff Tuesday, which ended his term as a member of the board. In appreciation of his service and association he was presented with a beautiful Fountain Pen by members of the board of which he is justly proud.

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C. L. (Chuck) Lively, assistant manager of International Harvester District office in Little Rock, is bringing Bob Buice, Farm Director of Radio and TV Station KARK to Des Arc on Tuesday evening to speak to the Lions Club about his trip to Russia last year. It will be Ladies Night and will be held at the Methodist Church Educational Building.

James O. Crowly, 65, Hazen mayor, banker and civic leader, died Saturday, June 3, at a Little Rock hospital.

The Commencement Program for the First Baptist Church Bible School will be held Friday evening, June 9, at 7:30 p. m. The largest attendance of 105 was marked on Wednesday.

An unfortunate and regrettable incident happened here last Friday night between Night Marshal W. B. Whitaker and an unruly prisoner at the county jail. Marshal Whitaker was forced to shoot the prisoner in the shoulder when he was attacked with a stick of firewood. Dr. G. M. Schumann was called to the jail to administer first aid before the prisoner was transferred to the V. A. Hospital in Little Rock where he is recovering.

Des Arc is having a Little League and Pony League baseball teams again this year, sponsored by the Des Arc Lions Club. Gilbert Smith, coach in the local school will coach the boys. R. L. Morton, president of the Lions Club, and James Ford estimate it will take about $275 to sponsor the teams this summer.

John P. Bethell and son-inlaw, Donald Guess, have come up with a plan to allow the boys to sell cleaning for Des Arc Cleaners worth $5.00 each. They will give the teams half of the proceeds.

Darrell Jenkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jenkins, has

been elected president of the Des Arc High School Student Council for the coming year.

Vice president is Russell Wray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Houston Wray. Other officers are 12th grade, Janice Edwards, Judy Eddns and Betty Ewing; 11th grade, David Barnes, Wilma Campbell and Jimmy DeVorak; 10th grade, Sissy Bell and Louise Bone; FFA, Johnny Walters.

James Brown was elected president of the Junior Student Council. Other officers are June DeVorak, vice president; Frieda Jenkins, secretary; Carol Stallings, treasurer; Paulette Kirkland, reporter. Joy Brown represents the ninth grade; Becky Walls represents the eighth grade.

The Summer Library, sponsored by the Des Arc PTA, is now open on the second floor of the courthouse.

Mrs. Paul Siitonen is in charge and is asking high school girls to volunteer to work. The books are furnished by the Arkansas Library Commission.

Elmer Thomas, a 1955 graduate of Des Arc High School, was here several days this week visiting with relatives and friends. He received his discharge at McGuire AFB, N. J. on June 2 after four years in the U. S. Air Force. He plans to enter Ark. Tech this fall.

Nice to hear that John L. McNeil and his wife are moving back to Arkansas and he will teach in the Des Arc High School this fall. He is the son of Ora McNeil of Hickory Plans.

Pat Boone came to Harding College Sunday, May 28, and won the hearts of over 4,000 who gathered to hear his first Baccalaureate address and his famous singing voice.

An intensive recruiting program of domestic agricultural workers will get underway in the near future for cotton choppers. George W. Baskin, manager of the Employment Security Division at Forrest City, stated the local office now has orders for over 1500 seasonal labor to chop cotton and expects more.

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tate Representative Bobby L. Glo-ver advises that a Work Order was approved effective June 4, 1984, on the Highway 13 project to begin by June 14. The project begins at Highways 38 and 13 at Hickory Plains and extends 5.7 miles northwesterly to the Lonoke-White County Line.

Postmasters Bill Eagle of Des Arc, Bill Woods of Hazen and Newt Parks of DeValls Bluff attended a mail classification training workshop in Little Rock on Wednesday.

At Tuesday night’s Quorum Court meeting, Prai-rie County Sheriff Dale Madden got a unanimous vote for jail expansion to be put on the November ballot. Plans call for the expansion to be placed on the front of the present jail building requiring a bond issue.

The enterprising Bill Eagles are opening a new “variety store” in the Kennedy store building on Main Street in the near future.

Charles Rogers of Hazen recently purchased two acres of land near the intersection of Hwys 11 and 249 and has built a 50’ x

100’ metal building on the site for his business, Rogers Tool and Die Machine Shop.

Raymond Rosel, Des Arc Utilities Superintendent, advises that city crews are currently involved in pulling old meters. He said some 50 to 55 meters will be pulled in the city and replaced. The old meters will be rebuilt at a cost of $16 to $17, compared to $40 for new meters.

C. L. Turner is pictured with a 42-pound flathead catfish caught at Cache River in a hoop net. He was accompanied on the fishing expedition by his uncle, A. J. Bartels of Des Arc. Miller ChevroletOlds Inc. in Hazen advertises a 1984 2-door, V8, automatic, air conditioned, power, deluxe, for $10,995; 1984 Cutlass Supreme, $10,431; and 1984 Chevrolet 4-wheel drive CK Truck for $10,799.

Call Charles DeVore in Des Arc. Joe and Jan York recently spent a week in the communist country of Yugoslavia and found many surprises, beautiful scenery, and history.

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pproximately $1,000,000 in state funds, lost or tied up indefinitely in bank failures last fall, will be charged off the books of the state treasury July 1, it was said yesterday by Treasurer Roy V. Leonard. This does not mean that efforts to collect it will be abandoned, but the records cannot show it as cash on hand.

Popularity of government bond issues through which the United States raised money for the World War was evidenced again today when Secretary Mellon said an $800,000,000 issue announced Monday had been over-subscribed seven and one-half times in three days.

The 18-year 3 1/8% interest bonds will be issued June 15.

American teachers need not feel unduly hurt that the National Education Association has listed “gossiping” at the head of unethical practices in which teachers indulge. Gossiping is the most common of all human fruits and in many respects the deadliest of mortal sins.

A 36-year old widow of Cotton Plant, in ill health and despondent, committed suicide last night by swallowing one ounce of carbolic acid.

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York told the National Editorial Association in Atlanta Ga. “it is the duty of all interested in government to see that rural communities are informed as completely as readers of large city newspapers. The local press, which is free, will criticize frankly when things go wrong, praise when it is deserved, and keep readers informed.”

The ladies of the Baptist Missionary Society enter-

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Matilda (Tillie) Orlicek

Service today at Carlisle for Matilda Orlicek Matilda (Tillie) Rose Behil Orlicek of Des Arc was born in Flint, Michigan on October 5, 1926, to the late Steve and Mary Behil. She passed away Monday, June 1, 2015, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Little Rock of heart failure.

Matilda was the oldest of five girls. Her sisters were Mary Behil, Rose McArthur, Helen Nester, and Ann Chema. Matilda attended school in Flint, Michigan where she graduated from Flint High School. She then attended two years of business college.

She married the late Francis J. Orlicek of Des Arc whom she met through an aunt on his side of the family. They wrote letters to each other while Francis was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. Matilda worked as a telephone operator for Bell Telephone Company in Flint and Lansing, Michigan, and Jonesboro and Little Rock, Arkansas.

She and Francis had a family farm and worked together on the farm. Matilda loved gardening, family, and people. Tillie never met a stranger. She loved her time as a teacher’s aide for second graders, to substitute teach, and to help the elderly. She was a member of the Extension Homemakers in Hazen and Des Arc, Royal Neighbors, 4-h leader, and a member of St. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church in Slovak and later a member of St. Rose Catholic Church in Carlisle.

She is survived by three daughters, Patricia (James) Holloway of Des Arc, Phyllis (Dale) Colclasure of Little Rock and Cynthia (Doug) Orlicek-Jones of Cabot; and three sons, Michael (Susan) Orlicek, Stephen (Phyllis K) Orlicek, and Gregory (Irene McCray) Orlicek. Matilda leaves 13 grandchildren, Aleisha Shurley, Mark Holloway, Tim Holloway, Eric Orlicek, DeAnna Miller, Nicole Creason, Jake Orlicek, Ben Jones, Andrea Jones, Chris Jones, Jillian Bowls, Alex Orlicek and Collett McCray and 10 great-grandchildren, Haven Holloway, Kade Holloway, Haley Miller, Logan Miller, Weston Miller, Ayden Shurley, Ashton Shurley, Archer Shurley, Everett Jones, and Chandler Jones.

Funeral services are at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, June 4, at St. Rose Catholic Church in Carlisle.

Visitation was Wednesday, June 3, from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. at Westbrook Funeral Home Chapel in Hazen followed by Rosary at 7:00 P.M. Pallbearers are Ben Jones, Chris Jones, Eric Orlicek, Mark Holloway, Tim Holloway, and James Shurley.

Honorary pallbearers were James Allen Walicki, Doug Jones, Jake Orlicek, Ken Orlicek, and Dale Colclasure.

Interment will be in the Czech National Cemetery with Westbrook Funeral Home of Hazen in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, the family requested memorials be made to the Czech National Cemetery or the Alzhei-mer’s Association.

Hilary A. Wilkins, Hickory Plains resident, dies

Andrew L. Weddle was DeValls Bluff resident, veteran

Hilary Ann Wilkins, age 62, of Hickory Plains, Arkansas died Thursday, May 28, 2015.

She was Co-Owner of John L. Wilkins Trucking.

Hilary managed the business office of the trucking firm. She had a huge heart for all animals. Hummingbirds were her favorite and at her house; they were well taken care of. Hilary also enjoyed reading.

Hilary was preceded in death by her parents, Francis and June (Payne) McCallen and a daughter, Melody Kinney.

She is survived by her husband of 31 years, John L. Wilkins: three stepchildren, Jay Wilkins, Darren Wilkins, and Shannon Wilkins; six grandchildren, Jennifer Collier, Jason Wilkins, Sherry Yancey, Chris Kinney, Micah Wilkins, and Jasmine Wilkins; six great grandchildren, Walter Collier, Abigail Collier, Harvey Wilkins, Brooklyn Yancey, Tucker Kinney and Dillon Yancey; one brother, Kerry McCallen, and one sister, Francesca McCallen, both of Canada.

Funeral was held Monday June 1, at 6:00 p.m. at Smith - Westbrook Funeral Home in Beebe with visitation to follow.

Cremation Arrangements by Smith-Westbrook Funeral Home. www.SmithFamilyCares.com

Andrew Lynn Weddle, 88, of DeValls Bluff, passed away on Wednesday, May 27, 2015. He was born on June 29, 1926 to William Andrew and Olivia Weddle at Hazen, Arkansas.

He is survived by two brothers, six sisters, and one sister-in-law.

He was a veteran of World War II and Korean War. He was wounded in Korea and awarded the Purple Heart.

After discharge from the Army, he attended State Teachers College in Conway. He received a teaching degree and taught school in De Valls Bluff and Texas.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, May 30, at the Peppers Lake Church of Christ.

Interment with military honors was in the Peppers Lake Cemetery with Westbrook Funera Home of Hazen in charge of arrangemens.

Karolyn Jean Grice, Texas native, dies at Austin, AR Karolyn Jean Grice, 45, of Austin died Friday, May 29, 2015. She was born December 9, 1969 in Odessa, Texas to Billy and Sharron Wiley Grooms.

Karolyn had a love for cooking and owned and operated the Southside Grill for many years. She also enjoyed spending time outdoors with family, especially camping at Greers Ferry Lake. She was a Christian and sang in the church choir as a child. She loved her dogs and loved talking to people and was happiest with the simple things in life. She was preceded in death by her grandparents; Johnny Grooms, Ura Chappell and J.D. and Lenora Wiley.

Karolyn is survived by her husband, Kevin Grice, her children; Hurley Stalnaker IV, Justin Stalnaker, Nathanial Stalnaker and step-son, Jared Grice, her siblings; Robbie Grooms (Cathy), Randy Grooms (Peggy), Pam Coleman (Scott), Jerry Grooms (Jenny), Kevin Grooms (Gena) and Steven Grooms (Leaina), one grandchild, Olivia Stalnaker and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

Funeral services were at 2:00 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Moore’s Cabot Funeral Home.

Burial followed at Sixteenth Section Cemetery.

Freda Miller dies at Beebe

Johnny Lee Green

Johnny Lee Green, Hot Springs, had relatives at Hazen Johnny Lee Green, loving husband and father departed this life Sunday, May 31, 2015.

He was a 1963 graduate of Hot Springs High. From 1966-1970, he honorably served his country in the United States Air Force.

Johnny’s passion for helping others led him to a distinguished career in law enforcement. He began his career at the Hot Springs Police Department serving his local community before moving on to become an instructor at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy in Camden. He spent years with the Department of Transportation and Safety before being appointed as Chief Deputy of Saline County. He spent his last years of service working for the Department of Community Corrections before retiring after 38 years. Even in retirement he continued to serve and educate others.

Johnny taught several criminal justice classes at the Garland County Community College and was a licensed concealed weapons instructor. Johnny was an avid hunter and enjoyed spending time at camp with family and friends. He could be found every Saturday morning with his wife garage selling, before returning home to work in the yard at Green Acres.

He was born on April 4, 1945 to J.D. and Clarice B. Green in Blytheville, Arkansas.

He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Joann; two sons, Michael Green and Marty Demmitt, both of Hot Springs; one daughter, Jo Ann Demmitt of London; brother, David Green and wife, Cindy of Hot Springs; two sisters-inlaw, Sharron (Troy) Stallings and Louise (David) Nettles, both of Hazen; niece, Tabitha (Matt) Green-Keller of Dublin, Ohio; three nephews, Christopher(Holly) Taylor-Green of Pensacola, Florida, David Nettles of Beebe, and Rick (Jenn) Stallings of Hazen; one great niece and one great nephew and a host of loving family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

A memorial service celebrating Johnny’s life will be held Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 10:00-12:00 at Winans Missionary Baptist Church in Hot Springs.

Freda Lynette LaFerney Miller, 86, of Beebe, AR., passed Saturday, May 23, 2015. Born March 31, 1929 in Arkansas, to Frank Louis and Viola Parchman LaFerney, Freda was a loving mother, sister, daughter, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother, loved by all who knew her for her great sense of humor in all situations.

She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Thurston LaFerney, Claude LaFerney, and Charles LaFerney, brother-in-law, Gene Olmstead, and sisters-in law, Nelda and Billye LaFerney.

After attending college in Beebe, Freda worked in the medical field in Little Rock before opening Padre’s Mexican Restaurant with locations in Sherwood, Searcy, and Little Rock. She closed the restaurant to produce her cheese dip “Casa de Queso”, with her grandson, Michael Poe, for which she later received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Cheese Dip Academy.

Freda was also a member of the Poets Roundtable of Arkansas and Geyer Springs Methodist Church.

She is survived by three daughters, Rebecca Vinson of San Francisco; Deborah (Martien) Carroll of Hot Springs and Melanie Miller of NLR; sisters Juanita Olmstead of Beebe and Cleo (Chuck) Milton of Searcy; brother Gerald (LaVeta) Laferney of Cabot; and sister-in-law Marylou LaFerney of Searcy. She has six grandchildren, ten greatgrandchildren and many cousins, family, and friends.

Graveside service was on Saturday, May 30, at Gum Springs Cemetery at 10:00 a.m., in Searcy, Arkansas.

Arrangements by SmithOnline obituary at Westbrook Funeral Home www.westbrookfuneralhomeof Beebe. hazen.com.

Anthony A. Jones, former Stuttgart resident, served in Air Force, worked at NASA Anthony Alan Jones (Tony), 59, of Hot Springs, formerly of Stuttgart, died Sunday, May 31, 2015, at St. Vincent’s in Hot Springs.

Tony was born July 6, 1955, in Stuttgart to Roscoe and Polly Robbins Jones.

He graduated eighth grade from St. John’s Lutheran School and was a 1973 graduate of Stuttgart High School. He then enlisted in the Air Force Strategic Air Command and was stationed in Nebraska.

After leaving the Air Force, Tony was employed at NASA on the space shuttle, had numerous jobs working as an electrician and computer programmer and traveled the world working on off-shore oil rigs. He was currently employed by Baxley Equipment Co. in Hot Springs.

He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stuttgart.

He was preceded in

death by his mother, Polly Jones.

Survivors are his father and step-mother, Roscoe and Adele Jones of Hot Springs; sister, Robin Wilson of Hot Springs; nephew, Casey Wilson; great-nephews, Tyler and Austin Wilson; and greatniece, Emily Wilson.

Funeral services, officiated by Pastor Don White, were at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Turpin Funeral Home in

Stuttgart with burial following in Lone Tree Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. John’s Lutheran Church building fund, 205 E. Fifth St., Stuttgart, AR 72160, or First Lutheran Church, 105 Village Road, Hot Springs, AR 71913.

Please go to www.turpin-co.com to sign the online guestbook.

Card of Thanks We would like to thank each of you who called or sent cards of congratulations to us on our 60th Wedding Anniversary.

It was thoughtful of you and we really do appreciate it.

Sincerely, Clyde and Louise Voiles p

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Words of Faith/Church News Sunday School/ Church Attendance Sunday, May 31 IN DES ARC First Baptist Church...219/222 Gospel Mission......................151 Lakeside Miss. Baptist.....78/107 First United Methodist.........55 Faith Missionary Baptist..45/57 Family Worship Center.........48 First Assembly of God........43/47 Fellowship Miss. Baptist....... 75 Church of Christ...............12 Church of God of Prophecy....20 Living Waters Full Gospel.....NR AREA CHURCHES Hickory Plains Mis Bap 85/114 Morris Chapel Miss Baptist..47 Pleasant Ridge Baptist........... 22 Hickory Plains Methodist ...... 23 Hickory Plains Nazarene...... 12 Judson Memorial Baptist...... 24 Sand Hill Miss. Bapt....9

Journey off the Map: This group of children and staff pictured here were present on Monday, June 1, at the First Baptist Church for Vacation Bible School “Journey off the Map” beginning a week of activities. There were 185 in attendance, according to Rev. Melvin York, pastor. Activities will continue through Friday, June 5, with the closing program on Sunday, June 7 at 4:00 p.m. Libby McMillen is director.

Reported by local churches.To report Sunday School Attendance and other church news, call 870-256-4254.

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

FAITH TRACKS

By Rev. Dee Harper

Pastor, First United Methodist Church Des Arc, Ar

Work: 870-256-3757 - Cell: 501-593-8978 e-mail: cdharper1979@yahoo.com

“God never said ‘it doesn’t matter what you believe’.”

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Today, we are looking at the expression: “it doesn’t matter what you believe.” Of all the expressions that we looked at I can most unequivocally say about this one God never said that.

Karl Barth was at Rockefeller Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago during his lecture tour of the U.S. in 1962. After his lecture, during the Q & A time, a student asked Barth if he could summarize his whole life’s work in theology in a sentence. Barth said something like “Yes, I can; in the words of a song I learned at my mother’s knee: ‘Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”

You see with all of our learning and striving and seeking to understand when it comes down to it Jesus is and should be the center of it all. At the heart of our faith is not a teaching but a person.

The teaching is important as Paul reminds Timothy, but Paul would also say that it is primarily about a relationship with Christ.

Our faith is confessional in nature, meaning we study Scripture and use creeds, because it is through our learning that we learn more about the one who calls us to love and follow Him. In our passage Paul is instructing Timothy in leading the church. Paul as the Apostle, mentor and Timothy’s spiritual father is giving Timothy this charge, a kind of spiritual marching order.

When I think about the word charge in this context I think of Charles Wesley’s “A Charge to Keep I Have”- a hymn which was based on Matthew Henry’s commentary on the book of Leviticus. Henry says, “We have every one of us a charge to keep, an eternal God to glorify, an immortal soul to provide for, needful duty to be

done, our generation to serve; and it must be our daily care to keep this charge, for it is the charge of the Lord our Master, who will shortly call us to account about it, and it is our utmost peril if we neglect it.”

So what Paul says to Timothy is to be prepared no matter what the circumstance or situation to be ready to rebuke, defend, exhort, whatever the case may be. In other words he is charged to explain and defend the Gospel. Also Paul tells him to be careful of people with itchy ears, ones who want to be scratched by any new teacher that offers wisdom that excuses or even affirms their evil desires.

In verse five Paul tells Timothy to “keep your head in the midst of conflict or when things don’t go the way you want them in the ministry that God has given you.”

So what does Paul’s words to Timothy mean for us today? My friend, Tom Martin, a pastor in Searcy and Chaplain for Searcy Fire Department shared an interesting post on his Facebook page. He writes: “Saw a first today on the drive home. Now, we've seen a bunch, maybe a bumper crop, of armadillos this spring and it is nothing new to see them belly up as a dead ‘possum on the half shell’. But today we saw one on the side of the road that someone had tied a "Get Well!" helium balloon to its’ stiff little right paw!

Now as I think on that story that is the picture I get of religion without Jesus. You see I believe that ultimately Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good or good people better, Jesus came to make dead people alive. Jesus said, “I came to give you life and life abundantly.”

Christianity is different from all the other major world religions in that we proclaim a Savior. We proclaim that on

our own we are lost and incapable of saving ourselves, but that God loved us so much that He sent Jesus so that we might be redeemed. We also believe that we serve a God who is not dead but is living and active.

Athanasius of Alexandria one of the early church fathers wrote: “Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave.

Deeds and actions that energize others belong only to the living. Well, then, look at the facts in this case. The Savior is working mightily among men; every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all over the world, both within and beyond the Greekspeaking world, to accept His faith and be obedient to His teaching.

Can anyone, in face of this, still doubt that He has risen and lives, or rather that He is Himself the Life? Does a dead man prick the consciences of men...?”

Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” When it comes down to it, Jesus’ question to the disciples is key. Jesus asked, “Who do you say that I am?”

C.S. Lewis famously said that we have only three logical choices.

Jesus was either a lunatic, a liar, or he was who he said he was. If you look at the accounts of Jesus he did not behave like a lunatic. The disciples wouldn’t have followed nor would they have died for a lie or a liar. Therefore the most logical thing is to conclude that Jesus was who he said he was.

If you have never claimed the gift of God’s grace that Jesus gives us I invite you to do so. If you have never confessed Jesus as your savior, I invite you to do it today.

Bro. Dee

“More Than Chance” is movie scheduled June 13 Showing Saturday, June 13, at 7:00 pm! "More Than Chance" Free Admission and Popcorn!

715 Sycamore St. DeValls Bluff.

Movie is at the old auditorium in DeValls Bluff .

Two-year-old Kelsey Jurgen, surrendered by a poverty-stricken single mother to a Russian orphanage, is adopted by a childless American couple. Shortly after arriving in America Kelsey is viciously assaulted by her adoptive father with uncontrolled rage that severs the child’s spine, leaving her a paraplegic.

Singing praises: Trevor Geisler, second from left, is a member of Bethal University’s Renaissance Choir. This vocal group travels every other weekend and has already traveled to Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and throughout Tennessee this year.

Trevor Geisler, student vocalist, sings with Bethal University choir Trevor Geisler, of Van Leer, Tennessee and a former Des Arc resident, is a member of the Renaissance Choir at Bethal University located in McKenzie, Tenn.

Trevor is attending Bethal University on a Renaissance Scholarship and Honors Scholarship. He will be a sophomore in the fall.

The Renaissance Choir travels every other weekend. They have already traveled to Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and throughout Tennessee.

Their summer tour so far has taken them through Alabama to Biloxi, Mississippi and up to Memphis, Tenn. According to Trevor, the tour changes every

year.

Trevor was selected to appear in a Gaither Vocal Band video. Trevor said, “It was an honor to be asked to do that for such a talented group.”

He also worked the doors at different Gaither Vocal Band concerts in Murray, Kentucky.

Trevor says,” Our choir is like a big family. I am glad to have met them all.”

“Our services we do at churches are more than a show. They are a worship experience that everyone should have the opportunity to be a part of.”

Trevor is the son of Troy and Linda Geisler of Van Leer, Tenn. and is the grandson of Billy and Ruth Pasley of Des Arc and the

late Joyce and Eldon Haynes and the late Roy Geisler.

Linda was a kindergarten teacher at Des Arc Elementary for several years and Trevor attended Des Arc Schools.

The Geisler’s have two daughters who live in the Des Arc area, Tori Sides and Kaylin Geisler.

You Are Invited to Worship EVERY Sunday with one of Des Arc’s Local Congregations!

Faith Missionary Baptist Church

Vacation Bible School Pre K 12th Grade

June 8-12

9:00 AM - 12 Noon

Grab Your Bible, lace up your hiking boots, put a map and compass in your backpack and join us at Camp Courageous where we are equipping for life!

If you need a ride to and from VBS, we will pick you up.

Call Bro. Jim West at 870-256-5322.

Closing Program: Friday, June 12, 11:30 a.m.

Refreshments Served After Program

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Hopefully some young folks will record the date, May 30th, 2015, this long line of Crepe Myrtles were planted in DeValls Bluff.

Myrtles and more myrtles along Highway 70 on the property of Mrs, Marilyn George. Marilyn and her son Jackie Adcock are sponsors of the beautification project.

Volunteers join in beautification project at DeValls Bluff

By Harvey Joe Sanner MPCF Chairman Saturday May 30, a group of volunteers gathered at The Bottoms and started the first phase of the City of De Valls Bluff Beautification Project.

This group of volunteers planted 70 Crape Myrtles throughout town, along with mulch, and retaining wall blocks at the base of each one. A special thank you goes out to the following volunteers for either physically helping with the planting of each tree, donating food and drinks for volunteers, or equipment to help with the planting process. The following volunteers helped with the planting of each tree: Alice Dunlap, Thelma Gray, Fabern Harrison, Billy White, Luke Prine, Hunter Adams, Doyle Strickland, James and Taleica Kendrick, Patty Howe, Jackie Adcock, Marilyn

George, Brandon Carroll, Paul Adams, Edward Dunlap, Florence Rhoden, Debbie Cook, and Harvey Joe Sanner. We also want to thank Lonnie Ray Griffin for the first round of watering the trees. The following people donated food, drinks and food preparation for the volunteers: Lynn and Toni Wilson of Boondocks donated bottled water, Johnny McCool of Mack’s IGA donated bottled water and propane to cook food, Paul and Courtney Adams of The Bottoms for food to feed lunch to all volunteers, and lunch for the volunteers was prepared by Marilyn George, Becky Randleas, Kimberly Griffin, and Courtney Adams. Equipment for tree planting was donated by the following people: Alan Childers donated a forklift for moving of blocks, Jackie Adcock, Fabern Harrison, Billy

White and Paul Adams donated numerous pieces of equipment to use. Thank you to The Bottoms for being our stock yard and pick up point for all materials, also US Boring & Trenching for providing equipment and labor to enhance De Valls Bluff. We would also like to thank Glenn Holmes for traffic control to help with the safety of all volunteers.

Everyone’s hard work was greatly appreciated and without the volunteers on Saturday, this project wouldn’t have been possible. There are more plans in the works for the City of De Valls Bluff Beautification Project and we hope that the town continues to be behind these efforts 100%. Please stayed to tuned for the next project to be announced at the next council meeting so that you can volunteer or donate financially if un-

able to volunteer, if you want to see De Valls Bluff beautiful again. All donations to the Beautification Project can be sent to Leah at De Valls Bluff City Hall.

Today, May 30th, 2015, I was fortunate enough to be in DeValls Bluff, AR with some light rain sprinkles and some great civic minded volunteers who began planting 72 Crepe Myrtle bushes at locations along Highway 70. It was quite a show!! Paul Adams was providing equipment and manpower with his son Hunter Adams pitching in.

Mrs. Thelma Gray, Ms. Alice Duncan and Mrs. Gray's daughter and one other lady unknown to me represented the female gender very well!! Some of the photos posted to this page will include Fabern Harrison, Lynn Wilson, Billy White, Ms. Duncan's son, Jackie Adcock and a couple of other young men

I did not know. I apologize to those I don't know and those that I may have missed. This effort was posted on the MPCF page a few days ago and it was wonderful seeing this crew of women and men all working together to make their community more at-

tractive! On behalf of MPCF, THANK Y'ALL and we are proud of your community spirit. When the myrtles reach blooming age, they are going to beautiful!!

Local young writer’s story in theater production at ASU-Beebe

A public performance Arkansas State University-Beebe Star Children’s will be presented Friday, Theater will be held June 1- June 26 at 2:00 p.m. in the 26, Monday through Thurs- Owen Center Auditorium.

Admission is $1.00 and is day from 1-4 p.m. at the Owen Center Auditorium free to all students.

Sign-up is limited to 20 on the Beebe Campus.

The four-week summer students. Registration will camp is designed for chil- be held through June 1, dren 9-16 years of age, with a $50.00 fee due at whether a first-time or sea- sign-up.

To register, call 501-882soned performer. or email This year, Star Children’s 4493 Theatre will produce “The sfwilliams@asub.edu.

Timothy is the son of Princess, the Farmboy and the Ogre,” written by Des Dirk and Willie Huffstickler Arc High School graduate, of Des Arc. Timothy atVirginia Chandler came Timothy Bordelon. tends ASU-Beebe. home on Monday, June 1 after a few days in White County Medical Center with a round of pneumonia. Best wishes for a full recovery. to --------Ann Guess had complete knee replacement surgery this week. Family members stated that Ann came through the surgery great and will be doing rehab soon. Her husband, Donald, and family are tending her care.

--------Allie Bell, daughter of Lee and Stasie Bell, former Des Arc residents, is at Children’s Hospital as of this writing. Doctors are runTwo to Four O’clock in the Afternoon ning tests on her throat to see if there is a blockage.

Allie is malnourished and is having a tough time.

Hwy. 11 - Des Arc Prayers to Allie and her family.

--------Billy (Tina) White of BisJust come by and say “Hi” and enjoy celebrating coe had another knee surPauline’s birthday with her! gery this week to get rid of infection developed from a previous surgery. Get well soon, Billy!

Locals

Friends and Family Invited

Pauline Owen’s

90th

“Hawaiian Luau” Birthday

Saturday, June 13

Preston and Mary Campbell are proud to be holding a gift made for them by Preston’s grandmother, Louise Voiles.

It is a framed group of the pictures of all four sets of their grandparents on their 60th Wedding Anniversaries. She chose all of the pictures to be made in outdoor settings in casual wear in similar positions.

It is very rare to see a young couple seeing all four sets of their grandparents celebrate 60 year marriages.

Mary’s grandparents are Nicholas and Charlotte Hamilton, who live in Lake Providence, LA and were married in 1952 and George and Evelyn Hopkins who live in Oak Grove, LA and were married in 1954.

Preston’s grandparents are Bettis and Verma Campbell, who live in Des Arc and were married in 1953.

And Clyde and Louise Voiles who also live in Des Arc and were married in 1955.

Preston was born in Des Arc to Keith and Paula Campbell. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Arkansas State University and his Master’s degree from Texas A & M University. He is a bridge engineer with Garver Engineering firm in North Little Rock.

Mary was born in Lake Providence, LA to Nan and Paul Hopkins. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Louisiana in Monroe, LA. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist in Little Rock.

Preston and Mary live in Maumelle.

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Stick to Ribs Recipes From Rev. Jaimie Alexander

Chicken Fried Steak, Milk Gravy, Fresh Corn Salad, Slow Stewed Southern Green Beans, and Strawberry Texas Sheet Cake are great recipes on the menu for this week. These recipes are wonderful for any noon time or evening meal! They’re perfect when you are needing a stick to your rib meal, so tie on your apron and enjoy!

Chicken Fried Steak with Milk Gravy 6 cube steaks 1/2 cup of vegetable or canola oil, plus 2 tablespoons of bacon fat 2 cups of self rising flour, divided 1-1/2 teaspoons of seasoning salt 1/4 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning 1 cup of milk 2 eggs Couple dashes of hot sauce, optional 2 tablespoons butter, along with pan drippings to equal 1/4 cup Reserved 1/4 cup of seasoned flour 1-1/2 to 2 cups of milk Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

Above: D.W. Branham, left, and Teddy Elam sitting outside in front of D.W’s garden at Des Arc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. D.W. has a variety of vegetables growing including tomatoes, bell and jalapeno peppers, squash, zucchini and others. Teddy helped D. W. with the garden planting and is also helping him with uts care. Everyone can hardly wait to taste those homegrown veggies!

At right: Cara Bradshaw is pictured with beautiful pink flowers she has been taking care of at DANRC. Her friends at the nursing home say, “She really does have a green thumb when it comes to flowers!”

You are invited to come out and check out the vegetable garden and flowers growing at DANRC to the delight of residents and staff.

D es Arc Nur s iN g & reh A bil itA tio N ceN t er

by Activity Director, teresa henley

Greetings from Des Arc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center! We are finally getting some sunshine and we hope everyone is beginning to dry out a little.

Teresa is on vacation this week visiting the Smoky Mountains. We hope she will bring lots of photos and souvenirs to show us.

We have been inside mostly due to the rain but we have had a lot of fun.

We have had Pretty Nails, visits from Snowball, the facillity pet, Bingo, enjoyed delicious popcorn, peanut butter and graham crackers, and beverages.

Our schedule this week is filled with lots of fun, food

and music.

We are going to have Butter Pecan Ice Cream, Yum, Yum! And we will be enjoying some delicious Kettle Corn later in the week.

Tuesday, we were able to venture outside to take a look at D.W. Branham’s garden.

It is loaded with all kinds of vegetables such as tomatoes, squash, zucchini, carrots, bell and jalapeno peppers and others.

Teddy Elam is helping D.W. take care of the garden.

Everyone will enjoy the fruits of their labor when these vegetables produce. They are already blooming. We can’t wait!

We also reminisced about

Coon Hunting. This was a sport that was very active back in the day. Coon skins brought good money but now not so much.

Cara Bradshaw has been excercising her green thumb with some beautiful flowers she is taking care of. They are a very beautiful pink color.

The Disciples will be here on Friday and Friday afternoon we will be attending the Steamboat Days festivities.

We will celebrate National CNA week beginning Friday, June 12. We appreciate all that the CNA’s do for their patients.

See you next week!

Janice

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By Barbara Williams, Site Director

We hope everyone had a great Memorial Day remembering our service men and women who have died serving our country.

Tuesday our Bean Bag Baseball team went to Conway and played a game but lost 20-22. Tuesday we had a tornado safety class, which was just In time with the weather we’ve been having lately. We had a fun

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time with the Joke of the Day and doing our ball exercise that afternoon with a big beach ball throwing it around the group. Wednesday was Breakfast and Bingo. We need more volunteers to help with our Wednesday morning breakfast. Thursday afternoon we took a group to the Dollar Tree in Beebe.

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said he hadn’t been aware of the serious “dog danger” that exists for bicyclists, especially on the secondary roads; but that it wasn’t going to stop his cycling.

He expected to be back at it (even if more locally) by Tuesday. As a factual tidbit, he added that “Arkansas is ranked 35th in the country for overall Bike Friendliness”.

At Des Arc, he was initially helped by Charles Mack at Harvey’s, who reported that Isaiah’s skin was blistering and he was in tears from the pain. As soon as County Sheriff employee Amber Duerson, learned of the situation, she called Harvey’s to have Mack bring him there, where she and local ambulance personnel Howard Hinshaw, Vicki Barnes and Jacob Minton washed his

skin down with the standard pepper spray “decom”, a simple mixture of cold water and Dawn liquid detergent.

A couple of hours later, Isaiah’s skin had lost its bright redness, and he was able to jest a little and expound on his adventure.

But because of the remaining red spots on his skin and the severity of his burns, Amber Duerson advised his parents to have him checked by a doctor in Springdale soon as they got home. Tuesday, Isaiah reported to the Journal that 1) he had not yet seen a doctor (that he might should, because his skin is still red even though it’s not burning); and 2) that he had “already gotten back on his bike and was trying to determine where to go on his next adventure”.

minum cans to the center on Friday. Also like our facebook page Des Arc Senior Citizen Center to get our daily lunch menu. We hope everyone has a great weekend and God Bless!

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

Unemployment data shows rise in April 2015 Labor force data, produced by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics and released today by the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services, show Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased one-tenth of a percentage point, from 5.6 percent in March to 5.7 percent in April. Arkansas’ civilian labor force rose 4,100, a result of 2,600 more employed and 1,500 additional unemployed Arkansans. The United States’ jobless rate declined one-tenth of a percentage point, from 5.5 percent in March to 5.4 percent in April.

Preheat oven to the lowest setting to hold cooked steaks. Place a rack on top of a baking sheet and set aside. Heat the oil and bacon fat in a heavy bottomed skillet over medium to medium high.

In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the flour, seasoning salt, pepper and garlic powder; remove and set aside 1/4 cup of the seasoned flour mixture. In another bowl, beat the 1 cup of milk with the two eggs and hot sauce. Lightly sprinkle the cube steaks with the Cajun seasoning and pound the seasoning in. Cut into smaller serving pieces, if desired.

Dredge the steaks first in the seasoned flour, shaking to remove the excess flour, then dip them into the egg wash, and back into the flour; set aside on a platter while oil is heating. Carefully slide the meat into the hot oil, immediately moving it around to make sure it does not stick.

Cook the cube steaks in batches over a medium to medium high heat until browned, about 3 to 4 minutes per side, depending on the thickness. Place the cooked steaks on the prepared rack and keep warm in the oven.

For the gravy, add enough butter to the pan drippings to equal 1/4 cup of fat.

Sprinkle in the reserved 1/4 cup of seasoned flour, and using a wooden spoon, cook and stir constantly, scraping up all of the browned bits from the bottom of the skillet. Cook until mixture is blended in and a very light blond color.

Begin whisking in 1-1/2 cups of milk very quickly, bring to a boil and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture begins to thicken. Adjust consistency as needed by adding more milk. Season gravy with salt and pepper; taste and adjust. Retrieve the steaks from the oven, place one or two on each plate and spoon a bit of the gravy across the center of the steak. Serve with creamed potatoes and southern green beans.

Fresh Corn Salad 6 ears of white, yellow or bi-color corn, stripped of husks 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil 1/2 cup of sugar, or substitute (see note) 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste 1/2 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste 2 teaspoons of crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste, optional 1 cup of chopped red onion 1 cup chopped red bell pepper 1/4 cup of chopped fresh parsley 2 large tomatoes, seeded and chopped, juices retained Cook fresh corn, white, yellow or bicolor, crisp tender, according to your favorite method. Drain, return corn to pot and cover with cold water. Set aside until cool enough to handle.

In a large bowl, whisk together the vinegar, olive oil, sugar, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes until well blended. Remove the corn from the cob and add to the dressing. Top with the onion, bell pepper, tomatoes with their juices and parsley. Toss, taste and adjust seasonings,

especially the salt. Refrigerate for a minimum of 2 hours, stirring occasionally.

Note:Use local fresh corn when it is in season and at peak during the summer months, but when not available, substitute 2 cans of whole kernel corn, drained or 1 (10 ounce) package of frozen corn, about 2 cups, thawed. I love this with LeSueur canned shoepeg corn - use 3 cans, undrained. Check canned products for sugar and adjust added sugar accordingly. Also excellent with grilled corn. Add a (15 ounce) can of black beans, drained and rinsed. Can also substitute commercially bottled Italian dressing, if desired.

Slow Stewed Southern Green Beans 2 pounds of fresh green beans 4-1/2 cups of water 5 ounces of fatback, salt pork (rinsed) or bacon, cubed, sliced or quartered 1 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper, or to taste, optional 6 to 8 tiny new potatoes or very small red potatoes,, optional Salt, at the end, only as needed, to taste 1 tablespoon of butter or bacon fat, to finish, optional Rinse, trim and snap green beans in half or thirds. Place into a large saucepan with water, fatback and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce to a very low simmer, cover and let barely simmer for 1 hour to 1-1/2 hours. If adding potatoes, scrub the potatoes and peel a strip away from the middle of each potato and add to the pot about 20 to 25 minutes before they are finished; cover and continue cooking until tender. Taste and adjust beans for seasonings, adding salt only as needed. Finish by stirring in the butter or bacon fat.

Strawberry Sheet Cake 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 2 cups sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups cake flour 2 Tablespoons strawberry flavored gelatin powder 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup buttermilk 2/3 cup chopped strawberries Frosting 1 8 ounces softened cream cheese 2/3 cup sugar, divided 2/cup chopped strawberries Heavy cream 1 1/2 cups 3 tablespoons lemon juice Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 X 13 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Line baking dish with parchment paper with the long sides extending 2-3 inches. Spray parchment with nonstick cooking spray.

Using a stand up electric mixer, beat butter until creamy. Slowly add sugar then continue to beat 4-5 minutes until it's fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, and beat after each addition until they're incorporated. Add lemon juice and vanilla and mix in. In a small bowl combine flour, strawberry gelatin, baking soda and salt.

Add the flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture, mixing until just combined. Gently stir in strawberries. Pour batter into prepared baking pan and bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake completely. Lift the cake out of the pan, using the parchment paper extensions.

Make the frosting: In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese with 1/3 cup of sugar until mixture is smooth. Fold in strawberries. In a large bowl, beat the cream and lemon juice until mixture is frothy. Continue beating on medium-high speed and gradually add the remaining 1/3 cup sugar. Beat until mixture forms stiff peaks. Fold half of whipped cream mixture into the cream cheese mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the rest of the whipped cream mixture. Immediately spread the top and sides of the cake with frosting. Serve.

Poor sleep linked to Alzheimer’s Poor sleep in old age may be linked to the brain-clogging plaques thought to contribute to Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests."Sleep appears to be a missing piece in the Alzheimer's puzzle, and enhancing sleep may lessen the cognitive burden that Alzheimer's disease imparts," said study author Bryce Mander, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

It's not clear how sleep and memory affect -- or are affected by -- the accumulation of beta amyloid plaques, believed to interfere with mental functioning. Still, the study findings hint at a major message regarding Alzheimer's, said Mander, who works at the university's Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory.

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DeVore Endowment will benefit Agriculture students JONESBORO – A Prairie County brother and sister have made a gift to Arkansas State University that will benefit future generations of Prairie County students who wish to pursue a college degree in agriculture.

Bruce DeVore and his sister Daphna Gwin of Prairie County, Arkansas, transferred jointly held Walmart stock to the ASU Foundation to establish an endowed scholarship in the College of Agriculture and Technology.

Additionally, DeVore has executed a living trust planned gift to A-State that will add additional funds into the endowment upon his death.

DeVore and his sister grew up on an 80-acre farm between Des Arc and Hazen; many of their family members still live in the area. Fifty-four acres of the farm’s property was planted to row crops and another 19 acres was in timber. DeVore’s great-grandfather Jacob DeVore purchased the farm, which was recently designated an Arkansas Century Farm by the state Department of Agriculture, in 1900.

The elder DeVore sold the farm to his son, John Jacob DeVore in 1924; in turn, Earl DeVore bought the acreage from his father in 1937. Bruce DeVore bought the farmstead in 1998.

DeVore said he spent his early years helping out on the farm. He said he did his fair share of chopping careless weed and shoveling rice levees, taking on more responsibility as he got older.

“I’d go to school every morning and come home at noon,” DeVore said. “I’d drive a tractor from noon until midnight, go get in the bed, get up in the morning and do it all over again.” DeVore graduated from high school in 1964.

After his mandatory service in the National Guard ended in 1967, instead of coming home to work on the farm, DeVore headed south a couple of counties, where he spent his career in transportation, performing body work in Pulaski County. He also put in an additional 15 years in the National Guard and 14 years in the Army Reserve.

Following his retirement earlier this year, he started to think about his legacy. Because he had no children, he knew he’d keep the farm in the family by selling it to his cousin Tim DeVore. Another cousin, Bert Greenwalt, teaches at A-State. DeVore decided to make the legacy gift to Arkansas State that will benefit students from the county.

“I didn’t get a college education,” he said. “But I think students coming from where I did should be able to if they want to.”

Once he set up the legacy gift, DeVore said he started thinking about how long it might be before the endowment would be used. It was then he and his sister decided to liquidate their Walmart stock, gift it to A-State and name the endowment in honor of their father and Bruce.

“I had the idea for a long time,” Bruce DeVore said. “I got to thinking, I could go ahead and fund the scholarship by selling the Walmart stock. That way, I could see for myself how it will benefit these students as they learn about agriculture.

“I’m happy that students from a small town like Des Arc can benefit from these Walmart stock funds.”

Dr. Timothy Burcham, dean of the A-State College of Agriculture and Technology, said the Earl and Bruce DeVore Endowed Scholarship will be made available in 2019 to students from Prairie County who intend to pursue an agriculture degree at Arkansas State. Students from the county who have attended the university’s sister campus in Beebe and want to further their education at A-State will also qualify.

“We appreciate this generous gift,” said Burcham. “Mr. DeVore’s vision will benefit generations of students who have a desire to improve their lives and the lives of others, through educational achievement.”

For more information about planned gifts that benefit students and programs at Arkansas State University, visit ASUgift.org, or contact the A-State planned giving office toll-free at 888.225-8343.

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Bruce DeVore and his sister, Daphna Gwin of Prairie County gifted their stock in retail giant Walmart to the Arkansas State University Foundation to endow the Earl and Bruce DeVore Scholarship Endowment which will provide agriculture scholarships for Prairie County students at A-State. Bruce DeVore currently resides in Cabot. Daphna also resides in Cabot. They grew up in the Oak Prairie Community near Des Arc.

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Opal Crider, Correspondent

By Rosetta Lockhart

HICKORY PLAINS

Crider Brothers: Robert (Bob), Monte and Mike The Hickory Plains School Reunion will be Saturday, June 6, 2015. It will be held at the Hickory Plains Baptist Church Life Center. We will gather around 10 AM. A fish lunch will be catered by our own homegrown boy, Carter Harrison/King Kat. The Evans Family Reunion will be Sunday, June 7, 2015. It will be held at the Gospel Mission Church Life Center in Des Arc. Extended family and friends are welcome! Park on West side of Church, Life Center is around back of Church.

Gather around 10 AM, eat (potluck), around 12:30-1 PM (ice, drinks and paper goods furnished) Ernest, Liz and Beth Norman went camping last Thursday at Lake Des Arc. They had fun getting away, but the girls came home Friday; their generator had taken out.

Last week, Hope Hamric had taken Iva Hamric and Charlotte Wrigley to the Faculty Retirement Reception at Des Arc School. She drove them around showing them where different ones lived. They passed our place just as I was coming out Clara’s back door., was so glad they backed up and visited a while. While they were here, Jeremy Whittenburg brought Bob and me a GREAT surprise, Bob’s cell phone. Bob had lost his cell phone three weeks ago; really figured it got buried in a ditch, but third try, they found it that day on their backhoe. He’s not much on using it, but had a lot of irreplaceable pictures on it. The ladies asked about Monte Crider, so I had Hope pull in our carport and Monte went out to see them.

Monte Crider, Bob and I, Mike and Dorothy Crider and their granddaughter, Christine, Chad and Tracy Cochran and ”Cochran

Bruce DeVore and Daphna Gwin

Seven” met at the Golden Corral in Sherwood on Thursday night to celebrate what would have been the three guys dad, the late Charlie Crider’s 100th birthday. (Picture of the three Crider boys in this edition.)

Clara Clark had a crew show up Saturday morning to move her from Hickory Plains, our parents house (it was theirs since 1956 – 2012, when Mama went to be with the Lord). Carter Harrison asked her how it felt to move from Hickory Plains to Cross Roads, she said, ”Good! It took all day; her son, Brad and his wife, Angela, stayed later to get some things done. Our niece, Sharon and husband and Marty helped and they had helped pack a few days last week. There were three young men and Brad and Angela’s daughter, Jordie that helped.

They all worked hard.

Sharon and a friend came back Tuesday to unpack some more. Sharon will be back more this week.

DAHS Class of 1970 met for their 45th Reunion Saturday night. I think there were twenty two present, 15 being classmates.

Our kids were here for lunch Sunday. Chad and Tracy Cochran and “Cochran Seven”, Rick and Robbie Weaver, Monte Crider and Clara Clark. We had BQ, We had one smoked pork butt in freezer left from my 60th b-day party in December. Cory Patterson smoked them.

This one was as good as the two we ate in December. Cochrans’ brought a huge watermelon, I had brownies and banana pudding. Josie beat Papaw in a game of Cribbage.

Sympathy and Prayers to family of Mrs. Hillary Wilkins. Diane Edwards has taken care of her and her husband, Mr. John, for seven years. They live on

Pryor Rd off Hwy #13.

Their son, Jay, was DA band director years ago. (obit in this edition) Clara Clark still needs your Prayers; she didn’t get a good report Monday. She has rare bacterial infection in her hip. We will see a surgeon Tuesday, June 9. It is supposed to have to be taken out and medicated; block put in; then when infection is gone, put hip replacement in. Her new address will be 8905 Graham Rd., Des Arc, AR 72040.

Some from the Nazarene Church have lunch together once a month. Hope Hamric takes them out different places.

They went Tuesday to Martha Jean’s Restaurant in Beebe. Iva Hamric, Gene Clark, Charlotte Wrigley and Richard Ludescher had a good time.

Want to thank everyone for their Prayers, visits, calls & cards and food for Monte Crider. He is still staying with us and doing real good. He went back to surgeon Tuesday and got a great report, but can’t drive for two more weeks.

Sympathy and Prayers to the family of Ms. Tillie Orlicek. She was in the hospital and passed away late Monday. (Obit in this edition) I had talked to Greg on Monday; he told me she was in the hospital, dehydrated and couldn’t swallow. We were sure glad we got to see her at Charlotte Wrigley’s birthday last year.

Thanks to Vanessa Graham for furnishing our supper Tuesday night. She fixed us a big pan of flautas. Clara Clark, Monte, Bob amd I really enjoyed them.

The next “Ladies Drop By” will be Tuesday, June 9, at 1 PM at the Hickory Plains Methodist Church.

Come join us; we have FUN! HPOS wants to let

My rain gauge yelled at me Sunday afternoon to empty it, that 2 and 2/10th inches was too much to hold. I have not kept it on the calendar to check the total for the year and the TV weather man did not put Gregory on his list either.

Maybe they will hold off sending more till it is DRIER, like in mid - June and on down the summer.

Lee Willis of McCrory (partly belongs to we Gregorites as he comes to Gregory Baptist Church and takes care of our ‘electronics’) is in Conway this week for Boys State as a rep for McCrory. We are just as proud of him though.

Tommy Vincent came home Monday after a 2 week stay in the White County and St. Vincent hospitals and open heart surgery. Some of the rumbling noises you thought was thunder were prayers being said. Some visitors were Mary Vincent, Maria and Jennifer Hinejosa, Judy Cato, Reginia Donnell, Anne Lockhart Paulus, and his children, Tomi Lyn and husband, Tom and girls, Bruce and son, Bronson, Randi Kaye, and Georgia and husband ,David and their sons.

Jena Pfeffer and Ed Gregory were at Jonesboro Saturday for Kristen and Avery

Tranum’s teams soccer games.

Rosetta Lockhart was at Cotton Plant Wednesday for the funeral of a lifetime friend, Genova (born to Hammy and Florence Allen ) who was born in downtown McClelland , the same as I was , just a couple years before me. Our families remained friends even though they moved to that far away town of Cotton Plant. Finally a train called ,The Moose, came thru and it was not so far away anymore.

Darlene Tims visited her mother, Ruth Canard at Tupelo Saturday and reports she is still doing well. She has not had good health for the past year or more.

The Jerry Waters family have moved to the Des Arc area.

We had gained 2 people in Gregory ,but now lost 3.

That is like money, huh?

You get a raise and the milk or gas will ‘go up’ !!

Sunday is Pot Luck at Gregory Baptist, you are invited. I’d bring something made with ‘CAT’ but I couldn’t catch her to wring her neck, so. That heifer bit me 4 places on my hands, when I was going to take her out to Gregory for a rabies shot. She remembered from last year that it is what I did to her. She bit me then but just minor bites ,this

time she went deep.

Let me tell you about my youngest grandchild: Steve’s (and Janie) youngest. Nikki Lockhart graduated 5 years ago from UT at Austin, Texas and went into the Teach for America program in So Carolina. It seems it was a very poor school district as there were no library books- she sent out the word to family—Dad and Mom sent carloads there –she loved teaching and got Teacher of the Year –but she said “ I am not staying in teaching as you don’t get any support from those in command”. So, after her 2 year hitch she went home and on to Austin ‘s UT and enrolled in Law School and graduated on May 23rd in the top 16 of 400 law students. She went back last week and enrolled in a class designed to help pass her Bar exam. She already has been hired pending on her passing.( when she became 16 ,she only wanted a car so that she could get to school on time and enough to get organized, her ride was not as anxious to do that). I was not able to go, but was swelled with pride.( I have a bad leg that gets mean when I walk).Now you’ve heard me on my latest grand to give me bragging rights!

Rosetta

NEW BETHEL NEWS Donna Kelly, Correspondent

We had quite a day on Sunday. We went to church in the rain and the roads were flooded. We had a scary trip. We went through very deep water. We cancelled church service on Sunday night.

Our kids came over for dinner and after we ate, John and I went over to Chamber Nursing Home where Walsie Jennings celebrated her 92nd Birthday with a party. Several friends and family came to celebrate with her. Her brother

Eddie and Glenda Moore, Charlene Highfill, Maryln and Larry Tefteller; her daughter Sherry, Brother Fred, Several patients, church members, Chuck Greenwalt and J.C. Jennings.

I learned that Addie Conder was not with them anymore. I had not been able to visit them and she passed away. Condolence to her family.

Addie was a cousin of my dad.

I had a phone call Sun-

day morning requesting prayers from our church for Bille Bullock Cambel.

Her husband is deceased.

He was Lester Cambel. She was in the hospital critical.

We are looking forward to the weather that has been forecast for the week.

Have a good week and hope to see you in Church next Sunday.

Charles Ingle came over one day. He brought us some good squash. He also brought me a beautiful magnolia flower.

everyone know that Tracy will serve breakfast on Sunday mornings. She will also have a Sunday lunch special for $4 .99.

Dinner SPECIALS on TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS! Come out & enjoy!

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

Support our OWN local Postmaster, Tammy Bruce.

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Office hours are Mon.-Fri. 12:30 PM2:30PM, Sat.10AM-1:30PM. (REMINDER) For people to call 870-854-3703 or email me (OpalCrider@centurytel.n et) 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!

Have a Good Week In The Lord!

Happy Birthday June

6th to Vanessa Graham and Peggy Rettig!

Happy Anniversary June 7th to Brenda amd Gary Evans!

Happy Birthday June 9th to Wyatt Covington !

Happy Anniversary June 9th to Brandy amd Tim Williams!

Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. Romans 12:10, NLT

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Football Training Camp scheduled at Hinson-Rollins Field Public invited to come and watch Drake Widener, Head Football Coach of the Des Arc Eagles is pleased to announce the public is invited to attend a summer football training camp to be held at Hinson-Rollins Field (Eagle Field) on Friday, June 5 beginning at 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.

Coach Widener advises

that the Des Arc Eagles along with Lonoke, Wynne, Stuttgart and Barton will be showcased in offensive versus defensive skill drills as well as Goal Line competitions.

“Come out and watch the Eagles prepare for the 2015 Football Season,” said Coach Widener.

Brent Calhoun among graduates at Ouachita Photo above: Kaylee McDonald, for the Slammers, fields the ball at first base during their game against the Lil’ Knockouts on Tuesday evening, June 2.

Photo below: Jakin Cox, #99 for Phat Daddy’s, tags first base for the out beforeJamie Collins, MJJJ, made it to first base at Millenium Field on Tuesday. Two Buddy League games and one Little League game is scheduled for today, Thursday, June 4 beginning at 6:00 p.m.

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.— Celebrating Ouachita Baptist University’s 128th spring commencement, university officials conferred a total of 350 degrees on 343 graduates, including the university’s first three Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees.

Ouachita President Rex Horne also presented Dr. J.D. “Sonny” Tucker, executive director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on behalf of the university’s Board of Trustees.

Describing Ouachita’s graduating class of 2015 as “smart, bright, energetic, enthusiastic, questioning, discerning and incredibly committed,” Tucker thanked the graduates for

“the impact you have already had and the lifelong Kingdom impact you will have.”

Affirming the graduates’ legacy as difference makers, President Horne urged each of the graduates to “bear fruit and good works and do God’s work throughout your life.”

This year’s graduating class featured 143 honor graduates, including 21 who graduated summa cum laude with a grade point average of 3.95 or higher, 46 who graduated magna cum laude (3.75 GPA) and 76 who graduated cum laude (3.5 GPA).

Des Arc—Christopher Brent Calhoun, December 2014, Bachelor of Arts, Kinesiology/Fitness

Des Arc Elementary School

Honor Roll

UAMS Graduates Healthcare Professionals from local area The University of Arkanass for Medical Sciences (UAMS) awarded certificates and degrees to 931 graduates of its five colleges and graduate schoool during its commencement ceremony at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.

The following area students received degrees: Adam Skarda-Des ArcDoctor of Medicine Mathew WagnerCarlisle-Doctor of Medicine K. TackettJonathan Lonoke-Doctor of Medicine Courtney E. Hunt-Brinkley-Bachelor of Science Nursing Steffany C. BentonBrinkley-Master of Science Nursing Constance L. WallaceStuttgart-Bachelor of Science Nursing Megan McCorkindaleStuttgart-Doctor of Pharmacy Christopher HoganLonoke-Certificate in Emergency Medical Sciences Ashley Laniece LoftisStuttgart-Master of Physician Assistant Studies Julie Anne YoungCarlisle-Bachelor of Science Dental Hygiene Elizabeth N. EmersonLonoke-Post Baccalaureate Certificate Public Health Paige Caroline HawkinsHazen-Master of Science

New books at Des Arc Public Library Hold Me

by Susan Mallery Taken

by Dee Henderson Amish Promises

by Leslie Gould Beach Town

by Mary Kay Andrews Solitude Creek

by Jeffery Deaver Perfect Match

by Fern Michaels 14th Deadly Sin

by James Patterson

Des Arc Elementary School would like to congratulate the following students for making all A's or all A's and B's in every class during the second semester of the 20142015 school year:

Second Annual summer basketball camp to be held here June 8-12 The Des Arc Lady Eagles basketball teams are pleased to announce the Second Annual summer basketball camp to be held at the Des Arc High School gymnasium Monday through Friday, June 8-12.

The Camp will be held 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day. Ages 7-13 years, boys

and girls are invited.

Registration will be held Monday, June 8 from 8-9 a.m. The fee is $50.00 per student and must be paid with cash or check.

Campers must list the size of t-shirt needed. Sizes are Small-2XL in youth or adult.

There will be a break for

lunch. Lunch will not be provided for campers.

Campers will be put through a series of drills on dribbling, free throw shooting, guarding, setting up plays and other skills.

“You don’t want to miss this camp,” said Lady Eagles Basketball coach Britney Pilcher.

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All A's Honor Roll 2nd Grade: Hayden Nichols Brooklyn Smith William Harris Grace Knight Jurnee Washington 3rd Grade: Aden Berry Payton Bitner Cache Flanagan Aubrey Willhite Hayden Brown Emilee Huggins Adysen Johnston 4th Grade: Isabella Flanagan Gabrielle Berry 5th Grade: Jenna Brown, Zackery Holloway, Gage McCombs 6th Grade: DeVonte Holmes Matthew Kearby Meredith Reidhar A/B Honor Roll 2nd Grade: Alyxis Green Benjamin Kearby Michael Tenison Toby Buck Kymber Buckner Makyla Fowler Kyrstin Horton Elvis Inman Jada Renfro 3rd Grade: Lizzie Elam Rachel Harper Lulamae Thompson Mallory Baxter Briona Brown Hallie Bush Jacob Mullett Ty Pickrell Rachel Reidhar JaeLynn Renfro Calleigh Skarda 4th Grade: Brooke Adams Kalli Gullett Ross Holloway Connor Hunt Emily Whaley Brady Holder Harleigh Holloway Lucas Meredith Zoey Taylor 5th Grade: Bryce Baxter Jake Reidhar Kirsten Wiggins Cheyenne Berryhill Collin Chastain Cooper Childers Kyndal Morton Mason Sherman 6th Grade: Kayla Craig Caroline Harris Kizen Holland Anna Holloway Luke Morton Sadie York Emily Dunlap Brayden Pickrell Tristan Richards Garrett Williams

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November 1938 - Ten farm families live on a cooperative farm of 500 acres and work raising cotton, alfalfa and dairy products

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

Week of May 25 Days of field work: 4 Top Soil Moisture: 75% adequate; 25% surplus Sub Soil Moisture: 100% adequate Livestock Condition: 3 Fair Main Activities: planting Soybean progress in areas of the county that received minimal rainfall while other areas no progress was made. All crops from the highway look good, but closer inspections reveals weak plant populations, stunted areas from standing water, and drowned out ends. Fertilizer and herbicides continue to be applied weather allowing and not hay or forage being cut Planting Progress: Corn: 100% planted, 100% emerged Rice: 97% planted, 90% emerged Soybean: 60% planted, 45% emerged Cotton: 100% planted, 100% emerged Sorghum: 96% planted, 95% emerged Crop Condition: Corn: 25% Poor, 75% Fair Rice: 30% Poor, 70% Fair Soybean: 40% Poor, 60% Fair Cotton: 50% Poor, 50% Fair Sorghum: 40% Poor, 60% Fair Hay/Pasture: 40% Poor, 60% Fair

USDA Farming rule creates new loopholes

Arkansas Farm Bureau hires Rob Anderson for PR role Rob Anderson has been hired as director of public relations at the Arkansas Farm Bureau, where he will help guide organizational messaging, development of new communication tools and manage the social media team.

Anderson, 43, has spent the past three years as director of content strategy at CJRW, where he led the planning, development and monitoring of digital content for the agency’s clients. He also managed the firm’s relationship with Riceland Foods, Inc. Anderson holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Louisiana State University. He has more than 20 years' experience, including time as a reporter, editor and communications professional. He has worked with state government and private enterprises, including crisis communication work for LSU during Hurricane Katrina while a member of the school’s university relations staff.

He also has led communications work for the Louisiana Public Health Institute and the Louisiana Center for Planning Excellence, which coordinated planning for urban, rural and regional development.

He also led social media and strategy for Keating Magee Marketing Communications of New Orleans, including work with the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the TobaccoFree Living campaign and NBA All-Star Chris Paul.

“Rob’s work experiences read like a novel,” said Steve Eddington, ArFB’s vice president of public relations. “His work with

By John Crabtree, johnc@cfra.org, Center for Rural Affairs

A draft rule issued by USDA aims to define what it means to be ‘actively engaged’ in farming. The proposed rule makes some important changes, but those improvements are immediately undermined by two new loopholes introduced in the rule.

The draft rule, somewhat unabashledly, only applies to farms that are large enough to “require” quadruple the statutory limit.

You can abuse the rules, as long as you only abuse them up to $500,000 ($1 million if you’re married) each year.

Moreover, as drafted, farms made up solely of family members are excluded from the requirement that partners be actively engaged in the farm.

The proposed rule allows a large operator to skirt payment limits by adding extended family members to the books. For

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rural development, health care and agriculture fit very naturally with the work of Arkansas Farm Bureau.

“We look forward to utilizing Rob’s skills to more effectively tell the story of Arkansas agriculture, the men and women who make up Arkansas’ largest industry and whose work provides food and fiber for our state, the country and much of the world.”

A graduate of Little Rock Hall, Anderson is on the board of directors for the UAMS Family Home, the Arkansas Rice Depot and secretary of the Arkansas Hospice Foundation Board. He also serves as an instructor of journalism and media studies for the Tulane University School of Continuing Studies.

Warm nights signal time to fertilize bermudagrass The cool wet weather hasn’t done bermudagrass any favors, but now that Arkansas’ nights are warming up, it’s time to fertilize, said John Jennings, forage professor for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

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“When a string of warm nights occurs, the grass is ready to begin sustained growth,” he said. “Fertilizing bermudagrass before night temperatures have reached the 60-degree mark results in lower fertilizer efficiency.”

The grass may green up but other cool season

grasses and weeds will outcompete the languishing bermudagrass for the nutrients.

“Remember to do soil testing to get fertilizer recommendations meant for hay production,” he said.

“In recent years, many hay producers have neglected to apply sufficient potassium fertilizer and bermudagrass stands have thinned significantly as a result.”

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This means a large operation can add their cousin in New York or their grandchild in San Francisco. If you have 16 cousins scattered around the country, you can pull down 16 times the limit. In Washington, this passes for reform.

We are disappointed, but not surprised.

This has always been a fight for the ages between big business interests on one hand and everyday farmers and taxpayers on the other hand.

The public is on record supporting policy reform that directs farm program payments to family-scale operators. Multiple polls, including one commissioned by the Center for Rural Affairs, show that farmers and rural people overwhelming support closing farm program loopholes.

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Prairie County Clerk’s News The following information was obtained from the records in the County Clerk’s office at the Prairie County Courthouse in Des Arc on June 2, 2015:

Land Transfers Warranty Deed Calvin L. King and Mary E. King, Grantors, hand paid by Jerry L. Owens, Grantee, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: The W 1/2 of Lot Nine of Block 22, Watkins Addition to the City of Des Arc. Warranty Deed Ford Briggs and Cheryl Briggs, Grantors, hand paid by Casie J. Livesay and Curtis Hamric, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: A part of the Fractional NW 1/4 of Section 3 T4N, R7W containing 3.02 acres, more or less and subject to the Right-of-Way of Arkansas Highwy 13 along the Easterly side and Price

Road along the South side.

Special Warranty Deed John D. Naill, Jr., Trustee of the John D. Naill, Jr. Trust, Grantor, hand paid

by Naill Family Holdings, LLC, an Arkansas Limited Liability Company, Grantee, the following lands situated in the County of Prairie: A part of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 lying South and East of Arkansas State Highway 33 and the S 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Section 22, T3N, R4W containing 106.84 acres, more or less.

Quitclaim Deed John D. Naill & Son, Inc, an Arkansas Corporation; John D. Naill, Jr., John D. Naill III, Rebecca Naill Reagan, Katherine Naill Pares, Deborah Naill, and John D. Naill Jr., as Trustee of the John D. Naill Jr. Trust, Grantors, hand paid by Naill Family Holdings, LLC, the following lands situated in the County of Prairie: A part of the NW 1/4 of Section 27 and a part of the

NE 1/4, SE 1/4, SW 1/4 and NW 1/4 of Section 28 and the NE 1/4 , the NW 1/4, and NE 1/4 , and the SE 1/4 East of the White River in Section 30 and a part of the NW 1/4 of Section 32, All being in T3N, R4W ly8ing North of U.S. Interstate 40, East of the White River containing 1169.05 acres, more or less.

Special Warranty Deed The Farmers and Merchants Bank, a state bank chartered under the laws of Arkansas, by its President and Assistant Secretary, Grantors, hand paid

by Joan Marie Scott, Grantee, the folowing described lands situated in the Northern District of Prairie County: Lot One of Block 19 of Erwins Addition to the City of Des Arc. Warranty Deed Kevin Carter and Rebecca Jo Carter, Grantors, hand paid by Phyliis Britt, Grantee, the following lands lying in the Northern

District of Prairie County: A part of the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 7, T3N, R5W. Warranty Deed Loblolly South, LLC, an Arkansas Limited Liability Company, Grantor, hand paid by Mark Greisen and Carla M. Greisen, Grantee, the following described lands in the Northern District of Prairie County: The SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 4, T4N, R6W containing 40 acres, more or less. LESS AND EXCEPT a Fractional Part of the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 4, T4N, R6W containing 1.6 acres, more or less.

Warranty Deed Malita Eliece Knupp Ruth, Grantor, hand paid

by Jimmy White and Lottie J. White, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: W 1/2 of Lot Five and all of Lot Six of Block 13, Erwin Survey to the Town of Des Arc.

District Court News The following cases were before District Judge Robert Abney in District Court Hearings held on Monday, June 1: City Cases Thornell A. Willliams, Des Arc, charged with Domestic Battering-Third Degree. Case Review.

Nicholas A. Chandler, Des Arc, charged with Contempt of Court (Probation Violation) and Failure to Appear on a Written Summons. Failed to Appear.

Issue Letter.

Jelecia M. Jackson, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Appear on a Written Summons. Case Review.

Camara P. McDonald, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Pay. Case Review.

Jimmy Lee Chase, Des Arc, charged with Public Intoxication/Drinking in Public. Failed to Appear.

Issue Letter.

Johnathan T. Modlin, Des Arc, charged with Resisting Arrest-Class A Mis-

demeanor, Disorderly Conduct-Class C Misdemeanor, Fleeing on Foot, Resisting Arrest. and Guilty. Sentenced to 30 days Prairie County Jail with credit for five served.

Tommy S. Barbee, Bald Knob, charged with Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor. Failed to Appear. Issue Letter.

State Cases Lisa M. Gibson, Cabot, charged with No Liability Insurance. Proof Shown.

Charge Dismissed.

Wonda C. Steward, Hazen, charged with Drove Left of Center. Failed to Appear. Issue Letter.

Thomas B. Bradshaw, Jacksonville, charged with Failure to Pay. Failed to Appear. Issue Warrant.

Brandon Alexander, Des Arc, charged with No Seat Belt. Bond Forfeited.

Elijha J. Cohen, Biscoe, charged with Public Intoxication/Drinking in Public.

Bond Forfeited.

Lonnie J. Shockley, Cotton Plant, charged with Failure to Pay. Guilty. Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $380.00.

Donna M. Hooks, Biscoe, charged with Fictitious Tags, Failure to Pay Registration Fee, and No Liability Insurance. Fictitious Tags charge merged.

Failure to Pay Registration Fee and No Liability Insurance Guilty. Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $450.00.

Ann Carolyn Blansett, Searcy, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed 74 MPH/55 Zone. Bond Forfeited. Six months Probation. If No Further Violations, Charge Will Be Dismissed.

Jonathan D. Robinson, McRae, charged with No Seat Belt. Bond Forfeited.

Robby T. Thornton, Carlisle, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed 78 MPH/55 Zone. Bond Forfeited.

Jim F. Vent, Hazen, charged with Riding without Operators License-Motorcycle. Bond forfeited.

Aaron T. Cain, Des Arc, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed 74 MPH/55 Zone. Bond Forfeited.

Waylon Don Gordon, Austin, charged with Unlawful Use of Driver License and Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor.

Continued to June 8, 2015.

Mary R. Holt, Des Arc, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed 81 MPH/55 Zone. Bond Forfeited.

Terry E. Loudermilk, Stuttgart, charged with Failure to Pay. Plead Not Guilty. Hearing set for June 11, 2015.

Smith, Ward, Jeremy charged with Refusal to Vacate. Plead Not Guilty.

Hearing Set for July 9, 2015.

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Health administrator advises removing breeding places for mosquitoes

By Rose Knupp Health Dept.

Administrator

The large amounts of rainfall that Prairie County has experienced in recent weeks means more breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Any standing water, such as water found in flower pot trays, gutters, or animal water bowls, creates places where mosquitoes can breed. The mosquitoes that breed in these small, stagnant pools of water can carry diseases such as West Nile Virus.

Prairie County residents are encouraged to drain standing water around homes to reduce mosquito breeding grounds. The mosquitoes that cause diseases do not travel far from where they hatch, so reducing any standing water can significantly lower the numbers of mosquitoes.

Cutting back vegetation near homes can also re-

duce mosquito habitats.

In addition, it is important to use a mosquito repellant when outdoors to prevent mosquito bites.

Mosquito-proofing your home can also help reduce mosquitoes. Install or repair screens on windows and doors to keep mosquitoes outside. Use your air conditioning, if you have it.

At this time, no cases of West Nile Virus or Eastern Equine Encephalitis have been reported to the Arkansas Department of Health for 2015. West Nile Virus, the most common mosquito-borne virus in Arkansas, may cause symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash. People over 50 years of age and those with certain medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease and organ transplants are at greater risk for serious illness.

Arkansas River Valley flooding meeting set for June 8

Arkansas River Valley soybean - time permitting.

Flooding meeting set for Jeremy Ross, extension soyJune 8 at Conway, Ark. – Ex- bean agronomist for the tension personnel with the Division of Agriculture.

9:50-10:10 a.m. - SoyUniversity of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture bean insects in non-irrigatare hosting a meeting June ed and late-planted soy8 in Morrilton to help farm- beans. Gus Lorenz exteners manage their crops sion entomologist.

10:10-10:30 a.m. - How once the floodwaters ream I going to control all of cede.

The Arkansas River Val- these weeds? Tom Barber, ley Flooding meeting is set extension weed scientist.

10:45-11:05 a.m. - Wheat for 9:30 a.m. in the MultiPurpose Building at the straw management, and Conway County Fair- fertilizer/herbicide application in corn and grain grounds.

“Our growers have a ton sorghum. Jason Kelley, exof questions about the fu- tension wheat and feed ture of their crops. Can the grains agronomist.

11:05-11:25 a.m. - How plants be saved? Can they replant? What about weeds am I going to farm this and insects?” said Hank stretch of rice? Jarrod HardChaney, Faulkner County ke, extension rice agronoextension staff chair for the mist.

11:25-11:50 a.m. - Farm Division of Agriculture.

Agency “For this meeting, we’re Service pulling together our agron- update. Robert Evans, FSA, omists and other experts to Morrilton.

For more information help producers navigate about the meeting, contact this very uncertain time.” your county extension ofThe agenda: fice.

9:30 a.m. - Welcome Leighann, 256, Commit9:30-9:50 a.m. - Planting ment. Intake date May 28, 2015.

Modlin, Jonathan, 18, charged with Probation Revocation, Fleeing-Misdemeanor, Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest.

Intake date May 27, 2015.

Clendenin, Ramona Kay, 49, charged with Drinking on Highway, Disorderly Conduct and Failure to Appear. Intake date June 1, Narconon reminds families that abuse of addictive 2015. pharmaceutical drugs is on the rise. Learn to recognize Wilder, Terry, 50, charged the signs of drug abuse and get your loved ones help if with Criminal Imperson- they are at risk. ation and Obstructing GovCall Narconon for a free brochure on the signs of addicernmental Operations. In- tion for all types of drugs. Narconon also offers free take date June 1, 2015. screenings and referrals. 800-431-1754 or Weatherly, Michael Prescription-abuse.org Wayne, 44, charged with Non-Support. Intake date ADDICTION COUNSELING June 1, 2015.

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Prairie County Jail Count The following inmates are currently incarcerated in the Prairie County Jail at Des Arc, according to Sheriff Gary Burnett, as of Tuesday, June 2, 2015: Thresher, Jason, 43, ADC 309. Intake date March 6, 2013.

Spencer, Demetrius Lamont, 40, ADC 309. Intake date June 12, 2013.

Whittenburg, Phineas E., 20, Commitment. Intake date November 28, 2014.

Taylor, Ron Janquel, 20, charged with Possession of Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver, Possession of Firearms by Certain Persons, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Intake date December 11, 2014.

Holloway, Lyne C., 47, charged with Terroristic Threatening-Felony. Intake date January 12, 2015.

Herrera, Elias, 40,

charged with Sexual Assault. Intake date February 7, 2015.

Adams, Reginald D., 26, Hold for ADC. Intake date April 20, 2015.

Lovett, Dominique R., 24, charged Possession of Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver, Simultaneous Possession of Drugs and Firearms and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Intake date December 12, 2014.

Holmes, Jason Edward, 34, charged with Driving on Suspended Driver Licenseand Careless Driving. Hold for PC Hearing. Intake date May 17, 2015.

Lindsey, Demario Andrew, 28, charged with Warrant Service Fee. Intake date May 14, 2015.

Counts, David, 38, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date

May 21, 2015.

Humbert, Robert, 46, charged with Probation Revocation and Failure to Appear. Intake date May 20, 2015.

Mason, Randal Lee, 21, charged with Failure to Appera. Intake date May 30, 2015.

Wa s h i n g t o n , S t e v e n Allen, 45, Commitment. Intake date May 26, 2015.

Berry, Rhonda Ann, 49, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date May 26, 2015.

Dixon, Geraldine Angelic, 22, charged with Possession of Marijuana, Failure to Appear. and Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date June 1, 2015.

Eddlemon, Melinda Alison, 44, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date May 29, 2015.

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Thursday, June 4 6:00 pm . . . Carnival Open to 10:00 pm

. . . COOL 104, Live in the Park . . . M-Deep South Band (Main Stage) . . . Food Vendors Open . . . Carnival open to 10:00 pm (Arm bands $20.00)

6:00 am . . . . Bass Tournament (White River) 8:00 am . . . . Chili Cookoff, across from Dondie’s 8:00 am . . . . BBQ Cookoff, across from Dondie’s 9:00 am . . . . Motorcycle Poker Run (Register Pre K Parking Lot) 9:00 am . . . . Vendors Open 10:00 am . . . . Motorcycle Poker Run begins 10:00 am . . . . Children’s Activities, next to Palace Drug Store 10:00 am . . . . Dog Show, in park next to Health Dept 10:00 am . . . . 3 on 3 Basketball Tourney, Elementary Gym 1:00 pm . . . Carnival Opens to 5:00 pm

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7:00 pm . . . Beauty Pageant (Main Stage)

7:30 pm . . . Hope’s Revival (Main Stage) 9:00 pm . . . Fireworks 9:15 pm . . . Ace’s Wild Band - Street Dance

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PLANNING COMMITTEE T.J. Nelson, Director Casey Ingle, Asst. Director Judy Burnett, Treasurer Paula Campbell Katie Minton Keith Rhodes Terrell Sutton

Garden Gate 423 Main Street Des Arc, Arkansas

Do you remember O.T.’s Place?

(Arm bands - $20.00)

1:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm 6:00 pm

. . . Duck Calling Contest (Main Stage) . . . Raven’s Dance Class (Main Stage) . . . Horseshoe Pitching Contest, across fr Dondie’s . . . Duck Drop, Riverfront Park . . . Billy Jones Band (Bluez Band) . . . Carnival Open to 10:00 pm

Here, on Hwy 38 just a few miles west of Des Arc, in 1940’s-1990’s, folks of all ages came to dance, listen to music, and generally just have FUN !

Among the many who performed there were Elvis Presley (the King) and in the 80’s the Southern Fried Band. Just so happens, Monday, June 1, Jerry Brown who headed up the Southern Fried Band abruptly stopped when he saw OT’s was still there. Also there, was O.T.’s daughter, Shirley H. Cunningham, with whom he got to visit and reminisce with.

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(Arm bands - $20.00)

6:00 pm . . . Prison Band (Main Stage) 8:00 pm . . . Kyla Horton, Vocalist 9:00 pm . . . Ricochet Band (Back to the ‘80’s) 10:30 pm . . . . Fireworks Display

S TEAMBOAT D AYS S PONSORS 1st Arkansas Bail Bonds AgHeritage A. L. Berry Insurance Allen & Hestir Dental Inc. ArCare Bale Chevrolet Bell’s Ag Service Butch Calhoun Farms Bunge North America Bust-A-Duck Guide Service Car City, Des Arc Car City, Searcy CenturyLink Chestnut’s Garage Chunky Munky Express City of Des Arc City Market Cornerstone Financial D3 Auto Sales Des Arc Auto & Ag Des Arc Chamber of Commerce Des Arc Nursing & Rehab Dondies White River Princess Doug Kenny - US Foods Doyle Burnett Farms Eddie McMullen Eric Kennedy Law Office Everett Buick-GMC Farmers & Merchants Bank Fort Lincoln Fest

Garth Hardware Gary Burnett, Sheriff Greenpoint Ag Greenway Equipment Harvey Joe Sanner Harvey’s Garage Jeffery Reidhar Johnny Reidhar John Reidhar John Stephens Insurance Knupp Service Co. Marilyn Burnett Merchants & Planters Bank Neal Mitchell Family New Creations NoNo’s Liquor Palace Drug Store Patterson Hardwood Paul Holloway Family ReMax Advantage Realtor Riceland Foods Rick and Rochelle Johnson Ridout Lumber Co. RinGlo Supermarket Riverbend Heating & Air Russell McKay Stallion Transportation TJ’s Kountry Kitchen White River Journal White & Son Fish Market

E VENT S PONSORS Bass Tournament: . . . . . . Bale Chevrolet Kyla Horton: . . . . . . . . . . . Burnett Farms Ricochet Band: . . . . . . . . ArCare Duck Calling Contest . . . Bust-A-Duck Guide Service Ace’s Wild Band . . . . . . . Dondie’s Deep South Band . . . . . . Harvey’s Garage Friday Fireworks . . . . . . . Merchants&Planters Bank Hope’s Revival: . . . . . . . . Car City BBQ Contest: . . . . . . . . . 1st Arkansas Bail Bonds Chili Cookoff: . . . . . . . . . . Stallion Transportation Saturday Fireworks: . . . . Farmers & Merchants Bank

Special T HANK YOU to Prairie County Road Department and Mark Holder, Entergy

STEAMBOAT DAYS 3 on 3

BASKETBALL

Kyla Horton here Saturday night Kyla Horton will be making her third Steamboat Days appearance here when she takes the stage here Saturday evening at eight o’clock.

Kyla Horton is an aspiring country singer. She has had some amazing opportunities to perform on various stages and festivals throughout the state of Arkansas. Kyla says, "She was blessed to sing in Branson, MO for several years and had some incredible experiences performing with some of Branson's greatest stars including Ed McMahon."

She has been privileged to be the opening act for such artists as Ty Herndon, Aaron Tippin, Bryan White, Jon Conlee, and Luke Bryan.

"I will forever be grateful for all of the friends and fans that this business allows me to have and would like to say thanks for continuing to come out and support me."

Now residing in "The Live Music Capital of the World" of Austin, Texas, Kyla is still continuing to pursue her dream and is anxiously awaiting God to open the next door of her career.

She is sponsored here this year by the Burnett Farm.

STEAMBOAT DAYS

Bass Tournament Saturday, June 6 6 am - 12 pm Newby’s Boat Camp Bayou Des Arc

Biggest Bass: $100.00 Terrell Sutton 501-516-5002

Sat., June 6 Elementary School Rules *Absolutely NO fighting, NO profanity and NO unsportsmanlike conduct will be tolerated! *No dunking or hanging on rim *No alcohol or drugs allowed ANYWHERE on premises *First to 21 wins *Championship Game will be full court, First to 21 win by 4 *Three-Pointers are allowed

MUST BE PRESENT BY 9:00 A.M. Failure to obey these rules will result in immediate team disqualification and police escort off the premises. Steamboat Days, the city of Des Arc and the Des Arc School District will NOT be held accountable for any accidents or injuries that occur before, during or after the event.

TEAM NAME _______________________________ TEAM MEMBERS___________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ For more information, contact Katie Minton at 870-830-5306

STEAMBOAT DAYS

Chili cookoff Saturday, June 6 8:00 am (start)

(Across from Dondie’s) Sponsored By Stallion Transportation Bobby Joe Brooks 870-830-1709

Come Join the Fun! ANNUAL th STEAMBOAT DAYS

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