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The next few issues of the Journal will give readers rare glimpses inside the clock tower of the Des Arc Courthouse. The initial photo above shows the NE corner (White River Bridge visible out the left/ north window - Bunge North America out right/east window). The 2x4 railing in foreground defines location of a rickety wood stair which must be negotiated to move around in tower. The smaller inset photo of the tower’s south and west faces shows that there are two arched windows on each face, just below two arched vents. A wrought iron balcony exists outside each pair of hinged windows.

ACTIVITIES CALENDAR AUG.31-SEPT. 5, 4 PM Legacy Week-Lower White River Museum

THURS., SEPT. 1, 7:00 PM Jr. Eagles @ Clarendon

FRI., SEPT. 2, 7:00 P.M. Senior Eagles home opener with Bald Knob

MON., SEPT.5, LABOR DAY Courthouse Closed Des Arc Schools closed No District Court Hearing Monday Only

SUN., SEPT. 4, 2-5:30PM Community Gathering at Riverfront Park Chalk drawing for kids Live Music-All Free!

SAT., SEPT. 10 Keathley Family Reunion Northside Comm. Ctr.

This trailer load of supplies left very early Monday morning, August 29 for flood ravaged areas of Louisiana. Allie Burke, far right and Kristie Flud, third from right in green Des Arc shirt, both of the Prairie County Sheriffs Office, are pictured with five unidentified volunteers from other communities. They will be traveling over south Louisiana taking much needed supplies to flood victims.

From Burke and Flud, “A big thanks goes out to the Des Arc Community for your generous donations to these flood victims. The people of Louisiana will be very grateful and so appreciative of everything they receive from here”.

MON.,SEPT. 12,2:30-6:30 Red Cross Blood Drive First Baptist Church

THURS-SUN,, SEPT. 15-18 Man-Power Conference Faith Outreach Ministries

SAT., SEPT. 17, 4:30 PM Prairie County Fair Parade Old Acco Bldg.

Lineup 4 pm MON., SEPT. 26, 6:30/7 PM Annual Report to Public Monthly Board meeting Superintendants Office

SAT., OCT. 8, 7AM-TILL Community Yard Sale Des Arc Nursing & Rehab

Obituaries Pg . 4

Katherine Borchert, 58, Stuttgart Charles Brannon, 76, Searcy Bill Denman, 64, Stuttgart W.C. “Dub” Grizzle, 89, Brinkley Mary Hatfield, 74, Searcy Andrew McNeely, 82, Cabot Lexington McPherson, 65, Stuttgart Jerry Morris, 72, Clarendon Rebecca Russell, 45, Indiana Scott Sullivan, 54, Ashdown

WARNING The Des Arc Police Department has received several complaints about drivers exceeding the posted speed limit (20 mph) and failing to stop at stop signs on streets around the Des Arc Elementary School.

Anyone found committing traffic violations in this area will be issued a citation, No warning will be issued.

Chief Rick Parson Des Arc Police Department

Hats Off and A + to An F to WRJournal for day late USPS for 20 (Friday) delivery of last two issues to routes - on 8/19 and 8/26! straight weeks of local In our attempt to continue providing at least 14-16 next-day Friday pages most weeks, the Journal acknowledges being late 2-3 hours on 8/18 & 8/25, resulting in folks on routes not delivery (out-of- receiving their papers until Friday, instead of Thursday.

We did receive an email from one subscriber this week, county locations)! justifiably unhappy about the Friday deliveries for which See Tracking Chart, Pg 11 for details

we apologize to Everyone! We are striving to do better.

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These bikers stopped for a break at Chunky Munky on their ride from Searcy to Beebe Saturday morning, August 27. They were preparing for the Big Dam Bridge 100 Bike Tour in Little Rock on Sept. 26.

Pictured left to right are: Tanya Lercher, Searcy, a social worker; Bob Lercher, Beebe, a mechanical engineer; Steve Lercher, Searcy, Asst. Principal-Searcy Middle School and Sherill Strayhorn, Beebe, Farm Bureau.

Des Arc wishes them “Good Luck” in the tour!

Des Arc School enrollment up 21 for 2016-17 Enrollment at Des Arc Schools is up 21 students this year over the 2015-16 total enrollment, according to information from the office of Superintendent Nick Hill this week.

A total of 535 enrolled students is reported as follows, by grades: Kindergarten ...... 41 Grade 1 .............. 39 Grade 2 .............. 32 Grade 3 .............. 44 Grade 4 .............. 35 Grade 5 .............. 43 Grade 6 .............. 28 Grade 7 .............. 49 Grade 8 .............. 48 Grade 9 .............. 35 Grade 10 ............. 57 Grade 11 ............. 41 Grade 12 ............. 43 Total: 535

Mam Maw & Pap Paw’s Beloved Pet, “SHI” “SHI”, the Shih Tzu faithful companion of Jim and Othadene Rollins Finney of Millington, Memphis for 17 years, “went to Dog Heaven on Saturday, Aug 27”. The above keepsake photo, which Jim keeps by his chair, and a letter were received by WRJ yesterday with these words: “We miss her greatly ... wanted you to see why our grief is so great”.

“She loved to put on her black motorcycle coat (wearing above) ... her favorite days were her golf cart rides with Jim to the golf course” (she stayed right in her seat during the whole 18 holes) “she also has a Razorback red sweater she would wear to all their football games.”

This photo of Shi and Jim was made “about ten years ago” - as Jim, who’s on oxygen full time and was recently hospitalized again but now discharged, can no longer play golf. He was a 1955 Cotton Plant graduate - Othadene was a 1958 DAHS graduate and a good friend and classmate of Judy Coker Andrews who passed away August 15. (A portion of Judy’s last email to Oathadene on Aug. 14 with more photos from her recent trip to Africa are on Pg 2 of this issue.)

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E D I T O R I A L S & O P I N I O N S Steve Barnes 2nd Amendment and Gun Control

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

season It is written in Scripture -- John Three, look it up -that to pay much attention to football while baseball is being played is unholy; to handicap either the pros or student-athletes before the Major League wild cards have been decided puts the soul in jeopardy of eternal damnation. So the faithful and wise have mostly ignored the Razorbacks’ prospects for the new season, save for the unavoidable overheard remark, something to the effect that with a bit of luck, to include no mistakes, the Hogs could enter the Top 25. So’s the betting, as it were.

To repeat a theme on a different playing field: It is an all-bets-are-off year. Ask the Republicans (and pundits, and Vegas oddsmakers) who wagered heavily that their presidential nominee would be anybody but Donald Trump. That said, it appears the next occupant of the Oval Office will be the first woman to call it hers; the first to succeed a spouse, albeit after a 16-year interregnum and eight years later than she had intended; and the second Clinton in a generation. (Chelsea in the wings?).

Since it is an all-bets-off year, however, we should note, not for the first time, that the Democratic nominee is capable of snatching defeat from victory. Her continuing e-mail travails. The Clinton Foundation controversies.

Her negative “trustworthy” index (Trump outscores her there, easily) and her “likeability” factor (Trump trumps again), both nourished by one or another scandal, real or conjured, will keep her partisans on the edge of their seats until about nine o’clock Central Standard Time on the evening of November 20th.

There also is the possibility that her bench coach, Big Dog, will leap from the vault from the dugout to defend her honor, as he is prone to do, his tail sweeping the china from the table, as it is prone to do. And now her closest personal aide’s weirdo husband has been caught “sexting” again, reviving memories of the former president’s juvenile involvement with “that woman.”

All of that said, all of that taken into consideration, it would appear that Hillary Clinton can in fact run out the clock, as she has been advised to not do; such is her lead that only a seismic shift in the electorate could jeopardize a Democratic administration come January.

The magic number of the Electoral College is 270, and at this writing estimates have her in the neighborhood of 330, Arkansas’s six electoral votes not among them.

The storied statisticians of the [begin ital] five-thirtyeight [end ital] website put Clinton’s odds of victory at 77 percent. The [begin ital] New York Times [end ital] estimate comes in at 88 percent, or, as its analyst Josh Katz observes, her odds of losing are about the same as an NFL kicker missing a field goal from the 20-yard line. Or the Hogs again coming to within a point of the Crimson Tide.

So, the Democratic candidate need only avoid reporters, which she is very good at doing; make no slips of the tongue, as she is capable of; look human, difficult for her; keep her husband leashed (red-shirted?) and her staff focused (and hope they stay out of the news); and propose no policies beyond those already outlined.

And, of course, offer a spirited defense against any and all quick-action plays by the opposition. Oh -- and wait patiently for the gaffe-of-the-day from Trump, or his surrogates. For example, the minister who distributed an on-line flyer of Clinton in blackface, speaking in dialect.

And then drop kick Trump in the debates, the first of them later this month, without looking monstrous herself.

The game is hers, the counter-argument goes, if she doesn’t blow it.

But Clinton will not take a knee. There will be new programmatic offerings, perhaps every week, or a new spin on established objectives. There will be sustained, intensified efforts to register new voters, especially in the African-American and Latino communities that Trump has so powerfully alienated. Millions of new dollars are rolling in to both campaigns (though overwhelmingly to Clinton’s treasury); her campaign will spend the money in those states with concentrations of urban, college-educated professionals aghast at the Republican nominee’s incoherence, with enough left over to try to convince disaffected middle- and lower-income whites (who drive Arkansas politics) that the Democratic nominee is not the Spawn of Satan. Or Nick Saban.

The political season is less interesting than appalling.

Now, the SEC, however…

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un control has, for political reasons only, become an issue in the presidential race.

There is no reason for it other than Clinton is surging ahead in the poles and gun control has proven an effective tool in past elections. Here in east Texas it cost us one of our best congressmen ever in Jack Brooks and replaced him with one of the worst ever, Steve Stockman. Clinton has stated the need for controlling automatic weapons and large magazines, no threat to hunter’s shotguns and rifles or the handgun in the home for protection against home invasions.

Let me make it clear from the outset that I understand and respect the Constitution of the United States. I have been a lawyer for 59 years and I understand that it is the Supreme law of the land and that all laws passed by the U.S. Congress and State legislatures must comply with its provisions. This does not mean that I agree with all provisions of the Constitution and think it will last forever and should never change. There are several sorely needed amendments. Elimination of the electoral college and redistricting (“Gerrymandering”) come to mind immediately. Thomas Jefferson believed that the Constitution should be revised by every generation as “the living should not be governed by the dead”.

And I agree with Bill Maher, a lesser authority, that we should stop thinking it “was handed down by Jesus”. However, until it is replaced by a Constitutional Convention or changed by amendment I accept it as the law.

I also understand that the interpretations (whether unanimous or 5 to 4) of the Constitution by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) defines the Constitution and their opinions then become the law whether I like the opinion or not, and I frequently don’t.

There are no absolute freedoms. Not of speech(shouting fire in a crowded theatre), press(libel), religion(snake handling, polygamy). Yet Americans seem to think there are no limits to gun ownership. The arguments that I hear have all the intellectual substance of the schoolyard argument of my childhood, “It’s a free country, ain’t it”. The late Justice Scalia is no favorite of mine, yet he states these limitations clearly in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HELLER, the 2008 case in which the Court held that the right to possess a firearm is unconnected to service in a militia. He further stated in his opinion “United States v. Miller limits the type of weapons to which the right applies to those in common use for lawful purposes”. He continues, “The Second Amendment right is not a right to keep and carry any weapon in any manner and for any purpose. The Court has upheld gun control legislation including prohibitions on concealed weapons and possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, and laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. The historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons supports the holding in the United States v. Miller that the sorts of weapons protected are those in common use at the time.”

stricting gun ownership “to those in use for lawful purposes”. Automatic and semi-automatic weapons with over sized magazines are not those in common use even thought the Lieut.

Governor of Texas boasts that he has 2 AK 47s in his home to repel “home invaders”. Here I recall the retired general and former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell who on a recent TV panel said,( I paraphrase) “where are all these home invaders, I’m 84 and my home has never been invaded nor has the home of any of my acquaintances.” At age 90 I could join him in this testimony. The home invasion reaction is another “solution to a non-existent problem”. Our State Legislatures with campaign support from the NRA, fear of reaction from the gun nuts or just plain stupidity have recently created legislation involving concealed weapons, open carry and a variety of other destructions to sensible arms control that raise the issue of whether we wish to be a civilized nation.

I disagree with Scalia that the right to keep and bear arms is unrelated to the militias and I believe that decision will be overturned by a differing decision or by a clarifying amendment to the constitution. At the time of the adoption of the 2nd Amendment the USA had no Army and many leaders wanted no army as they believed that nations with armies started wars. We had just fought a war of secession from England, with volunteers (militias) who provided their own weapons, we feared another. It came. We were surrounded by the colonies of Spain, France and England as well as hostile Indians. One of the stronger reasons, at least in the south, was control of slave uprisings. James Madison considered it “the principal instrument of slave control”. The theory that the 2nd Amendment was so that Americans could stage a rebellion against their own government is a myth. They did not establish a new government (with the guarantee of freedoms unheard of at that time) only to provide, almost immediately after its founding, the means of it’s overthrow. That is a modern myth. I fail to understand why these judges who consider themselves originalists never seem to take into consideration the conditions existing at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Have they forgotten the only personal arms available at the time were single shot and took forever to reload.

Legislatures all over the U.S. are passing new laws liberalizing arms.

Concealed carry, open carry, carry anywhere, the list is endless. And this in spite of statistics from a recent year revealing the following hand gun killings in major industrial nations:

Japan - 48, Switzerland - 34 Israel -58 W. Germany - 42

Great Britain - 8 Canada 52 Sweden - 21

USA - 10,728

I’ve heard all the arguments, ”Guns don’t kill, people do.” The truth, people with guns kill. “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”. True for a while, nothing happens instantaneously. But then no one that I am aware of wants to take away all guns, just those instruments of mass killing.

No one is even suggesting taking away hunting rifles and shotguns or the handgun(in the home). Who needs an Justice Scalia makes it abundantly AK47in their home or anywhere. And clear that States may make laws re- why “open carry”, are we living in an

OK corral fantasy.

When I was growing up in the thirties, in Arkansas, pump shotguns for huntBy Joe Pirtle ing waterfowl were Seabrook, Tx limited to three Hazen HS graduate shells. I heard little (originally fr Des Arc) complaining. It was one thing to hunt ducks. Another to slaughter them. I suggest that we be as considerate of human beings as we are of waterfowl.

Hillary Clinton is only proposing sensible gun legislation. Legislation that polls show is overwhelmingly supported by the public yet the “gun nuts” always seem to prevail. There is lots of money in guns and lots of money in gun lobbying.

I am not a stranger to guns. In WWII, I qualified as an expert rifleman in the Marine Corps and became a Scout/Sniper. I became familiar with every hand held gun the Marine Corps utilized. I have fired guns in anger and seen the results. That was war. I don’t like guns. But I don’t want to take your gun. For a brief period in 1945 I was “weapons disposal officer” for the Nagasaki area of Japan. (I was a PFC but we had a shortage of officers.) I supervised the casting into the ocean of thousands of guns confiscated from the local residents and I greatly admired the beauty of the Belgian shotguns and other fine weapons. Most of the guns were designed for killing, and killing people. Death by gun was nonexistent in Nagasaki during my stay.

I don’t want to take away your shotgun, your hunting rifle, or the hand gun you keep in your home, nor does Hillary Clinton or anyone else that I know of. The “slippery slope” argument is the product of the gun and ammunition makers. With all the wars in the world they should have enough business. Sensible gun legislation is working in the rest of the “civilized” world. But then, maybe civilization is not our goal.

One acquaintance tells me that the misinformation re Clinton and guns is a subtle form of sales promotion. Their theory is that if Hillary is elected, gun sales will go through the roof from fear that she will confiscate all weapons.

This of course plays into the American voter’s lack of understanding of the separation of powers. We are electing a President, not a king. They don’t seem to realize that campaign promises to take some radical action on the first day in office is an empty promise without the cooperation of congress. On the first day! Will Rogers said, “We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through congress”.

Policemen have always known that when they make that traffic stop at night, that there might be a gun in the car. Now they know that there is PROBABLY a gun in the car, and a legal one to boot. I am sure that all this gun legislation has and will have a huge effect on law enforcement, and not a good one.

The “founding fathers” did not establish a democracy as they doubted the ability of the voting public to make sensible decisions when confronted with the miasma of political advertising, nothing then as compared with the daily deluge of the electronic age.

Eighty per cent of my Email traffic is political. The success of the “gun lobby” may prove them right.

L etters & e maiLs from r eaders Aug 6, 2016 Midvale, Idaho I received July 21 paper on Aug 3, two weeks late but still News to me. Our grandson from Oklahoma has been visiting. All is well.

Love, Iona (Kenneth & Iona Botts) Good Morning! My mom and dad (Merle and Pat Shook of Conway) receive the WRJ and showed me your pic (with gar). That is fantastic!

I grew up in Conway seeing the weekly Journal laying on my Granny and Pa Shook’s Dean Walls at kitchen Johnson & Garth counter.

Fish Dock - 1946 They would usually go through it sitting at the bar. One of my favorite memories with them. I’m sure they would have a good conversation about this pic!

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Left: Judy on safari; Above: Judy visiting classroom in Africa perks of being from a small town - the small town paper that features stuff from our shared past!”

Three days after returning home from Africa on Aug. 11, Judy Coker Andrews sent friend Othadene Rollins Finney an email Sunday, Aug 14 in which she said: “The trip was over the top and better than I ever dreamed it would be. Yet, bordering on being exhausted once back home.

Understand you identified your dad in a 1924 photo in Aug 4 WRJ. One of the

Judy’s heart stopped next morning, Aug 15, a few minutes after the ambulance reached the hospital.

Laugh-In Corner Late one night a robber wearing a mask stopped a well-dressed man and stuck a gun in his ribs. "Give me your money," he demanded.

Scandalized, the man replied, "You can’t do this – I’m a US Congressman!"

"Oh! In that case," smiled the robber, "Give me MY money!"

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“ T H E PA G E S T U R N E D B A C K ” (Compiled from White River Journal files)

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nder the able leadership of Col. Joe H. Crowly, president; Will Hardke, vice president, and Joe Reike, sec-mgr. the Prairie County Fair at Hazen will get underway this Thursday, Sept. 7, and continue through Saturday. The school bands of Des Arc and Hazen will provide music during the attraction.

W. H. (Buck) Evans, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Evans, is serving aboard a mine sweeper with the U. S. Navy in the Korean area.

Buck joined the Navy at Des Arc in January, 1948. J. C. Love joined at the same time.

Engineers from the Memphis District, U. S. Corp of Engineers, were in Des Arc last Thursday and Friday making a new survey for the proposed semi-circle levee around the town. According to Mayor Joe K. Caskey, they are interested in avoiding as much as possible crossing private property Forrest Garth, 18, son of Justice of the Peace and Mrs. J. B. Garth, and Thomas Evans, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Evans, joined the U. S. Air Force at the recruiting station in Little Rock on August 21.

Willie B. Patterson and G. S. (Shinn) Ridout started this week remodeling the Bungalow Cafe in Des Arc. Opening will be in about two weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Stoney Williams, who have had the cafe the past year, moved their cafe business to the new Johnson brick across from the Palace Drug Store.

Last Sunday, in a very good game, Searcy beat Des Arc here by 1 to 0. Batteries for Des Arc were Bell

and Cobb. Bell only allowed three hits. Des Arc collected eight hits but was unable to score.

The Graystone dairy recently built a new concrete block building where the milking is housed. Milking 22 Jersey cows, morning and evening by hand, and then delivering milk twice daily to 112 customers in Des Arc is no small task.

However, Mr. and Mrs. Porter G. Williams, who own and operate the dairy located on Anderson Street, get it done with the help of son, Louis Haile, Miss Clara Mae Nannie and a colored helper Roy Williams, who lives on the 120-acre dairy farm (located north of town and east of the old Oak Grove Cemetery.

Wray Brothers, Chevrolet dealer, has made deliveries to the following persons recently: Charlie Webb, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wesson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roberts, Prof. Otis Haltom and Miss Juanita Scott.

New officers for the Des Arc Band Boosters Club are: B. E. Wray, president; Sid Kloss, vice president; Mrs. Charles Walls, secretary; and Mrs. John Booth, treasurer The annual Water carnival at DeValls Bluff on White River was held Sunday and Monday, Sept. 3 and 4. Miss Mona Jean Embrey of Clarendon won the queen’s contest. Miss Mary Sue Gipson of Des Arc, placed fourth among the nine entries. June DeVorak, age 3, of Des Arc finished second in the junior queen’s contest.

Janise Skarda, 4, of Hazen, was the winner.

Thursday, September 6, 1945

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es Arc Schools will open Monday, September 17. All students in 10th, 11th and 12th grades are requested to be at the school building Thursday, September 13, at 9:30 a. m. for the purpose of registration, advises Superintendent Leon Coker.

John McCarty, assistant publisher of Gene Howe’s Amarillo Globe News, Texas, was in Little Rock the past week learning details of the Arkansas Plan for industrialization of the state through cooperation of the State Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas Resources and Development Commission and the University’s Bureau of McCarty Research. thinks Arkansas has something that other states might well adopt.

The Arkansas Legionnaire has called to the attention of discharged servicemen and women that they have an opportunity to pay a poll tax before the October 1 deadline and become eligible to vote in the Arkansas elections including next summer’s Democratic Primaries. Men and women still in the armed forces are entitled to vote without paying a poll tax.

That the attendance at school of all children between the ages of 7 and 15 years, inclusive, is compulsory, according to the State Compulsory Education Law, is called to the attention of parents and guardians. Parents and guardians who keep

children between these ages out of school without a legal excuse are subject to a $10 fine.

Pfc. Charles F. Cobb of Des Arc has arrived at McCluskey General Hospital in Temple, Texas, from overseas.

Cobb, who served with the 659th Field Artillery Bn., 7th Army, was severely burned June 20 while in Germany.

The “Billy Mitchell” Bomb Group, Pioneer Unit of the 20th Air Force, has announced that First Lt. Warren E. Griffin, B29 pilot, husband of Margaret Hayley Griffin of Des Arc, recently completed his tour of combat flying duty with 35 missions over the Japanese Empire He wears the Distinguished Unit Citation, The Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Miss Mary Jane McCuin, Laboratory Technician with Standard Oil Co. in New Jersey, is visiting at home here with her parents, Atty. and Mrs. Q. E. McCuin.

We are glad that our young lady friends, Misses Kathleen Akins and Christine McFarlin, who underwent tonsillectomies at Rodgers Hospital in Searcy this week, are doing nicely. Kathleen’s dad has the ice plant here; Charlene’s dad has the McFarlin Texaco Service Station (predecessor to the Harvey’s Mobil Sta-tion).

R. C. Edwards, manager of the Des Arc Feed Store, was a business visitor to Memphis yesterday.

Thursday, September 3, 1964

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ohnny Prislovsky III of the Letchworth Community, Rt. 1, Des Arc, gets credit for bringing in the first load of rice to the Des Arc Grain Drying Cooperative from the 1964 harvest on September 2. Mr. Prislovsky and his father-in-law, E. D. (Mickey) McGahhey, operate the large farm of W. H. Stewart The second load came in, also on September 2, from J. E. Bell and sons, Bobby and Jerry, at Hickory Plains.

Drier Manager Merlin Hendricks said the harvest would be in full swing by September 12.

W. M. (Bill) Lee of Clarendon, 17th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney, with the approval of Circuit Judge W. J. Waggoner has appointed Attorney Sam A. Weems of Des Arc as Deputy Prosecutor for Prairie County.

The Senior Eagles open their 1964 football season Friday night with Harding Academy here. The Junior Eagles play Cotton Plant on Thursday, September 10.

One big improvement at the local field this year is a clock bought by the Eagle Booster Club. Fans will also notice that the old wooden fence around the field has been removed.

Pictured are U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service workers Larry Darter and Charles Mayhan holding a wolf caught on Wattensaw Wildlife Project south of Des Arc this week.

Entries for the 1964 Prairie County Miss Fluffy Rice are being accepted by Home Agent Miss Bobbie Dean Guffey. Miss Freida Jenkins of Des Arc is the current Miss Fluffy Rice.

Mr. and Mrs. F. (Nora) Robinson are having their home at the corner of 3rd and Walnut remodeled at

this time, making the house into a brick veneer home.

Berlin Hol-loway is doing the carpentry and Charles Hilsdon of DeValls Bluff is laying the old brick.

Des Arc Furniture & Appliance advertising for their September Sale three complete rooms of furniture, 22 pieces, including innerspring mattress and box springs, ONLY $366.66.

GAS FREE at the Conoco East End Super Service Station when automatic nozzle stops on same three money figures. One-half off Firestone Tires when you buy one. Free tire when you buy three.

Seven people were admitted and seven discharged at the Des Arc General Hospital this week.

Dining and Dancing at the Robinwood Ranch Club south of Des Arc on Saturday, Sept. 5; music by “The Eccentrics” from the Air Base; $3.00 couple. Friday and Saturday nights, Sept 25 and 26, with music by “The Pacers” from Newport; $4.00 couple. Phone CL 6-4617 for reservations. Limited to 70 couples.

According to County Agent Vernon C. Wills, for the past several weeks, representatives of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been working to rid areas of the county of predatory wolves and muskrats. Area farmers who have been pleased with muskrat eradication are E. D. Newton, Lewis Skarda, Darrell Saul, R. D. McGahhey, Lawrence Stine, George Ford and Wyley Stallings. Work is continuing on farms of Henry Voumard, Rob-ert Treadway, William and Governor Bell, Houston Newkirk, Alex Losak, Bill and Joe Uhiren and Anna and Marie Kocourek.

More from the Past The two MYSTERY PHOTOS which appeared on this page last week, Aug. 25, are identified below Written by Ann Rhoads

“Back to School” luncheon hosted at Methodist Church The First United Methodist Church hosted its second annual “Back to School” luncheon on Thursday, Aug. 16, at 12 noon honoring all teachers and employees of the Des Arc Schools. Eighty faculty and staff members attended. The menu consisted of chicken wraps, pasta salad, fresh fruit, homemade peach ice cream and sugar cookies.

Servers (wearing their tropical leis) from left: Charles Neaville (back row), Sandra Wyatt (front row), Lynwood Neaville (back), Vicki Stephens (front), James Wyatt (back), Pastor Jaimie Alexander (front), Jewell Carlock (back) and Paul Dickson (front).

New Mystery Photos below, to be identified next week

The date - Aug. 26, 1924

The date - August 31, 2001

Born 6/25/23 in Des Arc to William (W.J.) and Bessie Rex Caskey.

She received the nickname Sisty from her family early in life. She was one of five children of the W.J. & Bessie Caskey union.

Bess attended Des Arc Schools and left for college in Arkadelphia, Ouachita Baptist University. Into her second year the World War II was going on and her three brothers were all serving overseas. Being a caring daughter she returned to Des Arc to help her Father in his Ellen Bess Caskey Rhoads business Caskey Hardware Store and Caskey (June 25, 1923 - Dec. 9, 2010) Funeral Home.

After the war Bess got favorites was going weekly married and moved to Lit- for years to a nursing home tle Rock where she gave where she read scriptures birth to her only child Ann. and sang songs for the Later she returned to Des homebound residents. She Arc with her daughter. Bess always loved to take a trip loved her family and back to her favorite river church and was active in town Des Arc. She never missed the excitement of both. opening the new White She became Des Arc’s first Avon Lady which she River Journal to catch up on enjoyed for many years. the news of folks she had She would make her way known all of her life. Bess through the town taking or- loved life up until she was ders and delivering Avon called home in December products. On those trips peddling her Avon she enjoyed having a southern glass of tea or a cup of coffee laughter and conversation. She was always kind and loving. She loved to fish as well as making desserts. That held true for her as she took daily care of her parents until they both went on to their forever home.

After meeting her new Grandson William she even left her home town and moved to Little Rock. She was active in her new church and loved doing volunteer work. One of her

P.S. Mom had a great sense of humor as I took all the rubber bands from her Avon order and not knowing took a stroll through the backyard then into the chicken yard. I was flocked by the chickens as they thought I had a handful of worms.

Oops, PamPa’s dentures did not bounce out of his head as he ate his morning eggs. When I told my Mom scared but was worried the chickens would die, she only laughed and told me the eggs were not rubber and all would be ok.

I loved my Mom and miss her every day!!!!!

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Bill Denman, jeweler, pilot, golfer, dies at Stuttgart Bill Denman, of Stuttgart, jeweler, pilot, golfer, father, friend and beloved family member, has been released from the bonds of life and took his last earthly flight on Tuesday, August 30, 2016.

He was the owner of Bill’s Custom Jewelry and the fourth generation of the Denman family whose skill and artistry created fine jewelry for customers across the state and region.

At the time of his passing, he had worked in the jewelry business 44 years, continuing the Denman tradition into its 124th year of service to the people of the Grand Prairie.

Bill was born on January 7, 1950, the eldest son of optometrist Dr. Max and Eleanor Denman, who predeceased him. Left to honor his legacy are daughter Alexandria (Scott) Pickering and granddaughter Taylor of Paris, TX; son William (Erin) Denman of North Little Rock; brothers Max Denman, Jr. of Atlanta, Mark (Diana) Denman of Nassau Bay, TX, Jeff (Peggy) Denman of East End, and sister Heidi (Gary) Hogan of North Little Rock, as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends around the state.

One of Bill’s earliest loves was flying, a hobby which he continued throughout his life. As a young boy, he went with his mother Eleanor to visit a friend at the J. O. Dockery airfield in Stuttgart, where he discovered discarded World War II training planes known as BT13’s with big radial engines, which were being used as sources for spare airplane parts. He recalled climbing in, out, and over the planes, fascinated by the structures, pretending he could fly.

After graduating from Stuttgart High School in 1968, his love of flying led him to the University of

Mississippi, where he majored in Physics and hoped to pursue a degree in aviation and an eventual career as a Naval officer and pilot.

He was admitted to Ole Miss on golf and music scholarships, skills he had honed while growing up in Stuttgart. He fondly remembered his time in the SHS Marching 100 band, where he played a Constellation Coronet The Ole Miss golfing scholarship skills began when he began playing at 11 and his love of golf led to multiple local and state tournament awards and trophies. When asked about the trophies, he said he got rid of them long ago because there were too many to keep. He enjoyed playing golf with his father and many lifelong friends and golfed as long as his health permitted.

Bill was enrolled at Ole Miss for two years, until the program was cancelled due to funding. Disappointed, he returned to Stuttgart.

He married Nellie Plata, who returned with him to Stuttgart where Alex and William were born while Bill began his jewelry career in the family business. After returning to Stuttgart, he also continued his interest in flying, earning his pilot’s license when he was 49.

Bill was active in the community and enjoyed working with friends and colleagues in the Stuttgart Rotary and Lion’s clubs. He was also an active member and leader in the Arkansas State Jewelers Association and received the Arkansas State Jewelers Association Member Outstanding award.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held for him at the Stuttgart First United Methodist Church this Friday, September 2 Visitation is at 1:00 p.m. and following the 2:00 p.m. service

Rebecca Russell was former Stuttgart resident

Katherine Ann Borchert

Katherine Borchert service held at St. John’s Lutheran Katherine Ann Borchert, 58, of Stuttgart passed away Wednesday, August 24, 2016, at Baptist Health-Little Rock.

Kathy was born December 20, 1957, in Stuttgart to Max Hahn Borchert and Vivian Ruth Goacher Borchert. She was a 1976 graduate of Stuttgart High School and former employee of Farmers & Merchants Bank. She was currently employed as an accounts payable clerk at Riceland. She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church.

Kathy’s “life” was being Nana to her three precious grandchildren – Audrey, Owen and Georgia. When not working she was traveling to Fayetteville to visit them or attend whatever activity or ballgame they were participating in.

Her mother preceded her in death.

Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Melissa and Jeremy Carter of Fayetteville and their three children; her father, Max Borchert of Stuttgart; her brother, Michael Borchert of Stuttgart; and her sister, Susan Borchert of Stuttgart.

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

Her family requests memorials be made to St. John’s Lutheran Church, or St. John’s Lutheran School, , Stuttgart, Ark.

Rebecca Ann Mealler Russell, was born, on May 26, 1971, to Richard and Virginia Merle Mealler in Stuttgart AR. She passed away on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at The Lutheran Hospital in Ft. Wayne Indiana.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Survivors are her husband, Stanley Russell of Peru, IN; her mother Virginia Mealler Rushing of Concord, AR, sons; Stanley Russell Jr of Lonoke, Patrick Russell of Concord, daughters; Patricia Ann (Jason) Rush, of Bunker Hill, IN, Deshae Russell of Peru, IN., Stacey (Jonathan) Odell of Morristown, TN., brothers; Tommy (Lisa) Mealler, of Clarendon, Ricky Mealler of Concord, and 4 grandchildren.

Visitation was August 27, from 12:00 - 2:00 pm with services following at 2:00, at Bob Neal and Sons Funeral Home Chapel in Clarendon.

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Alfred McPherson was father of Ulm resident Alfred Lexington McPherson, 65, of Stuttgart passed away Wednesday, August 24, 2016, at Cavalier Healthcare of England, Ar. Lex was born April 11, 1951, in Stuttgart to F.W. and Joy Helms McPherson.

He was a graduate of Stuttgart High School and owner of The Stuttgart Stripper, a furniture refinishing business. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church.

He was preceded in death by his father and an infant brother, Albert Paul McPherson.

Survivors are his wife, Debra Krueger McPherson; and a sister, Judy Kizzire and husband Richard and their sons, River and Forrest of Ulm. Funeral services, officiated by Pastor Don White, were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at St. John’s Lutheran Church.

Burial followed in Lone Tree Cemetery by Turpin Funeral Home of Stuttgart.

Andrew Jackson McNeely

Andrew J. McNeely burial Tuesday Andrew Jackson McNeely Jr., of Cabot, Arkansas, was born October 21, 1934 in Morton, Arkansas to Andrew and Zellar McNeely. He passed peacefully at his home on Thursday, August 25, 2016.

Andrew was a proud veteran of the United States Navy and served on the USS McCoy-Reynolds, a destroyer escort ship, during the Korean War. He retired from the Pine Bluff Arsenal in 2000.

Andrew was a devout Christian, loving husband, adoring father and grandfather. He was an avid outdoorsman that enjoyed fishing, hunting and especially bow hunting.

He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Wanda (Pemberton) McNeely; daughter, Andrea McNeely Convers (Sergio); son, Patrick McNeely; step daughter, Rita Sullivan (Milton); and beloved grandson Robert Landrum. He is also survived by son, Michael; daughter, Sharon, as well as many grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, sister, Sybil McDonald; brothers Woodrow, Leo, and O.D. McNeely.

Visitation was at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday with funeral following at 2:00 p.m. at Smith-Westbrook Funeral Home, Beebe.

Entombment was in the Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens, Beebe.

Thank You! Thank you for all the cards, letters, flowers, food, prayers, presence, gifts and service that you gave to our family during the passing of our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother and aunt.

She was a vital, loving part of all our lives and loved each of you very much. It was her joy to be of service to anyone who needed help and she would have appreciated all the ones who responded to her family and to her.

Our family will always be grateful for the love and compassion given to her and to us during this time.

Special thank yous are given to Des Arc Nursing & Rehabilitation Center for their exquisite love and care for mom and to us, to Summit Hospice for their attention to mom, to the First Baptist Church ladies who fed and served us, to all local pastors who were so faithful to come and pray with mom and us, and to Dr. York and Bro. Addison for their service.

Thank you all again so very much. She will be forever missed.

Susan Berry Winkler and Larry Haskins Paul and Tammy Berry Norman Berry Sarah (Berry) and Ronnie Ward Elizabeth Ann and Vic White and all our families

Mary D. Hatfield

Mary D. Hatfield, Searcy resident, died August 22 Mary D. Hatfield, 74, of Searcy passed away Monday, August 22, 2016 at her home. She was born September 6, 1941 in Poughkeepsie, Arkansas to the late Everett and Lamell (Shirley) Smith.

Left to cherish Mary's memory is her husband of 57 years, Joseph Hatfield of Searcy; three daughters, Vivian Hill (Ricky) of Kensett, Shirley Hill of Searcy, and JoAnn McGhee of Beebe; one brother, Rupert Smith of Garner; two sisters, Bernita Mobley of Indiana, and Annetta Herrick of Kensett; six grandchildren, Melissa Reynolds, Derrick Hill, Andrew McCullum, Charles Hill, Cody Woods, Hunter Woods; and seven great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents Mary was preceded in death by two daughters, Baby Hatfield, and Lillian Hatfield; and three brothers, Tommy and James Smith of Poughkeepsie, and Marvin Smith of England.

All Cremation services have been entrusted to Searcy-McEuen Funeral Home.Searcy.

Jerry Lee Morris, Clarendon resident, died August 25 Jerry Lee Morris, 72 of Clarendon, formerly of Holly Grove died Thursday evening, August 25 at his sister’s home in Holly Grove.

Jerry was born February 16, 1944 in Clarendon, Arkansas to Bennett Morris and Saloina Pike-Morris.

Jerry was self-employed as a truck driver for more than 35 years. He’s traveled all over the United States and Canada.

Jerry was a former resident of St. Louis, Missouri

Charles E. Brannon

W. C. “Dub” Grizzle

Charles E. Brannon W. C. Grizzle, memorial service insurance agent, Saturday at Searcy dies at Brinkley Charles Edison Brannon Sr., 76, of Searcy died Sunday, August 21, 2016 at Unity Health in Searcy. He was born December 6, 1939 in Brickeys, Arkansas to the late John Edison and Daisy Faye (Smith) Brannon.

Charles was a long time employee of Warwick Electronics/Sanyo Manufacturing in Forrest City. He also worked for Medallion Foods in Newport, Land O'Frost and Kholer Stainless both in Searcy. He retired from Yarnell's Ice Cream Company in Searcy.

Charles leaves behind his wife, Velma Gertrude (Davis); four daughters, Sheila Paul (Keith), Glenda Lewis, Jennifer Brannon, and Angela Nicholson (Wade); one son, Charles Edison Brannon II; one brother, Eddie Brannon (Elsie); also nine grandchildren, Michelle Wilson (John), Jessica Keown, John Cullum, Amber Jones, April Treat (Brad), Kallie Musgrave, Hannah Henderson, and Nick Nicholson; seven great grandchildren and scores of family and friends. Charles will be dearly missed.

In addition to his parents Charles was preceded in death by five sisters, two brothers, and one grandson Jessie Lewis.

A Memorial Service to celebrate his life will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 3, at the Brannon's Home in Searcy.

In Lieu of Flowers memorial may be made to: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 41817, Memphis, TN, 38174, or to Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation, P.O. Box 2222, Little Rock, Arkansas 72203. Cremation arrangements have been entrusted to Searcy-McEuen Funeral Home.

Lakeside Cemetery Donations April 1, 2015-July 31, 2016 Clarence Dunlap John & Marjorie Gipson Stephen & Lisha Russo H.C. & Marilyn M. Bragg Buddy Bell Barbara Huffstickler Jean Freeman Sue Margrave Thomas Eans Edna Walls Sue Brown Goad Gary DeVore Louis Stine Bill Bethell Richard Reid Ronnie Joe Patrick Betty Patrick Harrison

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Memorial Donations Maxine Putt $ 25.00 In Memory of John (Dock) & Dollie Smith Family Bruce DeVore $200.00 In Memory of DeVore Family Roe Family $ 15.00 In Memory of Carthel & Ruby Roe Edward T. Green & Gail Green $100.00 Terry/Marion Green $100.00 In Memory of Caple & Mildred Green Marilyn Burnett $ 50.00 In Memory of Thelma Griffith Linnie West $ 50.00 Dencie McIntosh $100.00 Gerald & Marilyn Leonard $100.00 In Memory of Jessie Weatherley Jim West $ 50.00 In Memory of B.F. Mullen George McWhorter $ 80.00 In Memory of Catherine Mae Jenkins McWhorter Ann B. Thrasher $ 20.00 In Memory of Bill & Vida Gingerich Rita Mitchell $100.00 In Memory of Max & Thelma Griffith

William Charles “Dub” Grizzle, age 89, of Brinkley passed away Sunday, August 28, 2016.

He was born to the late Claude Grizzle and Edith Grizzle Crawford during the flood of 1927. He was married for 51 years to the late Evonna Lee Davis Grizzle.

He graduated from Brinkley High School in 1948 and went on to Arkansas State Teachers College on an athletic scholarship, graduating with a BSE degree in 1952.

Grizzle had an insurance office at Des Arc for several years before his retirement.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife and two sisters, Marcella Robinson and Nora Mae Files and two brothers, Wayne Crawford and Marvin “Skeeter” Grizzle.

He is survived by sisters, Jewell Elledge of Brinkley, Charlotte Hathcock of Malvern, Nancy (Randy) Thomas of Moundridge, KS and Vickie (Joe) Atchley of Vancouver, Washington.

He is survived by three daughters and one son-inlaw: Kathi (Bart) Hudspeth of Springdale, Anna Grizzle of Brinkley and Becky Acree of Cabot.

Grandchildren: Chad (Staci) Hudspeth, Clayton (Misty) Hudspeth, Becca (Kevin) Shaddox, Blake (Susan) Mitchell, Dara Townsend and Rilee (Kevin) Tipton;14 great-grandchildren: Devin, Olivia, William Charles, Milas, Juliann, Samantha, Marley, Ava, Naomi, Simone, Sage, Maxton, Preslee and Owen, and one great-great-grandson, Carter.

Visitation will be Thursday September 1, at 1:00 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 2:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Brinkley.s Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Brinkley, with Bob Neal Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Scott Sullivan was nephew of local resident Scott Sullivan, 54, of Ashdown, Arkansas, died Friday, August 12, 2016.

He was born July 3, 1962 in Waco, Texas to James and Shirley Sullivan.

He served in the US Air Force from 1982-92, serving in support of Operation Desert Storm, 1990-92.

He loved his history. He worked for Ashdown School System as maintenance supervisor, City of Ashdown inspector and jailer for Little River County Sheriff’s Department for Sheriff Danny Russell, not only his boss, but a true friend to the end. He loved NASCAR and his grandchildren.

Mr. Sullivan was preceded in death by his father, James Sullivan; a sister, Marye Susan Sullivan Tabler; and a nephew.

He is survived by his wife, Damita Sullivan; mother, Shirley Sullivan; One son and daugher-inlaw, Mitch and Morgan Sullivan; one sister and brother-in-law, Donna and Bruce Duren and three grandchildren, all of Ashdown.

Memorial services were held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 17 at the First Baptist Church of Ashdown with Rev. Butch Riddle officiating.

Scott is the nephew of Margaret Purvis of Des Arc.

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Words of Faith/Church News Sunday School Church Attend ance

FA I T H T R AC K S

By Rev. Dee Harper

Sunday, August 28 In Des Arc

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Set Free to Serve Scripture: Galatians 5:13, Colossians 3:12-17

One of American’s great shade tree theologians and students of human nature was Charles Schultz. Through his Peanuts comics he often was able to comment on interesting truths about God and humanity while entertaining kids and adults alike. One of the main characters is Lucy. Lucy often champions self-absorption. She is a character that, though she was written decades ago, still resonates with our culture today. In one instance of this her brother Linus is reading something out of a book to her. Linus says, “It says here that the world revolves around the sun once a year.� Lucy replies, “The world revolves around the sun? Are you sure?

I thought it revolved around me.�

Yet despite this being a reflection of our Twitter, selfie, Facebook, obsessed world and even at times the church we who have been set free because of God’s grace are called to model grace.

Our freedom is not an excuse to give in to self-indulgence but to love others.

It seems to me that Paul says that loving service is one of the truest marks of the Christian life. The late United Nations General Secretary Dag Hammarskjold wrote in his autobiography, “The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.� John Wesley said, “There can be no holiness without social holiness.� Jesus said, “The Son of Man came into the world not to be served but to serve.�

Our scripture this morning is part of a larger section in chapter three versus 1-17. In verses 1-4 Paul tell the church a Colossae to seek heavenly ways because they have been raised in Christ.

The rest of the section gives shape to what Paul means by seeking heavenly ways. In verses 5-11 Paul identifies five negative examples of attitudes and behaviors that Christians should shun. In verses 12-17, our Scripture this morning, Paul offers positive examples and admonishes the church to embrace these things.

I would argue that Paul is restating or stating in a different way some of the same characteristics that he identifies as fruit of the Holy Spirit. These again our positive examples of what it means when we are living our life in Christ.

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In verses 17 Paul encourages the church that whatever you do whether in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

At least to me this passage encourages s to take stock of how we are living our words and our actions, especially our actions. I want to invite you to think about these questions: As you think about your week or your month how often do you take part in serving others?

How often do the people that you server include those who are in need in one way or another?

Do both my words and my actions give witness to my faith?

In what ways is God calling me to serve others? What am I willing to give up in or to serve?

I heard a story about one of the Olympians this year at the Rio games.

Pieter Malachowski is a decorated discus thrower in Poland, and a world champion. He was a favorite to win the gold this year, but he came up just short and won the silver. When he got home he heard about a little three year old boy named Olek Szymanski who was battling eye cancer. In order to have surgery Olek will have to have surgery in the United States. Pieter without knowing the boy, just hearing his story, chose to donate his silver medal in order to help raise the remaining funds for Olek to receive the surgery. His sacrifice encourage another family in Poland to bid and give the remaining funds for that to happen.

When he announced his decision to auction off his medal he said, “Winning an Olympic medal is one of an athlete’s life dreams. Today I appeal to everyone-let’s fight together about something that is more precious.�

Personal goals our wonderful things, but our ability to sacrifice for others and serve others is even better.

I want to invite you to consider those questions I asked. What is God calling you to do in response to them today?

May God give you direction and bless you this week.

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Prayers are sent to Ernestine Neely at this time. She was rushed by ambulance on Wednesday to Unity Health (White County) Hospital in Searcy.

Ernestine has had health problems recently along with dealing with the loss of her son, Thomas Neely.

--------Prayers are sent to Steven Harvey. He accidentally severed four fingers on his left hand. He was taken to the emergency room on Monday this week. He has stitches across his hand and down all four fingers.

He is to see the orthopedic surgeon today, Thursday, to see if the tendons are healing properly. He is the son of Steve and Sandy Harvey of Hickory Plains.

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Faith Outreach Ministries presents “Man-Power Conference 2016�

Faith Outreach Ministries Church is pleased to present “Man-Power Conference 2016� September 15-18. The church is located at 312 East Pike Street in Des Arc. The Conference theme is “Don’t Drop the Basket�

Acts 9:25.

Several guest speakers will be present including local pastors Bro. Kenny Ripper-Church of God of Prophecy; Pastor Alton Evans, Pastor Elbert Pool and Pastor Pat SkardaGospel Mission Church; Rev. Russell Penn-Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and Rev. Jessie Lindsey, Host Pastor, Faith Outreach Ministries.

Other speakers will be MAJ Howell, Commander, MEPS of Little Rock; Pastor Park, Belle Grove Baptist Church of Lonoke; Pastor Willis of Freewill Outreach

Fellowship Church of Hazen and several more.

The Conference begins on Thurs., Sept. 15 with a “men only� prayer service from 6-7 p.m.

Everyone is welcome on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. for a time of worship.

On Saturday, there will be a continental breakfast served from 8-9 a.m. and a seminar will be held from 9-11:59 a.m. These two sessions will be for men only.

At 12:00 noon a cookout lunch will be served and the public is invited.

Sunday’s activities begin at 9:30 a.m. for worship and at 3:00 p.m. for evening worship. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Pastor Lindsey extends a cordial invitation to all men in the community, young and old, to attend this conference.

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Dear Excavator/Farmer: The City of Des Arc operates a reliable natural gas distribution system and is directed by CFR Part 192.614 to make you aware of the policies it has concerning excavating near the City of Des Arc gas distribution system. The City of Des Arc is a member of the State One-Call System. You must call Arkansas One-Call at least 48 hours prior to any excavating. This is the only way the City of Des Arc will respond to a locate request.

The Phone Number for Arkansas One-Call is 1-800-482-8998 or dial 811. If time or weather results in the marks/flags becoming undistinguishable, you must call to have the lines remarked.

Pipeline markers are in place near some pipelines but not all and do not assume pipeline markers are directly over the pipeline. Please exercise caution when digging around natural gas pipelines. Hand exposing gas pipelines is recommended at least 24� on all sides of the pipeline.

If a line is cut, scratched or damaged in any way, or if you suspect a leak, please contact the gas department at 870-256-4316. Do not try to make repairs yourself.

We thank you very much for helping us keep Des Arc a safe place to live and work.

Sincerely,

Jerry Greenwood City of Des Arc

School Election Notice In accordance with Election Law 6-14-102(2)(A) and since there are no contested races or millage increases on the ballots, the Des Arc School District has recommended to the Prairie County Election Commission that the upcoming election for positions on the Des Arc School Board be conducted by Early and Absentee Ballots only.

Candidates who have filed for the Des Arc School District are: Zone 4 – Billy Hinson and At Large-Position 2 – John Reidhar II. Early Voting will begin on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 and end on Monday, September 19, 2016 during regular office hours of 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at the Clerk’s Office in the Prairie County Courthouse in Des Arc. Applications for absentee ballots can be requested by calling the Clerk’s office at 870-256-4434.

Prairie County Election Commission: Rita Dobson (501)516-7264 Harvey Joe Sanner (501)516-7000 Stan Ferguson (501)516-6156

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Art Night at Old Statehouse Museum featuring free music and food Stop by the Old State House Museum during 2nd Friday Art Night on Sept. 9 to check out the museum's latest exhibits and enjoy food, drinks and a performance by the Episcopal Collegiate School's percussion ensemble, the Steelcats.

While listening to the performance, visitors can enjoy hors d’oeuvres provided by Capital Bar & Grill as well as complimentary beverages.

The museum will be open until 8 p.m. to allow guests to explore its exhibits, including “We Make Our Own Choices: Staff Favorites from the Old State House Museum Collection.” This exhibit features items chosen by museum

staff and represents a small but diverse glimpse of Arkansas’s multi-faceted historical and cultural experience.

The Old State House Museum is a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and shares the goal of all eight Department of Arkansas Heritage agencies, that of preserving and enhancing the heritage of the state of Arkansas. The agencies are Arkansas Arts Council, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, Arkansas State Archives, Delta Cultural Center in Helena, Historic Arkansas Museum, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, and the Old State House Museum.

NICE CHECK FOR GOOD WORK The Des Arc Senior Citizens Center accepted a $1024.24 check from Guess and Company Candle Factory for their production of bows for the factory. Pictured accepting the check are: l-r Micki Barlow, Lavern Barnes, Herndon Barnes, Marcia Kazmark, Tommy Williams and Ada Kunkel. They are looking to begin another project for Guess and Company

Easy Recipes for Labor Day

Senior Citize nS Center D ES A RC , A RK

By Barbara Williams, Site Director www.facebook.com/desarcseniorcitizencenter

From the kitchen of Rev. Jaimie Alexander, Senior Pastor at United Methodist Church, Bella Vista, Ar

Labor Day weekend is here. It's a time to relax for some people and still a time to work for others.

How ever you spend the Labor Day Weekend treat yourself to one of these delicious dip recipes.

Whether you like your dip hot, cold, or even sweet there is a recipe for you. I especially love the sausage dip recipe. The recipe was shared with me by a fellow church staff member. So tie on your apron and enjoy the weekend by making one of these dips!

Creamy Avocado Dip 1 medium avocado 1/2 cup sour cream 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 1-2 tablespoons lime juice 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin *can add 2 or 3 tablespoons of milk to make it supper creamy but it also thins the consistency Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Scrap down sides as needed. Can be made 24 hours ahead of when it is being served. It is very creamy.

Hot Cream Cheese Bean Dip 1 cup sour cream 1 - 16 oz. can refried beans 4 oz.

(1/2 bar) cream cheese (softened) 1 package taco seasoning 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese 1/4 cup Salsa Preheat to 350.

Combine beans, sour cream, and cream cheese in a bowl until well com-

bined. Add taco seasoning and salsa.

Pour into 8x8 pan. Top with cheese and bake for 25 minutes.

Serve hot with tortilla chips.

S'more Dip 8 oz. cream cheese softened and divided 1 cuppowdered sugar div i d e d 3.5 oz. marshmallow fluff about half a standardsized tub 1 cup small marshmallows divided (optional) 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream1 tsp. vanilla 1/4 cup cocoa powder graham crackers for dipping Using a stand mixer (or hand mixer + small bowl), blend together 4 oz. cream cheese, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and the marshmallow fluff on high until smooth, about 1-2 minutes. If using mini marshmallows, add about 3/4 cup in with the mixture marshmallow and gently stir with a spoon until mini marshmallows are completely covered. Set fluffy marshmallow dip aside.

In another bowl, whip together remaining 1/2 cup powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, and vanilla extract on high until stiff peaks form, about 3-5 minutes.

Set whipped cream aside.

In a fresh bowl, blend together remaining 4 oz. cream cheese and cocoa powder on high until smooth, about 2-3 minutes. Add whipped cream to bowl and mix on low until cream and chocolate are completely incor-

We hope everyone enjoys a long weekend celebrating Labor Day. Monday, we lost our game against Bess Chism 26-7.

Tuesday, we finished up the bows for the candle factory and accepted the check for working on them.

The total was $1024.24 that was donated to the Center.

Wednesday, we enjoyed

porated, about another 23 minutes.

To assemble the dip: Add fluffy marshmallow and chocolate dips to a single bowl, alternating between the two. When the boil is full, use a spoon or butter knife to drag through the dip, swirling the colors together. Top the dip with remaining 1/4 cup of small marshmallows.

Serve immediately with graham crackers for dipping.

our weekly homemade Breakfast and Bingo and singing.

Thursday we played dominoes, and Friday we listened to guest speaker Theresa Hamilton read our monthly Medicare Minutes and played word games.

Congratulations to Ms. Sandra Webber for winning Mrs. Prairie County and was crowned by the former

queen, Mrs. Ada Kunkel.

Special thanks to the city for fixing our bus!

The center will be closed on Monday for Labor Day. God Bless and have a great safe weekend!

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

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by Activity Director, teresa henley

Sausage Dip 1 (16-ounce) Ground Sausage 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese 1 (16-punce) package processed cheese product (like Velveeta) 1 (15-ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained 2 (10-ounce) cans diced tomatoes and green chilies (mild or hot), drained ½ teaspoon garlic powder In a large skillet, brown the ground sausage.

Drain any grease away.

Return the pan with the meat to medium low heat. Cut the cheeses into cubes and add them to the pan. Cook until the cheese have melted, stirring occasionally. Add the drained whole kernel corn, two cans of drained tomatoes and chilies, and garlic powder. Cook until heated through. Transfer to a serving dish or to a slow cooker on warm to keep it warm. Serve alongside corn or tortilla chips.

Don’t forget our Yard Sale and More to be held Saturday, October 8 here at DANRC. Spaces are available for $20.00. Contact me (Teresa Henley, Activity Director) at 870-256-4194 or 501-516-6924 for more information.

It looks like we are going to have some fall-like weather this weekend. It is a much needed reprieve from the heat. It will feel more like football weather.

The Des Arc Eagles will be playing at home this week against Bald Knob. Come out and support your Eagles!

An unexpected rain shower came up on Sunday afternoon. Think the farmers are wishing it would hold off until they get their rice out.

Bobbie Merrill with the Des Arc Public Library will be here today with new reading material and crafts.

We will have games in the

afternoon.

The Disciples will be here tomorrow (Friday) with their music and the Ice Cream Truck will be here at 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, we will have memory games, Dominoes, tv, and will listen to music.

Sunday, the Des Arc United Methodist and Faith Missionary Baptist Churches will be here to bring us the Message.

Monday is Labor Day and Carroll Denton will be here bright and early with excercises. We will have Bingo in the afternoon and we will watch the news in the evening.

Tuesday, we have scheduled our Fishing Trip.

Hopefully the weather will cooperate. We will be practicing for our Olympic Games and Kayci Greenwood will be here at 6:30 p.m. with Story Time.

Remember making smores when you camped

out over a campfire? Well, we will be enjoying some Smores on Wednesday morning followed by Bingo at 2:00 p .m. and Story Time with Kayci at 6:30 p.m.

Next Thursday, we will be practicing for the Olympic Games. A Big Screen TV Movie is the order for the afternoon along with tv and games.

Everyone is getting anxious to decorate for fall. I love this time of year with all the mums, hay bales, pumpkins, corn shocks and such. Folks with allergies may not appreciate it as much.

We need to be thankful for the harvest and all the blessings we have received.

We hope you have a blessed rest of the week.

Come out to visit!

Teresa Henley Activity Director

Brookland’s Gibson named Miss Arkansas Rice BRINKLEY — Madison Gibson of Brookland (Craighead County) was named 201617 Miss Arkansas Rice on Saturday at the Brinkley Convention Center. Gibson is a junior at Brookland High School and is the daughter of Scott and Karie Gibson.

Libby Thornhill of Wynne (Cross County) was first runner-up. Second runner-up was Dawsyn Smith of Newport (Jackson County). Other county winners participating in the state finals were Torri Dumond of DeWitt (Arkansas County), Kristen Lanni of White Hall (Jefferson County), Chloe Griffith of Marianna (Lee County), Lacy Smith of Ward (Lonoke County), Libby Wilkison of Brinkley (Monroe County), Alexandria Rawls of Palestine

(St. Francis County) and Gabriella Winkler of Augusta (Woodruff County).

The goal of the Miss Arkansas Rice program is to encourage interest in rice promotion and to publicize the importance of the Arkansas rice industry to the state's economy. Contestants were judged on their promotion activities and knowledge of the rice industry. They also cooked a rice dish at the competition on which they were judged. Gibson’s recipe was “Get Your Gumbo On!” The Arkansas Rice Council sponsors the annual contest in cooperation with Arkansas Farm Bureau and the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.-224-4400

Miss Arkansas Rice crowned 2016-17’s Miss Arkansas Rice, Madison Gibson of Brookland, was crowned Aug. 27 at the Brinkley Convention Center by Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Brandy Carroll.

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Social Events and Announcements PC Democratic Women meet; Hale and Dabney are guest speakers

Mr. Weaver and Miss Bell

Miss Bell and Mr. Weaver to wed lJessica Ann Bell and Mitchell Glen Weaver are pleased to announce their engagement and approaching marriage.

Jessica is the daughter of Tracey and Jackie Bell of Des Arc. She is the granddaughter of Donna Madden of Des Arc and Joann Brazeale Loughlin of North Little Rock and the late Dale Madden and the late J.D. Bell.

Jessica is a 2008 graduate

of Des Arc High School and is employed at Chunky Munky Express in Des Arc. Mitchell is the son of Jay and Cem Mullinax of Clarendon and Keith and Nancy Weaver of Brinkley.

He is the grandson of Steve and Alice Mitchell of Clarendon and Georgia Weaver of Brinkley and the late Bobby Weaver.

Mitchell is a 2012 graduate of Marvell Academy. He is employed as a paramedic with NorthStar EMS in

Searcy.

The ceremony will take place on Saturday, September 17 at 5:00 o’clock in the evening at the First Baptist Church, Des Arc. A reception will be held immediately following the ceremony at the American Ag Building, Highway 11 North, Des Arc. All friends and family are invited to attend.

After a short trip to Branson, the couple will make their home in Des Arc.

The Prairie County Democratic Women’s Club met at Murry’s Restaurant in Hazen on Thursday, August 24.

The Club invited democratic candidates Gaylon Hale, who is running for Prairie County Circuit/County Clerk and Tamara Forrester Dabney, who is running for Prairie County Treasurer and Rick Hickman, who is a candidate for Prairie County Sheriff.

Both Mrs. Hale and Ms. Dabney were in attendance. Unfortunately, Mr. Hickman was out of state and could not join the group.

Harvey Joe Sanner was on hand to give a report and pass out material related to the effort being made by Doyle Webb, Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party to have Gaylon Hale forced off the November 8, 2016 General Election Ballot.

This action by the Republican Party has caused much confusion and personal pain for Mrs. Hale, her family and friends. Gaylon addressed the crowd and explained her discomfort by being investigated and made to feel like a criminal.

According to Mr. Sanner, her campaign began on November 2, 2015, when

Local students receive foundation scholarships to attend ASU-Beebe

A number of area students were recently awarded privately funded foundation scholarships to attend Arkansas State University -Beebe, with campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy, Little Rock Air Force Base and online. Scholarship recipients attended a breakfast in their honor at the University recently.

Local students receiving a scholarship are Tori Mellas-Dr. Judy McKay Scholarship $500; Cory Tallent-Brenda Shurley Endowment Scholarship $775.00 and Kassidy Elam of Romance, the Spradlin Family Scholarship $500. Kassidy is the daughter of Teddy and Amy Elam of Des Arc and Jamie (Kirkland) Jenkins of Romance.

Pictured front row, l-r: Hannah Moler, Sidney Riggan, Hailey Washam, Lane Brock, Katie Morris, Nicole Webb.

Middle Row, l-r: Austin Hall, Precious McCullough, Tori Mellas, Sara Etzweiler, Sarah Vaughn, Cory Tallent, Holly Hedgepeth, Whitney Smith.

Back Row, l-r: Joseph McAlee, Dylan Cass, Jessica Murrell, Kassidy Elam, Kelly Caples, Bailey Meador, Matthew Brown, Emma Reed and Noah Joyner.

“ASU-Beebe is very proud of our scholarship recipients,” said Carol Johnson, Associate vice chancellor of Development and Major Gifts. “We are also grateful to the foundation scholarship donors for making educational opportunities available to ASU-Beebe students.”

Local Prayers are sent to Ricky Schwede of Biscoe who was rushed to St. Vincents Hospital on Wednesday. According to his wife, Barbara, he is very sick. He has pneumonia. His kidneys are not functioning properly due to not drinking, eating and sweating fever.

He will be in the hospital at least through the weekend.

He was to have surgery for blockage in his heart Sept.

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she filed for the office of Clerk as a Democratic candidate.

No one challenged her eligibility at that time and her name was placed on the March 1, 2016 Preferential Primary Election ballot as an opposed candidate.

Sanner said that no Democratic Party official or Mrs. Hale were contacted by the Republican Party and informed that there was any problem with her eligibility.

Mr. Webb’s letter to the press of August 16, 2016 requested Mrs. Hale resign from the race within ten (10) days or he will file litigation in circuit court to remove her as a candidate.

Mrs. Hale does not intend to end her campaign.

Both Mrs. Hale and Mr. Sanner expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support they have seen for her candidacy. “We’ll be anxious to see how the circuit court Judge rules on this matter,” they said.

Tamara Forrester Dabney addressed the ladies and explained her credentials that surely qualify her for the job of Prairie County Treasurer.

Ms. Dabney asked for the groups’ help in her campaign and announced that she will have a booth at the Rice Festival in Hazen on October 29, 2016 to meet and greet voters.

The Des Arc Chamber of Commerce is holding its Fall Festival on that same date, but luckily their activities, directed to our youthful citizens, begins at 4:00 p.m.

The Chamber has extended an invitation to all candidates to address those attending the Festival. Mrs. Hale and Ms. Dabney hope to attend both functions.

The Club will once again

assist the PC Democratic Committee with their election year rally. The date is set for Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

The Committee will change pace somewhat this year with the event being in the park at Hazen(good weather permitting).

The plan is to offer hot dogs and other treats. The Rally is open to all and everyone is welcome and urged to attend. Democratic Candidates and/or surrogates for County, federal and national office will be on hand.

Mr. Sanner gave a brief report on the Hilary Clinton for President Campaign.

“We are all excited about the possibility of seeing a former Arkansan and the first female presidential candidate run for office and we think she would make an excellent president,” Sanner said.

The group enjoyed the always-delicious food from Stan and Becky’s kitchen that went well with the fellowship.

The PC Democratic Women’s group stated, “We are very appreciative of Gaylon, Becky and Rick for putting their name on the line to run for office”.

“We understand that it can be costly, time consuming and we are grateful that they chose to run as Democrats,” the Group continued.

“More importantly, we believe each one to be very qualified and certainly capable to serve in these three very important positions.”

“Qualifications, experience and honesty should always come before party labels and we are convinced that these candidates do just that,” they said.

-Chris Weems

Get well wishes are sent to Stan Ferguson who had knee cap surgery this week.

It was broken in four pieces. He is out for this season of aerial spraing but is not down and out for the count, he says. He is owner/operator of Southern Aire Flying Service. His wife, Sue and faithful dog, Riddick, are taking very good care of Stan. Right?!!

Julie Mitchell and daughter, Brooklynn, age 9, of Harrison, Ark., were visiting her mother, Sharon Morton, and Don, over the weekend. They were accompanied by Brooklynn’s friend, Mary Tapley, who enjoyed riding a tractor and some other farm activities.

Julie’s husband, Neal, is now Farm Bureau Agency Manager for Boone County.

Bridal Shower honoring

Jessica Bell

bride-elect of Mitchell Weaver

Saturday, September 3

One to three o’clock in the Afternoon Registered at Lynn’s Flowers & Gifts, Bed, Bath and Beyond and Walmart Hosted by Her Bridesmaids

1p

Dinner is Being Served!

Sunday, Sept. 4 Serving from 11:30 a. m. to 2:00 p. m.

ADULT BUFFET: $9.95

Bring Your Church Bulletin and Receive Free Beverage

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Arkansas Children's launches Saturday Morning Sports Injury Clinic, kicks off game contest with Hooten’s Arkansas Football LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Aug. 29, 2016) – Arkansas Children’s Hospital is offering families a way to care for their injured athletes this fall, kicking off the Saturday Morning Sports Injury Clinic with a first-of-its-kind weekly Facebook Live contest in collaboration with Hooten’s Arkansas Football.

Every Saturday from Sept. 3 through Nov. 19, Arkansas Children’s will offer families a walk-in clinic just for athletic injuries from 9-11 a.m. on the first floor of the hospital.

Teens and adolescents will receive care tailored specifically to the developing athlete whether they are injured on the field, performing stunts or playing with the band.

Arkansas Children’s Sports Medicine specialists and athletic trainers will be on hand to assist with everything from sprains and fractures to torn ligaments. Athletes will leave the clinic with a game plan for their continued treatment.

To mark the clinic’s launch, Arkansas Children’s Hospi-

tal invites proud parents and boosters across the state to help Chad Hooten of Hooten’s Arkansas Football choose Who’s Got Game each week! On Thursdays throughout the season, high school football fans can nominate the game they think will be the most fun to watch by posting to the Hooten’s Arkansas Football Facebook page (facebook.com/hootensarkansasfootball).

“We want Saturday mornings to b jhhhe every bit as successful for Arkansas athletes as their Friday night games,” said Dan McFadden, APR, director of Communications, Marketing & Branding for Arkansas Children’s Hospital. “We’re thrilled to work with Hooten’s on this collaboration, offering families a great connection to two names that care the very most about their young athletes.”

On Fridays, fans can watch Hooten make a live announcement on Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s Facebook

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page (facebook.com/arkansaschildrenshospital), proclaiming each week Who’s Got Game! The fan whose game comment is selected will win a prize pack from Arkansas Children’s and Hooten’s. During the Facebook Live announcements, fans may see special appearances from patients and ACH Sports Medicine experts.

“More than 250,000 people watch football every Friday night in Arkansas, and we look forward to creating a new tradition for those fans to rally around their players, cheerleaders and band,” said Chad Hooten. “Our relationship with Arkansas Children’s Hospital and their Saturday Morning Sports Injury Clinic will kick off a great season!”

For more information about the Saturday Morning Sports Injury Clinic, families can call (501) 364-GAME or walk in on Saturdays during football season from 9 a.m. 11 a.m.

Please report your news to the Correspondent in your local Community GrEGory GLEaNiNGS

By Rosetta Lockhart

Opal Crider, Correspondent

Ludene and Bobby Treadway went to watch Hunter Whittenburg play in his scrimmage game last Tuesday.

Ethel McCall came to visit Clara last Tuesday afternoon. They enjoy visiting each other a lot.

Thursday night, Ludene & Bobby Treadway and Treadways’ Crew and Bobby Smith’s kids all went to Dondies’ for a Retirement dinner for Bobby Smith. He has been at Treadway Fisheries for 29 years. They had twenty three in attendance.

Mickey & Vanessa Graham, Condary & Pat Johnson , Bob & I attended the visitation Thursday night for our late loved Sue Berry. It’s like two Class reunions, DAHS Class of 70, Susan Winkler’s late husband, Bennie Winkler’s class, then so many of Class of 72, Susan’s class.

Friday, nine of the Class of 70 had lunch together at PJ’s. before Ms. Sue Berry’s Funeral Service. Linda Franks, Debora Carpenter, Donnie Foster, Cleta (Overturf ) Henry, Terry Seevers, Mike Madar, Robert Crider & myself, Gary Odom & wife, Phyllis, Billy Holland. All had a good time together. Men say women talk a lot, ask the people that were in PJ’s that day. HA! The Funeral Service was beautiful. She will be sorely missed but she is better off than we are.

Saturday, Ethel McCall had a wreck and totaled her car. She was driving straight and a woman in a truck turned in front of her. Ethel was bruised really bad by the airbags going off, and she is really sore. Just thankful that she is still with us and wasn't hurt any worse. The other woman was at fault. But Ethel has to buy another car. Please send her a card to 12107 Hwy. 38 W, Ward, AR 72176.

The ball tournament Saturday was a great success. Uncle Alton & Uncle Jerry Evans & Teddy Goodman cooked good hamburgers & hot dogs. This was all put on by Ronnie Dale & Amy Goodman and “Carla’s Crew” to raise money for our loved family member, Carla Evans that had a cancerous kidney removed months ago.

I was a good girl, wore my knee brace so I could spend the days with Carla & a lot of family. Then she has cancer in her lung, liver & lymph nodes and is only 51. Her FAITH & LOVE for God is very strong! She & her husband, Marlon left Monday for Tampa, FL for her first treatment on Wednesday.

Each treatment she will be in the hospital for seven days. Seeing how it makes her feel, to know what she can do in between. She’s hoping to get to go back to work. Most of all please

keep her in your Prayers!

The scripture Carla stands on is Romans 15:13 (Read it).

Saturday evening, Clara went to visit Lynda and Nikki Kirk.

Lynda’s Mother, Doris Bowen (Grandma), was there so Clara and she finally got to meet each other. Clara said that Grandma is a really sweet lady. They all enjoyed visiting with each other.

Jeannie (Hamric) Day of MI had to be taken by ambulance the other day. She had a mini stroke, one of her carotid arteries had closed off & rerouted itself.

They can’t do surgery. Her husband, Marvin is keeping her sister, Mamie Graham updated. Please keep he in your Prayers! It’s tough when you live so far from each other.

Sunday night, almost after my bedtime, I got my Sis, Clara to follow me to Cabot to leave my car in body shop, they had to redo something from before. We got a milkshake on way back, we had the giggles, a few ask wonder what was in our shakes.

HA! We had a lot of laughs, fun trip, better than daytime, when lots of traffic.

Vanessa Graham had taken James Allen Brannon to AR Care at Des Arc on Monday for them to release him to go back to work on Tuesday from his illness with tick fever. The clinic said they have had an epidemic of tick fever through just their Clinic, as like the flu rages. Be careful being where you might get ticks or spray to prevent from getting them. Be a great idea to treat your yards.

It was good to see Cody, Leslie, Liam & little Cohen Speight at the gas pumps Monday at HPOS. Leslie was proud of her new ride.

I don’t even know what it is, I like it, cause it’s white!

So sad, when there are so many hateful people.

More in our local community. Someone or ones broke the glass out of both glass doors at HPOS, early Tuesday morning, wee early hours. They say it was done with a sling shot.

Doesn’t have to be a kid, but in case, parents need to do their job of raising their kids right. They may not get caught , but I guarantee they will pay dearly.

Robbie Weaver worked a half day on Monday because of her strep. She went to work Tuesday & had appt at AR Care to see if need to change her antibiotics, but they tested her for tick fever & treating as such. She can’t go back to work until Friday. Please pray for her & send her a card, 8877 Hwy 13N, Carlisle, AR 72024.

Robbie Weaver just told me Tuesday their dog, Jax had a heat stroke the other day. (Rick takes him on Treadway’s minnow pond levee with him,

when he runs.) Took him to Doctor Jeff, he let them bring him home, they had to force water down him with a syringe. She had Carl Weaver come home Monday to take care of Jax. He was feeling better Monday night. He’s not to be out like that in the heat anymore. When Robbie was told to go home & drink plenty of water. She said,” I guess me and Jax will drink water together!”

The next “Ladies Drop By” will be Tuesday, Sept.13th at HP Methodist Church at 1 p.m. Come join in on the good food, fun fellowship and GOOD MEDICINE for all!

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

Please support Hickory Plains Post Office by purchasing stamps, mailing packages, etc. there. Support our OWN local Postmaster, Tammy Bruce. The Hickory Plains Post Office hours are Mon.-Fri. 12:30 PM- 2:30PM, Sat.10AM1:30PM. (REMINDER) For people to call 870-854-3703 or email me () their News.

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

Have a Good Week In The Lord!

Happy Birthday Sept.

7th to Isaiah Williams, Ford Briggs, Zach Hamric, & Judy Anderson!

Happy Birthday Sept 8th to Gina Sanderson!

Happy Birthday Sept.

9th to Mary Grace Smith & Derick Graham!

Happy 4th Birthday Sept. 10th to Evie Grace Evans!

Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.

Rom 12:10

Monday is Labor Day and I still have not figured out why it is called Labor Day when at a lot of places the workers “get off?” from laboring. Do you know?

Last Tuesday my special friend, Kathryn Huenefeld, of Heber Springs(both of us lived at McClelland and Gregory at the same time, then she ran off from me to far away places, Searcy, Newport and now Heber) was a guest of Marie Roddy of Searcy at her son, Buddy Roddy at his Cache Bayou Cabin. Marie’s daughter, Debra, drove them here and took them sightseeing on Wednesday to McClelland, Cotton Plant, Wiville and McCrory. I visited with them on Tuesday. Marie taught school at McClelland after I moved to Gregory.

Gregory’s only loafing place is the Post office, if I am not over there they come looking for me— and we all know what is going on. Friday George (Eldridge) was there in his Sunday truck, Saturday he came in his trailer pulling truck(Dustin Roddy lost his truck keys at Tamale Factory,so Geo. loaned

him the Sunday truck) Monday , guess what Geo. came on? his tractor! I’m gonna watch my golf cart ,for sure. (He’d been mowing for Dove hunting).

I’ve told and told how good my Stan is to his Mom. Well, Doug Osier is just as good to his Mom, Lola Osier!! He comes and ‘fixes’ and mows for her, too. Lots of others are, too, I am sure ,but I see these two.

I told of my corn mishap( dried up on me and the coons). I have outsmarted them big time. I got me some from the Country Mart-4 ears for $1.00 to the tune of 42 ears Monday and it is some kind of good, big and filled out, no worm bites at all. It came from Olathe, Colorado. No more planting any corn at this house!!!

I ask for prayers for my friend and Paul and Bo Collins’ cousin, Jennye Pate in San Diego. She is ill. She grew up here.

Mom,Niccole Holder of Des Arc drove our Miss Brady here Sunday for church.

Thanks,Mom! (Mark and his Entergy crew are back from helping in Baton Rouge, La.

and are TIRED) A Memorial Service is being held Saturday, Sept.

3rd for Brent McKnight, our Karla Clark’s father, at his home at St. Joe, Ar. at 11 am.

Saturday afternoon, I (Rosetta) visited at the Woodruff county Health Center with Marie Hollingsworth and her guests the 2 Quintons, Glenda Miller and Ruth Canard and at the John Davis Center with Katherine Davis. Let me tell you about Ruth, her heart is giving her heck, in a wheel chair, but had her sewing machine there and was piecing a quilt, crochets, and has made wreaths and bouquets of flowers. I hung my head in shame for my laziness!! She proves that you don’t have to give up!

Fannie Peters and Michelle Brown missed church Sunday due to being ‘under the weather’.

Happy Labor Day to those who get the day off, and I am sorry that all didn’t.

Remember no mail Monday—but Gregory Homemakers Club will meet and eat. How about that?

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Donna Kelly, Correspondent

Sorry I missed the mail last week. The lady that works at the paper was ill over the weekend and help came in and got the paper out early.

We have been very busy going to doctors and getting John through eye surgery. He had eye surgery last Wednesday. Doctors said it came out good, but doesn’t know how long it will take. We go back tomorrow for his check up.

We had an appointment with the foot doctor on Thursday. We missed church on the August 21. I was just too busy putting drops in his eyes.

We had a business meeting at church Satur-

day evening. Election of officers and teachers.

Was so good to see Dale and Evelyn Greenwalt out Sunday morning.

Tommy Martin is at home from the Nursing home. He is still weak. We are keeping him in our prayers.

I believe that most of the Summer Revivals are over. We always enjoy that.

Charles had a bad week. He had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night. He was feeling better on Saturday. He has an appointment with a doctor in Little Rock this week.

Our grandchildren,

Cody and Kylee and Cooper came over for a while Saturday evening.

We were glad to see them.

It has been a busy time for them as school keeps them busy.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones.

Bruce Ingle is doing very well. He calls me about twice a month. We have been tied down for the last year, and we don’t get to visit him. Maybe soon.

It is about time to go to the evening service at church, so hope everyone has a good week andetterpeople are feeling better.

Bobby G

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Successful Eagle Fest 2016 ends with rainbow

Just One More Dunk: Des Arc Elementary principal, Dena Rooks, takes the plunge at the Dunking Booth during Eagle Fest on Friday, August 26.

2016 Senior Eagles Football Team

Here, let me help you out, Dad!: DAHS principal Bruce Guthrie’s own son, at right, surprises his dad and says, “let me help” as he pushes the bullseye at the dunking booth during Eagle Fest

The 2016 Eagle Fest was a success and ended with a rainbow brought by rains during the activities.

The children didn’t seem to mind the rain as they ran back and forth to the waterslide, bouncy house and obstacle course.

Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Chips and Drink was served along with sno cones and other concessions.

A Dunking Booth was available for the children to dunk “celebrities” willing to be dunked.

The Jr. & Sr. Cheerleaders were introduced as well as the Jr. and Sr. Football teams. The Jr. Eagles scrimmaged and the Sr. Eagles ran a few plays. The Des Arc Eagle Marching Band also

performed during Eagle Fest.

This event is sponsored by the Des Arc Eagle Booster Club.

There are a total of fifteen graduating Seniors for football, cheer and band.

For the Sr. Eagles are O.C. Conway, Austin Weatherly, Jeffery Harrell, Spencer Wrigley, Hayden Flud, Kelvin Cohen, Jared Williams, and Isaiah Williams.

Senior Cheerleaders are Madison Evans, Lauren Mapps and Lexi Cook.

Senior Band members are Audrey Crawford, Treasure Durden, Brandon Perry and Trevor Hampton.

Revised August 30, 2016 2016 Junior and Seventh Grade Eagle Football Schedule

Waiting their turn: These youngsters are lined up to slide down the waterslide at Eagle Fest. One young lady is headed for the pool of water at the bottom as others get ready to slide.

JUNIOR HIGH Sept. 1 Sept. 8 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Oct. 27

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SEVENTH GRADE Sept. 8 Sept. 12 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 26 Oct. 3 Oct. 10

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Joyce Major, lunchroom supervisor at the Des Arc Schools, advises the following menus are scheduled for Monday-Friday, Sept. 5-9:

Elementary Lunch

High School Lunch

MONDAY: NO SCHOOL TUESDAY: Turkey Deli Sandwich on Whole Wheat Hoagie, Carrot and Celery Sticks with Ranch, Blackeyed Peas, Cantaloupe, Milk WEDNESDAY: Chicken Nuggets, Yams, Steamed Broccoli, Tropical Fruit, Milk THURSDAY: Hamburger Steak with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Grapes, Whole Wheat Roll, Milk FRIDAY: Hamburger, Tator Tots, Sandwich Fixings, Apples, Milk

MONDAY: NO SCHOOL TUESDAY: Chicken Spaghetti, Green Beans, Pineapple, Fresh Fruit, Milk WEDNESDAY: Stromboli, Corn, Great Northern Beans, Mixed and Fresh Fruit, Milk THURSDAY: Crispitos, Blackeyed Peas, Sweet Peas, Peaches, Fresh Fruit, Milk FRIDAY: Hamburger or Cheeseburger, French Fries, Baked Beans, Lettuce, Tomato, Pineapple, Fresh Fruit, Milk

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And the band played on: The Des Arc Eagle Marching Band were on hand this year to perform during Eagle Fest. Pictured above is the Band performing with a few of the Seniors getting involved with the chants.

Senior Eagles to host Bald Knob Bulldogs in season opener Jr. Eagles play first conference game at Clarendon The Des Arc Senior Eagles will begin their 2016 season schedule this Friday evening at Hinson-Rollins Field hosting the 3A Bald Knob Bulldogs. Game time is 7:00 p.m. The 2015 Eagles defeated the Bulldogs on their on turf 29-16.

There are eight-seniors on the 2016 Senior Eagles team. These seniors played as juniors against the Bull Dogs in 2015.

They are Spencer Wrigley, Kelvin Cohen, O.C. Conway, Jerrod Williams, Austin Weatherley, Isaiah Williams, Jeffery Harrell, and Hayden Flud.

Flud and Junior Dillon Conway will share quarterbacking duties.

The Eagles will open conference play with the McCrory Jaguars at home Friday, September 9.

The Jaguars captured the 6-2A State Champion crown in 2015. They are

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MONDAY: NO SCHOOL MONDAY: NO SCHOOL TUESDAY: Sausage and Biscuit TUESDAY: Pancake on a Stick or or Cereal & Toast, Pears Cereal & Toast, Fresh or Tropical WEDNESDAY: Pancake on a Fruit Stick or Cereal & Toast, Man- WEDNESDAY: Biscuit and darin Oranges Gravy or Cereal & Toast, Pears, THURSDAY: Pop Tarts or Ce- Fresh Fruit real & Toast, Tropical Fruit THURSDAY: Sausage or FRIDAY: Donuts or Cereal & Chicken Biscuit or Cereal & Toast, Pineapple Toast, Peaches or Fresh Fruit Served with Milk & Juice FRIDAY: Eggs, Toast and One Slice Turkey Bacon or Cereal & Meals are subject to change/ Toast, Pineapple, Fresh Fruit.

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ranked to finish first in the conference again this year.

The Jaguars just barely edged by the Eagles in 2015 with a score 24-22.

The Junior Eagles will start their season off with a conference opener at Clarendon. Game time is 7:00 p.m.

Thirty-eight players are listed on the Junior High

Member FDIC Des Arc, Arkansas

roster. Of those thirtyeight, eight of those are freshmen. They are Jackson Morton, Cooper Roberts, Chandler Merrell, Hayden Sanchez, Will Kearby, Hunter Whittenburg, Caleb Jobe and Kale Dorman.

A large class of eighth graders, seventeen to be exact, will gain experience on the field moving up

from seventh grade last year.

Head Coach is Drake Widener with Jeff Adams, Doug Milholen, and Colton Goodman, assisting.

A new revised Junior High/Seventh Grade schedule is listed on this page.

Hooten’s Arkansas Football Rankings © Hooten Publishing, Inc. Hootens.com Rankings Class 2A, Week 1, 2016 Copyright Hooten Publish ing, Inc. 1. England 2. Rison 3. Hector 4. Mount Ida 5. McCrory 6. Danville 7. Des Arc 8. C. Harmony Grove 9. Magnet Cove 10. Earle 11. Conway Christian 12. Bearden 13. Lafayette County

14. E. Poinsett County 15. Marked Tree 16. Dierks 17. Cross County 18. Hackett 19. Murfreesboro 20. Hampton 21. Foreman 22. Lavaca 23. Mountainburg 24. Carlisle 25. Hazen 26. Brinkley 27. Augusta 28. Poyen 29. Clarendon 30. Salem

31. Palestine-Wheatley 32. Mineral Springs 33. Parkers Chapel 34. Strong 35. Spring Hill 36. Woodlawn 37. Bigelow 38. Quitman 39. J.C. Westside 40. Magazine 41. Decatur 42. Mountain Pine 43. Western Yell County 44. Cutter M. Star 45. Rector 46. Midland 47. Marvell

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LAST YEAR-Hootens.com correctly picked 248 of 294 games (84 percent) involving Class 2A teams.

WEEK 1 PREDICTIONS (favored team in CAPS followed by point spread)6-2A Bald Knob at DES ARC (2): No. 7 Des Arc has won 11, 10 and 11 games the past three years and boasts the top linebacking corps in 2A football this season, led by senior Ontario Conway (114 tackles in 2015). These teams have split the past two meetings with Des Arc winning last year 29-16.

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Prairie County Courthouse News The following information was obtained from the records at the Prairie County Courthouses in Des Arc and DeValls Bluff on Tuesday, August 30, 2016: Land Transfers Warranty Deed Charles L. Marsh III and Sonia Marsh, Grantors, hand paid by Dennis C. Belden or Jim Byrd, Trustees of the Dennis C. Belden Revocable Trust, Grantee, the following lands lying in the County of Prairie, State of Arkansas: A part of Lots One and Four of the NE 1/4 of Section One T4N, R4W. Warranty Deed Barbara Voumard, Surviving Spouse of Gerald Vomard, Grantor, hand paid

by Robert Ray Floyd, Grantee, the following lands lying in the Southern District of Prairie County: Lots Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve in Block Fourteen, Town of Ulm. Warranty Deed James R. Rhodes, III, Trustee of the Regina F. Rhodes Bypass Trust, Grantor, hand paid by James R. Rhodes III, Grantee, the following de-

scribed lands situated in the Southern District of Prairie County: The W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section Eight, T1N, R4W containing 80 acres, more or less.

The NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section Fourteen, T1N, R4W containing 40 acres, more or less.

Executor’s Deed Terrill K. Johnson, Executor of the Estate of Judy Ross Burris, Deceased, Grantor, hand paid by Terrill K. Johnson, Trustee of the Judy Ross Burris Standard Marital Trust, Grantee, the following described lands situated in the Southern District of Prairie County: The W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section Eight, T1N, R4W containing 80 acres, more or less.

The NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section Fourteen, T1N, R4W containing 40 acres, more or less.

Warranty Deed Paula Ross Lyon, James R. Rhodes III, Trustee of the James R. Rhodes III Revocable Trust, Terrill K. Johnson, Trustee of the Judy Ross Burris Standard Marital Trust, Grantors, hand paid by Lance Eric

Newkirk and Shannan Leigh Newkirk, Grantees, the following described lands situated in the Southern District of Prairie County: The W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section Eight, T1N, R4W containing 80 acres, more or less.

Quitclaim Deed S. Denman, William Grantor, hand paid by Tammy L. Belcher as Trustee of the William S. Denman Revocable Trust, Grantee, the following lands lying in Prairie County, Arkansas: A fractional part of the E 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 12, T2S, R6W, Southern District, County of Prairie.

Warranty Deed Rick Hudson and Teressa Hudson, Grantors, hand paid by Glen Pollack, Grantee, the following lands lying in the County of Prairie, Souithern District: A fractional part of the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 36, T2N, R4W containing 3.23 acres, more or less.

Correction Warranty Deed Robert F. Lee and Estelle Lee, Grantors, hand paid

by Jeffrey Petty and Jen-

nifer Petty, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Southern District, Prairie County: A tract of land lying between the C.R.I. & P Railroad and U.S. Highway No. 70 situated in the S 1/2 of Section 3, T2N, R4W, containing one-half acre, more or less.

Warranty Deed Barbara A. Rogers, Grantor, hand paid by Barbara A. Rogers, Trustee of the Barbara A. Rogers Revocable Trust, Grantee, the following described real property situated in the Southern District of Prairie County: Parcel One: Lots Seven, Eight and Nine of Block 24, Town of Hazen.

Parcel Two: That Part of Lots Two and Four lying East of the former Cottonbelt Railroad and all of Lots One and Five in the NW 1/4 of Section 31, T2N, R5W containing 140 acres, more or less.

Warranty Deed Barbara A. Rogers, Grantor, hand paid by Barbara A. Rogers, Trustee of the Barbara A. Rogers Revocable Trust, Grantee, the following described real

property situated in the Southern District of Prairie County: Undivided 1/3 interest in and to: The Reservoir described as the SE part of the NW 1/4 of Section 32, T2S, R5W containing 32 acres, more or less.

Quitclaim Deed Skarda Enterprises, Inc.,

by Michael J. Skarda, President, Grantor, hand paid

by Michael J. Skarda and Karan Skarda, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: Lots Four, Five and Six of Block Nine, Erwins Survey to the Town of Des Arc. Quitclaim Deed Michael J. Skarda and Karan Skarda and the Michael J. Skarda Family Revocable Trust, by Michael J. Skarda, Trustee, Grantors, hand paid by Michael J. Skarda and Karan Skarda, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: Lots Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten of Block Four, Erwins Survey to the Town of Des Arc and that part of Block Four that has previosly been

designated as an easment from Marion Street East 150 Feet.

Quitclaim Deed L. Eric Newkirk, Grantor, hand paid by Lance Eric Newkirk, Grantee, the following lands lying in the County of Prairie, State of Arkansas: A One Acre, more or less, parcel of land lying in the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 and the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 22, T1N, R4W. Warranty Deed Parham Investments LLC, a limited liabilty company organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, Grantor, hand paid by Harold Coburn, Grantee, the following real property lying in Prairie County, Arkansas: A part of the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 24, T2N, R6W containing 15.56 acres, more or less.

Quitclaim Deed Herman Allen, Grantor, hand paid by John W. Mason, Grantee, the follwoing lands lying in the County of Prairie, State of Arkansas: Lot Two, Block Nine Yopp Addition to the Town of Hazen, Southern District.

District Court Hearings The following cases were heard before Judge Robert Abney in District Court Hearings held in the Courtroom at Des Arc City Hall on Monday, August 29, 2016. There will be no court on Monday, September 5 du e to the Labor Day Holiday. Court hearings will resume on Monday, September 12: City Cases James D. Alverson, Des Arc, charged with Violation of Cleanup Ordinance. Continued to September 12, 2016.

Noah Luke Kennedy, Des Arc, charged with Improper Window Tint. Defendant to remove tinting. Continued to Septem-

ber 12, 2016.

Dewayne Jenkins, Brinkley, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed. Bond Forfeited.

Amanda N. Kirk, Des Arc, charged with Permitting Unauthorized Minor to Drive. Bond Forfeited.

Anthony Dwayne Addison, Des Arc, charged with DWIDrugs, No Seat Belt and Violation of Restricted License. Defendant Appeared and Advised of Rights. Defendant requested Public Defender. Public Defender appointed. Plea set for September 12, 2016.

State Cases Bryan N. Gonzalez, Des Arc, charged with No Personal Floatation Device. Warrant Withdrawn. Bond Forfeited.

Matthew Dewayne Herrington, Ward, charged with Drove Left of Center and Reckless Driving. Continued to December 12, 2016.

Raymond B. Peace, Des Arc, charged with No Seat Belt, Careless/Prohibited Driving, Unauthorized Use of Vehicle and Driving on DWI Suspended License. Continued to September 12, 2016.

Prairie Cou nt y Jail Cou nt The following inmates are incarcerated in the Prairie County Jail at Des Arc as of Tuesday, August 30, 2016, according to Sheriff Gary Burnett: Graham, Johnell Delacy, 19, charged with Aggravated Assault, Theft of Property, Theft by Receiving, Breaking or Entering and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. Intake date June 6, 2016.

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

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

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

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

Cohen, Eric E., 34, Hold for Another Department. Intake date June 28, 2016.

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

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

2016.

Langhorn, Courtney Deontea, 32, Commitment. Intake date July 9, 2016.

Jackson, Jelecia M., 25, Commitment. Battery-Third Degree and Criminal Mischief. Intake date July 14, 2016.

Pritle, Ernest (Billy) Wilford, 61, charged with Resisting Arrest and Possession of Controlled Substance. Hold for PC Hearing.

Intake date August 1, 2016.

Sweatt, Tyler Wayne, 26, charged with Residential Burglary, Theft of Property. Hold for Another Department. Intake

date July 26, 2016.

Mills, Deborah Lynn, 55, Commitment. Intake date August 7, 2016.

Dilworth, Joseph, 62, Commitment. Intake date August 4, 2016.

Robinson, Xavier, 21, Commitment. Intake date August 5, 2016.

Berry, Recho, 29, charged with Domestic Battery-Third Degree and Parole Violation. Intake date August 4, 2016.

Bullock, Jason Blake, 37, charged with Theft of Property x2, Criminal Mischief, Criminal

Trespass, and Residential Burglary. Intake date July 26, 2016.

Inman, Sandra Michelle, 43, Hold for Another Department.

Intake date Augsut 16, 2016.

Sims, Charles Edward, 50, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date August 20, 2016.

Metcalf, Matthew Ray, 18, Hold for PC Hearing. Intake date August 29, 2016.

Brown, Matthew, 25, charged with Non-Support. Intake date August 29, 2016.

Milnor, Margaret Ivy, 33, charged with Failure to Pay Fine

and Cost. Intake date August 28, 2016.

Cole, Travis, 27, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date August 28, 2016.

Flowers, Reginald Darnell, 24, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date August 25, 2016.

Scroggins, Michael S. 38, charged withe Failure to Appear.

Intake date August 24, 2016.

Williams, Thornell A., 31, Commitment. Intake date August 26, 2016.

Teamsters Endorse Clinton, Slap Trump Hillary Clinton on Friday received a pivotal endorsement as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that the Democratic nominee should be the nation's next president.

The Teamsters General Executive Board says it unanimously voted to endorse the former senator

and secretary of state.

"We are proud to endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. She is the right candidate for the middle class and working men and women across the country," Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa said.

"She will stand strong for the workers of America by fighting to reject job-killing trade deals, enforcing labor laws and working to provide retirement security for millions of people who have sacrificed so much for the chance to retire with dignity."

Hoffa said the com-

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"Donald Trump supports national right-towork laws that are proven to weaken the middle class and has a long track record of shipping jobs out of the country as a businessman.

He is no friend to working Americans."

The Teamsters, which represent 1.4 million workers throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, is the latest major union to endorse Clinton, following the AFL-CIO and SEIU. Breaking News at News-

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(2) SAT, 8/13 (1) FRI., 8/12 (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (8) FRI, 8/19 (1) FRI., 8/12 (1) FRI., ” (7) THRS, 8/18 (1) FRI., 8/12 (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (1) FRI, ” (2) SAT, 8/13

(4) MON, 8/22 (1) FRI., 8/19 (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” (4) MON, 8/22 (1) FRI., 8/19 (1) FRI., ” (4) MON, 8/22 (1) FRI., 8/19 (4) MON, 8/22 (1) FRI, ” (2) SAT, 8/20 (2) SAT, ”

?

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

SAT, 8/13 SAT, ” FRI., 8/12 SAT, 8/13 FRI., 8/12 SAT, 8/13

(4) (1) (1) (1) (4) (1) (1) (4) (1) (1) (1)

MON, 8/29 FRI., 8/26 FRI., ” FRI., ” MON, 8/29 FRI., 8/26 FRI., ” MON, 8/29 FRI., 8/26 FRI., ” FRI., ” ?

(1) (5) (1) (5) (1) (1) (1) (1)

?

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

FRI., 8/19 FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI., ” FRI, ” SAT, 8/20

FRI., 8/26 TUES, 8/30 FRI., 8/26 TUES, 8/30 FRI., 8/26 FRI., ” FRI, ” FRI, ”

GROUP “C” (13 OUT-OF-STATE LOCATIONS) (2) Anaheim, CA Chicago/N Aurora, IL (2) (1) Enid, OK Houston/Seabrook,TX (4) (4) Madison, AL Memphis/Bartlett, TN (1) Memphis/Millington (2) (4) Midvale, ID (4) Salem, OR Springfield, MO (4) (4) Springfield, OH (2) St Louis, MO W. Melbourne, FL (4)

(4) MON, 8/8 (5) TUES, 8/9 (2) SAT., 8/6 (6) WED, 8/10 (4) MON, 8/8 (7) THRS, 8/11 (7) THRS, 8/11 (4) MON, 8/8 (6) WED, 8/10 (4) MON, 8/8 (6) WED, 8/10 (5) TUES, 8/9 (9) SAT., 8/13

(4) MON, 8/15 (5) TUES, 8/16 (2) SAT., 8/13 (4) MON, 8/15 (6) WED, 8/17 (7) THRS, 8/18 (7) THRS, 8/18 (4) MON, 8/15 (4) MON, ” (4) MON, ” (5) TUES, 8/16 (5) TUES, ” (11) MON., 8/22

COLUMN TOTALS: (71) (118) actual days

USPS Grade

A-

NEW Record-Early-Delivery

(117) actual days

B+

(4) MON, 8/22 (4) MON, ” (4) MON, ” (4) MON, ” (4) MON, ”

(4) MON, 8/29 (4) MON, ” (2) SAT, 8/27 (4) MON, 8/29 (5) TUES, 8/30

Not rcvd as of 8/24

?

(9) SAT, 8/27 (4) MON, 8/22 (4) MON, ” (4) MON, 8/22 (6) WED, 8/24 (4) MON, 8/22 (6) WED, 8/24

(4) MON, 8/29 (4) MON, 8/29 (5) TUES, 8/30 (4) MON, 8/29 (6) WED, 8/31 (5) TUES, 8/30

(93) actual days

(93) actual days

A+

EXCEPTIONAL Delivery

?

A+ POOR Delivery

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

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

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

Exceptional deliveries include black

“thumbs up”. Poor deliveries include RED

94°

74°

E X T R E M ES 8/25 - 8/31

H I LOW RAIN

DATE:

24-hr Temps: Midnight to Midnight

Thrs, Aug 25 Fri., Aug 26 Sat., Aug 27 Sun., Aug 28 Mon., Aug 29 Tues, Aug 30 Wed, Aug 31

94 92 91 92 92 93 92

.06” .19” -

76 74 74 74 74 74 74 76 76 76

THIS WEEK’S RAIN: LAST WEEK’S RAIN:

0.25” 0.25 0.69” 0.69

WHITE RIVER 6 pm Depth Readings per National Weather Service

Aug 24 Aug 25 Aug 26 Aug 27

19.15’ 19.36’ 19.56’ 19.76’

Aug 28 Aug 29 Aug 30 Aug 31

19.89’ 20.01’ 20.09’ 20.14’

Aug 24 Forecast for AUG 29was: 19.30’ Aug 31 Forecast for SEPT 5 is: 19.70’ For comparison, river crested here at 31.49’ on Jan 4, 2016

WHITE RIVER REFERENCE DEPTHS

FLOOD STAGE . . . . . . . . . . . 24.00’ MAY 7, 2011 CREST . . . . . 39.43’

SUNRISES / SUNSETS THURSDAYS Aug 25 Sept 1 Sept 8

SUNRISE SUNSET 6:34 am 7:41 pm 6:39 am 7:32 pm 6:44 am 7:22 pm Earliest Sunrise

Latest Sunset

Earliest Sunset

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ISSUES )

Thursday, AUG 18

Actual #Delivery Days (varies); Date Delivered

Record Fewest #Days

WEEK’S WEATHER, RAIN & RIVER

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10. 2nd column shows, in parenthesis (1-4 days), Record Fewest # Delivery Days taken at each location.

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