The Des Arc SchoolBoard, meeting Mondayevening, accepted one res-ignation and voted to hire

two new faculty members.The resignation of high

school teacher Alison Coxof Beebe was accepted. Cox,

math teacher, has been onthe faculty two years.New teachers hired for

the 2016-17 school term in-clude Savanna Mote, sec-ondary math teacher, andBruce Guthrie, high schoolprincipal. Principal Guth-rie will be replacing Princi-pal Josh Kessler, who hasbeen on the faculty for thecurrent school term. The board voted unani-

mously to approve a $500stipend for the school year2016-2017 for each of thefollowing activity sponsors:Trap Shooting Club andArcheryThe board approved the

Certified Salary Schedulefor the next school yearalong with the Hourly Clas-sified Salary Schedule tocomply with tate require-ments. The Paid Lunch Eq-uity changes were also ap-proved.Board members present

were Stewart Morton, John-ny Reidhar, Charlie Brown,Eric Kennedy, and KentChilders. High School Principal

Nick Hill, Elementary Prin-cipal Dena Rooks and HighSchool Secretary RobbieWeaver were the onlyguests at the meeting.

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THURS., APRI. 28Softball/BaseballDist.Tour., CarlisleGirls-5:30;Boys-6:30

SUN., MAY 1, 11:00 AMDecoration DayJohnson Chapel andWalter’s Chapel

SUN., MAY 1, 3 PMDAHS Band ConcertHigh School gymnasium

MON., MAY 2State Track MeetEngland-Sr. High Only

MON & TUES, MAY 2 & 3Kindergarten RoundupDes Arc Elementary

TUES., MAY 3 @ 6:30 PMBand Banquet at Dondies

THURS., MAY 5, 12 NOONNational Day of PrayerCourthouse Square

SAT., MAY 7, 11:30 AMClass of 1951 Reunion Sue Margrave homeCall 1-500-200-2220

MON., MAY 9, 6 PMAcademic BanquetElementary Cafetorium

TUES., MAY 10, 5:30 PMAthletic BanquetElementary Cafetorium

WED., MAY 11, 8:30 AMKindergarten GraduationElementary Cafetorium

FRI., MAY 13, 8 PMHigh School GraduationHinson-Rollins FieldIf rain: High School Gym

THURS., MAY 19 6 PMSixth Grade GraduationElementary Cafetorium

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DES ARC, ARKANSAS (COUNTY SEAT) PRAIRIE COUNTY“A FREE PRESS AND A FREE PEOPLE - AN UNBEATABLE TEAM”

VVOLUMEOLUME/Y/YEAREAR 109, 109, WEEK 38 (5,673 TOTAL WEEKS)1 S E C T I O N - 1 4 P A G E S

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QUAD CYCLE BUILT FOR ONE: Jerry Greenwood, Des Arc Utilities superintendent,riding his 10-gear, “Quad-cycle” he built from three scrap bicycles, a baby stroller and mis-cellaneous parts. He’s already turned down offers to buy it. Originally intended as a 2-wheeler only, the stroller “training” wheels had to be added to maintain balance. The mainframe is made of galvanized pipe welded together; welded reinforcing bars connect thestoller wheels to the main frame. The handle bars are located below the hips. The seatis made from a damaged road sign. To help pass some long winter nights, Jerry startedon this project last December and finished it (if it’s finished ?) “a couple of months ago”.

Six to graduate with honors from Des Arc High SchoolKallie Roberts, Valedictorian; Bailey Greenwood, SalutatorianSix seniors will graduate

with honors in commence-ment excercises to be heldon Friday, May 13. Leading the 2016 Class is

Kallie Roberts as Valedicto-rian and Bailey Greenwoodas Salutatorian. Those who will also

graduate with honors areSarabeth DeVore, GabbyHamric, Johnny Gray, andBrooke Kellar.Commencement speak-

er will be Paul Guess,owner of Guess and Com-pany and the Baccalaure-ate speaker is Philip Ayala,Youth Minister at GospelMission Church in Des Arc. Escorting the Class of

2016 are Juniors Lexi Cook,Will Gray, Lauren Mappsand Jobie Smith. Ushersare Madison Evans andHayden Flud. The honor graduates

and their biographies areas follows:

Kallie Roberts is Vale-dictorian of the Class of2016. She is the daughter of

Jodi and Tammy Roberts ofDes Arc.She has been a member

of the FTA for six years,FCCLA and FFA one year,National Honor Society fortwo years, Beta Club for sixyears and has participatedin Track (four years), Bas-ketball (six years), and Soft-ball (three years). Kallie has been on the

Student Council for twoyears and the Yearbookstaff for one year. Kallie’s plans are to at-

tend ASU-Beebe. Her ad-vice to undergraduates is“work hard, play hard, getenough sleep, go out withfriends and rememberwhat is really important”!

Bailey Greenwood isSalutatorian of the Class of2016. She is the daughter of

Jerry and Amy Greenwoodof Des Arc.Bailey has been a mem-

ber of the FTA for fouryears, FCCLA for one year,FBLA for four years servingas secretary for one year,

Beta Club for four years,National Honor Society fortwo years having served asvice president in thetwelfth grade. She is president of the

Student Council and hasserved as vice presidentShe has been a member forthree years. Bailey has beenpart of the Yearbook stafffor two years and is cur-rently Editor. She was selected as

Homecoming Senior Maidof Honor, Prom Server andwas Sophomore Class pres-ident. Bailey has been a dancer

for eleven years with tenyears in competitive com-petition and dances withthe Cabot Dance Academy. She plans to attend

Arkansas Tech Universityin Russellville and will bemajoring in Communica-tions. Her advice to under-graduates is “Keep Godfirst in everything you do.Everything will fall intoplace after that”.Continued on Page 2

Kallie Roberts Valedictorian

Bailey GreenwoodSalutatorian

Johnny GrayHonor Graduate

Sarabeth DeVoreHonor Graduate

Brooke KellarHonor Graduate

Gabby HamricHonor Graduate

Dalton Jennings, a student at Des Arc High Schoolwas taken to Unity Health (White County) Hospital forinjuries he received in a one vehicle accident onMonday afternoon, April 25 on Highway 38 West bythe late Milton and Maysel Ballowe residence. It wasreported that Dalton, driving an older model Chevro-let pickup, suffered a concussion and a broken arm.He was later transported to Arkansas Childrens Hos-pital for further examination. Dalton was travelingwest on Highway 38 after school. Witnesses statedthat a tie-rod came off causing him to veer off to theright and into the ditch embankment. He is the son ofBryan and Jenny (Price) Jennings.

STEAMBOAT DAYS DONATION: Casey Ingle, Steam-boat Days co-chairman, left, accepts a check for $1,000.00from Tyler Cox, Loan Officer with Farmers and MerchantsBank in Des Arc. The local bank has supported the eventsince its beginning in 1986. The 31st Annual SteamboatDays Festival will be held June 2-4 at Des Arc, according toChairman T. J. Nelson.

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School board accepts resignation;makes two hires for next term

Courts dismissFredrick Owensmurder trialState vs Fredrick

Owens, 59N-CR-2012-28,has been dismissed be-cause the case was notbrought to trial within thetime required by ArkansasRules of Criminal Proce-dure, according to DeputyProsecutor Tim Isaac.Owens, who was ac-

cused in the death ofDonovan Buck in 2012 wasbeing held here awaitingtrial. Due to circum-stances, Owens will notstand trial and he has beenreleased.Prosecutor Isaac ad-

vised that the rules that setforth the time in which adefendant must bebrought to trial are com-plex and strictly enforced. Deputy Prosecutor

Isaac made the followingstatement in regard toOwens’ release from incar-ceration here on Wednes-day this week:“Although the current

Prosecuting Attorney, Re-

becca Reed, was not in of-fice at the time, the Officeof the Prosecuting Attor-ney accepts the lawfulnessof the order dismissing thecase; she and her DeputyProsecuting Attorney forPrairie County are disap-pointed that the victim’sfamily cannot receive jus-tice that would have beenafforded by a trial of theaccused. “Thanks to popular po-

lice shows on television,almost everyone is famil-iar with the set of warningsthat begins, “You have theright to remain silent.” “But mostly, only those

concerned with eitherprosecuting or defendinga criminal case are famil-iar with all of the rules thatthe pollice, lawyers, andcourts are required to fol-low when someone is ac-cused of a crime. “The rules of procedure

require that a criminal

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National Arbor DayFriday, April 29

Hug or/and Plant a Tree !

National Arbor DayFriday, April 29

Hug or/and Plant a Tree !

Secretary of AgricultureTom Vilsack was in LittleRock on Friday, April 15,2016. He was here as aparticipant of the ClintonSchool Distinguished Lec-ture Series. Secretary Vil-sack spoke to a nice sizedcrowd in one of the Mar-riot Hotel conferencerooms.

His address covered awide range of agriculturalrelated topics includingthe work that USDA is do-ing to promote opportuni-ties in rural communitiesfor those folks whose la-bor is no longer needed onthe farm. He was perhapsthe first public official I’veheard confess the short-coming of our govern-ment to plan for this situa-tion brought about by thefantastic technological ad-vances that productionagriculture has adoptedover the decades. Thehigh level of productivityand efficiencies of today’sproducers has brought ad-vantages but with it comesa downside of fewer work-ers being needed to pro-duce even more com-modities than in the past.Larger and few farmsmeans fewer job opportu-nities in the productionagriculture sector.

Secretary Vilsack out-lined a variety of programsUSDA has implementedthat are intended to helprural residents remain insmall towns and commu-nities. There are somesuccesses in certain areasby those developing solarand wind farms to pro-duce electricity as an ex-ample. High-speed Inter-net access has also helpedcreate businesses that cannow produce productsand sell worldwide from arural area. There is alsomuch research being donein the bio-fuel area suchas the use of crop residue,animal fats and crops thatcan be processed into bio-diesel or other fuels.

The Secretary acknowl-edged that the farm econ-omy is going throughsome rough times but oneof the bright spots is that

energy costs are still farbelow what they had beenfor a long time. He an-swered a wide range ofquestions from the audi-ence that ranged fromconcerns of GeneticallyModified Organisms(GMOs) to the use of an-tibiotics in animal agricul-ture, trade agreementsand their impact.

As someone who nolonger farms but who hasfollowed farm policy is-sues for a long, long timeand who cares a great dealabout what is happeningin our rural economy, I’mgrateful that I was able tovisit with Secretary Vilsackand to have the opportu-nity to compliment himand President Obama fortheir recent trip to Cubaand the progress they aremaking in normalizing re-lations with what wasonce a thriving exportmarket for Americanfarmers. I also passedalong to the Secretary thatI feel we are likely to see afinancial train wreck in-volving a large number ofproducers this fall. Thefarm safety net that hasbeen a lifesaver for manyproducers during eco-nomic downturns hasbeen lowered nearly to thefloor, so that it no longerprovides much cushion. Iasked the Secretary, know-ing of his limitations, toplease be thinking whathe and his departmentmight be able to do to off-set the pain. He told methat he would do what hecould, but the reality isthat his discretionary au-thority is limited.

I also mentioned ourlocal disaster broughtabout by Bunge NorthAmerica closing theirgrain handling facilitieson the White River andthat in my opinion it wasdue to a failure of infra-structure maintenanceand that it was probablyoutside his bailiwick but Iwas hoping he might dis-cuss this crisis with othersin the cabinet.

I mentioned to the Sec-retary, that we had lost

several good paying jobsby Bunge’s action in addi-tion to the loss of a mar-keting opportunity andthe competition it provid-ed plus the transportationcost savings we have en-joyed for many years. Thetotal damage from losingcommercial transporta-tion provided by the WhiteRiver is going to causemore pain in the farmcommunity.

The complex and oftenmisunderstood and underappreciated array of farmprograms is not an easything to understand andexplain. It’s just not assimple as some think. I’veoften thought that if farm-ers and others could bemore focused on whatproduction agriculturemeans to a communityeconomically, instead ofthinking of it in terms ofwelfare for farmers, wewould all benefit by takinga broader view of the is-sue. The economic activi-ties generated by produc-tion agriculture have a fargreater impact than somemight think. Unfortunate-ly, the problems occurringfrom concentrated farmnumbers and the aging ofproducing farmers is notconsidered a national“farm problem” simplybecause production con-tinues with ample sup-plies of food and fiberavailable for Americansand the export market.

It’s a sobering realitybut all the well-intendedattempts at rural develop-ment are not aimed at, norwill they impact, thehealth of the productionsector. It is the producersof the five basic commodi-ties that are being radical-ly concentrated and infrank terms support forthat sector is in decline.The producers of corn,wheat, rice, cotton andsoybean/oilseeds that arethe base of the world’sfood supply are not beingserved well by the politicalprocess. This is not to saythat rural residents otherthan farmers don’t needand deserve any and all

programs designed tohelp them continue to livein rural areas, they do!But, until the politicalprocess places more im-portance on the contribu-tion that production agri-culture provides to our ru-ral economies, the con-centration in farm num-bers and land ownershipis likely to continue. Idoubt that anyone in thefarm community feels thatthey deserve a guaranteedprofit but a farm programsystem designed to pro-vide a safety net conceptthat can offset the shockfrom collapsed marketprices and/or weather re-lated disasters could pro-vide real benefits to notonly farm families but tosociety as a whole. If any-one can figure out how toget that recipe adopted bycongress, they just mightbe able to change the faceof rural America. Withoutchange, instability in mar-ket prices and supplieswill be more common re-sulting in further concen-tration in farm numbersand the rural businessesthat serve them.

But, being one of themfor most of my life, I cansay that while Americanfarmers are the best pro-ducers in the world theyare absolutely the worstsegment in the nationwhen it comes to tendingto their political business!Strangely the political sideof their business, thatmost choose to ignore orconfuse with other issues,deserves as much consid-eration as their successfulproduction practices, inmy humble but hardearned opinion.

Submitted byHarvey Joe Sanner

Political NotesSome political notes, local, state and national:“All politics is local,” the late Speaker Thomas P.

“Tip” O’Neill once asserted, suggesting -- correctly --that liberal Massachusetts (Note: seven of its last 10governors have been Republicans, if a bit to the leftside of their party nationally) has rather much in com-mon with conservative Arkansas, conservative Dixie,conservative America. So the conversation in yourstate capitol these days centers less on Hillary andBernie, and Donald and Ted and John, than on thefresh tumult in its public school system. And on towhat extent your state Highway Department will re-configure its emerging, burgeoning riverfront district.

Local issues, yes, but of statewide significance.You’ve read, surely, that the Little Rock School Dis-

trict, the state’s largest and most litigious, will soonhave a new superintendent. Actually, the state educa-tion director, former Sen. Johnny Key of MountainHome, is the superintendent, as the state educationboard seized control of the district many months ago.Or is Key the nominal superintendent, since he an-swers to Gov. Hutchinson? Doesn’t much matter, asboth men have acknowledged that the dismissal of thewidely respected Baker Kurrus was a public relationsdebacle. Optics aside, both Mr. Hutchinson and Keyinsist the time was right to replace Kurrus. The newman is the soon-to-be former superintendent of Ben-tonville schools. He will not be greeted in Little Rockwith open arms, not by teachers or patrons, who arestill organizing demonstrations demanding the returnof Kurrus and local control of the district. They will getneither. They, and the city, will get more litigation. Youwill help pay for it. Where is the situation headed?Other than a federal courtroom, I don’t think anyoneknows.

You will also help pay for whatever the powers thatbe ultimately decide will replace the existing Interstatehighway that links Little Rock and North Little Rock.Public works have a public cost beyond the dollars andcents and community activists, some of them, con-tend the price is too high no matter the final path, nomatter the federal-state financial ratio. How manylanes should a metropolitan Interstate have? Howmuch is revitalization worth?

Less local than statewide yet plenty local: “ArkansasWorks.” It was the Private Option, the state’s adapta-tion of the Affordable Care Act, when approved inthree previous legislative sessions. Now, after yet an-other reauthorization, the Medicaid expansion is al-most certainly institutionalized, its benefits toproviders and hospitals in large cities and small townsinsulating it politically as surely as Medicare and Med-icaid. More than a quarter-million Arkansans nowhave health insurance through Arkansas Works, manyof them previously without coverage. The cost of theircare, too often delivered in emergency rooms, was ab-sorbed by physicians and institutions and passedalong in higher charges (and higher insurance premi-ums) to those with coverage. In Little Rock as in Wash-ington, there has been proposed no serious alternativeprogram.

And this: without Arkansas Works the state budgetwould have imploded. Significant cuts to general fundagencies including prisons and higher educationwould have been unavoidable. So would damage toMr. Hutchinson’s credibility.

The national: the majority of Arkansas’s delegatesto the Republican presidential nominating conventionin Cleveland this summer remain essentially uncom-mitted; the courtship will continue. In the meantime,consider last Tuesday night: Hillary went four for five,her delegate count putting still more distance betweenher and Bernie. The Donald: five for five, with marginsthat ran from 55 to a staggering 64 percent, substan-tially better than he performed in finishing first, at 33percent, in Arkansas.

You had to wince for Kathleen Parker, a conserva-tive columnist for the [begin ital] Washington Post[end ital]. Witty, common-sensical and ordinarily per-ceptive, Parker wrote a little too early for Tuesday, andmore than a little off-key for the times. “It’s little won-der that the “Stop Trump” movement has gained trac-tion,” she opined, in a column entitled, [begin ital] Pla-to Would be Horrified by Trump’s Rise [end ital]. TheCruz-Kasich alliance, if it holds, will be tested for realin the Indiana primary. Still, Parker is correct in thatPlato would look askance at The Donald, as would theother Greeks, who stressed logic over emotion in pub-lic affairs, and who were fearful of a rouge outlier’s ap-peal. Ethos, pathos, logos -- now, where’s the marketfor that stuff today? But give Parker credit for conced-ing the point: “It is also highly unlikely that Trumpsupporters give a hoot.”

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We could do better!

China-based Sun Paper has chosen Arkansas as thesite of its first bio-products mill in North America, Gov.Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday.

As incentive to attract Sun Paper over competing pro-posals in Arkansas and Mississippi, the county will in-vest $10 million in economic incentives funded by asales tax passed by voters in 2014

China chooses Arkansas for bio-products mill

Johnny Gray is an Honor Graduate ofthe Class of 2016. He is the son of LeslieSpence and David Spence of Cabot.

Johnny has participated in football forthree years, basketball for three years, andtrack for one year.

He has been a member of the Beta Clubfor four years and FFA for four years andhas held the office of reporter.

Johnny’s plans are to attend the Univer-sity of Mississippi upon graduation. Hisadvice to undergraduates is, “Don’t be afool, stay in school.”

Gabriel “Gabby” Hamric is an HonorGraduate of the Class of 2016. She is thedaughter of James and Hope Hamric ofHickory Plains.

While attending Des Arc High School,Gabby was a member of the FFA for oneyear, FCCLA for four years, FBLA for fouryears, and Beta Club for four years. Shehas also participated in Trap Shooting forone year.

Gabby stated that she would most likelyattend ASU-Searcy after graduation buthas not made definite plans on where shewill attend college.

Her advice to undergraduates would be,“You are capable of amazing things. Youjust have to put your mind to it and workhard”.

Brooke Kellar is an Honor Graduate ofthe Class of 2016. She is the daughter ofKeith and Debbie Kellar of Des Arc.

Brooke has been active during her timeat Des Arc High School. She has been acheerleader for six years, a member of theStudent Council for two years and has

been a member of the Beta Club for sixyears.

Brooke also has been a member of theFCCLA for four years, National Honor So-ciety for two years, FBLA for three years,FTA for six years, Yearbook staff for twoyears, FFA one year and was crownedHomecoming Queen for 2015.

She has held the office of president ofthe FCCLA, vice president of FBLA andStudent Council and secretary of the Na-tional Honor Society.

Brooke plans on attending ASU-Beebeupon graduation. Her advice to under-graduates is, “Believe in yourself and allthat you are. Know that there is somethinginside you that is greater than any obsta-cle.”

Sarabeth DeVore is an Honor Graduateof the Class of 2016. She is the daughter ofTim and Teresa DeVore of Des Arc.

While at Des Arc High School, Sarabethhas been active in the National Honor So-ciety for two years, Beta Club for six years,Library Club for one year, FCCLA for oneyear and FTA for six years.

She has participated in track for threeyears, basketball for five years, been amember of the Yearbook staff for one yearand on the Student Council for two years.Sarabeth has held the offices of presidentof the National Honor Society and histori-an for FBLA.

Sarabeth’s plans are to attend ASU-Beebe after graduation. Her advice to un-dergraduates is, “Look for something posi-tive in each day, even if some days youhave to look a little harder.”

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Officers of thePrairie CountyFarm Bureau,

O. F. Eastham, HickoryPlains; Will Hardke ofHazen, secretary-treas-urer; and Paul Shimek ofHazen, vice president;are proud of PrairieCounty, named as thefirst county in the stateto reach their member-ship quota of 300, with311 members.

Along with other ob-servances of Easter inDes Arc, many little boysand girls of this city, inthe neighborhood of theStewart Mill, enjoyed agreat big Easter Egg hunton Sunday afternoon atthe home of Mr. and Mrs.P. V. Gammon.

Robert M. Hayley, sonof Mr. and Mrs. EugeneHayley of Rt. 2, Des Arc,has begun an intensivecourse of study in avia-tion mechanics at theArmy Air Field in Amaril-lo, Tex, one of the newestschools in the Army AirForce’s Technical Train-ing Command. Upongraduation, he will besent to one of UncleSam’s air bases to keepthose Flying Fortressesin the air.

The Hickory PlainsDemon-startion Clubmet April 21 with Mrs. H.B. Carlisle with 11 mem-bers present. They votedto help the Red Cross bymaking garments forrefugee children. MissSwindler gave a demon-stration on how to makequick cheese which isvery useful in farmhomes.

Mr. and Mrs. DaveSpeight have received aletter from their daugh-ter, Jessie, who is in theWAVES (Navy). Shewrites that all traffic inBoston stopped and thecity gave the WAVES andSPARS, a nice welcomeand they marchedthrough town (550young military women).The eats are grand, shesaid; first time she hashad toast since leavingMrs. Alice Brown’s in DesArc.

The Arkansas Ord-nance Plant at Jack-sonville announces thatthrough the facilities ofStation KARK Little Rock,a radio program will bepresented each Fridayafternoon at 1:00 withinformation about theplant. The radio listenerswill hear news of greatinterest about Arkansas’

largest war industry.

The Des Arc FFAChapter has received acheck in the amount of$15.00 which was award-ed as second prize win-ner in the 1942 StateChapter Contest, saysFFA Chapter advisor,Cecil E. Myers.

There will be a Chil-dren’s Day Program ren-dered at the PresbyterianChurch, Sunday, May 2,at 11 o’clock. Everyone isinvited.

Ragan’s Barber Shopand J. M. Harmony’sShop announce that dueto increased costs of bar-ber supplies, the price ofshaves will increase to 25cents and haircuts to 40cents on May 1.

Miss Hallie GraceWray, who has been em-ployed at the Jack-sonville Ordnance Plantfor several months, isspending a short vaca-tion here with her par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. ElmerWray.

Among the manygood things that can besaid about PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, heis a good-will maker, asocial guest wherever hegoes and goes where hechooses to go, and is awelcome visitor at allpoints. En route to Mexi-co two weeks ago, he wasmet in Arkansas by Gov-ernor Adkins and a partyin Little Rock. He tookthe occasion to viewCamp Joseph T. Robin-son, one of the largesttraining centers in the U.S.

There are many “lit-tle” things going on inDes Arc that the law en-forcement officersshould take cognizanceof, and aid in correctngmany bad habits nowbeing indulged in by theyouth of this community.Though it may be inno-cent pastime, matchingpennies, shooting dice,breaking street lightsand windows out of pub-lic buildings, staying upand out late at nights isnot good for better citi-zenship of any commu-nity. Of course, the cor-rections of immoralcomduct should begin athome; parents are toblame for permittingmisconduct of their boysand girls in many in-stances. Proper instruc-tion at home will go along way n rightingmany wrongs.

AMother andDaughter enter-tainment was

given by the Royal Orderof Homemakers Club inthe high school auditori-um Friday evening, April29. Miss Virginia Livesaywas toast mistress. Oth-ers on the program wereMiss Eva Mae Wicklund,Miss Elsie Johnson, MissPauline Gravenmier.Messrs. J. W. Watson andW. I. Booe, School Boardmembers spoke words ofappreciation of theHome Economics De-partment which has onlybeen in the school heretwo years. Miss LenaRussell is the teacher.

The Fifth District Lit-erary Meet was held atForrest City on April 29.Juanita Loretz and BillCaskey represented thelocal school in stagework. They both broughthome honors in expres-sion and declamation.Bill Walls and AllenRichardson won secondplace in track events.

“The Wild Oats Boy” acomedy drama spon-sored by the Boys Athlet-ic Club of Hickory Plains,will be presented thereSaturday night, May 7.The play will be present-ed at Johnson Chapel at alater date.

Will Wells, manager ofthe newly organized ballteam of Des Arc, will playthe City Employees Teamof Little Rock on the localfield here Sunday after-noon.

Earl Page, Commis-sioner of Agriculture inArkansas, shares a letterhe received from a hillfarmer, stating: “Every-one up here is working toget their crops in; won’tplant very much cotton.We are going to raisecorn, oats, kafir, cane,sweet and Irish potatoes,tomatoes, all kinds ofgarden truck, and somepigs, chickens andcalves; don’t have anyideas where the money iscoming from; hope wewill be lucky.”

Graduation exercisesfor 17 seniors will be heldthe week of May 8. Grad-uates are: DorothyAtkins, valedictorian;Juanita Loretz, salutato-rian; Owen Walls,Dorothy Berry, BoydWray, Olga Thomas, Ver-non Thompson, HelenBacon, Bill Caskey, SarahHill, James Walls, JewelHalliburton, BruceDixon, Dallas Webb, Elsie

Johnson, Ben Erwin andMark Bell. This is thelargest graduating classin many years.

Des Arc had a realtreat in a May Day pro-gram which was present-ed on the school campusTuesday afternoon bythe first, second andthird graders. The festivi-ties opened with a Maypole dance by tiny greenelves and white wingedfairies. Two white cladHeralds bearing long sil-ver trumpets announcedthe coming of the queen,clad in white satin andpearls. The queen wasDolores Brown, littledaughter of Mr. and Mrs.L. R. Brown. The pro-gram was under the di-rection of Mrs. HarveyNall, Miss Kathryn Baconand Mrs. H. S. Loretz. Wehope this will become anannual event of theMerry Month of May.

Ye editor acknowl-edges the receipt of anice crate of strawberriesfrom our old friend, W. N.Story of Griffithville,thanks.

Mrs. Dada L. Greer,District Deputy GrandLecturer of the 11th Dis-trict, Order of EasternStar, accompanied byMiss Opal Wray, Mrs.Tom Ragan, and Mrs. L.E. Hinson of the Des ArcChapter No. 416, visitedPulaski Heights ChapterO.E.S. of Little Rock lastThursday night.

We have receivedword that Esq. D. O. Ottsof Brasfield had enteredthe race for Representa-tive of Prairie County. Heis well known in that sec-tion, is serving as Justiceof the Peace of thattownship, and is one ofour best citizens.

Chancellor FrankDodge held a term of hiscourt here Tuesday. At-torneys attending courtwere J. F. Holtzendorff ofHazen, W. A. Leach ofStuttgart, Ross Mathis ofCotton Plant, J. G. andJohn D. Thweatt of De-Valls Bluff.

Twelve varieties ofvegetables are growing inclub gardens at Slovak bymembers of the SlovakGardening and CanningClub. Sophia Lorince,Mary Sandow, FrancesPushkarsky and MildredPlafcan reported theyhad 12 varities. Mary andMildred received theircertificates for havingcompleted their fouryears in club work.

Cpl. Leroy O.Gales, 22, wasdischarged at Ft.

Chaffee, Ark., on April 10.Leroy was in the 11th Air-borne and received hisparatrooper training at Ft.Benning, Ga. He has justreturned from 26 monthsin Germany.

Word was receivedhere this week that theFleet Drilling Co. of Ada,Okla., has quit oil drillingin South Prairie County.They had been drilling onthe Virgil Ives farm southof Ulm. Final drilling wasat 11,000 feet but theyfound a dry hole andabandoned it.

Henry Brown, Justice ofthe Peace, fined six menof Griffithville for drunk-enness and disturbing thepeace. The men and oneyoung boy had stoppedtheir car north of theBayou in Holy Woods andwere engaged in consum-ing a case of beer whilestopping passing cars.One was fined $30 andfour were fined $10 fordisturbing the peace, theyoung teenager, who hada car, was fined a total of$14 for not having a driv-ers license. Deputy SheriffO. E. Owens made the ar-rests.

Attorney Joe M. Pirtleof Des Arc won his firstjury trial since he was ad-mitted to the bar in a caseagainst a life insurancecompany’s refusal to paya bill to the Des Arc Gen-eral Hospital.

Jimmy Tate made 7 1/2points for the Des Arcsenior team at the DeltaRelays at Helena on April5 which put Des Arcabove several of the townsrepresented. He madefirst in the 440 with a timeof 53.4 and tied for sec-ond in the broadjumpwith 13 school enries. Hejumped 19 ft.10 in. Thesenior team consists ofTate, Bill Heard, Alvin Mc-Farlin, Larry Tefteller,Larry Tucker, Jimmy Felts,Frank Winford and Ron-nie Baldwin.

A large number ofneighbors and friendsheld open house at thenew home of Mr. and Mrs.Joe Keller at the corner of11th & Erwin Sts. on Fri-day evening, April 11.Mrs. Leo Simmons wassponsor with the assis-tance of Mrs. G. P. Mullen,Mrs. Archie Patterson andMrs. W. A. Ferguson. Mr.Keller is manager of

Nichols Implement Co.

W. R. Lee, owner of theRice Theater here, saidthis week that he will bestarting a Sunday nightmovie after church, at8:30 p. m. The first showwill be “An Affair to Re-member”. The 2 p. m.show will go on as usual.

Pvt. Leland DeVore, 7thField Hospital, FortBelvoir, Va., spent the pastweek here with his family.Leland has just complet-ed a Medical Supplycourse at Ft. Sam Hous-ton, Tex.

The junior-senior ban-quet will be held Fridaynight, May 2. After thebanquet, class membersand their guests will at-tend a late show at theRice Theater. Mrs. DadaGreer is senior sponsor;James C. Lankford is jun-ior sponsor.

The sports editor at thePine Bluff Commercialwrites, “District 8A, whichhas the state’s best Class Abasketball setup, has lostone of its finest youngcoaches. Jim Ford willleave Star City in favor of asimilar job at Des ArcHigh School. Ford is re-turning to his hometownto take some of the coach-ing load off Don Muse. Hewill also be carrying ateaching load in science,chemistry and biology.

Richard Loretz is help-ing Boice Minton operatehis large rice farm west oftown this year. Richardand his family havemoved into the nice farmhome on the place for-merly known as theBridges place.

Des Arc Lumber Co. isgiving 20 Baby Chicks freewith each purchase of a25 lb sack of Purina ChickStartena. Come in andregister April 25-26; yourchicks will be here May 2and 3.

McMillen’s Groceryand Fetters West End Su-permarket advertise thatthe Grand ChampionSteer, raised and shownby Larry Tefteller at the1958 Prairie County FatCalf & Barrow Show,puchased by Little RockPacking Co., will be soldto local people Friday andSaturday at their markets.

The history of OakPrairie churches andschools, written byPauline Burnett Stephensappears in this issue ofyour newspaper.

Also from the Past

Sunday outing in Des Arc 89 years ago (from last week’s issue)Photo furnished by Windle Porter, Griffithville Mayor

All dressed up with leg propped up on a wheelbarrow left atop wood decking of the new toll bridgeunder construction across the White River in fall of 1927 is Edward McAllister. In background look-ing north across river (out of sight below) and toward the south tower are 4-5 more people (3 ladiesstanding and 1 man with similar white shirt and cap squatting, to left of tower - could’ve very wellbeen three couples). A few planks, not yet cut to size, extend out over the west and east edges ofthe bridge deck. The bridge’s main span was to be the longest of its type anywhere in Arkansas.

Two previews into a single 1917 photo set for next week’s issueProminent Prairie County citizens to be identified from over 100 attending an important April 1917meeting in Memphis will include: Bedford Bethell, John Booth, Dr. G. Gilliam, Quinton McCuin, DickToll, G. W. Sparks, John I. Booe, R. H. Romunder, Capt. McClintock, J. G. Thweatt, Alvin Harris, AsaWright, R. W. Bowen, Dee Newhart, I. T. Sims, Walter Williams and ? Screeton

Edward McAllister was born April 29,1906 in the Jasmine area and marriedBirdie Porter, Windle Porter’s great aunt, in1927. His father was J. B. McAllister andhis mother was an Eans.Construction of the suspension bridge

was begun May 2, 1927 and completed foruse March 15, 1928. It included the mainspan (650’ in length), two back stay spans(320’ each), the east approach (760’) andthe west approach (608’), making a totallength of 2,658’, or over half-a-mile.

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Karen Marcella Cain, 80,of Griffithville diedWednesday, April 20, 2016at Mercy Hospital in FortSmith, Arkansas. Mrs. Cain was born July

11, 1935 in Memphis, Ten-nessee to Marcus and Annie(Benton) Evans. Survivors include one

daughter, Alice Crozier; twosons, Walter (Marilyn) CainandThomas (Kerrie) Cain,six grandchildren, LeighaCrozier, Grayson Crozier,Levi Cain, Elixis Cain,Colton Cain and TaylorCain; two great-grandchil-dren, Dawson Shelby and-Daye Shelby,and one broth-er, Irvin Brock. She was preceded in

death by her parents, herhusband, Walter Cain; twosisters and two brothers.A graveside funeral serv-

ices was held at 2:00 P MSaturday, April 23, at Wel-come Home Cemetery withBro. Gary Neal officiating.www.garthfuneralhome.com.

Lola Gene Haller Jacobs,85, of Little Rock, formerlyof Stuttgart, died Monday,April 18, 2016, at BaptistHealth-Little Rock.Lola was born April 12,

1931, in St. Charles to PaulMerritt Haller and RosaPriscilla Varnadore Haller.She attended DeWitt HighSchool and retired as abookkeeper from StuttgartCo-op. Lola loved to readand look at pictures onFacebook, but her greatestpleasure was baking andcooking for her family andfriends.Besides her parents, she

was preceded in death byher husband, Marvin LynnJacobs; one sister, Paula SueGahagan; a grandson, BrianArnold; and a granddaugh-ter, Terri Skillen.Survivors are three sons,

Larry Jacobs of Reserve, La.,Donnie Jacobs and wifeCarol of Casscoe and MarkJacobs and wife Jamie ofLittle Rock; two daughters,Kay Skillen and husbandJohnny of Pine Bluff andDebbie Arnold and hus-band Travis of DeRidder,La.; one brother, Joe Hallerof El Reno, Okla.; one sister,Dorothy Morris of Arling-ton, Texas; seven grandchil-dren; 10 great-grandchil-dren; and one great-great-grandchild.Funeral services, officiat-

ed by Jay Jacobs, are 11 a.m.Wednesday at Turpin Fu-neral Home chapel withvisitation one hour prior toher service.Burial will follow in Lone

Tree Cemetery.

Marie Elizabeth Cross,85, widow of Jake Cross,passed away Thursday,April 21, 2016, at her homein Stuttgart.Mrs. Cross was born

Sept. 28, 1930, inHumphrey to Louis W. andBertha Grahnert Haller. Following her retirement

as housekeeping supervisorat Stuttgart Memorial Hos-pital, she was a caregiver.Marie enjoyed reading,cooking and crocheting,but loved flowers and work-ing in her garden. She was amember at StuttgartChurch of Christ.Besides her parents and

husband, she was precededin death by three brothers;one sister; a grandson,Michael Cross; and son-in-law, Dennis Eason.Survivors are one son,

Doyle Cross of Stuttgart;two daughters, Kay Lockand husband Billy ofAthens, Texas, and SandiHolbert and husband Bill ofStuttgart; three brothers,

Dorothy Sullivan Clarke,102, of Stuttgart went hometo be with her Heavenly Fa-ther and family on Wednes-day, April 20, 2016. She was born August 5,

1913, in Center Hill,Arkansas, the first of foursiblings. Her father hadmultiple business occupa-tions which resulted inmany moves during herchildhood. In the spring of1931 the family moved toHazen, Arkansas, whereDorothy met Harold Clarke(son of F.L. and Ila Clarke).They were married in Sep-tember 1932. She remaineda Hazen resident for 79years before moving in 2011to the home of her daughterand son in law, Carol andBobby Wilson in HotSprings. She attendedchurch at The Lake ShoreHeights Baptist Church inHot Springs where shehelped in the nursery.She took with her many

happy memories of thepeople she knew and loved.She was preceded in

death by her parents, Rev. GF. Sullivan and Lucy Harri-son Sullivan; her husbandof 48 years, Harold Ham-man Clarke; sisters, DarlissSimons, Rhena Chapmanand Gussie Guyer, and hergrandson, Mike Wilson. Those left to cherish her

memory are her childrenCarol Wilson and husbandBobby of Hot Springs,Bobby Clarke of Hazen,Linda Pich and husbandGeorge of Denton, Texas,and Barbara Norman ofBella Vista, Arkansas.She is also survived by

grandchildren Mark Wilsonof Stuttgart, LaureeBartholomew of Batesville,Clarke Pich of SouthLake,Texas, David Pich of Frisco,Tex., Joe Pich of San Anto-nio, Tex., Bill Norman ofBentonville, Ar, and JeffNorman, of Bentonville,sixteen great grandchildrenand one great-great grand-child.Funeral service was at 2

p.m. Saturday at WestbrookFuneral Home in Hazen,Chaplain Teddy Frye ofGentiva Hospice of HotSprings officiating. Pallbearers were her

grandchildren.

William C. Denham age40 of North Little Rock,passed away Tuesday, April19, 2016. He was employed at Ally

Finance Company for 14years.He is survived by his

mother, Donna and step-father, Bill Driver; grand-mother, Virginia Driver, andspecial loving aunts, unclesand cousins.Chad was preceded in

death by grandparents, Ver-non and Eloise Ellis andWilliam Driver, Sr.Funeral services were

Friday, April 22, at 2:00 P.M.at the Westbrook FuneralHome Chapel in Hazenwith Bro. Christian Van-Houten officiating. Pallbearers were Scott

Crump, Larry Lynn Ellis,David Dullis, Joey Worring,Joey Nicholas, and DannyKelly.Burial was in the Hazen

Cemtery.William’s great-grand-

parents at Des Arc were thelate George and Maud Ellis.He has a number of rela-

tives in the Des Arc area in-cluding the J. T. Hambrickfamily.

Rita Joy Churchwell, age49, of Searcy, died Thurs-day, April 21, 2016 in LittleRock. She was born October 1,

1966 in Evanston, Illinois toRaymond Ralph Church-well and Lena MarieHodges Churchwell. She is survived by one

brother, Huston RayChurchwell and DonnaTucker of McRae; one sister,Twilia Kay Lance and hus-band David of Trinity, Ala-bama; two nieces, AshleyMarie Churchwell of Pang-burn and Destiny HopeLance of Trinity; and onenephew, Tristan Karl JubalLance of Trinity. She was preceded in

death by her parents, Ray-mond and Lena Church-well; and one brother, PaulEdmond Churchwell. Funeral services were

Monday at 10:00 am atPowell Funeral Home inSearcy.Interment followed at

Welcome Home Cemeteryin the Northside Communi-ty, Des Arc.

Don Wayne Highfill ofMorgan, Ark., passed awayThursday, April 14, 2016. He was born Dec. 21,

1946 to the late John C.Highfill and Nadine (Hack-ney) Highfill.He was a member of the

Immaculate Heart of Maryat the Cathedral of St. An-drew. He was an Army vet-eran of the Vietnam Warand was assigned to the25th infantry "Tropic Light-ening" Division. He later onbecame a Sergeant in theNational Guard, rank E5 for10 years.He is survived by three

brothers Dennis Highfill ofPlainview, Dale Highfill ofCarlisle, Daniel Highfill ofThornburg; one sisterDanea (Highfill) Felts ofCarlisle; 12 Nieces andNephews, Chuck Highfill,Aimee White, April Highfill,David Highfill, DeniseHighfill, Darla Dennis, DaleHighfill Jr., Mathew Highfill,Heston Highfill, PatonDrake, Clint Felts andShana Felts. 29 Great-Nieces and Nephews.A Memorial Service was

held with military honors atArkansas State VeteransCemetery, North LittleRock, Tuesday, April 26, at12 p.m.In lieu of flowers please

send donations to ALS As-sociation, www.alsa.org.

Karen Marcella CainRita Joy Churchwell

Adolph H. Oltmann Doris Pasley

Lola Gene Haller Jacobs

Marcella Cain’burial at Welcome Home

Don W. Highfillburied with fullmilitary honors

Wanda Lou Colclasurewas related to local family

Harold Dollar buried at Cotton Plant

Rita Churchwellburial Monday atWelcome Home

Service Saturdayat Hazen forDorothy Clarke, 102

William Denhamhad relatives inPrairie County

Services heldat Ulm forAdolph H. Oltmann

Marie Crossdies at Stuttgart

Lola Haller Jacobs,former Stuttartresident, dies

Doris Pasley grewup during theGreat Depression

Gladys M. Robbinswas member ofSweet Adelines

Doris Pasley, 93, ofCarlisle, the second of sevenchildren born to Amos andBessie Cohorn, was bornOctober 22, 1922 and diedApril 24, 2016. She was thelast survivor.She was raised in the

Gravel Hill community dur-ing the very heart of the de-pression; she understoodwhat it meant to be poor.Doris grew up on a rockyfarm in hard times; an expe-rience similar to many oth-ers of her time and place.The days of chopping cot-ton, milking cows, cooking,caring for her blind grand-mother, as well as otherwork, prepared her far bet-ter for the life she came toknow than the time spent inthe rural schoolhouse downthe road a few miles away.She came to Jesus as a

teenager at the small Baptistchurch she attended inGravel Hill, Arkansas. Dorislater taught children’s Sun-day School and VacationBible School. Through theyears, her service also in-cluded preparing for an un-known number of churchpot lucks and Sunday din-ners.On July 4, 1942, she mar-

ried Raymond Pasley at thepreacher’s house late in theday after the preacher hadfinished feeding his stock.They were married outsidewith little ceremony. Yet thishumble beginning did notmake them feel slighted inthe least, but rather happyto just be together.

They were devoted toeach other until death part-ed them when Raymonddied in 1996. Their unionproduced four sons: Larry,wife Alicia; Alton, wifeSharon; Mike, wife Jan, andDonnie, wife Janet. Thereare eleven grandchildren,nineteen great grandchil-dren and six great, great,grandchildren.Doris was a farm wife,

and while he worked on thefarm, she worked in thehouse and raised her boys.Raymond had the easier job.Doris also worked for over30 years at the Shirlyn Shopin Carlisle, helping Lucy,Faylynn and Windy with thestore.Funeral services were at

10:00 A. M., Wednesday,April 27, at the First BaptistChurch in Carlisle.Burial was in the Carlisle

Cemetery by Westbrook Fu-neral Home of Hazen.

Gladys Marie Robbins,96, of Stuttgart passed awayFriday, April 22, 2016, atCrestpark Nursing Home.She was born Sept. 17, 1919,in Stuttgart to Edd andMaude McCollum House,one of six children born tothis union.Gladys graduated from

Stuttgart High School in1937. She entered BeautySchool in Little Rock in Juneof that year. Upton comple-tion she was employed atCarlson’s Beauty Shop, inStuttgart, until her marriageon Jan. 1, 1939, to ArleyRobbins of Hagler, Ark.They moved to Ft. Wayne,Ind., where he was an engi-neer for the railroad. In1948 they learned boththeir sons were diagnosedwith muscular dystrophy.They returned to Stuttgartso she could be with herfamily.Gladys’ husband was

employed with LayneArkansas Company as amachinist. She was a recep-tionist for Dr. Max Denmanfor 16 years until her hus-band chose to open his ownmachine shop. She was hisbookkeeper for eight yearsuntil his health forced themto retire.Gladys was a member of

First United MethodistChurch of Stuttgart whereshe was an active memberof the choir for over 50years. She was a chartermember of the Little RockChorus of Sweet Adelines,Inc. for 45 years. She trav-eled to many states in com-petition with Top of theRock Chorus. She also was amember of the CommunityChoir of Stuttgart. Gladys’passion in life was singing.She was preceded in

death by her parents; herhusband; their two sons,Max and Donnie Robbins;two sisters, Ruth Mock andMargaret Frances House;and one brother, Allen“Snookie” House.Survivors are two sisters,

Dorothy Grace and Kathy(Rayford) Swint, both ofStuttgart; and numerousnieces, nephews and ex-tended family.Funeral services, officiat-

ed by Dr. David Bush, wereat 2 p.m. Monday at FirstUnited Methodist Churchin Stuttgart. Burial followedin Lone Tree Cemetery.

Adolph Herman Olt-mann, age 92, of Brinkleypassed away on Saturday,April 23, 2016. A son of thelate Adolf E. and Marie Olt-mann he was born in Ulm,Arkansas on March 15,1924. He received his earlyeducation from HeinrichSchool in Ulm.Adolf met the love his life

Virginia Cruthis, under theferris wheel during theduck calling contest atStuttgart. They began dat-ing but Adolf was serving inthe US Navy, so theircourtship continued thrucorrespondence. He re-turned home on May 1,1946. They had not seeneach other since Decemberof 1942. On May 12, 1946Adolf and Virginia wereunited in marriage at theZion Lutheran Church inUlm, Arkansas. In Februaryof 1949 they settled inHunter to farm and raiseand family.Over the years their fam-

ily was blessed with twosons and two daughters.And later the birth of 9grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Adolph en-joyed hunting , fishing, gar-dening and spending timeat his cabin on Maddox Bay.He also enjoyed driving theroads at Dagmar and theCoffee Group at Gene’sRestaurant.He is survived by two

sons, David Oltmann andwife Gatha of Monticelloand Dale Oltmann andwife, Mary of Brinkley; twodaughters, Jennifer Martinand husband Rickey ofBrinkley and Lisa Chappelland husband Michael ofMcCrory, two brothers,William E. Oltmann andwife Kathryn of Brinkley,Charles Oltmann and wifeMargie of Ulm and 9 grand-children, Stacy (David) Von-dran, Michael (Andrea) Olt-mann, Jeremy (Amber) Olt-mann, Dr. Michael Olt-mann (Catriona) Oltmann,Regina McCormick, Kane(Emily Martin, Hannah(Matthew) Catlett, Saman-tha ( James) Long and HaleyChappell and 11 great-grandchildren.Services were at 11:00

AM, Wednesday at ZionLutheran Church in Ulmwith Pastor Johnny Grahamofficiating. Burial followed in Zion

Lutheran Cemetery by BobNeal & Sons Funeral Homein Brinkley

Wanda Lou Colclasure,74 of Bryant, passed awayApril 23, 2016. She wasborn December 10, 1941 inLittle Rock to the lateThomas Henry and LauraKathlene King Wilson.Wanda was of the Baptistfaith.She was preceded in

death by her parents,brothers, Gene, Cliffordand Lloyd, sisters, Hazeland Helen.Wanda is survived by her

husband of 56 years, JamesK. “Coco” Colclasure ofBryant; sons, Ronny Col-clasure and wife, Donna ofNorth Little Rock andKenny Colclasure and wife,Terri, of Little Rock; daugh-ter, Sheila Colclasure of Lit-tle Rock; brother, HoraceWilson of Bryant; sisters,Bonnie Bearden and hus-band Gleason of Lonsdale,Billie Jean Brock and hus-band Sonny of Little Rock,

Shirlene Ferguson and hus-band Jimmy of Bryant, JoyAnn Ferguson and hus-band, John of Bryant,Louise Ferguson and hus-band, Charles of Salem, sixgrandchildren, Aaron (Jes-sica) Bratton, Kyle Bratton,Michael (Haley) Colclasure,Dalton Colclasure, Monica(Tyler) Litfin, Laura Colcla-sure and four great grand-children, numerous nieces,nephews and friends.Pallbearers will be Aaron

Bratton, Michael Colcla-sure, Kyle Bratton, TylerLitfin, Steve McGuire andFranklin Baker.Chapel services by

Ashby Funeral Home willbe at 1:00 p.m. Thursday,April 28, with burial to fol-low at Pine Crest Cemetery.Wanda Lou’s husband

was originally from theHickory Plains/Butlervillearea near Des Arc.

Harrold Thomas“Dummy” Dollar, age 70 ofFair Oaks, Arkansas passedaway on Wednesday, April20, 2016.Funeral services were

Monday, April 25, at 10 a.m.at the Thompson-WilsonMcCrory Chapel. Interment with Masonic

Rites was in Cotton PlantCemetery. Thompson-Wil-son Funeral Directors ofMcCrory was in charge ofarrangements.He was born on May 13,

1945 in Cotton Plant, toWalter Earl Dollar and Myr-tle Marie Wheeler Dollar.Harrold Thomas Dollar,loved bonfires with friendsand family, enjoyed hang-ing out at Max’s Fair OaksCafé and frog gigging. Inthe past he worked at theNaval Base in Indian Head,Maryland, Del Monte inRochelle, Illinois and Pro-ducers in Fair Oaks from1970 to 2007 when he re-tired. He was a member ofthe Masonic Lodge in Mc-Crory where he was a Mas-ter Mason for 26 years. Heloved spending time withhis grandchildren and hisgreat-granddaughter.

He was preceded indeath by his parents, twobrothers, Donald Kerr Dol-lar and Walter Eugene Dol-lar and one sister, Nita MaeTinkle.Mr. Dollar is survived by

his wife of 44 years, Mar-lene Tucker Dollar, twosons, Rickie Dewayne Dol-lar and wife Brittany ofWynne and Damien Longand wife Felicia of Jones-boro; two daughters, Rhon-da Renee Dollar Stuckeyand husband Boyce (Pete)of McCrory and KimberlyShea Dollar and husband,Rufus Devers V of Wynne;six grandchildren, and onegreat-granddaughter.Active pallbearers were

Masons, Josh Currier,Roger Williamson, JonFord, Nate Steele, LoganVincent and Alan Gaines.Honorary pallbearers wereRickie Dollar, LaKota Dol-lar, Damien Long, Christo-pher Long, Bobby Don Dol-lar, Randall Dollar, RonnieDollar, Richard Dollar,Kevin Quirk, Tim QuirkDustin Poole, Rufus DeversV, Boyce Pete Stuckey andJames Tinkle.

Walter Haller, Vernon Hallerand Harold Haller; one sis-ter, Vickey Gregory; sixgrandchildren, Lisa (Cliff )Foster, Libby Groom andTim (Susan) Lock, Kaylynn(Gary) Barrett, Jake (Eliza-beth) Eason; and Amanda(Jason) DeLoach; 11 great-grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and threestep-great-grandchildren.Funeral services, officiat-

ed by Bro. Joe Spangler,were 2 p.m. Saturday atStuttgart Church of Christ Burial followed in Lone

Tree Cemetery by TurpinFuneral Home of Stuttgart.

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By Shea WilsonThe Prairie County 4-H O-Rama was held Saturday,

April 16 at the fairgrounds in Hazen. The County 4-H O-Rama is the annual competitive event that is held so 4-Hers can show off what they have learned in their 4-Hproject work. Brent Griffin, County Extension Agent-Staff Chair, Amy Carroll, County Extension Agent- Agricul-ture along with volunteer Paul Osborne conducted theoutdoor activities: Bicycle, Bait casting, and BB Shooting.Indoor competitions were conducted by Shea Wilson,County Extension Agent-Family & Consumer Sciences/4-H. Indoor activities included Illustrated Talks, MethodDemonstrations, Fashion Revue, and Performing Arts.Winners in each category are as follows: BaitcastingJunior Division: 1st Place – Jenna Holland and 2nd

Place – Adysen Johnston.Senior Division: 1st Place – Jeremiah Williams and 2nd

Place – Isaiah Williams. BB ShootJunior Division: 1st Place – Jenna Holland. Senior Division: 1st Place – Ketrina Wallace and 2nd

Place tie – Isaiah Williams and Jeremiah Williams.BicycleJunior Division: 1st Place – Adysen Johnston and 2nd

Place – Jenna Holland.Senior Division: 1st Place – Jeremiah Williams and 2nd

Place – Isaiah Williams.Method Demonstrations and Illustrated Talks1st Place winners in the Senior Division: Safety – Ketri-

na Wallace, Health – Isaiah Williams, Human Develop-ment - Sara Beth Toll, and Consumer Economics - AleighaSmith.Fashion RevueSenior Division: 1st Place – Angela Hoover.Performing Arts VocalSenior Division: 1st Place - Angela Hoover.Performing Arts InstrumentalJunior Division: 1st place – Shayleigh Smith. First place junior and senior winners have the opportu-

nity to compete in their event at the District 4-H O-RamaThursday, June 16 in Forrest City. Cloverbud members(ages 5-8) who earned a special ribbon for their participa-tion in County O-Rama events included: Will Spratt, JolieSpratt, Mackenzie White, K Adysen Johnston. Thanksto the parents and club leaders who assisted with the day’sevents and to Mitzi Osborne and Cara Whiting for judgingthis year’s contest. 4-H is the youth development program of the Universi-

ty of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extenhe Prairie County Extension Service at 870-998-2614 or“like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/prairi-coarkansas4h. You can also email smwilson@uaex.edu.

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By Shea WilsonEach year, Arkansas Farm Bureau conducts a statewide

contest to find the best tasting, most original dairy dish.County conalso held in each each county. This year’s Prairie County Dairy Foods Contest was

held Saturday, April 16, at the Prairie County Fairgroundsin conjunction with County 4-H O-Rama .

First place winner in the Party Idea category wasAdysen Johnston with her entry of Pizza Dip. Adysen re-ceived $20 and a special prize. Adysen’s winning recipe follows:

Pizza Dip

Ingredients:6 ounces light creamcheese½ cup light sour cream1 teaspoon oregano½ cup pizza sauce1 cup shredded part-skim Mozzarella cheese½ cup grated Parmesancheese¼ cup diced red peppers¼ cup sliced greenonions

Whole-wheat breadsticks or crackersDirections:Combine cream cheese, sour cream and oregano in

bowl. Stir until smooth. Spread evenly into a small pieplate or quiche pan. Top with pizza sauce, cheeses, pep-pers and onions. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, oruntil cheese is melted. Serve with whole-wheat breadsticks or crackers.Yield: Makes 10 servingsTotal Time: 25 minutes

Second place winner, receiving $15 was Ketrina Wal-lace with her entry of Cream Cheese Squares and thirdplace winner, receiving $10 was Shayleigh Smith with herentry of white cupcakes with whipped cream cheesefrosting and strawberry garnish.

First place winner in the Main Dish category wasAleigha Smith with her entry of Tortellini Bake. She alsoreceived $20 and a prize.

Aleigha’s winning recipe follows:

Ingredients:4 Tablespoons Butter1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder2 Tablespoons Cream Cheese

Fresh Ground Pepper¾ Cup Half and Half1 Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese¾ Cup Heavy CreamDirections: In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the

butter, cream cheese, half and half, and cream together.Whisk in the garlic powder and parmesan. Season with asmall of freshly ground black pepper. Simmer, stirringoften, until the sauce has thickened to a creamy consis-tency.

Baked TortelliniIngredients:Pasta Sauce2 Cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese20 oz. Package of Ricotta, Parmesan,1 Cup Shredded Parmesan and Romano Tortellini (Buitoni brand)Instructions: Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Boil water

and cook tortellini according to package. Place Alfredosauce in baking dish, then add cooked tortellini andparmesan cheese. Top with Mozzarella and bake at 350for 30 minutes. Serve and enjoy. Both winning recipes will be submitted for judging at

the state level. The top four winners selected in each category will

prepare and serve the recipes at the State Cook-Off inJune in Little Rock.

Winners in Dairy Dish competition announced

Aleigha Smith, main dish winnerAdysen Johnston, party idea winner

Thelma Gray and Dawanna Keys, volunteer judges for the event

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Having a good time at the O-Rama Winners at 4H O-Rama

Volunteere Paul Osborne, left, assists BB shooter Bicycle Obstacle Course contestants

Prairie County Little 4-Hers Extension Chair Brent Griffin judges Bicycle competition

4-H O-Rama helps kidsshowcase project work

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Words of Faith/Church News Words of Faith/Church News

Sunday, April 24in DEs ARc

First Baptist Church 231/243Gospel Mission....................172Lakeside Miss. Baptist..54/118First United Methodist........60Faith Missionary Baptist.61/70Family Worship Center........50First Assembly of God36/39Fellowship Miss. Baptist....... 30Church of Christ................17Church of God of Prophecy.. 28Living Waters Full Gospel.....21

AREA chURchEsHickory Plains Miss. 60/81Morris Chapel Miss. Baptist..29Pleasant Ridge Miss. Bap. 25/39Hickory Plains Methodist..... 25Hickory Plains Nazarene...... 14Judson Memorial Baptist...... 28Sand Hill Miss. Baptist...12

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FF A I T HA I T H TT R A C K SR A C K SBy Rev. Dee Harper

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The Time is Now: The Hard RightScripture: Haggai 1:1-11

Su n d a y S c h o o lC h u rc h A t t e n d a n c e

I was reading an article this weekby an active duty army officer. Histheory was that leadership in themilitary at least in his experience hadbecome too much about the leaderand not enough about the men andwomen they lead. He said that toomany unit commanders boil leader-ship down to their officers setting anexample by getting a haircut andgoing to PT. This writer said you mayhave a clean shaven head and beable to run 15 miles easily but if 15 ofyour soldiers or getting dischargedfor failing their PT then are you real-ly leading.

The writer then told a story abouta very smart young corporal who wasgreat at his job as an analyst. The guycould rattle off not only facts, butsolid strategic-level analysis aboutany country in Central Asia and put itin a white paper with a pretty ribbonon top that you could submit to anynumber of journals. The problemwas that he had trouble passing hisPT. This soldier - Army had spentfour years investing time and moneyin feeding, clothing, training, and yetinstead of helping him overcome hisPT issues by working on diet andhealth advice and motivating himbetter they basically left him highand dry.

Now I know some people woulddisagree with this article and haveway more experience than I do aboutthe military, but I was struck by theway this officer ended the article. Hesaid, “Don’t get me wrong: I under-stand completely that there are sol-diers who give up, who are beyondreaching. There’s no doubt that theyexist, and sometimes we have to cutthem rather than take precious re-sources away from those in our for-mations who want to succeed. Butwe as Army “leaders” have grown toocomfortable choosing the easywrong over the hard right, and blan-ket all those who present a challengeto us as examples of the formerrather than entertain even the slight-est possibility that they are (just inneed of help.)

This week’s scripture comes fromthe book of Haggai. The prophetHaggai is speaking to a post exilecommunity that is still feeling theshock of a significant Persian politi-cal crisis. There was a mysteriousdeath of the emperor Cambyses andthere was a new emperor Darius.During this time 520 b.c. Darius wasshoring up his own political powerand in 521 he would be faced with arevolt by the people in Egypt.

Eighteen years earlier the Emperorat that time, Cyrus, had sent a groupof 50,000 Hebrews who had been ex-iled in Persia back to Jerusalem to re-build, especially to rebuild the tem-ple. They were led by Zerubbabel,the governor of Jerusalem, and a de-scendant of the last legitimate rulerof Judah, Jechoniah. They were alsoled by Joshua who the high-priest.

The original project did not findsuccess and so no work had beendone for fourteen years by the timeGod raised up Haggai as a prophet.Haggai’s prophetic ministry and hisbook is all about getting the peopleback to work rebuilding the temple.His message is ‘the time is now’.

God used Haggai to cut throughthe people’s excuses. He said you livein paneled houses while the temple

still lies in ruins. Paneled houseswere a sign of luxury while the tem-ple was a mess and still ruined. Thepeople’s priority was on their owncomfort and security and even luxu-ry while God’s house was not fin-ished and their original reason for re-turning was not accomplished.

It reminds me of the warning thatJoshua, son of Nun, gives to the peo-ple when they first enter the prom-ised land in Deuteronomy 6:12,“then take care lest you forget theLord, who brought you out of theland of Egypt, out of the house ofslavery.” In this case they had forgot-ten their reason for leaving Persia.

I don’t believe that these 50,000were bad people but they had lettheir discouragement, the realizationthat this was going to be hard workrebuilding the temple, and the con-flict they faced be a reason to makeexcuses that now was not the time.David Guzik gives a list of excusesthe people used:

The land was still desolate after 70years of neglect

The work was hardThey didn’t have a lot of money or

manpowerThey suffered crop failures and

droughtHostile enemies resisted their

workThey remembered easier times in

BabylonTheir excuses may seem legiti-

mate but they were also a symptomof the fact that they had lost their vi-sion for their mission. Instead of themission, they were living out theirpersonal dreams of comfort and se-curity. And as a result Haggai saidthey weren’t really satisfied.

What about us? Have there beentimes where we have made excusesor chose the easy wrong over thehard right.

We keep a sin we are dealing withsecret instead of asking for help.

We keep charging or buying whatwe want even if we don’t need in-stead of practicing delayed gratifica-tion or self-denial.

We choose to hold on to a grudgeinstead of forgiving and seeking rec-onciliation.

We choose to follow what thecrowd does or believes instead ofchoosing to be different and followwhat God desires.

We choose to quit when peopleput up roadblocks or are critical ofwhat we believe we are supposed tobe doing.

In one of the Harry Potter movies,Dumbledore Harry’s headmasterand mentor tells him when he isfaced with a tough decision, “Wemust face the choice between what iseasy and what is right.” InDeuteronomy 30:19 we hear thesewords, “"Today I have given you thechoice between life and death, be-tween blessings and curses. Now Icall on heaven and earth to witnessthe choice you make. Oh, that youwould choose life, so that you andyour descendants might live”

How do we make the hard right?We do it by the choices we make andthe actions we take. Step by step.

I pray that each of us this week willlook to make the hard right decisionversus the easy wrong.

May God bless you.Brother Dee

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have been a real comfort and I am so grateful to have somany friends .

Please continue to remember me in your prayers as Icontinue to remember and appreciate your thoughtful-ness.

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The Walter’s ChapelCemetery Board invites allto attend their annual Dec-oration Day on Sunday,May 1, 2016.

Pastor Greg Tenison andthe Congregation of theWalter’s Chapel MissionaryBaptist Church also extenda warm welcome to attendtheir 11 a.m. service.

A potluck beginning atapproximately 12:30 p.m.will follow. If you plan toeat, please bring a potluckfood item to share. Paperplates, eating utensils,cups, water and ice are pro-vided. Since folding chairsare limited, we encourageeveryone to bring yourown.

At approximately 1 p.m.there will be a welcomewith introduction of Ceme-tery Board Members fol-lowed by an introduction ofour gospel entertainers,Highway 86. Prior to theirfinal song, “I’ll Fly Away”,those individuals who havedied since last May andburied at the cemetery willbe recognized and a bal-loon given to each family to

release. Those passingaway since last DecorationDay were: Alma Lois andDolphie Ricks, Carolyn“Yvonne” Ingle, CarolynByrum, and Brandyn De-wayne Chance.

Contributions may bemade on Decoration Dayor mailed to Sharon HuntWakefield, Treasurer, Wal-ter’s Chapel Cemetery, 162Stacey Lynn Terrace, Ward,AR 72176.

If you have questions orneed directions please con-tact Nancy Felts Dunlap at501/681-3589 or email herat dunlap.nancy@att.net.

Don’t Forget!Mother’s Day is Sunday May 8

National Day of Prayerspecial obserance hereThursday, May 5

All residents of Des Arcand surrounding commu-nites are invited to attend aspecial National Day ofPrayer service to be heldThursday, May 5, at thePrairie County CourthouseSquare beginning at 12:00noon.

Several local churches

and pastors will be partici-pating in the service.

“Everyone is invited tocome during the noonhour to pray for the Lord’sblessings and guidance ofour community, ourschools, our city, state andcountry,” said local partici-pating pastors.

Walter’s Chapel announcesspecial services this Sunday

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Decoration DaySunday atJohnson Chapel

The annual Homecom-ing will be held at the John-son Chapel MethodistChurch on Sunday, May 1.Known for over 100 years as“Decoration Day”, it con-tinues to be the day for allresidents and former resi-dents to gather for decorat-ing graves in the nearbycemetery and to enjoy fel-lowship and worship to-gether another year.

Keith Knupp, Deacon inthe First Baptist Church inDes Arc, will be speaker at11 a. m.

Daniel Hayley, a fifthgeneration family son, iscoordinator for the annualevent, following in the foot-steps of his Uncle Bob.

Everyone is invited to at-tend the service and the“dinner on the ground” thatwill follow. The church is lo-cated nine miles west ofDes Arc.

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Lemon FlavorRecipes

From Rev. Jaimie Alexander

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By Barbara Williams, Site Director

From theKitchen ofRev. JaimieAlexander,Ministerat Bella VistaUnitedMethodistChurch

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One of my favorite pies is a LemonMeringue. My Grandmother Alexandermade delicious lemon pies and it becamemy favorite pie as a child. My mother hasalways loved the flavor of lemon also sothat is another reason I love this flavor.This week's recipes all use lemons:

Lemon Meringue Pie, Lemon ChessPound Cake, Lemon Lime Pound Cake,and Lemon Curd. So buy a flavor lemons and enjoy prepar-ing these refreshing desserts>

Lemon Meringue Pie1 (9 inch) pie shell, baked1 cup sugar1/3 cup cornstarch1/4 teaspoon salt2 lemons juiced (about 1/2 cup)1 tablespoon lemon zest4 egg yolks, keep the whites for themeringue2 tablespoons butter or margarine1 1/2 cups water

Using a wire whisk mix sugar, cornstarchand salt. Mix in lemon juice, zest, eggs,butter and water. Cook over medium lowheat until filling thickens. Remove andpour into pie shell. Top with meringue.

Meringue Topping:4 egg whites2 tablespoons sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat egg whites with mixer, add sugar andvanilla, and continue beating until peaksform. Spread on top of pie covering entirepie. Place under oven broiler untilbrowned or bake in preheated 350 degreeoven until brown on top.

Lemon Chess Cake2 sticks butteror margarine or 1 cup, melted1 cup brown sugar1 cup white sugar4 egg yolks2 cups all-purpose flour2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons vanilla extract1/2 teaspoon lemon extract4 egg whites1 cup nuts of your choice, OptionalMelt the butter and combine with brownsugar, white sugar and egg yolks mixingwell with mixer. Add flour, baking powder,salt, vanilla extract and lemon extract andcontinue beating. Beat egg whites in aseparate bowl until stiff and fold into batterwith a spoon mixing well. Fold in nuts.Generously spray bundt pan and pour inbatter. (You can make this cake in a 9 x 13pan, too.) Bake in preheated 350 degreeoven for 40 to 45 minutes until centertests done. Sprinkle with powdered sugaror drizzle on lemon glaze recipe below.

Lemon Glaze3 teaspoons lemon juice1 cup powdered sugar4 tablespoons milkBeat with whisk or spoon until you get theright consistency to pour over cake. Canadd more milk if needed. (Can heat a fewseconds in microwave. This makes it eas-ier to pour. I use a small pitcher and driz-

zle over cake.)

Lemon-Lime Pound CakeServings:16 ServingsIngredients

Cake3 sticks Butter3 cups Sugar5 whole Eggs3 cups All-purpose Flour1/2 teaspoon Salt1 cup 7-up1 Tablespoon Lemon Zest1 Tablespoon Lime ZestGLAZE2 cups Powdered Sugar, Sifted1/4 teaspoon Salt1 Tablespoon Lemon Zest, Dried For AtLeast 30 Minutes1 Tablespoon Lime Zest, Dried For AtLeast 30 Minutes1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice1 Tablespoon Lime Juice1 Tablespoon Water + More As NeededInstructionsPreheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted withthe paddle attachment, cream togetherbutter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time,mixing after each addition. Combine flourand salt, then add it 1 cup at a time, mix-ing after each addition. With the mixer onlow, slowly add the 7-Up until combined.Add 1 tablespoon of both lemon and limezest and mix. Scrape the bowl and mixagain.Thoroughly spray a bundt pan with non-stick baking spray. Add large spoonfuls ofbatter until the pan is filled, then even outthe surface. Bake for 1 hour 10 to 1 hour15 minutes. Remove the pan from theoven and let it sit in the pan for 15 min-utes. Carefully turn it out onto a cake plateand let it cool.Combine all the glaze ingredients in abowl and gently whisk until thick butpourable. Use a large spoon to drizzle itall over the cake. Let the glaze set, thenslice and serve!

Lemon CurdIngredients8 Egg Yolks1 cup Plus 1 Tablespoon Sugar1/2 cup Lemon Juice2 Lemons, zested12 Tablespoons Butter, cut into piecesInstructionsPlace the egg yolks into the top of a dou-ble boiler or a heat-proof bowl. Beat vigor-ously for a minute. Add sugar and beat foranother minute. Add lemon juice and zestand give it another good stir. Place bowl over a pot of simmering water(make sure the bowl isn't touching thewater). Cook, stirring, until the mixturethickens. This can take anywhere from 10to 20 minutes. Stir in the butter a piece at a time, whisk-ing until each piece is nearly completelymelted before adding another one.Strain mixture through a fine-mesh sieveinto a storage container. Cool for a bit.Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hoursbefore serving. Will keep for about 5–7days in the refrigerator.

Jaimie Alexander

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Congrats to all the DesArc High School Seniors of2016 and hope everyoneenjoyed their prom week-end. We look forward to hav-

ing Ray back with us nextweek too! We were out busy all

week playing Bean BagBaseball and the Tourna-ment. Monday, we played a

practice game men againstwomen, and the men wonas usual. We left out early Tuesday

morning to the Tourna-ment at Aldersgate in LittleRock. That morning wasthe terrible with wrecks onthe freeway, so we got therelate. Mrs. Shirley Goff wassupposed to sing the Na-tional Anthem but gotcaught in the traffic, too. We won our first game

against Brinkley. Then,after lunch, we lost ourgame against Bryant so wedidn’t have to go back thenext day. Since we were outof the tournament, wewere able to stay at thecenter and enjoy our usual

Breakfast and Bingo. Mrs.Linda played and sang forus also. Thursday, we left out to

Benton to play anotherBean Bag Baseball gameand we won 16-11. We ateout at Western Sizzle beforecoming back home. Friday, we played puz-

zles and colored. Our yard sale room is

open every Thursday from8-11 am, we are addingnewly donated items everyweek. Please drop off any do-

nations for our silent auc-tion for 3rd Annual Grillsand Gowns FundraiserMay 14th at the Cabot Na-tional Guard Armory. This event benefits our

Meals on Wheels programfor Lonoke and PrairieCounty. Stop by the Center to

pick up registration formsfor the BBQ cook-off con-test and the Miss Heart ofArkansas Pageant ages 0-99. Vendor booths for busi-

nesses and crafts will beavailable again this year,

bounce houses for the kidsand Popeye’s Chicken willhave their catering teamserving their world famouschicken and sides at theconcession stand all day.Doors open at 10:30 AM.You will not want to missthis year’s events! Don’t forget! Our hand-

made quilt will be raffledoff at Grills and Gowns, $1a ticket of 6 for $5. Friday, May the 6th

starting at 6pm we will behaving a Bean and Corn-bread supper and Ms.Nola’s homemade friedpies here at our SeniorCenter to benefit our Sen-iors that are going to be inthe Ms. Heart of ArkansasPageant. This will be donation

only, and we will have livemusic! Everyone is wel-come to attend. God Blessand have a great weekend!

Barbara Williams, SiteDirector

Olivia Holcomb Osborn,Meals on Wheels

Congratulations to theSenior Class of 2016! Theywill be graduating fromDes Arc High School onFriday, May 13. Mrs. Sue Berry celebrat-

ed her 90th birthday thispast week here at Des ArcNursing and Rehabilita-tion. Everyone sang“Happy Birthday” to herand had cake. She had awonderful day. Our fishing trip to Hazen

had to be postponed butwe are making plans toreschedule. We have beenseeing pictures of big fishbeing caught locally.Jordan came on Satur-

day to pop us some pop-corn and the Des Arc Unit-ed Methodist Church andLakeside Missionary Bap-tist Church came on Sun-day to bring us the wordfrom the Good Book andfellowship with us. We have played Bingo,

had ball toss, played board

games, watched movies onthe Big Screen TV, excer-cised, reminisced, goneshopping for the residents,listened to the news,played horseshoes anddominoes and played theWii. The Disciples will be

here Friday morning andthe Ice Cream truck will behere in the afternoon at3:00 p.m. Snowball, the Facility

Pet, stopped by for a visitwith the residents the firstof the week. They sureenjoy seeing her. She willbe stopping by again lateron in the week. May is upon us and

school will be out soon. Va-cations begin and the col-lege kids will be cominghome for the summer. Folks are working in

their yards doing landscap-ing and cleaning out flowerbeds. Yard mowing is in fullswing. It has not been too

terribly hot but later on inthe summer, I am sure thetemperatures will climbclose to 100 degrees.There’s nothing like a tallglass of sweet, cold lemon-ade to quench your thirston a hot day! Right?! We were disappointed

that we could not have theCommunity Easter EggHunt. BUT, it has been de-cided that the egg hunt willbe held during SteamboatDays Saturday, June 4across from Dondies andbehind Living WatersChurch. I will post more infor-

mation closer to time. Weare very excited.That is all for this week.

We hope you have ablessed rest of the week.Come out to visit us!

Teresa HenleyActivity Director

SWAP AND EAT - Recipe swap at the Hazen public library. Pictured left to rightAudrey Davis, her sister, Georgia, & Allan King.

FRIENDS FOREVER: Barbara Eoff (Bobbie) Livesay enjoyed a visit from a long-timefriend, Milded Wyatt Jordan of Seal Beach, California the past week. Mildred came espe-cially to attend a birthday gathering for Gladys “Tootsie” Sanner held here last Saturday.Mildred left Des Arc years ago and lived in California for a number of years. She workedin a restaurant where she said, people like Gene Autry came in frequently. She returnedto Des Arc in 1996 and built her ‘dream home’. After 14 years living alone in Des Arc, herfamily in California decided she should come back near them. She has a son, DennisFerguson, and a daughter, Belinda Burton, five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchil-dren around close. Mildred made the trip to Arkansas by plane accompanied by herdaughter and husband, Don, of Long Beach. Mildred lives in a gated community of thou-sands of people of whom she said, “No, I don’t know all of them!” They came last Thurs-day and left Tuesday returning home.

FARM/HOMEFARM/HOME

CROP REPORTBrent Griffin

CEA-Staff ChairPrairie County

Cooperative Extension ServiceP.O. Box 388

DeValls Bluff, AR 72041(Office) 870-998-2614(Mobile) 870-351-54616

Week of April 18Days of field work: 2Top soil Moisture:

100% AdequateSub soil Moisture:

100% AdequateMajor Activities:Farmers completed

corn planting and contin-ued with rice plantingwhere rainfall was limitedearly week.

Corn and rice plantscontinue to emerge withsome early soybeansemerging.

Herbicide applicationscontinue for all crops

Pasture and hay mead-ows continue to developin response to warmertemperatures.

Crop Progress:Corn: 95% planted,

45% emergedRice: 55% planted, 15%

emergedSoybean: 3% planted,

1% emergedCrop Condition:Corn: 50% Poor, 50%

FairRice: 50% Poor, 50%

FairSoybean: 100% FairPasture/Hay: 50% Fair,

50% GoodLivestock Condition: 3 Fair

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By Ryan McGeeneyU of A System Division of AgricultureFor a brief moment a few weeks ago, it

looked as though Arkansas rice growersmight be looking at 2015, all over again.Last year’s anomalous growing seasonmade a mess of agricultural predictions,with a cool wet spring followed by pocketsof outright flooding in the summer. Plant-ing throughout much of the state was de-layed well past the date that any agrono-mist thought could produce near-opti-mum yields.

For a number of rice growers in centraland northern Arkansas, 2016 plantingbegan in mid-March under cool, clearconditions. But then, around April 4, amiraculous thing happened: The cloudsbroke; the sun appeared. In the space ofone week, the amount of rice planted inthe state rocketed from 11 percent of the1.6 million acres predicted for planting in2016 to 33 percent — exceeding not justthe abysmal amount planted during thesame period in 2015, but beating the 5-year average by 10 percentage points aswell, according to the weekly ArkansasCrop Progress and Condition Report fromthe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Na-tional Agricultural Statistics Service.

Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agrono-mist for the University of Arkansas SystemDivision of Agriculture, said that the peri-od of April 4-10 “really represented the firsttime that the entire eastern half of thestate was able to make planting progress.”

Hardke said that much of the rice plant-ed in March through the first week of Aprilwas planted on larger farms and on highground. He said many smaller growerstend to delay their rice planting somewhatbecause they may not have the resourcesto replant if heavy rains or other weatherfactors ruin initial plantings.

“In rice, the early season issues we’remost concerned with are erratic soil tem-

peratures leading to uneven emergence,or lack of germination and emergence,”Hardke said. “Seedling disease leading tostand loss, and soil crusting — which issomething we’re concerned with at themoment.

Much of the rice planting and growingseason is something of a tightrope be-tween too much and not enough rain.Thursday evening of last week, Hardketweeted photos of emerging rice inStuttgart, with the message, “Need someheat this week and rain to prevent crust-ing.”

“Seeds only have so much pushingpower to make it out of the ground,” hesaid. “And some of our soils, when they dryout, have a tendency to form a crust that’snearly impenetrable. If the plant can’tmake it out, it will eventually turn downand lose the ability to emerge.”

Corn also saw substantial gains duringthe week of mild weather, as growersplanted an additional 30 percent of an es-timated 790,000 acres, bringing the stateto about 95 percent complete for cornplanting.

Jason Kelley, extension wheat and feedgrains agronomist for the Division of Agri-culture, said several heavy rains earlier inthe month may result in crusting issues forcorn growers.

“We’ve got a lot of corn planted, butwe’ve also got a lot of corn that’s strugglingto emerge, because the soil’s so hard,” Kel-ley said. “That last rain, it came very hardand fast. A lot of this soil doesn’t have a lotof organic matter in it, so a hard rain canbeat it down, and then it dries out rapidly.That top inch is very hard, it’s almost likeconcrete.”

As of Monday morning, the NationalWeather Service predicted probability ofrain in eastern Arkansas into the middle ofthis week.

Rice & corn experience strong planting week

By The U of A System Divi-sion of Agriculture

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – IfZika-carrying insects werein the United States, themosquitoes that are asso-ciated with the virus don’tbreed in rice fields,swamps or flood waters.They breed closer to home,preferring bird baths, tiresand other containers asso-ciated with people andtheir dwellings, said KellyLoftin, extension entomol-ogist for the University ofArkansas System Divisionof Agriculture.

However, there havebeen no instances of peo-ple acquiring the diseasethrough mosquitoes in theUnited States, according tothe federal Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion. All reported cases todate involve acquiring theZika out of the U.S., andbeing diagnosed upon re-

turn. (see:http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html.)

There is concern thatthe virus may become es-tablished in the UnitedStates.

“It’s important to learnto minimize mosquitobites and the risk of anymosquito-transmitted dis-ease,” Loftin said.

There are two potentialmosquito vectors of theZika virus, the Asian tigermosquito or Aedes al-bopictus; and Aedes ae-gypti.

“These two mosquitoesbreed in artificial contain-ers more closely associatedwith people and theirdwellings,” said Loftin.“Unlike mosquitoes com-monly found in rice fieldswhich are active at night,Aedes aegypti and Aedesalbopictus are active dur-ing the day.”

Although both mosqui-toes may be present inArkansas, “for mosquito-borne Zika transmission tooccur, potential mosquitovectors and Zika infectedindividuals must be simul-taneously present,” hesaid. So, the proportion ofpotentially virus infectedmosquito vectors would besmall.”

The CDC said that only 4percent of people travelingto Zika infected areas test-ed positive for the virus. Inan April 15 report onlyabout 182 of 4,534 testedfrom January to March ofthis year were positive forZika (MMWR April 15,2016,http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html).

Controlling the pestThe two mosquitoes

prefer to breed in “smallcontainers holding stag-nant water such as bird

baths, old tires, catchbasins under pottedplants, and rain guttersthat hold water,” Loftinsaid. “Breeding sourceelimination around thehome can be very effective,especially when you con-sider that these mosqui-toes have relatively shortflight ranges – a quarter toa half mile.

“Rid your yard of con-tainers that hold water,” hesaid. “Flush bird bathsdaily and don’t forget tocheck and fix rain guttersso water doesn’t stand inthem. All sources of stand-ing water should be elimi-nated.”

Loftin also said that “thefirst line of defense againstmosquito bites are insectrepellents. Those contain-ing DEET are effective atrepelling mosquitoes.”

Wearing a long-sleevedshirt and long pants will

also reduce exposure tomosquito bites. Gear andclothing can also be treat-ed with clothing repellentsthat contain permethrin.Look for these repellentnames in various productsand follow the use label.

Rice fields While many consider

rice fields to be a breedingground for mosquitoes,not all mosquitoes are at-tracted to those areas.

Jarrod Hardke, exten-sion rice agronomist withthe University of ArkansasSystem Division of Agricul-ture, said “there are morethan thirty species of mos-quitoes common to thestate of Arkansas. Howev-er, the main species foundin Arkansas rice fields areAnopheles quadrimacula-tus and Psorophoracolumbiae.

“You won’t find the mos-quitoes that could transmit

Zika virus out in the ricefields, since they don’t de-velop in grassland or rice-land pools, only in con-tainers,” he said.

Loftin recommendsusing specific insecticidesaround the home to mini-mize the presence of mos-quitoes that live wherepeople do. In addition toprotective clothing andpersonal repellents, fog-ging outdoor areas can bevery effective.

“Fogging should be usedonly when mosquitoes aremost active because theyonly last two to threehours,” he said. “Treatingareas such as shrubberycan be particularly helpfulin controlling resting mos-quitoes.”

For more informationabout pest management,visit www.uaex.edu or con-tact your county extensionoffice.

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“In such cases, proce-dural faults committed byone side or the other actu-ally prevent justice frombeing done. Sometimes,by impartially applyingthe rules of criminal pro-cedure, terrible injustice isdone.

“This is what happenedin the State of Arkansas vsFredrick David Owens, Jr.,Prairie County Case No.59N-CR-2012-28. Basedupon the testimony of wit-nesses and scientific evi-dence, Owens wascharged with Murder inthe First Degree, for thekilling of Donovan Buck.

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I received a tele-phone call last Friday ofyet another former Gre-gory resident leaving us.Billy Joe England, whogrew up here and wentinto the Military and onhis release, not beingwork here he and JoanWhite married andmoved away, but neverforgot me, nor me them.Billy was 12 when I wentinto the Post Office andfor some reason Ithought my job descrip-tion included bossingall the kids. The Eng-lands, as well as mostothers, sent the kids forthe mail. (parents werebusy working) This oneday Mrs. England camestomping in and I couldtell she was not the hap-piest lady in town, so‘talky me’ I made themistake of asking whySHE came, she replied“It is your fault”!! So, Iasked how that couldbe. She told me!!!! Billyand George had stayedout of school to chopcotton to make somemoney for the weekendand they knew I wouldscold them for missingschool. I survived say-ing” They had thatright”.

Our Brady Holder ofDes Arc was baptizedSunday into GregoryBaptist Church. We allare so proud as she hasbeen coming here mostof her life when visitingAunt ‘Chele, Uncle Don-ny Brown and grands,the Mickey Holders. (Iwas too sick to go and

love them all enoughnot to want to give themwhat someone so gen-erously gave me).(I amtrusting that Dan did itup BROWN)

Having lunch at thegrands were Mark andNicole Holder, Bradyand her friend, Cami ofDes Arc, Jeff and TraceyNick and Lee Willis ofMcCrory and Donnyand Michelle Brown.

Last Thursday ImaJean and Vickie Lindseyand Nell Richardsonwent to the Lightle Cen-ter in Searcy to listen tothe Little Red RiverBand. On Saturdayevening they went tothe American LegionBuilding at MorningSun to hear the BackRoads Band. Some mayremember ,JoanneDixon Ashby from thisarea, who is the band’sfemale singer.

On Wednesday of lastweek I met my cousins,Rose Altom andDorothy Ball ofWilburn, at Searcy andwent to Redfield to visitSallie Dollar. On the waywe picked up MyrtleSmith in No. Little Rockand Ella Higgs in EastEnd. Six gal cousins,you can imagine the‘chatter’ that went on!!

The annual crawfishboil that happens at Ja-son Coopers happenedSaturday. I was invited,but got sick Fridaynight, so Saturday Icalled Troy Tims andtold him I wanted to‘bargain’ with him—I

would not come overand spread my germs IFhe’d bring me a plate offish—no crawfish. Hedid and that fish was sogood I called and saidthe “cooker” shouldopen his own Café andjust cook fish. Troy saidit was Joe Hall and he’dtold Joe to cook mine‘crisp’. So!! Others therewere Brian and DoraCooper and Jared Coop-er of Judsonia, Joe andJean Hall of Morton, JimMcullough of McCroryarea, Troy and DarleneTims and Ronnie andSharon Ladd of Gregoryas well as the JasonCoopers.

Jena Pfeffer spentSunday afternoon inSearcy with the LynnTranum family andJohn McNeill of HickoryPlains.

Gregory postal cus-tomers, we are getting anew person to ‘tend’ toour needs. Our personis now called PSE—Postal Service Employ-ee- not Postmaster as Iwas. She is Sherry Mor-ris of Augusta. Be niceto her so she will stay—Thersea will THANKYOU so that she can‘tend’ to her other job asPostmaster of Augustaand not have to rushout here and do this oneand rush back to herother job.

Mr. and Mrs. DavidOltmann of Monticellohave been here with theO.B. Fields family due tothe death of David’s dadin Brinkley on Saturday.

We came home fromchurch today and ouryard had been mowed.

Johnny came whilewe were gone. He had abirthday on the 19th.

Johnny and Sandycame by Saturday eve-ning and visited for awhile.

This is a very busytime of the year foreveryone, especially thefarmers.

Maybe the weatherwill be better from hereon.

We expect to hearfrom John’s nurse this

week that he has beenreleased. However, weheard that once before.He is doing very well.

We missed Dale andEvelyn Greenwalt in ourchurch services yester-day.

We have a specialservice for the boys andgirls who graduate nextSunday evening. It isthat time again and wehave three graduates toacknowledge.

We had a specialservice last Sundayevening. Our pastor hasbeen with us for 14

years and his motherand his children cameand other family mem-bers. We enjoyed havingthem in the service.

Our nurse came lastweek. It was the daythat the traffic was sothick.

About every roadaround Carlisle wasblocked. She worriedabout getting home asshe lives in Cabot.

I had a phone callfrom Bruce Ingle at DesArc one evening. He isdoing good.

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L-R: Robert Weaver. Steve Sanner, William Petty, W.R. Petty, Jude Henley with two unnamed helpers, Edgar Alverson,Donald Holland, Barbara Merrell, another unnamed helper (All three helpers were great workers and we are thankfulto them, Sheriff Gary Burnett and Jude Henley) Donna Hitt, Curtis Hitt, Drew McVay, Judy Burnett, Doyle Burnett, Os-car Holland, Mike Walters, Tressia Smith, Janet Walters, Jimbo McDonald, Caleb Hitt, Darin Burnett, C.L. Turner andJimmy McDaniel. There were several more workers not pictured and the Sand Hill Cemetery Board expresses their ap-preciation to all who helped.

VOLUNTEERS AT SAND HILL CEMETERY CLEANUP: This large group of volunteers showed up to assist incleaning the Sand Hill Cemetery east of Des Arc on Saturday, April 16.

Amazing Grace!!On a Saturday morning, April 16, 2016, at the Sand

Hill Cemetery east of Des Arc, a near miracle hap-pened. The Cemetery Board, consisting of Steve SannerChairman, Barbara Merrell Secretary/Treasurer, Donnaand Curtis Hitt, Tim Sears, Gladys Sanner and JimmyMcDaniel had put out a call for volunteers to help witha “Clean Up Day”.

While expecting a number not much larger than theboard members, they were pleasantly surprised whenabout five times that many appeared with eager hands,shovels, rakes, chainsaws, weed eaters, trucks and trail-ers and tractors with front end loaders. In record timelow hanging limbs were cut, loaded and hauled off,loose limbs and twigs were picked up and fresh dirt wasplaced on graves that needed to be replenished so thatthe cemetery received a major makeover!

The workers ranged in age from the very young toesteemed senior citizens. All who were able bodiedwere busy and those who were not able were cheeringthe younger ones on. It was an impressive sight to seethat many workers paying tribute to their family mem-bers and friends by caring for their resting places.

If you have an occasion to drive by or visit the SandHill Cemetery in the coming days, you’ll see a wellgroomed and picturesque setting that would make anycommunity feel proud; proud of the grounds andproud of the volunteers, too. If you travel the roadalong the levee on the north side of the cemetery, youmight notice three unusually large sassafras trees. Theymay not be record trees but they are pretty special.

As with any event we’ll try to name those presentand apologize to those we miss. Not all are pictured inthe group photo as some workers came later. We saywell done to all who answered the call.

Steve Sanner, Chairman of the Board

Mike Walters handling tractor work Linda Alverson and daughter on rakes Spreading dirt on graves

There will be a WeddingShower for Trevor Jonesand Candace Nelson (Can-dace is from Stuttgart) Itwill be May 7th at 2 PM atthe HP Baptist Youth Cen-ter. All family and friendsare invited. It will be hostedby the Jones family. Theyare registered at Wal-Mart,Kohl’s, Dillard’s, Bed, Bath& Beyond. Their weddingwill be June 19th. Will givewedding info at we get it,location and time.

Sorry several firemenmissed the CRVFD meetinglast Tuesday night. Not toosorry, Vanessa Graham hadmade them yummy cinna-mon rolls, so she and Mick-ey dropped off some forClara Clark, Bob and meWednesday.

Mickey and VanessaGraham ran around all daylast Wednesday picking upfarm equipment parts.

Clara Clark , Bob and Ihad lunch at HPOS Sunday.We were glad to get to seeGranny Nell Price; as wewere leaving, she was get-ting gas.

So glad Granny NellPrice enjoyed her birthdayMonday. I saw a picture ofher beautiful cake. SallyBeth (Price) Walker takescare of Granny and PapawBully!

So thankful for all thePrayers for Dalton Jenningson Monday. He is the son ofBryan and Jenny (Price)Jennings. He left the roadat our late Milton Ballowe’sresidence on Hwy. 38. Histruck shows you it’s a MIR-ACLE he came out of it.Prayers worked. Because atUnity Hospital in Searcy,they knew he was in badshape and transferred him

to ACH in Little Rock. ACHhas the best Children’sTrauma Unit. He cameaway with a broken arm.

Best way (in my columnto let Evans family knowthis info) Carla Evans had akidney removed (cancer-ous) Tuesday at a hospitalin Bartlett, TN. She was insurgery about four hours.They appreciate all thePrayers and continuedPrayers. They are all strongin their FAITH ! They had tosend off to make sure can-cer is contained in that onekidney. Uncle Jerry andAunt Linda Evans, her hus-band, Marlon, and all theboys and family were there.Send her a card of encour-agement, 3811 Shelby Rd.,Millington, TN 38053.

Vanessa Graham en-joyed her day Tuesday. Shewent to Carlisle. She spentthe day visiting her AuntBrenda Flynn and PeggyRettig. Her night didn’t goas well. She ended up atSearcy with Lola Brannon.They took James AllenBrannon, thought appen-dix, but said it wasn’t andsent him home.

Come enjoy time with usat the next “Ladies DropBy”, Tuesday, May 10, atHickory Plains MethodistChurch. Lots of goodlaughter, food and it helpsus to relax just to be togeth-er!

(REMINDER) People tocall 870-854-3703 or emailme (OpalCrider@century-tel.net) their News. Pleasecall or send!!! If you wantbirthdays in my columnand you know I don’t put

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People can still call meto get crosses from JewelAshmore. The stained glassin the cross is from theHickory Plains UnitedMethodist Church thatburned 4 years ago.

HPOS wants to let every-one know that Tracy willserve breakfast on Sundaymornings. She will alsohave a Sunday lunch spe-cial for $5 .99. Dinner SPE-CIALS on TUESDAYS &FRIDAYS! Come out & en-joy!

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On Monday, April 25, th2A Region Six Junior HighDistrict meet was held atEngland High School. TheJunior Lady Eagles scored184 points to run awaywith the Jr. Girls Champi-onship. Kipp Delta fin-ished Second. Madison Lewis, an

Eighth grader, scored 41points to win the Out-standing Athlete Award. Following is a list of the

top performers in eachevent:100m Hurdles: Kirsten

Kennedy-Third-21.83100m-Madison Lewis-

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rt-7:11.57; Jacey Adams-Fourth-8:13.5; Sadie York-Sixth-8:37.84; Emilee John-son-Seventh-8:42.06.4x400m Relay: First-

5:18.5-Kennedy, Vogeltanz,Harrell, Flud.4x800m Relay: Second-

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brick-Third-62’9”; MarlayaWashington-Seventh-57’

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brick-Second-29’4”; ZylerTaylor-Eighth-24’ 6”.Long Jump-Caroline

Harris-Second-13’ 5”;Kirsten Kennedy-Fifth-12’9”; Riley Barksdale-Sixth-12’6”; Madison Lewis-Eighth-12’6”Triple Jump-Madison

Lewis-Second-28’9”; Caro-line Harris-Third-27’0”; Ri-ley Barksdale-Sixth-24.5”;Kirsten Kennedy-Seventh-23’11”.“This group of kids real-

ly worked hard this yearand made tremendous im-provement over the courseof the season,” said CoachJ.D. Babb. “If this group ofkids can stay together andthey continue to improve,they can be very good bythe time they get to SeniorHigh School. They can beproud of what they accom-plished this season,“Coach Babb said.

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Joyce Major, lunchroom supervisor at the Des Arc Schools, advisesthe following menus are scheduled for Monday-Friday, May 2-6:

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ElementaryLunch

MONDAY: Hamburger Steakwith Gravy, Mashed Potatoes,Green Beans, Peaches, Roll,MilkTUESDAY: Beefy Nachos, PintoBeans, Salsa, Carrot Sticks,Pineapple, MilkWEDNESDAY: Ham Sticks andRoll, Steamed Broccoli, CoinCarrots, Apples, MilkTHURSDAY: Chicken Nuggets,Corn, Yams, Peaches, MilkFRIDAY: Hamburgers, FrenchFries, Sandwich Fixings, Tropi-cal Fruit, Milk

BreakfastMONDAY: Biscuit & SausagePattie or Cereal & Toast, Or-angesTUESDAY: Funnel Cake orCereal & Toast, PeachesWEDNESDAY: Yogurt and Gra-ham Crackers or Cereal &Toast, PineappleTHURSDAY: Pop Tarts or Ce-real & Toast, ApplesFRIDAY: Donuts or Cereal &Toast, PearsServed with Milk & JuiceMeals are subject to change/USDA is an Equal Opportu-

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High SchoolLunch

MONDAY: Pizza, Broccoli,Yams, Fresh Fruit, Peaches,MilkTUESDAY: Beefy Nachos, PintoBeans, Fresh Fruit, Peaches,MilkWEDNESDAY: Chicken FriedSteak, Mashed Potatoes withGravy, Green Beans, FreshFruit, Baked Apples, MilkTHURSDAY: Crispito, WholeWheat Cinnamon Roll, GreatNorthern Beans, Pears, FreshFruit, MilkFRIDAY: Cheeseburgers,French Fries, Baked Beans,Sandwich Fixings, Pineapple,Fresh Fruit, Milk

BreakfastMONDAY: Donuts or Cereal &Toast, PeachesTUESDAY: Biscuit and SausagePattie or Cereal & Toast,PineappleWEDNESDAY: Pop Tarts or Ce-real & Toast, Tropical FruitTHURSDAY: Breakfast Pizza orCereal & Toast, PearsFRIDAY: Donuts or Cereal &Toast, Fresh FruitServed with Milk & JuiceChoice of Hot Line, Chef Salador Cold Cut Sandwich

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Kindergarten Round Up!

On Monday and Tuesday, May 2 and 3,call in and set up an appointment to register

and test your child. Call 870-256-4128 or 870-256-4776.

We will register and test on the same day. Our registration/testing dates are May 18 and 19.

Things to Remember:On Registration day you MUST bring the following:

Copy of Birth CertificateCopy of Social Security Number

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If these items are not brought on test day, we cannot register or test your child.

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Junior Lady Eagles Track win DistrictSenior Lady Eagles Track Second in District

District Champs: The Des Arc Junior Lady Eagles were crowned District Champs atthe district meet held in England on Monday, April 25. Pictured are kneeling: Lee Ann Harrell and Madison Lewis, High Point Award Winner. Second Row: Caroline Harris, Sadie York, Reagan Liles, Jacey Adams, KirstenKennedy. Back Row, l-r: Riley Barksdale, Shelbey Vogeltanz, Haylie Flud, Cheyenne Hambrick,Marlaya Washington, Zyler Taylor, Jaden Washington, Emilee Johnson. Very back is Coach J. D.Babb. Not Pictured-Faith Harrell Congratulations!

Senior Eagles Track team takes Second at District

Second in District: The Des Arc Senior Eagle Track team traveled to England on Monday, April 25 to participate inthe District Track meet. The Eagles came away with a Second Place finish. Dillon Conway won the High Point Awardby winning the Triple Jump, High Jump, 110m Hurdles, 300m Hurdles and was second in the 400m Race. Pictured at front l-r are: Jerrod Williams and Wyatt Covington Second Row: Randy Flud, Donald McCoy, Carlin Jones, Blayne Cook, Spencer Wrigley, Tanner EstesThird Row: Kyle Creppel, Chuck Crawford, Ricky Parson, Gage Alston, Kelvin Cohen, Hayden Flud, Ethan Reed, Day-lon Conway, David Norman, Jacob Adams, Colt Covington, Isaiah Williams, Dillon Conway and Coach Drake Widener.

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Athletic BanquetDes Arc Elementary

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MenuHam, Baked Beans, Potato Salad,

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Good luck to the Eagles/Lady Eagles at

District Competition in Carlisle(Thursday, April 28 games)

Girls play at 5:30 Boys play at 6:30

Des Arc High School Bandin Concert this Sunday

The Des Arc High SchoolSenior Band, Junior Bandand Choir will be presentedin concert this Sunday, May1 at the High School gym-nasium beginning at threeo’clock in the afternoon. Also performing this

year for the first time is the

Jazz Band. The Concert is free and

everyone in the Des ArcCommunity is invited to at-tend. Director David

Yarbrough said,” We appre-ciate the Community’s sup-port this year.”

Lady Eagles Second in District: The Senior Lady Eagles Track team placed Sec-ond in the District Track meet held at England on Monday, April 25. Pictured are, l-r:Coach J. D. Babb, LeeAnn Harrell, Skylon Williams, Alyssa Dohm, Alyssa Earl, JadenWashington and Cheyenne Hambrick. LeeAnn, Skylon, Alyssa D., and Alyssa E. allhave qualified for the State meet to be held in England on Monday, May 2.

The 2A Region Six Dis-trict Track meet was heldon Monday, April 25 atEngland High School. The Senior High Lady

Eagles scored 145 points tofinish Second behindClarendon with 183 points.“The Lady Eagles justcould not keep pace withthe Clarendon Team whohad nineteen girls to theLady Eagles six,” saidCoach J.D. Babb. Three ninth graders,

Cheyenne Hambrick,Jaden Washington andLeeAnn Harrell weremoved up to help the threeSenior High girls on the Sr.Team. “They did a greatjob to help the older girls,”Coach Babb said. Stats are listed below of

each athletes performance:Skylon Williams: 100m

Hurdles-Third-21.71; 200m

-Sixth-32.19; 300m Hur-dles-First-59.85; LongJump-Eighth-13’ 91/2”;Triple Jump-Seventh-27’ 10”.

Alyssa Earl: 400m-Third-1:14.49; 800m Sec-ond-3:05.16; 3200mFourth-20:31.76; LongJump-Third-15’ 5”; TripleJump-First-32’ 1”.

Alyssa Dohm: 400m-Second-1:04.8; 800m-First-2:51.41; 1600m-First-6:26.18; 3200m-First-14:35.67; Long Jump-Fourth-15’ 1/4”; TripleJump-Third-29’1”.

LeeAnn Harrell: 400m-Sixth-1:21.31; 800m-Fourth-3:11.5; 1600m-Sec-ond-7:17.08; 3200m-Sec-ond-17:43.21.

Cheyenne Hambrick:Discus-Fifth-67’ 2”; ShotPut-Sixth-25’ 8”.

4x800m Relay-Second-

15:35.89-Jaden Washing-ton, Hambrick, Williamsand Earl. Four of the girls will be

competing at the StateTrack meet on Monday,May 2. Alyssa D. qualified to

run in four events:400m,800m,1600m and3200m. Alyssa E. will compete in

the Triple Jump and 800mrun. Skylon qualifed for the

300m Hurdles and LeeAnnqualified for the 1600mRun. “Even though we didn’t

have the numbers this year,these girls have really com-peted well in all of theirmeets. I am very proud ofhow they have worked thisyear,” said Coach Babb.

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Virginia Ann (Murray)Hille, who was born Nov. 2,1928, in Des Arc and laterreturned to her belovedhometown in retirement,died Thursday, April 21,2016 in Rock Hill, S.C.,where she had moved to benear family.

She was the daughter ofCharles Russell Murray Jr.and Mary Adelaid (Brown)Murray and granddaughterof longtime Prairie Countyresidents Charles RussellSr. and Anna (Johnston)Murray and Frederick EppsBrown, onetime Speaker ofthe Arkansas House, andAda (Morill) Brown, thedaughter of early PrairieCounty settler, J.C. Morrill.A granddaughter,

daughter and sister ofteachers, Ann spent her lifein classrooms of one sort oranother. While in highschool in Des Arc, shehelped teach younger stu-dents during World War II.She attended ArkansasTech and the University ofArkansas, where she mether future husband, Roy,before later receiving herteaching degree from TexasTech in Lubbock while rais-ing three boys.She then taught middle-

school science for morethan 20 years in Arlington,Texas, and Littleton, Colo.,a Denver suburb.After their retirements,

she and Roy returned toDes Arc, where they pur-chased the large B. BBethell residence on 2ndStreet and and briefly ran abed and breakfast and,

more importantly, rekin-dled old friendships andmade new ones. They wereactive members of the FirstPresbyterian Church of DesArc and the community aswell. She was very active inthe early Steamboat Daysfestivals opening her homefor gatherings, garden par-ties and visiting newsmedia. Still teaching, she men-

tored for Head Start andvolunteered at what is nowthe Lower White River Mu-seum State Park, near thefamily farm where she andher sister Mary Brown (Gat-tinger) Henderson wereraised.Ann and Roy moved to

St. Louis in 2004 to be clos-er to family and, after Roy’sdeath in 2007, Ann movedwith family to Rock Hill in2008.She was preceded in

death by her husband of 57years, as well as her parentsand sister. She is survived by three

sons and daughters-in-law— Russ and Kim of River-side, Calif.; Tom and Jan ofSeattle; and Bob and Liz ofRock Hill — and five grand-children (Rob, Kathryn,Jackson, Peter and Andy)and one great granddaugh-ter (Nia) as well as her dearfriend who was like adaughter, Charlotte Baugh,of Des Arc.A proud Arkansan with

deep Prairie County roots,Ann’s memorial service willbe held in Des Arc at a laterdate.

Stella Beachler Shadle,42, of Hazen, a loving moth-er, wife, and friend to many,passed away peacefully ather home on the morningof Monday, April 25, 2016.Loved by many, Stella

spent most of her life takingcare of those around her.For most of her life, Stellaworked in retail but whenher health prevented herfrom working, she chose tostay at home and take careof her husband and son. Inher free time, Stella enjoyedthe outdoors. She tookpride in her knowledge offarming, hunting, and fish-ing.Stella is survived by her

loving husband, Wylon Sha-dle; her son, Larry Beachler;her mother and step-father,Larry and Brenda Drennon;her mother-in-law, PatriciaJane (Parr) Shadle; sisters,Alice Smith and husband,David and Maxine Sheltonand husband, Doug; broth-er, Auther (A.G.) and wife,Debee Beachler; uncles andaunts, James and JenetSwindle, Jon and EvelynDunn, Roy and FrancesRose, Steve Parr, John andBetty Parr, Terry and Rhon-da Stice, Don and DonnieBaker, Donny and DebeeStice; nieces and nephews,Katie and Camryn Shelton,Blake Smith, StephanieBlazek, and Caleb Swiney.Stella was preceded in

death by her son, BrianHughes; her father, AutherBeachler; aunt and uncle,Dale and Lee Morden, andher sister-in-law, Lori BelleShadle.Funeral services will be

5:00 P.M., Thursday, April28, 2016 at the Peppers LakeChurch of Christ south ofDeValls Bluff. Burial will be in the Pep-

pers Lake Cemetery withWestbrook Funeral Homeof Hazen in charge ofarrangements

Ann Murray Hille wasformer local resident

This world has lost anArkansas original. Wednes-day, April 20, 2016, whenWilliam “Bill” HarrisonWatkins, Sr., of Maumelle,Arkansas, went on to meethis beloved creator. Born in Scotland,

Arkansas, April 23, 1932, hegrew up on a hardscrabblefarm, before moving withhis parents to live on ahouseboat on the WhiteRiver near Des Arc. He quitschool in the seventh gradeto concentrate on huntingand fishing. Called to theKorean War, he made a per-fect score on an IQ and ap-titude test, and served ashead of the motor poolduring the war. He endedhis service teaching mathin the high school comple-tion program for infantry(without having a diplomahimself). After the war, hegot a degree in engineeringand worked for Kodak andWestinghouse in Missouriand Ohio, then Singer andFranklin Electric in Jack-sonville, Ark., where he waschief engineer. He held sev-eral patents, and designedthe fuel pump system forthe B52, still in use keepingAmerica safe. He quit thecorporate world and start-ed Watkins Realty inMaumelle, which he ranwith his wife, Janet, andyoungest son, Bud. In re-tirement, he had many ad-ventures. He went downthe Mississippi River from

its source at Lake Itasca toMinneapolis, 836 miles inan open canoe with his sec-ond son, Don. He was a fre-quent storyteller andhumor man for the Rack-ensack Folklore Society.Former president, Societyof Manufacturing Engi-neers; board member,North Pulaski Board of Re-altors; deacon, First BaptistChurch of Maumelle; andmember, Fellowship BibleChurch of Little Rock. Bornof Arthur William Watkinsand Maudie Jane (Dodd)Watkins. Survived by wife of 44

years 10 months Janet(Smith) Watkins; one sister,Myrtle Lance, age 96; foursons William HarrisonWatkins, Jr., Donald JamesWatkins Asher, Clyde An-thony Watkins, BillAlvin Z.“Bud” Watkins, and manynieces, nephews, andgrandchildren. Prede-ceased by siblings Eva Mae,Arthur, Elmer, Ethyl, andNadine; first wife RubyFaye (Asher) Ausbrooks. Viewing at Smith-West-

brook Funeral Home,Beebe from 8:30-5:00 Fri-day; graveside viewing at 2p.m., with service at 2:45, atSalem Cemetery at the cor-ner of Bethlehem andCounty Line roads, west ofHickory Plains.Arrangements by Smith-

Westbrook Funeral Home,a Certified Veterans Funer-al Care Provider.

William Watkins Sr. grew upon houseboat near Des Arc

Services today at Hazen forStella Shadle

(The first in a series of articlesabout their trip to England )

Diana dropped usoff about threehours before

departure time (2:30 p.m.)at Atlanta Airport, and wespent the extra time chat-ting with Alice Benson ofMeridian, Mississippi, aMethodist minister’swidow. He died of ALS, and she

was going on a tour withother retired Methodistministers and their wives. We took turns going for

walks, anticipating thelong flight that lay ahead.After a long thunderstormdelay ON the plane (abouttwo hours), we finallytook off. We napped on and off

and arrived at 7:10 a.m.(but our bodies thought itwas only 2:10 a.m.). After getting 250

pounds each at the firstATM we found (whatwonderful inventions!),we bought train ticketsand took what we thoughtwas the “fast train” toLondon. It was loaded with

commuters, and we andour luggage were con-stantly in someone’s way.We finally arrived, via taxi,at Canterbury Hall (Uni-versity of London) andwere relieved to discoveran elevator to whisk us toour sixth floor rooms-across from each otherwith a full bath in be-tween. We found a nearby pub

for a quick lunch, tookshowers and crashed untillate afternoon. When weawoke, we felt much morehuman. So much so, thatwe went for a walk to ex-plore the neighborhood. We discovered St. Pan-

cras Church (Church ofEngland) and ate supper-fish and chips and a saladto share-at the Goose Pub.We chuckled at the sign“Disabled Toilet”. We bought some dried

fruit, apricots, plus ginand tonic, and managedto read a bit of BillBryson’s The Long Trail toeach other before we fellasleep, like the dead, inspite of the heat (and nofan).Breakfast was most sat-

isfying, quite traditional,and very hearty. We met aman from NC who wasorginally from Cardiff andalso a woman from St.Louis. The morning tour in-

cluded Euston Station forour train tickets to Pen-rith. Lorraine’s left heelstarted to hurt early in theday-a very bad sign(plantar fasciitis). The British Library was

right on our little walk,and we stopped in tobrowse at the wonderfuldisplays- the originalMagna Carta, manyBibles, and other impor-tant documents, beauti-fully preserved. We grabbed a baked

potato at First & Firkenand chatted with an Irishworker who informed usthat he, at age 60, couldn’tafford to think of retiringsoon. Signs advertised a

piano recital at St. PancrasChurch at noon, so wefound a pew right nearthe front where we couldrest our weary bones andhear beautiful, upliftingmusic. The sanctuary was

magnificient-pillars,stained windows and flo-ral arrangements (holly-

hocks from their outsidegardens, we were posi-tive). Ellen Sier had straight

white hair and wore aleopard dress and beigesandals. She played agrand piano and we werecarried away by the beau-ty of her music. After a rest and a nap,

we decided to walk, inspite of the increasinglypainful feet, to RegentsParks. Different shoeshelped and we juststrolled, hating all thetraffic and fumes of busyEuston Road and notknowing just how faraway the park was. Itturned out to be worththe effort. We admired the de-

lightful arrangements,even yucca and eucalyp-tus! We skipped the zoo out

back and concentrated onthe flora, along with peo-ple enjoying the park. Interesting note: When

a vehicle is willing to letyou cross the street, thedriver flashes his lights tolet you know that he isstopping. Can you imag-ine that in Miami??!!We wended our way

home via back streetsafter a cheese omelet atSally’s Kitchen. We dis-covered book shops, fur-niture stores and restau-rants along the way. Wemanaged to finish TheLong Trail.

Continued

(Phillip Fuller is a DesArc native and a retiredteacher. His companion,Lorraine, is also a retirededucator. They reside inHollywood, Fla.)

Our trip to EuropeTraveling with Philip and Lorraine

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The following informa-tion was obtained from therecords in the PrairieCounty Courthouses inDes Arc and DeValls Bluffon Tuesday, April 26, 2016:

Land Transfers

Warranty Deed

Bobby W. Johnson,Grantor, hand paid by John

H. Gipson and Marjorie A.Gipson, Grantees, the fol-lowing lands lying in theNorthern District of PrairieCounty: Tract One: A part of the

SE 1/4 of the Fractional NE1/4 of Section 4, T4N, R5W.Tract Two: A part of the

SE 1/4 of the Fractional NE1/4 of Section 4, T4N, R5W.

Warranty Deed

Stephanie L. Bitner,Grantor, hand paid by Dou-ble Drake Hunting Club,LLC, an Arkansas LimitedLiability Company,Grantee, the following landlying in the County ofPrairie, State of Arkansas:A part of the E 1/2 of the

SW 1/4 of Section Seven,T4N, R4W containing 3.25acres, more or less. Subjectto a 30 foot Road Easementalong the West Side.

The following caseswere heard before Dis-trict Judge Robert Abneyin District Court Hearingsheld in the courtroom atDes Arc City Hall on Mon-day, April 25, 2016:

City CasesJamieson Robinson,

Des Arc, charged withHarassment, TerroristicThreatening and Con-tempt of Court/Violationof No Contact Order.Continued to May 23,2016. Jeffery C. Treadwell,

Des Arc, charged withDrove Left of Center, andDWI-Three or more. De-fendant requested Com-munity Service in Searcy.Request denied. Mustserve in Des Arc. Jeremiah L. McMillen,

Des Arc, charged withDischarge of Firearm CityOrdinance Violation.Failed to Complete Com-munity Service and Do-

mestic Battering-ThirdDegree. Failed to Pay.Issue Warrant. Devin Bonds, Des Arc,

charged with DomesticBattering-Third Degree.Continued to May 23,2016. Brianna Jones, Des Arc,

charged with DomesticBattering-Third Degree.Continued to May 23,2016. Tommy S. Barbee, Des

Arc, charged with Con-tempt of Court/Failure toComplete CommunityService and Failure to Ap-pear. on a Written Sum-mons. Failed to completeCommunity Service.Failed to Appear. IssueWarrant.Jelecia M. Jackson, Des

Arc, charged with Con-tempt of Court/Failure toComplete CommunityService. Has nine andone-half hours left tocomplete. Failed to Ap-pear. Issue Letter.

Jacob Collins, Des Arc,charged with Contemptof Court/Probation Viola-tion. Defendant sched-uled classes. Donna Cashin, Des

Arc, charged with AnimalControl/At Large/No Li-cense/No Rabies x2. War-rant Withdrawn.Changed plea to Guilty.Defendant complied withOrdinance. If no furtherviolations for Six Monthscharges will be dismissed. Richard McGuire, Des

Arc, charged with TailLight Out. Failed to Ap-pear. Issue Letter. Cheyenne Carter, Au-

gusta, charged with ChildProtection Act. Guilty.Sentenced to Fine andCost of $140.00.Mildred E. Cain, Des

Arc, charged with Disor-derly Conduct-Class CMisdemeanor. Changedplea to Guilty. Bond For-feited. Rose Winston, Des Arc,

charged with Failure toYield to Pedestrians.Guilty. Sentenced to Fineand Cost of $140.00.Tressia Henard, Des

Arc, charged with Drivingon Suspended or Re-voked Driver License-Class A Misdemanor.Plead Not Guilty. Hearingset for May 12, 2016.

State CasesAnthony S. Sanner, Des

Arc, charged with Failureto Pay. Failed to Pay.Issue Letter. Tommy S. Barbee, Des

Arc, charged with Failureto Pay. Failed to Pay. IssueWarrant. Tracy Leighann Robin-

son, Des Arc, chargedwith Refusal to Submit toChemical Test and DWI-First. DWI charge sen-tenced to Fine and Costof $755.00, Alcohol andMADD Classes. Refusalto Submit charge NolleProssed.

Michael C. Carr, Cabot,charged with No DriverLicense. Failed to Appear.Issue Letter. Joseph Bradley Harris,

Beebe, charged with NoDriver License and No Li-ability Insurance. Guilty.Sentenced to Fine andCost of $430.00. Kathryn A. Roberts,

Batesville, charged withExceeding Posted Speed73 MPH/55 Zone andDriver License Suspend-ed for DWI. Continued toMay 2, 2016. Terry M. Rippy, Searcy,

charged with No SeatBelt. Bond Forfeited. Jelecia M. Jackson, Des

Arc, charged with Drivingon Suspended or Re-voked Driver License andViolation of No ContactOrder. Failed to Appear.Issue Letter. Kathy M. Addison,

Hazen, charged with Ex-ceeding Posted Speed 80MPH/55 Zone. Bond For-

feited and Six MonthsProbation. If no FurtherViolations, Charge will beDismissed. Troy L. Denson, Cabot,

charged with Driving onSuspended or RevokedDriver License-Class AMisdemeanor. Guilty.Sentenced to Fine andCost of $285.00.Jolynn T. Lyons,

McRae, charged with Ex-ceeding Posted Speed 73MPH/55 Zone. Failed toAppear. Issue Letter. David B. Parker, Ward,

charged with DWI-Firstand Careless ProbhibitedDriving. Defendant Ap-peared and Advised ofRights. Defendant grant-ed time to May 9, 2016. Dennis R. Dorman,

Des Arc, charged with NoLiability Insurance andPossession of Instrumentof Crime. Guilty. Sen-tenced to Fine and Costof $920.00

The following inmates areincarcerated in the PrairieCounty Jail at Des Arc as ofTuesday, April 26, 2016, ac-cording to Sheriff Gary Bur-nett:

McGee, Rodney Taiwan,37, Hold for ADC. Intake dateMarch 1, 2016. Crittenden, Lee B. 36,

charged with Possession ofControlled Substance, Flee-ing, Obstructing Governmen-tal Operations, Parole Viola-tion, Driving with LicenseSuspended, Careless Driving,Improper Display of Tags andFailure to Stop. Intake dateApril 5, 2016. Rocha, Jimmy Jesus, 24,

Hold for Another Depart-ment. Intake date April 4,2016. Branch, Aaron Antwon, 32,

charged with Possession ofControlled Substance x2 andPossession of Drug Parapher-nalia-Class A Misdemeanor.Intake date March 17, 2016. Wardwell, Eddie, 41, Hold

for ADC. Intake date February3, 2016.

Washington, Earl, 48,charged with Criminal Mis-chief. Intake date December28, 2015.Albizu, James, 47,

chargeed with Possession ofControlled Substance withIntent to Deliver. Intake dateMarch 24, 2016. Enzor, David Mark, 56,

charged with Furnishing Pro-hibited Articles. Commit-ment. Intake date March 7,2016. Jones, Bobby Joe, 56,

charged with Forgery, Theft ofProperty and Habitual Of-fender. Intake date March 3,2016. Dulaney, Malary L., 31,

charged with Kidnapping andTerroristic Threatening-Felony. Intake date Decem-ber 19, 2015. Oglesbee, Lisa Carol, 53,

charged with Probation Revo-cation Intake date February13, 2016.Allen, Wallace, 69, Com-

mitment. Intake date Febru-ary 24, 2016. Hourston, Glen E., 64,

Commitment. Intake date

March 31, 2016. Owens, Frederick, 33,

charged with Murder-FirstDegree. Intake date March24, 2016. Figueroa, Frank, 36,

charged with Possession withIntent to Deliver, Possessionof Controlled Substance withIntent to Deliver and Fleeing-Felony. Intake date March 25,2016.Pruitt, Leslie, 24, Hold for

ADC. Intake date February18, 2016. Bevell, Robert Lynn, 22,

Commitment.. Intake dateApril 6, 2016. Cohen, Eric E., 34, charged

with Non-Support. Intakedate April 14, 2016. Walls, Johnny Joe, 38,

charged with Possession ofControlled Substance andPossession of Drug Parapher-nalia. Intake date April 13,2016. Buckley, Joel C., 47,

charged with Failure to Ap-pear. Intake date April 21,2016. White, Stacey Alexander,

19, charged with Domestic

Battery-Third Degree. Intakedate April 25, 2016. Hayes, Lakeshia A., 31,

Hold for Another Depart-ment. Intake date April 25,2016. Kelly, Christopher

Martrell, 20, charged withPossession of Marijuana, NoDrivers License, No LicensePlate and Driving Without In-surance. Intake date April 24,2016. Hill, Patrick, 41, Hold for

ADC. Intake date April 19,2016.

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Arkansas Farm Bureauhas announced support forArkansas Works, the gover-nor’s proposed revision tothe use of federal Medicaidreserves to fund insurancecoverage for eligible partic-ipants.The board of directors

for the state’s largest agri-cultural advocacy organi-zation met Tuesday to eval-uate its grassroots policyand determined that de-funding Arkansas Works is

too large a threat to thestate’s budget and ruralhealth care providers.“Arkansas Works is the

best path forward for thestate’s fiscal well-being andour rural communities,”said Arkansas Farm BureauPresident Randy Veach, acotton and soybean farmerfrom Manila (MississippiCounty). “We approachedthis position with an openmind and open hearts. Ourmembers need secure

rural health care providersand a sound state budget.Those tenants compel usto support ArkansasWorks.”Arkansas Farm Bureau

policy positions are de-fined by a grassroots struc-ture that provides directionfrom members active with-in each county Farm Bu-reau. Those policy posi-tions then move through astatewide resolutionsprocess before being voted

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partment of Human Serv-ices budget that includesArkansas Works fundinghas broad budget implica-tions,” Veach said. “Welooked most keenly at theimpact to rural hospitals,the impact to our state’seconomic bedrock and thecommunities that supportour farmers and ranchers.“As an example, the

Public School fund wouldtake a $31 million hit andthe state’s institutions ofhigher education wouldsee losses across the board.Specific to agriculture, theUniversity of Arkansas Di-vision of Agriculture,which provides researchand outreach to help keepour industry competitive,would lose almost $2 mil-lion in funding. And theArkansas Agriculture De-partment’s already limited

budget would be cut bymore than $500,000.“Our rural hospitals –

many of them financiallyvulnerable now – would bethrown into very challeng-ing financial position be-cause of decreased pay-ment rates. Almost 30 per-cent of our state’s countiesdo not have a hospital now,and we fear that numbercould grow without thefunding associated withArkansas Works.”

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DES ARC ELEMENTARYSCHOOL is taking applicationsfor K-6 Paraprofessional/In-structional aide beginning in2016-2017 school year. Toapply, send resume torooksd@desarcschools.orgResumes will be accepted untilMay 9, 2016. 4/28/2c

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17 Arkansas locations received April 21 issue“next-day”, Apr 22 (down from 21 week before)

NOTE: For each location, the Tracking Chart now includes actual number of days required to receive paperthe last 4 weeks (# days in parenthesis). The “Fewest Days” column shows the shortest/record time USPS hasever taken to get paper to that location. This column therefore is now the standard for comparing deliveries.

D A T E M A I L E D (LAST 4 ISSUES)Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, MARCH 31 APRIL 7 APRIL 14 APRIL 21

LOCATION FEWEST ( ) = Fewest / Actual #delivery days; DATE DELIVEREDDAYS* Beebe (1) (2) SAT., 4/2 (2) SAT., 4/9 (1) FRI., 4/15 (1) FRI., 4/22* Cabot (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Carlisle (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Conway (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Griffithville (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Jacksonville (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Lonoke (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Searcy (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Stuttgart (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”* Ward (1) (2) SAT., ” (2) SAT., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”

* Above 10 locations are mailed in 10 proprietary containers. Another 175± locations, includ-ing the 32 below, are mixed & mailed in a total of 7 containers - then sorted @ NLR Terminal.

Alma (1) (4) MON., 4/4 (6) WED., 4/13 (5) TUES., 4/19 (4) MON., 4/25Benton (1) (4) MON., ” (4) MON., 4/11 (2) SAT., 416Edgemont (1) (6)WED., 4/6 (4) MON., ” (1) FRI.,4/15 (1) FRI., 4/22 Fayetteville (2) (5) TUES., 4/5 (5) TUES., 4/12 (5) TUES., 4/19Forrest City (2) (6)WED., 4/6 (6)WED., 4/13 (4) MON., 4/18 (5) TUES., 4/26Greenbrier (1) (4) MON., 4/4 (4) MON., 4/11 (1) FRI.,4/15 (1) FRI., 4/22 Hot Springs (1) (4) (non-verifiable) (2) SAT., 4/9 (4) MON., 4/18 (2) SAT., 4/23Jonesboro (2) (5) TUES., 4/5 (4) MON., 4/11 (4) MON., ” (5) TUES., 4/26Little Rock (1) (3) Sat/Mon Apr 2/4 (4) MON., ” (1) FRI.,4/15 (1) FRI., 4/22North Little Rock (1) (3) Sat/Mon ” ” (4) MON., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., 4/22 Rose City, NLR (1) (4) MON., 4/4 (4) MON., ” (1) FRI., ” (4) MON., 4/25Pine Bluff (1) (2) SAT., 4/2 (4) MON., ” (1) FRI., ”Rogers (2) (4) MON., 4/4 (5) TUES., 4/12 (5) TUES., 4/19 (2) SAT., 4/23 Russellville (1) (6)WED., 4/6 (2) SAT., 4/9 (1) FRI.,4/15 (2) SAT., ” Sherwood (1) (2) SAT., 4/2 (4) MON., 4/11 (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., 4/22Tichnor (1) (6)WED., 4/6 (4) MON., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ” Ulm (1) (2) SAT., 4/2 (4) MON., ” (1) FRI., ” (1) FRI., ”Vilonia (2) (4) MON., 4/4 (2) SAT., 4/9 (1) FRI., ”

OUT OF STATEAnaheim, CA (2) (5) TUES., 4/5 (2) SAT., 4/9 (4) MON.,4/18 (4) MON.,4/25 Chicago/N Aurora, IL (4) (5) TUES., ” (11)MON., 4/18 (4) MON., ” (6) NOT Rcvd 4/27Dallas, TX (2) (7) THRS., 4/7 (4) MON., 4/11 (5) TUES., 4/19Enid, OK (1) (4) MON., 4/4 (4) MON., ” (2) SAT., 4/16 (4) MON., 4/25Houston/Seabrook, TX (4) (4) MON., ” (4) MON., ” (5) TUES., 4/19Madison, AL (4) (5) TUES., 4/5 (6) WED., 4/13 (4) MON., 4/18 (5) TUES., 4/26Memphis, TN (1) (5) TUES., ” (8) FRI., 4/15 (5) TUES., 4/19 (1) FRI., 4/22, NRMidvale, ID (4) (5) TUES., ” (4) MON., 4/11 (4) MON.,4/18 (4) MON.,4/25 Ogden, UT (4) (5) TUES., ” (4) MON., ” (5) TUES., 4/19Salem, OR (4) (9) SAT., 4/9 (6) WED., 4/13 (5) TUES., ” (5) TUES., 4/26Springfield, MO (4) (5) TUES., 4/5 (4) MON., 4/11 (5) TUES., ” (5) TUES., ” Springfield, OH (5) (27) (not rcvd 4/27) (5) TUES., 4/12 (13) Not Rcvd 4/27 (6) NOT Rcvd 4/27St Louis, MO (4) (5) TUES., 4/5 (5) TUES., ” (5) TUES., 4/19 (4) MON., 4/25 W. Melbourne, FL (5) (5) TUES., ” (6) WED., 4/13 (6) WED., 4/20

Total delivery days: (81) 176 days) (154 days) (115 days) (Unavailable)

USPS Grade C- B- A- BEXCEPTIONAL DeliveryNR = New Record delivery time, Memphis POOR Delivery

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USPS Mail Facility,NLR, Ar receives / dis-tributes Journals to the44 listed locations

Re: Arkansas locations, “Next-Day” deliveries are shown in BLACK text - later than “next-day” shown in RED italic.Re: Out-of-state locations, “acceptable” deliveries shown in BLACK text - less than acceptable shown in RED italic.

Exceptional deliveries include black “thumbs up”. Poor deliveries include RED “thumbs down”.

Journal Delivery Tracking ChartJournal Delivery Tracking Chart

USPS gets “B” on delivery of Apr 21 issue

Getting feedback from subscribers on when they receive the paper each week is thecritical element to the “Journal Delivery Tracking Chart” at left. However, we realizethat for some, if not all, it also has been a big inconvenience. For that reason, we havelimited initiating contact with subscribers this week. The result is 8 locations with“UNREPORTED” info for the April 21 issue, instead of actual #days & dates of delivery.

Since inaugurating “Journal-delivery-tracking” last year, however, there has beensubstantial improvement in overall delivery. Examples include out-of-state locationsnow receiving papers as early as “next-day” after mailing on Thursday or by NLT Sat-urday or Monday; as well as at least one Arkansas location (Tichnor), where it previ-ously had taken 1-2 weeks for paper to arrive, but where subscriber now regularly re-ceives on Friday, the day after mailing ... or normally by NLT Saturday or Monday.

However, if you would prefer to no longer be contacted on a weekly basis, please letus know. On the other hand, we appreciate all those who wish to continue, or want tobecome a new participant .... in this joint effort of combining our leverage to moti-vate/inspire the USPS. (Perhaps there is still “power in the press” after all, or at leastin “numbers”.) There are obviously no guarantees being made re delivery, but theUSPS has definitely payed attention - in fact, they’ve stated they want “All A’s” !

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2016 Des Arc High School Junior/Senior Prom highlights

Prom Servers: Pictured above are the sophomores who were chosen to serve at the 2016 Junior/Senior Banquet.They are seated on bench, l-r: Alyssa Dohm, Dillon Conway, Skylon WilliamsSecond Row, l-r: Maggie Wilson, Robin Bell, Ricky Parson, Robby Evans, Brent Bell, Sam Lloyd, Tanner Estes, Gra-cen Hambrick and Rainey Ingle

Prom Beauties: These prom beauties, who are all seniors, were seen posing for thecamera at the Jr.-Sr. Prom on Saturday, April 23 at the Elementary Cafetorium. Theyare left to right: Shelby Evants, Alyssa Earl, Bailey Greenwood, Jade Bell, Kallie Robertsand Sarabeth DeVore

Styling and Profiling: These pretty ladies and handsome gents were seen at the2016 Jr./Sr. Banquet on Saturday Night. They are, left to right: Brittany Jones, Nyla Bal-lard, LaDarius Spencer, Shawn Cohen, Daylon Conway, Matthew Tate and DrelonHunter.

Prom Again: Corey and Candace Skarda were the luckywinners of a night at the Prom during the Silent Auction atFamily Fun Night this year. Looking sharp guys!

Visiting with the Ladies: Hayden Flud, fourth from left, is visiting with these “classyladies” and his classmates during the 2016 Jr./Sr. Prom. Pictured left to right are LaurenMapps, Lexi Cook, Cierra Fisher, Flud, and Katie Minton. They will be Seniors in 2017.

These Seniors were relaxed and waiting for the skits to begin at the 2016 Prom “En-chanted Nights”. They are left to right: Quenton Walters, Noah Kennedy, Colt Coving-ton, Andrew Ingle, Trey Lee, Clayton Nickelson, Jamie Norman, Jacob Adams and KevinBrannon (with back to camera).