Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 28, 1996 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Stink Raised Over Sewer Permit For Emmet Discharge

By JOHN MILLER A stink is being raised in Emmet because of the city's sewer permit. Some residents have complained the permit renewal has no restrictions on the sewage to be dumped into the Terre Rouge Creek system, which flows into the Little M...

$4.6 Million Budget Approved

To Rebuild Burned High School --

Building Bids Opened

Deadlines For Pageants Are Sunday

{This coming Sunday is the deadline to enter the 1996 Miss Nevada County Fair pageants.<} {The pageants will be held Thursday, September 19, and Saturday, September 21, during the fair.<} {Several age groups will be offered to girls, including N...

Gearing Up

Crews from Flemings Wholesale Grocers, of Memphis, Tenn., were in town recently to help get the shelves stocked at the new Piggly Wiggly for the grocery store's grand opening today (Wednesday, Aug. 28). A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. tod...

Dansby Family Hires Camden Defense Lawyers For Murder Defense

By JOHN MILLER Joe Louis Dansby's capital murder trial will not begin Sept. 23 as scheduled. This is because new attorneys have been hired by Dansby's family to represent him in the case. According to court records, Monday, Aug. 19, a heari...

Jobless Rate Steady

By JOHN MILLER Nevada County's unemployment rate remained the same from June to July at 8.7 percent. In fact, the jobless figures in surrounding counties all climbed for the most part. Clark County, still with the lowest rate in the state, ...

Blood-Stained T-Shirt Found At Emmet Break-In

Authorities are looking for suspect(s) in connection with the burglary of an Emmet business. According to Jim Westmoreland, criminal investigator with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office and Prescott Police Department, an equipment shop owned by Georg...

Deadlines Stay Same

Deadlines for the Nevada County Picayune will remain unchanged for the Labor Day holiday, Monday, Sept. 2. News articles and display advertisements must be in by noon Monday if they are to be in the Wednesday, Sept. 4 issue. Classified ad...

Youths Attend CAP Program In Ferndale

{Youths from Nevada County were recent delegaes to a three-day citizenship workshop, called CAPS, that was held at the C.S. Vines Arkansas 4-H Center near Little Rock.<} {Attending from Nevada County were Chris and Samantha Clarke.<} {The worksh...

Local Teachers Attend Vocational Conference

{Vocational educators Joyce Gibson, Laura Ward, Natalie Edlin, Tammy Holland and Debra Culpepper at Prescott Schools attended the annual conference of the Arkansas Vocational Association August 12 and 13 in Little Rock.<} {Vocational Education: Bey...

Football Facts

Editor's note: This is the last of a 12-part series of columns by Prescott High School football coach Eddie Jackson. The articles will deal with information on the upcoming football season as well as a look back at some facts and stats about Curley ...

Wolves Youth Camp Has 41 At First Date

The Third Annual Wolves Youth Camp started Saturday, Aug. 24, with a new format. In the past, the camp was held in late June, but for various reasons the coaching staff wanted to conduct these sessions closer to football season. We had 41 young ...

Football Season Passes Available

{Football season is just around the corner and now is the time to purchase your season tickets.<} {You can save yourself money and time at the stadium gate by getting your tickets now, according to athletic director Jim Gober.<} {Order forms fo...

Wolverettes Attend Outlaw Camp

Prescott's Wolverettes did themselves proud in the Dierks Lady Outlaw Basketball Camp. Coach Cecily Butler carried 18 young players to the camp with her, Aug. 5-9. Victory was the norm for the Prescott crew. The Wolverettes were split into two t...

Teachers Summer Class At Potlatch

Instead of spending their summer break in a classroom, 12 southeast Arkansas teachers donned hard hats, ear protection and safety goggles as they spent four weeks working at Potlatch.<} {The third year of the Potlatch Teacher-Intern program attracte...

Beth Culpepper Attends Summar Aegis Program

{Beth Culpepper attended the Academic Enrichment for the Gifted in Summer (AEGIS) program, Aerospace #_ the Final Frontier last month.<} {The program was based on the campus of Arkansas State University from July 14-26. Thirty high school students f...

Potlatch Reports Lower 2nd Quarter Earnings

Obituaries

Willie Wilson

{Willie Mode Wilson, 84, of Shreveport, La., formerly of Prescott, died July 28, 1996, at Bossier Medical Center in Bossier City, La.<} {She was a native of Prescott, but lived in the Shreveport-Bossier area for the last 39 years. She was a homemake...

Gilbert F. Morris

{Gilbert F. Morris, 72, of Prescott died Monday, Aguust 19, 1996, in Little Rock.<} {Born February 24, 1924, in Prescott, he was a retired maintenance operator for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He was a member of the Church of Christ and was a World W...

Wayne Harold Waldron

{Wayne Harold Waldron, 67, of Rosston died Thursday, August 22, 1996, in Columbia Medical Park Hospital in Hope.<} {Born May 3o, 1929, in Essex, Iowa, he was a retired master plumber and a veteran of World War II.<} {Survivors include his wife, ...

Rosa Martin

{Rosa Martin, 82, of Cale died Friday, August 23, 1996, in Village.<} {Born November 24, 1913, in Rush Springs, Okla., she was a homemaker and a member of Bethel Baptist Church.<} {Survivors include six sons, Bob Martin of Bogota, Texas, Lee Jun...

James C. Bazzelle

{James C. Bazzelle, 81, of Inglewood, Calif., formerly of Rosston, died July 30, 1996.<} {Born August 24, 1914, he was the son of Jupiter T. and Emma J. Bazzelle, a member of Bethel AME Church in Rosston, a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, a form...

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