Here are the stories in the Wednesday, April 30, 1997 edition of Nevada County Picayune
- Dansby Found Guilty; Set To Die For 1992 Double Murder
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- Automatic Appeal Filed - Will Ask For Retrial In Case
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- It took five years to bring the case to court and another three weeks for it to be heard by a jury.
In the end, though, Joe Louis Dansby, 44, of Prescott, was found guilty of murder for the May 16, 1992, deaths of Jeff Lewis, 24, and Malissa Clark, 2...
- Jackson Leaves Curley Wolves To Become Bulldog
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- After 28 years and four state football championships at Prescott High School, Eddie Jackson is calling it quits.
But, while Jackson is leaving Prescott, he's not leaving athletics. Instead, he will be taking over the floundering gridiron program at H...
- Chamber Sets Annual Banquet For May 20th
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- David Bazzel To Be Featured Speaker
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- David Bazzel, former football Razorback standout and now weekend sports anchor for KARK in Little Rock, will be the featured speaker at the annual Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce banquet.
The banquet will be at the Prescott Middle Scho...
- Fish Fry Set For May 8th
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- The Prescott Rotary fish fry will be held Thursday, May 8, between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. It will be held in Prescott Elementary School cafetorium.
Rotarians fry up catfish steaks, French fries and hush puppies, serve them with slaw, fresh sliced on...
- Jamboree, Auction Is Planned
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- A music jamboree and silent auction is coming to Prescott in May.
The event will be held at the fairgrounds on Saturday, May 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The jamboree will feature local talent. It is sponsored by Nevada County Fair Associati...
- Blevins BBQ Scheduled For This Saturday
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- The 11th annual area-wide benefit barbecue for the Arkansas Children's Hospital will be held on Saturday, May 3, at the Blevins fire station.
Menu will consist of barbecue beef, pork and chicken, baked beans, cole slaw, potato salad, dessert and ...
- Landfill Groups Discuss Merger
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- Members of two solid waste groups met in Prescott Friday, April 25, to talk trash, literally.
Representatives of the Southwest Central Regional Solid Waste Management District, composed of Garland, Clark and Hot Spring counties, met with members of t...
- Alleged Forger Makes Court Appearance -
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- Burglar Suspect Nabbed
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- A forgery suspect has been arrested and made a first appearance in circuit court.
According to Jim Westmoreland, criminal investigator with the Prescott Police Department and Nevada County Sheriff's Office, Teritha Marks, 26, of Bluff City, was charg...
- Tim's Tips
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- Tim Clarke, County Extension Agent
- Staff Chairman DEVELOPMENT OF LAWN DISEASES Here are some lawn diseases homehowners should be on the lookout for. Dollar spot produces golf ball size dead spots on bermuda...
- Mayor Howard Taylor Attends SWAPDD Meeting In Hope, April 10
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- There was a definite influx of positive energy filling the meeting room of the Quality Inn in Hope on Thursday, April 10, according to a news release from Southwest Arkansas Planning Development District (SWAPDD).
Representatives of the Departmen...
- Hopson To Play For Ministry
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- Christina Marie Hopson has recently been appointed a member of Full Counsel Ministries International band of North Little Rock.
She will be playing alto saxaphone with the band traveling nationally and internationally. Hopson is a freshman...
- Blake Speaks At Luncheon
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- Patricia Blake of Prescott was recently the keynote speaker for the 14th annual Portland-Tacoma ladies prayer retreat luncheon held at the Red Lion Jantzen Beach Hotel at Portland, Ore.
Selected from a group of national speakers, Blake focused on...
- Pageant Is Planned
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- The 19th annual Miss Tri-State Teen Scholarship Pageant will be held Saturday, July 12, in Harton Auditorium on the campus of Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia.
Contestants must be in grades nine through 12 during next school year. 1997 g...
- College News
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- Amy Young, daughter of Dr. Michael and Gail Young of Prescott, has been awarded the Jacob Sacks Award for the outstanding junior.
She is a premedical chemistry major. Young also received the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Achieve...
- Fouke Shuts Out PHS Baseball Squad
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- Fouke did something no other team has manage to do to the Curley Wolf baseball team.
The Panthers posted a 3-0 shutout Monday, April 21, when the Wolves paid them a visit. In addition, Ross Cowling, 5-1, suffered his first loss of the year. He w...
- Softball Wolverettes Win Game
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- Prescott's Wolverette softball team made history Tuesday, April 22.
On this day, the Wolverettes posted their first district win, whipping Fordyce 16-6. However, they dropped the second game 16-5 to the Lady Bugs. The game was called because of ...
- Stockton Qualifies For State Track Meet
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- In spite of being out of condition and not training, Stacy Stockton qualified for the state track meet in the 3200 meter run.
According to Coach Cecily Butler, Stockton had been sidelined with a tendon problem and not been training for track. Yet whe...
- Law Day Is Thursday
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- Law Day 1997 is Thursday, May 1.
Circuit Judge Jim Gunter of Hope has announced a celebration will take place at the Hempstead County Courthouse in Hope from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. This year's speaker will be Chief Justice W.H. Arnold o...
- PHS Takes Merchants' Relays Last Thurdsay
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- The 23rd annual Prescott Merchants Relays were held last Thursday.
In spite of the threatening weather, cooler temperatures and a slight rain, several area athletes reached the qualifying standards for their state meet, coach Eddie Jackson said.<...
- Baccalaureate Services Set
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- Rev. Edward F. Root III will be the guest speaker at the baccalaureate services for all Prescott graduating seniors to be held at Munn's Chapel Baptist Church at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 4.
Root has pastored New Faith Tabernacle in Ashdown for o...
- Take Charge Of Arthritis During Month Of May
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- Exercise means more than just keeping fit for the nearly 40 million Americans affected by arthritis. It means taking charge of their condition, according to the Arthritis Foundation.
During National Arthritis Month this May, the Arthritis Foundat...
- Instructors Are Needed
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- The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is attempting to locate persons who would like to become 55/ALive Mature Driving Course instructors.
There are more requests for classes than can be taught by the present cadre of trained instru...
- Presentation Set At Emmet
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- The Emmet School gifted and talented program students will present a play enttitled Cinderella, a modern day comedy, on Thursday, May 1, at 7:00 p.m. in the school cafeteria.
- School News
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- Nevada Elementary fifth grader Brittany Daniel earned the opportunity to purchase a beautiful porcelain doll with Blue Jay Bucks received in recognition of behavioral and academic achievement. Blue Jay Bucks are given based on a point system. The stude...
- Two Earn Honorarium
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- The United States Achievement Academy announced that Megan Taylor and Misty Brown, both of Prescott have been named as All American Scholars.
The USAA has established the All-American Scholar Award Program to offer deserved recognition to superi...
- Jim Stockton Earns Accomplishment Award
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- Jim Stockton, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Stockton of Prescott, was recently named winner of the 1997 Dekalb Agricultural Accomplishment Award.
The award, sponsored nationwide by Dekalb Genetics Corporation, is presented to the outstanding senior...
- Deaths, Funerals
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- Ora Wylie Townsend
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- Ora Wylie Townsend, 93, of Tyler, Texas, formerly of Emmet, died Tuesday, April 22, 1997, at Clarmont Nursing Home in Tyler.
Born April 10, 1904, in Emmet, she was a homemaker, a member of First United Methodist Church in Emmet and the widow of O...
- Lowell Johnson
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- Lowell Armond Johnson, 83, of Prescott died Tuesday, April 22, 1997.
Born September 22, 1913, he was a member of Crossroads Assembly of God Church of Delight. Survivors include his wife, Mildred Johnson of Prescott; three sons, Armond A. ...
- Olen Jewel Johnson
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- Olen Jewel Johnson, 87, of Billstown died recently.
He was the widower of the late Iler Young of Billstown and a member of Billstown Church of Christ. Survivors include one son, Olen J. Johnson Jr.; one daughter, Jean Sorter; 11 grandchild...
- Vernell Smith Wilson
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- Vernell Smith Wilson, 91, of El Dorado, formerly of Blevins, died Thursday, April 24, 1997, in El Dorado.
Born August 23, 1905, in Blevins, she was a housewife and mother, a Baptist and the widow of Owen R. Wilson. She was also preceded in death ...
- V.C. `Dutchie' Bright
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- V.C. `Dutchie' Bright, 77, of Longview, Texas, formerly of Prescott, died Wednesday, April 23, 1997, in Longview, Texas.
Born September 28, 1919, in Sutton, he had been affiliated with the Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Longview since 1960. He was...
- C.V. `Granny' Hubbard
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- C.V. `Granny' Hubbard, 62, died Friday, April 25, 1997, in Baptist Medical Center in Arkadelphia.
Born September 3, 1934, in Prescott, she was the daughter of Willie Ed and Alice McCoy Washington. In 1952 she married Lester Livingston, and to th...
- Robert Harlin Tye
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- Robert Harlin Tye, 82, of Bodcaw, died Monday, April 28, 1997.
Born August 20, 1914, in Bodcaw, he was the son of Maudie Alice (Baker) and James Benjamin Tye. He was a member and deacon of Bodcaw Missionary Baptist Church and a farmer. Su...
- Lucie Shackelford
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- Lucie Lee Montgomery Cruse Shackelford, 79, of Prescott died at her home Saturday, April 26, 1997.
Born July 15, 1915, in Prescott, she was the daughter of Lucie and Lee Montgomery and the widow of Wilton Michael Shackelford. She was a lifelong ...
- Ella Mae Brooks
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- Ella Mae Brooks, 51, of Prescott, died Saturday, April 19, 1997, at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock.
Born March 15, 1946, in Rosston, she was the daughter of Clayborn and Ollie V. McKinney Blake. She a member of New Beginning Full Gospel B...
- Firestone Begins New Program
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- Sometimes a good idea and good intentions aren't enough. Sometimes you have to have money to make things work.
Recognizing this, Bridgestone-Firestone has introduced its EnviroLeader program, a way to financially support high school and college- ...
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