Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 6, 1999 edition of Nevada County Picayune

September Rainfall Below Normal; Still Up For Year

Though it rained more in September, the moisture falling to the ground was still less than normal for the ninth month of the year. According to John W. Teeter, local meteorologist, the area received 2.91 inches of rain in September, but the normal rainf...

Prescott Man Earns 40 Years

A Prescott man was sentenced to 40 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction for a series of crimes in Southern Nevada County. Hank Jackson, according to Nevada County Sheriff Steve Otwell, entered a plea agreement on three counts of commercial bur...

Pot Found

Otwell found seven marijuana plants in a clearcut area off highway 53 north of Bodcaw Saturday afternoon. No arrests were made in the case. However, the plants have a street value of $7,000, as the value has been established to be about $1,000 per plan...

Jobless Rate Falls To 5.4 Percent

August was a good month in Nevada County in the area of unemployment. According to information from the Arkansas Employment Security Division (ESD), the jobless rate fell from 5.8 percent to 5.4 percent. The same could not be said for those counties su...

Local Bank Is Y2K Ready

For many, the so-called Y2K bug is a relatively recent occurrence. However, for the Bank of Prescott it poses no problems whatsoever. Those with accounts there can rest assured their money will remain safe when Jan. 1, 2000 arrives. Jim Franks, vice pr...

Tough, Stupid Often The Same

Come in, sit down, and shut up. Class is back in session at the School of Hard Knocks. Today's lesson, students, concerns toughness. Many young hormonal members of the male species, primarily, seem to be under the impression being tough requires physic...

Picayunish

Not Much . . .

After an emotional win last Friday night by the Prescott Curley Wolves and a garden party' (a/k/a yard work) Saturday, not much was on my mind (as ususal) for this week's column. This Friday night we go to De Queen (the space betw...

Friday Night Reflections

Prescott's Wolf Gang D' did it Friday night, taking care of the Nashville offense  just like old times. Ten times the Wolves sacked a trio of Nashville quarterbacks. Three times they intercepted passes, scoring twice on two of the interceptions. Two ...

Curley Wolves Humble Scrappers

The Prescott Curley Wolves scrambled the Nashville Scrappers good Friday night, taking one of the sweetest victories since the championship game in Little Rock in 1995. In the end Who won 32-7. Who won. Not a question, but a statement. Who, or WHO, is t...

Bluff City

All the deer and squirrels had better take cover. The hunters are beginning to descend on our part of the county. I think the fish in Caney Creek are beginning to get worried. There is little water for them to live in. Mary Gosvenor's uncle, Mr. Harold...

Bodcaw

Pat and Julie Wilbanks of Little Rock spent Saturday with Dad and Mom, J.D. and Marie Allen. Bobbie Carlton has just returned from St. Petersburg, Fla., from visiting his daughter, Laurlee Carlton, who is teaching marine biology. This is her second year...

Boughton

Jerry Don Wicker is still convalescing after his wreck Monday of last week. He didn't receive any broken bones, but he sure was sore and bruised. He swerved to miss some deer in the road on his way to work, but he lost control of his pickup, which was to...

Hillcrest

Ethel Pledger enjoyed a visit last week from her brother, Lynton Pledger, of Little Rock and his daughter, Courtney Wilson, from London. Jo DeWoody spent Thursday with her Aunt Lillian Terrell. Earl Hunter from Texarkana visited his sister, Louise Hale...

Oak Grove

I made a mistake on the date of our pastor's appreciation. It will be the third Sunday instead of the second Sunday. It will be at Cana AME Church at Rosston. Rev. Emanuel Jenkins will bring the message and his choir will furnish the music. Our Eastern ...

Redland

I just wonder if I might get a job weather predicting. I believe I could do as good as they do, especially here in Nevada County. Cline and Wilma Compton visited Richard and Gwen Holder in Emmet on Sunday. Betty and Jim Roberson from Dallas spent the w...

Gerald L. Craig

Gerald L. Craig, 58, of Prescott died Thursday, September 23, 1999, at his home. Mr. Craig was born September 26, 1940, in Okolona to Garland and Mary Burrong Craig. He was a self-employed log hauler, a member of Bethel Baptist Church and a U.S. Air For...

Katherine May Epperson

Katherine May Epperson, 87, of Camden died Saturday, October 2, 1999, in the Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden. Mrs. Epperson was born June 15, 1912, in Rosston, the daughter of Thomas Enree and Lalla Lee May Blakely. She was the widow of Buck Ed...

Harrell F. Hines

Harrell F. Hines, 85, of Prescott died Sunday, October 3, 1999, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Mr. Hines was retired from the trucking industry. He was a member of First Baptist Church for 53 years. He was ordained as a deacon in 1959 and taught the ...

Here and There

Alcoholics Anonymous, a fellowship of men and women who wish to stop drinking, meets every Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church. Al-Anon, for those affected by another's drinking, meets Thursday evenings at 8:00 in the church. For more info...

Social Security Rep In Town

A representative of the Texarkana Social Security office will be at the Nevada County Courthouse on Thursday, September 23. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) pays monthly checks to people who are aged, disabled or blind and who do not own much or have...

Letter To The Editor

No One Above Law

With crime on the rise which is way past the unemployment rate: Is this statement just a saying or is its merits worthy of the paper that it is written on? With each day we read about a crime sting operation where some ring of c...

Cossey Appointed To Center's Board

Paula Cossey, counselor at Prescott High School, has appointed to the board of the South Arkansas Regional Health Center. The appointment was effective September 23. The center is a private, not-for-profit community mental health center providing a full...

90th Birthday Party Set For Mrs. Samuel

Mrs. Gladys Burke Samuel of DeAnn will be honored October 10 in honor of her 90th birthday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Joyce Samuel at 780 Highway 332 East in Hope. The celebration of her life will be between 2:00 and 4:00 p....

Potlatch Scholarships Offered

Students interested in applying for undergraduate college scholarships from the Potlatch Foundation for Higher Education for the 2000/2001 school year should begin the process now, the foundation administrators have announced. In Arkansas, 17 scholarshi...

Meeting Planned

There will be an informational and planning meeting regarding ninth grade students' education and academic success Monday, October 11, at 6:00 p.m. in the Prescott High School auditorium. Both the students and parents are urged to attend. PHS faculty w...

Prescott School Calendar

The Prescott School calendar for the remainder of the 1999-2000 school year is as follows: October 22  Dismissal at 12:30 for staff development. November 9  School will be dismissed at 2:00 p.m. for parent-teacher conferences from 2:30 to 9:30 p.m. R...