Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, February 28, 2001 edition of Nevada County Picayune

School Menus: March 5-9

Menus for the area schools for the week of March 5-9 are as follows. All meals are served with milk. They are also subject to change. Breakfast in Prescott Schools is served from 8:00 to 8:30 and lunch is served between 11:30 and 12:00. Prescott School D...

Tri-Service Club

Some members of the Tri-Service Club met recently to discuss their bargain barn planned for Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, in the Potlatch Building at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. The sale will run from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Friday and fro...

Rose Garden Club

The Rose Garden Cub met in the home of Allene Spencer on February 20 at 1:30 p.m. with Flo Brackmon as co-hostess. Betty Turner, president, presided over the business meeting. The club voted to purchase 10 redbud and dogwood trees to be planted at the ...

Norma J. Ingram

Norma J. Ingram, 72, of Camden died Monday, February 19, 2001. Mrs. Ingram was a member of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elton Ingram. Survivors include two sons, Robert Ingram and his wife Cheryl of Spoka...

Nita Stephens

Nita Stephens, 54, of Hope formerly of Emmet, died Friday, February 23, 2001, at Wadley Hospital in Texarkana, Texas. Mrs. Stephens was born August 9, 1946, in Rochester, N.Y., to John and Marie Malatino. She was a housewife, mother and private sitter....

Lorena McAteer

Lorena McAteer, 87, of Camden died suddenly Sunday, February 25, 2001, at Ouachita County Medical Center. She was born October 8, 1913, in the Caney community to John Glass and Ella Goodman Glass. She was the wife of Eld. Novel McAteer for 70 years and ...

Cloyce C. Clark

Cloyce C. Clark, 82, of Shreveport, La., formerly of Laneburg, died Sunday, February 25, 2001, in a Shreveport hospital. Mr. Clark was born November 9, 1918, in the Mt. Moriah community in Nevada County. He was a retired truck driver, a member and elder...

Billy Joe Freeman

Billy Joe Freeman, 70, of Prescott died Monday, February 16, 2001, at his home. Mr. Freeman was born August 5, 1930, in Naples, Texas. He was a deacon of First Baptist Church of Prescott and a resident of Prescott for 37 years. After 35 years of servic...

Terry Jack Walker

Terry Jack Walker, 60, of Leona, Texas, died early on Monday, February 26, 2001, at his residence following a lengthy battle with cancer. Mr. Walker was born August 18, 1940, in Bluff City to Lawrence Walker and Mattie Mae Carter Walker. He graduated fr...

Bluff City News

Springtime should be just around the corner. I've already seen some of those yellow jonquils blooming. This has been a costly winter in more ways than one when you consider the storm damages, the high gas bills, and the extra cost of generators, heaters,...

Bodcaw News

A beautiful Lord's Day after the storm on Saturday night. A party at Western Sizzlin for Ruby Mullins of Richardson, Texas, was given for her 80th birthday. There were some 40 people to help her celebrate. She was Ruby Aaron and she grew up here. Some a...

Boughton News

We have had lots of rain, but thankful we missed the turbulent weather. Bro. Junior Thrasher, former pastor at Boughton Church, had one of his legs amputated last week. So sorry to hear about this. Everett and Mary Orren and son Dale spent Thursday nig...

Caney News

Lorina McAteer passed away Saturday in Camden. She had a stroke. Her funeral was Tuesday at Trinity Baptist Church with burial at Caney. Margie Reed is still in St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana. She had surgery on her neck. Paul Cross is having some h...

Hillcrest News

J.E. Dillard from Rosston spent Monday with Ozelle Dillard and Lula Butler. Billy Bob and Margaret Johnson from Rosston also visited her Saturday evening. Margaret Rhodes and baby granddaughter visited her Wednesday. Biddie McDaniel from Gurdon visited E...

Oak Grove News

Love life and see good days. Spring is just around the corner. People around Rosston are having the flu bug. I took the flu shots, but still I have a rough time. It looks like I could get rid of it. I was not able to go the church Sunday. My nephew, F...

Redland News

This is Monday and it's not raining at this time, but we have a promise it's on the way. I'm so sorry I don't have good news about Mozelle Gill, but her condition seems to be getting worse. Betty Meeks Wilson of Hot Springs Village spent the weekend wi...

Willisville News

Mrs. Essie Page passed away February 20 at Medical Park Hospital. Funeral will be Friday, March 2, at St. James COGIC in Willisville. Elder Fort is the pastor. Let us pray for the family, that God keep them in perfect peace. Pleasant Grove Church is rea...

Wright Updates School Board On Gym's Progress

Prescott School superintendent Ron Wright told the board last week the district had to redeem a certificate of deposit for $400,000 from the bond issue to make payments on construction of the new gym. The building will be coming in soon, he said, and mu...

Prescott City Council Told Of Clean-Up Efforts

Cleanup from the Christmas Day ice storm is in its final phase within the Prescott City Limits and should be done by now. Terry Don McKinnon, the logger the city hired to do the cleanup work, told members of the Prescott City Council, at its regular mon...

PES, MMS Reading Update Is Given

Officers with the Prescott Police Department were kept busy during the year 2000. They opened 434 cases and worked about 75 vehicle accidents, along with an undetermined number of accidents on private property. Officers filed 60 misdemeanor and felony ...

Class Of 2000 Voices Opinion On Graduation Policy

Members of the Prescott High School senior class voiced their opinion on letting those who haven't earned the credits march during graduation. The resounding response was: No grades, no marching. Ralphael Marlow, senior class vice president, addressed ...

Nominations Needed For Chamber Awards

Nominations for Citizen of the Year for the annual Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce Banquet are still being sought. This is the most prestigious award the Chamber can bestow on a local or area resident, and the deadline for submitting names is...

Agri Council To Be Created

Congressman Mike Ross, along with Congressman Marion Berry, are working to create an Agriculture Advisory Council in the Fourth Congressional District. Ross, the newly elected representative from the district, is a member of the House Agricultural Commi...

Clarification

Three accounts with the city of Prescott, which officials wrote off in 2000, paid their accounts off at a later date, according to records. Rae Lathrop, David Adkins and Jeff Ridgell all paid their accounts in full before the end of the year. The accou...

Into The Void with John Miller

Our idiot president, George W. Bush, the son of a former idiot president, George Herbert Walker Bush, should be impeached right now, before he has the time to do some real damage to the nation. In less than a month Dubbya has proposed a tax cut of a tri...

On Track with John Ragsdale

Still Dangerous As more and more people clean up their yards from the December ice storm, indications of spring are becoming visible. Hauling off limbs was a major improvement to the homes and yards that once were hidden from view by the piles of debris....

Baseball Schedules Given For Prescott And Nevada

Prescott High School has begun its baseball program for the spring. A tournament was supposed to have been hosted by the Prescott team this week, but inclement weather may have changed plans some. Monday had Lockesburg pitted against Gurdon and Prescot...

Living Well with the Carrie Connection

Calcium is a bone-friendly mineral. Without it we could not stand. Our bones contain huge amounts of calcium, which helps make them hard, strong and durable. However, 25 million American women don't have durable bones. Rather, they suffer from osteoporo...

We Get Letters

Writing Off Electric Bills I want to tell you how much I've enjoyed the articles about the no-payment and delinquent electric bills that you have been running for the past several months. Each week I look forward to seeing how much and how many were behi...

Rigsby Receives Scholarship

The University of Arkansas has announced its first Rodney E. Momon Scholarship recipient. He is Maurice Rigsby of Rosston. The Rodney Edrick Momon Memorial Scholarship was established in 1999 by Rodney's parents, Robert and Alberta Momon of Ivan. The sc...

Farm and Home News

Information released by the Arkansas Forestry Commission indicates that 67,445 acres of timber were destroyed by the December ice storms on non-industrial privately-owned forest land. The value of the timber destroyed is nearly $33 million. The cost of ...

Curley Wolves Fall In Round One Of Regionals

Prescott's trip to the regional basketball tournament in Star City was short-lived, as the Wolves fell to Hamburg in the first round. The Lions posted a 70-38 in over the Wolves, sending Prescott to spring sports. The Wolves never really got in the gam...

Season Begins At Prescott Raceway

Action has resumed at the Prescott Raceway, with a full slate underway Saturday, Feb. 24. In the super pro division, Larry Boardman of Hensley took the top spot with a top speed of 143 mph. Boardman had a dial in time of 4.91, and a reaction time of 0....

Military News

Army National Guard Pvts. Joseph M. McKelvy and Daniel T. Henderson have graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. The soldiers received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, mili...

Carlton Joins Staff At Shackelford

Shackelford Funeral Home has announced that Tara Carlton of Rosston is its new insurance agent. Carlton works for First Guaranty Insurance Company of Ashdown and will be offering its insurance products through Shackelford Funeral Home. She is the daugh...

Here and There

A representative of the Texarkana Social Security office will be in Prescott at the courthouse Thursday, February 22, and March 22. Supplemental Security Income pays monthly checks to people who are aged, disabled or blind and who do not own much or hav...

College News - SAU Grauation

December graduates at Southern Arkansas University included Tiffany Wynne Rash of Prescott, who graduated summa cum laude with a B.B.A. in business administration-finance. Summa cum laude is the highest honor bestowed at SAU. To earn this degree a stude...

College News - Young Earns Scholarship

Tiffany Marie Young, a senior at Prescott High School, has been awarded a tuition scholarship to the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope. The scholarship is based on an A.C.T. score and/or grade point average plus a recommendation from a sc...

Kisselburg, Vanderveer Exchange Vows

Wedding vows were exchanged between Hallie Kisselburg and Lynn Vanderveer at five o'clock in the evening, Saturday, January 20, at the First United Methodist Church in Prescott. Jon Chadwell of Prescott officiated. Parents of the bride are Mrs. Sherry C...