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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 9, 1996 edition of Gurdon Times

Kissing No Problem At Primary School
By JOHN MILLER

There has been a good deal of play in the news recently concerning children kissing one another.

A six-year-old boy was suspended from school for kissing his "girlfriend" on the cheek, while another child was talked to about kissi...

Gaming Proposals A Problem
By JOHN MILLER

Arkansans will be making decisions on four gambling amendments when they go to the polls Nov. 5.

Each of the proposed amendments is different, though all contain provisions for charitable bingo and raffles for non-profit organizat...

AML States Its Position
By JOHN MILLER

Arkansas' Municipal League made its position known on some of the proposed amendments for the Nov. 5 General Election.

Tambra Smith, Gurdon city recorder-treasurer, who is also on the advisory council, attended a meeting of the co...

Fire Ants Are A Problem In Arkansas
by Ron Matlock

County Agent - Staff Chairman

Cooperative Extension Service

OUR WORST MENACE
We received many questions about fire ant control. We need to know the ants behavior in order to know how to get rid of them.

Fire ants are voracious forages; they will cover up to 100 feet in search of food.

Before using a fire ant bait, ...

Malone Discusses Amendments
By State Representative

Percy Malone

AMENDMENT 1

Constitutional Amendments have been a major topic of discussion at the State Capitol this past month.

The governor and some of the state's leading businessmen, educators ...

Cuts Down On Diseases -
Cleanliness Equals Good Health
by Barbara A. Holt, Ph.D

Clark County Extension Agent -

Family and Consumer Sciences

Cooperative Extension Service

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Simple personal and domestic cleanliness -- handwashing, bathing, laundering,...

Blood Drive Set For October 18th In Gurdon
The Arkansas Region of American Red Cross Blood Services and Gurdon Senior Adult Center announce an upcoming blood drive Friday, October 18.

The drive will be from 3:00 until 7:00 p.m. The Gurdon Senior Adult Center is located at 100 East Main.<...

3 New Area Directors Named
The American Cancer Society has hired three new area directors.

Karen Krenzelok will be responsible for Area Four, consisting of Scott, Pope, Montgomery, Garland, Sevier, Howard, Pike, Clark, Hot Spring, Little River, Hemstead and Nevada counties...

Books Added To Amity Library
"Building a bridge with books" was the theme of the recent purchase of approximately 200 volumes of fiction, biographies, plays and poetry for the Amity High School Library.

The purchase was funded by a $2,000 grant from the Cabe Foundation of G...

Go-Devils Blast Outlaws From Saddle
Gurdon's goose egg has been broken.

Statistically, the egg was shattered though the final score Friday, Oct. 4, was 14-12 against the Dierks Outlaws.

The Devils flat dominated the Outlaws, pounding them into submission in spite of some of the mo...

Go-Devils Blast Outlaws From Saddle (cont)
he Outlaws gambled on the ensuing kick, with another onside attempt, this time recovering the pigskin at Gurdon's 49.

Ben Allen took the handoff from Huddleston, but was stripped by Josh Griffin, giving Gurdon the ball at its 49.

The Devils were...

Coaches Attend Seminar
Team Sports Medicine, a division of Team Rehabilitation Center, recently conducted a Heat Illness Awareness seminar for area coaches and athletes.

John Wayne Smith, M.D., initiated the program with a discussion of the body's response to increased...

State Pass, Punt, and Kick Is Saturday
The South Clark County Jaycees would like to remind the winning participants of the 1996 Punt, Pass and Kick Competition that the state sectional competitions will be held Saturday, October 12, in Conway at Conway High School.

The competition wi...

Brandon New CEO At Elk Horn Bank
William H. Brandon, chairman and chief executive officer of First Delta Corporation in Helena, has also been named to a similar position with the Southern Development Bancorporation in Arkadelphia, which is the parent company of Elk Horn Bank and Trust...
Logging Games Set For Forest Festival
The International Paper Logging Games will be held Saturday, Oct. 26 during the 16th Annual Gurdon Forest Festival.

IP has sponsored these games each year during the festival's existence, which was organized by the Gurdon Community Development and En...

Obituaries
Woodrow H. Smith
Woodrow H. Smith, 72, of Prescott died Saturday, September 28, 1996, in Columbia Medical Park Hospital in Hope.

Born February 25, 1924, in Beirne, he was a retired road tester for Chrysler Corporation, a Baptist and a World War II veteran.

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