Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 22, 1997 edition of Gurdon Times
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- Daylight Savings Ends . . .
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- Your Clocks Should Fall Back 1 Hour Sunday Morning
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- Repayment Ordered For Stolen County Funds
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- By JOHN MILLER
A former Nevada County Sheriff's Office employee entered a plea of guilty to theft of property in circuit court Tuesday, Oct. 14. Jimmie Dee Cornelius, 42, of Prescott, had been accused of taking $26,237.19 from NCSO accounts from 199...
- Smith Throws Hat In; Seeking Dickeys Seat
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- By JOHN MILLER
State Representative Judy Smith has dropped the gauntlet for the Fourth Congressional District House of Representative race. She announced her candidacy officially Friday, Oct. 17, saying she is visiting all 26 counties in the 4th Dis...
- One Arrested For Deer Camp Arson
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- By JOHN MILLER
A 19-year-old Prescott man has been charged with the arson of a deer camp. According to Jim Westmoreland, criminal investigator with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office and Prescott Police Department, Brandon Bailey has been charged w...
- New Rates Go Into Effect November
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- The Nevada County Picayune will make several rate adjustments effective November 1.
Subscription prices locally will go from $12.50 annually to $15. This includes Nevada, Hempstead, Pike, Clark, Ouachita, Columbia and Lafayette counties. Elsewhe...
- Unemployment Drops To 6.9 Percent
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- By JOHN MILLER
Nevada County's unemployment rate fell almost a full percentage point from July to August. According to figures from the Arkansas Employment Security Division (ESD), the jobless numbers dropped from 7.7 percent to 6.9 percent for the...
- Gurdon Forest Festival Set For This Weekend
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- By JOHN MILLER
Gurdon's 17th Annual Forest Festival is shaping up to be one of the best ever. Freddie Horne, chairman of the Forest Festival committee, told Gurdon's Rotary Club, during its regular weekly meeting Thursday, Oct. 16, 109 booths have ...
- Good Behavior Rewarded
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- This fall Emmet Elementary principal Floyd Pollock began a new program to recognize good student behavior.
The students are recognized if they display good citizenship, responsibility, follow classroom, playground and bus rules, and show respect ...
- Ribboncutting Set
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- Hillcrest Care and Rehab will have a ribbon cutting Sunday afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00 on a new addition that began a few months ago.
Hillcrest announced the expansion in a news confernece in May at the annual industry appreciation day held at th...
- 'Mission Possible' Slogan Set For Red Ribbon Week
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- "Mission Possible: Drug Free communities."
Seems impossible? Not in the view of Arkansans for Drug-Free Youth, who have adopted that slogan for the Red Ribbon Celebration October 25-31. More than 795,000 Arkansans participated in Red Ribbon...
- Beth Purtle Enrolled At Oklahoma
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- Elizabeth Purtle from Prescott is among 2,320 students enrolled for the fall semester at Oklahoma State University in Okmulgee.
OSU-Okmulgee is the only college in Oklahoma established specifically for technical educational. It offers college-lev...
- Red Ribbon Week Begins
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- The 1997 Red Ribbon Week celebration, a national week-long drug-free celebration, officially begins in Arkansas today, Wednesday, October 22.
The Prevention Resource Center (PRC), housed at South Arkansas Regional Health Center in El Dorado, can ...
- Food Drive Is Planned
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- Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorers of the Caddo Area Council will be hiking through local neighborhoods during November in conjunction with the 10th annual `Scouting for Food' canned food drive.
Scouts will be distributing over 30,000 recycled ...
- Prescott Elementary School News
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- Prescott Elementary School has flag raiser teams to take care of the responsibilities of flag raising. The first group of flag raisers are, l-r, front row: Ashley Higginbotham and Kim Crowder; back row: Kayla Key and Megan Martin. A second group of fla...
- Construction Affects Trees
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- Nearby construction and earthwork can mean a slow death to trees, say Extension timber specialists.
Unless trees are badly scraped, construction damage may go unnoticed. The worst damage is usually below ground, at the roots, and it's o...
- Prescott Defeats Fountain Lake; Homecoming Is Friday
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- Only one more conference win and the Prescott Curley Wolves will be going to the state play-offs, howbeit in fourth place.
The Curley Wolves had the easiest game of the season Friday night as they defeated Fountain Lake 42-15 in their second conf...
- Prescott Defeats Fountain Lake; Homecoming Is Friday (cont)
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- lay. On the next play, Prescott was called for illegal procedure. The same thing happened on the next play, but the penalty was declined by the Cobras, because an incomplete pass was bringing up a third and 10 situation.
Johnston went into shotg...
- Arthritis Causes Health Problems
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- Arthritis causes many problems for which there are no answers, but there is an alternative to coping alone, reports the Arthritis Foundation, Arkansas Chapter.
"If you have arthritis, you're not alone," Connie Cox, leader of the Hope-Prescott Su...
- Winterizing Your Horse
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- by Mary Freeman
Extension Communications Writer Keeping your horse healthy through the Arkansas winter takes a little planning and elbow grease. "Cold and wet weather can cause problems with hooves, colic, stable vices - su...
- Deaths, Funerals
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- Beginning November 1, 1997, there will be a flat rate of $10 for each obituary printed in the Nevada County Picayune. The Picayune regrets having to make such a charge, but due to rising printing costs it must be done.
- Vern Boyd
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- Vern Boyd, 71, of Emmet died October 13, 1997.
Mr. Boyd was born November 11, 1925, to Vern Nelson Boyd and Lillian Dougan Boyd of Hempstead County. He was a retired employee of the Arkansas Highway Department. He was preceded in death by his wif...
- Fred Stanley
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- Fred Stanley, 65, of McCaskill died Tuesday, October 14, 1997, at Howard County Hospital in Nashville.
Mr. Stanley was born November 15, 1931, in Prescott to Fredrick and Mary Price Stanley. He was a maintenance worker at Hudson Foods in Hope. H...
- Elizabeth A. Meador
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- Elizabeth A. Meador, 87, of Prescott died Monday, October 13, 1997, in El Dorado.
Mrs. Meador was born April 1, 1910, in Prescott. She was preceded in death by her husband, Vernie B. Meador, in 1970. She was a lifelong resident of Prescott, a me...
- Alvis (Payne) Wendt
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- Alvis (Payne) Wendt, 80, of Concord died Friday, October 17, 1997, at a Batesville hospital.
Mrs. Wendt was preceded in death by her two brothers, Warren L. `Buster' Payne of Prescott and G.L. Payne of Ft. Worth, Texas. Survivors include h...
- Ruthie Ellen Egger
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- Ruthie Ellen Egger, 84, of Prescott died Monday, October 20, 1997, at Hillcrest Care Center.
Mrs. Egger was born October 13, 1913, at Whitt Springs. She was a Baptist and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Egger, in 198...
- 'River' Knowledge Sought By AHPP
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- The Arkansas Folklife Program, a project of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, is seeking individuals who use the state's rivers for traditional activities, AHPP Director Cathy Slater announced October 17.
The AHPP is an agency of the D...
- Forest Of Trees More Plentiful Than Thought
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- Take a deep breath.
Now thank an acre of trees for the oxygen. The next time you enjoy ice cream, thank a tree. And if you eat too much
ice cream, thank wood for the antacid you'll need. Thank a tree for the make-up you use and the music y...
- Help Offered For Debris Abatement
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- Assistance is available for the removal of any debris that remains from the March 1 tornadoes in Nevada County.
The President signed a supplement appropriations which provided funds for the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program adiminister...
- Revenue Office Noted
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- The Nevada County Revenue Office was recently awarded a certificate from the Arkansas Regional Organ Recovery Agency (ARORA) for its part in helping ot promote the Arkansas Organ Donor Registry.
Given annually, the Kelly Padgett Memorial Award fo...
- NES Honor List Given
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- Nevada Elementary `Medal of Honor' winners for September were:
Kindergarten- Jeremy Blakely, Shelby Stewart, Jesse Eatman, Antinea Williams, Jessica Ellenburg, Shayla Hill, Tanner Pennington, Allie Brown, Hannah Hampton, Cordell Mixon, C...
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