Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, July 27, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Lula Gulley

Lula Merle Gulley, 67, of Gurdon, died Friday in the St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs. She was born on February 3, 1938, in Gurdon, the daughter of Genella Harris and the late Edward Stuckey. She was a homemaker and a member of the New Beth...

Margaret Yates

Margaret Yates, formerly of the Sycamore community, died July 7, 2005 in a Little Rock Hospital at the age of 94. She had lived in Benton for many years. She was preceded in death not only by her parents, Anthony Wayne and Dora Grace Yates, but by one bro...

IP workers should survive profit strategy

International Paper Company officials plan to either "sell the Gurdon plant operations to another company or spin it off' into another separate company." Rick Ouellette, spokesman for the IP Gurdon Wood Products Plant, on Highway 67, said this week to th...

Roasting nets $1,000 for seniors

A Rotarian sponsored fund raiser, for the Gurdon Senior Adult Center, allowed 125 onlookers to take verbal potshots Monday evening at Anita Cabe, an area businesswoman and community supporter. Most of her accusers followed their stinging remarks with prai...

School Board votes to raise meal costs

Gurdon School Board members Tuesday unanimously passed a rate hike for students not on free or reduced lunches, to be effective during the upcoming school year. Superintendent Bobby Smithson, who said he only wanted food services to break even, said he re...

Gurdon Pond No. 2 passes inspection

The proposed site for Gurdon Pond Number Two, by the railroad track down from South Front Street, was surveyed for potential environmental pollutants by a Little Rock environmental scientist on Wednesday morning with favorable results. Nathan J. Siria, an...