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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 24, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Mayor permits horse solution
Gasoline prices reached nearly $2.58 a gallon for regular unleaded at the Redi-Mart pumps in Gurdon on Thursday. National and state news reports continue to assure the American public gasoline will get more and more expensive. Most people interviewed abo...
School budget cut by $225,000
Gurdon's School Board passed its 2005-06 annual budget on Tuesday at $5,507,445 for budget totals. This included: teacher salary, $2,855,360; debt service, $427,172; and an operating fund of $2,224,913. Superintendent Bobby Smithson told Board members, "W...
Devils prepare for Curley Wolves
The fall of 2005 Go-Devil football season is about to kick off, with the first official game to be played at the Gurdon stadium against the Curley Wolves of Prescott. This year's Prescott game will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2, with the Wolves co...
Bell school needs money to serve community
A group of citizens concerned about the future of the old Bell Middle School met this past Thursday at the Senior Adult Center with Delores Hodge, director of Home Instruction for Parents of Pre-school Youngsters (HIPPY), and with representatives of the C...
Gurdon mayor appoints Burns as new fire chief
Gurdon Mayor Clayton Franklin announced at City Council Monday Robert Burns, 57, is now Gurdon's official fire chief. Franklin said, "The 12 men we have on the volunteer fire department took a vote and recommended we make Assistant Chief Burns the new fir...
W. T. Wilson
W.T. Wilson, 94, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away early Saturday morning, Aug. 6, 2005, at the Medicalodge in Coffeyville. He was born on Aug. 26, 1910, in Hempstead County, Arkansas to Nathaniel Wilson and Jannie (Armstrong) Wilson. W.T. married Ona Ki...

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