Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, January 17, 1996 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Voters Agree To Let Hospital Building, Property To Be Sold

Voters in Nevada County voiced their opinion on what to do with the defunct Nevada County Hospital loud and clear in the Jan. 9, 1996 special election. With the margin 1,222 to 293, the public said sell the facility. Local officials are thrilled with the ...

How Area Residents Voted

                    Highway Bond      Highway Tax    Hospital Sale                     For Against      For Against      For Against Absentee Voting       2      23        2      26       14      11 Early Voting          6      57        7      61   ...

$8 Million Budget Passed By Council

Prescott's City Council passed an $8 million budget for 1996 during its regular meeting Monday night at City Hall. Budgets include a 2 percent salary increase for departments to be meted out by the council's budget committee. Accountant Carl Dalrymple tol...

Group Is Looking To Future

Setting Goals For 2015 In All Aspects Of Living, Working In Nevada Co.

What will Nevada County be like in the year 2015? Will there be plenty of jobs for the county's residents? Will there be adequate housing? What kind of educational system will there be? These questions were brought up during Thursday night's community dev...

Memorual Dedication Set

To Honor Albert Hickey

A special memorial dedication ceremony will be held this coming Saturday in Emmet for Albert Hickey, who passed away in December. Hickey, who was a service station owner in Emmet for several years, was an antiques dealer when he died. In addition he did a...

Drug Arrests Made

Two Texas men and one from Arkansas were arrested Friday on drug charges after being stopped for speeding. According to Arkansas State Police Sgt. Cleve Barfield, Cpl. Tim Land and Trooper Jana Cordes were working radar on Interstate 30 in Nevada County w...

Fire Destroys Hay, Barn

Fire destroyed a barn and more than 100 bales of hay owned by Ned Ray Purtle Sunday. According to Hope Fire Department officials, firefighters arrived on the scene at 10:58 a.m. and battled the blaze unsuccessfully until 12:15 p.m. The barn and hay were b...

Former Mayor Dies

Former Prescott Mayor Joe Tate McGill died Dec. 28, 1995, at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock. The one-term mayor did what he could to help the City of Prescott move forward, according to current Mayor Howard Taylor. Taylor was the City Clerk during ...

April Westmoreland Wins Collegiate Talent Search

April Westmoreland, the 22-year-old daughter of Jim and Judy Westmoreland of Prescott, recently won the Master Card ACTS (American Collegiate Talent Search) at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She was one of 14 who competed and won with a vocal...

Internet Workshop Planned

The Department of Continuing Education at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia is sponsoring a workshop enttitled, "How to Use the Internet." The workshop will be held Saturday, January 20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the business/agri business building,...

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Medal Of Honor Winners Named

Nevada Elementary School each monh recognizes and celebrates the `Medal of Honor' winners in grades kindergarten through third and the `Citizens of the Month' in grades fourth through sixth. The Medal of Honor winners for December are listed below by grad...

Emmet Releases Honor Roll List

The Emmet School students named to the honor roll for the first semester are listed below. First grade: Misty Avery, Myrriah Chance, Hannah Cleveland, Ashley Esada, Troy Elliott, Eric Farley, Junior Hart, Jessica Hicks, Tobe Korenek, Laci Owens and...

Sinday Service To Be Conducted By Women

At Prescott First United Methodist Church

This coming Sunday, January 21, the United Methodist Women will conduct the 11:00 a.m. worship service at First United Methodist Church in Prescott. The speaker will be Barbara Grimes Lewis. Rev. Lewis serves as a part time pastor to two churches in the B...

College News

In December, 101 Southern Arkansas University students completed course requirements to receive their degrees in May. Of those gradautes, 19 graduated with honors. Students attaining a grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 to 3.74 will gradaute cum laude, stud...

Obituaries

Marie Weaver

Marie Annette Weaver, 56, of Texarkana, Texas, formerly of Prescott, died Sunday, January 7, 1996, in Texarkana. Born March 20, 1937, in Prescott, she was a Methodist. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Sissi Wilson, in 1994. Survivors include her h...

Robert Lee

Robert Edward Lee, 84, of Prescott, died Monday, January 8, 1996, in Prescott. Born September 4, 1911, in Foreman, he was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife, Gladys Sumners Lee of Prescott; and a brother, William H. Lee of Little...

Odell Toliver

Odell Toliver, 74, of Seattle, Wash., formerly of Blevins and Prescott, died Saturday, December 30, 1995. Born January 18, 1921, in Blevins, he was the son of the late Earnest and Elnora Toliver and a member of Ward Chapel AME Church in Prescott. He gradu...

Pearlie Banks

Pearlie Banks, 82, of Prescott died December 28, 1995. Born July 13, 1917. in Bigelow, she was the daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Jospeh and Mrs. Luller Oliver Roseburrow. She was a graduate of Conway County Training Senior High, a former member of New ...

Louis Henderson

Louis C. `Teke' Henderson, 70, of Rosston died Thursday, January 11, 1996, in Magnolia Hospital. Born May 4, 1926, in St. Joe, he was the son of Clarence Edgar and Alvie Lucinda Parks Henderson. He was a retired electrician for Amfuel, a World War II vete...

Tate McGill

Joseph Tate McGill, 72, of Little Rock, formerly of Prescott, died December 28, 1995 at Baptist Medical Center after a brief illness. Born December 21, 1923, in Jonesboro, he was the son of the late J. Tate McGill and Lois Winters McGill. He attended scho...

Jewell Fitzgerald

Jewell Fitzgerald, 83, of Stamps died Thursday, January 11, 1996, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Born February 9, 1912, in Nevada County, she was a member of the Apostolic Faith United Pentecostal Church at Lewisville, a homemaker and a retired grocery...

Elvin Taylor

Elvin Thomas Taylor, 76, of Lowell, formerly of Prescott, died Friday, January 12, 1996, at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale. Born November 28, 1919, in Texarkana, he was the son of Sylvester and Bertha Collins Taylor. He was a retired construction ...

Guy Daniel

Guy O. Daniel, 85, of Prescott died Saturday, January 13, 1996, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. Born November 12, 1910, in DeLeon, Texas, he was a self-employed logging contractor, a Primitiave Baptist and was preceded in death by a son, Hillard Daniell...

Betty Norman

Betty (Montague) Norman, 72, of Prescott died Sunday from an aneurysm while visiting family and firends in California over the holidays. A native of Iowa, she was an accountant and a longtime member of Sweet Adelines. Survivors include her husband, Willie...

Viola Walker

Viola Greening Walker, 87, of Camden, died Monday, January 8, 1996. Born August 7, 1918, in Ouachita County, she was the daughter of the late Granville and Ludie Lee Morris Greening. She was a member of Antioch Baptist Church where she served as financial...

Chamber Spotlight

by Von Gordon, Chamber Manager The January Chamber coffee is sponsored by Arkla Gas Company and will be held in the Nevada County Farm Bureau conference room. The public is invited. We especially urge members of the business community to come and share id...

Blevins Senior Girls Win Saratoga Tournament

Saratoga Boys Defeat Nevada Blue Jays in Semi-Finals

Area teams found the Southwest Arkansas Invitational Tournament at Saratoga to be unfriendly -- with the exception of the Blevins senior girls. The Lady Hornets breezed through the tourney and captured the title with a 50-37 win over the Lady Warriors fro...

Cubettes Trash Jr. Lady Go-Devils

Prescott's junior girls continue to whip those who oppose them on the basketball court. On Jan. 10, they thumped Gurdon 48-28 to run their record to 10-2. Both teams had slow first quarters, but Gurdon's junior Lady Go-Devils managed to post a 6-4 lead. H...

Wolverettes Defeat Nashville, Saratoga

Nashville and Saratoga have felt the wrath of the Prescott Wolverettes recently. As the season gets to the point all games count, the Prescott senior girls are taking no prisoners. In non-conference action against Nashville, the Wolverettes posted a 61-57...

Hornets Defeat PHS Boys By 8 Points Fri.

A slow first period was all it took for Harmony Grove to build a lead over the Prescott Curley Wolves and hang on for a 50-42 win. The Hornets opened the Jan. 12 game with a 15-7 first quarter lead, as they hit two treys and three two point shots, along w...

Honor Roll Given For PES Nine Weeks, Semester

The Prescott Elementary School students named to the honor roll for the second nine weeks and the fall semester are listed below by grades.

Second Nine Weeks

First grade -- all A's: Bryan Sanford, Brittany Cason, Colbe Christopher, Alye Muldoon, Ben Smith, Brody St. Clair, Katherine Wilson, Lauren Fagala, Bill O'Rourke, Megan McKamie, Kayla Ammons, Jordan Haynie and Caitlin Plunkett; A's and B's: Keshia...

Fall Semester

First grade -- all A's: Bryan Sanford, Brittany Cason, Colbe Christopher, Jeremy Hubbard, Alye Muldoon, Sydney Beth Ross, Keyon Ross, Ben Smith, Brody St. Clair, Katherine Wilson, Lauren Fagala, Michael Banks, Bill O'Rourke, Megan McKamie, Kayla Am...

PMS School News Reported

PMS Christmas Programs

by eighth graders Misty Brown and Misty Stigaullde On December 15, the fifth and sixth grade music class and the eighth grade advanced English class put on Christmas plays for Prescott Middle School students in the cafetorium. The fifth and sixth grade pl...

Art II

by eighth grade students Johnna Bryan and Nicole Spigner Art II is an extra-curricular activity. In Art II, we work on many projects. Since the beginning of the school year, we have worked on several different things. One was scratchboard, which is very i...

Hendrix Seminar Set At Prescott

Hendrix College is offering a new workshop in local churches for high school students and their parents titled, "How to Choose a College." Participants will learn more about the process of identifying and making appilication to colleges most suited to the...

Highway Vote Fails

When the people of Arkansas were asked to vote for a highway bond issue and highway tax for a road program, they voted overwhelmingly against it. In fact, the final tally showed 85 percent of the vote against the bond and tax, while 15 percent voted for i...