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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, June 18, 1997 edition of Nevada County Picayune

New Floor To Go Into Nevada Gym
Board Approves Contracts For 1997-98
When the Nevada BlueJays take to the hardwood for the 1997-98 season, they will literally be on the hardwood.

The Nevada School Board, meeting Monday, June 9, voted to accept a bid from Tri-State Floor, Inc. for a new wooden floor for the gymnasium. ...

Three Injured When Train Strikes Car
Three Arkadelphia women were injured Saturday when the vehicle they were in was struck by a train.

According to reports from the Prescott Police Department, Mildred Johnson, 67, was crossing the railroad tracks at Highway 67 and Laurel Street in Pres...

This Weekend In Emmet -
Music Blowout Is Set
Do not, under any circumstances make any other plans for the weekend.

This weekend, June 21, the Emmet Volunteer Fire Department is having its annual Music Blowout in the area by the Emmet City Hall, with plenty to keep everyone busy for the entire d...

Bennett Brings Defensive Skills To PHS
First, he was a Bulldog. Then he was a Bearcat. This was followed by being a Rattler.

Now, though, David Bennett is a Curley Wolf.

And, if his history is repeated in Prescott, there will be no letdown on either the football team or the track pro...

Curley Wolves To Report This Thursday
Those wanting to play football for the Prescott Curley Wolves next season need to be ready now.

Anyone interested in being on the 1997 team needs to report to the Prescott High School field house Thursday, June 19, at 7 p.m.

New head coach David...

SAU Fraternity Earns High Honors At State Competition
The Phi Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda at Southern Arkansas University recently attended the 1997 State Leadership Conference in Little Rock.

SAU-PBL members brought home 32 state awards and the Silver Chapter Award of Merit. Five Nevada County me...

College News
Shelly Kay Browning of Emmet, graduate of Nevada High School; Sara Allison Huett of Emmet, graduate of Prescott High School; Thomas Brandon McLelland of Prescott, graduate of Prescott High School; David Eugene Jackson of Prescott, graduate of Prescott ...
Welfare Reform Act Has Tough Changes
from State Sen. Mike Ross

The new federal welfare reform act requires all states to adopt stricter child support enforcement laws.

Arkansas is one of 35 states that has approved the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. All states must co...

Programs Focus On Nature
White Oak Lake State Park has planned a series of programs focusing on `Learning about the Natural World.'

Thursday, June 19, at 3:30, there will be a video about nature's amusing ways, entitled, `Fantastic Follies.'

Friday, June 20, there...

Janes Earns Top Teaching Award
Kathie Wren Janes, formerly of Prescott, has been named Hamburg Public Schools' elementary teacher of the year.

Mrs. Janes was nominated by the faculty of Wilmot Elementary in Wilmot, a part of the Hamburg School District, which has four elementa...

Teleconference Center Is Completed At UACCH
The University of Arkansas Community College at Hope has completed its teleconference facility.

The center features the latest in two-way audio and two-way video with a wide screen, which allows local conversation to be muted until participants ...

Vasser On Ethics Committee
Glenn Vasser of Prescott has been appointed to the Arkansas Bar Association's Professional Ethics and Grievances Committee by president- elect Jack McNulty of Pine Bluff.

McNulty also appointed him to the association's Legal Education Comittee.

Military News
Matt Holt, son of Peggy Holt of Prescott, enlisted in the United States Air Force recently. Holt, a 1996 graduate of Nevada High School, will attend Air Force Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex.

According to Staff Sergean...

School News
Prescott Elementary School's fourth grade Ambassadors for the third and fourth nine weeks helped host the final awards assembly. The students were, l-r, front row: Sheena Dougan, Jorge Delgado, Craid Heckman and Lakisha Buford; back row: Neena Latin, J...
Obituaries
Ruby Norton
Ruby Morton, 80, of Dallas, Texas, died Thursday, June 12, 1997, at Dallas.

Born February 24, 1917, in Blevins, she was the daughter of W.C. and Jimmie Mae Stigley Johnson. She was a permanent records keeper with the Dallas Independent School Di...

Ottis Virgil Elmore
Ottis Virgil Elmore, 73, of North Little Rock died June 10, 1997.

Survivors include his wife, Myrtie Bell Elmore; two sons, Charles T. Haynie and Lester Eugene Haynie; one daughter, Trudy Elmore; two sisters, Alta O'Rourke from Prescott, and Car...

Three Earn Promotions At Bank Of Prescott
The board of directors of the Bank of Prescott has announced the appointment of Tal Webb and Philip McAdams as assistant cashiers of the Bank and Faith Beavert as secretary to the board of directors.

Webb graduated from Prescott High Schoolo in 1...

Historic Group Ready For Grants
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, is preparing its annual Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant application for the 1998 fiscal year.

The HPF provides about one-half of the funding for ...


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