Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, April 30, 2003 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Mary Thompson

Mary Lee Thompson, 84, of Prescott, died April 23, 2003, at Arkansas Heart Hospital. She was a retired registered nurse. She was born in Emmet on September 9, 1918. She was a member of the Emmet First Methodist Church. She was the daughter of O.V. and Bir...

Julius Johnson

Julius "Jake" Johnson, 73, of Arkadelphia, died Thursday, April 24, 2003, at his home. He was born April 12, 1930 in Nevada Co., the son of the late George Thurman and Daisy Smart Johnson. He owned and operated the OK Barber Shop and was a member of the P...

James Cook

James D. Cook, 58, of Pine Bluff, died April 24, 2003, at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. He was born February 5, 1945, in Prescott, to Eunice Milam Cook Haskins of Sherdan and the late Roy Lee Cook. He graduated from Camden High School in 1963. He con...

Vera Pipes

Vera Mae Ratcliff Pipes, hairdresser, artist, gardener, beloved wife and mother, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, April 23. She was born March 2, 1927, in Nevada County, the third daughter of Jack and Lola Ratcliff. She attended school at Cale clo...

Irena Hawkins

Mrs. Irena Beebe Hawkins "Miss Inie" 88, of Rosston, died Friday, April 25, 2003, in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. She was born March 11, 1915, in Simpson, Louisiana, to William Clifton Beebe, Sr. and Edith Strictland Beebe. She was a former hotel cashie...

Nevada School Board updated on millage issue

When the Arkansas Legislature adjourned, it left with a number of major issues unresolved, according to Nevada Superintendent Rick McAfee. McAfee, at the April meeting of the Nevada School Board, said the legislature did nothing of consequence in its last...

Public meeting scheduled for Prescott millage

A public meeting will be held Monday, May 5, to discuss the special election, scheduled for May 13. The meeting will take place at the St. Michael's Community Room at 7 p.m. This is to give the public the chance to get information and ask questions about ...

Council passes resolutions on water, police

It was resolution time for the Prescott City Council at its April meeting. The council passed four resolutions, two dealing with the rural water system, one for the industrial park and the other for force used by police officers. The first resolution was ...

Booker gives status of 9-1-1 system

Programming problems between CenturyTel and Southwestern Bell Telephone, thereby delaying the Nevada County 9-1-1 emergency telephone system being fully operational. However, Dale Booker, 9-1-1 coordinator, said to the Prescott City Council at its April m...