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SHS alum competes in all-star game Bid accepted to fix streets in McRae Jamal Jones represented Searcy one more time in the AAA All-Star Game Wednesday. — Page 1B

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The McRae City Council unanimously accepted a bid to have streets in the city paved. — Page 3A

County supports airport terminal Contribution to allow drawing of plans

New terminal

Cost: $700,000-$1 million Grants: $500,000 Matching funds: $90,000 Total now available: $590,000 Other sources: Federal grants; private participation

By Warren Watkins warren@thedailycitizen.com The county’s contribution of $125,000 will allow plans to be drawn up to build a new terminal at Searcy Municipal Airport.

The White County Quorum Court voted Tuesday to give the money as part of matching funds toward state grants.

Airport Manager Donnie Love

said there are still obstacles to overcome before the financing on the project is a done deal.

“We have been strategizing,” Love said. “We didn’t really know where the money was going to come from.”

One grant for $400,000 with $80,000 in matching funds could provide $480,000, Love said, and another grant for $100,000 with $10,000 matching could provide $110,000, so $590,000 is seen to be available toward the building’s total cost — which has yet to be determined.

“If the city and county want to build a terminal that’s good for 30-60 years, something they can be proud of and the state could be proud of, it’s probably going to be close to $1 million,” Love said. “But what we’d

like to do is have some wiggle room, because we really don’t know what it’s going to cost. It might be more and it might be less. If we had $1 million we could be flexible.”

Preliminary plans for the project show cost could range from $700,000 to $1 million.

One part of the plan could be to use two fiscal year’s grants, stretching out the financing, but that would only be a partial solution. Money from the federal government includes funds Continued on Page 3A

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Flood damaged underground lines in Georgetown

By Warren Watkins warren@thedailycitizen.com GEORGETOWN — Local residents can call 911 for emergency services —with some short delays — even as workers labor put the finishing touches on restoration of phone land lines damaged by floods.

“I’m sitting in the graveyard right now,” Georgetown resident Dessa Leehy told The Daily Citizen in a call Tuesday describing her efforts to hit a cell tower.

“If you happen to dial 911 it goes across the river to McRory. This town is full of old people and we need phone service.”

Kyle Osborne, chairman of the White County 911 Administration Board, said he has looked into the matter and agrees with Leehy’s description.

“Sometimes, cell phone users in Georgetown will hit the McRory tower and the Woodruff County 911 dispatch center immediately

McKenna Simpson, 6, left, looks over the vegetables offered by Tom Sapp, right, at the Searcy Farmers’ Market in Spring Park Wednesday. Also pictured are Addy Simpson, 3, second from left, Nancy “Nanny” Tackett, middle. Throughout the summer, the market will feature items from local farms in and around White County and will be open from 7 a.m. to noon Wednesdays and Saturdays and 4 to 7 p.m. on Mondays. Warren Watkins/warren@thedailycitizen.com

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Kensett applies for grant to update playground Single-wide mobile home allowed in mobile home park temporarily

By Erica Sirratt Special to the Daily Citizen KENSETT — The city council approved a resolution to apply for a $45,000 grant through the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism to buy new playground equipment

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Who: Kensett City Council Next meeting: 7 p.m. July 18 Location: 101 NE 1st St., Kensett

for the park. The action came at Tuesday night’s regular meeting as the council agreed that they needed to provide a public recreation for citizens and visitors.

Mayor Max McDonald said that

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The White County Sheriff’s Office released this photo of Bob Armstrong, the subject of a missing persons case they are investigating along with the Searcy Police Department.

Vicksburg, Miss., police said they found Armstrong’s white 2009 Dodge pickup at a local park on Friday. Armstrong is the owner of Furniture Gallery in Searcy, according to police. Anyone with information should call 279-6279. Contributed photo

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they can receive up to $45,000, but they may not get the full amount.

“If we don’t get $45,000, we’ll just have to cut back on our purchases.” McDonald said.

In other business, the council agreed to allow a man from Des Arc to place a single-wide mobile home in the mobile home park on Central Street, even though it is for doublewide homes. The Des Arc man’s house recently flooded and FEMA

has given him a mobile home to reside in until his home is fixed. The council approved this under the emergency clause, stating that this was an emergency situation, but that FEMA had to contact McDonald and confirm that this is only temporary.

The next regular monthly meeting of the Kensett City Council will be 7 p.m. July 18. The council meets the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at 101 NE First St.

Drug sentences

n Tina L. McCain, 39, of Beebe: Three years probation n William Todd Yarbrough, 45, of Beebe: Six years in prison n Joshua L. North, 27, of Quitman: Two years in prison n Dwayne A. Newman, 41, of Jacksonville: Five years in prison

4 sentenced on drug Drought may stop use of fireworks charges

The Associated Press HOT SPRINGS — If enough rain falls before the Independence Day, people in Garland County may be able to light their own fireworks.

Garland County Judge Rick Davis put a burn ban in place on Monday, and he says it may stay in force through the July 4 holiday to prevent of dozens of fires from breaking out, as has happened before.

"That's what we're worried about," Davis said told the Sentinel-Record. "One of the fire departments told me that last year or the year before that during the Fourth of July evening, they had 48 different calls."

Davis said he'll talk to fire departments around the county before making a final decision.

"That's going to depend on the weather

and what our volunteer fire departments tell me," he said. "I hate to do that. We'll just see how it comes out. I don't know. We're still a week or two away. Maybe we'll get a little more moisture."

About a dozen Arkansas counties had burn bans in place as of Wednesday, and the Arkansas Forestry Commission says south and much of central Arkansas is at a moderate risk of wildfires.

A cold front was moving into Arkansas on Wednesday, and the National Weather Service says there will be rain chances across the state over the next several days.

Showers fell over the southern half of the state Wednesday morning.

Davis said he didn't know how much rain would have to fall to lift Garland County's ban.

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Four people have been sentenced on drug charges, according to Beebe Police Chief Wayne Ballew, who said the following individuals charged with felony narcotics violations within the City of Beebe entered guilty pleas in White County Circuit Court: Tina L. McCain, 39, of Beebe pleaded guilty June 7 to possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was given 36 months probation on each charge to run concurrently and fined $1,000.

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News in brief U.S. Rep. Crawford files finance disclosure form

The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK — U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford has filed his financial disclosure forms, which show he earned about $58,000 from a media company he sold last year.

Other members of Congress from Arkansas filed their financial disclosures last week, but Crawford received an extension and filed his Wednesday.

Crawford was elected to the post last November.

The Republican who represents the 1st District in northeast Arkansas also reported a certificate of deposit worth between $50,000 and $100,000, on which he earned less than $1,000 in interest. He also sold mutual fund shares worth between $16,000 and $65,000 in 2010.

The form does not disclose his spouse's income.

Crawford owned Farm House Media Inc., which distributes farm news to broadcasters and has a Jonesboro sports radio station.

Oklahoman convicted in death of man

The Associated Press FORT SMITH — A Sebastian County Circuit Court jury has convicted an Oklahoma man of first-degree murder in the death of a Fort Smith resident last year.

Jurors found Walter Lee Walton of Muldrow guilty on Wednesday. Because Walton has prior convictions of second-degree murder and firstdegree battery, he automatically was sentenced to life in prison.

Walton was accused of fatally stabbing 27-year-old Jeremy Travis in September.

Fort Smith police officers say they found Travis outside a home with multiple stab wounds to the torso and heart.

Investigators say Walton killed Travis after learning his girlfriend was having an affair with Travis and Travis denied the affair.

Walton represented himself at trial.

He told the jury in his opening statement that he was suffering an "emotional disturbance" when he attacked Travis.

1 shot, another stabbed at gold store

The Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE — Fayetteville police say an gold store employee shot a man who stabbed him during a robbery attempt.

Sgt. Craig Stout says a man walked into the Arkansas Gold and Silver Exchange on Tuesday with the intent of

robbing it. Police say during the attempt, the man stabbed store employee Christopher Leach in the arm. Leach then shot him in the torso with a firearm.

The robber was later identified as Nathan Chism.

Both men were taken to the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville. Leach was treated at the hospital and released, but Chism underwent surgery and is in stable condition.

Stout says police are making sure Chism's medical needs are taken care of before he's arrested. He says officers are stationed at the hospital.

Researchers find missing man’s remains in SE Okla.

The Associated Press HODGEN, Okla. — LeFlore County authorities say the body of a man who has been missing since February has been found.

Sheriff Bruce Curnutt said Wednesday some out-of-state researchers who were looking for a rare, spotted salamander discovered the remains of 74-year-old Donald Herring outside of Hodgen, near the Arkansas border.

Herring's abandoned truck was found in the Ouachita National Forest on Feb. 16.

Rescue teams searched in the snow and ice for several days but were unable to locate Herring.

Prosecutor: FBI agent justified in shooting

The Associated Press OSCEOLA — A prosecutor in northeast Arkansas says an FBI agent was justified in killing a man who pulled a gun on authorities as they prepared to search his computer for child pornography.

Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington said Wednesday that Special Agent Ryan Barrett used his weapon to defend himself and another officer at an Osceola home.

Ellington says officers went to Brandon Fountain's home in February to question him about child pornography.

Authorities say he admitted to having more than 1,000 images of child pornography and that he had abused children.

As officers prepared paperwork that would allow them to search his computer, Fountain grabbed a pistol from his nightstand.

He turned toward another officer and Barrett fired two rounds into Fountain's back, killing him.

Obama: 30,000-plus surge troops leaving Afghanistan

By Ben Feller and Julie Pace The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Beginning to wind down a long and devastating war, President B a r a c k O b a m a announced We d n e s d a y night he was pulling home Obama 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer, withdrawing the "surge" of forces he had sent to rescue a flailing effort.

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The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK — The interim superintendent of the Pulaski County Special School District has placed a $104 million district-wide building plan on hold and has made preparing for the new school year his top priority.

Arkansas Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell ousted district superintendent Charles Hopson and appointed Bobby Lester after the state took over the district on Monday because of financial troubles. The 17,000-student district is the largest district over which the state has assumed control.

Teachers must be trained to comply with new state standards, facilities must be prepared to open and principals hired to replace retiring administrators, Lester, 66, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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"There are things that should have already been done that haven't been done," he said. "We need to swim fast to get up the river."

Arkansas, at least 41 other states and Washington, D.C., have adopted common corecurriculum standards that are intended to be rigorous, research-based and internationally competitive.

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CBO, the non-partisan agency that calculates the cost and economic impact of legislation and government policy, says the nation's rapidly growing debt burden increases the probability of a fiscal crisis in which investors lose faith in U.S. bonds and force policy makers to make drastic spending cuts or tax increases.

"As Congress debates the president's request for an increase in the statutory debt ceiling, the CBO warns of a more ominous credit cliff — a sudden dropoff in our ability to borrow imposed by credit markets in a state of panic," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

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Teachers in the district in kindergarten through second grade, who will be expected to implement the changes in August, haven't been trained

in the curriculum, Lester said.

"The Pulaski district is way behind," Lester said. "I guess it was a lack of leadership and lack of communication among the leadership."

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cal constraint, Obama said it was time for America "to focus on nation building here at home."

The withdrawal is supported by the bold bottomline claims of his security team: Afghanistan, training ground for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, is no longer a launching pad for exporting terrorism and hasn't been for years. Yet the White House insists the U.S. must maintain a strong fighting force in Afghanistan for now to keep the country from slipping back into a haven for al-Qaida terrorists.

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not expected to end until December 2014 — and even then, a sizable and enduring contingent may remain in a different role.

Obama's announcement from the White House came in a perilous political environment, with Americans soured on the war and the economy, many members of Congress pushing him to get troops home even faster, and his Republican presidential rivals taking shots at his leadership at every chance.

Conceding the economic strain of waging war at a time of rising debt and fis-

now $14.3 trillion, is on pace to equal the annual size of the economy within a decade.

It warned of a possible "sudden fiscal crisis" if it is left unchecked, with investors losing faith in the U.S. government's ability to manage its fiscal affairs.

The study reverberated throughout the Capitol as Biden and senior lawmakers spent several hours behind closed doors. The talks are aimed at outlining about $2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade, part of an attempt to generate enough support in Congress to allow the Treasury to take on new borrowing.

Biden made no comment as he departed, except to say the group would

The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The rapidly growing national debt could soon spark a Europeanstyle crisis unless Congress moves forcefully, the Congressional Budget Office warned Wednesday in a study that underscored the stakes for Vice President Joe Biden and nego- Biden tiators working on a sweeping plan to reduce red ink.

Republicans seized on the report to renew their push to reduce costs in federal benefit programs such as Medicare.

The report said the national debt,

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eager for an exit: "The tide of war is receding."

A total of 10,000 troops will leave the war zone by the end of this year — fulfilling Obama's promise — and more than 20,000 additional forces will leave by the summer of 2012, shortly before the president will go before voters in search of a second term.

Still, almost 70,000 U.S. troops will remain in an unstable country, fighting in a war bound to see more Americans killed.

Obama said they will leave at a steady pace, but the U.S. combat mission is

CBO: Debt crisis looms without changes

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Bid accepted to fix streets in McRae Public meeting on sewer is tonight

By M. A. Webb Special to The Daily Citizen McRAE — The city can expect to see smoother roads after a decision from the city council.

Mayor Robert “Bob” Sullivan told the council that 5-Star paving had supplied a detailed breakdown of their bid at the regularly scheduled meeting Sullivan on Tuesday night. According to the bid, the cost would be $23,669.10 after a 10 percent discount. Sullivan stated that a $10,000 grant would pay for part of the work and the additional funding would be provided by the street department.

Sullivan stated that he had been in contact with three cities that had used 5Star Paving and all the cities he had spoken with were pleased with the work.

The council unanimously decided to accept the bid and according to Sullivan the work should be started as soon as possible.

In other business, City Clerk Pamela French reported that she had been in contact with Ideal Office Machines of Searcy and had found a copier to lease for $95 per month. According to French, the price included delivery and set up as well as maintenance and toner for up to 2,000 copies per month. French stated that the current copier was in poor condition. Sullivan added that the person who serviced the old copier had moved to Tennessee and was unavailable.

The council unanimously voted to lease the copier from Ideal Office Machines.

Citizens on Patrol (COPs) President Twyla Turner spoke to the council and requested that the COPs program be allowed to place a storage building behind the city hall. According to Turner, the COPs program assists the police department with several fundraisers each year and the storage building would be used to house the canopy and various other items used by the program. Sullivan stated that the building would be covered under the city’s insurance policy but the increase in price would be minimal.

The council unanimously voted to allow the program to place the building.

Sullivan stated that the city was in the final stages of some important grants including the fun park and

Next meeting

Who: McRae City Council Next meeting: 7 p.m. July 19 Location: McRae City Hall

the water and sewer systems. According to Sullivan, no one presently employed by the city possessed the knowledge that is required to work with the various agencies on the grants.

Sullivan recommended that former employee Frankie Miller, who drafted the initial grants, be hired on a temporary basis in order to complete the projects.

Sullivan stated that for three years, Miller had been in contact with the White River Development, engineers and contractors and would be the best person to ensure that the time limits did not expire. Sullivan stated that the city was in danger of losing the grant money if the deadlines passed.

The council voted on the recommendation to hire Miller for 60 calendar days at the part-time rate of $8 per hour for one day a week with unstated stipulations. The vote ended with a two to two split. Aldermen Tina Weaver and Wayne Harrison caste the oppositional votes and the mayor cast a tie breaking vote in the affirmative.

The council unanimously voted to rescind city resolution 2010-1 after a discrepancy with city resolution 2010-4 was discovered. The resolutions were passed in order to receive a grant for the fun park, according to French, the first resolution was obsolete since the city received no money from that grant.

Chief of Police Chris Ward presented the police department report and stated that he will be attending a 40-hour police administration and management course in Pocahontas from July 18-22. According to Ward, the class is free but the cost of lodging will be $280.83.

Ward informed the council that the police department had $1,119 remaining in the training budget for this year.

Ward told the council that he will be teaching a tactical pistol course on July 15 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Ward said that he would like to use some of the training budget in order to supply water for the class.

Sullivan stated that the city will have a public meeting to discuss the waste water treatment plant. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. June 23 in the multipurpose center.

The next regular meeting of the McRae City Council will be 7 p.m. July 19. The council meets the third Tuesday of each month in the McRae City Hall.

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Trucker tax break may be repealed

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Who: Gov. Mike Beebe and House Speaker Robert Moore What: Will try to repeal a tax exemption for truckers after the state's trucking lobby pulled its support for a 5cent diesel tax increase meant to pay for the exemption and finance highway improvements

By Nomaan Merchant The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe and House Speaker Robert Moore will try to repeal a tax exemption for truckers after the state's trucking lobby pulled its support for a 5-cent diesel tax increase meant to pay for the exemption and finance highway improvements.

The tax exemption and a vote on the diesel tax increase were parts of a deal reached between the Arkansas Trucking Association and state lawmakers. The association promised to lobby voters to pass a 5-cent increase to the state diesel tax.

But the trucking association's request not to have a vote on the tax meant the deal was off, said Moore and Grant Tennille, a spokesman for Beebe.

William Todd Yarbrough, 45, of Beebe, pleaded guilty June 7 to possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and theft of property. He was sentenced to six years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections on each charge to run concurrently.

Joshua L. North, 27, of Quitman pleaded guilty June 8 to possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to two years in a Regional Corrections Facility.

Dwayne A. Newman, 41, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty June 14 to possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was given five years probation on each charge to run concurrently, fined $1,500 and sentenced to 10 days in the county jail.

Ballew said that the affidavits for arrest warrants for McCain, North and Newman were accomplished by officer Josh Middleton. The affi-

"It's really simple," Moore said in an interview. "The funds for the exemption that were passed were to come out of the revenues that were going to be generated by the diesel tax."

Moore said he would try to repeal the exemption during next year's fiscal session, which is ordinarily limited to budget matters. It's unclear whether such a move would require an extraordinary vote to be considered.

"The governor was clear with everybody that if the 5-cent diesel tax was not approved, that he would work to have the exemption repealed," Tennille said Wednesday.

Shannon Samples Newton, the association's vice president, said Wednesday it wasn't the right time yet to talk about repealing the tax break.

"When that time comes, we'll address either other ways to offset the exemption or debate the exemption on its merits," Newton said. "I don't want to get into too much discussion on that in June."

The tax was to pay for a $1.1 billion bond program to be used for highway repairs.

Highway improvements are among Arkansas' biggest unfunded needs, with $23 billion in projected needs but only $4 billion in funding. The trucking lobby had supported the 5-cent hike as a way to support interstate highways heavily used by commercial traffic.

The higher diesel tax would have replaced about $3 million in lost state revenue from the tax exemption when it goes into effect next year.

State appeals court orders new trial in hotel death

The Associated Press NORTH LITTLE ROCK — The family of a man who drowned in front of his wife and young child in a swimming pool at a North Little Rock hotel will get another chance with a wrongful death lawsuit, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

Guy Douglas Bishop, 48, of Scott, died in 2008 after venturing into the deep end of an indoor pool at a Howard Johnson Hotel. In 2009, a jury in Pulaski County found in favor of the hotel after a two-day trial.

Bishop's widow, Jerri Bishop, argued on appeal that Circuit Judge Ellen Brantley should have allowed evidence at trial that showed the hotel had violated a state regulation that required a rope to divide the shallow and deep ends of the pool.

The hotel, owned by Tariq Inc., denied all of the allegations at trial and argued that allowing the evidence would do more to prejudice the jury than shed light on how the fatal accident occurred.

Brantley did allow Jerri Bishop to argue at trial that

other safety equipment wasn't readily accessible.

According to the original suit, Guy Bishop was walking in the pool with his 8year-old son on his shoulders when he slipped when he unexpectedly stepped onto the slope of the deep end of the pool and went into distress. Jerri Bishop, in another part of the hotel, heard cries for help and rushed to the pool.

She tried to throw a life ring attached to a rope, but the rope was tightly wound.

Once she got it unwound, the

rope was too short to reach her husband. The suit says the son reached the life ring and pulled his father's hair to bring him toward the float.

Despite attempts to revive him, Guy Bishop died three days later at a hospital, with the cause of death given as drowning.

"We discern no unfair prejudice in allowing proof that the hotel violated a state swimming pool regulation that arguably contributed to a drowning death," Judge Josephine Linker Hart wrote for the appeals court.

CenturyLink workers were busy Tuesday fixing land lines in Georgetown. Warren Watkins/warren@thedailycitizen.com

Georgetown: Phone service restored in flooded city

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transfers the call to White County, within seconds,” Osborne said.

CenturyLink provides land line telephone service to the town, which was inundated by two floods of the White and Little Red Rivers this spring, and workers are on site rebuilding the infrastructure after underground lines were damaged by water.

Jeff Jones, market development man-

ager for CenturyLink, said the company had 14 miles of cable under as much as 15 of water. After the first round of flooding in April, the company had to begin replacing equipment, Jones said.

“We had to go in there and start replacing it and elevate it to protect from future floods,” Jones said Wednesday. “Then ‘lo and behold’ the flood came back and wiped us out again. It was a very costly

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would have gone toward paving for one to three years that could be put toward the new terminal — about $150,000 a year — but federal permission is required to do so.

“We’ve brainstormed everything we can probably do to get grants, matching money and local participation by private companies and citizens,” Love said.

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To tea party, Obama is the bogeyman

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ew national polling information released by political scientists at the University of Arkansas reveals interesting and perhaps mildly counterintuitive findings about the tea party.

This survey, conducted under the joint aegis of the UA’s Blair Center and Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, shows that devotees of the tea party are better-educated than the rest of the population as well as possessed of higher incomes.

That is the perhaps mildly counterintuitive part, if, like me, you factored a higher yahoo quotient than is apparently so.

What is merely interesting, meaning not surprising, is that a greater percentage of tea party people believe in the inerrancy of the Bible than is the case with the rest of the population, including regular Republicans.

Also interesting is that tea party people are less supportive than the general population, again including regular Republicans, of the supposed ideals of equal opportunity and equal rights for all, specifically minorities.

Tea party people are significantly less supportive of gay rights and significantly more hostile to illegal immigration than gardenvariety Republicans.

But what I find most interesting on this subject is not anything contained in this data compiled from more than 3,000 survey calls nationwide last November. Instead, it is in the candid analysis provided me by Dr. Angie Maxwell, assistant professor of political science at the UA. She said the poll suggests that the common denominator in the tea party’s emergence is President Obama.

“He represents a world they can’t function in,” she said.

First things first, to get it out of the way: Maxwell is not saying that all tea partiers are racists and that their movement is based on a racial bigotry toward this historic president.

She is saying the tea party arises from much more than that — from, as she describes, a coincidence of varying cultural and economic fears all falling under the general heading of a dreaded new world. People with these fears have come to “put all of them,” to “project them,” on Obama, she said, often without basis in fact or fairness.

For example: If you fear a changing America in which white people become a minority because of the black population as combined with

JOHN BRUMMETT

other new ethnic groups and with the Hispanic influx, then Obama, being of mixed race and with a foreign father, personifies that fear for you.

If you fear a changing America in which traditionally conservative Christian church values are being eroded by new forms of spiritual thinking and by cultural changes such as the growing acceptance of homosexuality, then Obama, with a Muslim parent and a former pastor who once screamed “God damn America,” personifies that fear for you.

If your relatively high household income is drawn from the medical profession, from doctoring or as a drug rep, perhaps, and if you fear that health care reform will transform America into something more like a European country and lower your standard of living, then Obama personifies that fear for you.

You don’t call it Pelosicare or Reidcare.

You call it Obamacare.

Maxwell compared this to the way the Whigs sprang to prominence for a couple of decades solely from resentment of Andrew Jackson.

If she is right, then the Republicans have a shortterm window and long-term problem.

The tea party is vital to Republicans at the moment, representing maybe a tenth of the electorate.

Republican victories in the next elections will hinge on appeasing this far-right bloc.

But if the glue that holds the tea party together is fear of Obama, then the tea party goes away after Obama goes away.

That would leave the Republicans burdened with a deadly combination — a weak reality, meaning a sort of nondescriptly soft conservatism, and a reputation for a harder conservatism that would have caused an alienation from the more pragmatic, and usually decisive, center.

For immediate purposes though, the tea party lives, and garden-variety Republicans must oblige it, so long as Obama is its bogeyman-in-chief.

John Brummett is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. His e-mail address is jbrummett@arkansasnews.com; his telephone number is (501) 374-0699.

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NATIONAL VIEWS

Is this a post-racial society?

I continue to hear from an evergrowing chorus of fellow journalists and friends that we have become a post-racial society. We have a black president and an increasing number of black members of Congress, mayors and school superintendents. I wish this were so, but there are — as many black Americans can tell you — many real facts contradicting this optimistic view.

Over the years, I’ve heard from African-American friends about their fears of being stopped by police for the “crime” of “driving while black.” On June 7, the Chicago Tribune (“ACLU: Racial disparities in state police searches”) reported that while driving, “Hispanics and African-Americans were two to three times more likely to be searched for contraband even though white motorists were more likely to be found in possession of drugs, alcohol or weapons.”

The Illinois affiliate of the ACLU has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the Illinois State Police for racial bias. Is Attorney General Eric Holder interested?

I have been reporting for years in The Village Voice in New York City that the city’s police department (commanded by Commissioner Raymond Kelly), has, since 2003, “stopped and interrogated people nearly 3 million times, with blacks and Latinos (mostly just walking on the street) experiencing over 80 percent of the stops.

“According to (a) NYCLU lawsuit, ‘Even though nearly 90 percent of people stopped have done absolutely nothing unlawful — as evidenced by the fact that they are neither arrested or given a summons — the NYPD is entering the personal information of every person stopped into a Department database.’”

It is degrading for blacks, including youth, to be stopped and frisked — an event so common it can happen anywhere. On one occasion, I was coming out of The New School university on the street where I live. There were two black students, one of them holding an impressive, apparently new, briefcase.

I overheard his friend saying to him: “I hope you’ve got a receipt for that. The cops, you know, will figure you stole it.”

Michael R. Bloomberg, New York

NAT HENTOFF SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY

City’s self-proclaimed education mayor, has never criticized these color-coded police stops and frisks, nor has he criticized Kelly, who was recently touted by influential New York Sen. Chuck Schumer to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI director when the latter’s term ends.

Former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert often reminded white New Yorkers: “People going about their daily business, bothering no one, are menaced out of the blue by the police, forced to spread themselves face down in the street, or plaster themselves against a wall, or bend over the hood of a car, to be searched.

“People who object to the harassment are often threatened with arrest for disorderly conduct” (“Jim Crow Policing” The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2010).

This is New York City, not Birmingham, Ala., in the 1950s.

Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate and associate professor of law at Ohio State University, writes in her book “The New Jim Crow” (The New Press, 2010), that with nearly 2.4 million Americans in prison: “The War on Drugs is the vehicle through which extraordinary numbers of black men are forced into the cage. ...

Vast numbers of people are swept into the criminal justice system by police, who conduct drug operations primarily in poor communities of color.”

Like the current FBI, she writes, these police are “unconstrained by constitutional rules of procedure that once were considered inviolate (when we had a Fourth Amendment).

In fact, police are allowed to rely on race as a factor (in this war on drugs) in selecting whom to stop and search ... effectively guaranteeing that those who are swept into the system are primarily black and brown.”

So overcrowded are California’s prisons, the Supreme Court, in a 5-to4 vote on May 23, commanded that state to release thousands of prisoners because their conditions of confinement are causing “needless suffering and death.”

Zeroing in on the source of those teeming numbers behind bars was Liliana Segura, associate editor of The Nation (thenation.com, May 26): “Parole violations represent more than half of all new prison admissions, and three of four prisoners are non-white.

It’s an extreme example of what has happened across the country.”

Segura quotes Michelle Alexander, who reminds us that though the Supreme Court did rebuke California, our highest court is itself responsible nationally for making it “nearly impossible to prove racial discrimination in the criminal justice system” as a whole.

She explains: “The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities to conduct ‘stop and frisk’ operations” in addition to other suspensions of civil liberties that evoked not a word of criticism from presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Our next president, Republican or Democrat, is very likely to have openings to fill on the Supreme Court. Of all the leading presidential candidates, I am not at all confident that the disappearing Fourth Amendment is a primary, or even marginal, concern to any of them.

Obviously, the deeply fractured economy and health care will spur most of the voting next year. But when so fundamental a personal protection as the right to be free of utterly random searches by the government is on life support, many Americans (not just those of color) may eventually experience a range of cruel and unusual punishments — from their government.

How often will the Constitution even be mentioned during the presidential and congressional campaigns?

Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

Reader views

Seeking help for owner of Georgetown restaurant

Dear Editor, As you know there has been a devastating flood at the White River. Many homes have been inundated with water. There is also a business there called One Stop, where you can get a delicious plate of catfish.

Upon visiting there, the water

was table high throughout the building. The proprietor is a stout, harden woman that goes by the name Joan. She desperately needs our help.

She plans to open the restaurant once more to serve the public.

Folks, if you enjoy going there and enjoy the fare,

consider sending her some help. She is redoing the inside completely. Most, if not all of the appliances have been destroyed by the high water.

She would appreciate whatever you can do.

I myself do like the fish along with the closeness of the surroundings. I have

seen employees from Searcy banks, companies and vans from churches there, and many more. Look to your heart if you will.

Send donations to One Stop, 209 Main, Georgetown, AR 72143.

Val G. Valdez Beebe

Reader views

Without global warming, we would not be alive

Dear Editor, Without global warming most of us would not be alive! The world population would be measured in the millions not billions.

Kansas has been called “The Bread Basket of the World.” California has also been called “The Bread Basket of the World.”

How much wheat would be grown in Kansas and how much fruits and vegetables would be grown in California is they were both still under a lot of ice and snow all year long.

The Polar Ice Cap may have

extended the Equator. Where would the food come from to feed 7 billion people of the world?

The much food would just not be available.

The last ice age ended several thousand years ago. How many thousands of years of global warming did it take to end the last ice age?

Many claim that man caused global warming. How? Just three thousand years ago, how many coal fired generating plants were spewing out carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and coal particles? How many million cars were

spewing out carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide? How many steel mills were spewing out carbon monoxide and coal dust? None, none, none!

What is the greatest “Green House” gas? Water vapor. The Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Oceans are the major sources of green house gas (water vapor).

Without water vapor the whole earth would be desert and oceans. The oceans would probably be solid ice.

Man did not cause global warming.

Vernon Lorton Searcy

The Daily Citizen

Thursday, June 23, 2011 • Page 5A

Lifestyles

Thoughtful suggestions ease hard time

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EAR ABBY: With so many families moving in with relatives because of personal struggles in their lives, I thought it might be helpful to offer a few suggestions to help this work for everyone. If you move in with relatives: 1. Do not assume they won’t mind if you store everything you own in their garage. Get rid of it or pay for a storage unit.

2. Help with the housework, even if they say, “Oh, don’t bother.� And keep your space clean and orderly and assist in keeping a shared bathroom tidy.

3. Show you appreciate having a place to stay. Feed pets, carry out the trash, rake leaves or shovel snow.

4. Do your own laundry. Ask when is the most convenient time to do it. Don’t leave clothes in the washer or dryer, which prevents others from washing their own things.

5. If you are paying something

Abigail Van Buren Dear Abby

toward your stay, don’t think that precludes your helping in the home.

6. Work out the food arrangements. Maybe you have a shelf or drawer in the fridge for your food.

Prepare your own meals unless everyone agrees to share cooking duties and food budgets.

7. If you don’t have a job, keep looking. Don’t lie around watching TV, sleeping or playing on the computer.

8. Never gossip about the household. You owe it to the family who took you in.

9. Do try to set a departure date.

If things change, discuss it. When in doubt, talk it out.

To those who are going through this, I wish you luck and better times ahead.

LOVING FAMILY MEMBER

DEAR FAMILY MEMBER: Your letter is timely because, for various reasons, millions of Americans now live in multifamily and intergenerational households.

For some of them, the arrangement will be temporary.

For others, it is cultural, practical and will be permanent.

Whatever the reasons for cohabiting, the suggestions you submitted are thought-provoking and worth space in my column. Thank you for raising the subject.

DEAR ABBY: I was married for nine years to an outwardly sweet, but deceptive woman who

cheated and left me. We have two children. A custody battle is waging, and the divorce has not been finalized due to financial disputes.

I have found myself with a dilemma. I am not a bad-looking guy, and women come on to me during social events. On the occasion that I find myself attracted and ask a woman out, I end up telling her the whole divorce/custody story no matter how hard I try to avoid it or change the subject.

After the date, I regret the conversation.

How should these issues be discussed with a potential lover? I have avoided commitment because of all the “baby mama drama� some of the women had, but I’m now seriously interested in someone and she’s receptive to seeing me. I’m a free-spirited person and this problem is weighing me down. Please advise, Abby. “STUCK� IN SOUTH CAROLINA

DEAR “STUCK�: Because you are seriously interested, do the honorable thing and let her know in advance that a relationship with you may be complicated because your divorce isn’t final, and the reasons why. If she’s as interested in you as you are in her, she will respect you for it. If your almostex is vindictive, your new lady will need to be prepared for it.

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Not all cholesterol lowering drugs on the market are statins

DEAR DR. GOTT: I read your column every day and thank you for your advice.

I would like to know if Welchol is a statin drug.

Some doctors say yes, some say no.

I would also like to know the warnings and more about this product.

DEAR READER: Welchol is not a statin drug. It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration several years ago as a new drug for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes and it was found to lower LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol as an adjunct to diet and exercise. It is not appropriate for Type 1 diabetics.

Side effects can include weakness, constipation, dyspepsia, muscle aches and pains, nausea, stomach pain, headache and indigestion.

Your letter failed to indicate whether you have personally been prescribed the product, if you know

fere with any herbal supplements I may be on?

Never take a drug without being well-informed.

That’s part of an office visit — and may be the most important part of the visit.

Dr. Peter Gott

someone who has been, or if either party suffers from high cholesterol levels and/ or Type 2 diabetes. Your physician may have found a multipurpose drug that works on two problems at the same time, but by writing to ask for additional information, you bring up a good point.

When any medication, even an over-the-counter one, has been prescribed, ask questions.

Why is your physician ordering this? What are the side effects? How long will I be on it? How long before I should notice improvement? Do I take it on an empty stomach or with food? In the morning or in the evening? Will it inter-

DEAR DR. GOTT: I had open-heart surgery five years ago and have been gasping for air ever since. I have talked to other people who had the procedure, and they are the same way.

I’d like to know if there is a medicine I can take to eliminate this.

DEAR READER: I would be more comfortable if you indicated your surgery was performed recently, as five years is much too long for symptoms to continue and for your quality of life to be affected.

There are a number of possibilities for shortness of breath (SOB), including scar tissue; stent, bypass grafting or valve failure; a side effect of a prescribed medication; reflux; hypo-

thyroidism; congestive heart failure; and lung disease.

Perhaps you are not taking your anti-coagulant correctly, or you are on a medication with SOB listed as a side effect.

If this were the case, a simple medication change might be all that is necessary. However, at this stage your symptoms will likely continue unless you take the necessary steps.

There is no cause for alarm, but I recommend you make an appointment with your primary care physician and/or cardiologist to determine the basis for your complaint. Perhaps additional lab or X-ray testing is appropriate. If you fail to obtain a satisfactory explanation, request a referral to another physician or specialist who can put the pieces together.

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Opinionated patron creates a restaurant issue

DEAR HARRIETTE: My boyfriend and I went out to lunch one afternoon at a restaurant. We were enjoying our food when a woman at a nearby table started talking loudly about date rape and mercy killing. It was extremely uncomfortable, and we didn’t say anything.

Should we have said something? Or did we do the right thing by keeping quiet?

Marianne, Washington, D.C. Dear Marianne: The best solution in a situation like that is to speak to the maitre d’ and report the matter. It is the maitre d’s responsibility to make sure that all guests are comfortable. That often includes quieting guests who are too rowdy or otherwise disruptive to the restaurant.

When there is no maitre d’, you can ask your waiter to handle the situation.

What’s not advisable is for you to attempt to handle it yourself. One diner trying to silence another could easily turn into a heated debate. Furthermore, if you ever find yourself in such a situation in the future with improper support from the restaurant, you can let them know that you intend to leave and that you want your bill to be discounted

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because of the poor handling of the distressing situation.

DEAR HARRIETTE: I’ve had a crush on my friend for a while, and I told him I liked him. Now it seems he may like me, and everyone tells me he does.

I would like to find out for sure, though. What would be the best way to ask? Should I bring it up with him? Or should I wait for him to say something?

Penny, wSeattle, Wash.

Dear Penny: You have already told your friend how you feel. I don’t think it’s wise to push the point.

Instead, pay attention to his actions. If he behaves as if he is interested, you will know. Sometimes things get uncomfortable between friends when one expresses interest in the other. It could be that this man is interested in you and he is taking his time to express his inten-

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People do not like to be pushed.

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If after this exercise you continue to believe he is right for you, invite him to do something fun together.

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I’m sitting in the graveyard right now. This town is full of old people and we need phone service.

Dessa Leehy

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Georgetown resident, describing her efforts to hit a cell tower.

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Upward Bound students visit Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 200 high school students who participate in the federal TRIO programs across the country converged on Capitol Hill to attend the Council for Opportunity in Education’s (COE) 22nd Annual National Student Leadership Congress, June 4-9. Arkansas State University-Beebe had four students from the Upward Bound program attend.

The students representing the ASU-Beebe Upward Bound programs from the Beebe and Heber Springs campuses were Travis Deatherage, Katie McClure, Breyonna McCoy, and Jennifer Millsaps.

During the six-day residential experience, students participated in several workshops focusing on decision-making and problem solving; national service; leadership styles, attributes, and skills; policymaking and coalition building; and multiculturalism and diversity. Students also met with their Members of Congress and Congressional staff as well as held a mock Congressional hearing.

In addition, former TRIO student Daniel Hernandez, who is credited with helping save the life of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., spoke at the closing banquet on Wednesday, June 8. As a student at the University of Arizona, Hernandez visited with the students and attended their events.

COE member colleges and universities host the federal TRIO programs, which for the last 40 years have helped lowincome and first-generation students access and complete college. TRIO includes Talent Search, Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math/Science, Veterans Upward Bound, Student Support Services, Educational Opportunity Centers, and the Ronald E. McNair PostBaccalaureate Achievement Program. These programs combined serve nearly 840,000 low-income and first-generation students and students with disabilities.

Arkansas State UniversityBeebe has an Upward Bound program on both the Beebe Campus and the Heber Springs Campus serving the following high schools: Beebe, Carlisle, Clinton, Concord, Des Arc, England, Hazen, Heber Springs, Guy, Lonoke, Mt. Vernon/ Enola, Quitman, Rose Bud, Shirley, Southside Bee Branch, and West Side Greers Ferry.

Any high school student interested in the program can contact their school counselor or call (501) 882-4455. Applications are available online through the ASU-Beebe web page under the link for Upward Bound.

JUST SO YOU KNOW The following White County meetings are held at these times: Bald Knob School Board Fourth Monday, 6:30 p.m.

Beebe School Board Second Monday, 6:30 p.m.

Bradford School Board First Monday, 7 p.m.

Pangburn School Board Second Monday, 7 p.m.

Riverview School Board Second Thursday, 7 p.m.

Rose Bud School Board Fourth Monday, 7 p.m.

Searcy School Board Fourth Wednesday, 5:15 p.m.

Beebe City Council Fourth Monday, 6:30 p.m.

Griffithville City Council First Thursday, 7 p.m.

Judsonia City Council Second Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Higginson City Council First Monday, 7 p.m.

McRae City Council Third Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Pangburn City Council Second Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Rose Bud City Council Third Monday, 7 p.m.

Today: Partly sunny. Rain likely. Highs in the mid 90s.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Rain likely. Lows in the upper 60s.

Friday

Friday: Partly sunny. Rain likely. Highs around 90.

Friday night: Cloudy. Rain likely. Lows in the lower 70s.

Saturday

Three board members of the White County Single Parent Scholarship Fund, Inc. were recently recognized for years of service to the organization. Pictured from left are Loyal Crawford, Cheryl Cherry, and Neil Neideck. The WCSPSF, Inc. awards scholarships to White County single parents of minor children who are pursuing a post secondary education with the goal of attaining skilled employment. Last year, the WCSPSF, Inc. awarded 47 scholarships with a value of $26,813. To obtain more information, persons may call 230-2414. Contributed photo

CALENDAR

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Thursday

Exhibit: The Searcy Arts Council’s new exhibit "Arkansas: Rustic Beauty," a photographic portrayal by David Simmons, will be on display at the Searcy Art Gallery, 300 East Race Street through July 30. The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday from 1-4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. For more information call 279-1094.

Food program: The Searcy Special School District will participate in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children at the McRae Elementary School, 609 McRae Avenue in Searcy, through June 30, Monday-Friday.

Breakfast is 8:15-8:45 a.m. and lunch is 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tent crusade: Evangelist J. D. and Angie Ramsey will speak at the Romance Tent Crusade through June 25. The tent will be located by the Romance Full Gospel Church, 1842 Highway 5 South. Services will be at 7 p.m. All are welcome.

Book sale: The Second Time Around Bookstore will be open through June 24 at 109 E. Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The store offers used paperback and hardback books of all kinds. All proceeds support the Literacy Council of White County, where volunteers teach adults to read and English as a second language.

Donations of books accepted. For more information call (501) 278-5500.

Habitat Restore: The Habitat Restore will be open June 23-25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 210 W. Mulberry in Searcy. Bring donated items that are tax deductible.

All proceeds go to building homes for the needy. Donations are sold back to the public at bargain prices. They also recycle appliances and metal. There are building supplies, home furnishings, appliances and more. Large items can be picked up Tuesday and Wednesday in the Searcy area. For more information call (501) 278-5530.

Thrift store and flea market: The Barkin Barn Thrift store will be open June 2325 at 108 N. Gum Street from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsored by the Humane Society of Searcy, the Barkin Barn has 4,000 square feet of merchandise. There are items of clothes, suits, furniture, knick-knacks, books, small appliances, shoes, luggage, and more. Aluminum cans accepted for recycling. All proceeds directly benefit the animals at the Searcy Animal Shelter.

Meeting: The White County Board of Directors will meet June 23 at 11:30 a.m. at the White County Medical Center.

Country dinner: Whitney Lane Family Worship, 1215 Whitney Lane in Kensett,

will hold a country dinner June 23 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $5.50 for allyou-can-eat. On the menu: White or brown beans, potatoes, corn, cornbread, desserts and drink. For delivery orders, drinks not included, call 742-3789. Call early if possible. Everyone is welcome.

24. Theme is “Bring a Friend Day.” Fish Friday lunch is served at 11:30 a.m. A Father’s Day celebration will be held. A movie will be shown at noon.

Transportation is available. Volunteers needed. For more information call (501) 268-2587.

Activities: The White County Aging Program, The Lightle Center, 2200 E. Moore, will hold exercise at 10:15 a.m.

June 23. Theme is “National Chocolate Pudding Day.” Birthday parties will be held at 11 a.m. Lunch is served at 11:30 a.m.

Transportation is available. Dancing with The Little Red River Band will begin at 7 p.m. Volunteers needed. For more information call (501) 268-2587.

Dancing: Bits & Pieces will perform at the Country Music Connection, 171 Highway 11 in Morning Sun, June 24 beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is $6. Call Bill Goodwin at 742-1118 for more information.

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Meeting: The White County Republican Committee will meet June 23 at 7 p.m. at the Wilbur Mills Court Building, 301 West Arch, Searcy. The speaker for the evening will be State Rep. Mark Biviano, R-Searcy.

For more information call Joel Pritchett at (501) 827-0777.

Bingo: The Gym Stars Gymnastics and All-Star Cheer Parents Club will host bingo at Gym Stars, 1800 Queensway in Searcy, June 25 at 5 p.m. All proceeds go towards the Gym Stars Parents Club Scholarship Fund. For more information call (501) 278-5588.

Dancing: The KKKennedy Band will perform at the Country Music Connection, 171 Highway 11 in Morning Sun, June 23 beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is $6.

Call Bill Goodwin at 742-1118 for more information.

Music: Cummins Prison Band will perform at the Pangburn City Park June 25. Dinner begins at 5 p.m. with music starting at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 for both hamburger and hotdog dinners. Event is sponsored by Pangburn Parks and Rec Committee.

VBS: Gateway Baptist Church, 3507 Highway 157, in the Providence community will host Vacation Bible School June 23-25 for ages 3-12 years from 6-8:15 p.m. each day. For more information call (501) 729-0414.

Iris sale: The White County Iris Society will hold its annual rhizome sale June 25 at the Searcy Farmers' Market from 7:30 a.m. until noon. Rhizomes from local gardens and commercial growers will be sold. Grab-bags with also be available.

Road closed: Ramsey Landing off of Highway 124 will be closed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 23 for tile replacement.

For more information call (501) 2796200.

Driving course: Primes Times of the White County Medical Center will host an AARP Driver Safety Course on June 25 in the Hubach Center from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Instructor is Frances Mizell.

For more information or to register call (501) 380-1057.

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Friday

Mini flea market: There will be a mini flea market June 24 from 12-4:30 p.m. and June 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. sponsored by Paws Inn, 2909 Hawkins Drive. This will be an inside sale. Clothes, 25 cents, shoes and purses 50 cents. Spring and summer clothes available. Re-stocking all day long, never know what can be found. All proceeds will go towards the future shelter.

Tax receipts given for donated items. For more information call 230-3342.

Gathering: The Downtown Bald Knob Courtyard will host a Courtyard Bash June 24. The After Hours Band will perform 7 p.m., concessions start at 6 p.m. Bring a lawnchair. Admission is free. For more information call 724-3140 or 283-0977.

Activities: The White County Aging Program, The Lightle Center, 2200 E. Moore, will hold bingo at 10 a.m. June

Gathering: St. Mary CME Church, 205 South Sowell Avenue, will host a "Roast and Toast" on June 25 at 6 p.m. This will be an evening of fellowship.

Celebration: St. James Catholic Church will celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi at 5 p.m. June 26. All are invited. A potluck will be held in the parish hall after the celebration concludes. For more information, call (501) 230-2890.

Memorial picnic: The Searcy VFW Post 2330 of Searcy along with Rolling Thunder Inc. Chapter 1, Arkansas will be hosting the 1st annual Ralph H. Byrd Jr. Memorial Family Picnic June 26 beginning at 2 p.m.

A bike show will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Homecoming: Dogwood Methodist Church at Griffithville will host a homecoming June 26. Worship begins at 9:30 a.m. and Sunday school service begins at 10:30 a.m. A potluck will follow. Singing with The Gospel Harmony begins at 1:30 p.m.

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Saturday: Partly sunny. Rain likely. Highs in the lower 90s.

Saturday night: Cloudy. Rain likely. Lows in the lower 70s.

Sunday

Sunday: Mostly sunny. Rain likely. Highs in the mid 90s.

Sunday night: Partly cloudy.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Monday

Monday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.

Monday night: Partly cloudy.

Lows in the lower 70s.

Tuesday

Tuesday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.

Tuesday night: Mostly clear.

Lows in the mid 70s.

Wednesday

Wednesday: Mostly sunny.

Highs in the upper 90s.

Wednesday night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.

Sunrise/Sunset Sunrise today — 5:56 Sunset today — 8:26 Highs/Lows Wednesday’s high, 86F, 30C; Wednesday’s low, 72F, 22C. Monthly rainfall amount, 2.32 inches. Yearly rainfall amount 22.68 inches. Courtesy of Time and Temperature (501) 268-5532. Weather Info Line, (501) 305-2144.

POLICE REPORTS

Reports filed with the Searcy Police Department from May 3031, 2011, include the following:

Monday, May 30 n Theft less than $500; woman reported her son’s bicycle had been stolen from their residence; 800 block of North Pear Street; 8:33 p.m.

Tuesday, May 31 n Fraudulent use of a credit card; woman reported about $50 had been charged on her card without her permission; Searcy; 1:07 p.m. n Financial identity fraud; woman reported her personal information had been used to activate utilities in her name; 600 block of North Spring Street; 1:23 p.m.

JUST SO YOU KNOW

These White County meetings are held at these times: Rotary Club Every Tuesday, noon.

Optimist Club Every Wednesday, 6:30 a.m.

White County Quorum Court Third Tuesday, 7 p.m.

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Local receives scholarship

ARKADELPHIA — Ashley Sharp, 18, of Searcy, was recently selected to receive a Ministers Children Scholarship and a Ouachita Scholars Scholarship Sharp from Ouachita Baptist University.

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The Minister’s Children Scholarship is awarded to dependent children and wives of active, retired or deceased full-time ministers in Southern Baptist churches and current associational missionaries, as well as dependents of chaplains endorsed by the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board and qualified employees of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.

The Ouachita Scholars program seeks to award incoming students who demonstrate outstanding academic performance. The scholarship is renewable for four years and is awarded based on a high level of academic achievement and standardized tests scores.

Ouachita Baptist University, a private Christian liberal arts university in

Arkadelphia, currently enrolls 1,500 students from more than 30 states and 50 nations.

Founded in 1886, Ouachita is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year as a Christ-centered learning community.

For more information about Ouachita Baptist University or scholarship opportunities, call 1-800DIAL-OBU or visit www. obu.edu.

Westside Elementary honors students Westside Elementary has announced students with straight A's in 2010-2011, 1st through 4th grades. The following were named to the list: Jackson Benight, Lauren Brown, Sydney Cook, Mallory Cunningham, Addison English, Logan Hite, Macky Ann Hurst, Gracie James, Nate Kleypas, Aubrey Little, Sidney Mix, Caity Looney, Molly Parker, Megan Sledge, Drew Vest,Ashlyn Walker, Haley Wood andGrace Ziegenbalg.

Perfect attendance

Westside Elementary has announced perfect attendance for the year. The following were named to the list.

Alexis Reardon, K; Zackary Rodgers, K; Emily Horton, 1; Ryan Nguyen, 1; Caleb Phillips, 2; Kathryn Reardon, 2; Trey Heaton, 3; Morgan Feltrop, 4; Gracie James, 4; Zac Stone, 4; and Peyton Jelks, 4.

4th nine-weeks Honor Roll

All year honors

Westside Elementary has announced its End of the Year All Around All Stars who have received all A’s or all A’s and B’s for 2010-2011. The following were named to the list.

First grade, A's all year: Samuel Brewer, Lawson Brooks, Hagan Bryant, Ethan Clegg, Jessica Curtis, Mary Daniel, Alyssa Day, Tyler Dickenson, Kathleen Draper, Mathis Foster, Luke Gibbs, Alex Harper, Kennedy Harr, Maddie Belle Holmes, Emily Horton, Jekobe Johnson, Mary Julia Killough, Liberty Langley, A. J. Lerner, Jordan Lovett, McKenzie Magness, Matthew Mancini, Owenn Marino, Caitlyn Martin, Emma Martin, Ryan McGaha, Bridget McSpadden, Chandler Meadows, Ryan Nguyen, Collin Nichols, Mary Frances Oxner, Mary Grace Parsley, Lexie Riales, Nicholas Saunders, Preston Shourd, Ava Simpson, Juliette Smith, Dillon Snow, John Gomez-Taylor, Samantha Turner, Meredith Trickey Shelby Webb, Abbey West, Anslee Wyatt, Lainey Wyatt and Landon Wyatt.

1st grade all A’s and B's all year: Brady Anderson, Dawson Bowden, Hadley Bullard, Alyssa Burnett, Tiana Bunn, Bre'shawn Chaney, Haley Cahoon, Jayden Cloyes, Ryan Covey, Drew Curtis, Connor Davis, Kaylee Eidt, Matthew

Gale, Lily Ghent, Will Grady, Xaivier Green, Dylan Huffman, Elizabeth Jewell, Ivan Johnson, Steven King, Drake Kittler, Brennon Lowery, Elias Marin, Elizabeth Lipinski-McDole, Taylor McKee, Jermaine Mthimkhulu, Asher Norman, Jake Pannell, Jason Parks, Ava Powell, McKinley Powell, Stacy Reyna, Weston Reynolds, Kijah Runyon, Korben Rutherford, Kit Saunders, Mason Sciba, Ckyler Tengler, Anabell Thomas, Emily Tillett, Zach Turley and Alvin Yang.

1st grade, Shooting Star all year: Zoey Sherwood 2nd grade, all A’s all year: Harrison Adams, Jordan Benight, Lloyd Boatman, Anjyl Brereton, Ivey Canter, Reid Carpenter, Khya Carson, Avery Cox, Jayden Dillon, Connor Davis, Evans Dawkins, Katie Dean, Emily Ferricher, Lydia Fleener, Evie Flores, Whitney Hays, Audrey Heidelberg, Karlie Hite, Haylee Holiday, Peighton Howell, Jesse James, Emilee Knighton, Sophie Langley, Bailey Lasley, Isaiah Lawson, Madisyn Lay, Bailey Mathews, Levi Minner, Alivia Mayes, Logan Money, Jacob Osborn, Hannah Peters, Caleb Phillips, Chloe Raynor, Kathryn Reardon, Caleb Robinson, Mary Evelyn Roberson, Abby Robertson, Amber Schuurman, James “Bo” Simpson, Grace Sledge, Greg Supratman, Madison Taylor, Olivia Trionfante, Morgan Usery, Abbigail Wakefield and Avery Walker.

2nd grade, all A’s and B’s all year: Keatan Allen, Emme Bailey, Anna Beach, Shelby Black, Kahlil Blackmon, Kaleb Bloesch, Chase Brown, Nick Coleman, Caleb Connell, Emma Clark, Chloe Cook, Lindley Cypert, Canton Dunn, Ally Ferren, Lawrence Gaines, Zoya Galbreath, Landon Hambrick, Ainslee Henderson, Hannah Henderson, Elizabeth Holmes, Breanna Hill, Regan Langlais, Lillie Lee, Lili Mata, Kayla Means, Austin Menser, Garrett Mote, Abbi Noel, Kelsy Odom, Kiley Patterson, Juliana Perez, Osvaldo Garcia Perez, Braden Purnell, Gwenyth Schowe, Brandon Smith, Eva Smith, Rachel Sparks, Jair Suarez, Kaley Tafolla, Chris Trenado, Austin Tucker, Autumn Weeks, Natalie White, Jack Williams and Landon Wilson.

3rd grade, all A’s all year: Maria Acevedo, Breanna Borst, Kyle Burton, Mason Burton, Addison Butler, Sierra Carson, Bryce Dixon, Braden Dodds, Halie Elston, Baylee Franklin, Madelyn Gower, Macy Hall, Isabelle Holeyfield, Chase King, Tanner Leonard, Samantha Lopez, Sarah McCammon, Landon McConnell, Conner McGaha, Ashton McKenzie, Briana McSpadden, Sophia Nguyen, Emma Porter, Caimin Raynor, Jessica Rose, Allie Saunders, Colin Shepherd, Hannah Schowe, Gavin Sparks, Jaycie Stafford, Trenton Strode, Joey Stroupe, J. D. Summers, Landon Valdez, Aynsleigh Washam, Haven Whitney, Kaeli Woechan, Addison Woods and Marlee Young.

3rd grade, all A’s and B’s all year: Lance Brown, Jayce Cofer, Alex Covington, Alysse Dortch, Emma Duncan, Eli Dunn, Cole Eidt, Schaeffer Gadberry, Alex Galbreath, Austin Garrett, Monica Gentry, Maggie Greer, Gunner Heisler, Ashlynn Hightower, Jessie Huffman, Jackson James, Hadyn Layton, Adrienne Mason, Alyssa Martin, Malachi McLaughlin, Kalli Miller, Eli Noel, Jacob Porter, Maria Reynolds, Kale Robertson, Luke Rogers, Tristan Seibert, Haven Shawn, Mattie Still, Myah Summerland, Jacob Taylor, Emily Treadwell, Tate Tripp and Nathan Wortham.

4th grade all A’s all year: Ellen Grace Adams, Jackson Benight, Lauren Brown, Sydney Cook, Mallory Cunningham, Riley Dixson, Arden Elliott, Addison English, David Paul Evans, Morgan Feltrop, Breanna Fitzgerald, Hannah Ferrie, Logan Hite, Macky Ann Hurst, Gracie James, John Jordan, Nate Kleypas, Aubrey Little, Caity Looney, Sidney Mix, Wyatt Mote, Molly Parker, Megan Sledge, Emma Smith, Zac Stone, Malley Terrones, Drew Vest, Ashlyn Walker, Anna Watson, Haley Wood, Melody Zheng and Grace Ziegenbalg.

4th grade, all A’s and B’s all year: Alex Ariaga, Carson Badger, Seth Beach, Lexie Brooks, Boy-Alan Brown, Emalee Bryant, Morgan Bryant, Carly Campbell, Kameron Chambers, Ivaline Clark, Rece Cole, Katie Cooan, Kirkland Corbin, Lacee Delk, Zachary Duff, Audrey Emberson, Samuel Fitzgerald, Drake Frischer, Tyler Higgins, Hailee Jennings, Jessica Jones, Lauren Joyner, Hunter Layton, Louis Lindsey, Haley Mata, Grant McFarlin, Zoe Nabours, Destiny Norman, Grant Pace, Zachery Peters, Madison Price, Sarah Quillen, Colby Razor, Tyler Roberson, Julia Shands, Max Stafford, Joshua Staggs, Josh Starnes, Hunter Sterling, Cade Trickey, Ashley Watson, Justin Williams, Keely Wolford and Peyton Wright.

Norman E. Madden Sr.

Mr. Norman E. Madden Sr., 68, of the Remmel Community, outside Newport, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at his home in Remmel, in an area known locally as Coon Island. He was born Jan. 9, 1943 in Cow Lake Community, Beedeville, the son of Roy E. and Lola Iris (McFadden) Madden.

Mr. Madden grew up with nine siblings in the Cow Lake Community, attending school in Beedeville.

As a young man he was an avid basketball player, an award-winning pole vaulter, and he led his chapter of Future Farmers of America to a state championship in parliamentary procedure.

He attended Harding College and Arkansas State College, receiving a BS degree in Agriculture specializing in engineering. He also completed two years of graduate work at the University of Arkansas before returning to Beedeville to farm with his family.

A self-employed farmer, he farmed alongside his brothers for 35 years.

A duck hunter for years, Madden also raised and trained Labrador retrievers.

Madden enjoyed going to auction sales and restoring old cars and farm equipment.

Active in county government and civic affairs, Madden served as a Justice of the Peace and member of the Jackson Country Quorum Court for 21 years, chairing the Budget Committee for the last four years.

He was Jackson County’s representative on the Association of Arkansas Counties and Quorum Courts, a 75-member governing body, for which he served his last three terms on the 12-member executive board. As a Justice of the Peace, he officiated at 49 weddings. Madden was also a member of the North Central Arkansas District Council for Riceland Foods.

Madden was a member of the Beedeville Church of Christ, where he served as an elder. Much of the energy and passion of his life in recent years was focused on his work at the local prisons, where he touched many lives.

Earlier this year, as he was drafting notes for his 50th high school class reunion, Madden said that his most rewarding experience was serving as a volunteer at both prisons in Newport and working with the prison ministries, where he helped to baptize 159 women and 18 men.

As he said, “I can tell some good stories about changed lives.” Madden worked diligently as chairman of the board seeking to build a chapel at the McPherson women’s prison, which has raised over

$100,000 toward the chapel construction.

Earlier this year he retired from farming, hoping, as he said, that he could enjoy his grandchildren more.

Madden’s favorite Bible verse was Joshua 24:15, “Choose you this day whom ye will serve; ... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

He was preceded in death by his father, Roy E. Madden on June 3, 1987; his mother, Lola Iris (McFadden) Madden on March 18, 1984; four brothers, Ralph E. Madden on Jan. 11, 2002, Dale Madden, Sr. on March 6, 2000, Joe E. Madden, Sr. on Sept. 29, 1995, and Harold Alton Madden, Sr. on Nov. 29, 1968; two sisters, Etta Reid on Sept. 5, 1990 and Royslen Madden on June 24, 1934; one nephew, Roy Thomas on Sept.

24, 1992; and one niece, Cherri Jean Madden King on Sept. 27, 2002.

Mr. Madden is survived by his wife of 49 years, Eileen (Lowery) Madden of Remmel; his children, Ed Madden of Columbia, S.C., and Jeff and Raeann Hayes Madden of Jonesboro; three grandchildren, Dillon Madden, Kyle Madden, and Keely Eileen Madden of Jonesboro; three brothers, Stanley Madden, Kenneth Madden, and Hervey Madden, all of Beedeville; and one sister, Elaine Thomas, also of Beedeville.

Visitation was held at Jackson’s Newport Funeral Home on Wednesday, June 22, from 5-8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, June 23 at Beedeville Church of Christ, with Dr. Gary Elliott officiating, assisted by Rick Watson.

Interment will be in Madden-Walker Cemetery in Cow Lake Community.

Those honored to serve as pallbearers will be Steve Reid; Harold Madden, Jr.; Mike Reid; Mitch Reid; Joe Madden, Jr.; Tony Madden; John Paul Madden; Kenneth Madden, Jr.; John Kevin Madden; Keith Madden; Danny Thomas, Jr.; Dale Madden, Jr.; and Mac Madden.

Honorary pallbearers will include elders and deacons from the Beedeville Church of Christ, Larry Dabbs, Wayne Foushee, Bart Gaskin, and Jim Peacock; members of the Jackson County Quorum Court; and Chad O'Dell, Jim Eskew, Ronnie Nance, Joey Rennicke, Alvin “Curly” Cheshier, Bob Penix, Alvin Mullins, and Jim Reynolds.

Memorials may be made to the McPherson Chapel Fund for the McPherson Prison in Newport, at McPherson Chapel Fund, Inc., c/o Merchants & Planters Bank, PO Box 650, Newport, AR 72112.

To light a memorial candle or sign the guest book, visit www.jacksonsfh.com.

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Westside Elementary has released its 4th 9 weeks Honor Roll. The following were named to the list.

First grade, All-Around All Stars A's: Brady Anderson, Hadley Bullard, Bre'shawn Chaney, Samuel Brewer, Lawson Brooks, Hagan Bryant, Ethan Clegg, Ryan Covey, Jessica Curtis, Mary Daniel, Connor Davis, Alyssa Day, Tyler Dickenson, Kathleen Draper, Mathis Foster, Luke Gibbs,Alex Harper, Kennedy Harr, Maddie Belle Holmes, Emily Horton, Elizabeth Jewell, Ivan Johnson, Jekobe Johnson, Mary Julia Killough, Liberty Langley, A. J. Lerner, Jordan Lovett, McKenzie Magness, Matthew Mancini, Owenn Marino, Caitlyn Martin, Emma Martin, Ryan McGaha, Bridget McSpadden, Chandler Meadows, Ryan Nguyen, Collin Nichols, Mary Frances Oxner, Jake Pannell, Mary Grace Parsley, Ava Powell, Lexie Riales, Nicholas Saunders, Alexis Schroyer, Mason Sciba, Preston Shourd, Ava Simpson, Juliette Smith, Dillon Snow, John GomezTaylor, Ckyler Tengler, Samantha Turner, Meredith Trickey, Shelby Webb, Abbey West, Anslee Wyatt, Lainey Wyatt and Landon Wyatt.

1st grade Academic All Stars all A’s and B's: Dawson Bowden, Nicole Bowman, Tiana Bunn, Alyssa Burnett, Haley Cahoon, Ryan Covey, Drew Curtis, Kaylee Eidt, Matthew Gale, Lily Ghent, Will Grady, Xaivier Green, Taylor Hall, Dylan Huffman, Steven King, Drake Kittler, Carson Layne, Brennon Lowery, Elias Marin, Elizabeth Lipinski-McDole, Taylor McKee, Konner Middlebrooks, Jermaine Mthimkhulu, Asher Norman, Ava Powell, Stacy Reyna, Weston Reynolds, Kijah Runyon, Korben Rutherford, Kit Saunders, Anabell Thomas, Emily Tillett, Zach Turley and Alvin Yang.

1st grade, Shooting Stars: Zoey Sherwood 2nd Grade, All-Around All Stars all A's: Harrison Adams, Jordan Benight, Kaleb Bloesch, Lloyd Boatman, Anjyl Brereton, Ivey Canter, Reid Carpenter, Khya Carson, Emma Clark, Caleb Connell, Chloe Cook, Avery Cox, Jayden Dillon, Connor Davis, Evans Dawkins, Katie Dean, Emily Ferricher, Ally Ferren, Lydia Fleener, Evie Flores, Lawrence Gaines, Zoya Galbreath, Myndin Hart, Whitney Hays, Audrey Heidelberg, Ainslee Henderson, Karlie Hite, Haylee Holiday, Peighton Howell, Jesse James, Emilee Knighton, Regan Langlais, Sophie Langley, Bailey Lasley, Isaiah Lawson, Madisyn Lay, Lillie Lee, Bailey Mathews, Levi Minner, Alivia Mayes, Logan Money, Kelsy Odom, Jacob Osborn, Osvaldo Garcia Perez, Hannah Peters, Caleb Phillips, Braden Purnell, Chloe Raynor, Kathryn Reardon, Caleb Robinson, Mary Evelyn Roberson, Abby Robertson, Amber Schuurman, James “Bo” Simpson, Grace Sledge, Aleigha Smith, Jair Suarez, Greg Supratman, Kaley Tafolla, Madison Taylor, Chris Trenado, Olivia Trionfante, Morgan Usery, Abbigail Wakefield, Avery Walker and Jack Williams.

2nd grade, Academic All Stars all A’s and B's: Keatan Allen, Emme Bailey, Anna Beach, Shelby Black, Kahlil Blackmon, Kayne Brackenridge, Chase Brown, Nick Coleman, Caleb Connell, Emma Clark, Lindley Cypert, Canton Dunn, Karleigh Dutton, Justice Grice, Hannah Henderson, Brock Hohenstein, Elizabeth Holmes, Breanna Hill, Regain Langlais, Teara Martin, Lili Mata, Kayla Means,Austin Menser, Garrett Mote,Abbi Noel, Garrett Osmon, Kiley Patterson, Juliana Perez, Gwenyth Schowe, Trevor Shelton, Brandon Smith, Dravin Smith, Eva Smith, Tucker Smith, Rachel Sparks, Austin Tucker, Autumn Weeks, Natalie White and Landon Wilson.

2nd grade, Shooting Stars: Brooke Brown, Isaac Covington and Kaleb Bloesch.

3rd grade, All-Around All Star s all A's: Maria Acevedo, Breanna Borst, Lance Brown, Kyle Burton, Mason Burton, Addison Butler, Sierra Carson, Skylar Chambers, Bryce Dixon, Braden Dodds, Alysse Dortch, Emma Duncan, Eli Dunn, Halie Elston, Baylee Franklin, Schaeffer Gadberry, Madelyn Gower, Johnson Guthrie, Macy Hall, Ashley Hightower, Isabelle Holeyfield, Chase King, Tanner Leonard, Samantha Lopez, Adrienne Mason, Sarah McCammon, Landon McConnell, Conner McGaha, Ashton McKenzie, Briana McSpadden, Eli Noel, Sophia Nguyen, Emma Porter, Caimin Raynor, Jessica Rose, Allie Saunders, Hannah Schowe, Colin Shepherd, Gavin Sparks, Jaycie Stafford, Trenton Strode, Joey Stroupe, J. D. Summers, Jacob Taylor, Emily Treadwell, Landon Valdez, Aynsleigh Washam, Haven Whitney, Kaeli Woechan, Addison Woods, Nathan Wortham and Marlee Young.

3rd grade, Academic All Stars all A’s and B's: Chris Acevedo, Bridgette Bangs, Seth Bookwalter, Savannah Brown, Jayce Cofer, Trysten Collins, Alex Covington, Joseph Delk, Cole Eidt, Andrea Flores, Alex Galbreath, Austin Garrett, Monica Gentry, Maggie Greer, Gunner Heisler, Jessie Huffman, Jackson James, Evan Jones, Hadyn Layton, Garrett Lee, Alyssa Martin, Landon McConnell, Malachi McLaughlin, Kalli Miller, Riley Miller, Evan Mills, Brooklyn Moniz, Megan Newman, Jacob Porter, Mary Pulliam, Mason Putman, Maria Reynolds, Kale Robertson, Luke Rogers, Tristan Seibert, Haven Shawn, Zach Stephens, Mattie Still, Jacob Stump, Myah Summerland, Colby Teasley, Brenden Tinsley, Hanna Travis, Tate Tripp and Ashley Zheng.

4th grade, All-Around All Stars all A's: Ellen Grace Adams, Seth Beach, Jackson Benight, Jake Brannon, Lauren Brown, Emalee Bryant, Carly Campbell, Ivaline Clark, Rece Cole, Katie Cooan, Sydney Cook, Mallory Cunningham, Riley Dixson, Arden Elliott, Audrey Emberson, Addison English, David Paul Evans, Morgan Feltrop, Breanna Fitzgerald, Samuel Fitzgerald, Hannah Ferrie, Logan Hite, Macky Ann Hurst, Gracie James, Hailee Jennings, Lauren Joyner, John Jordan, Nate Kleypas, Aubrey Little, Caity Looney, Haley Mata, Sidney Mix, Wyatt Mote, Destiny Norman, Molly Parker, Tyler Roberson, Megan Sledge, Emma Smith, Max Stafford, Zac Stone, Malley Terrones, Drew Vest, Ashlyn Walker, Anna Watson, Ashley Watson, Keely Wolford, Haley Wood, Melody Zheng, Grace Ziegenbalg and Peyton Wright.

4th grade, Academic All Stars all A’s and B's: Alex Ariaga, Carson Badger, Lexie Brooks, Boy-Alan Brown, Morgan Bryant, Jayden Cato, Kameron Chambers, Christina Cook, Madison Cole, Kirkland Corbin, Alex Cruz, Lacee Delk, Zachary Duff, Jayson Edgley, Samuel Fitzgerald, Drake Fischer, Hannah Garringer, Mackenzie Heathscott, Coltin Holt, Katie Horton, Tyler Higgins, Brandon Jones, Jessica Jones, Trenity King, Hunter Layton, Louis Lindsey, Vera Lumpkin, Grant McFarlin, Lydia McLaughlin, Josh Neuhaus, Destiny Norman, Grant Pace, Zachery Peters, Madison Price, Sarah Quillen, Colby Razor, Maguire Rodgers, Julia Shands, Joshua Staggs, Josh Starnes, Hunter Sterling, Braydon Stokes,Anthony Thompson, Cade Trickey, Kaleb Watson and Justin Williams.

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Dr. Robert E. Elliott Foundation hosts seminar

Discovering tea

Who: 6 Harding University students from the Honors College What: Embarked on a threeweek journey to learn about tea When: May 16 Returned: Early June Program: The History of the World in One Cup, began last year

HU students follow the history of tea

ASU-Beebe student awarded scholarship

LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Governor’s Commission on People with Disabilities (GCPD) awarded 40 students with scholarships during its annual scholarship banquet at the Governor’s Mansion This year’s theme was “Achieving Our Goals.”

Arkansas State UniversityBeebe student Nathan Burroughs of Beebe was one of the scholarship recipients.

The GCPD awarded 37 recipients with $1,000 scholarships for the 2011-2012 school year. The students were chosen from more than 100 applicants based on academic achievement, community involvement, and the goals and challenges each student faces. In addition to the scholarships, three students were randomly selected from the pool of applicants to each receive a $200 book scholarship.

The Arkansas Governor’s Commission on People with Disabilities is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of Arkansans with disabilities.

For more information call (501) 296-1637. The Governor’s Commission on People with Disabilities is a program of the Arkansas Department of Career Education’s (formerly the Arkansas Department of Workforce Education) Arkansas Rehabilitation Services Division.

The group was led by Dr. Jeff Hopper, distinguished professor and dean of International Programs.

Because of illness Dr. Pat Garner, professor of communication, was unable to accompany the group on the actual tour. Dr. Kathy Dillion, associate professor in the Department of English, worked with Hopper and Garner in teaching and conducting the class while accompanying the group.

International Programs Administrator Janis Ragsdale traveled with the team as well.

Students received up to nine hours of credit from classes in international studies, communication, anthropology and even kinesiology.

The group returned in early June.

Harding had a record enrollment this year of more than 6,800 students from 49 states and 53 foreign countries. It is the largest private university in Arkansas and attracts more National Merit Scholars than any other private university in the state.

Harding also maintains campuses in Australia, Chilé, England, France, Greece, Italy and Zambia.

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Dr. Leigh Anne Bennett speaks during the Understanding Depression Seminar hosted by the Dr. Robert E. Elliott Foundation. Bennett is the daughter of Elliott. The event is hosted annually and is free to the public. Contributed photo

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Searcy alum Jamal Jones participates in All-Star game

Ole Miss head coach: Jones has potential

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Searcy's Jamal Jones hangs off the rim after he dunks the ball during a November matchup with Cabot. Jones represented the Lions one more time Wednesday when he competed in the Arkansas Activities Association All-Star basketball game in Fayetteville. File photo/The Daily Citizen

RAZORBACKS IN SUMMER BALL

Arkansas infielder Dominic Ficociello and pitchers DJ Baxendale and Ryne Stanek begin their time with the USA Collegiate National Team tonight. But they’re not the only ones playing baseball this summer. Here’s a look at the Razorbacks who are with other summer league teams: US Collegiate National Team n DJ Baxendale n Dominic Ficociello n Ryne Stanek (Alternate) Cape Cod Baseball League n Barrett Astin - Wareham Gatemen n Jimmy Bosco - Cotuit Kettleers n Trent Daniel - Cotuit Kettleers n Matt Reynolds - Yarmouth-

Dennis Red Sox Northwoods League n Jacob Rice - Duluth Huskies n Nolan Sanburn - Battle Creek Bombers n Jake Wise - Duluth Huskies California Collegiate League n Franco Broyles - Glendale Angelenos n Randall Fant - Glendale Angelenos n Jeff Harvill - Glendale Angelenos Coastal Plain League n Eric Fisher - Forrest City Owls n Colby Suggs - Forrest City Owls Alaska Baseball League n Matt Vinson - Glacier Pilots Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League n Kyle Atkins - Lexington Hustlers Source: Arkansas Media Relations

Diamond Hogs to compete with US national team

By Robbie Neiswanger Arkansas News Bureau FAYETTEVILLE — When Arkansas infielder Dominic Ficociello found out he might be playing with the United States Collegiate National Team this summer, the freshman tried to keep his emotions in check.

There was still a chance it wouldn’t happen, after all.

So Ficociello decided it was better to bottle up his excitement until an official invitation arrived.

“But it surprised the heck out of me,” Ficociello said.

Luckily, Ficociello didn’t have to wait long for confirmation, finding out a day later he had been added to the team.

And he won’t be the only Razorback wearing red, white and blue this summer, either.

The national team will have plenty of Arkansas flavor when Ficociello, pitchers DJ

Baxendale and Ryne Stanek, and coach Dave Van Horn begin their stints with the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team tonight.

Baxendale and Ficociello are on the 22-man roster, while Stanek works as a temporary alternate while others finish their respective collegiate seasons in the College World Series. Van Horn is an assistant coach.

“It’s just huge from a career standpoint to be able to say you played for Team USA,” Baxendale said last week. “It’s an elite group. It’s Continued on Page 2B

By Craig Woodson cwoodson@thedailycitizen.com ormer Lions’ forward Jamal Jones was the lone athlete from Searcy competing in Wednesday’s Arkansas Activities Association All-Star basketball game in Fayetteville.

Jones helped his East team to victory, defeating the West 77-70 at Bud Walton Arena. Statistics were not available as of press time.

Jones signed with the University of Mississippi earlier this year and began workouts with the basketball program earlier month.

Ole Miss head basketball coach Andy Kennedy said he sees a big upside in the freshman.

“He has been tremendous,” he said. “He’s been on campus a few weeks now and his approach to the game and his talent level is really tremendous.”

The biggest positive for Jones in Kennedy’s eyes is his length and versatility on the floor. But he said, as a freshman, the former Lion still needs a little work.

“He’s a long, tall and versatile kid,” he said. “But like most freshmen, it’s a whole new world for him and he needs to make some improvements on his strength and conditioning.”

Jones led Searcy to a second round tournament appearance last season and averaged just over 16 points per game during his final season as a Lion.

Kennedy said the success Jones had at the high school level is what attracted him to the 6-foot-8 forward. But that doesn’t necessarily equal on-court success at the Division 1 level.

“I know typically kids that are superior in high school have a tendency to play up and down due to the competition they face,” he said.

“Unfortunately, at this level, you don’t have the luxury of doing that.”

Jones said he understands the level of competition is much higher now and he will have to bring his best game every day if he plans to be a key factor for the Rebels.

“Every game in the SEC is going to be tough,” he said. “I just need to hold my own and get a little bigger and stronger.”

An Arkansas native, Jones said he looks forward to coming back to the state when the Rebels face the Razorbacks during the conference season, but admits that it will be hard being on the opposing sideline.

“It’s going to be a really emotional game,” he said. “I’m looking forward to it though, it will be a tough game for sure.”

Kennedy said it may be too early to tell what kind of impact Jones will have on the 2011-12 Rebels team.

“A lot of it has yet to be determined,” he said. “We need to get some pieces in place but because of his versatility he can help at a lot of positions.”

Regardless of what positions are most needed on the Ole Miss roster when practice begins this fall, Kennedy said he sees a spot for Jones.

“Through the workouts he has shown tremendous talent and potential,” he said. “There’s an opportunity for him when the time comes to begin putting things together for the season.”

Venus, Nadal, Roddick win at Wimbledon

By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Time and again after losing a point, Venus Williams rolled her eyes, slumped her shoulders and let out a shriek of dismay that echoed through Centre Court, reverberating off its roof.

Facing the most, uh, experienced woman in Williams the Wimbledon field — 40-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan — Williams was mired in a threeset struggle that lasted nearly three hours Wednesday, a tight, high-quality contest brimming with the sort of at-the-net, classic grass-court play seen so rarely nowadays.

"She doesn't play anywhere near her age," Williams said.

In the end, Williams, a five-time champion at the All England Club, mustered every bit of her competitive drive and considerable talent to pull out a 6-7 (6), 6-3, 8-6 comeback victory over Date-Krumm and reach the third round.

"She played unbelievable today.

I thought she had some luck on her side, too, with net cords, balls hitting

lines. I just thought today was a perfect storm for her to try to get a win," said Williams, who again wore her decidedly original lace romper, featuring draped sleeves, deep "V'' neckline, gold belt and gold zipper.

"Thankfully," Williams added, "I had some answers."

None more effective than her serve, in the late-going, anyway. That stroke delivered 12 aces, helped Williams escape several jams and was clocked at 120 mph even in her final service game.

Contrast that with Date-Krumm's serves, mostly about 80 mph. One was 65 mph.

Date-Krumm, who reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 1996, quit

tennis later that year, then came out of retirement in 2008, marveled at Williams' serve afterward, saying: "Not only speed — it's on the corner. So it was very, very difficult to break her."

Not at the outset, actually. DateKrumm won 13 of the first 16 points Williams served, breaking three times en route to a 5-1 lead. The 23rd-seeded Williams turned things around, taking five consecutive games to go ahead 6-5. Williams then wasted a set point, and Date-Krumm eventually won the tiebreaker. In the second and third sets, though, Williams played much more cleanly, and she wound up winning by breaking in the final game.

It was hardly easy.

"Venus came out slow, and that girl took off like a brand new motor," said Williams' father and coach, Richard. His daughter missed time with a bum hip and is playing only her fourth tournament since Wimbledon in 2010.

On Tuesday, his other daughter, Serena, needed three sets to win, too.

After ambling out of Centre Court this time, Dad tapped his umbrella's wooden handle on his chest and said, referring to those matches: "They're tough on the heart. The heart's not as young as it once was."

Cavs have options, starting with Irving at No. 1

By Brian Mahoney The Associated Press NEW YORK — Just in case the Cleveland Cavaliers need it, here's some advice for what to do with those two high picks.

Take Kyrie Irving first, grab Turkish big man Enes Kanter fourth, and start enjoying the postseason success you used to have when LeBron James was Irving around.

"If I play with Kyrie, I believe we can make playoffs," Kanter said Wednesday.

"I know we can make playoffs."

Or instead, pass on Irving and go with Arizona's Derrick Williams, who can play inside or out, either forward spot, and would bring the mixture of power and athleticism back to your frontcourt that was lost when James left.

"I feel like I am the most overall ready in this spot by my size and ready to make an impact," Williams said.

Even in what's considered a lessthan-stellar NBA draft, the Cavaliers have plenty of options Thursday night at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., when they become the first team since the 1983 Houston Rockets with two picks in the top four. They're expected to start with Irving, considered the favorite since the Cavaliers won the lottery last month. Though the Duke point guard played just 11 games during his freshman season because of a toe injury on his right foot, the numbers he put in his limited time seem too good to pass up.

"It definitely feels good, you know, knowing that I'm still projected to go No. 1," Irving said. "We'll see how it goes

tomorrow, but it's an honor to be at the No. 1 spot right now."

The 6-foot-2 guard averaged 17.5 points while shooting 53 percent from the floor, 46 percent from 3-point range and 90 percent from the foul line. He returned from his injury in time to play in the NCAA tournament — where his Blue Devils were overwhelmed by Williams in Arizona's round of 16 victory — and he said that proves there should be no question about his health.

"Playing in the NCAA tournament was the deciding factor for me," Irving said. "If I didn't play in the NCAA tournament, I would have been back at Duke for my sophomore season. I just wanted to kind of limit all the questions on my health and durability."

The Cavaliers also pick fourth — the No. 1 pick was acquired from the Los Angeles Clippers last season in the Baron Davis trade — giving them the ability to add a big man, perhaps Kanter or another from the lengthy list of Europeans available, if they selected Irving first.

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Sports

Suns’ Babby says Nash won’t be traded

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June 26

UPCOMING

Baseball n American Legion baseball 19-U host North Little Rock (DH), 1:30 p.m.

Today

Baseball n American Legion baseball 19-U host Batesville (DH), 5:30 p.m.

June 28

June 24

Baseball n American Legion baseball 19U hosts Conway (DH), 6 p.m.

June 25

Baseball n American Legion 19-U visits Paragould (DH), 5:30 p.m. n American Legion baseball 17-U hosts Paragould (Z2DH), 5:30 p.m.

July 3 Baseball n American Legion baseball 17-U at Zone 2 Tournament in Newport, TBA.

By Bob Baum The Associated Press PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns are again shooting down Steve Nash trade rumors.

Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby emphatically said that the two-time Nash league MVP isn't going anywhere, and he added center Marcin Gortat to the untouchable list.

In an email on Wednesday, he repeated the statement he made earlier in the day to The Arizona Republic, saying, "We are not trading Marcin Gortat, period. End of sentence. We are not trading Steve Nash, period, exclamation point."

The latest denial came after ESPN reported that the Suns were in talks with the Minnesota Timberwolves over trading Nash for the No. 2 pick in Thursday's draft.

Earlier, the New York Post mentioned a possible trade to the Knicks for Chauncey Billups, a deal that made little sense unless Nash asked for it.

The 37-year-old Nash has never publicly expressed any interest in being traded as he enters the final year of his contract with Phoenix. When his contract expires, the team

July 4 Baseball n American Legion baseball 17-U at Zone 2 Tournament in Newport, TBA

July 5 Baseball n American Legion baseball 19U host Jacksonville, 6:30 p.m.

Baseball n American Legion baseball 17-U at Mt. Home (DH), 2 p.m.

Today-June 25

UPCOMING EVENTS

Girls Basketball n The Harding University women's basketball team will be hosting the Lady Bisons individual basketball camp on June 22-25 for girls between fifth and twelfth grade.

Registration will be on June 22 at 6 p.m.

For an application go to hardingsports.com

June 28

Senior Golf n The Three Rivers Senior Golf Association will play a tournament on June 28 at the Course at River Oaks in Searcy.

Registration for the tournament will be held at 9 a.m. and tee times will start at 10 a.m.

July 2-3

Basketball The second annual 4th of July Basketball Classic will be held July 2-3 at P.A.R.K. The three court, air conditioned facility is located in Little Rock.

Entry fee is $145 per team.

To enter please contact Mr. Blair at 501-773-6394 or tiblair2@yahoo.com

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His status will undoubtedly soar as a result, but McIlroy said he'll try to stay grounded.

"With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high," McIlroy told Sky Sports TV on Wednesday. "I expect big things from myself, but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK." McIlroy won the U.S.

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Considering McIlroy had previously won just two tournaments in his professional career, it was a surprise how easily he handled the course and field over four days.

"Last week was fantastic, incredible," he said.

"The golf I played, I'd never played before in my life.

I just hope I can keep it going."

Hogs: To compete with national team

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a huge honor. I’m very excited and can’t wait to get the season started.”

Both Baxendale and Ficociello were selected while playing big roles for the Razorbacks in 2011.

Baxendale was Arkansas’ most experienced returning pitcher and performed well as the staff’s ace. He went 10-2 with a 1.58 earned run average in 85 1/3 innings.

Ficociello was a lineup regular as a freshman and led the Razorbacks in batting (.353), RBIs (50) and doubles (15).

His 75 hits tied the school’s freshman record.

Ficociello is one of five freshman on the USA roster, which has 19 of 22 spots filled.

Four more freshmen - including Stanek - were among 11 alternates selected.

“It’s definitely an honor being selected,” Ficociello said. “I’m look forward to playing with everybody and trying to prove myself to some of the older guys.”

Ficociello said he’s looking forward to using wood bats, too, something he believes will help him improve at the plate after what he described as an up-and-down freshman year. He’s expecting to play first base, left field and third base for the national team.

Baxendale said he wants to add a cut fastball to his variety of pitches and plans to give it a good test with the national team. It’s something he worked on during the season with pitching coach Dave Jorn, but didn’t add it to his

in-game arsenal last season.

“It’s hard to throw a new pitch in the middle of a season where every game is hugely important,” Baxendale said.

“So this will be good for me to work it in.”

Both players believe working with Van Horn will help this summer, too. Van Horn is part of a USA staff led by Missouri coach Tim Jamieson, giving him some rare summer time with his best pitcher and top offensive player.

“He’ll really get to see where we’re at as ballplayers,” Ficociello said. “We’ll be playing against the best collegiate players from other countries, so he’ll get to see a different side of us.”

Some of their summer teammates include LSU’s Kevin Gausman, Arizona State’s Deven Marrero and Texas Christian’s Josh Elander. Others like Florida’s Nolan Fontana, Brian Johnson and Mike Zunino are on the roster, but won’t join the team until after the CWS. The national team held its first practice Wednesday and will play its first game against the Keene Swamp Bats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League in New Hampshire tonight. It’s the start of a schedule that also will take them to places like Fenway Park in Boston, Connecticut, Rhode Island and North Carolina.

The national team will wrap up its summer schedule with a five-game series against Japan. The final

game will be played in TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., on July 8.

Ficociello said it should be a good experience. He and Baxendale added they’re looking forward to playing together for their country this summer.

“It’s fun that I’ll have a teammate like DJ that I’ll know on the team,” Ficociello said. “I look forward to making other friends and the fact coach Van Horn is part of the team is exciting, too. It’s something I’ve always dreamt of doing and I’m really looking forward to it.”

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could use that money for free agent acquisitions if the Suns decide to move on without him.

"I only focus on trying to get our team back into contention and making the playoffs," Nash said before hosting a charity soccer match Wednesday in New York City. "I don't pay attention to anything else. But it's nice that they say, you know, 'We want you here.'"

A prolific user of Twitter, Nash has not mentioned the Suns or his contract status in recent tweets, mostly concentrating on his soccer match, his reaction to the Stanley Cup finals and subsequent riot in his beloved Vancouver. His Facebook wall is filled with pleas for him to come to the poster's favorite team, or to go nowhere at all.

It seems the only way Nash would be traded is if he asked for it.

"They've told me plenty of times they don't want to move me, so I don't think they need to call me every day. I'm not up to date on all the rumors," said the two-time league MVP. "Right now I have a contract with the Suns. I hope this year is better than last and I'm ready to keep playing in Phoenix and continue to build the team and win a championship."

Nash said he'd entertain an extension so he can play

at least two more seasons.

The Suns have had difficulty finding a point guard to groom as his successor. Aaron Brooks, acquired in a lateseason trade with Houston, struggled in that role and it's uncertain whether the Suns will exercise the team option for another year of the exOregon star's contract.

That led to speculation that Phoenix might draft BYU's dynamic Jimmer Fredette and try to convert him into an NBA guard. Conventional wisdom, though, has them going for a power forward with the No. 13 pick Thursday night, their only selection in the draft.

Nash said he hasn't been keeping track of the draft or who the Suns might pick.

A rumor about Gortat being traded so concerned the Suns that Babby called the Polish center to assure him that he remained firmly in the team's plans.

Gortat reveled in his place alongside Nash on the court.

Obtained in the mega-trade with Orlando, Gortat averaged 13 points and 9.3 rebounds in his 50 games with Phoenix, eventually absorbing most of the ineffective Robin Lopez's playing time.

Nash, in his 14th NBA season, averaged 14.7 points per game. At 11.4 per game, he led the NBA in assists for the fifth time in his seven seasons since rejoining the Suns in 2004.

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The Associated Press LONDON — U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy is confident he can handle the pressure that comes with being considered the heir apparent to Tiger Woods.

Comparisons McIlroy were made between McIlroy and Woods after the 22-year-old Northern Irishman swept to his first major victory in record-breaking style at

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ITTLE ROCK — The big golf tournament at Congressional Country Club was the U.S. Open in name only.

The Open is supposed to be about hard-won pars and “good” bogeys, brutal rough and firm, but slippery greens. The 2011 tournament was a birdie-fest, mostly because rain during the week softened the greens and the rough was not as penal as usual.

I can’t remember a U.S. Open where so many approach shots finished near the hole. Instead of taking one hard bounce and highhopping over the green, they hit and went into reverse.

Pins placed at the bottom of bowls also helped.

Like on No. 10, supposedly a daunting tee shot across a lake. In the final round, several tee shots landed past the cup and rolled back to within a couple of feet.

Rory McIlroy’s 6-iron finished inches from the hole.

Knowing where the pin was going to be, NBC analyst Johnny Miller on Saturday even anticipated an ace on the 10th.

Once or twice a year, it’s fun for us hackers to watch free-swinging, lob wedgecarrying millionaires struggle to make four on a 390-yard hole only because they missed the fairway.

Such struggles were few and far between at Congressional.

Twenty players finished the 72 holes under par, second only to the 28 who accomplished that feat at the 1990 Open when rain soaked Medinah near Chicago.

In second place, eight strokes behind McIlroy, was

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Early this week, no less an authority than Tom Watson addressed the low scores. Years ago, he said, there was no such thing as a first cut of rough. Now, the first cut separates the fairway from the primary rough and the first cut is usually pretty playable, he said. “I may sound a little like a curmudgeon, but I feel like it should be a little tougher than that,” he said.

In addition, tees were moved up on several holes at Congressional. The ninth was the only one par-five that was a true three-shot hole at more than 600 yards and one day it played much shorter.

Mike Davis, recently named executive director of the U.S. Golf Association, could have made some lastminute changes because of the soft greens, but he stayed with his pre-tournament plan.

It was Davis who introduced the concept of graduated rough at the Open and it is good to know he will remain involved in course setup for the Open despite his promotion.

This year was the first time he failed to get it right and the culprit was the weather.

Next year’s Open at The Olympic Club near San Francisco, will illustrate that this year’s edition was an anomaly. The area only gets about 20 inches of rain a year, virtually none in June, so the greens will be Open-firm and scores will go up.

For a variety of reasons, TV ratings for Sunday’s final round were down 26 percent from 2010 when Graeme McDowell tapped in his last putt at 9:15 p.m. on the East Coast and Woods was in contentions.

Harry King is sports columnist for Stephens Media’s Arkansas News Bureau. His e-mail address is hking@arkansasnews.com.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has only limited say in what cosmetics manufacturers can and cannot put into their products. And the cosmetics industry has essentially been regulating itself for some three decades.

But critics argue that self-regulation isn't appropriate for an industry trading in potentially carcinogenic products.

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Dear EarthTalk: Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it purport to do and has it been signed into law?

Megan Wilson, Austin, Texas Dear Megan: The Safe Cosmetics Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2010 by Democrats Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Ed FDA: fda.gov Markey of Campaign Massachusetts for Safe and Tammy Cosmetics: Baldwin of safecosmetWisconsin. ics.org But it never Corporate Crime got past Reporter: corcommittee reviews and poratecrimereporter.com thus never came up for Skin Deep: ewg.org/ a vote.

The pro- skindeep/ posed bill aimed to ensure that all personal care products for sale in the U.S. would be free of harmful ingredients and that all ingredients would be fully disclosed. The bill would've given the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to prohibit the use of certain ingredients, including carcinogens and reproductive and developmental toxins, to recall products that fail to meet safety standards, and to require product labels to name each ingredient.

The FDA has only limited say in what cosmetics manufacturers can and cannot put into their products. And the cosmetics industry has essentially been regulating itself for some three decades, and would like to keep it that way.

In response to failed efforts in the 1970s to force the FDA to regulate cosmetics more like drugs-with required premarket safety assessments-the industry decided to take matters into its own hands, creating the Cosmetics Industry Review Panel to judge the safety of various ingredients.

Critics argue that self-regulation isn't appropriate for an industry trading in potentially carcinogenic products.

“It's a panel funded by the trade association,” Stacy Malkan of the non-profit Campaign for Safe Cosmetics told the Washington, DCbased Corporate Crime

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Reporter. “For 30 years that they have been in operation, they have only looked at about 13 percent of the chemicals in cosmetics. They do cursory reviews. They look mostly for short term health effects. It's a panel of mostly dermatologists, not toxicologists. So, they don't have the expertise to be looking at long-term health effects like cancer.”

Another non-profit, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), has identified upwards of 100 different products that passed Cosmetics Industry Review Panel safety assessments despite obvious violations of that body's own guidelines. According to EWG's research, 22 percent of all personal care products on store shelves today-including children's products-may contain a cancer-causing ingredient (1,4-Dioxane), while some 60 percent of sunscreens contain oxybenzone, a potential hormone disruptor.

In response to the government not requiring cosmetics manufacturers to be more responsible, EWG launched the Skin Deep website, an easy-to-use, keyword-searchable database of cosmetics and their health risks and environmental footprints.

The idea behind the website is to let users decide for themselves which cosmetics to purchase; EWG hopes that making this information freely available and easy-toaccess will help drive demand for safer products.

Supporters of the Safe Cosmetics Act were hopeful that passage of their bill would usher in a new era of more rigorous mandatory screening of cosmetics here at home, and leadership in a global marketplace hungry for safer, greener products.

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ear EarthTalk: What will be the effect of all the flooding along the Mississippi River for organic farmers, given all the pollutants in the water?

When they recover, can they still certify their products as organic?

Michael O'Loughlin, Tigard, Ore. Dead Michael: The combination of record floods and record numbers of organic farms has led many to wonder about the safety of even our organic groceries. Luckily for Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a policy in place to govern how farmers respond to such situations and how affected crops and fields are handled to ensure that consumers continue to have access to healthy and safe food.

For one, the FDA doesn't allow any flooded out cropsorganic or otherwise-to be sold or consumed by people.

The agency considers “ready to eat crops ... that have been in contact with flood waters to be adulterated due to potential exposure to sewage, animal waste, heavy metals, pathogenic microorganisms or other contaminants.” Given that there is no known method of “reconditioning” such crops that would “provide a reasonable assurance of safety for human food use,” the FDA instructs farmers to dispose of them “in a manner that ensures they do not contaminate unaffected crops during harvesting, storage or distribution.” So-called “adulterated” food can be seized and violators prosecuted under federal law.

Of course, many farms affected by floods have other fields that remain unaffected.

The FDA recommends a 30 foot buffer between flooded areas and fields that can still yield edible food. Also, farm equipment shouldn't be

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As to when farmers, organic or conventional, can replant fields inundated with floodwaters, the FDA suggests waiting at least 60 days to ensure contaminants aren't still in the soil.

No discussion of organic farming and flooding is complete without mention of global warming. Italian researchers analyzed runoff data recorded in the Swiss Alps to study how flood risk varies with temperature, precipitation and elevation in mountainous regions.

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By Phillip Alder Those who do not play duplicate bridge hear about bidding methods popular in that milieu. For example, many of my students have asked about Roman Key Card Blackwood. In that version of the ace-asking convention, the replier can show not only the four aces, but also the trump king and the trump queen.

Being able to check for trump solidity is excellent, but RKCB is complicated. I rarely give lessons about it, and usually those who insist wish they hadn’t bothered! However, in today’s deal, North had to guess because he was not using RKCB. North judged that South needed a high diamond card for his three-heart rebid, so took control with Blackwood. But North could not bid seven, because he did not know about the heart queen. Note that if South held the heart queen instead of the diamond king, seven hearts and seven notrump would be excellent contracts. With RKCB, North would have known. (Yes, with solid trumps, perhaps South should have bid seven over five no-trump.)

Against six hearts, West leads the club queen to dummy’s king. How should South continue?

The only problem is avoiding two trump losers. If they are breaking 3-2, everything succeeds. If West has queenjack-fourth, nothing works. But if East has four, declarer can handle it.

The right play is a low heart to the ace first. Then, when both defenders play low cards, cross to the dummy with a club and lead its remaining trump, covering East’s card as cheaply as possible. This works 87.6 percent of the time.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Under no circumstances should you permit an outsider to become involved in your personal family disagreements. If you want to muddy the waters further, you couldn’t find a better tactic.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Regardless of any strong

Astrograph inclinations you may get to respond to some fiery comments made by another, be above it all. You’ll be far more effective by simply ignoring what was said.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Because your sales resistance tends to be a bit lower than usual, either avoid stores or be acutely aware of your weakness and keep your purse strings tight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- A serious argument could erupt between you and your mate if you allow a subject to surface about which you both have divergent opinions. Keep a lid on what you can’t resolve.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- The ineptness of an interfering busybody could create problems for you.

Be kind to others, but not to the point of allowing just anybody to stick their snoots in your business.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- An acquaintance with a chip on his or her shoulder could cause a nasty scene if you’re not careful. Don’t do anything to antagonize this person any further.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Being an assertive person can have both good and bad results, depending on how you use that quality. Take care that you don’t come off as being bossy to others.

Dennis the Menace AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Without realizing it, if you’re not careful you could easily overreact to someone’s opposing viewpoint. You know better than most that everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Ensure no one makes a financial commitment on your behalf without your consent, or it could cost you a pretty penny, and an only mildly attractive one as well. You don’t want to pay for another’s mistake.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Choose a partner wisely so that you don’t get involved with someone who doesn’t appreciate the value of teamwork. If you spot any hint of self-serving ways, go it alone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Adopting a poor mental attitude will make all distasteful assignments even more repugnant and harder to accomplish than they actually are. Don’t let a bad mood get in the way of the hammer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Instead of making light of life as usual, you may tend to take everything far too seriously. Start looking for problems and you’ll find them.

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by WCC school, excellent references. Andrea, 501-230-6674 or EXPERIENCE MECHANIC 501-729-0063 needed knowledgable RE-GEN and mack truck experience preferred. LOOKING FOR someone Top wages paid health to watch my two chiland life insurance, vaca- dren in my home or tion and holidays. New yours. References and shop enviroment. Work previous experience rein Rose Bud, Quitman quired. If interested and Damascus. Must please call 501-284-0467; 0533 Furniture have tools. Send Re- leave message for 2 WALNUT toddler beds sume to PO Box 372 Cindy. with mattresses and Conway AR 72033.

Cars bedding. Mattress-$25, Bed-$40, and NEW SEARCY Facility HIGHLY MOTIVATED inbedding-$20.

Call dividual for rewarding Westside Early Learning 268-7549.

Center, LLC career in financial servPre-School Childcare ices. Call 501-833-8060 ENTERTAINMENT CEN4&5 Years. or 501-960-2496, Tom TER, $150. 268-9975 or Mon-Fri 7:30 - 5pm.

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Unfurnished 0610 Apartments 1 BEDROOM Furnished: Weekly/Monthly: Searcy 827-7758, 281-6152 1BR/1BA APT, no pets, $350mo, $200 security deposit. 501-412-7902

of workers go into work because Only of sick people love their current they’re afraid they’d lose their job if profession. they don’t.

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FOR RENT: 3BR/1BA, very clean, all appliances, no pets/smoking, $600mo, $600dp.

501-268-3591

HOUSE IN Judsonia for rent, $350mo, 1st, last, deposit & references.

501-827-5524

Duplexes for 0630 Rent

5 MINUTES from Walmart, 2BR/1BA, 1100sq/ft, 1 car garage with door opener, $550mo $400dep 501-593-8081

Business 0670 Places/Offices

1200 SQ.FT. Retail space For Rent on Race Street. $700/month.

Call 501-268-1660

DOWNTOWN OFFICE space for rent, as low as $200mo. Water & electric paid. 501-278-6040, 501-279-2799

FOR LEASE: Free Standing 1000 Sq. Ft Retail location at 2502 East Race, Searcy. Excellent locaNEW LOFT Apt. All utili- tion next to KFC. AvailCall ties paid. Private, must able July 1st.

268-7930. see. 827-7758/281-6152

Real Estate for 0615 Furnished 0605 Rent Apartments

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE M&M AUCTION Co. Auctioneer Bob Sullivan #1680 2nd & 4th Mondays of the Month.

June 27, 2011 Starts @ 6pm.

156 Ranes Rd., Judsonia, Ar. Take Hwy 67 to Judsonia exit 48 head west watch for signs.

COME HAVE FUN!!

3BR/2BA, 2 car garage, in Skyline Meadows, like new, 1752sq/ft, $1250mo, $1000dp. No smoking. 501-827-1190

3BR/2BA, ALL brick on 6 acres, double garage.

870-217-5266 CAT/DOG OK! 1 or 2BR, 180 Pratt Rd. $950mo, $950dp.

No pets.

DRYER ELECTRIC, white utilities paid. Searcy 501-207-2110 color, heavy duty com- 827-7758 or 281-6152 mercial, looks good, LARGE 1BR Duplex, 3BR/2BA, LARGE master works great $125. washer & dryer, $360. suite, kitchen appli501278-0323 furnished.

1BR, has furniture, a n c e s ELECTRIC BED $100, washer, $335mo. No $1000mo. References required. 501-268-6088 built-up recliner $50, pets. 501-268-4488 501-281-5368 fold-up walker $30, cane $5, potty chair $5 LUCY LEE Apartments, 501-305-3685 300 Central Ave., Searcy: 4BR/2BA HOUSE, fenced $425mo, backyard, edge of FIREPROOF FILES, legal & 2BR, 1BA, Searcy. $985mo, $985dp. letter size, 4 drawer. $300dp. Laundry facility 501-278-6040, $500 legal size, $700 let- on-site. 501-281-0450 501-279-2799 ter size, 501-268-7585

ADOPT FROM the Searcy Animal Shelter – there are 80-90 great dogs and cats looking for a chance to find a home.

Open to the public from 1pm-5pm Tues through Sunday and from 3-5pm on Mondays – 112 Johnston Road, 268-3535, see pets at hss.petfinder.com Help FOR SALE, Beautiful day us save animals – adopt bed, great condition. your next pet.

Mattresses, like new. $225 Call, 501 388 1154.

FREE TO good home . 208 Mt. Pisgah rd.

Blond Lab, female, 1 year, spayed. Loves kids. FREE: YOU haul off small Abandoned puppies chest type freezer, old need home. 6 weeks, but works. Large recliner. 501-279-0838 mixed. 501-724-0715 LEATHER CHAIR w/ ottoman $175, waterfall bufHARLIQUIN fet $150, Electric dryer MCCAW.TALKS.$700.00. $125, four tables $65 Double yellow Amazon 501-728-4065 $600.00. Both W/cages.

501-388-1259 o r LIKE NEW, ab lounger, $50. 501-729-3961 501-742-1141.

MOVING NEED to sale, 5 person hot tub with FARM lights, volcano, and waterfall. Also 99 Jeep, limited edition 4X4. Brick 0450 Livestock scaffold, heavy duty.

501-380-7457 FOR SALE Nuwbin milk NEW CARPET, multi goats call 501-268-3007 color, 12ft big roll, $300.

501-230-7276 Farm

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$700/month, $400dep.

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Homes for 0620 Rent 104 CHIPPEWA: 3BR/2BA, 1650sq/ft, 2 car garage, plus 2 car workshop, available July 1st, $1100mo. 501-207-1440 3BD/2BA 2 car garage fire place,fenced,large deck,storm shelter 950/month 950/deposit Searcy 501-388-5741 or 501-388-1454

FOR RENT 106 South Spring downtown area.

Building has 6,000 sqft for business offices. $2,000. a month plus deposit. 268-6381 OFFICE FOR rent, newly decorated, 1000sq/ft.

501-230-7126

OFFICE: 5LG, 2sm rooms, kitchen & bathroom.

501-268-3313

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Homes for 0710 Sale

SHOP BUILDING with 2 12ft overhead doors, 2 offices, breakroom, large fenced lot, available July 1st. $800mo.

501-278-6156

HOUSE FOR Sale in 1998 WIND 34 foot long Pangburn. 3/2 on 1 acre, camper body type TL LIKE NEW MAKE OFFER As Low As $900 Down, 1-501-593-1584 Owner Financing Available, Easy Terms. Get 2005 CARDINAL, 31ft, 2 qualified in as little as 48 slide outs, clean on pad (not included) hooked hours. 866-892-1283. up. $16,500.

501-201-1929

Mobile Homes 0675 for Rent

Condominiums 2BD/1BA MOBILE home in Griffithville $285mo., 0715 for Sale $ 150dep . L y n n S t .

CONDO 2BR/2 full BA, 1 (501)207-2917 car garage, Call for MOBILE HOME 16x65 more info 870-759-1214 2005 3 bedroom 1 bath includes stove and refrigerator Never lived in 0734 Lots & Acreage .

Owner f i n a n c e 2.65 AC. and 5.3 ac. for $1000.down and $600. sale OWNER FINANCE, mo. includes water and Driveway, city sewer sewer.Located 4 miles and water.Ready for south of Searcy on Hwy. h o u s e or mobile 367 and Luther Six home.Hwy. 367 4 miles 501-765-2099 southeast of Searcy SINGLE WIDE, newly remodeled, 3BR/2BA, $625mo. with monthly lease, background check required, no pets.

501-388-9109

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Homes for 0710 Sale

2BR/1BA, CH/A, completely remodeled, $49,900, owner financing. $4000 down.

501-281-5536 EXCELLENT INVESTMENT Opportunity, Live rent free while building equity. Hwy 5 frontage, just south of Heber Springs.

Call 501-517-5332 for details.

FSBO 3BED/2BATH BRICK RANCH HOME ATTACHED GARAGE 1.35 AC W/ SEASONAL CREEK ON PROPERTY, GREAT LOCATION B/T JUDSONIA AND PLAINVIEW OFF HWY 157, NEW CH&A, NEW CARPET, NEW STAINLESS & BLACK APPLIANCES, MOVE IN READY $98,000.

870-834-9224.

FSBO IN Griffithville.

3BR/2BA with decking, large workshop on corner lot. $120,000.

501-745-6010 HOUSE F O R Sale: 4BR/2BA, above ground pool. $$70,000.

501-380-8457

Campers/ 0820 Trailers

Sport Utility 0856 Vehicles 93 JEEP Wrangler, 4cyl., 4wd, $4500.

501-283-0130

0868 Cars for Sale 1992 CORVETTE LT1 Project Car 6sp $4000 or OBO 268-5973

FINANCIAL

501-765-2099

LEGALS

FOR SALE: 80 acre White County land in Riverview School district, 0955 Legals $1500 per acre, all IN THE CIRCUIT COURT wooded, good timber, OF WHITE COUNTY, 1/2 mile of Cain Rd, & ARKANSAS 1/4 mile of Calhoun Rd, frontage, high ground, LOUIS HAROLD didn't flood at all. Call DOBYNS,MARY DOBYNS, Terms of Sale: On a Gene R e e v e s , and MARY JO DOBYNS PLAINTIFFS credit of three months 501-278-7820 the purchaser being required to execute a Mobile Homes VS. CV-2005-703-1 commercial corporate 0741 for Sale surety bond as required by law and the order 2007 CAVALIER 16x80 ex- ALICE SMITH and cellent condition deck ALICE SMITH, AS TRUSTEE and decree of said Court in said cause, and kitchen appliances OF THE with approved security, ELIZABETH DOBYNS added. bearing interest at the 3 BR/2 BA located in the REVOCABLE TRUST DEFENDANT rate of 6% per annum bald knob area from date of sale until must be m o v e d . AND/OR paid, and lien being reTHE ESTATE OF ELIZA$27,000. 501-940-3383 tained on the premises BETH DOBYNS CROSSCLAIMANT sold to secure the payCommercial/ ment of the purchase 0754 Office money.

VS. Given under my 10,000 SQFT insulated LOUIS HAROLD DOBYNS hand this 26th day of building eight 15ft over- and May 2011. head doors office MARY DOBYNS TAMI KING, CROSSDEFENDANTS space, 2 acre yard NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER fenced, Hwy access in COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF THE CIRCUIT OF Searcy 501-351-6208 Notice is herby given WHITE COUNTY, that, pursuant to the ARKANSAS authority and directions ROBERT M. ABNEY, P.A. TRANSPORTATION contained in the Decree #80001 of the Circuit Court of ATTORNEY FOR ALICE White County, Arkansas, SMITH AND ELIZABETH DOBYNS 0804 Boats for Sale made and entered on the 27 day of April 2011, REVOCABLE TRUST 14 FOOT john boat with in a certain case numP.O. BOX 246 two swivel seats, troll- ber CV-2005-703-1, then DES ARC, AR. 72040 ing motor, trailer has pending therin be870-256-4183 three new tires, lights tween Louis Harold Dorewired, $ 5 0 0 . 0 0 . byns, Mary Dobyns, and 501-268-7593 Mary Jo Dobyns, Plaintiffs, vs. Alice Smith and Alice Smith, as Trustee of the Elizabeth Dobyns Revocable Trust, Defendant; and/or The Estate of Elizabeth Dobyns, Crossclaimant vs. Louis Harold Dobyns and Mary Dobyns, Crossdefendants, the undersigned Commissioner of said Court will offer at sale at public venue to the highest bidder at the main entrance of the White County Courthouse in Searcy, Arkansas, at 11:00 A.M., on the 8 day of July 2011, the following-described real property situated in the City of Searcy, White County, Arkansas, to wit: THE SOUTH ONE-FOURTH (S1/4) OF SOUTHWEST QUARTER (SW1/4) OF NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE1/4), LESS THE NORTH 316 1/4 LINKS OF WEST 395 1/4 LINKS THEREOF, AND NORTH 19 FEET OR holds that frequently NORTHWEST unexpectedQUARTER summer (NW1/4) OF SOUTHEAST host guests during QUARTER rain storm (SE1/4) arrives OF TOWNSHIP 7 grilling season to SECTION on the28,night of the NORTH, RANGE 7 WEST.

Make barbecue safe this summer

Few summer traditions are as beloved as the backyard barbecue.

Typically laid back get-togethers with family and friends, backyard barbecues are synonymous with warm weather and the relaxed atmosphere that such weather promotes.

But even the best backyard barbecue comes with some level of risk. Cooking over an open flame will never be riskfree, but there are steps barbecue enthusiasts can take to make their next summer soiree that much safer. * Check for leaks.

Due to their ease of use and convenience, propane grills have grown in popularity over the years.

However, proponents of propane grills should inspect the propane tank as well as its hoses for leaks, cracks and corrosion.

Any of those problems has the potential to be very dangerous, so address any issues before guests arrive. If guests are on their way already, simply visit the local hardware store and purchase a new tank or replace the damaged one. If the hoses are damaged, buy a charcoal grill to fillin for the propane grill during the party.

Charcoal grills are much less expensive than propane grills, and it might be a good idea for house-

in a certain case number CV-2005-703-1, then pending therin between Louis Harold Dobyns, Dobyns, and Legals 0955 Mary Mary Jo Dobyns, Plaintiffs, vs. Alice Smith and Alice Smith, as Trustee of the Elizabeth Dobyns Revocable Trust, Defendant; and/or The Estate of Elizabeth Dobyns, Crossclaimant vs. Louis Harold Dobyns and Mary Dobyns, Crossdefendants, the undersigned Commissioner of said Court will offer at sale at public venue to the highest bidder at the main entrance of the White County Courthouse in Searcy, Arkansas, at 11:00 A.M., on the 8 day of July 2011, the following-described real property situated in the City of Searcy, White County, Arkansas, to wit: THE SOUTH ONE-FOURTH (S1/4) OF SOUTHWEST QUARTER (SW1/4) OF NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE1/4), LESS THE NORTH 316 1/4 LINKS OF WEST 395 1/4 LINKS THEREOF, AND NORTH 19 FEET OR NORTHWEST QUARTER (NW1/4) OF SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE1/4) OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 7 WEST.

have a backup grill anyway. * Make the grill area a nonsmoking section. Some guests will want to smoke, and since the party’s outdoors, this shouldn’t be an issue.

However, protect the food and reduce the risk of injury by insisting the area surrounding the grill is a nonsmoking section. * Dress in tighter clothing. The party’s grillmaster should not wear loose clothing. Loose-fitting clothing, particularly long sleeves, can dip into the grill and potentially catch on fire. Avoid this risk by wearing tighter clothing that doesn’t hang off the body. * Be certain all briquettes are extinguished. For those who prefer a charcoal grill, once the cooking has been completed be careful to extinguish all briquettes. If briquettes are discarded before they are full extinguished, they could easily spark a fire. Many a garbage can, and considerably more, has been lost to briquettes that were discarded before they were fully extinguished. As a safety measure, pour water over briquettes and never discard any briquettes that are still hot. * Never move the grill indoors. If an

party, the grill should

stay outside while Terms of Sale: On a the credit of move three months guests indoors. the being reA purchaser grill, whether it’s quired to execute a propane orcorporate charcoal, commercial surety bond as required should never be used by law and the order of indoors because and decree of said the risk ofcause, fire and Court in said with approved security, carbon monoxide bearing interest at the poisoning. rate of 6% per annum Keep kids and from*date of sale until paid, lien being repetsand clear.

It’s easy tained on the for kids andpremises pets to sold to secure the paysuffer burns when ment of the purchase money. around the grill. Kids Given not underbe my tall might hand this 26th day of enough May 2011. to see what’s on the grill and, to TAMI KING, make upCOMMISSIONER for that, will OF THE CIRCUIT OF grab the grill with WHITE COUNTY, their bare hands and ARKANSAS ROBERT M. ABNEY, P.A. push themselves up. #80001 This is almost certain ATTORNEY FOR ALICE to lead to burns.

SMITH Pets AND DOBYNS don’tELIZABETH know any betREVOCABLE TRUST ter and are to P.O.likely BOX 246 get DES burned or 72040 even ARC, AR. 870-256-4183 tip the grill over if they’re allowed near it. * Don’t be liberal with the lighter fluid.

When grilling on a charcoal grill, it’s not always easy to get the fire started. As a result, many people look to lighter fluid to help speed the process along. While this can work, it’s important to note that not much lighter fluid is necessary, and fluid should never be applied after the coals have lit.

Backyard barbecues are a warmweather tradition.

Make sure such soirees stay safe and everyone goes home with a full belly and a host of good memories.

WARNING ORDER

0955 Legals IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WHITE COUNTY, ARKANSAS 1ST DIVISION

To: PLJ, Inc. 0955 Legals c/o Mr. Paul Johnson, Registered Agent 2870 Bethesda Road Batesville, AR 72501 DL# xxxxxxxxxx655

You are hereby notified RAYFORD G. COKER PLAINTIFF that a case has been filed in the Circuit Court of White County, Arkansas, First Division, which V. may affect your rights.

CASE NO. 2010-383 SEARS, ROEBUCK AND You are hereby warned to appear in this Court CO. DEFENDANT within thirty (30) days and answer the V. PLJ, INC. and PAUL Third-Party Complaint.

Upon failure of JOHNSON THIRD-PARTY Third-Party Defendant DEFENDANTS do so, it may face entry of judgment by default or be otherwise barred from asserting its interWARNING ORDER est. The above mentioned Third-Party DeTo: PLJ, Inc. c/o Mr. Paul Johnson, fendant or any person desiring to be heard Registered Agent concerning this action 2870 Bethesda Road is hereby notified.

Batesville, AR 72501 In Witness Whereof, I DL# xxxxxxxxxx655 have hereunto set my You are hereby notified hand and seal as Clerk that a case has been of the Court on this filed in the Circuit Court 23rd day of June, 2011.

Tami King of White County, ArkanWhite County Circuit sas, First Division, which Clerk may affect your rights.

By: Melissa Miletta You are hereby warned Deputy Clerk to appear in this Court within thirty (30) days and answer the Third-Party Complaint.

Upon failure of Third-Party HOME SERVICEDefendant DIRECTORY Home Improvement do so, it may face entry & Repair of judgment by default or Floor be otherwise barred Covering/ from asserting its interest. Installation The above mentioned Third-Party HOUSE LEVELING: Defendant or any person Muskrats Under desiring to be heard Structural Repair concerning this action replace damaged is herebywood, notified.

A&J CONSTRUCTION of In Witness I Arkansas, LLC. House install Whereof, joist, have hereunto set my framing, remodels, sills-piers. handCall and sealGore, as Clerk roofing, decks, House James of the Court on this Leveling & Concrete (501)207-8234 23rd day of June, 2011.

Work. Insurance claims 870-854-3091 Tami King accepted. Free EstiWhite County Circuit m a t e s .

Insured, Clerk (501)454-1176 By: Melissa Miletta Deputy Clerk

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of judgment by default or be otherwise barred from asserting its interest. The above mentioned Third-Party De0955 Legals fendant or any person desiring to be heard concerning this action is hereby notified.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal as Clerk of the Court on this 23rd day of June, 2011.

Tami King White County Circuit Clerk By: Melissa Miletta Deputy Clerk

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BUSH HOGGING/GARDEN 501-230-8576 tilling, reasonable rates.

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The 854-page report

By Harry R. Weber The Associated Press ATLANTA — The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year largely blames oil giant BP for the disaster in an internal investigation report released Wednesday that bolsters the Swiss firm's arguments in the face of lawsuits and expected government fines.

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to suggest it takes no blame.

BP's own internal report on the disaster blamed a cascade of failures by multiple companies. Government investigations also have spread around the blame.

The findings by all sides will be argued about for months and perhaps years to come as numerous lawsuits make their way through court.

The companies involved in the disaster have sued each other seeking to recoup losses or expected losses from

the disaster. Fines ultimately imposed by the government could be in the billions of dollars, and the companies involved have been trying to shield themselves as much as possible.

The Transocean report said the findings don't represent the company's legal position, but they are consistent with many of the arguments the firm has been making for more than a year, and they are likely to be cited by Transocean in future proceedings.

Airlines cut costs by changing flights

By Scott Mayerowitz The Associated Press NEW YORK — It's the ultimate travel bait and switch.

You book a ticket on a non-stop flight but the airline cancels it a few weeks later, leaving a computer to automatically rebook you. Your new itinerary includes a layover, turning a five-hour trip into an eight-hour journey.

"You are at the mercy of the airline," says Anna Stinson, 40, of Minneapolis In May, Stinson bought tickets for a trip to North Carolina in the middle of August. She is traveling with her fouryear-old son and picked Delta because it offered a nonstop flight.

Then as part of system-wide cuts, the flight was eliminated. She was rebooked with a connection in Atlanta.

"I'm frustrated," Stinson says. "I don't have the product that I gave them my money for."

With airlines cutting schedules due to high fuel costs, travelers who booked flights in advance now might find their plans upended. And it's likely to get worse for the fall.

Delta cut 3.5 percent of its domestic flights for September and 1.6 percent for October. US Airways cut 4.5 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively, and United cut 4.4 percent and 5.3 percent, according to Barclays Capital. That's nearly 1,000 fewer flights than last year for just those three airlines.

"You are more likely than ever to find the plans you made for November might change and might change dramatically," says aviation consultant Michael Boyd.

Sometimes connections are added to trips. Other times a two-hour layover is extended to a six-hour stop.

The government offers travelers little protection and by the time a schedule change comes there are few alternatives.

FDA: Silicone breast implants mostly safe

By Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Don't expect breast implants to last for life, the government warned Wednesday: About 1 in 5 women who receive them for cosmetic reasons will have them removed within 10 years, and those odds are even higher for cancer survivors.

It's not the first time the Food and Drug Administration has issued such a warning. But the agency repeated it Wednesday after reviewing new data on silicone-gel breast implants five years after they returned to the market following a health scare. The agency concluded the implants are basically safe as long as women understand they come with complications.

Those include painful scar tissue and ruptured implants.

"The longer you have the implant, the more likely you are to have complications," said FDA medical device chief Jeff Shuren. He said women should get regular checkups including scans to make sure the implants haven't ruptured.

While FDA's safety review concentrated on silicone-gel implants, the agency's updated advice booklet for women makes clear that saline-filled versions come with the same complications — women getting those wind up back on the operating table, too.

Plastic surgeons say they've long told women about those risks.

"It doesn't discourage a single one of them, which is pretty amazing," said Dr. Michael Zenn, vice chief of plastic surgery at Duke University Medical Center.

"This requires almost lifetime maintenance when you have a breast implant in. If you're not telling patients that, you do them a disservice."

Wednesday's update is the latest in a 20-year saga over the safety of breast implants.

The FDA banned the silicone-gel type in 1992 amid fears they might cause cancer, lupus and other diseases. But when research ruled out most of the disease concern, regulators returned the implants to the market in 2006 — with the requirement that manufacturers continue studying recipients to see how they fare long-term.

Breast augmentation remains the most popular cosmetic surgery in the U.S., with nearly 300,000 women undergoing it last year.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, more than 70,000 others received implants for breast reconstruction. Silicone-gel

Although airlines have already set their schedules for the fall, experts warn that further cuts could come.

"If the economy becomes markedly worse, fuel costs remain high and business travel demand slackens, then I expect we'll see airlines reduce capacity," says Henry H. Harteveldt, an airline analyst with Forrester Research.

To prevent a travel nightmare, arrive a day early if taking a cruise or attending a wedding. Also, provide an up-to-date phone number and email address when making a reservation so airlines can contact you immediately in the event of a schedule change.

If your schedule does get changed check other airlines.

You might be able to get a refund and buy a new ticket on another carrier. However, the closer you get to your travel date the more expensive airfare tends to be.

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implants are the most common kind.

Based on that data, FDA said Wednesday that 20 percent to 40 percent of patients who have implants for cosmetic reasons will need another operation to modify or remove them within eight to 10 years.

For reconstruction patients, the number is even higher at 40 to 70 percent, FDA said.

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Transocean said its evidence indicates that BP failed to properly assess, manage and communicate risk. On one key aspect — the failure of the blowout preventer to keep oil from leaking into the sea — Transocean seemed

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doesn't say Transocean holds no blame for what caused the disaster, but it comes pretty close. In one of the few references to something Transocean workers didn't do correctly, the company report noted that none of the people monitoring the well, including the Transocean drill crew, initially detected the flow of oil through the well.

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Who: Selena Gomez & the Scene Title: ‘When the Sun Goes Down’ Featuring: Song co-wrote and penned from artists like Katy Perry and Britney Spears

Gomez gets boost in new CD, film

By Mesfin Fekadu The Associated Press NEW YORK — Katy Perry and Britney Spears appear on a CD together but it's not the latest "Now" compilation.

Rather, the pop singers have written songs on Selena Gomez & the Scene's new album, "When the Sun Goes Down."

Spears co-wrote the dance song "Whiplash," while Perry co-penned "That's More Like It. Singer Priscilla Renea — who co-wrote Rihanna's "California King Bed" and Cheryl Cole's "Promise This" — co-penned three songs on Gomez's album, including the lead single and Top 40 hit "Who Says." And the disc has a writing credit and guest appearance from British singer Pixie Lott.

The 18-year-old's first two albums have reached gold status. The new record — which has three songs copenned by Gomez — is out next week.

Days after her disc's release, Gomez will get another girl-power boost with the July 1 release of her new movie, "Monte Carlo," which also stars Leighton Meester of "Gossip Girl" and was co-produced by Nicole Kidman.

Gomez says leaving Los Angeles to shoot in Paris and Budapest was "so refreshing." But the grueling promotional tour that has followed — maybe not so much.

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ixar's track record has been close to impeccable for turning out intelligent, emotionally rich, beautifully detailed animated films, with plenty of humor and heart to appeal to movie lovers of all ages.

But the weak link in the chain, at least from a narrative standpoint, has always been 2006's "Cars," with Producer: Disney its two-dimen- Pixar release sional talking Rated: G autos and Running time: hokey, bor114 minutes. rowed tale of Critic's review: One and a half small-town stars out of four life.

Sure, it was bright and zippy, which was enough to appeal to the little ones, and it became a merchandising juggernaut. Just try finding a kid who doesn't have some sort of "Cars" stuff. My 19-month-old son has a Lightning McQueen sippy cup and I have no idea how he got it — these things just show up on their own. That's how ubiquitous they are.

So sure, why not make a sequel? Trouble is, "Cars 2" is such a mess, it makes the original look like it ought to rank among Pixar's masterpieces by comparison.

What has set the studio's films apart from all the other animated fare is story: It's paramount.

Innovative tales like "WALL-E" and "Up" get you choked up just thinking about them, they're that good. "Cars 2" tries to encompass many kinds of stories at once, none of which is terribly clever or compelling. And the fact that Pixar mastermind John Lasseter is back as director is the most baffling part

‘Cars 2’

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of all. This is the man who kicked it all off with the soulful and groundbreaking "Toy Story" back in 1995. This is not someone from whom you would expect empty glossiness.

Here, working from a script

by Ben Queen, Lasseter makes a transparent attempt at catering to the ever-expanding global moviegoing audience by having the hero of the original "Cars," Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), compete in an international grand prix through Japan, France, Italy and Britain.

The sponsor is a Richard Bransontype Range Rover-looking vehicle (Eddie Izzard); McQueen's main rival is an arrogant Italian Formula 1 racecar (John Turturro).

At the same time, "Cars 2" panders to middle America by placing Mater, the rusty, aw-shucks tow truck, front and center. McQueen is flashier but this is Mater's time to shine, as it were; Larry the Cable Guy, who voices the character, even gets top billing over Wilson. But a little of the comedian's twangy shtick goes a long way — for the audience, and for McQueen, who gets annoyed with Mater's boor-

Mater the towtruck and other characters from the original Pixar film "Cars" return in "Cars 2," opening in theaters June 24. ish behavior in all these refined set- ties into a whole 'nother subplot involving alternative fuel sources tings. Still, Mater is there to teach and the German villain (Thomas us some lessons about valuing the Kretschmann) who has big plans to underdog. Or not judging people keep cars reliant on Big Oil. because we think they're different With all these new characters or stupid. Or something. and various narrative strands comBut wait, there's more. "Cars 2" peting for our attention, there's is also a James Bond spoof, with not much room for fun. "Cars Michael Caine providing the voice 2" is one thing a family-friendly of the elegant English sports car, summer blockbuster should never superspy Finn McMissile. Finn be: boring. Yes, it looks beautiand his rookie sidekick, Holley ful, lavishing in photorealism as Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer), run so many Pixar movies do. In 3-D into Mater, who has tagged along (because of course it's in 3-D), with McQueen on this globethe chase scenes have their thrilltrotting journey, and mistakenly ing moments, and the many shiny believe he's the American undersurfaces do have a tactile quality. cover operative they're Young kids — at whom so much supposed to meet during their latest of this material is clearly aimed — will probably enjoy the bright mission. This colors and incessant motion.

But as the structure grows repetitive and Mater's corny puns and malapropisms become tiresome, we — like the anthropomorphized autos — feel like we're just spinning our wheels throughout the film.

Rebecca Eaton talks about 25 years mastering PBS show ‘Masterpiece’

By Frazier Moore The Associated Press NEW YORK — With a name like "Masterpiece," it has to be good.

For a quarter-century, Rebecca Eaton has overseen this weeklyBritish drama showcase whose reputation for excellence is undisputed.

Eaton But now, with "Masterpiece" marking its 40th year (it first aired in January 1971), the pressures of maintaining that masterpiece tradition might have reasonably begun to wear on the person in charge.

"It's my life's work," declares Eaton, looking anything but pressured, "and I love it."

The PBS series' summer phase — "Masterpiece Mystery!" — is now under way. On Sunday (check local listings for time), David Suchet stars as the dapper detective Hercule Poirot in a new adaptation of the novels

by Agatha Christie. The week after that: another Poirot mystery. Then a new Miss Marple whodunit, "The Pale Horse," starring Julia McKenzie. Then three weeks of mysteries set in modern-day Italy with Rufus Sewell as Detective Aurelio Zen, before an August break.

Eaton runs things from the show's home base in Boston.

But lately she has made two trips to Manhattan.

She was feted as one of this year's Time 100 (the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.) On a subsequent visit, she collected a Peabody Award for last season's "Masterpiece" airing of "Sherlock: A Study in Pink."

Since becoming executive producer in September 1985, she could lay claim to such admired productions as "Prime Suspect," ''House of Cards," ''Traffik," ''The Forsyte Saga," ''Bleak House," ''Inspector Morse," ''The Complete Jane Austen" and "Little Dorrit" as the series won 28 prime-time Emmys and 14 Peabodys.

But receiving accolades hardly sums up her job

description. Eaton listed a few of her responsibilities.

"I choose the shows — what we will invest in to coproduce," she began. I give notes on the writing and consult on the casting," she went on. "I read the scripts with a fairly educated eye. I very rarely go to the set or look at rushes, but I do look at cuts."

The result is 40 weeks of new "Masterpiece" programming each season.

At the same time, Eaton must keep the money coming in. The series gets support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and contributions from PBS stations, but has never landed another corporate underwriter since Mobil (which later became Exxon Mobil) dropped its sponsorship after 33 years in 2004.

To help meet the budget, Eaton early this year launched The Masterpiece Trust, an opportunity for individual donors and families to make major contributions directly to the series while supporting their local PBS station. Thus far, it has collected $750,000.

have city leaders and the music industry joined together in such a concerted way.

Tim DuBois, who's been in Music City nearly 35 years as a songwriter, record label head and now as leader of the performing rights organization ASCAP's Nashville office, has heard talk of a partnership over the decades, but never seen anything come of it.

"It's a pretty powerful group and you can feel the energy in the air," DuBois said. "You can see the things happening with the definite result of moving this thing forward. That's real different.

That's not talk, it's action."

More musicians and music industry types live here than in any other city in the country, except Los Angeles and New York. That group along with a wide-ranging variety of support businesses,

from tour buses to concert video screen rentals, generates about $6 billion a year in the area and 54,000 jobs, Belmont University research shows.

There are more than 80 record labels, 100 live music venues, including the iconic Ryman Auditorium, 130 music publishers and 180 recording studios.

Leaders want to make the music scene flourish even more. The music council has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars so far in creating partnerships in key areas of music technology development, making the city more inviting for entertainment-oriented businesses and musicians alike, and soon has plans to expose every child in Nashville schools to music education — something that has largely lost its cultural value over the years.

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Music council discusses Nashville’s buzz

By Chris Talbott The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn.

— Music City cleaned up at the Grammys. Its artists have topped the charts in multiple genres over the last few years.

It's increasingly the destination for A-list entertainers looking for a new home. And Rolling Stone recently named it 2011's "best music scene."

Nashville is hot, no doubt.

There are those who think it could be even hotter.

Mayor Karl Dean wants to capitalize on this recent momentum with the Nashville Music Council, a 60-member group that draws together the music community, city leaders and business interests to find ways to leverage Nashville's unique position as an all-purpose hub that's home to more than just country music.

Though it seems like an obvious partnership, rarely

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