White river journal, oct 15, 2015

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View looking from Des Arc north

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1 SECT IO N - 16 PAG ES V OLUME 109 (10TH WEEK OF 109TH YEAR - 5,645 WEEKS TOTAL)

SAT.. OCT. 17 Pee Wee Playoffs at Brinkley SAT., OCT. 17, 10 AM DeValls Bluff School Reunion SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 4th Annual Fall Festival Downtown Des Arc Becky Reed McCoy Pros. Atty, White/Prairie Counties

SAT., OCT. 17, 6:30 PM Republican Party Gumbo Gala Elementary School SUN., OCT. 18, 7 AM Men’s Fellowship Breakfast Methodist Church MON., OCT. 19, 9 AM Plea Day Hearings DeValls Bluff Courthouse TUES., OCT. 20, 8 TO 5 Flu Vaccine Clinics Des Arc Health Dept & Riverfront Park TUES., OCT. 20, 9 AM Plea Day Hearings Des Arc Courthouse

Jordan Smith Apprentice Information Systems

The Prairie County Quorum Court held their regular monthly meeting the Horne-Tipton in Courtroom at the Des Arc Courthouse Annex Tuesday evening.

Business items included the following: 1. Judge Mike Skarda’s announcement that he would seek reelection in 2016.

2. Prairie/White County Prosecuting Attorney Becky Reed McCoy’s addressing the Court and expressing her “love of the job” and a significant increase (estimated 300 = 23%) in felony prosecutions over year 2014.

3. Review of new computers and digital automation equipment recently installed in the County Clerk’s office(s) at Des Arc

and DeValls Bluff. Jordan Smith with Apprentice Information Systems, Inc. of Rogers/Little Rock explained how the equipment would be utilized, the (already-paid) total cost of $56,571, which included hardware, software, training, installation, and $11,800 for data conversion.

Additionally, there will be annual maintenance fee of $4511 (covering both the north and south district offices), plus a pending purchase of one digital “signature pad” for each office (approximately $700 each).

County Clerk Vanessa Peters advised that the official records are now “live” and available for inoffice computer search by the public.

TUES., OCT. 20, 7 PM City Council Meeting Des Arc City Hall TUES., OCT. 20, 6 PM Master Gardenrs BancorpSouth, Hazen FRI., OCT. 23, 5:45 PM Daybreak TV Show High School Gym FRI. OCT. 23, 7 PM Battle of the Prairie Eagles vs Hornets Hinson-Rollins Field

4th Annual Fall Fest here Saturday The Fourth Annual Fall Festival, sponsored by the Des Arc Chamber of Commerce will be held this Saturday, October 17, with food, fun and prizes for all ages.

The action will be in downtown Des Arc for all to see and enjoy, advvises Lana Smith, spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce.

P U B L I S H ED E A C H T H U R S D A Y S I N C E 1 9 0 7 THURSDAY,OCTOBER 15, 2015

County Sheriff seeks employee pay raises, additional 911 personnel from Quorum Court

ACTIVITIES CALENDAR

SAT., OCT. 17, START 10 AM Rice Festival Hazen City Park

“A FREE P RESS AND A FREE P EOPLE - A N U NBEATABLE TEAM ” D ES A RC , A RKANSAS (C OUNTY S EAT ) P RAIRIE C OUNTY

Dispatch Supervisor Amber Duerson presenting slide show at Court meeting

Darrell Turner County Jail Administrator

PRAIRIE COUNTY BURN BAN

4. The new County Jail Darrell Administrator, Turner, explained to the Court how the jail can legally produce revenue from the sale of miscellaneous items, including phone cards, commissary and snack items, post cards and over-the-counter medications. Presented

by Turner as a new requested jail policy, the Court unanimously approved it.

5. On behalf of County Sheriff Gary Burnett, Dispatch Supervisor Amber Duerson presented a slide show of specially prepared charts which included: a. Comparison of average jail sal-aries for 10 other counties nearest in population to that of Prairie County. b. Breakdown of current and proposed jailer & dispatcher salaries in Prairie County. c. Average cost of living expenses compared to average take-home pay.

Duerson explained to the Court that even though construction of the new County Jail will soon be completed and ‘ready for business’; the number of employees needed to operate it per requirements is just barely sufficient. And then, it will only be possible with the two lastminute jailer “hires” expected today, Oct. 15.

The Court had previously authorized the hiring of three new jailers

only. But per Duerson, the Court needs to authorize four additional dispatcher positions in order to operate the second of two existing 911 stations.

Dispatcher Duerson, Sheriff Burnett and Administrator Turner all concur that it has been extremely difficult to find employees willing to work in a jail environment for the existing base salary of $15,900 . . . this being equivalent to only $7.64 per hour, compared to Arkansas’ minimum wage of $7.50.

Sheriff Burnett and dispatcher Duerson, “understanding the County’s financial situation”, proposed Tuesday night that the Court raise the base salary just $1,000 to $16,900.

Putting the salaries of all twelve Correction (jail) and Communication (911) employees into perspective - (from those having only 2 months experience and may should be considered temporary - to those having 31+ years of law enforcement experience), the overall existing narrow salary range is from the beginning base of $15,900 to a high of $21,500.

The Court postponed any consideration of salary adjustments until after the Budget Committee reviews department annual budgets to be submitted this week.

EFFECTIVE OCT. 14 UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

BY ORDER OF COUNTY JUDGE MIKE SKARDA Note: Total Des Arc rainfall between Sept. 9 and Oct. 14 (34 days) has been officially .13”, occurring Oct. 9

Obituaries Pg . 4

Richard Bailey, 73, Beebe Gracie Cochran, 90, Carlisle Bobby Crownover, 81, N. L. R. Theda Griffin, 79, Ward Thelma McClure, 86, Tennessee Berchie McCullum, 87, Bethpage Michelle Red, 42, Hazen Sue Rogers, 79, Hazen James Scott, 63, Ragtown Geneva Sherman, 93, Humphrey Blondell Vaughn, 86, Griffithville

City Utility crew repairing water leak on 5th St., Sun., Oct. 11 Closeup view of personnel and leak repairs (left)

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By Steve Barnes (Guest Writer) Long-time Print and Broadcast Journalist Copyright 2000: Editorial Associates, Inc.

Courts Back at Work

(USPS 682-800)

Two Supreme Courts, one in Washington and the other in Little Rock, are back at work, their summer recesses ended, the justices presumably refreshed and ready for a new term with new cases, new arguments - and their public esteem at new lows.

The dismay that colors virtually any conversation about the Arkansas Supreme Court in the wake of the same-sex marriage case is near universal but anecdotal. The drubbing the nation’s highest court has taken in the court of public opinion is, however, quantifiable. The Gallup Organization has run the numbers and reports that “Americans’ trust in the judicial branch of the federal government has fallen significantly in the past year.” Only a slim majority (53 percent) say they have “a great deal” or “a fair” amount of trust in the judicial branch. (The robed can take no solace from Gallup’s measure of public confidence in the executive and legislative branches, at or near historic lows).

Although the diminution in approval of the federal judiciary was across the board, the sharpest drop was among self-identified Republicans, scarcely four in ten of whom now express satisfaction with the courts.

Then again, the previous few years have been a distressing one for conservatives, having first lost at the Supreme Court a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and then the same-sex marriage issue, both despite a 5-4 majority of Republican appointees.

In fact those two cases were hardly emblematic of the court’s philosophical disposition, as an analysis by the New York Times’ veteran Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recently revealed.

“The current court is the first in history split along partisan lines,” Liptak wrote, “where the party of the president who appointed each justice is a reliable predictor of judicial ideology.” Thus the Obamacare and gay marriage cases were anomalies, if monumental ones.

However, delinquent may be the average American’s understanding of the role of the judiciary (it is substantial) the deficit is aggravated by the causticity of the nation’s policy dialogue, the coarsest in a halfcentury. Individuals who ought to know better, and some of them most definitely do, rail about the “tyranny” of “unelected judges” when what is actually happening is a system working as the Founders designed.

Or is it? Has the judiciary, especially the federal courts, become captive to the passions of each party’s base? Is there actually less concern for the independence of the federal bench than the fidelity of prospective judges -- especially the top nine -- to a presumed mindset?

The responsibility, or blame, is bi-partisan. So agrees David Stewart, a retired Arkansas judge and former director of the state judicial discipline panel.

“As long as federal judicial appointment confirmations are not much better than three-ring circuses, and reek of partisanship and crass politics, the public opinion of our judiciary will continue to diminish because their decisions will be labeled in the same manner,” Stewart believes.

“It's a sorry state of affairs,” he continues. “Congress is to blame, as are the special interests who assume they can and do control the politicians. Again, it's the money at all levels that taint the judiciary, just as it does in all other political arenas. The same will soon be evident in state judicial elections, if not already.”

Ah, state elections, including Arkansas’s. There’s one just around the corner, for chief justice of the state Supreme Court. It’s an election that, by multiple authoritative accounts, explains the absurd refusal of the Arkansas justices to decide the state’s same-sex marriage ban. The foot-dragging drove two of the court’s seven justices (one was the chief justice) to publicly accuse their colleagues of, essentially, dereliction of duty.

To what extent the public took notice of the furor isn’t clear, but the Arkansas court’s side-step on samesex marriage as well as its internal disputes over policies, procedures and personnel have rattled the state’s legal community, to include even some opponents of gay marriage. (Of equal concern, and not just to the Bar, is the funding of some of the justices’ campaigns).

Not since the 1960s, when the court dithered for a year over the challenge to the teaching of evolution (and had its ears pinned back by the U.S. Supreme Court) has Arkansas’s highest court lost so much prestige.

It could lose yet more, as could lower courts, should judicial elections in Arkansas fall prey to the tactics seen in other states, where television commercials and mass mailings with no connection to truth, paid for by untraceable donors whose interest is not blind justice, drive campaigns. Arkansans have had a taste of such bile, only that, but they are likely to get a mouthful, soon.

Americans, Arkansans, have never enjoyed a pristine judiciary; hacks get appointed or elected, mercifully few. Continued corrosion of institutional faith in the courts is rather more serious. A reversal is not in sight.

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Will the Carnage ever Cease?

By Donald Kaul I’ve written at least 75 columns on gun control over the years. It might have been as many as 100.

Every time some demented loser would haul a gun — usually some sort of automatic — into a public place and lay waste around him (it’s always a him), I would get on my soapbox and excoriate the National Rifle Association, gun dealers, and our cowardly politicians for letting this outrage go on unchecked.

And do you know what came of it? Nothing. Unless you count the fact that gun sales always spiked.

One of the last columns — a response to the Sandy Hook school massacre — came to the attention of Fox News viewers and gun enthusiasts across the nation.

Their obsession fully metastasized, producing an avalanche of email. Two readers said they were reporting me to the FBI. And that was some of the friendlier fare.

Worse were the telephone calls, particularly the ones at midnight featuring a low voice telling me he knew where I lived. (That might not be a death threat exactly, but it wasn’t an invitation to exchange Christmas cards either.)

After one more column on the failure of Congress to take action after Newtown, I decided to stop writing about guns. It was going get me killed. And anyway, what good did it do?

Besides, this isn’t a gun problem — it’s a mental health problem, right? Surely that explains what happened at Virginia Tech and Columbine and in Aurora, Charleston, Tucson… Oh, who can keep track?

Then, a student at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon gunned down nine people before fatally shooting himself. And the politicians came out with the same sad lying faces and made the same sad lying speeches, and I knew I had to write another column about guns.

Two more students, at Texas Southern University and Northern Arizona University, have been killed since then in yet more shootings. Ye gods! Will the carnage ever cease? There’s no country in the developed world that kills as many of its own people as we do.

Surely we can’t be the only rich country that’s grappling

with mental illness.

The argument that good people will have to arm themselves against the crazed monsters among us is superficially attractive. Who among us hasn’t Donald Kaul channeled his or her inner Clint Eastwood and dreamed of stopping a mass murderer in his tracks with a well-aimed bullet?

But reality isn’t like that. Even police officers confronted by armed assailants shoot and shoot until their guns are empty, seldom hitting the target. Good marksmanship is hard when you’re terrified.

The chances that you, an untrained shooting range wizard, can prevail against an insane guy with an assault weapon are less than nil.

The real culprits in this fiasco are our Founders, who wrote the Second Amendment. It’s a sloppy and ungainly piece of work, even for a government document.

The wording is almost perfectly ambiguous. The amendment’s claim that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed” would seem to indicate that the gun lobby is on solid ground to resist all laws dealing with firearm ownership.

But the Founders introduce that thought only after stating that “a well-regulated Militia” is “necessary to the security of a free State.”

The truth is, it’s not, not any longer. They were envisioning a state without a substantial standing army, which they feared. It was a conjured-up notion of a country of minutemen ready to run out of the door and defend their nation with muzzle-loading rifles.

In case you haven’t heard, we’ve got a standing army.

And the Pentagon’s “arms” are way more destructive than anything our Founders could conceive of.

In other words, the Second Amendment is an 18th century relic with little relevance to contemporary reality. We should change it or get rid of it altogether.

Please don’t call the house. It makes my wife nervous.

OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. OtherWords.org.

Obama’s Kabuki Theater

By Jim Hightower

The sales push behind Washington’s latest “free-trade” agreement amounts to Kabuki theater.

What’s Kabuki? It’s a 17th-century form of Japanese drama, featuring elaborate sets and costuming, rhythmic dialogue, and stylized acting and dancing. That pretty much sums up the White House’s production of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Its negotiations have been set in luxury resorts around the world, covered by elaborate secrecy. Insiders wear the costumes of global corporate power, while trade officials parrot rhythmic dialogue about incredible benefits for all.

President Barack Obama himself is the main actor, dramatically proclaiming that the pact is “the most progressive” trade deal ever, and now he’s doing a stylized political dance in hopes of winning congressional approval.

But it doesn’t seem to be selling.

The latest polls indicate a range that runs from lukewarm support to staunch opposition and includes many people with no opinion at all about these trade deals. This applies

not only to Democrats, but independents and Republicans, too.

Ten of the 2016 presidential contenders have Jim Hightower criticized the agreement, led by Democratic contender Bernie Sanders, who calls it flat-out “disastrous,” and GOP front-runner Donald Trump, who dubs it “a horrible deal.”

Congressional opposition is growing, too. Even Ford Motor Co. — one of the corporate giants allowed inside the negotiations — has blasted the final version of this pact, calling on Congress to vote no.

Inexplicably, Obama views passage of this democracy-strangling corporate boondoggle as a “legacy-making” achievement, even though the only real support he has for it comes from Republican congressional leaders and the global corporate establishment.

That’s not just Kabuki, it’s kooky. As the old aphorism puts it: “Tell me with whom you walk, and I’ll tell you who you are.” To keep track and get involved, go to www.citizen.org/trade/.

‘Discovery’ of America leads to Columbus Day holiday, sales We mark October 12th for the Italian explorer who "discovered" America, and we reflect on an important question posed in a short video from comedian John Oliver: How is Columbus Day still a thing?

In some states, it is no longer an official holiday, or it is known as Discover’s Day, or Native American Day. In a growing number of municipalities, the holiday has been renamed Indigenous People’s Day as more Americans come to understand the brutal genocide that occurred in the colonization and establishment of our nation, and that Columbus shouldn't be celebrated at all.

Did Columbus discover America?

While he did make landfall in the Bahamas, Columbus never actually set foot on what would become known as the United States. In fact, there is ample evidence suggesting that the Vikings were the first Europeans to land in the Americas -- 500 years before Columbus’s voyage. All facts aside, it's hard to claim one discovered a "new" landmass when millions of people were already living on it.

How can Columbus claim discovery of a continent inhabited by millions of people?

It’s hard to know exactly how many Native Americans were living here in 1492 because indigenous people kept few written records and much of their cultures were annihilated. Estimates vary widely from 8.4 million up to 112.5 million people. Because they were non-Christian and non-white, they were not considered "persons" with rights, leaving Columbus free to claim their land (and their bodies) as his "discovery."

According to the 2010 Census, there are 5.2 million Native Americans living in the US and Alaska; 2.3 million are of mixed race.

How is Columbus Day still a thing?

Columbus Day is a reminder of the beginning of the enslavement of Native Americans and the attempted genocide of their peoples and their cultures. We should remember this, but not in the form of a celebration of the brutal individual who started it off. For most people though, the holiday has become little more than another excuse for big corporations to throw a sale.

As we fight to end corporate rule and make real the promise of American democracy, isn’t it time we ask ourselves if buying stuff on Columbus Day is an appropriate response to the stealing of land from its original inhabitants?

We worked Monday, Oct. 1,, because Columbus Day isn't a holiday in our book.

Onward in the struggle, Daniel Lee, David Cobb, Egberto Willies, George Friday, Jerome Scott, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Keyan Bliss, Laura Bonham, Edgar Franks, Virginia Rasmussen

WEEK’S WEATHER, RAIN & RIVER

90°

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HI LOW RAIN

DATE:

24-hr Temps: Midnight to Midnight

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86 81 72 82 90 83 89

62 61 .13” 52 47 63 53 49 -

WEEK’S RAIN:

0.13” 0.13

WHITE RIVER 6 pm Depth Readings per National Weather Service

Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10

13.74’ 13.59’ 13.51’ 13.40’

Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14

13.38’ 13.42’ 13.49’ 13.68’

NWS Forecast for OCT 19: 14.00 WHITE RIVER REFERENCE DEPTHS

F LOOD S TAGE . . . . . . . . 24.00’ M AY 7, 2011 CREST . . 39.43’

SUNRISES / SUNSETS

“Keep hats on” USPS Journal delivery report See Page 15

THURSDAYS Oct 8 Oct 15 Oct 22

SUNRISE SUNSET 7:06 am 6:41 pm 7:12 am 6:31 pm 7:18 am 6:23 pm

Latest Sunrise

Earliest Sunrise

7:14 am 1/14/15

5:52 am 6/5/15

Latest Sunset

Earliest Sunset

8:24 pm 6/24/15

4:54 pm 12/1/15

­Quote­of­the­Week “I've learned .... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

-Andy Rooney

Laugh-In Corner How are you doing?

There I was sitting at the bar staring at my drink when a large, trouble-making biker steps up next to me, grabs my drink and gulps it down in one swig.

"Well, what are you gonna do about it?" he says, menacingly, as I burst into tears.

"Come on, man," the biker says, "I didn't think you'd CRY. I can't stand to see a man crying."

"This is the worst day of my life," I say. "I'm a complete failure. I was late to a meeting and my boss fired me. When I went to the parking lot, I found my car had been stolen and I don't have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my wife with another man... and then my dog bit me.

"So I came to this bar to work up the courage to put an end to it all. I buy a drink, I drop a capsule in and sit here watching the poison dissolve; and then you show up and drink the whole damn thing!"

But, enough about me.

How are you doing?"

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Republican Gumbo Gala this Saturday Rick Dobson of Des Arc, speaking for the Prairie County Republican Party, advises that tickets are still available for the Saturday night Gumbo Gala.

This event, being sponsored by the Prairie County Repubican Party, is being held Saturday evening, October 17, in the Des Arc Elementary Cafetorium.

Tickets are $25.00 and will include a delicious meal catered by Cajun Express.

A special guest at the event will be First District Congressman Rick Crawford, who will address the gathering. Dobson said, “I am sure every Republican in the county

and maybe others will want to hear Congressman Crawford.”

Cong. Crawford was first elected in 2010. He is currently serving on the following committees: House Committee on Agriculture; Subcommittee on Nutrition; House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management; Subcommittee on Highways and Transit; and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment .

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Inside the new Prairie County Jail, where Privacy doesn’t exist!

Free food commodities exit county On Wednesday of this week, a truck and driver from the Arkansas Department of Human Services was in Des Arc removing all commodities from the office of Prairie County Judge Mike Skarda.

Amy Webb, spokesman for DHS, said, “The storage facility at the site did not meet USDA program regulations.”

Judge Skarda advised that perishable items were kept in a large cooler and other boxed and canned food items were being stored the same way they had been since the program began. He said, “We don’t have the money to build the kind of refrigerated areas they wanted us to have.”

“I told them we provide food for 600 or 700 people in the county. I was called by a lady this week asking how she would get needed grocery items for the holidays coming up,” Judge Skarda said.

“The commodity distribution program has been serving a lot of people in this county for several decades without food spoilage (unless it’s old when we get it) and I’m sorry to see it go,” Judge Skarda said.

In a news release this week, Webb said, “To ensure the program will continue in Prairie County, DHS contacted and is working with the Arkansas Food Bank to set up mobile food pantries.

Camera’s Control Room view of 8 man dayroom - where 8 men live, eat, shower and sleep (combined shower, restroom, and teeth-brushing area at top center)

Left: Combined commode and lavatory with small mirror Right: Shower stall .... small faucet doesn’t move (water comes from only one direction)

8-man Dayroom with 4 bunk beds (2’ wide plastic-covered matress and nonmovable built-in pillow) Stainless steel eating tables in center of area

Control Room from where all areas inside and outside of jail are montered 24/7.

Person in charge not allowed to leave Control Rm until end of 12 hour shift (Jail Administrator Darrell Turner is sitting at desk demonstrating some of multiple camera views)

2-person Female Cell with 2’ plastic matress and nonmovable built-in pillow (1 blanket provided) Combination lavatory and toilet at left

“THE PAGES TURNED BACK” (Compiled from White River Journal files)

Thursday, October 22, 1931

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he appointment of Mr. E. O. Hamilton of DeValls Bluff as Red Cross Roll Call Chairman for 1931, has been announced by Mr. J. A. Wright, Chairman of Prairie County Chapter.

Mr. Hamilton will perfect an organization of leading citizens and workers who will carry the personal invitation to join the Red Cross throughout the county between Armistice Day and Thanksgiving. The goal is 600 members.

Earl Page, State Commissioner of Agriculture, said, “If our cotton acreage law becomes operative, it will not only have an effect on cotton production but will in a sense revolutionize our entire system of agriculture. It will not only affect the cotton growers but every other farmer in the state - or most of them. It will at one fell swoop release from cotton to other crops or uses, 1,800,000 acres.”

Facts about the Arkansas Children’s Home Hospital: It is non-sectarian, non-political, statewide childcaring society; it serves homeless, neglected, abused, destitute and crippled children; 3500 children have been received in Home and Hospital to date. They are asking 50,000 people to support it with $1.00

each. Prairie County has four persons who have been given 2,000 days service in the past 18 months.

Misses Hazel Bacon and Pauline Lumpkin entertained at bridge at the home of Miss Bacon Wednesday afternoon.

Miss Nell Walls, who is home from New York, was guest of honor. Miss Louise Green won the high score. A one plate luncheon was served.

The young ladies schoolmates are graduates of Des Arc High School.

Arkansas Power & Light Co. says in its advertisement: The Penny you spend for a box of matches will, when invested in electricity, toast 16 slices of bread, operate a washing machine nearly an hour, bake 10 waffles, or will light your porch or hall 4 hours.

Showing at the Cozy Theater in Hazen on Sunday afternoon are: Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrel in “Merely Mary Ann” and Laurel and Hardy in “Chickens Come Home”. Admission: Adults 30c, children, 10c. Showing Sunday matinee and night.

Mr. Joe A. Owen, Des Arc’s oldest citizen, celebrated his 97th birthday at the home of his grandson, Joe A. Owen, popular rural carrier of Route 1, last Thursday, Oct. 22.

Thursday, October 15, 1942 Des Arc Future Farmers from Des Arc High School are making plans to exhibit their livestock at the Arkansas Livestock Show which opens in North Little Rock next Monday. They are: John Pettey, Donald Stallings, Roy Roach, Billy Price, John Humphrey, A. Z. Putt, and Tom Edd Livesay. Open Class entries from Des Arc are: Lamar Walls, Cecil E. Myers, N. R. Kirkwood, and Mrs. C. E. Myers.

Rev. O. W. Adams of near Hazen, pastor of the Baptist congregation east of Des Arc, paid the Journal office a pleasant call Saturday afternoon and brought us a gallon of very fine sorghum syrup.

According to information received fromt he Eighth Naval District Headquarters, New Orleans, says, “Francis J. Orlieck, a private in the U. S. Marine Corps., formerly of Des Arc, is reported wounded in the line of duty. His name appears on the casualty list just released covering the period from Sept. 22 1942 to Sept. 30, 1942. His mother, Mrs. Madgeline Orlicek, has been notified.”

Promotion of Staff Sergeant John F. Loretz, son of Mrs. Ethel Loretz of Des Arc, to the grade of Technical Sergeant has been announced by headquarters of the Okla. City Air Deport. Sgt. Loretz is an airplane engine mechanic with a repair squadron at the depot.

Prairie County has joined in wiping out the evils of malnutrition through its Community School Lunch Program. Sponsors of the program express their determination this year to surpass their record last year when some 800 school children were reached through the program. The Agricultural Marketing Administration assures sponsors steady sup-

plies of evaporaed milk, one or more dried fruits, wheat cereal, wheat flour and dry edible beans for school lunches.

The Big Show Window at Young’s Department Store in Des Arc will be used to display pictures of Boys in Service. Bring or send your pictures to the Des Arc store at once.

Our old friends, Cliff Griffin and Frank Kennedy, successful farmers of the New Bethel neighborhood, were in town trading Saturday.

Our old friend, Bill Blakemore, who lives on No. 11 near Wattensaw, dropped in while in town yesterday and paid us cash for his father’s subscription to the Journal.

We note that Esq. Jim Garth of this city is walking around with a drooped shoulder - rheumatism.

Our old friend, I. T. Sims, rice grower and prominent businessman of Hazen, was in this city on business yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Blackwood of near Griffithville were in the city shopping on Saturday.

Notes: Fish biting fine!

Beautiful October weather!

Gravel roads are getting dusty! Generl Election November 3; We sincerely believe the enforcement of the Curfew Law in Des Arc would be a good idea.

Our friend and barber, J. M Harmony of this city had another birthday party Sunday but John says he won’t be 70 until the 15th. He says when he was a little kid, he thought his birthday would never come, but “since I’m a big kid, they come too fast.” Guests were Mrs. R. A. Frith, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bacon and Charles, Malcomb Bacon and family, John Gipson Jr. and family, Mrs. B. E. Wray and children, and Mrs. T. E. Atkins.

Thursday, October 15, 1981 Billy Kerr of Des Arc received 29 awards at the 1981 State Fair Junior Rabbit Show.

State Representative Butch Calhoun of Des Arc has been working with the DeValls Bluff City Council, Mayor George (Buddy) Roberts in an attempt to secure natural gas for that city. Rep. Calhoun said, “The people at DeValls Bluff are still using butane gas.” Surveys are now being made and consultations are underway with Miss. River Fuel Transmission Co. George Ford of Des Arc, chairman of the Prairie county ASC Committee, is urging farmers to nominate candidates for the ASC Community Committee Ballot.

Jerry Berry, incoming president of the Des Arc Alumni Association, advises that the executive committee met recently for the purpose of setting a date for banquet and naming committees.

Other officers include Don Patterson, vice president; Louise Roach, secretary, and Janice Bell, assistant secretary.

Judge Guyman DeVore told Quorum Court members Tuesday night as they studied proposed 1982 budgets, “Costs and demands for service continue to increase.” Court members fear “we are dipping too deeply into our reserves.” The county’s reserve of $1,000,000 has dropped to $600,000 with major expenditures of the past three years, Judge DeVore said.

General Telephone equipment personnel have just completed installation and testing on

new equipment in the Des Arc telephone center making Touch Calling available to interested customers in the Des Arc area.

District Customer Services Manager, Jerry Carlton on Monday, presented a check for $42,516.79 to Mike Grady, Sheriff and Collector of Prairie County as the final payment on Arkansas Power & Light’s 1980 ad valorem taxes owed the county.

Bob Huffstickler, county chairman for the CPR classes in Prairie County, said this week ten people have completed the first class: Tony and Vickie Rampley, Calvin and Russell Prine, Jim and Virginia Pugh, Rita Smith, Bill Lindsay, Huffstickler and his wife, Janice.

Prairie County 4-H was recently honored with second place for booths at the 1981 Arkansas State Fair. Twin Rivers 4-H Club of DeValls Bluff was responsible for the booth.

Darline Mertens, Frankie Willeford and Mark Askins are the club leaders.

Coach Jerry Hinson said, “We will play them (Pulaski Oak Grove) a game Friday night, but will miss the services of starting halfback Lee Bell and defensive back Eddie O’Bannon, who were injured in practice this week.” Keith Newkirk, 11th grader, is also out with a broken leg.

White County Guaranty Savings and Loan at Des Arc advertises Money Market at 13.75% for $10,000 minimum deposit through Oct. 19, 1981.

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Thelma McClure, sister of East Side resident, dies Thelma Fields McClure, 86, of Cordova, Tennessee, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, September 26, 2015.

Thelma was the daughter of Walter and Beatrice Fields, a member of Germantown United Methodist Church, and beloved wife of John McClure for the past 65 years. She was retired from the Federal Reserve Bank, and was dearly loved and cherished by her family and friends.

She moved with her family from Alabama to Big Dixie east of Des Arc in 1942 and was a graduate of Cotton Plant High School.

She is survived by her husband, John McClure; her son, Terry McClure (Kay) of Collierville, TN; her daughter, Jane McClure Josey (David) of Germantown, TN; six grandchildren, Lauren Harvill ( Jason), Matthew McClure, Jacob McClure (Sarah), Fair Josey, Payton McClure, and Grayson McClure; greatgrandson, Henry McClure; her brother, O.B. Fields (Helen) of Des Arc; sister-inlaw, Linda Toombs; a niece, Gatha Oltmann (David); and nephews, Steve Fields (Dewanna), and Randy Haynes.

Thelma was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, a sister, and her son, Jerry McClure.

Visitation took place Saturday, October 3, at Germantown United Methodist Church, Germantown, TN, followed by an 11:00 a.m. memorial service, and reception afterwards in the fellowship hall.

A private internment followed at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Berchie McCollum lifetime farmer, loved flying Berchie M. McCollum, Sr., age 87, of Bethpage, passed away Saturday, October 3, 2015.

Berchie was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on March 13, 1928. He was a Christian man and a lifetime farmer of the Goldman Sunshine Community and a member of the Shepherds Chapel Church. He was a kind and loving man who gave the greatest bear hugs ever and was also a great provider for his family. His love of flying was known by everyone.

Later in life he developed a passion for cooking, gardening and truly loved tending his roses. He touched the lives of many and will be deeply missed, but everyone knows he is now flying in the clouds with the angels.

Preceded in death by parents, Lester and Gertie McCollum; brothers, Charles and Calvin McCollum; and a sister, Ernestine Owens.

Survived by wife, Peggy Synco McCollum; sons, Berchie M. McCollum, Jr (Gatha), David L. McCollum, Phillip D. McCollum (Elaine) and John D. McCollum (Paula); daughters, Amy McCollum Conyer (Trevor) and Zettie McCollum Jones (Butch); 7 grandchildren; several greatgrandchildren, great-greatgrandchildren, nieces, nephews and extended family members.

A private family service will be held at a later date.

Crestview Funeral Home of Gallatin, TN will be in charge of arrangements.

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Blondell Vaughn, Griffithville resident, dies

Margaret Sue Rogers passed away at Springhill Baptist Medical Center on Saturday, October 10, 2015, at the age of 79. She was born in Hazen on July 23, 1936, the daughter of Alazar “Doc” and Irene Sparks.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl A. Rogers, Sr.; her sisters, Ann Long and Liz Sparks; a son, Trey Rogers, and a daughter, Donna Rogers Carter.

Sue is survived by two daughters and four sons: Ruby and Jim Hryiewicz of Sherwood and Carol Sue Beckham of Hazen; Gary and Mala Rogers of North Little Rock; Terry and Saraya Rogers of Bald Knob; Rusty and Kim Rogers of Hazen, and Gregg Rogers of North Little Rock. She also leaves behind 19 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Sue and her husband Carl opened their first grocery in 1956 in Biscoe; they later opened an additional store in Hazen in 1966 as Rogers Foodliner Grocery Store. They also operated a grocery store in Des Arc. Sue was regular fixture at the stores assisting Carl in the day-to-day operations of the business. She took great pleasure in all things “Hazen”, whether it was the Hazen Hornet athletic teams or the Hazen Rice Festival.

She enjoyed watching her children and grandchildren perform athletically and on stage; they always had a fan in “Nanny”. Sue’s spare time was taken up in traveling, gardening, or lunching with friends. She was happiest when she was cooking for a house full of children and grandchildren. Sue was a long-time member of Calvary Baptist Church.

Services are scheduled for Thursday, October 15, at 10:30 A.M. at Calvary Baptist Church in Hazen and will be officiated by Bro. Christian VanHouten.

Interment will follow in the Hazen Cemetery with Westbrook Funeral Home of Hazen in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers will be Rex Long, Rex Allen Long, Timothy VanHouten, Josh VanHouten, Donnie Boothe, and Glen Carroll.

Memorials may be made to the Hazen Booster Club or the Hazen Baseball Association.

Sue and husband, Carl, operated a grocery store in Des Arc before moving the business to Hazen.

Blondell Pipkin Vaughn, 86, of Griffithville, died Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at the Crossing at Riverside.

She was born February 12, 1929 in Griffithville to the late Charles and Minnie (Knapp) Pipkin.

Blondell was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for 65 years. She attended ASU-Beebe and taught public school for 2 years. She then married and lived on a farm where she enjoyed nature and animals. Blondell loved kids.

She will be dearly missed.

Blondell is survived by two sons, Brady Vaughn of Searcy and John Vaughn of Crestview, Florida; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents Blondell was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Fred Vaughn.

Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Friday, October 16th at Searcy-McEuen Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, October 17th at SearcyMcEuen Funeral Home with burial following at Ellis Chapel Cemetery in Griffithville.

Mary Geneva Sherman

Geneva Sherman, mother of Stuttgart residents, dies

Mary Geneva Sherman, 93, of Humphrey, Arkansas entered Glory, Thursday, October 8, 2015 at Baptist Health Medical CenterNorth Little Rock.

Geneva was born June 3rd, 1922 in Cleveland County, Arkansas to Rev. Marion D. Camp and Lola Ratliff Camp. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. She was a longtime member of Corinth Baptist Church. In concluding a life well lived on this Earth, she has now moved forward to an eternity with her Savior as well as her beloved husband following 17 years of separation.

Geneva was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Hoyle Sherman; her parents, Marion and Lola Camp; stepmother, Minnie Camp; daughter-in-law Kathyrn Sherman; three brothers: Leo Camp, Virgil Camp, and Buford Camp; and three sisters: Opal Hartwick, Emaline Wicklund, and Hazel Tuttle.

She leaves a legacy that includes her three boys: Eugene Sherman of Humphrey; Jimmy Sherman (Jean) of Humphrey; and Ronnie Sherman (Cindy) of Stuttgart; six grandchildren: Brent Sherman of Springdale; Kathy Harris (Ray) of Springdale; Kim Murray (Theron) of Benton; Kieran Sherman (Ann) of Humphrey; Cole Sherman (Beth) of Stuttgart; and Taylor Sherman (Leah) of Humphrey; 14 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Pauline Yarbrough and a host of nieces, nephews, family, and friends.

To her family, she will continue to be an example of the power of a Christ centered life. While her smile, laughter, personality, and fierce prayers will be missed, she leaves behind a lasting legacy to all who knew her.

Services for Geneva were held at 2:30 on Sunday, October 11, at Corinth Missionary Baptist Church in Alcorn, with burial following at Frazier Cemetery with Turpin Funeral Home of Stuttgart in charge of arrangements, Memorials may be made Lorie Michelle Red, age to Corinth Missionary Bap42, of Hazen, died Friday, tist Church.

October 9, 2015. She was born in Stuttgart on October 23, 1972.

Send Your Obits, Photos, She was preceded in death by her father, Lynn Memorials, etc. to the Red. White River Journal Michelle is survived by her mother, Maurisa Whitwrjnews1@centurytel.net tenburg of Carlisle; her son, or Mail to David Taylor Red of Hazen; her brother, Dave Leander P.O. Box 1051 Des Arc, AR 72040Red of Woodlawn and two nephews and one niece.

A graveside service was held at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, October 11, at the Hazen A small fee for personal Cemetery.

Messages, Westbrook Funeral Home of Hazen was in Thank-yous & Memorials charge of arrangements.

Graveside service held at Hazen for Lorie Michelle Red

There is no charge for obituaries or photos

Thank You! R. J. Greenwood August 14, 1933 - October 3, 2015 On behalf of the entire Greenwood family, we would like to sincerely thank everyone for all your kind words, wonderful memories, and much needed prayers during this very difficult time in our lives.

We would like to thank you all for the visits, food, and for attending the service to show respect for this amazing man. R. J. Greenwood was a caring, loving, funny and very talented man. He is greatly missed by his wife, his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and his ‘fur baby’ “Muffin”, along with his many friends and musicians across the state.

Bimbabble, your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

Thank you to our community for taking care of us and to God for getting us through this day by day.

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Bobby Crownover, Richard J. Bailey husband of former was former Higginson resident local resident

Bobby Doyne Crownover, 81, of North Little Rock, passed away Tuesday, October 6, 2015. He was born April 15, 1934 in Bee Branch, Arkansas to the late Lester and Maggie Fullerton Crownover. He retired from United States Post Office after 37 years. He helped with the design of the General Mail Facility on McCain Blvd and was an Army veteran in Germany.

Bobby loved his family and grandchildren and loved to spend time with them on Greers Ferry Lake.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Clara Webb Crownover; daughter, Teresa Zimmerman (Tim) of North Little Rock; grandchildren, Jacob (Dana) Zimmerman of Memphis, Adam Zimmerman and Rachel Zimmerman both of North Little Rock; and numerous supportive nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his siblings, Ardith Crownover, Doyle Crownover, Ellene Maxwell and Deane Chambers.

Funeral services were held at 3:00 p.m. Friday at Smith-North Little Rock FuTheda Ann Griffin neral Home. Private burial was in Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery at a later date.

Memorials may be made to the Arkansas Heart Association, 909 West 2nd Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201.

Theda Ann Griffin, of His wife is the former Ward, Arkansas, died on Clara Faye Webb, daughter Sunday, October 4, 2015, at of Charlie and Jennie Webb the age of 79. of Des Arc. She was a member of Ward First Baptist Church.

She was born in Wattensaw, Arkansas, to Jewell and Nan Maben Langford. She retired from Arkansas State Hospital after over 31 years of service. After retiring, she worked for Cabot School Gracie Parnell Cochran, System for 13 years.

90, a lifelong resident of the Ann enjoyed traveling with her husband of over 50 Hamilton Community near years. They visited every Carlisle entered her eternal state but Hawaii, many of home on October 8, 2015.

She was born October 6, them several times. After 1925 to John Ed and Daisy their health began to de(Brown) Parnell. cline, they traveled more to She married Eddie BeMountain View, which they both loved. She called it her liew and to that union a daughter Frances Beliew Colorado, Arkansas.

Ann loved to collect Cheek was born.

Following Eddie’s death cookbooks. She loved in WWII she later married spending time with family.

Since she and Tommie Sam Cochran.She was the didn’t have children, she oldest living member of the loved her sisters’ children Hamilton United Methodist and grandchildren like they Church.

She was preceded in were her own.

Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her death by her best friend and husbands, her sister Helen loving husband, Tommie Cochran, and her grandson Lee Griffin; her parents; Eddie Cheek.

She is survived by her and sisters, Rebecca Jane daughter, her sister Carolyn Arnold and Bernadine Reaves, and four grandchilStephens.

She is survived by her dren Allen (Stacy) Cheek of sister, Sandra Nelke (Gary) Stuttgart, Phyllis (Rick) of Ward; nephew Windell Newton of Stuttgart, Kim Stephens of Ward; nieces (Tommy) Sullivan of Cabot Brenda Lamb ( Joe) of along with ten great-grandBrinkley, Jerry Shank (John) children and six greatof North Carolina, Donna great-grandchildren.

Funeral was held SunCampbell (Jeff) of Georgia, day, October 11, at 2:00 p.m. and April Brown (Chance) at Hamilton United of Cabot.

Methodist Church with Graveside services were arrangements by Boyd Fuat 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 7, at Apple Hill neral Home, Lonoke.

The family request meCemetery with arrangements by Smith-Westbrook morials be made to the Hamilton United Methodist Funeral Home of Beebe.

Church or the Hamilton Cemetery Fund.

Richard Jennings Bailey Sr., 73, of Beebe passed away Sunday, October 11, 2015 at Advanced Care Hospital in Searcy, Arkansas. He was born October 24, 1941 in Higginson, Arkansas to the late Wade and Josie Bailey.

Richard is survived by his wife, Earline Bailey; four sons, Richard Jr. and wife, Dana, Dennis and wife, Carole, Dewey and wife, Kristi, and Chris; eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren; one sister, Evelyn Southard; seven nieces, two nephews, three stepsons, seven step grandchildren, and a host of other family and friends.

In addition to his parents Richard was preceded in death by his wife, Sandra Lee Bailey; two brothers, Neland E. Bailey and Wade Bailey Jr.; one sister, Geraldine James and brother inlaws, Loran James and Burl Southard.

Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 14, at SearcyMcEuen Funeral Home.

Interment was in the Cottondale Cemetery in Paradise, Texas.

Theda Ann Griffin was formerly of Wattensaw

Gracie Cochran James Scott burial Sunday at James Scott, Hamilton Cemetery father of Hazen resident, dies

THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR OBITUARIES PUBLISHED IN THE WHITE RIVER JOURNAL There is a fee for personal messages (thank yous, memorials, etc.)

James “Bubba” Scott, 63 died Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at his home in Ragtown. A son of Sam and Ellon (Rodgers) Scott, Bubba was born in Helena on February 17, 1952.

He was a graduate of Marvell Academy and for many years drove the long haul rigs all across the United States. After leaving the trucking industry he worked nearly 20 years for the Lennox Co. in Stuttgart.

He and Lil were married

by JP Claudean Bethell on November 5, 1978 in Brinkley. They were privileged to enjoy many years of happiness together in the farming community of Ragtown Born with a unique sense of humor and a resemblance to Uncle Si of Duck Dynasty, Bubba always brought laughter to those around him. He enjoyed living a bit on the rugged side of life and found the cold and wet days in a duck blind quite pleasurable.

Favorite times included fishing, woodworking, watching the Razorbacks and as a family man....he always enjoyed days with Lil and the kids.

He was preceded in death by his parents: Sam and Ellon Scott; brother: Sam Scott, Jr.; brothers-inlaw: Charlie Morehart and Jack Henry.

Survivors are his wife: Lillian Webb Scott of Ragtown; sons: Jay (Cortney) Scott of Hazen and Michael Walton of Turner;d aughter: Jenny Rogers of Ruston, LA; brother: Lowell (Pat) Scott of Hot Springs;sisters: Margaret Morehart of Ft Smith, Lucille Henry of Dallas and Clara (Joel) Wooten of Memphis, and three grandchildren.

Funeral was Friday October 9, 2015, 2:00 PM at Bob Neal & Sons Funeral HomeClarendon Interment was in Franks Cemetery.

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Social Announcements and Locals Merry Sue Hill hosts October meeting of Oak Prairie Extension Homemakers The Oak Prairie Extension Homemakers Club met on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 with Merry Sue Hill for its regular monthly meeting.

The president, Dora Holloway, called the meeting to order and read The Thought, “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

The Inspiration was given by Barbara Holmes with the reading of a poem titled, “Never too old to be young again.”

Roll call was answered by nine members with “Name a characteristic you look for in a friend.”

There were 141 Volunteer hours of Work turned

L o c a l s Well wishes are extended to Prairie County Cunty Judge Mike Skarda, who goes in the hospital Friday for more surgery. He said that some of the metal rods placed in recent surgery had broken. He will be at St. Vincent’s in Little Rock.

---------The Journal is sorry to report that Kenneth Harris, a former Des Arc resident, has been hospitalized in Little Rock after suffering a stroke on the eve of his 80th birthday. Kenneth’s family have been Gurdon residents, but he will be going to Arkadelphis for rehab, according to his brother, Raymond of Little Rock.

He is the son of the late Lonnie and Jewel Harris.

--------The Journal’s faithful Morris Chapel Missionary Baptist Church count reporter, Anna Johnston, advised on Monday this week that she had to go to Children’s Hospital in Little Rock to be with her eightyear old granddaughter who suffered a ruptured appendix. Prayers for a complete recovery.

--------Prayers for Katie Minton, daughter of Jimmy and Amanda Minton, who was taken by ambulance on Tuesday this week after passing out and complaining of severe headache. She was to consult a neurologist to see what was causing her painful headaches. Katie is a Junior at Des Arc High School.

--------Margaret Farrish, wife of Franklin Farrish, and Democrat-Gazette newspaper carrier, was at UAMS on Wednesday with severe back pain. Praying doctors will find the problem.

--------And the rest of the story: In last weeks Personally Speaking it was stated that Sam Skarda, son of Casey and Leah Skarda had broken his arm and would require additional treatment.

He was to see the doctor on Thursday last week to see what the next course of action would be.

Sam is the grandson of Pat and Linda Skarda and David and Brenda Wallace all of Des Arc. He is the great grandson of Elbert and Carole Pool of Des Arc and Elizabeth Cissell of Wilson and the late Joe and Cannie Ruth Skarda, the late Tom and Cora Leigh Wallace and the late Marvin Cissell.

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During the business meeting, the minutes of the September meeting were read by the secretary, Janice Bell. They were approved by the group.

Members discussed the Fall County Council meeting to be held Thursday, The Oak October 15.

Prairie Extension Homemakers Club is responsible for two door prizes.

Also, they discussed the Delta District meeting to be held in Stuttgart on Thursday, October 22.

A discussion was held regarding the exchanging of gifts for Christmas. Instead of exchanging gifts, taking food to the Prairie County Food Bank, which is their Project for the year.

They will finalize their plans in November.

The Program topic was “Creative Skills” given by President Holloway.

The Eye Opener was a fall table runner that Merry Sue, hostess, had made.

The meeting ended with the group repeating the Homemakers Prayer.

Refreshments were served by the hostess.

During the recreational period, prizes went to Joyce Hendricks, Barbara Holmes, Sandra Webber and Janice Bell.

The next meeting of the Oak Prairie Extension Homemakers Club will be Tuesday, November 3, 2015 with Marinell DeVore as hostess.

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Several of the members attended Quilt Arkansas 2015 in Ferndale at the 4-H center in early October.

Betty took a Mondo bag class, Shelley & Maeola took a class on Collage and each made a landscape print; Shelley also took a 9patch class and used her own "recipe."

Marsha completed a pinwheel quilt top. They all had a great time and made new quilting friends.

New Business: A possible June, 2016, quilt retreat at the Cross Heirs lodge was discussed.

All the members were in favor of it and further plans will be made at the next meeting. A future regular monthly meeting will be held at the lodge so everyone can see it for themselves.

Show and Share: Glenda handed out the crochet hat pattern to those who wanted to make hats for Children's Hospital. The program is called "Knitting for Noggins."

Some of the members got out their crochet hooks and proceeded to try to follow Glenda's instructions.

My hat may take awhile...stay tuned. Glenda also showed one of her completed UFO's...a 9patch scrappy quilt made up of memories...she can recall many of her family's garments when she looks at this quilt.

Glenda gave a demo on the 10-minute block (which in reality takes about 20 minutes). Everyone was impressed with the finished product, and we can't wait to try it ourselves.

Hunger pains prevailed and the lunch pails were pulled out. Everyone had a good time discussing past quilt adventures and future projects. Michele was able to join the group for lunch.

Everyone was glad to see her. After lunch, the members got busy. All that could be heard was the whirr of sewing machines and the "oops" of a misguided stitch.

Ann finished her knitted hat for Childrens'; Marsha attempted to crochet a hat; Shelley made pillowcases using the "tube" method; Betty made a scrappy quilt; Glenda worked on her "Diversity" quilt. She calls it Diversity because it is made up of so many different patterns of fabric.

There are 1,411 small squares and triangles.

All in all it was a productive day, with new projects started and new techniques learned.

The next meeting will be November 11 at 9:30 at the Stuttgart Public Library.

Come join us.

Grand Prairie Rice Festival At Hwys. 70 & 63

Saturday CARNIVAL October 17 Presented by Marriott Amusements of Paragould, Arkansas, Thursday and Friday Schedule:

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10:00 AM: ANTIQUE FARM EQUIPMENT PARADE AND SHOW. Featuring large group of all types of antique farm equipment, engines and vehicles will be shown along with rice threshing with rice threshing machine and other demonstrations 10:30 AM: I-40 EAST BAND 11:40 AM: RAPTOR REHAB OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS

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fashionable trend setters adopted the smock...for playing tennis and in the studio for art.

Good smockers gathered their pleats by eye. Pleaters or gathering machines were invented at the turn of the 20th century, but did not come into general use until the 1980's. In 1887 Weldons published instructions in the art of smocking. These were intended for the middle class ladies to make tea gowns, blouses and Garibaldi jackets. Into the 20th century Weldons printed patterns for children's clothing and some adult patterns."

At the September Stitching circle Lydia gave a brief history of Applique..".A general term for adding pieces of materials to an existing ground fabric. It may have developed from the practice of sewing patches to damaged cloth and in many cultures is associated with poverty and renunciation of material goods. The most common materials used are cloth, felt, leather, and even fish skin. Applique has been practiced since ancient times. Archeologists have dated an Egyptian canopy of appliqued leather in 980 BC. Tomb excavations in Siberia and Mongolia found leather and felt applique on carpets, saddle covers and wall hangings from the Fourth Century BC. Throughout history, applique has been frequently used for creating banners and embellishing military uniforms.

There are three mail types of applique: Overlaid applique...pieces are cut out and applied, leaving areas of the ground fabric visible.

Inlaid applique...a piece of contrasting fabric is cut to fit exactly into a hole in the ground fabric.

Reverse applique or mola...motifs are cut from layers of fabric and edges of the holes turned under to reveal the fabrics underneath. It is most associated with the Kuna Indians of Panama and the H'mong peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia. Rather than adding material to a foundation, layers of woven fabric are stacked on top of each other and pieces are cut away to create the motif. Although reverse applique takes fabric away rather than adding it, the edges are finished in a similar method to overlaid applique using slip stitches.

All forms of applique continue to be practiced by traditional and contemporary needleworkers. The Applique Society was founded in 1997 to promote, teach and encourage the art of applique."

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The Grand Prairie Quilt Society met for their quarterly Sit n' Sew on October 14 at the Stuttgart Public Library with eight members present.

Glenda opened the meeting with the thought for the day..."You know what they call it when a sewing machine is giving loose stitches? Tension Deficit Disorder.... The September minutes and treasurer's report were read and approved.

Old Business: The Society gave a donation to the Holman Heritage Center in memory of Mr. Willie Spears.

Marsha, Winnie and Betty attended Senior Day on September 16 at the Arkansas County Fair in DeWitt. There were several great quilts and other handwork on display. It was fun also to see the great artwork in the children's exhibits.

Betty attended the Pine Bluff quilt show on Sept 19 at the Pine Bluff Nature Center. There were many lovely quilts, and she showed several photos of the quilts that were on display.

Marsha and Maeola gave a report on the recent Stitching Circles at the Plantation Museum at Scott.

In August Lydia talked about smocking...from a History of Smocking by Kathryn Smith, Guild tutor, 2004...Lydia said, "The first mention of fabric pleated was a Danish archaeological dig in 1175 BC. Smocks originated in the Iron Age from the rural tunic, a knee length garment made of coarse, probably homespun wool, cotton or linen, natural colored or blue.

Blue was known as a poor man's color in England. In 1412 the "smock frock" first appeared as opposed to the tunic, worn by peasants and workmen. The smock was very economical: the pieces were either squares or rectangles, no fabric was wasted. The women of the farms would harvest the flax and make the threads and fabric, coarse and appropriate for hard work in the field.

They would then gather the pleats by eye and smock the pleats. Farmers and rural workers were known to soak their smocks in boiled linseed oil to make them waterproof. This made for a stiff, waterproof smock that was also very warm. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, loose flowing smocks were too dangerous to wear whilst working machinery...folks moving from country to town discarded their smocks for cheaply manufactured clothes. By the late 19th century, the

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From Rev. Jaimie Alexander

Fall is beginning to be revealed in creation and I automatically think about the flavor of pumpkin.

This week's recipes are for pumpkin....puree, cinnamon rolls, and sheet cake.

These are fun recipes to prepare and enjoy, so tie and your apron and have a great time preparing these pumpkin favorites!

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

Liz Schwede, R. D. Keefer, Debbie Cook and Steve Eisenhower

Civil War Marker dedicated at Carlisle A Civil War Marker recently placed across from the depot in the City of Carlisle, Arkansas was dedicated Monday, October 12, in a ceremony conducted by R. D. Keefer, Lonoke County historian.

The marker is a permanent monument stating the time during the Civil War when the Ashley Station located at Carlisle was inhabited by Confederate soldiers.

As was a similar Civil War marker at DeValls Bluff, the Ashley Station marker was a

project of the Bill and Sharon Arnold Foundation of DeValls Bluff.

Others participating in the dedication were Steve Eisenhower, historian; Debbie Cook of Des Arc, Director of the Prairie County Historical Museum at DeValls Bluff, and Liz Schwede of DeValls Bluff, representing the Arnold Foundation.

The particiants were dressed appropriately for the event marking the military action that took place at this station.

Dough 1-1/2 cup Whole Milk 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil 1/2 cup Sugar 1 package (2 1/4 Teaspoons) Active Dry Yeast 1 cup Pumpkin Puree 4 cups All-purpose Flour 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon Ground Ginger 1/2 cup (additional) All-purpose Flour 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda 1/2 teaspoon (heaping) Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon Salt Filling 1 stick 1/2 Cup Butter, Melted 1/2 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Brown Sugar 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon Ground Ginger 1 cup Finely Chopped Pecans FROSTING 8 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened 1/2 pound Powdered Sugar 1/4 cup Whole Milk 2 Tablespoons Butter, Melted Dash Of Salt Extra Flour, For Rolling Extra Milk, For Thinning Extra Butter, For The Baking Pans INSTRUCTIONS MAKE THE DOUGH In a large saucepan, combine 1 1/2 cups whole milk, 1/2 vegetable oil, and 1/2 cup sugar. Heat until hot but not boiling, then remove the pan from the stove and allow it to cool until the mixture is warm to the touch but not too hot.

Sprinkle the yeast over the surface of the liquid and allow to sit for 5 minutes. Stir in pumpkin puree until combined.

Combine 4 cups of flour with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/4 teaspoon ginger. Sprinkle it into the saucepan and stir until it just comes together. Cover the saucepan with a dish towel and set in a warm, draft-free place for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, the mixture should be very puffy and at least doubled in size.

Stir in 1/2 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until totally combined.

MAKE THE ROLLS

Tribute to R.J. Greenwood: Molly Walker, DANRC Administrator left, presenting the Disciples band group with a plaque in memory of R. J. Greenwood on Friday last week.

Accepting the plaque is Roy Thurmond. The late R. J. Greenwood played rhythm guitar with the group. Walker said, “The Disciples are always faithful to come to DANRC and play their great music for the residents. R.J. will be missed but he left a legacy of his music.”

De s Arc N ursiNg & reh AbilitAt ioN ceN ter

by Activity Director, teresa henley

We are well into the season of Autumn. We are enjoying watching the beautiful leaves turning and the farmers harvesting their crops before the first frost.

Delicious Fall Apples come to mind this time of year. The wonderful aroma of a baked apple pie just gets the salivary glands to working overtime! This sounds like a good topic to explore during our Memory Games.

Our week started off with Sunday worship led by the Des Arc United Methodist Church and Faith Missionary Baptist Church. In the afternoon was visiting family and friends.

Monday’s lunch was a “Monday Wash Day” menu of beans. Mama would put on a big pot of beans to cook and forget while we did the Monday wash. Of course, no pot of beans would be complete without a piece of ham, a pan of cornbread, fried potatoes and a slice of onion! Yum,

Yum! A new activity was startd this week. Bro. Paul Fowler, pastor of the Assembly of God Church in Des Arc, is sponsoring a “Big Screen Movie”. Pair that with a big bowl of Jordan’s popcorn, it seemed like we really were at the movie theater.

It is always enjoyable to improve our personal appearance. The first three things that everyone looks for in appearance is the eyes, smile and hands. We worked on our hands this week with Pretty Nails.

The Disciples came Friday but were missing one VIP (Very Important Person), R. J. Greenwood. A memorial plaque was presented by our Administrator, Molly Walker to the Disciples. Roy Thurmond accepted the memorial.

R.J. will be greatly missed but he left us a legacy of his music and laughter.

Saturday, Bible Study was well received. Jordan performed her magic in the afternoon with her deli-

cious popcorn, along with a movie.

A big announcement was made at the four-day company meeting in Shreveport, Louisiana last week. Molly Walker, administrator and myself (Teresa Henley) attended.

The announcement was made that our own DANRC Medical Records Clerk, Linda McMullen, was named Employee of the Year.

Linda was honored with a party of recognition on Friday with flowers and cake.

Also, everyone thought that a big screen television delivered to DANRC was for Molly, but in fact, was a special gift for Linda! Congratulations on receiving this honor!

That is all for this week.

We hope you enjoy this great weather and the fall foliage! Until next time, have a blessed rest of the week.

Teresa Henley Activity Director

Calendar of Events

by Chris Weems Tues., October 20, 1:00 p.m., PC Retired Teachers, Hurley House Cafe, Hazen Tues., October 20, 6:00 p.m., PC Master Gardeners, BancorpSouth Tues., October 27, 6:00 p.m., PC Democratic Women, Murry’s Restaurant

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Drizzle butter into 3 pie pans (or a larger baking dish) and smear it all over the bottom of the pans.

Turn out dough onto a floured surface and press it into a rectangular shape. If it is overly sticky, sprinkle generously with flour and handle it/flour it until it's easier to handle. Flour a rolling pin and roll the dough into a large rectangle about 10 inches by 30 inches.

Drizzle the melted 1 stick of butter over the dough and smear it all over the surface with your fingers. Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and the cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.

Sprinkle this all over the surface of the dough, covering all the melted butter.

Sprinkle with 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup chopped pecans.

Starting at the top, use a "typewriter" motion to roll the dough toward you into a large log. Roll it tightly as you go so the rolls with be nice and neat. When it's all rolled, pinch the seam closed and turn the roll over so that the seam is facing down.

Slice 1/2 to 3/4 inch slices and place them in the buttered pan(s). Allow them to rise for 20 minutes, then bake for 1518 minutes or until nice and golden brown around the edges.

MAKE THE FROSTING While the rolls are baking, making the frosting by combining all the frosting ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer.

Beat until fluffy, adding more milk if

you'd like a thinner icing. Add maple flavoring if using and beat until combined.

FINISH THE ROLLS Ice rolls the second they come out of the oven. Sprinkle extra nuts over the frosting, then allow them to sit for 15 minutes before serving.

Pumpkin Puree 2 whole Small Pumpkins Select a couple of small-ish pumpkins.

Cut the pumpkin in half. With a spoon or a scoop, scrape out the seeds and pulp from the center. You don't have to be too thorough with this.

Place all the seeds into a bowl (you can roast them later and make pepitas). Repeat until all the pumpkin pieces are largely free of seeds and pulp.

Place pumpkin pieces on a baking sheet (face up or face down; I’ve done both) and roast in a 350-degree oven for 45 minutes, or until pumpkin is fork-tender. They should be nice and light golden brown when done.

Peel off the skin from the pumpkin pieces until you have a big pile of the stuff. If you have a food processor, throw in a few chunks at a time. A blender will work, too, if you add a little water. Or you can simply mash it up with a potato masher, or move it through a potato ricer, or process it through a food mill.

Pulse the pumpkin until smooth. If it looks too dry, add in a few tablespoons of water during the pulsing to give it the needed moisture. (Note, if the puree is overly watery, you should strain it on cheesecloth or over a fine mesh strainer to get rid of some of the liquid.)

Dump the pureed goodness into a bowl, and continue pureeing until all the pumpkin is done.

You can either use this immediately in whatever pumpkin recipe you’d like, store it in the freezer for later use.

To store in the freezer, spoon about 1 cupful of pumpkin into each plastic storage bag. Seal the bag with just a tiny bit of an opening remaining, then use your hands to flatten out the pumpkin inside the bag and push out the air. Store them in the freezer until you need them.

Pumpkin Sheet Cake 2 sticks Salted Butter 2 cups Pumpkin Puree (not Pumpkin Pie Filling!)

2 teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice 3/4 cups Boiling Water 2 cups Flour 2 cups Sugar 1/4 teaspoon Salt 1/2 cup Buttermilk 2 whole Eggs 2 teaspoons Baking Soda 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract 1/2 teaspoon Maple Extract (optional) FROSTING 8 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened 1 stick Butter, Softened 1 pound Powdered Sugar, Sifted Dash Of Salt 1 Tablespoon Half-and-half Or Milk (more If Needed For Thinning) INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a sheet pan with baking spray and set aside.

In a medium saucepan, melt 2 sticks butter. Whisk in pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice until it's totally combined.

Whisk in boiling water until mixture is smooth and combined. Set aside.

In a measuring pitcher, combine buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, vanilla, and maple extract. Whisk and set aside.

In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt. Pour in the pumpkin mixture and stir until halfway combined. Pour in the buttermilk mixture and stir until combined. Pour into the pan and bake the cake for 20 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.

To make the frosting, mix together the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and salt until smooth. Add half and half and check the consistency. It should be somewhat thick but thin enough to spread in a thin layer.

Spread the frosting all over the surface of the cake. Cut into squares and serve.

Keep leftovers in the fridge, as frosting will get soft.

NOTE: You may double the frosting amounts if you like a very thick layer of frosting!

seNior citizeNs ceNter DES ARC, ARK

By Barbara Williams, Site Director

We hope everyone is enjoying the fall season so far.

Monday: Herndon Barnes played the piano and sang for us.

Tuesday, we had Joke of the Day and took the van out to the Dollar Tree in Beebe that afternoon.

Wednesday we had our homemade breakfast and Bingo with Mrs Linda singing

and playing for us.

Thursday, we had Beanbag Baseball practice.

Friday was our recycling day, and the van left out to Jacksonville that morning to attend a talent show at their Senior Center. Mrs Ada Kunkle, Mrs Linda Petty and Ms. Sandra Webber did all their talents from the pageant.

They also had a great time

stopping by the new store in Jacksonville called Dirt Cheap!

God Bless and have a great weekend!

Barbara Williams, Site Director Olivia Holcomb Osborn, Meals on Wheels www.facebook.com/desarcseniorcitizencenter

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Words of Faith/Church News FAITH TRACKS

By Rev. Dee Harper

Pastor, First United Methodist Church Des Arc, Ar

Work: 870-256-3757 - Cell: 501-593-8978 e-mail: cdharper1979@yahoo.com

AD: THE TURN IN THE ROAD Scripture: Acts 9:1-6 (7-20) Many of you may have heard or know the name Saint Augustine, but you may not know his conversion story. He was from Algiers, his father was pagan and his mother was a Christian. He embraced a lifestyle that was totally consumed with the secular and attaining status. He was a great orator but his relationships prevented him from moving forward in his career. He came to a point of crisis which led him to look again at the faith of his mother. He studied the texts but it wasn’t until he reached a place where he was totally fed up and in turmoil that he finally heard God’s voice calling him. He writes, “I was weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when I heard the voice of children from a neighboring house chanting, "take up and read; take up and read." I could not remember ever having heard the like, so checking the torrent of my tears, I arose, interpreting it to be no other than a command from God to open the book and read the first chapter I should find.

Eagerly then I returned to the place where I had laid the volume of the apostle. I seized, opened, and in silence read that section on which my eyes first fell: "Not in revelry and drunkenness, not in licentiousness and lewdness, not in strife and envy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts." No further would I read, nor did I need to. For instantly at the end of this sentence, it seemed as if a light of serenity infused into my heart and all the darkness of doubt vanished away.”

In our text we are talking about conversion, about the turn in the road that leads us out of darkness into a relationship with God. Paul, or Saul is a persecutor of the church. He was their when the religious leaders stoned Stephen. He was not only there but he held their coats and affirmed what they were doing. Later he began his own campaign of persecution on those that followed Jesus. He even got special permission to go out from Jerusalem to work to flush the followers out who were in other cities. Even though Saul is a religious man his heart seems to be full of violence. Some people today might label the old Saul as a religious extremist. So Saul sets his sights on Damascus.

It is on the road to that city when Jesus appears to him. His conversion is precipitated by his encounter with Jesus.

Jesus changes Paul’s heart from violence toward Christians to becoming a follower himself. He changes Paul’s under-

standing and he changes his life.

Paul’s conversion is not only about Paul but it was also about the followers in Damascus, specifically Ananias. Ananias at first doesn’t want to go to help Paul with his blindness, but God is insistent and Ananias obediently goes. God uses Ananias to cure Paul. However it still takes time for Paul to become a part of the followers of “the Way” in Damascus. It is Barnabas that takes Paul under his wing and really teaches and encourages him.

Paul’s conversion is not just about one changed life or even one community, but it’s through this conversion that God commissions Paul to go and be the Apostle to the Gentiles. Paul’s place as both a Jew and a Roman citizen gives him status in both cultures and he is the bridge that God chose to use to reach that culture.

Our stories may not be as dramatic as Paul or even Augustine’s but if we dwell on the amazing aspects of them we might miss the point. Jesus touched their lives. Paul had a profound moment with Jesus that shaped everything that came after it. What is important is have we been touched by Jesus. Have we had a sense of his working in our lives? The Gaither’s song He Touched Me says: He touched me, Oh He touched me, And oh the joy that floods my soul!

Something happened and now I know, He touched me and made me whole.

In addition to our own need for the hand of God to work in us, this story also challenges us to reach out to those that our unlovable that need special care.

Are we welcoming those fellow travelers in the faith especially those who are society considers hard to love?

It also challenges us to be willing to go out and do something uncomfortable.

The easiest thing in the world for Paul to do would have been to stay at Damascus. Their trust had been hard won. He could have stayed there and been alright, but God commissioned him to do something different. Are we willing to go that far?

I want to invite us to evaluate again where we are in are walk with Jesus. Are there any destructive habits are thoughts that we need to let go of? Do we need a new filling of God’s Holy Spirit in our lives? Do we need to be made whole? Do we need for our neighbor to be made whole? May God bless you this week and lead you to a place of new understanding.

Donation to Prairie County Food Pantry: The Des Arc First United Methodist Church was seen on Tuesday, October 13 unloading food items at the Prairie County Food Pantry. Over 300 canned goods was donated along with other boxed and packaged food items that was collected during the Church’s barbecue fundraiser held at the Christian Life Center on Sunday, October 11. Des Arc High School and Hazen High School are competing to see who will take home the trophy of the most canned food items collected. Winner will be announced at the Des Arc versus Hazen game at Des Arc on Friday, October 23. Church leaders pictured are: Terri Gross, County Judge Mike Skarda and the pastor, Rev. Dee Harper.

2015 Annual Report to the Public School for Des Arc Elementary DAES Report Card 300/300 Des Arc-A+ Beebe-C Brinkley-C Cabot-A-C Carlisle-C Hazen-D Lonoke-D Riverview-C Searcy, A, B. D Stuttgart-D Goal: Maintain our high achieving status through: 1. Two-way communication & partnerships with families 2. Utiizing best instructional practices 3. Using assessments to determine student needs and to guide instructions.

2014-15 Iowa Tesst Results Grade Reading, Language, Vocabulary Math 1st 67 79 2nd 75 69 Teacher Literacy Math Childers 85 85 Dohm 48 72 Morton 89 77 Roberts 61 61 Supplimental Reading in First-Second Grades In 2014-15, eleven students in grades one and two received supplemental reading insturction in the Barton Reading Program delivered by Michele Calhoun Eight out of eleven students showed improvements in the reading portion of the Iowa Assessment. Services for these students are continuing the 2015-16 school year.

The three students not showing imrovements have received further diagnostic assessments to find exact deficiencies. Interventions targeting their specific needs are currently being administered.

Southeast Region-Fifth Grade Science Benchmark, 2015 #1-Des Arc Elementary91% Proficient/Advanced #2-Gillett Elementary-DeWitt-86% Proficient/Advanced #3-Portland ElementaryHamburg-68% Proficient/Advanced #4-Barton Elementary(Barton/Lexa) -81% Proficient/Advanced #5-DeWitt Elementary73% Proficient/Advanced Fifth Grade Science

Brother Dee

2015 Annual Report to the Public Des Arc High School Accreditation Status-Accredited 2015 Enrollment Numbers Grade Seven-39 Grade Eight-34 Grade Nine-57 Grade Ten-42 Grade Eleven-37 Grade Twelve-37 School Report Card A-Rated Goals a) Continue to maintaing the A and look for ways to bridge the performance gap between low and high performing students. b) PLC’s will meet monthly once data becomes available c) Continue to grow high performing students.

(Increase the number of advanced students) EOC Biology Last year for all EOC Tests’ Proficient or Advanced-59% Outperformed the State by 11% Outperformed the Region by 28% Growth of 13% from 2014.

ACT Percent of students who met college ready benchmarks Portion District State Growth English 70 62 +14 Math 15 35 = Reading 45 42 +9 Science 27 32 +12 ACT Improvement Strategies a)ACT Prep Classes in Virtual Arkansas Math and Literacy at all grade levels are using Digital Solutions b) ACT Coach c)Bell Ringers and Class Discussions d)Grades Seven and Eight are using Waggle e)Learning Labs use Waggle, Digital Solutions and ACT Prep online resources.

ACT Aspire a) Continue to teach Arkansas Frameworks with Fidelity b) Waggle c) Digital Solutions d) Professional Development TLI a )PLC’s will meet monthly to discuss curricular and instructional strategies in relation to the data b) First literacy tests will be October 1 and 2 c) First Math Assessments will be October 16

Sunday School Church Attendance Sunday, October 11 IN DES ARC First Baptist Church250/246 Gospel Mission.....................202 Lakeside Miss. Baptist...64/98 First United Methodist........93 Faith Missionary Baptist.52/70 Family Worship Center.........50 First Assembly of God....48/71 Fellowship Miss. Baptist....... 25 Church of Christ............14 Church of God of Prophecy.. 13 Living Waters Full Gospel....... 27 AREA CHURCHES Hickory Plains Miss. Bap 76/106 Morris Chapel Miss. Baptist..44 Pleasant Ridge Miss. Baptist.23 Hickory Plains Methodist..... 29 Hickory Plains Nazarene...... 20 Judson Memorial Baptist...... 26 Sand Hill Miss. Baptist..........10 Reported by churches. To report Sunday School Attendance and other church news, call 870-256-4254. Also, if your church is not on this list and you wish it to be, call the number here to get it included.

Powder Puff

Benchmark Ranked #5 in the state!

Des Arc Elementary won a “High-Achieving School” OEP Award for performance on Fifth Grade Science Exam.

PARCC 2014-15 Scores for Grades 3-6 Estimated October 23, 2015 DAES was honored by the Arkansas Department of Education for National Title I Award September 11, 2015.

Meeting the Needs of Students *After school tutoring began on September 21, 2015. Teachers are working with students grades 1-2, grades 3-4, grades 5-6 in areas of need for math and literacy (about 20 students) *Twenty-two students are receiving Barton Reading and Spelling Program in One to One or small group setting. This program addresses their foundational need in the area of phonological processing, phonics, fluency and spelling. *All students K-6 have been screened for foundational reading issues.

Teams of teachers are working together to analyze specific needs and develop interventions to meet these needs. *Working closely with parents, caregivers, Families,Inc. Counselors/Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, etc. to develop well-rounded, successful students. * DAES Gifted and Talented program includes seven-sixth graders, sixfifth graders and fivefourth graders. *Teachers currently working to implement/improve systems that communicate behaviors and academics with parents.

Farm Bureau (Hazen) donated $200.00 to implement a food backpack program for kids in need.

This program is in start-up phase.

Mr. Roberts is working to partner with GT Program and other entities to make this possible.

Great things are happening *New iPad Minis have

been purchased for grades 1-2. These teachers now have 10+ iPads in their classrooms being used for individual and small group learning. *Arkansas Forestry Commission has selected DAES as one of ten schools to participate in a shade tree planting on the playground.

Festivities will occur the week of October 12-16. Each class will plant a tree on Oct. 16. *All classrooms are now equipped with RedCat Classroom Audio Systemmagnifies the volume of the teacher’s voice in an even-distribution and fullrange sound throughout classroom. *Up-to-date Facebook page and elementary section on our District’s webpage.

Enrollment as of September 25, 2015 Pre-K: 23 K: 35 First: 34 Second:42 Third:39 Fourth:42 Fifth: 25 Sixth: 52 (One student travels to Sunshine School for Services) Free /Reduced Meal Status for the District: 70% New Faculty K.McMullen-Kindergarten K. Burchfield-First B. Kieffer-Third A. Holman-Fourth H. Belew-Sixth P. Brock-Sixth D. Rooks-Principal N. Chappell-Art PALS * Pals approved $7,000 to update/improve front playground.

Stacy Childers is putting together a committee of teachers to plan the purchases. *Approved purchase of two trees from S.T.O.P. Ceremony and the watering systems to go with trees. *Officers: Heather BrownPresident; Tisha Covington-Vice President; Janice Reidhar-Secretary. *About 26,000 currently in account *Daddy Daughter Dance is scheduled for Dec. 3, 2015. * Family Fun Night tentatively scheduled for Mar. 4, 2016.

FUND-RAISER

Car Wash/Bake Sale

BAKE SALE

Saturday, October 17

Deborah Hollis

Benefitting

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Des Arc School Nurse

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Friday, October 23

Dondie’s White River Princess

Donations Only Fund-raiser for Students Trip to Belize

11:00 am - 3:30 pm Outside At

Des Arc Elementary School Sale Is Open to the Public

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FARM/HOME Autumn means it’s time for soil sampling

By Dave Edmark Cooperative Extension Service U of A System Division of Agriculture

Before farmers and ranchers plant annual forages for the winter, it’s a good idea to spend part of autumn checking their soil’s fertility. Their situations may call for incorporating lime and fertilizer, so soil sampling should be done to find out.

“The growth of many perennial forage crops is relatively slow or non-existent during the fall and winter, so fertility deficiencies are less crucial,” said Dirk Philipp, associate professor of forages at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

“But correcting pH will take somewhere between four and six months or even longer, so fall is a good time to tackle it.”

Philipp explained that producers should have a good idea about the growth of their forage once the grazing season is over. Underperforming pastures and changes in species composition can point to decreasing soil fertility.

Philipp recommends that farmers send in samples of their soil for an analysis on a regular basis.

Arkansas is one of several states that offer the service for free at the Division of Agriculture Soil Testing and Research Laboratory in Marianna. For information about how to submit soil samples, contact soiltest@uark.edu or call 870295-2851.

Before taking samples, farmers should divide their property into subunits based on landscape position, drainage patterns and haying or grazing history.

Then, Philipp said, they should take 15 to 20 samples, each from 6 inches deep, mix all the samples into a bucket and fill a soil box provided by a county extension office.

Philipp advises farmers to take their samples in a zig-zag pattern to produce a representative sample from within that subunit.

He also cautioned against taking short cuts on the number of samples per pasture. “The more you take, the more accurate and representative the results will be,” he said.

After collecting all the samples, farmers can take them to their county extension office. Personnel at the offices will explain how to label the boxes for shipment to the testing lab in Marianna.

When the lab returns the results, farmers should check with their local extension agents to review how to correct soil fertility, if necessary. The lab reports will include phosphorous, potassium and mineral analysis. They will also indicate the pH level and how much lime should be applied. Target application rates for nitrogen will also be included based upon what crop was indicated by the farmer.

“You don’t want to apply nitrogen during the winter months if the dormant pasture can’t use it, obviously,” Philipp said. “But if you plant winter annual crops into tilled seedbeds, you should consider incorporating the lime and fertilizer to increase the efficacy of your application.”

Farmers should apply lime in the fall to correct the pH. If nitrogen and other minerals are needed for winter annual crops, those should be applied in recommended the amounts, Philipp said.

Farmers should take spot; samples in the fall to see if correcting pH is necessary 15-20 soil samples should be taken per pasture Division of Agriculture offers free soil analysis

Arkansas Master Gardeners observe 27th birthday with weeklong celebration

By Kelli Reep Cooperative Extension Service U of A Division of Agriculture

Gov. Hutchinson proclaims Oct. 11-17 Celebrate Master Gardener Week This year marks the 27th birthday of the Arkansas Master Gardeners program, which counts more than 3,000 volunteers in 70 counties statewide. To celebrate, these master gardeners will work on projects and hold classes in horticulture as part of Celebrate Master Gardener Week Oct. 11-17, 2015.

“Gardeners in this program love to talk with visitors about their work and communities,” said Julie D. Treat, extension horticulture program technician with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. “We hope anyone in Arkansas will visit a project in their area during this week of celebration.”

The program’s volunteers work under the umbrella of the Cooperative Extension Service and have the benefits of the best training available for an interest they appreciate and enjoy as well as the satisfaction of contributing their talents to their communities so that others may experience their efforts. In fact, Arkansas Master Gardeners reported 102,850 education hours and 181,371 service hours in 2014.

“Janet Carson, who is a horticulture specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service, is the coordinator of the Arkansas Master Gardener program,” Treat said. “She also is the official ambassador for master gar-

deners both in our state and across the country. She speaks, writes and leads study trips in horticulture, and she travels throughout Arkansas to meet and support the program’s volunteers.”

Arkansas Master Gardeners train in many areas of horticulture-related subjects and attend classes throughout the state during the year. Teachers and leaders of the Arkansas Master Gardener program are extension staff and professionals as well as local resource people and fellow Master Gardeners. In return for this training, those accepted into the program’s classes agree to volunteer in their communities on sanctioned garden and landscaping projects.

Some of the projects the Master Gardeners sponsor include educational seminars and workshops, youth gardening programs, plant therapy work with hospitals and nursing homes, community beautification projects, and distributing horticulture information throughout the state.

To register for classes or for more information about the Arkansas Master Gardeners program, visit the Cooperative Extension Service’s website, www.uaex.edu, or contact your county extension agent.

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Photo and Story by Harvey Joe Sanner

Unusual crop - unusual harvest A crop growing on a farm at the Prairie/White County line along side Highway 11 has stirred the curiosity of many this summer. The farm is being operated by Shawn Peebles, an organic farmer who lives in McCrory, AR. The crop currently being harvested is green beans and they are being loaded on trucks headed for Wisconsin. These green beans don't have beans in the pods!! How's that for making one curious? The beans pods are the food product. They mature rather quickly; normal time is fifty-one days from planting to harvest. The farm has been a cattle farm for many years, which could qualify as certified organic farm. There are no commercial fertilizers or herbicides permitted. Nutrients are added to the soil by utilizing chicken litter. Weed control is achieved with hand labor and row-crop cultivators.

This past growing season Shawn's crop was edamame that also drew much attention. Edamame (edda--ma-may) is an edible soybean that has quite a large market. We hoped that production might expand into Prairie County and provide our growers with an alternative crop but that hope has not yet materialized. The best information we have is that the current processing, packaging/shipping facility located in Mulberry, AR is at capacity and it would require a huge financial investment by the owners to accommodate larger acreage at this time. Perhaps in the future?

Following the edamame harvest Shawn planted the acreage in radishes that also drew much attention. They

were not your typical table radishes, they are planted as a cover crop and grow rather large which loosens and aerates the soil. Some farmers no-till their spring crops into the radishes and some turn them under. Early this year on about 250 acres of the organic farm, Shawn planted pumpkins and they were harvested about three weeks ago.

Shawn tells me that the market for organic grown crops is growing rapidly and he has other farm land in production as well and other growers operating under his license. The process to obtain certification is quite detailed and the rules and regulations are very intense. The crops and land is monitored to ensure that the grower is in compliance with all rules necessary to be able to market in the organic grown market.

The organic grown concept has been around for sometime but it’s apparent that its being accepted and demanded by a much larger customer base than in the past.

We want to wish Shawn Peebles well in his venture and there may be opportunities for others in this area to try their hand at organic production. It goes without saying that anytime a grower can extract more income from an acre of farmland and/or increase additional economic activity over and above the norm, it surely is a good thing for rural communities. Congratulations on your innovative ideas Shawn.

Submitted by Harvey Joe Sanner on behalf of Moving Prairie County Forward.

Major Arkansas hunger relief organizations planning merger

Extension, utility experts urge caution, planning during post-harvest burns

In an historic move to more effectively eliminate hunger in Arkansas, the Arkansas Foodbank (AFB) and the Arkansas Rice Depot (ARD) announced last week, after approval from both organizations’ boards of directors, plans to merge effective January 1, 2016.

The two nonprofits have long been dedicated to serving hungry Arkansans through various programs reaching school-aged children, college students, families and seniors. The merger will allow existing programs of both organizations to continue, as well as expand, reaching even more in need due to gained operational efficiencies.

The current names and legacies of both AFB and ARD will be evident in the new structure, and all staff members will be retained due to the expansion of programs.

The Arkansas Foodbank partners with more than 300 charitable organizations across Central and Southern Arkansas to distribute food to families in need. Approximately 61,000 pounds a day leave the Foodbank warehouse and are distributed at food pantries, soup kitchens, youth programs, senior centers, schools and emergency shelters. The organization was created in January 1984.

The Arkansas Rice Depot has been working to alleviate hunger in Arkansas since 1982. The organization distributes more than 9 million pounds of food each year and has three main programs in place: Food For Kids, Food For Families and Food for Seniors.

By Ryan McGeeney Cooperative Extension Service Growers should know surrounding area thoroughly before burns As rice harvest draws to a close in Arkansas, many growers will be burning some or all of their rice fields to clear residue and prepare for next year. As producers plan their controlled burns, utility companies are hoping they’ll take into account nearby power lines, transformers and other equipment in order to avoid damaging important infrastructure.

Monty Harrell, transmission lines supervisor with Entergy Arkansas, Inc., said that each year the company loses about three structures to crop burndowns that get out of control. The steel structures and wooden poles support approximately 5,000 miles of electric transmission lines throughout the state. In September, a burndown in Desha County damaged a transmission tap line, which carries about 115 kilovolts of electricity, Woods said.

Harrell said that the average price of each Entergy structure lost to burndowns is about $30,000, a cost that the utility company has historically tried to recoup from the landowners responsible for the blazes, he said.

The periods of highest concern are October, when growers may burn harvested rice fields, and late spring or early summer, when wheat producers may do the same.

Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said on average rice producers in Arkansas burn approximately one quarter of all rice acreage each year -- 300,000 and

400,000 acres burned each year between 2012-2014.

Fields are burned as a means of crop residue management because rice straw is difficult to incorporate into the soil and slow to decay, which can lead to production issues in subsequent seasons.

Most Arkansas producers of wheat, corn, grain sorghum and other grains don’t find burning necessary, said Jason Kelley, extension wheat and feed grains agronomist for the Division of Agriculture. He estimated that less than 25 percent of all non-rice grain fields are burned in any given year.

Sammy Sadaka, extension biosystems engineer for the Division of Agriculture, said field burndowns may not be right for every situation and that there are potential alternatives, including processing remaining stalks into biochar, a charcoal-like product that can be used as a soil conditioner.

Keith Perkins, cooperative extension agriculture agent in Lonoke County, said growers should familiarize themselves with local burn laws and take into account current weather conditions when planning a controlled burndown.

“If there are electrical lines, phone lines, any kind of lines running through the property or by the property, you need your fire to stop well short of anything that doesn't need to be burned,” Perkins said.

“When the field is set on fire, make sure none of your employees are in the field, and none of your equipment is left in the field. There have been cases of tractors being burned up.”

Perkins said growers should also be aware of traffic on nearby roads, as heavy smoke from a burndown can lower drivers’ visibility and make driving hazardous. Most burndowns in Lonoke County are between 40 and 100 acres, he said.

For more information on precautions during controlled burns, contact your local extension agent or visit www.uaex.edu.

Fast Facts: Extension: about 25 percent of Arkansas rice fields burned each year after harvest Out-of-control burndowns can lead to structural damage to nearby utilities, resulting in power outages and hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses Growers should know surrounding area thoroughly before burns

12-year old wins Blue Ribbon for 116 lb melon at State Fair At 12 years old, Colby Daniel of Arkadelphia is an old hand at winning blue ribbons for the biggest watermelon at the Arkansas State Fair.

This year, he took home his third straight first place prize for his 116lb. Carolina Cross watermelon.

The second place winner was Brayden Reedy of White County for his 74 lb. entry. Third place was Robby Ready, also of White County, whose entry weighed in at 66 lbs.

The Arkansas State Fair continues in Little Rock through Sun., Oct. 18.

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Rosetta Lockhart named “2015 Woman of the Year” by Augusta BPW Rosetta Lockhart of Gregory was recently named 2015 Woman of the Year by the Augusta Business and Professional Women’s Club.

Rosetta was born in downtown McClelland (east of Des Arc) on Oct. 8, 1928 to Thomas Jackson and Ethel Mae Smith Vincent, the eighth child of a total of ten.

They moved to McClelland from Wilburn, Ark., and bought a farm northeast of there, where they lived until 1941 when they moved to nearby Gregory. Rosetta went to school in McClelland and Gregory until her last year. Her brother lived in Wyandotte, Mich., and she went to school there her last year.

“When I came home on vacation in the summer, Gaither Lockhart was home from the Navy,” Rosetta explained. “I’d said at 14 that I was going to marry him, and I did, at age 18, that summer.”

They struggled to live on farm work, all the while having Steve, Stan and Sherry in a little more than four years. All three children finished college, have been on their own, and have seen all their children earn college degrees.

When the Gregory Post office job came open, Rosetta took the test, and with the highest score, got the job and went to work on Nov. 6, 1956. Then Jim Barnett sold Gaither his store and their income doubled.

“When I married, I did not want to stay in Gregory, nor farm, but Gaither said if I wanted to live with him, I would. I am glad now. It was a good place to raise kids.

“I was Postmaster 43 ½ years and have been blessed to be able to help scores of people. I’ve made a point of being active in the community and have been unofficially made Mayor. As a member of Gregory Baptist Church, I’ve served as Church Clerk and taught some for several years. I’ve been active in the American Legion and have helped raise money for the American Cancer Society, which is important to me because I am a 25 year cancer survivor. In addition, I ran for and was elected to serve as Justice of the Peace at the age of 72 and served four years. I am very involved with the Gregory Homemakers Club, having been secretary for over 50 years. But one of my hard-

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Opal Crider, Correspondent

By Rosetta Lockhart

HICKORY PL AINS I'm glad I got to attend the Hickory Plains Baptist Church revival a couple of nights last week. Brother Ben Hulsey preached a good WORD. His wife and kids came Wednesday night from White Hall.

Some of his congregation came some too. Everyone enjoyed the services and getting to see a lot of friends.

Papaw and I enjoyed having Christian Weaver spending the night and having supper with us Wednesday night They played cribbage and Papaw won the most games this time. HA! Last Thursday morning Clara Clark, Bob and I enjoyed having Sherry Jones and Vanessa Graham join us for coffee time on Clara's porch. After they left Mrs. Gladys Hambrick and her daughter, Rita Hambrick came out to pick up crosses that Jewel Ashmore dropped off earlier.

We enjoyed visiting with them. Rita was leaving Friday morning to go back to Denver, CO. Carter Harrison went to his surgeon last week. He now has one more week then they will take the pin out of his little finger. It’s been a long healing process. We pray all is well, when unwrapped. He’s not slowed up on cooking fish this whole time, just learned a little more to be a partial lefty.

Later Thursday afternoon, my Buddy (Brenda Evans) brought two of her grandkids, Elijah and Evie Evans to visit at my house.

Evie liked the toys at my house, some she actually doesn’t have.

Vanessa Graham spent the day Friday with her Aunt Brenda Flynn in Carlisle. They enjoyed having lunch at Advada’s. Leon and Advada Ward own Advada’s Diner, Leon is Brenda’s and Vanessa’s late Mom, Frances Walker’s brother. Then Vanessa and Brenda had to make a run to Wal-Mart. They had a great day together.

So thankful that Teddy Jones was not hurt in a wreck at Carlisle on Friday afternoon. Two women from TX pulled out in front of his welding truck at the North side of overpass at Carlisle. Pray that the one woman that had to go to hospital by ambulance is ok. They are really busy right now; he needs a new welding truck, Send Teddy a card of encouragement, 8715 Graham Rd., Des Arc, AR 72040 I helped King Kat do a fund raiser fish fry at Sylvan Hills High School Friday night. It was to raise money for the softball team. I especially wanted to work that meal because my sis, Clara's grandson, Cameron, plays football, #13. He plays safety and was in the Leader paper recently with his stats listed.

Cameron was really surprised to see me, Aunt Opal, because he did not

est and most long term community services has been the West Woodruff Water District where I am currently president.

“I started writing the Gregory News in July 1956 and received the Golden 50 Service award from the Arkansas Newspaper Association with a plaque and dinner in Hot Springs for me and my family.

So if I continue till next July, I will have 60 years. Her column also appears in the White River Journal.

“I do not know how these ladies (BPW) came by the idea that you’d vote me 2015 Woman of the Year, but I accept the great honor with pleasure and thank each of you.”

Rosetta will be honored with a reception on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2-4 p.m. at the Augusta Economic Development Center in downtown Augusta. All friends and relatives are invited. Rachel Jennings will also be honored as the member who has served the longest. She joined the BPW in 1963.

Rosetta was also honored on Oct. 10 at the North Little Rock Women’s Club in From Wooduff County Monitor Burns Park.

know I would be there. He was glad to meet Carter Harrison. Cam's Dad and Mom, Brad and Angela Clark, were there and enjoyed fish and all the trimmings. All the people there were really good to work with. So glad that Sylvan Hills beat Jacksonville in football that night.

Cameron made some great plays, as usual.

Sierra Thomas, our great niece, came Friday afternoon to spend the weekend with Clara Clark, and went home Sunday evening. She enjoyed getting to attend the McArthur Reunion and enjoyed Church with us Sunday morning at Gospel Mission.

Carl Weaver came over Saturday morning and he and Papaw spent most of the day scouting for deer.

Saturday morning we had the McArthur family reunion at Beebe, AR. There were only twenty two present. There was a lot of food, and everyone enjoyed visiting. I took some crosses that Jewel Ashmore makes with the stained glass from the old, HP Methodist Church. I sold four because a lot of the McArthurs loved the Church and are a Hickory Plains Family, please remember the reunion is always the second Saturday in October.

I took JB, Clara's dog, early Monday morning to Grand Prairie Vet to have his teeth cleaned and some extracted. Clara and I went through Carlisle to visit our sister-in-law, Charlotte McArthur, before picking JB up that afternoon.

The Ladies Drop By” was really nice Tuesday.

There was plenty of good food & fun. There were sixteen there, Charlotte Wrigley, Faye Carlisle, Alves Bonner, Janice Bell, Clara Clark, Debora Carpenter, Susanne Bell, Iva Hamric, Sheila Harris, Pat Johnson, Mary Grace Smith, Vanessa Graham, Margie Speight, Robbie Veazey, Jewel Ashmore, Barbara Ingle and Opal Crider.

Clara Clark will finally get her permanent hip replacement on Oct 29th.

She will stay one night, at Little Rock St. Vincent’s, come home by that afternoon. Please continue to pray for her and can send her a card, 8905 Graham Rd., Des Arc, AR 72040 The next “Ladies Drop By” will be Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Hickory Plains Methodist Church at 1 PM. Come join us, we have FUN! Clara Clark will finally have her permanent hip replacement, Oct 29th Please continue to pray for her.

HPOS wants to let everyone know that Tracy will serve breakfast on Sunday mornings. She will also have a Sunday lunch special for $4 .99. Dinner SPECIALS on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS! Come out and enjoy!

Please support Hickory Plains Post Office by purchasing stamps, mailing packages, etc. there.. Support our OWN local Postmaster, Tammy Bruce. The Hickory Plains Post Office hours are Mon.-Fri. 12:30 PM- 2:30PM, Sat.10AM1:30PM. (REMINDER) For people to call 870-854-3703 or email me (OpalCrider@centurytel.ne t) their News. Please call or send!!! If you want birthdays in my column and you know I don’t put them in, please let me know!

Have a Good Week In The Lord!

Happy Birthday Oct. 18 to Hayden Flud and Chuck Huggins!

Happy Birthday Oct. 19 to Rhonda Huggins and Danny Eads!

Happy Birthday Becky Bush!

Happy Birthday Oct. 20 to Ortha Nell Parker!

Happy Birthday Oct. 22 to Becky Bush!

Happy 12th Birthday Oct. 22 to Annie Grace Cochran (our granddaughter)!

Happy 18th Birthday Oct. 23 to Jamie Norman!

Happy Birthday Oct. 23 to Carlos Hamric!

Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.

Proverbs 13:20, NLT

CROP REPORT Brent Griffin CEA-Staff Chair Prairie County Cooperative Extension Service P.O. Boxll 388 DeValls Bluff, AR 72041 (Office) 870-998-2614 (Mobile) 870-351-54616

Week of Oct. 5 Days of field work:7 Top Soil Moisture: 100% VERY VERY Short Sub Soil Moisture: 100% VERY Short Livestock Condition: Fair Main Activities: Rice harvest is nearly complete, bean harvest is full speed ahead. Cotton picking complete.

It is dry.

Crop Progress: Rice: 99% Harvested Soybean: 85% Mature, 50% Harvested Cotton: 100% Harvested Crop Condition: Rice: 100% Poor Soybean: 20% Poor 80% Fair Hay/Pasture: 100% Very Poor

Folks, they are already telling us to get our FLU SHOTS. My friend, Cody Collins, was sick and the doctor did tests and said it was the flu and advised that the flu was hitting early—so get a shot. I got mine! How about you? Do it!

Those of us who know those Brown boys (Matt and Kyle) that grew into men here at Gregory can hardly believe that they did NOT go to the Alabama –Razorback game Saturday! They and Rebecca, Carter and Tucker joined the rest of the Holder crew to go to McCrory Friday night to cheer cousin Lee Willis in his playing for the Jaguars..

That was good.

Fannie Peters spent Friday night in Caldwell with Virginia Davis and visited in Forrest city with the Johnny Barnetts. They all had come for the funeral of Rosie Turner on Friday.

Rowland and Karla Clark and Peyton have been visiting this week with her father, Mr. and Brent McKnight at St. Joe. Last Wednesday was my sister Sallie Dollar’s birthday and Thursday was mine so- Friday I went to Redfield

and on Sunday her son and wife, Jerry and Hellen— with us throwing in a few dishes-cooked birthday dinner for us on Sunday.

Coming were Josh Dollar, Lee, Angela, Chloe, Emily and friend, Erin Sorrell and sons, Brenden, Tristin and Lucas, Stan Lockhart, Matt and Annie Paulus. She informed us that if she was allowed to have her 95th birthday we were GOING OUT to eat. Some of us ate so much that I had to take a nap before driving home!

I had to come home as Helen Fields and I were hostess to the Hypsion Club on Monday. Helen did 95 percent of the “fixing” and I was so tired I let her. UGH on me. But I did introduce our speaker, Paula Barnett, which was distinctly an honor and pleasure. Paula, who is in love with history, and is the head knocker of the Woodruff County Historical Society. (They have copies of many years for sale.) We came away with a better understanding as to how they get material for forming the book—that includes you and I—send or take her any “old” stuff you have ,she will scan it and re-

turn it to you. Then we all stuffed on the foods Helen and I prepared and ate from Helen’s pretty decorated tables! Five guests joined the members to hear Paula.

Then I came home and fell on the couch till 6:30 and Gregory Homemakers meeting. More eating! So, I am “met” out.

Jena Pfeffer spent Saturday night with the Lynn Tranum family after a day of watching grands, Kristin and Avery play soccer.

Gregory Baptist is having Potluck this Sunday: beans, fried potatoes, cornbread and if you have some turnip greens , bring them!! You are invited to join us. AND that means you! My beans are going to be white ones. I have always loved WHITE beans, raised my kids on them. They are pretty nice kids so they kept quiet for years after getting out on their own –finally one of the boys said “Mom, do you have any Pinto beans?

What?

Another reminder : McClelland Day is October 31st at Gregory Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.

Rosetta

NEW BETHEL NEWS Donna Kelly, Correspondent

We began the week with Home Health Care coming to dress John’s foot. It is getting better but has a way to go as it is having to grow new flesh.

I had a flare up on Tuesday morning, when I woke up my hand was swollen and red. The therapist suggested that I go to the doctor. I went and the Doctor suggested a spider bite but I don’t think it was that. He gave me some antibiotics, I will take them for a few days to heal.

Our granddaughter, Kim Simmons came over to see us on Wednesday morning.

I miss them so much, all the little ones are in school and day care.

I have not been able to go to church every Sunday, but when I have someone to sit with John. We have had some nice crowds and we have had some good lessons. I try to keep up with that. Tonight was the business meeting at church.

Haven’t seen our grandchildren in a few days. Allen

was preaching at Calvary in Stuttgart, and I think that the other kids and Johnny and Sandy went down there also.

It was good to have a break in the weather. It has been kind of cool in the mornings. We do so badly need rain.

We hear that the farmers are busy in Harvest.

There are still a lot of beans in the fields.

I had a nice phone call from Charlene Highfill, who lives in Benton, Her husband is in poor health. She hears from Walsie often and says she is doing quite well.

We wish all a good week and hope for the best for all of us.

I have another appointment with the Doctor on Thursday. Then we have to see John’s doctor on Friday.

We have an appointment with John’s heart Doctor on

Did you know . . .

December 29. We appreciate everything that has been done for us and the prayers that have gone up for us.

Charles and Bruce Ingle of Des Arc have been keeping up with us, and we talk on the phone.

We are sorry to hear that Charles Tarter has been in the hospital and therapy .

Hope he is doing much better and home by now.

We extend sympathy to those who have lost loved ones recently.

This is Sunday afternoon and I went to the morning services at church. We had a nice crowd out and a good service.

John, Johnny and I went to the Wound Center on Friday. They did a test checking the circulation in John’s legs.

WHITE RIVER JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015 10 Des Arc Eagles defeat Strong 36-6/ Hosting Marvell Mustangs this Friday Jr. Eagles travel to Marvell The Des Arc Jr. Eagles were idle this past week but will pick up the action on the road as they travel to Marvell today, Thursday, October 15 at 5:30 and 7:00 p.m.

The Des Arc Senior Eagles defeated the Strong Bulldogs 36-6 on a damp cool evening on Friday, October 9 at Hinson-Rollins Field.

The Eagles will host the Marvell Mustangs on Friday, October 16 at 7:00

p.m. Come out, enjoy and evening of great football, good concession food and supporting the Eagles.

Senior Night will be Friday, October 23 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Parents of senior football, cheerleader and band are asked to arrive at 6:15 p.m. to be lined up. Seniors are football: Jacob Adams, Noah Kennedy, Trey Lee, Jamie Norman, Johnny Gray, Mathew Tate, Daylon Conway, Andrew Ingle, Clayton

Nickelson and Colt Covington. Cheerleader: Brooke Kellar and Jade Bell. Band: Maeve Boyer, Drelon Hunter and James Robinson.

Stats for the Strong game: Noah Kennedy: Three Carries for 13 yards, Two Rushing TD’s, 4.3 yards per carry and two tackles.

Colt Covington: Twelve Carries fosr 78 yards, One Rushing TD, 6.5 Yards Per Carry, 80 Yards Kick Off Re-

September Star Patrons

Serena Cook

Tristan Whittaker

The Des Arc High School library has named the two students to receive the star patron awards for the month of September. Each month this school year two students are recognized for their patronage and support. As a reward, the students receive a “Keep Calm & Read On” digital bookmark/reading timer and a Star Patron pen/stylus.

For the month of September the Star Patrons are Serena Crook and Tristan Whittaker.

Serena Crook is in the 7th grade. She selected The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo as her favorite book and author. When asked where she would go if she could transport herself to any book setting, she responded, “I always wanted to go to Narnia because I want to see the queen and Asian. I want to be in a setting with talking animals.” Serena says that the best book she has ever read is her favorite book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by by Kate DiCamillo. She likes all of the adventures: “from Edward’s time on the boat in the sea to the fisherman and then dressed up as a girl to be sold. Next, Edward went to a shop and a woman and her daughter came into the store and he was bought by his first owner.”

Tristian Whittaker is also in the 7th grade. His favorite book is the graphic novel Beowulf by his favorite author Stefan Petrucha. Tristian says that if he could transport himself to any book setting, “I would transport myself to a zombie book so I could kill zombies.” He says that the best book he has ever read “would have to be “The Maze Runner”

by James Dashner. He chose this book because “I loved the monsters and action.”

Senior Girls rule Powder Puff Football Derby

Senior Girls Rule! The Senior Girls defeated the Jr. Girls for bragging rights on Photos by Randy Flud Thursday, October 8 at Hinson-Rollins Field.

turn, 39 Yards Punt Return, One Kick Off Return TD, One Tackle, Two PBU and One Interception.

Ontario Conway: 13 Carries for 139 Yards, Two Rushing TD’s, 10.7 yards per carry, 16 Tackles, 2 PBU and One Interception.

Trey Lee: Six Carries for 29 yards, 4.8 yards per carry, One Tackle.

Hayden Flud: Two Tackles Williams:Nine Isaiah Tackles

Jerrod Williams:Five Tackles Johnny Gray: One Tackle Jacob Adams-Eight Tackles Spencer Wrigley: Four Tackles Clayton Nickelson: Five Tackles Jamie Norman: One Tackle Mathew Tate: Seven Tackles It wil be Neon Night for students at Marvell Game.

Fifth Quarter will be held at

Family Worship.

As of October 9, 2015, Colt Covington was tied for Second in Interceptions and Jacob Adams is listed on MaxPreps as Second for Sacks.

Ontario Conway was listed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Wed., October 14 as a Class 2A “Top Performer”.

Way to go, guys! Proud of you!

Des Arc High School Library receives Entergy Grant Entergy’s philanthropic focus is “to improve the quality of life in communities where Entergy operates through strategic investments in education, low income/poverty initiatives, environmental programs and diversity and inclusion programs” (Entergy 2011). The Des Arc High School Library has recently been one of Entergy’s new investments. The library was awarded a $500 Entergy Micro Grant. Library Media Specialist Shauna Gilbraith applied for the grant this summer to purchase 2 iPad Minis for the high school library.

The purpose of the iPads is to use them as eReaders. “As more books are being published in eBook format, we need to meet that need for our students. Publishers are only publishing some book in eBook format. Some of th2ese books are part of popular book series, and students cannot finish the series without the eBook,” Gilbraith says. As a side note, she wants to make sure that others realize that physical books will not be replaced. “I am not getting rid of the physical collection, nor am I switching over to purchasing only eBooks. I am only giving our students another way to have access to literature.”

Currently, to test the popularity of the eReaders and eBooks on the high school level, the library has purchased twelve fiction titles in a variety of genres: fantasy, mystery/suspense, and realistic fiction. Additionally, there are 4 Shakespearian classic graphic novels.

Hooten’s Arkansas Football Rankings © Hooten Publishing, Inc. Hootens.com Rankings Class 2A, Week 7, 2015 Copyright Hooten Publishing, Inc. 1. Rison (4-1) 2. Junction City (3-2) 3. McCrory (6-0) 4. Mount Ida (6-0) 5. Earle (5-1) 6. Hector (6-0) 7. Des Arc (5-1) 8. England (6-0) 9. Conway Christian (3-3) 10. Hazen (3-3) 11. Gurdon (3-3) 12. Lafayette County (5-1) 13. Spring Hill (4-2) 14. Brinkley (3-3)

15. Cross County (5-1) 16. Marked Tree (3-3) 17. Dierks (4-2) 18. Hermitage (2-3) 19. Strong (2-4) 20. Parkers Chapel (3-3) 21. Hackett (5-1) 22. Walnut Ridge (3-3) 23. Bearden (2-3) 24. Salem (3-3) 25. Murfreesboro (1-5) 26. Mountainburg (5-1) 27. Carlisle (2-4) 28. Augusta (3-3) 29. E. Poinsett County (3-3) 30. Magnet Cove (1-5) 31. Quitman (4-2) 32. Poyen (3-3)

33. Woodlawn (1-3) 34. Palestine-Wheatley (3-3) 35. Mineral Springs (0-5) 36. Foreman (1-5) 37. Bigelow (0-5) 38. J.C. Westside (3-2) 39. Clarendon (0-6) 40. Midland (0-6) 41. Union Christian (1-4) 42. Marvell (0-6) 43. Mountain Pine (1-5) 44. Magazine (1-5) 45. Decatur (0-5) 46. W. Yell County (0-6) 47. Cutter M. Star (0-6) 48. Rector (0-6)

GAME OF THE WEEK E. Poinsett County at No. 15 Cross County Key clash in the 3-2A. Cross County stoned Salem 27-0 last week. Senior Brayden Johnson (hamstring) returned last Friday to replace one of three sophomores who were forced to start the past few weeks in the secondary. All-state RB/DB Anfernee Davis (lower back) remains doubtful for this week. Seven seniors up front spearhead a defense that has not allowed a point to the past two opponents, Walnut Ridge and Salem. Cross County held Salem to a paltry 9 yard rushing and 56 total yards. EPC lined up in the Power I last week and handed the football 33 times to all-league RB Kyler Gordon, who rushed for 264 yards and four TDs in a 52-28 win over winless Rector. EPC likely returns to its Spread this week. Senior QB Clay Malone comes off his best game of the season, completing 12 of 18 passes for 134 yards and two TDs. Sophomore tight end Peyton Phillips caught both TD passes.

LAST WEEK Hootens.com picked 21 of 23 games (91 percent) involving Class 2A teams. It has correctly picked 144 of 176 (82 percent) for the season.

Junior Girls defeated the Sophomore girls to advance to the finals against the Senior Girls

WEEK 7 PREDICTIONS (favored team in ALL CAPS followed by point spread 6-2A Augusta at HAZEN (28): No. 10 Hazen ran away from rival Carlisle 51-20 last week when senior RB Logan Penn sprinted 172 yards and three TDs on 12 carries. Senior QB Drake Ingle carried 10 times for 112 yards and two TDs. Hazen buried Augusta 64-16 last year.

CARLISLE (10) at Palestine-Wheatley: Carlisle junior QB Ty Golleher executed nifty ball-handling in the backfield last week and popped TD runs of 59 and 19 yards in a 51-20 loss to Hazen. Carlisle dropped P-W 22-0 last year.

MCCRORY (42) at Clarendon: No. 3 McCrory may not be tested again the rest of the regular season. McCrory senior Cade Campbell quarterbacks both sides of the ball. He sprained an ankle on the first series last week but still passed for 226 yards and three TDs in a 33-point blowout of Brinkley. Campbell has made 51 tackles this fall, including 10 TFL, at linebacker.

Marvell at DES ARC (45): Physical Des Arc made it three out of three last week over 8-2A member Strong. The Eagles smacked Strong 26-6 last week. They defeated Strong 42-8 in 2013 and 16-6 in 2009.

BRINKLEY is open.

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Sophomore Girls were defeated early in the Powder Puff Derby but vow to come back next year and avenge their loss!

Main Street, Des Arc • (870) 256-4317 Ray and Kristen Harvey & Employees

Go Eagles!

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GO EAGLES! BEAT THE MUSTANGS! Des Arc Eagles

Marvell Mustangs

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(6-2A)

(6-2A)

Friday, Oct. 16

TIME: 7:00 pm

HinsonRollins Field

Des Arc

Marvell

QUICK FACTS Coach: Drake Widener Record at School: 0-0 ‘14 Record: 10-3 ‘14 Conf. Finish: Second Returning Starters: 9/8 Offense: Wing T Defense: 4-2 Playoff Record: 25-20 Last Appearance: 2014 Mascot: Eagle

QUICK FACTS Coach: Chris Norton Reord at School: 0-0 ‘14 Record: 0-10 ‘14 Conf. Finish: Ninth Returning Starters: 5/5 Offense: Spread Defense: 4-3 Playoff Record: 6-4 Last Appearance: 2008 Mascot: Mustang

STRENGTHS: Linemen and Skill Players

STRENGTHS: Backfield WEAKNESSES: Few Linemen

WEAKNESSES: Lack of Depth

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A n d r e w I n g l e , J o h n n y G r a y, C l a y t o n N i c k e l s o n

B o t t o m r o w, l - r : J a m i e N o r m a n a n d M a t h e w Ta t e

Good Luck, Eagles!!

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Homecoming Highlights...

Bryant Cross Country meet: The Jr. Lady Eagles ran in the Bryant Cross Country meet on Saturday, October 10. Placing in the top 20 runners was Tristan Richards, center, who placed fourteenth and received a medal.

Members of the team are l-r Hayley Flud, Jacey Adams, Richards, Meredith Reidhar and LeeAnn Harrell

Jr. Lady Eagles CC team shows improvement at meet Cheer Pyramid at Pep Rally

Band leading Homecoming Parade

Cheer Alumni

2014 Homecoming Queen Bailey Calhoun, far right, crowns 2015 Queen Brooke Kellar, who was escorted by her father, Keith Kellar and attended by Ball Bearer, Sam Skarda and Crown Bearer, Alexis Eades

“It had been two weeks since the Des Arc Junior Lady Eagles had run their last Cross Country meet,” said Coach J.D. Babb.

“They worked very hard for the past two weeks, working on their speed and endurance,” Coach Babb said.

The hard work paid off Saturday, October 10, 2015 when the Jr. Girls scored 190 points to place Eighth out of Twelve full teams in the meet.

This was the highest finish of the year for the Jr. Lady Eagles. All five runners ran their best times of the year.

Tristan Richards led the Jr.Lady Eagles, who won her first medal of the year.

“Tristan is a talented Seventh grader and has been making steady improvement all year,” stated Coach Babb.

Tristan placed 14th out of 142 runners with a time of 13:32.52 over the twomile course.

The Top 20 Finishers in the meet earned a medal.

A steadily improving Hayley Flud and Meredith Reidhar was the Jr. Lady Eagles next two runners.

Hayley was 38th with a time of 14:44.98 and Meredith was 40th at 14:54.19.

Lee Ann Harrell was 73rd in 15:51.91 and Jacey Adams finished the scoring by placing 126th in 19:06.67.

Alyssa Dohm, a Sophomore, running for the Sr. High Lady Eagles, had one of her best races of the season by placing Fifth out of 185 runners in the Sr. High Girls Division. Alyssa covered the 5k course in 20:50.71.

“Alyssa is working very hard so that she can have a good finish at the State Meet on November 7, 2015.

The Jr. Girls last meet of the season is Saturday, October 17 at the Lake Hamilton Invitational.

KATV-Channel Seven’s Daybreak coming Oct. 23 Alumni Percussion perform with High School Band at Homecoming halftime

Alumni Majorettes perform at Homecoming Halftime

DAHS Flag Line and Alumni Flag LIne

Local television station KATV-Channel Seven will be in Des Arc on Friday, October 23 at 5:45 a.m. to televise a segment of their morning show “Daybreak” at the Des Arc High School Gym. All Des Arc High School students and Eagle Fans are asked to be at the gymnasium between 5:00 and 5:30 a.m. to welcome the

Daybreak Crew and to cheer the Eagles on to victory over county rival Hazen Hornets.

The “Battle of the Prairie” trophy will be presented to the winner of the game that begins at 7:00 p.m. at Hinson-Rollins Field.

Come out and support your Eagles!

DES ARC SCHOOLS

LUNCH MENU

Joyce Major, lunchroom supervisor at the Des Arc Schools, advises the following menus are scheduled for Monday-Friday, Oct. 19-23.: Sophomore Maid, Patience Smith, escorted by her father, Chris Smith

Junior Maid, Lauren Mapps escorted by her father, Stephen Mapps

Elementary Lunch

High School Lunch

MONDAY: Hamburger Steak with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Peaches, Roll, Milk TUESDAY: Beefy Nachos, Pinto Beans, Pineapple, Milk WEDNESDAY: Chicken Spaghetti, Steamed Broccoli, Coin Carrots, Apples, Milk THURSDAY: Chicken Nuggets, Corn, Yams, Peaches, Milk FRIDAY: Hamburger, French Fries, Beans, Sandwich Fixings, Tropical Fruit, Millk

MONDAY: Pizza, Broccoli, Yams, Peaches, Fresh Fruit, Milk TUESDAY: Sloppy Joe, Slaw, Corn, Fruit Cocktail, Fresh Fruit, Milk WEDNESDAY: Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, Green Beans, Baked Apples, Fresh Fruit, Milk THURSDAY: Crispitos, Pinto Beans, Pears, Fresh Fruit, Milk FRIDAY: Cheeseburger, French Fries, Baked Beans, Sandwich Fixings, Pineapple, Fresh Fruit, Milk

Breakfast MONDAY: K-2nd Grandpar-

Breakfast

ents Breakfast: Biscuit and Gravy, Cereal & Toast, Oranges TUESDAY: Egg and Toast or Cereal & Toast, Peaches

Senior Maid, Jade Bell escorted by her father, Tracey Bell

Deadline approaching for Des Arc versus Hazen Food Drive

Senior Maid of Honor, Bailey Greenwood escorted by her father, Jerry Greenwood

Each year, Des Arc and Hazen have a competition to see who will win the trophy for gathering the most canned food items that will benefit Prairie County Food Pantry.

Hazen has won the trophy for several years in a row.

We are calling all Des Arc School students and parents to pull together and help bring the trophy to Des Arc. Contact any Student Council representative or contact Des Arc Schools for more information.

PLEASE, DONATE!

MONDAY: Pancakes or Cereal & Toast, Peaches TUESDAY:Egg and Toast or Cereal & Toast, Pineapple WEDNESDAY: Pop Tarts or CeWEDNESDAY: Pancakes or Ce- real & Toast, Tropical Fruit real & Toast, Pineapple THURSDAY: Breakfast Pizza or THURSDAY: Pop Tarts or Ce- Cereal & Toast, Pears real & Toast, Apples FRIDAY: Donuts or Cereal & FRIDAY: Donut or Cereal & Toast, Fresh Fruit Toast, Pears Served with Milk & Juice Served with Milk & Juice Choice of Hot Line, Chef Salad or Cold Cut Sandwich

Meals are subject to change/ USDA is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer

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Summer in the Mountains with Philip and Lorraine Dear friends and family, September was a lovely month in the mountains.

First Presbyterian Church in Franklin is collecting donations for Heifer International - www.heifer.org.

Jewel, the nanny goat, was led into the sanctuary (briefly) to illustrate how helpful a goat is to a poor family – providing milk, having babies, and selling the kids. She spent the rest of the service eating grass and was very patient with the little children who were invited to try to milk her.

The campground had its annual Labor Day picnic with live music.

Everyone contributed to the side plates; the campground provided the burgers and dogs.

Since we’d read “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson years ago (aloud while traveling), we had to see the movie. Scenery was beautiful, lines were very funny, but the language was rougher than in the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOF2LIAp9bw Our annual trek to the Macon County Fair was wonderful, as usual. Lots of little children were there.

One little boy observed two woman at a quilting frame and noticed a thimble on the finger of one of them. “What’s wrong with your finger?” “Nothing.

See, it comes off. It’s to protect my finger.” “Oh.” College football season has begun, and Philip is loving every minute/hour/day of it. Lorraine has played the dulcimer for three different Hospice patients in their homes, usually on football days. It’s been very rewarding, and she and Lea look forward to a get-together of all the Hospice volunteers in October to get recertified and to have a social time together.

A family camped here for over a week with NINE teacup Yorkies. They were all adorable, especially when bunched together, looking out the opened door. Two were for sale.

The wi-fi connection in this campground leaves a lot to be desired. We make a point of listening to NPR on the radio every morning via the computer, using the wi-fi. It got to be very annoying when it cut off so much, so we figured out how to download the WLRN (Miami’s NPR station) app onto the iPhone. Perfect connection, with very little disconnect, plus we can switch to Classical FM at the touch of a finger. Tech-

nology! The volume seems to be louder on the phone than the computer, which makes Philip happier.

Our eating out event for the month was at our favorite Caffe Rel, where we shared pork roast tenderloin and black rice (described as Chinese forbidden! http://draxe.com/forbiddenrice/), with Fuji apples topped with lingonberry sauce. SO good!

We have enjoyed the antics of a hummingbird nicknamed “the boss”. This ferocious little bird has decided that the feeder is HIS personal feeder, and he chases off all other hummingbirds that want to stop in for a drink. He sits in various spots so he can keep an eye on the feeder and Philip, second from left, enjoying pot luck with friends then swoops in for the attack when an unsuspecting (or a very brave!) hummer de- which runs next to the campground. The evacuation cides to visit for a sip. This very brief link shows this list is in the iPhone, and we can depart in short notice if necessary. (not our birds) Can not tell you how much we appreciate hearing : back from you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ELLr0VlYs Love, We are enduring a few days of lots of rain and are Philip and Lorraine keeping a close eye on the level of the Cullasaja River, 954-618-9948 and 954-830-5190 philipandlorraine@gmail.com

2015 FCCLA District IV officers: Pictured left to right are President: Lexi BlevinsWhite Hall; Vice President of Programs: Taylor Johnson-Pine Bluff High; Vice President of Public Relations: Colton McFarlin-Des Arc; Secretary: Kyra Ellison-Lonoke High; Treasurer: Hunter Storm-Sheridan High and Parliamentarian: Riley Voiles, Des Arc.

McFarlin, Voiles elected to offices at District IV FCCLA meeting in Pine Bluff

Des Arc HIPPY held a ‘Monster Bash’ for their October Group Meeting. Mrs. Cory read “Hungry Monsters” by Matt Mitter, a silly pop-up book about monsters with strange appetites. After story time the students explored the mystery balloon game. They were able to hold balloons filled with things such as corn, shaving cream, sugar, and water; then guess what was inside each balloon. The students were able to explore the other centers that included learning to identify letters with the ABC monster, color matching monster eyes, counting monster cards, and name writing practice. Students were also able to create a monster craft and play monster bowling. A monstrous good time was had by all.

Students in attendance were; Ruby Kearby, Beckett Knupp, Matily McAnally, Emilee McDonald, Glenn Moore, Wesley Parnell, Ava and Liam Ross, Andi Tallent, Kanaan Widener, Perry Bell, Micheal Eads, Christopher and Sara Brown, Braylee Burgess, Rooke Covington, Lorelai Gardner, and Selah Huffstickler.

Powder Puff Car Wash/Bake Sale this Saturday at Dondies

On Wednesday, October 7, the Des Arc FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) traveled to Pine Bluff for the 2015 District IV FCCLA planning and election meeting.

During the election, Junior Colton McFarlin was elected District IV Vice President of Public Relations and Freshman Riley Voiles was elected District IV Parliamentarian.

A Powder Puff Car Wash/Bake Sale will be held this Saturday, October 17 at Dondies Both members will serve the 2016-17 school year as district officers.

White River Princess parking lot from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Congratulations to these two members for their hard work!

Proceeds will be used to help send Des Arc High School Juniors Ontario Conway and Also, Des Arc High School senior, Maeve Boyer is finishing her term as State FCCLA Kelvin Cohen to Henderson State University’s Marine Biology Research Program in BeParliamentarian for the school year 2015-16. May Lynn Thomason is sponsor. lize.

Come out and get your car washed and enjoy a treat while waiting!

Band Boosters will meet October 19

Powder Puff Cheer Squad: These “Cheer Beauties” were on hand Thursday evening, October 8 to perform their stunts and pyramid during halftime of the Powder Puff Football Derby held at Hinson-Rollns Field between the Des Arc High School Senior, Junior and Sophomore girls. Pictured bottom row (bases) are Jerrod Williams, Nylien Earl, Ricky Parson and Justin English. Top row (the Flyers) are Carlin Jones, Kyle Photo by Randy Flud Creppel and Dillon Conway. Great form, girls-uh, guys!

The Des Arc Eagle Band Boosters will hold their monthly meeting on Monday, October 19 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the High School Band Room.

Several topics will be discussed including the concession stand for Senior night and upcoming basketball pep band and concert season.

The Band will be competing at a marching contest in Forrest City on Saturday, October 17 and on Tuesday, October 20 they will be attending the Region IV Marching Assessment in Searcy 2:30-9:30 p.m.

They have also been selected to perfrom again this year at the Cabot Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 13.

Bake Sale fundraiser for Deborah Hollis,

Senior Class needs your help for Sarah Jobe memorial

A bake sale fundraiser will be held on Friday, October 23 at the Des Arc Elementary School from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Proceeds will be used to help with expenses for Des Arc School’s nurse, Deborah Hollis, who will be taking treatments in Houston, Texas.

Come out and support this worthy cause.

Deborah and her husband, Michael have two children, Justin (Kaylin) Hollis and Shelby Hollis and one grandchild. Both Justin and Shelby are Des Arc High School graduates.

The Senior Class of 2016 is needing the community’s help.

Classmate Sarah Nell Jobe died tragically in an automobile accident in November, 2013 and would have been a Senior this year.

Her fellow classmates would like to honor Sarah with a memorial at graduation.

They are asking for donations to help realize their dream of honoring Sarah.

Donation jars have been placed in several businesses around Des Arc. The Class of 2016 says “Thank You” to all who donates or has made a donation.

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District Court Hearings The following cases were heard before District Judge Robert Abney in District Court Hearings held in the courtroom at Des Arc City Hall on Thursday, October 8 and Monday, October 12, 2015: October 8, 2015 Earl L. Washington, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Pay and Failure to Appear on a Written Summons.

Sentenced to time served.

Jamieson Robinson, Des Arc, charged with Harassment and Terroristic Threatening.

Continued to October 19, 2015.

Patrick Seth Lantrip, Des Arc, charged with Careless Prohibited Driving, Driver License Suspended for DWIx2, Contempt of Court, No Liability Insurance, Expired Tags, Driving on Suspended License for DWI, Failure to Pay Registration Fee and DWISecond. Defendant Appeared with Attorney. Plead Guilty.

Sentencing set for October 12, 2015. Expired Tags Nolle Prossed. Driving on Suspended License for DWI-Guilty.

Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $285.00.

Darrell Sisemore, Hazen, charged with Battery-Third Degree. Continued to November 12, 2015 by Motion of

Attorney.

Franklin Darby, Jr., Des Arc, charged with Domestic Battering-Third Degree. Continued.

Kathy Alday, Des Arc, charged with Careless/Prohibited Driving and DWIDrugs. Defendant Appeared with Public Defender.

Changed plea to Guilty. Sentenceing set for October 12, 2015.

Lashaun Jamel Jones, Augusta, charged with Feeing on Foot, and Public Intoxication/Drinking in Public.

Gulty. Sentenced to Finea nd Cost of $285.00.

Robert Lewis Cohen, Biscoe, charged with Terroristic Threatening-second and Disorderly Conduct-Class C Misdemeanor. Failed to Appear.

Issue Warrant.

Jay S. Dietrich, Des Arc, charged with Careless/Prohibitied Driving, Driver License Suspended for DWIDWI-3 or more, Public Intoxication/Drinking in Public.

Defendant appeared with Public Defender. Changed plea to Guilty. Sentenceing set for October 12, 2015.

Robert L.Trouten, Des Arc, charged with Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor, Failure to Pay and Failure to

Pay Registration Fee. Nolle Prossed Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver LicenseClass A Misdemeanor. Failure to Pay Registration and Failure to Pay sentenced to Fine and Cost of $165.00.

Douglas L. Caruthers, Des Arc, charged with Criminal Use of Weapon. Defendant Appeared and Changed Plea to Guilty. Sentenced to Fine and Cost of $500.00.

Leon B. Holland, Lonoke, charged with Obstructing Public Roadway and Harrassment. Case Dismissed.

Michael Eugene Fikes, Augusta, charged with Obstructing Governmental Operations and Public Intoxication. Case Dismissed.

Lashawna M. Isbell, Carlisle, charged with Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of Controlled Substance.

Continued to November 12, 2015 by Motion of Attorney.

October 12, 2105 City Cases Raymond B. Peace, Des Arc, charged with DWI-Three or More. Continued to October 19, 2015.

Patrick Seth Lantrip, Des Arc, charged with

Prairie County Courthouse News The following information was obtained from the records in the County Clerk’s office at the Prairie County Courthouse in Des Arc and DeValls Bluff on Tuesday, October 13, 2015:

following lands lying in Prairie County: The S 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Section 34, T4N, R7W AND the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 34, T4N, R7W.

Marriage License

Troy Forrester and Pauline Forrester, Grantors, hand paid by Anthony Shane Holland and Brandon Trey Holland, Grantees, the following lands lying in the Northern District of Prairie County: The SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 32, T4N, R5W containing about 1.5 acres.

Warranty Deed Calvin M. Fisher, 24, Des Arc, and Tiffany L. Mayer, 22, Des Arc.

Land Transfers Warranty Deed Gary G. Wallis and Betty Wallis, Trustees for the Wallis Living Trust, Grantor, hand paid by GW Wallis Farm, LLC, Grantee, the

Saul Minnow Farms, Inc, an Arkansas Corporation, Grantor, hand paid by Victoria Saul and Jan Saul, Grantees, the following lands lying in Prairie County: Tract One: All of the SE 1/4 of Section 4, T3N, R5W containing 160 acres, more or less.

Tract Two: The S 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 4, T3N, R5W containing 40 acres, more or less.

Tract Three: The E 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 4, T3N, R5W containing 40 acres, more or less.

Warranty Deed

Prairie County Jail Count The following inmates are currently incarcerated in the Prairie County Jail at Des Arc, according to Sheriff Gary Burnett, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2015: Smith, Bruce Andrew, 46, charged with Delivery/Manufacture of Other Drug x2 and Possession of Other Drug. Intake date July 2, 2015.

Linam, Jeffrey, 20, Commitment. Intake date July 6, 2015.

Loving, Owen W. 57, charged with Public Intoxication, Residential Burglary and Aggravated Assault. Intake date August 8, 2015.

Paulman, Tyler Jacob, 24, charged with Possession of Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver, Failure to Pay Registration Fee, Driving on Expired Driver License, and Driving Without Insurance. Intake date August 15, 2015.

Larkan, Johnathan W., 37, charged with Contempt of Court. Intake date September 12, 2015.

Williams, Thornell A., 30,

Bond Surrender. Intake date September 16, 2015.

Langhorn, Necko Damein, 25, charged with Rape and Sexual Abuse-Second Degree.

Intake date September 15, 2015.

Washington, Earl, 47, charged with Criminal Trespass and Resisting Arrest. Intake date October 8, 2015.

Hill, Barney, 29, charged with Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date September 28, 2015.

Capshaw, Amanda Deshe, 37, charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Expired Driver License, No Turn Signal, Possession of Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Manufacture. Intake date Spetember 25, 2015.

Atkins, Dennis Gene, 31, charged with Probation Violation. Intake date September 22, 2015.

Moore, Antonio Sirdell, 27, charged with Failure to Appear. Intake date October 4, 2015.

Shelton, Stacy, 48, Com-

mitment. Intake date September 29, 2015.

Reitz, Dennis Scott, 52, charged with Burglary-Residential. Intake date October 4, 2015.

Jones, Qwan Dontek, 24, Commitment and Failure to Pay Fine and Cost. Intake date October 6, 2015.

White, Chris, 26, Commitment. Intake date September 29, 2015.

Baker, Jamarsae D., 22, Commitment. Intake date October 3, 2015.

Gurley, Marvin Henry, 38, Hold for ADC. Intake date October 12, 2015.

Lantrip, Patrick Set, 25, charged with Contempt of Court. Intake date October 12, 2015.

Eastlack, Richard Eric, 48, charged with Parole Violation, Driving on Suspended Driver License and Drinking on Highway. Intake date October 11, 2015.

Basart, Amber Dawn, 27, Commitment. Intake date October 6, 2015.

Careless/Prohibited Driving, Driver License Suspended for DWI, DWI-Second, Driver Licnese Suspended for DWI, NO Liability Insurance, Failure to Pay Registration Fee and Contempt of Court(Probation Violation). Sentenced to Seven Days Prairie County Jail. Continued to October 19, 2015.

Leann Robinson, Des Arc, charged with Violation of Work Release Terms. Sentnced to Prairie County Jail in lieu of fine for 14 1/2 Days Work Release.

Melissa Barbee, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Pay, Defendant appeared and Sentenced to complete Community Service 128 hours.

Kathy Alday, Des Arc, charged with DWI-Drugs and Careless/Probhibited Driving.

Careless Prohibited Driving Nolle Prossed. DWI-Drugs sentenced to Fine and Cost of $755.00, Alchohol Education and MADD Classes and Supervised Probation.

Utevia L. Nunn, Des Arc, charged with No Liability Insurance. Failed to Appear.

Issue Letter.

Jay S. Dietrich, Des Arc, charged with Careless/Prohibited Driving, Driver License Suspended for DWI, DWI-Three or More, and Public Intoxication/Drinking in

Public. Guilty. Sentenced to Finer and Cost of $2,555.00, Six Months Prairie County Jail, Alcohol Education and MADD Classes and must check into In-House Rehab Day for Day or return on October 19, 2015.

Joseph Dilworth, Cotton Plant, charged with Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemanor, Public Intoxication/Drinking in Publc, Refuse Breathalizer and DWI-First. Defendant Appeared and Advised of Rights. Defendant Waived Rights and Plead Guilty. PSSR set for October 26, 2015. Sentencing set for November 2, 2015.

Thomas D. Brannon, Lonoke, charged with Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License-Class A Misdemeanor. Continued to October 19, 2015 by Motion of Defendant.

Qwan Dontek Jones, Conway, charged with Failure to Pay. Defendant Appeared and Plead Guilty. Sentencd to 15 days Prairie County Jail with Credit for Five Served.

State Cases Utevia L. Nunn, Des Arc, charged with No Liability Insurance, Failure to Register as Driver of Motor Vehicle-First

and Failure to Pay. Failed to Appear. Issue Letter.

Melissa Barbee, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Appear on a Written Summons, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver LicenseClass A Misdemeanor. Plead Guilty. Driving on Suspended or Revoked Driver License sentenced to Fine and Cost of $265.00. Failure to Appear on a Witen Sumons and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia hearing set for November 16 , 2015.

Joseph E. Turner, Greers Ferry, charged with Weight Violation. Bond Forfeited.

Patrick Seth Lantrip, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Register Vehicle/Expired Tags and Driving on Suspended License for DWI. Continued to October 19, 2015.

Justin G. Hollis, Des Arc, charged with Exceeding Posted Speed. 78 MPH/55 Zone.

Bond Forfeited.

Melissa Barbee, Des Arc, charged with Failure to Appear on a Written Summons.

Defendant Appeared and is to complet Community Service.

Roy Miller, Jr., Des Arc, chaarged with Failure to Pay. Contiued to October 19, 2015.

Prairie County Health Unit schedules three flu vaccine clinics in county On Tuesday, October 20, the Prairie County Health Unit of the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) will be giving flu vaccines at 204 Main Street and Riverfront Park (weather permitting) in Des Arc, from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m.

Flu vaccines will also be given on Tuesday, October 27, at the Hazen Community Center from 8 to 5, and at the Biscoe City Hall on Thursday, October 29, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon It is important to get a flu vaccine every year, because the flu virus changes from year to year.

This year's vaccine protects against the flu viruses that are expected to cause the most illness this season.

If you have insurance, the ADH will ask your insurance to pay for the cost of giving the vaccine. If you do not have insurance or your insurance company does not pay, the vaccine will be available at no charge to you.

Schedules for dates and times of flu clinics, which will be held in each county can be found on the ADH website at www.healthy.arkansas.gov.

"We want Prairie County residents to stay healthy this flu season, and getting a yearly flu vaccine is the best line of protection," Rose Marie Knupp, Prairie County Health Unit Administrator said.

"We encourage everyone to come to the clinic to get their flu vaccine."

People of all ages can get the flu; but certain people are more likely to have serious health complications if they get it.

This includes older people, young children, pregnant women, people with certain health conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease), and people who live in nursing homes.

"109 Arkansans died during last year's flu season, making it one of the worst in Arkansas in terms of flu deaths in the last three decades. This is a reminder that flu is not an illness that should be taken lightly," said Dirk Haselow, M.D., State Epidemiologist at ADH. "Many Arkansans have lost loved ones to the flu. Before you decide to skip the flu vaccine, think about those who care about you or count on you."

The flu vaccine is safe and does not cause the flu.

Some people may have mild soreness and redness near the site of the shot and a low fever or slight headache.

There are very few medical reasons to skip the flu vaccine. They include lifethreatening allergic reactions to a previous dose of the flu vaccine or to eggs, or to a history of GuillainBarre syndrome. People

with a non-life-threatening egg allergy may be vaccinated but need to see a doctor specializing in allergies.

The flu is easily spread through coughing or sneezing and by touching a hard surface with the virus on it and then touching the nose or mouth. The best way to prevent the flu is to get vaccinated each year and practice good hand washing.

For more information, go to www.healthy.arkansas.go v or www.flu.gov

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T5N R4W: N1/2, sec. 13; Sec. 14; Sec. 15; Sec. 16; Land East of River, Sec. 17; E1/4, East of Levee, Sec. 20; N1/2 of SW1/4 and S1/2 of NW1/4, Sec. 21; Sec. 22; Sec. 23; Sec. 24; N1/2, Sec. 25; Sec. 26, Sec. 27; E1/2 of NE1/4, Sec. 33; NE1/4 of NW1/4, Sec. 33; N1/2 of NW1/4, Sec. 34.

NOTICE: Any person on above stated property without written permission from Patrick Mullen in their possession shall be prosecuted under Arkansas Statute Act. 870.

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Signed: Patrick Mullen, Agent, Mobile 501-454-0041, Pioneer Farm, owned and operated by Lead Fork Farm 10/1/3c

In the Circuit Court of Prairie County, Arkansas SOUTHERN DISTRICT THIRD DIVISION In the Matter of Charles Franklin Stallings, Deceased No. PR2015-013A NOTICE OF FILING OF ESTATE AND FILING OF CLAIMS Estate of Charles Stallings, deceased Last known address of decedent: 244 South Charles Street, Hazen, Ar 72064 Date of Death: September 6, 2014.

The undersigned filed an affidavit for collection of small estate by distributees on the 1st day of June, 2015.

All persons having claims against the estate must exhibit them, duly verified, to the undersigned within six (6) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or they shall be forever barred and precluded from any benefit in the estate. Provided, that claims for injury or death caused by the negligence of the decedent shall be filed within six (6) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or they shall be forever barred and precluded from any benefit in the estate.

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Ruth Ann Stallings Affiant 244 South Charles St. Hazen, AR 72064 10/15/2c

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No hats off - keep ‘em on; USPS continues unreliability The front page article in the Sept. 10 issue of the Journal complemented the US Postal Service (with a “Hats Off � headline) for its next-day delivery of the Sept. 3 Journal to 10 towns, including Alma in northwest Arkansas. (first column below).

However, chart shows delivery of 9/10, 9/17, 9/24 Journals was progressively later each week; followed by some improvement of 10/1 Journal. But last week’s 10/8 Journal was not delivered to Cabot, Carlisle, Lonoke, Stuttgart and Ward until the following Tuesday, 3 days later than the previous week). As of yesterday, Oct. 14, Jacksonville subscribers had still not received their 10/8 Journals. Deliveries requiring 4 days or longer are shown in RED - (online only).

TOWN / DATE RECV’D: Alma Beebe Cabot Carlisle Conway Jacksonville Lonoke North Little Rock Searcy Sherwood Stuttgart Ward

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Significant delivery improvement seen in Little Rock area last week Following a recent “committment� from the USPS North Little Rock Distribution Center on McCain Blvd. to improve delivery; the Journal had expected better results for the communities listed above. However, actual results for last week’s Oct. 8 issue showed improvement instead for only the following 8 zip codes - and NOT the listed communities (delivery to LR/NLR-Sherwood zip codes verified with subscribers): Little Rock 72204 72207 72205 72118 72206 72223

Sherwood & North Little Rock 72116 72120

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3. *Jacksonville subscribers had not received the Oct. 8 paper as of Wed., Oct. 14 (6 days and counting)

NOTE: To avoid slow postal delivery . . . Receive the Journal “ONLINE� and read the paper on Thursdays. In meantime, be assured that we ARE still pushing USPS to improve delivery of printed version!

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Prairie County survivors, family, friends join annual “Race for the Cure�

The 22nd annual Susan G. Komen Arkansas Race for the Cure drew thousands of participants and supporters to Little Rock and North Little Rock on Saturday, with most wearing pink in solidarity to end breast cancer including a number of “racers� from Prairie County. (See Photos) Race day for runners and walkers meant lining up along Capitol Avenue and Arch Street right at sunrise.

Estimates for turnout this year placed the number of male and female participants at about 30,000, according to race officials.

The Race for the Cure competitive 5K kicked off at 7:30 a.m., followed by a separate 5K run/walk at 8 a.m. and a family 2K fun walk/run at 8:20 a.m.

Saturday's race day schedule concluded

with a breast cancer survivor parade and an after party.

"Every step counts," Race Chair Jack Powell said before the start of the race.

"Every step of recovery, treatment, support, every step counts. And none of it can happen without the fundraising that goes on."

Powell said Arkansas' Susan G. Komen race was able to grant out $917,000 in the past year, adding "we're truly saving lives."

The Arkansas Race for the Cure in Little Rock was the No. 2 race in 2014 within the organization in the U.S., according to race officials.

Organizers said that they hope to make it to No. 1 in the near future — which could be this year after the final numbers are tallied.

RACERS FROM HAZEN: l-r -Paula Smith, Chris Weems and Carolyn Beam, all of Hazen, Amy Schultz, Little Rock, Lori Warhurst, Wilson, Pat Ewing, Clarendon, and Claire Schafer, of Lonoke, are waiting, in the sunshine, for the Survivors ’Parade to begin Saturday at the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. Paula, Chris, Carolyn and Pat are all survivors. Amy and Lori are Carolyn’s daughters and Claire is her sister. Pat is a retired home economics teacher from Clarendon who taught with Carolyn several years ago. “The crowd was large, as expected, and the sun was shining, but we were cold in the shade,�

Caroyln said. After the Survivors’ Parade, they attended the luncheon, a picnic, served in the patio of the Simmons Building because of the construction project at the Robinson Auditorium. “The crowd began dispersing after the luncheon. Soon Little Rock was getting back to the hustle and bustle of the Saturday,� Chris said.

CANCER SURVIVOR JOINS RACE FOR THE CURE: Tarry Johnson of Des Arc, along with family and friends, participated in the Race for the Cure held in Little Rock on Saturday, October 10. Tarry is a 15-year breast cancer survivor. Pictured, front: lr—Mike McCauley, Sophia McCauley and Logan Shelton; middle—Bryar Morden, Katie McCauley and Tarry Johnson; back—Tarra Beth Shelton and Kristi Morden

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