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Good advice on cooking a turkey is available in this issue of The Courier with original recipes from ABC Preschool; plus expressions of first grade students’ “What Thanksgiving Means.” Knobel Fire Department’s 25th annual Christ- mas parade is set for Saturday, Dec. 20 at 6:00 p.m. through downtown Knobel. All partici- pants are welcome. VOL. 141 - NO. 31 Copyright 2014 Corning Publishing Co., Inc. CORNING, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 75 CENTS 1 SECTION / 14 PAGES / 7 INSERTS Turkey recipes . . . Knobel parade scheduled . . . Continued On Page Three Continued On Page Three Continued On Page Three Tracy and Stacy Jackson put finishing touches on displays for Saturday’s Christmas in the Park’s lighting ceremony at Wynn Park. Christmas in the Park is ready . . . Additional vandalism disrupts decorating After nearly a month of work by a small number of volunteers, the annual lighting ceremony for Christmas in the Park will open Corning’s holiday festivities Sat- urday, November 29 at Wynn Park. Under the leadership of Glen- dal Boyd and Stacy Jackson, thousands of lights have been stretched and various Christmas displays are in place for activities to start at 5:00 p.m. Saturday “We’ve added many new dis- plays and lighting decorations this year and there will be addi- tional attractions for those who come out for the lighting cere- mony,” Boyd informed. “We’ve got Snowie the Bus coming from Jonesboro’s Braces by Burris. They will have hot chocolate and snow cones for everyone.” Boyd said Arkansas Parks and Tourism will bring their Holiday Hog to Wynn Park, an addition for the entire state that will make its first appearance in Corning Saturday night. Entertainment for the night begins at 5:00 p.m. with perfor- mances by Tracy Jackson, Judy Ladd, Cassidy Pritchard, Haley Guthrie, Lisa Marie Bartlett Da- vis and Corning Jr. and Sr. High Choirs. After a countdown at 6:00 p.m., Santa will greet children on the Wynn Park stage. Stacy Jackson adds, “We will have concessions again this year where people may purchase chili, hot dogs, coffee and even more. All proceeds from this stand will be returned to the work underway with Christmas in the Park.” Vandalism again Corning Police Department is investigating yet another act of vandalism at Wynn Park involv- ing decorations that will be used to celebrate Christmas in the Park beginning Saturday. The incident occurred over the weekend following volunteers’ efforts to ready the park on Sat- urday and Sunday. This was the second time in as many weeks the park has been struck. In the most recent inci- dent, two Christmas trees were removed from their bases and strewn around the park. Police Chief Jim Earl Gron- ing said his Department may be forced to prohibit anyone being in the park after dark leading up to the event. Anyone seeing such activity at the park should con- tact police immediately at 857- 6988. by Fred Martin Quietness of the early morn- ing hours was broken by the roar of generators, both commercial and private as a widespread elec- trical outage, reminiscent of late January 2009 that lasted 10-18 days, plunged Corning and much of Clay and Randolph counties into darkness. It was in the wee hours of the morning Monday, Nov. 24. En- tergy’s service was disrupted, but efforts to contact the Entergy regional office in Walnut Ridge were unsuccessful, therefore the number of customers affected was not known. Also it was not known if a brief outage on Satur- day night in north Corning was related to the Monday morning power failure. Reports from the public indi- cated that Entergy service was disrupted from Corning southwest to Biggers, as well as in the Peach Orchard and Knobel areas. Nick Manatt of Clay County Electric stated there was no out- age on Clay County Electric Co- operative lines Monday. In the early morning hours, Superintendent Kellee Smith of Corning School District was in contact with Entergy officials who set a time frame around 10:00 a.m. for restoration of power. Therefore the decision was made to continue plans for a full day of school. Electricity was restored throughout the area just before 8:00 a.m. WEATHER Official readings of National Weather Service November 25 55 32 November 24 58 43 Rain .46” November 23 61 55 Rain .06” November 22 55 37 Rain .07” November 21 52 38 November 20 53 25 Council prices spec building for manufacturing expansion by Fred Martin Friday’s special City Council meeting called by Mayor De- wayne Phelan concerned the ex- pansion of a local manufacturer and interest in the city-owned “spec” building in the Industrial Park. Owner of the unnamed man- ufacturing company had ex- pressed interest in leasing the 50,000 square foot building that is currently unoccupied. Saying the building is “not in great shape,” Mayor Phelan listed work that should be done: sprinkler system addition; larger electrical inlet; and doors to ac- commodate 18-wheelers. He stressed that this work will be done by the manufacturer and not by the city. All members of the Council, Randall Godwin, Danny Moore and F.B. Manatt, expressed the advantage of up to 70 new jobs created by this expansion. Manatt said he feels it is nec- essary to get the building’s value appraised. Figures discussed by Coun- cil members indicated previ- ous lease prices at 10-cents per square foot, but since the build- ing requires so much work, a lesser amount should be accept- able. They also discussed a lease agreement on a graduated scale, such as 5-cents per square foot for the first 12-months, with the requirement that the manufactur- er reach the goal of 70 employees within a certain time. Moore summarized the Coun- cil discussions saying, “I feel we might agree to 5-cents a foot with those stipulations, after all that is the best deal or offer we’ve had in a long time.” Mayor Phelan informed that the “spec” building, which sets on four or five acres in the Indus- trial Park, has been empty close to two years. It had previously been used as a warehouse for storage. Manatt moved to lease the property on a one-year agree- ment at 5-cents a foot ($2,500 per month) for 12 months, and expect the full 70 employees to be working in 18 months. Following the second by Moore, motion carried on a roll- call vote. No other business was discussed during the “called” meeting. By Jim McIntosh The Apostle Paul, in his let- ter to a church, quoted Jesus by saying, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” It may sound overstated but at this time of year, in the hustle and bustle of Christmas shop- ping, gift buying, food prepa- ration along with community and church responsibilities it can be difficult to grasp the simplicity of the statement. There is a promised blessing for those with the true mind- set of giving who realize its importance and covet the as- sociated benefits. Five Corn- ing women are doing just that as they spend countless hours and energy participating in the Agape Gift Box ministry. The project assures that children who visit the Agape Mission, whether for food or clothing purposes, receive a gift package filled with essentials and fun items. Joyce Huggins, who has been overseeing the ministry for the past decade, said she en- joys all aspects of the project. “I love it,” she said. “We can provide gifts to chil- dren who may not other- wise receive very much.” The ministry packages hun- dreds of gift boxes filled with everything from candy and toys to essential products like toothpaste and personal care products. Low-income fami- lies, who visit the mission either during the food distribution or clothing distribution days, are given presents for each child. “We will also give the gifts to other children if we just know who,” Huggins said. “We get calls sometimes and are able to gift someone who may not even be affiliated with Agape in any way. The point is to make sure underprivi- leged children get presents.” The gifts will be distrib- uted right up until Christ- mas Day, if necessary, as long as the inventory holds. The project is funded through donations from churches, busi- nesses and individuals who give generously to the cause. “We get money from some and products from others,” Hug- gins explained. “We’ve had a dentist contribute items. We’ve also had a Walmart depart- ment donate some things. And many others have given mon- ey or actual products of some kind. We really appreciate it.” The ministry will distribute up- wards of 300 gift boxes through- out December. The bulk of the work is done by six volunteers, all women who are known for their service to church and com- munity. Along with Huggins, Myrna Stacy, Linda Leach, Betty Bass, Pam Harrison and Erma Hart keep the ministry going. They also keep one another go- ing, joking and taking the occa- sional fun jab at one each other, as one might imagine Santa’s elves would do during the busy season. “We have a good time and love what we are doing,” Leach said. “It’s a lot of fun and we are meet- ing an important need. We hate to think of any child who wouldn’t get anything for Christmas.’ All of the items were pur- chased locally by the six ladies. Well over $2,000 in merchan- dise was acquired. The six then meet at the Mission to assemble the items, divide them into por- tions and place them in the gift- wrapped boxes. Everything is sorted be age-appropriateness. From left, volunteers Joyce Huggins, Erma Hart, Betty Bass, Linda Leach and Pam Harrison work on gift boxes for children. Agape Gift Box ministry prepares for Christmas For the 18th consecutive year, Corning’s Christmas in the Park is featured in “Arkansas Trail of Holiday Lights . . . Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” a publica- tion from Arkansas Parks and Tourism that features lighted at- tractions throughout the state. This year’s brochure tells of seven locations in northeast Ar- kansas where lights will usher in the Christmas spirit. Along with Corning, these attractions are located in Piggott, Rector, Poca- hontas, Wynne, Blytheville and Newport. Designed to publicize major attractions in The Natural State, this year’s brochure showcases 62 holiday lighting displays in communities in Arkansas. In 1997 when Corning’s Christmas in the Park was first featured, the “Trail of Holiday Lights” listed only four com- munities in Northeast Arkansas with such attractions with a brief write-up about each. For Corning in 2014, the bro- chure tells of events on Satur- day, November 29 with enter- tainment, audience participation countdown to the lighting at 6:00 Local Christmas event showcased in pamphlet Ladies Night scheduled Mon., Dec. 1 Ladies Night of Corning Area Chamber of Commerce, has been set for Monday, December 1, 2014 in M.B. Ainley, Jr. Com- munity Center. This annual event begins at 6:00 p.m. with a social time hosted by Legacy Equipment of Corning. This will be followed by a catered dinner from Bev- erly’s Catering at 6:30. “The chamber is asking groups and businesses to volunteer to decorate their table with this year’s theme “Burlap Christmas. Judging of tables will be concluded by 6:00 p.m. and we ask that one item or a centerpiece from each table be giv- en as a door prize,” Ladies Night Coordinator Amanda Wiedeman informed. No business of the Chamber will be conducted during the December meeting. The eve- ning will consist of visiting, din- ing and winning prizes playing Bingo. Contact Amanda Wiedeman at 870-926-3893 or Priscilla Wil- liams at the Chamber office at 857-3874 for tickets information, decorating a table or donating door prizes. Stop-and-go traffic continues at the intersection of Highways 62-67 after Corning Street Supervisor David Ladd placed 4-way stop signs to direct traffic during an unexpected power-outage Monday morning. Power outage strikes Corning

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Good advice on cooking a turkey is available in this issue of The Courier with original recipes from ABC Preschool; plus expressions of first grade students’ “What Thanksgiving Means.”

Knobel Fire Department’s 25th annual Christ-mas parade is set for Saturday, Dec. 20 at 6:00 p.m. through downtown Knobel. All partici-pants are welcome.

VOL. 141 - NO. 31 Copyright 2014 Corning Publishing Co., Inc. COrNiNg, ArkANsAs, ThursdAy, NOVEMBEr 27, 2014 75 CENTs 1 sECTiON / 14 PAgEs / 7 iNsErTs

Turkey recipes . . . Knobel parade scheduled . . .

Continued On Page Three

Continued On Page Three

Continued On Page Three

Tracy and Stacy Jackson put finishing touches on displays for Saturday’s Christmas in the Park’s lighting ceremony at Wynn Park.

Christmas in the Park is ready . . .Additional vandalism disrupts decorating

After nearly a month of work by a small number of volunteers, the annual lighting ceremony for Christmas in the Park will open Corning’s holiday festivities Sat-urday, November 29 at Wynn Park.

Under the leadership of Glen-dal Boyd and Stacy Jackson, thousands of lights have been stretched and various Christmas displays are in place for activities to start at 5:00 p.m. Saturday

“We’ve added many new dis-plays and lighting decorations this year and there will be addi-tional attractions for those who

come out for the lighting cere-mony,” Boyd informed. “We’ve got Snowie the Bus coming from Jonesboro’s Braces by Burris. They will have hot chocolate and snow cones for everyone.”

Boyd said Arkansas Parks and Tourism will bring their Holiday Hog to Wynn Park, an addition for the entire state that will make its first appearance in Corning Saturday night.

Entertainment for the night begins at 5:00 p.m. with perfor-mances by Tracy Jackson, Judy Ladd, Cassidy Pritchard, Haley Guthrie, Lisa Marie Bartlett Da-vis and Corning Jr. and Sr. High Choirs.

After a countdown at 6:00 p.m., Santa will greet children on the Wynn Park stage.

Stacy Jackson adds, “We will have concessions again this year where people may purchase chili, hot dogs, coffee and even more. All proceeds from this stand will be returned to the

work underway with Christmas in the Park.”

Vandalism againCorning Police Department is

investigating yet another act of vandalism at Wynn Park involv-ing decorations that will be used to celebrate Christmas in the Park beginning Saturday.

The incident occurred over the weekend following volunteers’ efforts to ready the park on Sat-urday and Sunday.

This was the second time in as many weeks the park has been struck. In the most recent inci-dent, two Christmas trees were removed from their bases and strewn around the park.

Police Chief Jim Earl Gron-ing said his Department may be forced to prohibit anyone being in the park after dark leading up to the event. Anyone seeing such activity at the park should con-tact police immediately at 857-6988.

by Fred MartinQuietness of the early morn-

ing hours was broken by the roar of generators, both commercial and private as a widespread elec-trical outage, reminiscent of late January 2009 that lasted 10-18 days, plunged Corning and much of Clay and Randolph counties into darkness.

It was in the wee hours of the morning Monday, Nov. 24. En-tergy’s service was disrupted, but efforts to contact the Entergy regional office in Walnut Ridge were unsuccessful, therefore the number of customers affected was not known. Also it was not known if a brief outage on Satur-day night in north Corning was related to the Monday morning power failure.

Reports from the public indi-cated that Entergy service was disrupted from Corning southwest to Biggers, as well as in the Peach Orchard and Knobel areas.

Nick Manatt of Clay County Electric stated there was no out-age on Clay County Electric Co-operative lines Monday.

In the early morning hours, Superintendent Kellee Smith of Corning School District was in contact with Entergy officials who set a time frame around 10:00 a.m. for restoration of power. Therefore the decision was made to continue plans for a full day of school.

Electricity was restored throughout the area just before 8:00 a.m.

WEAThErOfficial readings of

National Weather ServiceNovember 25 55 32November 24 58 43

Rain .46”November 23 61 55

Rain .06”November 22 55 37

Rain .07”November 21 52 38November 20 53 25

Council prices spec buildingfor manufacturing expansion

by Fred MartinFriday’s special City Council

meeting called by Mayor De-wayne Phelan concerned the ex-pansion of a local manufacturer and interest in the city-owned “spec” building in the Industrial Park.

Owner of the unnamed man-ufacturing company had ex-pressed interest in leasing the 50,000 square foot building that is currently unoccupied.

Saying the building is “not in great shape,” Mayor Phelan

listed work that should be done: sprinkler system addition; larger electrical inlet; and doors to ac-commodate 18-wheelers. He stressed that this work will be done by the manufacturer and not by the city.

All members of the Council, Randall Godwin, Danny Moore and F.B. Manatt, expressed the advantage of up to 70 new jobs created by this expansion.

Manatt said he feels it is nec-essary to get the building’s value appraised.

Figures discussed by Coun-cil members indicated previ-ous lease prices at 10-cents per square foot, but since the build-ing requires so much work, a lesser amount should be accept-able.

They also discussed a lease agreement on a graduated scale, such as 5-cents per square foot for the first 12-months, with the requirement that the manufactur-er reach the goal of 70 employees within a certain time.

Moore summarized the Coun-cil discussions saying, “I feel we might agree to 5-cents a foot with those stipulations, after all that is the best deal or offer we’ve had in a long time.”

Mayor Phelan informed that the “spec” building, which sets on four or five acres in the Indus-trial Park, has been empty close to two years. It had previously been used as a warehouse for storage.

Manatt moved to lease the property on a one-year agree-ment at 5-cents a foot ($2,500 per month) for 12 months, and expect the full 70 employees to be working in 18 months.

Following the second by Moore, motion carried on a roll-call vote.

No other business was discussed during the “called” meeting.

By Jim McIntoshThe Apostle Paul, in his let-

ter to a church, quoted Jesus by saying, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

It may sound overstated but at this time of year, in the hustle and bustle of Christmas shop-ping, gift buying, food prepa-ration along with community and church responsibilities it can be difficult to grasp the simplicity of the statement.

There is a promised blessing for those with the true mind-set of giving who realize its importance and covet the as-sociated benefits. Five Corn-ing women are doing just that as they spend countless hours and energy participating in the Agape Gift Box ministry. The project assures that children who visit the Agape Mission, whether for food or clothing purposes, receive a gift package filled with essentials and fun items.

Joyce Huggins, who has been overseeing the ministry for the past decade, said she en-joys all aspects of the project.

“I love it,” she said. “We can provide gifts to chil-dren who may not other-

wise receive very much.”The ministry packages hun-

dreds of gift boxes filled with everything from candy and toys to essential products like toothpaste and personal care products. Low-income fami-lies, who visit the mission either during the food distribution or clothing distribution days, are given presents for each child.

“We will also give the gifts to other children if we just know who,” Huggins said. “We get calls sometimes and are able to gift someone who may not even be affiliated with Agape in any way. The point is to make sure underprivi-leged children get presents.”

The gifts will be distrib-uted right up until Christ-mas Day, if necessary, as long as the inventory holds.

The project is funded through donations from churches, busi-nesses and individuals who give generously to the cause.

“We get money from some and products from others,” Hug-gins explained. “We’ve had a dentist contribute items. We’ve also had a Walmart depart-ment donate some things. And

many others have given mon-ey or actual products of some kind. We really appreciate it.”

The ministry will distribute up-wards of 300 gift boxes through-out December. The bulk of the work is done by six volunteers, all women who are known for their service to church and com-munity. Along with Huggins, Myrna Stacy, Linda Leach, Betty Bass, Pam Harrison and Erma Hart keep the ministry going. They also keep one another go-ing, joking and taking the occa-sional fun jab at one each other, as one might imagine Santa’s elves would do during the busy season.

“We have a good time and love what we are doing,” Leach said. “It’s a lot of fun and we are meet-ing an important need. We hate to think of any child who wouldn’t get anything for Christmas.’

All of the items were pur-chased locally by the six ladies. Well over $2,000 in merchan-dise was acquired. The six then meet at the Mission to assemble the items, divide them into por-tions and place them in the gift-wrapped boxes. Everything is sorted be age-appropriateness.

From left, volunteers Joyce Huggins, Erma Hart, Betty Bass, Linda Leach and Pam Harrison work on gift boxes for children.

Agape Gift Box ministry prepares for Christmas

For the 18th consecutive year, Corning’s Christmas in the Park is featured in “Arkansas Trail of Holiday Lights . . . Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” a publica-tion from Arkansas Parks and Tourism that features lighted at-tractions throughout the state.

This year’s brochure tells of seven locations in northeast Ar-kansas where lights will usher in the Christmas spirit. Along with Corning, these attractions are located in Piggott, Rector, Poca-hontas, Wynne, Blytheville and Newport.

Designed to publicize major

attractions in The Natural State, this year’s brochure showcases 62 holiday lighting displays in communities in Arkansas.

In 1997 when Corning’s Christmas in the Park was first featured, the “Trail of Holiday Lights” listed only four com-munities in Northeast Arkansas with such attractions with a brief write-up about each.

For Corning in 2014, the bro-chure tells of events on Satur-day, November 29 with enter-tainment, audience participation countdown to the lighting at 6:00

Local Christmas eventshowcased in pamphlet

Ladies Nightscheduled Mon., Dec. 1

Ladies Night of Corning Area Chamber of Commerce, has been set for Monday, December 1, 2014 in M.B. Ainley, Jr. Com-munity Center.

This annual event begins at 6:00 p.m. with a social time hosted by Legacy Equipment of Corning. This will be followed by a catered dinner from Bev-erly’s Catering at 6:30.

“The chamber is asking groups and businesses to volunteer to decorate their table with this year’s theme “Burlap Christmas. Judging of tables will be concluded by 6:00 p.m. and we ask that one item or a centerpiece from each table be giv-en as a door prize,” Ladies Night Coordinator Amanda Wiedeman informed.

No business of the Chamber will be conducted during the December meeting. The eve-ning will consist of visiting, din-ing and winning prizes playing Bingo.

Contact Amanda Wiedeman at 870-926-3893 or Priscilla Wil-liams at the Chamber office at 857-3874 for tickets information, decorating a table or donating door prizes.

Stop-and-go traffic continues at the intersection of Highways 62-67 after Corning Street Supervisor David Ladd placed 4-way stop signs to direct traffic during an unexpected power-outage Monday morning.

Power outage strikes Corning

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For your reading enjoyment, Rambling Vines has returned as we re-print articles by Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago.

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NoticesCorning School Dis t r ic t

conducts regular monthly board meetings on the second Tuesday of each month. Meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. during winter months.

Corning Lions Club meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in Parkview Restaurant.

Clay County Quorum Court, Third Monday each month, 7:00 p.m., alternating between Corning and Piggott courthouses.

Corning Library is open 6 days a week, Monday-Saturday. Check time posted on their front door. Telephone 870-857-3453.

Corning chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, meets the fourth Monday each month, 7:00 p.m., Masonic Temple.

Corning City Council meets second Tuesday of each month, 6:00 p.m., in City Hall.

Corning Area Chamber of Commerce meets first Monday each month, 12:00 noon at a local restaurant.

Kiwanis Club meets at noon each Tuesday.

Corning Masonic Lodge, Number 719, meets the second Thursday each month, Winter months 6:30 p.m.; Daylight Saving months 7:30 p.m., Masonic Temple.

Raper t-Poynor VFW Post #8347 meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in M.B. Ainley, Jr. Community Center.

McDougal City Council meets the first Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Knobel City Council meets the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

Clay County Chapter of National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE), meets f irst Wednesday each month at 11:00 a.m., in Piggott Community Center. Call 870-857-5137.

The Board of Directors of Doni Martin Center for Develop-mental Services, holds its regular meetings on the third Wednes-day of each month, at 5:00 p.m., at 1506 Park Street, Pocahontas. Special meetings or changes will be announced.

Board commissioners of Cen-tral Clay Drainage District and Cache River Maintenance Dis-trict of Clay County will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 9:00 a.m. in the Eastern District Courthouse in Piggott.

For Your InformationTax deductible donations are

being accepted for Corning’s recreational project, including: M. B. Ainley Jr. Community Center, Victory Lake Golf Course, ballfields and fishing lake.

Corning Cemetery Trust Board’s goal is to set up a perpetual care fund so that in future years the cemetery will be self-sustaining. Tax deductible donations may be sent to Rick Ermert or Billy Allen. Receipts are issued by the City of Corning.

Clay County Literacy Council, Corning division, has Carolyn Jones as local contact person. She may be reached at 870-857-5364.

Area residents who would like to make a donation to American Cancer Society and have it des-ignated for use in Northeast Ar-kansas may contact American Cancer Society, 901 North Uni-versity, Post Office Box 3822, Little Rock 72203.

To donate to St. Jude Hospital, simply go to stjude.org and click on “ways to help.” The mailing address is: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place. Memphis, TN 38105, Phone number is 800- 822-6344.

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Mentoring grant invests in First District youth

I pledge my head to clearer thinking,

My heart to greater loyalty,My hands to larger service,and my health to better living,for my club, my community,

my country,and my world. - The 4-H

pledgeBefore I graduated high

school, I participated in 4-H, an extracurricular program empha-sizing the importance of young people learning, growing, and working with adults as catalysts for positive change. This pro-gram began more than a cen-tury ago with agricultural roots, eventually adding life skills to its portfolio to reach six million-plus U.S. youth today, including more than 133,000 boys and girls in Arkansas. And like me, mil-lions of adults call themselves alumni nationwide, including famous athletic, entertainment, military, and political figures.

But to understand the impact of 4-H, it’s important to under-stand its framework. 4-H focuses on four personal development areas, including head, heart, hands, and health. “Head” targets the ability to think to make deci-sions and managing resources to accomplish a purpose. “Heart” seeks to improve connections between two people by relating and caring. “Hand” encourages engaging in social responsibil-ity through giving and accom-plishing goals through working. Lastly, “Health” demands an im-proved way of living and being.

As a 4-H alumnus and a for-mer member of the 4-H Founda-tion Board of Arkansas, I’ve seen and experienced the positive im-pact this framework has played in the lives of our nation’s young people. 4-H presents these youth with great opportunities to learn valuable skills they can carry

throughout their lives. In turn, 4-H youth are three times more likely to get involved in their com-munities and have educational achievement. The program has especially excelled in reaching at-risk young people.

Through its National Mentor-ing Program, 4-H leaders have mentored more than 30,000 young people considered “at-risk,” seeing significant im-provements in family relation-ships, perceptions of social support, and social competence.

Simply put, the figures of mentoring are nothing short of staggering.

According to a study from MENTOR: The National Men-toring Partnership, at-risk young adults with mentors are 35 per-cent more likely to enroll and graduate from college, 81 per-cent more likely to participate in extracurricular activities, more than twice as likely to hold a leadership position, and 77 per-cent more likely to volunteer in their communities than their peers without mentors.

Consequently, I considered it a privilege to recently announce that the National 4-H Council through the Department of Jus-tice had awarded $164,000 in support of 4-H’s mentoring pro-gram in Arkansas, including the First District, to keep our young people safe and prevent youth delinquency.

As a former 4-H member, I recognize this program’s poten-tial to reach First District youth on which society has given up. As a legislator, I’m eager to our nation making a concerted investment in our youth. So, whether we have roots in 4-H or some other impactful orga-nization, let’s each pledge our head, heart, hands, and health to make the First District better. And we’ll start with our young people.

December 1-5

Corning SchoolsBreakfast, all cafeteriasMonday: Cereal, toast and jelly,

fresh fruit, fruit juice;Tuesday: Breakfast pizza or ce-

real, fresh fruit, fruit juice;Wednesday: French toast sticks

with syrup or cereal, fresh fruit, fruit juice;

Thursday: Cereal, yogurt cup, fresh fruit, fruit juice;

Friday: Pop tart or cereal, fresh fruit, fruit.

Choice of milk with each meal.Lunch

(Parenthesis only at high school)Monday: Chicken strips (turkey

sandwich), quick baked potato, tossed salad with ranch dressing, baby carrots, pineapple chunks, fresh fruit, Graham cracker;

Tuesday: Spaghetti with meat sauce (hot dog on bun, corn chips), seasoned green beans, tossed sal-ad, ranch dressing, veggie sticks, assorted fresh fruit, pears, hot roll;

Wednesday: Chili with beans, crackers (chili Frito pie), baby car-rots, tossed salad, ranch dressing, cinnamon roll, applesauce, fresh fruit;

Thursday: Beef taco, shredded lettuce, diced tomato, salsa (Ham and cheese sandwich), pinto beans, corn, fruit cocktail, fresh fruit, oat-meal cookie;

Friday: Pepperoni pizza (bur-rito with chili), tossed salad, ranch dressing, raw veggie strips, sliced peaches, fresh fruit, wacky cake.

Neelyville R-IVMonday: French toast sticks,

breakfast pizza, banana, chilled juice, General Mills cereal, yo-gurt, oatmeal bar/ Jalapeno Jack cheeseburger, 3 cheese grilled chest, buffalo chicken calzone, sweet potato fries, fresh broccoli with dip, tropical fruit, peaches, blueberry fruit muffin, garden fresh salad bar;

Tuesday: Pancake sausage griddle, fruit and yogurt parfait, fresh apple, fruit streusel muf-fin, chilled juice, General Mills cereal, cinnamon toast, oatmeal bar/ Soft tacos, chicken nuggets with cornbread, TexMex chicken sandwich, Texas pintos, orange smiles, applesauce, garden fresh salad bar;

Wednesday: Cinnamon roll, bagel with egg and cheese, chilled juice, peaches, General Mills cereal, yogurt, oatmeal bar/ Chicken patty, grilled chicken, corn dog, roast turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, roasted veg-etables, fresh apple, pineapple, hot roll, garden fresh salad bar;

Thursday: Beacon Street slid-ers, fruit and yogurt parfait, roasted sweet potato bites, man-darin oranges, fruit streusel muf-fin, chilled juice, toast and jelly, General Mills cereal, oatmeal bar/ Chicken Alfredo with Italian bread, meatball sub on deli bun, Italian sub on bun, carrot coins, spring mix salad, fresh banana, cinnamon apple slices, garden fresh salad bar;

Friday: Biscuits and gravy, sausage, mini pancakes, chilled juice, fresh fruit, yogurt, General Mills cereal, oatmeal bar/ Cheese pizza, roast turkey sandwich, mozzarella dunkers with mari-nara, Caesar side salad, roasted corn, strawberry-banana mix, chilled pears, fruit streusel muf-fin.

November 30, 1978Had an interesting letter from a

Courier reader, Mrs. Clara McFall, Kansas City, Kansas, last week and she had so many nice things to say about Knobel and Corning that I felt they should be shared with other readers. She had attended the Bar-bara Fairchild Show in Knobel Sat-urday night after a day of shopping in Corning.

Here are a few quotes from her letter:

“Freda and I went shopping. This is something we two have always enjoyed doing together. We went to Fred’s Dollar Store and I bought some pretty king-sized sheets and then we walked to the Clayton Shoe Outlet Store and there we bought shoes. I remember years ago when Freda and I both lived at Knobel and we would pick cotton in the fall, save our money, then catch Train Number Four and go to Poplar Bluff to shop for clothes. But now, Corn-ing has stores with such nice mer-chandise that one doesn’t have to go anywhere else to shop. Corning has a lot of things now that weren’t there back in the early 40s and young folks don’t have to leave from down there to find work, it’s right there at home. I am proud of the new hospital in Corning as Corning has needed a hospital for years.”

“That little boy you wrote about back in September, I sure enjoyed reading your article about how Little Garry Lloyd Murray played his ban-jo, and I was so thrilled to see him in person, Saturday night, and hear him play the banjo. He was so cute and did such a good job of it. He is all that you said he was.”

“I think it is very nice of Bar-bara Fairchild to put on that benefit show once each year for the Knobel School. All the entertainers were re-ally great. The Penny Brothers are all so very talented and it makes one feel good just to listen to them. I hope they will continue to be the fine young people that they seem to be today and I hope some real good comes their way soon.”

As I sat there and looked out over the audience, I felt so glad at heart that all the town people turned out and showed their appreciation to Barbara and all other musicians. Don Williams really does deserve the award he received recently from Nashville. I never expected to see Knobel so full of people as it was Saturday evening.”

I had this lady friend tell me the other day that she is not afraid to stay alone at night because she had a dog that alerts her when someone strange comes around her house and that she has a loaded gun which is placed in a convenient place each night. But I don’t know about that dog business. Sometimes they bark and carry on when nothing much out of the ordinary is taking place. I am afraid that if I were in this lady’s place, the dog might just ac-cidentally make a noise in its sleep and cause me to go on a shooting binge.

I once had this old white and black spotted dog that looked much like a bird dog. One summer night I was sleeping on the back porch and Butch was tied to the railing at the bottom of the steps. I was watch-ing a cat, one lone cat, walk across our yard. Old Butch commenced to

barking and carrying-on like there had just been an elephant stampede. Well, our neighbor’s (Ruel Green) coon hounds heard Butch carrying on, so they (about a dozen of them) chimed in. They created so much racket that Red James’ coon hounds, on farther out the highway heard them and all started to barking. All this racket naturally aroused my neighbor’s tiny Chihuahua and it very near tore the curtains off the wall before peace was re-stored.

Next day, nearly everyone in the neighborhood had it in for Butch, complaining about all the racket the night before that had disturbed

Mrs. L. G. Latham, who last week finished a course of mar-celling, in a Maricello school at St. Louis, returned Monday to her home here.

William Miller, who some time ago, bought of D.L. Ben-nett the Uneeda Hotel build-ing and recently the stock and fixtures of James Bergman, took possession of that prop-erty on First Street here last Monday. James Bergman and his former night clerk Wil-liam Ballard are farming on Dr. Scott’s place in Heelstring settlement and Mrs. Berg-man (Jim’s mother) and her

daughter have moved to Pop-lar Bluff where they expect to conduct a boarding house.

W.H. Henning died at his home in South Campbell, Mis-souri, Monday, February 23, after a week’s illness of pneu-monia. The funeral had been arranged for ten o’clock Tues-day morning at the family resi-dence, on account of the ill health of Mrs. Henning, who had been an invalid for some time and was bedfast when her husband died. She gradually grew worse and died Tuesday morning just 20 minutes before the hour set for her husband’s funeral service. Both husband and wife were born in May, 1854, she being 15 days later. A double funeral service was then arranged for 11 o’clock Wednesday morning at the Church of Christ, conducted by Elder Dies. The service was attended by a large number of friends and one relative of Mrs. Henning, a Mrs. Powell of Ca-ruthersville, a niece. There is only one surviving relative of Mr. Henning, a half-sister of Zion, Illinois, who could not come on account of sickness at home. The Hennings were mighty good people and had been residents of Campbell since 1917 moving there from Clay County, Arkansas. He was a representative for the Pig-gott Marble Works. He was a member of the Masonic order and his wife was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. The remains were laid to rest in Woodlawn cemetery in graves side by side.

the

Lord’s Corner

Effectiveness . . . sometimes greatness . . . awaits those who refuse to run scared . . . and in all things, give thanks.

“Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

Ephesians 6:13 NIV

their sleep and were concerned that someone was up to some meanness in the neighborhood. Never once did I squeal on Butch by telling that it all started over a lone cat moseying through the yard.

Old Butch looked so much like a bird dog that every year just be-fore bird season, he would get dog-napped. All I had to do was drive slowly up and down the streets and listen until he barked. He knew the sound of my car and would get pret-ty excited when he thought I was go-ing to fail to find him. Any number of times, I have stopped the car and called to him, then would go knock on a door and ask someone to please go let my dog out of the wood shed that he was not a bird dog.

Next year, it would be a repeat performance. I finally decided to let this dog-napper find out what he had on his hands, so I stayed away and let him take Old Butch out hunting. Sure enough, he was released before the day was over and that put an end to the annual dog-napping.

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Printed below are names, addresses, and telephone numbers of national, state, county and city officials:

President Barack Obama: The White House, Washington, D. C. 20500.

Vice-President Joe Biden, Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20501.

Senator John Boozman. Northwest Arkansas College, Suite 102, 303 N. Main St. Harrison 72601. 870-424-0129. Washington D.C. address is 1 Russell Courtyard, D.C. 20510. (202-224-4843). www.boozman.senate.gov

Senator Mark Pryor, 255 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 (202-224-2353); Little Rock office (877-259-9602). www.pryor.senate.gov

Congressman Rick Crawford. 2400 Highland Dr. Suite 300, Jonesboro 72401. 870-203-0540. Washington D.C. address is 1408 Longworth House Office, D.C. 20515. (202-225-4076). www.crawford.house.gov

Governor Mike Beebe, State Capitol, Little Rock, 72202 (501-682-2345).

Lieutenant Governor office, State Capitol, Little Rock 72201 (501-682-2144).

Attorney General Dustin

McDaniel, 200 Tower Building, Little Rock 72201 (501-682-2007) consumer hotline (800-482-8982).

State Senator Robert Thompson, 414 W. Court, Paragould, 72450 (870-239-9581).

Representative Joe Jett, 527 CR 101, Success, 72470 (870-276-5345).

Clay County Judge Gary Howell, 598-3577: Corning office, Western District Courthouse, 857-3773; Piggott office, Eastern District Courthouse, 598-2667.

Clay County Sheriff Gerald McClung: Corning office, Western District Courthouse, 857-6752; Piggott office, Eastern District Courthouse, 598-2266; Clay County Detention Center 598-2270.

Justices of the Peace: Greg Ahrent, Dennis Haines, Jody Henderson, David Cagle, John Mansker, Ryan Rogers, Jeff Douglas, Jim Clifton.

Corning Mayor Dewayne Phelan, office in City Hall, Second and Main Streets, Corning 72422; Office telephone 857-6716.

City Council members: F.B. Manatt, 857-3726; Daniel Moore, 857-5344 and Randall Godwin, 323-0276.

Where to Write . . .

Local ChristmasContinued From Page One

p.m., followed by a gift from Santa for each child.

Information on special lighting at Piggott states activities include a parade around the court square on December 7, entertainment performed from a 1930s-style gazebo that’s magically trans-formed into a carousel, prize drawings, local cuisine, special store sales and a visit from Santa.

At Rector, December 4 at 6:00 p.m., a Christmas parade is planned down Main Street through downtown Rector to a free reception at the Rector Com-munity Center on Highway 49.

Information from Pocahon-tas states the National Historic District will be spectacular with Christmas lights decorating the 1872 Old Courthouse and other historic buildings. The Christmas parade on December 4 winds through city streets. Candy Cane Lane on Maple Street will be lined with candy canes and Christmas lights while Santa and his elves hand out treats to chil-dren at Santa’s outdoor work-shop December 21-24.

Throughout the state, many participating communities have planned activities in parks, around town squares, or at city halls and county courthouses.

Several towns will offer drive-through displays such as Bly-theville’s “Lights of the Delta” touting the Mid-South’s largest holiday lighting festival with over six million lights and 40 major motion displays.

There is also Pine Bluff’s “Enchanted Land of Lights and Legends” with over 240 holiday vignettes on a 1.3 mile drive.

2014 Arkansas Trail of Holi-day Lights brochures are avail-able at the Welcome Center on Highway 67 North of Corning.

Agape Gift BoxContinued From Page One“That’s really why we started

the ministry,” Huggins explained. “We had received donated items in the past but not everything was age appropriate. There were ran-dom things brought it that may not appeal to all age groups. So we started making sure every-thing was sorted out properly and kids could get something they would find useful and fun.”

The volunteers agree that seeing the children’s faces light up when they receive the gifts is reward enough.

Children will receive im-portant clothing items as well, such as hats, gloves and socks for each recipient. There are also toys and goodies to eat.

Most children will receive the presents during distribution days. The hours of the food bank are 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month (Dec. 2). The clothing bank is open the same hours on the second Tues-day each month (Dec. 9). On average the ministry will serve close to 400 people in the food ministry with 100 or so receiv-ing clothing. About 22 volun-teers make the ministries pos-sible, along with the leadership of Current Gaines Baptist As-sociation Director Don Settles.

Those desiring to donate to any of the ministries or to assist or par-ticipate in any way may call the Mission at 870-857-1520. The Mission is located on 501 SW 2nd Street in downtown Corning.

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Corning Street Superintendent David Ladd said he was notified around 3:00 a.m. that power was off at the intersection of High-ways 62-67, forcing the neces-sity of 4-way stop signs to direct traffic. These signs were in place before 4:00 a.m. and remained until power was restored.

Jarred Rogers alongside the sign honoring his late uncle Johnie Brooks.

by Jim McIntosh“Be a simple kind of man…

forget your lust for the rich man’s gold. All that you need is in your soul.”

The sporadic lyrics of that classic rock song can be ap-plied to the late Johnie Brooks. A life of simplicity, void of any lust for gold.

Another passage from the LYNYRD SKYNYRD song states: “Take your time, don’t live too fast…”

It’s been just over three months since Johnie Brooks’ life came to a tragic end while riding his bicycle west on Highway 328 near Success. It was a trek the 72-year-old had made thousands of times. Since that fateful day, much has been learned about the man who lived in seeming isola-tion in the obscure Acorn com-munity that straddles the Arkan-sas-Missouri border.

An eccentric personality who always entertained his cast of friends as well as family, Joh-nie was perceived as a loner, residing on the very property where he grew up. The house, which borders Sipes Cemetery, had no indoor plumbing, and water was drawn from a well. At times, Johnie would retire to an antique school bus he con-verted to a camper and parked next to the main house. Today we know that Johnie had as many relatives as he did stories to tell. And although he rode a bicycle everywhere he went, he was a legally licensed driver whose yard resembled a rural car dealership.

“He was always working on his tattered antique cars but never driving one,” said his niece, LaWana Rogers Breece during a telephone interview from Mary-land. “Uncle Johnie had running vehicles in his driveway at sev-eral different times throughout the years. He always planned to fix every vehicle he had. People think he lacked means and that’s why he rode a bike. But that wasn’t always true. He just loved riding.”

The Facebook page, “Ride Johnie Ride,” captures bits and pieces of his life and interests. Created by his niece Equawn, the tribute features pictures of Johnie and some of his pas-sions, honoring a man who “had a heart of gold and never met a stranger.”

LaWana, who resides in Mc-Dougal, spent much time at the home place when she was growing up. Remarkably, Joh-nie wound up living at the prop-erty under a dowry agreement despite the fact that it changed ownership on occasion.

The 100-plus-year-old cy-press structure sets just off the county road. Along the proper-ty were scores of antique items, car parts and collectibles Johnie had accumulated throughout the years . . . a story for each item, no doubt.

“He was a mixture be-tween ‘American Pickers’ and ‘Hoarders’,” his nephew Jarred Rogers joked. “He had a little bit of everything. Things that meant a lot to him.”

Rogers, youngest of the eight children of Johnie’s sis-ter, Helen Brooks Rogers, said he often brought VHS record-ings of “Finding Bigfoot,” and “Ancient Aliens” for his uncle to enjoy.

“He loved stuff like that,” Rogers said. “All science-fic-tion and mystery-type shows. He would take it out to his bus where the TV was and watch the episodes.”

Sign on Highway 328To honor her uncle’s memo-

ry, LaWana contacted the Ar-kansas Highway Department to arrange an Adopt A Highway memorial. The sign was placed along a one-mile stretch on the road, near the site of the acci-dent.

“I just wanted to do some-thing to keep his memory alive,” LaWana said. “He was a great person. And he was a great male role model to me.”

The Adopt A Highway pro-gram is a promotional cam-paign encouraging volunteers to keep a section of a highway free from litter. In exchange for regular litter removal, a memorial is posted on a sign

Johnie Brooks was more than met the eye

in the section of the highways they maintain. Marsha Vowell, Corning area headquarters at-tendant, said the Department is happy to promote the program in this way.

“LaWana came in and in-quired about it and we were glad to do it,” she said. “We’re proud to support anything like that.”

LaWana has been in Mary-land for the past two months but is anxious to return to Mc-Dougal. The journey has been difficult since her uncle died. She pointed out that his pass-ing has not just been difficult for her but for so many of his family, friends and acquain-tances alike.

“He touched so many lives in so many different ways,” she said. “I miss him.”

Simple lifeIndeed, Johnie was an intrigu-

ing individual. Born a twin, his sibling passed away at birth, and Johnie himself, it’s said, was born semi-paralyzed. His grand-mother massaged his legs and he was eventually able to walk without problems. Even at 72 years of age, he was in stellar shape for an elderly man. Most attributed his good health to the many miles ridden on his bike, and a continued desire to cut wood carried over from a career at Black’s Lumber Mill.

But many people have in-correct perceptions of Johnie. LaWana said there are those who thought he was not able to take care of himself because of the way he lived. But she was quick to point out that he lived exactly how he wanted to live.

“He grew up cooking on a wood stove,” she said. “And he never really chose to embrace technology. He preferred doing things the old way. The way he grew up.”

Jarred said of his uncle that some people today determine to “go off the grid.”

“Uncle Johnie was never even on the grid,” he said. “You see these TV shows about people wanting to escape city life and live off the grid. That reminds me of him but he chose never to get on the grid

in the first place.”LaWana said she was moved

by many in the community who said Johnie did so much for people, asking nothing in return.

“I found out about so many things he did that I didn’t real-ize,” she explained. “He would do things for people and never ask anything in return. He was a very pure-hearted person.”

Another one of Johnie’s not-so-well kept secrets was his love for children. Family members learned that he donated $95 a month to Feed The Children ministries. It was a charity near and dear to his heart. It’s pos-sible that being surrounded by so many nieces and nephews opened those recesses.

“He was always so good to us,” LaWana said. “He never married. But he seemed to think that all of us were as close to having children as he would need.”

Growing up at the old home-place, LaWana recalled special times at her uncle’s house.

“It was like an amusement park to us,” she said. “There were cars everywhere, buses, boats, everything.”

Johnie acquired numerous items down through the years. Most times no one understood why he made certain “picks.” But something intrigued him about every possession. And there was usually a compel-ling story to accommodate each piece. He is remembered by many friends and acquain-tances who have been privy to those stories.

“He had such a great imagina-tion,” she recalled. “He loved to share his stories. He was very conspiracy-minded. He was like a child in a lot of ways. He was just a very simplistic and loving person. But at the same time, he was highly intelligent.”

Those driving down High-way 328 and seeing the memo-rial sign can realize that, like the man himself, it tells a story. And as with each piece from Johnie’s collection, the story is meant to be told. The story of a simple man who collected rocks, rode a bike and loved to share those moments with others.

DHS Christmas Project under wayChurches can be a viable par-

ticipant in the project. Last year Harmony Baptist Church in Pol-lard “adopted” about 30 children to provide gifts. According to Pastor Tim McCluskey, church members enjoyed the experi-ence.

“The church was impacted greatly by the opportunity to minister to the children in the community,” McCluskey said. “We all shopped together to buy the gifts, wrapped them, and it was a great time of fellowship among the church. It was over-whelming to see the response of the families and children.”

Families in need and potential volunteers should contact DHS at 870-598-2282. Applications must be submitted by Friday, Dec. 6.

includes McDougal, Knobel and Success, there were 59 families with 142 children enrolled in the program last year.

So far this year, 11 families in Corning have applied, 15 in Pig-gott, and eight in Rector.

One pressing need this year is to locate a volunteer to serve as the Corning liaison to coordinate with families and sponsors and make sure families are added to the list to receive gifts for their children.

“We are in need of someone to serve in that way,” Dutka said. “We’ve had someone to do that in years past but is not able to this year.”

by Jim McIntoshThe 30th annual Clay County

Department of Human Services Christmas Project is under way.

The project enables chil-dren from low-income families to receive Christmas presents by matching “adoptive” per-sons with the families, linking the gifter and the recipient for Christmas and serves a real need in the communities.

According to DHS County Ad-ministrator Annette Dutka, it’s a way for community members to embark upon the true Christ-mas spirit of giving by providing needy children with toys.

Businesses, clubs or individu-als may adopt a child or family for Christmas.

To participate, drop by or call the DHS office in Piggott on 187 N. Second Ave. The names of the children along with pertinent information such as age, clothing size and a wish list will be giv-en to the adopting sponsor. The project really allows contributors to purchase and deliver Christ-mas presents to their adoptive hosts and presents opportunities to meet the children.

Annually, as many as 500 chil-dren from across Clay County receive the gifts through the Christmas Project. Dutka says many children and families are enriched through the program because of the generous dona-tions.

Last year, 110 families (ap-proximately 258 children) were served by the project. Sadly, of those 258 children, 17 went un-adopted and did not benefit from the program.

“We try to link up sponsors with every family but sometimes there are children who don’t get picked up,” Dutka said.

There is a program in some ar-eas that steps in and handles all children not served in the project. Dutka said that some of the fami-lies in the Rector area did not re-ceive presents last year but were given food boxes.

“We have an organization that will take all the Rector families that we have left and give them food boxes,” she said.

In the Corning district, which

Christmas Frolic to beDecember 7 in Little Rock

Historic Arkansas Muse-um’s annual Christmas Frolic is a fun and free family event to kick-off the holiday sea-son. The 47th Annual Christ-mas Frolic is Sunday, Decem-ber 7, from 1 to 4 p.m. on the historic grounds of Historic Arkansas Museum.

The Frolic celebrates Christmas as it was in the 1800s with living history, carols, reenactments, live music, dancing and more. Visitors come from across Arkansas each year to sample Historic Arkansas Museum’s famous hot cider and ginger cake, and to shop for unique Arkansas-made holiday gifts in the Museum Store.

Live musical guests in-clude: Arkansas Coun-try Dance Band, Lark in

the Morning, Sugar on the Floor, fiddler Ricky Russell and friends, carolers in the kitchen and the Aeolus Re-corder Konsort.

Frolickers will enjoy a va-riety of activities for chil-dren and adults, including: blacksmithing demonstra-tions, living history perfor-mances, pioneer games and dancing in the Hinderliter Grog Shop, Little Rock’s oldest surviving structure.

The Hinderliter Grog Shop (c. 1827) is an iconic struc-ture synonymous with His-toric Arkansas Museum and emblematic of the museum’s mission to preserve history and bring it to life for Ar-kansans and visitors from across the nation.

Historic Arkansas Museum

CorningPolice Report

The following information was released by Corning Police Department Tuesday afternoon of this week. This information was taken from the police radio log:

Tues., Nov. 18: 11:53 a.m. Re-port of male who fell at McDon-ald’s lot;

3:10 p.m. Report of couple fighting in area of Edith and Pla-inview streets;

10:04 p.m. Report of teens causing trouble at McDonald’s;

Wed., Nov. 19: 11:11 p.m. Of-ficer requested on Second Street, near L.A. Darling Co.;

Thurs., Nov. 20: 11:50 a.m. Officer requested on Collins and Ferguson streets;

5:00 p.m. Officer needed on 300 block of W. Fifth St.;

Fri., Nov. 21; 5:32 p.m. Offi-cer requested at McDonald’s;

Sat., Nov. 22: 1:34 p.m. Bur-glar alarm sounding on N. Mis-souri Ave;

3:08 p.m. Report of male hit-ting female in vehicle on Hwy. 67 W.;

7:03 p.m. Officer requested on 300 block of northwest Third St.;

9:01 p.m. Report of per-son shoplifting television from Walmart;

Sun., Nov. 23: 5:45 p.m. Walmart needs officer;

8:54 p.m. Officer requested at Sonic;

Mon., Nov. 24: 3:25 a.m. Re-port of limbs down on Creason Rd.

is open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mon-day through Saturday, 1 - 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission to the galleries and parking are free; admission to the historic grounds is $2.50 for adults, $1 for children under 18, $1.50 for senior citizens. The His-toric Arkansas Museum Store is open 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 - 4 p.m. on Sunday.

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The Courier welcomes news of weddings, bridal showers, cradle showers, birthday parties, family reunions, etc. for use on the Society page. There is no charge for publishing such articles, and pictures are welcome so long as they are of the type that will satisfactorily reproduce. Where there is a long list of names or a lengthy write-up, it is suggested that this news be written and either mailed or brought to the Courier office. News should arrive at the Courier no later than 5:00 p.m., on Monday, to be included in The Courier for any week. The Courier policy on wedding write-ups is that the material must reach the office as soon as possible after the ceremony. Engagement and wedding pictures are welcome and there is no charge for these announcements or pictures.

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The annual MessiahSings in Jonesboro, featuring an audi-ence choir singing the music of Handel’s Messiah will be Tues-day, December 2 in the sanctu-ary of Jonesboro First United Methodist Church. This perfor-mance will be directed by Kelly Craft, who began this musical in the mid 1990s.

Audience Choir practice be-gins at 6:30 p.m. with the musi-cal performance at 7:30 for those who wish to listen.

This year’s performance will again feature the talents of Fo-

rum Sinfonia, a group of young musicians and acts under the auspices of the Academy of Mu-sic in Krakow, Poland.

Members of the audience choir are asked to bring their own score if they have it, if not, others will be available.

“Come as you are dressed,” says director Kelly Craft. “In-vite your friends to this Gift of Music for our community and bring a financial gift to help feed the need. This is a benefit concert for Helping Neighbors Interfaith Food Pantry and

Community Services Center in fulfillment.”

For the past eight years all proceeds have gone to Help-ing Neighbors Food Pantry and Community Services Center.

Craft adds, “Your generosity has provided the resources for them to acquire over 100,000 pounds of food during that time. Everyone present will receive a Gift of Music and we hope each will bring a gift of money for Helping Neighbors Food Pan-try and/or Community Services Center.

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Terry Austin, AMMC Foundation, praises the work of Amanda Wiedeman and Brigitte McDonald of Corning Cares Campaign during a special luncheon last week.

In appreciation for your work . . . by Fred Martin

Upgrading the AMMC ambu-lance stationed around the clock in Corning was the goal of many supporters over the past two months, most notably Brigitte McDonald, Amanda Wiedeman and Patty Watson-Scheer of Corning Cares Campaign. These three organized a drive the first of October and within six weeks had received more funds than first expected.

A special “luncheon of ap-preciation” was hosted by Terry Austin and AMMC Foundation Friday of last week to thank all donors for their contribution.

Austin told those present for the lunch, “We set a goal of $25,000 with hopes of rais-

ing $30,000 for extra work on the ambulance AMMC (Arkansas Methodist Medical Center) has in Corning, and thanks to you, we are exact-ly $100 short of $40,000. It is amazing how Corning has worked to secure and upgrade this ambulance.”

Austin referenced a project ex-actly five years ago when funds for a “state of the art” ambulance were raised through public dona-tions, enabling the new AMMC ambulance to be purchased and put into service before the end of the 2009 calendar year.

McDonald, Wiedeman, Watson-Scheer and J.V. Rockwell were organizers of the first ambulance drive that

moved along so rapidly with $50,000 being raised in a sev-en-week period.

Austin presented plaques to Wiedeman and McDonald at the luncheon, praising them and Watson-Scheer for their organi-zational skills and community involvement.

He also thanks all the donors, most of whom were present for a noon-day luncheon of apprecia-tion.

AMMC Ambulance Service moved an office to Corning 14 years ago after other services had discontinued serving the area’s emergency health needs. Andy Allen has been serving as site director since AMMC began operations in Corning.

Guests and supporters attend a luncheon hosted by AMMC Foundation in appreciation for their help in the recent fund-raising event.

Happy 33rd AnniversaryNovember 27

Maw Maw & Paw Paw

MessiahSings audience choirperformance, Tues., Dec. 2

Mayor Doris Sellmeyer has been notified that trash pickup in Knobel will be on Friday, start-ing November 28, until further notice.

The Knobel Christmas Pa-rade will be Saturday, Decem-ber 20th. The parade is spon-sored by The Knobel Volunteer Fire Department. Everyone needs to get started on their floats.

Nick and Cona Ricker visited Martha Border at Peach Orchard

Saturday evening.Visitors of Ruby Williams

were Roberta Forbes of Corning and Kelli Robinson of Knobel.

Betty Weese and Deloris Ty-ler helped The New Beginnings Church at Knobel Saturday with their Thanksgiving Dinner. They served over 160 dinners.

Deloris Tyler visited Betty Weese Sunday afternoon.

The turkey shoot that was Saturday was sponsored by The Knobel Volunteer Fire Depart-

ment. John Mangum wants to let everyone know that he and Jim won turkeys. I don’t have a list of who won.

Joyce Engel of Knobel and Michelle Kercheval of Poca-hontas attended Middle School Homecoming at Valley View Friday. Their granddaughter, Ali Kercheval, was one of the maids. Ali is the daughter of Kevin and Lori Kercheval of Jonesborol

The Ashby family had their annual Thanksgiving Dinner Saturday at Ewell and Caroline Melton’s at Paragould. Attend-ing were J.T. Ashby, Rick and Lynn Watson, Erika Conway, Imogene Cable, Randy Cable, Tony and Donna Cable, Brian and RaeAnn Cable and Savan-nah, Kevin and Ellen Cable and Beth, Julian Hart, Elton Hart all of Paragould, Thurman and Ruth Cavitt of Corning, Nick and Cona Ricker of Knobel.

Trip to Paris in March from Hemingway centerThe Hemingway-Pfeiffer

Museum & Educational Center (HPMEC) is sponsoring a trip to Paris, France, Sunday, March 22 through Monday, March 30, 2015, during Arkansas State Uni-versity’s spring break.

Friends of the Pfeiffers, the mu-seum’s membership program, in-vites the community to join them for “The Hemingways’ Paris,” a unique opportunity to see two sides of Paris, the artistic Left

Bank of Ernest Hemingway and the glitzy Right Bank of Pauline Pfeiffer. The two married in Paris on May 10, 1927, bringing togeth-er two disparate worlds.

On the Left Bank, the group will walk in the footsteps of the artists of the Lost Generation: Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway. On the Right Bank, they will ex-plore the world of Parisian fashion that Pauline Pfeiffer covered for

Vogue magazine. They will view the world of Coco Chanel and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

In addition, other major Paris sites on the tour include Versailles, Giverny, and Normandy where Hemingway covered the 1944 World War II invasion as a jour-nalist.

The trip is open to the public, but space is limited and expected to fill up fast. The cost is $3,198 per person (land package, double-occupancy). To register for the trip, or to learn more information, contact the museum at 870-598-3487 or email [email protected].

HPMEC is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site. Regular museum hours are Monday-Fri-day, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., and Sat-urday, 1:00-3:00 p.m., with tours on the hour.

MO/ARK StAte line • 573-989-3822

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Record temperaturesThe following list shows record lows and highs as registered

with the National Weather Service through Corning’s Weather Observing Station:Date HIGHest (year) LOWest (year)Nov. 27 77°F (1941) 13°F (1938)Nov. 28 75°F (1989) 14°F (1955)Nov. 29 75°F (1933) 10°F (1976)Nov. 30 77°F (1941) 12°F (1964)Dec. 1 74°F (1970) 18°F (1943)Dec. 2 76°F (1982) 14°F (1944)Dec. 3 78°F (1950) 16°F (1935)Dec. 4 74°F (1933) 17°F (1942)Dec. 5 77°F (1956) 17°F (1935)Dec. 6 74°F (1956) 12°F (1937)

For Sale - Lots 1-4 and Lots 7-24 (Total of 22 Lots)in Manatt Second Addition. Bill of Assurances.

Contact Mark Rockwell 870-857-3531 for more information.

Do you have a computeryou need to get rid of?

We’ll take the old ones off your hands for free. We’ll also take video cameras, desk or wall telephones, cellular phones, fax or copy machines, and notebook computers. We take it all - towers, keyboards, monitors, mice, and printers. And anything to do with televisions too, such as video game consoles, video cassette recorder/players, and DVD recorder/players.

We’ll take all these items for free. That’s right - no charge.

Just put them in any of our recycling containers located in Paragould, Marmaduke, Corning, Piggott, Rector, Pocahontas, Hoxie and Walnut Ridge, or take them to the Recycling Center located at the landfill, about four miles North of Paragould.

We recycle lots of other things too, such as clear and colored glass, aluminum and other metals, plastic bags, plastic bottles and jugs, cardboard, chipboard such as cereal boxes, newspapers, computer paper, junk mail, and household appliances.

Food and beverage containers must be rinsed out.Bring washers, dryers, water heaters, other appliances,motor oil and automotive batteries to the Recycling Center.

Get our brochure at your mayor’s office (cities listed above), or at your county judge’s office.

Please practice the 3 R’s - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Northeast Arkansas Regional Solid Waste Management District Recycling Center.

Call us at 239-5572 for directions, or more information.

What Thanksgiving Means to me . . .From Park elementary stu-dents

1a, Ms. Derinda sheppardWyatt Bass: It means eating

turkey;Meagan Bliss: It means hap-

piness;Makynna Cates: Eating turkey

and being with family;Dash Ellis: It means eating

turkey;Leslie Dobbins: We get to eat

lots of food;Antwone Henson: Eating

good food and having fun;Carlee Hopkins: Whenever

family gets together;Justin James: Eating turkey;Blaine Lancaster: We get to

eat turkey;Kaylyn Langley: Giving

thanks;Destiny Leonard: Sharing tur-

key;Tiffany Leonard: Eating tur-

key;Zander Morley: It means

spending time with family and seeing all of your family;

Andrew Kanady: Family;Hunter Newell: Eating turkey;Sonja Lucy Orozco: Having

turkey;Lily Owens: Being with fam-

ily and eating turkey;RJ Pettis: Being happy;Brendan Smith: Sharing food;Faith Yandell: Eating turkey

with your family;Jasper Yandell: Helping my

mom.

1B, Mrs. trina HurstMakaylah Arnett: Eating a lot

of good food;Luke Bland: Eating turkey;Kinley Barker: Spending time

with Grandma and Mom;Hunter Bowers: Gather up and

eating turkey;Kilee Burkheart: Spending

time with my mom and eating turkey;

Owen Burkheart: Having fun at Grandma’s house and eating turkey;

Sunnie Eldridge: Eating pumpkin pie;

Aidan Clifton: It’s my birth-day;

Da’Nay Harris: Getting to eat turkey, and see my family;

Bailey Leonard: Spending time with family;

Katie Karr: Spending time with family and having fun;

Mac Lunsford: Going to Grandma’s;

Aerius Kimble: Eat turkey;Makenna Lane: Getting to

visit Grandma, Nana and Aunt Gail;

Clinton Rutledge: Eating tur-key and saying prayers;

Krista McDaniel: Eating tur-key;

Lane Vaughn: Giving thanks;Elya Smith: Going to see

Grandma to eat turkey;Abby Staggs: Eating dinner

together and having fun;Stephanie Benning: It’s spe-

cial because we get to eat a big feast.

1C, Wendi Ladd’s classSydni Bynum: Making a tur-

key for dinner;Ethan Wheetley: Giving

thanks to God;Shayla Carpenter: Eating a lot

and being with family;Luke Eubanks: Being with

family and friends;Amy Chen: Means you get to

eat;Chris Pence: Thanksgiving

means eating good food;Riley Coe: Spending time

with your family;David Rapert: Having a

Thanksgiving party;Ashley Espinoza: Giving

things and caring;Eric Richardson: Eating turkey;Tommy Sanders: A feast;Chase Riney: Eating Nana’s

ham;Carissa Hollowell: Eating at

Granny’s house;Blake Rush: Caring about

people;Kaley James: Going to see

Uncle Johnny, and eating at Nanny’s house;

Amos Turrentine: Celebra-tions;

Julie Nipper: Giving thanks for all of the food we have;

Makenna Shipman: Having fund with my family, eating and playing games;

Tera Robinson: Dessert and cakes;

Whitney Stroud: Giving God thanks for all He’s done;

Lillian Pearson: A big heart.

How to cook turkey . . .aBC Preschool B

Alexis Berry: Put it in the oven for 48 seconds a day. Put peanut butter and jelly on it.

Kaileigh Chavez: Put it in a pan. Cook if five minutes. Bake it. Put sauce on it.

Destiny Cochran: Cut it with a knife. Eat it.

Addison Collett: You put it on the grill and grill it. I don’t know how long to cook it. Forever I guess.

Olivia Cummings: Cook it with turkey. Put it in the micro-wave for four seconds. Put butter on it.

Bennett Davis: Put it in a pan for 40 minutes. Cook it and eat it, honey.

Jude Dodd: Cook it a long time. Cook it until Christmas or Valentines Day. Cook it all winter. Put marinade sauce on it. Cook chicken fajitas and eat that instead.

Nick Harris: Put it on the stove. Put a button on it. Cook it

40 hours.Katelyn Hill: Cook it on the

stove for six minutes.Katrina House: Put it on the

stove. Cook it 10 minutes. Put salt on it.

Wyatt Mendenhall: Take it out of the paper. Make it in a pan and dry it. Carry it around and put stuff on it.

Abby Russom: Put it in the oven. Turn it on. Cook it a long time.

Christopher Scrogin: Put it in the oven for six minutes. Eat it.

Aliyah Segura: Boil it 60 sec-onds.

Athena Thomas: Cook the turkey on the stove. Buy it at Walmart. Cook it at home.

Jayden Trammell: I really don’t know how. Put it in a big pan. Cook it on the stove. Cook it two minutes. Put pepper on it.

Hayden Williams: Put it in a pan. Cut it up. Put it in the oven for two hours. Put salt and pep-per on it.

Raylee Wright: Make it. Cook it a little bit. Cook it two times.

Brylee Yandell: Put it in the oven. Cook it 30 minutes. Turn it up to five. Put ketchup on it. Ketchup is good. Mustard is too.

From Corning aBC preschool Classroom a

Mariellen Rice: Bake it then flip it over. My mom keeps on getting it out;

Whittley Young: Pat it and put it in the oven. My mom keeps on cleaning and I keep making a mess;

Samantha Sanders: Mom goes to Wal-Mart. Mom cooks it;

Kinley Gullett: Toast and then turkey;

Addison Blagg: In the oven and then we eat it;

Danny Lee Ellis: Cook it with a pumpkin pie. Lay down and cover your head in there;

London Dodd: Cook it with a knife and sword. Cut the chick-ens;

Jaggar George: Put mayon-naise on it and make a sandwich. That’s how I make it;

Kami Hollis: Fish and chicken and a cake with a party. Sing Happy Birthday!;

Alyiah Archer: Cook it in the microwave then eat it with a spoon;

Caylee Dodd: Cook it with a spoon. Eat it with a knife and fork;

Eva Watts: Around and around. Turkeys are silly. We can’t eat turkey. Put it in the oven and flip it. Mommy and I eat pancakes;

Nathaniel Walston: Cook it on the stove. Put it on the plate and eat it;

Caleb Burns: My mom does it. I don’t know how;

Nevaeh Neal: My mom cooks it in the oven;

Lakelyn Cates: Put it in the oven and take it out. Eat it with a fork and peas.

I Am Thankful . . .my precious mom.

Katrina House: I am thankful for friends.

Wyatt Mendenhall: I am thankful for Grandma.

Abby Russom: I am thankful for Mommy.

Christopher Scrogin: I am thankful for getting to play with Bennett.

Aliyah Segura: I am thankful for Daddy.

Athena Thomas: I am thankful for my mom.

Jayden Trammell: I am thank-ful for my toys.

Hayden Williams: I am thank-ful for my T-Rex toy.

Raylee Wright: I am thankful for my grandma.

Brylee Yandell: I am thankful for my mom.

Corning aBC Preschool BAlexis Berry: I am thankful for

biscuits and hamburgers.Kaileigh Chavez: I am thank-

ful for Mommy.Destiny Cochran: I am thank-

ful for turkey.Addison Collett: I am thankful

for NeNe.Olivia Cummings: I am thank-

ful for Mommy and even Daddy, too.

Bennett Davis: I am thankful for my mom and dad.

Jude Dodd: I am thankful for the food we eat from Jesus. I love Him very much.

Nick Harris: I am thankful for my sister.

Katelyn Hill: I am thankful for

curity card to make sure they all match. If you don’t have access to your card or Statement but know your Social Security num-ber, make sure the number and information is correct on your W-2s. A mismatch could delay your tax refund and cause prob-lems with your Social Security benefits in the future. Such errors are much easier to fix early on. If you do notice an error, contact Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778), or if the information on the W-2 is incorrect, notify your employer.

For more information about Social Security, visit www.so-cialsecurity.gov.

Wise taxpayers may want to take advantage of winter months indoors to prepare for tax fil-ing season this spring. Whether you are a small business owner, a retiree, or a new parent, here are some Social Security tax tips that may help you.

Are Social Security benefits taxable? Yes, for some people with higher incomes. About one third of those receiving Social Security benefits must pay taxes on some of their Social Secu-rity benefits, depending on the amount of their taxable income. Learn more at www.socialsecu-rity.gov/planners/taxes.htm.

Will I get a tax form for my So-cial Security benefits? Yes. Ben-eficiaries should receive their Social Security Benefit State-ments (Form SSA-1099) for tax year 2013 on or before January 31, 2014. If you receive Social Security and don’t receive your 1099 by the end of January, you can request one online at www.socialsecurity.gov/1099.

We had a baby in 2013. Does our child need a Social Security number? Yes. Most people apply for their baby’s Social Security

number while they’re still in the hospital at the same time they register for the birth certificate. But if you didn’t, you’ll need to apply for your child’s Social Security number before you file your tax return in order to claim the child as a dependent. You’ll also need it if you ever apply for government benefits on behalf of your child or your family. Learn more about Social Secu-rity cards and numbers at www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber.

I changed my name when I got married last year. Do I need to report it to Social Security? Yes. If you’ve legally changed your name due to marriage, di-vorce, court order, or for any other reason, make sure you change your name with Social Security, as well as with your employer. If you change with one source but not the other, it could cause your earnings to be improperly recorded and you may not get all the benefits you are entitled to when you become eligible for Social Security in the future. Failing to change your name on your Social Security record could also cause a delay

in your receipt of any federal in-come tax refund. You can learn more about your Social Security number and how to change your name at www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber.

I own a small business. Can I report my employees’ W-2s to Social Security electronically? Yes, and we encourage you to do just that at www.socialsecu-rity.gov/bso. Filing your W-2s electronically is free, fast, and secure! Plus there’s an added bo-nus: when you file electronical-ly, you receive an extra month to file because electronically filed W-2s aren’t due until March 31. You’ll also receive an electron-ic receipt. And when you enter your W-2 information online, you can simultaneously print out the W-2s for your employees. Learn more at www.socialsecu-rity.gov/employer.

Does Social Security have any tips at this time of year for those filing their taxes? Yes. We en-courage you to carefully check: your name, Social Security num-ber, and all data on your W-2s; your online Social Security Statement; and your Social Se-

Social Securityby Phylis Dills

social security Public affairs specialist

Time to prepare for tax season . . .

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Bradley Countyhunter kills mountain lion

A deer hunter shot and killed a 148-pound male mountain lion Saturday morning east of Her-mitage in Bradley County.

It’s the first time a mountain lion has been killed in Arkansas since 1975 in Logan County.

The hunter, Douglas W. Ra-mer, 62, of Bastrop, Louisiana, told wildlife officers the moun-tain lion was moving toward his deer stand and he felt threatened. According to Arkansas Game and Fish Commission regula-tions, non-game wildlife (except migratory birds and endangered species) that present a reasonable threat to people or property may be shot during daylight hours or trapped without a depredation permit.

Ramer, who was on private property, reported the incident to wildlife officers Wednesday. He has not been charged with violat-ing regulations, although officers are continuing to investigate the incident.

The carcass was given to AGFC biologists. Hair from the mountain lion will be sent to Wildlife Genetics Laboratory in Missoula, Montana, for DNA testing, which often can reveal an animal’s area of birth.

Mountain lions - also known as pumas and cougars - lived throughout Arkansas until about 1920. The AGFC offered boun-ties and hired trappers to control predators during 1927-29. At least 255 wolves and 523 bob-cats were killed, but no mountain lions were taken.

Five sightings of mountain li-ons in Arkansas have been con-firmed in the last five years, al-though a breeding population has not been verified. A few moun-tain lion sightings in Missouri, Oklahoma and Louisiana also have been confirmed in recent years.

A mountain lion was killed in Montgomery County in 1949 and another in Ashley County in 1969. In late 1998, a team from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock observed tracks, fe-ces and a deer kill from a free-ranging mountain lion across Hot Spring, Garland and Pulaski counties.

CHS Giant . . .Corning’s Klint Harvey, a senior, boasts 6-7 size and is helping with the Bobcats’ inside game this season. Corning lost to Crowley’s Ridge Academy in Paragould Tuesday, Nov. 18, falling 73-71 in a close con-test as Noah Bass led the Bobcats with 24 points and Dalton Carpen-ter and Tim McMasters each contributed 14. Corning won the junior boys’ game 48-27. They played at Rector Tuesday but results of that contest were unavailable at press time.

Young sinks 25 points . . .Becca Young is one of the Lady Bobcats’ starting 5 and brings experi-ence and skill to this year’s squad. The Lady ‘Cats started off the year aggressively with a victory over Maynard, winning by an impressive 64 points in which 15 three-pointers landed successfully. Young scored 25 points and Kaytee Manatt scored 20 in the contest. The junior girls lost their game. The team plays in the WBC Tournament this week.

7th grade runner-up . . .The Corning 7th grade Lady Bobkitten captured second place in the Pocahontas Tournament over the weekend, notching out wins over Walnut Ridge, Nettleton and Pocahontas before losing to Greene County Tech in the championship. Front, Kelsey Watson, Sunshine Williams, Abby Bauschlicher, Emily Kimble, Kassadee Pritchard, Emma Russom. Back: Assistant Coach Josh Cagle, Jerri VanNada, Kassie George, Katie Clifton, Hannah Blankenship, Alexis Taylor and Head Coach Jerry Songer.

Senior squads ready for WBC Tournamentby Jim McIntosh

Barely into the basketball season Corning senior high teams are preparing for the upcoming Williams Baptist College high school basket-ball tournament which gets under way Saturday and runs throughout the week. The Lady Bobcats are seeded sec-ond in the 56th annual tourney. The Bobcats are the sixth seed in the boys division.

The Lady Bobcats are sec-ond behind defending champion Marmaduke. Bay is the top seed for the boys.

The top four seeds in the boy’s bracket are: Bay (1), Pocahontas (2), Westside (3), and Marmad-uke (4), with each receiving

a bye in the first round. They are followed by Riverside (5), Corning (6), Walnut Ridge (7), Sloan-Hendrix (8), Viola (9), Hillcrest (10), Tuckerman (11), and Maynard (12).

In the girl’s bracket, the top six schools will receive a bye. In order, the seeds are: Marmaduke (1), Corning (2), Southside (3), Pocahontas (4), Tuckerman (5) and Sloan-Hendrix (6). Round-ing out the girl’s bracket are Walnut Ridge (7), Hillcrest (8), Maynard (9) and Viola (10).

The seeds were selected by a vote of tournament coaches.

The Williams Tournament will run from November 29 through December 5 and will be played in WBC’s Southerland-

Mabee Center. The girls play Monday at

7:10 p.m. against the winner of Walnut Ridge vs. Viola. Winner advances to game Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. to play the winner of Southside (3) against Sloan-Hendrix (6). The championship is at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5.

The boys play 11th seeded Tuckerman at 7:15 p.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 29. The victor ad-vances to a Tuesday game at 5:50 p.m. against third seeded Westside. From there, the win-ner plays Wednesday, Dec. 3, facing the winner between Pocahontas and Walnut Ridge vs. Hillcrest. The champion-ship game is Friday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Bobcats scheduleNov. 29-Dec. 6 . . . . WBC Tournament in Walnut RidgeFri., Dec. 5 . . . . . . Hoxie* . . . . . . . . Home. . . . . . 6:00Tues., Dec. 16 . . . . Osceola* . . . . . . . Home. . . . . . 6:00Fri., Dec. 19. . . . . . Manila*. . . . . . . . Away . . . . . . 6:00Jan. 3-10 . . . . . . . Kell Tournament in SwiftonFri., Jan. 9 . . . . . . Piggott* . . . . . . . Home. . . . . . 6:00Tues., Jan. 13 . . . . Rivercrest* . . . . . . Away . . . . . . 6:00Fri., Jan. 16 . . . . . . Hoxie* . . . . . . . . Away . . . . . . 6:00Fri., Jan. 23 . . . . . . Osceola* . . . . . . . Away . . . . . . 6:00Tues., Jan. 27 . . . . Manila*. . . . . . . . Home. . . . . . 6:00Fri., Jan. 30 . . . . . . Piggott* . . . . . . . Away . . . . . . 6:00Tues., Feb. 3 . . . . . Rivercrest* . . . . . . Home. . . . . . 6:00Feb. 7-14 . . . . . . . Jr. DistrictThurs., Feb. 12 . . . . Pocahontas. . . . . . Home. . . . . . 6:00Fri., Feb. 13 . . . . . . Marmaduke. . . . . . Away . . . . . . 6:00Feb. 14-21 . . . . . . Senior District in Manila* Denotes conference game

Lady Bobcats scheduleNov. 29-Dec. 6 . WBC Tournament in Walnut RidgeMon., Dec. 8 . . Doniphan . . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Tues., Dec. 9 . . Hayti. . . . . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Thurs., Dec. 11 . Piggott* . . . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Mon., Dec. 15 . Osceola* . . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Thurs., Dec. 18 . Manila* . . . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Jan. 3-10 . . . . Kell Classic in SwiftonMon., Jan. 5 . . Hoxie*. . . . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Mon., Jan. 12. . Rivercrest* . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Jan. 15-17 . . . Corning Girls TournamentMon., Jan. 19. . Hoxie*. . . . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Thurs., Jan. 22 . Osceola* . . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Mon., Jan. 26. . Manila* . . . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Thurs., Jan. 29 . Piggott* . . . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Mon., Feb. 2 . . Rivercrest* . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Tues., Feb. 3 . . Doniphan . . . . . . . . Away. . . . . . . 6:00Thurs., Feb. 5. . Campbell . . . . . . . . Home . . . . . . 6:00Feb. 9-14 . . . . Junior DistrictFeb. 17-22 . . . Senior District* Denotes conference game

Callin’ the Hogs in the rain . . .The Davis clan and friends attended the Arkansas Razorbacks’ game last Saturday and were able to be part of the hog wild celebration after the Hogs beat eighth-ranked Ole Miss 30-0 amidst the pouring rain. The trip was in honor of birthday celebrations for part of the crew. Pictured from left are Mackinah Davis, Cindy Davis, Allison Russom, Donnie Davis, Jessie Guthrey and Sydney Davis. Among the birthday honorees were Sydney, 18, Mackinah, 16, and Donnie, who did not reveal his age.

Bobcat football statsby Jim McIntosh

The Corning Bobcats football team concluded the 2014 season on a positive note, advancing as the fifth seed to the Class 3A playoffs. It was a year of trial with numerous injuries plagu-ing the team but young players saw adequate playing time and Coach Chuck Speer was pleased with many aspects of his team and the improvement they dem-onstrated.

“One of the best things we saw was a change in attitude,” Speer said. “Players expected to win and played competitively from the first snap to the last.”

Players performed well this season. Following are the sta-tistics for individual players for 2014:

QB Austin Scrogin completed 81 of 170 passes (47.6%) for 1,067 yards and 15 touchdowns. Scrogin had a passer rating of

77.7 and threw 8 interceptions on the year. His longest pass went for 70 yards and he averaged 6.3 yards per attempt. Scrogin also rushed for 227 yards on the sea-son, averaging 3.6 YPC with a pair of touchdowns and only one fumble.

On the rushing stat line, Mi-chael Allen led the team with 675 yards on 167 carries, averaging 4 yards per carry, with 6 touch-downs and only one fumble. He boasted the largest chunk of yardage from a team that totaled 2,008 yards on the ground. Aus-tin Rouse ran for 425 yards on 76 carries; Others contributing were Gordo Gonzales with 304 yards on 47 carries (6.5 YPC) and 4 touchdowns. Gonzales had trouble holding onto the ball at times, coughing it up 3 times. Cope Robinson averaged an as-tonishing 9.6 YPC, rushing for 192 yards on 20 totes. Hunter Tidwell, utilized late in the sea-son due to injuries, rushed for 56 yards on 7 attempts with 1 TD.

In receiving yards, Robinson led the way with 457 yards on 24 receptions and 7 TDs, aver-aging 19 yards per reception. He accounted for most of the Bobcats’ 1,006 receiving yards. Rouse caught 13 passes for 189 yards and 5 touchdowns. Jona-than Rangel caught 18 balls for 157 yards and 3 TDs. Travis Foster made 10 grabs for 107 yards.

On the defensive side of the ball, Dylan Jordan was the beast on the field, posting 43 solo tackles and 3 sacks. Foster had 34 tackles and a sack; Rouse

and Connor Daniels each had 32 tackles with Rouse accounting for 2 sacks. Rangel logged 30 solos; Tidwell posted 28 tack-les and 4 sacks. Jacob Ward had 26 tackles and a sack; and Chad Johnson made 24 tackles.

Bobkittens roll over PiratesIt was a 3AA North Confer-

ence win for the Corning Bob-

kittens as they hosted Gosnell’s Pirates Monday night. Guy Wil-liams got the first points, but over the next few minutes, Corning fell behind. The Bobkittens man-aged a four-point lead at the end of the first quarter, but stretched it to 12 points after holding the Pirates scoreless for the six-min-ute quarter.

Williams scored five field goals in each half to lead Corn-ing with 20 points. Mitch Hovis went into double figures with ten points. Wade Dobbins added four and B. J. Cline scored one field goal.

Corning fell to Nettleton 40 to 31 last Friday night as the ‘Kit-tens found difficulty in overcom-ing the quickness and accurate shooting of the Raiders. Wil-liams hit 14 points to lead Corn-ing. Hovis had 12 and B. J. Cline scored five.

Senior boys vs. GosnellCorning hosted Gosnell Mon-

day night and took the favored Pirates to the wire before losing 49-47. Gosnell’s inside strength proved too much for Corning.

Down the stretch, after Corn-ing moved to with-in five points,

they were plagued with turn-overs that Gosnell used to get on the board. Corning hit only seven of 23 free throws.

Korley Martin led the Bobcats with 16 points. Clint Davis added six. Scoring five points were Ja-son Hicks, Preston Tharp, Nathan VanNada and Cameron Crafton. Jason Webb hit one three-point field goal and Scott Shourd had two points for the night.

Junior girls notch another winIt was another case of taking

charge of the game as Corning’s Lady Bobkittens earned a non-conference victory over Walnut Ridge, Monday night, in Bobcat gym. Corning’s five-point lead in the first quarter grew to a ten-point victory at game’s end, 37-27.

Misty Catt hit 15 points for Corning to pace her team to a victory. Kaley Kegley hit dou-ble figures with ten. Sami Pyle

added five, while Candy Jordan accounted for four of Corning’s points. Christy Smith had two points and Amy Williams added one free throw.

Senior girlsCorning Senior girls went

cold in the third quarter of action against Walnut Ridge, Mon-day night, and took a six point loss, 37-31. Corning held a one-point lead at the end of the first quarter, then fell behind by two points at halftime. During third quarter play, the Lady Bobcats scored only four points. Walnut Ridge moved ahead behind the shooting of Lisa Nicholson, who had 25 points for Walnut Ridge.

Lori Engel led Corning with 12 points. Sharae Bippus and Cindy Sharp had six points apiece. Cheri Purdom added four. Mitzi Manatt had two and Linda Adams, who led in re-bounds, had one free throw.

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Obituaries

Wyman AllistonWyman G. Alliston of Neely-

ville was born November 12, 1923, son of Roy and Pearl Ray Alliston. He died Friday, No-vember 21, 2014 in Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff. He was 91.

A farmer and bus driver for Neelyville Schools from the fall of 1963 until November 1993, he was a member of the Inde-pendence Missionary Baptist Church.

On February 25, 1950 he mar-ried his wife Gladys Ward in Pocahontas. She preceded him in death January 20, 1992.

Survivors are his children La-vonne (Greg) Hinton, Glenda (Sean) Donnelly, Beth (Bill) Briney and Johnny Alliston; grandchildren Laura and Shan-non Donnelly, Courtney, Brooke and Ridge Briney; sisters Wilma Bush, Melvetta Grimmett, Lave-dia Moran and Shirley Burson; one brother Bill Alliston.

Funeral services were led by Donnie Fowler Sunday Novem-ber 20, 2014, followed by burial in Kinsey Cemetery in Harviell under the direction of Fowler-Sullivan Memorial Chapel.

Sign online condolences at www.fowlersullivanfuneralhome.com

Sterling Lee WhiteSterling Lee White, 81, of

Paragould and formerly of the Corning area departed this life on November 15, 2014 at Arkan-sas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould.

He was born October 11, 1933 in Blytheville, son of Walter Lee White and Bessie (Oglesby) White.

Sterling retired from the Ar-kansas State Highway Depart-ment as road grader operator, having received many awards. He lived life to the fullest and loved his family and friends very much.

He is survived by his loving wife, Ann White; two daugh-ters, Deborah (Edward) Snow of Cabot and Jackie Eldridge of Jonesboro; one stepson, Jimmy (Vicky) White of Paragould; five grandchildren; two step grand-children; 10 great grandchildren; and five step great grandchildren; one brother, Bill (Nyla) White of Corning; and three sisters, Nina Easterwood of Arizona, Sharon Williams of Corning and Dar-lene Parks of Paragould; a host of nieces, nephew and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Leona McMillan.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, November 18 in a visi-tation setting at Peace Taberna-cle Church in Paragould. 31t1p

Thelma BrewerThelma Irene Brewer of Corn-

ing was born December 11, 1917 in Corning, daughter of James Samuel and Ella (Boshears) Duff. She died in Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Friday, Novem-ber 14, 2014. She was 96.

A homemaker, she was a member of Landmark Mission-ary Baptist Church.

In February 1939, she married her husband Ray Brewer, who pre-ceded her in death April 13, 1986.

Survivors are two sons Don (Fletta) Brewer, Corning and Jim (Linda) Brewer, Success; four grandchildren Steve, Shana, Jeff and Tim; 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; one daugh-ter Patricia Travis; and two sisters Dorothy Hagar and Mary Kazee.

Funeral services were conduct-ed Monday, November 17, 2014 in the chapel of Ermert Funeral Home with Tim Brewer and Pas-tor Robert Moore officiating. Burial in Corning Cemetery.

Pallbearers were grandsons Steve Brewer, Jeff Brewer and Ed Lomax; and great-grandsons Lucas Brewer, Brayden Brewer and Zeke Lomax.

Sign online condolences at www.ermertfuneralhome.com

Bette Cochran HallBette Cochran Hall died

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 in San Antonio, TX.

She was born November 5, 1925 in Success, daughter of Eulis and Alma (Cunningham) Cochran. Ms. Hall graduated from Corning High School and Ouachita Baptist University. After graduation she married Rev. J. Leland Hall who preceded her in death in 2009.

The Halls served the Lord, pas-toring churches in Arkansas, Okla-homa, Missouri and Florida. Ms. Hall was a godly pastor’s wife, an inspiration and witness to many people. She never met a stranger. Proverbs 31:10-31 is a very fitting scripture for her life.

Survivors are two sons: Dr. Jim (Dawn) Hall, Wildwood, MO, Hal (Sharon) Hall, Roland, WA; three daughters: Bette L. (Charles) Moeller, Ballwin, MO, Alma (Norman) Wakefield, Bulverde, TX, Lydia (Dr. Greg) Goode, Ti-tusville, FL; 20 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law Doll Cochran, Corning; and several other in-laws, many friends and relatives.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents: Eulis and Alma Cochran; and brother Bob Cochran. Services were held Saturday, November 22 in Corn-ing under the direction of Ermert Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to WCIF, Melbourne, FL, 32904 where they founded the ra-dio station in First Baptist Church in Melbourne. 31t1p

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Norman BaccusNorman Baccus of Valley

Springs, California was born in Corning May 5, 1929, son of Charlie Baccus and Iva Pearline (Means) Baccus. He died Tues-day, October 28, 2014 at his home. He was 85.

He was the brother of Corn-ing resident Jewell Russell. He graduated from high school and served in the U.S. Army in Santa Barbara.

He worked for Gravem-Inglis Bakery Co. for more than 29 years and for Angelica’s Bakery more than 13 years. In construc-tion, he worked with his son-in-law into his late 70s.

A member of Glory Bound Fellowship, he enjoyed water skiing, riding horses, motorcy-cles and camping. He loved the outdoors.

He married Marcia Mickey Baccus, who survives.

Other survivors are his daugh-ter Norma (Vernon) Green, Val-ley Springs, CA; stepdaughter Robin Jewell-Washington; sis-ters Jewell Russell, Corning and Beatrice Demeers, Stockton, CA; 9 grandchildren; numerous grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife Germaine Baccus; son Ronald Baccus; step-son Kenny Jewell; granddaughter Kimberly Hall; brothers Clarence Baccus, Rupert Baccus and Buddy Baccus; sisters Bessie Braning-burg and Georgia Milholin.

A celebration of life was Satur-day, November 15, 2014 at Glo-ry Bound Fellowship in Burson, CA. Memorials may be made to Hospice Care. 31t1p

Billy Joe BridgewaterBilly Joe Bridgewater of San

Francisco, California was born September 22, 1954 in Corning, son of Floyd and Rosa Bridge-water. He died October 10, 2014 in San Francisco, California. He was 60 years old.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

Survivors are one son, Curtis James Bridgewater, Poplar Bluff; two brothers Terry Bridgewater, Belvedere, IL, and Ted Bridge-water, Taloga, OK: one sister Ilene Halcomb, Pascagoula, MS.

He was preceded in death by his parents Floyd and Rosa Bridgewater and brother Norman Bridgewater.

Burial was in Williams Cem-etery in Corning.

Monita WilliamsMonita McGrew Williams of

Success was born April 11, 1936 in Success, daughter of Ray and Sylvia (Crowell) McGrew. She died in UAMS in Little Rock Saturday, November 22, 2014. She was 78.

A cafeteria worker and bus driver for Crowley’s Ridge Academy, Corning and Para-gould School Districts, she was a member of Current View Church of Christ. She enjoyed camping, fishing, cooking, oil painting, sewing and spending time with her family.

On September 26, 1953 she married Obra Williams and he survives.

Other survivors are children Renee Jones, Batesville, Mark Williams, Springfield, MO and Michelle Cupp, Batesville; brother Benny McGrew, Corn-ing; 8 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Funeral services were conduct-ed Tuesday, November 25, 2014 in the chapel of Ermert Funeral Home with Bruce McGrew offi-ciating. Burial in Hitt Cemetery in Success.

Sign online condolences at www.ermertfuneralhome.com

Black Friday, Grey Thursdayor Black November?

With Halloween now a distant memory, the world’s retailers are gearing up for the next opportunity which comes in form of Black Fri-day. But some are thinking a name change might be in the making as deals begin to be offered earlier and earlier each year. In recent years, the famed shopping day has begun be-fore and during Thanksgiving.

Many retailers are already an-nouncing special sales. Staples began offering deals last Sunday. Walmart began Saturday. Others, such as Amazon and Staples are also in the mix. Staples announced it will open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiv-ing - two hours earlier than in 2013. Stores will close at 10:00 p.m. and then reopen at 6 a.m. on Black Fri-day. Kohl’s announced last week its stores will also open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Like Staples, that’s two hours earlier than last year. Ex-pect more of the same for the next few weeks.

Amazon will unleash its Black Friday deals almost a month early. Starting Nov. 1, the online super-store began offering two Black Friday-style deals per day until the promotion wraps up in late Decem-ber. Deals will rotate out daily until Dec. 22.

Walmart also kicked off its Black Friday deals on Nov. 1, promising savings on HDTVs, laptops and Microsoft’s Xbox One. Walmart, along with rivals such as Toys ‘R’ Us, Best Buy and Target promise to match Amazon’s prices, with Target offering free shipping on all online products until Dec. 20.

The phrase was coined in 1966 during an ABC News report cited a Philadelphia Police Department spokesman referring to the day after Thanksgiving as Black Friday. The police department reported massive traffic jams, overcrowded sidewalks and a rise in shoplifting. In effect, the name stuck because it’s the day retailers go “into the black” or turn a profit for the year. The name was actually intended as a negative to discourage shoppers. But the phrase and theory began to spread outside Philadelphia.

In a 1975 Associated Press ar-ticle, datelined Philadelphia, a sales manager at Gimbels was quoted as saying, “That’s why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today ‘Black Friday’.”

At the time, she was watching a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers.

“They think in terms of head-aches it gives them,” she said.

It was only later that retailers, and other people who rely on Black Friday to make money, attempted to redefine the term as something positive.

According to Wickipedia, the term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the 19th century, where in the United States it was associated with a financial crisis of 1869. The earliest known invocation of “Black Friday” to refer to shopping on the day after Thanksgiving was made in a public relations newsletter from 1961 that is clear on the negative im-plications of the name and its origin in Philadelphia:

“For downtown merchants throughout the nation, the biggest shopping days normally are the two following Thanksgiving Day. Re-sulting traffic jams are an irksome

problem to the police and, in Phila-delphia, it became customary for of-ficers to refer to the post-Thanksgiv-ing days as Black Friday and Black Saturday.”

Hardly a stimulus for good busi-ness, the problem was discussed by the merchants with their Deputy City Representative, Abe S. Rosen, one of the country’s most experienced municipal PR executives. He recom-mended adoption of a positive ap-proach which would convert Black Friday and Black Saturday to Big Friday and Big Saturday. It is true that holiday sales make up the bulk of consumer spending for the year. Last year, shoppers on Black Friday spent an estimated $59.1 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. But how much of that is profit isn’t clear - given how retailers vie with each other to offer bigger incentives and discounts.

Despite the historic references, Black Friday didn’t become a na-tional term until the 1990s

Other known facts about the day are as follows:

• “Santa Claus parades” were Black Friday’s predecessor.

For many Americans, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has be-come part of the holiday ritual. But the event actually was inspired from the U.S.’s neighbors in the north. Canadian department store Eaton’s held the first “Santa Claus parade” on 2 December 1905. Once Santa appeared at the end of the parade, the signal was that the holiday sea-son - and thus, holiday shopping, had begun. U.S. department stores such as Macy’s took inspiration from the parade, and started spon-soring similar efforts across the country. In 1924, New York saw the first Macy’s parade featuring animals from Central Park Zoo and run by the store’s employees.

• The date of Thanksgiving was, indirectly, determined by holiday shoppers. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, in a custom started by President Abraham Lincoln, the president would declare a “day of thanks giving” on the last Thurs-day in November. This could either fall on the fourth or fifth Thursday in the month. But in 1939, a funny thing happened - the last Thursday happened to be the last day in No-vember. Retailers, worried about the shortened holiday shopping season, petitioned then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare the hol-iday a week earlier - which he did. For the next three years, Thanks-giving was known derisively as “Franksgiving” and celebrated on different days in different parts of the country. Finally, at the end of 1941, a joint resolution from Con-gress cleared up the matter. From then on, Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November - guaranteeing an extra week of shopping before Christmas.

• ‘Friday-after-Thanksgiving-it is.’ According to Bonnie Taylor-Blake, a researcher at the University of North Carolina, Factory Man-agement and Maintenance - a labor market newsletter - lays claim to the first use of the term as it relates to the holiday. In 1951 the circular drew attention to the suspiciously high level of sickness that day.

•’Friday-after-Thanksgiving-it is’ is a disease second only to the bu-

bonic plague in its effects. At least that’s the feeling of those who have to get production out, when Black Friday comes along. The shop may be half empty, but every absentee was sick.

• Black Friday became the big-gest shopping day of the year in 2001. Although it’s often touted as the biggest shopping day of the year, the day didn’t earn the designation consistently until the 2000s. That’s because, for many years, the rule wasn’t that Americans loved deals, it was that they loved procrastinat-ing. So up until that point, it was the Saturday before Christmas that typically saw the most wallets being emptied.

• Black Friday has become an in-ternational affair. Canadian retailers have long winced as their custom-ers went south on Black Friday in search of better shopping deals. So now they’ve begun offering their own sales - despite the fact that Ca-nadian Thanksgiving is a full month earlier.

• Black Friday is becoming ex-tinct.

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, broke the Black Friday tradition in 2011, when it opened its store on Thanksgiving evening. Ever since, retailers have been in a race to catch up and now, 33 million Americans said they planned to shop immediately after turkey.

But don’t worry - this time, re-tailers have come up with a name themselves: “Grey Thursday.” Oth-ers have suggested changing it alto-gether to Black November.

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Weaver Rosemary (Mrs Jess J) 07-21-04 40 Acres Se Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 .76022-00761-000 . Harpole Billy Don . . . . . . . . 15-21-04 1 Acres Pt Ne Nw (Ne Cor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 .83022-00764-000 . Byes Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . 15-21-04 6 Acres Pt W1/2 Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 .07022-00764-001 . Darr Jeanette . . . . . . . . . . 15-21-04 12 Acres Pt W1/2 Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 .89022-00773-000 . Creamers Cynthia . . . . . . . . 15-21-04 1 Acres Pt Sw Sw (Sw Cor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .49022-00789-000 . Green Dale & Tammy . . . . . . 16-21-04 0 .96 Acres Pt Nw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 .88022-00790-000 . Helms Gerald (Etal) * . . . . . . 16-21-04 28 .5 Acres Pt Nw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 .28022-00792-000 . Hewett Larry Gene . . . . . . . 16-21-04 1 Acres Pt Nw Nw (Se Cor) 300 X 145 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 .34022-00793-000 . Hewett Larry . . . . . . . . . . 16-21-04 0 .32 Acres Pt Nw Nw (Se Cor) 92 X 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 .96022-00796-000 . Green Othel D . . . . . . . . . 16-21-04 1 .91 Acres Pt Sw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .73022-00797-000 . Pulliam G D (Estate) . . . . . . 16-21-04 0 .92 Acres Pt Sw Nw (Nw Corner) (104 X 209) (88 X 209) . . . 43 .07022-00799-000 . Pulliam Tezzie L (Statef AR 2013)16-21-04 3 .4 Acres Pt Sw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 .30022-00812-000 . Weaver Gary . . . . . . . . . . 17-21-04 10 Acres Pt E1/2 Nw Ne (N&E Of Cr 178) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 .00022-00816-000 . Brooks Michael & Melinda Weaver 17-21-04 2 Acres Pt E1/2 Nw Ne (S & W Of Cr 178) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .00022-00818-000 . Pulliam G D (Estate) . . . . . . 17-21-04 0 .5 Acres Pt Se Ne (Ne Cor) 104 X 209 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95022-00838-000 . Richardson Eric J & Sarah A . . 18-21-04 2 Acres Pt Sw Ne (Nw Cor) 295X295 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 .65022-00842-000 . Spears Roberta L . . . . . . . . 18-21-04 1 Acres Pt Frl Nw Nw (Nw Cor) 198X216 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .00022-00846-000 . Ennis Herman Doyn Jr . . . . . 18-21-04 35 .88 Acres Frl Sw Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777 .89022-00856-000 . Ennis Herman Doyn Jr . . . . . 19-21-04 73 .19 Acres Frl W1/2 Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812 .61022-00902-000 . Bryant R N . . . . . . . . . . . 22-21-04 20 Acres S1/2 Nw Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 .26022-00923-000 . Landreth Kelly . . . . . . . . . . 24-21-04 1 .45 Acres Pt W1/2 Se Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 .01022-00934-001 . Malone Mike & Lisa . . . . . . . 25-21-04 Imp Only Pt Ne Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .15022-00949-000 . Rogers Christopher . . . . . . . 27-21-04 0 .74 Acres All Pt Nw Nw (S&E Of Center Of Ditch) . . . . . . . 25 .12022-00988-000 . Sograt Llc . . . . . . . . . . . . 31-21-04 160 Acres Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087 .56022-00989-000 . H C T Farms Inc . . . . . . . . 31-21-04 152 .02 Acres Frl Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,031 .33022-00990-000 . Townsend Michael S . . . . . . 31-21-04 40 Acres Ne Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 .07022-00991-000 . H C T Farms Inc . . . . . . . . 31-21-04 76 Acres Frl W1/2 Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899 .11022-00992-000 . Townsend Michael S . . . . . . 31-21-04 36 .14 Acres Pt Se Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 .63022-00993-000 . Townsend Michael S . . . . . . 31-21-04 3 .86 Acres Pt Se Sw (495 X 340) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963 .46022-00996-000 . Townsend Michael S . . . . . . 31-21-04 40 Acres Nw Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 .40022-01044-000 . Rapert Erica Leann . . . . . . . 33-21-04 0 .83 Acres Pt Sw Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .79022-01056-000 . Mcmasters Jimmy Carmon Jr & Shelli Renae . . . 35-21-04 20 Acres E1/2 Ne Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 .50022-01074-000 . Mcmasters Jimmy Carmon Jr & Shelli Renae . . . 35-21-04 20 Acres W1/2 Nw Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 .97022-01212-000 . Rice Danna Sue . . . . . . . . 04-20-04 0 .84 Acres Pt Nw Nw (W Of D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 .27022-01224-000 . Ermert James L Jr . . . . . . . 05-20-04 10 .25 Acres S1/2 S1/2 Ne Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 .51022-01235-001 . Ermert James Louis Jr (Etal) * . 05-20-04 13 .7 Acres Pt Ne Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 .82022-01259-000 . Leach Harold & Sarah . . . . . 06-20-04 0 .44 Acres Pt Nw Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 .35022-01261-000 . Woods Rickey Sr . . . . . . . . 06-20-04 1 .04 Acres Pt Ne Se (Ne Corner) (264X165 .2) (10 .5’X165 .2’) . . . 3 .49022-01311-000 . Burton Christine L/E . . . . . . 14-20-04 20 Acres W1/2 Ne Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 .99022-01313-000 . Murphy William Patrick . . . . . 14-20-04 6 .71 Acres Pt Nw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 .79022-01314-000 . Hollis Garry Wendel & Sharon . 14-20-04 0 .29 Acres Pt Nw Nw 67 X 189 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 .90022-01349-000 . Ingram Bobby R & Rebecca Jo . 18-20-04 1 .6 Acres Pt Ne Ne 210 X 330 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .80022-01367-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 40 Acres Sw Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 .87022-01370-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 40 .84 Acres Sw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 .39022-01372-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 36 Acres Pt Ne Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 .02022-01374-000 . Lamborn Wayne & Rita . . . . . 19-20-04 1 Acres Pt Ne Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 .34022-01375-002 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 40 Acres Se Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 .13022-01376-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 40 .2 Acres Pt Sw Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663 .42022-01377-000 . Harris Joann & Alma Curtis . . . 19-20-04 1 Acres Pt Sw Sw (Nw Corner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 .89022-01378-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 1 Acres Pt Nw Sw (Sw Corner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639 .26022-01379-000 . Curtis Colin O & Jennifer A . . . 19-20-04 20 Acres N1/2 Ne Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 .41022-01381-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-04 70 Acres W1/2 Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 .65022-01381-001 . Curtis Colin O & Jennifer A . . . 19-20-04 10 Acres Pt Nw Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 .26022-01410-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 22-20-04 131 Acres All Pt Sw (N Of Levee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 .64022-01415-000 . Pierce Breck . . . . . . . . . . 22-20-04 5 Acres Pt Se Se (S Of Levee, N Of River) . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 .83022-01486-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 28-20-04 16 .79 Acres Pt Ne Ne (N Of Levee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 .78022-01488-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 28-20-04 20 Acres Pt Nw Ne (N Of Levee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 .11022-01499-003 . Turner Gary W . . . . . . . . . 30-20-04 Imp Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 .75022-01500-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 30-20-04 80 Acres W1/2 Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 .74022-01501-000 . Curtis Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 30-20-04 120 .18 Acres Ne Nw & S1/2 Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811 .13022-01508-001 . Wren Tommy Ii . . . . . . . . . 33-20-04 2 Acres Pt Ne Se (E Of Lake) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 .13022-01514-000 . Vallance Anthony & Kimberly . . 34-20-04 10 Acres Pt Se Se (S & E Of Levee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 .27022-01527-000 . Loc Inc (State Of AR 2011) . . . 36-20-04 7 Acres Pt Ne Nw (Tract B-C-D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 .00022-01527-001 . Fraine Kenny (Carl) . . . . . . . 36-20-04 3 Acres Pt Ne Nw 330X396 Tract A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 .00022-01528-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc 36-20-04 150 Acres Nw (L&E 10@ Ne Nw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841 .67022-01529-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc 36-20-04 145 .76 Acres Pt Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,247 .19022-01539-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc 01-19-04 54 .35 Acres Pt N1/2 Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 .43022-01565-000 . Halcomb Larry . . . . . . . . . 02-19-04 2 Acres Pt W1/2 Se (S & E Of Rrrw) W Of Hwy 90 . . . . . . . . 10 .00022-01611-001 . Stacy Trent . . . . . . . . . . . 08-19-04 47 .75 Acres S47 .75@ W1/2 Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 .86022-01629-001 . Ridgely Frank & Susie Miller . . 09-19-04 0 .95 Acres Pt E1/2 Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .75022-01751-000 . Tucker Donnie . . . . . . . . . 22-19-04 80 Acres W1/2 Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729 .59022-01759-000 . Stormes Omagean L/E . . . . . 23-19-04 37 .7 Acres Pt Se Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 .73022-01833-000 . Kersey Walter L . . . . . . . . . 10-19-05 1 .33 Acres Pt Se Nw (E Of Hwy 135) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .15022-01906-000 . Emmerling Harriet Mae . . . . . 20-19-05 54 .11 Acres Pt S1/2 Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 .47022-01914-000 . Emmerling Harriet Mae . . . . . 21-19-05 40 .28 Acres Sw Sw & Pt Nw Sw ( .28@), S Of Cr 230 . . . . . . 336 .12022-01926-000 . Collins James D & Sarah A . . . 22-19-05 2 .16 Acres Pt Nw Nw (Sw Cor) 234X402 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 .64022-01957-000 . Small Rory C . . . . . . . . . . 02-20-05 0 .5 Acres Pt Ne Nw, Lying S&E Of Hwy 62 169X131 . . . . . . 15 .77022-01980-000 . Flannery Joe & Kathy . . . . . . 02-20-05 0 .61 Acres Pt Ne Sw 139X191 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 .85022-02009-000 . Woods Jack . . . . . . . . . . . 04-20-05 0 .5 Acres Frl Pt Se Nw (S & E Of R) (S Of Hwy 62) . . . . . . . 12 .94022-02023-000 . Shephard Charles Van & Imogene 05-20-05 3 .66 Acres Pt Se Ne & Pt Ne Ne (N Of Hwy 62) . . . . . . . . . 299 .68022-02025-000 . Arnold Randal Scott & Becky D . 05-20-05 1 .25 Acres Pt Sw Ne (N Hwy 62) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .75022-02075-000 . Bryant David & Anna . . . . . . 06-20-05 0 .71 Acres Pt Sw Sw (E Of Rr R-O-W) W Of Lake . . . . . . . . 38 .23022-02076-000 . Bryant David & Anna . . . . . . 06-20-05 0 .17 Acres Pt Sw Sw (E Of Rr R-O-W) (W Of Lake) . . . . . . . . 7 .15022-02077-000 . Bryant David . . . . . . . . . . 06-20-05 0 .45 Acres Pt Sw Sw (E Of Rr R-O-W) W Of Lake . . . . . . . . . 1 .35022-02115-000 . Newsom James & Thelma . . . 10-20-05 1 Acres Pt Se Ne (E Hwy 135) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .00022-02134-000 . Shourd Ronnie & Theresa . . . 10-20-05 2 .62 Acres Pt Sw Se (W Hwy 135) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 .44022-02138-000 . Parrish Rita Faye & Mae Davis . 10-20-05 2 .36 Acres Pt W1/2 Se (W Of Hwy 135, N Cr 252) . . . . . . . . 12 .29022-02138-001 . Davis Mae . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-20-05 0 .64 Acres Pt Sw Se 208X135 (W Of Hwy 135, N Of Cr 252) . . 24 .36022-02156-000 . Kirby Jerry & Opal Mae . . . . . 12-20-05 3 Acres Pt Ne Ne (Ne Cor) 252X531 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .00022-02233-000 . Flye A B . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20-05 0 .17 Acres Pt N1/2 Sw (N&W Of R) 50X150 . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .60022-02257-001 . Wilson Amanda . . . . . . . . . 20-20-05 Imp Only Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 .16022-02318-001 . Hancock Rose Ann . . . . . . . 27-20-05 3 .76 Acres Pt E1/2 Ne Sw Cor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 .46022-02338-000 . Kavy Pete Richardson & Wilma G 29-20-05 5 .23 Acres Pt Nw Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 .57022-02423-001 . Grubb Terry . . . . . . . . . . . 03-21-05 20 Acres Pt S1/2 Sw (W Of Rr R-O-W) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 .69022-02434-003 . Hewett Brothers Ricky & Randy 04-21-05 5 .98 Acres Pt Lots 1 & 5 Frl Ne Tract C ( .90@) Tract E (5 .08@) 37 .01022-02442-000 . Rowe Larry H & Lena . . . . . . 04-21-05 2 Acres Pt Se Nw (W Of Hwy 67) 209 X 418 . . . . . . . . . . 65 .76022-02444-000 . Teel David & Glenna J . . . . . 04-21-05 2 Acres Pt Ne Sw (W Of Hwy 67) 420 X 210 . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .00022-02451-000 . Whitworth Larry & Sue . . . . . 04-21-05 2 Acres Pt Ne Sw (E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .00

022-02454-000 . Croutch Shelly . . . . . . . . . 04-21-05 0 .63 Acres Pt Sw Sw (E Of Hwy 67) 132 X 208 .75 . . . . . . . 41 .34022-02456-000 . Stevens Jimmy Dewayne . . . . 04-21-05 1 .18 Acres Pt Sw Sw (E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 .88022-02461-002 . Bippus Andrew . . . . . . . . . 04-21-05 Imp Only Sw Se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 .47022-02483-000C Strope Gary Wayne . . . . . . . 08-21-05 2 .69 Acres Pt Ne Ne (E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 .56022-02485-000 . Arnold William Mel . . . . . . . 08-21-05 1 .38 Acres Pt Ne Ne (E Of Hwy 67) 200 X 300 (W Of Cr 155) . . 4 .14022-02486-000 . Wilson Carlton Lynn & Sherry S 08-21-05 2 .39 Acres Pt Ne Ne (E Of Hwy 67) 347X300 . . . . . . . . . . 46 .25022-02489-000 . Conway Jessie M . . . . . . . . 08-21-05 0 .67 Acres Pt Ne Ne (E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 .62022-02506-000 . Nobles Joel A & Marlena . . . . 08-21-05 5 Acres Pt Sw Ne (S&E Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 .26022-02507-000 . Owens Richard & Margaret . . . 08-21-05 4 .17 Acres Pt Sw Ne (S&E Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 .99022-02507-001 . Russell Christina . . . . . . . . 08-21-05 Imp Only Pt Sw Ne (S&E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 .45022-02511-000 . Woodard Wayland & Wayne * . 08-21-05 5 .38 Acres Pt Se Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 .46022-02512-000 . Woodard Wayne & Christy . . . 08-21-05 1 .3 Acres Pt Se Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 .27022-02517-001 . Kennon Danny & Kathryn . . . . 08-21-05 1 Acres Pt Se Nw (W Of Hwy 67) 235X185 . . . . . . . . . . . 28 .39022-02526-002 . Anders Russell P & Brenda M . 08-21-05 2 .72 Acres Pt Ne Sw (E Of Hwy 67) Tract H & Pt Tract G . . . . 590 .25022-02563-000 . Jacobs Harvey A . . . . . . . . 10-21-05 0 .45 Acres Pt Nw Nw (W Of Rrrw) 97 X 200 . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .01022-02584-000 . Gardner Linda Marie & Ova Ann Conway . . . 13-21-05 1 .5 Acres Pt Nw Nw (Nw Cor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .50022-02614-000 . Turrentine Phillip . . . . . . . . 16-21-05 6 .15 Acres All Pt Sw Sw (E Of Rrrw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 .54022-02629-000 . Williams James R & Jennifer . . 18-21-05 0 .22 Acres Pt Ne Ne (E Of Hwy 67) 97X100 . . . . . . . . . . . 59 .85022-02648-000 . Campbell Betty . . . . . . . . . 18-21-05 10 .23 Acres Pt Sw Ne (S&E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 .49022-02655-000 . Maynard James E . . . . . . . . 18-21-05 2 .3 Acres Pt S1/2 Nw (Tract 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .90022-02655-001 . Treadway Mike & Debbie . . . . 18-21-05 7 .6 Acres Pt S1/2 Nw Tract 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 .00022-02697-000 . Spence Noel E (Sr) . . . . . . . 19-21-05 9 .38 Acres Nw Sw Nw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 .06022-02769-000 . Finley Jairn . . . . . . . . . . . 26-21-05 16 .89 Acres Frl Pt Ne (E Of R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .75022-02787-000 . Wallace William L . . . . . . . . 29-21-05 2 Acres Pt Se Nw (E Of Rrrw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .04022-02788-000 . Wallace Lawrence & Christine * 29-21-05 5 .1 Acres Pt Se Nw (E Of Rrrw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 .26022-02789-000 . Wallace William L . . . . . . . . 29-21-05 2 Acres Pt Se Nw (E Of Rrrw) 208 X 418 .84 . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .30022-02790-000 . Wallace William L . . . . . . . . 29-21-05 2 .89 Acres Pt Se Nw (E Of Rrrw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 .46022-02791-000 . Wallace William L . . . . . . . . 29-21-05 0 .19 Acres Pt Se Nw (E Of Rrrw) 40 .16 X 208 . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .81022-02793-000 . Turrentine Phillip . . . . . . . . 29-21-05 2 Acres Pt Ne Sw (E Of Rrrw) 208 X 406 . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 .65022-02801-000 . Mcdaniel Timothy Wayne . . . . 29-21-05 1 Acres Pt Ne Sw (E Of Rrrw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .00022-02803-002 . Copeland Breona M . . . . . . . 29-21-05 3 Acres Pt Ne Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 .31022-02889-000 . Klepzig Howard Revocable Trust 33-21-05 37 .93 Acres All Pt Se (Lying Between W Bank Of Black River & Centerline Of W Barrow Ditch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 .76022-02900-001 . Hart Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . Lot 1 Barnhill Camp 35-21-05 Imp Only Pt N1/2 Sw . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 .45022-02900-003 . Huebner Nicholas . . . . . . . . Lot 3 (Imp Only) Barnhill Camp 35-21-05 Imp Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 .20022-02902-000 . Wilcox Tom . . . . . . . . . . . Lot 7 Barnhill Camp 35-21-05 Imp Only Pt N1/2 Se . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 .00022-02903-002 . Baelch Joe & Walt Toedebusch Lot 14 Barnhill Camp 35-21-05 Imp Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 .63022-02905-000 . Haggard Gary W & Betty S . . . 35-21-05 1 .5 Acres Pt Sw Se (W Of Cr 305) 289 .4X225 .8 . . . . . . . . . 60 .85022-02910-001 . Harmon Tara . . . . . . . . . . 35-21-05 Imp Only Pt Se Se (E Of Hwy 62) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 .40022-02914-001 . Toedebusch E W . . . . . . . . 35-21-05 1 Acres Pt Se Se (N&W Hwy 62) (E Of Cr 305) . . . . . . . . . 24 .90022-02932-000 . Ort Kenneth & Jairn Lee Finley . 36-21-05 36 Acres Pt N1/2 N1/2 Nw (S&E Of R) (W Of Levee) . . . . . . 121 .39022-02934-000 . Michles Billy Joe L/E . . . . . . 36-21-05 8 .36 Acres Pt Nw (W Of Levee) (N&W Hwy 62) . . . . . . . . . 67 .23022-02947-000C . .Emmons Rainy Kay & Taylor Brooke 33-22-05 0 .55 Acres Pt Frl (E Of Hwy 67) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 .81122-02270-000 . Weaver Michael R . . . . . . . Lot 2 Holland’s River Sd 19-20-05 0 .14 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 .33122-02334-001 . Harlan Kathleen & Nanette Russell Lot 1 Block 4 O T Moark 03-21-05 0 .23 Acres Ot Moark L 1 Blk 4 . . . . . . 9 .13122-02345-000 . Hewett Larry Gene . . . . . . . Lot All Block 9 O T Palatka 16-21-04 3 .02 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 .12122-02346-000 . Hewett Larry Gene . . . . . . . Lot All Block 10 O T Palatka 16-21-04 2 .75 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 .16122-02354-000 . . .Pulliam Tezzie L (State Of AR 2013) Lot 1-12 Block 41 O T Palatka 16-21-04 1 .96 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 .39122-02448-000 . Grimes Delmer Jr . . . . . . . . Lot 14 J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .12 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 .69122-02453-000 . Jackson Gregory & Tulip Conner Lot 18 Elmer Chamber River Lot 19-20-05 0 .12 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 199 .27122-02470-000 . Arnold Eugene . . . . . . . . . Lot 28-29 J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .21 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 .84122-02472-000 . Sipes Wanda . . . . . . . . . . Lot 30 J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .1 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 .22122-02478-000 . Defries Teresa G & A D Parrish Lot 37 J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .1 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 .55122-02479-000 . Rowan Philip & Marsha . . . . . Lot 38 J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .1 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 .39122-02480-000 . Rowan Philip & Marsha . . . . . Lot 39 J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .1 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 .19122-02487-000 . Joiner Ronnie M . . . . . . . . Lot Pt N1/2 Sw J T Lasswell Survey 19-20-05 0 .37 Acres S&W Of River . 220 .24122-02536-000 . Williams Franklin (Et Al) * . . . . Lot 10 Mallard Point 14-19-03 0 .36 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715 .95122-02541-000 . Bean Charles Keith (Et Al)* . . . Lot 15 Mallard Point 14-19-03 0 .39 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 .75122-02560-000 . Felty Danny J & Anna M . . . . Lot Pt Frl Se Sw Mallard Point 14-19-03 0 .24 Acres S&E Of R . . . . . . . 344 .53122-02565-000C Twin Rivers Investment Inc . . Lot Tract A Melanie Heights 19-21-05 2 .65 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 .22122-02593-000 . Campbell Patricia D (Evans) . . Lot 5-8 Block 2 Plainview 08-21-05 2 .29 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 .82122-02594-000 . Campbell Patricia D (Evans) . . Lot A Plainview 08-21-05 3 .36 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 .60122-02630-000 . Payne Steven & Shari Payne * . Lot 6 Sugar Bush Cove 05-21-03 0 .38 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 .16

PEACH ORCHARD #C7 SCHOOL DISTRICT 501712-01967-000 . Daughhetee Shelby . . . . . . . Lot Frl 4-5,All6 Block 5 O T Peach Orchard 20-19-04 0 .92 Acres . . . . . 40 .91712-01975-000 . Overshine Angela & Dannie L Daughhetee . . . . . . Lot All Block 7 O T Peach Orchard 20-19-04 2 .07 Acres . . . . . . . . . 71 .35712-01996-000 . Overshine Angela D & Kenzie Overshine . . . . . . . . Lot 11-12 Block 13 O T Peach Orchard 20-19-04 0 .33 Acres . . . . . . . 113 .90712-02010-000C Branch Steve . . . . . . . . . . Lot Sw109’ 7, All 8, Sw1/2 9 Block 21 O T Peach Orchard . . . . . . . . 242 .99712-02018-000 . Overshine Angela & Danny L Daughhetee . . . . . . Lot 9-10 Block 22 O T Peach Orchard 20-19-04 0 .31 Acres . . . . . . . . 23 .62712-02105-000 . Cook John M & Joyce M . . . . Lot 9-14 Block 2 Boeving 2Nd 17-19-04 0 .49 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 .81712-02106-000 . Mcnabb Christopher Wayne . . Lot 15-16, Sw71’ 17 Block 2 Boeving 2Nd 17-19-04 0 .2 Acres . . . . . . 49 .87712-02109-003 . Niedermeier Ladona . . . . . . Lot Pt 1-6 & All 19-24 Block 3 Boeving 2Nd 16-19-04 0 .51 Acres . . . . . 142 .88712-02115-000 . Keeling Alfred Carl & Mona Lee Lot 12-13 Block 7 Boeving 2Nd 16-19-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .77712-02120-000 . Daughhetee Shelby . . . . . . . Lot Frl All Block 49 Goin’s 20-19-04 0 .51 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 .55712-02123-000 . Amick Leon . . . . . . . . . . . Lot Frl 10-12 Block 50 Goin’s 20-19-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .24712-02125-000 . Clayton Alice F & Jessie M Conway . . . . . . . . Lot 3-6 Block 51 Goin’s 20-19-04 0 .65 Acres Goin’s L- 3-6 B- 51 . . . . . 52 .49712-02130-000 . Dawson Stephen E . . . . . . . Lot 3 Block 52 Goin’s 20-19-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 .49712-02138-000 . Routh Don Dale & Cathy Lynn . Lot 11 Block 53 Goin’s 20-19-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .24712-02145-000 . Mcdermott Ollan . . . . . . . . Lot Frl 1 Block 56 Goin’s 20-19-04 0 .11 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 .49712-02148-000 . Golliver Howard . . . . . . . . . Lot Imp Only 3-4 Block 56 Goin’s 20-19-04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .74

CORNING CITY #8 SCHOOL DISTRICT 401722-00008-000 . Harbour Portfolio Vii . . . . . . Lot 10 Block 3 O T Corning 31-21-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 .73722-00024-000 . Bradshaw Eloise M . . . . . . . Lot N40’ 11, All 12 Block 5 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .29 Acres . . . . . . . 431 .08722-00060-000 . Pruett John B & Kathrine M . . . Lot 7-8 Block 11 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .33 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 .23722-00095-000 . Landreth Kelly . . . . . . . . . . Lot 9 Block 14 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 .35722-00115-000 . Creameans James & Letha . . . Lot Pt 8-9 Block 18 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 215 .32722-00138-000C Smith Terry Lee & Leigh Anne . Lot 8 Block 21 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 .58722-00142-000C Wilmoth Ty Alan . . . . . . . . Lot W100’ 1 Block 22 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .11 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 256 .68722-00152-000C Lamborn Gordon E & Shela M . Lot N16’ 13 Block 22 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .05 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 98 .58722-00156-000C Leonard John A & Wyvetta . . . Lot N10’ 17, S30’ 18 Block 22 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .12 Acres . . . . . 172 .05722-00166-000 . Walker Judd K . . . . . . . . . Lot N20’ 1-2, S4 .5’ 4-6 Block 24/100 O T Corning/Young . . . . . . . . . 33 .51722-00196-000 . Dickson Jack D & Christopher . Lot 10 Block 30 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 .67722-00203-000 . Childress Jack & Julie Wooldridge Lot 7 Block 31 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 .13722-00205-000 . Jordan Jerry Wayne . . . . . . Lot 9 Block 31 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 .11722-00206-000 . Worley Sammy & Sue . . . . . Lot 10, E1/2 11 Block 31 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . . . 19 .53722-00209-000 . McDaniel Melissa . . . . . . . . Lot 5-6 Block 32 O T Corning 31-21-05 0 .31 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 .82722-00210-000 . Cobb Marvin G . . . . . . . . . Lot 7 & W 5’of 8 Block 32 O T Corning 31-21-05 0 .18 Acres . . . . . . . . 0 .14722-00211-000 . Prince Billy . . . . . . . . . . . Lot E45’ S75’ 8 & S75’ 9 Block 32 O T Corning 31-21-05 0 .16 Acres . . . 250 .63722-00229-000 . Bryant David & Anna . . . . . . Lot 4 & N14’ 5 Block 35 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .21 Acres . . . . . . . . 128 .80722-00231-000 . Mayberry Max R & Anna M Rev Trust . . . . . . . . Lot W92’ 7-8 Block 35 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .21 Acres . . . . . . . . . 24 .18722-00249-000 . Wooldridge Edna . . . . . . . . Lot S1/2 5, All 6 Block 37 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . . . 165 .10722-00258-000C Fowler Curtis A & Melissa A . . Lot E75’ 10-12 Block 44 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . 78 .61722-00260-000 . Stormes Toby Eugene (State Of Arkansas 2013) . . . . Lot Pt 2-3, W Of D Block 45 O T Corning 06-20-05 0 .28 Acres . . . . . . 83 .72722-00285-000 . Landreth Kelly . . . . . . . . . . Lot 5 Block 1 Arnold’s 1St 36-21-04 0 .16 Acres Arnold’s 1St L- 5 B- 1 . . . 100 .44722-00292-000 . Landreth Kelly . . . . . . . . . . Lot 6 Block 2 Arnold’s 1St 36-21-04 0 .16 Acres Arnold’s 1St L- 6 B- 2 . . . 110 .67722-00294-000 . Briney Jesse . . . . . . . . . . Lot 9, Pt 8 & 10 Block 2 Arnold’s 1St 36-21-04 0 .3 Acres Arnold’s . . . . . 233 .92722-00318-000 . Woods Charlene A . . . . . . . Lot 2, 3 & 4 Block 2 Arnold’s 3Rd 36-21-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 260 .40722-00323-000 . Crider Tondalaha . . . . . . . . Lot W36’ 7-9 Block 2 Arnold’s 3Rd 36-21-04 0 .12 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 289 .25722-00340-000 . El Acapulco Inc . . . . . . . . . Lot 8 Block 1 Arnold’s 4Th 01-20-04 0 .23 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 .67722-00341-000C Reyes Juan Jose . . . . . . . . Lot 9-10 & W 6’X150’ Lot 11 Block 1 Arnold’s 4Th . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 .02722-00343-000 . Dolan Zona Darlene . . . . . . Lot S80’ 9-10 Block 4 Arnold’s 5Th 36-21-04 0 .18 Acres . . . . . . . . . 31 .62722-00360-000 . Branum Kenneth F Jr (State Of Arkansas 2012) . . . . Lot E1/2 1-2 Block 8 Arnold’s 5Th 36-21-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95722-00370-000 . Leach Jimmy . . . . . . . . . . Lot 7-8 Block 9 Arnold’s 5Th 36-21-04 0 .32 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 .60722-00378-000 . Arnold Brenda . . . . . . . . . . Lot 9-10 Block 10 Arnold’s 5Th 36-21-04 0 .31 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .16722-00384-002 . Green George & Cathy . . . . . Lot Imp Only W80 .6’ N162’ Tr1 Block 12 Arnold’s 5Th 36-21-04 . . . . . 287 .83722-00398-000 . Lepard Jamie . . . . . . . . . . Lot W1/2 8, All 9 Block 2 Arnold’s 7Th 36-21-04 0 .25 Acres . . . . . . . . 271 .10722-00427-000 . Acp 1 Llc . . . . . . . . . . . . Lot E1/2 21, All 22 Block 5 Arnold’s 7Th 36-21-04 0 .25 Acres . . . . . . . 404 .57722-00502-000 . Mcelhaney Walter (Estate) . . . . Lot 21-22 Block 6 Arnold’s 8Th 36-21-04 0 .32 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 18 .60722-00525-000 . Shourd Ronald & Teresa . . . . Lot 6, S1/2 7 Block 6 Arnold’s 9Th 36-21-04 0 .25 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 385 .48722-00527-000 . Shourd Ronald D & Teresa . . . . Lot 8, S1/2 9 Block 6 Arnold’s 9Th 36-21-04 0 .25 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 18 .60722-00553-000 . L G T Associates Inc . . . . . . Lot N25’ 1, All 2, S1/2 3 Block 9 Arnold’s 9Th 36-21-04 0 .36 Acres . . . . 18 .60722-00604-000 . Tisdal Robert . . . . . . . . . . Lot S1/2 2, All 3 Block 403 Bishop’s 2Nd 06-20-05 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . 184 .63722-00623-000 . Walker Erma Dean . . . . . . . Lot 1-2, 7-8 Block 208 Bishop’s 4Th 06-20-05 0 .74 Acres . . . . . . . . . 484 .55722-00657-000 . Bowers Jonathan M & Melissa . Lot Pt Tract 1 Black Re-Sub 31-21-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 .00722-00659-000 . Patrick Allen Jr . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Tract 1 Black Re-Sub 31-21-05 0 .38 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 .57722-00672-001 . Stephens Edward L . . . . . . . Lot W1/2 2, All 3 Block 184 Black & Lindsey’s 01-20-04 0 .24 Acres . . . . 18 .77722-00691-000 . Duff Jerry W & Beverly Ann . . . . Lot 2 Block 2 Cochran - Corning 01-20-04 0 .23 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 63 .38722-00726-000 . Cochran Nathan A . . . . . . . Lot E1/2 1 & E1/2 N17’ 2 Block 2 Crafton’s 1St 31-21-05 0 .14 Acres . . . 62 .92722-00750-000 . Wheat Billy D & Dola L . . . . . Lot 3 Block 3 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .82722-00753-000 . Craft Mark E & Angie . . . . . . Lot S25’ 1 & N50’ 2 Block 4 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .22 Acres . . . . . . 12 .73722-00756-000 . Bruton Jeremiah & Amy . . . . . Lot S81’ 4 Block 4 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 49 .90722-00757-000 . Hoggard Melinda L . . . . . . . Lot N75’ 5 Block 4 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 35 .02722-00758-000 . Williams Kyle L . . . . . . . . . Lot S25’ 5 & N50’ 6 Block 4 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . 13 .16722-00759-000 . Roark Angela . . . . . . . . . . Lot S37 .5’ 6, N37 .5’ 7 Block 4 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . 398 .53722-00778-000 . Hill Danna S . . . . . . . . . . . Lot S20’ 1 & N55’ 2 Block 8 Crafton’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . 34 .09722-00825-000 . Smith Kevin L & Wendy B . . . Lot 11 Block 95 Geissler 06-20-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 .54722-00843-000 . . .Richards John L & Barbara . . . . Lot 10 Block 75 Geissler 06-20-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .30722-00844-000 . Richards John L & Barbara . . . . Lot 11 Block 75 Geissler 06-20-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 .67722-00850-000 . Kepner Brock A & Angela . . . Lot N50 .3’ C Block 76 Geissler 06-20-05 0 .11 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 115 .93722-00862-000 . Hagar Donna . . . . . . . . . . Lot 4 Block 2 Green Acres 01-20-04 0 .29 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 .82722-00938-000 . Landreth Kelly . . . . . . . . . . Lot 4 Block 84 Hopson 01-20-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 .44722-00940-009 . Teague Kyle & Alexandria . . . . Lot 35,37,38, E1/2 39, E1/2 40 Block 1 J B Lafferty . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 .26722-00940-012 . Miller David . . . . . . . . . . . Lot 2, E1/2 4 Block 1 J B Lafferty 03-20-04 0 .23 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 62 .33722-00940-015 . Perkins Ryan Phillip . . . . . . . Lot W1/2 10, All 12 & 14 Block 1 J B Lafferty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 .76722-00944-000 . Vinson Glenn S Ii & Laura * . . . Lot 4 Block 1 Lockwood 01-20-04 0 .3 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 .42

Notice of Delinquent LandsThe lands and lots and parts of lots returned delinquent in Clay County Western District for the year 2013, together with the contained and described in the following list to-wit; Name of owner, parts of section and acres or lot and block number. Total does not include daily-added interest. Call for amount.

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State of ArkansasCounty of Clay Western District

I, Gerald McClung, Sheriff and Collector of Clay County, Arkansas, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct showing of all persons, firms and corporations in the Western District of Clay County, Arkansas, who have failed to pay their Real Estate Parcel or Town Lots located in the Western District of Clay County, Arkansas. Witness my hand this 10th day of November 2014. 31t1c

Datto City #8 SChool DiStriCt 403722-01646-000 . Wiseman Wilburn . . . . . . . . Lot 10-12 Block 2 O T Datto 11-20-03 0 .42 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 .09722-01648-000 . Moore Billy & Jennie . . . . . . Lot W1/2 3 & All 4 Block 3 O T Datto 11-20-03 0 .23 Acres . . . . . . . . 27 .90722-01652-000 . Bledsoe Jack D & Mary A . . . . Lot 1-6 Block 4 O T Datto 11-20-03 0 .84 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 .47722-01686-000 . Tennant Wilma & Etals . . . . . Lot 10-12 Block 12 O T Datto 11-20-03 0 .27 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 .06722-01689-000C Harper Hamil . . . . . . . . . . Lot W5’ N1/2 4, N1/2 5-6 Block 13 O T Datto 11-20-03 0 .14 Acres . . . . 155 .31722-01706-000 . Main Brandy J & Zachery N Main . Lot 20-21 Block 21 Day 11-20-03 0 .3 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 .03722-01725-000 . Buchanan Angel R . . . . . . . Lot Pt Se Sw M&B Datto 2-20-3 02-20-03 1 Acres 210 X 210 . . . . . . . 221 .95

KNoBEl City #8 SChool DiStriCt 404722-01754-000C Hanner Alma . . . . . . . . . . Lot 2 Block 105 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .08 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 .29722-01797-000 . Dodd Marcia (Woodhouse) . . . Lot 19-24 Block 114 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .49 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 .12722-01807-000 . Williams Ralph (State Of AR 2012) Lot 1-4 Block 116 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .33 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 .90722-01829-000 . Tyler Darrell & Jayetta & Betty Weese . . . . . . . . . Lot 13-18 Block 119 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .49 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 12 .56722-01830-000 . Tyler Deloris Ann . . . . . . . . Lot Frl All Block 121 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .08 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 .30722-01840-000 . Foust Loyd & Pamela (State Of Arkansas 2013) . . . . Lot 16-18 Block 123 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .23 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 12 .58722-01843-000 . Wilson William & Tammi . . . . Lot 11-12 Block 124 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .63722-01847-001 . Reynolds J E . . . . . . . . . . Lot 1-6 Block 125 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .46 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .05722-01854-000 . Derby Jackie . . . . . . . . . . Lot 13-18 Block 126 O T Knobel 01-19-04 0 .46 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 159 .52722-01900-000 . Stormes Ben . . . . . . . . . . Lot 3 Block 2 Robinson 36-20-04 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .44722-01900-001 . Stormes Keith . . . . . . . . . . Lot Imp Only 3 Block 2 Robinson 36-20-04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 .83722-01901-000 . Stormes Ben . . . . . . . . . . Lot 4 Block 2 Robinson 36-20-04 0 .28 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95722-01905-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc Lot 6-10 Block A Whitaker 01-19-04 1 .69 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 .97722-01908-000 . Fraine G T Mrs . . . . . . . . . Lot 5 & 8 Block 1 Whitaker 01-19-04 0 .35 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .44722-01910-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc Lot 7 & 9-12 Block 1 Whitaker 01-19-04 0 .72 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 .20722-01913-000 . Fraine G T Mrs . . . . . . . . . Lot 2-3 & 6 Block 2 Whitaker 01-19-04 0 .52 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 .72722-01918-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc Lot 9-12 Block 2 Whitaker 01-19-04 0 .83 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .18722-01920-000 . Robinson Farms Of Clay Co Inc Lot 4-7 Block 3 Whitaker 01-19-04 0 .91 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .65722-01929-000 . Arnold Cloyd . . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Sw Se M&B Knobel 36-20-4 36-20-04 0 .17 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 6 .07722-01930-000 . Brummett James & Samantha . Lot Pt Sw Se M&B Knobel 36-20-4 36-20-04 0 .43 Acres . . . . . . . . . 157 .17722-01946-000 . Luttrell Dudley G . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Ne Se M&B Knobel 2-19-4 02-19-04 0 .34 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 97 .18722-01949-000 . Janes Roland . . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Nw Se M&B Knobel 2-19-4 02-19-04 0 .44 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 19 .09722-01955-002 . Sanders Charlotte . . . . . . . . Lot 3 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .408 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 .01722-01955-003 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 4 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .22 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .12722-01955-004 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 5 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .081 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95722-01955-006 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 7 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .149 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95722-01955-007 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 8 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .133 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 .30722-01955-008 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 9 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 1 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .12722-01955-009 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 10 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .137 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 .62722-01955-010 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 11 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .181 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .88722-01955-011 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 12 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .139 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 .30722-01955-012 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 13 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .097 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 .30722-01955-013 . Halcomb Jimmie Ray Sr & Perez Bambi Raye . . . . . . Lot 14 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .082 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95722-01955-014 . Wheat Charlotte . . . . . . . . . Lot 15 Halcomb Trailer Court 02-19-04 0 .112 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 .85722-01956-000 . Tyler Jayetta Wilson . . . . . . Lot Pt Ne Se M&B Knobel 2-19-4 02-19-04 0 .5 Acres (E Of Rrrw) . . . . 20 .46722-01957-000 . Tyler Jayetta Wilson . . . . . . Lot Pt Ne Se M&B Knobel 2-19-4 02-19-04 1 .61 Acres (E Of Rrrw) . . . . 47 .43

SUCCESS City #8 SChool DiStriCt 402722-02183-001 . Cobb Danny Lynn . . . . . . . . Lot N1/2 6-7 Block 6 O T Success 23-21-03 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 13 .95722-02186-000 . Cates Vera . . . . . . . . . . . Lot 10 Block 6 O T Success 23-21-03 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .44722-02203-000 . Davis James T . . . . . . . . . Lot W68’ 10-11 Block 8 O T Success 23-21-03 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . 13 .05722-02214-000 . Cobb Mike & Sylvia . . . . . . . Lot 2 Block 10 O T Success 23-21-03 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 .39722-02215-000 . Webb April . . . . . . . . . . . Lot 3 Block 10 O T Success 23-21-03 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .44722-02231-000 . Carter Jesse . . . . . . . . . . Lot S1/2 1-4, All 5-6, N1/2 11-12 Block 13 O T Success 23-21-03 0 .8 Acres . 328 .31722-02245-001 . Chambers Gerldine . . . . . . . Lot Imp Only W35’ 2, All 3 Block 402 Mccracken 14-21-03 . . . . . . . . 79 .54722-02246-000 . National Real Estate . . . . . . Lot 4-5 & M&B Block 300 Mccracken 14-21-03 0 .32 Acres & M&B Pt Se Sw 20X146 .067@ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 .94722-02247-000 . Dockins C Gail . . . . . . . . . Lot 6-7 & M&B Block 300 Mccracken 14-21-03 0 .32 Acres & M&B . . . . . 274 .35722-02264-000 . Croutch Daniel Martin & Shelly Berniece . . . . . . . . Lot W100’ 1-3 Block 100 Polk’s 1St 23-21-03 0 .33 Acres . . . . . . . . . 20 .92722-02289-000 . Crismon Lillian . . . . . . . . . Lot 6 Block 204 Polk’s 2Nd 23-21-03 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 .25722-02312-002 . Fultner Lavell . . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Ne Nw M&B Success 23-21-3 23-21-03 0 .78 Acres . . . . . . . . 22 .78722-02313-001 . Morgan Joan D Living Trust . . Lot Pt Ne Nw M&B Success 23-21-3 23-21-03 1 .1 Acres . . . . . . . . . 82 .79

722-00948-001 . Halcomb Glen David & Joyce A Lot 5-7 Block 2 Lockwood 01-20-04 0 .86 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 .63722-00955-000 . Carroll Scott C & Mary E . . . . Lot 2-4 Block 5 Lockwood 01-20-04 0 .77 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 .50722-00962-000 . Highley Charles C . . . . . . . . Lot Pt St, Pt Blk D Block D Long 01-20-04 0 .23 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 407 .83722-00963-000 . Eubanks Lisa . . . . . . . . . . Lot E10’ N150’ Old 5Th St Block D Long 01-20-04 0 .03 Acres . . . . . . . 5 .61722-00964-010 . Taylor Brent L / Peggy Taylor . . Lot E75’ 17, All 18 Block 1 Lynndale 35-21-04 0 .92 Acres . . . . . . . . . 180 .71722-00964-011 . White Michael S & Jesse M . . . Lot 1, S75’ 2 Block 2 Lynndale 35-21-04 0 .8 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 .39722-00964-012 . Woodard Windrend . . . . . . . Lot N25’ 2, All 3 Block 2 Lynndale 35-21-04 0 .57 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 393 .53722-00964-035 . Prince Cory D & Jennifer . . . . Lot 18 Block 3 Lynndale 35-21-04 0 .42 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 .86722-00965-000C Fowler Joseph C / Fowler Distribution Co . . . . . Lot 1-3 & S1/2 4 Block 1 Maddox 1St 31-21-05 0 .6 Acres . . . . . . . . 1,109 .52722-00973-000 . Hawkins John . . . . . . . . . . Lot W1/2 1-2 Block 1 Maddox 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .17 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 117 .40722-00985-000 . White Angela Aka Angela R . . . Lot 5 & N1/2 6 Block 3 Maddox 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . . 103 .84722-00986-000 . Reynolds Terry & Debbie . . . . Lot S1/2 6, All 7-8 Block 3 Maddox 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .43 Acres . . . . . . . 334 .33722-00995-000 . Gleghorn John & Joe Ann . . . Lot W2’ 6, All 7 Block 4 Maddox 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .18 Acres . . . . . . . . 371 .07722-01001-000 . Bippus George Justin . . . . . . Lot E120’ S1/2 2, E120’ 3 Block 5 Maddox 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .21 Acres . . . 287 .83722-01003-000 . Gallegly Genna G . . . . . . . . Lot 6-7 Block 5 Maddox 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .34 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 .39722-01058-000 . Dobbins Bill D & Marsha D . . . Lot 7-8 Block 1000 Matthew’s 31-21-05 0 .33 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 .31722-01070-000 . Leach Bradley R . . . . . . . . Lot W1/2 11 & W2’ S25’ E1/2 11, All 12 Block 3000 Matthew’s . . . . . . 59 .52722-01094-000 . Householder Misty . . . . . . . Lot S71’ E45’ 2 Block 8000 Matthew’s 31-21-05 0 .07 Acres . . . . . . . . 92 .07722-01121-000 . Grubb Mary Ann & Jason S . . . Lot W60’ 11-12 Block 2 Mills 1St 01-20-04 0 .14 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 312 .01722-01124-000 . . .Russom Alton L Jr & Jessica . . . . Lot 5-6 Block 3 Mills 1St 01-20-04 0 .34 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 .58722-01134-000 . Groning Jimmy D & Joy L . . . . Lot 3-4 Block 6 Mills 1St 01-20-04 0 .34 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 .14722-01137-000 . Sisk Kimberly D . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt 1-3, All 4 Block 7 Mills 1St 01-20-04 0 .63 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 183 .82722-01140-000 . Shourd Ronald Dean . . . . . . Lot 7,8,9 Block 5 Mills 2Nd 01-20-04 0 .52 Acres Mills 2Nd . . . . . . . . . 468 .26722-01149-000 . Arnold Freddie J & Erma D & Teresa J Bodie . . . . Lot 1 & S6’ Block 8 & Mills 2Nd 01-20-04 0 .26 Acres Mills 2Nd . . . . . . 64 .78722-01156-000 . Woods Larry & Mary K . . . . . Lot W60’ 1-3 Block 10 Mills 2Nd 01-20-04 0 .21 Acres Mills 2Nd . . . . . . 45 .10722-01171-000 . Doty Ronnie W & Gloria J . . . . Lot 11 Block 1 Oakdale 1St 01-20-04 0 .29 Acres Oakdale 1St . . . . . . . . 4 .33722-01174-000 . Banks Raymond W & Janet . . Lot 15 Block 1 Oakdale 1St 01-20-04 0 .3 Acres Oakdale 1St . . . . . . . 60 .60722-01179-000 . Holland Flora P . . . . . . . . . Lot 25 Block 1 Oakdale 1St 01-20-04 0 .29 Acres Oakdale 1St . . . . . . 36 .91722-01190-000 . . .Gleghorn Tony R & Patricia . . . . Lot S1/2 4 & All 5 Block 2 Oakdale 2Nd 01-20-04 0 .27 Acres . . . . . . . 355 .87722-01193-000C Flash Market Inc . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Block 1/6 Oliver/O H Taylor 36-21-04 1 .86 Acres Oliver . . . . . 3,429 .84722-01214-000 . Wooldridge Terry . . . . . . . . Lot W1/2 1 Block 4 Pritchard’s 1St 31-21-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 37 .69722-01215-000 . Burns Edward H & Debbie . . . Lot W1/2 2 Block 4 Pritchard’s 1St 31-21-05 0 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 204 .60722-01218-000 . Miller Velma L/ E & Teddy Dean Miller . . . . . Lot W196 .21’ 5-6 Block 4 Pritchard’s 1St 31-21-05 0 .45 Acres . . . . . . 17 .84722-01243-000 . Corning First Apostolic* . . . . . Lot 10 Block 4 Pritchard’s 2Nd 31-21-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 .48722-01254-000 . Smith Terry . . . . . . . . . . . Lot 10 Block 1 Pritchard’s 3Rd (Re-Plat) 31-21-05 0 .12 Acres . . . . . . . 83 .70722-01267-000 . Patrick David & Robyn . . . . . Lot N75’ 6 Block 4 Pritchard’s 3Rd 31-21-05 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 41 .53722-01269-013 . Blackman Sharon . . . . . . . . Lot 5, S1/2 6 Block 3 Red Taylor 31-21-05 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 483 .62722-01269-026 . Burns Edward H & Debbie S . . . Lot 3, S1/2 4 Block 4 Red Taylor 31-21-05 0 .32 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 24 .79722-01290-000 . Berry Georgia D . . . . . . . . . Lot 1 & E23’ 2 Block 2 Herb Smith 01-20-04 0 .4 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 98 .72722-01292-000 . Gleghorn Michael . . . . . . . . Lot W52’ 3, All 4 Block 2 Herb Smith 01-20-04 0 .5 Acres . . . . . . . . . 313 .09722-01298-000 . Weaver Anita M & Kelly S . . . Lot 1 Block 3 Herb Smith 01-20-04 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 .19722-01299-000 . Leonard John A & Wyvetta . . . . Lot 2 Block 3 Herb Smith 01-20-04 0 .26 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 .15722-01329-000 . Spicer Ercell M L/E . . . . . . . Lot 11 & W17 .7’ 10 Block 7 Herb Smith 01-20-04 0 .39 Acres . . . . . . . 134 .06722-01350-000 . Burton Donna S . . . . . . . . . Lot 5-6 Block 10 Tezzie Smith 36-21-04 0 .34 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 .27722-01359-001C Browning Bill . . . . . . . . . . Lot N66’ Block 1 O H Taylor 1St 36-21-04 0 .3 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 217 .62722-01396-006 . Hampton Cherie . . . . . . . . Lot 7 Block 2 Westwood Acres 03-20-04 0 .51 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 .44722-01410-000 . Smith Terry Lee & Leigh A . . . . Lot 1-2, N1/2 3 Block 4B Wynn 1St 01-20-04 0 .39 Acres . . . . . . . . . 726 .79722-01425-000 . Crouch Ronald F . . . . . . . . Lot S100’ 10-12 Block 7B Wynn 1St 01-20-04 0 .34 Acres . . . . . . . . . 414 .78722-01439-000 . Berry Wyoma Alice Evelyn & Etals Lot 11 Block 1 Wynn 2Nd 01-20-04 0 .22 Acres Wynn 2Nd L- 11 B- 1 . . . 250 .66722-01450-000 . Young Bill J & Robin L . . . . . Lot N50’4-6,Pt Ally Block 97 Young/Geissler 06-20-05 . . . . . . . . . . 15 .95722-01462-000 . Lamborn Charles Edward & Etal Lot 8 Block 98 Young 06-20-05 0 .15 Acres Young L- 8 B- 98 . . . . . . . 200 .88722-01480-000 . Aden Joe & Ruth . . . . . . . . Lot 4 Block 83 Young 06-20-05 0 .16 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 .00722-01485-000 . Eubanks Lisa . . . . . . . . . . Lot 3 Block 85 Longs 06-20-05 0 .15 Acres Longs L- 3 B- 85 . . . . . . . . 312 .48722-01495-000 . Lockard Johnny & Mary . . . . . Lot Nw75’ 1 & Pt 2 Block 86 Longs 01-20-04 0 .13 Acres Longs . . . . . . 312 .01722-01504-000 . Bippus Melanie Ann . . . . . . . Lot 10, S1/2 11 Block 87 Young/Longs 06-20-05 0 .24 Acres . . . . . . . 91 .31722-01526-000 . Anderson Joshua . . . . . . . . Lot 10-12 Block 92 Young 06-20-05 0 .46 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 .36722-01540-012C Huffman Larry W Jr . . . . . . . Lot Pt Ne Ne 295X300 M&B Corning 36-21-4 36-21-04 2 .03 Acres . . . . 289 .26722-01540-019C Skimahorn Steven R . . . . . . Lot Pt N1/2 N1/2 Se Ne M&B Corning 36-21-4 36-21-04 0 .43 Acres . . . 229 .27722-01540-024C Corning Farm & Industrial Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt E1/2 S1/2 Se Ne M&B Corning 36-21-4 36-21-04 4 .22 Acres . . 1,891 .65722-01550-000C Blackman Sharon . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Sw Sw M&B Corning 36-21-4 36-21-04 0 .45 Acres . . . . . . . . 1,221 .70722-01552-000 . Shephard Bill & Dorothy . . . . Lot Pt Sw Sw M&B Corning 36-21-4 36-21-04 0 .38 Acres . . . . . . . . . 396 .33722-01572-000C Fowler Curtis A / Fowler Distribution Co . . . . . Lot Pt Nw Ne M&B Corning 6-20-5 06-20-05 0 .5 Acres 175 X 125 . . . . . 464 .09722-01606-000 . Hudson Stephen M & Joy . . . Lot Pt Se Ne M&B Corning 1-20-4 01-20-04 0 .67 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 75 .94722-01615-123 . Leach Jimmy W & Cathy . . . . Lot Imp Only #23 Ermert Trailer Park 01-20-04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 .83722-01615-131 . Dillingham Angela . . . . . . . . Lot Imp Only #31 Ermert Trailer Park 01-20-04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 .26722-01616-000C Fowler Curtis A & Melissa . . . . Lot Pt Ne Nw M&B Corning 1-20-4 01-20-04 3 .15 Acres . . . . . . . . 1,179 .70722-01630-012 . Faison Michael . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Nw Se M&B Corning 1-20-4 01-20-04 3 .9 Acres . . . . . . . . . . . 51 .64722-01638-010 . Loyd Raymond . . . . . . . . . Lot Pt Nw Nw M&B Corning 31-21-5 31-21-05 0 .5 Acres . . . . . . . . . . 146 .62

Notice of Delinquent LandsContinued . . .

320 Hart Senate Office Bldg.Washington, DC 20510202-224-4853 John Boozman

http:/ /www.boozman.senate.gov

UNITED STATES SENATOR • ARKANSAS

Christmas commercials are a reminder that the holiday sea-son is here. If your list of things to do looks my wife Cathy’s, it includes putting up decorations, baking and shopping. As we look for the perfect presents for our family and friends, retail-ers are looking for ways to get us in their stores. The holiday shopping season is key for many retailers’ that rely on this time of year for big profits. A recent Gallup poll found that Ameri-cans expect to spend almost $80 more this year on holiday shop-ping.

Small businesses are joining the post-Thanksgiving shopping blitz with Small Business Sat-urday. This national initiative encourages support of our local businesses during the holiday season. Small Business Saturday is big business. Last year, shop-pers spent $5.7 billion at locally owned shops and restaurants on

the Saturday after Thanksgiving. That’s an increase of more than three percent from 2012 accord-ing to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and American Express. In its fifth year, Small Business Sat-urday is projecting even bigger successes.

This day recognizes the local businesses and neighborhood re-tailers and the importance they play in our communities. Money spent in our small businesses gets reinvested in the commu-nity, draws attention to local merchants and could ultimately lead to more new jobs. In this economy, small businesses have struggled and they need our sup-port. By taking the small step of shopping locally this holiday season, we can make a big im-pact on our communities.

Small businesses are the en-gines of our economy. They employ half of the workforce

Support Small Business: Shop Locallyin our country and make up 99 percent of all U.S. businesses, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). The retail sector, the industry that benefits most from Small Business Satur-day, directly employs more than 250,000 Arkansans.

As a cosponsor of the Senate-passed resolution that supports Small Business Saturday and recognizes the importance local businesses and neighborhood retailers play in the community, I am also supporting policies to create a climate that encourages growth for these job creators. This can be accomplished by pre-venting the inefficient, ineffec-tive and unnecessary regulations that are keeping our small busi-nesses from expanding, reform-ing our tax code to make it more fair and easier for all Americans to understand and cutting spend-ing to address the debt. These are good starting points that would provide predictability so owners can make good decisions about planning for growth.

We can help our communi-ties grow by supporting our lo-cally owned small businesses this Christmas season. These are owned and operated by our neighbors, church family and budding entrepreneurs who want a piece of the American dream. Let’s help their dreams because reality and continue the success of Small Business Saturday. I hope you will join me in putting our small businesses on your shopping list this Christmas sea-son.

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner to cost more this year than last

It will cost families more to prepare the Thanksgiving meal this year, due largely to an in-crease in the average cost of frozen turkey and a gallon of whole milk. According to Ar-kansas Farm Bureau’s 29th an-nual survey, it will cost $46.23 for a family of 10, or $4.62 per person, to enjoy the feast. Last year’s average was $42.63.

The statewide average is based on responses from members of the Farm Bureau Women’s Committee and other volunteers who surveyed food prices at 12 grocery stores and supermarkets across the state. They were asked to report the “best in-store price” of 12 items included in the meal. They are allowed to take ad-vantage of advertised specials, excluding discount coupons and purchase requirements.

Arkansas Farm Bureau Presi-dent Randy Veach says though it will cost a bit more to prepare the meal this year, considering families may enjoy it for less than $5 a person is evidence of the efficiencies of our food pro-duction system.

Arkansas food prices continue

to remain more affordable than elsewhere. American Farm Bu-reau conducts a national survey to assess price trends across the country and reported an average of $49.41 to prepare the meal this year.

Though unscientific, the sur-vey is intended to be a snapshot of actual prices across Arkansas and the nation. The survey pe-riod was Oct.31-Nov.12. The shopping list has remained un-changed since 1986 to allow consistent price comparisons.

Travis Justice, chief economist for Arkansas Farm Bureau, attri-butes the price hike primarily to higher costs of production and in-creased demand for dairy products.

“Turkey prices have risen this year as a result of production cutbacks by growers who are facing higher feed and transpor-tation costs,” Justice said.

He noted that while motorists are benefiting from lower gaso-line prices, the cost of diesel used to transport food products from processors to retail outlets has not followed suit.

“Milk and other dairy prod-uct prices are higher, again due

to feed costs, plus poor weather conditions and a growing global demand for U.S. dairy-based items,” Justice added.

The average price of a 16-pound young tom turkey this year increased $2.49 to $18.08 ($1.13 per pound). Turkey pric-es are higher nationwide. Ameri-can Farm Bureau reported an av-erage of $1.35 per pound.

Another major driver of the survey is the cost of a gallon of whole milk. After dropping to $4.00 in 2013 the average increased to $4.25 this year. Also contributing to the price hike was a 59-cent increase in the cost of a 1/2-pint carton of whipping cream and 55-cent in-crease for three pounds of sweet potatoes.

Items that saw modest price reductions include cubed stuff-ing, a 30-ounce can of pumpkin pie mix, a two-count package of frozen pie shells, 12-count pack-age of brown and serve rolls, a bunch of celery, and a 12-ounce package of cranberries.

Arkansas Farm Bureau is a nonprofit, private advocacy or-ganization.

Average retail gasoline prices in Arkansas have fallen 3.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.66/g Sun-day, November 23, 2014, ac-cording to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 1,826 gas outlets in Arkansas. This compares with the national average that has fallen 4.9 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.82/g, ac-cording to gasoline price web-site GasBuddy.com.

Including the change in gas

prices in Arkansas during the past week, prices Sunday were 35.8 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 22.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 24.9 cents per gal-lon during the last month and stands 41.4 cents per gallon lower than this day one year ago.

“As we begin Thanksgiving week, Americans are gearing

up to hit the road, and when they do, they’ll be spend-ing far less on their fuel bill than a year ago,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy. “For nearly a third of our users we’ve heard that they will be driving over 500 miles round trip to their Thanksgiving destinations, so savings ver-sus last year will be substan-tial. For those motorists, and others who cross state lines

this Thanksgiving, we want to remind them that gasoline taxes vary significantly from state to state. For example- crossing the IL/MO state line yields almost a 30c/gal sav-ings. Timing fill ups before crossing state lines or after can yield easy savings, and that’s why using the free Gas-Buddy smartphone app for your travels is a no-brainer. Either way, nationally, prices are likely nearing a bottom, so in addition to everything else, motorists should be thankful

for the decline in gas prices,” he noted.

About GasBuddy.comGasBuddy is the premiere

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Gasoline prices keep dropping in Arkansas

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Karaoke gift winner . . .Debbie Edington is the lucky winner of the Knob Karaoke gift card giveaway. Debbie won a $200.00 gift card given away during the No-vember karaoke event. Free entries were given to each attendee over the last several months. With the help of Jeremy Coleman and his DJ service each month the program is a success.

I pledge my head to clearer thinking,

My heart to greater loyalty,My hands to larger service,and my health to better living,for my club, my community,

my country,and my world. - The 4-H

pledgeBefore I graduated high

school, I participated in 4-H, an extracurricular program em-phasizing the importance of young people learning, grow-ing, and working with adults as catalysts for positive change. This program began more than a century ago with agricultural roots, eventually adding life skills to its portfolio to reach six million-plus U.S. youth today, including more than 133,000 boys and girls in Arkansas. And like me, millions of adults call themselves alumni nationwide, including famous athletic, enter-tainment, military, and political figures.

But to understand the impact of 4-H, it’s important to under-stand its framework. 4-H focus-es on four personal development areas, including head, heart, hands, and health. “Head” targets the ability to think to make deci-sions and managing resources to accomplish a purpose. “Heart”

seeks to improve connections between two people by relating and caring. “Hand” encourages engaging in social responsibil-ity through giving and accom-plishing goals through working. Lastly, “Health” demands an im-proved way of living and being.

As a 4-H alumnus and a for-mer member of the 4-H Foun-dation Board of Arkansas, I’ve seen and experienced the posi-tive impact this framework has played in the lives of our na-tion’s young people. 4-H pres-ents these youth with great op-portunities to learn valuable skills they can carry throughout their lives. In turn, 4-H youth are three times more likely to get in-volved in their communities and have educational achievement. The program has especially ex-celled in reaching at-risk young people.

Through its National Mentor-ing Program, 4-H leaders have mentored more than 30,000 young people considered “at-risk,” seeing significant im-provements in family relation-ships, perceptions of social support, and social competence.

Simply put, the figures of mentoring are nothing short of staggering.

According to a study from

MENTOR: The National Men-toring Partnership, at-risk young adults with mentors are 35 per-cent more likely to enroll and graduate from college, 81 per-cent more likely to participate in extracurricular activities, more than twice as likely to hold a leadership position, and 77 per-cent more likely to volunteer in their communities than their peers without mentors.

Consequently, I considered it a privilege to recently announce that the National 4-H Council through the Department of Jus-tice had awarded $164,000 in support of 4-H’s mentoring pro-gram in Arkansas, including the First District, to keep our young people safe and prevent youth delinquency.

As a former 4-H member, I recognize this program’s poten-tial to reach First District youth on which society has given up. As a legislator, I’m eager to our nation making a concerted investment in our youth. So, whether we have roots in 4-H or some other impactful orga-nization, let’s each pledge our head, heart, hands, and health to make the First District better. And we’ll start with our young people.

Mentoring grant invests in First District youth

Thanksgiving: the real storyThere are many myths and

legends associated with the Thanksgiving holiday. But most Americans, admittedly, spend the holiday either trav-eling or preparing for a fam-ily gathering in which a large meal, with the focal point of turkey, is consumed.

For the most part, the histo-ry lessons we learn in elemen-tary school are long forgot-ten, until you have children of your own.

Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving the next year, or any year thereafter the original feast, though some of their descendants later made a “Forefather’s Day” that usu-ally occurred on December 21 or 22. Several presidents, in-cluding George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobby-ing several presidents for the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her lob-bying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holi-day.

Today, our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of No-vember. This was set by Presi-dent Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941), who changed it from Abraham Lincoln’s designa-tion as the last Thursday in November (which could oc-

casionally end up being the fifth Thursday, and hence too close to Christmas for busi-nesses). But the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving began at some unknown date between September 21 and November 9, most likely in very early October. The date of Thanks-giving was probably set by Lincoln to somewhat cor-relate with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod, which occurred on Novem-ber 21, 1620 (by our modern Gregorian calendar--it was November 11 to the Pilgrims who used the Julian calendar).

There are only two con-temporary accounts of the 1621 Thanksgiving: First is Edward Winslow’s account, which he wrote in a letter dat-ed December 12, 1621. The complete letter was first pub-lished in 1622.

“Our corn [i.e. wheat] did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good in-crease of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gather-ing, for we feared they were too late sown. They came up very well, and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom. Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special man-ner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst oth-er recreations, we exercised

our arms, many of the Indi-ans coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our gover-nor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we of-ten wish you partakers of our plenty.”

The second description was written about 20 years after the fact by William Brad-ford in his History Of Plym-outh Plantation. Bradford’s History was rediscovered in 1854 after having been taken by British looters during the Revolutionary War. Its dis-covery prompted a greater American interest in the his-tory of the Pilgrims. It is also in this account that the Thanksgiving turkey tradition is founded.

“They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercising in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every fam-ily had their portion. All the summer there was no want;

and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter ap-proached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides wa-terfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in Eng-land, which were not feigned but true reports.”

Child and Adolescent Health Arkansas Department of

Health’s Child and Adolescent Health service manage two major programs: Newborn Screening and Infant Hearing.

The Newborn Screening (NBS) Program works to as-sure all newborns in the state are screened for 28 “core” meta-bolic conditions which, if not detected early, could lead to se-vere illness, disability, or death. Positive results from blood spot screening are tracked by spe-cialized follow-up nurses. As-sistance in interpretation and follow-up of abnormal results is provided through collaboration with sub-specialists at the Uni-versity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

The Infant Hearing Program (IHP) strives for early identifica-tion of infants with hearing loss through screening, audiologic and medical evaluation along with en-rollment in early intervention and family-to-family support services. The IHP collects and analyzes data on infants screened for hear-ing loss and ensures referral of at-risk infants to appropriate service providers.

Act 1208 of 2013Arkansas Act 1208 of 2013 was

created to strengthen the educa-tion about shaken baby syndrome mandated by Arkansas Act 1128 of 2011; which required birthing facilities to ensure that all new mothers receive information on shaken baby syndrome. A bro-chure was developed to provide pertinent and factual messages that focus on prevention of abu-sive head trauma (shaken baby syndrome). ADH sends these bro-chures annually to every birthing hospital.

Act 1208 of 2013 mandates oth-er providers and agencies, includ-ing prenatal providers and child care facilities to distribute infor-mation to families about shaken baby syndrome. It also requires any educational material created on shaken baby syndrome to be reviewed and approved by the Arkansas Department of Health. The ADH Child and Adolescent Health Section will continue to provide the brochures annually and as needed to each birthing hospital to give to new parents. For questions about the brochures call 501-280-4790.

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Cow-Drop Bingo raises money for HeiferCentral Elementary’s Cow-Drop Bingo “Change for Change” fundraiser for Heifer International most cer-tainly had to involve a stuffed toy cow, provided by Chi-Fil-A in Central’s cafeteria. Fifth-grader Isaac Trice is blindfolded by Ms. Lynn Bauschlicher and Ms. Rita Crafton before “tossing” the parachute that fell to the tile floor used as a Bingo-gird. The class raising the most money was Ms. Bauschlicher’s 4B. Emery Hoag, 4B, was a $25 winner as $610 was raised for Heifer International, headquartered in Little Rock that extends services worldwide.

Hillview Students of the Month . . .Students of the Month for October at Hillview School are pictured from left, front, Emma Lee Sheehy, Mad-elyn Lumby, Carly Smith, Carsyn Shipp, Caleb Cozart. Back, Mrs. Debra Parish, assistant principal, Corey Shipp, Casen Stephens, Makynli Day, Caia Gipson, Principal Aaron Burton.

Food Drive winnersCentral’s 6B classroom of Ms. Marcy Selig was top food collectors during a recent drive involving all classes at Central Elementary School. This drive was to gather as much food as possible for the school’s “back pack” program that assists 42 students each week. From left, front, Jake Gutierrez, Haley Arnold, Ariel Martin, Sophie Townsend, Nicole Waller, Spencer Lucas and Caitlyn Jackson. Back, Simon Yandell, Ms. Selig, James Swint, BradLee Dobbins, Clayton Crosby, Ethan Hill, MaKayla Ward, Laura Moore, Jacob Hollis, Keigan Daniels and Mallory Landreth.

Getting to wear the turkey costumeMiss Hannah Scott is the winner of the turkey costume contest hosted at Park Elementary to support the PAWS organization. PAWS (Parents Active With Students) is a parent organization that helps with various student activities throughout the year. Students were given the op-portunity to vote for the teacher they wanted to see wear the turkey costume. Total amount raised was $209. Miss Scott raised $61.00.

Annual Ag ExpoJan. 30-31in Poplar Bluff

Ag Expo will celebrate its 29th Anniversary on January 30 and 31 at the Black River Coliseum in Poplar Bluff. Ag-riculture booth spaces are now available to rent. This is one of the largest ag trade shows in the region, which is spon-sored by Butler County Uni-versity of Missouri Extension Council and the Ag Club of Three Rivers College.

There will be 118 booths available to visit and learn first-hand about agriculture and natural resources and its impact on the area’s economy. The expo will also feature out-door exhibits. Ten thousand people attended last year’s two-day event.

The event will be held Fri-day, January 30 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Satur-day, January 31 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Admission will be $1.00 for adults and free for all college students and youth. The two days are packed with activities for the whole family. Entertain-ment and events include youth dancing and clogging; gospel, jazz, and contemporary music; agriculture seminars; beauty pageants; and toy tractor pedal pull contests for youth ages 4 to 9. There will be tractor driv-ing contests for FFA mem-bers; petting farm; an old time auction; a milking contest; an ag photography contest; duck calling contest for adults and

youth; and baking contest. This year the Pesticide Ap-

plicator Training for private re-certification will be held at the Expo on Friday. The Master Gardeners will pro-vide Garden Adventures for Kids Saturday morning and 4-H will host a Youth Farm Safety program Saturday af-ternoon 12 pm to 2 pm. New

this year will be the FFA and 4-H Speech Contest.

For more information, to purchase booth space, and to register for the beauty pag-eant, contact the University of Missouri Extension Center, 222 North Broadway, Poplar Bluff 573-686-8064 or check the website at www.exten-sion.missouri.edu/butler.

Arkansas Farm Bureau sets 80th convention Farmers, ranchers and agri-

cultural leaders from across the state will come together Dec. 3-5, 2014 at the Hot Springs Convention Center for Arkansas Farm Bureau’s 80th annual con-vention.

Governor-elect Asa Hutchin-son, Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy Veach, weather historian Evelyn Browning-Gar-ris, and farmer-comedian Jerry Carroll headline the speakers for the convention, which is expect-ed to attract more than 1,000.

The convention’s theme, “Commitment, Community, Compassion” will be reinforced throughout the convention’s three-day run, including several conferences, competitions and special meetings.

The meeting culminates with the organization’s annual busi-ness session, where voting del-egates will define the organiza-tion’s policy positions on items of importance to Farm Bureau members. The delegate body also elects the organization’s president and vice president.

“We like to say that Farm Bu-reau is the voice of agriculture in Arkansas,” said Veach, a cotton,

rice and soybean farmer from Manila (Mississippi County), who is concluding his sixth year as president of the organization.

“If Farm Bureau is to remain viable in Arkansas, Farm Bureau leaders understand the impor-tance of their being committed to voluntary service in their home counties and on a state level. It’s that commitment, plus a strong sense of community and a com-passion for each other, that has allowed agriculture to remain the state’s largest industry and led Farm Bureau to be the success-ful organization it is for these past 80 years.”

Special conferences are sched-uled that will address timely top-ics such as proposed new grain dealer laws, the Arkansas Wa-ter Plan, a preview of the 90th General Assembly and an op-portunity to meet and hear from Congressmen-elect French Hill and Bruce Westerman.

Additionally, there will be livestock, crops and forestry market outlook conferences, as well as a session dealing with the latest technological advanc-es that will benefit farmers and ranchers.

The convention will spotlight the winners in several different competitions among Farm Bu-reau’s Young Farmer & Rancher members.

The top county Farm Bureau women’s program and Sew with Cotton contest winners will be named and the organization will recognize the recipient of the Stanley E. Reed Leadership Award.

Arkansas Farm Bureau is a private advocacy organization of more than 190,000 families throughout the state working to improve farm and rural life.

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C H U R C H   O F   N A Z A R E N E . 2 4 0 8 Cherry. Reverend Peter Connolly, D.D., pastor. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., morn-ing worship 11:00, evening worship 6:00, Tuesday evening 6:00.

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FirsT CHrisTiAN CHUrCH. Fourth and Elm Streets. Pastor Tim Burgess. Sunday Bible School, 9:45 a.m.; worship 10:45 a.m.; Nursery provided. Sunday evening, 6:00.

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gAiNesvilleHARVESTIME CHURCH. Pas tors Reverends Wayne and Genie McGill. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Worship 1 1 : 0 0 a . m . S u n d a y n i g h t 5 : 0 0 . Wednesday evening 7:00.

HiCKOriAMissiONAry BAPTisT CHUrCH. Billy Morris, Pastor. Sunday School, 10:00 a .m. Church services, 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening services, 5:30. Wednesday evening 6:30.

KNOBB e T H l e H e M M i s s i O N A r y BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Worship services 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening services 6:00 p.m.

r O C K s P r i N g s U N i T e d MeTHOdisT CHUrCH. Reverend Mark Trout. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Everyone invited to attend.

KNOBelCHUrCH OF CHrisT. Third and Cherry. Tim Carter, minister. Sunday morning services, 10:00 a.m. Sunday preaching services, 10:45 a.m. Sunday evening services, 6:00. Bible Study, Wednesday night, 6:00.

FirsT PeNTeCOsTAl CHUrCH. Highway 90 South . John Ke lsey Vallance, pastor. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Sunday evening services, 6:00. Wednesday evening, 7:00.

FirsT BAPTisT CHUrCH. Third and Cypress. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Worship services, 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening services, 6 :00. Michael Freeman pastor.

NEW BEGINNINGS FULL GOSPEL. 333 Third, Knobel. Pastor Reverend Randall K. Pinkston. Sunday 10:30 a.m.; Evening worship 5:00; Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

NEW LIFE FAMILY CHURCH. 39 CR 240, Knobel. Pastor Gary Holcomb. Sunday School 10:00 a.m.; Worship Services 11:00 a.m.; Sunday Evening worship 6:00; Wednesday evening ser-vices 7:00.

lAFeST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH. Highway 135 North. Pastor Curtis Dwyer . Sunday School 9 :15 a .m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Nursery provided. Christian Day school each Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 p.m. for grades 3-7.

MAyNArdgrANdvieW Free Will BAPTisT. 921 Grandview Rd. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. Sunday 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30. Pastor Roger Smith.

MCdOUgAlAPOsTOliC FellOWsHiP CHUrCH. Sunday 9 :30 a .m. and 5 :00 p .m. Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Pastor Herb Ellis.

M c d O U g A l C O M M U N i T y CHrisTiAN CHUrCH. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Worship , 10:45 a.m. Sunday, 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday night Bible Study for all ages at 6:30. Pastor Kevin Faughn.

M O r r i s C H A P e l g e N e r A l BAPTisT CHUrCH. Jared Hancock, pastor . Sunday School 10:00 a .m. Worship 11 a.m. Sunday evening 6:00.

TrUe ligHT MissiONAry BAPTisT CHUrCH. Pastor Lavern Reed. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Morning worship ser-vices, 11:00 a.m. evening worship, 5:00. Wednesday evening service, 6:00.

MOArKHigHWAy TABerNACle. Four and one-half miles North of Corning, Highway 67. Pastor, W.V. Meadors. Sunday Morning 10:30. Wednesday eve-ning 6:00.

PeACH OrCHArdPeACH OrCHArd CHUrCH OF CHrisT. One block East of Railroad Track. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. preach-ing services, 10:45 a.m. Sunday evening services, 6:00. Wednesday evening ser-vices, 7:00.

PeACH OrCHArd PeNTeCOsTAl CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Worship services, 11:00 a.m. Evening 5:00. Wednesday evening services, 6:30.

PeACH OrCHArd sOUTHerN BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. worship services, 11:00 a.m. Pastor Gene Carpenter.

POllArdHARMONY SOUTHERN BAPTIST. Pastor Tim McCluskey. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; Morning Worship, 11:00; Sunday Night, 5:00; Wednesday Night, 6:00. NeW HOPe BAPTisT CHUrCH. Pastor Loy Culver. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship, 10:30. Evening Worship, 6 :00 . Wednesday Night Service, 7:00.

MArs Hill MeTHOdisT CHUrCH - CrOCKeTT. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship at 11:00 a.m.

reyNOCHUrCH OF CHrisT. Darrell Fears, minister. Sunday morning, 9:45, wor-ship service, 10:30 a.m. Sunday eve-ning services, 6:00. Wednesday evening Bible Study 6:00.

Old reyNO Free Will BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning worship services, 10:50, Wednesday night services, 7:00. and Sunday night services, 6:00. Pastor Jeb Daniels.

reyNO FirsT BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Worship 11 :00 a .m. Sunday evening 6 :30 . Wednesday night 7:00. Pastor Roger Hovis.

sTONeWAlls T O N e W A l l C O M M U N i T y CHUrCH. Sal ly Shepard, pastor ; Ruben Rodriguez, associate pastor. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning worship, 11:00, Sunday night services, 6:00. Wednesday evening ser-vices 7:00.

sUCCesssUCCess BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m., worship 11:00 a.m.; Discipleship Training 5:00; evening ser-vices, 5:30. Wednesday evening service, 6:30. Pastor Bob Powers.

sUCCess CHUrCH OF CHrisT. Bruce McGrew, minister. Bible Class Sunday Morning, 10:00, Worship services, 10:45 a.m. Sunday evening services, 5:00. Wednesday Evening Bible Class, 7:00.

sUCCess APOsTOliC CHUrCH. Pastor Reverend Richard Mahan. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Sunday eve-ning Service, 6:00. Midweek service, Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

sUPPlyA P O s T O l i C P e N T e C O s TA l CHUrCH OF sUPPly. 3482 Highway 166 N. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. eve-ning worship 6:00; Wednesday prayer 7:00 p.m. Pastor: Bill Settles.

HArviell, MOR E V I VA L   T I M E   TA B E R N A C L E . Highway 67 North, across from Call of Wild. Pastor Jerry and Nancy Summers. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Church 11:00 a.m., Evening Services, 6:00, Thursday night service, 7:00.

UNiTed MeTHOdisT CHUrCH. Sunday Worship, 9:00 a.m. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Pastor Almarie Reynolds.

FellOWsHiP sOUTHerN BAPTisT CHUrCH. Highway 67, 1 1/2 mile South 158/160 Junction. Tim Freeman, pastor. Sunday School 9:45. Worship Service 10:45. Sunday Evening, 5:00. Wednesday Evening, 7:00.

T H e H A rv i e l l J e s U s N A M e P e N T e C O s TA l C H U r C H . R e v . Leroy Murray, pastor. Church services: Sunday morning 10, Sunday evening, 6. Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m.

NAylOr, MOCHUrCH OF CHrisT. Sunday morn-ing bible study 10:00; morning wor-ship 10:45; evening worship 6:00; Wednesday mid-week service (Winter) 6:00 p.m.; (Summer) 7:00 p.m.; Minister Larry Woodward.

C O r i N T H s F e l l O W s H i P Two miles North of Naylor on “B” Highway. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Church ser-vices, 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening ser-vices, 6:00. Wednesday evening services 7:00 p.m. Reverend Kenny Willcut, pas-tor.

FirsT CHrisTiAN CHUrCH. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Church services, 10:30 a.m. Children’s church 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening services, 6:00.

NAylOr FirsT CHUrCH OF gOd, Kelsey and Oyster. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:15 a.m. Pastor Bob Featherston.

NAylOr elM grOve geNerAl BAPTisT on Public Road. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. Reverend Dennis Bell, pastor.

NAylOr MissiONAry BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. preaching services, 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening services, 5:00. Bible Study, 6:00 p.m. Wednesdays. James Mills, pastor.

NAylOr PeNTeCOsTAl CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; Sunday eve-ning, 6:00; Youth Service Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Reverend Donnie Fowler, pastor.

NAylOr UNiTed MeTHOdisT CHUrCH. Corner of Lyon and Kelsey. Sunday Church school, 10:00 a.m. wor-ship services, 10:30 a.m. Second and fourth Sunday of the month.

FirsT BAPTisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. worship services, 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening services, 6:30. Wednesday night services, 6:30.

THe lOrd’s CHUrCH. Sunday School services at 10:00 a.m., church at 11:30 a.m. Sunday night 6:00. Thursday evening, Young People’s Meeting, 7:00., Saturday night, Gospel Singing, 6:30. Two buildings behind Tharp’s Grocery Store.

Neelyville, MOAPOsTOliC NeW TesTAMeNT OF JesUs CHrisT. Located one mile South of intersection, Highways 142 and 67, South on Highway 67. Sunday School 10 a.m., morning worship 11:00; evening 6:00 and Thursday 7 p.m. Reverend Glenda Haven, pastor.

C O O N i s l A N d P e N T e C O s T CHUrCH. Church services, Sunday morning, 10:00. Sunday evening, 6:00. Saturday evening, 7:00.

FrieNdsHiP CHUrCH OF COON islANd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Children’s church, 10:45 a.m.; Sunday evening services, 6:00. Wednesday evening services, 7:00. Pastor Allen Leutert. Located seven miles East of Neelyville.

i N d e P e N d e N C e M i s s i O N A ry BAPTisT CHUrCH of Neelyville. Sunday School 10:00 a.m.; worship ser-vices 11:00 a.m. Sunday evening servic-es 6:00; Wednesday service 7:00. Pastor Bobby Brooks.

Neelyville APOsTOliC CHUrCH. Bel-Air Subdivision. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Pastor Paul Hull.

Neelyville UNiTed MeTHOdisT CHUrCH. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning worship , 11 :00 . Reverend Almarie Reynolds, pastor.

sHePHerd’s FOld CHUrCH. Two miles south of Hwy. 67 & 142 on CR 272, 1/4 mile on right. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship Service 11:00 a.m., Evening service 6:30; Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Pastor Eric Leroux.

Oxly, MOANTiOCH BAPTisT CHUrCH: Hwy 142, Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; worship 11:00 a.m.; evening 6:30; Wednesday bible study, 6:30. Pastor Troy E. Martin.

rOCK FellOWsHiP CHUrCH, 1/4-mile East on Hwy 142. Sunday morn-ing 10:00, worship services 11:00 a.m. Sunday night services 6:30. Wednesday night services 6:30. Pastor John Rhine.

O x ly U N i T e d P e N T e C O s TA l CHUrCH. Highway 142. Sunday morn-ing services, 10:00. Sunday evening ser-vices, 6:00. Wednesday evening servic-es, 7:00. Saturday evening services, 7:00.

r i s e N l i F e C H U r C H O F g O d , downtown Oxly Reverend Chuck Ferrell, Pastor. Sunday worship 10:00 a.m. Sunday evening service 6:00. Wednesday evening services 7:00.

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Estate of Edwin Ahrent, de-ceased. Last known address: 203 West Third St., Corning, Arkan-sas. Date of Death, March 13, 2013.

An instrument dated August 15, 2005 was on the 9th day of October, 2014 admitted to pro-bate as the Last Will of the above named decedent and the under-signed have been appointed Per-sonal Representatives thereun-der. A contest of the probate of the Will can be effected only by filing a petition within the time provided by law.

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This notice first published 20th day of November, 2014.

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