Stories from Wednesday, May 14, 2003

by David McNeal What a weekend ---- if you were an avid track fan, that is. Yes, it was the weekend of the state track preliminary meets, held across Arkansas in all five classifications. It is one of the highlight events of the season for those who run and throw, and this year was no exception...

Joesph Harris of Berryville High School was one of 45 honorees at a special banquet sponsored by the Arkansas Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Inc., that recognized outstanding scholar-athletes throughout the State of Arkansas...

Berryville Bobcat senior Grant Myrick signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball at North Arkansas College (NAC) in Harrison last week, with his parents, Mitch and Julie Myrick, Pioneer coach Jerry Thomason, Bobcat coach Tracy Jones, and school administrators Ron Harvell and Matt Summers in attendance...

Area teams qualified several athletes for the state track finals this Friday in Hot Springs at preliminary meets in Heber Springs and Danville. The Berryville and Green Forest squads competed in Heber Springs in the AAA classification, while Eureka Springs athletes raced at Danville against AA teams...

May 5 4:10 p.m. ---- Police responded to a one vehicle traffic accident with injuries. 10:40 p.m. ---- Police provided a foot patrol at the school. May 8 9 p.m. ---- Police went to Tyson Foods to serve papers to a subject. 9:40 p.m. ---- Police provided a foot patrol at the school...

Week of May 5 May 5 1:14 a.m. ---- Assist sheriff's deputy at Kings River bridge. 8:35 a.m. ---- Report taken at PD regarding threats and harassment. 1 p.m. ---- Officer mediated custody dispute at Ozark Guidance Center. 3:20 p.m. ---- Vandalism report taken at Wal-Mart...

Week of May 5 May 5 10:06 a.m. -- Caller reported a small puppy running loose on Hwy. 62 East. 10:26 a.m. -- Officer responded after hotel guest reported her tires were slashed. Officer reported it was not vandalism. 10:46 a.m. -- Caller reported a PT Cruiser sitting in parking lot of train station. Officer reported owner of vehicle had made arrangements to store vehicle there...

OLIVER JOE TAYLOR, a resident of Green Forest, Arkansas was born December 21, 1936 in Green Forest, Arkansas a son of Alpha Dallas and Janie Barbara (Scarbrough) Taylor. He died on Monday, May 5, 2003 in Berryville, Arkansas at the age of 66. Mr. Taylor was a veteran, having served with the United States Army. He was employed by Tyson Foods...

James Delmer Smith, 90, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas (formerly of Alpena) died Thursday, May 1, 2003, in Pine Bluff. He was born February 8, 1913, in Delmar, Arkansas, son of Millard Smith and Mandy Plumlee Smith. Mr. Smith was a retired farmer and had also worked 13 years at Hammerschmidt Lumber Co. in Harrison, Ark. He was a devout Church of Christ member. He owned and operated a sorghum mill in Carrollton for many years. He was an avid gardener and enjoyed fishing and hunting...

WARREN DALE SMITH, a resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was born July 15, 1948, in Little Rock, Arkansas, a son of Warren Steward and Doris Annette (Mills) Smith. He died Wednesday, May 7, 2003, in Springdale, Arkansas, at the age of 54. Mr. Smith was an industrial engineer. He was one of Jehovah's Witnesses...

EATHEN ROBERT McGEHEE, infant son of Shalla Marie (McGehee) Parks and Kenneth Matney was born Wednesday, May 7, 2003 and also died May 7, 2003 in Berryille, Arkansas. He is survived by his mother and father, Shalla Marie (McGehee) Parks of Eureka Springs and Kenneth Matney of Lowell, Arkansas; a sister, Josie Kelley; two half brothers, Joseph Tyler and Dylan Thomas Matney both of Berryville; grandparents, Darrell and Margie McGehee of Eureka Springs and Patrick and Debbie Matney of Lowell, Arkansas; great grandparents, Robert and Irene Kile; an aunt, Wendi Villanueva of Ontario, California; several other aunts, uncles, cousins and other loved ones.. ...

SHIRLEY HARRIS, 65, of Lucien, Okla., died February 28, 2003, at the St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Enid, Okla. Burial followed in the Waukomis Cemetery. Mrs. Harris was born Oct. 23, 1937, in Berryville, to Charles and Bessie Pennington Middleton. She grew up in berryville and graduated from Berryville High School in 1955...

MARJORIE FLO DANIEL, a resident of Napa, California, formerly of Berryville, Arkansas, was born March 23, 1924, in Berryville, a daughter of Frank Lee and Edith (Hanna) Rawlins. She died Monday, May 5, 2003, in her home at the age of 79. Mrs. Daniel was a homemaker. She was a graduate of Phillips University, a member of the Women's Republican Party, and she strongly supported the Carson City, Nevada local symphony. Mrs. Daniel was a lifetime member of the First Christian Church in Berryville...

"To come to Carroll County, you almost have to bring your job with you. We don't have the industry." Those were the dead-on remarks of Carroll County Judge Ed Robertson last week at a meeting of local leaders and representatives of the Northwest Arkansas Economic District...

Carroll County officials from Holiday Island to Blue Eye, and Eureka Springs to Green Forest zeroed in on priorities at a meeting Friday with Mike Gallahan and Mike Norton, of the Northwest Arkansas Economic Development District. The meeting was held in the courtroom of the Carroll County Courthouse in Berryville, with the purpose of gathering information to enable Norton to "sing the song of rural counties" as he lobbies regional and federal economic development entities...

BERRYVILLE ---- Dean Newman, the bashful but beloved pharmacist who held court over the landmark Berryville Drug Store for nearly 60 years, died Thursday, May 9, in his home. He was 79. Mr. Newman was known as a leader in pharmacology, following in the footsteps of locally renowned physicians and pharmacists who reared him on the science from his teens into the early 1930s and 1940s...

A suspicious package received Thursday by Carroll County Circuit Clerk Ramona Wilson is on its way to the U.S. Postal Inspector's office in Little Rock, according to Kenny Smith, public information officer for the United States Postal Service in Ft. Worth, Texas...