Stories from Monday, December 15, 2003

Every soldier on the ground in Iraq is in harm's way, and there usually isn't anything very positive to say about their situation. Staff Sgt. Art D. Curtis Jr., 27, a 1995 graduate of Berryville High School, has found a way to bring some amount of good to the ruins of war...

Carroll County is expected to be getting a $10 million four-lane project on U.S. Highway 62 between Berryville and Alpena within the next two years, according to Ralph Fulton of the Arkansas Highway Department in Harrison. "We plan a project, but are never certain until we have the right of way," Fulton said. "We are certainly going to do a project somewhere between Berryville and Alpena within the next year or two. We are not to the point of saying where, yet."...

The sheriff's emergency dispatchers have been criticized in the media and at quorum court meetings for "poor training" or mistakes, and some people questioned their performance as the county was setting up a new 911 central dispatch center. Some criticism is valid, but much of it is based on misunderstandings...

It was early in the conference junior high race, just Eureka's second 1AA league game out of 12 played this year, but the Elkins Elks made the most of the matchups and won two from the Junior Highlander teams on Monday night. Coach Josh Hill's junior high boys (6-7) were in it all the way but took a close 49-44 loss to drop to 1-1 in conference action...

The Eureka Springs Lady Highlander basketball team won its first game in the North Arkansas College (NAC) Senior Girls tournament last weekend, defeating the Yellville-Summit Lady Panthers 50-44 in overtime. Their reward? Getting to play No. 1 seed Valley Springs (14-1) on Wednesday in the second round of the tournament...

It was just a matter of time before new coach Jim Goins got his new Lady Tigers team to find the old way of winning basketball games ---- hard work. The Green Forest senior girls fought off a comeback by the Pea Ridge Lady Blackhawks and earned their first win of the season on Tuesday night, a 42-30 victory...

HILDRED L. MCDANIEL, a resident of Golden, Mo., was born Jan. 28, 1925, in Rocky Ford, Colo., a daughter of Roy and Ethel (Roe) Jones. She died Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, in her home at the age of 78. Mrs. McDaniel was a bank teller. She was a member of the Carr Lane Baptist Church in Carr Lane, Mo...

GROVER C. SMITH, 68, of Jasper, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003 at his home. He was born May 17, 1935, at Deer, Ark., to Samuel Andrew and Della (Breedlove) Smith. He worked for Sutton Products for 40 years and was a farmer. He attended Crossroads Community Church at Compton and was a lifetime resident of Newton County. He was united in marriage to Doris Jean Jones on May 28, 1960 at Crooked Creek...

ORVAL LOGAN, a resident of Green Forest, was born Aug. 23, 1933, in Rule, Ark. a son of Joe Frank and Gladys (Gibson) Logan. He died Saturday, Nov. 29, in Fayetteville at the age of 70. Mr. Logan was a farmer. He was a veteran, having served with the United States Army during the Korean conflict. He attended Freewill Baptist Church in Berryville...

RALPH EUGENE KALER, a resident of Green Forest, was born Sept. 2, 1941, in Calf Creek, Ark., a son of Troy Claud and Beula Watkins (Williams) Kaler. He died Friday, Dec. 5, 2003, in Green Forest at the age of 62. Mr. Kaler was a retired farmer. He is survived by his children, John Kaler of Green Forest, Tony Kaler of Springdale, Nancy Kaler of Gentry, and Jozi Long of Berryville; two sisters, Loretta Goss and Shirley Granger, both of Green Forest; one grandchild, Judith Lee Alewine of Russellville; other relatives and friends. ...

DOILIS (DOT) V. FOREMAN, 87, of Fountain Lake Nursing, Hot Springs, Ark., formerly of Green Forest, died Sept. 18, 2003 in a local hospital. She was born Aug.12, 1916, in Ohio County, Ky. to Ellis Leslie and Cordelia Mae (Lee) Toms. Doilis married Paul J. Foreman, a farmer in Hartford, Ky., on February 16, 1935. After she and Paul retired to Green Forest in 1971 from Hammond, Ind...

ANNA ARDELLA ALLENDER, of Loveland, Colo., died Friday, Nov. 21, 2003, at North Shore Manor in Loveland. She was 103. Mrs. Allender was born Jan. 25, 1900, to Benjamin and Mary Susan (High) Casey in Baxter, Mo. She and her family came to Longmont in a covered wagon in 1917...

PEARL FULTZ, a resident of Green Forest, was born April 28, 1916, in Osage, a daughter of Monroe and Lottie (Slapes) Phillips. She died Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003, in Berryville, Arkansas, at the age of 87. Mrs. Fultz was a homemaker. She attended the Rule United Baptist Church...

by Larry Elkins "This is a test. This is only a test." These words have been part of the American vernacular. I remember early one summer morning I snuck into the living room to watch cartoons. The television was turned down low enough as not to wake up my parents. The attention signal for the Emergency Broadcast System did exactly what it was designed to do; it got their attention...

Several dozen people gathered at the First Presbyterian Church in Berryville on Tuesday for the Tenth Annual Memory Tree Service, hosted by Hospice Care of St. John's Hospital ---- Berryville. Each year during the Christmas season, Hospice Care invites all who are interested to remember loved ones whose lives have touched others...