Stories from Wednesday, August 7, 2002

What's more impressive that a pitcher pitching a perfect game? Well...how about a pitcher pitching two perfect games? Having already pitched a perfect game this season for his Marmaduke based Action One Reality Little League team, Andrew Mitchell reached the pinnacle of perfection a second time this summer as he pitched his Paragould All-Star team to 4-0 district championship win over the Pocahontas All-Stars July 7th at Batesville...

Rector mayor Ron Kemp announced this week that he will seek re-election to a third term in the November general election. Kemp first was elected to the position in 1994. He issued this statement concerning his bid for re-election: "I have talked to numerous people in the past several weeks and they indicate our residents feel we are heading in the right direction as a community...

Skateboarding issues, livestock control and the upcoming city-wide yard sale were items on the agenda at a busy Rector City Council meeting on Monday night. Joey Pruett of the Parks and Recreation Commission asked the council about the possibility of closing streets around the Downtown Park in order to provide a central location for the city-wide yard sale, which is held the third weekend in October. ...

Arriving back in Arkansas to cheering crowds in Little Rock was something National Guard EG Sergeant Joel Hayes of Rector will never forget. "To hear all that cheering and echoing for us made you really, really proud," he said. "It made you feel proud of what you had done and what you were coming home to."...

Making the move from the statewide to the local electric utility arena is new Clay County Electric Cooperative Corp. manager Derwood Brett. Brett took the reigns of the rural electric cooperative last week following a highly-successful career by manager James Huggins...

Robert Jay Warner III, of Neelyville, Mo., died Monday July 29, 2002 at his residence. He was born Oct. 8, 1953, in Cherokee, N.C., to the late Robert Warner II and Georgia Skaggs Merrit. He was a member of the Baptist faith. Two brothers, Tommy Clifton and Clifford Warner, also preceded him in death...

Freeda Etta Earline Gregory, 82, of Rector died July 24, 2002, at the Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. Born Sept. 8, 1919, in Greene County, to the late James R. Parish and Hattie (Wofford) Parish she was a lifelong member of the community, a homemaker and a member of the White Oak General Baptist Church...

MARMADUKE -- The Marmaduke Junkyard Dogs Little League All-Star team did a pretty good imitation of Jack the Giant Killer inthe Marion Mayhem Little League Tournament held at Marion the weekend of July 27-28. You have probably heard of this Jack of fairy-tale fame who with the aid of some beans journeyed to a land inhabited by giants and with the help of an axe toppled one of them. ...

The football rivalry between the Rector Cougars and the Piggott Mohawks will continue this year as Rector head coach Wade Williams and Piggott coach Scott Morgan agreed for their teams to scrimmage against each other. The preseason scrimmage will take place in Piggott on Tuesday, Aug 27...

The football rivalry between the Rector Cougars and the Piggott Mohawks will continue this year as Rector head coach Wade Williams and Piggott coach Scott Morgan agreed for their teams to scrimmage against each other. The preseason scrimmage will take place in Piggott on Tuesday, Aug 27...

With temperatures and heat indexes well over the century mark, high school football players and coaches need to take special precautions during the upcoming football two-a-day practices. Last year, 11 high school deaths occurred due to heat-related injuries on the football fields...

PIGGOTT With a newly appointed chief in the wigwam, the 2002 Piggott Mohawks may very well show more of their redskin on their warpath for yet another playoff berth this season. Scott Morgan, formerly the assistant coach for the Pocahontas Redskins, takes over the Mohawk helm filling the position left open by Jason Burkman who resigned earlier this year to take the head coaching slot at Scott City, Mo...

Lois Coward Van Middlesworth, 70, of Campbell passed away Monday, Aug. 5, 2002 in the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. Funeral services will be held today at 2 p.m. in Hoggard and Sons Chapel with Donnie Earl Dell officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Campbell. Hoggard and Sons Funeral Home of Piggott is in charge of arrangements. Viewing will be held today starting at 12:30 p.m. until service time...

Brema I. Graves, 83, of Michigan City, Ind., died on Aug. 2, 2002, at St. Anthony Memorial Health Centers in Michigan City. She was born July 19, 1919, in Fagus, Mo., the daughter of the late Carrol and Elizabeth Garner Craft. She married the Windle Graves in Piggott on Dec. 28, 1937. She was a member of the Free Methodist Church in Michigan City...

Making the move from the statewide to the local electric utility arena is new Clay County Electric Cooperative Corp. manager Derwood Brett. Brett took the reigns of the rural electric cooperative last week following a highly-successful career by manager James Huggins...

Clay County Sheriff Ronnie Cole has been appointed to the board of directors of the Arkansas Sheriffs Association (ASA). Cole was sworn in by Garland County District Judge Ralph Ohm during the association's summer conference held July 15-17 in Eureka Springs...

Annual school board elections will be held Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the Piggott school district. Filing closed 4:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5. The sole candidate to file for the position currently held by Danny Baldwin was John Rodery.

Annie Modine Davison, 91, of Manila, died Saturday, July 27, 2002, at her home. Born at Perry County, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Ida Bell Boyd Fowler and had been a Manila resident since 1932. She was the widow of Albert Davison and was a member of the Browns Chapel Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Lemoin Davison, and a son-in-law, Don Pitts...

John Harley Clark, 93, of Piggott, died July 31, 2002, in his daughter's home in Piggott. He was born Sept. 3, 1908, in Piggott, the son of the late Loren and Clara Bell Mowery Clark. He was united in marriage to Vessie Scott Jan. 3, 1941. To this union three daughter were born...

Omagene McDowell Hubbard, 69, of McDougal, died Thursday, Aug 1, 2002, in the Family Medical Center in Corning. She was born in Piggott, the daughter of the late Edgar and Evalee Rogers McDowell. She was united in marriage to Willie Hubbard. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Wayne and Norman McDowell; and one sister, Doris McDowell...

"We were the first pure National Guard unit to make deployment to the multinational peacekeepers," said Bill Hogue of Piggott. Hogue, who serves as a command sergeant major with the Arkansas Army National Guard, has returned home after a deployment that took him to the Sinai as part of international reinforcements of the 1979 Peace Accord...