Stories from Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Would you like a good script for a riveting basketball movie Hoosiers style? Let's take two outstanding girls high school programs two and a half miles from each other in the same small town. Let's put an All-State player on each team who are each others first cousin. ...

Drawings to determine the order of how candidates names will be listed on the Nov. 5 General Election ballot were held Monday evening at the Clay County Courthouse in Piggott. The races will include municipal, county, state, federal and non-partisan circuit judges. This is the order in how the contested candidates names will appear on the ballot (D, Democrat; R, Republican, I, independnent):...

Former Marmaduke alderman A.D. Golden died Monday, Sept. 16, 2002, in West Bloomfield, Mich., at age 80. He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and was a veteran of World War II, in which he served as a gunner on B-24s stationed in Italy. He worked 33 years at Ely Walker shirt factory in Paragould and recently worked part-time at Damman Hardware in Commerce, Mich...

Elsie Ann Holt, 92, of Rector died Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002, at National Health Care in Kennett. She was born March 2, 1910, in Ozark, Ark., to the late G.W. and Sue Elizabeth McDade. She was a homemaker and was of the Methodist faith. Mrs. Holt and her husband were active in Rector Little League. The Rector Little League ball field, Holt Field, is named after them...

Kenneth Eugene Jackson, 75, of Rector died Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002, at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. He was born Aug. 5, 1927, in Rector. He was a mechanic, a veteran of the Korean War and of the Baptist faith. He is survived by one son, Steve Jackson, of Paragould; three daughters, Kathey Richey of Tulsa, Okla., and Penny Harrelson and Melody Jaques of Paragould; one sister, Wilma Roberts, of Paragould; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild...

Dale Aaron Wikowsky, 71, of Nimmons died Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002, at the Piggott Nursing Center in Piggott. He was born Dec. 14, 1930, in Rector to the late John August Wikowsky and Mary Willie (Armstrong) Wikowsky. He was a lifelong member of the community, a truck driver and a member of Nimmons Church of Christ...

Cleo A. Hass, 81, of Cahokia, Ill., formerly of Marmaduke, died Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002, at Memorial Hospital in Cahokia. He was born May 25, 1921, in Marmaduke, the son of the late Lee and Vashti Trantham Hass. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Dorotha Baker Hass; a son, Larry Hass; and two brothers, Crillon and Charles Hass...

Laverne Throgmorton, 78, of Fayetteville died Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002, at Fayetteville Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born Jan. 25, 1924, in Rector, the daughter of the late Charles and Beulah Catherine McMillan Merritt. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Thornton Throgmorton, on July 8, 1992...

RECTOR -- With a doleful full moon looking down on a rain soaked field, the Rector Cougars were defeated in their 2002 Homecoming game 46-8 by the Hughes Blue Devils Friday night. Hughes, a former AAA power, now a AA football school, didn't seem bothered by the soggy field as they ran an intricate shifting offense that makes the ball hard to find in the backfield...

RECTOR -- Last Tuesday the Rector Pee Wee football team took a double-header from the Marked Tree Pee Wees. Utilizing a stout defense and two rushing touchdowns by Blake Evers, Rector won the 5th grade game 14-0. Evers first touchdown came on a 4 yard run in the first quarter. His second touchdown run in the fourth quarter went for 65 yards. Clint Haley added a two-point conversion after Evers second touchdown...

RECTOR -- The Rector Junior Cougars, playing at home for the first time this year, were defeated by the Palestine-Wheatley Patriots 26-6 last Thursday night. Adam Kennedy ran back both a punt return and a kickoff return for touchdowns and Tanner Wright scored a touchdown on a 26 yard sweep as Palestine-Wheatley built a 20-0 half-time lead...

Occasionally in life, highly talented or highly gifted people are encountered in unexpected places. The unassuming pharmacist, who politely fills a prescription every week, turns out to have a Mensa-level I.Q. The quiet retired former military man is revealed to be a master linguist, who can speak two dozen languages...

Three people were injured following a collision Saturday afternoon on Highway 90 that began with a police pursuit in Rector. Trooper Ramey Lovan of the Arkansas State Police said the Rector Police Department and the Clay County Sheriff's Department had received reports of a driver running other vehicles off the road...

The inclement weather kept many Wise Co. workers from the Governor's Dislocated Worker Task Force workshop held Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Rector Community Center. The workers were temporarily left without jobs after the Wise Co. burned to the ground Sept. 6. The plant employed around 120 people...

Drawings to determine the order of how candidates names will be listed on the Nov. 5 General Election ballot were held Monday evening at the Clay County Courthouse in Piggott. The races will include municipal, county, state, federal and non-partisan circuit judges. This is the order in how the contested candidates names will appear on the ballot (D, Democrat; R, Republican, I, independnent):...

Youth from the South Thornton Church of Christ, joined by others from Paragould, recently completed mission work in Tuba City, Ariz., located in the Navajo Nation. Youth minister Willie Sandlin said the community's name is "from a distant chief named Tuba" and means "land of many waters."...

The Piggott City Council agreed to consider an ordinance to waive competitive bidding on city property insurance during a special meeting set for noon Friday. Alderman Lester Edwards was absent. During Monday night's utilities meeting, Mayor Bud Holcomb said the city had received only one local bid, which came from Gregory Insurance. He said many of the other local insurance agents said they did not have time to prepare proposals...

Edith Lorene Clark Underwood, 91, of Piggott, died Sept. 18, 2002, in the Piggott Community Hospital. She was born near Piggott on Sept. 22, 1910, the daughter of the late Loren Grover and Clara Belle Mowery Clark. She was united in marriage to Clarence Underwood, on Nov. 17, 1927. To this union two children were born...

Dale Aaron Wikowsky, 71, of Nimmons died Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002, at the Piggott Nursing Center in Piggott. He was born Dec. 14, 1930, in Rector to the late John August Wikowsky and Mary Willie (Armstrong) Wikowsky. He was a lifelong member of the community, a truck driver and a member of Nimmons Church of Christ...

Kathleen Lorraine Holcomb, 76, of Bradenton, Fla., died Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002, at her home. She was born on Dec. 5, 1925, in Tarentum, Penn., the daughter of the late Lee Earl and Mary Jane Wolfe Camp. She was united in marriage to DeWayne D. Holcomb in January 1944...

CORNING The Corning Bobcats found a way to overcome their ongoing curse of the fumblebug and held off the Piggott Mohawks for an 8-0 win Friday night at rain-drenched Bobcat Field. Despite fumbling the ball away on two of their first three possessions, the Bobcats managed to maintain control of the ball long enough to claim the win over the Mohawks (0-2) and remain undefeated with a record of 3-0 heading into week four of the 2002 Arkansas high school football season...

Still searching for their first win of the 2002 season, the Piggott Mohawks have no easy no easy challenge ahead of them as they will face the undefeated Rivercrest Colts Friday night at Parker Field in Piggott. The Colts (3-0) will travel up from Wilson to Clay County this week, fresh from their 7-0 blanking of the Brinkley Tigers. Other victims of the Colts this year include Paragould and Marion...

Piggott's sixth grade peewee football team improved their record to 2-1 on the year with a 38-6 win over East Poinsett County on Saturday. Piggott also won the fourth and fifth grade contest with a 34-0 blanking over the peewee Warriors. In other sixth grade action, Trumann defeated Harrisburg, 20-6, and Marked Tree bested Manila, 22-0...

Jeff Chandler fired a blistering 133 with rounds of 65 and 68 to claim first place in the Championship Flight of the annual Indiviual golf tournament this past weekend at Sugar Creek Country Club. Barry DeHart claimed the Club Championship with a 142. Ashley McMillon placed third in the Championship Flight with a 143...

The third annual "A Celebration of Quilting" will be held Saturday at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott. This year's feature will be baby quilts, but all types will be on display. "We will still have regular quilts of all kinds," said education coordinator Deanna Webster...