Stories from Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Car show draws big crowd (05/26/10)
By all accounts, the 2010 Piggott Heritage Park Car Show and Cruise proved to be a big success, despite a late afternoon shower Saturday as the cruise drew to a close. Organizers report more than 300 entries to this year's show, several new vendors and a large crowd of spectators...

Triply Muse, former JP, city clerk, dead at age 85 (05/26/10)
Clay County lost one of its most devoted officials and supporters last week with the death Thursday, May 20, of Triply Muse. Muse, 85, spent many years as an elected official, serving 20 years as Justice of the Peace, from 1988 to 2008. She also was a former clerk for the City of Piggott...

Torch run held for Special Olympics (05/26/10)
Harding University at Searcy hosted the Special Olympics Arkansas Summer Games May 20-22 and several regional athletes competed. The week prior to the games law enforcement officers conducted a torch run to raise awareness and financial support for the Special Olympics. ...

Crabb promises show all will enjoy (05/26/10)
As a performer, Jason Crabb has stood before countless crowds, using his vocal talents to enthrall audiences with his acclaimed voice and his unique gospel, country and rhythm and blues style. His talent is undeniable, having won the 2010 Grammy for Best Southern/Country/Bluegrass Gospel Album for his groundbreaking solo debut "Jason Crabb."...

Senior center hosts Spring Fling (05/26/10)
Approximately 75 people attended the first annual "Spring Fling," an event to celebrate National Older Americans Month, held Saturday, May 15, at the Bert E. Sigsby Senior Wellness Center in Rector. Visitors came from Pocahontas, Datto, Paragould, Piggott, Blytheville, as well as Boydsville and Rector...

Memorial service planned at Woodland Heights (05/26/10)
Rector's annual Memorial Day service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Woodland Heights Cemetery. The event, which honors veterans from all branches of service, will feature speakers Tommy Huggins, commander of Rector Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 10480, and Maj. Frank Niederkorn, retired U.S. Army and current chief of police at the Poplar Bluff Veterans Medical Center. Rev. Marston Carpenter, pastor of the Rector First General Baptist Church, will lead a special prayer...

Hartsfield racking up awards (05/26/10)
Kaylee Hartsfield knows her animals. The 13-year-old daughter of Gerald and Michelle Hartsfield followed up an outstanding 2009 show season with an even more impressive 2010, showing her Red Angus heifer, Lacy, and English Commercial heifer, Sugar, at 15 shows across the state, with more on the way...

NFL draft pick has Rector ties (05/26/10)
Danny Batten, a sixth-round draft pick of the National Football League's Buffalo Bills, has two staunch supporters in Rector. The grandson of Gene and Brenda Batten of Rector, Batten has made a habit of surprising football "experts", making his way to the most popular professional sport in America from South Dakota State University in the relatively small Missouri Valley Conference...

Another senior moment (05/26/10)
Country music comedienne Minnie Pearl always wore a hat with a price tag on it when she performed. Do you know the amount on the price tag? Now that's one of the questions asked in 5,087 Trivia Questions & Answers. On reading that, I asked myself, "Now how in the world should I be expected to remember the answer...

It happened here, years ago (05/26/10)
By TIM BLAIR Times News Staff 1970 Sad news out of the Greenway area 40 years ago this week, as it was reported that Carter Digsby, 72, was killed when he drove his 1960 Ford Falcon into the path of a northbound freight train at the Main Street crossing. A witness, C.E. "Nub" Jewell told investigators that he tried to alert Digsby by honking the horn on his car but the effort failed...

In honored glory on Memorial Day (05/26/10)
They were a breed apart, America's fighting men. Whether they fought -- or fell -- as a unit or carrying out orders alone, each of them was greater than the sum of his parts. They have defied description and no one has ever successfully categorized them. But America's enemies who used to underestimate them should have been taught well the first time...

Ruby Juanita Dale (05/26/10)
Ruby Juanita Dale, 86, of Piggott, passed away Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice Home in Jonesboro. She was born April 10, 1924, in Datto, Ark., and was the daughter of the late Ed and Laura (Sutton) Groves. Ruby was saved at an early age and was an active member of the Piggott First General Baptist Church until she became ill. She was also a member of the ladies missionary society...

Triply Virginia Muse (05/26/10)
Triply Virginia Muse, 85, of Piggott, passed away Thursday, May 20, 2010, at Murphy Health and Rehabilitation Center in Piggott. She was born Oct. 20, 1924, in Piggott, and was the daughter of the late Dellveicho and Anna Eva Johnson. She was united in marriage to Norman Muse March 7, 1946. He preceded her in death Sept. 23, 1996...

Clifton Boyce Bateman (05/26/10)
Clifton Boyce Bateman, 80, of Apopka, Fla., formerly of Rector, went to be with his Heavenly Father on May 20, 2010. He was born Sept. 22, 1929, to the late Cecil and Dolphia (McLeskey) Bateman in the Clay County area. He served as a Deacon and Sunday School teacher for many years. In fact, he taught until the last four months. He was a farmer in the Boydsville area for many years...

Herschel H. Carter (05/26/10)
Herschel H. Carter, age 93, of Little Rock, passed away Sunday, May 23, 2010. A veteran of World War II, Mr. Carter served in the Army Air Corp as a B-24 navigator with Squadron 706, Bomb Group 445th, Bungay, England. His aircraft was shot down on his 16th mission near Berlin, Germany, and he was held as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 1, Barth, Germany, for 14 months until he was liberated by Russian troops...

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