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ThursdayJanuary 27 , 2011

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InsideTonight - Mostly clear with low temperatures in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

Friday - Sunny with highs in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday night will be mostly clear with lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday - Mostly sunny with highs in the upper 60s. South winds 5 mph.

River Stages(Numbers represent, from left, that

station’s fl ood stage, current stage and 24-hour change.)

Ouachita River: Arkadelphia 17 3.85 -0.02 Camden 26 5.81 0.13 Thatcher 79 77.00 0.00 Moro Bay -- 65.00 -0.10 Felsenthal 70 65.20 0.20Little Missouri River: Boughton 20 0.46 0.06

Sunset: 5:38 p.m.Sunrise: 7:10 a.m.

Bentonville fourth-grader dies when soccer goal falls on him

BENTONVILLE (AP) — Bentonville school offi cials say a fourth-grade student died after a soccer goal fell on him at school.

Offi cials say the accident occurred about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Elm Tree Elementary School.

Superintendent Gary Compton said the goal fell on top of the boy. It’s not known how the goal tipped over or what part of the child’s body was hit.

Compton says the child received medical attention from two nurses at the school before paramedics ar-rived. Offi cials haven’t released the boy’s name.

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By DONNA COLLINSStaff Writer

A 25-year-old Camden woman, accused of forging payroll checks, is free on a $25,000 bond today after a fi rst court appearance Wednesday.

Mashaundra Latoya Hill, 930 Garland St., was arrested Tuesday afternoon, according to Lt. George Ingram, head of the Camden Po-lice Department’s Criminal Inves-tigation Division.

Hill is accused of printing and

cashing phony payroll checks.Police say at least three to four

counterfeit checks were cashed and the amount of the checks ranged in the hundreds of dollars.

Earlier this week, Greg Shinn, owner of Camden’s Comfort Inn

and Holiday Inn Express, noti-fi ed the Camden Area Chamber of Commerce of the suspected il-legal activity.

In response, the chamber noti-fi ed its membership of the prob-lem.

According to Shinn, his com-

pany was notifi ed of the problemby check cashing facilities in andaround Camden.

Businesses with any informa-tion about the case should contact the Camden Police Department at870-836-5755.

Police arrest suspect in bogus checks

Recruitdies whiletraining at academy

By PAUL P. QUINNDemocrat-Gazette

A West Memphis FireDepartment recruit diedWednesday during a train-ing exercise at the Arkan-sas Fire Training Academyin Camden, offi cials said.

David Eason, 38, suffered an apparent heart attackduring an exercise in thebasement of a fi re academybuilding, West MemphisBattalion Chief Tim Mc-Neely said.

An instructor was teach-ing Eason how to get outof a burning building byfollowing a fi re hose, Mc-Neely said. The room wasdark but there was no fi reor smoke during the train-ing session, he said.

During the exercise, Ea-son and the instructor weretalking, but when Easonsuddenly stopped talking,the instructor turned thelights on and saw Eason

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Photo by Mary Brown

Big wheel accidentArkansas State Trooper Clint Mullinix, center, informs G.W. Stinnett, a driver for D&S Trucking of Stephens, right, of the information needed regarding an accident Wednesday afternoon on U.S. 79 North. According to statements made on scene, Stinnett was moving into the right lane and did not see the car because it was in a blind spot. No injuries were reported at the scene and no further details were available at press time.

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By TAMMY FRAZIERStaff Writer

Despite getting a later start than usual in orga-nizing the upcoming dog show, Darleen Wheeling-ton said the community has once again buoyed her efforts and that she expects a larger attendance than last year.

Wheelington addressed the Camden Noon Lions Club group Wednesday gave an update about the 12th Annual South Arkan-sas Kennel Cub Dog Shows & Obedience Trials, which will be held Feb. 19-20 at the Highland Airport Facilities in East Camden.

Show hours will be from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. each day.

Wheelington said she is excited about the show, the special guest and the great economic boost the event will give to the area.

She said that she and a family member were sick for a while, causing her to run a little behind this year with organizing the dog show. But Wheelington said that the support of friends, volunteers and others in the community has really touched her heart.

“I was panicking about trying to get it all done,” she said, “but as usual, this town has responded tre-mendously... It makes me proud to say that this is my community... This is an honor and a dream.”

On Feb. 19-20, the South Arkansas Dog Show will be competing against three other dog shows that week-end, Wheelington said. The big draw for the South Ar-kansas show is the prize money, she explained. Other shows offer ribbons, she said, whereas the local show offers ribbons and cold, hard cash.

“The cash prize money is what is drawing them. That’s the bottom line,” Wheelington said. “If they can go to another show and win ribbons but they can come to Camden and win

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After tests completed, mystery remainsabout what killed thousands of fi sh

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — The mys-tery of what killed tens of thou-sands of fi sh that washed up along the Arkansas River late last year can’t be solved, state wildlife of-fi cials announced Wednesday, but they do have a theory about what caused birds to fall out of the sky in a small Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission issued separate news releases on the Dec. 29 fi sh kill and the New Year’s Eve event in which red-winged blackbirds began rain-ing down, evoking images of the apocalypse. The agency issued the releases after autopsies and mul-tiple tests were conducted on the fi sh and birds.

Scientists determined it’s likely that unusually loud noises reported before the birds began falling fright-ened them so much that they fl ew off in the dark, even though they have poor night vision and typical-ly do not fl y at night. The Fish and Game Commission also said New

Year’s Eve fi reworks likely led the birds to fl y at a lower-than-normal altitude and into buildings or trees. It’s estimated that 4,000 to 5,000 birds fell before midnight.

Less is known about the fi sh kill. None of the tests conducted on fi sh or water samples from the area turned up anything conclusive, the agency.

Tests on the birds, meanwhile, revealed hemorrhaging consistent with blunt-force trauma. And the agency said radar images show fl ights of blackbirds on two occa-sions on New Year’s Eve suddenly taking off from a roost at Beebe es-timated to contain 1.6 million birds.

“In most instances, such traumat-ic injuries in wild birds are due to fl ying into stationary objects such as trees, houses, windows, power lines, towers, etc.,” a report from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, which is part of the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said.

The tests ruled out bacteria, vi-

ruses, heavy metals, pesticides and chemicals used to kill birds as causes of death.

The fi sh kill stretched about 17 miles downstream from the Ozark-Jetta Taylor Lock and Dam, and included about 83,000 freshwater drum and 1,000 other fi sh, includ-ing yellow bass, white bass, bluegill and sauger.

“Fish kills are not that uncom-mon,” said Game and Fish Commis-sion district fi sheries supervisor Bob Limbird. “But kills of this mag-nitude in Arkansas are rare.”

Fish collected from the kill were sent to the aquaculture center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, which ran tests for diseases and parasites. “We can say conclu-sively that the drum were not killed from a bacterial or viral infection, or from parasites,” said Game and Fish Commission fi sh pathologist Kelly Winningham.

The Arkansas Department of En-vironmental Quality also conduct-ed tests on fi sh and water samples.

Water samples were tested for met-als, nutrients and minerals to assesswater quality. Fish samples were tested for metals. A drum samplewas tested for toxins such as pesti-cides and other organic chemicals. All samples were within normal values for the Arkansas River, ac-cording to the agency. The drumsample did not show any toxins.

Winningham said fi sh kills canoccur for many reasons — stress,starvation, water pollution, disease,parasites, toxic algae, and severe orextreme weather.

“Unfortunately, we probably willnever know exactly what killed these fi sh,” said Game and FishCommission assistant fi sherieschief Chris Racey. “But the testinghas eliminated the largest publicconcerns of disease, parasites andtoxins. We have no reason to thinkfi sh caught in the Arkansas River are unsafe to eat.”

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Arkan-sas Gov. Mike Beebe says he ex-pects legislation to cut Arkansas’ grocery tax by a half-cent on the dollar to be fi led in the next seven

to 10 days.Beebe told members of the Po-

litical Animals Club on Wednes-day he’s talked with lawmakers to see if they want to back the

tax cut. Beebe told reporters af-terward that he didn’t know who would introduce the measure and didn’t have a head count on who supports it in the House and Sen-

ate.Beebe proposed the tax cut last

year as part of his $4.6 billion bud-get for the coming fi scal year. Re-publicans have said they want to

see if there’s room for other taxcuts, but Beebe has said it can’tbe done without hurting state ser-vices.

Beebe predicts action to cut half-cent from grocery tax

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Arkansas News DigestMan wanted for murder, kidnapping is arrested

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A Little Rock man wanted on a capital murder charge and in the kidnapping of his in-fant son has been arrested.

Police say 28-year-old Raymond Moore Sr. was arrested Wednesday in southwest Little Rock. Lt. Terry Hast-ings told the Arkansas Democrat-Ga-zette that Moore at fi rst drove away from an offi cer who tried to stop him — but stopped after a short chase and surrendered.

Moore is wanted in the Aug. 19 shoot-ing death of 30-year-old Larry Sims and for the Monday night abduction of his son. The boy was later found un-harmed at a relative’s home.

Moore did not respond to a report-er’s question as he was taken from the police station and Hastings said he doesn’t have a lawyer.

He’s being held in the Pulaski Coun-ty jail without bond.

Man rescued from fi relater dies at hospital

SPRINGDALE (AP) — Authorities say a man who was rescued from a burning house in Springdale has died.

Police say three offi cers pulled Rob-ert Holman and his wife, Carol, out of the home early Wednesday. Holman was taken to a Little Rock hospital where he died.

Offi cers say the fi re started at about 2:30 a.m. Lt. Cecil White told the Northwest Arkansas Times the offi -cers who helped the couple sustained minor smoke inhalation and were taken to Northwest Medical Center in Springdale.

A family friend says Carol Holman was taken to a hospital and was listed in fair condition. The fi re is under in-vestigation.

Bill bans state pay to private attorneys of poor

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A bill that would restrict the use of state funds to pay for private attorneys for indi-gent defendants is heading to the state House of Representatives for a vote.

The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent the bill by Rep. John

Edwards to the full House with a rec-ommendation it be passed. The bill prohibits the state from paying fees to attorneys that are hired by defendants found to be unable to afford a lawyer. It would not apply to private attorneys appointed by a court.

The bill is in response to a state Su-preme Court ruling that the state Pub-lic Defender Commission must pay the private attorney of murder defendant Abdulhakim Muhammad. Muhammad is charged in the shooting death of a soldier outside a Little Rock recruiting center.

Bodies of elderly couple found in Fayetteville

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Fayetteville police are investigating the deaths of an elderly couple found shot to death in a house as a possible murder-sui-cide.

Police say offi cers discovered the bodies at a home about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a call from a man saying his grandfather may be suicidal. Police say both had been shot.

Sgt. Bill Phelan said the suicidal man was in his late 80s or early 90s, and had been diagnosed with terminal can-cer. His wife was battling Alzheimer’s Disease.

The investigation continues.

Robbery suspect to plead guilty in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The fed-eral prosecutor’s offi ce in Richmond says the suspect known as the Grand-dad Bandit will plead guilty to multi-ple bank robbery counts Feb. 10.

Elizabeth Wilson of the federal public defender’s offi ce confi rmed Wednesday that 53-year-old Michael Francis Mara will plead guilty but she said she could not discuss details.

Mara is suspected of robbing more than two dozen banks in 13 states. He is charged with two robberies in Vir-ginia and has agreed to plead guilty in Richmond to four robberies in Ala-bama and one in Arkansas.

The FBI dubbed the balding and graying Mara the “Granddad Bandit” to help law enforcement and the public easily identify the suspect, whose pic-ture was posted on billboards across

the country. Mara was arrested Aug. 11at his Baton Rouge, La., home.

State lawmaker drops college interpreter bill

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — An Arkansas lawmaker has dropped her proposal torequire state colleges and hospitals toprovide interpreters for some work-ers after she said activists fl oodedlawmakers with complaints about themeasure.

Republican Sen. Ruth Whitaker ofCedarville on Wednesday withdrewher proposal and said she’d no longerpursue it during the session. Whita-ker’s proposal would have requiredstate-funded hospitals, colleges anduniversities to provide an interpreterif an employee’s English skills “wouldmaterially interfere” with a job requir-ing oral communication.

Whitaker’s proposal would not haveprevented the hiring of individualswho needed an interpreter.

Secure Arkansas, a conservative group that has pushed for stricter im-migration measures, had contactedsenators about the measure. The groupcomplained that agencies should nothire someone who can’t speak Englishwell enough to perform their job.

Court upholds sentence in man’s toe-biting case

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — The Arkansas Court of Appeals has upheld a second-degree battery conviction for a BentonCounty man who allegedly disciplinedhis young son by biting his toes.

Todd Wayne Hall appealed his con-viction and six-year prison sentence,but the appeals court upheld his sen-tence Wednesday.

Hall argued that there was no evi-dence he knowingly injured the boy orthat the injuries were caused by biting. The appeals court disagreed, notingtestimony from medical professionalswho said the injuries were consistent with bite marks. The court also notedthat Hall had admitted biting his infantdaughter in the past.

Prosecutors showed jurors photo-graphs of the boy’s injured toes, whichhad bruises and cracks in the toenails.Prosecutors also played part of a courtproceeding in which Hall admittedbiting the boy’s toes.

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CASA fundraiserprize is quilt

Ouachita County Court Appointed Special Advo-cates, CASA, is accepting donations for a quilt made and donated by the Ouachita County Quilters. Donations at $1 for one ticket or 6 tick-ets for $5. The quilt is on display at CASA offi ces, 530 Jefferson SW. For more in-formation, call 836-4700.

Benefi t dinnerto aid Harcrow

There will be a benefi t dinner and raffl e for Kenny Harcrow beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday at The River-Woods. Harcrow is recover-ing from a massive stroke and proceeds will be used to defray the costs of his hospitalization. The raffl e is for a Marlin 270 bolt action rifl e with scope. For more information, call Green Pine Timber at 836-2207. Cost of the full fi sh dinner is $10 for adults and $5 for children.

Theater groupmeeting Sunday

Arkansas Community Theatre South (ACTS) will have its fi rst annual meet-ing at 3:30 p.m., Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 313 Greening, in Camden. The group will be electing new three-year-term board members and offi cers for 2011. Also, $10 annual dues are due. Anyone interested in becoming involved and being a member is invited to attend. For directions and information, call Roger Mills between 9 a.m. and noon or from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m. at 574-0818.

Area museumhas open house

An open house will be held at the Chidester Muse-um from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday. The public is invited and there is no admission fee. The museum is located in the old Chidester Elemen-tary School building and is open each fi fth Sunday.

Those who are members - or would like to become members - of the Chidester Museum and Historical As-sociation can still submit their dues of $15 for annu-ally, or $150 for a lifetime membership. Send dues to Chidester Museum, P.O. Box 351, Chidester, AR 71726.

Hannah recovery class is Monday

Hannah Pregnancy Re-source presents SaveOne, a 10-week abortion recovery class beginning Monday. For more information, call 1-866-74WOMEN or e-mail amy.burns@hannahprc .com. Calls are completely confi dential.

Ancestry programat Rotary meeting

A video presentation about the area’s fi rst Gene-alogy Research Week, held in November, will be pre-

sented at Tuesday’s Camden Rotary Club meeting at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the Camden Country Club.

Oil Town pageantdeadline is Feb. 4

The 2011 Oil Town Pag-eant, sponsored in part by the Smackover Chamber of Commerce, is at 6 p.m. Sat-urday, Feb. 5, at Smackover High School Hobgood Audi-torium. The pageant is open to all girls 0-21 years old. Registrations accepted by phone and the deadline to enter is Feb. 4. For more in-formation, call Cheryl Cor-ley at 870-725-3628 or Tam-my Ward at 870-725-4186, or the chamber of commerce at 870-725-3521.

Local CASA setstraining sessions

Ouachita County Court Appointed Special Advo-cates is taking applications for an upcoming training class to start in February, Call 836-4700 if interested in becoming an advocate for abused and neglected chil-dren in the area.

Dutch oven eventset at WOL park

The 2nd Annual Dutch Oven Workshop and Cook-off at White Oak Lake State Park is set for Saturday, Feb. 19.

The workshop will be from noon until 1 p.m. with the cookoff beginning at 2 p.m. Entry fee is $35 and cat-egories include main course, desserts and bread.

To register or for more in-formation, call 870-685-2748 or go to the Internet site - www.wolfriends.webs.com. Event organizers are also looking for judges.

Stephens trashpickup changing

The City of Stephens will begin trash pickup on Mon-days beginning Monday, Jan. 24. The Monday schedule will continue until further notice.

Photo contestdeadline March 1

The Camden Area Cham-ber of Commerce is spon-soring a photo contest for the cover of the new On-Line Community Resource Directory.

Original submissions should depict life or a scene in southern Arkansas rep-resenting the following counties: Calhoun, Colum-bia, Dallas, Ouachita, and Union. Digital photographs should be e-mailed to info@CamdenAreaChamberof-Commerce.org no later than Tuesday, March 1.

Online directoryis now available

Free community informa-tion and referral resources can now be accessed on-line at www.teamcamden.com. Click on the Camden Area Chamber of Commerce un-der the Main Menu, click on Community Resource Direc-tory, then click on the cover.

To update current infor-mation or to place new re-sources in the on-line direc-tory at any time, fi ll out the information and follow the instructions on pages 6 and 7.

ObituaryJoann Porchia

Joann Porchia, 63, of Camden died Jan. 21, 2011, at John R. Williams Hospice House in El Dorado.

She was preceded in death by her father, S. L. Porchia.

She is survived by a daughter, Kim Hammock of Camden; her moth-er, Ruby Washington of Camden; three brothers,

Ellis Wilkins of Smack-over, Johnny Wilkins and Michael Wilkins, both of Camden; four sisters, Ruby Nell Wilkins of Flint, Mich., Glenda Franklin and Diane Brown, both of Camden, and Donna Rogers of Arka-delphia; and two grandchil-dren.

Riddick Funeral Home of Camden is in charge of ar-rangements.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Whitest Chapel Baptist Church with the Rev. Michael Wilson offi ciating. Burial will be in Mt. Gillard Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Visit www.reddickfuneral-home.net to sign an online guest registry.

Senator charged with speeding for chaseLITTLE ROCK (AP) — A

state senator was charged Wednesday with fl eeing, careless driving and im-proper passing after author-ities initially let him off with a scolding for leading them on what they called a high-speed chase through two counties.

Perry County Sheriff Scott Montgomery said his offi ce had charged Republican Sen. Bruce Holland of Green-wood with the offenses for the speeding incident on Monday on Highway 10 in Perry and Yell counties. Hol-land apologized on Tuesday to the Senate and admitted he was speeding.

Montgomery said in a statement released by his offi ce that the decision to charge Holland was “solely” the decision of Deputy Ray Byrd, who said he mistak-enly believed the state Con-stitution granted lawmak-ers immunity from arrest during legislative sessions. A 2003 attorney general’s opinion said that lawmakers

can be ticketed or arrested for criminal offenses.

“I deeply regret the in-cident occurred but it was not by any fault of my De-partment or its employees,” Montgomery said. “Investi-gator Byrd could have done one of two things, ignore it or do the right thing. Inves-tigator Byrd chose to do his job.”

Montgomery did not im-mediately return a call seek-ing comment and said in the statement that he had instructed his department to not comment outside the court system. Byrd declined to comment.

Holland, who did not im-mediately respond to a message left at his offi ce, apologized in a prepared statement and on the Senate fl oor on Tuesday. He admit-ted speeding, but told re-porters he didn’t know how fast he was going. Montgom-ery said he has notifi ed Hol-land’s offi ce and instructed him to report to his offi ce to be formally charged.

Holland received a stand-ing ovation from the Sen-ate when he apologized on Tuesday.

Holland told reporters he would be happy to pay a fi ne if the department cited him. Holland faces up to a $100 fi ne each for the fl eeing and improper passing offenses. Fleeing is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $2,500 fi ne and up to a year in jail.

Prosecutor Larry Jegley said he typically trusts the discretion of the judge on misdemeanor traffi c offens-es and was not advocating a particular penalty for Hol-land.

Byrd said he initially thought Holland was ex-empt from arrest because of a provision in the state Constitution. The provision says that legislators “shall, in all cases except treason, felony and breach or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their at-tendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in gong and returning from

the same.” But Gov. Mike Beebe, as

attorney general in 2003,issued a legal opinion thatsaid that provision didn’tgive lawmakers blanket im-munity from being arrested.

Beebe said Wednesday hewasn’t aware that Hollandhad been charged. Beebesaid he believed lawmak-ers should be ticketed orcharged like anyone elsewould be.

Byrd said Tuesday that hewas driving an unmarked pickup truck when Hollandpassed him speeding. He said he pursued Hollandwith his lights fl ashing forabout 15 or 16 miles on thetwo-lane highway passingthrough residential areas.

Byrd said he didn’t realizeHolland was a state senatoruntil he saw him wearing aname tag with his title on it,and let him off with a sternwarning. Byrd said Tuesdayhe was wrong to let Hollandoff with only a warning.

Ex-Globetrotter-lawmaker resigns after convictionLITTLE ROCK (AP) — A former

Harlem Globetrotter elected to the Ar-kansas Legislature resigned Wednes-day after he was found guilty in a felo-ny theft case.

Fred Smith announced his resigna-tion after a judge found him guilty of theft of property delivered by mistake. Prosecutors had charged Smith last year after an audit found that a school district issued a duplicate payment of $29,250 to a nonprofi t group run by Smith and that both payments were cashed.

“I respectfully disagree with the rul-ing,” Smith said in a statement. “After consultation with my attorney, I in-tend to appeal this decision and clear my good name.”

Smith, a former traveling basket-ball star, was elected to the Arkansas House last year amid questions about whether he has lived in Arkansas long enough to meet residency require-ments. The House voted earlier this

month to seat him anyhow.Smith said he’s been living with his

stepfather in Crawfordsville, Ark., and occasionally travels to northern Mis-sissippi to visit his son. Smith played for the Globetrotters from 1997-1998 to 2002-2003.

Gov. Mike Beebe says he’ll have to call a special election to fi ll the va-cancy left by Smith’s resignation. He’ll fi rst have to ask the Democratic and Republican parties whether they want to hold a primary or convention to nominate candidates for the seat.

“I think if the facts are true and he was convicted of a felony, that’s what he should have done,” Beebe told re-porters.

Smith’s resignation means that two House seats will be vacant during most or all of the legislative session that began Jan. 10.

On the same day that Smith resigned, another freshman lawmaker, Republi-can Sen. Bruce Holland of Greenwood,

was charged with fl eeing, careless driving and improper passing for lead-ing authorities on what they called ahigh-speed chase through two coun-ties. A Perry County sheriff ’s deputyinitially let Holland off with a warningbecause he believed Holland was ex-empt from arrest due to a provision inthe state Constitution. The provisionexempts lawmakers from some arrestsduring legislative sessions — but a2003 attorney general’s opinion says lawmakers can be ticketed or arrestedfor criminal offenses.

Beebe said he didn’t believe the twoincidents refl ected poorly on the Leg-islature.

“They’re individuals. You can’t paintthe whole Legislature with what hap-pens to one individual or two indi-viduals,” Beebe said. “The Legislatureis like all legislatures. There’s 135 of them and 135 different people with 135different strengths and weaknesses, etcetera.”

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U.S. & World News DigestDugway army postopens after lockdown

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Dugway Proving Grounds, where military weapons are tested, has reopened after it was locked down for hours to resolve a “serious con-cern,” offi cials said.

Personnel were allowed to enter early today and people inside were allowed to leave shortly after that, said Army post spokeswoman Paula Thomas.

Offi cials did not indicate what triggered the lock-down.

NTSB chairman blastsutility record keeping

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safe-ty Board says a California utility’s record-keeping blunders leading up to the San Bruno natural gas pipe-line explosion demonstrate a need for stepped-up industry safety.

Investigators learned after the

Sept. 9 explosion that Pacifi c Gas & Electric Co. had no records on the manufacture and 1956 installation of the 30-inch pipeline.

A spokesman said, that means for more than a half-century, the utility’s decisions on inspections, operat-ing pressures and risk management were based on facts that were just plain wrong. The explosion and fi re killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes.

SS fund will be drainedby '37 if trend goes on

WASHINGTON (AP) — The So-cial Security fund is on track to run out of money by 2037.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Offi ce calculates that this year alone Social Security will col-lect $45 billion less in payroll taxes than it pays out in benefi ts. The CBO says the fund will continue to operate in defi cit each year until it’s drained.

The struggling economy for the past few years has made Social Se-

curity’s fi nances worse just when baby boomers stand ready to retire. High unemployment has payroll taxes lagging at the same time ap-plications for benefi ts are rising.

More than 54 million people re-ceive retirement, disability or sur-vivor benefi ts from Social Security. Monthly payments average $1,076.

Warnings ignored,crisis was avoidable

WASHINGTON (AP) — The gov-ernment-appointed panel investigat-ing the roots of the fi nancial crisis says the meltdown occurred be-cause government offi cials and Wall Street executives ignored warning signs and failed to manage risks.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Com-mission says in its fi nal report re-leased today that the crisis could have been avoided. Instead the country fell into the deepest reces-sion since the 1930s and millions of people lost their jobs, the congres-sionally appointed panel concludes in its report.

The Bush and Clinton administra-tions, the current and previous Fed-eral Reserve chairmen, and TreasurySecretary Timothy Geithner all bearsome responsibility for allowing thecrisis to happen, the panel says.

Police investigatingclaims about shooter

DETROIT (AP) — Police are in-vestigating claims that a man whoauthorities say wounded four of-fi cers in a gun attack at a Detroitpolice precinct had kidnapped a 13-year-old girl and held her captivefor days.

Detroit Sgt. Eren Stephens todayconfi rmed police were investigat-ing allegations that Lamar Moorehad kept the girl chained to a toilet.Stephens said earlier in the weekthat Moore was being investigated in connection with a sexual attackon a minor.

Two days after the shooting Sun-day, Moore’s home was destroyed in a blaze that authorities say was setdeliberately.

GRACE OSBORNErecently represented

Ouachita County in the 2011 Miss Arkansas

USA Pageant. She placed 1st Runner Up and won the evening gown

competition.She would like to thank her family and friends for all of their love and support and also

local businesses for sponsoring her

during her endeavor.

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First lady to see how Army is training troops to be fi t

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is visiting the Army’s largest training post to see how the military turns couch potato recruits into strong and nu-trition-minded soldiers.

The fi rst lady, who has taken on the cause of bat-tling childhood obesity, was

to speak today to the latest crop of new soldiers at their graduation ceremony at Fort Jackson in central South Carolina.

Her battle against chil-dren’s lack of fi tness inter-sects with the nation’s need to fi eld fi t troops for the Army.

CalendarToday

Ouachita County Adult Education Center sponsored by SAU Tech is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Ross Center at 746 California Ave.

McCollum-Chidester House will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for students under age 18. For groups of 10 or more call 836-9243 for reservations.

Public Library of Camden and Ouachita County will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Celebrate Recovery will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Zion Hill’s Activity Center. For a ride call 836-5150.

Camden Duplicate Bridge Club meets from 7 until 10 p.m. at St. Mark United Methodist Church on Washington Street. No partner needed. Call 870-687-2265 for more infor-mation.

Turning Point Group, Alcoholics Anonymous, will hold an open meet-ing at 8 p.m. at St. Louis Catholic Church, 202 Adams NW.

Living Clean Narcotics Anonymous Group will hold an open non-smok-ing meeting at 8 p.m. at 805 Monroe.

Friday, Jan. 28Written drivers tests

will be held from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., oral tests will be from 10:30-11 a.m. by appointment only, and driving tests will be at 1 p.m. at the Ouachita Valley Business and Technology Center on Adams Avenue in Camden.

Ouachita County Adult Education Center sponsored by SAU Tech is open from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Ross Center at 746 California Ave.

McCollum-Chidester House will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for students under age 18. For groups of 10 or more call 836-9243 for reservations.

Public Library of Camden and Ouachita County will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

“I made a mistake.”Well, not technically, senator. You see, a mistake is usu-

ally something we do inadvertently, not by design with spe-cific intent.

When you drive your car 100 mph., you do that intention-ally. It doesn’t just happen through some oversight on your part.

You know the accelerator makes the car go. You know pressing it down further makes it go faster. Your speedome-ter tells exactly how fast you’re going. Unless you somehow think there is a place in Arkansas where the legal speed limit is 100 mph., then going that fast wasn’t a mistake, it was by intent.

An area bank official said it pretty well about a man being sentenced for bank fraud who whined the same thing, “I made a mistake.”

“It wasn’t a mistake — it was a crime,” the official said. “Realize power and authority must be treated respectfully.”

Seems both sentences hold true for state Sen. Bruce Hol-land of Greenwood, whose position and authority kept him from getting a ticket for stupid driving while the General As-sembly is in session.

Speeding is a crime. Reckless driving is a crime, and speeding at 100-plus is certainly reckless in our view.

All of which brings us to this point? Why are state legisla-tors free to scoff at traffic laws while they are in session?

We presume the state law exempting legislators from ar-rest while the General Session is meeting is intended to spare lawmakers from political harassment and possibly preventing them from doing their jobs.

Holland is not alone in enjoying this supposed perk. We have on several occasion seen other vehicles with legis-lative tags barreling along at over the speed limit and not always during a legislative session.

As a matter of fact, the idea that legislators can speed at will during the General Assembly seems to be a myth. Ac-cording to an Associated Press report, back in 2003 when Gov. Mike Beebe was attorney general, he issued an opin-ion that stated, “In my opinion, a legislator may be cited or arrested for any criminal offense, felony, misdemeanor or otherwise, going to or returning from a legislative session. The applicable constitutional provision and Arkansas stat-ute, each of which was adopted well over a century ago, immunize members of the General Assembly only from ar-rest in civil actions.”

As this was being written, AP reported that Holland has, in fact, been charged with fleeing, careless driving and im-proper passing.

So, there, state legislators. You aren’t so special after all. From now on, obey the speed limit and when you don’t and get stopped, don’t say you made a mistake - say you got caught.

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Made a mistakeor got caught?

Today in HistoryBy The Associated Press

Today is Thursday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2011. There are 338 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Jan. 27, 1981, President Ronald Reagan and his wife,

Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.

On this date:In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H.

White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a fl ash fi re during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

Ten years ago: Ten people were killed when a plane bringing people home from Oklahoma State University’s basketball game against Colorado crashed in a fi eld outside Denver.

Five years ago: Western Union delivered its last tele-gram. The fi rst inhalable version of insulin, Exubera, won federal approval.

One year ago: Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco. J.D.

Today’s Birthdays: Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov is 63. Chief U.S. Justice John Roberts is 56. Actress Mimi Rogers is 55. Actress Bridget Fonda is 47. Country singer Tracy Lawrence is 43.

Thought for Today: “When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a con-federacy against him.” — Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist (1667-1745).

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Fact checking Tuesday speech(EDITOR’S NOTE — An occa-

sional look at claims by public of-fi cials and how well they adhere to the facts.)By CALVIN WOODWARDAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The led-ger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spend-ing on one hand and a spending freeze on the other.

Obama spoke ambitiously of put-ting money into roads, research, education, effi cient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech. He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and proposed “we re-double these efforts.” He coupled this with a call to “freeze annual domestic spending for the next fi ve years.”

But Obama offered far more ex-amples of where he would spend than where he would cut, and some of the areas he identifi ed for savings are not certain to yield much if anything.

For example, he said he wants to eliminate “billions in taxpayer dol-lars we currently give to oil com-panies.” Yet he made a similar pro-posal last year that went nowhere. He sought $36.5 billion in tax in-creases on oil and gas companies over the next decade, but Con-gress largely ignored the request, even though Democrats were then in charge of both houses of Con-gress.

A look at some of Obama’s state-ments Tuesday night and how they compare with the facts:

OBAMA: Tackling the defi cit “means further reducing health care costs, including programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which are the single biggest contribu-tor to our long-term defi cit. Health insurance reform will slow these rising costs, which is part of why nonpartisan economists have said that repealing the health care law would add a quarter of a trillion dollars to our defi cit.“

THE FACTS: The idea that Obama’s health care law saves money for the government is based on some arguable assumptions.

To be sure, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Offi ce has estimated the law will slightly re-duce red ink over 10 years. But the offi ce’s analysis assumes that steep cuts in Medicare spending, as called for in the law, will actually take place. Others in the govern-ment have concluded it is unreal-istic to expect such savings from Medicare.

In recent years, for example, Congress has repeatedly over-ridden a law that would save the treasury billions by cutting deeply into Medicare pay for doctors. Just last month, the government once again put off the scheduled cuts for another year, at a cost of $19 billion. That money is being taken out of the health care overhaul. Congress has shown itself sensi-tive to pressure from seniors and their doctors, and there’s little rea-son to think that will change.

•••OBAMA: Vowed to veto any bills

sent to him that include “earmarks,” pet spending provisions pushed by individual lawmakers. “Both parties in Congress should know this: If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it.“

THE FACTS: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has prom-ised that no bill with earmarks will be sent to Obama in the fi rst place. Republicans have taken the lead

in battling earmarks while Obama signed plenty of earmark-laden spending bills when Democrats controlled both houses. As recent-ly as last month, Obama was pre-pared to sign a catchall spending measure stuffed with earmarks, before it collapsed in the Senate after an outcry from conservatives over the bill’s $8 billion-plus in home-state pet projects.

It’s a turnabout for the president; in early 2009, Obama sounded like an apologist for the practice: “Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefi t people in their dis-tricts, and that’s why I’ve opposed their outright elimination,” he said then.

•••OBAMA: “I’m willing to look at

other ideas to bring down costs, including one that Republicans suggested last year: medical mal-practice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits.”

THE FACTS: Republicans may be forgiven if this offer makes them feel like Charlie Brown running up to kick the football, only to have it pulled away, again.

Obama has expressed openness before to this prominent Republi-can proposal, but it has not come to much. It was one of several GOP ideas that were dropped or diminished in the health care law after Obama endorsed them in a televised bipartisan meeting at the height of the debate.

Republicans want federal action to limit jury awards in medical mal-practice cases; what Obama ap-pears to be offering, by supporting state efforts, falls short of that. The president has said he agrees that fear of being sued leads to unnec-essary tests and procedures that drive up health care costs. So far the administration has provided grants to test ideas aimed at re-ducing medical mistakes and re-solving malpractice cases by ne-gotiation, but has recommended no change in federal law.

Trial lawyers, major political do-nors to Democratic candidates, are strongly opposed to caps on jury awards. But the administration has been reluctant to support other approaches, such as the creation of specialized courts where expert judges, not juries, would decide malpractice cases. In October 2009 the Congressional Budget Offi ce estimated that government health care programs could save $41 billion over 10 years if nation-wide limits on jury awards for pain and suffering and other similar curbs were enacted.

•••OBAMA: “The bipartisan Fiscal

Commission I created last year made this crystal clear. I don’t agree with all their proposals, but they made important progress. And their conclusion is that the only way to tackle our defi cit is to cut excessive spending wherever we fi nd it — in domestic spending, defense spending, health care spending, and spending through tax breaks and loopholes.”

THE FACTS: Obama’s fi scal commission did not simply recom-mend cutting excessive spending; it proposed that the defi cit could only be tamed by cutting $3 for

every $1 of new revenue raised — in other words, a painful mix of spending cuts and tax increases. Instead, Obama proposed an overhaul of the corporate tax sys-tem that would eliminate loopholes and tax breaks but also reduce tax rates. The net effect would be neu-tral; it would not reduce or raise any revenue. Obama has yet to sign on to any of the ideas, even though he promised when creating the panel that it would not be “one of those Washington gimmicks.”

•••OBAMA: “To put us on solid

ground, we should also fi nd a bi-partisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future genera-tions.”

THE FACTS: With that comment, Obama missed another chance to embrace the tough medicine pro-posed by the commission for bring-ing down the defi cit. For example, he ruled out slashing benefi ts or partially privatizing the program, and made no reference to raising the retirement age. That left listen-ers to guess how he plans to do anything to salvage the popular retirement program whose trust funds are expected to run out of money in 2037 without changes.

•••OBAMA: As testament to the

fruits of his administration’s diplo-matic efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, he said the Iranian government “faces tough-er and tighter sanctions than ever before.”

THE FACTS: That is true, and it refl ects Obama’s promise one year ago that Iran would face “growing consequences” if it failed to heed international demands to constrain its nuclear program. But what Obama didn’t say was that U.S. diplomacy has failed to per-suade Tehran to negotiate over U.N. demands that it take steps to prove it is not on the path toward a bomb. Preliminary talks with Iran earlier this month broke off after the Iranians demanded U.S. sanc-tions be lifted.

•••Rep. Paul Ryan of Wiscon-

sin, giving the GOP response: “Whether sold as ’stimulus’ or re-packaged as ’investment,’ their ac-tions show they want a federal gov-ernment that controls too much, taxes too much and spends too much in order to do too much.”

THE FACTS: The economic stimulus package passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress in February 2009 didn’t raise taxes. Instead, about a third of the pack-age — nearly $300 billion — was made up of temporary tax cuts. The biggest was Obama’s Making Work Pay credit, which provided up $400 to individuals and $800 to married couples. There were doz-ens of other tax cuts, including a more generous child tax credit, a tax credit for buying a home and a sales tax deduction for buying a car. Many, but not all, of the tax cuts have since expired.

Obama’s health care law im-posed new taxes, including a pen-alty for some people who don’t get qualifi ed health insurance, start-ing in 2014. But Obama extended Bush-era tax cuts that were due to expire at the beginning of the year. He also enacted a new one-year cut in the payroll tax for 2011 for just about every wage earner.

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By MICHAEL ROIZEN, M.D., and MEHMET OZ, M.D.

Q. I’m 30, have no kids and haven’t had a period in about a year. I’m also having such severe hot fl ashes that I don’t sleep well. Will I be able to have children or has that ship sailed?

Shevon, Atlanta

A. There’s an old saying: “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...” No periods and hot fl ashes suggest that your hormones may have sputtered out, sending you into prima-ry ovarian insuffi ciency, also known as early menopause or premature ovarian failure. Your gynecologist can tell with a blood test that measures sev-eral hormones, including folli-cle stimulating hormone, which stimulates your ovaries to make eggs. If this hormone is in the menopausal range (above 25) in two tests done a month apart, it’s likely you have POI. About 5 percent to 10 percent of women with this condition do conceive, but your chances of pregnancy are much better with fertility treatments. We urge you to see a doctor for several reasons: First, it’s possible that some-thing treatable is causing your hormones to dip. Second, if you do have POI, you’re at higher

risk of bone-thinning osteopo-rosis; low thyroid function; and Addison’s disease, a rare dis-ease of the adrenal glands that can cause fatigue, low blood pressure, low blood sugar and other problems.

Q. When I began working out with a trainer at my community gym, I weighed 130 pounds. Now, almost three months later, I weigh 146, though I’m wearing the same dress size. My trainer says the ex-tra weight is muscle. By the way, my total cholesterol is 157.

Anonymous A. You’ve put on 16 pounds

of muscle in roughly 90 days? You don’t say, but we’re guess-ing you’ve been working out extremely long and hard to add this much muscle in such a

short time. Either that or your trainer is feeding you danger-ous stuff that athletes get sus-pended for -- anabolic steroids.

That aside, the reason you still fi t in the same dress size is because muscle tissue is much more compact than fat, so one pound of muscle takes up less space. Hard training increases fi rm muscle mass while de-creasing spongy fat mass. You probably still fi t into your skin-ny jeans, too.

To be sure your weight is healthy -- because your choles-terol sure is! -- ditch the scale and invest in a tape measure and check the size of your waist. It’s OK to suck it in; we know you will anyway and allow for that. It should be 32.5 inches or less and no more than 37. (Men should aim for 35 inches or less and no more than 40.)

Q. For years I’ve thought my lower-back pain was caused by a disc problem. When I started hav-ing pelvic pain, my doctor said both my back and pelvic pain are caused by “sacroiliac joint dys-function” or SJD. I never heard of it. What can I do?

Deb, Willow Grove, Pa.

A. When Chubby Checker, the guy who made the Twist a glob-al dance fad, sang “Start a little movement in your sacroiliac,” he was talking about the joints -- yes, you have two -- on either side of the bottom of your spine. They’re connected by some major ligaments and muscles to your lower back, buttocks, pel-vis and pretty much everything that moves when you do. Your sacroiliac joints bear much of the weight of your upper body and act as shock absorbers when you move. They let you wiggle when you walk.

If one or both of these joints is injured or infl amed, pain can extend to points around them. Experts estimate that in 15 per-cent to 25 percent of people with persistent low-back pain, the trouble starts in the sacro-iliac. SJD is common in people with one leg shorter than the other, or who spend a lot of time lifting and bending. Child-

birth, arthritis, infections, pso-riasis, poor posture and a laun-dry list of other conditions cancause it, too.

When pain peaks, you may beadvised to apply cold and/or heat, and take aspirin or ibu-profen, or a muscle relaxant.A physical therapist can usea variety of treatments, fromultrasound to deep tissue mas-sage, to release tight muscles.In some cases, a doc may rec-ommend steroid injections or,more rarely, surgery to fuse thetroublesome joint, though it’snot always effective.

The key is to learn what ag-gravates your SJD, avoid thosetriggers, and do exercises -- ask a physical therapist toteach you a few -- that stretchand strengthen the muscles at-tached to the joints.

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Menopause, back pain and muscle or steroids?

New Century ClubOn Jan. 18, Mrs. Jack Luza-

der and Mrs. George Smith welcomed members of the New Century Club into the Luzader home for their monthly meeting.

President Mrs. Hugh Wayne Jeffus welcomed the members and the four guests who were introduced.

Secretary Mrs. Richard Taylor read the minutes of the previous meeting. Gloria Bounds gave the treasurer’s report of all dues paid and a balance of $112.45 after the purchase of a scrapbook.

In the absence of Mrs. John Bragg, corresponding secre-tary, Mrs. Gary Lusby read thank you notes from the Public Library of Camden and Ouachita County and the Ouachita County His-torical Society for recent contributions.

Mrs. Jeffus announced that member Mrs. George David-son has had a knee replace-ment and she presented a card for members to sign. She reminded the group that recently resigned member Mrs. Terry Smith has invit-ed them to her new home in Shreveport for the May tea.

Mrs. Jeffus announced her appointments for the year-book committee: Chairman Mrs. John Hendrick, Mrs. W.A Graves, Mrs. Robert Fisher and Mrs. Smith.

She then turned the meet-ing over to leader Mrs. James Guthrie who read the quote of the day, “The arts are the signature of a nation,” - Joan Mondale. The roll call was answered with members naming their favorite art form.

Mrs. Guthrie introduced Mrs. John Hendrick who presented the program, mu-sic legends. She chose to speak of female musicians from the 20th Century to the present.

She explained that classi-cal and folk music have been around the longest, and that everything else has evolved from these two forms.

Classical music was fi rst performed for royalty. Folk music was composed of fam-ily or community stories put to melody and handed down from one generation to an-other as a means of keeping history alive.

Mrs. Hendrick continued her presentation with exam-

ples from different forms, starting with naming clas-sical opera singers Marion Anderson, Maria Callas and Leontyne Price. Folk sing-ers were represented by Joni Mitchell, country folk singer Judy Collins, and Janis Jop-lin who started with gospel and went on through folk/rock to ultimately became a singer of blues and jazz

The greatest jazz singer was Ella Fitzgerald.

Many well-known sing-ers started in gospel before branching out.

Country music legends are Patsy Cline, Emmylou Har-ris, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton.

Pop singers include Judy Garland, Carly Simon, Diana Ross, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Madonna. A disco presenter is Cher.

But one of the greatest legends of folk music is Ar-kansas’ own Almeda James Riddle, discovered in the 1950s when this music form was in danger of dying out. Her songs dated back to sev-enteenth century Scotland, England and Ireland with ballads, hymns and chil-dren’s songs. She was asked

to appear coast to coast. To conclude the program, Mrs. Hendrick played a recording of Mrs. Riddle singing.

Entertainment chair Mrs. Lusby announced that the

next meeting will be on Feb. 8 in the home of Mrs. Hen-drick with Ms. Bounds as co-hostess.

Guests were then invited for refreshments. Mrs. Wil-

liam Mulligan, Mrs. Fisherand Mrs. Lusby assisted thehostesses in serving fromthe tea table which was cen-tered with a large mixedbouquet.

Club News

EasterR’Mecia Easter and Tris-

tian Childs announce the birth of their daughter, Khristi Ayna Childs, at 8:54 a.m. Jan. 12, 2011, at Ouachita County Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 14.8 ounces and was 19 inches long.

Grandparents are Kamilah Hill-Easter, Cleotis Easter Sr., Marlean Childs, Fred Hopson, and Curtis Childs.

EllingsburgTonya Ellingsburg an-

nounces the birth of her daughter, De’Junae Ellings-burg, at 12:05 p.m., Jan. 20, 2011, at Ouachita County Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 5.8 ounces and was 18.5 inches long.

She was welcomed home by siblings, DeShanna Al-len, Desire’a Ellingsburg and Devon Turner.

Her grandmother is Jill Gossett.

EllisAlanna Ellis announces

the birth of her daughter, Dariya Arianna Ellis, at 8:12 a.m., Jan. 13, 2011, at Ouachita County Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 5.4 ounc-es and was 19.5 inches long.

She was welcomed home by siblings, Dexyrun Ellis and Dakyia Ellis.

Grandparents are Deindra Ellis and Mark Ellis.

JacksonBarbara Bates and Robert

Jackson announce the birth

of their daughter, Zireunna Zyire Janae’ Jackson, at 10:04 a.m., Jan. 23, 2011, at Ouachita County Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 2.3 ounc-es and was 19.5 inches long.

She was welcomed home by sibling, Randalee Qush-awn Bates.

Her grandmother is Glad-ys Bates.

JonesSara Jestice and Brandon

Jones of Fordyce announce the birth of their daughter, Katelynn Faith Renee’ Jones, at 8:19 a.m. Jan. 19, 2011, at Ouachita County Medi-cal Center. She weighed 5 pounds, 1 ounce and was 19.25 inches long.

She was welcomed home by siblings, Devon Jones and Tyler Jones.

Grandparents are Donna Davison, Raymond Hall, Ron Jestice and the late Beth Jestice.

JunielMiracle Rogers and Marco

Juniel announce the birth of their son, Ma’Reon Le-Shoud Juniel, at 1:31 a.m. Jan. 12, 2011, at Ouachita County Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 15.3 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.

He was welcomed home by sisters Na’Riyan Gulley and Shundreauna Alexander.

Grandparents Mabel Bass, Stanley Rogers and the late Carolyn Juniel.

McCoyTiffany Green and William

S. McCoy Jr., announce the

Birthsbirth of their daughter, Kyla Mashae McCoy, at 1:57 p.m., Jan. 20, 2011, at Ouachita County Medical Center.

She weighed 6 pounds, 12.9 ounces and was 19 inches long.

Grandparents are Lillie Berry, Deseree Jenkins, Jim-my Green and Emmanuel Jenkins.

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Bomb at funeral tent kills 48 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb ripped through a fu-neral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thurs-day, killing at least 48 people and triggering skirmishes between Iraqi troops and demonstrators angry about security failures.

The blast and three other small bombings Thursday were the latest in more than a week of attacks that have killed more than 200 people, raising fears about an uptick in violence as the U.S. mili-tary prepares to withdraw from the country.

The violence has mainly targeted the majority Shiite community and Iraqi secu-rity forces, posing a major challenge to Prime Minis-ter Nouri al-Maliki and his fragile coalition government that was seated last month.

Baghdad has touted se-curity improvements in its campaign to host an Arab League summit in March as it tries to mend frayed ties with its Arab neighbors, many of whom fear grow-ing Iranian infl uence in Iraq. Iraqi offi cials insisted the two-day meeting would not be derailed.

“The terrorists are carry-ing out these bombings now because they are angry over the successful formation of a new government and they want to try to foil the Arab Summit,” said Kamil Nas-sir al-Zaidi, the head of the Baghdad provincial coun-cil. “But the summit will be held as scheduled despite all these bombings.”

The car that exploded about 2 p.m. Thursday in the Shula neighborhood had been parked with the ve-hicles of mourners near the funeral tent so it wouldn’t raise suspicion, police said. Several other cars were set ablaze and nearby houses were damaged.

It was so close that a charred piece of the engine was tossed to the edge of the long tent that had been set up for the elderly Shiite tribal sheik who had died.

Associated Press Televi-sion News footage showed

broken plastic chairs over-turned inside the tent, while broken tea cups and other debris covered the patterned rugs on the fl oor. A mourner held up a torn, blood-soaked dishdasha, traditional dress worn by Iraqi men.

At least 48 people were killed and 121 wounded, ac-cording to police and hos-pital offi cials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t autho-rized to release the informa-tion.

Young men furious over the lack of security began pelting Iraqi security forces at the scene with stones.

Anger was still high three hours later, and Iraqi troops fi red in the air to disperse a crowd of residents gathering elsewhere in the neighbor-hood for a demonstration against the failure to pre-vent the bombings. Police said some in the crowd fi red back as Iraqi helicopters buzzed overhead.

A witness who identifi ed himself as Abu Ahmed al-Saiedi said mourners had been allowed to park near the funeral tent because most people in the neigh-borhood knew each other.

“I blame the neighborhood security offi cials for letting this car bomb enter the area without being checked,” said al-Saiedi, who was hit in the arm with shrapnel. “When I saw people hurling stones at security men, I said to my-self, ’They deserve that.”’

Three other Iraqis were killed in sporadic bombings targeting Iraqi troops and an electricity offi cial earlier Thursday.

The fi rst roadside bomb occurred about 8:30 a.m. near a police patrol at a commercial complex in Baghdad’s Karradah neigh-borhood, killing one civil-ian and wounding fi ve other people, including three po-licemen, offi cials said.

A bomb targeting Iraqi sol-diers patrolling the Bab al-Muadham area of Baghdad exploded about an hour and a half later, killing one by-stander and wounding three

others, according to police and hospital offi cials.

The director general of Baghdad’s central electric-ity directorate, Ismaeel al-Obeidi, also escaped an as-sassination attempt when a roadside bomb struck the two vehicle convoy carrying him to work, offi cials said.

One of his guards was killed and two others were wounded in the blast, which occurred just about 100 yards (meters) away from his offi ce.

The offi cials all spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause they weren’t autho-rized to release the informa-tion.

Violence has declined sharply in Iraq over the past few years, but near-daily at-tacks continue.

The current wave of at-tacks began Jan. 18 with a suicide bombing that killed 65 police recruits in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Ti-krit, followed by two blasts on subsequent days against two security force headquar-ters in Baqouba that killed a total of 10 people.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, claimed responsibility for the three attacks north of Baghdad.

Separate car bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims mourning the death of one of their most beloved saints also killed 82 people, while 22 others were killed in spo-radic violence elsewhere.

The persistent bloodshed comes as al-Maliki must soon face the question of whether to ask U.S. forces to stay after the end of the year.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama appeared to close the door on keeping any signifi cant U.S. military presence in Iraq beyond that deadline.

“This year, our civilians will forge a lasting partner-ship with the Iraqi people while we fi nish the job of bringing our troops out of Iraq,” Obama said.

Continued from Page 1a ribbon plus fi ve hundred bucks, then they’re gonna typically pick Camden.”

Another draw is the location of the dog show. Wheelington said that she is very grateful for the use of the High-land facility, which garners compli-ments from dog show attendees every year.

“I will put that facility up against any dog show building that I’ve ever been to as far as being one of the nicest places with plenty of room,” she said.

And once the attendees and dog owners come to the area, Wheelington said the southern hospitality shown by the entire community is what brings them back.

“It just tickles me to death, the com-ments and letters that I get after the show from people who are just blown away - especially the fi rst-timers,” said Wheelington. “If we can get them here once, pretty much they’ll come back every year.”

Also, the caliber of judges for the event is “another part of the equation,” Wheelington reported. This year, there will be nine judges who will come to Camden from areas such as Nebraska, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas and other states.

All but one of the judges will be new to the area, and the new ones will prob-ably bring a new set of exhibitors and vendors - ones who follow the judges to different shows, said Wheelington.

She also said the show gives the area an economic boost because of the people who stay in hotels, who shop and who eat at local restaurants while here.

Last year, people from 37 states came to the area to attend the dog show, she said, adding that this year, she expects an even larger crowd, even though “as a general rule, dog shows have been

down in entries because of the econ-omy. Just bottom line - people don’t have the money they normally have to spend on their dogs. But we are very confi dent that we are going to hit the number that we’ve been averaging and I think we’re going to go over that number.”

She said the AKC organization last ran numbers about two years ago and at that time, the AKC estimated that the dog show pumped about $150,000 per day into the local economy.

The dog show partners with different organizations for help with the event, and Wheelington said that, once again, the local chapter of the American Can-cer Association will provide food at a concession stand and for judges and volunteers. Last year, the concession stand sales totaled around $4,500.

This year, $1 of every entry will go to Leader Dog for the Blind, an organiza-tion that supplies trained dogs to the visually impaired. This year’s special guest is scheduled to be a man who lost his sight at the age of 47. He will be on hand to share his story and help get support for the leader dog program.

Wheelington again said she is pleased and grateful to have the High-land facility, but would love to see an arena built in East Camden.

“That’s been my dream for 12 years,” she said. “And I think that’s the answer to Camden losing some jobs. If we have enough events going on here on a frequent basis, I’m talking about ro-deos, dog shows... a big buck contest, I can’t imagine that (arena) wouldn’t be fi lled up if we had those things going on here in South Arkansas.”

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Continued from Page 1was in cardiac arrest, McNeely said.

The fi re academy’s medical staff was on hand for the training session and immediately began working on Eason. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

A cause of death was still being de-termined Wednesday night, but Mc-Neely said it appeared to be a heart at-tack. Eason’s body will be taken to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for an autopsy.

Corbet Lamkin, chancellor of South-ern Arkansas University Tech, where the fi re academy is located, said a full investigation is under way to deter-

mine what happened and whether any changes in training need to be made.

“We are grieved by the loss of one of our students at the Arkansas Fire Training Academy,” Lamkin said. “Our sympathies go out to [Eason’s] fam-ily.”

McNeely said Eason had been a West Memphis fi reman for a few months and had been at the fi re academy since Jan 9.

“It’s really just so sad,” McNeely said. “He had a wife and two children. All he wanted to do was become a fi reman and it took him seven years to get with the department. ... He had fi nally ful-fi lled his lifelong dream.”

DEATH

Storm wallops Northeast, fi ercely piling on misery

NEW YORK (AP) — A storm that had been predicted for days caught much of the East Coast off guard with its feroc-ity, tearing through with light-ning, thunder and mounds of wet snow, leaving nearly 300,000 customers around the nation’s capital without power Thursday and forcing people to shovel out their cars and door-steps all over again.

The forecast had called for up to a foot of snow in parts of the region but the storm brought far more in spots. New York got 19 inches, Philadelphia 17. Pub-lic schools closed for a second day Thursday, including the nation’s largest system in New York City, and motorists were warned to stay off slick roads.

Snow totals in the Washing-ton area ranged from about 3 inches to nearly 7.

“What a mess,” said Andy Kolstad, a 65-year-old federal statistician from Silver Spring, Md., who had to walk half an hour uphill to his local Metro subway station to travel to Washington because there was no bus service. “There was no point in staying home because I couldn’t have breakfast in the dark,” he said.

Tens of thousands of residents in other parts of the region also lost power.

The region has already been pummeled by winter not even halfway into the season. Nine-teen inches of snow fell on New York City atop the 36 inches it had already seen so far this winter; the city typically sees just 21 inches for the whole sea-son.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was the snowiest January since the city started keeping records, besting 27.4 inches set in 1925. The accumulation was about twice the amount that had been predicted, he said.

Virginia Sforza, 61, shoveling her sidewalk in Pelham, in New York’s northern suburb said, “My biggest fear is if it contin-ues like this all winter, we won’t have a place to put it and we’ll never get our cars out and we won’t even be able to go to the stores.”

“The prospect of this continu-ing is disgusting,” she added.

At his home in Gap, Pa., 45-year-old Chuck DeSeantis la-mented what lay ahead of him after a treacherous commute Thursday: shoveling cars out of snow at the Nissan dealership where he’s a sales manager.

“Normally it is a 15-minute commute; now it will prob-ably take an hour to hour and a half to get there,” he said. “I’ll dig out my three cars here, and then I’ll dig out 350 cars at the dealership.”

In Massachusetts, travel was made trickier with high winds. Gusts of 46 mph were reported in Hyannis, 45 mph in Rockport and 49 mph on Nantucket early Thursday. In Lynn, Mass., heavy snow collapsed a garage roof and briefl y trapped two men in-side before they were rescued safely. Some other workers es-caped.

New York declared a weather emergency for the second time since the Dec. 26 storm, which trapped hundreds of buses and ambulances and caused a po-litical crisis for the mayor. An emergency declaration means any car blocking roads or im-peding snowplows can be towed at the owner’s expense.

The city shuttered schools and some government offi ces, and federal courts in Manhat-tan and the United Nations headquarters closed. Even the Statue of Liberty shut down for snow removal. New York’s Long Island Rail Road, the nation’s largest commuter rail line, op-erated on a reduced schedule. At busy Penn Station, about half the trains listed on the Amtrak departure board were delayed or canceled.

Two major New York-area airports, Newark and Ken-nedy, closed for snow removal but began taking fl ights at 10 a.m. Hundreds of fl ights were canceled at both airports. La-Guardia Airport had 168 can-cellations. About 1,500 passen-gers were stranded overnight at Philadelphia International Airport, according to spokes-woman Victoria Lupica.

Flights also resumed at air-ports in the Washington region after overnight runway closures and fl ight cancelations that left hundreds of travelers stranded.

Northeast of New York inNew Canaan, Conn., a Metro-North commuter train ran off the tracks, suspending service.Its two passengers and crewmembers were not injured.

A New York Waterway com-muter ferry carrying 20 pas-sengers across the Hudson wasshut down briefl y when ice jammed a water intake.

Residents hunkered down asthe storm brought snow, sleet,and then more snow, accompa-nied by lightning and thunderin a phenomenon called “thun-dersnow.”

But others found the weatherprovided a creative outlet.

In Manhattan’s Chelseaneighborhood, the winter scenewas so picture-postcard beauti-ful Thursday morning that thesidewalks were full of amateurshutterbugs taking photos ofsnow-laden trees.

“It’s so pretty,” said ChrisBaptiste, pointing his Olympusat a 20-foot evergreen beforehe turned his attention to thebirches across the street. “It’sshaped like a Christmas tree.”

The Philadelphia area’s tran-sit agency, the SoutheasternPennsylvania TransportationAuthority, suspended nearlyall bus service, and road crewsworked through the night togets tons of snow off major ar-teries.

Nine passengers spent the night on board a bus that gotstranded in the city’s West OakLane neighborhood, spokes-woman Heather Redfern said.

“I imagine they thought theywere better off staying on thewarm bus rather than gettingoff, since they didn’t have aplace to stay,” Redfern said. Thepassengers had all disembarkedby 7:30 a.m.

More than 15,000 people lostpower in the Philadelphia area,with thousands more in thedark in New Jersey and theNew York area. Over 80,000were without power in parts ofMaryland.

Crashed, spun-out or disabledcars littered highways. Morethan 250 cars were disabledon New Jersey highways since Wednesday.

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Photo by Mary Brown

Up and overCamden Fairview's Caitlyn Powell flips over the vault under the watchful eye of head gymnastics coach Pam Turner during a recent home meet. The Lady Cardinals will travel to Blytheville on Friday.

Staying on a rollNASCAR moves to new system

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR is replacing the complicated scoring system it has used since 1975 with a more straight-forward format.

None of the changes for the 2011 season announced by chairman Brian France at the NASCAR Hall of Fame came as much of a surprise. NASCAR officials had been briefing teams for almost two weeks on the changes in an effort to give competitors feed-back on the direction being taken.

A race winner will receive 43 points under the new system, and the points will decrease down to 1 for the 43rd-place driver. There will be three bonus points for the winner, one bonus point for every driver who leads a lap, and one bonus point to the driver that leads the most laps.

The maximum points available now will be 48.

If work stoppage, Goodell to get $1

NEW YORK (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will cut his sal-ary to $1 if there is a work stoppage after the collec-tive bargaining agreement expires in March.

Goodell, who makes about $10 million a year including bonuses, said in a memo to his staff that chief negotiator Jeff Pash will do the same. Pash makes nearly $5 million a year.

Goodell also has asked the league’s compensation committee to delay any bonus payments to him until after a deal is reached with the NFL Players Association.

NFL owners opted out of the agreement in 2008.

By KELLY BLAIRSports Editor

When their opponent had to abruptly pack up and leave last week, the only team left for the Camden Fairview Lady Cardinal gymnastics squad to com-pete against was itself.

Then again, a lot of folks would say that is the way it has been for the last three years, even with another team in the gym.

After holding an impromp-tu intrasquad meet last Thursday when Dumas had to return home when sleet-ing began moving into the southeast area of the state, the Lady Cardinals will put a three-year winning streak on the line when they travel to Blytheville on Friday for a dual meet.

Having not lost a meet since the state champion-ship of 2007, it often appears that the only team capable of beating the Lady Cardinals would be the Lady Cardinals themselves, as no other opponent has been able to beat them in 2008, 2009 or 2010.

But Camden Fairview appears to be facing plenty of adversity heading into the Blytheville meet, according to CF coach Pam Turner.

For one thing, the Lady Cardinals won’t be at full strength for the meet, as the team’s top two all-around gymnasts - Shelby Sanders and Markie Turner - are bat-tling injuries.

Turner injured her back in practice last week and was not going to complete against Dumas had that meet taken place, her coach and mom said. She still did not compete in the intra-squad meet.

While nowhere near 100 percent, Turner will com-pete against Blytheville tomorrow, Coach Turner, said, but will not compete in all four events.

“We’re not sure which events she will do yet,” Turner said of her daughter. “We’ll just have to see how things go in warm up and how much she can do. She tried to do a lot in prac-tice (Wednesday) and it was pretty painful for her.”

Sanders did compete in the intrasquad, and slight-ly injured a shoulder dur-ing the event, Turner said. Sanders will still compete in all four events against Blytheville, but has taken some skills out of her rou-tines so not to aggravate the injury.

Despite the injury, Sanders still scored well in the intrasquad meet last week, finishing with a 34.65 in the all-around. She won the floor routine (9.4), the vault (8.95) and the bars (8.5) while finishing fourth on the beam (7.8). Kathryn Holland won the beam (8.6), while other top scor-ers included Emily Atkins (8.3) finishing second on the beam; Caitlyn Powell (8.9), Kirbee Lester (8.7) and Savannah Murphree

(8.6) finishing 2-4 on the floor; and Lester (8.8) on the vault.

Camden Fairview’s team score of 159.5 was slight-ly down from previous weeks, Turner noted, but added that it still wasn’t bad considering the squad was missing one of their all-around competitors.

Turner added that she was very proud of Elizabeth Vaughan for winning the all-around in the junior high intrasquad meet, noting how hard she has worked to improve. Vaughan fin-ished with an all-around score of 33.05 after winning the beam (8.85), and fin-ishing no lower than third in any other event. Blaise Scharbor won the vault (8.7) and the bars (7.8), while Annika Gatling won the floor (8.65).

As the team prepares to head to Blytheville, the Lady Cardinals are also dealing with the cold and flu season, the coach said, as Lester missed some prac-tice this week while bat-tling illness, and Atkins and Murphree just came back from being sick. None are likely at 100 percent, the coach indicated.

“At this point in the sea-son, we have a lot of girls who are hurting,” Turner said. “We have sore muscles, banged up ankles ... maybe we should have taken last week off, but we’re also to a point in the season where we don’t need to take a week off. And we learned a lot about our routines dur-ing the intrasquad meet to make adjustments and get every possible point we can out of our routines ...

“Hopefully when the time comes, we’ll have every-body back and ready to go, and be in a position to put our best foot forward.”

Fortunately, Turner said the Lady Cardinals have plenty of depth to be able to get by on. With 13 com-petitors on the varsity team, Turner said several of the gymnasts compete for the team in only one or two events.

Teams put six competi-tors in each event during meet, and count their top five scores toward the team total. Turner said she con-stantly tells her team that they have to have eight or nine ready to compete in each event, because you never know when someone may go down and need to be replaced.

The Blytheville trip means a bit more to the Lady Cardinals than simply trying to keep their win-ning streak going, however, as it is also the site where the state meet will be held this year.

Turner said having the team actually make the trip, so that they can see Blytheville’s facilities and get used to their equip-ment, could be the most beneficial thing come state tournament time.

Pelphrey likes Hogs to stay chatty during gamesFAYETTEVILLE - Perhaps action doesn’t

speak louder than words.Or more accurately, perhaps action

doesn’t speak without a wordy preference.After Arkansas’ 73-64 SEC victory over

Auburn Tuesday night, Arkansas coach John Pelphrey was into words. Specifically, words prefacing shooting guard Rotnei Clarke’s 5 for 9 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line performance scoring 16 points on Auburn at Walton.

Arkansas’ leading scorer for the season, Clarke was shut out (0 for 3 from the field and never getting to the line) in the previ-ous game, the 75-43 debacle the Florida Gators won in Gainesville, Fla.

It got his Razorbacks to talking, Pelphrey said.

“It was interesting at practice,” Pelphrey said Tuesday postgame about the Sunday and Monday workouts between the Florida and Auburn games. “We are scrimmaging and I was actually working with the other team and I look up and there are three guys talking and telling Rot, ‘Come over this way! I’ve got you moving here!’ It was a back screen and a stagger screen and he comes off and hits a shot.”

Pelphrey did not let the moment go

unspoken.“I was coaching the other team,” Pelphrey

said, “and I say, ‘Red team come over here!’ And I ask them what they are doing. And they say, ‘What are you talking about? We are trying to get Rotnei open.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but you are talking.’ It’s amaz-ing because I guarantee you these guys haven’t shut up since this game ended, but sometimes during the game, in practice, on defense those kind of things - you can’t get them to talk.”

Clarke certainly did his part converting his teammates’ words to points and helping Arkansas improve to 13-6, 3-3 in the SEC.

“I thought he did a better job tonight of curling off of some screens,” Pelphrey said, “and was very focused and did a good job of moving without the ball and we did a

good job of getting him the ball. And we got some things in transition. He had a couple of really nice ball fakes in the first half and got himself inside the line and was a little bit of a playmaker. More than anything, I thought he did a good job.”

Good enough to keep the Hogs talking, Pelphrey hopes.

“I thought that was important,” Pelphrey said. “A realization made by the group that we need to help each other. To be able to do that and think as a team, I thought that was a big moment in practice the other day. I thought that was good to see.”

Good to see in the game, though it seemed the Hogs went mute as their 24-point lead at 9:08 of the second half dwindled to six with 1:10 left.

It prompted Pelphrey to be asked if he would drive home Tuesday night thinking how well the Hogs played to lead by 24 or how poorly they played for the lead to fizzle.

“I wish I was mature enough to say,” Pelphrey said, “to be happy we got the win and are still undefeated at home and we are 3-3 in the league and have a chance to focus on other things with the day off. But I would be less honest if I didn’t say we

have got to continue to play better. I am not happy with the way we finished the game.”

Pelphrey said Auburn’s comeback bodes for a rough rematch with the 7-13, 0-6 Tigers, Feb. 26 at Auburn, Ala.

“Auburn is getting better and will be a big challenge when we go back there later on,” Pelphrey said.

Of course any game outside of Walton Arena where Arkansas is 12-0 is a big chal-lenge for these Hogs. In true road games the Hogs are 0-4, 0-3 in the SEC.

The Vanderbilt Commodores loom Saturday in a 5 p.m. FOX Sports Network televised tip at their Memorial Gym in Nashville, Tenn.

“We enjoy playing in front of our home crowd,” Arkansas sophomore forward Marshawn Powell, a 13 points/11 rebounds double-double against Auburn, said, “but we have got to win on the road to be one of the best teams in this league or even a good team in this league. It’s a good win for us today but we have to get back in the gym and work and go to Vanderbilt and see what happens.”

(Nate Allen covers the Arkansas Razorbacks for the Camden News.)

Hog CallsNate Allen

TODAYBearden will travel to

Woodlawn for junior boys and senior high games, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Stephens will travel to Blevins for junior boys and senior high games, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Camden Fairview will travel to Hope for eighth-grade girls and ninth-grade games, starting at 5 p.m.

Camden Fairview will host Prescott for seventh-grade girls and boys games, starting at 5 p.m.

Fri., Jan. 28Camden Fairview will

host Lakeside for junior varsity boys and senior high games, starting at 5 p.m.

Harmony Grove will travel to Hermitage for junior boys and senior high games, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Stephens will host Delight for junior boys and senior high games, starting at 5:30 p.m.

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“Anything to help reduce their anxiety and help their mental approach when we come back for the state meet will help,” Turner said.

The coach also added that the Lady Cardinals will be performing in front of a new set of judges who have never seen their routines before, which adds a little bit of a wildcard element to the event. Turner said judges who haven’t seen a team’s routines before don’t

know what to anticipate to look for during the perfor-mance, which could slightly affect scores.

“In the past, usually the best performers still score well. Sometimes it affects some of the other gym-nastics but overall it usu-ally seems to balance out,” Turner said.

Overall, it will be a long day for the team, as they will depart at 8 a.m. Friday morning, and return to

Camden as soon as the meet is over.

“Blytheville was a fairly good competitor last year, and from what I can remem-ber, they only lost one girl. Which we know better than anyone means nothing, because we’ve lost gymnasts in the past and keep win-ning,” Turner said. “I really thing its important for us to go up and there be ready to perform at our very best.”

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Outdoor ReportHitchcock named director, Brazil is deputy director

LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission last week named 25-year veteran Loren Hitchcock to serve as the agency’s director. Hitchcock, who began his career with the AGFC in 1985, has served as interim director since Sept. 1. Hitchcock was elected by acclamation with the support of all seven commissioners.

“Loren’s experience and vision for the future of our agency make him the per-fect fit for our organization,” Commission Chairman Craig Campbell said. “He’s a top-flight administrator and his knowledge of our agency is unsurpassed. He’s the right person to lead us into the future.”

Hitchcock began his AGFC career as a wildlife officer. In 1989, he became chief of the Enforcement Division, a position he held until 2003. In 2001, he took on addi-tional duties as deputy director.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be asked to lead the dedicated, professional staff at our agency,” Hitchcock said. “It is with these wonderful people that we can build a new era of efficiency and professionalism at Game and Fish. We’ll work together as a team to take advantage of the opportunities we have ahead of us to tell Arkansans about the wonderful opportunities that exist in Arkansas’s incredible outdoors, and the role this Commission plays in managing those resources.”

Hitchcock’s proactive approach in build-ing a new era of leadership was evident in his first act as director. He announced this morning that Don Brazil would be named deputy director and chief of staff. The Commission voted unanimously in favor of a resolution to support the decision.

Brazil was among four finalists for the AGFC director’s position. He has been serving as deputy administrator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

“Don understands the big picture of wild-life conservation and has been instrumental in helping Mississippi work as a cohesive team to present that state as a prime site for outdoor recreation,” Hitchcock said. “Don brings the type of leadership and vision we need to move into a new era at our agency.”

The Commission met with the four final-ists for the director’s post last week. In those discussions, Hitchcock and Brazil emerged as the two leading candidates for the position.

“This is an extraordinary day for the Commission - to have our top two candi-dates on board to begin building for the future,” Campbell said. “We are fortunate to have two visionary leaders whose pas-sion for wildlife and conservation efforts positions us to take advantage of all oppor-tunities ahead of the agency. We’re building for the future and this puts a solid leader-ship foundation in place.”

In other business, the Commission:• Approved $100,000 for the planning and design costs to develop a new Northeast Arkansas Regional Office building in Jonesboro.• Approved $67,748 to repair the spillway on Cox Creek Lake Dam at Leola. The dam was damaged during a flood. Federal funds will reimburse the agency a total of $52,748.• Approved the renaming of the Independence County Firing Range near Batesville. The range will now be known as the Paul H. “Rocky” Willmuth Sport Shooting Complex. Willmuth was instru-mental in securing funds to build the facil-ity.• Approved the donation of an elk per-mit to the Arkansas chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.• Approved the donation of a vehicle to Arkansas State University on the Ouachita National Forest. Commissioners also approved the donation of a vehicle to the University of Arkansas for turkey research on the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest.• Heard a report on the recently-completed elk season from elk biologist Cory Gray. This season, hunters harvested 33 elk. On public land, hunters harvested 14 elk and another 19 elk were killed on private land.• Announced that the AGFC had received the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Diversity in Natural Resources Award. The agency also received the Sport Fish Restoration Act Award for its work on Dry Run Creek.

Discussion topics listed for hunter input meetings

LITTLE ROCK - Some topics for discus-sion at the Tuesday, Feb. 1, series of hunter input meetings have been listed by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Wildlife Management staff.

These are talking points, not proposed regulations.

After the public meetings and follow-ing the gathering of suggestions from Arkansans from other sources - regular mail, e-mail and phone calls - the Wildlife

Management Division will then draw up proposals for submission to the agency’s commissioners.

Hunters are asked to look over the 13 topics then make written comments on any or all of them. The comments can be turned in at the input meetings or mailed to Hunting Regulations, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, 2 Natural Resources Drive, Little Rock, AR 72205. A survey of the topics to be discussed at the meetings is available online. • Should hunters hunting from portable, pop-up type blinds on public land such as WMAs, NWRs and National Forests be required to display orange on the exterior of each side of the blind?• Should preference points be eliminated for deer permit hunts and replaced with a completely random drawing to select applicants?• Should a three-day muzzleloader season be allowed from Dec. 17-19, 2011, for Deer Zones 4 and 5?• Bear Zone 1 has a seasonal quota of 200 bears. Should AGFC establish a monthly quota during October limiting the harvest to 165 bears?• Should the take of raccoons, opossums and squirrels be allowed year-round if they are causing damage on private property?• Should the Dave Donaldson Black River WMA mitigation units located north of the Black River Flood Prone Zone be closed to hunting when the WMA closes due to flooding?• Should the AGFC Code of Regulations be clarified to require a youth to be 6 years of age before being able to hunt big game (deer, turkey, elk and bear)?• Should the current 24-hour deadline for checking deer, turkey and bear be changed to 12 hours?• Should the deer permit applications go completely electronic like the turkey and public land elk applications?• Should two “doe days” be added to the modern gun deer season on Piney Creeks and Ozark National Forest WMAs?• Should a one-day, non-resident hunting license be created?• Should a native son, non-resident hunting license be created? “Native son” is defined as a non-resident possessing an Arkansas birth certificate.• Should the statewide deer limit be six, no more than four does or two bucks, with the stipulation a hunter must harvest and check two does before harvesting a second buck?

The meetings will be held 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Feb. 1, at the following locations:

Little RockAGFC Central Office2 Natural Resources Drive800-364-4263JonesboroForrest L. WoodCrowley’s Ridge Nature Center600 East Lawson Road877-972-5438SpringdaleThe Jones Center922 East Emma Avenue866-253-2506MonticelloAGFC Regional Office771 Jordan Drive877-367-3559Calico RockAGFC Regional Office1125 Hwy. 56877-297-4331HopeFair Park Community CenterFair Park Drive877-777-5580RussellvilleAGFC Central Office1266 Lock and Dam Road877-967-7577

Twenty-seven employees receive service awards

LITTLE ROCK - Twenty-seven Arkansas Game and Fish Commission employees were honored for their years of service to the agency during last week’s commission meeting. The group represented 265 years of experience at the AGFC.

Every three months, employees are hon-ored at a commission meeting. They receive a certificate and pin for every five years of service to the AGFC.

Employees receiving service awards included:

5 year award(Name, Hometown, Division)Keith Cardin, Lake Village, EnforcementLyndle Crownover, Gassville,

EnforcementSteve Davis, Hampton, EnforcementRyan Hollowell, Brinkley, EnforcementDennis Hovarter, Hope, EnforcementRobby King, Searcy, EnforcementBobby Lewis, Sparkman, EnforcementBrenda Mitchell, Mayflower,

EnforcementTym Montgomery, Star City,

EnforcementSusan Nimmo, Camden, Wildlife

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Chris Racey, Little Rock, FisheriesBrent Sexton, Forrest City, EnforcementMike Shamoon, Tumbling Shoals,

EnforcementGary Thornton, Warren, Wildlife

ManagementTracey Blake, England, EnforcementMike Bonds, Conway, EducationEric Devries, Little Rock, Education10 year awardTerry Gentry, Yellville, Wildlife

ManagementRay Holden, Atkins, Wildlife

ManagementAimee Swaim, Malvern, Education and

OutreachRusty Johnson, Hindsville, Enforcement15 year awardJulie Farris, Calico Rock, Building

Services20 year awardKevin Eubanks, Springdale, Enforcement25 year awardMartin Blaney, Russellville, Wildlife

ManagementMike Harris, Fouke, Wildlife

ManagementMike Knoedl, Fordyce, Enforcement30 year awardRobert Wilson, Huntsville, Wildlife

Management

Mayflower range to close during renovation work

MAYFLOWER - The popular Dr. James E. Moore Jr. Camp Robinson Firing Range near Mayflower will be closed while con-struction of shooting positions and reno-vations to the skeet fields are completed. The range will be closed at various times beginning Wednesday, Feb. 2.

The trap field will remain open at all times unless reserved for AYSSP practices.

Plans are to increase rifle shooting posi-tions from 10 to 12, and pistol positions from 20 to 30 spots. Space for additional shoot-ing positions will be created by leveling the berm between rifle and pistol ranges and replacing it with a concrete barrier.

The pistol and rifle ranges will be closed at various times while a concrete barrier is completed. The skeet and trap fields will remain open during normal business hours (9 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday) until renovations are complete.

To find out more about the range, as well as a calendar of closing dates, go to: http://www.agfc.com/aboutagfc/Pages/AboutFacilitiesRobinsonFR.aspx.

Eagle tours on Beaver Lake are scheduled for February

ROGERS - If you are interested in eagles in northwest Arkansas, numerous opportu-nities are coming up in February at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area near Rogers.

Eagle Watch Cruises on Beaver Lake will be hosted by the park on Feb. 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 24, 26 and 27. An interpretive guide will lead each of the tours of the Van Winkle arm of the lake, one of the last undeveloped areas of the lake.

Buy tickets at the park visitor center or by calling 479-789-5000. Pre-registration and

payment is required. Participants shoulddress warmly for the weather. The tourleaves from Rocky Branch Recreation Areaand costs $10 for adults and $5 for childrenages 6-12.

Visit http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/hobbsstateparkconservationarea/ for

information on the park and its programs.

Hunters, wildlife watchers asked to report on swans

LITTLE ROCK - Hunters and wildlife watchers are urged to help count and iden-tify Arkansas’ wintering swan populations.

Karen Rowe, nongame migratory birdprogram leader with the Arkansas Gameand Fish Commission, said “Numbers ofboth trumpeter and tundra swans win-tering in Arkansas appear to be on the increase. Some of these swans are wearingneck collars that can tell us the state of origin of the swan. We need the public’sassistance in not only reporting the loca-tion of the swans, more importantly weneed their assistance in noting the collarcolor and reading the alpha numeric codeon the collars.”

Some of the swans wearing collars arethose released as a part of the MississippiFlyway Council’s reverse migration experi-ment. This experiment attempts to re-establish historic swan migrations southinto Arkansas and other southern statesfrom the swans breeding areas in northernstates.

Trumpeter swans are the largest birdsnative to North America. Adult males mea-sure 57 to 64 inches long and weigh around25 pounds. Adult females range from 55 to 60 inches and weigh approximately 20pounds. Their wingspans can approach 8feet, and they fly with their extremely longnecks outstretched.

About 5,000 trumpeter swans live in theMidwest area of the United States, most ofthem in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa andMichigan. They generally migrate in familygroups and prefer to feed on aquatic vegeta-tion. Little is known regarding the numbersand groupings of southward migrant swans,so the location and characteristics of thesites they are pioneer and the duration ofuse is important to both the TrumpeterSwan Society and AGFC.

“By providing information and collardata on swans in Arkansas, observers canhelp document the changing distributionof wintering trumpeter swans and helpidentify potential new and important swan wintering sites in our state,” Rowe said.

Observers should note the exact loca-tion of collared swans, and write down thenumber and letter code off the collar andsend that information to Rowe at krowe@agfc.state.ar.us or by completing the onlinesurvey.

Because it can be difficult to tell thedifference between tundra and trumpeterswans in the field, the public is encouragedto visit http://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/swan-identification.html to learn thekey differences in bill shape and otherphysical characteristics of these two spe-cies.

Spanish cycling asks for 1-year ban for Contador

MADRID (AP) — Spanish cycling author-ities have accepted Alberto Contador’s defense that his positive Tour de France doping test resulted from eating contami-nated meat, the cyclist’s spokesman said Thursday.

The Spanish federation has proposed a one-year ban for Contador, rather than the standard two-year penalty, after his positive clenbuterol test at last year’s Tour.

Contador spokesman Jacinto Vidarte told The Associated Press that the federation accepted Contador’s contention that the result was due to “unintentional ingestion” of the banned substance.

If the ban is adopted, Contador would be stripped of the Tour title and miss this year’s

race.Contador confirmed the proposed sanc-

tion Wednesday in a statement released by his spokesman. He said the Spanish federa-tion’s disciplinary committee informed him of the proposed one-year ban.

“I’m motivated and focused on my work,” Contador said Thursday from the Saxo Bank team training camp in Palma de Mallorca. “It’s the most important thing right now. Regardless of what’s going on around you, you’ve got to work. That’s what brings you rewards in the future.”

Contador has until Feb. 9 to present more evidence before the Spanish federation’s disciplinary committee renders a final ver-dict. That decision can be appealed.

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DEAR ABBY: You advised “Susan in Southern Oregon” (Dec. 1), who asked about the appropriateness of giving al-cohol as a gift at an offi ce party, that “the only time that alcohol would be an inappropriate gift is when the giver knows the recipient doesn’t use it.” As a former psychiatric social worker, I would say that the only time alcohol would be an APPROPRIATE gift is when the giver knows the recipient would use it, and do so responsibly.

People aren’t always forthcoming about their views and experiences regarding alcohol, so it’s best to play it safe. Many people abstain from al-cohol because they are recovering al-coholics or have seen the devastating results that alcoholism has had on a loved one’s life. Others have religious reasons for not imbibing.

Giving alcohol as a gift may not only dismay the recipient, it could also lead to worse results if the giftee is some-one who is struggling to stay sober.

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DEAR AMY: You have raised many valid points. Most of my readers disagreed with my answer, and their reasons have made me re-consider my advice to Susan. I was wrong. (Mea culpa.) Read on:

DEAR ABBY: Imagine receiving a bottle of alcohol after growing up in a home with an abusive father who drank. Not only would you not want it, you wouldn’t want to give it to any-one else. Imagine receiving a bottle of alcohol after having lost a child in

an automobile accident caused by a drunk driver. Would you want that re-minder, or would you want to regift it to someone who might get drunk with that bottle and cause someone else’s death?

JOE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

DEAR ABBY: Many alcoholics choose not to reveal their disease. It is called Alcoholics ANONYMOUS for a reason. A person may have been in recovery for many years and may not wish to tell anyone except close family and longtime friends. A gift of alcohol would be a temptation to any recover-ing alcoholic, one that is hard to resist. The mind can easily rationalize: “It was a gift. I might as well get rid of it. I can share it with others, so it’s not so bad.” The slope grows steeper from there.

ANONYMOUS IN SAN ANTONIO

DEAR ABBY: Have you any idea what it is like to get knocked across a room because you asked your daddy to play with you? Have you seen your Christmas tree knocked over because your mother and father were having a fi stfi ght? My father owned one of the largest businesses in our town. We belonged to the country club. Yet my parents died in poverty because of

alcohol. Of the four siblings, I am the only one who doesn’t have an alcohol abuse problem.

I am frequently asked to attend func-tions so I can be the designated driver. I think the slogan “Friends don’t let friends drink and drive” should be changed to “Real friends don’t try to shift their responsibility.”

A SURVIVOR IN LAS VEGAS

DEAR ABBY: Twenty years ago, I would have agreed with your answer. I am the president of a construction company, and it was standard prac-tice for us to give alcohol at Christmas to a number of our customers. Then one day, I received a call from a tear-ful woman who asked if we had given alcohol to her husband. When I an-swered yes, she said that in the future, she would appreciate it if we wouldn’t do that anymore. Her husband, an alco-holic, had consumed the entire bottle, gone home and beaten her up. We dis-continued the practice immediately.

I would not advise people to gift al-cohol unless they know the recipient very well and know it will not cause harm to him or her, or those around them. -

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CITY OF EAST CAMDEN, ARKANSASGENERAL FUND FINANCIAL STATEMENTJANUARY 2011 budget

INCOME

Building PermitsBank readded S/CCapital CreditCopiesCounty TreasurerCourt - District Fines & CostCourt - Warrant FeeCourt - No Liab InsCourt - No Seat BeltDog PoundFranchise TaxInterestOccupation FeesOther Permits and chargesPD. IncomeSavings TransferState of Arkansas - Gen. Turnbacks Mun AidState of Arkansas Country Sales and Use TaxState of Arkansas City Sales and Use TaxStreet DepartmentTotal ReceiptsSavings ,GeneralANTICIPATED Ending Bal Gen Dec. 31, 2010TOTAL GENERAL FUND AVAILABLEDue LOPFI Due from General Repay LoanBALANCE GENERAL FUND Dec 31, 2010Due Street Funds from Gen Repay St put in Gen. from State

GENERAL EXPENSES

Administrationn ExpensesAlderman ExpenseAlderman Expense Special CalledBank Charges Corrections Funds put into GeneralEducation & TrainingGen. Salaries:MayorRecorder/TreasurerGen. Social SecurityGen. Unemployment .010Insurance BuildingInsurance HealthInsurance Workers CompMunicipal League, MS & MLDP, LegalsMaintenance BuildingSuppliesUtilitiesTotal Gen Expenses

General Budget 2011Page 2

District CourtDistrict Court ExpenseDistrict Judge & Clerk’s & Judge’s TrainingDistrict Judges Retirement State MandatedA P E R S salary * 23.38% (increased)Clerks Ret salary * 13.47% (increased)Court ClerkCourt Clerk Social Security *.0765Court Clerk Unemployment salary *.010 (increased)Court Salaries JudgeCourt Salaries AttorneySuppliesTraffic Tickets, Rec. books, Warrants blanksTotal Court Expenses

Sanitation Department Sanitation SalariesSanitation SalariesSanitation Salaries Part timeSanitation Social Security *.0765Sanitation Unemployment *.010Sanitation Insurance HealthSanitation Fleet InsSanitation Workers CompSanitation ExpenseTOTAL Anticipated Sanitation Dept. Expense

Parks and Recreation:

Ball FieldInsurance Workers CompInsurance Swimming Pool Tort AmmunityPlay ground equipmentPlay ground equipment repairPks Rec Trust Program Engineering Planning Grant ResearchBasketball court repair & tennis court repair *TOTAL Anticipated Park & Recreation Expense

Volunteer Fire Department:

FD Expense: Test EquipmentGrant Matching Insurance BuildingInsurance Worker CompInsurance Veh. Lia. & Phy.Equipment PurchasedTOTAL Anticipated Volunteer F. Dept. Expense

Streets:Supplies

General Budget 2011Page 3

Total Actual ExpenseUnappropriated ReservesTotal Expense & Reserves

Reserve

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

179.10 -

486.7110.00

17,280.6011,960.42

50.001,968.702,025.50

20.0024,223.46

24.802,820.00

22.0010.00

-10,724.3384,449.4335,928.39

150.00192,333.4481,377.4512,339.32

286,050.21(1,800.00)

284,250.21(1,800.00)

282,450.21

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

10,000.007,440.00

-146.90319.52

-6,015.30

26,249.602,468.26

290.38131.79

7,784.7687.00

1,456.142,000.003,458.289,936.02

77,783.95 -

77,783.95 -

77,783.95

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

-500.00

4,960.00810.60

2,071.8020,800.001,591.20

187.203,859.803,228.12

200.00661.25

38,869.97Anticipated

2010 Jan-Dec5,616.004,992.00

-811.5195.47

3,919.56566.21388.76

20,518.6736,908.18

-36,908.18

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

-613.17

48.402,000.00

69.39 - -

2,730.96

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

2,028.121,000.00

83.60212.00465.00

-3,788.72

1,500.001,500.00

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

223,857.8158,592.40

282,450.21

81,377.45

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

7.50 -

474.3732.00

17,382.1311,548.00

15.001,057.701,495.00

50.0022,930.05

18.823,830.00

870.63 -

17,406.0012,728.2084,645.1819,144.49

-193,635.0781,967.982,761.00

278,364.05(1,800.00)

276,564.05(1,800.00)

274,764.05

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

7,245.487,200.00

-805.00450.00

-6,015.24

26,249.602,468.26

322.65131.79

8,584.7679.00

1191.283,669.605,639.609,874.24

79,926.50 -

79,926.50 -

79,926.50

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

-250.00

5,797.191,258.40

330.0420,800.001,591.20

208.003,216.502,690.10

398.47208.5936,748

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

5,616.002,052.003,087.00

822.76107.55

2,993.52420.00379.00

11,556.1227,033.95

-27,033.95

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

-613.1748.40

2,000.0069.39

- -

2,730.96

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

449.00 -

83.6057.2657.25

1,500.002,147.11

2,216.352,216.35

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

194,816.2879,947.77

274,764.05

84,541.73

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

15.00 -

486.7122.50

18,720.709,340.00

15.001,405.402,220.00

83.4913,742.46

23.543,830.00

- -

4,000.0015,910.8698,559.8627,167.76

-195,543.2881,967.982,761.00

280,272.26(1,800.00)

276,672.26(1,800.00)

276,672.26

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

5,000.007,440.00

-146.90250.00

-6,195.76

27,040.002,542.54

340.47131.79

8,524.1587.00

1,456.148,500.003,458.289,874.24

80,987.27 -

80,987.27 -

80,987.27

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

549.74500.00

4,960.001,093.922,085.64

21,424.001,638.94

214.243,859.803,228.12

200.00661.25

40,415.65Anticipated

2011 Jan-Dec5,784.485,616.00

783.00811.5195.47

3,143.07420.00379.00

20,518.6737,551.20

-37,551.20

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

-613.1748.40

2,000.0069.39

- -

2,730.96

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

-1,000.00

83.60186.00310.00567.51

2,147.11

1,500.001,500.00

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

227,303.3256,255.41

283,558.73

85,509.67

CITY OF EAST CAMDEN, ARKANSAS

ORDINANCE 10-03

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF EAST CAMDEN, ARKANSAS; AN ORDINANCE TO BE ENTITLED:

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING AND ADOPTING FOR THE CITY OF EAST CAMDEN, ARKANSAS AN ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE TWELVE MONTHS BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2011, AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2011 AND

APPROPRIATING MONEY FOR EACH AND EVERY ITEM OF EXPENDITURE THEREIN PROVIDED FOR:

WHEREAS, the City Council of East Camden has made a comprehensive study and review of the proposed 2 011 Operating Budget: and

WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the City Council of East Camden that the schedules and exhibits of fin ancial information prepared and reviewed revealing anticipated revenues and expenditures for all funds for the Fiscal Year appear to be as ac curate as possible for budgetary purposes.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF EAST CAMDEN, ARKANSAS, that this ordinance shall be known as the Budget Ordinance for the City of East Camden, Arkansas, for the twelve month period beginning Januar y 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011, reelecting estimated revenues and expenditures for all funds as set forth in the Fiscal Year Operating Budget D ocument for the City of East Camden. Said Official Budget Document is hereby made an attachment to this Ordinance and is incorporated herein as if full set fo rth.

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that the respective amounts of funds for each and every item of expenditure classification proposed in the official Budget Document for Fiscal year 2011, are hereby approved by the City Council of East Camden, Arkans as, and are hereby authorized and appropriated for the purpose herein set forth for the calendar year ending December 31, 2011. All revenues herein are est imated and subject to change and all appropriations are calculated upon available revenues.

WHEREAS, IT IS necessary for the efficient operation of Municipal Government that a Budget be planne d and adopted for the year 2011; Now therefore and emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Ordinance being necessary for the prese rvation of the public peace, health, and safety, shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval

PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 13th DAY OF December 2010

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6949NOTICE OF PROPOSED

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Facility Location:Highland Industrial ParkEast Camden,Calhoun County, Arkansas

Permit No.: 8H-RN1

EPA Identification No.:ARD091688283

Permit Modification:Aerojet-General Corporation

(Aerojet) has filed an applica-tion for a Class 3 modificationof Hazardous Waste PermitNo. 8H-RN1 with the ArkansasDepartment of EnvironmentalQuality (ADEQ). The ClosurePlan for the Open Burn UnitArea is being revised to reflectthe current remedial activitiesat the site.

Public Comment Period: Thisnotice is being published tomeet the requirements of Ar-kansas Pollution Control andEcology Commission Regula-tion No. 23, “Hazardous WasteManagement ” , Sec t ion270.42(c)(2). Individuals wish-ing to comment on the pro-posed permit modification maydo so by delivering, mailing ore-mailing written comments,including their name and mail-ing address, to ADEQ within60 days of the date that thisnotice was published. Allcomments should be for-warded to the following per-son:

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Document Depository: Theapplication for Class 3 permitmodification and supportingdocuments can be viewed andcopied at the Camden andOuachita County Public Li-brary in Camden.

Public Meeting: A meeting todiscuss the proposed permitmodification will be held inRoom TE 100 of the REL TechEngineering Building on thecampus of Southern ArkansasUniversity Tech in East Cam-den. The meeting will be heldat 12:00 noon on Wednesday,February 23, 2011.

Aerojet Contact: Individualsmay contact Torii Wehling, En-vironmental Operations Man-ager, at (870) 574-3265 withquestions about Aerojet's op-erations and the proposed per-mit modification.

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CITY OF EAST CAMDEN, ARKANSASSTREET BUDGET 2011

ANTICIPATED INCOME:

Bush HoggCounty TaxInterest checkingSaving TransferReimbursementState of Arkansas Loan Repay from GeneralTotal Anticipated RevenuesBal. Street Department 12/30/10Carryover Balance, CD’sInterest CD’S int down

ANTICIPATED EXPENSES:Administrative ExpenseEquipment OutlayEquipment RepairFuel Oil MaintenanceInsurance Health FT 2Insurance Health FT 1Insurance workers compLegalsSalaries:Sal. F/T 2Sal. F T 1Sal. P TSocial SecurityStreet RepairSuppliesUtilitiesTotal Streets ExpensesUnappropriated Reserves

Reserve

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

75.004,614.70

19.20 - -

45,316.881,800.00

51,825.789,759.35

37,194.851,351.05

100,131.03 -

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

2,709.455,614.576,000.004,500.003,000.002,700.00

483.001,500.00

-9,828.00

12,871.042,620.001,936.915,131.30

813.206,800.00

66,507.4733,623.56

100,131.03

37,194.85

Actual2010 Jan-Dec

25.005,225.60

21.47 - -

45,579.04712.83

51,563.948,968.49

39,313.821,212.21

101,058.46 -

Anticipated2010 Jan-Dec

1,657.08 -

1,279.694,295.661,211.882,312.151,279.00

- -

4,059.9012,037.50

999.061,307.886,615.821,973.016,320.81

45,349.4455,709.02

101,058.46

39,313.82

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

25.005,225.60

21.47 - -

45,579.041,800.00

52,651.118,968.49

39,313.821,212.21

102,145.63 -

Anticipated2011 Jan-Dec

2,709.455,614.576,000.004,719.372,993.522,993.521,279.001,500.00

-13,104.0013,497.122,620.002,265.496,615.822,031.376,334.52

53,817.7048,327.93

102,145.63

39,313.82

20122 #6945

City of Stephens(first or second class)

Financial Statement July 1, 2010- Dec. 31, 2010GENERAL FUND

Balance July 1, 2010 $16878.12Cash Receipts General Turnback $6,763.66 S-Mill Tax $14,557.41 Franchise Tax $9,744.44 Occupation Tax $0.00 Liquor and Beer Tax $0.00 Local Sales Tax $25,263.25 Other City Taxes $45,167.16 Court Fines and Fees $9,021.36 Sanitation Charges $0.00 Other Permits and Charges $4,652.32Total Receipts $155,169.60Total General Fund Available $172,047.72

Expenditures Administrative Expense $11,084.69 Salaries $35,122.27 Social Security $6,887.72 Utilities $6,827.94 Supplies $1,363.27 Fixed Assets $0.00 Other $87,480.41Total Expenditures $148,766.30Balance General Fund Dec. 31, 2010 $23,281.42

STREET FUNDBalance July 1, 2010 $19,414.12 State Highway Revenue $29,565.09 County Road Tax $4,085.87 Other Street Revenues $7,701.86Total Street Revenues $41,352.82Total Available Street Fund $60,766.94

Expenditures Salaries $15,118.32 Supplies $4,098.79 Other $16,883.97Total Expenditures $36,100.90Balance Street Funds Dec.31,2010 $24,665.86

In the event a municipality maintains a police, fire, parks or other department, the city should publish financial statements for these departments in the same manner as they separate those departments on their Cash Receipts and Disbursement Journals.

20123C #6947

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