i f f y for your information USPS 035-740 The Heart of the Arkansas River Valley for a Century WEDNESDAY, December 10, 2008 — NO. 3 inside The Chronicle Opinions ................ 2 Church .................. 4 Society ................... 5 School ....................... 6 sPORTS ....................... 7 Legals ................... 8 Classifieds .......... 8 Obituaries ........... 7,9 The Atkins Chronicle 50¢ Welcomed each week into the home of mary kersten Calendar www.atkinschronicle.com See PBA on page 7 photo by Van A. Tyson Winner of the arkansas press association general excellence award ONE HUNDRED AND Fourteenth YEAR ATKINS (POPE COUNTY) ARKANSAS 72823 Thursday, Dec. 11 — Pope County Quorum Court, 6 p.m., County Courthouse Saturday, Dec. 13 — Atkins Music Club, 2:30 p.m., Annette Fields home. Monday, Dec. 15 — Pea Ridge Fire Department Board, 6 p.m. Pea Ridge Fire Station. PBA and Teen PBA needs new and gently used children’s books for their Christmas food baskets. You can drop them off at Sexton Foods, Berky’s Diner and the Atkins Library. For more information call Mary Cole at 641-2501 or Scottie Martin at 641-7419. PBA is also short on new toys for the baskets. Drop off new toys at Dollar General. PBA needs books and toys for baskets The Music Department of the Atkins Public Schools will pres- ent its annual Christmas Con- cert Sunday, Dec. 14, at the high school auditorium beginning at 2:30 p.m. Groups performing are 7th grade choir, 8th grade choir, middle school bank, high school choir, and high school band. Admission is free. Christmas Concert Dec. 14 Aaron Felkins suffered a stroke while hunting and is hospitalized. An account has been set up at Liberty Bank to help the family with expenses, as Aaron was the family’s only support. The Felkins have one child. To donate, go to any Lib- erty Bank and donate to account #8672113. Account set up for Felkins family Inside Letters to santa shouLd reach us by Friday so we can Forward them to the north PoLe PBA seeks help for Christmas Atkins Planning Commis- sion accepted five permits at its monthly meeting Tuesday, Dec. 2. Permits approved were to: Universal Housing, for a one- story brick and siding residence at 406 NW 17th St., $90,000; Michael L. Jones, one-story frame building for shop-storage at 1121 Ave. Six SE, $2,000; William S. Williams, one- story frame storage building at 202 Ave. Six NE, $850; Tammy L. Hickman, one- story brick residence at 800 Ave. Six SE, $70,000; Dwaine Embry, one-story frame residence at 205 NE Sev- enth St., $48,050. All board members were present, including Charles Baker, chairman, Chris Martin, Janis Davis, secretary, Kathleen Napier, Elmo Bizzell and Albert Thatcher, permit inspector. Planning Commission approves five permits By Beckie Tyson David Lindsey reported to the People for a Better Atkins at its regular meeting Thursday, Dec. 4, on Christmas preparations around town. Lindsey said the town lights were put up Dec. 4 but some brackets were missing so some lights could not be hung. He said J.L. Austin and Dain Duvall worked with him to replace bulbs and get the lights ready. “We bought every bulb in the area,” he said. Thursday morning, when he showed up to start work on hanging the lights, city workers had already taken the lights to the poles where they were to be hung. Mike Whittenburg and city workers Alfred Berry and Chuck Bidwell helped hang them. Lindsey also reported that Christmas parade planning was going well. Austin said he was not able to help line up the parade. John Sunderland and Doyle Cook volunteered to help. Austin said the horses will be last, except for Staggs Wrecker, which will be at the back in case the wrecker is called out during the parade. Austin said he had created a liability release for people with 4-wheelers to sign. He recom- mended PBA have everyone in the parade sign a release next year. Chuck Colflesh said they needed signs made for the grand marshals. He also suggested the PBA do something to honor the junior high football team, who won the conference champion- ship. It was suggested the Teen PBA take that on as a project. Christmas food baskets are to be assembled at the Atkins Riding Club building about 6 p.m. on Dec. 11 and 12. The baskets will be given away Saturday, Dec. 13, starting about 8 a.m. Helpers should arrive at 7:30 a.m. Cook said a donor had given 81 half-gallons of milk and also coupons for Fritos and potato chips. Atkins Prepared Foods has donated $1,000 toward the baskets, Lindsey said, and chick- ens are on order from Pilgrim’s Pride. The local ministerial alliance has been asked to have church members donate food, as well. “The toys are way short,” Lindsey said, “Very few toys have been dropped off at Dollar Gen- eral.” PBA requests new toys be donated for the baskets. Lindsey said they are shooting for 200 The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program nominated 12 properties in 10 Arkansas counties – includ- ing the Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Road — Fourth Street in Atkins — to the National Regis- ter of Historic Places when it met Dec. 3, AHPP Director Frances McSwain announced today. The Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Road – Fourth Street Seg- ment at Atkins was built in 1828. The road segment is notewor- thy “by virtue of its status as one of few surviving segments of the Mil- itary Road west of Little Rock that were traversed by the Bell Detach- ment during Cherokee Removal and that retain their integrity as nineteenth century roadbeds,” according to the National Register nomination. “Its association with the earlier Choctaw, Creek, Semi- nole and Chickasaw Removals augments its importance.” Other properties nominated to the National Register are the Earl Building at Morrilton in Conway County; Enola Baptist Church at Enola in Faulkner County; Ephesus Cemetery at Emmett in Nevada County; Camden to Washington Road — Rosston Segment near Rosston in Nevada County; Arkansas 289 Bridge over English Creek near Mammoth Spring in Fulton County; Concord School House near Eureka Springs in Carroll County; Illinois River Bridge at Phillips Ford near Savoy in Washington County; Block 35 Cobblestone Alley in Little Rock in Pulaski county; Southwestern Proving Ground Building No. 4 near Hope in Hempstead County; Hot Springs Commercial Dis- trict and Mike Meyer Disfarmer Gravesite at Heber Springs in Cle- burne County. The board also listed the ca. 1930 Watson Jail at Watson in Desha County on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Register recognizes historically significant properties that do not meet the requirements of National Register listing. For more information on the National Register of Historic Places program, write the AHPP at 1500 Tower Building, 323 Center St., Little Rock, AR 72201, call the agency at (501) 324-9880 [TDD 501-324-9811], send e-mail to [email protected] or visit the AHPP’s Internet web site at www.arkansaspreserva- tion.org. State Review Board nominates Trail of Tears segment to National Register Cowgirl Award Winners — Members of the Atkins Riding Club were awarded prizes and year-end awards at the Cowgirls for Christ Banquet Saturday night. From left: Shavon Davis, 3rd Open 2D riding Bugs; Hayden Martin, 2nd Open 2D and 1st Youth 2D (saddle winner) riding Lil’ Bay; Bryanna Martin, 1st Youth 3D (saddle winner) riding Taco; Jennifer Williams, 4th Open 4D riding Opie; and Farrah Beldin, 4th Open 3D riding Bruiser. The VFW and Ladies Aux- iliary, Barker Cheek Post, will have its annual Christmas potluck party Thursday evening, Dec. 11 at the VFW Hut at 6 p.m. VFW will have Christmas meal Atkins Christmas Parade photo by Beckie Tyson photo by Beckie Tyson Grand Marshals — Senior Red Devils and the Voice of the RedDevils, From left: Sawyer Shannon, Bro Price, Jake Pack, Colton Barton, Roy Pitts and Cody Colburn. First place float — Welcome Hill Assembly of God Church. Second place float — Atkins Elementary School. The Russellville Wal-Mart was emptied and closed for the second time in eight days Monday, Dec. 8, after another bomb threat. A news release from the Russell- ville Police Department said Emer- gency Service Personnel conducted a sweep of the building and found no suspicious items. Other units responding were the Russellville Fire Department Engine 4, Batal- lion 1, the Arkansas State Police, Pope County Sheriff’s Office and Pope County EMS. The Conway Fire Department was placed on standby in case something was located. The store was closed at 10:51 a.m. and reopened at 12:12 p.m., when it resumed normal opera- tions. Dogs were used to check for a bomb Dec. 1. The RPD was unable to deter- mine whether the incidents on Dec. 1 and 8 were related. “The source of the phone call(s) are considered part of the investigation and any information concerning the inves- tigation of this case is not being released at this time,” the news release said. It will be released as soon as it becomes available, the release added. RPD is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the bomb threats. Addition manpower is being used to patrol local shopping centers during the holiday season to deter criminal activity. The maximum penalty for bomb threats is up to 15 years in jail and up to a $10,000 fine. The Pope County Courthouse was also cleared because of a bomb threat in mid-afternoon Friday, Dec. 5. Wal-Mart receives bomb threat number two
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USPS 035-740The Heart of the Arkansas River Valley for a Century
WEDNESDAY, December 10, 2008 — NO. 3
inside The Chronicle
Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
School ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
sPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Legals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . 8
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ,9
The Atkins Chronicle50¢
Welcomed each week into the home of mary kersten
Calendar
www.atkinschronicle.com
See PBA on page 7
photo by Van A. Tyson
Winner of the arkansas press association general excellence award
ONE HUNDRED AND Fourteenth YEAR ATKINS (POPE COUNTY) ARKANSAS 72823
Thursday, Dec. 11 — Pope County Quorum Court, 6 p.m., County Courthouse
Saturday, Dec. 13 — Atkins Music Club, 2:30 p.m., Annette Fields home.
Monday, Dec. 15 — Pea Ridge Fire Department Board, 6 p.m. Pea Ridge Fire Station.
PBA and Teen PBA needs new and gently used children’s books for their Christmas food baskets. You can drop them off at Sexton Foods, Berky’s Diner and the Atkins Library. For more information call Mary Cole at 641-2501 or Scottie Martin at 641-7419.
PBA is also short on new toys for the baskets. Drop off new toys at Dollar General.
PBA needs books and toys for baskets
The Music Department of the Atkins Public Schools will pres-ent its annual Christmas Con-cert Sunday, Dec. 14, at the high school auditorium beginning at 2:30 p.m. Groups performing are 7th grade choir, 8th grade choir, middle school bank, high school choir, and high school band. Admission is free.
Christmas Concert Dec. 14
Aaron Felkins suffered a stroke while hunting and is hospitalized. An account has been set up at Liberty Bank to help the family with expenses, as Aaron was the family’s only support. The Felkins have one child. To donate, go to any Lib-erty Bank and donate to account #8672113.
Account set up for Felkins family
I ns i d
e Letters to santa shouLd reach us by Friday so we can Forward
them to the north PoLe
PBA seeks help for Christmas
Atkins Planning Commis-sion accepted five permits at its monthly meeting Tuesday, Dec. 2.
Permits approved were to:Universal Housing, for a one-
story brick and siding residence at 406 NW 17th St., $90,000;
Michael L. Jones, one-story frame building for shop-storage at 1121 Ave. Six SE, $2,000;
William S. Williams, one-story frame storage building at
202 Ave. Six NE, $850;Tammy L. Hickman, one-
story brick residence at 800 Ave. Six SE, $70,000;
Dwaine Embry, one-story frame residence at 205 NE Sev-enth St., $48,050.
All board members were present, including Charles Baker, chairman, Chris Martin, Janis Davis, secretary, Kathleen Napier, Elmo Bizzell and Albert Thatcher, permit inspector.
Planning Commission approves five permits
By Beckie TysonDavid Lindsey reported to the
People for a Better Atkins at its regular meeting Thursday, Dec. 4, on Christmas preparations around town.
Lindsey said the town lights were put up Dec. 4 but some brackets were missing so some lights could not be hung. He said J.L. Austin and Dain Duvall worked with him to replace bulbs and get the lights ready. “We bought every bulb in the area,” he said.
Thursday morning, when he showed up to start work on hanging the lights, city workers had already taken the lights to the poles where they were to be hung. Mike Whittenburg and city workers Alfred Berry and Chuck Bidwell helped hang them.
Lindsey also reported that Christmas parade planning was going well. Austin said he was not able to help line up the parade. John Sunderland and Doyle Cook volunteered to help. Austin said the horses will be last, except for Staggs Wrecker, which will be at the back in case the wrecker is called out during the parade.
Austin said he had created a liability release for people with
4-wheelers to sign. He recom-mended PBA have everyone in the parade sign a release next year. Chuck Colflesh said they needed signs made for the grand marshals. He also suggested the PBA do something to honor the junior high football team, who won the conference champion-ship. It was suggested the Teen PBA take that on as a project.
Christmas food baskets are to be assembled at the Atkins Riding Club building about 6 p.m. on Dec. 11 and 12. The baskets will be given away Saturday, Dec. 13, starting about 8 a.m. Helpers should arrive at 7:30 a.m.
Cook said a donor had given 81 half-gallons of milk and also coupons for Fritos and potato chips. Atkins Prepared Foods has donated $1,000 toward the baskets, Lindsey said, and chick-ens are on order from Pilgrim’s Pride. The local ministerial alliance has been asked to have church members donate food, as well.
“The toys are way short,” Lindsey said, “Very few toys have been dropped off at Dollar Gen-eral.” PBA requests new toys be donated for the baskets. Lindsey said they are shooting for 200
The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program nominated 12 properties in 10 Arkansas counties – includ-ing the Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Road — Fourth Street in Atkins — to the National Regis-ter of Historic Places when it met Dec. 3, AHPP Director Frances McSwain announced today.
The Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Road – Fourth Street Seg-ment at Atkins was built in 1828.
The road segment is notewor-thy “by virtue of its status as one of few surviving segments of the Mil-itary Road west of Little Rock that were traversed by the Bell Detach-ment during Cherokee Removal and that retain their integrity as nineteenth century roadbeds,” according to the National Register nomination. “Its association with
the earlier Choctaw, Creek, Semi-nole and Chickasaw Removals augments its importance.”
Other properties nominated to the National Register are the Earl Building at Morrilton in Conway County; Enola Baptist Church at Enola in Faulkner County; Ephesus Cemetery at Emmett in Nevada County; Camden to Washington Road — Rosston Segment near Rosston in Nevada County; Arkansas 289 Bridge over English Creek near Mammoth Spring in Fulton County; Concord School House near Eureka Springs in Carroll County; Illinois River Bridge at Phillips Ford near Savoy in Washington County; Block 35 Cobblestone Alley in Little Rock in Pulaski county; Southwestern Proving Ground Building No. 4 near Hope in Hempstead County;
Hot Springs Commercial Dis-trict and Mike Meyer Disfarmer Gravesite at Heber Springs in Cle-burne County.
The board also listed the ca. 1930 Watson Jail at Watson in Desha County on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Register recognizes historically significant properties that do not meet the requirements of National Register listing.
For more information on the National Register of Historic Places program, write the AHPP at 1500 Tower Building, 323 Center St., Little Rock, AR 72201, call the agency at (501) 324-9880 [TDD 501-324-9811], send e-mail to [email protected] or visit the AHPP’s Internet web site at www.arkansaspreserva-tion.org.
State Review Board nominates Trail of Tears segment to National Register
Cowgirl Award Winners — Members of the Atkins Riding Club were awarded prizes and year-end awards at the Cowgirls for Christ Banquet Saturday night. From left: Shavon Davis, 3rd Open 2D riding Bugs; Hayden Martin, 2nd Open 2D and 1st Youth 2D (saddle winner) riding Lil’ Bay; Bryanna Martin, 1st Youth 3D (saddle winner) riding Taco; Jennifer Williams, 4th Open 4D riding Opie; and Farrah Beldin, 4th Open 3D riding Bruiser.
The VFW and Ladies Aux-iliary, Barker Cheek Post, will have its annual Christmas potluck party Thursday evening, Dec. 11 at the VFW Hut at 6 p.m.
VFW will haveChristmas meal
Atkins Christmas Parade
photo by Beckie Tyson
photo by Beckie Tyson
Grand Marshals — Senior Red Devils and the Voice of the RedDevils, From left: Sawyer Shannon, Bro Price, Jake Pack, Colton Barton, Roy Pitts and Cody Colburn.
First place float — Welcome Hill Assembly of God Church.
Second place float — Atkins Elementary School.
The Russellville Wal-Mart was emptied and closed for the second time in eight days Monday, Dec. 8, after another bomb threat.
A news release from the Russell-ville Police Department said Emer-gency Service Personnel conducted a sweep of the building and found no suspicious items. Other units responding were the Russellville Fire Department Engine 4, Batal-lion 1, the Arkansas State Police, Pope County Sheriff’s Office and Pope County EMS. The Conway Fire Department was placed on standby in case something was located.
The store was closed at 10:51 a.m. and reopened at 12:12 p.m., when it resumed normal opera-tions. Dogs were used to check for a bomb Dec. 1.
The RPD was unable to deter-mine whether the incidents on Dec.
1 and 8 were related. “The source of the phone call(s) are considered part of the investigation and any information concerning the inves-tigation of this case is not being released at this time,” the news release said. It will be released as soon as it becomes available, the release added.
RPD is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the bomb threats. Addition manpower is being used to patrol local shopping centers during the holiday season to deter criminal activity.
The maximum penalty for bomb threats is up to 15 years in jail and up to a $10,000 fine.
The Pope County Courthouse was also cleared because of a bomb threat in mid-afternoon Friday, Dec. 5.
Wal-Mart receives bomb threat number two
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