Stories from Thursday, July 5, 2007

Tribune News Staff Dyess Mayor Larry Sims received a check for $42,000 Tuesday from Governor Mike Beebe during the Arkansas Historic Preservation program at the Ottenheimer Theater in Little Rock. The grant will be used to renovate the historic Dyess Colony Administration Building on the circle in downtown Dyess...

The Marked Tree Church of God held a Celebration Freedom Service last Sunday morning, July 1 to honor the heroes of the United States' fight to gain and maintain freedom throughout the decades. Brother Patrick Tucker, pastor of the host church welcomed everyone, to the celebration and then later, brought a Freedom Message...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1941 Esther Bindursky of The Commercial Appeal interviewed Tom Miller, Ed Daughtery, and Jeff Grayson who had piloted boats up and down Little River since the 1880's. The resulting article which follows in part won first place in national competition from the National Federation of American Press Women. ...

Norma Irene Hale, 82, of Marked Tree died June 29 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marked Tree. She was employed at the American Greetings Factory in Osceola. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Hale and her parents, Ruben and Christine Ward...

Leland Edward Cates, 89, of Heber Springs died Saturday, June 23 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Little Rock. Formerly of Lepanto, he was a pharmacist, a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Church of God in Heber Springs...

Mary Christine Guy, 78, of Belleville, Mich., formerly of Lepanto, died June 30, 2007. She was the beloved mother of Judy Carrington and the late Chris Jean Smith; the dearest grandmother of James, Eddie, Lance, Van and Regina Smith; the great-grandmother of nine; and the loving aunt of Betty Kohl. She is also survived by her brother, John Wayne Spencer and her sister, Betty Jean Marshal...

James Eugene Kimery, 86, of Marked Tree died June 30 at the VA Hospital in Memphis. He was a factory worker and served in World War II. He was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church in Marked Tree. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Andrew and Flora Gailey Kimery and two sisters, Dorothy Whatley and Ella Mae Gray...

The 3-3A EPC Warriors and the 3-2A Marked Tree Indians were voted by their conferences' coaches finish seventh and second in their respective conferences according to the 2007 Hooten's Arkansas Football magazine. The 432 page book is in its 15th year of publication and offers the most comprehensive preseason football coverage in Arkansas...

Opinion By DAN BRAWNER Tribune Sports Staff Football is still a few weeks away, but people are already thinking about it. Case in point #1, Hooten's Arkansas Football can now be purchased. Naturally being a state magazine, it will be a little more magnanimous to state schools, but it was still good to open it up and see they had the Hogs ranked 11th in the country. ...