Stories from Tuesday, July 10, 2007

…or garlic, may have a strong smell and taste, but is beautiful when it is growing. This specimen was photographed at the home of Flora Walker in the Southside subdivision on Hwy 149. The part shown is the bloom and seeds, not the edible bulb which is still in the ground. Anyone who wishes a planting can contact her. (Tribune photo/Dan Brawner)...

Tribune News Staff In a longer than usual agenda, the Poinsett County Quorum Court addressed issues of property reappraisals, crystal meth class action litigation and salaries for the District Judge and the various city's District Court clerks. Causing the most discussion was the latter...

Airtex Manufacturing in Marked Tree made a generous donation Thursday to the United Way of Northeast Arkansas. Jerry Webb, general manager of the plant, and Lynn Strait, human resources manager, were on hand to present the $5,000 check to the non-profit organization...

C.R. Carter, age 101, of Marked Tree died Saturday, July 7 at NEA Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was the Assembly of God faith and a member of the Masonic Lodge #766 of Marked Tree. He was a Poinsett County Deputy Sheriff for an umber of years. He and his wife celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary on June 17...

Johnny Wayne Byrd, 56, of Byhalia, Miss., formerly of Tyronza and Marked Tree, passed away Wednesday, July 4, 2007. Funeral services were Saturday, July 7, at Brantley Funeral Home in Olive Branch, Miss., with interment to follow in Southwoods Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis...

Robin Paige Green, 36, of Chelford died Saturday, July 7 in Chelford. Born February 15, 1971 in Osceola, she was a member of the First United Pentecostal Church of Lepanto and a homemaker. She is survived by her husband, Buford Green, two daughters Ariana Hudson and Eva Green all of the home; her parents, Billy Brooks of Rivervale and Shirley Brooks of Lepanto; sister Janet Brooks of Rivervale; and brother Nathan Brooks of Lepanto...

Alice Leona Griffin, 85, of Marked Tree died July 2, 2007. She was a home maker and a member of Baptist Faith Church. Survivors include her daughters, Ruth Lathrom of Marked Tree, Barbara Duvall of Marked Tree, and Jackie Herrera of Pensacola, Fla.; sons, Frank Griffin of Marked Tree, Mike Griffin of Marked Tree, Danny Griffin of Marked Tree and Billy Griffin of Dallas, Texas; sisters, Nora Faye Pitts of Marked Tree, Imogene Rule of Oklahoma City, Okla., Jo Day of Marked Tree and Louella Godwin of Heber Springs; 34 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, and give great-great grandchildren.. ...

Tribune Sports Staff In 1940, J.C. Miller of Grand Rapids, Mich. was a millionaire who had a taste for the boxing game and who was looking for fighters with promise. Hearing about his search, Roy Sellers, who had a boxing club in Trumann, contacted Miller and told him of a kid he had who had "the makings of a champion."...