Stories from Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Marked Tree City Council met in regular session Monday night with all councilmen but James Swan in attendance. The main discussion of the night, as it had been for a number of meetings, concerned the city's recreation park...

Tribune Editor Guy Enchelmayer of Jonesboro spoke to the Marked Tree Rotary Club last Wednesday about recycling and its ever increasing importance. Enchelmayer was executive director of the Craighead County Solid Waste Authority from 1995 to 2007. Enchelmayer said he was impressed by Marked Tree's recycling efforts...

The Modern News The Arkansas State Police Marijuana Eradication Unit, aided by the Arkansas National Guard, was in Poinsett County last Thursday in their continuing efforts to find large amounts of marijuana growing...

Doskie Alzina Ford, 85, of Marked Tree died Friday, August 1, 2008 at her residence. She was a member of Liberty Street Church of Christ and was preceded in death by her husband, J.C. Ford. Survivors include three sons, Joseph Ford of Pikeville, Tenn., Herbert Ford of Mountain Home, Donald Ray Ford of Marked Tree; three daughters, Patricia Ford, Katherine June Ford, both of Marked Tree, Barbara Jean Murray of Paragould; one sister, Julia Willene Smith of St. ...

Marguerite Price Gardner of Little Rock died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. She was born in Little Rock Nov. 26, 1914, to Carl L. Price and Mildred Empfield Price. Her mother died when she was a year old, and she was raised by her father and stepmother, Chlora Wheat Price...

Gerthie Faye Mack, 79, of Trumann, died Friday, August 8, 2008 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Walnut, Miss., and had lived in Trumann since 1965. She was formerly of Marked Tree, a housewife and of the Pentecostal faith...

Pearlie Mae Simmons, of Harrisburg, died on Tuesday, August 5, at the Woodbrair Nursing Home in Harrisburg at the age of 98. She was born September 30, 1909, in Carbon Hill, Ala., the daughter of Robert C. ...

Pearline Norman Smith, 92, of Lepanto died Monday, August 5, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Lepanto and was a lifelong resident of the area. She was of the Baptist faith and was preceded in death by her husband, Willie Smith...

Doyle Tarlton, 75, of Jonesboro died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, at St Bernards Medical Center at Jonesboro. Born Jan. 23, 1933, at Pocahontas, he was a Marine veteran of the Korean War. He was preceded in death by his parents, Damon and Bessie Tarlton; and two sisters, Jewell Thielemier and Imogene Mize...

Dr. Kenneth Threet of Jonesboro will be the guest speaker at the First Baptist Church in Marked Tree during the 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. services Sunday, Aug. 17. Threat and his wife Ruth Taylor have been married since Sept. 2, 1951. He has been in the ministry since 1946 and has pastured churches throughout Arkansas and Texas...

The world is a changing place. I suppose I'm officially "getting older" when I begin to use phrases like "I remember when it used be like such and such." Well, this is one of those moments. Our society has become increasingly self-centered, focusing not on service but rather on the bottom line, a line that often points right to ourselves...

Well, John Edwards proved he's a real Democrat Friday when he admitted he had had an affair. When Republicans have a scandal it's always about money, and when Dempcrats do, it's always about sex. In fact, you could say that Democrats are obsessed with sex the same way Republicans are obsessed with money. ...

It was late Sunday night. I knew I had to get up in the morning to begin the weekly grind at work, but I didn't care. This was the Olympics. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, I've never watched any of the Olympics, but for some reason I've been drawn to prime-time while NBC broadcasts our American teams torpedoing through the waters and slinging around like elastic during gymnastics. ...

Okay, so I didn't mean for this to be a 2-parter but I promise this will be the last column I write about my vacation. We went to the Great Smoky Mountains. We found ourselves at the Newfoundland Gap which is on the Tennessee and North Carolina border. ...