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InsideTonight - Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast to east winds 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday - Mostly sunny. Highs mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 mph. Thurs-day night, partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Friday - Partly sunny. A 20-percent chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms. Highs around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph in the morning becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Friday night, mostly cloudy. A 30-per-centchance of showers and isolated thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.

River Stages(Numbers represent, from left, that station’s fl ood

stage, current stage and 24-hour change.)Ouachita River Arkadelphia 17 4.24 0.25 Camden 26 5.46 -0.05 Thatcher l/D 79 77.00 0.00 Moro Bay -- 64.50 0.00 Felsenthal 70 65.20 0.10 Little Missouri River Boughton 20 0.29 0.00

Sunset: 5:04 p.m.Sunrise: 7:01 a.m.

Singapore tripis club program

Tim Gunter is the scheduled guest speaker at this week’s meeting of the Kiwanis Club, which meets at noon Thursday at the Camden Country Club.

Gunter will give a pre-sentation about his trip to Singapore.

Razorbacks bag Badger coachto be the new head Hog

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CPD canine nabs city garage burglarBy JENNIFER SHERIDANStaff Writer

Bak, one of the Camden Police Department’s canines, aided in catching an individual who is ac-cused of burglarizing the Camden City Shop on Monday night.

Offi cer Benjamin Opelt reported responding to a call of a burglary in progress at the city shop at 7:36 p.m. The individual was inside the fence, and going through one of the city vehicles, according to a city worker’s statements to Opelt.

After a search of the property, the offi cer saw Aaron Welch, 46, of Camden, walking on Adams Avenue away from the northwest corner of the city shop. Welch was dressed in camoufl age, and was carrying a large black trash

bag. Opelt stated that Welch was behind the Club Ice establishment by the time he caught up to him.

Opelt said he twice told Welch to stop walking away from him, but Welch began to run from the area. Opelt then let Bak proceed to go

after Welch. The report said whenWelch heard Opelt command Bakto apprehend the suspect, Welchlooked over his shoulder and sawBak closing in on him. Welch gave

See ARREST, Page 6

Photo by Jinger Solak

Park tree-lighting ceremonyThe offi cial lighting of the Christmas tree in the downtown park is celebrated by a performance of the Camden Fairview High School Mad-rigals. CFHS Choir Director Cynthia Outlaw, seen in front, led the group in singing several Christmas songs for the evening, ending in “Oh Christmas Tree.” Richard Milner, not shown, representative for the Community Appearance Committee, offi cially turned the power on during the ceremony for a beautiful display of lights in the park.

Unity committee prepares for paradeBy JENNIFER SHERIDANStaff Writer

The Unity in Community steer-ing committee is preparing for Saturday evening’s Camden Main Street Christmas parade.

The committee was folding bro-chures prior to the meeting on Tuesday evening. The commit-tee has decided to walk in the pa-rade and wear clothing that is red,

green, or white in color. The com-mittee plans on inviting members from the focus groups to partici-pate in walking with the commit-tee.

Janice Davis-White, steering committee co-chairperson re-quested the readers of the Cam-den News who were involved in the focus groups to contact Don-na Stewart at payroll.camden@

cableynx.com. She is looking for a fi rm commitment for showing a multi-cultural presence in Cam-den.

During the parade, the Camden Unity walkers will be handing out brochures as a recruitment tool.

After the parade, the steering committee will be working on building the core group, or steer-ing committee. The committee

agreed to do some internal dia-

logue similar to the dialogue ses-

sions held earlier this year.

The committee agreed to work

on showing a continual presence

in the community.

The next steering committee

meeting will be on Jan. 15.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans’ “fi scal cliff” counter-offer to President Barack Obama hints at billions of dollars in mili-tary cuts on top of the nearly $500 billion that the White House and Congress backed last year, and even the fi ercest defense hawks acknowledge that the Pentagon faces another fi nancial hit.

The proposal that House Speak-er John Boehner, R-Ohio, and oth-er Republican leaders sent to the White House this week calls for cuts of $300 billion in discretion-ary spending to achieve savings of $2.2 trillion over 10 years. The blueprint offered no specifi cs on the cuts, although the Pentagon

and defense-related departments such as Homeland Security and State make up roughly half of the federal government’s discretion-ary spending.

By any credible calculation, the military, which is still coming to grips with the half-trillion-dollar cut in last year’s defi cit-cutting law, is looking at an additional $10 billion to $15 billion cut in pro-jected defense spending each year for the next decade. It’s a prospect that Republicans recognize is the new reality, with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ending and defi cits demanding deep cuts.

“Not too devastating,” said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top

Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. That’s es-pecially true compared with the alternative that McCain dreads — the double hit of tax hikes and automatic spending cuts dubbed the fi scal cliff.

If Obama and Congress are un-able to reach a deal this month, the Pentagon would face across-the-board cuts of some $55 bil-lion after the fi rst of the year and nearly $500 billion over a decade. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and military leaders have warned that such a meat-ax approach to the budget would do considerable harm.

“My job is to stop sequestration,”

McCain said, using the budgetary term for the automatic cuts.

Pentagon spending still has its congressional protectors, especial-ly with job-producing weapons, aircraft and ships built in nearly every corner of the country. In the past decade, the base defense budget has nearly doubled, from $297 billion in 2001 to more than $520 billion. The amount does not include the billions spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The cuts Obama and Congress are talking about would be to pro-jected spending that envisioned Pentagon budgets rising to levels of more than $700 billion a year in a decade. Tea partyers and fi scal

conservatives recently elected toCongress have shown a willing-ness to cut defense, traditionallyconsidered almost untouchable.

“We understand that in gettingto an agreement that drives downthe debt ... that there are going tobe cuts,” said Rep. Austin Scott,R-Ga., president of the 2010 fresh-man class in the House. “Makingcuts strategically makes sense.Doing it through sequestrationdoes not make sense.

“I would argue that intelligence,especially with regard to cyberse-curity, is probably an area wherewe need to spend more money,” Scott added. “I’m worried more

See DEFENSE, Page 6

Fiscal cliff offers hint at more defense cuts

There’sstill time

to getfl u shot

By TAMMY FRAZIERStaff Writer

Members of the Arkansas De-partment of Health and the Centers for Disease Control are reporting that it has seen an in-crease in cases of infl uenza in Arkansas and that the activity is occurring earlier than expected. However, in Ouachita County, the news is better.

Rebecca Wright, administrator at the Ouachita County Health Department, is reporting that “there have been some reports of the fl u, but not a whole lot - which is a plus for us.”

Wright said she feels the low number of fl u cases - so far - is probably due to the number of people in the area who are get-ting immunized against the fl u during the county’s fl u clinics. Flu shots are still available in the local area.

And the health department ad-ministrator said there were more students who had the vaccination this year than in 2011.

“We had 401 more students take the vaccine this year than we did last year, so that’s really great because our kids are getting protected, and that’s important,” Wright said.

She reported that a total of 1,795 students were inoculated in the county this year during the mass fl u clinic.

Overall, Wright said there were fewer people who got vaccinated during the fl u clinic held on Oct. 23 at First Assembly of God. She stated that around 1,173 people re-ceived the vaccination - with that number around 200 less than in 2011.

But Wright feels the lower number of those getting vaccinat-ed this year at the county’s event may be due to the accessibility of

See FLU, Page 6

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Woman is stabbed to death at NLR apartment

NORTH LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Au-thorities say a man has turned himself in to police in connection with the stabbing death of a 50-year-old North Little Rock woman.

Authorities say Joann Sessler was found dead Tuesday at a North Little Rock apartment. The Arkansas Demo-crat-Gazette reports Sessler had been stabbed several times.

North Little Rock police spokes-woman Carmen Helton says 50-year-old Jeffrey Averett turned himself in to authorities at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. He’s being held without bond on a fi rst-degree murder charge. Authorities did not know if he had an attorney.

Helton wouldn’t comment on a pos-sible motive but said investigators be-lieve Averett and Sessler knew each other.

Sessler’s death is the ninth homicide in North Little Rock this year.

Child survives fall from second-story window

CONWAY (AP) — Authorities say a toddler suffered only minor injuries after falling from a second-story win-dow at a home in Conway.

Conway police were called to a home on Hartje Lane Tuesday morning after a caller reported that the 1-year-old girl fell through a screen when leaning against the window.

Offi cials say the child was taken to Arkansas Children’s Hospital as a pre-caution but wasn’t seriously hurt.

The Log Cabin Democrat reports that offi cers say the incident looked “purely accidental.” The girl’s 21-year-old mother was not cited.

Man pleads guilty in death of his son-in-law

JONESBORO (AP) — An Arkansas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to fi rst-degree murder in an alleged murder-for-hire conspiracy that left his son-in-

law dead.Carl Kelley, 59, is due back in court

on Jan. 4, when prosecutors say they will recommend that he be sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Prosecutor Scott Ellington’s offi ce said Kelley admitted his role in a mur-der-for-hire conspiracy that led to the death of his son-in-law, Marc Despain.

Kelley, the gunman and another man were arrested shortly after Despain’s death last year. Kelley’s daughter and Despain’s widow, Michelle Despain, has also been arrested and charged with capital murder in her late hus-band’s death. She is scheduled to go on trial in February.

Her lawyer didn’t return a phone message seeking comment. Kelley’s lawyer, Katherine Streett, declined to comment Tuesday.

Prosecutors said Kelley met the gun-man, Terrance Barker, through anoth-er man, Johnny Hubbard. Kelley also drove Barker to his son-in-law’s home and let the gunman inside to kill him, prosecutors said.

Barker previously pleaded guilty to fi rst-degree murder and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Hubbard pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

$120M acid plant on tap for LSB’s El Dorado site

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City-based company says it will build a $120 million nitric acid plant at a chemical facility in El Do-rado, Ark., that was the site of an ex-plosion in May.

LSB Industries Inc. announced Tues-day that the company signed a pact for construction of the new facility at the El Dorado Chemical plant. The com-pany pledged in June to reopen the fa-cility after the blast in the nitric acid production area of the plant.

LSB says that insurance will pay for much of the construction, though the full amount of the ultimate insurance payment isn’t known.

The project includes facilities to

support the nitric acid plant and a ni-tric acid concentrator plant. The facil-ity is to produce 1,100 ton per day of 65percent strength nitric.

Beebe is set to discuss meeting with president

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Gov. MikeBeebe is to discuss his meeting withPresident Barack Obama about theprospect of looming tax increases andfederal spending cuts.

Beebe met with the president onTuesday as part of a bipartisan delega-tion of governors concerned that thefederal government may shift burdensto the states if fi scal cliff negotiationswith Congress don’t bring a resolu-tion.

House Republicans and the White House have been working to arrive atan agreement on tax revenue and re-ductions in spending on entitlements.

Beebe and other governors broughtObama a message that they don’t wantthe states to have to pick up the tab forcuts in federal spending.

New pediatric therapy center opening in L.R.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Gov. MikeBeebe will join Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola to mark the opening ofa multimillion dollar facility designedto treat children with physical and de-velopmental disabilities.

The governor will take part Thurs-day in the opening ceremony for Pedi-atrics Plus’ new facility on AldersgateRoad. Offi cials say the facility will cre-ate 50 new jobs.

The facility will serve more than400 children with special needs anddevelopmental delays. Pediatrics Plusprovides physical, occupational andspeech therapies and developmentalpreschool services.

The new building includes two mul-tisensory accessible playgrounds andmore than 15,000 square feet of thera-py space and equipment.

What’s HappeningGroup is holdingevent for veterans

Members of the Tate’s Bluff Chapter of the Daugh-ters of the American Revolu-tion will host a special event in recognition of Pearl Har-bor and World War II vet-erans at 1 p.m. Thursday in the great hall at First United Methodist Church, 121 Har-rison. The special guests will be WWII veterans and POWs, Charles Wilson and Jack Woods. The public in invited.

Les Jeunes Amiesto meet Thursday

Les Jeunes Amies Ladies Club will meet Thursday at Catherine's Bistro, 1023 W. Washington. Dinner will be-gin at 6:30 p.m., and a busi-ness meeting will be held at 7 p.m.

Church to present‘Bingo for Charity’

St. Louis Catholic Church, 202 N. Adams Ave., will host Bingo for Charity" begin-ning at 6 p.m. Friday. There will cash prizes over $1,800, along with door prizes.

Holiday brunch &auction on Dec. 8

A “Christmas Brunch and Silent Auction Holiday Style Show” will be held from 10:30 a.m. until noon on Sat-urday, Dec. 8, at the Charles O. Ross Center, 746 Califor-nia Ave. Tickets are $12.50 per person, with proceeds benefi tting the Rock ‘N Read Program and Teacher Education Scholarships. For tickets or more information, call 836-5784, 836-6338, or 574-4488.

Museum hostingspecial light show

The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources’ Oil Field Park, located at 3853 Smackover Hwy. in Smack-over, will display a variety of holiday vignettes through a light extravaganza from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. each Friday and Saturday through Dec. 22.

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children under 12, or $15 for a family of four.

NAACP is hostingChristmas social

The Bearden branch of the NAACP will host a "Com-munity Christmas Social" at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Bucktown Hunting Club on Arkansas 9 in Holly Springs.

East Camden hasChristmas activity

The East Camden Fire De-partment will host "Christ-mas in the Park" from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the East Camden City Park. Chili and hot choco-late will be available, along with door prizes and gift certifi cates donated by area businesses. The event will also offer horse drawn bug-gy rides, and Santa Claus will be there.

Eastern Star is setto meet on Dec. 8

The Esther Chapter 377 Or-der of the Eastern Star will hold its annual banquet at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, at St. Stephens Baptist Church. The guest speaker will be

Barbara Williams-Dixon. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. For more information, call Glad-ys Easter at 870-818-2360.

Lions Club hostsholiday reading

The Camden Lion's Club and the Women's Crisis Center will host a "Read-ing in Action Program" fea-turing a Christmas theme from noon until 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Gar-den Oaks Shopping Center. There will be giveaways, reading time, photos with Santa and refreshments pro-vided by Catherine's Bistro.

Christmas paradeto be held Dec. 8

The 2012 Christmas Pa-rade will be held begin-ning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8. The theme will be “A Christmas Story.” Entry forms are available at the Camden Area Chamber of Commerce at 314 Adams St., via e-mail at info@camde-nareachamberofcommerce.org, or online at http://www.teamcamden.com/index.pho/chamber. For more in-formation, call 83-6426.

Genealogy groupto meet Dec. 10

The Ouachita-Calhoun Genealogical Society will meet at 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10, at the Cardinal Café in the Cardinal Shopping Center. This is the yearly social meeting for members and their spouses.

Watch group willmeet on Dec. 10

The West Camden Heights Neighborhood Watch Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10, at 537 Cash Road.

Theater group is holding auditions

Auditions for Arkansas Community Theater South’s next production, “Sabotage on the Ultimate Server,” will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Mon-day, Dec. 10, at First Presby-terian Church, 313 Greening St. The performance will be held on Feb. 15, 16, 22 and 23. For more information, call 836-2177.

Bearden to holdChristmas parade

The "Bearden Community Christmas Parade" will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednes-day, Dec. 12, and will begin at the Bearden High School. Free refreshments will be available, and carolers will perform. Participation is free, and those interested in being a part of the parade can call Cleo Beard at 870-687-1451.

Chidester eventis set for Dec. 15

The Chidester Christmas celebration will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15, with carols, refreshments and a live nativity play. Pa-rade participants will line up at the old school parking lot at 6:45 p.m., and the parade will begin at 7 p.m. Church-es, individuals and business-es are invited to participate. There are no entry fees, but donations wil be accepted to help pay for the refresh-ments and for trophies.

ObituaryFlorence Cruthirds

Florence Cruthirds, 86, of Pine Bluff, died on Monday, Dec. 03, 2012.

She was born in Kingsland on Oct. 8, 1926, the daughter of the late Horace Saeler and Kathryn St. John Saeler May. She graduated from Watson Chapel High School and worked for Southwestern Bell as a telephone operator in Pine Bluff and in Camden. She married Max Cruthirds in April 1953. They were mar-ried 40 years. Together, they worked as Sunday school teachers and sponsors for the Share Singers at First United Methodist Church in Camden for many years. She lived the last 10 years of her life at Davis Life Care. She touched many lives.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Max Cruthirds; and sisters, Mary Evelyn Williams and Betty May.

She is survived by her sis-ter, Vickie Coleman (Fred-die) of Pine Bluff; her broth-er, Porter May of Olathe, Kan.; three nieces, Cindy Stone, Amy Schultz and Meredith Paranjothi; two grandnieces; and two grand-nephews.

Proctor Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Graceland Cemetery in Pine Bluff. The Rev. John Brown will offi ciate the service.

Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to: First United Method-ist Church, 121 Harrison, Camden, AR 71701; Shriners Hospital for Children, 3100 Samford Avenue, Shreve-port, La. 71103; or the Al-zheimer’s Association, 1202 South Main Street #215, Lit-tle Rock, AR 72202.

To sign the online guest register, visit www.proctor-funeralhome.com.

By BRENDA BERNETArkansas Democrat-Gazette

Gates are locked to visitors at The Great Passion Play site in Eureka Springs, and the iconic 67-foot stat-ue of Jesus is no longer lighted after dark.

By the end of the year, the play and a nearly 700-acre campus will belong to Cornerstone Bank, said Charlie Cross, president and chief executive director of the Eureka Springs bank.

“It is an economic impact to the town,” Cross said. “We will sell it as quickly as we can, hopefully to some-one who can perpetuate it.”

The Elna M. Smith Foundation on Tuesday released a statement that the foundation is unable to continue pro-ducing The Great Passion Play and ef-forts to sell the play have been unsuc-cessful.

“Our hope and prayer is that The Great Passion Play will continue in some way to tell ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told,’” Keith Butler, chairman of the foundation’s board of directors, said in a prepared statement. “People need the good news of Jesus Christ to give them hope and life in these trying times, but it is really out of our hands at this point.”

Cross said the sale of the property will allow the bank to recoup money loaned to the foundation.

The outdoor drama depicting the last week of Jesus’ life endured for 45 seasons. The production began in 1968 through the efforts of Gerald L.K. Smith and his wife, Elna Smith. Ger-ald Smith was a political fi gure in the 1930s and 1940s who was considered to have anti-Semitic views and was affi liated with an anti-United Nations movement after World War II. He re-tired in the 1960s and bought a historic house in Eureka Springs, a property known as Penn Castle, according to The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.

Smith raised more than $1 million

to build the 67-foot-tall statue of Jesus atop Magnetic Mountain. The statue was dedicated in 1966. He then start-ed work on an amphitheater and the outdoor drama. The play drew 7.67 million visitors over four decades, according to a news release from the foundation.

Smith and his wife are buried next to the statue, and Butler said he hopes their wishes to remain on the property will be honored.

The foundation also oversaw exhib-its on the Bible and Christian art.

At its heyday in the early 1990s, the production drew 250,000 to 300,000 visitors a year, said Joe David Rice, di-rector of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.

The loss of The Great Passion Play will be signifi cant for Carroll County, he said. “It’s a serious step backward for the community.”

This year, the production drew 46,578 visitors, Butler said in an e-mail.

Mike Maloney, executive director for the Eureka Springs Advertising and Promotions Commission, said he could not predict what impact the ab-sence of The Great Passion Play will have, but he expects some losses in revenue for hotels, motels and restau-rants next year.

“When you lose an attraction of any sort, that’s not helping,” Maloney said. “We have to be creative to come back with other types of attractions.”

He said the area’s 2012 tourism sea-son was more successful than 2011’s. In October, a 3 percent sales tax on lodg-ing and restaurants generated $137,000, up from $120,000 in October 2011. The sales-tax receipts for the year are on track to hit $1.3 million, up from $1.2 million last year. The money goes to-ward promoting tourism in the city of about 2,000 people.

“We are probably in the best shape we’ve ever been for our growth,” he said.

For several years, the decline in visi-

tors led to fi nancial struggles for thefoundation, Butler said. Closure of theplay also means that the foundationcannot open the grounds to guests tosee the statue. For years, the founda-tion had paid to light the Christ of theOzarks statue, one of the largest stat-ues of Jesus in the world.

In September, the foundation soughtdonations and received at least $18,000by mid-October, which was enough forthe organization to fi nish the 2012 sea-son, Butler said. The foundation hastried to sell the property and had set aprice of $5.5 million but is open to anyoffer, he said.

The foundation has not yet misseda loan payment to Cornerstone Bank,but it does not have the money to ful-fi ll its obligations, a news release fromthe foundation states.

“The Elna M. Smith Foundationhopes that the play and the propertywill be used in the purpose and spiritfor which it was built,” the news re-lease states.

Activity at The Great Passion Playsite subsided after the fi nal perfor-mance of the season on Oct. 27, saidJohn Cross, chairman of CornerstoneBank in Eureka Springs. John Cross is Charlie Cross’ father. He said he istrying to fi nd another organization in-terested in reviving The Great PassionPlay.

The foundation’s resources are ex-hausted, and the board and bankagreed to transfer the property and allassets to the bank through an amicableprocess under a “deed in lieu of fore-closure,” Charlie Cross said.

Neither Charlie Cross nor Butlerwould discuss the debts to the bank.Butler said he did not immediatelyknow how much money the founda-tion would need to maintain the prop-erty over the winter and prepare for a2013 season.

Charlie Cross said the bank does notanticipate taking a loss on the prop-erty.

Financial woes close Passion Play

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TodayOuachita County

Adult Education Cen-ter, sponsored by SAU Tech, is open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 237 Jack-son.

McCollum-Chidester House will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Admis-sion is $5 for adults and $2 for students under age 18.

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

SAU Tech Adult Edu-cation Center will offer Workplace Readiness Training for free from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 237 Jack-son.

Chidester Public Li-brary will be open from noon to 8 p.m.

Union Grove Con-cerned Citizens will hold senior citizens’ fun day each Wednesday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

English as a second language class from 5 until 8 p.m., at the Ross Center, 746 California Ave. These adult educa-tion classes are provided free of charge by SAU Tech. For more informa-tion call 837-4001.

Living Clean Narcot-ics Anonymous will have an open meeting at 6 p.m. at 805 Monroe.

The Basic Group of Narcotics Anonymous will hold an open step study at 7 p.m. at 972 W. Washington.

Unity Group Alco-holics Anonymous will hold a closed discussion meeting at 8 p.m. at 301 Jefferson.

Camden Unity Al Anon will hold a closed meeting at 7 p.m. at 301 Jefferson.

Thurs., Dec. 6Written 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 Val-ley Business and Tech-nology Center on Adams Avenue in Camden.

Ouachita County Adult Education Cen-ter sponsored by SAU Tech is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 237 Jackson.

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

Women’s Interde-nominational Bible Study will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Victory Church. Loreen Creed is the teacher. Drop-ins welcome.

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

Camden Group Alco-holics Anonymous will hold an open meeting at 10:30 a.m. at 805 Mon-roe.

Chidester Public Li-brary will be open from noon to 8 p.m.

Camden Kiwanis Club meets at noon at the Camden Country Club.

SAU Tech Adult Edu-cation Center will offer Workplace Readiness Training for free from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 237 Jack-son.

U.S. & World News DigestLA ports reopening after crippling strike

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Work is resuming at the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors after settlement of a strike that crippled the nation’s busiest container port complex for more than a week.

Los Angeles port spokesman Phil-lip Sanfi eld said gates at 10 closed terminals reopened this morning. Dockworkers will soon begin servic-ing at least 13 cargo ships that were stuck at the docks or at anchor.

Clerical workers who claimed shippers are outsourcing their jobs walked out last week and union dockworkers refused to cross their picket lines.

A tentative agreement to end the strike was reached late Tuesday af-ter federal mediators arrived.

The union said it won new protec-tions against outsourcing but details haven’t been released.

Not guilty plea entered in freezer body case

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A judge has entered a not guilty plea on be-half of a central Indiana man charged with killing a homeless friend whose decomposing body was found in an unplugged freezer.

A Howard County judge also set

a March trial date for 52-year-old Walter Logan of Kokomo. Logan was charged with murder Monday.

A court staffer said a public de-fender for Logan has yet to be ap-pointed.

Court documents said Logan told investigators that he duct-taped 29-year-old Alex Shipp’s nose and mouth and put his body in his base-ment freezer after he died. Koko-mo police said investigators found Shipp’s body Sunday, about a month after his mother saw him last.

Investigators in the city about 40 miles north of Indianapolis said the men fought after drinking, taking drugs and having sex.

Hearing on suspect’s confi nement resumes

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A hearing to determine whether his case should be dismissed has re-sumed for an Army private charged with sending classifi ed documents to WikiLeaks.

Pfc. Bradley Manning claims his nine months in pretrial confi nement at the Marine Corps brig in Quanti-co, Va., amounted to illegal punish-ment. The hearing at Fort Meade, Md., resumed Wednesday after tes-timony last week.

Prosecutors are calling more than a dozen witnesses to counter de-

fense claims that there was no justi-fi cation for keeping Manning in his cell 23 hours a day, sometimes with no clothes.

The government claims the re-strictions were to keep the 24-year-old intelligence analyst from hurt-ing or killing himself.

Manning is accused of giving the online publication of hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war records and diplomatic cables.

Penn State sorority apologizes for photo

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State sorority has apologized after a photo of members wearing sombreros and holding offensive signs circulated on the internet.

One of the signs in the photo of Chi Omega sisters says “will mow lawn for weed + beer” and another reads “I don’t cut grass I smoke it.” The two women holding signs are wearing fake mustaches.

Chapter president Jessica Riccardi tells campus newspaper The Daily Collegian the sisters are sorry for “portraying inappropriate and un-true stereotypes.”

The Penn State Panhellenic Coun-cil is investigating. The Chi Omega national council says it is working on “educational directives” for the Penn State chapter and does not

condone “personal degradation.”

Seven cities split $25M in education funds

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Seven cities will split $25 million in edu-cation funding from the Bill & Me-linda Gates Foundation.

Philadelphia; Boston; Denver;New Orleans; New York; Hartford,Conn.; and Spring Branch, Texas, are recipients of the grants announcedWednesday.

The cities are among 16 that signeda collaboration compact designedto reduce tension between districtand charter schools. The agreemententails sharing resources and bestpractices.

By signing the compact, each cityreceived $100,000 and became eli-gible for further funding.

Over the next few years, Hartfordwill get nearly $5 million and Den-ver about $4 million. The other cit-ies will receive between $2.1 millionand $3.7 million each.

Funds will go toward projectsincluding universal enrollmentsystems and joint professional de-velopment for charter and districtteachers.

4 found slain in Detroit home; homicides spikingDETROIT (AP) — Three

men and a woman were found shot to death in a home in Detroit, police said Wednesday, padding the city’s homicide total that already has surpassed last year’s.

Offi cers found the bodies Tuesday night in a home in an east-side neighborhood, Detroit police Sgt. Eren Ste-phens said. Police did not disclose the names of those killed, in which house they were found or whether they had any suspects.

Stephens said more would be known about the victims and how they died once the medical examiner’s offi cer performed autopsies.

The block where the bod-ies were discovered has about two dozen two-story homes. Like many Detroit neighborhoods, several of the homes are vacant. On the front door of one vacant home, someone affi xed a sign that reads: “This build-ing is being watched.”

Carla Collins, 49, said that in August, she and some of her neighbors formed the “Tacoma Street Block Club,” a neighborhood watch, be-cause suspicious activity in the area spiked when an abandoned building across the street from her home be-came a “dope house.”

“This was a quiet neigh-borhood,” said Collins, who

moved there three years ago.

The killings were the lat-est in what has been a par-ticularly violent year in De-troit. The city announced last week that homicides rose this year, reaching 354 through Thanksgiving after totaling 344 for all of 2011.

At a news conference Wednesday, Mayor Dave Bing said safety was a top priority and announced that 13 police mini-stations would open throughout the city by the end of the winter.

“We heard you,” Bing said, referring to citizens’ com-plaints that police offi cers sometimes are hard to fi nd on the streets.

The mini-stations will be situated in recreation cen-ters, shopping centers and other sites, and each loca-tion will be staffed with a permanent offi cer, a police reservist and a community volunteer.

Six were open on Wednes-day, two are to debut by the end of the month and the re-maining fi ve will be in place by March.

“For way too long, no doubt about it, there’s just too much crime in our city,” Bing said.

Interim Police Chief Ches-ter Logan said he was a mini-station offi cer years ago and referred to Detroit as a “pio-neer” in the community po-

licing concept. But, Logansaid, the city gravitated awayfrom the mini-station idea inthe 1970s as Detroit’s popu-lation began to decline andpublic funds became scarce.

“I’m so excited that themayor approved this con-cept,” Logan told reportersat the Butzel Family Center,home to one of the newly re-opened mini-stations.

Bing said the mini-stationswill be “much more than aplace to report crime.”

“You’re going to get toknow each other,” the mayor said, referring to the some-times strained relationshipbetween residents and lawenforcement in the city.

Texas slaying suspect escapes hospital, surrendersDALLAS (AP) — Authorities are

trying to piece together how a capi-tal murder suspect was able to take a deputy’s gun and escape from a Dal-las hospital before he was cornered a mile away and surrendered.

Franklin B. Davis, 30, of Carroll-ton, stole the deputy’s service re-volver and fl ed Parkland Memorial Hospital about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, beginning a manhunt that ended with a standoff as he hid in a barbe-cue delivery van about a mile south of the hospital. Davis took refuge in the van about 9 p.m. and kept police at bay with the stolen weapon for about two hours before negotiators talked him into a peaceful surren-der, Dallas County sheriff ’s spokes-woman Carmen Castro said.

No new charges were fi led against

Davis as police and deputies inves-tigated the episode, Castro said. The Sheriff ’s Department issued a state-ment Wednesday declining further comment until the investigation concludes.

Davis surrendered shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday and was returned to the same hospital from which he had escaped while receiving treat-ment. He was later transferred back to county jail. Castro said she did not know what kind of treatment Davis was receiving.

The deputy was not injured in the incident at the hospital, she said.

Davis is awaiting trial in the death of Shania Gray, a 16-year-old sopho-more at Hebron High School in Car-rollton. Her body was found Sept. 8 along a fork of the Trinity River. She

had been shot and strangled.Davis already had been charged

with four counts of sexually assault-ing Gray when he allegedly took Gray from her school. Police have said Davis confessed to killing the girl. Police say he did so to prevent Gray from testifying against him in a sexual assault case.

Family and friends had said that when she was killed Gray’s family was in the process of moving from one Dallas suburb to another so her father could be closer to work. Neighbors in Mesquite, the eastern suburb where the family lived for years, described Gray as friendly and caring.

According to relatives and an affi -davit released by Carrollton police, Davis posed as a teenage boy on

Facebook and bought a new cell-phone to contact Gray and get in-formation about the sexual assaultcase.

The two exchanged text messages,though Carrollton police spokes-man Jon Stovall said he didn’t knowhow many.

Davis told Carrollton police Graywas surprised to see him when hepulled up to her outside her schoolbut got into his car because he want-ed to discuss the case. He told po-lice and several television stationsthat he drove her to an area near theTrinity River and shot her twice. Hethen stepped on her neck until shestopped breathing, the affi davit said.Her body was found two days later.

Feds funnel millions into Gulf CoastHOUSTON (AP) — Days

before a newly formed coun-cil focuses on long-term Gulf of Mexico cleanup, a report released to The Associated Press shows that one federal agency has committed more than a half-billion dollars to the region in the past two years, nearly one-fi fth of it on projects directly linked to recovery from the 2010 oil spill.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Re-sources Conservation Ser-vice, one of the so-called “trustees” involved in divvy-ing up projects and cash from a settlement with BP PLC, detailed in a progress report it will present next week at the meeting in Mobile, Ala., its Gulf Coast projects, the money it has invested and the acres impacted. The re-port was released to the AP in advance.

Some projects were start-ed shortly before the BP-op-erated Deepwater Horizon platform blew up in April

2010, killing 11 people and spilling hundreds of mil-lions of gallons of oil into the Gulf. Others began dur-ing efforts to cleanup and protect wildlife immediately after the environmental ca-tastrophe. And in at least one case, an oil spill recov-ery project has been so suc-cessful, it is being expanded nationally, said NRCS chief Jason Waller.

The Gulf Coast, long in en-vironmental decline, came into the national spotlight after the spill, when images of oil-covered birds and mas-sive slicks dominated nation-al news for weeks. Agencies like the NRCS that have long battled the region’s ecologi-cal problems — often with little backing or attention — hope that now there will be a cash infusion for long-term projects that could help turn the tide.

“From a national tragedy we’ve sort of stumbled on something here that’s hav-ing a national impact from

a conservation standpoint,” Waller said, referring to a migratory bird program now being expanded to the Northern Plains and the West Coast.

That program was launched when oil was still pouring out of the wellbore and efforts to seal it were failing. Faced with the pros-pect of millions of birds not having the food and habitat they needed during long migrations, the NRCS spent nearly $40 million on three-year contracts with rice

farmers in Gulf states and others along the fl yway, pay-ing them to fl ood their fi elds. Private landowners lined up and more than 470,000 acres of shallow wetlands were created — three times more than anticipated.

The acreage made up 3 percent of the total wetlands but provided more than 30 percent of the total food supply for migratory ducks, Waller said, so it was “in-credibly valuable to allow the ducks to ... survive and have a healthy brood.”

The Gulf of Mexico Initia-tive, launched a year ago, is athree-year, $50 million pro-gram designed to clean sev-en watersheds that feed intothe coastal waters. About $8million is already under con-tract, and the agency is fever-ishly working to nail downdeals with other farmers tobuild fences, terraces or buyequipment to change farm-ing practices — all methodsdesigned to decrease nutri-ent runoff that deprives thewater of life-giving oxygen.

Cheap, expensive or silly gifts

Congratulations, champs!The Camden News joins with all the folks of the com-

munity in congratulating the Camden Fairview Cardinals football team - winners of the 2012 Class 5A state cham-pionship.

We not only congratulate the players and coaches of this remarkable team, but also thank them for the outstanding way they have represented Camden and Ouachita County to the rest of the state.

Also deserving of credit are the supporters of the team who have demonstrated week-in-an-week-out the pride the community has in these young men and their coaches. That was demonstrated in force Friday night with the sea of Cardinal red that could be seen on the home side of Memorial Stadium during the Class A cham-pionship game against Batesville.

It is a remarkable feat in itself to win a state champion-ship trophy.

It is even more remarkable that the Camden Fairview Cardinals went through the entire season and state play-offs without a single loss for a perfect 14-0 record. These are achievements the team - and all of us - will always re-member. This season will become etched in the history of the community.

Again - congratulations. We are proud of you and proud to say, “We’re from Camden, home of the undefeated, un-tied 2012 Class 5A state championship football team!”

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Congratulationsstate champs

Today in HistoryBy The Associated PressToday is Wednesday, Dec. 5, the 340th day of 2012. There

are 26 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Dec. 5, 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union

announced a bilateral space agreement on exchanging weather data from satellites, mapping Earth’s geomagnetic fi eld and cooperating in the experimental relay of communi-cations.

On this date:In 1776, the fi rst scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta

Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

In 1848, President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of ’49 by confi rming that gold had been discovered in Cali-fornia.

In 1932, German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States.

In 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah be-came the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

In 1979, feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommu-nicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

In 1994, Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the fi rst GOP speaker of the House in four decades.

Ten years ago: Strom Thurmond, the oldest and (until Robert Byrd overtook him) longest-serving senator in his-tory, celebrated his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill. (In toast-ing the South Carolina lawmaker, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott seemed to express nostalgia for Thurmond’s seg-regationist past. The resulting political fi restorm prompted Lott to resign his leadership position.) In Kansas City, Mo., Robert R. Courtney, a pharmacist who’d diluted chemo-therapy drugs given to thousands of cancer patients, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Five years ago: A teenage gunman went on a shooting rampage at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb., killing six store employees and two customers; Robert A. Hawkins, 19, then took his own life. President George W. Bush, trying to keep pressure on Iran, called on Tehran to “come clean” about the scope of its nuclear activities or else face diplo-matic isolation.

One year ago: The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service an-nounced $3 billion in reductions, with cuts to fi rst-class mail service by the spring of 2012 and elimination of more than 250 processing centers.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Little Richard is 80. Author Joan Didion is 78. Author Calvin Trillin is 77. College Foot-ball Hall of Famer Jim Plunkett is 65. Country singer Gary Allan is 45. Comedian-actress Margaret Cho is 44. Writer-director Morgan J. Freeman is 43. Actress Alex Kapp Horner is 43. Actress Paula Patton is 37. Actress Amy Acker is 36. Actor Ross Bagley is 24.

Thought for Today: “As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.” — Lew Wallace, American author (1827-1905).

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School funding is issue againBy ANDREW DeMILLOAssociated Press

LITTLE ROCK — The Lake View school funding case is like the ulti-mate horror movie monster. Try as you might, you just can’t kill it.

Twenty years after the fi rst fi ling in the lawsuit that ultimately trans-formed the way Arkansas funds its schools — and fi ve years after it ap-peared to fi nally be over — the se-quel is now in the works. A sharply divided state Supreme Court de-cided last week that school dis-tricts that collect more in property taxes than the state’s per-student funding amount can keep the ex-cess money — drawing warnings that it may upend reforms enacted to end the long-running case and reviving a debate that most state leaders believed was settled.

It also throws a new element of uncertainty into a contentious leg-islative session where lawmakers planned to wrangle over the state’s Medicaid program and adjust to a new Republican majority.

Financially, the court’s 4-3 rul-ing won’t make a major difference. Only six of Arkansas’ 239 school districts collected more in prop-erty taxes under the required 25 mills than the per-student funding amount set by the state. But the court’s decision that those collec-tions aren’t state revenues showed just how raw the emotions are from a case that seemed to have ended fi ve years ago.

Three dissenting justices — in-cluding two of the key voices on the court during Lake View — painted the ruling as a step backward from the reforms the state has enacted over the years. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that Arkansas had adequately and equitably funded its school districts.

“A signal has now been sent that the constitutional principles fi xed in those cases are not inviolate and, indeed, can be watered down and marginalized,” Justice Robert Brown wrote.

Or, as Special Justice George Ellis put it: “It is as if the majority has entered a time machine.”

The four judges who ruled in fa-vor of the two districts that object-ed to the state withholding the ex-

cess money pushed back against that criticism, noting that schools throughout the state are receiving the same per-student foundation funding amount from the state.

“No one in the instant case al-leges any inadequacy or inequal-ity in the education being received by Arkansas students today, but for the dissenters’ machinations,” Justice Paul Danielson wrote in the majority opinion.

But the instant case isn’t the problem, critics of this ruling say. The problem is that it opens the door for others to challenge the way Arkansas pays to educate 468,000 public school students in a system built on the idea of equity among rich and poor school dis-tricts. They also argue that it could prompt lawmakers in the future to tinker with a system that has kept the state out of court for several years.

Last week’s ruling is the latest wrinkle in a school funding fi ght that goes back nearly 30 years. Af-ter the state Supreme Court found the school system unconstitutional in 1983, the Legislature devised a system in which money followed the child. A new school funding formula based on per-student expenditures was established in 1996 after the now-defunct Lake View School District and others sued the state.

The court ruled in 2002 that school districts were underfunded and that the money spent was distributed unevenly. Legislators approved a number of reforms in 2003 and 2004 that, after a re-view by court-appointed masters, appeared fi ne, according to the court.

Justices stepped back into the case in 2005, ruling that the sys-tem was still inadequate. After lawmakers boosted funding lev-els and set aside $456 million for school facilities, justices in 2007 fi nally ended the case.

Few in the Legislature witnessed the funding fl ap fi rsthand, with term limits thinning out many vet-erans of the Lake View battles.

“There are only a few of us around here who still have the scars,” said Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, who will be vice chair the Senate Education Committee next year.

One of those veterans is Gov. Mike Beebe, who as a state sena-tor authored and campaigned for the 1996 amendment approved by voters that set the minimum millage standard. Though he told reporters that decorum prevented him from saying what he thought about the intelligence of the court’s decision, he didn’t spare any words on what he thought about its impact.

“This fl ies right in the face of what the people passed,” Beebe told reporters last week.

It’s unclear where the fi ght goes next. The state is expected to ask the court to reconsider its ruling, but Danielson suggested that law-makers could address the issue on their own by giving the state the authority to redistribute any excess funds collected.

Beebe wouldn’t say whether he’ll ask legislators to make the change, noting uneasily that such a move shows how the court has opened the door to changing many of the state’s school funding reforms. But even if he does, he’ll face resistance from Republicans who will control both chambers of the Legislature after last month’s election.

House Republican Leader Bruce Westerman has vowed to oppose any efforts to allow the state to claim the funds as its own. Wes-terman, R-Hot Springs, pushed back against the notion that the court had re-opened the Lake View fi ght.

“The sky isn’t falling,” he tweeted hours after the ruling.

(Andrew DeMillo covers Ar-kansas government and politics for The Associated Press He can be reached at www.twitter.com/ademillo)

Editorial

Something about the snakeskin fl ashlight for $25 sent me scream-ing to the Land of Bah Humbug. It was on one of those magazine lists of gifts for under $25 -- tech-nically the snazzy fl ashlight was not “under” but “right at” -- which sucker me in to disappoint.

In fairness, I’ll admit that already I was having a worrisome holiday season, trying to keep my little dog Boozoo from moving so that his pulled leg ligament would not become a torn one.

If you’ve ever tried to keep a hy-per dog still 24-7 you can feel my pain. Boo gets led outside on his leash every hour or so, but other-wise must lounge on a new dog mat that keeps his bum leg unen-cumbered.

This routine works fi ne until an-other dog barks, or Boo spots a squirrel out the window, or it is mealtime and I can’t get the can open fast enough. Then he begins a kind of uncontrollable tap dance that strains the fragile leg and puts us back at Square One.

Did I mention that I fell off a porch and hurt my foot? I’m supposed to be staying off of it, but who can get ready for Christmas and monitor a dog’s every move and movement from a sofa?

Along with babysitting Boo, I’ve been trying to watch my spending in case the ligament doesn’t heal and requires surgery. Putting a fi sh

line in a dog’s leg is an expensive proposition. Ask me how I know.

Lists of cheap gifts are no help. Nobody needs or wants the things on the budget lists.

Call me silly, but a luggage tag with a picture of a red boot is not high on my list of priorities. And I can live the rest of my life happy without a $15 candy bracelet. A pink plaid Swiss Army Knife wouldn’t be so bad if you already had everything else in the world. Wine aerators? Hair of the dog fl asks?

The fl ashlight was over the top, if “under” $25. When I grab for a fl ashlight in the dark, the last thing in the world I want to come up with is snakeskin.

If Christmas catalogs are any in-dication, we have, as a society, run out of things to buy. One popular book listed gifts for under $250, and they weren’t much more desir-able than snakeskin fl ashlights. I expect more than a shower curtain or a soup tureen if I spend $250.

I’d want a great big box -- or a very tiny one -- for that much money.

Then there are lists that don’t even pretend to be for the frugal. One, for the person who already has everything, featured a bam-boo bicycle. It cost $1,450, but, hey, your dilemma about what to get the person with everything was over.

I’m not a practical person at heart, more of a real hyacinths-for-the-soul kinda gal. I like whimsy and romance as much as the next fool. But there’s an unwritten rule that goes along with useless gifts. They must be beautiful.

Bamboo bicycle? I don’t think so.

Boo and I limp out to the road, looking for the next glossy maga-zine to arrive in the mail and oc-cupy our thoughts. We will slowly make our way back to our respec-tive nests and contemplate just who on our list might want a kit for needlepointing an iPhone case. Or a marshmallow roaster for the campfi re when a twig or coat hanger won’t do.

Bah, humbug.(Rheta Grimsley Johnson is

a King Features Syndicate col-umnist. To fi nd out more about Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www.rhetag-rimsleyjohnsonbooks.com)

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Arkansas Perspective

5 - Camden News - Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Camden News - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 5

On Campus

Photo by Kaylee Butler, CFHS

Genealogist speaks to studentsTeresa Harris speaks to Camden Fairview High School students about researching their family histories. The students were assigned the project of writing about a family that infl uenced their lives. See related article.

CFHS students learn about genealogy

Billy Braswell of Camden Fairview High School re-cently gave his 10th and 11th grade English students an assignment to write about a family member who had a strong infl uence on their lives.

Student Dylan Hicks met with Kathy Bowles, library media specialist, and asked for assistance with his fam-ily search. Bowles and Bras-well invited Teresa Harris, local genealogist, to speak to students about what they might expect to fi nd while researching their own fam-ily history.

Harris met with Braswell’s English classes on Oct. 30 and Nov. 12 and explained that every family is differ-ent and any family geneal-ogy has its own share of good, bad and ugly. She said

that no one should judge the actions of their ancestors because people alive today cannot fully understand what life was like for others during past times. Students were encouraged to visit and interview their oldest family members during the Thanksgiving and Christ-mas holidays. In particular, students were to fi nd out if there were any special sto-ries or legends passed down in their family and to ask for names of their unknown grandparents.

Forms for keeping up with information and a listing of free Internet websites were provided to the students. Free websites like Finda-grave, Google Books, and Familysearch.org were men-tioned as good sources, and Harris urged students to use

the genealogy computer atthe Camden Public Libraryfor access to Ancestry.com.

Other English teachers atCFHS have been giving asimilar writing assignmentto their students. Interestingpapers and information arebeginning to emerge fromtheir work.

As a continuance of sup-port of this program, theCFHS East students will fol-low up in assisting the Tate’sBluff Chapter of the Daugh-ters of the American Revo-lution in hosting a programhonoring local OuachitaCounty veterans on Dec. 6,at the First United Method-ist Church Great Hall.

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School NewsJones receives scholarship from Henderson State

The Offi ce of University Relations/Ad-missions of Henderson State University an-nounces Marquise Jones has been awarded the Red and Gray Success Scholarship for 2013-2014. According to Vikita Bell Hard-wrick, director, the Red and Gray Success Scholarship is equivalent to $1,000 per se-mester for up to four years. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jones. He is cur-rently a student at Camden Fairview High School.

Henderson State awards scholarship to Sherman

The Offi ce of University Relations/Ad-missions of Henderson State University an-nounces Casey Sherman has been awarded the Red and Gray Success Scholarship for 2013-2014. According to Vikita Bell Hard-wrick, director, the Red and Gray Success Scholarship is equivalent to $1,000 per se-mester for up to four years. He is the son of Mike and Lisa Sherman. He is currently a student at Harmony Grove High School.

Halliburton selected for Collegiate Honors Program

SEARCY - Camden resident Hazel Halli-burton, a senior public relations major, was nominated by Harding University faculty as a 2012-2013 Who’s Who Finalist.

Each year, Harding faculty selects upper-classmen to represent the University for the Who’s Who Among Students in Ameri-can Universities and Colleges honors pro-grams. Students are chosen based on GPA, participation and leadership within school organizations and extracurricular activities, community involvement, and future leader-ship ability or potential. Finalist are eligible to receive scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $5,000.

Payne is nominated for Baylor homecoming court

Aundrea Payne, daughter of Marcus and Regina Ellis of East Camden, 2009 graduate of Harmony Grove High School was select-

ed to Baylor University’s 2012 Homecoming Court.

Payne was nominated by the Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity, which she cur-rently presides as president. The categories for homecoming court selection are based on scholarship, philanthropy, spiritual com-mitment, and poise.

Payne was one of fi ve selected from a total of 57 aspiring young ladies. She is currently a Golden Key International Scholar and a Golden Key Undergraduate scholarship recipient; a member of Delta Epsilon Iota Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, and Phi Sigma Alpha Honor Soci-ety; a National Scholar Laureate Nominee; Honor’s College (Baylor’s Interdisciplinary Core and Honor’s Program); National Soci-ety of Collegiate Scholars; and founder and president of the National Society of Lead-ership and Success on Baylor University’s campus. She has also been consecutively named to Baylor University’s Dean’s list from Fall 2009 to present.

Payne is scheduled to graduate in May 2013 with a bachelor degree in political sci-ence/pre-law emphasis and minor in crimi-nal justice.

HG marching band wins awards in band contests

The 2012 Ouachita Valley Invitational Marching Contest was held at the Camden Fairview High School football stadium. The Harmony Grove High School marching band was under the direction of Fred Por-chia, fl ag instructor Santresa Wilkins, and majorette instructor Shelly Earnest. The band received the following ratings: Excel-lent in percussion; superior in colorguard, which includes fl ags and majorettes; supe-rior in drum major; and superior for overall band. The band also received best in class in the aforementioned categories.

The HG marching band received an excel-lent rating in the 2012 Region III Marching Assessment. The assessment was held at Watson Chapel High School in Pine Bluff.

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Students shop at HG Christmas StoreFor the last six years students at Harmony Grove have an opportunity to shop at aChristmas Store to purchase items for family members. Students enjoy the shoppingand this gives students a lesson on how to budget their money. Items in the store canbe found for parents, grandparents, friends, and even student's pets. Pictured from leftare Cameron Billingsley, Chase Stanberry, and Austin Nixon.

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Continued from Page 1 up and dropped to the ground before any force was used by Opelt or Bak.

Welch’s trash bag, which he dropped after he started to run from Opelt, contained one black and yellow fl ashlight, two rolls of toi-let paper, two boxes of black trash bags, and one spray bottle of window cleaner, accord-ing to a police report.

Welch was arrested and charged with commercial burglary, breaking or entering from a vehicle, theft of property, and fl eeing. Welch was taken to the Ouachita County Sheriff ’s Offi ce to await his fi rst appearance in circuit court.

ARREST

LONDON (AP) — The busi-ness of monarchy has always been stacked in favor of men. Not any more — or so the British govern-ment promises.

The fi rst child of Prince William and his wife Kate will be born a king or a queen in waiting, under changes to succession rules de-signed to overturn centuries of tradition and give royal daughters the same rights as sons.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pledged Tuesday that the law on succession would be changed at the “earliest opportu-nity.” He said “whether the baby is a boy or a girl, they will have an equal claim to the throne.”

“Born to rule, be it a boy or a girl” proclaimed the Daily Mail, which noted that the baby had “already made royal and constitutional his-tory” even before it is born.

Not so fast, caution others.A royal saga needs a touch of

uncertainty, and experts point out that despite politicians’ prom-ises, the law giving males primacy in succession has not yet been changed — and the clock is tick-ing.

“We know that the wishes of pol-iticians are written in water,” said royal historian Robert Lacey. “Law only becomes law when the law is made — and the law has not been made.”

Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cambridge — the former Kate Middleton — was “continuing to feel better” Tuesday as she spent a second day in a London hospital being treated for acute morning sickness, St. James’s Palace said. Photographers and camera crews from around the world camped outside, eager for news on the roy-al pregnancy. Offi cials said earlier the duchess was not yet 12 weeks pregnant.

Congratulations poured in from around the world at the good news, which follows Kate and Wil-liam’s lavish royal wedding in 2011 and Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations this year.

Offi cials say Kate and William’s baby will displace Prince Harry, William’s younger brother, as third in line to the throne — and the child will stay there, even if she is a princess who later acquires a younger brother.

For centuries, preference was

given to male heirs, so a fi rst-born princess would be leapfrogged in the succession by a younger broth-er. As a result, there have been some 40 kings of England since the Norman Conquest in 1066, but only seven queens.

Last year, the leaders of Britain and the 15 former colonies that have the queen as their head of state informally agreed to estab-lish new rules giving female chil-dren equal status with males in the order of succession — something that will require legal changes in each country.

“Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be our queen,” Prime Minister David Cameron said at the time.

Months passed with little prog-ress. But the prospect of a royal birth next year seems to have focused political minds, at least somewhat: Clegg announced Tues-day that all 16 nations had now for-mally agreed to change their laws.

Clegg also said a Succession to the Crown Bill would be intro-duced in Britain’s House of Com-mons as soon as the parliamentary

schedule permits.“Notwithstanding a few parlia-

mentary turns of the wheel, this is now going to happen,” Clegg said, adding that “the old-fashioned rules ... have been swept aside.”

In Britain, implementing the new rule means changing bits of several key constitutional docu-ments, including the Bill of Rights and Coronation Oath Act of 1688, the 1701 Act of Settlement and the 1706 Act of Union with Scotland.

Lacey said if it is not done by the time the baby is born, uncertainty is bound to remain. A fi rst-born girl could fi nd her younger brother challenging her for the throne on the grounds that the law had not been changed at the time of her birth.

And what if Kate has twins? Ex-perts say the fi rstborn will be the heir — but things could get com-plicated if the succession rules are not changed before the birth.

“Say they have twins and a girl comes out fi rst and 20 years later the boy turns out to be the more attractive character,” Lacey said. “People will say that at the time the law meant the boy should have

inherited.”Rebecca Probert, a professor

at the University of Warwick’sschool of law, said there are otherissues that the law should addressto bring the monarchy up to date.

British monarchs are bannedfrom marrying Roman Catholics,but not members of other faiths— something Clegg said the newlaw would change.

An heir also cannot marry with-out the monarch’s permission, andcan’t marry in a civil ceremony— even though Prince Charles,William’s father, did just that whenhe wed his second wife, CamillaParker Bowles, in 2005.

Probert said it’s important “tohave a clause in there confi rmingthat monarchs are able to marryin the same ways that are open totheir subjects.”

But she thinks that may provetoo complicated for lawmakers inthe short term.

“They might decide in the inter-ests of time to stick to the single is-sue of gender and leave the rest toa more convenient time — whichtends to be never,” she said.

Royal pregnancy highlights succession issues

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eased out with an $8 million payout provided by an infl u-ential Republican fundraiser, former GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he has left the conservative tea party group FreedomWorks because of an internal split over the group’s future direction.

A confi dential contract ob-

tained by The Associated Press shows that Armey agreed in September to resign from his role as chairman of Wash-ington-based FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments. Dated Sept. 24, the contract specifi es that Armey would resign his position at both FreedomWorks

and its sister organization, the FreedomWorks Foundation, by the end of November.

According to the contract, Armey’s consulting fees will be paid by Richard J. Stephen-son, a prominent fundraiser and founder and chairman of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national cancer treatment network. Stephenson

is on the board of directors ofFreedomWorks.

Armey’s exit comes as a newsign of acrimony in conserva-tive and Republican ranks asthe party’s bruised leadershipstruggles with its Novemberelectoral losses and uncertaintyover how to recast its principlesand issues to compete with anascendant Democratic Party.

Tea party group chairman calls it quits, citing internal division

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boeh-ner’s decision to take plum committee assignments away from four conservative Republican lawmakers after they bucked party leaders on key votes isn’t going over well with conservative ad-vocacy groups that viewed them as role models.

Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin Amash of Michigan will lose their seats on the House Budget Com-mittee chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan next year. And Reps. Walter Jones of North Caro-lina and David Schweikert of Arizona are losing their seats on the House Financial Services Committee.

The move is underscoring a divide in the Republican Party between tea party-supported conservatives and the House GOP leadership.

“This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their

constituents they would — on principle — instead of mindlessly rubber-stamp-ing trillion dollar defi cits and the bankrupting of America,” said Matt Kibbe, president of the tea party group FreedomWorks. “This is establishment thinking, circling the wagons around yes-men and punishing any-

one that dares to take a stand for good public policy.”

Michael Steel, a spokes-man for Boehner, would only say Tuesday that the party’s steering committee chaired by the speaker made the de-cision “based on a range of factors.”

Groups aligned with the

tea party movement weregenerally big supportersof Huelskamp, Amash andSchweikert. Jones is viewed more as a conservative mav-erick than a tea party Re-publican. He has frequentlysiding against GOP leaderson a range of issues over theyears.

Taking committee assignments seen as GOP punishment

Continued from Page 1the vaccine at other venues such as drug stores, the local Walmart, and doctor’s of-fi ces.

Wright commented that she is just pleased that residents are getting the fl u vaccine re-gardless of which avenue they are receiving the vaccination or mist. And with the low numbers of fl u cases reported locally, she said it seems that residents are taking to heart medical advisories to get immunized against the fl u this year.

There is still plenty of the fl u vaccine available at health units, doctor’s offi ces and pharmacies in the state, the ADH states, and the organization says it is not too late to get the fl u vaccine.

The ADH advises anyone who has not been vaccinated to do so as soon as possible.

At the local health unit, located at 740 Cali-fornia Ave., vaccines are distributed between 2:30-3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and no appointment is necessary.

In the state, this year’s mass fl u vaccination clinics have wrapped up after around 61,823 doses of vaccine in 107 clinics held between Oct. 22 and Nov. 16, according to the ADH’s report.

As of Dec. 4, the ADH has administered 235,550 doses of vaccine throughout the state.

FLU

Continued from Page 1about China using viruses and technology against our country than I am about their aircraft carriers. At the same time, look at other areas of the military and say, ‘When is the next time we really need that weapon sys-tem?”’

Said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., of additional cuts, “Poten-tially, yes, but not a trillion.”

Lawmakers who are realistic about defense cuts suddenly have some signifi cant reinforce-ments.

A coalition of prominent Re-publicans and Democrats, in-cluding former defense, state and treasury secretaries as well as military and congressional leaders, made an urgent plea Tuesday to Obama and Con-gress to reach a deal on the na-tion’s fi nances.

At a news conference a few blocks from the Capitol, the group called the national debt

“the single greatest threat to our national security.” The co-alition also was running full-page ads in major newspapers on Wednesday calling on Wash-ington leaders to consider every possible step to help fi x the fi s-cal crisis, from raising tax rates to changes to Medicare and So-cial Security to cuts in defense.

“In our judgment, advances in technological capabilities and the changing nature of threats make it possible, if properly done, to spend less on a more intelligent, effi cient and con-temporary defense strategy that maintains our military superi-ority and national security,” the group said.

Among the members of the coalition are retired Adm. Mi-chael Mullen, the former chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; former defense secretaries Rob-ert Gates and Frank Carlucci; Paul Volcker, the former chair-man of the Federal Reserve; and former secretaries of state

James Baker, Henry Kissinger and George Shultz.

Former Sens. Sam Nunn and John Warner, who once led the Armed Services Committee, also are members of the coali-tion.

Any deal between Obama and Boehner that avoids the fi s-cal cliff and reduces the defi cit will still face some resistance among rank-and-fi le lawmakers over defense cuts, especially in the House. The reductions will be particularly hard for GOP lawmakers who were count-ing on Mitt Romney to win the White House and try to reverse the cuts in defense.

Some lawmakers said the nearly $500 billion in cuts in the budget deal last year were hard enough.

“I felt that those cuts were plenty deep,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of the Armed Services Commit-tee. “They caused considerable

reduction in the number of ser-vice members and raised someconcerns whether we’re goingto be stretched too thin, andwhether we’re going to hollowout the services.”

Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., a re-tired Army offi cer, said thebudget law cuts are “quite suffi -cient” and any more reductionswould have a serious impact onthe military.

“How many more combattours of duty do you wantthese young men and womento be doing, fi ve or six tours ofduty?” West said. “We’re start-ing to break our military’s back.The world is a more dangerousplace. After every major com-bat engagement, we decimateour military and then we try toramp up to play catch up in thenext war.”

The next solution, West said,would be for some members ofCongress “to put on a helmetand fi x a bayonet and they couldgo fi ght.”

DEFENSE

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SportsSports Focus By NATE ALLEN

For the Camden NewsFAYETTEVILLE - On a Tuesday

that began with normally very reliable sources reporting that Oklahoma State Coach Mike Gundy would be Arkansas' next head foot-ball coach, Wisconsin Coach Bret Bielema was announced Tuesday night as the Razorbacks new head coach by Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long.

Bielema, though a consistently impressive coach last Saturday clinching Big Ten power Wisconsin's third consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl, was completely off the media radar in the Razorbacks' coaching

search. Bielema's strong Wisconsin iden-

tity and contract extended through 2017 had kept his name out of the annual coaching searches that occur so frequently throughout the country by late November into December.

“I am very humbled and honored to become the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks,” Bielema was quoted in a UA press release issued Tuesday night. “During my conver-sation with Jeff he described the characteristics for the perfect fit to lead this program. It was evident we share the same mission, principles and goals. The infrastructure in

place at Arkansas shows the com-mitment from the administration to accomplish our goals together and I am excited to begin to lead this group of student-athletes. This program will represent the state of Arkansas in a way Razorback fans everywhere will be proud of.”

Media concentration on Long's Arkansas search has mainly revolved around Gundy - apparently at least for now staying at Oklahoma State but also courted by Tennessee - TCU Coach Gary Patterson and Boise State Coach Chris Petersen.

Bielema's success ranks as good or better than the aforementioned candidates.

Replacing retired Wisconsincoaching icon and current athlet-ic director Barry Alvarez in 2006,(Alvarez was assisted by Bielemaas Wisconsin's defensive coordi-nator in 2004 and 2005) Bielemahas achieved a 68-24 record atWisconsin.

His Badgers compiled records of12-1, 9-4, 7-6, 10-3, 11-2, 11-3 and 8-5this season. Wisconsin won a thirdconsecutive Big Ten title routingNebraska, 70-31 in last Saturday'sBig Ten Championship game in Indianapolis, Ind.

“Bret Bielema is an exceptionalleader of young men and an out-

See COACH, Page 8

Auburn hires Malzahn as coach

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Gus Malzahn stepped off the plane in Auburn and rushed over to a waiting throng of fans, exchanging high-fives and smiles.

He trumpeted “a new day” for the Tigers an hour or so later at his introduc-tory news conference as head coach Tuesday night, but really he’s hoping to return them to days only recently gone by.

Malzahn brings his fast-paced offense back to Auburn two years after that style — and quarterback Cam Newton — helped the Tigers win a national title.

Malzahn was earning $1.3 million a year with the Tigers and interviewed with Vanderbilt after the national championship season. He took a sub-stantial pay cut to join the head coaching ranks with the Sun Belt Conference team. Malzahn replaced Hugh Freeze, who also left after one season at Arkansas State to take over at Mississippi.

Malzahn also made a couple of decisions with players that didn’t pan out. Tailback Mike Dyer transferred from Auburn — where he was suspend-ed — to Arkansas State. He was then dismissed by Arkansas State in July after a state trooper found mari-juana and a gun in a car the national title game MVP was driving.

Malzahn was the Tigers’ offensive coordinator dur-ing their 2010 national championship run before heading to Arkansas State for his first college head coaching position. He led the Red Wolves to a 9-3 record, a Sun Belt Conference title and a berth in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, then parlayed that into a job in the powerhouse Southeastern Conference.

See AUBURN, Page 8

Five from ASU named 1st team

JONESBORO (AP) — Arkansas State quarterback Ryan Aplin has been named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year for the second straight year.

The conference announced Wednesday that Aplin was selected in voting by conference coaches and members of the media after he led ASU to its second consecutive Sun Belt Conference title. The Red Wolves finished the season 9-3 overall and 7-1 in conference play and will play in the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

ASU receiver J.D. McKissic was named Freshman of the Year.

Joining Aplin on the all-conference first team are running back David Oku, offensive lineman Zack McKnight, defensive line-man Ryan Carrethers and linebacker Nathan Herrold. McKissic is one of four Red Wolves named to the all-conference second team.

Arkansas hires new head coach

By KELLY BLAIRSports Editor

Just when it looked like Camden Fairview might let El Dorado jump up and bite them again, the Lady Cardinals managed to pull a victory out of the jaws of defeat.

After upsetting the Lady Cardinals in their first meeting back on Nov. 20, the Lady Wildcats held a 45-37 lead over Camden Fairview in the rematch before the home team was able to use its defense to claw its way back into the contest.

It all came down to El Dorado leading 53-51 and senior Andreya Davis driving the lane for the Lady Cardinals and being fouled. The whistle blew just as the final buzzer was going off, and officials ruled

that the foul had been called with less than a second on the clock.

Davis then went to the line and calmly sank both free throws to tie the game and send it into overtime, where Camden Fairview prevailed 63-59.

“That was absolutely huge right there,” CF coach Ronald Rogers said of Davis’ free throws. “Nobody lined up in the lane, and no time on the clock ... that was huge. But she hit them just like a senior point guard is supposed to do.”

El Dorado opened the overtime period with a 3-pointer and a bas-ket, but Camden Fairview scored the next seven points. Bre Bates helped spark the latest comeback, following a made free throw with a

miss, but one she rebounded herself and put back in to tie the game at 58-all.

Jermeka Marks later hit two free throws of her own, and with Camden Fairview still leading 60-59 with five seconds left, Davis was clotheslined while picking up a loose ball. The resulting intentional foul allowed the Lady Cards to hit three more free throws from the line to take the victory.

Marks led the home team with a triple double, including 19 points, 14 rebounds and 11 steals. Bates had 18 points and 10 rebounds while Davis scored 16 to go with five assists. Shomari Willis added eight points.

Rogers said he still felt pretty good at halftime despite trailing on

the scoreboard, and said mount-ing a big comeback the night after playing an extremely tough game against Bryant in the first round of the Conway Tournament told him a lot about his team.

“They showed a lot of heart and determination in this one,” Rogers said. “Coach (Stephen) Harshaw does a great job, and when you look at it, four of our last five games have been nail-biters.”

The Lady Cards now return to Conway on Friday to take on the winner between Alma and Conway, which play on Thursday. Depending on how that games goes, the Lady Cardinals will then take on either Little Rock Hall or North Little Rock on Saturday.

Cardinals hit big shot, fall one shot shortBy KELLY BLAIRSports Editor

Ethan Lee hit the shot the Camden Fairview Cardinals needed to give them-selves a chance to win. The team just couldn’t prevent El Dorado from turning around and hitting one on the other end.

A minute after Lee, a 6-5 senior for the Cardinals, canned a 3-pointer with 10 sec-onds remaining to tie the Cardinals 59-59 with the El Dorado Wildcats on Tuesday night, El Dorado got a big basket of its own.

Following a time out called with seven seconds remaining, the Wildcats inbound-ed the ball in to Jalen Cunningham, who had a running start when he caught the ball. The speedy junior then went coast-to-coast, weaving his way down the court to go in for lay up with the final second tick-ing off the clock.

Cunningham made contact with a CF defender under the basket going in for the shot, which could have likely been called a charge or a block. Instead, no call at all was made.

The shot sparked off a wild celebration by the El Dorado students in attendance,

who acted like the Wildcats had not won a game in three years. The fans dog-piled on top of Cunningham underneath the basket where he had hit the winning shot, which didn’t do him any favors since he rolled his ankle when he hit the floor following the lay up.

It has been a rough couple of games for Cunningham against the Cardinals. The point guard had to leave the first game between the two teams after about three quarters when he went face first onto the court, and lost a couple of teeth.

“I believe Jalen had a little bit of that want to, after what happened to him in that last game,” said Wildcat coach Gary Simmons told the El Dorado News-Times. “I believe we had Chris (White) open on the play as well. But Jalen, he just took it and went toward the goal and scored.”

The win gives Simmons, who left Hector where he was coaching the girls team to come to Union County, his first win as the head coach of El Dorado. The Wildcats are now 1-1.

Camden Fairview fell to 1-2 on the sea-son with the loss, and left the court likely wondering what could have been if they had not trailed by such a large deficit at

halftime. El Dorado held a 40-20 advantage at intermission.

The Cardinals, who just added 11 players from the football team on Monday, chipped away at the lead by outscoring El Dorado 19-11 in the third quarter, before completing their comeback in the fourth.

The Redbirds still trailed by six, 55-49, with a minute and a half to play when Lee hit his first 3-pointer of the game, and immediately stole the inbound pass and threw down a vicious one-handed dunk to bring the home crowd off its feet.

The two teams then traded made free throws and missed free throws until the final 35 seconds, when Camden Fairview found itself down by three with the ball. The Cardinals tossed the ball in to Lee, who dribbled around and waited until the final 10 seconds to hit the tying shot.

Lee finished with 26 on the night, while Hunter Cooper and Matt Ollison scored eight each, and Byron Keaton finished with six. White led El Dorado with 20, includ-ing 14 in the first half, while Cunningham had 13.

CF coach Keith Zackery said he was proud of the way his team fought back in the second half and never quit, and noted it

would just take a little time for the Redbirds to put all their pieces together now that the football players have joined the team.

One football player, Jerry Moorehead, a likely starter at power forward, will be out for 8-12 weeks while recovering from broken ankle suffered in the 5A state cham-pionship game. Another football player, Braxton Hoof, didn’t play in Tuesday game while resting a tender ankle as well.

Zackery said the football players got about 45 minutes of practice in on Monday before the game on Tuesday. The Cardinals won’t get much practice time in this week either, as they begin play in the Cyclone Classic tournament in Russellville on Thursday. The team will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

“Right now our games are practice for us,” Zackery said. “We did press tonight because I didn’t want to hurt anybody who is not in (basketball) shape. We were just trying to work on some rotations and see what everyone can do.

“I thought our sophomores played really well, and I was really pleased with the effort. I think our future looks very bright.”

Photo by Dana Kelly

Ready to goBearden head coach Ernie Horstkamp leads his team out on the field for the second half against Mineral Springslast week. The Bears will meet Junction City for the 2A state championship game at War Memorial Stadium in LittleRock on Friday, with kickoff set for 7 p.m.

advanced to the state play-offs for only the second time in school history.

The Dragons haven’t looked back since, winning 15 conference champion-ships since while also rack-ing up four state champion-ships, and a state runner up.

Junction City’s first state title came in 2003 with a

40-12 win over Barton, a win that capped a perfect 15-0 season. After losing to Jessieville 20-19 in the 2006 state championship game, Bearden won back-to-back titles in 2008 and 2009, fol-lowing a 10-8 win over Des Arc in the championship game with a 24-14 win over Bearden in next year’s final.

"My motto has always

been, ‘There is no substitute for hard work.’ This pro-gram is successful because of the players who believe in it and have the right atti-tude to succeed, as well as the coaches who put in a ton of hours preparing for games and off-season con-ditioning. That is what has made this program what it is," Carpenter said.

Junction City’s victoryover Walnut Ridge in thesemifinals last week wasCarpenter’s 200th victo-ry of his coaching career,including 16 wins picked upwhile coaching at Corningand Clarendon from 1986-89. Carpenter’s record atJunction City is now 184-62-1.

See DRAGONS, Page 8

CF girls rally, beat EHS in overtime

By KELLY BLAIRSports Editor

Some people say that Junction City has changed with the times, scrapping their old ground-and-pound Wishbone running attack for the passing fancy of the Spread.

To others, its the same ol’ Junction City - still smash-ing their way down the field, powering their way to another state championship game in Little Rock.

The truth likely lies some-where between those two views, but this much is a fact - on Friday, the Dragons will play in their sixth state championship game since 2003 when they meet the Bearden Bears for the 2A state title at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

Ever since 1998, the Dragons have been a bastion of consistent winning under the guidance of head coach David Carpenter.

Carpenter had coached at Junction City from 1990-93, posting a meager 13-22-1 record before the school went through a reduction in force due to the removal of Union Parish students from Louisiana, according to Dragon historian Wayne Pumphrey.

Two years later, Junction City hired Carpenter back, and following seasons of 3-7 and 4-6 in 1996 and 1997 respectively, the 1998 Dragons finished 10-1, won the 7AA conference, and

Same ol’ Junction CityDragons still feature power running,

defense to go with new passing attack

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But while stiff-arming their way to all those wins and title games in the previous years, the Dragons added a new dimension to their of-fensive attack this year.

Led by quarterback Sha-quille Hunter, the Dragons have gone to the air with much more frequency in 2012. Hunter has passed for single season school record of 1,420 yards and 25 touch-downs with only six inter-ceptions this year.

Of course, the Dragons, who still often line up in their traditional Wishbone set, can still run it. Sopho-more Jaqwis Dancy (121 yards last week vs. Wal-nut Ridge) has rushed for a team-high 1,533 yards and 15 touchdowns this season. Hunter also set a school sin-gle-game rushing record last week for a quarter with 227 yards and four touchdowns on 16 carries.

Bearden coach Ernie

Horstkamp said the Drag-ons have adapted an attack similar to the way Bearden has fl ip-fl opped between the Single Wing and the Spread against opponents for years.

“I think the biggest thing is that they have a quarter-back that can throw it now, and they have some guys that can catch it and makes things happen,” Horstkamp said when Bearden was preparing to play Junction City in Week 3. “Plus, they don’t really have the 190-pound backs that they have had in the past. They still have a good line, and are very quick ... but they used to have backs that we saw block down on a defensive end and blow him up.”

The Dragons still have a big line led by Levi Howe (285), Khari Moore (250), Michael Smith (350), Tyler Mason (285) and Derek Cole (215), however.

Horstkamp said Junction City is still very big and ath-letic on their defensive line

as well, as they are just asaggressive as they have al-ways been.

The Dragons have record-ed seven shutouts this fall,35 shutouts over the past sixseasons. During that stretchsince 2006, Junction City hasheld opponents to 10 pointsor less 62 times. They allowjust 130 yards and 4.7 pointsper game.

Senior linebackers HaydenSmith (121 stops, 11 TFL) andWill Houston (86 stops)pace the Dragons in tack-les. Sophomore end JamarioBell (81 stops, 12 TFL, fi ve sacks) terrorized Salem in a34-6 quarterfi nal win with 10tackles, two TFL, a sack, aninterception and a fumblerecovery. Junction City's 26interceptions this fall are themost in school history, ac-cording to historian Wayne Pumphrey.

“They are very aggressive.You know every year theDragons are going to havesolid defensive play,” Horst-kamp said.

COACH Continued from Page 7-standing football coach who has proven his program is centered on establishing an unshakable foundation that emphasizes the development of each student-athlete as an individual,” Long was quoted in Tuesday's press release. “Coach Bielema has led his team to a historic run of championships while seeing a record number of student-athletes recognized for academic achieve-ment.

“Throughout his career, he has demon-strated a commitment to competing for a national championship with a program known for discipline, honesty and integrity. His tough, aggressive style of play has been successful and will be appealing to student-athletes and Razorback fans. He not only shares the vision and values for the future of Arkansas football, he embraces them.”

Bielema and Arkansas have crossed paths. His 2006 Badgers defeated former Arkansas Coach Houston Nutt's SEC West champion Razorbacks 17-14 at the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day in Orlando, Fla.

A native of Prophetstown, Ill., Bielema is a graduate of the University of Iowa lettering as a nose guard from 1989-1992 for retired Coach Hayden Fry's Buckeyes.

After a brief fl ing playing Arena League football for the Milwaukee Mustangs, Bielema began coaching in 1994 and '95 as an Iowa graduate assistant. He was elevat-ed to Iowa's linebackers coach in 1996 and coached Iowa's linebackers through 2001.

A rising star, Bielema in 2002 joined Coach Bill Snyder's Kansas State staff as co-defen-sive coordinator. He has been a coordinator or head coach ever since.

Bielema was K-State co-defensive coor-dinator in 2002 and 2004 and then joined Alvarez's Wisconsin staff as sole defensive coordinator in 2004.

Bielema's Wisconsin teams have been known for a bruising, physical defense and offenses based on a physical, bruising run-ning game, Wisconsin running back Mon-tee Ball was a 2011 Heisman Trophy fi nalist, augmented by an effective passing game.

Russell Wilson, a NFL starting quarter-back with the Seattle Seahawks, starred his one season at Wisconsin after transferring from North Carolina State.

In 2011, Wilson and Ball became the fi rst teammates in NCAA history to throw for 30 touchdowns and rush for 30 touchdowns.

It is anticipated Bielema will be intro-duced to Arkansas at a press conference today in Fayetteville.

AUBURN Continued from Page 7

The 47-year-old Malzahn received a fi ve-year contract worth $2.3 million annually to try to get Auburn back on solid footing with players he already knows and some he recruited. He replaces for-mer boss Gene Chizik, who was fi red one day after a 49-0 loss to No. 2 Alabama to complete a 3-9 season.

Malzahn hasn’t ruled out coaching in the bowl game for Arkansas State, which said he had a $700,000 buy-out. He said he would talk to Arkansas State administra-tors about that Jan. 5 game with Kent State but that Au-burn is his top priority.

Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs declined to say whom else he interviewed, but said Malzahn was “the clear unanimous choice of our search committee.”

“The characteristics that he brought to the table were head and shoulders above everybody else,” Jacobs said.

The offense especially is in dire need of a makeover after struggles in transition-ing to a pro-style system.

Auburn had the nation’s 115th-ranked offense last season, averaging 305 yards a game. The Red Wolves were ranked 19th in total yards under Malzahn.

“We will be a fast-paced, attacking-style offense and

defense,” Malzahn said. “In this day and age, I believe you have to.”

It’s the second straight time Auburn has turned to one of its coordinators from an unbeaten team. Chizik ran the defense for the 13-0 team in 2004, and was hired by the Tigers despite a 5-19 record in two seasons at Iowa State.

“It will be fun for our fans and we will get this thing turned around and play championship football like Auburn expects,” he said.

The search committee was comprised of Jacobs, Auburn Heisman Trophy winners Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson, and former Tigers player Mac Crawford.

Jackson said he was confi -dent that “we got the right man.”

“We talked to a lot of talented coaches, a lot of coaches that are going to be Division I coaches other places, and they’re all stars in their own right,” said Jackson, the 1985 Heisman winner. “Gus shined a little bit brighter than those guys in the interview process.”

Malzahn said his fi rst pri-orities will be recruiting and hiring coordinators, but didn’t mention any candi-dates.

Auburn owes more than $11 million in buyouts to Chizik and his coaching staff.

The Tigers are hoping

Malzahn can return them to success after a winless SEC season.

But Auburn is also looking for a coach to instill disci-pline to a program plagued with off-fi eld problems the last few years, including the arrest of four players for armed robbery after the 2010 season.

The NCAA has been in-vestigating the recruitment of signee Jovon Robinson, who was ruled ineligible after a guidance counselor admitted to creating a fake transcript.

“I feel very confi dent that everything is fi ne, and that’s my understanding,” Mal-zahn said.

The hiring was welcome news for players who just endured Auburn’s worst season in 60 years.

“I know coach Malzahn, and he’s an amazing man,” defensive end Nosa Eguae said. “He’s a standup guy. I’m looking forward to the future. I can’t wait to get started and turn this thing around and get some wins.”

However, Jacobs said disci-pline was a factor in choos-ing Malzahn.

“The wins and losses and all of that comes into play,” he said. “When Gus came in and laid out his plan to the committee, he touched on everything that we thought was important and then some. It is all important.”

Powell leads Razorbacks to 81-78 victoryBy NATE ALLENFor the Camden News

FAYETTEVILLE - Capped by his sinking both ends of one-and-one with 2.4 seconds left to seal the deal and then defl ecting the ensuing inbounds pass, Marshawn Powell's 33 career high points matching his jersey number paced the Arkansas Razorbacks to an 81-78 victory over the Oklahoma Soon-ers Tuesday night before 9.501 at Walton Arena.

The 6-7 fourth-year junior forward, miss-ing last season's 78-63 loss to Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. because he had already suffered a season-ending knee injury two games into the campaign, beat the Sooners inside-out augmenting buckets around the basket with 4-of-6 3-pointers while grab-bing a team-high six rebounds and matched his career high fi ve assists.

"Powell had a career night," Arkansas Coach Mike Anderson said. "It was good to see him look in rhythm but not only just offense but defensively. Powell's presence was very important to our basketball team and very evident."

Oklahoma Coach Lon Kruger concurred."He was fantastic," Kruger said. "He’s

such a good player in a lot of different ways. When he also makes threes, then all of a

sudden that ability to drive the ball, you’ve got to get up and guard him a little bit more. Which we didn’t do enough."

The victory breaks Arkansas' 3-game los-ing streak during a 5-game gauntlet that winds up at No. 3 Michigan Saturday after losses to Arizona State, Wisconsin and No. 4 Syracuse.

The Razorbacks go 4-3 Saturday to Ann Arbor, Mich.

Kruger's Sooners, who "wouldn't go away," Anderson said in admiration, par-ticularly of OU seniors Romero Osby (22 points) and Steven Pledger, 12 points on four threes including OU's last go-ahead basket, dropped to 6-2.

A 3-pointer by Pledger with 40 seconds left in the second half gave OU its only lead, 78-78, since early in the fi rst half.

Arkansas' BJ Young drive to the hole with 14 seconds left putting Arkansas back up 79-78.

Osby fi red up a 17-footer that Powell re-bounded and drew a foul before hitting the clinching one-and-one. Powell then defl ect-ed the inbounds pass leaving OU just a fu-tile fl ing as time expired.

Mardracus Wade and Young scored 10 each for Arkansas with sophomore guard Young dealing a career high eight assists.

"Oklahoma did a good job of taking some things away from BJ and getting in the lanes," Anderson said. "So BJ did a good job of distributing the ball and trusting his teammates. Good players, and he has a chance to be an outstanding player, make plays when you need them the most. No more than that big shot he hit at the end."

Arkansas got key off the bench baskets from Ky Madden, eight points, three re-bounds and two steals, and Kikko Haydar, a 3-pointer, assist and steal during his four second-half minutes staving off an OU run.

"Ky Madden came off the bench tonight and gave us some great, great minutes go-ing down the stretch," Anderson said of the sophomore from Lepanto.

Of Haydar, the 5-10 walk-on guard from Fayetteville, Anderson said, "I thought those were big, big minutes he played. You could see the confi dence from the defen-sive standpoint he gave us. He just plays the game with everything like a little kamikaze guy.."

Amath M'Baye scored 14 for OU while Pledger, an old friend and former AAU teammate of Powell's, scored 12 on 4 of 7 treys.

Initially down 6-2, Arkansas took control of the fi rst half with a 7-0 run and never

trailed again before intermission leading41-38 at the break.

Powell posted an incredible 19-point fi rsthalf working inside and out to 7 of 9 shotsincluding 3 of 3 treys.

Coming off the OU bench, Osby, who hasplayed against Arkansas both as a Missis-sippi State Bulldog and then last season andthis season as a Sooner, scored 14 fi rst-halfOU points but lamented that his last shot of the game wouldn't fall.

"I want it to go in," Osby said. "I thoughtit was going in when it left my hand, butunfortunately it didn’t. After they scoredwe were trying to get it where I could catch it on this side of the half court and tap it toSteve for three. Unfortunately, we didn’t get it done, and Marshawn Powell made a goodplay by stepping in."

And Anderson fi nally had a victory toshow for a team he's said has gotten betterwith each loss against these good teams.

"I thought it was big," Anderson said."Because while I keep telling them they are getting better you want to see results. It wasgood to see them rewarded with a victoryagainst a good Oklahoma team."

By the Associated PressThere were times when

Collin Klein’s mother couldn’t help but worry, when she would watch her son take a snap from center, dodge a couple of defenders and then take off at a gallop.

The play would usually end up with Kansas State’s quar-terback taking a big hit, the kind that caused Kelly Klein to gasp. The kid would invari-ably drag himself off the turf, blood usually seeping from his elbows. He would adjust his facemask, hike back his shoulder pads and trundle back to the huddle and do it all again.

“I get emotional because

I do worry,” Kelly Klein ad-mitted this week. “But he does what he loves to do, so you have to be grateful that he has the physical ability to do it.”

Klein’s prodigious physical ability, along with his even demeanor, unwavering faith and singular focus on get-ting better bit by bit all con-tributed to one of the fi nest careers in Kansas State his-tory. On Wednesday, he was voted the AP Big 12 offensive player of the year.

“I’m just honored with this opportunity that the Lord has provided me here at K-State,” said Klein, who made the All-Big 12 fi rst team as a

quarterback and was honor-able mention as an all-pur-pose player. “I’m just happyto represent Kansas State,our team and what we’vebeen able to accomplish this season.”

The Heisman Trophy fi -nalist set a slew of recordswhile helping the seventh-ranked Wildcats to an 11-winseason, the third conference title in school history and a berth opposite Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.

Klein is the fi rst player fromKansas State to be voted the Big 12’s top offensive player.

Klein named Player of the Year

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Rex Ryan is stick-ing with Mark Sanchez as the New York Jets’ starting quarterback.

The coach announced Wednesday that Sanchez, benched last Sunday against Arizona, will get the start this week over Greg McEl-roy and Tim Tebow when the Jets play the Jaguars at Jacksonville.

“I have to get this decision right,” Ryan said, “and I be-lieve I have.”

Sanchez was pulled late in the third quarter, and McEl-roy came in and led the Jets to the only touchdown of the game on his fi rst NFL drive and helped New York to a 7-6 victory. Sanchez was 10 of 21 for 97 and three in-terceptions, while McElroy was 5 of 7 for 29 yards and the score, and appeared to spark the team.

Ryan brought all three quarterbacks into a meet-ing Wednesday morning

and told them of his deci-sion. He said he consulted with several people, includ-ing his staff, and “put a lot of thought” into it before mak-ing up his mind late Tuesday night.

“It’s really a decision I feel great about,” he said.

It was perhaps the biggest call in Ryan’s nearly four years as coach of the Jets, considering the sensitivity of the situation and the pos-sible ramifi cations. He ac-knowledged that there were differing opinions among those he spoke to, but said he received no pressure from owner Woody Johnson and added that he was “ab-solutely” OK with the deci-sion.

“I’m fortunate,” he said. “I have a great relationship with my owner, with Woody. ... From the day Mr. Johnson hired me, he said it’s 100 percent my decision who plays.”

Sanchez, whose confi -

dence was shaken with Sunday’s miserable per-formance, gets a chance to bounce back from the fi rst benching of his NFL career and regain the trust of his teammates. He has strug-gled the last several weeks, with two touchdowns and fi ve interceptions in his last four games.

“He has to play better and he has to protect the ball bet-ter,” Ryan said. “As a football team, we have to protect the ball better than we have.”

He’ll likely be on a short leash against Jacksonville — with McElroy possibly ready to go — but Ryan acknowl-edged that it might not be a quick hook if he struggles.

“If he throws one intercep-tion, it doesn’t mean he’s going to get benched, neces-sarily,” Ryan said.

It’s still uncertain if Tebow will be active against his hometown Jaguars after sus-taining two broken ribs.

Jets going with Sanchez at QB

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Evacuation expandedafter trainderailment

CLARKSBORO, N.J. (AP) — More New Jersey resi-dents were ordered Tuesday to leave their homes because of air contamination from a train derailment last week that leaked a hazardous gas.

The evacuation order im-posed by offi cials at 4 p.m. added 100 more homes to the area of Paulsboro where people were not being al-lowed to stay, increasing the number of evacuated resi-dences to more than 200.

The evacuation is expect-ed to last until Sunday, a day longer than previously expected. Also, schools in Paulsboro are to remain closed until next week.

But Coast Guard Capt. Kathy Moore, a spokeswom-an for the group of federal, state and local agencies man-aging the disaster response, said at a news conference in neighboring Clarksboro that the expanded evacuation means that others in Pauls-boro will no longer have to stay inside.

The southeast New Jersey industrial town near Phila-delphia has about 6,000 resi-dents.

Friday, seven train cars derailed at an old railroad bridge over Mantua Creek; one tanker car ruptured, re-leasing thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride into the at-mosphere. Though no seri-ous injuries or illnesses have been attributed to the leak, dozens of people who live or work nearby were checked out at a hospital emergency room.

Exposure to vinyl chloride for short periods can cause dizziness, breathing prob-lems and other symptoms. Long-term exposure to high levels has been linked to cancer.

Moore said the Coast Guard and other agencies hope to get the remaining 600 to 800 gallons of vinyl chloride out of the breached tanker car by Sunday by dis-solving it into a liquid and pumping it out.

Chain blast feared before clean-up at La. siteDOYLINE, La. (AP) — Authori-

ties are slowly moving 6 million pounds of explosives improperly stored at a munitions recycling fa-cility because they feared a chain reaction blast could have spread through corridors packed with ex-plosive materials, the sheriff of the threatened area said Tuesday.

A voluntary evacuation order for Doyline, a town of 800 people near the site and about 25 miles east of Shreveport, was expected to re-main in effect until at least Friday while the material was moved to a safer location elsewhere on the sprawling Camp Minden grounds.

Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sex-ton said Tuesday that the buildings operated by Explo Systems Inc. are several hundred yards apart but connected by above-ground corri-dors wide enough for a fork lift to

shuttle materials between them.He said state police who discov-

ered the storage problems found the corridors stuffed with explo-sives, including a propellant called M6 that is used in artillery shells.

“We were concerned that an ignition in one building would spread from building to building,” he said.

Dozens of workers at the Explo site were cautiously moving the materials to safe bunkers located on the former Army base. Offi cials were watching the weather, and would halt work if thunderstorms threatened. One of the corridors had been cleared by Tuesday, Sex-ton said.

The evacuation was requested over the weekend because author-ities were unsure what would hap-pen if the explosives were ignited.

“If you did have something go bump in the night, whether a fi re, explosion or gigantic roman can-dle, we don’t know what would happen and the professionals don’t either,” Sexton said.

Sexton said authorities have not been able to contact the owners of Explo Systems, who are thought to be returning from overseas, but are working with an on-site man-ager.

“The everyday workers with the company have been extreme-ly good,” Sexton said. “They are working to segregate the product for movement. But no one has had any luck contacting the higher of-fi cials of the company,” he said.

Repeated phone calls by The Associated Press to company of-fi cials seeking comment have not been returned

Site work is being directed by the state police, who have opened an investigation into why the ma-terials were stored improperly.

Sexton, who inspected the site Monday night, said the stor-age buildings appear to be about 10,000 square feet in size, with 14-16 foot ceilings. He said the amount of material stored in them — in plastic bags and cardboard boxes — varies.

Authorities were limiting access to Doyline, though many residents had returned and there were signs of life. Police were urging them to stay off the streets.

Sexton said a trio of burglars ap-parently thought they could take advantage of the evacuation and attempted to break into the home of an elderly couple just outside the city limits early Saturday.

When they tried to break intoa rear window, the 77-year-oldwoman shot one with a .44-caliberhandgun. Sexton said the injuredsuspect was hospitalized in criti-cal condition and the other twosuspects were arrested. He did nothave their identities.

“She dropped the hammer onone of them. One is fi ghting for hislife,” said Sexton, 59, who is in histhird term as sheriff. He said depu-ties were on the watch for otherstrying to take advantage of theevacuation.

The town was previously evacu-ated in 2006 after the explosion ofdifferent material at Camp Min-den, a former military base nowowned by the state of Louisianaand leased out as an industrialpark.

NEW YORK (AP) — Au-thor Jennifer Gilmore is reading a biography of the late David Foster Wallace. She’s curious about his most famous book, the novel “In-fi nite Jest,” and wants to poke around on the Internet to learn more.

Her destination is Small Demons, www.smallde-mons.com, an encyclopedia and “Storyverse” that cata-logues names, places, songs, products and other catego-ries for thousands of books.

Offi cially launched in Au-gust, Small Demons is the book world’s latest mind game and guilty pleasure and a proving ground that everything really is connect-ed. You can fi nd out how many books mention the Beatles or the Pacifi c Ocean or Rice Krispies. You can fi nd answers to questions you never meant to ask, like whether writers favor Marlboros or Camels (Cam-els have the edge, 85-65), or which brands of cold medi-cine are cited in EL James’

“Fifty Shades of Gray” (Ny-Quil, Advil, Tylenol).

“I was sure they featured ‘Infi nite Jest,’ which of course they have,” Gilmore, whose novels include “Something Red” and “Golden Coun-try,” wrote in a recent email. “I can get deep(er) into the Wallace brain there and as I do so, learn about the context, the ether around the book. I can relent and buy Wittgenstein or ‘Ethan Frome’ or Irving Berlin.”

Small Demons founder Valla Vakili, a former Yahoo executive, dates the idea back to 2005, November to be exact. He read Jean-Claude Izzo’s novel “Total Chaos” and became curious about the book’s setting, in Marseilles. The main char-acter was a French police offi cer with a taste for malt whiskey and jazz and blues.

“I had a vacation planned to Madrid and Paris, and I changed my Paris leg to go to Marseilles instead,” Vakili says. “I spent a week in Mar-seilles drinking the drinks,

eating the food, and roaming the streets described in the book. I came back from that trip convinced that many of the best experiences we can fi nd are within books. And that if we could gather them all up and put them in one place, we could unlock a world of pretty incredible discovery.”

The company’s name, which could be mistaken for a New Wave band, is itself a game of free association. Va-kili was inspired in part by a Jorge Luis Borges passage declaring that history “is the handwriting produced by a Minor god in order to com-municate with a Demon.” As Vakili sees it, “minor Gods” are writers, and demons the passion to read and to write. And so, “Small Demons,” or, as Vakili likes to joke, the devil is in the details.

Looking through the site is like knocking on a door, then another and another. You might start with Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” the basis for Steven

Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” Click on the image of the book’s cover and you will fi nd a va-riety of sub-categories: Peo-ple in the book (from Lin-coln himself to abolitionist Frederick Douglass), places identifi ed, songs mentioned (”The Star Spangled Ban-ner,” “La Marseillaise”), newspapers cited.

Each sub-category links to other sub-categories. Click on the icon for “The Star Spangled Banner” and you’ll see a list of other books mentioning it, among them the unlikely bedfellows Jo-seph Heller’s “Catch’22” and Ronald Reagan’s memoir “An American Life.” Click on the cover image of “Don Quix-ote,” which is referred to in “Team of Rivals,” and you’ll fi nd additional background on the Cervantes novel and a “Buy” tab that allows you to purchase it from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and in-dependent stores.

Publishers are sensitive to letting outside companies use copyrighted text and

several members of the As-sociation of American Pub-lishers sued Google when the Internet giant began collecting snippets from books without permission. But Small Demons has the cooperation of most of the major publishers. One of the fi rst was Simon & Schuster, where authors include Ste-phen King, Bob Woodward and David McCullough.

“It was a unique approach that looked at the interior of books and provided discov-ery and browsing of books by utilizing fun and imagi-native concepts,” said Simon & Schuster’s chief digital offi cer, Ellie Hirschhorn. She cites a Simon & Schus-ter book, Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs,” as a text she enjoyed exploring. “Jobs himself was such a curious guy and his story had ev-erything from Bob Dylan to marijuana to Bill Gates. It’s a fun way to drill around.”

Dani Shapiro became cu-rious about Small Demons after she learned that her

novel “Black & White” was included. Published in 2008,the book tells of a daughtertrying to escape the infl u-ence of her mother, a famousphotographer. The book isrich in literary and pop cul-ture, from Shakespeare to“The Flintstones.” Shapiroherself was surprised bysome of the references cata-logued.

“Honestly I didn’t even re-member some of them, espe-cially when they’re bumpedup against one another like astrange, out-of-time fantasydinner party. Nietzsche nextto Warhol next to Kant andMeryl Streep! But philoso-phy and the 1980s art worldand fame are central pre-occupations of that novel,”Shapiro wrote in a recentemail. “I fi nd it fascinatingto see the cultural and his-torical references, especiallyin fi ction, laid out visually— sort of a Rorschach test ofthe writer’s mind and preoc-cupations.”

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EmploymentOpportunities 0120TEACHERS NEEDED: Cam-den Fairview School District isaccepting applications for aHigh School Science Teacherand a Second Grade Teacher.Qualifications: Meet state cer-tification requirements. Closingdate: until filled. Please con-tact Fred Lilly, Director of Per-sonnel, 625 Clifton, Camden,AR 71701 or flilly@cfsd.k12.ar.us

The Stephens School Districtis accepting applications forthe following positions:-Certified: High School SocialStudies Teacher-Certified: Resource Officer-Certified: Athletic Coach(Baseball/Softball)-Certified: District TechnologyCoordinatorCall 870-786-5443/4662 forfurther information. Downloadan application at http://ste-phens.k12.ar.us/.

Auto Accessories 0205Mud Grip Tires (4), 15”, $80each. Call 870-904-7254.

Autos for Sale 02201996 Dodge Intrepid, 4 door,good engine, in the shop,owner wants $500, repair shopwants $700. Call 562-619-9391.

1998 Buick LeSabre Limited,light gray, leather seats, goodAC/heat, runs good, $1,995.Call 870-818-3249.

�88 Toyota Corolla, 4 door,auto, 4 cyl., runs good, wouldmake great work car, $1,750OBO. Call 870-904-7254.

Trucks 02501992 Nissan, excellent condi-tion, good work truck, newtires, good gas mileage,$1,800 as is. Call 870-881-8028 or 870-315-6400 andleave message.

1994 Ford Ranger, 4 cylinderengine, all accessories, man-ual transmission, 4 speed,$650. Call 870-299-1133.

2000 Ford F-150 Lariat 4x4,$1500. Call Roy 318-927-4932

ATVs 0305Honda FourTrax 300 4wheeler, excellent condition,$2400. Call 870-875-1962 af-ter 3pm.

Campers, Motor Homes, RVs 03251992 Wilderness Camper,24ft, fully loaded, excellentcondition, $2,000. Call 870-833-2840.

Hunting 0340.270 Winchester rifle w/scope,comes with box of shells,$450. Call 870-498-4832.

Sporting Goods & Fitness 0355Pro Form Trainer 420 Tread-mill, $150. Call 870-234-8256or 870-904-0500.

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Weight Machine, 4 stations,200 lbs of weights, good con-dition, will assist with moving,$275. Call 870-689-3733

Appliances 0404Electric stove, white, goodcondition, $180. Call 870-904-7254.

Gas Stove, Kenmore, goodcondition, $145. Call 870-918-0759.

Side by side refrigerator, waterand ice in door, white, $375OBO. Call 870-904-7254.

Art 0406Arkansas Duck Stamp Prints,1981, 18”x18”, framed, $950.Call 870-725-4166.

Articles for Sale 0408Electric scooter, comes withcharger, runs well, $150. Call870-904-7254.

Remington 870 pump homedefense shotgun, 3” magnum,1” barrel, extended magazine,$350. Call 870-818-5220 andleave message if no answer.

Building Materials 0418Sheetrock panels (4), $20each. Call 870-904-7254.

Storm Door, all glass, 35 inwide, $40. Call 870-862-4620.

Clothing 0420Ugg Boots, black, size 6, furlined, like new, $70. Call 870-665-9465.

Computers 0422HP Printer 940, $30. Call 870-665-9465.

Farm Equipment 0430Ranch Pro 3x5 Trailer Cart,$20. Call 870-234-8256 or870-904-0500.

For Thursday:ARIES (March 21-April 19): Bide

your time. Keep a watchful eye over what's going on around you. A mis-take must be caught before someone points the fi nger at you. Patience, precision and plenty of detail will help you avoid a mishap that is pre-ventable. ***

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Check your options and call in peo-ple you know you can rely on. A part-nership will help make a difference to a project you want to pursue. You will have an infl uence on peers and can benefi t from face-to-face meet-ings. *****

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Hon-esty and integrity in your personal and professional life will make the difference to the outcome of a situ-ation that develops. Don't downplay an event that obviously means some-thing to someone who is important in your life. **

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Get involved in a creative project or so-cial event that utilizes your expertise in making a situation warm and cozy. Romance is in the picture. Making plans to spend time with someone special will turn a decent day into one of grandeur. ****

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Expect to face a domestic challenge. Quick de-cisions will have to be made if you don't want things to spin out of con-trol. A residential move, renovation or decorating will be painstaking if too many want to have a say in the outcome. ***

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Jump in and do what you do best, but don't overdo or make promises that are unreasonable. Take care of your own business and issues fi rst and foremost, and make suggestions for those looking for hands-on help. Love is magnifi ed. ***

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Get your priorities straight with regard to how you are living and what you are going to do to maintain your sta-tus quo next year. Tie up loose ends and cut your losses before you get so far behind you have no maneuver-ability. ***

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don't back away from change. Em-brace whatever comes your way and make it work for you. Partnerships and updating the way you do things and whom you do things with will make a difference that will shape things to come. ****

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Watch your back. If you have shared personal information, you may want to request that you aren't the topic of conversation. Your fu-ture will depend on how you handle the changes heading your way now. Be fair but savvy in negotiations. **

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Push through paperwork that needs to be addressed before the year ends. Make your point heard and your de-cisions made regarding your fi nan-cial future and your professional path. Luck is with you and money is headed your way. *****

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don't look for handouts or rely on what someone else tells you. Do your own legwork and make things happen. Now is not the time to be a follower, especially if you want to set the record straight and start anew. ***

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make last-minute changes if it will help you gain momentum and sprint to the fi nish line. A commitment made will help you fi nalize a deal that will set you up fi nancially. Love and ro-mance are highlighted, and personal plans should be made. ***

By Eugenia Last

DEAR ABBY: When I was an adolescent, my father molested me. It took me 20 years to fi nally confi de this secret to my mother. Afterward it felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

That feeling lasted about two minutes. That’s how long it took for her to get on the phone and spread the news to everyone she could think of.

This was two years ago and, after repeatedly asking her to stop, she continues to tell. Two days ago, I caught her spilling the beans to an ac-quaintance she hadn’t spoken to in more than a decade. We got into a heated argument, and she told me she will say what she wants, whenever she wants, to whomever she wants.

My feelings are NOT considered, even though I was the victim in all of this. I feel she tells my story to gain sympathy for herself.

Abby, I’m ready to end my relationship with my mother.

How can I make her stop fl apping her lips? THE GOSSIP’S DAUGHTER

DEAR DAUGHTER: I suspect you are cor-

rect about your mother’s motives, and you have my sympathy.

Because you can’t “make her stop fl apping her lips,” you will have to accept that she can’t be trusted with any confi dential infor-mation.

As I see it, you have two choices. The fi rst would be to cut her out of your life (for which I wouldn’t blame you), and the other is to avoid sharing ANY personal informa-tion with her in the future.

DEAR ABBY: My 21-year-old daughter, “Shan-

non,” has moved back home and has a part-time job. We pay for her health and car insurance. Be-cause her funds are limited, I asked her to make me a list of things she might want for Christ-mas. The two things she wants are a tattoo and a piercing.

I told her that while I respect her wish to ex-press herself, I do not want to pay for some-thing like that. I said if she wants a tattoo and a piercing, she will have to save her money and get them. She became upset with me and said

I should give her what SHE wants instead ofsomething I prefer.

I know there are things Shannon needs. AmI selfi sh for not wanting to give her a tattoo orpiercing when I’d rather spend my money onsomething more practical like shoes, clothing orincidentals?

SENSIBLE MOM IN LONGVIEW, TEXAS DEAR SENSIBLE MOM: If you are uncom-

fortable paying for a body modifi cation foryour daughter, then don’t do it. However,you should take into consideration thatShannon is an adult now and reconsider im-posing your values on her.

If she were my daughter, I would give hera check for Christmas along with a note ex-pressing holiday wishes and the thoughtthat you gave her a healthy body, and with it, a nice complexion. It is now hers to do withas she wishes. Then cross your fi ngers andhope she’ll have second thoughts.

DEAR ABBY: One of my neighbors insisted on

giving me some handcrafted Christmas decora-tions that are hideous. I have never been big ondecorating the outside of my home for the holi-days, but when I do, I have my own that I like much better.

I know she expects me to display her itemsand will be all bent out of shape when she sees Ihaven’t. Is there a diplomatic way to avoid hurtfeelings?

FLORIDA READER DEAR READER: Not really. So hang one or

two of them in an inconspicuous place whenyou decorate for the holidays, so they will be“lost” among the items you prefer to display,or refrain from decorating this year.

• • •Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or

P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes Blabbing mother ignoringthe feelings of her daughter

Dear Abby

NEW YORK (AP) — Fleetwood Mac is heading back on the road, and that means the top-selling group will release new music — sort of.

On its 34-city North American tour, which kicks off April 4 in Co-lumbus, Ohio, the band will per-

form two new songs, and it could mean a new album will follow. Or not.

Stevie Nicks recently sang on tracks that Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie worked on, calling the sessions “great.” But Nicks also says she’s

not sure where the band fi ts in today’s music industry.

“Whether or not we’re gonna do any more (songs), we don’t know because we’re so completely bummed out with the state of the music industry and the fact that nobody even wants a full record,”

she said. “Everybody wants two songs, so we’re going to give them two songs.”

Nicks said depending on the re-sponse to the new tracks — which Buckingham calls “the most Fleet-wood Mac-y stuff ... in a long time” — more material could come

next.Nicks will continue to record

solo albums, though. The group iscelebrating the 35th anniversary ofthe best-selling “Rumours” album,which has moved some 20 millionunits in the United States.

Fleetwood Mac gets ready for tour and new music

12 - Camden News - Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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Firewood 0432FREE FIREWOOD! Large Oaktree on ground, you cut, youhaul. Call 870-837-1481.

Furniture 044210 pc. Dining Set with 2 exten-sions, solid ash, $1000. Call870-798-2871

Bar Stools (4), heavy wroughtiron, black, can be used insideor outside, $20 each. Call 870-234-8256 or 870-904-0500.

Dining table with 6 chairs andlarge china cabinet with lots ofdrawers, good condition, $900OBO. Call 870-498-4832

Dining table with removableleafs, 6 chairs including twoCaptain�s chairs, light wood,$175. Call 870-863-6190.

Entertainment Center, will holdup to 32” tv, glass on bothsides, cabinet with 2 doors onbottom, $65. Call 870-863-6190.

Full Size Bedroom Set. In-cludes frame, mattress, boxsprings, dresser and night-stand, $195. Call 870-863-6190.

L-shaped desk with lightedhutch, brown, $100. Call 870-863-6190.

Maple Dining Room Table with6 chairs, $450. Call 870-725-4166.

Mattress and box springs, kingsize, very nice, $150. Call 870-863-6190.

Pub Style Dining Room Set, 5pc., heavy duty, with exten-sion, $450 OBO. Call 870-881-8028 or 870-315-6400.

Heating and Air 0446Gas Heaters (3), $65 eachOBO. Call 870-904-7254.

Lawn and Garden 0456Craftsman Mini-Tiller, $25.Call 870-234-8256 or 870-904-0500.

Machinery and Tools 0460Orion 20 gallon air greasegun, $300. Call 870-234-8256or 870-904-0500.

Poulan Pole Chainsaw, $25.Call 870-234-8256 or 870-904-0500.

Musical 0466Used Baldwin Piano

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Wurlitzer Spinet Piano, maplefinish, very good condition,$400. Call 870-312-4341.

Yamaha Piano, upright, likenew, $1000. Call 870-798-2871.

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Estate Sale637 Pierce St.

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PUBLIC NOTICECity of Chidester, Arkansas

PROCLAMATIONOFFICE OF THE MAYOR OFTHE CITY OF CHIDESTER,ARKANSAS.TO THE PEOPLE OF THECITY OF CHIDESTER, AR-KANSAS, GREETINGS:

WHEREAS, a special elec-tion was held on November 6,2012, which submitted thelevying of a 1 percent (1%) lo-cal sales and use tax to thequalified voters of the City ofChidester, Arkansas, and;

WHEREAS, the laws of theState of Arkansas require theMayor of the City of Chidester,Arkansas, to issue a procla-mation of the results of suchspecial election with referenceto the local sales and use tax,such proclamation to be pub-lished one (1) time in a news-paper having general circula-tion in the city;

NOW, THEREFORE, I,Bobby J. Box Sr., Mayor of theCity of Chidester, Arkansas,by virtue of the authorityvested in me by law, dohereby proclaim the followingto be the results of the Novem-ber 6, 2012 special election asto the levying of a 1 percent(1%) local sales and use taxwithin the City of Chidester,Arkansas:

For adoption of a 1 percent(1%) local sales and use taxwithin the city 48%

Against adoption of a 1 per-cent (1%) local sales and usetax within the city 52%

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Ihave hereunto set my handand caused the Seal of my of-fice to be affixed this 16th dayof November, 2012.

Signed By: Bobby J. Box Sr.Mayor

Date: 12-3-2012

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