The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 12

Arkansas In Review Convention Backers Start Petition Drive Ciallli 1 outspoken advocate of a new conslituuSi the General Assembly. Six of legislative delegation alto signed Tlielnlliated act woUd call for 100 nonpartlsan delegates lo be elected al the un general election fromUie 1 CTI 's as the 100 members of I i would begin lhe second Monday in December, The convention wouU OTVBM UK second Monday in May 19.1. and remain inseuSn until its business is completed. document vrould be subinilted for voter approval in a sptcuilclectiontheTuesdayafler the first Monday to (iVwrnber 1981, ASU Awarded Grant For Student Services JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) Arkansas State University has been awarded a federal grant for its tutoring and couiseling service.

The amount of the three-year grant is per year The Program of Academic Skills and Services free tutoring for disadvantaged students and counseling services to help students with financial aid, adjustment to university life and career preparation. GOP Questions Oaths of Democrats LITTLE ROCK (AP) The Republican Party of Arkansas has asked the secretary of state to certify that 13 Democratic county officials have failed to fife duplicate oaths of off ke within the time required by law. A recent attorney general's opinion said that elected officials who fail to file a duplicate oath within 15 days after being sworn in must lose their positions. In a letter to Secretary of State Winston Bryant, Republican slate chairman Lynn Lowe urged Bryant to certify that the Democrats' oaths were missing "lo ensure that the law is equally upheld for all indivkiuals regardless of party In June, the Benton County Quorum Court ousted two Republican justices of the peace because they failed lo Hie the oaths on time. Lawyer Accused Of Impropriety LITTLE ROCK (AP) A North Little Rock lawyer has ben accused of impropriety and has been o-dered to refund a fee he received for representing a corporation in a banJmmtcy petition.

Federal Bankruptcy Referee Arnold M. Adams said there was impropriety in the way Zachary D. Wilson handled the bankruptcy petition of Laston doing business as Troy's Roller Dome. Adams told Wilson to refund the 1750 fee he received. Adams also ordered that an amended petition be filed immediately.

He said he would await that petition before deciding whether to refer the alter to the Justice Department. APL Wants PSC To Deny Intervention LITTLE ROCK (AP) Arkansas Power and Light Co. has asked the state Public Service Commission not lo allow the International Paper Co. to inlervene in the utility's request concerning a transmission line that would cut across the paper company's land. AP4L has asked the PSC for a certificate at environmental compatibility and public need for a large transmission line from the White Bluff generating plant near Redfield to existing lines in Grant County.

The lines would carry power to south Arkansas. The lines will require 385 acres of right-of-way, and the route APL prefers cuts across a pine plantation owned by International. But AP4I. told the PSC Tuesday the paper company should not be allowed to intervene in the request because the intervention request was filed too late, and because International had not given sufficient grounds. THINKING CARPETS AND FLOORS? THINK HOWE IMPMKMEHT CfNTtl THINK SNOW I- 01 6cr iq A Hon-' STfVftrtOM SNOW SEilir tA1 SHOPPING ARC REGISTERED O.F.A.

CERTIFIED LABRADOR-RETRIEVER PUPPIES CHAMPION BLOOD LINE Steve Stromire 763-0350 After 5 p.m. KATZ DISCOUNT JEWELERS Ml MUtf i I 1BK BUriNG SIIVW COINS WHEAT BACK PENNIES AISO 10 14 KT GOID RINGS 1 JEWELRY HIGHEST PRICES PAID! 3 Former PCA Officials Pleadiflnocent to Fraud LITTLEROCKIAPJ-Nolrlildatehaibeeiisetyetforthree 1 Produc0on dit Courier News, rilytheville, July Thirteen 1 Ourie. GrWin oTLoaoke, Joe Henry Chambers of Carlisle, tat Charte S. Yielding of Cibot, pleaded innocent Tuesday to tranuctions Crinaif former PCA praideat; Oiamben, a former PCA YleJdia fcrBMr br PCA'f PuUski County office. and GrUfia were found jullty July 7 In federal court of attempting to defraud the PCA of Federal Judge Elsete sentenced them Friday on that charge.

More Training Programs Urged for State Prisons LITTLE ROCK (AP) -The chairman of the state Correct ion Department Study Commission said Tuesday that the industry training program at the ttato proofs should be expanded Charles Ward said expansion ftmte more services to stale agencies and local governments. Ward aald he helped set up a Khool bus repair program for Texas prisons. He that such services as tire recapping for county or the state Highway Department might be feasible. Acommistion subcommittee on vocational training programs Tuesday asked for reports on purchasing practices by state agencies and plans for future vocational programs by the Correction Department. Redfield Seeks Delay In Franchise Hearing LITTLE ROCK AP Redfield Telephone Co.

is seeking a delay in a hearing on whether its franchise should be revoked Theheartag before the state Public Service commission was set tor Monday. Attorneys for the company said they had not had time to prepare responses to the PSC staff reports. Monday's hearing has been calJed to hear why Redfield's franchise should not be revoked for poor quality service and failure to comply with commission rules and orders. Danville Farmer Expected To Be Named ASCS Director WASHINGTON (AP) A Danville, farmer expected to be named executive director for Arkansas of the Agriculture Department's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. A.

C. Mowery Jr. would replace A. L. Stuckey of Texarxana who has held the job since 1973.

Mowery held the poet from 1961 to 1972, when he became Yell County executive director of the ASCS. director of the Woo'ten Appointed Finance Director LITTLE ROCK (AP) Jim Woolen, 36, director of the Commerce Department, was appointed Tuesday by Gov David Pryor as director of the Department of Finance and Administration. Woolen will take over Aug. 15 at DFA. He will succeed Richard R.

Heath, who held the job fiveyears until leaviM in June to become San Francisco airport director. DFA is one of the most Important cabinet-level jobs in state government, overseeing the state's fiscal operations Woolen was associate director of the Arkansas Petroleum Council when, in April 1978, he was named by Pryor as Commerce Department director. Earlier, he had been a trooper in the Highway Patrol Division of the State Police. He became the first public relations employe for the State Police and reached the rank of sergeant before going to the petroleum group. Besides the job of director of the Commerce Department, Woolen has been chairman of the Stale Printing Board and chairman of the State Natural Resources Committee Wooten is a native of North Uttle Rock.

He, his wife Sherry and their three children live at Ward. USED PARTS Arinnsos Plumbing Supply Co. Parti Flucrtl-One hem Btthroom FMurei MARVIN LIPFORD AND JIM CARMAN Hove Joined Around here, that's going to save a lot of fuel from now on. With foa-n fnwijtxi from the I hunt you jn tun consumption on Some hraJiog and b-Si The Hofpcfainerj (own rnwild'jon is rr-xh mar cfbcwnt iSan convtr.Soua] mreUtttii. And ccmTiWKXHJ bcrgldii arid IOCV UOOi OUt OCW and door With dw coJ oi goirtg up diiy.

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Mason identified the victim as Lana Kay Fox of Cape Girardeau, Mo. He said she was riding a tricycle, it rolled down a driveway and onto Arkansas 228. Mason said a car driven by Terry Conner of near lloxiestruck the child. He said she was visiting relatives in the Walnut Ridge area. Two Inmates Charged With Escape, Thefts PIGGOTT, Ark.

(AP)-Two prisoners of the Clay County Jail have been charged with escape and two counts of vehicle theft SnenffCioycePiercesaidEdwardG.Collins 20 ofGreemvay and Henry L. Banning 18, of Hector have been charged in conneclion with their escape Monday They were captured by state police troopers and a Walnut Ridge officer after a high-speed chase in Lawrence County Pierce said the two have escaped from the county jail ihree limes since June 3. October 11 Set For Collier Trial federal court for James Collier, former Hot Springs and Loan Association vice president. Collier has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 39 counts of misusing the association's funds. Three other persons have been sentenced in federal court as a result of the FBI's investigation into fraudulent loan transactions at the savings and loan.

They are Paul Crow of Hot Springs, Larry Gladden of Hot Springs, and Roy York oi Hot Springs. Benefit Set Tonite at BHS Hed Sovine, whose recording of "Teddy Bear" gained wide allenlion last year, will head (he Ewing W. Mays enlertainmcnl express appearing from lo 8 tonight at I i High School, according lo a spokesman for the Ewing W. Mays Mission for lhe Handicapped Batesville. Tlie country music program will launch a nationwide stries for (he benefit of lhe Mission, the spokesman said.

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