Baxter Bulletin from Mountain Home, Arkansas • 1

spornrs INSIDE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. High 90 to 95. Southwest wind 10 mph. A 30 percent chance of storms tonight. Weather 2 A Sunrise: 6:16 Sunset: 8:14 Slugfest McGwire hits fall to Brewers State convention Fire chiefs expect a largo crowd for state convention to be set in Baxter County 3A homer, but Cardinals igh-scoring affair 13A Partly cloudy ESTABLISHED IN 1901 WEDNESDAY, July 29, 1998 MOUNTAIN HOME, ARKANSAS 350 Two Sections 28 Pages (HiK 1 1 State data now as close as the Internet Stamp to help cancer research The Postal service will IT issue a 40-cent Breast Cancer Research Semi-Postal Stamp, self-adhesive pane of 20 (one design) stamps today in Wash K- i ington, D.C.

The stamp goes on sale nationwide at noon today. This is the nation's first semi-postal stamp issue to raise public awareness and give energy to the pressing By THOMAS GARRETT Bulletin Associate Editor If you want to visit the governor's office, tour the state capi-tol, keep tabs on a bill in the Legislature or look for a state employee, you don't have to go to Little Rock any more. All you need is a computer with Internet access and you can do any of those things, and more, says Secretary of State Sharon Priest. Priest was in Mountain Home Tuesday afternoon to promote the Information Network of Arkansas along with other services and projects of the secretary of state's office. She covered voting programs, including the new "Honor a Vet with a Vote," and other election-related topics during her forum at the Baxter County Courthouse.

Attending the forum were several county and municipal offi cials, former officials, candidates and local political party leaders. Priest told the audience that giving Arkansans better access to information without them having to go to Little Rock was one of her goals as secretary of state, a goal she's met thanks to legislation passed in 1995 creating the Information Network of Arkansas. The state government Web site offers a wide range of information via the Internet and was established without spending tax revenue. In fact, said Priest, the INA earned more than $40,000 last year, which will be put back into the network. Priest is the chair of the Information Network of Arkansas Board.

Located at www.state.ar.us, the INA provides access to all the Arkansas constitutional See PRIESTPage 15A fight to find a cure for breast cancer, according to a postal bulletin. The 40-cent stamp is a 32- cent stamp with 8 cents going toward breast cancer research, Bulletin Photo by Kevin Pieper Secretary of State Sharon Priest was in Mountain Home Tuesday promoting the Information Network of Arkansas web site. With just a click of a mouse Arkansans can learn about a myriad of state and political Secretary of state hopes to increase voter turnout Dickey cites experience AG candidate says she's qualified hr hpr wnrV in rr.mirm1 inctirp By THOMAS GARRETT Bulletin Associate Editor XX WX VA IV XXX SX XXXXXXXM.X JUUUVV JMEE MORRELL Dickey said she swi tin Staff Writer I inarrips uVipn a man i AIMEE MORRELL Staff Writer Dickey said she parties when a man switched By Bulletin intro A key part of the secretary of state's job deals with Selections and encouraging people to vote; something the overwhelming majority of Arkansans didn't do in this Citing experience as an asset, candidate for attorney general Betty Dickey spoka before a group at the Ramada Inn Tuesday Wbout'her Republican platform es to raise voter awareness. One is the Mock Election, a program designed to let high school students participate in an election. Priest said that in 1996, 80,000 students took part in it.

It also won the Time MagazineNational Association of State Boards of Education "Outstanding Leadership in Voter Education Award," she said. Priest said the secretary of state's office provides various informational publications on elections for citizens, including an election calendar, directories of elected officials, candidate information packets, an initiative and referendum petition booklet and a voter fraud prevention handbook. It See HONORPage 15A wpring'4pmary elections. Secretary of State Sharon Priest, visiting the Baxter County Courthouse on Tuesday, said she's trying to boost citizens' participation in government and elections. One approach she's taking is the "Honor a Vet with a Vote" program, which Priest hopes will increase awareness "that voting is a precious right." Priest said increasing voter participation increases confidence in government and her office has taken several approach Board seeks consistency Uniform planning rules in the works said a local spokesman for Reach to Recovery, a support group for breast cancer survivors.

Reach to Recovery will have breast cancer information available at the post office today from p.m. Flags needed at courthouse The Avenue of Flags, a courthouse memorial in honor of our veterans is in critical need of flags, County Judge Joe Bodenhamer said. The flags are flown throughout the year on national holidays and become worn due to weather and must be replaced. Anyone wishing to donate a flag is asked to bring it to the County Judge's office or to the VFW located at 7th and Gray Street. Burn advisory lifted Tuesday YELLVILLE The Marion County burn advisory has been lifted as of Tuesday, according to Carlos Parker of the Marion County Office of Emergency Services.

"Although the burn advisory is lifted, we still need to be cautious. It only takes a few hot days to dry out the grass and leaves and create a problem again," Parker said. Frazier declines job at UAMS LITTLE ROCK (AP) Lee Frazier, who resigned this month as director of the state Human Services Department, said Tuesday he declined a job offer with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Frazier said he will return to his private business, Trinity Healthcare, a management company that deals with the business end of providing health care, such as building, buying and selling hospitals. Frazier said he declined the job offer from Dr.

Harry Ward, chancellor of UAMS, because newspaper reports of his leaving DHS amid allegations of abuse of juveniles in state custody implied the medical school job was somehow created for him to keep him quiet. i i duced her as a pro-choice 'Democrat. Since Dickey is i neither, she decided to go Republican. "I'm conservative in prosecuting and philosophy," she said. "I'm pro-life." After successfully prosecuting a former Boy Scout leader child molester who had over 50 victims, Dickey was committed to her cause and agreed to run for attorney general.

Dickey is the mother of four children and a foster child. "I feel very successful as a mother and I'm very proud of that," she said. Dickey attended law school to learn more about paralegal skills. She had been interested in law years before, but added that she enjoyed the career she had as a mother. Her experience includes being the first female elected prosecuting attorney in Arkansas during 1995, Pine Bluff assistant city attorney, commission attorney for Arkansas Soil and Waste Conservation Commission, Redfield city attorney, working in a private law practice and successfully prosecuting death penalty and other See DICKEYPage 15A By THOMAS GARRETT Bulletin Associate Editor A A -f Id beyond municipal limits, and whether a city uses its jurisdiction.

Bodenhamer said Mountain Home's planning jurisdiction, for example, could affect Henderson across the lake. If a city's going use its planning jurisdiction, then it needs to use it consistently, suggested Bodenhamer. To provide more consistency for developers, nine changes in the 1994 master road plan in Baxter County's minimum standards and regulations for subdivisions were presented to the Planning Board. The changes would affect new roads in new developments. There will be a public hearing on any proposed changes in the standards after which the Planning Board will have to make a recommendation to the Quorum Court before the changes could be See PROPOSEDPage 15A Baxter County's making an attempt to put uniform planning rules for the county and cities into place, primarily for building roads in subdivision developments.

County Judge Joe Bodenhamer addressed the issue Tuesday before the Baxter County Planning Board. Bodenhamer told the board he doesn't want to take away from the uniqueness of each of the county's cities, but he would like to have a standardized set of minimum requirements for both the county and municipalities. Sometimes county requirements may conflict with city standards and developers are left in a quandary, according to the county judge. Part of the problem may stem from cities' planning jurisdictions, which extend Bulletin Photo by Kevin Pieper Candidate for Attorney General Betty Dickey speaks to a group of area residents Tuesday at the Mountain Home Ramada Inn. She cited her record of being hard on crime and experience in prosecuting criminal activity.

Wagoners of Flippin named --wA-- 3 7 aa-aa Marion County Farm Family FLIPPIN The Jim Wagoner family of Flippin has been chosen as the 1998 Marion County Farm Jim and Sue Wagoner, along with their two children J.L. and Sherry, have a turkey and cow and calf operation. "4 i The Wagoner family has 650 acres HOME DELIVERY 425-3134 NEWS 425-3130 in the farming operation with 135 acres in hay, 120 acres in woodland MAIN 425-3133 J.L. and Sherry, graduated from Flippin High School in 1997 and last spring they purchased Sue's parents' share of the cattle on the ranch, giving them 43 cows. Now they have the responsibility of checking the cows each morning before going to work.

J.L. works for Greg Ott Automotive as a mechanic apprentice and Sherry works for Pizza Hut in Flippin and the Mountain Home Livestock Auction on Saturday. The 1998 Arkansas Farm Family Program is sponsored by Entergy and the Arkansas Press Association with the cooperation of Arkansas Department of Workforce Education, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Cooperative Extension Service, Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Rural Development. CHYRL RIPPLE and 395 acres in pasture. Their beef herd consists of 125 A A BUSINESS 6A CLASSIFIEDS 6-1 2B crossbred cows and six purebred bulls (a Charolais, a Simmental and four Limousins).

All cows are bred to calve in February and March and most of those who don't calve during JLJ COMICS 10A LEGALS 6A OBITUARIES 2A OPINIONS 4A this time frame are Bold. A new practice this year is banding the bull calves and eartagging them at birth. Bulletin Photo by Chyrl Ripple Jim Wagoner and his wife Sue started building their three turkey houses in 1989 and started raising turkeys in 1 990. This picture was taken through the gates in the front to protect the 9-week-old Tom turkeys from being exposed to disease. Sprinklers help keep the turkeys cool enough during the heat of the day.

Fans that keep the air circulating in the houses help, too. The turkey operation consists of a brooder house and two finishing houses and produces about 72,500 birds per year. 13-14A SPORTS A Gannett Newspaper Vol.97 No. 191 CI 998 Baxter County Newspapers, Inc. Both of the Wagoner children,.