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The Paris News Sunday, August 15, 1999 NEIGHBORS In the Y2K chaos, upscale family goes rustic L. Gilbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gilbert of Paris. She was among 145 graduating seniors who received diplomas in commencement exercises at Harding University, Seacy, July 21.

Majoring in managerial accouting, Miss Gilbert received a bachelor of business administration degreo. Sprinkle from medical University of Sprinkle has graduated school at the North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, where he received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree. He is a graduate of North Lamar High School, Paris Junior College, and received his degree in biochemistry from the University of North Texas, Denton, in 1995. He is currently pursuing his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. He is the son of Billy and Kathy Joplin of Paris and the grandson of Mrs.

Dalton Sprinkle of Paris. L. Klein of Paris was among 1,934 degree candidates recognized by The University of Texas at Tyler in the summer commencement ceremony Aug. 6. Klein received a B.A.

degree in psychology. Allen Crutcher Scholarships for the 1999-2000 academic year at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, have been awarded to Jamie Briggs of Atoka, Christopher Walton Pardue of Boswell, and Lindsey Cody and Christina Teague, both of Hugo. Briggs is a 1999 graduate of Atoka High School who is considering a career in journalism or dietary science. Cody is an aviation major and would like to become a commercial pilot. Teague is an English education major who enjoys writing short stories.

Crutcher, a double degree graduate of Southeastern, established the scholarship program in 1985 through the Southeastern Foundation, Inc. Applicants must have graduated in the top 20 percent of their school class or have scored a 20 or higher on the ACT exam. The scholarship is awarded on a yearly basis. M. Charbeneau, a Paris High School graduate, has been awarded a Calvin Faculty Honors Scholarship at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.

The scholarship is paid Charbeneau $2,500 yearly. She is the daughter of Dr. Thomas and Michelle Charbeneau of Paris. Factors considered in awarding the scholarship were the student's high school grade point average. class rank, ACT or SAT scores.

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Collegiate in the Village Shopping Center 784-7789 HOURS: Now Tues. Working -Fn 6 Sat 30am-5 6.30am-12 30pm noon Associated Press Writer Enough to sell his million-dollar home near Nashville with its pool and tennis courts, pack up his wife and children, and move into a double-wide trailer on 350 acres near the Alabama state line. Enough to start stockpiling supplies and have his children learn 10 farm so the family can raise food if none is available elsewhere. Enough to ignore those who say what he is doing seems crazy. O'Rourke, a successful businessman, believes it's possible that computer problems will be so widespread on Jan.

1 that power grids will fail throughout the country. That would mean no running water for many people, no way to keep food fresh or frozen, no ATMs dispensing cash. Grocery store shelves would be cleaned out within days. And that could cause panic, he said. "I think you have a very real potential for anarchy and chaos, which we've seen in our times.

Watts. The L.A. riots. When the Chicago Bulls win. It doesn't take much," said O' Rourke, 47.

No one is sure how serious any problems related to the Y2K bug may be. The glitch could occur if computers originally programmed to recognize only the last two digits of a year assume it is 1900 instead of 2000. Utilities, government agencies and businesses are spending billions to test and prepare their computers for New Year's Day. While O'Rourke agrees the worst -case scenario of failed electric grids leading to anarchy is farfetched, he isn't taking any chances. BRENTWOOD, Tenn.

How concerned is Jamie O'Rourke about the Y2K computer bug? "The question becomes, what can you assume? And in the final analysis, I think that you cannot assume the power will be on," he said. "Therefore, in order to prepare, you have to assume it's going to be off. That's where I So O'Rourke; his wife, Cyd, and eight of their nine children, ages 4 to 21, moved from their home in Brentwood, about 15 miles south of Nashville, to a mobile home. The couple's eldest daughter lives with her husband in Oklahoma City. The location of their new home which O'Rourke does not want publicized is so out of the way he still sometimes gets lost trying to find it.

The family's closest neighbors are Amish. Not long after moving in, O' Rourke's younger children spent a morning happily gathering hens' eggs in a blue wire basket and washing them at the sink. The family couldn't cook them: They hadn't unpacked the frying pan yet. Five tractor-trailers out back contained family belongings, and the beige double-wide packed with furnishings and boxes. A playpen was stuffed with clothes.

A picnic table served as the dining room table. Mrs. O'Rourke said her friends joke that she's like Eva Gabor from the old Acres" TV comedy about urban sophisticates taking up a rustic life. Even within the family, the decision seemed strange at first, her husband said. "In the beginning, some of the older children said, 'What's going But as we've discussed it as a family, I think they've realized this is what we should do," O'Rourke said.

"Now, if we voted whether to move to a farm, and Y2K were not an issue, they would proba- MEDICAL COMPASS OWNED DURABLE LOCALLY EQUIPMENT OPERATED SALE OR RENT WEL BILL ALL TYPES MEDICAL SUPPLY 30. New Dinction In Medical INSURANCE Clarksville a (903) Paris: Texas Oats-Nutt Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ray Oats of Cunningham and Mr. and Mrs.

Ronnie Nutt of Paris proudly announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children Frances Georjeana Oats to Bradley Allen Nutt The couple will be married at six o'clock in the evening on Saturday, September 25, 1999 at Life Tabernacle Church in Cunningham, Texas. Dr. Raymond Armstrong will perform the ceremony. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Billie Joe and Georgia Oats of Cunningham, Texas, Geneva Norwood of Cunningham, Texas, and the late Eugene Norwood. She is a 1993 graduate of Texas Woman's University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in the field of Occupational Therapy.

She is employed by Christus Saint Joseph's Health System as an occupational therapist. Her is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Rayburn Warnell of Gober, Texas, and the late Mr. and Mrs.

Allen Nutt of Paris. Brad is a 1992 graduate of Paris High School and a 1997 graduate of Texas University at College Station with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He is pursuing his master's degree at Texas University-Commerce, and is employed as a management trainee at First Federal Community Bank of Paris, Texas. bly have been against it." The move now completed, 15- year-old Michael said it was a big change. But, he added, "I actually like this place." Daniel, 11, said it's hard leaving his friends, but "it's kind of fun learning new things," like how the trailer's plumbing works and how fresh cow's milk tastes.

"Better than store-bought." Caroline, 6, likes milking the' family's three cows, gathering eggs and catching butterflies. To help prepare for the move, daughter Shawn, 21, moved back from Phoenix last year and spent a week with Daniel working on a farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She set up the O'Rourke farm, buying and caring for the livestock and planting the family's vegetable gardens. At one point during the transition, the mansion's tennis court became an impromptu home for their first brood of chickens. Shawn said she never expected to spend her time "wringing the necks of chickens," but the new life has its pluses.

She met her new husband while learning to can vegetables near the O'Rourkes' new home. They live in a trailer on the farm while they build a house there. How did all of this change come about? It got started a little more than a year ago when friends mentioned the millennium bug to O'Rourke, and at first he did not understand. "I said, 'Well, if it's a computer problem, I have computer people and they'll let me said O'Rourke, who employs 30 at his Brentwood office and another 100 at a plant in Mexico. His company, Kidpower, makes swimming Affordable Window Fashions DRAPERIES BEDSPREADS BLINDS 903-982-6209 Kathy Clemmer ITEM I TERIDE ASI OVER Free In-Home Consultation Robert Pierson Friendly, Personal Service-- it's a trademark of our agency and of the Central Insurance Companies who we represent.

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He was disappointed they hadn't told him but understood why. "They didn't want to be thought of as foolish or extremist," O'Rourke said. Nor does O'Rourke, but he's speaking out anyway. "The guy who walks into this thing saying there won't be any problems worries me said Tim Wilson, publisher of the Y2K News Magazine, noting that O' Rourke is not alone in taking the extreme step of moving his home. When O'Rourke decided to move his family from their home of 12 years and settle on the rural property, he set aside part of the land for friends worried about Y2K, selling them five-acre parcels at cost.

The O'Rourkes bought a fivebedroom trailer because he didn't want to sink a lot of cash and time into building a house. They got a wood stove and dug a well that is pumped manually. They bought long-burning candles, enough food to make it until the next harvest, and non -hybrid seeds to ensure their plants continue reproducing if no new seeds are around to buy. They bought a diesel-fueled generator, to be backed up by a windmill and a solar power system. "We can do some heroic things in January, but they won't mean much compared to the semi-heroic things we do today to encourage people to be prepared, just in case," O'Rourke said.

Canon-Adams Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henry Canon, Jr. of Clarksdale, Mississippi proudly announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Andrea Leigh Canon to Brian Dale Adams The couple will be married at two o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, September, 11, 1999 at Saint Pauls United Methodist Church Clarksdale, Mississippi. The Reverend Edward Woodall will perform the ceremony.

bride-to-be is the and the granddaughter a of Mrs. Nettie Roy Purvis of Clarksdale, Mrs. late John Darrell Roy; Mary Shores Roy of Cleveland, Marion Canon of DeLand, Florida, and the late Robert Henry Canon of Dubbs, and the late Mary Evelyn Poore Canon of Tunica, Ms. She is a graduate of Lee I Academy of Clarksdale, with a B.S. in Clinical Psychology from University of Southern lin of Mississippi Pi Beta in Hattiesburg, where she was a member and chapPhi and a Little Sister of Kappa Sigma.

She received her M.A. from Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, at Charter Texas. Behavorial She is Health employed as Psychology System in Grapevine, Texas. Her is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Billy Harold Adams of Paris. He is the grandson of Mrs. Pauline Ruth and the late William Delroy Ruth, the late Othoa Henry and Lucie Jane Adams, all of Paris. He is a graduate of Paris High School and Paris Junior College and The University of Texas at Arlington.

He is employed as Computer Programmer for Capital One of Richmond, Virginia. Please Kyle E. Jones, M.D. Family Practice Family Care Network welcomes Dr. Kyle E.

Jones as a new member. Dr. Jones, who has a special interest in pediatric, adolescent and sports medicine, received his medical degree from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr.

Jones and his wife, Monica, have three children. He lists his special interests as church activities, music, athletics, and cooking. Dr. Jones is a proud member of the Family CareNetwork We Treat You Like Family Lamar Medical Center 1128 Clarksville Ste. 100 Paris, Texas (903) 739 -7900.