Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - June 4, 1977, Blytheville, Arkansas Grant that he had initiated steps for securing the funds 28 months Blytheville Mayor Bob Aguiar called yesterday's approval the Economic Development Administration of a grant necessity for the industrial growth of of the grant came from administrative assistant to Cong. Alexander of who noted that the money will be used to finance sanitary sewer and street improvements on an 80-acre site at Blytheville Industrial am pleased that the has approved this grant award which will contribute significantly to the continued industrial growth of Blytheville and Mississippi County pared Blytheville's original request for to A matching grant from the Ozarks Regional Commission and city monies totaled Miles informed Aguiar yesterday that the reduction in EDA appropriations was due to an apparent overestimate in the project interest explained that EDA works through local to provide monies on a reimbursement said he believes the grant was the largest of its kind approved for a city in Eastern said he initiated the efforts to secure the EDA grant for Blytheville while he was serving as director of federal funds with the East Arkansas Planning and Development District at also considered it probably his major during his tenure both as mayor and as assistant to former Mayor Ross explained the breakdown on He asid came directly as a fund request through He said Blytheville also received a per cent for its participation in the which amounts to of the what the potential for industrial growth will be when the added 80 acres are completely Aguiar is the potential for 10 combining of some industries could mean two could be situated on one piece of he said the grant was essential to convert land to a industrial said Blytheville has a industrial with the approval of the because now industrial prospects can begin considering relocation to said the original Blytheville Industrial Park is filled up and that the development of the 80 new acres would open up new how long it would take lo make the 80 acres suitable for industries lo move Aguiar opened between 18 months to two explained that a water tank will require about 18 months to Sanitary sewer facilities will take less time probably six to eight executive vice president of the Blytheville Chamber of was out of town yesterday and unavailable for Huffman III and co-chairmen of the Industrial Development strong optimism relative to future industrial EDA grant is very significant for the Huffman should give us a lot more area to attract Huffman noted that a contingency from the Chamber visited with Pryor and through the governor's Blytheville was able to secure the ORC said the EDA grant should spur industrial prospects to eye Blytheville once For several months the old Industrial originally purchased ih 1967, has been is imperative that we get right on in making the improvements on the 80 been talking with several industrial but since there was no place for tham to build prior lo Ihes EDA grant coming we had very little hope of Tomlinson said he believes now thai Fordyce is executive director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission can look forward to more industrial ARK. 72315 83 - NO. 21 10 CENTS 14 PAGES JUNE 4,1977 Action Mayor Bob Aguiar discusses the Economic Development Administration's approval yesterday of a grant which used by the city to improve an 80-acre expansion of Blytheville Industrial Park to attract future News Photo by on Property To Be Filled by June 4 PSC Telegram of Blytheville City Council and Mayor Bob Aguiar sent a telegram yesterday to the Arkansas Public Service Commission declaring their interest in Power Company's rate increase and five Don Jim Ann Joe Mack Hester and met yesterday in office to prepare the the the group stated that they that we were unable to withstand the financial burden of hiring an attorney and the necessary rate experts for in the acknowledge the intervention in this case by the Northeast Arkansas Citizens Committee the telegram Blytheville businessman Jimmy Deal is six stated that they wanted to on record showing our concern for and opposition to any prohibitive rate telegram stated that the aldermen and mayor feel divestiture of gas holdings could be of great value to the citizens of our called sending the telegram a bit too adding that he believes it would have been better to appear publicly at the PSC said he was not to squirrel out of my but observed that the council has busy with so many things since the first of the year that it simply slipped up on cloudy and hot through Highs today 92 to 100. Lows tonight 64 to 72. High Sunday 94 to 101. LARRY director of the Blytheville office of Inspection and Code observes an open pit at 106 W. Cleveland In response Action Line Smith said the owner of the property says he is filling the hole with bricks and will eventually cover it with News Photo by why does the City allow the vacant lot at 106 W. Cleveland St. to be used for a dumping In the lot also has several 20-foot holes dug in il that could be Is there anything the city can do to correct this R. director of the Blytheville office of Inspection and Code says the owner of the Dave initially had dirl removed from the area for use as fill material elsewhere in the said the hole is being filled with bricks and other materials such as and that a layer of dirt will be applied lo the top and then smoothed said to his knowledge there is no city code preventing a property owner from digging a hole on his A land owner may not store dangerous chemicals or food refuse on the Smith with all of the federal and state regulations concerning how can the Blytheville area farmers be allowed lo burn their wheat inspector with the Blytheville office of the stale Pollution Control and Ecology says there is no state or federal law prohibiting a farmer from off the wheat stubble from his burning is omitted from air pollution control Cummings noted that when a farmer plans to burn off wheat Mississippi County sheriff's deputies and Arkansas State Police will assist in giving warnings to motorists both in front and behind the burning area near highways and Interstate they will simply notify them sheriff and warning system for motorists has been conducted for the past three Cummings observed that for their own should consider wind conditions prior to burning to prevent the spread of fire to areas adjacent to the roads and while driving down one of Blytheville's Page 4 Circuit - The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire that killed at least 161 persons was caused by a short circuit in a power cord of a decorative water fountain pump and burned for more than an hour before being a private investigating team has CHARTER MOSCOW - A new Soviet draft constitution shaped by Leonid Brezhnev may allow Communist party leader to consolidate his role as. chief of by taking over the largely ceremonial post of Soviet president as Western observers said current Nikolai V. was dropped from the party's ruling Politburo on May 24. Page 5 LEGACY DES Iowa -One woman writes that she wants the money to run a A church official wants the money so he can finish a church And a prison inmate says he needs seed money start his own 3,000 such letters ask to share the inheritance of a white farmer from near Des who left his estate to people of the Negro Idaho tough repaying who helped save your but the city of which was in the path of the deadly and destructive Teton Dam year is trying its and mostly from Utah and who helped this eastern Idaho city's flood victims dig out of the muddy now can see fresh paint smiling hours of the June 5, 1976, when 80 billion gallons of water poured through the earthen dam and inundated much of Snake River thousands of volunteers came by busloads to help shovel mud out of basements and living - President who once balked at a Senate attempt to strip his proposed energy secretary of the power to set is now championing the Senate's decision to do just The reason for Carter's change of heart is action taken by the Senate on the upper chamber voted to give those powers to a it gave the veto powers over their a measure approved Friday by the the would not have that 4 MEDIATORS The Netherlands The widow of a South Moluccan nationalist leader and a South Moluccan doctor were to begin third-party talks today with gunmen holding at least 59 hostages in northern Toos spokeswoman for the Dutch Justice said the mediators would open telephone contact with the seven to 10 Moluccan terrorists holding 55 persons on a train halted north of Peru Carter puts diplomacy aside today as she travels into the Peruvian countryside to rest at a luxury rural inn and visit an agricultural research 5 stubble from a harvested wheat field near Blytheville sends clouds of smoke An Action Line reader wrote this week complaining about such field According to Larry Cummings of the Control and Ecology there are no state or federal laws prohibiting the burning of wheat News Photo by
