Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - July 31, 1992, Blytheville, Arkansas lows will range from in the northern valleys to near 70 in Tide picked to win all Ifu of Mississippi ( 1992 all of Mississippi ( Ark. 72315 A Park 98 No. 66 40 Pages 3 Sections July 31,1992 BRIEFLY Food Pantry grand opening is The Area Food Pantry will hold its grand opening at 9 a.m. Aug. 3, at the First Methodist Church Youth Center at 700 W. Ash pantry is a joint effort between the First United Methodist Aldersgate Methodist Church and New Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist to attend the grand opening are Mississippi County Judge Joe Blytheville Mayor Joe Gosnell Mayor Dick Blytheville Police Chief Larry Gosnell Police Chief George Mississippi County Sheriff Leroy Jerry Bohannan of the Blytheville Chamber of Wilbur Buck Jim McDaniels and Equal Commission Director Sam getting grant for child pilot 1 OSCEOLA - The city of Osceola will receive a grant for its proposed child welfare pilot Gov. Clinton announced grant is from the Arkansas Family Policy Council and the SILO Advisory commend the people of Osceola for choosing to empower itself by creating a program that will make the community a more vital place for all its residents to live and were awarded to communities proposing pilot projects that will help to better meet the needs of vulnerable families and were to show how their project would be collaborated with other state and grants were created under the Arkansas Child Reform Act 1 of 1992. Recipients will submit quarterly reports to the state Department of Finance and The Family Policy Council will provide technical assistance to the midnight for school The deadline to file for the Sept. 15 school board elections is midnight two board members have filed for and Stovall III are so far running unopposed for Positions 7 and 8, The Associated potential will be Evaporation will average around inch and the lowest relative humidity will be 35 to 45 use recycled Perkins filled the position of o in a few days with the help of 7H3-^{575 io place your bank robber linked to other 17, of one of the three men charged in the Wednesday robbery of the First National Bank branch on South Division will also be charged with four other counts of burglary and aggravated to local July 10,3D Sporting Goods at 117 E. Main was broken into and five handguns were reported One of the a 9mm recovered during the bank was linked to of the guns is is also being charged with three counts of aggravated robbery for the three times between May 15 and July 25 that the Blytheville Municipal Golf Course was police a May 15 approximately was and was taken during a June 18 July 25, a pro shop employee was held at gunpoint and forced the A fight evolved when the employee tried to get away from money during the to Huckabee the Republican nominee challenging 18-year incumbent Dale Bumpers for his U.S. Senate talks Thursday with local Joe Stratman about the issues that will decide the race as Curtis Coleman looks takes off on one of most exotic missions in shuttle Fla. Atlantis roared into orbit today with seven astronauts who will fly a satellite on a 12-mile string in one of the most complicated and exotic missions in shuttle 100-ton spaceship rose on of flame at 9:56 a.m. out over the Atlantic cutting through wispy was a perfect morning for a Forecasters had given rare 100 percent odds of favorable and the launch team breezed through the final few hours of the The liftoff was delayed for nearly a minute by what appeared to be a valve minutes into the the twin solid rocket boosters dropped into the sea as Atlantis reached a 264-mile-high orbit several minutes later on the thrust of three and the astronauts will venture into unknown territory during the seven-day commanded by veteran spaceman It is the 49th shuttle mission and the first to test tethered Tethered Satellite will be reeled out from Atlantis on Monday as the shuttle zooms through magnetic Tiie thin cord between the satellite and shuttle is expected to volts of electricity as a result of the space environment and the speed of the 12-mile formation will be traveling nearly 5 miles per or 17,500 and will be the longest structure ever flown in says the experiment is though surprises are being prudent in our risk-taking We're taking the risk by even sending it out which is our said Jeremiah Pearson 111, head of space flight is no chance the tether can wrap around Atlantis or that the satellite can bang into the said NASA mission manager Billy Nunley The astronauts would cut the long before that tether is expected to move very slowly in giving the astronauts plenty of time to act if anything goes is expected to be the hardest part of the 30-hour we get the satellite out and get the that's Pearson they happen to bring it we're last time NASA tied two spacecraft during Gemini in 1966, the 100-foot Dacron cord between the Agena booster flapped in addition to being more than 630 times contains copperas a will flow along the tether from the satellite to the and electron beam guns in the cargo bay will shoot the electrons back into the closing tlie Tethered Satellite system cost split almost evenly between NASA and the Italian Space provided the the boom and some instruments on the Italy supplied the which is other satellite aboard a European Space science called also is designed to fly more than The satellite will be released 18 hours into the and another shuttle crew will retrieve it next spring so scientists can examine the brine shrimp eggs and other biological samples Eureca project cost including million paid to NASA for orbital delivery and Europeans arc in Franco Malerba of Italy and Claude N ico 11 ier of admits facing uphill battle against incumbent Sen. MAKK SEXTON Staff having his plane rerouted through Fayetteville because of inclement Mike the Republican nominee challenging 18-year incumbent Dale Bumpers for his U.S. Senate made a campaign stop in Blytheville on Thursday and urged voters to overthrow the political fiefdom that members of Congress have created for can a person who has been in the United States Senate for 18 years and not had to pay for his medical his medical care or his prescription drugs for 18 years understand understand the problems that all of the people in this room have encountered in dealing with today's healthcare The answer is also blasted Congress for not having to make itself live under the same laws it think Congress should never pass a law that they create for the people of this country and then make themselves exempt from he is currently exempt from the Disabilities the Civil Kights Social Security Act and a dozen other entities that people face for his own Huckabee admitted that it will be difficult but not impossible to overcome million campaign war He that half of money came from political action groups and special interests from outside the people won't even decide the Huckabee up to the people of All these special interest groups and PACs want to do is to help ensure that Mr. will continue to vote the way they want him to vote on certain not how the people of Arkansas want him to vote did that he believed Gov. Clinton's campaign for tlie presidency took away some of the energy and money from their political Huckabee said that Bumpers is not a bad guy and that he respects most of the issues we are at polarity with each why I believe there will bo no between because I certainly won't lower myself to that charged following local drug local residents were arraigned this morning in Blytheville Municipal Court on drug related Lee 19, of Blytheville was arrested Thursday after making a marijuana sale to an undercover officer of the Drug Task Force in a local parking McCully is charged with sale and delivery of a controlled this morning were Mark 22. and Stephanie 23, both of They are charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to for McCully was set at while Brewer and Emberg had bond set at arrests of Brewer and Emberg resulted from a search of the residence at 928 Hollywood by the Blytheville Police the Drug Task Force and the Mississippi County Sheriff's Seized at the location were approximately one pound of marijuana with street value of drug in cash and approximately 30 Valium tablets with a street value of Terry Neal 26, and William C. 18, both of were on charges of burglary and 12:2! a in Blytheville police found a 1977 Ford truck in the lot of the Church of Christ at 13th and Main with the hood a search of tlie the two men were spotted at Blytheville Auto Sales where police found window broken out and sets of keys found several sets laying beside cars parked on the lot and Partain and Arnold both were was set at for Partain and for 1 think he i Bumpers is too much of a gentleman to do it said one reason he is on one month Bush would just as soon - On the final day of a jolting July he'd just as soon President Bush could take comfort in the fact that August could only be his convention now just two weeks Republicans and even Democrats figure Bush can't help but help himself in The question Will his month be good enough to offset a punishing he's taken a lot of hasn't said Florida Republican Chairman Van don't think there is any question about the way he is being beat about the head and But I'm confident we are going to of see things would guess Herbert Hoover had a few months like Democratic pollster Geof frey Garin have been guys who have had months this but none of them has ever been re-elected started the first week of when the nation's unemployment rate climbed to 7.8 the highest since March 1984. It was hardly welcome news for any let alone one seeking a second final days of July weren't any easier for national him trailing Democrat Clinton by 25 points or a California poil had him down more than 30 And then economic growth slowed to an anemic crawl as Americans about los ing their jobs were reluctant to this kind of economic no administration has ever been said economist Sinai of the Hoston Co. Economic Advisers Bush endured a series of events that didn't and may have A rhetorical war with Perot while Clinton focused his revised economic The Clinton climbed from distant third into a dead heat with Perot and European trip to Munich and Helsinki that kept Bush out of the coverage and failed to give him any sort of boost at decision not to which came on the day Clinton accepted the Democratic Clinton got crack at courting Perot's who show Clinton is winning over Democratic sent Clinton and running mate A1 liore rocketing in a follow-up bus tour from New York to that boosted their standing even Confusion and infighting m the Bush over whether Secretary of State James Baker HI will quit his Cabinet to take over the re-election president himself has said he won't be in full time campaign mode until the convention in August and once that happens I think you are going to see a dynamic to the said Bush campaign
