Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - June 1, 2000, Blytheville, Arkansas AND MRS. EDWARD L EAVES of Cherokee Village will observe their golden wedding WEST AND THE BAPTIST squeaked by Rotary Wednesday Page 9 CLOUDINESS with a 30 percent chance of High in the artwork by student at Robinson Primary Page 6 Courier June 1, 2000 post elect Legion Dud Cason Post 24 will hold election of officers from 4:30 to 7 p.m. June 12. All Legion members who are interested in ruiming for an office should contact Bob Nelson at 532-6036 or Alonzo Hayes at 780-6895. sought for African-American Men of Distinction is currently accepting applications for 6- to 13-year-olds in their summer enrichment The program lasts for six The cost is for one for two for three children and for four may come to the Hamson Youth and Cultural Center between 9 am. and 3:30 p.m. to enroll their The program will begin Monday and run fiom 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through For more information call 762-1788. class to pian upcoming of the Blytheville High School Class of 1990 are invited to attend a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Pizza Inn to plan the upcoming 10-year class more information call Jennifer Wren at 762-2943. Pantry air Area Food and Clothing Ministry is collecting as well as and window air-conditioning for the A group of volunteers will repair the units at no also has a program for delivering food to area and are in touch with other which have contact with the area's volunteers of these programs have been asked to monitor the conditions of homes and alert the when they find who need fans air who wish to make a donation are asked to bring the fans and air conditioners to the pantry between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday through For more call Danny Metz at 762-9999. to host hospitality City Tourism and Promotion Commission will host a workshop 2 to 4 p.m. and again fiom 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The is free of charge and open to the call the Area Chamber of Commerce befoe Monday at 762-2012. Gale Henry Bell Opal M. Keith Louis Eugene Phillips Bob Mae Shannon No. 059-220 Vol. 106 No. 40 edition ' 1898 says peace agreement the Portugal President Clinton said today he is sending Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the Middle East to narrow the gaps in the peace process between Israel and the He said an agreement is view who spoke after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud said he would meet soon in Washington with Palestinian leader Yasser He said Albright would go to the Middle East next leaders know from me and they know from their own experience that they now have to be prepared to make an intense effort and to do things that they have not done in the past with real courage and vision if we are going to actually get a framework agreement that deals with the outstanding Clinton said the United States would do all it could to help both sides this is tough he told U.S. Embassy workers in Lisbon after meeting with it were somebody would have done it a long time But actually it is within view They could do it and I believe they will do and Arafat are trying to agree on the framework for a peace agreement by spoke with Arafat by phone Wednesday and met with Barak today before heading to Germany on his week-long European Clinton and the Jewish leader were to meet last week in but heightened tension in the region after Israel's abrupt troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon kept Barak at Page 3 5, enjoys the warm weather at the Gosnell City BMH staff hard PAT Staff renovations and improvements which have taken place recently at Baptist Memorial are the result of hard work on the part of a dedicated according to hospital administrator Brandt made his comments recently to the Blytheville Rotary of the new programs at as well as the are consistent with the Baptist mission of preaching he think health care is about Wright you are not in the business of serving you do not belong in health Our purpose is to make a That is what I think Baptist stands explained his position by using the three mission the healing he said Baptist has 315 During 1999, 4,245 patients received hospital 756 babies were 16,000 people were treated at the emergency ambulance crews made 3,000 2,265 people received 17,000 received outpatient and 12,800 home health visits were try to make every encounter he the area of Wright said the hospital staff is constantly receiving both in medical care areas and patient goal is to try to provide for you a higher level of service than you receive when you stay at the Ritz Carlton he the area of Wright said Page 3 Martin: Cotton crop may be in PAT staff year's cotton crop may already be in according to county Extension Service agent Keith said many county fanners have told him their cotton crops have been heavily damaged by the high winds which they say have occurred almost daily for the past several spring ever since they started the wind has Martin real problem is not the but the blowing Martin The leaves and new buds have been shredded and even scorched brown by the some looking as if they had been In many the stems of the seedlings have been sliced in half by the blowing Martin added that several weeks of sunny weather and no high winds may allow the cotton crop to growth has been stunted by the sand Martin said the full extent of the damage will not be known until later in the has been the worst year for wind and sand we have had in a long he pitiful species is representative of the damage which has been done to this year's cotton crop by several weeks of high Blowing sand and dust cut and damage the leaves and buds and in many cases have cut the stems in was anniversary of end of Vietnam PAT Staff the million American veterans who have lost their lives serving their approximately 58,000 died during the Vietnam according to Bob department commander for the Arkansas American Wamble made his comments recently to the Blytheville Kiwanis was the anniversary of the end of that Wamble Vietnam War was a terrible he involvement with that in 1956, he The South Vietnamese government was not doing well in its civil war against the North and America began sending into the These advisers lived with the South Vietnamese trained their forces and participated in combat went on from 1956 to 1965, Wamble with an increasing number of advisers being stationed in the island 1964, Wamble said Lyndon Johnson and his advisers decided the only way to do any good would be to launch a major military operation in this would require a declaration of and in order to secure something would have to occur to spark public support of the Wamble it was reported that a North Vietnamese gunboat had fired on a U.S. ship in international Because of Congress ordered U.S. troops into 1965, there were 500,000 U.S. service men and women in Wamble Troops supported by U.S. dollars Page 3 rejects request by Cuban boy's Miami federal appeals court today sided with the father of Elian rejecting a request by the Cuban boy's Miami relatives that he be granted an asylum hearing with immigration panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of said the Immigration and Naturalization Service's decision that only a parent can act for his 6-year-old child in matters within the range of reasonable It said that held true even if the parent was in another country and the child was in the United was not immediately clear how the ruling affected the stay the issued earlier that prevented Elian leaving the Miami relatives have 45 days to ask all 12 judges of the 11th Circuit to the but it is unclear if they can stop Juan Miguel Gonzalez from taking his child home to Cuba during that If the court refuses to hear the the relatives would has 90 days to appeal to the Supreme after the 11th Circuit court's lawyers for the boy's Miami relatives sought help from Supreme Coun Justice Anthony M. who handles emergency matters from that judicial circuit for the nation's highest request urged Kennedy's help assure that Elian will remain in the United until the full Supreme Court can consider a formal appeal of today's appeals court whatever may be his immigration deserves fewer judicial rights than hardened this traumatized and innocent child deserves the court's consideration and the request hu the Page 3
