Middletown High Band Camp Opens With Services
Church services mark the start of Middletown High School Band Camp at Camp Campbell Gard. Catholic campers attend Mass while Protestants hold Sunday School and camp services. Speakers include Robert Moore and Clark Thomas presiding, with Tom Black leading singing. Senior participants and the Middle Band choirs perform, and the Brass Chief directs instrumental portions replacing the organ.
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Middletown High School
Camp Campbell Gard
Mary Ann Blackmore
Judy Burgess
Bob Bell
Jon Hoffman
Chapel In the Woods
Robert Moore
Clark Thomas
Tom Black
Kathy Haywood
Bob Million
Marylou Robbins
Larry Gilbert
Camp Triple Trio
Barbara Dempster
Esther Rothe
Judy Milton
Barbara Bunnell
Barbara Merrick
Judy Voegele
Jeni Wrenn
Merrily Day
Elaine Key
Forest Thomas
John Palmer
Ron Reeder
Tom Koerber
Bob Taylor
Joe Newlin
Infant porpoises born underwater must reach surface for first breath
Porpoise calves enter the sea fully submerged and must swim upward to surface within seconds of birth to take their first breath, a vital early life behavior observed in newborns.
Diamond field near Murfreesboro yields legendary mine tale
A dusty Arkansas pasture near Murfreesboro is famous for a claimed billion-dollar diamond find. Despite years of tours and thousands of stones recovered, commercial mining failed due to mismanagement and legal clashes. The Crater of Diamonds draws forty thousand visitors yearly and has produced gems from three carats down to smaller stones, with notable finds such as a 40 carat diamond and mid-sized discoveries valued high. However, most attempts to mine end in disappointment despite the lure of potential wealth.
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ED Martin
Murfreesboro
Ark
South Africa
North America
Arkansas
Glenn L. Martin
Louisiana
Severl
Texas
Remarkable Pasture One Of Two World Diamond Sites
The passage notes that the pastur e is one of two global natural diamond sites, the other being Kimberley in South Africa. It explains diamonds form under extreme heat and pressure deep underground, are carried to the surface in kimberlite pipes, and that most diamonds outside South Africa and Arkansas were transported by glaciers or alluvial action. The history includes skullduggery, confusion, and heated land title disputes with bullets involved.
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South Africa
Kimberley
Arkansas
Huddleston Diamonds Sparked Arkansas Diamond Rush
John Wesley Huddleston, a lanky farmer, found two diamonds in 1906 causing a regional frenzy. A Murfreesboro banker offered pennies but Danny John sent the stones to a Little Rock jeweler and a New York Tiffany expert who declared them high grade. Huddleston sold for 36000 then faded to poverty, later memorialized by townsfolk. He died in 1941 drawing a dollar daily. Diamonds resist scratches except by diamonds and weigh about three percent heavier than water.
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John Wesley Huddleston
Murfreesboro
Danny John
Little Rock
Tiffany
New York
Huddleston
Arkansas
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MHS
Dick Cole
Lucien Hatfield
Connell Miller
David Short
Donald Sellers
Maud Muller
Central Ave
Manchester & Vail Ave
SEARS
Orson
DuPont Acrylic
Welting
Rajasole
Orp
Goodyear Welt
Bedford
South Main St
Star of Arkansas
A. L. Parker
Dallas
Tex
Citizens of
Middletown
John W. Sullivan
City Commission
North Middletown
Pol. Adv
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