Knifemakers Descend on Nashville
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The Nashville News THURSDAY • May 2, 2013 • Issue 35 • 1 Section • 16 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents IN BRIEFt Former De Queen Parks & Recreation director Farmers’ receives additional charges Market TERRICA HENDRIX the required opens Editor fees that are associ- Friday DE QUEEN – Karen At- ated with kins, former De Queen the classes Parks and Recreation di- to the ARC. The Howard County Farm- rector, was arrested and ATKINS She had ap- ers Market will charged with two addi- proximately open this Fri., tional counts of theft of 164 people taking the class- May 3, for the property. es and collected fees from 2013 season. Ninth West Judicial Dis- such persons,” Chesshir The market will trict Prosecuting Attorney stated via press release. include cook- Bryan L. Chesshir con- Atkins, 52, had been De ing demos, mu- firmed that Atkins was Queen’s park director since sic and garden charged with the class C fel- 1998. She was fired Dec. 11 workshops onies which stem from an by Mayor Billy Ray McK- most Fridays “investigation that started elvy. throughout the summer. in November 2012 regard- Chesshir requested a This week, ing the misappropriation Legislative Audit over the Ram Garcia of funds, it was determined misappropriation from the will be provid- that Atkins allegedly stole City of De Queen and the ing music and and/or misappropriated Tri-County Softball Associ- demonstrators money from the American ation. “Atkins was over the will be cooking Red Cross.” bank accounts for the Tri- Mexican style CHARLES GOODIN | Nashville News Atkins was allegedly County Softball funds for cabbage at 9 Danny Dowdle is escorted into court Wednesday by Howard County Sheriff Butch Morris teaching CPR and lifeguard numerous years. The audit and Deputy Todd Tallant. a.m. classes “and not registering determined that $7,966 was There will the classes with the Ameri- misappropriated from the also be “Pep- pers for Your can Red Cross nor paying See CHARGES / Page 4 Garden” at the demo garden ACCUSED OF MURDER in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. $100k bond set for man accused of killing brother The market Longtime teacher is partnering TERRICA HENDRIX with markets in Editor Old Washing- ton and Hope passes away this season NASHVILLE – A Delight and the Nash- man appeared in court ville markets Wednesday on suspicion TERRICA HENDRIX “I looked will be on of killing his 53-year-old Editor up to her all Fridays only. brother. my life. She Saturdays Danny Dowdle, 46, was NASHVILLE – A woman was just a will be in Old escorted from the Pike who spent most of her life sweet, sweet Washington County Jail by Detective teaching and caring for lady.” He de- and Tuesdays Clark Kinzler and Arkan- children, passed away at scribed her will be in Hope. SCOTT Also, the How- sas Police Special Agent her home. as kind but ard County Neal Thomas to the How- CHARLES GOODIN | Nashville News Carolyn Scott, 92, owner added that she “was not Farmers’ Mar- ard County Courthouse Circuit Judge Tom Cooper listens Wednesday as Arkansas of Little Red Schoolhouse, someone you crossed… ket has a new for a probable cause hear- State Police Investigator Neal Thomas testifies regarding died Tuesday. She began even later in life, I did what Market Manag- ing before Judge Tom Coo- the circumstances of an alleged murder that occurred in teaching in Bismarck in she told me to do,” Tackett, er this year in per. Dowdle is accused of Delight. 1944 for one year and then a former Howard County Albert Motta of killing his brother, David “He stated to me that he at the PCJ on suspicion of taught in Okay for 11 years. Judge, said. Suprasistence Dowdle, at a residence on shot his brother with a .22 murder and Chesshir said “I was in the first class “Little Red School House Farm. Highway 26 in Delight. pistol,” Thomas testified. formal charges could be that went to Little Red was Ms. Scott,” he ended. Glenda Rice Prosecutor Bryan L. Chesshir told the court filed next week. School House,” Max Tack- “I remember her being and Debra Chesshir called Thomas, ett, Upper Southwest Ar- a typical Southern wom- Bolding, and that Dowdle is not em- “It is my understand- the other Mas- a veteran officer, to the ployed and “not sure if ing that the two of them kansas Regional Landfill an,” Courtney Castleberry ter Gardener stand to testify to prob- he’ll be welcomed back at [David Dowdle and Danny director said. Tackett was Worthen explained, she volunteers, will able cause. the residence where the Dowdle] were arrested “one-year too young” to was “firm but sweet.” still be working Thomas testified that murder took place.” for domestic abuse two attend the school but Scott “She was very hands- as day manag- David Dowdle’s body Cooper set Dowdle’s weeks ago” in Pike Coun- allowed him to go – along on with all of the kids,” ers. was found at his “father’s bond at $100,000 and or- ty, Chesshir said after the with his older brother. Worthen – a 1997 graduate house” and he saw “in- dered him to return on hearing. “I spent my fair share of Nashville High School dications of a murder.” May 4 in Pike County Cir- According to the Mur- of time in the corner,” he said. “I don’t remember Fire Thomas added that, in ad- cuit Court before Judge freesboro Diamond, at laughed. her without a genuine smile dition to witness reports, Charles A. Yeargan for approximately 10:33 p.m. Tackett said he always on her face. She made kids destroys Danny Dowdle admitted arraignment. the Pike County Sheriff’s admired and respected feel special.” Worthen is a to murdering his brother. Dowdle is being held See MURDER / Page 4 Scott. See TEACHER / Page 4 storage building The Nash- ville Fire Department Knifemakers descend on Nashville responded to a storage building fire Trade expo make knives in your shop Monday eve- by yourself, you’re in a ning on south held west of vaccum. You’re trying to Washington reinvent the wheel every Street. Fire town Saturday day. When you go to a thing Marshal Jerry like this, you can share with Harwell says CHARLES GOODIN other knifemakers and see firefighters Managing Editor responded to little things that maybe you the call around do a little different or a little 7:22 p.m. and A crowd of roughly 100 better. We learn every time were on scene knifemaking enthusiasts we come to one of these for about an descended on Nashville things.” hour. The over the weekend for a forg- A relative newcomer to building was ing expo held west of town. the master smith rating, fully involved Legendary local blade- Rhea earned the designa- when they smith Jerry Fisk hosted tion in 2009 and said it arrived at the the event, featuring demon- was the urge to create that scene. The strations on various tech- attracted him to the profes- building own- ers said it niques specific to the craft. sion. was empty at Fellow master blade- “It’s not that no one else the time of smiths Mike Williams and can do it, it’s just that may- the fire. Two Lin Rhea were the first to be no one else has tried to CHARLES GOODIN | Nashville News speak, presenting a class do it,” Rhea said. “You set a pumper trucks Lin Rhea (foreground) watches as Mike Williams heats a bar of steel during a demonstration and a service on twisting bars of metal. on metal twisting the pair presented at a knifemaking expo held in Nashville Saturday. high standard, a high goal, vehicle re- Fisk explained that knife- dream up projects no one sponded to the makers twist the bars prior three methods for produc- Williams, an Oklahoma ate about due to the strong else has done or maybe fire call. The to forging because the re- ing the effect, including a native who earned his mas- sense of kinship among done your way. When you cause is un- sulting threads produce hand-crank metal twisting ter smith rating in 2000, those who specialize in the do that, it really is a great determined at the swirling ‘star’ patterns machine that Fisk said had called his journey through trade. feeling.” this time. - Southwest found on Damascus steel never been used in the the forging community a “The knifemakers are Also in attendance at Arkansas blades. United States until Satur- ‘slippery slope’ that was a very close-knit group,” the event was Al Lawrence, Radio The pair demonstrated day’s event. easy to become passion- Williams explained. “If you See KNIVES / Page 4 2 EDITORIAL Thursday, May 2, 2013 | The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 Voter fraud bills represent unneeded expansion to Secretary of State’s oice RUSTY FRASER Stone County Leader ast week Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe vetoed three bills that State Sen. LBryan King (R-Green Forest) says he sponsored to curb voter fraud. Senate Bill 719 would create a voter integrity unit under the secretary of state’s office. SB721 would authorize the state board of election commissioners to remove a county board of election commissioner under certain conditions, and SB721 would abolish the positions of six appointed com- missioners of the seven-member board and enlarge the board to nine members. Gov. Beebe said the three bills were “unwarranted attempts to undo a carefully crafted system of checks and balances and divisions of responsibility between the Is thinking obsolete? state board of election commissioners, the secretary of state’s office, and local election While it is not possible ate assertions and counter- present sins, real or oth- commissioners.” to answer all the e-mails assertions.