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Dierks Health and Rehab honors volunteer sta Photos inside! The I Saw It In ... Nashville NEWS April 14, 2011 USPS 371-540 • 75 cents • www.nashvillenews.org Thursday Issue 30 1 Section• 16 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 n MISSING PERSON n $1.1 million lawsuit filed against city of Nashville Charles Goodin | Managing Editor sion of U.S. District Court. It alleges that of demolition and just 15 percent of the NASHVILLE - Two Texas men whose the city violated the plantiffs’ Fifth and store’s contents sustained damage from business was damaged by a massive Main Fourteenth Amendment rights outlined smoke or water,” according to an indepen- Street fi re and subsequently demolished in the United States Constitution, arguing dent inspection conducted by Christian in August of last year have fi led a $1.1 that the controlled demolition of the John- Construction Company. million lawsuit against the city. sons’ building “constituted a ‘seizure’ of It concludes by asking for a “declara- Carl and Justin Johnson, co-owners of their property...” tory judgment that the removal of the the business formerly known as Collect- The suit further contends that it was Plantiffs’ buidling and destruction of ible Corner, fi led the suit through North unnecessary for local offi cials to push their inventory without prior notice and Little Rock-based attorney Morgan E. the building down because “[t]he walls an opportunity to be heard amounts to a Welch Monday in the Texarakana Divi- of the building were stable at the time See LAWSUIT on Page 6 Jennifer Marie Clayton BANNED FOR A REASON Howard County Age: 13 White Female, Blonde Hair, Blue Jail inmate Eyes, approximately 5’ tall, 120 pounds Jennifer was last seen at approximately 6 pm, Sun., April 10, at her residence on escapes Highway 355 South in Fulton, Arkansas. She was dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, Suspect recaptured wearing tennis shoes with no strings. Jennifer is a 7th grade student at Mineral Springs School. in Oklahoma Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Charles Goodin | Managing Editor Jennifer Marie Clayton is asked to call the NASHVILLE - A Howard County Hempstead County Sheriff’s Department Jail inmate escaped while on a work at 870-777-6727. detail Wednesday and was recaptured n n later that night in Oklahoma. CRIME IN BRIEF According to a statement released by Howard County Sheriff Butch Mor- Ark. Supreme Court ris, Demario Scog- upholds verdict gins, 23, of Mineral Springs, was arrest- in Family Dollar ed by authorities in Poteau, Okla., after murder appeal he fl ed a work group Charles Goodin | Managing Editor at the Howard Coun- LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Su- ty Fair Grounds. Scoggins preme Court on Thursday upheld the The officer su- conviction of a Stamps man currently pervising the work crew reported that serving a life sentence in the Arkansas Scoggins, who was in jail on charges Department of Corrections for orchestrat- of burglary and theft of property, told ing the murder of his estranged wife. Wyouman David Camp, 65, was con- police he was going to the bathroom victed of being an accomplice to murder and then disappeared. in 2009 after a jury found him guilty of “Deputies checked the fair grounds hiring 40-year-old Harry Surber to kill and found where Demario had changed his wife. Nashville firefighters work to contain a small grass fire approximately one mile out of his jail shirt,” the statement said. The murder took place in 2008 at the north of Nashville High School on Mt. Pleasant Drive Wednesday. Both Howard It is believed that Scoggins was Nashville Family Dollar. and Hempstead Counties are currently under a burn ban due to dry conditions. picked up by his girlfriend, 23-year-old Last week, Camp argued through Little Photo by Dewayne Holloway See ESCAPE on Page 6 Rock-based attorney Tim Cullen that the state failed to suffi ciently corroborate the testimony of his alleged accomplices and that the circuit court abused its discretion ‘CRUZ’ CONTROL by allowing Terry Carter, a fellow inmate, Dierks city council to look to testify about Camp’s attempt to hire Carter to murder an accomplice. In an 18-page opinion handed down at water rate increases as the News was going to press, Supreme Dewayne Holloway | Sports Editor Court Chief Justice Jim Hannah stated that, “Corroborating evidence need not ... IERKS – The city council closed be so substantial in and of itself to gain a busy April meeting with a dis- conviction. Rather, it need only, indepen- dently of the testimony of the accomplice, cussion on the possible need for a tend in some degree to connect the defen- D water and sewer rate increase. dant with the commission of the crime.” In this case, “... the remaining evidence The discussion began possibly face hefty fi nes. establishes the commission of murder when Mayor Terry Mounts The new pump has been [and] tends to connect Camp to the of- reported that one of two ordered, but Mounts com- fense for which he was charged,” Hannah sewer pumps in the main mented that there wasn’t wrote. lift station had broken down enough money in the sew- And because Carter’s testimony re- and needed to be replaced. er account to pay for the fl ected Camp’s consciousness of guilt, it He implied that there was a $7,000 pump. He went on was “independently relevant,” according to Hannah - meaning that the testimony real risk of the city’s sewer to say that they would have was properly admitted according to the system shutting down. to fi nd a way to pay for the Arkansas Rules of Evidence 404(b). “If the other one goes pump. The opinion concludes, “Persuant to out before we get this one Talk turned to the need replaced, then we just won’t to increase the water and Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-3 (i) Nashville Scrapper pole vaulter Walter Cruz bends the bar (2010), the record has been examined have any sewer,” Mounts sewer rates to prevent such and propels himself to a second place finish with a 12 ft. for all objections, motions, and requests replied. a shortfall in the future. vault. The Nashville Scrappers won the Scrapper Relays made by either party that were decided He went on to point out Mounts stated that Dier- with a point total of 154. See page 10 for a full recap and adversely to Camp, and no prejudicial that if the system went ks hadn’t had a rate increase results. error has been found.” down then the city could See DIERKS on Page 6 Photo by Dewayne Holloway Page 2 • Thursday, April 14, 2011 • NASHVILLE NEWS Opinions thomas Politics and Taxes sowell To ideologues, that is care how much collateral collected. bottom when they are just a cop-out from the damage there is to workers Internal Revenue Ser- young and their pay rises class-warfare battle. It who end up unemployed. vice data show that the as they get more experi- Creators Syndicate is far more important to It so happens that income of people who ence. Most people in the Columnist them to score their political many— if not most— of were in the lowest income top one percent are there points against "the rich" or those called "the rich" are tax bracket in 1996 rose for only a single year when "Wall Street" than that a not rich and many, if not by 91 percent by 2005. they happen to have a spike Someone once said that After all, "the rich" paid few million more Ameri- most, of those called "the But people in the "top one in income. They too are not taxes are the price we pay that larger sum of taxes cans out of work would be poor" are not poor. They percent" had their incomes an enduring class. for civilization. That may only because their incomes able to fi nd jobs. are people who happen to drop by 26 percent in those The time is long overdue have been true when he had risen. Their paying a The idealism of the left be in a particular part of same years. to start thinking about taxes said it, but today taxes higher share of all taxes is a very selfi sh idealism. In the income stream as of There is nothing com- as sources of revenue, not are mostly the price we doesn't matter to the "pro- their war against "the rich" a given moment in their plicated about this. Most as ways of making political pay so that politicians can gressives," who see high and big business, they don't lives when statistics are people simply start at the statements. play Santa Claus and get tax rates as a way to take reelected. a bigger bite out of the That's not the worst of incomes of higher-income it. We may think of taxes people, not just provide point - counterpoint as just a source of govern- more revenue to the gov- ment revenue. But tax rates ernment. are a big political statement Tax rates are meant to Reader feedback and response on the left, whether they make an ideological state- from the editorial sta of the bring in any revenue or not. ment and promote class- For more than 80 years, warfare politics, not just Nashville News the political left has op- bring in revenue. posed what they call "tax There has been much Dear Editor, Representative Stewart, cuts for the rich." But big indignation on the left over I would appreciate you publishing this letter in response to a cuts in very high tax rates the recent news that Gen- Thanks for the thoughtful letter.