I Saw It In ... Nashville N The News N THURSDAY • August 9, 2012 • Issue 64 • 1 Section • 12 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents IN BRIEFt THERE’S NO Revival scheduled PLACE LIKE HOME Aug. 12-17 New Genera- Members of the ‘Tollette Nation’ come tion Outreach Ministries will from all quarters for homecoming host a six-day revival Aug. 12- n 17 with health TERRICA HENDRIX Editor talks beginning uenell is surrounded by big, bright lights, movie at 6 p.m. each stars and cameras every day. She has a bubbling night and a personality and a sense of humor like no other. main service Her determination and character has propelled taking place at her to a career with superstar status. She is a 7 p.m. Guest L down home girl who can recite every Earth, speakers for the Wind and Fire song and belt out Al Green tunes such event include as Here I am Baby (come and take me). Luenell is Mary Alice living her dream of acting and entertaining the Moore, of New Life Church in masses. Nashville, Gail “A sidesplitting high wired act without a net…” McClenton, is how Scoop LA describes Luenell and Los Ange- of Open Door les Magazine said she is “…one Ministries in of the top 25 funniest people in Hope, Mash- LA.” celle Whitmore, But sometimes, a girl just of Hope Well wants to come home. This CME in Colum- weekend, Luenell will do just bus and Evan- that. gelist Charlotte Luenell and around 3,000 Robinson, of Dallas, Texas. friends and family members The church is will gather for the long-awaited located at 103 2012 Tollette Homecoming. S. Main St. in The four-day homecoming will Nashville. feature a parade on Saturday morning as well as dinners and gatherings. SWADC to “I get so hyped for home- distribute coming every year,” Tollette na- tive Travis Martin said Wednes- commodities day evening. “It intensifies the love I have for my hometown Southwest Arkansas Devel- and it showcases our town’s his- opment Council tory, the families that come from there, will be distribut- See HOME / Page 6 ing commodi- ties on Wed., Aug. 15 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Nashville n AT RIGHT: Tollette native Luenell and Senior Adult R&B artist Michel’le (inset) are among the Center, 206 E. 3,000 expected to participate in this year’s Howard, Nash- homecoming. Submitted photos ville. Commodities will be distrib- uted at the Dierks Senior Adult Center, 811 Missouri, from 9 a.m. until MS Fire Chief 1 p.m. Please be prepared to carry your com- modities to your voted out vehicle. For more information, call CHARLES GOODIN On Tuesday, Dunson 845-3586. Managing Editor told the News he was not personally offended by the MINERAL SPRINGS - Fire decision and that he will Dierks senior Chief Budd Dunson was remain a member of the breakfast set voted out of his position department. at a recent meeting of the “There’s a couple of at Kenya’s Mineral Springs Volunteer people that just weren’t Fire Department, Mayor happy with my manage- All members Walter “Sonny” Heatherly of the Dierks ment style,” he said. “But confirmed Monday. senior class of there’s no hard feelings.” 2013 are in- Heatherly said Dunson Dunson said he is proud vited to attend a was removed from the po- of what he was able to senior breakfast sition on a 6-4 split vote accomplish during his ten- Mon., Aug. 20 at conducted via secret ballot ure in the office and looks Kenya’s. Mon., July 23. See CHIEF / Page 6 Breakfast will be served at 7:15 a.m. and will be paid for out of the se- nior class fund. It will be buf- Dierks board approves last fet style with eggs, bacon, sausage, bis- minute staff additions cuits, gravy and DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY | Nashville News a drink. DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY Tabler, who is also a US Senator Mark Pryor discusses the economy Wednesday with Paul Britt and other officials The entire Sports Editor at Tyson Foods. licensed librarian, has class is encour- worked in the Eagletown, aged to attend DIERKS – Three teachers Okla. school district for whether they and two classified person- seven years. She has ex- eat breakfast nel were hired Mon., Aug. or not. There Senator Pryor shares six point plan perience in Kindergarten 6 at a special called school will be a photo through seventh grade. taken at 7:45 DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY point solution for job cre- Pryor stated. board meeting. Leathers graduated this a.m. Sports Editor ation with Rotarians as he The senator also stressed JoAnn Walters Elemen- past spring with Pre-K to The break- discussed his intention to that the government needs tary benefited the most fourth grade teaching cer- fast is a school NASHVILLE – Senator build a stronger America. to enhance America’s trade from the meeting, with two tification and has agreed tradition that al- Mark Pryor sandwiched He stated that the key and export programs as teachers and a cafeteria to pursue certification in lows the seniors a visit with the Nashville was to increase manufac- well. manager being filled. special education. She has to gather for a Rotary Club between tours turing, while leveling the Pryor told the Rotarians Tammy Tabler was hired seven years experience as time of fun and at Husqvarna and Tyson as an elementary teach- a special education aide at fellowship as playing field on a global that the first step is to set Wednesday on his visit to scale. the table for growth. er and Pat Leathers was Lockesburg. they prepare for hired as a special education their last first Nashville. “We should manufacture To do this the govern- Teresa Simmons re- teacher. day of school. Pryor shared his six things in this country,” See PRYOR / Page 6 See STAFF / Page 6 Page 2 THURSDAY August 9, 2012 Opinions The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 The natural map of the Middle East “Apart from political maps Recently, new Egyptian Presi- of mankind, there are natural dent Mohamed Mursi met maps of mankind. ... One of with Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal the first laws of political sta- bility is to draw your political Pat boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind.” Buchanan So wrote H.G. Wells in “What Is Coming: A Forecast Creators of Things to Come After the Syndicate War” in the year of Verdun and the Somme Offensive. In redrawing the map of Eu- at the presidential palace in rope, however, the statesmen Cairo. The Sinai is becoming of Versailles ignored Wells and a no man’s land where terror- parceled out Austrians, Hun- ists plot and Africans cross garians, Germans and other to Israel. nationalities to alien lands to To Israel’s east, there is no divide, punish and weaken the true peace with the Palestin- defeated peoples. ians, and the Jordanian throne So doing they set the table has rarely been shakier. On for a second world war. the Golan Heights, quiet for The Middle East was sliced decades, the future may see up along lines set down in the Syrian troops loyal to a mili- secret Sykes-Picot agreement. tant Sunni regime in Damas- But with the Islamic awaken- cus. Hezbollah sits on Israel’s ing and Arab Spring toppling northern border. Beyond is a regimes, the natural map of Turkey no longer friendly. the Middle East seems now to Israel is blaming the atroc- be asserting itself. ity in Bulgaria, in which Israeli Sunni and Shia align with tourists were massacred, on Sunni and Shia, as Protestants Iran. But neither the Bulgari- and Catholics did in 17th- ans nor the Americans appear century Europe. Ethiopia and to know who did it. And why Sudan split. Mali and Nigeria would the Iranians, who, fol- may be next. While world at- lowing the slaughter, publicly tention is focused on Aleppo denounced such atrocities and when Bashar Assad might against civilians, do it? fall, Syria itself may be about Were an Iranian hand to be to disintegrate p. found in this act of barbarism, In Syria’s northeast, a Kurd- it would give Israel justifica- ish minority of 2 to 3 million tion for an attack, igniting a with ethnic ties to Iraqi Kurd- war in which America could istan and 15 million Kurds in be dragged in. Turkey seems to be dissolv- Why would Iran want a war ing its ties to Damascus. A with the United States when Kurdish nation carved out of that would mean destruction Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran of its air force, navy, missile would appear to be a casus force and nuclear program, belli for all four nations. Yet in a crippling blockade and per- any natural map of the world, haps destruction of its vital More scared of history than destined to repeat it there would be a Kurdistan. oil facilities on Kharg Island? The Sunni four-fifths of the Whoever was behind the Traumas suffered by a justice, especially to their de- unity was necessary to pre- the euro isn’t workable and Syrian population seems fated attack on the Israeli tourists society generations ago can scendants, and in 1965, Con- vent a third. that the protracted euro cri- to rise and the Muslim Broth- seems to want a war between still have a negative effect gress rewrote immigration European elites, with mini- sis is the inevitable product erhood to rule, as happened the Jewish state of Israel and centuries later.