The I Saw It In ... Nashville NEWS January 20, 2011 USPS 371-540 • 75 cents • www.nashvillenews.org Thursday Issue 6 1 Section • 14 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 School board to consider $11.4 million construction project Charles Goodin | Managing Editor NASHVILLE - The school board is set to consider $11.4 million worth of proposed construction in the coming months following a public workshop meeting held Tuesday. School superintendent Doug Graham presented the board with a preliminary fi nancial analysis prepared by Stephens Financial Services, of Little Rock, and an architectural report from Architecture Plus, Inc., of Fort Smith. What to build Chief among the proposed new con- struction is a $6 million gym, complete with dressing rooms and a concession sales area, that Graham said would A 3-D rendering provided by Architecture Plus, Inc., of Fort Smith, illustrates a possible redesign of Nashville High be big enough to host state basketball School. tournaments. Photo courtesy Nashville Public Schools Other projects planned for the high- school building include a commons area with a stage that would replace the outdoor courtyard, a new kitchen/serving MIRACLE ON MT. PLEASANT DRIVE area, a central supply area and an exterior facelift with offi ce renovations. The junior high building would see a new kitchen with new equipment and a remodeled library and dining area. The report also proposes replacing the HVAC system in the high school, plac- ing a new roof on the structure and the See SCHOOL on Page 6 Lawyer asks for probation, home confinement for Ball Terrica Hendrix | Editor TEXARKANA – Attorney Q. Byrum Hurst fi led a 36-page motion requesting probation and home confi nement with community service instead of prison time for his client, Joe H. Ball II. Danielle Terwilliger and a host of Scrapperettes and cheerleaders celebrate after Terwilliger hit a last-second, game- “Ball has spent his life in service to winning half-court shot. others. However, for some time ball en- Photo by Dewayne Holloway gaged in the conduct made the basis of this matter, unbeknownst to his family Buzzer beater lifts Scrapperettes over Lady Leopards friends. Ball feels tremendous shame as a Dewayne Holloway | Sports Editor result of his behavior, which goes against everything he believes in and worked hard ASHVILLE – Danielle Terwilliger hit a long three at the buzzer to give the Nashville Scrap- for throughout his life,” Hurst stated. Nperettes a 39-36 win over the visiting Malvern Lady Leopards Tuesday night, giving them Hurst stated that there are “many fac- their fi rst ever conference win over Malvern. tors in Ball’s life that make a sentence of probation and home confi nement war- The winning basket came off an in- Nashville the win. to score in all four quarters, setting the ranted.” bounds play with 1.7 seconds left in the It was the only 3-pointer of the game for standard for Nashville with 14 points. Hurst said the factors are not an “ex- game. Terwilliger took the pass near the Scrapperettes and accounted for three The Scrapperettes got off to a slow start, cuse for his behavior, but so that the Court midcourt and banked the 30 foot shot off of Terwilliger’s seven points in the game. scoring only four points in the fi rst period. See HOME on Page 6 the glass as the buzzer sounded to give Monisa Poole was the only Scrapperette See MIRACLE on Page 6 Nashville man killed in vehicle accident SWAT team shares information with Rotarians Terrica Hendrix | Editor Dewayne Holloway | Sports spoke to the Nashville Rotary to make their role in the com- bers from city and county law OZAN – A Nashville man was killed Editor Club Wednesday about their munity more clear. enforcement agencies. late last night in a single-vehicle ac- NASHVILLE – Members of purpose, training and experi- Team cident. the Howard County SWAT team ences as a team. members are Charles L. Carter, 60, was traveling Howard County volunteers West on Hempstead 37 when he “failed Investigator Bryan who are cho- to negotiate a curve” according to the McJunkins, who has sen by the Arkansas State Police Preliminary Fatal recently assumed the current mem- Crash Summary. role of team leader, bers of the Carter’s 1995 Toyota truck “traveled spoke to Nashville SWAT team. off [the] roadway [and] collided with a Rotarians about the Currently tree.” He was ejected from the vehicle, history of the SWAT there are the report stated. team. eight mem- Trooper Corwin H. Battle indicated He stated that McJunkins holds a Colt M4 Commando .223 bers, made that the road condition was “dry” and when the team was short barrel rifle up of four of- that the weather was “clear.” formed in 2001, they Photos by Dewayne Holloway fi cers from the The report stated that Carter was not Deputy Todd Tallant shows the were known as a special Nashville Po- wearing a seat belt. audience his DPMS Panther AR-10 response team, but the The team is a multijurisdic- lice Department and four from .308 rifle The accident occurred before 11 p.m. name was later changed tional team comprised of mem- See SWAT on Page 6 Page 2 • Thursday, January 20, 2011 • NASHVILLE NEWS Opinions When the Right is Dead Wrong those countries is the pri- he was quoted question- policy? its own business overseas mary impetus for Islamic ing former president Bill Apparently, he doesn’t continue to search for a terrorism. Clinton about an employer think it’s hawkish enough, presidential candidate who In the end, a supposedly mandate in his healthcare or as he told Slate.com’s will speak on their behalf. conservative, seemingly- reform proposal 17 years David Weigel, “I support Or as Larson himself During the 2010 mid- points I regularly make in right-thinking candidate ago. the surge in Afghanistan continued in a blog post term elections, then-can- this column, I was glad to turned out to be little more “On behalf of all of those but I would have sent those early Wednesday, “This didate Beth Anne Rankin see Ross soundly defeat his than another cookie-cutter business owners who are in troops earlier than the pres- has to be discouraging to became the fi rst legitimate insurgent challenger at the Neoconservative defined a situation similar to mine,” ident sent them ... we’re anyone who might have challenger to Congress- ballot box and retain his by her ignorance on the one he asked, “my question is, going to be in this war hoped that a Tea Party- man Mike Ross in recent seat. Why? issue that threatens to do quite simply, if I’m forced forever.” aligned possible presiden- memory by focusing her Because for all her bleat- the most harm to the United to do this, what will I tell Like most Neocons, tial contender would bring campaign around reigning ing about the Constitution States: foreign policy. those people whose jobs I Cain is either blind to or anything new or remark- in government spending, and out-of-control federal Not to be outdone, the will have to eliminate?” doesn’t care about the ideo- able to the substance of controlling the national spending, Rankin was still fi eld of Republican chal- A weighty question, in- logical confl ict inherent in the primary debates for the debt and opposing fed- an unqualified supporter lengers hoping to take on deed, and one that threw advocating a conservative next cycle.” eral bailouts, stimulus and of the unconstitutional, Barack Obama in 2012 is the usually cool-headed government at home while Disappointed, maybe, healthcare reform. ridiculously expensive in- full of candidates who talk Clinton for a loop while maintaining a liberal em- but I’m far from discour- Not surprisingly, these terventionist foreign policy the conservative talk on putting Cain on an irrevers- pire abroad. aged. bedrock conservative prin- popularized by George W. domestic issues but fail to ible collision course with Notes The American If Rankin’s defeat is any ciples resonated with a Bush. extend the same logic to political stardom - thanks Conservative’s Daniel Lar- indication, Tea Party vot- large portion of Arkansas’ During a pre-election our policies overseas. in no small part to current son, “Cain seems to have ers are too well-versed in fourth congressional dis- interview with yours truly, Of these, none seems anger over the Patient Pro- embraced Bushism in for- the deceptive practices of trict, and rightly so. Along she was as candid as she poised for greater success tection and Affordable Care eign policy in 2010-11 to big-time politicos to fall with taxes, the four issues could be about continuing than Herman Cain. Act passed last year. a degree that very few Re- for Cain’s rhetoric without listed above constitute the our overseas adventurism Like Rankin, Cain’s can- But as Rankin’s cam- publicans did when Bush seriously investigating and most contentious topics of in Iraq, Afghanistan, Paki- didacy seems promising paign pointed out for Ar- was President and still questioning his policies. the day and Rankin’s posi- stan, Yemen and any other at fi rst glance. He’s a suc- kansans, to consider only reasonably popular.” And with any luck, they tions are of the unquestion- country that “harbored Is- cessful businessman best one set of policies at the Larson is right, Cain is will turn down another ably pro-freedom, populist lamic extremists,” despite known for turning around expense of all others is wrong, and to paraphrase supposedly conservative, persuasion. warnings from Osama Bin the failing Godfather’s folly of the highest order.