The Nashville News Monday • November 25, 2013 • Issue 94 • 1 Section • 12 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents IN BRIEFt Negligent Dierks homicide Christmas events charge filed announced Dierks will against man host its an- nual Christmas parade Dec. involved in 16 at 6 p.m. All floats for the parade need September to be at the high school by 5:30 and can accident register upon arrival. There will Blood alcohol be Christmas festivities content was 0.19 immediately following in percent at the the Dierks United Meth- time of crash, odist Church parking lot. police allege There will be five drawings CHARLES GOODIN with each win- Editor ner receiving 100 “Dierks D.E. RAY | Nashville News MURFREESBORO - A charge Husqvarna General Manager Tony Cochran conducts a tour of the Nashville facility for Hope Enterprise CEO Dollars” and of negligent homicide has been Bill Bynum Thursday during a reception honoring the company for their contribution to a new plating operation children can inside the plant. Nashville Economic Development Commissioner John Stinnett looks on. filed against a Nashville man register to win who was involved in an accident a free iPad or that took the life of his girlfriend. iPod. Court documents filed Friday There will allege that Jeremy Barfield, 34, be Angel trees INDUSTRIAL had a blood alcohol content of set up at First National Bank, 0.19 percent Sept. 27, when the First State 1973 Jeep CJ-5 he was driving ADVANCEMENT flipped approximately 2.3 miles Bank, and Diamond Bank south of Murfreesboro near Dia- of Dierks on Husqvarna celebrates $8 million mond Park Speedway. The legal Mon., Nov. 25. limit for blood alcohol content For more metal plating, honing investment is 0.08 percent in the state of information, Arkansas. contact Larry NASHVILLE- HOPE Enterprise Corporation/Hope According to the affidavit Jones at 870- of arrest attached to Barfield’s 286-2928. Credit Union was honored during a presentation Thursday for committing $8,000,000 in New Markets case file, Arkansas State Police Tax Credit allocation to Husqvarna Group’s Nashville Trooper Chris Harper’s investi- manufacturing facility for new plating and honing gation into the crash revealed Mineral equipment for their hand-held lawn tool engine assem- that Barfield “had lost control bly. The funding will be used to purchase new machin- of the vehicle and in attempting Springs ery, which will bring the plating and honing process to regain control he had over- Christmas in-house and will be more efficient and environmen- steered the Jeep, causing it to tally friendly than commonly used methods, according roll over at least twice.” events to plant officials. The accident occurred announced HOPE is a community development financial institu- around 10:30 p.m. Barfield’s tion, founded in 1994, which provides public, private girlfriend, 32 year old Terah The City and philanthropic resources and policy analysis to Mumau, remained inside the of Mineral strengthen communities, build assets and improve vehicle and was killed, while Springs will Barfield was ejected, according host a market lives in economically distressed parts of the Mid to police reports. day from 7 South, according to statements from the group. These a.m. to 2 p.m. projects have benefitted Katrina-affected areas and “Barfield was transported Sat., Dec. distressed communities throughout Arkansas, Louisi- to Texarkana for medical treat- 7. The city’s See INDUSTRY / Page 9 ment,” Harper wrote in the annual Christ- affidavit. “A blood sample was mas parade taken from Barfield at the time will begin at 1 of his medical treatment [which p.m. the same D.E. RAY house at the Husqvarna plant in was] determined to be 0.19 day. Area civic News Staff percent by the Arkansas Depart- groups, orga- Jan-Eze reacts Nashville is one of profound still- ness and measured responses. ment of Health Office of Alcohol nizations and Testing.” individuals NASHVILLE- Jan-Eze Plating “Our business plans have Barfield also faces a charge are welcome to Husqvarna General Manager Larry Frohnap- changed - theirs and ours,” he to participate. pel’s reaction to questions about said during a recent interview. of driving while intoxicated For additional the recent announcement of new “They are no longer compatible.” resulting from the crash. Court documents indicate he was con- information, developments plating facilities to be placed in- See JAN-EZE / Page 9 call 287-4230. victed of a DWI in Pike County in 2010. Church to hold event for Rotarian shares trip to Africa with club musicians CHARLES GOODIN locals told her that the Editor custom is due to the over- The Corinth whelming grief most feel First Mission- NASHVILLE - Rotary at the death of a child. ary Baptist President Margi Jenks She went on to describe Church invites shared experiences and a developing country that area choirs to the church’s insights gained during a is both advanced and musician recent trip to Africa with primitive in many ways. appreciation the club during their regu- Cell phone service is avail- musical Sun., lar meeting Wednesday. able throughout the re- Dec. 1 at 2:30 Jenks recently returned gion and most homes have p.m. from visiting the country televisions, but Jenks said of Togo, a 22,000 square the country still struggles mile sliver-shaped na- to deal with basic needs New 4-H tion on the western edge like sewer, running water of the continent. It was and garbage pickup. assistant a trip she described as Jenks also mentioned announced “amazing, fascinating and the difficulty of traveling heartbreaking” when she in Togo, calling the drivers Howard spoke to the gathering at “worse than any place I’ve County 4-H Western Sizzlin’. ever been, including Italy has a new In no location was and New York City.” She program as- CHARLES GOODIN | Nashville News the gamut of emotions sistant. Tina Rotary Club President Margi Jenks shows club members a bottle of “medicine” she purchased said she woke up most Williams is more evident than at the on a recent trip to Togo, Africa. days to the sound of car now serving in country’s grocery stores horns, which are used that position. and cemeteries, Jenks the people are and how celebrated with magnifi- - which are about seven zealously on the country’s For more in- explained. they thing,” she said. cent parties in the coun- times more likely than primary thoroughfares. formation, call “They really seem to According to Jenks, try, while the deaths of in the United States - are Although most people 845-7517. speak to me about who deaths of the elderly are infants and young people met with silence. She said See AFRICA / Page 9 2 EDITORIAL Monday, November 25, 2013 | The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 he death of liberalism? By 1968, Walter Lippmann, the dean of liberal columnists, had concluded that liberalism had reached the end of its tether. In that liberal epoch, the 1960s, the Democratic Party had marched us into an endless war that was tearing America apart. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society had produced four "long, hot summers" of racial riots and a national crime rate that had doubled in a decade. The young were alienated, the campuses aflame. Lippmann endorsed Richard Nixon. For forty years, no un- abashed liberal would be elected president. PAT Jimmy Carter won one BUCHANAN term by presenting himself as a born-again Christian Creators from Georgia, a peanut farm- Syndicate er, Naval Academy graduate and nuclear engineer. Bill Clinton ran as a centrist. So toxic had the term "lib- eral" become that liberals dropped it and had themselves rebaptized as "progressives." Barack Obama, however, ran unapologetically as a man of the left. An opponent of the Iraq war, he had compiled a voting record to the left of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont. And Obama proudly placed his signature achievement, Obamacare, right alongside, and in the tradition of, liberal giants FDR and LBJ. This is the new progressivism of the 21st century, Obama was saying, and I the transformational figure who will usher in the post-Reagan era. Where Clinton failed, I will succeed. But now that Obamacare is coming to be perceived as a political catastrophe, not only does it threaten Obama's place in history, it could invalidate, indeed, eviscerate the defining idea of the Democratic Party itself. For Democrats are the Party of Government. They be- lieve that government is more nobly motivated than a pri- vate sector that runs on self-interest and the profit motive, and that government can achieve goals private enterprise could never accomplish. Character and competence To liberals, government is us, the personification of the nation. Social Security, Medicare, Medicare and the Civil Rights WASHINGTON -- For con- cluding the self-adoration and legislative branch- Act of 1964 are monuments to this belief. So, too, are the world wars fought and won under liberal presidents Wood- cision and precision in de- -- of its principal occu- es, about money should row Wilson and FDR. scribing Barack Obama’s GEORGE pant, sits in a city that has not be called crises; they It was 1968, the Tet Offensive, the assassinations, the suddenly ambivalent re- WILL become addicted to its should be called politics. urban riots, the campus anarchy, the smash-up of the lationship with his singu- Washington own adrenaline. It is in a The separation of pow- Democratic Party in the streets of Chicago that caused the lar -- actually, his single perpetual swivet stoked ers that is the essence of national recoil from liberalism that lasted for forty years.