NashvilleThe News Revocation of Adcock’s THURSDAY • October 2, 2014 • Issue 79 • 1 Section • 14 Pages • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents • PUBLISHED EACH MONDAY & THURSDAY In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 license on state board agenda Lockesburg The Arkansas Board of Education will debate whether to revoke the license woman arrested of former Mineral Springs Saratoga Superintendent Max Adcock Thurs., Oct. 9 during the group’s on drug charges regular meeting. According to the meeting agenda, CHARLES GOODIN her vehicle Adcock is accused of Editor and she said violating standards yes.” that require educa- tors entrusted with MINERAL SPRINGS - A The affi- public funds and traffic stop by city officer davit goes property to “[honor] Chris “Droopy” Gates and on to allege that trust with a BOLO order from Howard that Gates honest, respon- County deputies led to asked to sible stewardship.” SIMS The Professional D.E. RAY | Nashville News the arrest of a Lockesburg look at a Licensure Standards Area emergency workers investigate the scene of a two-vehicle accident Monday woman on drug charges prescription pill bottle Board Ethics Sub- afternoon at the intersection of Highway 27 and Collins Road. Monday. Sims admitted to holding in committee recom- According to the affi- her purse, in which he dis- mended the revo- davit of arrest, 31 year old covered “an assortment of cation following an evidentiary hearing Aubrey Sims was taken different colors and shapes MONDAY ACCIDENT into custody around 9:30 of pills,” aside from the Aug. 1, according to the agenda, and Ad- p.m. after Gates stopped Hydrocodone listed on the cock has requested Truck collision sends two to area hospitals the white GMC truck she bottle. a review by the state was driving at the inter- Howard County Deputy board. D.E. RAY He is represented Hwy 27. Gregory Culp, 47, Sheriff’s Department, as section of Highway 27 and Steven Wakefield later ar- in the matter by Managing Editor also of Nashville, report- well as Nashville police and McCrary Street for a dam- rived on scene and the Little Rock attorney edly was travelling south firefighters, also responded aged headlight. Gates re- pair searched the vehicle, Randy Coleman. NASHVILLE - An accident on Hwy 27 in an 18-wheeler to the scene. membered a description allegedly discovering a Coleman did not at the intersection of Hwy owned by Tyson Foods. Haislip was reported matching the vehicle from glass smoking device and immediately return a call seeking com- 27 and Collins Road in Nash- Culp is alleged to have to have been cut from his a BOLO issued Thursday a plastic bag containing a ment on the pro- ville Monday afternoon attempted to avoid a col- vehicle and then airlifted by stating the vehicle was crystalline substance be- posed revocation. resulted in one man being lision by veering right, LifeNet to Christus-St. Mi- being used to transport lieved to be methamphet- PLSBES chair airlifted from the scene to a but ultimately struck the chael’s in Texarkana. Culp drugs in Howard County, amine. Sims was arrested Cheryl Reinhart said hospital in Texarkana. pickup, pushing it to the was taken from the scene according to the affidavit. and transported to Howard Wednesday that speciic information According to statements southwest corner of the by a private vehicle. Neither “While she handed me County Jail, where the pills about the allegations from the Arkansas State intersection while his trac- the extent of their injuries her license, her hands were in the bottle were identified against Adcock is Police, Floyd Haislip, 73, of tor-trailer ended in the nor their current condition shaking as if she was very as a mix of Hydrocodone, protected under the Nashville was driving his right hand ditch, where it were made available at the nervous,” Gates wrote in Alprazolam and Clonaz- state’s Freedom of 1996 GMC Sierra west on overturned and released a time of reporting. the report. “I asked her if epam, according to the Information law until after the state board Collins Road at 4:58 p.m. portion of its cargo of live The accident blocked she had anything in the police report. reviews the mat- Monday and failed to yield chickens. traffic at the intersection for truck and she said no. I Sims remains in jail on a ter. Once a ruling is at the intersection with The Howard County several hours. asked if I could search $25,000 bond. made, it will become part of the public record. Reinhart further stated that ap- peals to the state board are rare in Newly-seated board at Mineral Springs selects officers matters where license revocation is D.E. RAY of each month at 6:30 p.m. recommended, but Managing Editor Their first regular meeting declined to com- ment on the typical will be on October 13, despite outcome of such MINERAL SPRINGS - Dur- that being the observed date appeals. ing a special meeting that of Columbus Day, because was officially their first, the the group must also attend Hospital Mineral Springs school board a training event the next eve- preparing conducted a raft of large- ning, as well as the regional ly pro forma business on school board meeting in for Ebola Wednesday evening. Hope the following week. Howard Me- The group, all of whom After 16 minutes of seeing morial Hospital were elected to their po- to the mechanics of the estab- is preparing for a sitions in September after lishment of the school board, possible outbreak of the highly infectious the previous board was dis- board members entered into Ebola virus after a solved by the state over executive session to discuss single patient was financial irregularities, began the retention or alteration of conirmed to have by being sworn in by Mineral the contract that the state been infected with Springs mayor Walter “Son- had entered into on behalf the disease in Dallas, Texas. ny” Heatherly. Immediately of the school with superin- “Please be aware after, the group drew lots to tendent Curtis Turner. The that upon your ar- determine when their elected group came out of executive rival to the hospital, terms would end and the seat D.E. RAY | Nashville News session 21 minutes later to you will be asked be up for reelection. Robert report that they had taken questions about your The Mineral Springs Saratoga school board poses for a picture after being sworn in by Mayor current travel, es- “Ray” Hawkins, Sr. drew a of Mineral Springs Walter “Sonny” Heatherly. The board, joined by superintendent Curtis no action, but then Newton pecially to the Dallas one year term, Sheila Jackson Turner are (back) Turner, Robert “Ray” Hawkins, Sr., Zemeria Newton, Dorothy Vaughn, moved to extend the contract area or outside of two, William Dixon three, (front) Sheila Jackson, Jaimie Jackson, William Dixon and Mike Erwin. for Turner’s employment the country,” admin- Jaimie Jackson and Dorothy with the school to a three istrator Kim Turbev- Vaughn both drew four year each of the board is up for board, as board president bursing officer of the district. year term, which passed ille said in a state- ment released to terms and Zemeria Newton re-election, the group elect- and vice president respec- Following those actions, unanimously. local media Wednes- and Mike Erwin drew full five ed officers, naming Erwin tively. Newton was elected the board set their regular The group adjourned af- day. “Also, please year terms. and Dixon, both of whom as the group’s secretary, and monthly meeting time and ter 41 minutes in their first be aware that your After determining when had served on the previous Vaughn was named as the dis- date for the second Monday session. signs and symptoms may require that you be isolated until a diagnosis can be determined.” Travel destina- tions that could raise Congressional lags regarding the virus include Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and candidate Westerman Senegal, according to the statement. Symptoms of visits Howard County Ebola are similar to the lu, including a D.E. RAY a series of life events steered fever over 101.5 Managing Editor him on the course. He was degrees Fahrenheit born and raised in Garland severe headache, muscle pain, weak- NASHVILLE - Bruce Wes- County, attending Fountain ness, diarrhea, terman, candidate for Con- Lake High School before vomiting, stomach gress in the 4th district, going on to play football at pain and unexplained visited Nashville on Wednes- the University of Arkansas, bleeding or bruising. day - his third trip to Howard where he obtained a degree The symptoms usu- ally appear between County during this election in engineering. He and his two and 21 days campaign. wife of 23 years have also after exposure to the Westerman took time for raised their four children virus. an interview at the offices of there, and he is partner in Anyone with The Nashville News before an engineering firm in Hot D.E. RAY | Nashville News questions or con- cerns about the pos- making stops to speak with Springs, he remarked. Bruce Westerman, candidate for Congress, speaks with Ronnie Lyons in Nashville on sibility of Ebola being supporters and meet voters Explaining that the state Wednesday afternoon. present in Howard in the area. house seat for Hot Springs County is urged to Westerman said that he opened up at a time when school board, he served term and rising to majority he “would never have ex- contact infection never really had ambitions he was able to do “some- two terms in the legislature, leader when Republicans pected” that Congressman control nurse Gayla Beaird at 845-6941 to run for Congress, or even thing part-time” after finish- being named minority leader became the majority in the Tom Cotton would vacate or 845-1500.