The Nashville News THURSDAY • March 14, 2013 • Issue 21 • 1 Section • 14 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents IN BRIEFt Local rap artists to give back to Jonquil the community with concert Fest is this TERRICA HENDRIX tween two Howard County weekend Editor organizations. “Fifty percent of the proceeds go to Howard Jonquils NASHVILLE – Local rap artists County Single Parent Scholar- are in bloom Makwan Scroggins, Charles Vaughn ship Fund and 50 percent goes at Historic II, Maverick Canady and Urian to [the] New Addition Neighbor- Washington “Swang” Henry will be some of the hood Development Corporation State Park. The featured acts for the “Giving Back (NANDC).” arrival of those to the Community” concert set for eye-catching The Rev. Willie Benson Jr., flowers signi- Saturday. founder of NANDC, will be open- fies that it’s Gynder Benson, an organizer of ing the event up with a prayer. time to pull out the concert, said proceeds from the The concert will be held at all the stops fund raiser concert will be split be- See CONCERT / Page 4 and celebrate the arrival of Spring, and what better way to do that than to visit the 45th Howard Co. man accused Annual Jonquil MARCH FOR PARKS Festival? On March of possessing firearms 15, 16, and 17. Historic Washington will after being diagnosed welcome craft vendors from with a mental illness the surround- ing regions as TEXARKANA - A Howard Craven ordered Leslie they bring their goods to one County man is facing fed- detained, citing a need to central loca- eral firearms charges for protect the community and tion and make allegedly possessing guns Leslie himself, court docu- it easy to shop after being diagnosed with ments state. and enjoy the a mental illness. According to a federal first weeks of Brian Keith Leslie ap- criminal complaint, a con- an Arkansas peared in court Tuesday cerned citizen contacted Spring. afternoon before U.S. Mag- law enforcement in Febru- The Hemp- istrate Judge Caroline Cra- ary. stead County ven for a detention hearing “The caller stated that Melody Boys in the Texarkana division Leslie was a Federal fire- will be strolling through the of the Western District of arms licensee, who suffers festival add- Arkansas. Craven stood in from mental illness, takes ing their touch for U.S. Magistrate Barry medication for schizophre- of Blue Grass Bryant. See ACCUSED / Page 4 music to the festivities all three days. And a special per- formance by Rehiring of principals the Arkansas Symphony Or- chestra String discussed due to Quartet will be presented from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., Fri., March fiscal distress status 15 on the front porch of Wil- TERRICA HENDRIX liams’ Tavern Editor MS audit Restaurant. New this turned over to year will be the MINERAL SPRINGS – entertainment The February rehiring of State Police groups Live school principals at Miner- Wire, Midnight al Springs Saratoga School investigators Hurricanes, District was discussed by a A legislative audit re- and the McWil- fiscal distress coordinator. garding the Mineral Springs liams family, Monday evening, In- Saratoga School District and returning terim Superintendent Bill inances has been turned this year on Blackwood reported to Sunday will be over to the Arkansas State the board that Hazel Bur- the group Level Police by Prosecutor Bryan nett, Division of Fiscal and Ground. L. Chesshir. Administrative Services Events will Erin Hunter, Howard coordinator, said that due be held Friday County Deputy prosecu- to the district being placed and Saturday 9 tor, met with members on fiscal distress, the “dis- a.m. to 5 p.m. of the Legislative Joint and Sunday 9 trict can’t enter into any Audit Committee about the a.m. to 4 p.m. contract unless she ap- school district’s finances Park Pro- proves…even though it’s last week. gramming and a continuing contract.” “I asked the Arkansas Tours will be He added that the district available at the State Police to investigate “cannot issue contracts regular price. these allegations of misap- until they are approved” General admis- propriation of funds and by Burnett’s office. sion is free, miscellaneous allegations,” Although the board ad- with a $5 fee Chesshir confirmed. He opted the February min- for parking. For added that turning over the utes, they also agreed to fol- more informa- documents to the ASP is tion call 870- low Burnett’s instructions. standard procedure. 983-2684. CECIL ANDERSON | Nashville News Blackwood reported that He added that he and Eva and Fred Hintze look at auction items available at the annual March for Parks the district has $1,020,000 Wild game his deputies would decide fund raiser, held Tuesday in the green room at Nashville City Park. According to in the operating fund and whether criminal charges supper Parks and Recreation Director Nikki Cherry, the event raised $3,749 to help with the cafeteria fund has ap- should be filed after the the park’s various events and projects, including the Easter egg hunt, the trick or proximately $44,000. scheduled treat trail and holiday lighting in the park. Each event is free to the public and are ASP concludes their in- The district is in the Clow School designed to be child and family-friendly. The park commission is also raising funds vestigation. “process of doing a new Reunion Alumni to construct a new pavilion for the new Ronny K. Woods Wildlife Trail. Woods was and the Dead a long time park commissioner. See DISTRESS / Page 4 End Hunting Club will spon- sor their an- nual Wild Game Supper on Sat., March 23 at the News brings home seven awards Clow Commu- nity Center at 5 The Nashville News in the single ad under ten best special section cover, p.m. brought home seven awards inches and took first and promotion of newspaper and The menu at the Arkansas Press Asso- second place in the best ad campaign categories. will include ciation’s annual advertising political ad category. The Tamzen Jarrett-Cox is the Venison, wild conference. paper also won third place Nashville News’ advertising pig, raccoon The News won first place in the best special section, manager. and other dish- es. There will be no charge but donations n AT LEFT: Nashville News Circulation Manager Cindy Harding and Office Manager Donna will be appreci- Harwell display the two first place awards, one second place award and four third place awards ated. the News brought home at the Arkansas Press Association’s annual advertising awards dinner. 2 EDITORIAL Thursday, March 14, 2013 | The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 How multiculturalism harms minorities Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few have been more irrational and counterproductive than the current dogmas of multiculturalism. Intellectuals who imagine that they are helping racial or ethnic groups that lag behind by re- defining their lags out Thomas of existence with multi- Sowell cultural rhetoric are in fact leading them into a Creators blind alley. Multiculturalism is Syndicate a tempting quick fix for groups that lag by sim- ply pronouncing their cultures to be equal, or "equally valid," in some vague and lofty sense. Cul- tural features are just different, not better or worse, according to this dogma. Yet the borrowing of particular features from other cultures — such as Arabic numerals that re- placed Roman numerals, even in Western cultures that derived from Rome — implies that some fea- tures are not simply different but better, including numbers. Some of the most advanced cultures in history have borrowed from other cultures, because no given collection of human beings has created the best answers to all the questions of life. Nevertheless, since multiculturalists see all cul- tures as equal or "equally valid," they see no justifi- cation for schools to insist that black children learn standard English, for example. Instead, each group is encouraged to cling to its own culture and to take pride in its own past glories, real or imaginary. In other words, members of minority groups that lag educationally, economically or otherwise are to Who speaks for the GOP? continue to behave in the future as they have in the past — and, if they do not get the same outcomes as others, it is society's fault. That is the bottom line Last Wednesday, Sen. and from bin Laden jihad- now regarded America as a message of multiculturalism. Rand Paul rose on the ists in Afghanistan to Is- Pat battlefield, and if he regard- George Orwell once said that some ideas are so Senate floor to declare a lamist propagandists like ed U.S. citizens as possible foolish that only an intellectual could believe them. filibuster and pledge he Anwar al Awlaki and his Buchanan enemy combatants who Multiculturalism is one of those ideas. The intelli- would not sit down until 16-year-old son, both U.S. Creators may be targeted and killed gentsia burst into indignation or outrage at "gaps" either he could speak no citizens, in Yemen. Syndicate without due process of law. or "disparities" in educational, economic or other longer or got an answer to Whom do we have a Paul's victory was con- outcomes — and denounce any cultural explanation his question about Barack right to kill? Americans are ceded when a letter arrived of these group differences as "blaming the victim." Obama's war powers. asking. What are the bor- from Holder conceding There is no question that some races or whole na- done with simplicity and Does the president, Paul ders of the battlefield upon that he and the president tions have been victimized by others, any more than dignity, without histrionics there is any question that cancers can cause death.