I Saw It In ... Nashville N The News N THURSDAY • January 19, 2012 • Issue 6 • 1 Section • 10 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents B REAKING Howard Dawson hired as top Scrapper Co. JP SPORTS board meeting. Graham said Wednesday during and two appearances in the semi- Board members hired Billy a followup interview. “His record finals. passes CHARLES GOODIN Dawson as head football coach, speaks for itself, but it is the in- Graham went on to say that DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY teacher and assistant athletic di- tangibles that he brings to the Dawson does a good job motivat- Terrica Hendrix News Staff Editor rector after an hour-long executive program that we are most excited ing the team, provides leadership session that also included discus- about.” and is a good role model. He also Howard NASHVILLE - One of the most sion on Superintendent Doug Gra- Dawson, who spent five years in stated that Dawson is able to teach County Justice of lauded coaches in Scrapper his- ham’s contract. the team’s top position between valuable life lessons to young the Peace Duke tory will take up the reins of the “We are awful proud to welcome 2005 and 2009, amassed a 54-3 people and works well with the Tomerlin has died team once again following a unani- Billy Dawson back to the Nash- record that included trips to three staff at Nashville High School and at age 75. mous vote at Tuesday’s school ville School District and family,” consecutive state championships See DAWSON / Page 10 Tomerlin died Wednesday morn- ing at his home. JPs approve He began AN ATHLETE’S NIGHTMARE two-ambulance serv- TOMERLIN ing on the quorum court Road to recovery a long one when sports injuries take their toll in January 2005. franchise Howard County Judge HEALTH Kevin Smith said, “it was a plea- CHARLES GOODIN sure working with Managing Editor Duke on quorum court for three NASHVILLE - Howard County years. He was Justices of the Peace brought well-respected months of debate to a close Tues- in the county… day with a 7-1 vote in favor of everybody re- See JP / Page 3 splitting the county between two franchised ambulance services. JP Louis Smith was the sole Man gets objector to the decision. The move followed a lengthy 18 years discussion that began when JP Archie “Cotton” Cothren spoke for rape on behalf of a committee set up Terrica Hendrix last month to discuss the pro- Editor posed change. Cothren said the group’s recommendation was to NASHVILLE – divide the county along existing A local man has fire department boundaries with been sentenced regions north of Dierks falling un- to 18 years der the jurisdiction of Emergency in Medical Transport (EMT), a Pike prison County company owned by Dale for the Weston. rape Under the proposal, How- of a STOVALL ard County Ambulance Service teen- ager in Howard DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY | Nashville News (HCAS) would remain the fran- County. Jordan Miller reacts to a bad play during a recent chised service in the areas south Vandy Stovall I went from basketball game. Miller has been recovering from a torn of Dierks. II, received the ACL since last year. “Who would be the responding prison term after fire department would be the re- changing his plea sponding ambulance service for to guilty Wednes- n playing every DEWAYNE HOLLOWAY Sports Editor both the north and south ends of day before a t only took an instant for Jordan Miller’s basketball the county,” Cothren explained. circuit judge. season to come to a screeching halt when a routine The 24-year- Weston, who was present at the move in practice went horribly wrong, forcing her old told Judge minute to I meeting to field questions from Charles A. to face surgery and months of rehabilitation. the JPs, said his company was Yeargan that he Miller recalls the incident while sitting in the “very interested” in the prospect had intercourse none at all. bleachers, watching her teammates warm up before of moving into the northern half with “someone practice - something that she had done for the past of Howard County, but hesitated See RAPE / Page 3 four seasons before she tore her ACL. to make a concrete commitment -Jordan Miller It happened during a scrimmage on Oct. 31. She until after the quorum court’s Injured athlete See NIGHTMARE / Page 10 vote. C OMING UP “I want this to be your deci- Antioch Mis- See AMBULANCE / Page 10 sionary Baptist Church will hold a round robin worship service Sun., Jan. 29 beginning at 5:30 Ray announces bid p.m. There will be special music “ and sermons pre- sented by Breth- for county judge ren Gary Welch, Archie Phillips, Glen Green and TERRICA HENDRIX ences handling budgets and Bobby Neal. Re- Editor my degree in administration freshments will and economics gives me a follow the service NASHVILLE – “Honesty, good background to improve and the public is Integrity, Efficiency” is the invited to attend. the efficiency of county op- campaign slogan for Howard erations and make the county County Line County judge candidate Dan- budge more fiscally conserva- Baptist Church nie Ray. tive.” will hold a third Ray, of Nashville, is “a He is a 1965 graduate of Friday night sing- native of Howard County” Nashville High School and is ing Fri., Jan. 20 and has family roots in the married to the former Betty beginning at 6:30 county that go back six gen- p.m. Hicks. They have been mar- erations. ried for 45 years and have two The Howard “I have been a business sons: David Ray, of Nashville County Chil- owner for generations and and Aaron Ray of North Little dren’s Center spent most of my profes- Rock. board of direc- sional life as a manager in For more information on tors will meet maintenance construction Tues., Feb. 7 at Ray’s campaign, call 557-7984 CHARLES GOODIN | Nashville News the center begin- and municipal fields,” he said. or send an email to: electdan- Dannie Ray recently announced his candidacy for county judge, a position currently ning at noon. Ray continued, “my experi- [email protected] occupied by Kevin Smith. Page 2 THURSDAY January 19, 2012 Opinions The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 from the sidelines Dewayne Holloway Sports Editor Can it get any better? Well, it’s official. Billy Dawson has returned to the helm at the juggernaut that is Nashville Scrapper football. Dawson brings a pedigree straight out of a Hol- lywood script to the table. In fact the script was acted out seven years ago when Dawson returned to the school he grew up in, winning three consecutive state championships and accumulating only three losses in five years. As he returns, many might look at my analogy and ponder the fate of the sequel we are seemingly get- ting ready to watch play out at Scrapper stadium. Many sequels struggle to match the success of the original offering, but there are rare occasions when the sequel not only matches the success of the first but dares to exceed it. I had the pleasure of standing in the coach’s office yesterday waiting for an opportunity to talk with Coach Dawson. He stood quietly in the doorway as he waited for Athletic Director Bunch Nichols to finish his intro- duction. Just as an actor would wait for his cue, Dawson SOPA, PIPA and You stood patiently, gathering his thoughts, and as the introductions came to a close, he stepped onto the stage once more. It’s not uncommon to pedia suspended its Eng- as we know it. He closed the door behind him and addressed a hear people from my gen- lish operations for 24 Charles To make matters worse, captive audience made up of young men who have eration and those that hours, news aggregators the purported goals of the dreamed of playing for the legendary Coach Dawson. 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