GRAVETTE — ◊ The new filtration plant is now in operation and the headline read, “Gravette water is already improving.” It will be several weeks until the lines are cleared of deposits of sediment which have been building up over the years.
◊The first quarterly tax settlement has been distributed and Gravette schools received $8,879.58. The city general fund received $1,238.31.
◊Wes Santee, a member of the 1952 Olympic Team will be guest speaker May 13 at the Gravette gym. His topic will be “how to be a champion on and off the field.”
◊Graduation at Sulphur Springs will be May 13 at the school gym with KOAM-TV program director Louis Ray Martin, a Sulphur native, asspeaker, according to Leana Vanderpool, principal.
◊Horton’s Variety offers fast developing service on black and white and color film: 8 exposure roll, 90 cents, and 12 exposure, $1.10. Free roll of film with B&W jumbo prints.
◊Gravette Locker advertised that “you can rent a locker for 20 years for less than the cost of a deep freeze.”
◊Wilkerson Lumber Co. announced Seidlitz house paint, $5.98 a gallon.
◊Church of Christ, North Third and Main announced revival services, according to W. A. Martin, minister.
◊A picture of Paul Belts and his champion hogs appeared in the last issue of the Arkansas Farmer. He recently took almost all the prizes at the show at Little Rock.
Opinion, Pages 4 on 05/05/2010