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UA-Monticello to Honor Wisener, Chamberlin, Howlett and Mann during Homecoming Events A banker, a tax attorney, a retired military officer, and a former Boll Weevil football star will be honored by the University of Arkansas at Monticello during the university's homecoming celebration October 17. Bill Wisener, senior vice president of the Monticello branch of Simmons First Bank of South Arkansas, Houston attorney Harold A. "Hank" Chamberlain, and Colonel (Ret.) Byron Howlett of San Antonio, Tex., will receive the Alumni Awards for Achievement and Merit. The awards are presented annually to outstanding alumni for their professional achievements and contributions to their communities and the university. M.L. Mann of Monticello, a former All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference tackle for Convoy Leslie's Boll Weevil football dynasty of the 1950s, will receive the Continuing the Connection Award, presented to the person who best keeps alive the connection between UAM and Arkansas A&M. The awards will be presented during the A&M/UAM Alumni Dinner on Friday, October 17 at 7 p.m. in the John F. Gibson University Center. Tickets for the dinner are $15 and may be purchased at the door. A native of Warren, Bill Wisener was a three-year letterman on the Boll Weevil basketball team before graduating from UAM in 1973 with a bachelor of science in education degree. He spent 27 years on the management team of Warren Bank and Trust before joining Simmons First in 2002. He is a former president of the Arkansas Young Bankers Association and a 1984 graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking in Dallas. Wisener is a member of the Drew Memorial Hospital Foundation board and the Monticello Economic Development Commission board of directors, serves as president of the UAM Sports Association, and chairman of both the UAM Foundation Fund board and the administrative board of the First United Methodist Church of Monticello. Byron Howlett was a football star at Arkansas A&M before graduating in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in business administration. Howlett lettered four years for the Boll Weevils as a guard and earned All-AIC honors in 1949. After graduation, Howlett attended the Army's officer candidate school before serving in the Korean War, where he flew medical evacuation missions for 16 months. After Korea, Howlett returned to civilian life and earned an MBA from Harvard University before deciding to make the military his career. Howlett‘s duty assignments took him to three continents. In South Vietnam he commanded the medical evacuation units in the northern half of the country and was awarded the Silver Star for Heroism while evacuating the wounded at the battle of Dak To. Howlett remained in the military for 31 years, retiring as assistant commandant of the Academy of Health Sciences at Fort Sam Houston, the Army's largest service school. Howlett had a second career with USAA, one of the country's most successful financial services companies before retiring in 1994. Harold A. "Hank" Chamberlain has been a federal tax lawyer for more than half a century. A graduate of Dumas High School, Chamberlain earned a bachelor's degree from Arkansas A&M in 1952 before becoming a teaching fellow in the Auburn University Graduate School. After service in the Army, Chamberlain earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas. He was admitted to the Arkansas Bar Association in 1957 and the Texas Bar in 1963. Chamberlain began his law career in 1957 as a trial attorney with the Regional Counsel's Office of the Internal Revenue Service in Dallas. From 1961 to 1963, he was a senior trial attorney for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. For much of his professional life, Chamberlain served as the founding and managing partner of Chamberlain and Hrdlicka, a tax litigation boutique firm specializing in every phase of federal income, estate and gift, excise, and foreign and domestic tax litigation and planning. In 1988, Chamberlain sold his practice and became a solo practitioner, handling selected legal engagements for clients ranging from business and tax planning to federal and state court litigation of business and professional firms. Chamberlain currently resides in Houston, Texas, where he is of counsel with Riddle and Associates, LLP, Attorneys at Law. Originally signed to a football scholarship at the University of Arkansas, M.L. Mann transferred to Arkansas A&M and lettered three years as a tackle for two of the most successful football teams in school history, the 1951 squad that won a then-school record eight games, and the 1955 AIC championship squad. Mann earned All-AIC honors in '55. A veteran of the Korean War, Mann earned a B.S.E. degree in 1956 and entered private business as a claims representative for Hartford Fire Insurance Company. Mann served as claims manager of Hartford's Albuquerque, New Mexico office, field supervisor in Hartford's home office, regional claims manager in Fresno, California, and regional manager in Atlanta, Georgia before retiring in 1992. Presidential, County Clerk Races; ACMC Tax, Constitutional Issues Head Ballot for General Election Ashley County voters, along with others across the state and nation, will be going to the polls next Tuesday, November 4, to elect a new president and vice president, to determine one county-wide race, to decide on five statewide issues and one local issue. Also, citizens of Wilmot will be selecting council members in two contested races.
List of Unopposed Candidates on Tuesday’s General Election Ballot While all of the contested races have been spelled out in other stories, there are also a large number of uncontested races on the ballot this November. Those who will be elected or re-elected without opposition include: Election Commission Tells Ashley County Polling Sites The Ashley County Election Commission has announced the polling sites for the general election next Tuesday. The sites are as follows: Hamburg Chamber Asks Council for Support The Hamburg City Council in its regular meeting on Monday night, October 27, heard three requests for funding. Hamburg Board Finalizes Sale of Phase II Construction Bonds In a special meeting at noon on Tuesday, October 21, the Hamburg School Board finalized the sale of $2.79 million in construction bonds for the second phase of the projects approved by the voters in 2007. Crossett Council Takes Action on Launius Request With two items on the agenda, one of which was postponed, Crossett aldermen took a single action during the council's regular meeting held on Monday, October 20. Hamburg Board to Set Requirements, Desires for Superintendent In its regular meeting on Monday night, October 20, the Hamburg School Board set two special meetings, with one of the two to deal with construction projects and the second to formulate what the board wants in a permanent superintendent and the procedures for the search. Child's Death Due To Internal Injuries Ashley County Coroner Steve Hartshorn said this week that a report from the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory indicated that a Hamburg girl, Niesha Kry'stal Lewis, died from internal injuries as a result of an automobile accident in Hamburg on Friday, October 3. Rawls Presides Over Quorum Court Meeting The Ashley County Quorum Court held its regular meeting on Tuesday, October 14, in a session that lasted only about 20 minutes. Crossett Board Reorganizes; Hill Says Inflation Eating Up Savings from District Reconfiguration The election of officers and ex-officio financial secretary, financial report, the annual report to the public and the designation of disbursing officer centered Crossett's School Board of Education October meeting held on Monday, October 13. One of the two Crossett men accused in the April beating death of a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man was sentenced Monday, October 20, to 10 years in prison. Crossett School District Report to the Public The Crossett School District operates four school sites, all of which are accredited by the North Central Association. A very detailed improvement plan is in place at each campus to guide the schools by NCA Standards over a five-year period. Additionally, the schools are following plans to improve the academic success of students on the state-mandated assessment. UAM-CTC To Host Open House Thursday, October 23 The UAM College of Technology-Crossett will host an open house for its recently completed Industrial Technology Building on October 23 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Despite implement weather, Eagle Family Ministries, working with Feed the Children, held its first food distribution in Wilmot Thursday afternoon, October 16. As scattered rain fell over parts of Ashley County, a large crowd of Parkdale and Wilmot residents seeking food assistance waited their turn in line. Cases Reach Disposition in Circuit Courts Tenth Judicial District Circuit judges Sam Pope and Don Glover presided over a number of final dispositions in Ashley County Circuit court last week. County to Collect Outdated Pesticides At Portland Site on Tuesday, Oct. 28 Ashley County producers will have the opportunity to dispose of their outdated and unused pesticides during a collection event on Tuesday, October, 28, at Farm Equipment Company in Portland.
Members of the Ashley County Extension Homemakers Club met Thursday, October 9, in the conference room of the courthouse annex for its fall council program. Guest speaker Stephen Svetz III, instructor/investigator with the Arkansas Attorney General's office, spoke to the group on identity theft and offered preventive tips.
Hamburg's Inez Barnes was one of about 47,000 women who took part in the fifteenth annual Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in Little Rock on Saturday, October 11, and she has the distinction of placing first among all of the cancer survivors. UA-Monticello to Honor Wisener, Chamberlin, Howlett and Mann during Homecoming Events A banker, a tax attorney, a retired military officer, and a former Boll Weevil football star will be honored by the University of Arkansas at Monticello during the university's homecoming celebration October 17. Seach for Wilmot Man Ends on Friday Afternoon Search teams recovered the body of a 59-year-old Wilmot native from Lake Enterprise in Wilmot Friday afternoon following a two-day search. Dermott Man Killed in Portland Industrial Accident A Dermott man was killed Tuesday night following an industrial accident at GPS Cotton Gin on Highway 165 in Portland. Judge Sets Unlawful Burning Case for November Tenth Judicial District Circuit Judge Sam Pope handed down rulings and imposed sentencing in a number of cases Monday, October 6, in the Ashley County Circuit Courtroom.
The Hamburg Volunteer Fire Department has a new chief leading the 21 man department. Chip LaCaze, 37, of Hamburg, officially took over the role on Wednesday, October 1. However, LaCaze said, he began serving as fire chief one week before his official start date. "It's going to be stressful, challenging, but I'm excited about it," LaCaze said. "I am going to do the best job I can, keep my guys safe and provide protection to everyone in the county that needs it."
Wilmot native Mamie Parker has been selected The Wilderness Society's national Faces of Conservation award for her lifetime commitment to fish and wildlife conservation. Her photo will hang on a specially-designated wall in the nonprofit's Washington headquarters.
According to an announcement from Miss Ashley County pageant coordinator Renee Stokes, Jahley Stahley has relinquished her the title of Miss Ashley County 2008 as well as the crown, all awards and scholarships.
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