Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1955-1980

WH OFFICERS - New officers of the Searcy chapter of the Associated 'omen for Harding are {front row, from left) Mrs. Richard Walk~r, president; Mrs. ..Ed Murray, historian; Mrs. Buford Tucker, secretary; Miss Sher-ry Davis, reporter ; (second row) Mrs. Daryl Bell, first vice president; rs.. Boyce Arnett, second vice president; Mrs. Dean Curtis, third vice p esident and Mrs. S. D. White, treasurer. Installation ceremonies were held ~Y 8 in the home of Mrs_. David Burks. ~ - / Cf 19 I If Communism were on the wrestling floor when J. D. Bales was a wresUer in the 1930-S, the world · would · probably have an easier go with the Red Menace today. ' ' ding in 1933 as a student and started a wrestling ieam with $3 from the \thletic fund. He wrestled and coached. Herman West, local p r i n t ·e r a n photograpiier, was the team and wo · state champion 1934, Bales said -~· Bales, that ·p~ · fie letter to the editor writer, anti-communist, teacher, reader, and • author of over. 60 books today doesn't l()()k like he won second place in the state wrestling championship . He · stands six feet two, and is thin. Nothjng like a wrestler. · ''I went to Little Rock and said I would challenge anybody in the state in wrestling," Bales said. He said that was a fool ish assertion because.he got beat. "I was really too tall to be wrestling," he mused. ·Bales said he wrote his first letter to the editor of the Arkansas . Gazette in 1935 shortly after he arrived at Harding to be a student. It dealt with a religious · subject. "Somebody in the Gar.ette bad taken a pot shot at the Bible and I replied to that," Bales said. Since, Bales has written thousands of articles for magazines across the nation and one of his books received the Century Book Award in 1962. ·'Communism : Its Faith and Fallacies" was recognized for its literary excellence and outstanding- achieve– ment in the field of Christian literatur,e, Martha Collar, a - Harding . College journalism student writes in the Feb. 24, 1978 issue of the Bison in her fea~re story on Bales. ~ In the Citizen in– terview with Bales Wedrlesday , March 15, Bales ,aid that most of his relsearch on books bas come from his classroom w rk or just what he was thinking about at the time. He is presently at work on ''thr or four' ' books. One e talked about deals with man's imperfections. His thesis is that whenever man feels he can create a perfect world, such as the communists believe, destruction is the result. Bales exudes an extraordinary amount of energy. Walking into his office, if you dare, be careful. Lining the walls of his office entrance are filing cabinets on either side of the aisle. On top of the cabinets are papen in folders, newspape , and who knows wh else. To get to his office is like taking n excursion throulh a deluge of paper ancl ink and almost sinkJng. Yet, be says, he knows Where • ' •