Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1955-1980

• SCARY PROCESSION · nual pilgrimage to the with her students from is familiar to those aro year to year for the stu Dot Beck, dressed as a witch, makes her an– urtsquare· Friday to sing Halloween songs t Beck's Kindergarten. Though her costume d town, its scariness never diminishes from nts. ( Citizenphoto by Randy Kemp) DECISIONS, DE<;ISIONS - Bonnie Garner, 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pat arner of 913 North Jartes, finds the choice difficult as she shops for a prospective Halloween.iack-o'-lantern at Wisdom's Produce in Searcy. (Citizenphoto-by Randy Kemp) I ByLINniHILBUN possible tribal war. , Cftiz~~lblff Writer Although two people were Rees and Patty Bryant killed in ·th.e l skirmish have a longing. A longing, Bryant was able. to pacify that is, · to r~turn to the the two sides Jong enough } hospital they helped for the police to arrive. establish in Nigeria. '.'I went down there and After spending over five stood between the · two years in Onicha Ngwa·, villages and begged them Nigeria, the couple retlf°n-: to go . home," Brya.nt ex- ed to Ameri · 196'1' t.o J • give their children an· P amed displaying a machete he received from American education ·, and the tribes for being a plan to go back next "peacemaker". "l spen:t September after a ,ear's the better part of three' sta YinSearcy. days at:ting as a Co-founders of the peacemaker. I guess you Nigerian · Christian _ could say I was a sort of Hospital, the Btyants ex- 'b h' H plained that the facility us enry Kissinger." was bl(!lt as -a "work of "Since th e ·villag~rs see benevoftnc , instead of a me as being a neutral par~ mUfil{onary 1<>5t. · ty, they are willing to listen Alth gh ne of the to'my counsel," he added. outgro tbs "f the hospital In the States to recruit is to angelir.e the area, medical personnel for ·the the- w rk, Bryant said, is hospital, Bryant, who is purel a'rnedical one. president of the African No physician, Bryant's Christian Hospitals wo.._ in Nigeria involved organization, is relocating hanlling business matters his executive committee in ; relatiq to t}le hospital and Searcy. Local members of • * 1 serving as a missionary. the group are Evan Ulrey, ."The people are very - Van Tate, Wyatt Jones, Dr. friendly, hospitable and in- T. A. Formby, Wayne t.erested in spiritual mat- Kellar, Troy Cannon, Virgil ters, 0 he stated. Lawyer, and Marvin • But the . Bryants can !obertson. ~le doctors ' , remember at least one inci- r::: b hospital ~e sup- i:int when the natives were po . Y. churches, the re- \ so nice and Bryant had :eam:: ~taf 1 the funtding of tep in t b k PI mus c()llle 0 ... rea up a from donations raised. by -- - ..,. - ·-- the group and help from the a day, whereas when they ber baby while · Bryant Nigerians themselves. first arrived, there was on- ~ove her to the hospital. With a yearly operating ly power for four hours "Since we were budget of $440,000, the nightly. Americans, people turned I hospital does require some . The couple can ·a1so to us for medical help as . ts remember the time when well," he stated. · patien to pay fees for Bryant _had .to undergo their services. - While the Bryants miss _rabies treatments because . their work in Nigeria, they Describing Nigeria as a he had feverishly carried a are busily preparing to partly modem city, Bryant young girl to the hospital return. And hopefully, will explained that the hospital for treatment, and the tiine take more people with now has electricity 24 hours __ when a woman delivered them.