Sunday SJICC wrap up article.

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he Regional Music
Heritage Center took
the final day of the
Scott Joplin Centennial
Celebration to add
two more names to
the Arkansas Municipal Auditorium
Walk of Fame Park
Jake Charles “Jay” Franks and Patt
Cupp both became new members
added to the Park during a dedica-
tion ceremony at the AMA, Sunday.
Franks, who wasn’t at the ceremo-
ny, but nevertheless had many of his
relatives attending the event, became
among the first Texarkanians, under
their own name, to record with
the nationally recognized Modern
Records company label in 1952.
Franks, along with many other
local musicians, made history when
their racially integrated bands per-
formed in front of equally integrated
audiences inside the auditorium, in
the face of rigid Jim Crowe segrega-
tionist laws August of 1956.
“My dad wasn’t only a great per-
former, but he was a great man,”
Lauretta Scott Franks said of her
dad.
“Even now, I can still see him smil-
ing about this.”
Her brother Charles “Craig” Jake
Franks, agreed.
“It never really dawned on me
what an impression my dad had on
this city,” Franks said. “Dad was a
real people person, regardless of
race.” As for Cupp, a 1956 graduate
of Arkansas High School, he devel-
oped his own style of Rock-N-Roll
pioneering in 1956 when he and the
“Flying Saucer” band appeared local-
ly many times with such rockabilly
legends as Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash
Staff photo by Joshua Boucher
n Debbie Haak, a member of the Arkansas Municipal Auditorium Committee, speaks Sunday with Anton Craig, whose grand-
father, Jay Franks, was honored with a plaque on the Texarkana Walk of Fame at the Texarkana, Ark., Municipal Auditorium.
Franks and the Rockets of Rhythm integrated the Municipal Auditorium.
Walk of Fame
MUSIC | SCOTT JOPLIN INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Legacy of local musicians ‘Jay’ Franks, Pat Cupp honored
Staff photo by Joshua Boucher
n Pat Cupp is honored with a plaque on the Texarkana Walk of Fame on Sunday at
the Texarkana, Ark., Municipal Auditorium. He and his band, The Flying Saucers,
performed at the auditorium with Elvis Presley.
he three-day Scott
Joplin International
Centennial Celebration
didn’t pass the week-
end without a salute
to other locally-born
renown musicians and composers
—even during one of the event’s
intermissions.
Centennial event organizers took
the occasion during a break at
Saturday’s celebration inside the
Perot Theatre to spot-light former
Texarkana resident Rule Beasley.
Beasley, became the first person to
receive the Regional Music Heritage
Center Lifetime Achievement Award
as a “first family of Texarkana
music” member who contributed
greatly to the city’s multi-layered
musical genres, which include not
only ragtime, but classical, jazz,
Boogie-Woogie and Rockabilly.
“I feel highly honored to receive
this award,” Beasley, now 86, said.
“This comes as a total surprise. I’m
very grateful for this honor.”
Born Aug. 12, 1931, Beasley graduat-
ed from Arkansas High School, class
of 1948, then went on to study music
at Southern Methodist University
before answering his country’s
call to military service during the
Korean War. While not specifically
deployed to Korea, Beasley served in
a U.S. Army band while stationed for
three years at Fort Sam Houston in
San Antonio.
Following his military discharge,
Beasley resumed his college edu-
cation in music, earning a mas-
ter’s degree from the University
of Illinois. He became not only a
Beasley receives group’s first lifetime achievement award
‘First Family ofTexarkana music’
T
By Greg Bischof
Texarkana Gazette
n See related story on 5A
T
By Greg Bischof
Texarkana Gazette
See MUSIC on Page 2A
See BEASLEY on Page 2A
Staff photo by Joshua Boucher
n David Mallette and Dr. John Tennison present the first “Boogie” to Rule Beasley
Saturday night at the Perot Theatre. This is the first lifetime achievement award
given by the Regional Music Heritage Center.
Grand jury
indicts 2 in
counterfeit
cash case
By Lynn LaRowe
Texarkana Gazette
A Bowie County grand
jury indicted two people last
week for allegedly possessing
counterfeit cash.
Texarkana, Texas, Police
were called Jan. 3 to Roadway
Food Mart on West Seventh
Street when Rachael Kimble,
35, of Houston, Ark., alleged-
ly attempted to pass a fake
$20, according to a proba-
ble-cause affidavit used to
create the following account.
Kimble’s companion, Colter
Frisby, 36, of El Dorado, Ark.,
is facing charges as well.
The store clerk told offi-
cers Kimble tried to pay for
gas with a $20 which was
bleached and torn in half.
When the clerk declined
to accept the bill, Kimble
allegedly told her to tape
it together and allegedly
attempted to get the clerk
to take the fake note five
more times. A mark made
on the bill with a “detec-
tor pen” immediately turned
black, indicating the $20 is
not genuine U.S. currency.
Officer Aaron Lewis alleged-
ly acquired a second, alleged-
ly fake bill from Kimble while
in the store.
Kimble allegedly denied
knowing the bills were fake.
Police allege
suspect tried to
spend fake $20
See FAKE on Page 2A
High court
fights date
to George
Washington
By Mark Sherman
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—
Wondering when Supreme
Court nominations became
so politically contentious?
Only about 222 years ago—
when the Senate voted down
George Washington’s choice
for chief justice.
This year’s brouhaha
sees Senate Democrats and
Republicans bracing for a
showdown over President
Donald Trump’s nominee,
Neil Gorsuch. It’s the latest
twist in the political wran-
gling that has surrounded
the high court vacancy
almost from the moment
Justice Antonin Scalia died
in February 2016.
“We are in an era of
extreme partisan energy
right now,” said University
of Georgia law professor
Lori Ringhand. “In such a
moment, the partisanship
will manifest itself across
government, and there’s no
reason to think the nomi-
See COURT on Page 2A
What
to Watch:
Could backtrack
by North Carolina
affect Texas bill?
By Will Weissert
The Associated Press
AUSTIN—As Texas grap-
ples with whether to embrace
a North Carolina-style “bath-
room bill,” that state is work-
ing to water down its own.
North Carolina state law-
makers last week approved
legislation not fully repealing
the law that caused national
uproar and costly boycotts of
concerts and NCAA sporting
events—but taking a big step
in that direction.
They scrapped a previous
requirement that transgender
people use restrooms corre-
sponding to the sex on their
birth certificates in many
public buildings, while also
invalidating local ordinances
protecting gay or transgender
people from discrimination
in the workplace or in hotels
and other public accommo-
dations.
n See related story on 3A
See WATCH on Page 2A
WASHINGTON
‘Sci-fi’ cancer
therapy fights
brain tumors
By Marilynn Marchione
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—It sounds
like science fiction, but a
cap-like device that makes
electric fields to fight can-
cer improved survival for
the first time in more than a
decade for people with dead-
ly brain tumors, final results
of a large study suggest.
Many doctors are skeptical
of the therapy, called tumor
treating fields, and it’s not
a cure. It’s also ultra-expen-
sive—$21,000 a month.
But in the study, more than
twice as many patients were
alive five years after getting
it, plus the usual chemother-
apy, than those given just the
chemo—13 percent versus 5
percent.
“It’s out of the box” in
terms of how cancer is usual-
ly treated, and many doctors
don’t understand it or think
it can help, said Dr. Roger
Stupp, a brain tumor expert
at Northwestern University
in Chicago.
He led the company-spon-
sored study while previous-
ly at University Hospital
Zurich in Switzerland, and
gave results Sunday at an
American Association for
Cancer Research meeting in
Washington.
n See related story on 5B
See CANCER on Page 2A
“I wear it and wear it
proudly,” she said.
“It’s an incredible
machine and I’m fine
not having hair.”
—Joyce Endresen,
cancer patient

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Texarkana Gazette O Monday, April 3, 2017
SCOTT JOPLIN INTERNATIONAL
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Staff photos by Joshua Boucher
n ABOVE: Charles Pace watches Scott Kirby perform Scott Joplin’s
music in a 1998 concert held in honor of Joplin’s 130th birthday on
Saturday at the Regional History Museum. Throughout the day, the
museum showed videos relating to Scott Joplin.
n LEFT: George Thomas, an Elvis tribute performer, sings songs made
popular by Elvis Presley with the Texarkana Trio on Sunday at the Perot
Theatre.
Staff photos by Joshua Boucher
n ABOVE: Reginald Robinson plays Scott Joplin, as well as his own composi-
tions, on Saturday at the Perot Theatre during the Scott Joplin International
Centennial Celebration.
n RIGHT: Pascal Snijders sings rockabilly music and plays guitar on Friday
at the Silvermoon on Broad.
Staff photos by Joshua Boucher
n ABOVE: Candace Taylor sings Friday during the Scott Joplin
International Centennial Celebration at the Silvermoon on Broad.
n RIGHT: The Texarkana Trio plays rockabilly music Friday at the
Silvermoon.
n BELOW: Ron Wouters of the Texarkana Trio plays bass Friday at the
Silvermoon.
n LEFT: Carol
Collins-Miles
sings “Texarkana
Jazz Rag” during
the Scott Joplin
International
Centennial
Celebration on
Saturday at the
Perot Theatre.
n RIGHT: Jeroen
van Delden plays
guitar on Friday
during the Scott
Joplin International
Centennial
Celebration at the
Silvermoon on
Broad.
Staff photos
by Joshua Boucher