Model Airplanes

Mearl Ray Strunks, 78, of Fort Smith entered into rest Thursday, March 12, 2015. He was born July 25, 1936, in Midland and graduated from Mansfield High School in 1955. He was a member of Oak Cliff Baptist Church, Fort Smith Flight Masters model airplane Club, past member of the local Corvette Club, and he sold auto parts for 44 years at Automotive Inc. and Green Light Auto.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence and Nell Strunks, and an infant brother.

He is survived by his wife, Linda; two sons, Robert Strunks of Dallas and Richard Strunks and Christina of Fort Smith; one stepdaughter, Kim White of Greenwood; one stepson, John Jackson of Conway; and seven grandchildren, Emma and Erin Strunks, Jenna and Cody White and Tyler, Sabre and Landan.

Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Monday at Oak Cliff Baptist Church, officiated by Dr. Kent Sweatman. Visitation will be 2-3 p.m. Sunday. Viewing will be 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at Lewis-Roberts Funeral Chapel in Fort Smith. Interment will be at Mt. Olive cemetery in Midland.

Pallbearers will be Steve Almond, Troy Douglas, Larry Startzman, Don Spradling, Larry Biggs, Justin Douglas, Larry Scheer and Larry Holloway.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Oak Cliff Adult One Sunday school class.

Memorials may be sent to Oak Cliff Baptist Church, 3701 S. Gary St., Fort Smith, AR 72903.

Funeral service is under the direction of Lewis-Roberts Funeral Chapel.

To place online tributes, go to www.lewisfuneralchapel.net.

Article source: http://swtimes.com/obituaries/mearl-strunks

A pastor’s campaign to buy a luxury jet has skidded off the runway.

Creflo Dollar, who heads Creflo Dollar Ministries, was soliciting $65 million for a new Gulfstream G650 jet but a social media backlash Friday put the brakes on his plan.

Atlanta TV station 11 Alive reports that the donations page has gone offline, but a cached version features a five-minute video in which Dollar says the plane has served him well, but is no longer operable after an accident in London when it slid off the runway during an aborted take-off.

The video says an airplane is necessary to bring Dollar’s ministry to all parts of the world and asks his followers to give $300 to purchase a new jet.

The station reports that the solicitation from the church’s site disappeared Friday afternoon and all links to the page were directed to blank pages.

The jet’s website boasts that the plane sets “a new standard in business travel” and describes the G650 as “speed and grace paired with style and comfort.”

Article source: http://www.lfpress.com/2015/03/14/televangelist-creflo-dollars-plea-for-65m-to-buy-jet-goes-offline

Levels of Discovery of Overland Park, Kan., is recalling about 150 Fly Boy Airplane Rockers

The red wooden knobs on the rocker’s steering panel console can detach, posing a small parts choking hazard to young children.

The firm has received two reports of knobs on the rocker’s steering panel detaching from the chair. No injuries have been reported.

The Levels of Discovery Fly Boy Airplane Rockers are wooden children’s rocking chairs with red wooden spindle frames and red wing-shaped arm rests. Hinged to the front of the chair is a light blue U-shaped airplane steering yoke and a console with red wooden knobs with blue painted circular controls and a red propeller.

The light blue seat of the chair has a navy blue fabric seat cushion and seat back with red buttons. “FLY BOY” is printed on the top frame of the seat back with a printed picture of a red airplane.

The chairs weigh about 17 pounds and measures 29 inches tall by 16 inches deep by 23 inches wide. Model number RAB00038 is printed on the underside of the rocker seat.

The rockers, manufactured in China, were sold at independent juvenile product retail stores nationwide and online at www.LevelsofDiscovery.com from June 2014, through November 2014, for about $160.

Consumers should immediately take the recalled rocker away from young children and contact the firm to receive a replacement console.

Consumers may contact Levels of Discovery toll-free at (866) 980-2536 ext. 9 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT Monday through Friday.

Article source: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/levels-of-discovery-recalls-airplane-rocker-031315.html

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Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/13/business/ap-us-recalls-this-week.html

‘Anyone but Bibi!” This is the message the center- left parties have tried engraving during this political campaign.

However, a quick look at the past few years and at the challenges facing Israel in the next few years leaves us with one clear conclusion: Only Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can lead this country through this uncertain time, and only he is deserving of our votes.

It’s not the Palestinian issue, stupid!
One of the main arguments against Netanyahu, from the Right, is because of his declared support for the two-state solution. In fact, I strongly reject this criticism. A Palestinian state would be a disaster for Israel’s security. It would also be a moral wrong: Not only because of the expulsion of thousands of Jews from their homes, but also because of the 3,000-year-old connection of the Jews to the parts of Israel that on which a Palestinian state would, in theory, be created. It should be noted that the great majority of Likud members and Likud MKs also oppose a Palestinian state and are at odds with Netanyahu on this issue.

If that is the case, why support him? The reason is simple. While he supports a Palestinian

Article source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Look-at-the-facts-vote-Likud-393703

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Bill Coleman first saw the car when he moved here 38 years ago. ¶ Well, parts of it. The bumper and curves from the flared fenders were all that were visible. The glimpses he got barely revealed what it was. Only that it was old.

Coleman saw a photo on Bill Douglas’ desk recently at the National Armed Services and Law Enforcement Memorial Museum in Dunedin and asked about the car in the photo.

A young Stanley R. Douglas sits with a smirk on his face on the driver’s side running board in the undated black-and-white photo of the car — which automotive aficionados would be hard-pressed to guess the year, make and model of — it’s the same car Coleman saw all those years ago.

“It’s a relic. A barn find for sure,” Coleman said. “What intrigues me is someone in the 1930s would do this to a car. He had to be one of the first guys to start customizing vehicles.”

• • •

The car is no quotidian find.

Its long, rectangular hood flows into a sweeping, low-slung roof. The windows are bantam versions of what Studebaker envisioned when the car first rolled out of the factory in 1924. It is likely one of three models; a Light, Special or Big Six Club coupe, said

Article source: http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/old-studebaker-became-an-early-hot-rod-in-the-1930s/2221057