Robert L. Hawkins Jr., a retired Jefferson City attorney, had a special reason for wanting to attend the dedication Saturday of a sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill commemorating his famed "Sinews of Peace" address at Westminster College in Fulton.
Hawkins, 89, was in the audience when Churchill intoned: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." It was Churchill's historic warning of the growing communist threat posed to the West by the Soviet Union.
To help the tornado-stricken people of Dumas and surroundings, donations can be made to the Delta Area Disaster Relief Fund, care of the Delta Area Community Foundation, P.O. Box 894, Dumas, AR, 71639, or through the Arkansas Community Foundation, 700 S. Rock St., Little Rock, AR, 72202.