Advertisement in the October 4, 1962 Eureka Springs Times-Echo newspaper.

Jerry Dale Stoppel, stretched to his full-length beside the 24 lb. catfish caught by his dad, Bud Stoppel, and Jerry’s cousin, Bill Stoppel, are shown here.

This advertisement is from page 7 of the January 2, 1964 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo. The hospital referred to is the one located in Eureka Springs.

This ran on page 8 of the July 22, 1971 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo.

Names include: Stephanie Shelton, John Cross, Joe Head, Sandy Girkin, Gayla Goff, Lisa Johnson, Eugene Darby, George Head, Elizabeth Kelley and Wayne Brashear.

This Eureka Springs Municipal Hospital Report appeared on page eight of the November 18, 1965 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo.

This ran before I was born, but I know several of the names. Mrs. Pauline Wilson and Mrs. Zoe Harp are familiar names. Henry Loess is a good friend’s grandfather. Joe Nelson is my father-in-law’s uncle.

This article is from the front page of the November 18, 1965 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo.

This clipping must be from the Eureka Springs (Arkansas) Times-Echo newspaper, but I do not have a date.

I didn’t know that the legendary Larry Evans fished. I know of him as a mechanic and the finest welder my grandfather has ever seen. My father greatly admired him. And, evidently, he can fish, too.

This article is from the front page of the February 11, 1965 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo. Names include Arvle Bandy, Duane O’Connor and George O’Connor.

This weather report is from the November 18, 1971 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo.

George O’Connor maintained and operated the Eureka Springs, Arkansas weather station for several years. Located behind O’Connor’s Texaco, he recorded weather data for the National Weather Service and various media outlets. Patricia Williams Cobb is George O’Connor’s granddaughter and has this memory:

I remember his little white weather station out behind the gas station.  He would also call his weather report into — not only the paper, but the radio and the t.v. station every night.  I remember the excitement one time, when the t.v. weatherman said during the broadcast, “George O’Connor says it is __ degrees in Eureka Springs.”  I thought my grandfather was a celebrity!

A well-known fixture in Eureka Springs for six decades, George Paul O’Connor was born in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania and grew up there and in North Dakota. Following work in the 1920’s, he and a friend made their way to Eureka Springs where George settled down and married Norma Fioravanti. With a keen, active mind, George was staunchly independent and opinionated. Besides opening the Texaco Service Station, he served as a Justice of the Peace on the Carroll County Quorum Court and was a highly skilled carpenter.

Jack McCall told the story of being at O’Connor’s Texaco one day looking at George’s car, a Ford Ltd. Jack asked, “George what does L T D stand for?”

Without missing a beat, George said, “Little Tom Dooley.”

O’Connor’s Texaco is now the location of Sparky’s Roadhouse Cafe.

This clipping is from the April 15, 1965 edition of the Eureka Springs Times-Echo.