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Times Record Staff An Army sergeant from Panama, Oklahoma who was killed during the Korean War has been identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Billy V. Rodgers was 19 when he was reported missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950. He was accounted for on April 9, 2020, the POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced recently. In late 1950, Rodgers was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division. His unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recove...

Support Notes: Dec. 20-26 Times Record Staff Al-Anon: 12 step support groups for families and friends of alcoholics. Info line (479) 441-9705 or (888) 425-2666. • Get A Life Step Study: 12 p.m. Monday at Community Bible Church, 9201 Dallas St., Fort Smith (near playground entrance). Call (479) 806-0184. • Adult Child: 8 p.m. Monday at Midland Heights United Methodist Church, 3500 N. Sixth St., Fort Smith. Call (479) 459-8756. • Steps to Serenity Step Study: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Community Bible Church, 9201 Dallas St., Fort Smith (near office entrance). Call (479) 650-2762 or (479) 461-6...

Times Record Staff Baptist Health-Fort Smith received 975 COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday and gave them that afternoon to employees and caregivers who work in COVID units, radiology, laboratory, nursing and respiratory care and environmental services.

Times Record Staff ACHE facility wins national building design award The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) announced that its newest medical education facility, the College of Health Sciences, has received the prestigious Outstanding Design-Post Secondary award from the American School & University magazine.  The 66,000-square-foot facility serves as the home to the most recent developing programs at ACHE, the School of Physical Therapy, the School of Occupational Therapy, and the Physician Assistant Studies. The nomination and award were given to the construction contractor, Bes...

Times Record Staff Two men from Fort Smith who took part in World War II died this past week. One fought in Japan and the other worked on the nuclear bomb that would ultimately end the fighting. Alva “Gene” Beckham, immortalized on the OK Foods grain silo in the 2016 Unexpected Project after working there for 70 years, died Dec. 7 at the age of 94. He was buried in the Fort Smith National Cemetery on Thursday, Dec. 10. He was an Army veteran who had been stationed in Japan and Korea.  James Claude Alexander Jr., a 1939 graduate of Fort Smith Senior High School who went on to Princeton en...