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100 YEARS AGO

Jan. 24, 1915

HOT SPRINGS — A business boom, the like of which the United States has not seen in years, and particular activity in railroad development in Oklahoma and Arkansas, where his interests are located, is predicted by Hans Dierks of Kansas City, Mo., president of the DeQueen and Eastern railroad, who, accompanied by Mrs. Dierks, is spending his winter vacation at the Majestic hotel, this city. It is the intention of officials of these two lines, as soon as business conditions readjust themselves, to connect the Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern with the DeQueen Eastern, and a bond issue has already been arranged for.

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 24, 1965

The city council Monday night will get a chance to amend its previous decision directing the city not to do business with firms who support merger of Little Rock and North Little Rock. The amendment came in the form of a resolution filed Thursday by Aldermen R.J. Kirspel, William B. Hudson and Roy B. Draper, who hoped to “correct a mistake the council made,” yet hold to the council’s opinion that they do not favor merger.

25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 24, 1990

The Little Rock School Board, facing what some members called blackmail by a federal judge, voted Tuesday not to appeal the latest ruling in the school case. Superintendent Ruth Steele, who recommended that the board not appeal, called the 5-2 vote “a first, symbolic step” toward ending the long-running desegregation case.

10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 24, 2005

CONWAY — Faced with rapid population growth, traffic congestion that could baffle a Chicago cabbie and more than a little urban sprawl, Conway’s leaders are taking a hard look at the city they hope to help build for the future. “We are quickly developing the city we’re going to be forever,” Mayor Tab Townsell told the City Council earlier this month. “We’re moving in the right direction,” the mayor said, but he also believes the city hasn’t gone far enough to manage growth. With more development on the horizon, he sees an opportunity for Conway to rid itself of “eyesores” and to revise zoning ordinances. “The question is whether we’re building too fast and not taking a moment to assess where we are,” Townsell said. Closed-loop subdivisions and cul-de-sacs, a coveted mark of neighborhood privacy, have become so abundant as to have created what he calls “an absolute tragedy.”