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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1916 HEBER SPRINGS — The Chamber of Commerce has sent a petition to the Arkansas Railroad Commission asking that the Missouri and North Arkansas Railway Company be required to run more passenger trains into this city. There are only two passenger trains here each day, one going each direction. The company discontinued the motor car service from this place to Helena some time ago, and it has been very difficult to come here and return the same day. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1966 Damage estimated at $250 was done to radio station KMYO’s FM transmission line at 2600 River Road, over the weekend. Gun shots fired by a hunter or vandal may delay the Jan. 15 start of service for the facility, according to Chief Engineer Bob Davis. Davis said the damage will require splicing of the transmission line. He further stated that this is not the first time the facility has suffered damage from gun shots. Lights have been shot out during other night firings. North Little Rock police are investigating. 25 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1991 HOT SPRINGS — The yearlong search for a bone-marrow donor for 2-year-old Tabatha Porter is over — and the donor is her grandmother. “I felt like I could just give her life, give her a chance to live,” Laveda Kizer, 49, said Wednesday as she dabbed at the tears welling up in her eyes. “I have never in my life been so easy to cry before.” Tabatha suffers from Mu co po ly sac ch arid os is, also known as Hurler’s Syndrome. Without a bone-marrow transplant, the disease would begin shutting down her bodily functions. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 2006 LOWELL — Lance Johnson won’t stop building homes in Rogers if the city enacts impact fees. He builds in the Shadow Valley subdivision, a gated community near the Pinnacle area. Impact fees won’t affect the prices of his homes as much as those in north or east Rogers, where less-expensive homes are under construction, he said. “Those impact fees won’t do anything positive for the city of Rogers,” said Johnson, former president of the Northwest Arkansas Home Builders Association. “It will drive low-income people out of Rogers.” While city officials comb through a draft of a study they commissioned in June on impact fees, officials with the builders association argue the fees will push low- and moderate-income housing out of a city relying heavily on a service economy to sustain its growth.