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100 YEARS AGO June 20, 1918

That the government may think it necessary to begin dredging the Arkansas river soon, in order to make it navigable, was the opinion expressed by County Judge Lee Miles yesterday. Judge Miles, while in Washington some weeks ago with former Gov. George W. Donaghey, on business connected with the Main street bridge, discussed the subject of the probability of the river being made navigable with Congressman Caraway. He has since kept closely in touch with the subject.

50 YEARS AGO June 20, 1968

Allied Telephone Company, a holding company based at Little Rock, has agreed to purchase the stock of four independent telephone companies in Central Missouri, it was announced Wednesday. Hugh Wilbourn Jr., president of Allied, said the four companies would operate as subsidiaries of Allied. They are Dixon Triangle Telephone Company at Dixon, Stover Telephone Company at Stover, Swan Lake Telephone Company at Mendon, and Madison Telephone Company at Madison. The headquarters for the Missouri operation will be at Dixon, in a new $100,000 facility.

25 YEARS AGO June 20, 1993

CONWAY —The capital murder trial of Chris Stone ended early Saturday morning with Stone receiving a life sentence and the prosecutor vowing to investigate alleged threats against alternate jurors and the victim’s fiance. Bailiff Cecil Pettus reported the alleged threats to Circuit Judge David Reynolds of Conway after a jury convicted Stone, 19, of Greenbrier (Faulkner County), of first-degree murder in the Nov. 16, 1991, stabbing death of David Robert Arrowood Webb, 20, also of Greenbrier.

10 YEARS AGO June 20, 2008

Sending another signal that the 25-year-old Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit is winding down, a federal desegregation monitoring office has proposed a 2008-09 budget that anticipates possibly closing the office in December. The Office of Desegregation Monitoring, in operation since 1990, is recommending a budget divided into two distinct time frames: July through December 2008 and January through June 2009. “This would facilitate the closing of our office at the end of December 2008, if the case is concluded by global settlement prior to that time,” Andree Roaf, director of the office, wrote in a cover letter with the proposed budget sent to U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson Jr., for his approval.