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100 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1918 Arkansas bankers who are willing to aid in the work of introducing better hogs into Arkansas are requested to communicate at once with B.C. Powell, care of the Southern Trust Company, Little Rock. Mr. Powell, who is Vice-President of the Southern Trust Company and chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the Arkansas Bankers Association, has arranged with Arkansas swine breeders to secure 500 trios of pure bred hogs, to be distributed among Arkansas farmers through the bankers. It is not desired that the banks shall produce these hogs but merely that they shall induce their farmer customers to buy them and that they shall aid the farmers when aid is necessary. 50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1968 DARDANELLE — The city of Dardanelle is trying to get the London Bridge. Mayor Omer E. Stanfield said in a telegram Saturday to C.V. Wood, president of McCullough Oil Corporation of California, that the city through its Dardanelle Industries Board “stands ready to solve your problem by offering to underwrite the movement of the famous London Bridge to any one of several sites” on new Lake Dardanelle. Stanfield said that McCullough bought the bridge for $2.4 million but was having trouble locating it at Havasye City, Ariz., because of having to draw water out of a lake to make a stream for the bridge. 25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1993
If the broad outlines of President Clinton’s universal healthcare proposals remain intact, the University of Arkansas could spend an additional $1.8 million annually to cover its 2,800 employees in Fayetteville, officials say. Those proposals could cost giant discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. more than $200 million a year, according to the report. Parts of the Clinton health insurance plan also make Betty Mize shudder. “It’s going to slaughter us,” said Mize, director of Just Kids Child Care at 6523 Hinkson Road in Little Rock.… I don’t know that we could stay open.” 10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 2008
An open-mike radio show is helping Mexican nationals in Northwest Arkansas navigate the system of getting identification to make life easier in the United States and on return trips home to Mexico. Every Friday, Mexican Consulate Andres Chao of Little Rock and members of his staff answer caller questions from 5-6 p.m. on “La Zeta” radio – KSECFM 95.7 in Springdale. “The consulate’s office is three hours away from Northwest Arkansas, yet we have the bigger population of Mexican nationals there,” Chao said. “This radio program is a good way to reach our community and go straight to the people.”