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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1918
ARKADELPHIA – Dr. C.E. Dicken, president of Ouachita College, and Dr. J.M. Workman, president of Henderson-Brown College, have received communications from the American Council of Education which indicates that after the passage of the new draft measure the young men will be allowed to remain in school to complete their education. A students’ reserve training unit will be conducted at Ouachita and Henderson-Brown this year. All students over 18 years of age will enlist and the students under 18 will be requested to enroll. It will not be the policy of the government to call out these units unless a military emergency necessitates.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1968
FORT SMITH – Capt. Bill Young of the Fort Smith Police Department was named president Thursday of the Arkansas Municipal Police Association. Young succeeds Sgt. Cleddie Shock of Pine Bluff, whose one-year term expired. Young was elected at the Association’s annual meeting. Lt. Leonard Bauman of North Little Rock was named first vice president. Other officers include Sgt. Joe Dodd of Hot Springs, second vice president; Capt. Eddie Munns of North Little Rock, secretary; and Sgt. Bill Sanford of Little Rock, treasurer.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1993
A power struggle between urban and rural states for federal drug enforcement dollars could cost Arkansas’ 22 drug task forces as much as $1.25 million – nearly a third of their funding, a state official said recently. At stake are the jobs of about 80 fulltime drug agents employed statewide through federal Bureau of Justice Assistance grants, state Drug Director Robert Shepherd said. “We’re probably going to have a significant cut,” Shepherd said. “In practical terms it would be devastating to our task forces. If there’s a major funding cut, I don’t see how we could help losing some personnel.”
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 2008
More than two years after Arkansas Tech University student Nona Dirksmeyer was slain in her Russellville apartment and a year after her boyfriend was acquitted of killing her, a special prosecutor on Friday charged another man in the case. Gary Dunn of Dover was arrested by the Arkansas State Police and charged with capital murder, according to a statement from the special prosecutor, Jack McQuary. Dunn, who will turn 29 on Tuesday, was arrested without incident in Conway County. “I’m just going to say that I’m happy for Nona, that the person who did this to her is finally going to be brought to justice,” her boyfriend, Kevin Jones of Dover, who was acquitted in her killing in July 2007, said in a brief telephone interview.