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100 YEARS AGO July 14, 1920
■ The Association Arkansas closed Telephone its midsummer meeting here today. The association is composed of 175 companies over the state. The telephone material situations was discussed following the report of Ernest Sowell of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, assistant secretary of the state association.
50 YEARS AGO July 14, 1970
■ grounds Passion Springs exempt The apparently from used buildings Play taxation, in at the Eureka are Great and not the attorney said was Monday. more general’s definite The opinion office than one general’s given office by the about attorney two weeks ago, which said that property might not be exempt from taxation. The property used in the play, which is one of the religious projects of Gerald L. K. Smith, has never been assessed for taxation.
25 YEARS AGO July 14, 1995
19-year-old Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE student University who — telephoned of A a bomb threat to Kimpel Hall within hours of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City spent 15 days in the city jail and paid a $500 fine. Fayetteville city prosecutor Clinton K. Jones said Mark A. Gross of North Little Rock pleaded
charge guilty of to communicating a misdemeanor a false alarm last month and was sentenced to spend a year in jail and pay a $500 fine. Jones said all but 15 days of the jail sentence was suspended. Gross’ call triggered evacuation and a search of the campus building, which houses the UA School of Journalism and other departments. No bomb was found.
10 YEARS AGO July 14, 2010
JASPER — Hunting is the best bet for thinning the Boxley Valley elk herd, a state official said, and is one option in a management plan drafted by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. “The controlled hunt is a major tool in our tool box,” said Cory Gray, elk program director for the commission. “We can do it safely. We do urban hunts, so we believe we can construct an elk hunt in Boxley Valley.” Gray presented the idea Monday to a handful of residents at the first of three public meetings on a proposed plan for the state’s only elk viewing area near the Buffalo National River. The plan is set to be finalized next month and taken before the commission’s Wildlife Committee in September, he said. Residents in the valley said they are worried about the growing number of elk and the animals’ impact on the plants in the region. They also said they are concerned for the tourists who stop along Arkansas 43 and watch the elk in the fields.