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100 YEARS AGO

July 22, 1920

SPRINGDALE — Several hundred orchardists of northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri are attending the second annual convention here, which opened yesterday. The morning of the opening day devoted to a 25-mile drive through orchards surrounding Springdale, more than 60 orchards being visited. It required more than 200 automobiles to transport the party.

50 YEARS AGO

July 22, 1970

PINE BLUFF — Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff Sam Bates said a parolee from Arkansas Penitentiary was wounded early Tuesday as he fled from Cordors Store just outside city limits. Bates said Kenneth Maxberry, 36, was shot in the right thigh and was hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Bates said Oscar Cordors, owner of the store, who lives in a house behind the store, heard a burglar alarm go off in the store about 12:30 a.m.

25 YEARS AGO

July 22, 1995

PARAGOULD —The Greene County Tech School District’s superintendent has resigned amid criticism of his supervision of a former bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $50,000 from the district. Mike Cox voluntarily resigned after the board agreed last week to pay the superintendent $65,000 to buy out his contract, which had two years left, school board President Jim Bradley said Tuesday. The first of two payments was made Friday, he said, and Cox will be paid the rest in October. Cox refused to elaborate Tuesday about his resignation, other than to say “it was time to move on.” He said he plans to look for another superintendent’s job in Arkansas. The buyout agreement came less than a month after the board reprimanded Cox for insubordination for failing to cooperate with a recent investigation into the administration of the district.

10 YEARS AGO

July 22, 2010

■ The leader of the group that failed earlier this month to gain enough signatures for a ballot measure denying certain public benefits for illegal aliens said Wednesday that Arkansas hasn’t heard the last from Secure Arkansas. “We’ve been all called liars, racists and radical right and teabaggers. And the last thing they called us was dinosaurs,” Jeannie Burlsworth, Secure Arkansas’ chairman, told a lunchtime gathering of about 40 supporters in a banquet room at the Holiday Inn Presidential. “You can call me all these names if you want to, but just don’t call me a socialist.” Burlsworth urged supporters to go door to door to campaign on issues like smaller government, lower taxes as well as illegal immigration. “We’ve got to keep on fighting. Keep moving forward,” she said.