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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1920
MOUNTAIN HOME — The road which the Forest Service is building from Sylamore to a point six miles west of Norfolk, in Baxter county, completes a link that will open up the Ozark National Forest to tourists from the south. It is probable that this stretch of road will be completed by spring. The forest is one of the big natural beauty spots of the state. It comprises nearly 1,000,000 acres in the heart of the Arkansas Ozarks and is drained by clear-water mountain streams that are alive with black bass and other game fish.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1970
■ The Republican members of the state Election Commission said Monday in a brief filed with the Arkansas Supreme Court that the state law providing for a runoff election for state offices if no candidate receives a majority in the general election is unconstitutional. They said that the legislature had no power to alter constitutional provisions for conducting elections. The brief said that the framers of the Arkansas Constitution intended to cover completely the procedures for electing state officers and the Constitution provided for the election of the person who received the most votes (a plurality).
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1995
EL DORADO — Murphy Oil Corp.’s farm, timber and real estate subsidiary has joined with Texas-based Temple-Inland Inc. to build a $90 million fiberboard plant outside El Dorado, officials announced Thursday. Deltic Farm & Timber Inc. has joined with Temple-Inland to form DelTin Fiber L.L.C. The new company will construct and operate a plant to manufacture medium-density fiberboard. The plant, to be located five to six miles southwest of El Dorado, will produce 150 million square feet of fiberboard annually and employ more than 100 people with an annual payroll of $2.5 million to $3 million.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 2010
FAYETTEVILLE — Cameras were rolling again Monday in Washington-Madison County Drug Court. Circuit Judge Mary Ann Gunn said she also plans to resume holding court sessions at area schools and said proceedings should be back on television soon. The move came after Gunn learned this week that there is no way to get an advisory opinion from the Arkansas Supreme Court. Gunn stopped taping drug sessions, as well as holding some of them at area schools, after the Arkansas Supreme Court Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee last month questioned whether the proceedings should be broadcast.