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100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 9, 1920

HOT SPRINGS — Local officers have received warning that friends of Tom (“Curly”) Slaughter and Fulton (“Kid”) Green, Oklahoma bank robbers, who will be tried in Circuit Court here next Monday for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Ron Brown, are on their way to Hot Springs for the purpose of trying to liberate them. That information was first received from Robert E. Wait, of Little Rock, secretary of the Arkansas Bankers’ Association, who immediately communicated it to Robert Neill, cashier of the Arkansas National Bank here. Mr. Neill informed local officers.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 9, 1970

■ Governor-elect Dale Bumpers said Sunday that he had not been able to find a buyer for his half interest in the Greenhurst Nursing Home at Charleston and he may put it in a “blind trust” while he is governor. Bumpers said in a telephone interview that it was “very difficult” to find a buyer for half a nursing home, but he certainly would sell it if he got a good offer. Bumpers said during the campaign he either would sell his interest in the nursing home or put it in a trust.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 9, 1995

DeVALLS BLUFF — A group of private landowners believes the former Chicago Pacific Corp. railroad bed between DeValls Bluff and Carlisle belongs to them. Their battle for the land is Arkansas’ version of a growing nationwide trend among private landowners grumbling about projects that turn former railway beds into ecological or recreational byways. The key question is, who owns a railroad right of way when trains no longer run along the tracks? Since 1987, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission has maintained the disputed 11-mile stretch known here as the Railroad Prairie State Natural Area.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 9, 2010

■ Local police and federal agents spent the night before the Nov. 2 election secretly watching polling places in Carroll, Madison, Newton and Boone counties to make sure nobody dropped off a bomb. Officers and agents stayed on the scene throughout the night, leaving when poll workers arrived before voting began at 7:30 a.m. on Election Day. “We had Carroll County covered,” said Sheriff Bob Grudek, referring to the county’s 15 polling places. “In a case like this, we had to make sure we didn’t have a recurrence.” The surveillance work was in response to poll workers finding a bomb at Osage Baptist Church the day after the May 18 primary election. The building was a polling place for both the primary and general elections.