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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1920

■ Whether A. H. Housley, Hot Springs veterinarian, member of a well-known Garland county family, who is serving a year’s sentence for receiving stolen property, will serve his sentence or be pardoned by the governor, will be determined by conferences to be held in the governor’s office today. The conferences will be almost in the nature of a new trial. Housley, who is in Hot Springs on furlough from the penitentiary, has been summoned to appear during the afternoon, and Horace Hays and Clyde Campbell, who were convicted of stealing autos and selling them to Housley and who now are serving sentences at the state farm, have been notified to appear at the governor’s office this morning.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1970

■ The Medical Services Division of the state Welfare Department moved to new offices at Thirteenth and Wolfe Streets this week. The move consolidated all of the Medical Services offices in one location. Formerly, the Medical Assistance section was in the state Welfare Building on the Capitol Mall, Crippled Children’s Service was in the state Administration Building on the capitol Mall and the Nursing Home section was in a duplex apartment at 2020 West Sixth Street.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1995

■ Answering calls from rural Arkansans demanding local access to the Internet, many of the state’s small independent telephone companies are setting up hardware and getting ready to offer just that. At least two phone company Net ventures already are open for business, and several others contacted last week said they’re going to start offering Internet access as one of their telephone communication services beginning in December.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 2010

TONTITOWN — David Peachee poured up glasses of white wine for Sandi and Sandford “Sandy” McKim to taste Friday afternoon at the Tontitown Winery, which opened Oct. 15. There hasn’t been a winery in Tontitown in at least 25 years. “Tontitown was founded by wine, grapes and Italians,” Heather Ranalli Peachee said. “Now all that’s left are Italians. There’s hardly any vineyards left.” The Peachee family hopes to change that by bringing wine and its traditions back to Tontitown. Northwest Arkansas once produced a large quantity of grapes, until the Welch Food Inc. grape juice plant in Springdale closed in 1978. The plant bought most of the locally grown grapes. When the plant closed, the wineries eventually shuttered. They found they couldn’t effectively compete after a change in state law curbed incentives for wineries and other outlets to buy local grapes.