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100 YEARS AGO

April 18, 1917

EUREKA SPRINGS — Ten buildings, including nine dwellings and an art studio, burned this afternoon, with a total loss of approximately $20,000, not more than 10 per cent of which is covered by insurance. The destruction of the buildings along an entire street was narrowly averted. The fire originated from a defective flue in the home of the Misses Sutton. It destroyed the Sutton home and eight others, with the Rosser art studio.

50 YEARS AGO

April 18, 1967

JONESBORO — A dispute arose here Monday over whether Arkansas State College had sufficient grounds to suspend 12 to 14 students and cite three faculty members for unacceptable conduct as a result of a raid on an apartment January 25. Joe R. (Rick) Hamil, 21, of Paragould, a senior philosophy student at the time, was charged with possessing marijuana as a result of a raid on his apartment by city, county and state police. Hamil was expelled and the other 12 to 14 students present, both men and women, were suspended for one semester, according to Dr. Carl R. Reng, ASC president.

25 YEARS AGO

April 18, 1992

■ A “conflict of interest” between Brenda Faye Holliman and her attorney, Ray Hartenstein, caused her to fire him days before she is to be sentenced for theft, court documents show. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Jack L. Lessenberry allowed Hartenstein to be removed from the case Wednesday. The judge said he doesn’t anticipate delaying the matter. Holliman is set for sentencing Tuesday after pleading no contest in November 1991 to embezzling more than $2,500 from Little Rock insurance broker Fewell & Associates, her former employer.

10 YEARS AGO

April 18, 2007

CONWAY — The Conway School Board, grappling with a series of disciplinary issues, voted Tuesday night to halt a student drug-testing program next term and decided against reinstating corporal punishment. A proposal to continue random drug testing of students participating in extracurricular activities failed on a 3 to 4 vote, with opponents instead favoring an intervention-and-prevention approach to the problem. Those voting for a modified drug-testing program, which would still have applied only to students in extracurricular activities, were Floyd Balentine Jr., Lena Hancock and Bill Clements. Those opposed were board President Dr. Terry Fiddler, Carolyn Lewis, Susan McNabb and Chuck Shipp.