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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1917

HOT SPRINGS — Many of the best known educators in the South are arriving for the conference which will open here tomorrow under the auspices of the United States Department of Education. Officials connected with the state organization of the Y.M.C.A. war work also are here. Miss Jane Adams of Chicago will speak at the meeting tomorrow afternoon.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1967 ■ An Unidentified Flying Object — or, to be more exact, a great ball of fire — fell out of the sky into the Foxcroft subdivision Wednesday night. It quickly became an Identified Flying Object. Lt. Col. Henry A. Pate of the Army Engineers at Little Rock made the identification almost immediately. He pronounced the strange device a “globo.” According to Pate, the object came “straight down from the sky,” discharging a fierce streak of flame behind it.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 11, 1992

■ The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were approved Tuesday by the Arkansas Highway Commission as the newest member of the Adopt-A-Highway program, but they will not be given the stretch of highway requested in their original application. Thom Robb of near Zinc (Boone County), national director of the KKK group, was displeased that the Klan was not given the choice spot on U.S. 65 at the Missouri border that it had sought.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 2007 FORT SMITH — A timely warning by a 5-year-old boy’s mother Tuesday evening drew a swarm of police who arrested a man accused of carrying the boy away. “I could never thank them enough,” Heather Waldon said after officers returned her son Javonte. “I don’t have the words to describe how grateful I am they brought my son back safe and unharmed.” Police arrested Daneal Howard Nichols, 46, of Russellville as he emerged from an alley two blocks from where Javonte lives with his parents, Waldon and her husband, Glen.