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100 YEARS AGO

July 15, 1918

BUFORD — Sixteen boys and girls worked the roads leading from here toward Cotter yesterday, putting them in first class shape. The work was in charge of H. N. Campbell, a progressive farmer. The work consisted of raking and picking all the loose rock from the highways. They were escorted by autos which picked them up and brought them home when they were through. A big picnic dinner was spread along the roadside at noon.

50 YEARS AGO July 15, 1968

HOT SPRINGS — Helen Rose Gennings, who won the Miss Arkansas title here Saturday night, says her new role is “more than an honor, it’s a job.” With the same confidence she displayed in the pageant, she said she thought she could shoulder the responsibility. “If you want to, you can,” she said. Her father, Ben Gennings, the assistant postmaster at Batesville, said the family was surprised, but “our main hope is that we can help give her the courage and backing she needs to represent the state well.” Miss Gennings, who is 5 feet 10 inches tall, says she gets her height from her father’s side of the family.

25 YEARS AGO July 15, 1993

■ An infant girl born with a gunshot wound in her chest was listed in serious condition Wednesday at a Little Rock hospital after her mother was shot in a drive-by shooting the previous night. The mother, 16-year-old Tiffany Alford of Broken Bow, Olka., was listed in fair condition Wednesday at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, after doctors there delivered her daughter by Caesarean section. The infant then was transferred to Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Alford was 32 weeks pregnant when she was shot, Broken Bow police said Wednesday.

10 YEARS AGO July 15, 2008

BRYANT — A 6-yearold girl who found what she thought was a fake diamond ring in a Wal-Mart parking lot has helped reunite a Benton newlywed with her missing $9,000 engagement ring. Haley Reep Wagnon lost her 1.26-carat diamond ring at a Bryant Wal-Mart on Tuesday. She reported it missing, and Bryant police reviewed WalMart’s surveillance videos and saw that a child picked up the ring. “I saw a little girl pick up the ring in the parking lot, but I don’t think the girl was trying to steal the ring and I don’t think the family with her was even aware,” Bryant police Detective Todd Crowson said. “She probably didn’t even know that it is a real ring.”