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100 YEARS AGO

March 7, 1915

Chickasaw addition, Eighteenth and May streets, midway between the city and the Neimeyer mill, southwest of the city, has been placed back on the market by the Southern Trust Company, and prospects of several good sales there are reported by A. C. Read, manager of the real estate department of the Souther Trust Company. The addition contains four city blocks.

50 YEARS AGO

March 7, 1965

HOT SPRINGS — Business was picking up and a few more slot machines were in evidence Saturday night at Hot Springs’ private clubs. The Vapors, the city’s plushest private club, was doing such a landslide business for both shows that it was impossible for all to get through the chains at the entrance to the theater-restaurant, the bar or the cocktail lounge, where several dozen slot machines were in operation.

25 YEARS AGO

March 7, 1990

SHERWOOD — Police Chief Lowell Kincaid, who has resigned to head the county’s new jail project, agreed Tuesday to stay on the job in Sherwood until his replacement is named. Kincaid will assume his new duties March 26, but also will lead the 37-officer department by working early mornings and at night and by being available for emergencies, Civil Service Commission Chairman Tim McMinn said. Kincaid, 55, intended to leave March 23.

10 YEARS AGO

March 7, 2005

A dispute over a 26-yearold firetruck has led to a mass exodus from a rural fire department in southern Carroll County. On Feb. 21, 13 of 16 volunteer members of the Rudd-based South Carroll County Fire Department quit at the department’s board meeting, said former volunteer Marvelle Stines. The dispute centered around a 1978 tanker truck, which was donated to the volunteer fire department two years ago by the Green Forest Fire Department. The board voted last month to give the truck back to Green Forest. The volunteers quit in protest, said former Chief Leroy Duncan. “We’d been using it for two years before the board said we couldn’t have it anymore. It was very frustrating,” said Stines, who quit the department along with her husband, Grant Stines; her son, Edward Stines; and her daughter-in-law, Portia Stines. Harold Logan, chairman of the department’s board, said the board voted not to accept the truck two years ago. Logan said the department had only four spaces in its station and already had five trucks.