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100 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1915

CLARENDON — W. B. Bradley, who recently came here from Missouri to edit the Monroe County Sun, mysteriously disappeared Saturday. Mr. Bradley left Clarendon Saturday by the Cotton Belt train for a hurried trip to Brinkley, intending to return the same evening by the Iron Mountain. He failed to return, and his wife becoming alarmed, called on Sheriff Frank Milwee to help locate her husband. The sheriff found that Mr. Bradley took a westbound Rock Island train, presumably for Little Rock.

50 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1965

Only a handful of school districts can be expected to hold out on signing statements of compliance with the Civil Rights Act — and not for long, state Education Commissioner A. W. Ford predicted Monday. Ford said that federal aid would not go to districts that refuse to sign and that the alternative would be for the patrons to vote sizable tax increases to make up the difference.

25 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1990

FAYETTEVILLE — The editor of the student newspaper at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville said he’s received only a handful of complaints about including free condoms in Wednesday’s special edition about AIDS. Ray Minor, editor of The Traveler, said the response from students has been wonderful. “I finally got my first negative letter today from a doctor in Little Rock,” he said Thursday.

10 YEARS AGO

March 16, 2005

Jennifer Hubbard used to share the same opinion of most 16-year-olds about her geometry class, wondering when she would ever use the math in real life. But it didn’t take long for the Fayetteville High School junior to understand the application. Hubbard, a member of her school’s Environmental and Spatial Technology class, found geometry and trigonometry were important tools in designing a hydraulic platform. “Wow,” she thought when she realized the application of the math to her project. “I did that this week.” About 1,500 students from Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana and Hawaii are gathering in Little Rock at the Statehouse Convention Center through today to share the projects they have completed through Environmental and Spatial Technology lab classes. The initiative, started as a computer lab at Greenbrier High in 1996, teaches students how to use technology to solve community problems.