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100 YEARS AGO March 3, 1917
The medal fund, out of which are to be purchased the Mexican service medals for the Second Arkansas Infantry upon its return from the border, still lacks $ 268 of being sufficient to secure the medals. Ceremonies similar to those at which members of the First Regiment were reviewed and decorated have been planned for the Second Regiment, and Adjutant General Lloyd England is anxious that the fund be completed before the arrival of the regiment.
50 YEARS AGO March 3, 1967
HOT SPRINGS — A State Police watchdog force raided three places here Thursday afternoon — without using search warrants — and found gambling equipment at all three and arrested the proprietors. The raids were carried out without warrants “because the men were successful in getting in without being refused,” State Police Director Col. Herman E. Lindsey said. The places raided are all across the street from Oaklawn Park race track, where more than 8,000 persons were betting $ 559,293 on the horses while the raids were carried on.
25 YEARS AGO March 3, 1992
Environmental litigation in the decade- old federal court battle involving the defunct Jacksonville Vertac plant heated up Monday with Attorney General Winston Bryant taking another company to court. In a related development, the U. S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit aimed at recovering at least $ 21.1 million in damages from four companies that allegedly caused environmental hazards and pollution in Jacksonville. Bryant’s latest lawsuit names as defendants Uniroyal Chemical Ltd., based in Elmira, Ontario, and its parent company, Uniroyal Chemical Co. Inc. of Middlebury, Conn.
10 YEARS AGO March 3, 2007
A Dumas industry will produce pet and fish food at one or more of its competitors’ plants to lessen the impact of a tornado that battered the business last weekend and shut down production, the company’s president said. Arkat Nutrition, which employs 105 workers, suffered severe damage to two of its three production plants when the tornado tore through the Desha County town on Feb. 24, leveling 25 businesses in the city of 5,000. “All of our competitors in commercial feed have called us and said: ‘ We’re still your competitors, but not until you get the place up and running, and we’re not going to steal any of your customers. How can we help you?’” Rick Wohlschlaeger, president and chief executive officer of Arkat, said in a telephone interview Thursday. “Overnight they become our partners, and the day we open up this plant they will be competitors again.”