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100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 29, 1917 Apparently the strike which closed 31 coal mines in western Arkansas employing 6,000 men will end today. Following a conference between Governor Brough, Ben D. Brickhouse, a committee representing the union miners, and T. A. Wilson, president of the Arkansas Federation of Labor, yesterday afternoon, the governor said that he would accept the resignation of Millard Pendergrass, whom he recently appointed state mine inspector to succeed Robert Boyd Jr. It is said that dissatisfaction over the appointment of Pendergrass was the cause of some of the miners refusing to work.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 29, 1967 PINE BLUFF — The Arts Festival of the Fine Arts and Science Council of Pine Bluff will start Wednesday. The Women’s Army Corps Concert Band of Fort McClellan, Ala., will give a concert at 8:15 p.m. at the Pine Bluff High School auditorium. A tour of some of the city’s homes will be held Wednesday. The Saenger Theater will have a one-week showing of an art movie beginning Thursday.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 29, 1992 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Truthfulness, or the lack thereof, was the campaign issue of the day for Gov. Bill Clinton. First thing Wednesday, callers questioned Clinton’s honesty during an appearance on a television program. Clinton, in turn, questioned the veracity of President Bush — in the harshest terms of the campaign — on the show and at rallies throughout the day. “The very idea that the word trust could ever come out of Bush’s mouth after what he has done to this country and the way he trampled the truth is a travesty for the American political system,” Clinton said.

10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 29, 2007 “The sexiest meteorite on earth” found a six-figure suitor, but the giant space rock that Arkansas meteorite hunter Steve Arnold put up for auction Sunday flamed out early. The bidding stalled at $200,000 — less than the minimum price that Arnold had set for his one-of-a-kind meteorite. The 41-year-old professional meteorite hunter and broker, who lives near Kingston in Madison County, discovered the 1,430-pound chunk of asteroid two years ago buried in a Kansas wheat field. Touted as “the most important American meteorite find of the past 50 years,” Arnold’s meteorite shared top billing in the fine-meteorite auction Bonhams & Butterfields held Sunday afternoon in New York City.