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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 1917
FORT SMITH — The strike of the 65 operators of the southwestern Telephone Company, which has been in effect since September 19, was practically settled tonight when the company reached an agreement with L. B. Keating, federal mediator, to reinstate 63 of the girls, leaving the disposition of the other two up to the local manager. The strikers will return to work here tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock. Simultaneously the exchanges at Van Buren, Huntington, Midland, Mansfield, and Hartford, where the operators walked out in a sympathetic strike with the Fort Smith organization, will be reopened.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 1967
VAN BUREN — One person was killed and two others were wounded Tuesday when a rifle discharged as they were getting into a car at the Rudy community about 10 miles north of here. Crawford County Sheriff Bill Vickery said David Clifford Osman, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Lee Asman of Roseburg, Ore., was killed when a .30-.30 rifle held by Walter Hilyard, 15, of Mount Hebron, Cal., discharged. Vickery said Hilyard, sitting on the front seat, apparently didn’t know the gun was loaded and pulled the trigger.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 1992
President-elect Bill Clinton is Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1992, the magazine announced Saturday. Clinton was chosen because he won election at a “radically unstable moment in history,” one of those times “when Americans dig out of their deepest problems by re-imagining themselves.” Time also said Clinton’s campaign “served to rehabilitate and restore the legitimacy of American politics.” In an interview accompanying the article, Clinton named “the very troubled world we live in” as the first of three major concerns he has as he takes office.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 27, 2007
Sheridan School District bus No. 46 sported a jaunty Christmas wreath on its front grille as driver Vera Launius steered the growling yellow monster over the narrow, curvy, patched and often unpaved roads of southeast Grant County. The school bus — a mobile virtual classroom — is a key component of the new “Aspirnaut Initiative,” a pilot project launched in April by Grapevine native and Vanderbilt University professor Billy Hudson in cooperation with his family, the university, the Sheridan district and the Grapevine Historical Society.