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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 11, 1918
RUSSELLVILLE — The boys of the Russellville high school have adopted overalls as a school uniform in order to conserve wool as a war measure. The same measure will probably be adopted by the boys in the grammar grades. The girls in the high school will also adopt an inexpensive uniform for wear.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11, 1968
EL DORADO (AP)—N. O. Bledsoe, charged with illegally keeping gaming devices, Thursday smashed dozens of the 404 slot machines police found in his National Novelty and Vending Company building last month. Photographers asked the former Union County Grand Jury foreman to pose with his sledgehammer in the pile of slot machines. With a chuckle, he said, “Let me hit this one for Rockefeller.” The sledgehammer shattered the machine, scattering the working parts across the floor. Governor Rockefeller, who flew to El Dorado after the raid was announced last month, praised El Dorado authorities for making the raid, and said, “This is the kind of law enforcement we like to see.”
25 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11, 1993 BLYTHEVILLE — George Hubbard III says his musical group is called “Blythville’s Barbershop Chorus” instead of “Blytheville’s Barbershop Quartet” because there are five too many singers. “A quartet means four and an octet means eight,” he said during a recent practice session at Jim Southard’s Red Ball Barber Shop in downtown Blytheville. “But we have nine singers,” and he didn’t know what to call that, he said with a laugh. 10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11, 2008
Sen. Gilbert Baker, R-Conway, said Friday that he was threatened in a phone message left at the Faulkner County Republican headquarters by someone speaking in a disguised voice. He asked Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney Marcus Vaden for advice, and Vaden sent Conway police detectives to check it out to be safe, Baker said. Baker recalled the message being something like: “Senator, I wouldn’t come in today if I was you. Senator, you should be ashamed of yourself. You’re a jerk.” According to a Conway police report, detectives investigated a “suspicious message.” It said Ricky Harrington of Greenbrier, a bail bondsman, admitted calling Baker’s office three times and disguised his voice with the aid of a computer.