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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1919
EL DORADO — A derrick is being erected on the farm of Frank Hill, three miles southwest of El Dorado, and a test will be put down at once. The geologists say indications are favorable that oil will be found here. Well No. 1 of the Trinity Petroleum Corporation, in the extreme western part of the county is going down, and four more will be drilled by this company. Union county is only 14 miles from the Homer fields in which several big gushers have been brought in recently, and many investors are here looking for leases. In some cases the rental is more than $2 an acre.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1969
CONWAY— Dr. Silas D. Snow, president of State College of Arkansas has announced the establishment of the SCA School of Health Science and Professions. The State College Board of Trustees approved the school as a part of the College of Fine and Applied Arts and Sciences. The school is to begin operation in January in co-operation with the Arkansas Baptist Medical Center of Little Rock. SCA will provide general education and specific academic courses for the school, and the Medical Center will provide the clinical facilities and experiences, Dr. Snow said.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1994
■ Investigators with the Arkansas Forestry Commission suspect an arsonist set five fires Thursday that fanned across 216 acres of forest in rural west Saline County, a commission spokesman said Friday. John Burton, an assistant state forester, said firefighters spent … hours battling the fires, which started about 3 p.m. five miles west of Paron on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Co. Firefighters from the commission, Weyerhaeuser and the Paron Volunteer Fire Department used six bulldozers, a helicopter and a pumper truck to extinguish the fires, Burton said. He said investigators had several leads, but there hadn’t been any arrests by Friday afternoon. No one was injured in the fires, Burton said.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 2009
■ Whatever regulations for electronic signs North Little Rock creates, city aldermen were told Wednesday night, there need to be clear reasons for those laws to stand up in court. Seven aldermen met for two hours at City Hall as an informal committee to discuss ways to regulate where “electronic changeable copy” signs can be located and how often that copy can change. The committee is meeting in public work sessions to hammer out a recommended outline for legislation that would be proposed in and voted on at a regular City Council meeting by year’s end. The council voted last week to extend a current moratorium on new sign permits until Dec. 31 while a proposal is created.