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100 YEARS AGO

Jan. 26, 1920

CONWAY — The Conway Commercial Club will begin an “S.O.S.” campaign Tuesday morning to raise funds to relieve the financial and overcrowded condition of the Conway public school. Conway residents will be asked to contribute funds for three years in order that the school directors may carry out plans for the enlargement of the school, which now has an enrollment of nearly 900 pupils with a capacity of approximately 500.

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 26, 1970

The Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind at 2811 Fair Park Boulevard received accreditation from the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped Sunday at a quarterly meeting of the AEB Board at Hotel Marion.

25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 26, 1995

BENTON — Wal-Mart store officials have closed an investigation into what made several employees ill earlier this month, because a new store has replaced the one where the problems occurred, a company spokesman said. Keith Morris of the company’s headquarters at Bentonville said more than 30 tests conducted at the old Wal-Mart store on Military Road in Benton showed nothing conclusive to explain why nine employees sought medical attention Jan. 6 and Jan. 7. The employees said they became queasy while in a back room closed to customers, officials have said. Store managers evacuated the store and temporarily shut down operations twice after employees complained of dizziness and irritated eyes and throat. Now the store is closed permanently because officials Wednesday opened a new Wal-Mart Supercenter store nearby.

10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 26, 2010

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $454,449 grant to establish the Arkansas Seismic Observatory to monitor earthquake activity in the central United States. Six broadband seismic stations to enhance the capability of earthquake monitoring will be installed and operated. Additionally, a six-component “strong ground motion station” will be installed in the seismically active part of the New Madrid fault system in northeast Arkansas, said Haydar Al-Shukri, chairman of UALR’s Department of Applied Science in the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology. Al-Shukri and Hanan Mahdi, research assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of Technology, sought the grant. The sensors will give scientists a better handle on seismic activity on the New Madrid fault, a major seismic zone that includes Arkansas and the source of earthquakes within the tectonic plate in the southern and midwestern U.S.