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100 YEARS AGO

Feb. 25, 1920

EL DORADO — Oil developments are going ahead rapidly in Union county. Trinity well workmen still are trying to get out the strainer, which is stuck in the well. Work is going ahead at the Constantine well, where drilling is below 1,300 feet.

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 25, 1970

HELENA — Plans for a private academy, DeSoto Schools, Inc., to be opened next fall at Helena were announced last week by the school’s Board. Helena attorney Charles Roscopf said the organization was incorporated last year. He said the school was planning for 300 students next fall and that a $150 charge for the building fund must be paid by each student’s family by March 15.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 25, 1995

■ On any given day last semester, at least five truant students were forced to abandon their plans for a school-free day when they were picked up and taken to the Little Rock School District’s Truancy Reduction Center. According to a report to the Little Rock School Board on Thursday night, 424 children and teen-agers passed through the truancy center on 21st Street near Booker Magnet Elementary School during the first semester. The report to the school board doesn’t count all truants, just those spotted by police or reported by citizens. The numbers don’t necessarily include students with excessive unexcused absences. Most of the students counted in the report were delivered to the center by police. Once there, students met with volunteers who would talk to them to determine their schools and why they were out. Parents were called, and most of the students were taken to their schools by bus.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 2010

■ A backup hard drive containing the personal information of hundreds of Arkansas National Guard soldiers is missing, putting soldiers in two 39th Infantry Brigade battalions at risk of having their identities stolen. Capt. Chris Heathscott, spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said that a soldier reported Tuesday that the drive was missing. The soldier, who keeps identification rosters as part of his job, hadn’t used the drive since November and discovered it missing when looking for it on Feb.

15. The drive was used as a backup system, holding soldier rosters with names, Social Security numbers and other personal information that could be used in identity theft.