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100 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1920
A new “progressive” political party, having for its object the election of a liberal, such as Senator Robert M. LaFollette or Frank P. Walsh of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission, was launched in Arkansas yesterday by Paul Harris Drake of St. Louis, regional director of the “Committee of Forty-Eight” for the southwest.
50 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1970
Atop a truck bed wrapped in antiwar slogans, welfare rights posters and the names of Arkansans killed in the Vietnam war, speakers at Saturday’s Arkansas Rally for Peace urged an immediate end of the war. Resources used for warfare should be used to solve the nation’s problems, they said. “The Vietnam war stopped whatever moves were under way toward social reconstruction,” Representative William F. Ryan (Dem., N.Y.) said. More than $550 billion has been spent on military outlays in 1968 and 1969, he said.
25 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1995
MARSHALL — Searcy County jailers walked off the job Tuesday, citing poor working conditions and low pay. “The security and safety of employees as well as prisoners is threatened on a daily basis the way we have been run,” said Harold Young, a jailer for 13 years. The jailers, who also serve as dispatchers for the sheriff’s office, said Tuesday the final straw came Monday night when the Searcy County Quorum Court refused to take immediate action to hire more jailers. Searcy County Sheriff Kent Griggs said the walkout will mean more hours for deputies and himself.
10 YEARS AGO
April 12, 2010
The Buffalo National River appears to be free of contamination from a sewer leak that polluted a tributary for most of last year, though the state wants to continue with a planned September trial against residents of Marble Falls to make sure a cleanup continues. “Everything is well below state standards,” Faron Usrey, a water ecologist for the National Park Service, said of contamination levels in water tests. Usrey recently started his fourth, five-week study of the waterways, which he said have largely returned to normal. Last summer’s tests indicated sections of the river may have to be closed to the public because of E. coli bacteria contamination, commonly found in human and animal waste, he said, but that was not needed.