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100 YEARS AGO

March 6, 1923

OZARK — Forty-three nails of various sizes, a washer, a screw, two bones and a piece of wire were removed from a duck’s craw in an “operation” performed here yesterday by Jack O’Kelly, aged 11, of Roseville and John McCarry, aged 13, of Fort Smith. Following the operation the incision, which was made with a butcher knife, was sewed up with a silk thread and the duck is alive and apparently none the worse for its experience.

50 YEARS AGO

March 6, 1973

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling marijuana laws unjust and cruel, a mayor’s committee recommended Monday that the District of Columbia “decriminalize” possession and use of the drug by removing penalties. The report, stopping short of recommending legalization of marijuana, supported government regulations of growth, manufacture and supply. … “I don’t know that we should treat a drug for which there is no demonstrable harm any different than alcohol for which there is demonstrable harm,” said Dr. Thomas Piemme, medical director of George Washington University and a member of the mayor’s committee.

25 YEARS AGO

March 6, 1998

BENTONVILLE — It wasn’t that long ago that Northwest Arkansas Community College was known as “the college without walls.” Now, the college can’t seem to get enough walls. On Thursday, college officials kicked off construction of the second expansion in less than a year at the college’s Central Education Facility. And there are plans to approximately double the size of the buildings within the next five years. … The school has been in existence only since 1990, and it’s become the second-biggest community college in the state, after Westark Community College in Fort Smith. The plan is to have several more expansions built by 2002, when the student population is expected to be 6,000. … The 17,000-square-foot expansion will include a place for students to meet and study between classes as well as a new department of student services. The three-story expansion will also include four classrooms.

10 YEARS AGO

March 6, 2013

JASPER — Members of the Newton County Quorum Court allowed an hour for public comment Monday night on the topic of a recently permitted hog farm to be built along the banks of Big Creek, a tributary to the Buffalo National River near Mount Judea. … Represented among the crowd were local farmers who support the hog-farm operation and those concerned that the 670-acre, 6,500-hog C&H Hog Farms will diminish the water quality of the Buffalo and the tourism trade that depends on it. … Mike Dougherty, president of the Buffalo River Chamber of Commerce, said the permitting process conducted by the department was inadequate, and that the agency was negligent in having not contacted county officials or other agencies, including the Buffalo National River, a part of the National Parks Service, before issuing the permit. … The department did meet the legal requirement of public notice by publishing two advertisements in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.