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100 YEARS AGO

May 13, 1924

BATESVILLE — Unconscious, almost frozen and seriously ill from exposure, Raymond Curtis … son of Mr. and Mrs. John Curtis, lost since last Saturday morning, was found in a pine thicket within a halfmile of his home this afternoon. The lad, barefoot and coatless, was lying upon the damp ground when he was discovered by Sheriff Noah Harris … Raymond left home Saturday morning in search of his father’s mule.

50 YEARS AGO

May 13, 1974

JASPER — A single-engine airplane, missing since Thursday, was found about five miles west of here Sunday. The pilot, James Miller … of Mammoth Spring, was dead, Maj. Remmel Wilson, of the Civil Air Patrol, said. Wilson said the plane was found about 2:05 p.m. near the Mount Sherman community … There had been no contact with the pilot since he left Thayer, Mo., at 7:30 a.m. Thursday on a flight to Fayetteville … An aerial search in north Arkansas and south Missouri had been limited because of the weather until Sunday, when 16 CAP planes, three helicopters and several private planes joined in on the search.

25 YEARS AGO

May 13, 1999

■ Ryan Steed, a sophomore at Nettleton High School in Jonesboro, won first place in the annual Edwin Eagle Dunaway Bill of Rights Essay Contest, sponsored by the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Contest applicants were asked to write on the subject of whether school officials should be able to require students to wear school uniforms. The title of Steed’s winning entry was “School Uniforms: Hiding the Student.” Steed will receive a $500 prize. Winning second place was Lacy Spraggins, a ninth-grader at Pulaski Heights Junior High in Little Rock. Her essay was titled, “Freedom of Expression: The Fight Against Uniforms.” She is entitled to a $300 prize. The third-place winner of $100 was Ben Storey, a junior at Little Rock Central High, whose paper was titled “Creativity.” Storey is donating his award to the Central High Debate Club. The essay winners were selected from 265 entries from across the state.

10 YEARS AGO

May 13, 2014

■ John Diamond, a former spokesman at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named interim associate vice president for external relations and strategic communications for the University of Wisconsin System. Diamond, 58, will supervise a team of six employees responsible for the Wisconsin system’s external and internal communications. Diamond was fired in August 2013 by UA from a similar position for insubordination after a confrontation with his direct supervisor. Diamond has said he was fired because of disagreements over the school’s openness and accountability to the public, specifically that a Freedom of Information Act request from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was being unjustifiably delayed by his supervisor.