LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25, 1907
STUTTGART - F.M. Snook discovered a great prize while examining the inside of a violin he bought secondhand several years ago. The violin bears the stamp: "Joseph Guarnerius, Fecit, Cremonae, Anno 1757."
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25, 1957
Governor Faubus today accepted 8,500 de-federalized Arkansas National Guard troops and at the same time called for a congressional investigation of the manner in which 1,800 others are being retained for school integration duty. The chief executive gave reporters copies of a telegram he said he was sending to president Eisenhower and Secretary of Army Brucker demanding that the other 1,800 be returned immediately to National Guard status.
25 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25, 1982
Bill Clinton insists he has never run a more "positive" campaign, that he is "at peace" with the way he's behaved in his quest for the governorship and that Governor Frank White and the news media are at the root of all this negativism.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 25, 1997
The state executive who manipulated the hiring system to put a legislator on the state payroll at an extraordinary salary asked for and received the lawmaker's resignation from the job. Richard Weiss, director of the Department of Finance and Administration, got the resignation of state Rep. Billy Joe Purdom, D-Yellville.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 10/25/2007