100 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1913
CAMDEN - The Cleveland avenue branch of the School Improvement Association has devised a novel scheme for raising funds. Each pupil is requested to secure all the eggs laid by hens and guinea hens on Sunday and bring them to school on Monday. The eggs are sold at the market price and the funds used in the work undertaken by the association. The last work undertaken by this organization was the enlarging of the school auditorium and furnishing it with opera chairs.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1963
Winds gusting up to 30 miles an hour have created the “highest class burning index we could possibly have” for forest fires, State Forester Fred Lang said today as one fire near Mena raged out of control over 9,000 acres. Other fires were burning near Warren and El Dorado. Lang said more fire trouble would almost certainly develop before the day is over. He said almost a thousand acres burned yesterday in the state, with losses of 183 acres near Dierks and 132 acres near Fordyce the highest.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1988
More marijuana is being burned this year, but it isn’t the users of the illegal weed that are doing the smoking. After a disappointing 1987, law enforcement agencies involved in the Arkansas Marijuana Eradication Program have rebounded in high style this year. More marijuana plants have been found and destroyed in 1988 than in any year except 1983, the program’s first year. Capt. Charles Bolls of the Arkansas State Police attributed the current success of the program to a more organized helicopter surveillance plan. In the past authorities would contact an agency during the growing season to fly a specific route. This year, the state was divided into four zones and bids to provide service were taken before the program began.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 2003
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld Thursday the state’s decision to clear the way for the construction and operation of an incinerator for disposal of chemical weapons stored at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. The seven-member court unanimously rejected five arguments made by a coalition of environmental and veterans groups. Twelve percent of the nation’s chemical weapons stockpiles are in storage units on the 13,444-acre arsenal. Among locations in the United States, only an arsenal at Tooele, Utah, has a greater amount of chemical weapons stored.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 10/31/2013