100 YEARS AGO April 10, 1914
BENTONVILLE - The Chamber of Commerce has set aside April 17 as a clean-up day for Bentonville. The business houses will close at noon and unite in the cleaning up. Cash prizes will be awarded for the largest piles of tin cans gathered in the meantime by the boys of the city. The Civics Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, the Mothers’ Club and other organizations have inaugurated a crusade against the fly.
50 YEARS AGO April 10, 1964
Railroad union members went on strike for 4 1-2 hours in Arkansas today before receiving official notification that the scheduled nationwide strike had been delayed at least 25 days. But word came through at 4:30 a.m. from union headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the strike ended before the state felt the full impact of it. The strike would not have reached giant proportions until mid-morning. Most of the men notified to strike were not scheduled to go on duty until after 7 a.m., and they went to work as usual.
25 YEARS AGO April 10, 1989
Living Longer/Feeling Better, a new geriatric health monthly aimed at an over-50 readership, recently rolled off the presses in Little Rock. “Our goal in this magazine is to help you understand medical and health problems that some of us may have to face,” Publisher Larry D. Davis wrote in his foreword in the digest-sized, large type magazine stressing geriatrics - the care and treatment for older people. Davis, who has a business background and is married to a geriatrics specialist, is president of Physicians’ Publishing Co. Inc. The magazine’s alternating bold and light-face print makes for easy reading.
10 YEARS AGO April 10, 2004
Arkansas utility regulators on Friday ordered an investigation into a Louisiana hydroelectric plant’s production costs, as much as $40 million of which could be shifted each year to Entergy Arkansas’ customers. A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission law judge on Feb. 6 ruled that the other states in the Entergy Corp. system should pay part of the Vidalia, La., plant’s production costs. If the federal commission upholds Judge Lawrence Brenner’s decision, the order would retroactively shift $25 million of 2003 costs to Entergy Arkansas customers. The Arkansas Public Service Commission says the Vidalia plant is the most objectionable part of an already contentious federal case.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 04/10/2014