100 years ago
Jan. 6, 1921
• Governor Brough yesterday issued a pardon to Clyde Campbell, Little Rock youth, convicted of stealing automobiles in connection with the alleged Hot Springs theft ring, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Campbell was committed October 20, 1919, and served until August 21, 1920, when he was given a furlough from the Tucker farm. Later the furlough was extended, and Campbell himself added a few further extensions.
50 years ago
Jan. 6, 1971
• Frank J. Wright, 68, a former North Little Rock man who in August 1965 was declared legally dead, appeared Tuesday in Chancery Court and asked that he be declared alive again. Wright also asked for "possessory" rights to four acres of land on the Old Conway Highway that his divorced wife sold 16 months after she had him declared dead. The attorneys for Wright, his ex-wife and the purchasers of the land all told Chancellor Murray O. Reed that they couldn't find any Arkansas court cases concerning the return of a person who had been declared dead.
25 years ago
Jan. 6, 1996
HOT SPRINGS -- Beginning Monday, the public will be denied access to the spring water at Three Sisters Springs for the first time since it was discovered in the late 1800s. The staff at Lake Ouachita Park will lock the Three Sisters springhouse because the state lacks the funds needed to filter the water as the federal government requires, Arkansas Parks Division Director Greg Butts said Thursday. "Due to the state parks system's current budget problems, there is no funding available at this time for this project," Butts said.
10 years ago
Jan. 6, 2011
• Conway has been referred to as the city of colleges -- being home to the University of Central Arkansas, Hendrix College and Central Baptist College -- but Mayor Tab Townsell believes the Faulkner County seat may well become better known now as the city of circles -- as in traffic circles. The city boasts nine circles now with five more planned. The modern traffic circle -- a circular intersection with specific design and traffic control features -- is increasingly seen as a safer alternative to the traditional traffic signal. Rather than stopping at red lights, vehicles at traffic circles simply yield at times, travel at a slower speed, but keep moving. There are no left turns; all entries to and exits from a circle are made to the right.