LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1909
Having failed to comply with the conditions required by the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Fund, the State Normal School at Conway will not receive the $10,000 gift offered by the board in the event that an agricultural school should be established in connection with the Conway institution.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1959 WINROCK FARM - The First Arkansas Industrial Finance Corp.'s potential ability to help the Industrial development program of Arkansas will be hurt if some financial aid is not found for it. Apparently both Governor Faubus and Winthrop Rockefeller, chairman of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, are not too far apart on that point. They mention divergent amounts of money as the ultimate goal, but neither rules out a special session as one road to more money and neither has specifically said such a session should be called.
25 YEARS AGOSept. 27, 1984 WASHINGTON - A last-minute compromise on an Arkansas wilderness bill was formally unveiled Wednesday before a House committee, where it received prompt approval and assurances of quick passage through Congress. The bill, which would designate 91,100 acres of federally protected wilderness in nine areas of the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, was approved by a voice vote of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1999
The sound of heavy machinery has replaced the peace and quiet in many of Arkansas' state parks, but probably few people are complaining. It's a busy time in the state's parks as the Department of Parks and Tourism races to make up for decades of neglect with an ambitious 10-year renovation plan to spend $177 million on the state's 51 parks. The source of the funds for the program is a one-eighth percent sales tax voters approved in 1996 that generates about $19 million a year.
Arkansas, Pages 22 on 09/27/2009