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100 YEARS AGO July 20, 1913 RUSSELLVILLE - There may be “nothing new under the sun,” but the moon nightly looks down upon something new on a farm near Russellville. Eldred Thomas, a hustling young farmer of this city, has “put one over” on Old Sol by adopting work hours to his own liking, and his plan seems a most sensible one. Thomas takes his rest during the day when the hot rays of the sun make work in the field almost unbearable, and late in the afternoon when the shades begin to fall he goes to the field with team and cultivator and tills the soil by the bright light of the moon until midnight or later.

50 YEARS AGO July 20, 1963

The Arkansas Legislative Council took upon itself today the task of explaining to the public the ramifications of the United States Supreme Court’s Bible reading and prayer decision regarding public schools. The council turned over to its Judiciary Committee a proposal by Benton County Rep. Roy Galyean, a Baptist minister, that the decision be studied and Arkansas educators be informed as to the extent to which they may now use the Bible and prayer in classrooms.

25 YEARS AGO July 20, 1988

The entire floor of Lake Pine Bluff is contaminated with PCBs to a depth of about 2 feet, but the problem is only severe enough to require a cleanup of about a third of the lake bottom, a study concludes. Ensco of Little Rock did the study. The release said that, with the report in hand, the commission now knows the extent and severity of the lake’s contamination by PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls, chemicals believed to cause cancer - and plans to seek proposals for a cleanup of the lake.

10 YEARS AGO July 20, 2003 TEXARKANA - The only way to wrangle a stray horse darting through traffic and disrupting life in the Texarkana area was to call in some cowboys. Two men on horseback helped rope the runaway horse Wednesday night after local police could not. The horse had been loose since Tuesday and spent most of its time hiding in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. By Wednesday evening, though, it was crossing busy streets and dodging traffic throughout the city. “We’ve been fooling with it for several days. We tried the feed bucket and water, and that didn’t work. So we decided to pay for a wrangler,” police spokesman Capt. Glenn Greenwell said. The cowboys recruited for the roundup were cousins Billy Crumpton and Brandon Warren.