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Friday, October 25, 2013

100 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1913

While scores of outcasts hopefully await the day they will be released from the towering walls which keep them prisoners, “Buck” Patterson is just as anxious to be placed behind those barriers against the world. Patterson, after recently having been found in a local hotel apparently suffering from poison and given medical treatment, has disappeared. He was committed to the penitentiary to serve five years for manslaughter and pen officials believe that, growing impatient because his commitment has not arrived, he has started to walk to Russellville, where he can secure the ruling which means five wasted years of his life.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1963

The turnover rate of teachers in Arkansas is so high that, if it continues at the current rate, it will mean a complete turnover of teaching personnel every six years. This finding was announced today in a report by the Research Committee of Arkansas Education Association, headed by R.M. Roelfs, chairman. The committee’s study of the turnover between 1961-62 and 1962-63 indicated a shortage of teachers in the future.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1988

A flash of blue light that lit up the sky before turning into a ball of fire and leaving a trail of smoke was reported about 10:15 p.m. Sunday by people across the state, but authorities aren’t sure of the cause. “It lit up the whole country,” said Rick Halter of Little Rock, who saw the light from St. Joe (Searcy County). “I’m glad to know somebody else saw it. I thought it was a close encounter of the third kind or something,” Bobbie King of Little Rock said Monday. King said she and her boyfriend saw the light from Murray Park. A spokesman for the National Weather Service said they had received several phone calls about the light. He said calls came from people in Hot Springs, Russellville and Fayetteville.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 2003

Arkansas will receive $4,354,646 to help low-income residents with their heating bills during October, November and December this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday. The funding is part of the nearly $844 million the department allocated to states, tribes and territories under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The program helps eligible families pay the costs of heating and insulating their homes in the winter and cooling their homes in the summer.

Arkansas, Pages 15 on 10/25/2013