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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1913

Belated reports received yesterday tell of the great damage done by the snowstorm of Sunday and Monday, which swept through northwest Arkansas. Telegraph, telephone and mail service was impaired to such an extent that it was impossible to obtain detailed reports of the storm earlier. Eight inches of snow fell at Harrison Monday, and while telephone wires are down all over Boone county, it is believed the damage is heavy.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1963

The time is almost here when dwellers of the Arkansas River Valley will have a chance to prove that the $1.2 billion development project now going on is not “pork barrel.” This opinion was part of a speech prepared for delivery today by Lt. Gen. Walter K. Wilson, chief to the U. S. Army Engineers. He was the guest speaker at a luncheon opening the 35th anniversary meeting of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Arkansas Inc. In his prepared text, Gen. Wilson noted that “obviously, a selling job remains to be done nationwide” on the development project. This was an apparent reference to recent national publicity, principally by Life magazine, that the work was in the “pork barrel”category.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1988

Eye tests will be a part of the driver’s license renewal process if proposals addressed by a legislative committee Friday become law. The Joint Interim Committee on Public Transportation heard a series of proposals to require eye tests at least every eight years. One proposal would require eye tests every other year for people over 60. The committee is studying the link between automobile safety and mandatory eye tests. State law now requires an eye test only when an Arkansan first gets a driver’s license.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 2003

It was a 2-bit affair with a lot of flair as more than 4,000 people gathered Tuesday morning at the Crater of Diamonds State Park for the U.S. Mint’s official release of the Arkansas quarter. Henrietta Holsman Fore, director of the U.S. Mint, highlighted the ceremony, officially releasing the Arkansas quarter into general circulation. The coin, the 25th in a series of 50 state quarters, features a diamond, symbolizing the precious stones’ availability at the nation’s only public diamond mine; a stalk from the country’s main rice-growing region; and a mallard flying over Delta wetlands and wooded hills.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 10/29/2013

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