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100 YEARS AGO April 4, 1914

MOUNTAIN HOME - About 100 students of the Mountain Home College struck Thursday morning. They left the school in a body and spent All Fools’ Day in the woods at a big spring in the Goodall Hollow, two miles north of here. It is probable that some step will be taken to punish them. One of the directors favors expelling them, it is said. The pupils decided Tuesday to take a vacation on All Fools’ Day and spend it in the woods in spite of the fact that it is not a legal holiday and that school was not to be dismissed on that day.

50 YEARS AGO April 4, 1964

The Council on Community Affairs- which has postponed its proposed boycott of schools scheduled for Monday after statements on desegregation by the Little Rock School Board - pledged today that it would “work with a properly constituted biracial committee to plan solutions to other problems related to minorities.” A statement issued by Dr. W.H. Townsend, COCA president for the organization’s membership, also offered COCA’s “services to the (school) board in advancing the cause of better education for all children.”

25 YEARS AGO April 4, 1989

The first in a new line of license plates that advertises Arkansas as “The Natural State” rather than the “Land of Opportunity” was handed out Monday at the state Capitol. Surveys had shown that the slogan “Land of Opportunity” had little meaning to most people. The recipient of the first of the new plates was Rep. Bobby Glover of Carlisle, who pushed for the license plate change during an interim study done last year by the Legislative Council’s Committee on Agriculture and Economic Development. The new plate is red, white and blue with a stylized “Arkansas” appearing across the top in white against a band of red.

10 YEARS AGO April 4, 2004

FAYETTEVILLE - The University of Arkansas will ask its Washington, D.C., lobbying firm to go after $51.1 million worth of direct work from the federal government in the next fiscal year. The list of 15 priority initiatives range from studying how to upgrade the nation’s power grid to preparing Hispanic schoolgirls for high-tech jobs. It also contains some repeats: either long-term projects the university must renew yearly, such as defense contracts, or projects it sought unsuccessfully in the past. “The sophisticated name is ‘direct funding,’ but it is pork,” said Collis Geren, UA’s vice provost for research.

Arkansas, Pages 14 on 04/04/2014

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