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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1914 FORT SMITH - For the first time in the history of this city, the city jail is empty tonight. Anti-Saloon League leaders insist the condition is brought about because saloons have been closed since the first of the year under the new liquor law. Since that time only 11 cases of drunkenness have appeared on the Police Court blotter, and the “antis” are making good use of those conditions to further their campaign against licensed liquor. The only bootlegging case that has appeared here resulted in a conviction and a fine of $200 in Police Court.

50 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1964

The National League for Nursing has notified the University of Arkansas School of Nursing it faces loss of accreditation because of a faculty shortage and need for revision of its instructional program. The notification prompted Dr. David W. Mullins, University president, to dispatch the Medical Center’s administrator to New York for conferences with league officials and to promise “immediate steps” to help the school overcome the accrediting agency’s objections. The loss of accreditation would come July 1.

25 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1989EL DORADO - June 1990 is the target date for opening Union County’s new emergency 911 telephone system approved by county voters in the November general election. Southwestern Bell Telephone officials told a committee overseeing the project that the company can make it operational by that date. El Dorado Chamber of Commerce President Jan Jarrett said the phone company will start collecting a service charge for establishing the system on next month’s phone bills.

10 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 2004 CONWAY - A late-morning explosion and fire at Detco Industries Inc. forced the evacuation of thousands of workers, residents and children Tuesday, and left displaced residents of nearby mobile home parks scrambling to find shelter on a cold wintry night. Two people were seriously injured and were flown from Conway Regional Medical Center to hospitals in Little Rock. A pall of billowing, acrid smoke hung over much of town for at least six hours after the 11:15 a.m. explosion. Flames reached 30-40 feet, and fireballs reached much higher during a number of smaller explosions in the early hours of the fire. The smoke was visible as far away as Little Rock.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 01/07/2014

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