100 YEARS AGO March 29, 1914 MOUNTAIN VIEW - Nineteen applicants took the teachers examination here last week, the entire number trying for a first grade license. Most of the applicants at the examination had never taken it before, and out of the number there are only three who had ever taught school. The average age of the 19 was a trifle over 17 years, which is thought to be the youngest body of teachers in the state. All of them, except three, were licensed to teach.

50 YEARS AGO March 29, 1964 HOT SPRINGS - The elaborate casinos which have attracted gambling buffs from all over the United States to this resort for 100 years went through their gay paces Saturday night for the last time before a shutdown ordered by Gov. Faubus. When the gamblers headed to their homes and hotels in the wee hours today, they were to pass 1,000 people headed up Hot Springs Mountain for the city’s annual Easter sunrise service. The tourists who annually flock to this Ouachita Mountains resort city for the racing season at Oaklawn Park and the casino gambling began checking out Saturday. Several hotel and motel operators said guests who had planned to remain through the end of racing April 4 were leaving early.

25 YEARS AGO March 29, 1989

A tiny Southwest Arkansas school district will receive national media coverage during the last of a five-part “MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour” series on education. The Nevada School District, which opened this year rafter a massive consolidation of five even smaller school districts, is considered by many as an example of how education reform is supposed to work. The district has a student population of about 800 and a staff force of about 70. Its boundaries encompass about 650 square miles, with the longest bus route to school taking about 55 minutes, the superintendent said.

10 YEARS AGO March 29, 2004 FAYETTEVILLE - Leaders of a Harrison-based company think they can save farmers money on heating bills and also deal with Northwest Arkansas’ overload of poultry litter. With the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s help, Lynndale Systems’ principals aim to prove their claim. The central goal is to allow farmers to use litter - a byproduct of poultry production - in a beneficial way. Thomas Costello, a biological and agricultural engineering associate professor at UA, is leading efforts to perfect Lynndale Systems’ poultry litter furnace at the Genesis Technology Incubator in Fayetteville.

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