100 years ago
April 29, 1916
HOT SPRINGS -- Everything is in readiness for the Boy Scouts to make a whirlwind finish to the "clean up" campaign, which has been on during the week. Nearly 200 Boy Scouts, including the senior and junior organizations, will rally to the colors of "spotless town" tomorrow morning and gather in front of the Arlington hotel, where Mayor McClendon will read the official commission that authorizes them to assist in the work of cleaning up the city.
50 years ago
April 29, 1966
• The Board of Directors of the Arkansas Automobile Club called Thursday for an investigation of the "entire [state] highway problem" by a "competent nonpolitical group expressly appointed to examine the present controversy." The Highway Department and Commission have been under fire recently because of illegal salary raises put into effect by the Department without the Commission's knowledge. When the raises became public knowledge the Commission ordered them revoked and fired two high-echelon employes of the Department.
25 years ago
April 29, 1991
FORT SMITH -- As evidence in the shooting deaths of two Arkansas teen-agers begins to gather dust, authorities have set their sights on unraveling the mystery cloaking a third death at Fort Chaffee. George Kent Wallace, 50, has been convicted in Oklahoma for the shooting deaths of William von Eric Domer, 15, of Fort Smith in February 1987 and Mark Anthony McLaughlin, 14, of Van Buren in November 1990. Sebastian County Sheriff Gary Grimes is relying on an in-person visit with Wallace at the Lexington, Okla., Assessment Center later this week to solve the mystery of the third death.
10 years ago
April 29, 2006
• Banishing the black puffs of smoke belched by school bus tailpipes will help improve air quality in Crittenden County, state and federal officials said Thursday. "Who would've ever thought a school bus could make a difference in emissions?" said Marcus Devine, director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality at a ceremony in front of Marion Intermediate School. The department and the federal Environmental Protection Agency are splitting the $46,480 cost of retrofitting 50 diesel school buses to reduce emissions, including 31 from the Marion School District and 19 from the West Memphis School District.
Metro on 04/29/2016