100 years ago
Aug. 22, 1918
RUSH -- Prospecting for manganese in this section of the north Arkansas zinc field is claiming the attention of nearly everyone interested in the mining game, and some good bodies of manganese are being located. Ralph Huddleston reports that he has opened up a number of veins of clay carrying this ore in commercial quantities that are from six to eight feet thick. The Arkansas Mining and Mercantile Company is also meeting with good results. The Morning Star Mining Company has 10 men at work on this ore. C.P. Pierce of Kansas City, Mo., and F.M. Perkins of Colorado Springs, Col., have also recently put crews of men to work.
50 years ago
Aug. 22, 1968
• Senator J. William Fulbright said Wednesday at Little Rock that there was no reason for the United States to intervene with force in the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, which he said was "a great mistake on the part of the Russians." "I think it's a very sad and tragic development," Fulbright said of the Czech situation. In answer to a question at a press conference, he said that the United States had no commitment of any kind to Czechoslovakia and "we already have all we can handle in Vietnam." He said that the Russians didn't intervene when the United States sent troops to the Dominican Republic.
25 years ago
Aug. 22, 1993
• Organizers of the "Save Our Neighborhoods and Our Families" march and rally Saturday expected thousands of people to show up. The fact that only about 90 people did reflects society's misplaced priorities, the organizers said. "There were 10,000 people to turn out for Tina Turner last weekend, and Barton Coliseum was packed for a basketball game last night," the Rev. Aaron Wheeler said. "But when it comes to people demonstrating against children getting killed in violent crimes who are coming together to find solutions, we get a handful of supporters."
10 years ago
Aug. 22, 2008
CONWAY -- The chairman of a University of Central Arkansas faculty senate committee that has been asked to review growing contention surrounding UCA President Lu Hardin said Thursday that it may be "time for a change" in the president's office and in the way trustees are chosen. "I don't think there's any support at all right now in my college for Hardin," Ed Powers, the committee chairman and an associate professor of sociology, said after a faculty senate meeting. "People are pretty angry." "There is some frustration with the [UCA Board]" due to "a lack of transparency," Powers said.
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