For the Week in Clark County History, we combed through bound copies of the Daily Siftings Herald housed in the archives at Ouachita Baptist University. Here are some front-page news briefs from editions dating 10, 20 and 30 years ago.
10 years ago (2013)
The Mike and Jodie Daniell family was featured for growing a pumpkin weighing more than 700 pounds, which would have broken the state record by about 10 pounds had calibrated scales been used to weigh it. It was instead weighed at the county landfill.
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor was the keynote speaker for the 18th annual Clinton Day Dinner.
20 years ago (2003)
Henderson State University’s chemistry department was awarded an $80,000 grant from the state Highway and Transportation Department for research aimed at developing road surfaces containing more durable materials.
Longtime square dance caller Tommy Hays was featured after his last dance call at DeGray Lake’s Caddo Bend, which had been a weekly tradition since 1980 and attracted countless campers.
In the weeks after returning to his practice as a pediatrician, Dr. Wesley Kluck opened up about his battle with an illness that attacked his immune system and forced him into isolation for six months.
30 years ago (1993)
60 acres of land was being cleared to make way for the construction of a fourth wastewater pond on South 3rd Street.
A single-engine plane crash south of Delight (Pike County) claimed the lives of six people: passengers Ronald Hostetler, 41, of Nashville; his three sons, Robert David, 11, Eugene Ray, 13, and Alan John, 15; the pilot, Earl Wayne McLaughlin, 40; and passenger Kevin Kropf, 29, both of Mineral Springs.
A city committee discussed improvements to Rose Hill Cemetery, with desires including the completion of a fence and planting trees.
Arkansas Attorney General Winston Bryant held a press conference at Arkadelphia City Hall to defend himself against accusations made by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in a letter the company was sending its ratepayers. The AG and phone company were in a heated court dispute over a stipulated agreement between Bell and the Public Service Commission staff in regard to $61 million in alleged over-earnings by Bell.
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