   
Yesterdays
By JENNY OLIVER
special to the log cabin
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 75 years ago
(1933)
In a letter to the Editor of the Log Cabin Democrat, W. M. Harper wrote the following: I want to commend the voters of Faulkner County for their noble stand for the 18th Amendment. I feel surer that in the years to come, your children will rise up and call you blessed for the splendid way in which you responded to that appeal of the churches, schools and colleges of the county. If, in the years to come, conditions improve to the extent that the repealists hope for, I will be one of the first to acknowledge it. In the meantime, I beg the followers of the lowly Nazarene to live just a little closer to, and express just a little more faith, love and confidence in Him who died, that we might live again.
50 years ago
(1958)
Cliff Horton, new head basketball coach at Arkansas State Teachers College, spoke to the Conway Lions Club at Hotel Bachelor. Coach Horton was introduced by ASTC Athletic Director Frank Koon. Coach Horton pointed out that he did not coach the fast break and that he would stress physical conditioning and team play.
Two Conway boys attended an International Teen-age Institute sponsored by the Church of the Nazarene, held at Estes Park, Colo. Attending were Larry Tyler and Bobby Bullock. Delegates were selected on the basis of school achievement, church work and Bible knowledge.
25 years ago
(1983)
The Rev. Terry Johnson, pastor of Faith Baptist Church at Greebrier, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Heritage Baptist University in North Jackson, Ohio. The Rev. and Mrs. Johnson was in his 30th year of ministry and was a graduate of Central Baptist College. He was widely known as aan evangelist and radio speaker and had conducted over 325 revivals.
B. J. Daugherty, president of First State Bank and Trust Co. of Conway, was appointed as a member of the Federal Government Relations Committee. The purpose of the committee was to monitor legislation affecting the financial community.
10 years ago
(1998)
Eight members of the Clifton Day Care Center Inc. Board of Directors voted to dissolve the corporation and donate its assets to the United Way of Faulkner County. Assets of $26,792 were donated to United Way to help fund 23 affiliated agencies. The day care had operated at First United Methodist Church in Conway. Clifton had provided subsidized day care for lower-income families for 30 years, before government-funded vouochers were available for child care.
Another Wal-Mart was likely coming to town, this one is a western Conway area. The Conway Planning Commission recommended for approval 7-0 a request to rezone approximately six acres of multi-family property to commercial for a proposed Wal-Mart site at Hogan Lane and Dave Ward Drive. Mitch Hart spoke aat the meeting on behalf of Zane Matthews who requested the rezoning. Both Matthews and Hart wanted to sell land to Bill Meyers, a Georgia developer who had proposed placing a "major retailer" on the site. That retailer would be Wal-Mart.
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