Yesterdays: 1-28-12
75 years ago
(1937)
Conway High School’s basketball team will make its first public appearance of the season at home tonight when the Wampus Cats engage Morrilton High School at the Axley gymnasium. The game will begin at 7:30 o’clock and admission price will be 10 and 15 cents.
50 years ago
(1962)
Mr. an Mrs. Kent Carmain have moved to Conway from Denver, Colo. The couple has three daughters, Dawn, 14; Gayle, 9, and Camilla, 8. Carmain is an engineer with the Martin-Marietta Co., and will be associated with the third phase of the missile launching pad construction project in this area.
Mrs. Carmain is a Methodist; her husband is a member of the Christian church.
25 years ago
(1987)
Dr. Fred Dalske of Conway received the annual Ann Faris Service Award recently during the quarterly meeting of the Faulkner County Literacy Council.
The council is made up of volunteer tutors who teach adults to read and write. The Faris award is given to the member recognized as giving the most valuable service during the year.
Dalske, associate professor of biology at the University of Central Arkansas, is a former vice president of the council. A native of Pennsylvania, Dalske earned his doctorate in pharmacology from Temple University Medical School. He received a plaque in recognition of the award.
Mrs. Faris is a longtime member of the council. She served as president of the organization from 1979 to 1981 and taught at Ida Burns Elementary School for 13 years.
10 years ago
(2002)
A former Razorback critically injured in a traffic crash in early November (2001) is still in a light coma, but now he’s at a Fayetteville hospital, with family and friends nearby.
Former Arkansas kicker and Conway native Lance Ellison was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Bradley Christian, 31, of Fayetteville. Christian was killed in the crash near Holly Springs, Miss., along with two others.
Ellison sustained serious head injuries, a ruptured aorta, eight broken ribs, a compound fracture of his left upper arm and fractured bones in his neck and back.
Doctors won’t guess when he will come out of the coma or how much he will be able to recover. But Ellison responds to questions with eye or finger movements and seems to recognize his wife, Dana, and daughter, Ashland, and his parents.
Ellison played for the Razorbacks from 1991-94. He is ninth in career field goal attempts in Arkansas school history with 25.
