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100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 5, 1914

MOUNTAIN VIEW — The city authorities are having quite a lot of street work done on East Main street. This work had been needed for some time. It consisted of making a good grade and properly ditching and the placing of culverts. There has also been a great deal of work done on the road from here to Sylamore. This is the most important road in the county, as all of the stave hauls go over it, also the tie hauls and the freight for this and adjoining towns. With comparatively small cost this could be made one of the best roads in the State, as there is an abundance of material along the road that is already prepared by the hand of nature.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 5, 1964

The largest audience ever to attend a Little Rock Community Theater production saw the “Solid Gold Cadillac,” the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann comedy that closed Saturday night at the Arkansas Arts Center. More than a thousand (actual count of 1,030) persons saw the play, according to Mrs. Selwyn Loeb, president of the Theater Group.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 5, 1989

PINE BLUFF — Teachers can’t assign John Steinbeck’s OfMiceandMen as required reading at Watson Chapel High School, much to the chagrin of some instructors and students. David Franks, a junior and copy editor for the student newspaper “The Wildcat Scratch,” protested the new rule in an editorial Friday. Franks, 16, said students and English teachers are upset about a Sept. 9 administrative memorandum that told teachers to collect copies of the classic that already had been distributed to classes and ordered that it not be assigned as required reading.

10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 5, 2004

Counties would have the option of either installing only touch-screen voting machines or putting optical scan voting equipment in their county with one touch-screen machine per polling site under Secretary of State Charlie Daniels’ latest plan. On a touch-screen machine, voters vote by touching a screen. On an optical scan machine, voters mark a paper ballot that’s later placed into an optical scan unit that reads the marks and tabulates the votes. Forty-eight of Arkansas’ 75 counties use some form of optical scan voting equipment. But some county clerks said last month that they prefer the touch-screen machines to the optical scan machines, although there has been debate in election circles about the security of the touch-screen machines.