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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1916
Opposition to the formation of a State association or federation of motor clubs, solely to promote road legislation and to link the name of the club with “roads” in any way, caused a debate at Wednesday’s gathering of motor club representatives which resulted in determination to make the new federation strictly a motor organization. The name will have no reference to roads. The new club organizers went on record as favoring the proposed amendment to the State constitution, Act. No. 14, providing for road bond issues, however.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1966
North Little Rock voters approved by a margin of 23 votes a proposed 5- mill school tax increase aimed at financing construction of a new high school and junior high Tuesday. More than 6,500 votes were cast. In the races for two Board positions, one anti- millage candidate, Richard G. Oliver, 33, of 6328 Iroquois Drive, an insurance agent, and one pro- millage candidate, James Davis, 47, of 3700 Loch Lane, a banker, were elected to three- year terms.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1991
A governor’s task force laid plans Friday to help in the search for 26 Arkansas servicemen missing in Southeast Asia since the 1960s. Finding the military personnel, classified as prisoners of war or missing in action since the Vietnam War, is the goal of the newly formed POW/ MIA Verification Task Force. The group held its first meeting Friday. “We have live Americans in Southeast Asia. If we don’t do something, we’re going to lose those people simply by time,” said Ted Hendrickson of Judsonia ( White County), president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 305 in Searcy.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 2006
Little Rock officials want to wait to see what proposals to manage Curran Hall emerge before deciding whether to spend more taxpayer money on the antebellum visitor center. A task force that wants Curran Hall to continue to be a visitor center concluded Monday that it needs the city’s Board of Directors and Advertising and Promotion Commission each to help out financially for at least five years in order to draw someone to operate the building. But the commission and board have ruled that out for now, arguing it would be foolish to lock taxpayer money into an agreement before knowing anything about the old home’s fate.