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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1916

FORT SMITH — W. J. Murphy, 65 years old, a leading Fort Smith business man, was made a cripple for life when he was struck by an automobile on a downtown street today. His right knee was so dislocated that physicians say it will be stiff. The car was driven by Allen Dade, negro, from near Van Buren, who learned to drive an auto four days ago.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1966

Business and other governmental units are raiding state agencies of their best employees because of low salaries, the agency heads are telling the Arkansas Legislative Council. This is a usual complaint at the Council’s budget hearings but the department heads are especially distressed this year. The presidents of the state colleges told the Council members Monday and Tuesday that the competition for faculty members was getting intolerable. The Council began reviewing the budgets of other agencies Tuesday, and the complaints continued. Most agencies are asking for general salary increases.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1991

Enrollment in school districts surrounding Pulaski County remained predominantly white from 1990-91 school year to this year. But superintendents said any white flight contributing toward that is minimal. “There are some coming from Pulaski County, but not any unusual amount compared to what’s happening from everywhere else,” Conway School District Superintendent Ray Simon said. White flight is the residential movement of white people from one area to another to avoid members of an ethnic group, usually black people.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 2006

Regional leaders pledged Wednesday to quickly resolve a policy conflict that could delay reconstruction of Little Rock’s Interstate 430/630 interchange in an effort to avoid the problems that have beset the proposed North Belt Freeway. The proposed reconfiguration of one of the busiest interchanges in the state will require expanding Interstate 630 to 10 lanes between the interchange and John Barrow Road and to eight lanes between Barrow and University Avenue. But in the long-range transportation plan for the region that the Metroplan board of directors has adopted, policy requires expanding all area freeways to six lanes first and building up the region’s system of major noninterstate highways before considering freeways wider than six lanes.