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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1917
The Arkansas Good Roads and Drainage Association in session at the Hotel Marion today will adopt a resolution urging the legislature to pass a statewide salary bill for county officers. The resolution was endorsed yesterday by the Resolutions Committee and members said there is no doubt that it will be adopted this morning. Officers will be elected and the meeting probably will adjourn at noon. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1967 The House Wednesday shouted through a resolution calling for an immediate legislative investigation of the state prison system. The members of the fiveman investigating committee will be appointed today. Under the plan (SCR 10) offered by Senator Joe Lee Anderson of Helena, which had been adopted by the Senate Monday, the committee will file its report with the legislature in 21 days. Anderson’s resolution was the result of recurring publicity about conditions at the Penitentiary. 25 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1992 This week’s Little Rock Crime Stoppers concerns the slaying of a Little Rock cab driver. On Dec. 1, 1991,
at about 5:45 a.m. Willie Burke, 64, of Little Rock answered a call for a taxi at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Burke had been a Black & White Cab Co. employee for 26 years. Witnesses at the hospital said the man who called for the cab was a black man in his mid-20s, about 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighing 200 to 220 pounds. He was clean-shaven and wore a dark blue or black ski suit with white trim. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 2007
Bulldozers at Camp Robinson rumbled into action amid Thursday morning’s chill, beginning the first phase of an expansion at the nation’s second-largest infantry school. The Arkansas National Guard’s 233rd Regional Training Institute is second only to Fort Benning, Ga., in the number of new infantrymen it produces. “I read every evaluation from our students, every one,” said Lt. Col. Rick Miller, the 233rd’s administrative officer. “They praise our instructors by name. But what we continuously get dinged on is our facilities.” Thursday’s groundbreaking marked the first step of a three-phase, $55 million construction plan for the 233rd which will enlarge classroom space as well as provide more barracks and offices.