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100 YEARS AGO May 20, 1917

BOONEVILLE — Arkansas editors are en route home tonight, after what is agreed to have been in many ways the most successful junketing tour ever taken by the Arkansas Press Association. Rousing welcomes were given the scribes at Hartford and Booneville at the close of a day of uninterrupted travel from Siloam Springs, where last night was spent. Starting at Siloam Springs at 5 o’clock, the train reached Fort Smith at 10 over the Frisco and Hartford at 2 over the Iron Mountain and Midland Valley.

50 YEARS AGO May 20, 1967

The merger of the city-level affiliates of the Arkansas Education Association and the Arkansas (Negro) Teachers Association at Little Rock has been approved and a dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Sam Peck Hotel will honor the officers of the merged organization. The effective date of the merger will be July 15. Until then, the two organizations will continue to exist.

25 YEARS AGO May 20, 1992

An ordinance that would give the mayor authority to declare a curfew for up to 72 hours in emergencies passed Tuesday night by a 5-1 vote of the Little Rock Board of Directors. The ordinance would allow the mayor to call a curfew of up to 72 hours after recommendation by the police chief in an emergency. Once declared, the curfew could be extended for up to two weeks if a majority of the board deems it necessary. The decision would have to be made at a public hearing.

10 YEARS AGO May 20, 2007

Arkansas and Oklahoma promised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2003 to work together on an Illinois River watershed management plan. Instead, the states work separately because of a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma against poultry companies in Arkansas. The Illinois River Watershed Partnership will develop a plan for the 45 percent of the watershed that’s in Arkansas, and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission will press on with the Oklahoma plan. “The only way we are really going to affect river quality is to have a two-state approach,” said Ed Fite, director of the Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission. “You can give me all the authority I want in Oklahoma, but unless I have a partnership in upstream Arkansas, I cannot accomplish the mission.”