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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1917
FORT SMITH — One hundred and fifty-nine cases wherein the government appealed from the ruling of local boards in discharging men were passed upon by the District Board for western Arkansas on Saturday, and in each instance the local board was affirmed. These cases were appealed from Miller, Carroll, Lafayette and Boone Counties.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1967
Arkansas Baptist Medical Center has escalated its building plans for a 35-acre site it owns at the northeast corner of University Avenue and Evergreen Road, A. James Linder of Little Rock, president of the Center’s Board of Trustees, announced Saturday. Rather than begin, as originally planned, with a first step of 250 to 300 beds, the Medical Center will build a 500-bed unit along with an adjacent and connected professional building. This will exceed the capacity of the present facilities at West Thirteenth and Wolfe Streets by 60 beds.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1992
Arkansas law doesn’t allow a North Little Rock man accused of molesting five teen-age boys without force to be charged with violating a minor, a judge ruled Wednesday. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Jack Lessenberry’s ruling is the second in the last year by a circuit judge that says Arkansas law fails to provide an avenue to prosecute certain sexual acts against teens. Garry Dwaine White, 48, is accused of committing sex acts over a period of time with five of his son’s friends who are between the ages of 13 and 18.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 2007
Even before launching its crackdown on unpaid parking fines, the city had already been targeting another kind of parking scofflaw — people who squeeze into off-limits spots in River Market parking lots. Late last month, the city put up signs at two public parking lots warning motorists to “park in designated spaces only.” Then police began issuing tickets. Since Sept. 6, police have issued at least 42 tickets — each carrying a $30 fine — in one of the lots, under the Interstate 30 entrance and exit ramps just south of Second Street, between Sherman and Commerce street.