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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1917
“You can tell the people of Arkansas that we’ve got a fight on our hands,” said Congressman W.S. Goodwin last night when he arrived at the Hotel Marion, fresh from the battle front in Europe. “We’ve got a titanic struggle, and the people must wake up to that fact as soon as possible.” Congressman Goodwin was a member of the congressional committee sent to Europe to view conditions over there.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1967
From one fourth to one third of the World War II veterans admitted to the Little Rock Veteran Administration Hospital on East Roosevelt Road have emphysema or bronchitis to some extent, although they probably have entered for treatment of some other ailment. Because of the high incidence of lung diseases among middle-age men, who constitute the bulk of the VA hospitals’ patients, the Veterans Administration announced last week that it has had to double the facilities of VA hospitals to care for emphysema and bronchitis patients.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1992
The arrival of a Russian medical team Thursday night in Little Rock signaled the start of a program that will make the city a world center for the study of radiation poisoning. The world’s largest and most up-to-date collection of data on the children who survived the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster will be gathered by Russian physicians who treat those children. The data will be relayed to Little Rock for compilation by computer. The physicians arrived about 7:45 p.m. Thursday at Little Rock Regional Airport, Adams Field, the first Russian plane ever to land in Arkansas.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 2007
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor filed legislation Monday calling for more Pentagon oversight of privatized housing projects on military installations, a measure he hopes will prevent future contract failures like the one plaguing Little Rock Air Force Base. Housing construction at Little Rock Air Force Base remains at a standstill, with partially built homes, unpaid subcontractors and a buyout on the horizon. Construction stopped seven months ago at the base in Jacksonville when American Eagle Communities Inc. ran so far over budget and behind schedule that its private investors stopped providing funding three years into the seven-year project.