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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1918

FAYETTEVILLE — Seventy-two home demonstration agents and members of the supervisory forces of the Agricultural Extension Division of the University of Arkansas are attending the annual five weeks’ meeting of home demonstration agents which started this week. The purpose of the convention is to make plans for the work of the ensuing year and especially to aid the United States in its food economy program.

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 6, 1968

City employees will be paid differently in 1968 and some may receive longer vacations, City Manager Clifford W. O’Key said Friday. Effective January 19, they will be paid every other Friday, which will mean that they will receive 26 checks a year, O’Key said. Now, they are paid on the fifth and twentieth days of each month and receive 24 checks a year. O’Key said that under the existing policy that at times employees had to wait three weeks for pay checks and that sometimes the fifth and twentieth days fell on weekends. 25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 6, 1993 Badly needed prison space could be obtained cheaply and quickly by converting facilities at recently closed Eaker Air Force Base, prison Director Roger Endell told a legislative subcommittee Tuesday. “There are several parts of the (former) Air Force base we could literally move into as soon as the security fencing was up,” Endell told the Department of Correction Budget Subcommittee. Endell said space for about 88 inmates would be available in barracks at the Blytheville base, which officially closed Dec. 15, 1992. 10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 6, 2008 When Black Community Developers searches for vacant or abandoned properties in midtown Little Rock to turn into new low-cost homes, Darryl Swinton said he often finds properties with questionable titles that slow down its efforts. Swinton, the nonprofit organization’s housing director, hopes a land bank commission that Little Rock city directors are considering will help speed up the process and create more building opportunities. “We definitely support the land bank ordinance. We feel it would be a good tool for us to develop a lot of blighted properties in the area we serve,” Swinton said.