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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1918

PINE BLUFF — Because of reports that livestock in this vicinity has been poisoned recently, the Jefferson County Council of Defense yesterday issued a warning to all owners of stock to guard their premises and to keep suspicious strangers away. Attention was called to the fact that those who claim to be begging for food may be seeking an opportunity to get information as to livestock with a view to administering poison.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1968

The Central Arkansas Labor Council says it will go to court if necessary to stop cities from paying dues to chambers of commerce. A resolution to that effect was adopted unanimously Wednesday, Lloyd Ringgold of Little Rock, the Council president, said Saturday. The resolution, written by B. J. Utley of North Little Rock, president of Amalgamated Transit Workers Division 104, called chambers of commerce unions of business interests supporting “union-busting laws with phony titles to fool the public and a good percentage of the legislators.”

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1993

A subcommittee of the Mercury Contamination Working Committee plans to recommend to Gov. Jim Guy Tucker that he appoint a permanent mercury task force. The subcommittee wants the task force to include representatives of industry and a wide range of government agencies. Widespread mercury contamination has been found in the Ouachita and Saline rivers, in the Ouachita’s oxbow lakes, the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge and other area waterways. The state has issued Health advisories warning against eating certain fish from some south Arkansas waterways.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 2008

Little Rock is seeking a consultant to review the city’s landfill operations with an eye toward privatization, leading BFI Waste Services to postpone its bid to expand its southwest Little Rock landfill. Privatizing the city’s landfill would open it up for waste from across the region, which would help meet the need for landfill space and limit the need for expansion of the BFI landfill, Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola said. The city landfill, south of Little Rock on Ironton Cutoff Road, has enough capacity to meet the city’s needs through 2074, and even more room to expand, Stodola said.