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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1918

That it will not be long before a better quality of eggs is placed on Arkansas markets because of the enforcement by the state Food Administration of President Wilson’s proclamation of May 14, requiring all buyers of eggs, including bucksters, storekeepers, and dealers, to be licensed under the federal Food Administration law, and handle only candled eggs, is indicated in reports being received at the state Food Administration from its representatives in different counties having the egg candling campaign in charge.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1968

The 489th Engineer Battalion, a Little Rock Army Reserve unit, Saturday began installing a portable combat-type bridge across an inlet on the Arkansas River for use by a motorcade that will bring President Johnson to the navigation dedication October 4. The dedication, to be held at David D. Terry Lock and Dam 11 miles downstream from the Freeway Bridge at Little Rock, will commemorate the completion of the Arkansas River navigation channel upstream to Pine Bluff and Little Rock. President Johnson has said he will make every effort to attend the dedication, and plans are proceeding on the

assumption that he will be the main speaker.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1993

Definitely Different Maid Service tells its customers that for $40, a scantily clad young woman will go to their homes and tidy up. But early Sunday morning, two women who work for the service left a mess at the apartment of a 46-yearold west Little Rock man, police said. Officers answered a disturbance call about 4:30 a.m. Sunday at the man’s apartment on Napa Valley Drive and found that the apartment had been ransacked, police said. The man told police he called the service. He said that instead of one maid, two women burst into his apartment with a gun. He told officials that one of the women fired several shots at him.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 2008

A large red and white banner hanging over the main entrance to Hot Spring County Medical Center reads “Save the Hospital, Vote Yes Sept. 9th.” On Tuesday, county residents will vote whether to approve a five-year, onehalf percent sales tax that would raise an estimated $1.2 million to $1.4 million a year for the struggling 72-bed hospital. Hospital officials say they’ll have to close the 85-year-old hospital if the tax doesn’t pass.