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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1918
Dr. C.W. Garrison, state health officer, yesterday said that very few physicians had registered with the State Council of Defense, which they could do very easily by calling Main 2679. He says he made it plain in his request for such registration that the object was to establish a clearing house for physicians so that services to the sick might be properly distributed. He suspected, he said, that perhaps some of the physicians are under the impression that such calls would be for charity, but that is not the case. The object is to secure prompt attention for the suffering, which included all classes of patients.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1968
Trent Jerome Chandler, 19, of Chicago, drowned about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in a shallow but water-filled excavation at the north end of Old River Lake near Scott. Chandler was fishing on the east side of a bar pit (an excavation made by a drag line in building a levee) when he fell into three feet of water, sheriff’s Deputies L.D. Routh and Leon Foshee said. A woman fishing about 200 feet away said she saw Chandler raise his hands and spin as though having a seizure before he fell. Allen Neal Chandler of Scott said his brother was an epileptic, Routh said. The family wouldn’t let him go fishing alone… but he slipped away from his grandparents home… mid-morning and got a ride three miles north to the fishing spot, Routh said.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1993
A decision on whether to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a former Little Rock priest of stealing a parishioner’s wife will be made after Pulaski County Circuit Judge John Ward reviews arguments on both sides. Ward declined to issue a ruling immediately after a hearing Friday morning on a motion to dismiss the suit. The suit was filed Aug. 16 by Don Cherepski of Little Rock against Donald Walker, the former priest, and Bishop Andrew J. McDonald, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Little Rock, as well as Susan Walker, Cherepski’s ex-wife and Walker’s current wife. In a legal brief filed Thursday, Leon Holmes, McDonald’s attorney, said that “permitting this case to go forward would entangle the court in the interpretation of church law and church doctrine,” in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 2008
The state will discontinue its ban on unmarried cohabiting couples being foster parents, the Department of Human Services announced Thursday, days after Gov. Mike Beebe said he was having reservations about the ban. The change, to be implemented within months, will reverse a policy instituted in 2005 after a judge rejected a previous policy that specifically banned gay people from adopting. In effect, the switch Thursday would allow unmarried heterosexual couples and gay couples to foster children as long as caseworkers judged them to be suitable parents, said department Director John Selig and Beebe spokesman Matt DeCample.