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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1918

■ A moonshine still was seized late yesterday afternoon three doors from the North Little Rock city hall and police station. The still was located at 308 Main Street in the rear of a watch repairing shop operated by Jack Warfel. It was seized by a party of military police and members of the North Little Rock constable’s office, led by Captain Jones of the military police. Officers say that evidence against Warfel has been collected for several months, but the opportunity to seize the apparatus presented itself yesterday for the first time.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 22, 1968

■ The United States Justice Department filed a suit Thursday in federal District Court charging that the Little Rock Housing Authority had failed to take adequate measures to desegregate its low-rent public housing projects. It was the first desegregation suit in the nation filed by the government against a public housing agency. The issue is the Housing Authority’s freedom-ofchoice policy in assigning tenants to its five low-rent housing projects. The Justice Department said this had failed to eliminate the segregation, as required by the Housing Authority before the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1993

■ A Pangburn School District bus Friday dragged an 8-year-old White County girl 42 feet before she pulled her hand from the grip of the closed door and fell to the ground, where the bus then ran over her hand. The accident happened about 3:40 p.m., less than two hours after the driver had been in a state Department of Education bus safety training workshop, Superintendent Jerome Browning said Sunday. It was unclear Sunday whether any charges have been filed in the incident.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 22, 2008

■ The University of Arkansas’ flagship campus has built up a $215 million backlog of maintenance after putting off repairs and renovations for decades, the chancellor said Friday. G. David Gearhart, head of UA-Fayetteville, told the UA System board of trustees at a meeting at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock that about 75 university buildings need overhauling. Gearhart, who in July succeeded Chancellor John A. White, said limited resources prompted past administrations to put off maintenance work because it was “perceived to have no immediate visible impact.”