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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1919

WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds tomorrow will report … an omnibus buildings bill, which includes an appropriation of $950,000 for a site and the erection of a public building in Little Rock for the accommodation of the post office, federal court house, and other government offices. The committee lopped off $50,000 from the bill introduced by Representative Jacoway, who asked for $1,000,000 for the building.

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 15, 1969

■ Statistical evidence showing that the Little Rock Police Department is slowly being overwhelmed by the job it has to do was released Friday by the city. The figures compare the number of policemen on duty, by year since 1959, with the number of crimes known, the number of arrests made, the number of traffic accidents investigated, the number of complaints to the police and other categories of police duty. … In 1959, the offenses known to the police averaged 26 per policeman, but in 1968 the average was 56, more than twice as many. Arrests averaged 60 per policeman in 1959 and 59 last year.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 15, 1994

WASHINGTON — Freshman Rep. Blanche Lambert, D-Ark., announced Monday she would seek re-election. The 1st District representative’s announcement came as no surprise. “We still need many more changes,” she said. One Democrat, state Rep. Wayne Wagner of Manila, already has said he will challenge Lambert in the May 24 primary. Wagner has served in the Legislature since 1987. No Republican has announced plans to run in the Democrat-dominated district, which covers 25 counties in north and east Arkansas. Lambert, a political unknown until two years ago, defeated her former employer, Rep. Bill Alexander, in the 1992 Democratic primary.

10 YEARS AGO

Feb. 15, 2009

CONWAY — The total financial impact of an embezzlement at The Oxford American literary magazine has reached roughly $200,000, says its publisher, who is angry that the case against Renae Maxwell has yet to go to trial. Police at the University of Central Arkansas arrested Maxwell, 43, of Sherwood on Feb. 5, 2008, on one count of theft greater than $2,500 and one count of forgery. The magazine’s former office manager has pleaded innocent, is free on a $15,000 bond and is attending college. “When is she going to be prosecuted?” asked Warwick Sabin, the publisher since April. “It’s been over a year. It’s outrageous. To me, it’s just the height of absurdity that we’re having to find ways to balance our books and pay back the debt that she created through our theft and she’s getting to run around free,” he said.