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100 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1919
■ Despite the hot and uncomfortable weather, the Camp Pike Officers’ Minstrel Show given at Liberty theater last night, was witnessed by a large audience and pronounced a success. The show was for the benefit of the Camp Pike Entertainment Fund, and was given at Hot Springs Saturday night before a large audience. … The Officers’ quartet probably has few peers in amateur theatricals. … Weeks of rehearsing their repertoire brought surprising results. As a whole the performance was not excelled by any of the amateur minstrels seen in Little Rock in recent years, and J. N. Edgar Hart, dramatic director, deserves much credit for its success.
50 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1969
■ The state Welfare Department is subject to a state law that requires that new policies of state agencies be adopted at public hearings, the attorney general’s office said Monday. The opinion went to Sidney L. Moore Jr., formerly of the Legal Aid Bureau of Pulaski County and formerly the Attorney for the Arkansas Branch of the National Welfare Rights Organization. … The NWRO presented five demands to state Welfare Commissioner Len E. Blaylock in June. Moore said later that Blaylock had replied to four of the demands but had ignored a demand that Welfare Department policies be adopted at public hearings. He asked the attorney general’s office if the Welfare Department was subject to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1967. … The opinion said that the Welfare Department was not among the group of state agencies exempted from the Administrative Procedure Act.
25 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1994
■ The 1994 Noel Don McGuire Award was presented Thursday to Little Rock Police Department Patrolman Ty Tyrrell. Tyrrell graduated at the top of his 1993 class of nearly 50 cadets at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy. Graduates are scored in the areas of academics, firearms training and physical fitness. The annual award is presented by the Little Rock Civitan Club in honor of Little Rock police detective Noel Don McGuire, who was killed in the line of duty May 14, 1980. McGuire was the top graduate in his class. A former engineer, Tyrrell, 28, joined the department in May 1993. He is a native of Carroll, Iowa.
10 YEARS AGO
August 5, 2009
■ The Little Rock School District is challenging a recommendation by state officials that Hall and J.A. Fair high schools be placed on probation for failing to teach a physics course last year as required by school accreditation standards. … Additionally, the Pulaski County Special School District is recommended for probation for failing to have an approved special-education program in 2008-09 and because a districtwide administrator did not attain certification within a specified time period. A sample of schools around the state recommended for probation include Central High School in Helena-West Helena, Kirksey Middle and Oakdale Junior High in Rogers, and the Oak Ridge Central and Williford high schools in the Twin Rivers School District in Sharp County.