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100 YEARS AGO August 6, 1919
■ There is not enough flour and sugar in Little Rock to last 10 days if the transportation service is seriously affected by the railroad shopmen’s strike, according to statements made yesterday by several Little Rock grocers. Also they said that meal, bean, potatoes, lard, meats and canned milk will be very scarce within a week. Beans of all kinds have gone up, especially navy beans, black-eyed peas and lima beans. Most of the merchants said that they thought the shopmen’s strike would not materially increase the price of foodstuffs. Others expressed the belief that the smaller dealers would be forced to raise prices.
50 YEARS AGO August 6, 1969
■ Captains and lieutenants in the Little Rock Police Department who apply for the police chief’s job will take Civil Service Commission tests Monday and Tuesday. Three captains and 11 lieutenants are eligible to take the tests, which will be used by the Commission to establish an eligibility list. The Commission can appoint a chief from the eligibility list or look outside the Department for a successor to Chief R. E. Brians, who announced his resignation recently.
25 YEARS AGO August 6, 1994
■ An added municipal court in Little Rock has failed to slow the flow of tax dollars to special judges and magistrates, city records show. Little Rock city directors created a new judgeship in February to ensure the city’s housing codes were enforced and to ease workloads of Municipal Traffic Court Judge Bill Watt or Municipal Criminal Court Judge Lee Munson. The city pays Judge David Stewart $78,649 per year to oversee the environmental court. He wouldn’t receive any more to hear cases from the other two courts. … The environmental court position is up for election in November. Stewart, who was appointed by Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, plans to seek election to that position.
10 YEARS AGO August 6, 2009
■ People with physical disabilities will be eligible for help getting around, courtesy of federal stimulus dollars, state officials said Wednesday. The legislative Review Committee reviewed a $1 million contract for the service. A “review” is, in effect, approval or acceptance in state government. Rex Jones, a contract administrator with the state Department of Human Services, told the committee that the money was part of Medicaid rebates the state received from the federal government as part of the stimulus plan. “It’s not a continuing program,” Jones said. “It’s a onetime good deal.” The money is for “van conversions for physically handicapped individuals and home modifications to help with handicapped accessibility,” according to documents presented to the committee. The department is contracting with PALCO Inc. of North Little Rock to provide the service.