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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1919
■ Authority to send the city engineer to inspect the gas and electric company’s lines and equipment will be asked of the City Council by Mayor Brickhouse. The tour of inspection will be for the purpose of taking measures to guard against failure by the gas company to give adequate service this winter. A conference with officials of the Arkansas Corporation Commission was held by Mayor Brickhouse. The mayor announced that he has the assurance of the commission that it will send an expert with the city engineer on tour and will co-operate in every possible way. “One feature of the proposed investigation of the gas pipe line will be to make recommendations to the company for strengthening it, if it is found to be weak at any point,” the mayor said. “I have been given to understand that the Little Rock Street Railway Company has installed additional machinery to care for an additional load next, but we want to know these things to be a fact and not to guess until it is too late to do anything to meet the emergency.”
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1969
■ The state disaster committee composed of three Agriculture Department officials, recommended Thursday that six Arkansas counties be designated disaster areas so farmers can graze livestock or cut hay on land diverted to conservation uses under the feed grain wheat programs. The counties are Cleburne, Nevada, Stone, Izard, White and Little River. The state committee’s recommendations were sent to Governor Rockefeller’s office for forwarding to Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin in Washington. These were the first requests the committee has received this year for disaster relief stemming from drouth conditions.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1994
■ The William F. Laman Library in North Little Rock is on the verge of providing around-the-clock service to its patrons. People with personal computers will be able to dial up an almost unlimited number of databases to view encyclopedias, magazines, telephone directories or thousands of other sources of information at any time. Initially, the system will be available to anyone who is a library patron or a North Little Rock resident.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 2009
■ When Little Rock city directors slashed the Police Department’s remaining operating budget by 25 percent earlier this month, the department laid off 12 part-time workers as part of its cuts — eight of whom worked in the records section. Reports backed up in stacks. Data entry slowed to a crawl. Reduced hours at the public window where copies of reports are available generated lines that made a main hallway at police headquarters nearly impassable. The part-timers were out of work fewer than two weeks when the department opted to rehire five, placing them all in the records section.