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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1919

■ Plans for the permanent organization of a General Contractors’ Association were discussed by 25 leading contractors of Little Rock and North Little Rock at a meeting in the office of Herman & McCain Construction Company. … The purpose of the organization is to take up the present high cost of labor and materials and to take steps to better general building conditions in Little Rock and North Little Rock. Temporary officers presided at the meeting yesterday, but at the next meeting of the association … the organization plans to elect permanent officers.

50 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1969

MALVERN — McDaniel Brothers Construction Company of Jonesboro was low bidder this week on construction of a low-rent public housing project here, according to Hal Lockman, vice chairman of the Malvern Housing Authority. …Construction on the 125-unit project will begin as soon as it is approved, Lockman said.

25 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1994

■ North Little Rock may soon join Little Rock in offering police officers financial incentives to buy homes in high-crime areas. … Little Rock established Arkansas’ first residency incentive program. … North Little Rock’s program likely will target the downtown, Baring Cross, Sherman Park and Levy areas, said Charley Baxter, head of the city’s Community Development Agency. Aldermen and community leaders welcomed the proposal as part of a larger crime control campaign.

10 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 2009

■ When a thief in a stolen hybrid car smoked lawmen in Crown Victorias during a high-speed chase through Clark County earlier this year, Arkadelphia Police Chief Al Harris was impressed. Any question his officers had about whether hybrids had the guts to be police cars was answered that night, the chief said. This fall, the Arkadelphia Police Department will join the growing number of law-enforcement agencies across the country using hybrids when a new fleet of 2010 Toyota Camry Hybrids hits the streets of the southwest Arkansas town. … Arkadelphia is thought to be the first law-enforcement agency in Arkansas to put a full fleet of hybrids on patrol.