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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1919
PINE BLUFF — A permanent organization of business men and farmers who are interested in sweet potato growing probably will be formed here as the result of the school of instruction in sweet potato curing and culture which has been in session here since Monday. Visitors from more than five states are here to attend the sessions conducted by the Southland Sweet Potato Curing and Storage Association. The new organization will be known as the Southern Sweet Potato Growers and Storing Association and an effort will be made to have Pine Bluff selected as the headquarters of the association.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1969
■ A school district may not use its current funds to pay legal fees owed for the 196768 school year, the attorney general’s office said. The opinion went to Jefferson County Treasurer W. P. Ellis of Pine Bluff. Ellis said that a school district in Jefferson County had ended the 1967-68 school year with a balance of $302.92 and with unpaid legal fees owed two law firms. Assistant Attorney General Henry Ginger said that state law prohibited a school district from spending more in a school year than its revenue for that year. He said that if the 1967-68 legal bills were paid, Ellis and the school’s fiscal officer and their bonding company would be liable.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1994
HOT SPRINGS — Delegates at a special state AFLCIO convention Saturday endorsed neither incumbent Jim Guy Tucker nor his Republican opponent, Sheffield Nelson, in the race for governor. Tucker had been endorsed by the AFL-CIO in previous contests. The 259 delegates who gathered at the Ramada Inn were upset with Tucker for his opposition to Amendment 6, a workers’ compensation reform proposal on the November ballot, according to J. Bill Becker, president of the state AFL-CIO. Becker said a screening committee, which interviewed Tucker and Nelson on Friday was not impressed with Tucker’s role during the last regular legislative session in what Becker called the “gutting” of workers’ compensation.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 2009
■ New houses constructed near Little Rock’s historic Central High School would be required to have porches and rear garages under a design plan that planning commissioners approved. Little Rock has eight design overlay districts throughout the city that place additional design requirements on properties, with some detailing how many signs a building can have to the number of parking spaces, or how tall a building can be. The Central High School neighborhood is the latest neighborhood asking for extra oversight to ensure that new development and additions are compatible with the architecture of many of the century-old buildings in the area. Planning commissioners unanimously approved the design guidelines Thursday at a meeting where no residents spoke in opposition.