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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1920
FAYETTEVILLE– “Breath chlorine gas for five minutes each day and avoid the flu” is the slogan of the students in the department of chemistry, University of Arkansas. It is believed that the inhalation of a small amount of diluted chlorine gas for a few minutes each day will prevent influenza. This is the experiment which Dr. Harrison Hale, head of the department of chemistry is conducting among the chemistry students. There are only seven cases of the disease in the University.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1970
■ The practice of requiring male members of the Forest Heights Junior High School Band to keep their hair trimmed is necessary to maintain “proper and orderly decorum” and morale and discipline in the band, Little Rock school officials said Tuesday. Warren Daunhauer, the band director, and other school officials said the constitutional rights of Chris Corley, 12, a member of the band, had not been violated by requiring him to get a haircut if he wanted to participate in band concerts. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Jean Sizemore of 9 LaFever Lane, filed a suit January 21 in Federal District Court seeking an injunction to prohibit school officials from enforcing any rules regarding “hair length and style” for members of the Forest Heights Band.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 1995
A heavily amended bill that would allow Arkansans to carry concealed handguns was approved Friday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Bill 157 by Sen. Bill Walters, R-Greenwood, is similar to legislation vetoed in 1993 by Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. Walters was the sponsor of the 1993 proposal. On Jan. 23, the Judiciary Committee approved the original version of the bill. Walters amended the measure this week after stringent opposition from the politically powerful National Rifle Association. Last month, Walters said he didn’t introduce the bill for the NRA and stood by its provisions, which would have required serial numbers to be on file with the Arkansas State Police.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 4, 2010
■ Federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday that former North Little Rock Alderman Cary Gaines owed gambling debts to a Cabot man who has been linked to the Mafia, saying that is why Gaines allegedly figured the man’s taxes and schemed to pay him kickbacks from city projects. Prosecutors also alleged that the Cabot man, George Wylie Thompson, used proceeds from his “illegal gambling business” to lend money to Gaines and to significantly fund Alderman Sam Baggett’s campaign. In a document filed Wednesday, prosecutors further revealed that at a pending trial for all three men, the government plans to offer into evidence a wire intercept of a telephone call in which Thompson tells a friend who is a Mafia crime boss that he “has two people on the council now in North Little Rock.”