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100 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1920
■ The Arkansas Press Association will hold a business session tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock at the Hotel Marion. Edward Albright, president of the National Editorial Association, will make the principal address. Editors from all parts of the state are expected to be here for the meeting. Among the subjects to be discussed are the shortage of news print, the cost system of printing, increase in advertising and subscription rates, the propriety of amending the publicity act, the method of placing state legal advertising, affiliation with the National Editorial Association.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1970
CONWAY — State Senator Guy H. (Mutt) Jones of Conway has suggested that the state take over the wholesale beer and liquor industries in Arkansas as a means of raising new revenue. Jones said that this would raise $20 million toward Governor Rockefeller’s goal of $35 million in new tax revenues.
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 1995
FAYETTEVILLE — Bill Valentine, the master promoter and general manager of the Arkansas Travelers, might call it “chicken night” — everybody pays. “The promotion,” Gary Blair said, “is Tennessee versus Arkansas. We have something to sell, a quality basketball game.” Blair, the second-year coach of the
Arkansas women’s team, is hoping 10,000 to 12,000 fans will pay to enter Walton Arena on Tuesday night when the Lady Razorbacks take on Tennessee. And why not? No NCAA Division I college basketball team in the state has a better record than the Lady Razorbacks, who are 16-4 and ranked No. 22 in the nation. And no other game on their schedule features a better team than Tennessee, which is 21-1 and ranked second nationally. The Famous Chicken can stay home for this one.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 6, 2010
■ West Little Rock is getting a new fire station thanks to a $2 million federal stimulus grant. Little Rock learned Friday that it is one of 114 fire departments selected so far out of about 6,000 applicants to receive federal dollars for fire services. “I’m quite excited,” Fire Chief Greg Summers said Friday, hours after learning of the award. “It’s good for west Little Rock, but in totality, it’s good for the entire city,” he said. The station will solidify the city’s fire-insurance rating and provide faster response times to areas near the site of the future station at Rahling and Taylor Loop roads, Summers said. The capital city discovered last summer that it needed to add five fire stations to the 20 it already has to preserve its fire-insurance rating, but the Fire Department didn’t have money in its $32.7 million budget for even one station.