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100 YEARS AGO March 16, 1920
■ The influenza situation is showing a slight improvement, Dr. C. W. Garrison, state health officer, said yesterday. Towns where serious outbreaks have occurred reported some decrease in the number of cases. The campaign of the State Board of Health against malaria will be extended this week to at least two more towns, Assistant Sanitary Engineer L. D. Mars said. El Dorado was added to the list of towns undertaking prevention work last week.
50 YEARS AGO March 16, 1970
WASHINGTON — President Nixon’s welfare reform plan would prove to be “a miracle piece of legislation” if it fulfilled promises of getting three million persons off relief and into jobs within a year, Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Dem., Ark.) said Sunday. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee predicted the administration’s proposals for a minimum annual income would be approved “overwhelmingly” next week by the House and later by the Senate. But he warned that the measure might die in a congressional conference committee if the Senate let the plan’s cost “mushroom … out of all proportions.”
25 YEARS AGO March 16, 1995
■ Officials of Arkansas’ two major political parties packed a House committee room Wednesday to watch legislators approve a landmark bill requiring the state to pay for primary elections. The lawmakers already had received a push two weeks ago from a panel of federal judges. House Bill 1883 by Rep. Charlotte Schexnayder, D-Dumas, was approved on a voice vote by the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee. It now goes to the full House for consideration. On March 2, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the state’s current system of requiring parties to pay primary costs is unconstitutional.
10 YEARS AGO March 16, 2010
■ Disappointment carried the day in Hot Springs and much of the rest of the horseracing world Monday, a day after it was announced Rachel Alexandra will not run in the Apple Blossom Invitational on April 9 at Oaklawn Park. Just two weeks ago, the city and industry bubbled with excitement over a showdown between Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, and unbeaten Zenyatta in a race carrying a $5 million purse — the richest event ever for females — if both horses started. The city was expecting crowds that some predicted well in excess of 100,000 and a big payday for restaurants, hotels, condominiums and lake houses that dot the tourist enclave, as well as anyone who wanted to sell their box seats for what was billed as the “Race for the Ages.”