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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1920

■ Arkansas hospitals are much below the standard, Dr. C. S. Pettus, superintendent of the County hospital, said in a talk at the weekly luncheon of the Lions’ Club yesterday. He said that in his recent tour of the inspection over the state he found only one standardized hospital, either public or private, and that was St. Vincent’s infirmary here. Dr. Pettus said the County hospital is in a deplorable condition, due to the fact that there are not enough funds and that it is used as a dumping ground for all the destitute sick of the state.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1970

■ The Conway School District contended Tuesday that a second-grade teacher, whose contract to teach in the system was not renewed last May, was guilty of “licentious conduct” because she “exhibited a potential for undermining the authority” of the administration. The school district asked that a suit filed Aug. 10 in federal District Court by Mrs. Mildred Downs seeking her reinstatement be dismissed. Mrs. Downs had alleged that her dismissal violated her constitutional rights and those of her students to freedom of expression.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1995

MAYFLOWER — With one swipe of a backhoe bucket, a crew with the Mayflower Street Department left about 113,000 customers all the way to Northwest Arkansas without long-distance or emergency telephone service for two hours Friday. “Fear strikes you at a time like this,” said Faulkner County Sheriff Bob Blankenship. He explained that during the disruption in service, about 33,000 county residents were without access to emergency care because the local 911 telephone system didn’t work. The disruption affected Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. customers in Conway, Morrilton, Harrison and surrounding communities, company spokesman Alonzo Byrd said.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 2010

■ Players will need a different set of clubs to use Little Rock’s newest golf courses. The capital city joined forces recently with a southwest Little Rock neighborhood association and two course designers to create disc-golf courses at Hindman and Morehart parks. The two nine-hole courses opened last weekend with a tournament between players from across central Arkansas. The discgolf game involves throwing different sizes of flying discs — a driver, midrange and putter — into elevated metal baskets set up along fairways. The rules are similar to golf, with each hole having a different par.