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100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1920

FORT SMITH — Constable Virgil Tumblin returned last night from Shreveport, La., with Oscar Stewart, Richard Griffin and Frank Duncan of this city in custody, and they were held to the Grand Jury on six charges of burglary and larceny. Officers say the men confessed to the crime charged against them. The prisoners are accused of breaking into the Marzell store, John Ulmer’s grocery, John Dawson’s grocery, the American laundry, the Fort Smith Cycle Supply Company and a Pullman car in the Fort Smith and Western railroad yards.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1970

FORT SMITH — A complaint was filed in federal District Court Friday against Fort Smith School officials for refusing to admit Dale Carter, 19, to Northside High School because his hair was too long. John P. Sizemore of Little Rock, attorney for Carter, said the suit was the first test in Arkansas of the right of school officials to prevent a student from entering school because of hair length. The complaint asked for a “speedy hearing” and a temporary injunction enjoining the defendants from enforcing any hair length rule until the complaint is heard.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1995

■ Federal officials are making progress, inch by inch, on acquiring water-flow easements first identified in the 1940s when plans were made for a series of locks and dams on the Arkansas River. About $30 million overall — including $2.5 million in the 1996 federal fiscal year that will start Oct. 1 — will be paid to property owners along the main stem of the river in Arkansas and its major tributaries, said Randy Hathaway with the Little Rock District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A public hearing is planned this fall on land targeted for water-rights acquisition along the Petit Jean River in the navigation pool formed by the Ormond Lock and Dam.

10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 2010

■ Little Rock is looking to federal grants to help acquire a building that can provide the area’s homeless with services during the day and shelter at night. As part of the city’s 2011 Community Development Block Grant application, the city says it has $377,582 left over from past years that Little Rock could better use for homeless services. Mayor Mark Stodola said Friday that he hopes the funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can be used to open a city-sponsored shelter in Little Rock. The money can’t be used to buy a building in North Little Rock, and city directors and the federal government have to approve the spending plan.