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100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 15, 1920

■ When the time came for the checking of prisoners early yesterday morning at the camp guardhouse, three were reported missing and an immediate investigation by the military police disclosed that they had escaped between 10 p.m. and midnight by cutting the strands of barbed wire which encircle the guardhouse. Military police were immediately dispatched in search of the escaped prisoners. It was reported that three men answering the descriptions of the fugitives were seen leaving the city on a Rock Island freight train early yesterday morning.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 15, 1970

PINE BLUFF — Three patrons of the Watson Chapel School District are circulating petitions seeking to divide the District into two parts. One section would serve the Coleman School area and one would serve the rest of the District. Most of the Watson Chapel District’s black pupils live in the Coleman area. The District’s other schools are located in white or predominantly white neighborhoods. Circulating the petitions are Olen L. Bearden, Robert Morris and Sterling West.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 15, 1995

■ The effort to draft a replacement for the 1874 Arkansas Constitution has yet to attract much interest from the business community. That lack of interest arises in part from Gov. Jim Guy Tucker’s goal of avoiding hot-button issues that might doom a proposed constitution at the polls. That meant avoiding one issue that could motivate business leaders to rally behind a new constitution — loosening the constitutional restriction on interest rates. Jay Barth, a political scientist at Hendrix College in Conway, said Tucker is more interested in reducing “no” votes than attracting “yes” votes.

10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 15, 2010

■ The North Little Rock City Council has approved an agreement with Entergy Arkansas Inc. for transmission-system improvements to support a new substation in the Galloway area off Interstate 40. The City Council had approved construction of the substation in January 2009 to meet specific obligations made by the city to Caterpillar Inc., which built a $140 million road-grader production plant next to the existing substation. The plant opened in August. The city is issuing up to $8 million in bonds, backed by the North Little Rock Electric Department’s operations and maintenance budget, to build the new substation.