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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1920

■ The majority of the property owners of the proposed new Main Street Paving District insist that the pavement be of asphalt, S. L. White, attorney, who is circulating the second petition of the district, said yesterday. Some of the property owners do not wish to sign the petition unless they are absolutely assured that the paving will be of asphalt, Mr. White said. The type of paving is left to the commissioners of the proposed district. These are M. B. Sanders, Sidney L. Kahn, and O. D. Tucker. They can take no action relative to the type of paving until after the second petition is presented to the City Council and they are authorized by the council to proceed.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1970

■ Col. Ralph Scott, the director of the Arkansas State Police, assailed the state’s judiciary Tuesday, criticizing lower court judges and procedures in the handling of criminal cases. “In my considered opinion, the judiciary must accept much responsibility for the dismal failure of our system of criminal justice,” Scott told the Little Rock Kiwanis Club at the Hotel Lafayette. This criticism, unusual in the state and rare from a State Police director, was part of Scott’s speech on “The Crime Picture” of which the judicial part took about 2½ of the eight pages of text.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1995

■ The Central Arkansas Transit Authority has a budget of some $5 million, plans for an attractive “landmark” building and the desire to get started. But it still is looking for a site for its downtown transfer center. “It’s in limbo land,” Keith Jones, CATA’s executive director, said Friday. With the old Arkansas Theater on Louisiana Street being torn down and the owner of the Draughon Building around the corner on Sixth Street wanting to improve that property, CATA is under even more pressure to find a home for the center.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 2010

Inspectors have found that 50 to 100 pavement markers like the one that crashed through a Fayetteville woman’s windshield Saturday are missing from Interstate 540, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department reported Wednesday. District engineers across the state are beginning to check whether the 5-pound reflective devices made from steel are attached firmly to highways. Engineers conducted the I-540 inspection in Crawford, Sebastian and Washington counties after the Highway Department announced Monday that it will no longer use the “plowable” pavement markers on concrete highways.