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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1920

■ In a suit filed in Circuit Court by the Little Rock School Board, the constitutionality of an act of one of the recent legislatures requiring the assessment of school properties in improvement districts will be tested. The suit seeks to restrain the Board of Commissioners of Curb, Gutter and Sewer Improvement District No. 277 and the Board of Commissioners of Street Improvement District No. 278 from taking further action, and asking that the districts be declared illegal.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1970

■ Two bands of thunderstorms that spawned tornadoes swept across Arkansas Thursday afternoon, injuring dozens of persons, mostly in rural areas. The worst hit spot apparently was the farming community of Oak Forest on state Highway 121 about 17 miles west of Marianna. A spokesman for the Lee County Memorial Hospital at Marianna said that “30 or 40” persons were being treated at the Hospital, most of them for minor injuries. He said about 10 were hurt seriously. The Hodge Funeral Service at Marianna, which sent ambulances to the area, reported “several burning buildings.”

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1995

■ Little Rock airport officials will probably decide today whether they will relax security restrictions at the city airport after the Federal Aviation Administration ruled over the weekend that airports can lift parking bans and end car inspections. “We’re not really sure yet,” Don Denton, manager of properties and security at Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, said Sunday afternoon. “The language needs clarity. It’s obviously a lessening of the security status.” Denton said Little Rock airport authorities would study the development today.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 2010

■ If 12 proposed coal-fired plants open in Texas, Arkansas can expect to see more days when it fails to meet federal air quality standards as pollution from the smokestacks drifts across state lines, a recent Sierra Club report asserts. The report was discussed this week in a regional teleconference with media and scientists. There are already 17 plants with 36 smokestacks in Texas, according to the report. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality monitors air pollution levels in central and northeast Arkansas and must report those levels to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.