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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1921

■ Elimination of Justin Matthews and J. P. Faucette from further participation in the road building program of Pulaski county is recommended by the Pulaski county Grand Jury in its final report filed yesterday with Judge John W. Wade. The report says: “Mr. Justin Matthews and Mr. J. P. Faucette have both figured very actively in the whole road program of Pulaski county and it is the opinion of the Grand Jury that the interests of taxpayers of the county demand that these two gentlemen be eliminated from further participation in our road building program.” An organization of taxpayers to protect their own interests is strongly urged by the report.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1971

■ The state Welfare Department was asked Monday to open a food stamp office in the Model Cities South office in Ives Courts at 200 East Twenty-ninth Street, Little Rock. Five residents of the neighborhood, led by Gloria Benson, presented petitions signed by about 200 persons to Dalton Jennings, acting welfare commissioner, at the Welfare Department offices at the Capitol. Jennings told the group that he would investigate the request to determine how many residents could be served and to see whether a mobile unit would be more feasible. The residents represented the South End Community Organization.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 1996

■ Some east Little Rock residents are angry because the city is looking at moving a fire station out of their neighborhood. The potential move is a surprise, since a ballot title for a 1994 city improvement bond issue election said the station would be renovated — not relocated. And a 1995 city Board of Directors’ resolution regarding Fire Station No. 13 refers to remodeling. There is no mention of moving the station from 1105 E. Roosevelt Road. Residents want to keep the fire station where it is.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 23, 2011

■ After months of discussion about how the county can reduce the number of stray animals, the Pulaski County Quorum Court on Tuesday unanimously passed an ordinance allowing Comptroller Mike Hutchens to contract Arkansas for Animals Inc. to provide a mobile spay-and-neuter clinic to provide practically free sterilization and vaccination for pets. With a $50,000 budget, the nonprofit group said in a report to the panel that it expects to perform “roughly 525 surgeries, preventing a potential of 5,000 unwanted births within the county through the next year alone.”