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100 YEARS AGO March 7, 1921
■ An institution to be known as the “Boys’ Protectory” is to be opened at Armstrong Springs near Pangburn in White county by the Poor Brothers of St. Francis of the Catholic church. Work on the remodeling of the building formerly occupied by the Armstrong Springs hotel, in which the institution is to be located, is nearing completion, according to an announcement from the bishop’s house in this city. The institution is being established as the result of a need long felt by leaders of the Catholic church for a home for boys who have passed the age at which they are admitted to the various Catholic orphanages, of which the St. Joseph’s Orphanage in this city is one.
50 YEARS AGO March 7, 1971
■ Two seats on the seven-member Little Rock School Board will be filled in Tuesday’s election, with a contest for only one of them. Characteristically for school board elections of recent years, that race has created no big waves. Board President Daniel H. Woods and William R. Meeks Jr. are leaving the Board. E. Kearney Dietz, 38, of 234 Schoolwood Lane, an advertising and public relations firm executive, is the only candidate to succeed Meeks. Dietz said he responded to requests of friends to run, and that he had agreed to do so because of his “over-all concern for the public school system.”
25 YEARS AGO March 7, 1996
■ The recent departures of three Maumelle Department of Public Safety officers and the firing of a fourth has left the city’s police force short-handed. The northwest Pulaski County city of about 7,000 already had transferred another police officer last September to a firefighter’s job because of a dispute over vision standards for certified law enforcement officers. Still another has been on extended medical leave. “We’re not dangerously short or anything,” Assistant Mayor Dave Vechik said on Wednesday.
10 YEARS AGO March 7, 2011
■ Catching a car parked at an expired meter is easier than enforcing the two-hour parking limit in the River Market, Little Rock’s parking enforcement chief said as the capital city prepares to switch to paid parking in the popular entertainment district. On average last year, each time-zone space in downtown Little Rock generated 2.7 tickets compared with 10.9 tickets generated by each of the city’s 1,320 metered spaces. But that doesn’t mean that parking officials focus more on meters than on the twohour spaces, said Jack Wrenn, who heads up Little Rock’s parking enforcement department. “They’re easier to spot and much easier to enforce,” Wrenn said about metered spaces.