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100 YEARS AGO March 9, 1921

■ Apparently determined upon the removal from office of Wade, judge of the First Division, Pulaski County Circuit Court, both branches of the legislature continued their attacks on the jurist yesterday. The House paused the bill introduced Monday afternoon abolishing the First Division of the Pulaski County Circuit Court — a measure which automatically would put Judge Wade out of office. The bill was read twice in the Senate and made a special order for this morning.

50 YEARS AGO March 9, 1971

■ The North Little Rock City Council voted Monday night to lease a site at the Airport to Commercial ‘Copters, Inc., for a trailer that houses its offices. That’s the opposite of what the Airport Commission decided February 5, when it ordered the trailer removed by March 15. The trailer still is at the airport. The Council, in other business, again delayed voting on a proposed water rate increase after it heard protests from a representative of water users outside the city. The Council also postponed action on a proposal to increase the salaries of 33 Fire Department officers.

25 YEARS AGO March 9, 1996

FAYETTEVILLE — Noting unexpected growth in the number of boardings at Drake Field, the city has hired a high-profile Fort Worth consulting firm to predict how much of that field’s commuter airline service will move to the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. The Fayetteville City Council voted Tuesday night to hire Greiner Inc. to update the master plan for the municipal airport within a year. The council and Airport Manager Dale Frederick say they hope the Federal Aviation Administration will pay for 90 percent of the $341,755 study. But Frederick said one official at the FAA’s Southwest Region, also in Fort Worth, already is hinting the agency will refuse to pay for one of three scenarios Frederick has asked Greiner to study.

10 YEARS AGO March 9, 2011

■ Residents in two Arkansas towns set to lose their post offices will try to persuade the federal government to keep the facilities off the chopping block. In Ida, a Cleburne County town of 83, people will meet with legislators and postal officials Thursday to make a pitch to save the post office that has been there since 1891. And officials will be in Saline County’s Bauxite, population 432, for a similar hearing March 22. The two post offices — the only ones in those towns — are on the latest U.S. Postal Services’ “to cut list” developed by federal officials.