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100 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1921

■ Under present conditions the best thing that can happen to the city of Little Rock is for the federal court to render a judgment that would cause the levy of an additional five mills on the taxable property of Little Rock — a tax that in seven years would enable the city to pay its debt. This was the conclusion reached by Mayor Brickhouse in a statement yesterday after failure of himself and other city officials to reach a satisfactory agreement with P. W. Chapman of Chicago for renewal of $325,000 in city warrants which fall due March 23 and $750,000 that fall due July 25.

50 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1971

■ The Little Rock Board of Adjustment agreed Monday to grant a zoning variance to permit construction of a hotel 100 feet or nine stories high on the east side of the freeway between Seventh and Eighth streets. The Admiral Benbow Inn has tentative plans to build a 184-unit, $2 million facility on the site. The half-acre tract on which the structure would be built is owned by the Cook Realty Company, and the zoning variance was granted to Cook.

25 YEARS AGO

March 16, 1996

JONESBORO — Clean Sweep, the annual Jonesboro cleanup project that allows residents to dispose of items not usually handled by city sanitation crews, is to begin Monday. “We stand down at the landfill and watch what comes off the trucks,” Street Supervisor Gene Barnett said. “We’re totally amazed.” In the past, workers have picked up old automobiles, dead pets, a bucket of rotting fish heads and such stolen city property as road signs and barricades. Terrell Carr, a Clean Sweep driver, recalls the time someone threw away a house. After the structure was demolished, the scrap was piled up on the curb for Clean Sweep personnel to haul off.

10 YEARS AGO

March 16, 2011

■ The state’s largest airport is pursuing setting up a cellphone lot, where drivers picking up arriving passengers can wait for free until the passengers call them. The Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission urged the staff at Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, to look into developing such a lot at the Aerospace Education Center on East Roosevelt Road, which is less than 2 miles from the passenger terminal. “I’d like to try it and see what happens,” Commissioner Bob East said Tuesday at the panel’s monthly meeting.