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100 YEARS AGO July 28, 1916

The annual picnic given by the five Catholic churches of Little Rock and Argenta for the benefit of St. Joseph’s Orphanage of Argenta, was attended by more than 5,000 persons at Forest park yesterday and last night. Dancing began at 8 o’clock last night and continued until midnight. A committee of women members of the five churches served a chicken dinner from 5 until 8 o’clock yesterday afternoon to more than 1,000 persons.

50 YEARS AGO July 28, 1966

David H. Pryor, 31, of Camden and Richard S. Arnold, 30, of Texarkana, both attorneys, emerged from a five-man field as the frontrunners for the Fourth District Congressional nomination in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. They will be in the August 9 runoff and the winner will face Lynn Lowe of Texarkana, the Republican nominee, for the House seat vacated by Oren Harris, who resigned to become a federal district judge.

25 YEARS AGO July 28, 1991

Arkansas Children’s Hospital owes its financial survival primarily to strong government support and a solid base of charitable donors, hospital audits indicate. Children’s showed an operating loss of $3.4 million in 1990. However, $5.9 million in nonoperating revenues, including contributions, property tax revenues and various state and federal grants, kept the hospital in the black.

10 YEARS AGO July 28, 2006

An agreement to dedicate a proposed sales tax increase to operation of the cash-poor Pulaski County jail has run into some tough questions from the jail’s biggest client, the city of Little Rock. The Pulaski County Quorum Court put the proposed one-quarter percent tax increase on the ballot for a special election Sept. 12. Little Rock’s Board of Directors and critics of the proposed sales tax question whether the county has other means to support the jail, such as a reported windfall from property reappraisals. Little Rock directors said during their meeting Tuesday that they had heard the county would see $10 million in new property taxes stemming from this year’s regular reappraisal of property. “It’s a hot topic,” Little Rock Ward 7 Director B.J. Wyrick said at the meeting. According to Pulaski County Assessor Janet Troutman Ward, there will be no reappraisal windfall.