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100 YEARS AGO May 4, 1917

■ Memphis is about four weeks behind Little Rock in the food preparedness campaign, in the opinion of B. C. Powell, vice president of the Southern Trust Company and chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the Arkansas Bankers’ Association. Mr. Powell attended the meeting of the Tri-State Better Farming Committee at Memphis this week as a representative of the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau of the Little Rock Board of Commerce. He was accompanied by C. O. Carpenter, agricultural commissioner of the bureau.

50 YEARS AGO May 4, 1967

■ A change order that will increase the construction cost of the Parkview School by $25,767 to $1,897,476 was approved in a special, hastily-called meeting of the Little Rock School Board at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. The order was sought by Dietrich Neyland of the architectural firm of Ginocchio, Cromwell, Carter and Neyland, which designed the building, now under construction on John Barrow Road by the Matson Construction Company.

10 YEARS AGO May 4, 2007

■ A consortium of liquor stores can pursue a challenge of a decision by state alcohol regulators to grant a liquor store permit to a Sam’s Club planned for Fayetteville, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The unanimous decision, written by Justice Paul E. Danielson, clears the way for the Arkansas Beverage Retailers Association to continue its effort to get the Pulaski County Circuit Court to overturn the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board’s issuance of the permit. The group of about 40 Arkansas liquor stores maintains that the Sam’s Club will have an unfair advantage in the retail alcohol business because the store can sell products as varied as tires and groceries, while traditional liquor stores are prohibited by law from selling anything but alcohol, soft drinks, mixers, tobacco products and a small number of other items.