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100 YEARS AGO May 6, 1917

■ Joseph M. Hill of Fort Smith, former chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, has written a letter to Governor Brough, suggesting that he call an extra session of the legislature at once to provide for a bond issue in aid of the prosecution of the war against Germany and to repeal the act of the recent legislature calling a constitutional convention. Judge Hill’s letter, which was received yesterday by Governor Brough, was inspired during his visit to Washington where, he says, he was brought to a realization of the international crisis which, he declares, is more serious than is known by those at home.

50 YEARS AGO May 6, 1967

■ Arkansas’s first “Hope House” for married parolees of the state Penitentiary has been opened by Second Baptist Church at 802 Rock Street, within a block of the Church. The house, a two-story frame building, was bought by the Church for $40,000 and a former convict who has served five years in the penitentiary on three convictions for armed robbery and grand larceny and his wife and three children moved into the house in early April.

25 YEARS AGO May 6, 1992

■ The Little Rock Housing Authority has been branded as “troubled” — the worst of three designations — in a recent evaluation by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. That designation followed the authority’s receiving seven A’s, for perfect, and eight F’s, for failing, in 20 categories in the report. The authority scored 51 points out of 100 possible.

10 YEARS AGO May 6, 2007

■ The group responsible for monitoring ozone levels in central Arkansas is criticizing a report released last week claiming that air quality has improved. On May 1, the American Lung Association boosted its grade for ozone levels in Pulaski County from an “F” to a “C” for the period from 2003-05. The improved grade rankled John Hoffpauer, chairman of the Ozone Action Days Steering Committee, which annually forecasts and reports ozone levels from May 1 through Sept. 30. “It gives a false impression,” said Hoffpauer. “Things have not been getting better, they’ve gotten worse. We’re now on a bubble, and the bubble’s about to pop.”