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100 YEARS AGO May 21, 1917

STUTTGART — The farmers and planters in the neighborhood of Hinds’ Schoolhouse, 13 miles east of here, met Friday night to devise ways and means of erecting and operating a flouring mill. The object is to have a 25-barrel mill erected and operated for the direct benefit of the farmers of that neighborhood. One hundred shares of $25 each have been offered for sale to the farmers and no one will be permitted to buy more than $250 worth.

50 YEARS AGO May 21, 1967

■ The Pulaski County (rural) School Board will take bids June 13 on the construction of the new Sylvan Hills High School, for which $1.2 million of a $5 million construction bond issue has been programmed. The bond issue was approved in the September 1966 school election. The District also wants to know if it can legally accept bids at the same time on a $500,000 bond issue, the last part of an issue that was approved three years ago. Not all of it was sold.

25 YEARS AGO May 21, 1992

■ Rep. Beryl Anthony filed a formal complaint Wednesday against challenger Bill McCuen with the Federal Election Commission in Washington. “Mr. McCuen’s first quarter and preprimary reports reveal virtually no administrative expenses of his campaign. … The reason for this mystery became obvious in a series of newspaper articles which revealed that Mr. McCuen has apparently been using staff and facilities of the office of secretary of state,” the complaint read.

10 YEARS AGO May 21, 2007

■ A musty air hangs throughout the darkened hallways of the former Baptist Memorial Hospital, once North Little Rock’s primary medical facility. Atop an overlook at One Pershing Circle, the 45-year-old building has outlived its usefulness and more likely faces implosion than preservation, city officials have said. “Everything’s worn out,” Bill Bush, North Little Rock’s building maintenance technician, said while shining a flashlight through an otherwise pitch-black hallway, leading visitors on a walkthrough last week. “It’s starting to come apart.” The six-story hospital closed in November 1999, when its more-modern successor, Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock, opened on Springhill Drive off Interstate 40. Baptist Memorial, opened in 1962, had leased the cityowned building from North Little Rock.