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100 YEARS AGO

Aug. 17, 1918

OZARK — Crops in this section are practically a total loss, due to the long drouth. The hay crop harvested in this county three months ago, is the only stock fodder that has been raised. The pastures are worthless, and cotton will not make a 40 percent crop. Though the bolls are opening, they are very small and many of them contain nothing, Farmers are selling their hogs and shipping them to Kansas City because of the corn shortage. Hill and Jeffers shipped 210 head of cattle to St. Louis Tuesday and realized a good price.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 17, 1968

■ The Little Rock Chamber of Commerce announced Friday that the North American Roller Skating Championships would be held at the Coliseum in August 1969 and August 1971, bringing to Little Rock 6,000 persons each year. The visitors are expected to spend $3,628,000 in the two 10day periods, based on an average of $30 a person per day. Robert Doubleday, chairman of the Chamber’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the two confirmations brought to 35 the number of organizations that have scheduled meetings and events at Little Rock through 1971. 25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 17, 1993

■ A Little Rock man filed a lawsuit Monday against former Little Rock priest Don Walker and Bishop Andrew J. McDonald, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Little Rock, accusing them of clergy malpractice for their alleged roles in the breakup of the man’s marriage. Don Cherepski of Little Rock, in the lawsuit filed before Pulaski County Circuit Judge John Ward, accused Walker of having an affair with Cherepski’s wife, Susan, from 1988 until the couple divorced in 1990. Walker served as a priest at the Cherepski family church and was head of the Catholic Diocese’s Marriage Tribunal during that time, the lawsuit said.

10 YEARS AGO

Aug. 17, 2008

■ Two Little Rock restaurants had lawsuits filed against them this week as Little Rock’s Advertising and Promotion Commission stepped up efforts to collect taxes dating back to 2005. The commission that promotes Little Rock as a tourism hot spot wants a judge to close Satellite Coffee Co. and Cafe, and Cotham’s in the City if they don’t cough up more than $13,000 combined in back taxes, penalties and interest. Little Rock levies a 2 percent tax on restaurants’ and hotels’ gross receipts to raise money for advertising the city.