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100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1918

HUNTSVILLE — Miss Canda Pharres, a young woman who is teaching at Witter, has informed the prosecuting attorney that her school directors have threatened to lock her out if she attempts to comply with the vaccination law. 50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1968

■ State Representative Charles D. Matthews of North Little Rock said Thursday that Jerry K. Thomasson, the Republican candidate for attorney general, apparently was violating state law by using a picture of the state flag on a campaign poster in the yard of his campaign headquarters at Little Rock. Matthews, a Democrat, noting that Odell Pollard of Searcy, the GOP state chairman had criticized Attorney General Joe Purcell the day before for putting his picture on pamphlets containing election laws, said that Pollard and Governor Rockefeller should “censor the illegal election activities of their superficial candidate for attorney general.” Thomasson said that while state law forbade the use of the flag on commercial advertising, it permitted the flag to be used for patriotic purposes. He maintained that the use of the flag on his campaign poster fell into that category.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1993

■ A spokesman for the company building a medical waste incinerator in southeast Pulaski County speculates that it will have more in-state business than it can handle, as hospitals come under tougher regulations. “We are looking at the 100 hospitals in Arkansas,” said Mike Butner, vice president of Arkansas Medical Services Corp. “They generate many times the waste we can dispose of. The hospitals in Pulaski County generate enough waste to fill the capacity of our plant.” Arkansas Medical Services is building its plant at U.S. 65-167 and Dixon Road about five miles south of downtown Little Rock.

10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 2008

■ Gasoline prices shot up as much as 75 cents per gallon across Arkansas as Hurricane Ike approached Texas, causing Gov. Mike Beebe to declare a state of emergency to head off price gouging. Prices as high as $4.38 for regular gas at some stations Friday caused long lines at those with cheaper prices. Some stations ran out of fuel.