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100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 1918

■ Recommendations that the extensive plans for the development of the government property at Hot Springs into a great national health resort are included in the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane which was submitted to Congress yesterday. Secretary Lane urges that an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the new work be made and that the entire program be worked out during the next five years. He gives unqualified endorsement to the plans of G.R. Mann, Little Rock architect. The report recalls that already the construction of a new administration building and free bath houses at Hot Springs has been authorized.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 1968

■ The last service in the 44-year-old Second Presbyterian Church at Third and Gaines Streets will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday. Afterward, the furnishings of the auditorium will be removed and after refurbishing, will be installed at the new Second Church on the corner of Highway 10 and Pleasant Valley Drive. That building will not be completed until some time next month and in the meantime the congregation will hold services at Temple B’nai Israel. The old building is to be torn down. The property was purchased about two years ago by the federal government. The new building will contain the stained glass windows of the present church, its pews and a portion of the organ. 25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 1993

■ While the legal battles have raged on for years about whether hazardous wastes should be incinerated in Jacksonville and who should pay the costs, an incinerator has destroyed more than half of the dioxin-contaminated wastes stored at the old Vertac Chemical Corp. plant site. “As of Dec. 3, we have burned 56.8 percent of the drums of hazardous wastes,” said Jack Danielson, site manager for URS Consultants. “We have delivered 16,143 drums of wastes to the incinerator. … The project began more than three years ago when the state contracted Vertac Site Contractors to incinerate 28,440 drums for $10.7 million. When the allotted money was depleted and with less than half the burn completed, the state turned the project over to the federal Environmental Protection Agency in June.

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 2008

■ Barbecue, basketball, beer and blues. There’s nothing better for this group of five friends, and, they say, there’s no place better to get it than Sim’s barbecue restaurant at 716 W. 33rd St. The group, Jay Wills, Marynell Branch, Bill and Cindy Edwards, and David Faulkner, has been getting together at the original Sim’s for 27 years. Saturday, though, they had mixed emotions. The eatery, which has been tucked away in the neighborhood since 1937, was scheduled to close and reopen in a new location at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Broadway. … “It will just take some adjustment,” Bill Edwards said.