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100 YEARS AGO April 22, 1912 MCNEIL — While 500 people were engaged today in dredging Dorcheat Bayou where it was feared that Miss Ruby Cook had been drowned, the girl was found, dressed in male attire, planting corn on the farm of John Mcalester, near College Hill, two miles north of here, for whom she was working as a farm hand. The girl is the daughter of L.M. Cook, a well known lawyer and planter of Lafayette county, who lives near Buckner. The only reason she gave for her action was that she was tired of going to school and her parents would not let her quit. She is in the ninth grade and her teachers say she is unusually bright. 50 YEARS AGO April 22, 1962 Members of the Arkansas Legislative Council, who make up about 18 per cent of the General Assembly, apparently decided to ignore a so-called purge list of the membership published recently by the Arkansas Education Association. But behind the scenes, the published pamphlet showing the voting record of the 135 lawmakers on 10 selected issues may lead to an all-out fight between the school forces and the legislators. Few of the solons would make any comment on the matter, which was brought up Friday at the council meeting. 25 YEARS AGO April 22, 1987 The Little Rock School Board voted 4-3 Tuesday to ask U.S. District Judge Henry Woods to disqualify himself in the Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit, saying the judge had decided without a hearing the district had violated its court orders. Shortly after the vote on Woods, board member Robin Armstrong, who said she supported Woods’ actions, made a motion that the district’s four attorneys in the case be fired. The motion was defeated 5-2. 10 YEARS AGO April 22, 2002 FAYETTEVILLE — If the University of Arkansas system extends the tenure rights that professors at its four-year institutions enjoy to the system’s two-year colleges, it would buck state and national trends, Arkansas education officials say. Only about 15 percent of the nation’s 1,228 two-year institutions offer tenure, said Ed Franklin, executive director of the Arkansas Association of Two-year Colleges.