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100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1913

Despite the heavy downpour of rain and the blackened skies the “kiddies” turned out for school Monday morning and by midday the enrollment in every school in Little Rock showed that the rain god had not been successful in trying to stop the search for knowledge. Every one of the public schools of Little Rock opened on Monday morning, as well as the medical and law departments of the University of Arkansas. Little Rock College and a number of private institutions also began their sessions.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1963

A total of at least 247 Americans suffered eye damage from watching the July 20 eclipse of the sun, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Only two Arkansas cases have been reported — a child in north Arkansas and a teenager in east Arkansas who watched the eclipse through a telescope. Names were not released. The national count was based on questionnaires sent to more than 4,000 eye specialists, 55 percent of whom answered.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 1988

The Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers will take a strike vote tonight. All-day negotiations collapsed Wednesday with no agreement reached on several sensitive issues, including salaries. Negotiators for the Pulaski County Special School District declared an impasse over salaries at 5:18 p.m. Wednesday. Tonight’s general membership meeting for teachers is at 7 p.m. at the Teamsters Union Hall, 6000 Patterson St. “Our position is clear. We simply don’t have the funds to place additional money in the teacher salary fund,” said Gary Miller, assistant superintendent for personnel and the district’s chief negotiator.

10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 15, 2003

With a recent attorney general’s opinion to guide them, members of the North Little Rock Parks Commission will again consider today whether to ban concealed handguns in city parks. The commission has twice put off deciding whether to post signs prohibiting licensed gun owners from carrying a concealed firearm into any of the city’s 35 parks, an option provided in a recent state law that reopened municipal parks to legally concealed handguns. North Little Rock would be the first Arkansas city to react to Act 1110 of 2003 that removed parks and restaurants from places off-limits to people with concealed handgun permits issued through the Arkansas State Police.