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100 YEARS AGO March 17, 1915

Pulaski Heights will enter a clean-up campaign in earnest. The Central Health Club completed plans for its clean-up day, March 23, at a meeting held yesterday morning and the Elmhurst Club last night named March 25 as the day on which the rubbish [will be picked up] in the district, two blocks wide and extending eight blocks south from the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases.

50 YEARS AGO March 17, 1965

HOPE —Fragments of a plane State Police say may have crashed nearly a year ago were found Tuesday in a dense wooded area about 12 miles north of here. Lt. Milton Mosier said the craft had burned and there was no evidence of a human body in the wreckage. The wreckage was found by Ervey Lively, a farmer. The only clue to the identity of the plane was a piece of metal with a number on it. The engine was missing.

25 YEARS AGO March 17, 1990

JACKSONVILLE —Col. Tommy Goodwin, director of the state police, said Friday that he recently declined a request by some city officials to investigate the Jacksonville Police Department. Goodwin said he was asked “jointly” by Mayor Tommy Swaim and Police Chief Frank Neely to look into allegations of sexual misconduct by some officers in the department. Goodwin said he declined because the problems are not of a criminal nature.

10 YEARS AGO March 17, 2005

Shifting his weight on a stick he used as a cane, John Surratt and other stunned onlookers in downtown Little Rock watched Wednesday as the red bricks of the Mosaic Templars building cascaded to the street after an overnight fire destroyed the historic building. “It was a helluva place back then,” Surratt shouted over the humming of firetrucks and a construction crane. “It was a place for the upper-class blacks.” A 2 a.m. blaze toppled the 92-yearold, three-story building that was undergoing a more than $5 million restoration to feature a black art museum at Ninth Street and Broadway. “The community was looking forward to seeing it brought back to life,” said Little Rock native Kenneth Henderson, 60. “My mother and father would come over here for high school graduations, dances and functions for the neighborhood.” The fire started in the rear of the 22,000-square-foot building, fire officials said. Preliminary findings ruled out arson or faulty wiring, said Little Rock Fire Capt. Randy Davenport, an assistant fire marshal.