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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1915 FAYETTEVILLE — “Good roads and bridges” will be the feature of the better farming propaganda advocated in the “safe farming” campaign, to be launched in Arkansas November 1 by the Extension Division of the University of Arkansas and the United States Department of Agriculture. This subject will be discussed daily for four months following the opening day of the campaign in all of the 75 counties of Arkansas in which the campaign will be conducted in an effort to bring about a better condition of our highways.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1965 Preliminary plans and architects’ drawings for construction of a $3 million library on the Fayetteville campus have been approved by the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees. The board, meeting in Little Rock Saturday, also inspected an architect’s model of the library, considered by University President David W. Mullins as being a key project in the university’s expanding program.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1990 CABOT — A preliminary review by the federal Environmental Protection Agency disputes the findings of a report stating Cabot’s planned land application sewage treatment system won’t work. “A preliminary technical assessment by my staff concluded that the city of Cabot’s proposed slow rate land irrigation system is designed to function properly,” wrote Myron O. Knudson, director of EPA Region VI’s water management division.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 2005 An all sixth-grade school in North Little Rock faces potential restructuring. North Little Rock School District administrators are in the preliminary stages of re-examining the organization of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades in the district, including the possible elimination of a school that since 1997 has been devoted to sixth-graders. At present, the district’s 603 sixth-graders attend Poplar Street Middle School, while the seventh- and eighth-graders are split among three middle schools. “What we’re finding is that the one-year school causes a real dip in achievement,” said Lynn Chadwick, the district’s supervisor of school improvement and professional development. Specifically, she referred to the Arkansas Benchmark Exam, in which a higher percentage of fourth-graders than sixth-graders have scored proficient or above on the literacy and math portions since 2001, when the sixth-grade test was first used.