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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1916
A serious outbreak of cerebral spinal meningitis at Briscoe, Prairie county, was reported yesterday to Dr. C. W. Garrison, state health officer. The report, contained in a request for serum to be used in treatment, said three are dead and four others infected with the disease. Another case was reported yesterday from Wynne. Dr. Garrison instructed local health authorities at those places that the State Board of Health or the State Hygienic Laboratory is unable to supply the serum, and advised where it may be secured. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1966 PINE BLUFF — An official ground-breaking ceremony at the site of the multi-million dollar Civic Center took place Wednesday afternoon. Mayor Austin Franks conducted the ceremony in which eight aldermen, several city department heads, leaders of the Civic Center project, Urban Renewal Agency officials, architects and the construction officials for Harmon Construction Co., took part. 25 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1991 When W. W. Williams and his brother Sam get together, the verbal sparks fly. “I’m a better golfer than he is,” W. W. said Thursday in the midst of a dual interview in his office. “I beat him 90 percent of the time,” Sam countered. Family and friends are accustomed to the exchanges of good-natured barbs when the two brothers are together. They share a competitive spirit that has not waned with the passage of time, and may have contributed to their success as Little Rock police officers. When W. W. was promoted to captain in October, the Williams brothers became the first two relatives in the department to both reach a rank that high. Sam, who at 36 is a year younger than W. W., was promoted to captain in January last year. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 2006
An El Dorado woman faces charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault after police say she used a toy plastic gun to try to steal a newborn girl Thursday night at the Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden. Police say Nikenya Jicole Washington, 18, forced her way inside the hospital’s secure nursery just before midnight Thursday, grabbed a baby from a crib, and tried to flee with the infant before she was stopped by hospital staff. Neither the baby nor any hospital employees were hurt, Sgt. Scott Wells, an investigator with the Camden Police Department, said Friday.