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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1916
Hearings in the injunction suit of Dr. William C. Green against the Little Rock School Board, to prevent the location of the new junior high school building opposite the Little Rock Sanitarium, owned by Dr. Green, will be held this morning in Chancery Court. Dr. Green asserts that the location of the school near his property will permanently injure its value as a site for a sanitarium.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1966
Governor-elect Winthrop Rockefeller Tuesday invited state Education Commissioner A. W. Ford and Welfare Commissioner A. J. (Red) Moss to continue in their present jobs in his administration. He did this at a news conference, expressing the hope that they would want to remain. Rockefeller previously has praised Ford’s contribution to education. Of Moss, who has been in and out and now back in the Welfare Department, Rockefeller said, “I don’t think anyone in the state or maybe the nation knows forwards and backwards the welfare regulations like he does.”
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1991
Checks should begin arriving today for nearly 7,000 jobless Arkansans who applied for extended unemployment benefits this week, state officials said Friday. Officials with the state Employment Security Division had estimated about 19,000 Arkansans might qualify for the extra 13 weeks of benefits. But the lower number of applicants indicates many unemployed Arkansas workers may have found jobs, Bill Gaddy, ESD director, said.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 2006
A Little Rock teenager who admitted hurling a piece of road debris that killed a motorist on Interstate 630 lost a bid Wednesday to have his criminal case transferred to juvenile court after the Arkansas Court of Appeals agreed with the Pulaski County circuit judge who found court services offered to teenage offenders are not likely to rehabilitate him. Every Donnelle Richardson was four months shy of his 18th birthday on May 28, 2005, when he threw the pineapple-size piece of concrete that killed 50-year-old Carolyn Mirek. The rock shattered the windshield of her sport utility vehicle as she drove home from church with her 15-year-old daughter.