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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1917
A resolution endorsing the bill now pending before the legislature giving women the right to vote in primary elections was adopted by the Central Trades and Labor Council at a meeting at Painters’ hall, Third and Center streets, last night. The resolution was presented by a committee of women from the Political Equality League. A committee was appointed to arrange for the coming of Judge Henry Neil of Ohio, who will speak in Little Rock before adjournment of the legislature in the interest of mothers’ pensions.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1967
The National Education Association has told its two Arkansas affiliates that they must submit a satisfactory merger plan by June 1 or face expulsion from the organization, but the heads of the Arkansas Education Association and the Arkansas Teachers Association said over the weekend that they were as unconcerned about this deadline as they had been about others the NEA has set.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1992
Little Rock employees would receive a 2 percent pay raise this year under a plan discussed Wednesday by the city Board of Directors. The board asked City Attorney Tom Carpenter to draw up a resolution allocating $780,000 out of the 1992 budget for cost-of-living raises for all city employees. Board members also asked that $89,000 be set aside for hiring four housing inspectors for neighborhood alert centers. The money is available because of a city finance office miscalculation in October about the city’s earnings from taxes and fees by the end of 1991.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 2007
The state lost one public charter school in Monticello on Monday but gained the prospect of another to open in Little Rock in the fall. In an unprecedented move, the Arise Charter School in Monticello closed its doors to its 41 pupils at the end of January — in the midst of the school year — because state funding for the shrinking number of students wasn’t enough to adequately support the school. Most, if not all, of the Arise pupils have been reassigned to schools in the school districts in which they live, Arise and state officials said.