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100 YEARS AGO May 8, 1918
PARAGOULD —The Perkins Commission House was destroyed early this morning by fire together with the office fixtures. The original cost of the building, owned by Mrs. E. B. Perkins, was approximately $20,000. The business was managed by Ray H. Perkins. Insurance of $10,000 was carried on the merchandise, consisting of bacon, lard, hams, etc., owned by the Hammond Company of Chicago, and which is valued at $25,000. Mr. Perkins believed that the blaze was caused by a passing railway locomotive.
50 YEARS AGO May 8, 1968
The Little Rock Classroom Teacher’s Association won another skirmish Tuesday in its fight with the Little Rock Education Association over which group is the proper representative for teachers in the Little Rock School District. James O’Cain, president of the CTA, said that officials of the National Education Association conducted an election Tuesday among all professional staff members of the School District. The staff members were offered two proposals for affiliation with the NEA. One was that all teachers, principals and administrators belong to one organization; the other was that there be two separate organizations, one for teachers and the other for principals and administrators.
25 YEARS AGO May 8, 1993
FORT SMITH — Disabled students who earned a 3.0 or higher grade point average are entitled to places on honor rolls right alongside other students, the federal government has told Fort Smith’s public schools. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights recently found that the Fort Smith schools discriminated against 66 of the district’s 509 disabled students by wrongfully barring them from the honor roll in 1992. The disabled students’ grades are based on an ability-effort system, meaning they’re not graded on the same criteria as other students.
10 YEARS AGO May 8, 2008
PINE BLUFF — A state auditor said Wednesday that the Pine Bluff School District failed to enforce safeguards that could have prevented one of its secretaries from embezzling what police say is more than $884,000 over seven years. Kim Williams of the Legislative Audit Division said yearly state audits couldn’t have uncovered the missing money, but district workers could have uncovered it had they followed proper procedures. “There was a breakdown in their control,” said Williams, a deputy auditor for investigations.