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100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 21, 1918

The City Council will meet tonight at 8 o’clock to consider amendments to the occupation tax ordinance, which now is subject to amendment. The amendments would make the annual tax on street railways $1,000 instead of $1,500, telegraph and heating companies $100 instead of $500, telephone companies $500 instead of $1,000. The council also is expected to consider the report of the Retrenchment Committee. The report recommends the reduction of the mayor’s salary from $5,000 to 4,000; reduction of aldermen’s salary from $480 to $384; reduction of expense of automobiles and requiring some employe to purchase all supplies for the city and be the custodian of them.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 21, 1968

The state Democratic Party said Sunday that a political tour last week by two Party officials revealed that the Humphrey-Muskie presidential ticket was picking up “surprising strength” in Arkansas and that Marion H. Crank of Foreman would defeat Governor Rockefeller in the general election November 5. Last week, officials of all three parties in Arkansas agreed that George C. Wallace was leading in the presidential race in the state. However, the Democrats said Sunday that all Democratic nominees on the national, state, and local levels were “running stronger than ever” in Arkansas.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 21, 1993

Four patients — one listed as homicidal and assaultive — walked away from the State Hospital Tuesday night, a week after the Department of Human Services announced sweeping changes aimed at slowing the rate of escape. Three teen-agers, two boys ages 14 and 16 and a 15-year-old girl, escaped about 10:30 p.m. by climbing through a window in one of the boys’ bedrooms. Earlier Tuesday, about 7:30 p.m., a 19-year-old man walked away from the main part of the hospital. A Little Rock television station reported Wednesday night that three of the four had been returned to the hospital.

10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 21, 2008

Little Rock police spent Monday hunting for the person who severely beat a morning television anchorwoman who was found in her bed, bleeding and unconscious, inside her house. Anne Pressly, 26, had gone to a surprise birthday party for another anchorman at Little Rock’s ABC affiliate, KATV, Channel 7, on Sunday night. Before dawn Monday, Pressly’s mother, Patricia Cannady, tried to wake Pressly up with a phone call — a usual practice of hers. When Cannady got no answer, she went to the small white house her daughter rents. Police said Cannady found Pressly bleeding from the head and almost unrecognizable from the beating. Police arriving at the scene, found no immediate signs of forced entry and discovered that someone had let Pressly’s two cocker spaniels out of the house and taken her purse.