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David Baxter, with the Arkansas Municipal League, helps Calico Rock City Council member Kim Parnell find a book she was looking for during the Arkansas Municipal League 2019 Winter Conference on Thursday at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
100 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18, 1919
■ To abolish capital punishment, without mentioning capital punishment, is a plan evolved by Representative Campbell of Faulkner, who yesterday introduced a bill in the house providing that persons convicted of first degree murder shall be sentenced to not less than 100 years in the penitentiary. The bill has been sent to the Judiciary Committee for consideration.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18, 1969
■ For 15 cents you could get two hamburgers and a Coke, delivered to your car, when Ralph P. Royse first opened shop at West Seventh Street and Broadway. The Snappy Service closed last Saturday night, a victim of changing urban patterns, increasing overhead costs and opening of the Interstate 30 bypass. It had been in business 38 years, lacking three months. Ralph P. Royse made the decision to close … in large part to “changing times.”… “Lots of businesses have moved out and a lot of people don’t come downtown anymore.”
25 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18, 1994
■ Authorities have identified as human the remains that confessed wife-killer Herbert F. Brenk led authorities to in December but not yet as those of Lou Alice Brenk, 50, Prosecuting Attorney Gordon Webb of Harrison said. Fishermen had found parts of Lou Alice Brenk’s torso floating in a cement-topped cooler Aug. 23, 1990, in Lake Norfork in Baxter County. Brenk, 54, of Henderson, (Baxter County), pleaded guilty last month to a reduced first-degree murder charge on the condition he provide authorities with information on the whereabouts of the remainder of his wife’s body.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18, 2009
■ More than 1,700 state employees make at least $100,000 a year. That’s nearly 400 more $100,000-toppers than two years ago. Not all of the money comes from tax dollars. The salaries may come from a combination of funds from state and federal taxes, tuition and fees, grants, contracts and services such as hospital revenue and private sources. … The biggest salaries are mostly in higher education, which has 1,538 at more than $100,000, an increase of about 300 such salaries from two years earlier. Among those making more than $100,000 throughout state government, nearly half — 868 — are at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, which serves, among other things, as the state’s medical school. The 868 is up from 710 a couple of years ago. Factoring in state and private sources, the highest-paid state employee is … head football coach, Bobby Petrino, who gets $2.85 million from the UA and the Razorback Foundation.