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100 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1919
■ The Medical Department of the University of Arkansas has been advanced to Grade A by the Council on Medical Education at its meeting in Atlantic City, N.J., according to information received in Little Rock yesterday. Students completing the first two years of instruction at the institution hereafter will be eligible to enter the highest grade medical schools of the country without an examination.
50 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1969
■ The idea of grouping the hospitals of Little Rock together in a single location is under serious discussion. While no decision has been made yet, it is understood that the idea has had a friendly reception with the institutions concerned in the first round of talks. The talks are in terms of Baptist Medical Center and a new Veterans Administration hospital constructed on the grounds of the State Hospital or in War Memorial Park or both. That would put the University of Arkansas Medical Center with its hospital and medical schools, the State Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, the new state Department of Health building and St. Vincent Infirmary, plus the two new hospitals, together in the 19 blocks along Markham Street from Elm Street to University Avenue.
25 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1994
WASHINGTON — Union members from Arkansas tried unsuccessfully Tuesday to sway Sens. Dale Bumpers and David Pryor, both D-Ark., on striker-replacement legislation. President Clinton also has talked to the two senators about supporting the bill, which would bar companies from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said at a news conference. Neither Arkansas senator has budged in opposition to the legislation, sponsored by Metzenbaum.
10 YEARS AGO
June 15, 2009
BROOKLYN, Mich. — The most surprised person to find Batesville’s Mark Martin in Victory Lane at Michigan International Speedway was the driver himself. The 50-year-old NASCAR star has run well but has had to deal with considerable bad luck this season. It looked like more of the same Sunday when the battery in his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet began to fail before the halfway mark in the LifeLock 400 Sprint Cup race. Martin turned off everything in the car that he could, nursing it as best he could. Then he realized the race was going to be a fuel economy run. “I always, always come up short in those gas things,” Martin said. “I’m probably about 2 and 25 in these things.” Make that 3 and 25 now. Martin saved just enough gas to hang on for his third victory of the season and the 38th of his Cup career.