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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1919
■ Alderman J. T. Goss, chairman of the special committee appointed by Mayor Burns in connection with the extensions of the gas mains on Pike Avenue, yesterday said he had been notified by the Little Rock Gas and Fuel Company that it will be impossible to extend the mains. A petition signed by 150 residents of the northwest section of the city was handed to representatives of the gas company some time ago. The petitions requested that the main be extended out Pike Avenue as far as Twenty-third street with branch lines to supply houses on side streets. The gas company made a survey of the proposed extensions and refused to make them because the estimated cost of the extensions was too great for the number of customers to be served.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1969
HOT SPRINGS — Woodrow Williams of Hattieville (Conway County), president of the Arkansas Rural Letter Carriers Association, Wednesday said he believed rural mail delivery may be reduced if the Post Office Department becomes privately operated.” … “We feel the U.S. Post Office Department should remain as a service,” Williams said. “There is no reason why it should become a business enterprise — no more than any other department of government.” Under the plan of Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, Williams said, “I have no doubt that rural routes that are traveled daily would be reduced to three times a week.”
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1994
PARAGOULD — About 10,500 years ago, a group of early American Indians selected a raised area of earth — a stabilized sand dune — near the Cache River as a site to bury their dead. Today, that site has become one of the most important archaeological finds in the New World. In the spring of 1974, archaeologist Dan Morse began excavating the prehistoric graveyard. Morse has spent the 20 years since that beginning piecing together the artifacts and information yielded from the patch of earth and is in the process of completing a book detailing the find. The book — “The Sloan Site, a Paleo-Indian Period Cemetery in Northeast Arkansas” — is scheduled to be published by the Smithsonian Institute Press in 1995, and should be available for sale by 1996. … The significance of the site is that it appears to be the earliest cemetery discovered in the New World.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 2009
HOT SPRINGS — Hot Springs’ District 4 voters have said they wanted new representation on the city’s Board of Directors in a vote to remove Director Carroll Weatherford. Complete but unofficial results showed Tuesday’s vote was 48869. The Garland County Election Commission will meet at 10 a.m. today to certify the results. With 4,943 registered voters in the district, 588, or 11.89 percent, turned out to vote in the special election called to determine whether Weatherford should be removed from the city board. Weatherford could not be reached for comment. With Weatherford’s seat vacated, the Board of Directors will appoint a successor, according to state law.