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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1919

■ The Arkansas Teachers’ Association (negro) will meet in Little Rock October 30-31 and November 1. Educators who have been invited to speak at the convention are Governor Brough, Dean Moose, Washington D.C., Superintendent Wirt of Indiana, Dr. Steiner of Iowa and Professor Calloway of Tuskogee. The following is a brief outline of the program: “The Opportunities of the Teacher in Reconstruction;” “Preventive Health Measures in Public Schools;” “The Responsibility of the Colleges and Normal Training Schools in the Preparation of Teachers;” “Conservation of the Pupil,” and “The Elimination of Illiteracy.” These subjects will be discussed in general session. The usual sectional meetings will be held. A complete program will be sent out to the teachers in a few days.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1969

PINE BLUFF — The Leisure Group, Inc., parent company of the Ben Pearson Archery Equipment Company here, has acquired Lyman Gun Sight Company of Middlefield, Ct., and Himalayan Industries of Monterey, Cal. The Leisure Group, which purchased Ben Pearson earlier this year, manufactures and markets firearms, recreation products and lawn and garden products.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1994

■ Uncounted thousands of Arkansas voters who registered since 1993 never made the lists used to decide which state constitutional amendments made the upcoming ballot, court testimony showed Tuesday. And state AFL-CIO President J. Bill Becker notarized petitions even though he did not witness them being signed, if he knew the person who did gather the signatures, he testified Tuesday. Those and other facts came out in the first day of hearings in a lawsuit filed in an attempt to knock the proposed workers’ compensation amendment off the Nov. 8 ballot. … Amendment opponents claim many petition signatures were garnered through improper means. Amendment supporters deny those allegations and argue the petitions lost thousands of signatures in a verification process based on incomplete voter registration records.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 2009

PINE BLUFF — More Arkansans in Jefferson County and across the state are dialing 911 from cell phones, a trend that helps reduce response time to critical accidents, crimes and fires. At the same time, as more people call in vehicle accidents with cell phones, 911 dispatch centers are flooded with calls reporting a single wreck, which increases the demand on those centers. “In the past, when you didn’t have cell phones, people had to go to a gas station or somebody’s house to borrow the phone to call 911 and report a wreck,” said Melinda Elliott, operations manager for Jefferson County’s Metropolitan Emergency Communications Association. “Now, if it’s a real serious wreck, within a matter of minutes we’ll have got 50 phone calls on it.”