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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 6, 1919
PINNACLE, Oct. 5 — Six committees will enter exhibits in the Pinnacle Mountain fair to be held at the Pinnacle public school grounds October 23, 24 and 25. The communities to be represented in the show are Maumelle, Roland, Natural Steps, Ferndale, Little Maumelle and Pinnacle. The exhibits will include agricultural, horticultural, home demonstration and school products. Arrangements for various classes are being made by S. E. Junkins, president of the association, and Miss Elsie Guenther, secretary, both of Pinnacle.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 6, 1969
■ State Education Commissioner A. W Ford says that in the long run integrated schools probably will benefit Arkansas by allowing better education at less cost than would otherwise be necessary. … Ford said that in Arkansas, schools had been separate, but never equal for the races. He said an integrated school district was more economical to operate than trying to maintain two separate district operations, one for whites and one for blacks.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 6, 1994
■ Residents get to tell city directors tonight how they’d like to see $30 million in improvements spread around Little Rock. The money would come from a restructuring of the 1988 Capital Improvement Bond Issue. … At a retreat last month, directors finalized a list of spending priorities for the bond money, but Mayor Jim Dailey said he’s still open to suggestions from the public. … Dailey said the board determined the list after hearing from neighborhoods and meeting with city staff. “A lot of it has come from the grass-roots level,” he said. If approved, the restructuring would determine how long property owners pay a 3.4-mill tax. While it wouldn’t increase the millage level, it would add six to seven years to the time property owners pay the tax.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 6, 2009
■ More than a month after the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System voided a superintendent’s retirement after finding he failed to fully “terminate” employment for 30 days, the system’s board Monday approved a policy clarifying what terminating employment means. The policy unanimously approved Monday by the system’s board of trustees says that employees younger than age 65 who retire from public schools or universities and then return to work cannot have any “employment agreements, express or implied” with their former employer prior to or during a required separation period. It also says the retirees “shall cease all relationships” with the employer and should “no longer have authority to act as a representative of the employer or exercise any authority over its employees.” George Hopkins, who took over as the retirement system’s director Dec. 29, said the board’s vote gave approval to a definition he had already been using in an effort to tighten the requirements for employees who retire and return to work.