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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1919
MOUNTAIN HOME — A bill by Senator Godwin passed at the extra session of the legislature creates a road district running from Calico Rock to the Baxter county line. The route is through the Pleasant Valley neighborhood. George A. Clark, R. M. Russell and P. C. Sherrill have been named as commissioners.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1969
■ An insurance company does not have to pay a state tax on premiums it collects after its certificate of authority is revoke, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday. The decision only partially favored the American Insurance Company of Texas, which lost its authority to do business in Arkansas on May 1, 1967, on an order by state Insurance Commissioner John Norman Harkey. American Insurance had refused to pay premium taxes for its 1966 Arkansas premiums or for the premiums it collected in 1967 before its certificate was revoked. The Supreme Court said it had to pay those.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1994
■ The city of Little Rock, along with various civic and educational organizations, will sponsor a Healing Racism Seminar beginning at 8 a.m. at the Statehouse Conference Center. Nathan Rutstein, a nationally recognized authority on battling racism, will be the keynote speaker. After his presentation, a series of workshops will encourage a healing dialogue on race issues in our cities, schools and neighborhoods.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 2009
■ Two legislative panels voted Tuesday to study sex-based pay disparities throughout state government after an employee of a state Court of Appeals judge told lawmakers that there are salary disparities among the court’s administrative assistants and chamber clerks. The House and Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committees also voted to refer the matter to the Legislative Council’s personnel subcommittee, a task force studying funding for the judicial system, and the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. But the chief justice of Arkansas’ Supreme Court, Jim Hannah, said later that the attorney general’s office has reviewed these claims and found they have no merit.