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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1919

■ City Collector Lawson said last night that in order to give people every opportunity to pay their privilege tax before the time limit expires and penalty is attached it had been decided to keep the office open this afternoon . The time limit for paying the tax was extended to November 20 and Monday is the last day payments will be accepted without penalty. Many checks have been received with no mention of the kind of business engaged in Mr. Lawson said. Such checks will have to be returned to the senders, who must furnish information as to what kind of business they are engaged in before they can be classified and receipts mailed.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1969

TEXARKANA—State Representative Hayes McClerkin of Texarkana, speaker of the Arkansas House, said Friday he was “seriously considering” whether to run for governor next year. “As far as I am concerned it is a real challenge,” McClerkin said in reference to the possibility of being a candidate for the Democratic nomination. McClerkin has been busy making speeches around the state, and Governor Rockefeller has said that McClerkin was acting like a candidate.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1994

■ Pine Bluff received one of five 1994 City Livability Awards in a ceremony Monday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. The award, given jointly by Waste Management Inc. and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, honors mayors and city leaders who improve the quality of life for residents, said project director Kay Scrimger. “Livability” is the quality that brings enjoyment and the desire to live and work in a city, she said. Pine Bluff was chosen because of the public-private cooperation in its environmental projects through the Pine Bluff Clean and Beautiful Commission, Scrimger said. Some of the projects she mentioned included the city’s Adopt-a-Median program and the Daffodil Project, in which residents planted nearly 35,000 of the flowering bulbs.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 2009

■ Heavy rains washed out some of the more unsavory characters’ desire to fight, steal and break into cars at the Arkansas State Fair, fair and police spokesmen said. But the weather made parking, a perennial concern, a muddy mess at times. Through the first days of the fair, which started Oct. 9 and ends today, when the weather was the worst, Little Rock police received fewer calls than they had in previous years largely because fewer people attended, said Lt. Terry Hastings of the Little Rock Police Department. … Through Wednesday fair attendance was down 31 percent compared with the first six days of the fair in 2008, which saw record attendance.