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100 YEARS AGO

Feb. 3, 1920

■ Cases of influenza in Little Rock are maintaining an average of 25 each day, according to Dr. John Thames, city health officer. Since Saturday noon 53 cases have been reported, also two deaths from pneumonia, but in neither case could the disease be attributed to influenza. One case was a person 75 years old, who had no record of influenza; the other a child of 14 months, who also had no influenza record. On investigation it has been found by the City Health Department that nearly every local general practitioner is reporting all cases, no matter how mild.

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 3, 1970

TEXARKANA —Dr. Mitchell Young of Texarkana, national president of Freedom, Inc., said Monday that he has called upon members of his organization in 25 states to ask their governors to attend a conference to discuss federal school desegregation. Freedom, Inc., advocates the freedom-of-choice method of desegregation and opposes the busing of children to achieve racial balance in schools.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 3, 1995

■ A loose coalition of freshmen and veteran senators continued Thursday to voice concern about Gov. Jim Guy Tucker’s school funding plan. The opponents fear the governor’s delay in introducing his plan is paving the way for passage. They claim that by the time other spending bills have passed, no money will be left to finance an alternative school funding proposal. Veteran senators opposed to Tucker had enlisted the support of the Senate’s seven-member freshman class to keep the 35-member body from getting the required 27 votes to pass spending bills. But no showdowns occurred Thursday over appropriations.

10 YEARS AGO

Feb. 3, 2010

■ Attorneys for the North Little Rock School District and the Joshua intervenors who represent black students presented conflicting views Tuesday about the district’s compliance with the special education provisions of its desegregation plan. U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller is presiding in the court hearing to decide whether the North Little Rock district has complied with long-standing desegregation obligations and can be declared unitary and dismissed from any further federal court supervision. The 9,660-student district is currently subject to federal court monitoring of its student disciplinary practices, compensatory education programs, student extracurricular activities, the condition of school campuses and the special-education program.