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100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 13, 1920

FORDYCE — Fordyce is right in the middle of a young war. On one side sits the local School Board, fortified by the rules and regulations, by-laws and precepts that give unto the School Board full and complete authority over the affairs of the city schools. The opposition includes all such of Fordyce’s younger citizenship which is within the school age. Also arrayed against the School Board is Superintendent Turrentine and it is said that youthful belligerents have a strong following of more mature citizens who do not hold membership on the board. The bone of contention, the casus belli, or what started the argument, is the great American pastime of football, with especial reference to the form and amount of the game indulged in by the Fordyce High School.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 13, 1970

■ Southwest Little Rock, including its fringes in Pulaski County, is probably developing faster than any part of the metropolitan area, but much of the growth has been chaotic. “Everything we have indicates that the southwest is the fastest growing area in Little Rock,” John S. Harrington, director of planning for Metroplan, said recently in an interview. The area — a conglomerate of low to moderate-cost housing, industrial and commercial sites, trailer parks, apartments and diminishing woodland — is a natural for growth.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 13, 1995

■ Storm-water drainage isn’t the kind of issue that generally excites people — except when it’s their back yards being flooded. But North Little Rock Alderman Dan Carter believes storm-water drainage requires a more “forward-looking,” longterm approach than the existing system, which he said is limited to “putting out fires.” Carter logged a victory for that vision Monday night. The City Council voted 5-0, with three abstentions, to approve a measure under which money collected from drainage impact and impervious surface fees will be spent along geographic lines, not political boundaries.

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 13, 2010

ARKADELPHIA — The six-year battle over renaming one of the main business streets in Arkadelphia is starting to reignite as the end of the year approaches and several new City Board members prepare to take office. Proponents of renaming Pine Street after civil-rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. have renewed their arguments in the past couple of weeks after the last vacant seat on the City Board was filled by appointment.