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100 YEARS AGO March 5, 1921

■ A vote of confidence in the Good Roads Bureau of the Board of Commerce, and in the bureau’s program for solving the county’s road program through the proposed district consolidation bill was given at a meeting at the Board of Commerce building last night. Forty members present voted to adopt the resolution of confidence. Six opposed its adoption, one was not a member. The other opponents were Justin Matthews, J. P. Faucette, A. M. Lund, P. B. Hill and W. P. Holt, all of whom have been connected with road work in existing road districts in the county.

50 YEARS AGO March 5, 1971

■ The General Assembly referred to the voters Thursday the question of whether to lower the voting age to 18 for state and local elections. It was the first proposed constitutional amendment to clear both houses of the legislature, automatically making it one of the three referred amendments that will appear on the general election ballot in 1972. The Senate approved the measure (HJR 1) 31 to 0. The Senate also approved for the ballot the omnibus legislative reform amendment (HJR 11) and a proposal (SJR 4) to give constitutional officers fouryear terms, raise their salaries and bar governors from succeeding themselves.

25 YEARS AGO March 5, 1996

■ Taxpayers spent $625,256 for the January special election in which Gov. Jim Guy Tucker’s highway bond program failed. Almost 380,000 people participated in the election. Eighty-six percent rejected the plan, which relied on higher taxes to pay off a bond issue to improve roads. The state Board of Election Commissioners approved the final cost in a meeting Monday. The expenses submitted by each county included those for ballot printing, poll workers and voting machine setup. The Jan. 9 highway election marked Tucker’s second failure at the polls in two months.

10 YEARS AGO March 5, 2011

NEWPORT — Arkansas State University trustees approved raising admission standards for the Jonesboro campus Friday, saying they wanted to be more selective in who they admitted. But some academically unprepared students can still get in if they successfully complete a special program. The board of trustees voted unanimously without discussion on the measure during a meeting at ASU-Newport. ASU students admitted in the fall semester of 2021 must have minimum high school grade-point averages of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale and composite ACT college entrance test scores of at least 21 for unconditional admission.