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100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 19, 1914

Extension of a fully adequate sewer system and big extensions of water mains with precautions for sanitation will be made immediately at Harrison, Ark., under the direction of the city council, following suggestions and recommendations made by Dr. Augustus C. Shipp of Little Rock of the department of bacteriology in the Arkansas University Medical School, who returned from Harrison Saturday night following an exhaustive investigation of a typhoid fever epidemic that has prevailed in Boone County for a year.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 19, 1964 FORDYCE — Fordyce Sesame Club opened the new club year with a fine arts tour. A group of members, with Mrs. James Garlington as leader, met in Little Rock for a tour of the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park. Dinner was served at the Lido Inn. Mrs. Cline Ellis gave the invocation. Hostesses, Mrs. J.A. Barton, Mrs. N. H. Haskins, Mrs. Jack Hearnsberger and Mrs. Howard Samuels, arranged the dinner meeting.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 19, 1989

Two students are being recommended for expulsion from the Little Rock School District for their involvement Oct. 11 in what was described by some as a racial riot at Central High School. Names of the two students and their infractions have not been released. Everett Hawks, principal of the school, through his secretary referred a reporter’s questions about the disciplinary actions to Becky Rather, the district’s acting communications director.

10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 19, 2004

A group promoting a proposed constitutional amendment to increase the number of terms that legislators may serve filed an ethics complaint Monday against a group opposing the proposal and raised questions about how the opposing group is financing a major ad campaign against the measure. Stacy Pittman of Little Rock, a consultant for Arkansans FOR Term Limits That Work, said in the complaint that Save Term Limits’ contributions and expenditures report for September with the Arkansas Ethics Commission was filed Monday, three days late, and didn’t provide required street addresses of contributors. She questioned how Save Term Limits can run television and radio advertisements since its campaign finance report shows it has raised only about $4,000.