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100 YEARS AGO July 21, 1915

HOT SPRINGS — The Business Men’s League tonight played basketball with the question of holding another state fair here, with the result that when the session adjourned the question was as undecided as when the directors of the state fair requested, a few days ago, that the league give some official expression on this subject. The meeting tonight developed a two hours’ debate on the question, pro and con. Incidentally it was suggested that if Little Rock really wanted the state fair and would raise the money to pay state fair notes still outstanding, there would not be much difficulty in solving the question.

50 YEARS AGO July 21, 1965

Utility service was cut off in two Arkansas towns Tuesday in unrelated incidents. At Clarendon, gas service was shut off to an eight-block residential area and two industrial plants when a hose broke as Monroe County Zero Gas Company was unloading a railroad tank car of butane gas. At Sheridan, lightning struck a mobile electrical transformer at the Arkansas Power and Light Company substation here and cut off electric power to 2,600 customers from 2:55 p.m. until 5:37 p.m.

25 YEARS AGO July 21, 1990

About a third of the Pulaski County Special School District’s elementary schools will have new principals this fall after seven swap jobs and one loses his. That eight of 23 schools will have new principals is unusual, said Sarah Womble, the district’s director of elementary education. “This is the first time we’ve moved that many in three or four years,” she said.

10 YEARS AGO July 21, 2005

An attorney representing First Baptist Church of Springdale said the IRS will dismiss a complaint that accused the church’s popular pastor, the Rev. Ronnie Floyd, of using his pulpit to endorse President Bush’s reelection last year. Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel and the church’s attorney in the matter, said in an interview that First Baptist hasn’t received written notice yet but that IRS officials have told him the agency will dismiss the complaint, which was filed last year by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The Washington-based organization, which calls itself “a religious liberty watchdog group,” wrote a letter to the IRS in July 2004 saying that the church violated a tax rule when Floyd outlined the political stances of the presidential candidates.