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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1915

Wanted on a charge of having broken jail at Arkansas City, J. J. Williams, a white man, was arrested this morning at 111 East Eleventh street by Deputy Sheriffs Rison and Hawkins. A negro who broke jail, it is alleged at the same time as Williams, was caught at Monroe, La. Arkansas City officers have notified Sheriff Hutton’s office. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1965

The interstate highway system through Pulaski County, complete except for the Little Rock west bypass, which is presently under study, cost $71,573,344 and was divided into 70 different jobs. The Little Rock west bypass will cost $22,047,000 and will link Interstate 40 with Interstate 30 from a point between Morgan and Mayflower in north Pulaski county to the Benton Highway south of the Mabelvale interchange. It will be known as I430. 25 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1990

The number of Little Rock School District pupils riding taxicabs instead of school buses has reached a high of 196 — 16 more than at the beginning of the school year. The Pulaski County Special School District, which had been transporting two pupils by taxicabs when school began, now has them riding school buses. The North Little Rock School District does not use taxicabs to send pupils to or from school. District officials say they use taxicabs when they cannot reroute a school bus or when transporting by cab is cheaper than by bus. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 2005 CAVE CITY — Police Chief Vernon Gann was watching the Oprah Winfrey Show while recuperating from an on-the-job injury last month when the idea hit him. He needed new bullet-resistant police vests to replace the 20-year-old protective garments his eight officers and he wore, but the city’s funds were low and his department could not afford them. Why not ask the public for help, he thought, while resting his back, which he re-injured in September during a scuffle with a prisoner. “I thought we’d give it a try,” Gann said in an interview at the police station Tuesday. “It went well.” Gann advertised in a local newspaper and sought donations directly from businesses who might be interested in buying a $280 vest. He called his promotion the “Sponsor an Officer” program and handed out certificates, each with an officer’s name, to the business or individual who donated.