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100 YEARS AGO April 3, 1917

■ Alderman Aaron Frank, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, asked the City Council last night for further time for the consideration of the occupation tax ordinance that those affected may be heard. The request was granted. Mr. Frank announced that the committee will hold a public hearing at the city hall this afternoon and Wednesday and Thursday afternoons at 3 o’clock. An ordinance providing for a more efficient censoring of the exhibitions by motion picture, vaudeville and other theaters and other amusement exhibitions, for censoring of advertising of such exhibitions and for pictures publicly displayed, was introduced by the Police Committee.

50 YEARS AGO April 3, 1967

■ Buel Ray Wortham will arrive at Little Rock sometime Tuesday, according to his mother. Wortham, a former Army officer who was convicted in a Russian court of exchanging American currency on the black market and of stealing a bronze statuette of a bear from a Leningrad hotel, arrived at New York Saturday. He had been sentenced to a three-year term in a labor camp but the sentence was replaced with a $5,555.55 fine on appeal.

25 YEARS AGO April 3, 1992

■ State and federal officials told the Jacksonville City Council on Thursday they will not conduct another trial burn at an incinerator in the city to prove it can burn dioxin-contaminated wastes. Allyn M. Davis of the federal Environmental Protection Agency told aldermen that in the past when EPA officials told residents they would destroy 99.9999 percent of dioxin-contaminated wastes in the incinerator, they meant they would prove the incinerator was capable of doing that in a trial burn. At issue is the hazardous waste incinerator at the now defunct Vertac Chemical Corp. plant site in the city.

10 YEARS AGO April 3, 2007

■ A high-ranking correctional officer was fired and another was demoted after enough pepper spray to flatten an entire 60-man barracks was shot into individual cells at the Varner Supermax Unit, the state’s highest-security prison, officials confirmed Monday. In another incident, a lieutenant was fired after entering a Supermax cell by himself, violating prison rules. After the lieutenant left, the inmate had a bruised cheek, which he said was from being assaulted by the officer.