LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1909
The committee appointed at the recent meeting of the State Charity Board to prepare a plan for the segregation and proper housing and caring for the tuberculosis patients in the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases will submit its report at the next meeting of the board. The committee is composed of Dr. E.R. Dibrell, State Treasurer Yates and Secretary Hart. Several meetings have been held lately and at its latest session the committee decided that an additional building should be constructed in which to house the tuberculosis patients.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1959
Appointment of key personnel to conduct the 1960 March of Dimes campaign in Pulaski County has been completed by community campaign chairmen. The March of Dimes, which provides funds to help pay for medical and treatment expenses of Pulaski County polio victims, will begin January 2 and continue through January 31.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1984
With approximately 3,000 bank teller positions available in the central Arkansas area, local banks are finding it hard to find enough trained tellers. “There is an acute shortage of bank tellers in this area,” Lenore Newman, placement coordinator for the Central Arkansas Area Agency on Aging Inc., said. But help is on the way, through a joint venture of the agency on aging, the National Bank of Arkansas and the First Commercial Bank of Little Rock. These institutions have joined together to train adults 55 and over for bank teller positions.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1999
Inmates and correctional officers who smoke will be going cold turkey on Jan. 17 - the day on which cigarettes and all other tobacco will become contraband in Arkansas prisons. It’s difficult to tell at this point who is dreading the tobacco ban more - the inmates or prison staff.
Arkansas, Pages 14 on 12/26/2009