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— 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1909

The contempt case of Superintendent J.A. Pitcock, in which he was fined recently by the Pulaski County Chancery Court for disobeying the orders of the court in taking from the Arkansas Brick and Manufacturing Company certain convicts, whose removal was ordered by the Penitentiary Board, will be presented again to the Supreme Court tomorrow on a petition for a rehearing.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1959

The uneasy calm of recent weeks in the North Little Rock hospital architect dispute was broken yesterday with the filing of a suit in Pulaski Chancery Court.The suit, filed by Guy W. Swaim and William S. Allen of Swaim & Allen, architects, contends that the North Little Rock Hospital Commission was created illegally, hence its actions since it was created Jan. 13, 1958 are void. The upshot of the dispute was that in March 1957 the city council, by resolution, authorized a contract with Swaim & Allen as architects of the planned hospital.

25 YEARS AGOSept. 26, 1984

A debarment that prevented the St. Francis Material Co. of Forrest City from bidding on state Highway and Transportation Department supply contracts was lifted Tuesday by the Arkansas Highway Commission. The commission voted in June to prohibit the Ben M. Hogan Co. and five affiliates, including St. Francis Material, from bidding on state contracts or supplying other private contractors on state projects for three years after the Hogan firm was convicted in federal court of bid-rigging and mail fraud.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1999

Voter turnout that didn't even reach 2 percent in Little Rock's annual School Board election last week has prompted Little Rock New Party leaders to renew their long-standing call for moving school elections to November when people are used to voting for all other policymakers. Jim Lynch, co-chairman of the New Party, said last week that the September elections go virtually unnoticed by the public and that Little Rock School Board members, as a result, are unknown.

Arkansas, Pages 16 on 09/26/2009

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