LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1911 HOT SPRINGS - Attorney James L. Graham handed the political leaders a surprise today when he issued a statement to the effect that, if elected mayor, he would endeavor to have enacted in the General Assembly a law licensing gambling houses and permitting horse racing 60 days in the year “under regulation by a commission in conjunction with the state fair.” He claims that he has been assured by many members that such a bill could be passed. He is opposed to gambling, as it has existed recently in this city, but claims that by licensing the gambling houses the city would derive much benefit from such revenue.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1961 WALDRON - An epidemic of infectious hepatitis - a liver disease - was reported today in the Boles community near here. The disease has shown a marked increase over the state. Scott County health authorities here said at least 12 cases of hepatitis had been reported in the area of Boles, a communityof about 40 residents. Some other cases have gone unreported, they said.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1986
The Pulaski County Special School Board on Monday adopted an alternative to the Little Rock and Pulaski County school district boundary changes that were ordered Nov. 7 by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. The board’s alternative would give the Robinson area on Arkansas 10 to the Little Rock district but would obtain everything east of Interstate 30 for the county.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 2001 FAYETTEVILLE - As construction continues on the expansion of Razorback Stadium, athletic officials have been briskly selling seats - the ones that have yet to be built and the existing ones. “We have 3,500 names on a waiting list to buy tickets,” Athletic Director Frank Broyles said Friday. Another 20 names are on a list for spots in the luxury skyboxes, which will seat 2,000 people in the newly expanded stadium, now known as the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 02/18/2011