LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 21, 1911
Mayor W.R. Duley was granted an indefinite leave of absence. Alderman John S. Odom was elected acting mayor and the ordinance passed allowing the Rock Island Railway Company the right to build a freight depot at Third and Byrd streets, after which the council, which met last night, spent most of the remainder of a two-hour session in historical arguing of the merits and demerits of the rails being used by the Little Rock Railway and Electric Company.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 21, 1961
In his address to the legislature today, Gov. Faubus came out vociferously in favor of his 5-5 plan for the teacher retirement system and took a roundhouse swing at the Arkansas Education Association, which is proposing that the state contribute twice as much money to the program as the governor wants. The chief executive outlined a host of deductions he said are being taken from the “teachers’ money” and said “you teachers are going to be ruined if you get muchmore of this kind of help.” 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 21, 1986
Gov. Bill Clinton on Thursday said he didn’t understand what criteria the Arkansas Education Association used to rank the average salary for classroom teachers in Arkansas 49th in the nation, and he did not believe that it was accurate. The ranking was contained in a press release from the AEA, a teacher lobby with more than 17,000 members that has been at odds with Clinton for his support of teacher testing.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 21, 2001
When it comes to tobacco, Arkansas still rates as one of the country’s unhealthiest states, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Natural State ranks near the top of the country in smoking-related deaths. It is fourth in the country for lung cancer deaths. More than a quarter of adult Arkansans smoke cigarettes and nearly half of all high school boys in the state use tobacco products, according to the CDC report.
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