LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 10, 1912
Legislation providing for electrocution of prisoners to be executed hereafter in Arkansas was urged yesterday by the Sheriffs’ Association of Arkansas, which held its semi-annual convention in the First Division Circuit Courtroom at the Pulaski county courthouse. A bill providing for capital punishment by electrocution is being prepared by Representative elect Earl Kidder of Pulaski county.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 10, 1962
A strong appeal to “mail early” was made by Little Rock Postmaster C. E. McSwain who noted today that the rate of holiday mailing was surprisingly slow. “We in the postal department have a singular dedicated purpose in our work - and that is the most satisfactory service to our patrons,” he said. McSwain said that every facility of the Little Rock and North Little Rock Post Offices have been expanded to tender maximum service to take care of a record Christmas mail.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 10, 1987
The Pulaski County Head Start program will be placed with another agency next September despite objections from the program’s current sponsor, federal officials said Wednesday. Tommy Sullivan, regional program director in the federal Department of Health and Human Services in Dallas, said the $1.4 million Head Start grant of the Urban League of Arkansas Inc. will be terminated in August. The Urban League sponsors the Head Start program for 700 disadvantaged preschool children in 17 centers in Pulaski County.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 10, 2002
Residents and utility companies in northeast Arkansas were still coping Monday with last week’s ice storm. "The storm really destroyed the timber up here," Clay County Judge Gary Howell said. "The pecan groves are wiped out. It’s the worst storm we’ve had in years." Howell said he is working with state officials to get the county declared a federal disaster area to qualify it for aid to clean up the debris. "I’m going to estimate that it’s going to cost about $1 million to clean up the debris from this storm," Howell said.
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