LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1912 WASHINGTON - Secretary of War Stimson has recommended to Congress the abandonment of Fort Logan H. Roots near Little Rock. Secretary Stimson’s recommendation is not the first Congress has received from him and from his predecessors concerning this and other small army posts. The government’s policy is to concentrate troops at a few brigade posts, rather than at many small regimental posts similar to Fort Logan H. Roots.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1962

Gov. Faubus confirmed today that some members of the legislature have discussed with him the possibility of increasing the state gasoline tax by one cent a gallon “but I only listened.” The governor said the legislators did not seek his support for such an increase but only discussed it with him. The subject came up at his press conference when he assured reporters that a $3 million increase in highway funds for counties “doesn’t mean a thing unless the distribution formula is changed.”25 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1987

Head Start records, including some from this year, were found Thursday in a trash dumpster outside the offices of the Urban League of Arkansas Inc. by Arkansas Democrat reporters. Discovery of the discarded records came two days after the newspaper repeated a request under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act to review Pulaski County Head Start records. The records found in the dumpster Thursday covered a period beginning in 1980 and concluding this year.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 2002

Airline passengers flying out of Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, will no longer have to worry about leaving behind the pocketknives and other sharp objects that don’t make it past passenger screeners. They can just drop it in the mail. The Little Rock airport has adopted a “mail-back” program that has proved popular at other airports. For $2, passengers can drop the prohibited item in an envelope and fill out the address where they want the item mailed, and airport officials will take care of the rest.

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