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LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1912

Plans for immediate legislation for child welfare in Arkansas were discussed at a luncheon at the Hotel Marion yesterday in honor of Owen Lovejoy, secretary of the Child Labor Committee, who delivered a lecture on child labor last night. The general opinion seemed to be that preventive legislation should be made before there is any great demand for child protection.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1962 JASPER - Newton County Clerk Howard Norton said the County Election Commission has certified the vote for state representative in the general election and had not acted on the challenge of the Hastings Township ballot box. The box was challenged by Virgil Martin, who lost to Rep. W.D. Baker of Jasper by 23 votes. Martinmade the challenge after he found that someone other than election officials had brought the box to the Newton County Courthouse. Norton contended that this was common practice, saying that “some of the boys just went and got it.” 25 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1987

The state Departmentof Correction will remain critically overcrowded until at least the early 1990s, A.L. “Art” Lockhart, department director, said Friday. As a result, county and city correction facilities will continue to house hundreds of prisoners awaiting transfer to state prisons and will remain overcrowded themselves, he said. Lockhart, speaking at a Pulaski County Bar Association noon luncheon, said the state cannot “build its way out of the crisis” with the limited state revenues available.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 2002

A federal judge isn’t expected to decide for at least 45 days whether college students and others with university addresses in Clark County can legally be excluded from voting there. U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. heard arguments Wednesday on alawsuit filed just days before the Nov. 5 general election. The lawsuit challenged as unconstitutional an Oct. 22 ruling by Clark County Circuit Judge John A. Thomas ordering the county clerk to purge from voter rolls everyone other than university staff “listing as their address a university post office box, university dormitory, or other university owned student housing.”