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— 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1912

This is the Gazette’s ninety-third birthday. On Saturday, November 20, 1819, William E. Woodruff published at the Post of Arkansas the first issue of “The Arkansas Gazette.” At first it was a weekly newspaper. It has been published regularly since that date, with the exception of about a month while the office was being moved to Little Rock, the new territorial capital, in 1821 and for a short time during the war.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1962

It will be the first of the year before Independence County can put into effect a food stamp plan for indigent persons, as announced yesterday by Gov. Faubus. For many weeks the governor and the State Welfare Department have been mulling over the trial plan to take the place of the present surplus food commodity program in which the needy persons are given outright handouts of certain items. The governor said yesterday that the plan will be given a trial in Independence County.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1987

Memorial Hospital in North Little Rock will prohibit employees, physicians and visitors from smoking in the building effective Jan. 1, 1988, the hospital announced Thursday. Patients will be allowed to smoke only in restricted, supervised areas. Memorial apparently is the first acute care hospital in the metropolitan area to implement such a ban. To symbolize the prohibition, a giant cigarette was broken in half at the hospital’s entrance Thursday.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 2002

Jobs will be cut and 160 beds in the Pulaski County jail will be eliminated by Jan. 1 because the county doesn’t have enough money to keep it operating at its current level, Sheriff Randy Johnson said Tuesday. Quorum Court members are pushing to slash 20 percent from annual operating budgets of all county departments for 2003 to keep the county afloat. To meet the mandate, Johnson said the North Little Rock intake office that used to book those arrested in the northern half of the county will be shut down. Beds in the oldest section of the jail will be closed, and 23 sheriff’s deputy and detention officer jobs will be cut.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 11/20/2012

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