LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1912

When more than 15 candidates were inducted into the Delta Phi legal fraternity of the Law Department of the University of Arkansas last night, the candidates were surprised by being taken in a wagon to police headquarters and told by the older members they had been arrested for disturbing the peace. Considerable noise had been made by the fraternity men in initiating the candidates and many of them believed they really were under arrest. They were released, however, by their tormentors when they arrived at headquarters.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1962

The U.S. Army Corps of engineers has verified there are 135,389 shelter spaces in Little Rock offering a protective factor against nuclear fallout. This information was supplied to City Civil Defense Director William A. Price, who said the spaces were in existing public and private buildings. Most of the spaces are in downtown structures.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1987

Nude Beer has raised eyebrows and blood pressures in 22 states, but can’t be purchased in Arkansas because the labels “induce” purchases with bikini-clad, scratch-and-strip models. The distributor of the Mexican-made beer, Cibco Importing Co. of The Woodlands, Texas, was denied permission by the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division to register its eyeopening labels earlier this year.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 2002

Twenty-six Arkansas superintendents will get letters today saying they must offer students in at least one of their districts’ schools the option of enrolling elsewhere - and that they must pay to get the students there. In all, 47 schools are tentatively identified by the state Department of Education as being in need of improvement on the basis of 1998-99 or 1999-2000 Stanford Achievement Test results. Students in those schools are eligible to either transfer beginning next semester to other schools or get tutoring from an outside source - all at school district expense.

Arkansas, Pages 8 on 10/15/2012