LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1912
Women suffragists will meet at 3 o’clock this afternoon at the Board of Trade to perfect a state organization of the Progressive Suffrage League and to appoint a committee to call on Col. Theodore Roosevelt while he is in Little Rock tomorrow. All women who believe in equal suffrage have been invited to attend.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1962
The Pulaski County Grand Jury today said that, if “private clubs and organizations” were operated on a nonprofit basis, it felt that many of the law enforcement problems would be eliminated. In its final report to Circuit Judge William J. Kirby, the jury recommended that, since the legislature will convene at the first of the year,the laws should be studied and revised toward better control of such establishments.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1987
If Gov. Bill Clinton only could have seen what was happening at his very own news conference Wednesday. “Governor, pardon me just a minute. We have a little hilarity going on here,” Mike Gauldin,Clinton’s press secretary, told him shortly after the governor started speaking to reporters by phone from Florence, Italy. Just as Clinton began discussing economic development issues, Guy Reel, a reporter for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, held up a picture of the governor featuring a movable mouth. In much the same manner that a ventriloquist uses a dummy, Reel started moving the mouth in the picture as Clinton was speaking. As the group of about 10 reporters and a half dozen Clinton aides started laughing, Gauldin stepped up to a microphone to tell Clinton what was going on. Clinton, who could be heard laughing at the other end, responded. “This is what I get for being accessible.”
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 2002
CONWAY - Hendrix College President J. Timothy Cloyd announced a plan Monday to cut more than $1 million in expenses during the current academic year. He said the college would reduce the nonteaching staff, primarily through early retirement and voluntary severance. If necessary, he said, the college would lay people off, but he said the faculty will lose no positions.
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