100 YEARS AGO April 22, 1913
Thursday, April 24, will be generally observed throughout the city as cleanup day and for that occasion only the street and garbage department will haul, free of charge, tin cans, rubbish, ashes and like refuse. For that purpose ten carts, two trash wagons and nine two-horse wagons will be placed in service by the department. The object of the annual crusade is to prevent the propagation of flies and mosquitoes as far as possible and the city garbage department expects to put in a busy day.
50 YEARS AGO April 22, 1963
Motorists traveling Highway 65 south from Little Rock were asked to “try to find a little compassion in their hearts” for the truckers who are hauling rock there. Criticism because of hazardous driving conditions created by the trucks has come from Arkansas Automobile Association and numerous motorists. According to complaints to AAA, rock is falling off the trucks, they are moving at unsafe speeds and are following one another too closely. AAA has said it might contact national AAA headquarters and recommend that motorists be advised to avoid that section of Arkansas highways.
25 YEARS AGO April 22, 1988
Mandatory eye tests for applicants seeking Arkansas drivers licenses may be proposed to the Legislature in 1989. Members of the Highway Safety Advisory Council considered the proposal Thursday as part of the group’s package of would-be laws it will ask Gov. Bill Clinton to endorse. Jim Clark, director of the Arkansas Transportation Safety Agency and a member of the council, said screening driving applicants for poor vision may increase the costs of issuing licenses, but doubted the costs would be prohibitive.
10 YEARS AGO April 22, 2003
FAYETTEVILLE - The Washington Regional Medical Center program that treats its sickest newborns now has a formal agreement to share resources, training and staff with Arkansas Children’s Hospital. An agreement announced Tuesday makes Washington Regional’s neonatal intensive care unit a satellite of the Little Rock-based Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Gregory Franklin, Washington Regional’s neonatologist, said the arrangement makes it easier for the hospital to transfer babies to Children’s Hospital for care.
Arkansas, Pages 8 on 04/22/2013