100 YEARS AGO April 23, 1913
Recently arrived German immigrants in Arkansas have brought information that the Imperial Information Bureau at Berlin is supplying intending emigrants with false statements and misleading information concerning Arkansas. These have been contradicted by relatives and friends in this state. The statements cited refer to Arkansas as being unhealthy, especially the flat district, which it is said should be avoided by Germans on account of malarial fever.
50 YEARS AGO April 23, 1963
Arkansas law is supposed to prohibit the teaching of evolution in any school or college supported by public funds. The recent controversy stirred up in Memphis has given rise to questions on what the Arkansas law actually says in regard to evolution. The law, as quoted in a State Department of Education compilation of state school laws says: “It shall be unlawful for any teacher or other instructor in any university, college, normal, public school or other institution of the state, which is supported in whole or in part from public funds derived by state and local taxation, to teach the theory or doctrine that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals.” The law was passed at the 1928 general election as an initiated act. The last attempt to repeal the 1928 initiated act in Arkansas was made in 1959 when a bill was introduced in the House to do away with the ban on teaching evolution. The bill, one sentence in length, aroused such a controversy that its author withdrew it.
25 YEARS AGO April 23, 1988 PRESCOTT - The Prescott Fire Department will no longer answer calls outside this Nevada County city unless called by other departments for assistance.The city department also will charge a minimum of $250 per call outside the city. The Prescott City Council agreed to the changes after being told other fire departments resented the Prescott department’s presence at fires.
10 YEARS AGO April 23, 2003
A federal judge Tuesday ordered copies from the Harry Potter series returned to an Arkansas school district’s library shelves after rejecting a school board’s claim that tales of wizards and spells would harm schoolchildren. The Cedarville School District last year removed the books from general circulation, so students had to get parental permission to check them out. No immediate comment came from the school district.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 04/23/2013