100 YEARS AGO April 30, 1913
If Miss Eva Reichardt, supervisor of school improvement in Arkansas, were compelled to live in the White House at Washington, she would ask Congress for the treasurer, or the person who spends Uncle Sam’s money, to throw out much of the shabby furniture and replace it with better looking things. Failing in that she at least would ask for new carpets and fresh upholstering for the furniture. Miss Reichardt just has returned from Washington with Miss Julia Taylor Houston of Pine Bluff, with whom she went to the capital city at the close of the Conference for Education in the South.She met President Wilson and members of his family and does not think it fair that so charming a family should be required to live in the midst of such shabby appointments.
50 YEARS AGO April 30, 1963
The Little Rock School Board will designate three representatives to meet with three from the Citizens Traffic Safety Commission to try to work out staffing of 16 school crossings with safety patrols during school opening and closing hours. City officials have said 16 patrolmen are taken out out of circulation at times when they are needed in other traffic centers for this duty. But board members have contended that the city collects taxes and has the obligation to furnish traffic patrolmen for school crossings while the school district’s obligation is in the realm of instruction, not traffic duty.
25 YEARS AGO April 30, 1988
Backed by a survey showing 57 percent of Arkansas’ high school students were sexually active, state Health Director Joycelyn Elders called Friday for contraception counseling and sex education beginning in kindergarten. Speaking to a subcommittee of Gov. Bill Clinton’s Commission on Arkansas’ Future, Dr. Elders also called for school-based health clinics to provide information and easy access to contraception.
10 YEARS AGO April 30, 2003
Bayer and Glaxo Smith-Kline have agreed to pay Arkansas more than $1 million to resolve allegations that they overcharged Medicaid, state Attorney General Mike Beebe said Tuesday. Beebe’s office said Bayer is paying Arkansas $802,195 in criminal penalties for alleged overcharges involving the antibiotic Cipro and the high blood pressure medicine Adalat. Glaxo will pay the state a civil fine of $336,323 for overcharges with the anti-depressant Paxil and nasal allergy spray Flonase.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 04/30/2013