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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1913

That the spelling of proper names has been simplified to some extent at least was the opinion expressed by Will Horowitz, deputy in the office of Circuit Clerk Dan D. Quinn, yesterday, when he found the record of bill of sale transferring Pulaski county realty from William A. Counts to Joseph Ottenbanbengrapensteinershanbenbicker. The entry was made on May 15, 1869.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1963

The Arkansas Commerce Commission today granted the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company’s request for authority to discontinue passenger train service between Little Rock and Hot Springs. The commission’s order, affecting trains numbered 37 and 38, will become effective upon completion of the last scheduled runs on Jan. 20. MoPac petitioned the commission Nov. 12 for authority to cease operation of the two passenger trains. In its petition MoPac said the trains operated between Little Rock and Hot Springs at a loss of $78,338 in 1962.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 1988

RUSSELLVILLE - About 5,500 gallons of radioactive water leaked from Arkansas Nuclear One into a containment building Saturday, creating the third low-level emergency at the Arkansas Power & Light Co. nuclear power plant since August. There were no injuries but AP&L spokesman Jerol Garrison said two maintenance workers got “slightly radioactive water” on their skin. “But they just showered with soap and water. That’s standard procedure. They didn’t require any treatment,” he said. In a statement issued Saturday, Jim Levine, AP&L’s executive director of nuclear operations said the water from the leak in a faulty valve in the plant’s Unit 1 was drained into a sump at the bottom of the unit’s containment building and from there into a storage tank.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 18, 2003

In what he called an end to a “bitter, harsh, sometimes unfriendly conflict,” Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced Wednesday that Oklahoma has agreed to allow Arkansas at least 10 years to implement stricter environmental standards on the Illinois River. For its part, Arkansas will spend the next decade limiting poultry litter in the river’s Northwest Arkansas watershed and cleaning up sewage discharge from the region’s growing cities. He said the state will also work to study whether its effort to reduce the river’s level of phosphorus is working and whether the limits Oklahoma has proposed are scientifically sound.