100 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1913◊Mayor Charles E. Taylor has received from Mayor Henry A. Read of Fort Smith, a new traffic ordinance recently passed by the City Council of that city. Mayor Read was in Little Rock two weeks ago when he met the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa., and in company with Mayor Taylor discussed the proposed ordinance for his city. At the time of his visit here Mayor Read expressed much admiration at the traffic rules and regulations of this city. Of chief interest to the Fort Smith ordinance is a section requiring all automobiles to turn and back up to the curbing at an angle of 45 degrees, in order that traffic may not be hindered when a car owner wishes to drive his machine from the walk.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1963◊Eighteen Titan II missiles - each armed with more destructive power than man has unleashed altogether since his first war in the dawn of history - are today ready and waiting in Arkansas. The fact was announced today in a press conference at Little Rock Air Force base before ceremonial transference of authority for the missiles from Air Force Systems Command to the 308th Strategic Wing.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1988 FAYETTEVILLE - Fayetteville began dumping treated waste water into the Illinois River on Thursday, marking an Arkansas victory and an Oklahoma defeat in a two-state water war. The dumping of the treated waste water from the sewage plant began with the turn of a valve at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, plant manager Gary Vaughn said. Arkansas has battled Oklahoma several years for the right to dump the effluent into the Illinois River, which flows through both states. Fayetteville began dumping half of the discharge into the White River, which feeds Beaver Lake in Arkansas. The other half of the effluent is being dumped into Mud Creek, which flows into Clear Creek, a tributary of the Illinois in Oklahoma.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 2003◊The Wrightsville City Council held off Monday on plans to shutter its District Court to help balance a budget battered by the possible loss of revenue from a bankrupt power plant. By a unanimous vote, the City Council approved the $453,560 general fund budget for 2004. In recent years, the city has received a $120,000 payment from Mirant, a division of Atlanta-based Southern Co. But Mirant’s October bankruptcy has put those payments in jeopardy.
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