LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Jan. 27, 1913

Two sample bricks were on Saturday afternoon sent out over the parcel post by the Arkansas Brick and Manufacturing Company. The bricks weighed between 4 and 10 pounds and it cost about 30 cents to ship them by the new postal service. The bricks are samples, and about 1,000 of them will be mailed out during the present week.

50 YEARS AGO Jan. 27, 1963

More eating establishments in Little Rock’s business areas are serving Negroes at lunch counters and dining facilities.The policy change, made without fanfare, came after such suggestions from the city’s religious and civic leaders. While many firms have participated in the move, which began some time ago, no incidents have been reported. Leaders followed the examples of Memphis and Atlanta in beginning the limited desegregation without public notice. Integration of eating facilities marked the third major racial step taken in Little Rock since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 school desegregation decision.

25 YEARS AGO Jan. 27, 1988

Just hours after the start of the special legislative session Tuesday, Gov. Bill Clinton said he had been warned his effort to impose a code of ethics on public officials and employees was doomed in the Senate. Clinton blamed Senate opposition to the measure on a handful of powerful industry lobbyists. He expressed hope the measure would survive and said he would seek a public referendum on the issue if it failed. “(If it) is dead before the start, fine, we’ll go for an initiated act,” Clinton said.

10 YEARS AGO Jan. 27, 2003 GURDON - Opposition continues piling up even though the possibility of opening a regional landfill in southern Clark County is five years or more away. Residents of Smithton envision a noisy, steady stream of garbage trucks disrupting their tranquil community, where children ride their bicycles along the road the trucks would use to access the site off U.S. 67. The community of 150 residents is about five miles north of Gurdon, where the City Council, concerned that leakage from a landfill could contaminate its water wells, passed a resolution against the proposed site last month.

Arkansas, Pages 16 on 01/27/2013