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100 YEARS AGO June 30, 1913 CONWAY - Alleging his wife deserted him because she did not want to live in so small a town as Conway, where he had a home, and that she did not like her neighbors, Duff Jones Saturday filed suit in Faulkner Chancery Court for a divorce from Margaret Jones. He further alleges she left him, telling him he could go his way and she would go hers.

50 YEARS AGO June 30, 1963

Tomorrow is the official birthday of ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan), a nationwide zone system to improve and speed mail delivery. Each post office box and mailbox in the United States will receive a notice tomorrow giving the delivery area code number.Roy L. Sharpe, Little Rock postmaster, called ZIP code a long-range plan. “ZIP is designed,” he stated, “to enable large business firms using automatic data processing equipment to make their own separations into various delivery units.” 25 YEARS AGO June 30, 1988

A proposal to certify those without education degrees as teachers was revised slightly Wednesday by a state Board of Education committee. Nancy Wood, a board member and certification committee chairman, said the proposed requirements including a 3.0 grade point average in the major field of study - make the requirements more stringent than those demanded of teachers who graduate from education programs. The proposal is opposed by the Arkansas Education Association. During a public hearing conducted before the committee meeting, Little Rock School District teacher Barbara Levin said the executive board of the Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association is unanimous in its opposition and would be unwilling to offer support or encouragement to those who are alternatively certified.

10 YEARS AGO June 30, 2003

Arkansas and other states have been hit with revenue shortfalls, but Medicaid, the government program that funds medical care for low-income people, is escalating. The Arkansas program is expected to cost $3.1 billion by 2005, double 1999 levels. Over the same period, the Bush administration predicts state and federal Medicaid dollars in the country to increase by 82 percent to $345.8 billion. Growth has been spurred by rising drug costs, the development of expensive new services thanks to medical breakthroughs, the adoption by the state of services not required by the federal government, and more people qualifying for Medicaid.