100 YEARS AGO May 13, 1913

With the opening of “baby clinic week,” Wednesday, May 21, to continue until the following Tuesday, then the inauguration of a weekly clinic to continue throughout the summer, Little Rock will have established through the efforts of the Arkansas State Board of Health and the United Charities Association of Pulaski County, perhaps the most important institution to promote public health that ever has been opened here. The movement, which is the first organized effort to reduce infant mortality in this community, has for patronesses many of the leading women of the city.

50 YEARS AGO May 13, 1963 WASHINGTON - Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas has urged Congress to support a general federal aid to education program and to stop piecemeal aid to education. Fulbright said Saturday that it is a tragedy that the House blocked action in 1948 to a general education aid bill sponsored by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, which had been passed by the Senate. The former president of the University of Arkansas and Rhodes Scholar said past efforts have run into blocks in the House based on racial integration, aid to parochial schools and the federal control issue.

25 YEARS AGO May 13, 1988

The technological blessing that’s given hundreds of infertile couples babies after years of failure with other methods has come to Arkansas. University Hospital in Little Rock, in conjunction with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, announced the state’s first in vitro fertilization program Thursday. Dr. Steve London, director of the new program, hopes it will serve about 100 couples in Arkansas in its first year.

10 YEARS AGO May 13, 2003 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. District Court Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered probation Monday for two former Tyson Foods managers who assisted the government in its failed immigration prosecution of the world’s largest meat producer. Spencer Mabe, 52, and Truley Ponder, 59, each received one year of probation and a fine. The pair provided prosecutors with information and testified at the six-week trial that Tyson Foods Inc. and some of its key managers recruited and hired illegal immigrants as workers. The company maintained that there was no corporate wrongdoing and the two managers acted on their own in violation of company policy.

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