100 YEARS AGO May 31, 1913
The state’s official ghost will stalk throughout the marble corridors of the new state capitol today on his regular monthly visit, but once more there will be only a few officials and employees who will receive real money as a compensation for their May labors. Although the big vault in the treasury department contains the tidy sum of more than $250,000, none of it is credited to the general revenue fund, from which salaries are paid. Another month must pass before the golden flood begins to pour in from the 75 counties of Arkansas and then salaries again will be paid with regularity.
50 YEARS AGO May 31, 1963
A five-digit number will be added to the mailing address of everyone in the United States on July 1, and post office patrons will be asked to use these addresses on all mail. The system is called a ZIP code, for Zone Improvement Programs, and postal carriers will distribute notices to all persons on their delivery routes concerning the new system. The purpose of the program is to speed mail handling and mail delivery, Little Rock Postmaster Roy L. Sharpe said yesterday.
25 YEARS AGO May 31, 1988
Many children in the North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts took a holiday Monday, even though that day was set aside for a snow makeup day, district spokesmen said. High numbers of pupils stayed away from class in Pulaski County, where spokesman Linda Stribling said Memorial Day attendance, in a word, was “bad.” At College Station Elementary, 87 percent stayed away from class. At Fuller Junior High, 75 percent were absent. Mills High School saw 71 percent absenteeism. A similar random sampling of schools in North Little Rock showed attendance “varied greatly from school to school,” Scharmel Bolling, district spokesman, said.
10 YEARS AGO May 31, 2003
FORT SMITH - Eleven public school districts sued the state Department of Education on Friday to stop it from transferring $3.96 million from the student equalization fund to pay off debt from a Pulaski County desegregation case. The Fort Smith School Board voted Tuesday to sue the state based on a 1990 court decision that the district’s attorney says set a precedent that state aid cannot be used to pay fees associated with the 20-year-old desegregation suit involving Pulaski County, Little Rock and North Little Rock school districts.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 05/31/2013