100 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1913

HIGGINSON - “Doctor” Bruce of Griffithville was arrested here this morning by Constable Nuckles of Searcy as the former stepped from the southbound Iron Mountain train No. 29. The “doctor” is said to have visited his “patients” here for several Saturdays in succession. Officers were suspicious of the kind of “medicine” he furnished. When arrested, the universal panacea he carried in his suitcase consisted of 22 pint flasks of whiskey.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1963

State Highway Director Ward Goodman said that as soon as permanent signs are in place the E. 6th Street off-ramp from the Little Rock Freeway will function as it should. A Democrat photographer caught a picture of a truck turning hard right off the ramp and Goodman said “The traffic is not supposed to do that. It is supposed to blend onto the frontage road going south.” He agreed there might be some confusion until the signs are in place. But as a result of a story about it in the Democrat yesterday he had some of his workmen “checking” into it at the 6th Street ramp today.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1988

The state is spending more than four times as much per day on prison inmates as it is on public school students, figures released Monday show. And a nationally recognized expert on prison sentencing told legislators Monday that Arkansas could save itself a lot of money if it realized that not everybody it is putting in prison is a Willie Horton. “You’ve got to separate the Willie Hortons from the credit card offenders,” said Mark Corrigan, director of the National Center for Alternative Sentencing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. “You’re making the same investment in both.”

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 2003

FAYETTEVILLE - Despite protests from faculty at three campuses, the University of Arkansas board of trustees voted 7-3Friday to move appeals for the transfer of D grades from faculty to administrators. The issue pitted the wishes of University of Arkansas at Fayetteville athletics officials against those of faculty in the UA System, who historically have had a strong say in academic standards issues. The change in the D rule will affect the UA System’s five four-year campuses: Fayetteville, Little Rock, Pine Bluff, Monticello and Fort Smith.

Arkansas, Pages 14 on 11/15/2013