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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1913

Interest is spreading throughout the city and along the pikes near by to be worked by volunteers Wednesday …and not only have many offered their services or agreed to put up $2 each for a substitute, but teams, ice, gravel, automobiles and other supplies and material have been freely offered.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1963

Perryville’s teapot tempest rages unabated today. Developments last night merely served to deepen the great Perry County Crisis to the point of stalemate, with each side threatening to break off diplomatic relations. Outside mediators may have to be sent in. The storm - known to some irreverent observers as the Great Van Dalsem Incident - centers about Perry County’s controversial legislator, Paul Van Dalsem, an incorrigibly out-spoken heckler of his opponents who just may have finally met his match in a group of outraged Perry County women. The storm of protest and demands for a public apology by Van Dalsem stem from remarks he made last Tuesday at a Little Rock Optimist Club meeting, which the Perry County dissenters have taken as a crass canard on their ladyhood. In his speech,Van Dalsem talked some about his opponents, a not unusual political custom. In referring to them, he called members of the American Association of University Women “frustrated” and looking for something to do. He said that when they find women like that in Perry County they give them another cow to milk or more garden to plant. If more work won’t do it, he joked, we “keep them pregnant and bare footed.”

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1988

The Pulaski County Special School District and the local teachers’ union agreed on one thing Wednesday: The potential for a strike is growing. As negotiators for the district and the Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers ended contract talks at 11 p.m. Wednesday, the leader of the union said she “wouldn’t be surprised”if her membership took a strike vote at a meeting set for 5 p.m. today.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 2003

Personal information on the state’s high-risk sex offenders, all 1,131 of them, will become public starting today, under a law passed earlier this year by the Legislature. Next week, Arkansas will become the 38th state to post that information - offenders’ names, addresses, photographs and crimes - on a Web site.

Arkansas, Pages 18 on 09/01/2013

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