100 YEARS AGO April 5, 1914
More stringent laws regulating the sanitary conditions of Arkansas hotels will be recommended to the next session of the Arkansas legislature by the Travelers’ Protective Association of America. The Arkansas division met last night in the restroom at the Hotel Marion. Numerous complaints were registered by members concerning sanitary conditions in many Arkansas hostelries, especially those in the smaller towns. The association also recommended that the State Board of Health take an investigation of hotel conditions throughout the state and use its influence to improve conditions.
50 YEARS AGO April 5, 1964
HOT SPRINGS - This resort city, a gambling palace no more by gubernatorial threat, has embarked on a drive to be - as the chamber of commerce puts it - “Mid-America’s No. 1 play land for healthy family fun.” The once-bustling, plush casinos closed illegal gambling operations a week go after Gov. Orval E. Faubus warned that, if local officials did not take action, he would. He threatened to use the State Police. Morton Cox, executive director of the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, said businessmen will battle the impression that the death of gambling meant the death of fun here.
25 YEARS AGO April 5, 1989
Little Rock police making a routine check Tuesday of the former Granite Mountain School on Gilliam Park Road found a car parked in one of the hallways. The car, a 1980 Pontiac with Tennessee license plates, had been reported stolen from Little Rock, police said. It had apparently been driven into the vacant school and down a hallway, then stripped of parts.
10 YEARS AGO April 5, 2004
Efforts are under way to recognize Little Rock’s first black city manager and its first black mayor with city streets renamed in their honor. In May, Little Rock’s planning commission will hear a proposal to rename one block of Collins Street near downtown in honor of former City Manager Mahlon Martin, who died in 1995. The commissioners will also discuss a proposal to rename nearly 70 blocks of 20th street for former Mayor Charles Bussey, who died in 1996. “I think both of them are going to be looking down smiling at us,” City Manager Bruce Moore said. The proposals are uncoordinated attempts from two separate groups to honor men who broke color lines in the upper echelons of City Hall, said Dana Carney, Little Rock’s zoning and subdivision manager.
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