100 YEARS AGO April 12, 1914
Members of the Little Rock Automobile Dealers’ Association are looking forward to great activity in the sales of machines within the next 60 days. President Edgar M. Rowe, in speaking of the condition of the local automobile market, made the prediction yesterday that he expected many people of this and other communities throughout the state to plan for the purchase of new machines as the hot weather approaches. “I believe that well-to-do people of Little Rock will prefer to spend the money usually laid aside for the summer vacation and consumed mostly by traveling expenses, for a nice, comfortable automobile. It is a well-known fact that the exhilaration of driving often revives the tired spirit of a man after a hard day’s work in the summer sun.”
50 YEARS AGO April 12, 1964 EL DORADO - “The Senior Citizens Club of El Dorado is proud to be one of the first organizations to start circulation of petitions requesting that voters in the November election be allowed to pass a measure granting lifetime hunting and fishing licenses to persons over 65,” Ellis Whitten said Friday in accepting one of the forms from Donald J. Brown, state representative from Union County. Whitten is president of the El Dorado Senior Citizens Club. Brown has announced that he will sponsor the initiated measure, which upon payment of $1 to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, would give lifetime hunting and fishing privileges to all older citizens of the state.
25 YEARS AGO April 12, 1989 MALVERN - The feuding Malvern school administration negotiated peace Tuesday night, and both sides lost. All five school board members and Superintendent Bill Hunt resigned, effective May 31. The board members and Hunt publicly shook hands and agreed to work together for the remainder of their terms.
10 YEARS AGO April 12, 2004 PINE BLUFF - Following the lead of North Little Rock, officials in Pine Bluff are experimenting with a new brand of law enforcement, using civil and criminal statutes to uproot drug dealers and improve neighborhoods. The S.A.F.E. Team, an acronym for Support, Abatement, Fines and Enforcement, includes the fire and police departments, code inspectors, the offices of the city attorney, the mayor and the Jefferson County prosecuting attorney, landlords and neighborhood watch groups.
Arkansas, Pages 16 on 04/12/2014