100 YEARS AGO April 17, 1914
“September Morn” may have its artistic features; it may appeal to the aestheticism of the preferred few, but it mustn’t appear in show windows of Little Rock. This is the decision of the City Federation of Women’s Clubs, which has named a committee to request Main street merchants now displaying this picture to remove it from their windows. A resolution also was adopted requesting Mayor Taylor, on behalf of 2,000 Little Rock women, to see that “September Morn” and other similar pictures are not allowed to appear in store windows under penalty of the law.
50 YEARS AGO April 17, 1964
HELENA - A $33 million ammonia and other chemicals manufacturing complex will be built in Phillips County near Helena, civic and industrial leaders were told here today by W.R. Stephens, president and board chairman of Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. Stephens said that Arkla Chemical Corp., an Arkla subsidiary, is ready to proceed with construction - unless other chemical companies now considering expansion will build a plant here. “We know from economic studies that new plants of this nature are in demand along the Mississippi River,” Stephens explained.
25 YEARS AGO April 17, 1989
GOULD - A former resident of the Little Rock Zoo apparently has flown the coop and adopted a new home on a small Lincoln County lake. Zoo director David Westbrook said he is almost certain a pink flamingo living on the lake near Gould about 65 miles southeast of Little Rock is one of two such birds that disappeared from the zoo this year. “I don’t know of anyone else who that bird might belong to.” Westbrook said one of the two missing flamingos disappeared around the first of the year and the second dropped out of sight a few weeks ago.
10 YEARS AGO April 17, 2004
The Arkansas Department of Health laid off 38 employees and eliminated 69 vacant positions across the state Friday to reduce its fiscal 2005 budget by more than $5.3 million. It is the sixth budget cut since fiscal 2002 and the second-largest overall reduction, after a $6.9 million cut in 2002. Health Department officials say the staffing cuts were necessary to adjust to declines in patients’ visits.
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