100 YEARS AGO April 22, 1914 NASHVILLE - E.J. Burton of Murfreesboro has a cat which is rearing a young rat with her litter of kittens. The young rat has been with its foster mother for the last three weeks and seems perfectly at home with its natural enemies. The mother cat shows no difference in her attitude toward it and the remaining members of her family. 50 YEARS AGO April 22, 1964

Gov. Faubus today announced his candidacy for a sixth term because of what he said were thousands of requests urging him to do so and his own desire to continue his program. The governor’s announcement was made in his reception room to a crowd of press and visiting supporters.The supporters applauded when he completed reading a three-page formal statement. His action today closed the door on a number of persons who had said they would run if he didn’t. 25 YEARS AGO April 22, 1989

Disenchanted public school patrons have been flooding the telephone lines of Little Rock area private schools this week. “It has been wild. The phone has been ringing off the hook,” said Robert Deaton, headmaster of the Stanton Road School. Deaton was among several private school officials contacted by the Arkansas Democrat Friday in a spot-check of private schools. Special Master Aubrey V. McCutcheon Jr. unveiled his recommendations Wednesday to desegregate the three Pulaski County school districts. The recommendations, subject to approval by U.S. District Judge Henry Woods, call for reassignment of of some students and consolidating most of the major services offered by the three districts.

10 YEARS AGO April 22, 2004

Arkansas’ chances of landing an automobile manufacturing plant in Crittenden County dropped dramatically when the county’s air quality was judged below federal standards, an automotive expert said Wednesday. “No one negative is a veto for an auto manufacturer, but [poor air quality] is about as close to a veto as possible,” Michael Flynn, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, said. Last year a site near Marion in Crittenden County was a finalist for securing a Toyota Motor Corp. auto assembly plant. Toyota eventually chose San Antonio. The industrial site near Marion is the only one in Arkansas considered suitable for a super project.

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