100 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 1914
A large delegation of business men met with Mayor Charles E. Taylor and members of the Police Committee yesterday afternoon at the city hall, and presented petitions for the retention of saloons on West Seventh street, Ninth and Rector, Twelfth and Main, and Tenth and Spring streets in the event County Judge Asher should decide to grant licenses. The committee has been preparing to enforce the notice given a year ago that no saloons will be permitted in the residence district unless there should be a sufficient number of petitioners to retain saloons at these places and to pay the additional expense of police protection.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 1964 PINE BLUFF - Fourteen retail department and variety stores announced integration of employment practices here Friday. A group of merchants announced the decision on the new policy of employment with a joint statement which read: “In keeping with the present and projected economic growth, progress and harmonious atmosphere in this city of Pine Bluff, the following stores have and will continue to consider available employment to all qualified persons, regardless of race, creed or color, according to their abilities.”
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 1989
Without debate and with little discussion, the Senate voted Tuesday to outlaw obscene words or pictures on T-shirts and bumper stickers. If the measure becomes law, people found guilty of displaying an unacceptable bumper sticker or wearing apparel could be sentenced to a maximum 30 days in jail and fined $100. The proposed law, by Sen. Bill Walters of Greenwood (Sebastian County), provides no guidelines or list of words that would be banned by the law. It refers instead to an existing state law that defines obscenity as anything that arouses prurient interests.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 2004
Cleanup efforts in south Arkansas appear to be preventing the spread of one of the nation’s highest concentrations of rocket fuel contamination, state environmental regulators say. From 1979 through the mid-1990s, Atlantic Research Corp. destroyed dud rocket fuel at its facility near East Camden in a way that polluted soil and shallow groundwater with the propellant’s toxic main ingredient. Called perchlorate, the chemical fanned out underneath the site, threatening nearby creeks, the Ouachita River and local drinking water wells.
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