100 years ago
Sept. 12, 1919
FORT SMITH -- The acute shortage in milk in Fort Smith is reflected by the report today by Dr. X. G. May, superintendent of the municipal sanitary department, in which it is said that the daily production during August was one gallon to every 30 residents within the city limits. The total production for the month was 33,015 gallons or 1,065 gallons a day. Improvements of sanitary conditions were ordered at 11 dairies the report says.
50 years ago
Sept. 12, 1969
• The state Parks, Recreation and Travel Commission will consider a property owner's request to build an open-air chapel in Mount Nebo State Park when it meets at 10 a.m. Saturday at Lake Chicot State Park. The request came from John R. Baker Jr., and was supported by a petition with the signatures of 90 per cent of the other landowners on the mountain. Louis Oberste, acting Commission director, said pavilions at state parks were used for non-denominational services. He said he understood the proposed chapel on Mount Nebo would be used for nondenominational services and would be built at no state expense, although the site for the chapel would be on state property.
25 years ago
Sept. 12, 1994
• Arkansas business interests have raised more than $1 million to try to crush a proposed workers' compensation amendment to the state constitution -- about 14 times the money raised by supporters of the measure. The amendment would allow Arkansas workers to sue employers over unsafe working conditions, and increase payments to injured workers. "Workers' compensation" refers to a package of benefits required by the state, awarded to employees injured in the course of their jobs. Usually paid for through insurance purchased by employers, it includes medical expenses and compensation for lost earnings. The state Legislature reduced available compensation to workers through passage of Act 796 of 1993. The proposed amendment is an attempt to correct what labor groups and trial lawyers see as flaws in Act 796. The amendment would increase benefits and allow injured workers to sue employers who "knowingly maintain an unsafe work environment."
10 years ago
Sept. 12, 2009
• Tom Kimbrell, a former superintendent and now executive director of a state organization of education administrators, is Gov. Mike Beebe's choice to be the next Arkansas education commissioner with the responsibility of overseeing a public school system of 465,000 students. The Arkansas Board of Education is to meet with Kimbrell, one of 14 applicants for the position, in a private session at 9 a.m. Monday followed by a public vote on the governor's recommendation. He was superintendent in Paragould for eight years and in North Little Rock for one year before taking his current job in 2005 as executive director of the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators.
Metro on 09/12/2019