LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1909
The State Capitol Commission yesterday instructed Governor Donaghey, chairman of that body, to confer with the attorney general relative to the advisability of the commission filing a suit against Caldwell & Drake for the recovery of money alleged to be due the state for alleged defective work and noncompliance with the contract on the state capitol. The governor will take the matter up with the attorney general as soon as the latter returns to Little Rock and it is understood that within the next three months a suit will be filed by the commission against the contractors, and it is reported that the amount involved in the suit will not be less than $250,000.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1959
Federal Judge John E. Miller today granted the Little Rock School Board extra time to file a brief defending its pupil assignments. In a brief order filed in U.S. District Court today, the court allowed counsel until September 1 to brief the school district's reply to two motions pending in the Little Rock school integration suit.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1984
U.S. Magistrate Robert F. Fussell said Tuesday themountain of paperwork covering workers in the U.S. Bankruptcy Clerk's office is now a little smaller thanks to help from area attorneys. Fussell, who is a special magistrate for bankruptcy matters, said several law firms who file a large number of bankruptcy petitions are now filing them by 2 p.m. each day after they were requested to do so by the bankruptcy clerk's office. This was necessary, Fussell said because the bankruptcy clerk's office does not have enough employees to handle all of the paperwork associated with the rising tide of bankruptcy cases.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1999
Arkansas' delinquent taxpayers owe $235 million to the state, and the state will never see most of that. That's largely by design. The state has many tools to collect, from warning notices to criminal charges. But some debtors died, left Arkansas or are just plain broke. And state laws do not encourage aggressive collection efforts; Arkansas' revenuers don't want to be mistaken for Internal Revenue Service agents. John H. Theis, the division's assistant commissioner for policy, and legal and Arkansas' collection agents will concentrate on the $58 million counted as delinquent during the past six months.
Arkansas, Pages 16 on 08/22/2009