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LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO August 24, 1909 LUXORA - The public school term at Luxora, Mississippi county, will begin Monday. Mississippi county being one of the 30 counties to which the compulsory education law enacted by the recent legislature applies, the directors of the district have announced their intention to have the law enforced to the letter. Notices have been posted throughout the district explaining the provisions of the law and notifying parents as to the consequences in case of its violations. The act requires that all children between the ages of 8 and 16 years in the counties affected by the act shall attend school.

50 YEARS AGO August 24, 1959

Little Rock School Board member J.H. Cottrell Jr. today said he thinks the board "is under an obligation to offer the people some sort of millage reduction and let them vote on it." The board member, who is also a member of the Arkansas General Assembly from Pulaski County, thinks the cut should be four or five mills. "We are in the midst of an audit and it might be the cut should be a little more or a little less depending on what the audit shows," he added.

25 YEARS AGO August 24, 1984 WASHINGTON - Staff lawyers for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission support the idea of holding a settlement conference to negotiate disputes over who will pay for the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant. However, in a brief filed with the full commission, FERC staffers have proposed a format for such a conference in which parties could consider settlement offers besides one proposed by Arkansas Power & Light Co. and Mississippi Power & Light Co.

10 YEARS AGO August 24, 1999

Workers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Services on Monday unloaded and began to set up a $3 million piece of equipment designed to combat brain tumors without surgery. UAMS first announced it would be getting the device, called a Gamma Knife, in April 1998. Dr. Dennis C. Shrieve, chairman of the UAMS department of radiation oncology and co-director of the Gamma Knife program, said the Gamma Knife originally was developed to treat benign brain lesions. Over the years, however, studies have shown the machine to be effective in treating several types of brain lesions and tumors, including metastatic lesions caused by cancer that has spread from other parts of the body.