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LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO June 25, 1910 HOT SPRINGS - Following a serious thunderstorm, in which much damage was done the telephone and telegraph wires, came a veritable cloudburst which filled the principal thoroughfares of the city with water late this afternoon. Cases from the fronts of stores, mail boxes and garbage cans were carried along with the current, which swept 40 miles an hour down the streets.

50 YEARS AGO June 25, 1960

Gubernatorial Candidate Joe Hardin today said there is no truth in the rumor that he plans to replace Prison Supt. Lee Henslee if Hardin gets in the governor’s office. “Some of my opponents have been spreading the rumor that I have some quarrel with Mr. Henslee,” Hardin said. “This is not true. I was instrumental in getting (former) Governor McMath to name Henslee to the superintendent’s job.” 25 YEARS AGO June 25, 1985

State Department of Education officials Monday announced plans to distribute$565,217,461 in Minimum Foundation Program Aid to Arkansas school districts in 1985-86. That amount is $51,950,455 more than funding for the current year. Forty-one of the state’s 345 school districts will receive less state money in 1985-86 than they did this year because of their local wealth, their loss of enrollment or because they were receiving extra money in the past, Truett Goatcher, associate director for finance and administration in the state Department of Education, said Monday.

10 YEARS AGO June 25, 2000 ROCKPORT - Grapette International, trying to recapture aging baby boomers who once drank its products, has announced plans to relaunch domestic sales of its namesake grape-flavored soda, which disappeared from grocery store shelves and soft drink boxes in the 1970s. “We’re about to lose the generation that drank Grapette,” Paul Rice, co-owner of Grapette International, said in a recent interview. “The [Grapette] name became available [in April], and we acquired it. We just knew we wanted to reunite the companies.”