LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1910
Gov. Geo W. Donaghey will address the negro Baptist convention at 3 o’clock this afternoon. A committee headed by Dr. J.P. Robinson, extended an invitation yesterday, and the governor said he will visit the convention at 3 o’clock today. He will receive an ovation from the negro Baptists.
50 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1960
Early opposition has shown up to a proposal that the state provide a $100,000 appropriation, to be matched by the counties, to expand the tuberculosis control program in Arkansas. County Judge Ray Sikes of Little River County, the new president of the Arkansas County Judges Association, disclosed yesterday his association last Tuesday went on record against the plan in a meeting in Little Rock. There are two distinct plans on TB control which apparently are beginning to cause some confusion in the eyes of the public.
25 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1985
A petition drive will start about January 1 for an initiated act to revise the state workers’ compensation law, state AFL-CIO President J. Bill Becker said Sunday. “The fact is we are tired of waiting for the governor, who said he was going to help us and it never materialized, or the legislature, to act in this issue,” Becker said in an interview on radio station KLAZ.
10 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 2000
Arkansas could for the first time provide state funds to help AIDS patients purchase medicine, under a proposal backed by an unlikely coalition that includes the state Health Department, the governor and local AIDS activists. The state has long been one of five that provide no funding for AIDS drug assistance or other AIDS related care and services. Instead, Arkansas relies on federal funds that some say are stretched too thin for a state where almost 5,000 people have been diagnosed with HIV since 1983.
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