LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1911
The first distribution of the $50,000 appropriation made by the last legislature for the aid of high schools was made last Thursday at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Board of Education, composed of Rev. Forney Hutchinson, Hot Springs; Superintendent George B. Cook and Superintendent B. W. Torreyson. The committee decided to divide the amount into three equal parts to be distributed at intervals of three months.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1961 FORT SMITH - Representative Dale Alford (Dem., Ark.) said today that America should be cautious about giving foreign aid to neutral countries. Alford told the Lions Club that neutral nations were not committed in the world struggle and this country could not be sure which way they would go in a showdown. He said he didn’t think all foreign aid was bad but that the $100,000,000,000 this country had spent for this purpose since World War II was too much.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1986
Investment bankers Dan Lasater, George E. “Butch” Locke, and David A. Collins, partners in the defunct Little Rock bond house Collins, Locke and Lasater Inc., were among 11 people charged Friday by the U.S. attorney’s office with cocaine violations. Locke, a former state senator from Hamburg, was charged with conspiracy to violate a federal law and illegal use of a telephone to facilitate a drug transaction. If convicted, he could be sentenced to nine years and fined $500,000.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 2001
An anti-drug rally attended by about 5,000 Arkansas school children went on as scheduled at Alltel Arena on Wednesday while North Little Rock firefighters cleaned up a suspicious “white powdery substance” found inside the arena. Authorities locked the doors and kept the children inside the building until a laboratory at the state Health Department conducted tests on the powder, which turned out to be harmless. The students were attending a Red Ribbon Week antidrug rally at the arena.
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