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— 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1912

Mayor Taylor has been giving some of his time lately to the investigation of the best system of placing signs on street corners to designate the names of the streets. The old plan of the signs placed on telephone poles and on buildings at the street corners he considered too antiquated to continue.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1962 Mayor Laman said he received the biggest thrill of his life yesterday when he was handed the key to the new William F. Laman Library during dedication ceremonies at the new facility, 28th and Orange, in the proposed civic center. The library commission decided to name the library after Laman at the suggestions of several civic clubs.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1987

The re-enactment of a week-old bank robbery apparently convinced a passer-by to call police about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday and report a robbery in progress. Three patrol cars were immediately dispatched to Savers Federal Savings and Loan of Arkansas at 4520 W.Markham Street, which had been robbed Dec. 22. As the police cars sped toward their destination, the mix up was realized, and the officer en route were ordered to disregard the call. The “bank robbery” the citizen witnessed was actually the Crime Stoppers re-enactment of last week’s robbery. The re-enactment being filmed consisted of masked men running into the bank with guns and ordering tellers to drop to the floor.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 2002

Anyone still calling Little Rock city government a “good ol’ boys club” needs to take a closer look. After years of gains women will control the Little Rock Board of Directors for the first time when Stacy Hurst takes her oath of office Wednesday. A majority-female city board is a coup for the handful of women who paved the way to Wednesday’s swearing in ceremony. Some recall a state legislator remarking in 1966 that the only way for Arkansas men to handle their women is to give them more cows to milk and more gardens to hoe and, if necessary, to keep them barefoot and pregnant.

Arkansas, Pages 8 on 12/31/2012

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