LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO March 26, 1912 FAYETTEVILLE - Posters were distributed at the University of Arkansas and in the city of Fayetteville today announcing the publication of another issue of the X-Ray, “the Green Sheet” is scheduled to appear at most any hour this week. Little is known of the contents, but it is rumored that the paper will concentrate its attacks more in the next issue and will not consider the faculty so broadly as before. It was the first issue the X-Ray that resulted in a student strike.
50 YEARS AGO March 26, 1962 PINE BLUFF - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People threatened yesterday to boycott a downtown Kroger supermarket here. The Pine Bluff branch of the NAACP said the store was ethically obligated to hire more Negroes because of its heavy volume of Negro trade. A resolution adopted by the group said “we are certainly desirous of coming to a satisfactory situation without a boycott if possible ... but there will be no backing down.”
25 YEARS AGO March 26, 1987
Arguing that it didn’t change existing law and that age 5 was too young to require school attendance, the House of Representatives rejected a bill Wednesday dealing with kindergarten attendance. House Bill 1307, sponsored by Rep. Bob McGinnis of Marianna, received a vote of 36-56, despite heavy lobbying by Bill Clinton. The bill would have required 5-year-old children to attend kindergarten unless their parents wrote a letter to the school district stating that they did not want the child in school.
10 YEARS AGO March 26, 2002
Jan Edmon of Little Rock usually visits friends and family in Atlanta and Chicago over the summer. This year she may not, and on Monday she blamed rising gasoline prices as she filled up her Toyota at Jones Sixth Street Exxon in Little Rock. U.S. retail gasoline prices rose 5.4 cents to an average $1.34 a gallon in the week that ended Monday, the fourth straight weekly gain, the Department of Energy said. The average nationwide pump price for regular unleaded gasoline was up from a 2 1/2-year low of $1.05 a gallon on Dec. 17, the agency’s weekly survey of 900 stations showed.
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