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LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1912

Little Rock is to have a new jobbing house and in a line in which heretofore no exclusive jobbing house has existed. This, it is claimed, makes the new venture of greater benefit to the jobbing interests of the whole city, because it adds to its completeness as a jobbing center. For, it is pointed out, no city can claim to be a jobbing center until it can supply every article the general merchant’s stock contains.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1962

There will be another attempt to administer a dose of “medicare” to the next session of Congress, but the House Ways and Means Committee won’t like the taste any better than in the last session.This was indicated in remarks of Rep. Wilbur Mills at a luncheon of the Pulaski County Medical Society Auxiliary Club yesterday. Mills is chairman of the committee. Instead of “medicare,” Mills has another name for the King-Anderson type of legislation that he expects will be again proposed. “Call it what you will,” he said, “If you look behind the label, open the can, it is compulsory health insurance.”25 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1987

Only three of 16 Pulaski County Head Start centers were found in compliance with federal and state regulations, according to a survey Wednesday by the Arkansas Democrat. The management and operations of the Head Start program have come under fire by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The federal agency notified the Urban League of Arkansas Inc., the Head Start sponsor, in September that its $1.4 million annual grant would be terminated Jan. 31, 1988. Eight Democrat reporters visited all 17 Head Start centers Wednesday morning to count the attendance of children and staff and to inspect conditions at the centers.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 2002

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday declared the state’s public education system unconstitutional, sending lawmakers down the path toward tax increases and transformation of the schools. The 7-0 ruling, with one justice dissenting in part, said the state has been unfairly distributing $1.7 billion a year to its 310 school districts - and not providing enough money for the state’s 450,000 students.