100 YEARS AGO April 11, 1913
Mayor H.M. Jackson of Paragould telegraphed Governor Futrell asking him if it would be proper for him to appoint Dr. Olive Wilson as health officer of Paragould. Mayor Jackson stated that Dr. Wilson is in every respect qualified for the position, but desired to know if her sex would bar her. It was the opinion of Governor Futrell that Dr. Olive Wilson was in every way professionally qualified for the position, but he is in doubt whether he would have the right to authorize her appointment.
50 YEARS AGO April 11, 1963
SPRINGDALE - Don Tyson, executive vice president and general manager of Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, said today his firm and Plus Poultry Co. of Siloam Springs plan to appeal a federal district court ruling ordering them to open their records to the U.S. Agriculture Department. The ruling was issued Tuesday by Federal (Judge) John E. Miller in Fort Smith. The decision is regarded as a key test whether the government has the right to make broadscale investigations of the poultry industry in Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama.
25 YEARS AGO April 11, 1988
The Little Rock Field Division of the U.S. Postal Service leaped from the 1950s to modern times recently when its Multiple Line Optical Character Reader went into service. Little Rock was the fifth city in the nation to receive a MLOCR following Denver, Phoenix, Cincinnati and Dallas, postal officials said Thursday. The machine cost about $1 million with support equipment. It sorts up to 40,000 letters an hour by computer with only two people needed for operation, said Sam Bolen, communications manager for the Little Rock office.
10 YEARS AGO April 11, 2003
Pulaski County Special School District officials agreed Thursday that teachers and administrators won’t interfere with an openly gay Jacksonville Junior High School student’s free-speech rights, making a request for a preliminary injunction against the district unnecessary. The request to order the district to comply with the law was filed Tuesday in federal court, along with a civil rights lawsuit, by the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Both filings claim the school board and administrators violated the constitutional rights of a ninth-grade boy by punishing him and preaching to him from the Bible for discussing his sexuality at school.
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