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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1913

HOT SPRINGS - In compliance with the provision of an ordinance introduced by Alderman Sam Williamson, both the Rock Island and the Iron Mountain railroads are installing safety bells at crossings of their roads within city limits. The bells rest at the top of a steel pole about 12 feet high. A few feet away is a concrete box, which obtains the electrical facilities necessary to start the bells ringing. The tracks are wired for 300 feet on each side of the track. When a train arrives within the danger zone the bells start ringing.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1963

Teenagers with behavior and emotional problems that cause poor functioning at school, home and elsewhere, will be studied and treated in a new service being inaugurated at University Medical Center. Dr. Winston K. Shorey, dean of the school of medicine, and Dr. William G. Reese, professor and head of the department of psychiatry, announced this week the opening of an adolescent psychiatry section. The new clinic was established in recognition of the importance of the emotional problems of teenagers, and the importance of training medical students and psychiatric residents to deal effectively with such problems.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1988

RUSSELLVILLE - Unit 1 of Arkansas Nuclear One won’t come back on line today because repairs to a leaking valve will take longer than expected, said Jerol Garrison, a spokesman for Arkansas Power & Light Co. The shutdown will not affect service to customers, he said. AP&L finished repairs on two other faulty valves at the unit Saturday, Garrison said. One of those valves developed a “major leak” while workers were repairing it Friday night, he said. About 5,500 gallons of radioactive water was released into a containment building before the leak was stopped about 4 a.m. Saturday.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 2003

The Arkansas attorney general’s office has accused the state’s largest health insurance provider of market monopolization, leaving the state’s health-care system “seriously destabilized.” In a federal court filing, attorneys for the state accused Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield of creating “closed networks and exclusive alliances” with hospitals across the state that are based “not on quality of care but on economic considerations.” A spokesman for Attorney General Mike Beebe declined to comment Thursday, saying that “our brief will have to speak for itself.”