100 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1913
A handsome memorial tablet commemorating the deeds and life of David O. Dodd, the boy hero of the Confederacy, will be erected and unveiled in the New Capitol vestibule within the next week or so. The tablet, the work of J.E. Caldwell of Philadelphia, is very pretty, although simple. It is about two feet long and about eighteen inches wide.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1963
FAYETTEVILLE - The application of the University of Arkansas to televise its football game with the University of Texas, Oct. 19, in Little Rock, today was rejected by officials of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. “The Arkansas athletic department has exhausted every effort to have the game televised,” said George Cole, assistant athletic director, in announcing disapproval of the application. Telegrams from Asa Bushnell, NCAA program director, received today stated as follows: “Meeting today by telephone, the NCAA TV administrative committee rejected your request to televise into the Fort Smith and Little Rock area the sold-out Arkansas-Texas game of Oct. 19. Desired permission could not be granted because of appreciate damage rule set forth in article 14, NCAA.” Article 14 protects other colleges within 120 mile radius of the site of any game being televised.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1988
JONESBORO - Jonesboro has challenged Fayetteville to be the city in Arkansas with the highest safety belt usage. The contest was suggested by Glynda Wallace, Northwest Arkansas legislative liaison for Arkansas Needs Seatbelts, when she found that Fayetteville had accepted the “Santa Fe Challenge.”
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 2003
Gov. Mike Huckabee unveiled his revamped education reform plan Thursday, which he said would cost $368 million a year to be paid for with a 1 percent sales tax increase. The plan, much of it embodied in a 79-page proposed bill, still contains an enrollment-based school-consolidation component, which has been the biggest hang-up among rural legislators resisting his reform proposals. His plan would consolidate districts with high schools having fewer than 425 students that don’t meet five categories of proposed new standards, including course requirements and financial efficiency. His old plan would have consolidated districts with fewer than 1,500 students that don’t meet standards.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 10/10/2013