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100 YEARS AGO April 30, 1914

Not a depredation was committed by a citizen of Little Rock or visitor to the City of Roses yesterday that came under the observation of the local police. No charges were registered on the police docket from the minute the day force went on duty at 8 o’clock yesterday morning until 8 o’clock last night. The police who have been on the local force for a number of years say that this happens about once every decade.

50 YEARS AGO April 30, 1964

PINE BLUFF - The Pine Bluff School Board announced Wednesday that two more grades in elementary schools will be desegregated in September. School board president Harvey McGeorge said the first and fourth grades will be desegregated under a two-grade a-year plan adopted the fall session of 1963. Five Negro first and second-grade students attended pre-all-white schools this year.

25 YEARS AGO April 30, 1989

For about 40 frantic minutes Saturday afternoon, helicopter pilots and police searched areas near the intersection of Base Line and Chicot roads, and near Baptist Medical Center and Southwest Hospital for a hospital helicopter authorities feared had crashed. The search began shortly before 4 p.m. when dispatchers from Metropolitan Emergency Medical Service (MEMS) got a call that someone had seen a helicopter resembling Baptist’s Med Flight touch down north of Base Line and Chicot, then rise into the air again and disappear. Angel One, the helicopter used by Arkansas Children’s Hospital, responded by looking for the craft, to no avail. Dana Dussing Berry, spokesman for Baptist, said the Med Flight helicopter was returning from a flight to Batesville when its operator became aware of the search, and joined in. After no wreckage could be found and all helicopters known to have been in the area Saturday were accounted for, the search was discontinued.

10 YEARS AGO April 30, 2004

Leaders at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia have suspended a fraternity while they investigate reports of hazing after a male student was hospitalized. The Delta Iota chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity was temporarily suspended Thursday. The fraternity, which university officials said has 19 members, does not have a house on campus but is a registered student organization. State police would not say earlier this week who the student was or how he was injured.