100 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1914 DERMOTT - As the result of an ordinance against stock running at large, Mayor W. J. Rayburn fined Eli Dante, a merchant and business man here, $25 and costs when his cow got loose by jumping the fence. Dante argued that he could not help the habits of the cow, but was fined anyway. He appealed to the Circuit Court.
50 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1964 HOT SPRINGS - The board of directors of the National Baptist Convention is expected to release Wednesday a statement on possible boycotts of both integrated and segregated schools. Dr. J. H. Jackson of Chicago, president of the convention which has a membership of 5 million Negroes, announced plans for the statement but would not go into detail on it. Jackson said the boycott is to be used as a weapon to compel or influence certain civil rights in the current struggle.
25 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1989 WASHINGTON - Rep. Bill Alexander, D-Ark., said Thursday that he will use his position on the House Appropriations Committee to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from closing parks in Arkansas. In the fiscal 1990 budget sent by President Reagan to Congress on Jan. 9, it is proposed that the Engineers’ Little Rock District partially or fully close 43 parks in Arkansas and Missouri. The fiscal 1990 budget targets about 640 Engineers recreation areas nationwide for funding reductions. President-elect George Bush is to send his own budget proposal to Congress next month. “The administration tried for years to dismantle Corps of Engineers projects in Arkansas, and we stopped them,” Alexander said. “We will stop this effort to close the parks as well.” 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 2004
The Arkansas attorney general’s office filed suit Tuesday against several pharmaceutical companies, claiming they used “fraudulent” pricing schemes to “siphon money from the Arkansas Medicaid program to enrich their corporations.” New Jersey’s Schering-Plough Corp., along with subsidiaries Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corp. and Schering Corp., were named as defendants, as was California-based Dey Inc. The suit, filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court, accuses the companies of wrongly inflating the price of drugs sold to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The suit accuses the companies of violating the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and asks that they stop the practice and refund Medicare, Medicaid and Arkansas consumers.
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