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100 years ago

July 18, 1914

CONWAY -- At a joint meeting of the Conway City Council Improvement Committee and the Water and Light Commission it was decided to spend Monday in Little Rock inspecting appliances to be used in the "white way" lighting system planned for the business streets of Conway. It is planned to install about 60 ornamental iron columns, on which large Tungsten lights will be placed.

50 years ago

July 18, 1964

HELENA -- Thomas Allen, 18, a Pine Bluff Negro, was fined $50 and costs here Friday for disturbing the peace. Allen, a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, is one of several persons conducting a drive to get Negroes to register to vote. Municipal Judge D.F. Heslep dismissed a vagrancy charge against Allen. Policemen testified that they heard Allen cursing while talking at a swimming pool. They said he made no attempt to enter the pool. A boy with Allen was not arrested because he did no cursing, policemen said. Allen denied that he was cursing. He said he had been testing racial discrimination in Helena by visiting restaurants and riding buses.

25 years ago

July 18, 1989

• The state should reimburse the Public School Fund more than $23 million to compensate schools for money illegally diverted in 1986-89 for desegregation, attorneys for the Magnolia School District said. The district argued its case before Pulaski County Chancellor John Ward during a day-long trial Monday. The district sued the state Board of Education and other state officers in March 1988. The district asked that the Department of Education be prohibited from using the Public School Fund to pay court-ordered desegregation costs in both Pulaski and Conway counties. Instead, the class of 329 Arkansas school districts represented by Magnolia wants desegregation costs to be absorbed by state general revenues, which would cut the costs to school districts by at least half.

10 years ago

July 18, 2004

HOT SPRINGS -- Hot Springs will host the Habitat for Humanity Middle States Regional Conference Oct. 14-16 at First Baptist Church on Central Avenue, said Ann Caruso, chairman of Garland County Habitat for Humanity. Caruso said selection criteria included proximity to an airport, central location within a host state and participants having "something to do" with their free time.

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