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100 YEARS AGO March 13, 1914

Graduating gowns are too expensive; attendant social occasions mean additional cost; hardships result among those mothers who are unable to clothe their daughters on these occasions with the elaborate tastes of others; the graduating dress of the future shall cost but $5, including the shoes. This was the decision of the women of the Rightsell School Improvement Association at a meeting yesterday afternoon. There are many fathers well able to provide for any luxuries their daughter may desire. But this doesn’t encourage thrift, as was the purpose of forming of school banks, the women declare, and each girl must lay aside any dreams of expensive gowns.

50 YEARS AGO March 13, 1964

Gov. John M. Dalton of Missouri has challenged Arkansas to send an entry to the eighth annual Tom Sawyer fence painting contest in Hannibal, Mo., July 4. Dalton said in a letter to Gov. Faubus that in past years the contest has been restricted to Missourians. “But we think that perhaps the fence-painting genius is born of the river and this year we are inviting contestants from all the states on the Mississippi River,” he wrote. The contest will be held at the Mark Twainhome and memorial museum.

25 YEARS AGO March 13, 1989

Oak Grove High School in the Pulaski County Special School District is requiring its students to pay a parking fee in anticipation of the student parking lot being paved later this month. Principal Ed Shehane said the district has a policy requiring all district high schools to charge students $10 a year for parking stickers. Oak Grove administrators delayed asking students to pay the fee until the paving was imminent, Shehane said. Students were told last week that if they did not pay the $10 plus a $5 late fee by Monday, they could not park their cars in the lot. Students who park their cars in the lot without a sticker will be subject to district penalties for insubordination.

10 YEARS AGO March 13, 2004

Arkansas Children’s Hospital officials broke ground Friday on a $17 million expansion that eventually will double the number of laboratories for its research institute in Little Rock. The additions, which will connect across three buildings, will give needed growth space to the hospital campus’s facilities by adding a floor to the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center and a two-story, 54,000-squarefoot building for the research institute.