100 years ago
July 21, 1916
PINE BLUFF -- A mass meeting of property owners in Pine Bluff and the territory between this city and Bayou Bartholomew will be held at the courthouse Monday night to discuss plans for forming an improvement district to construct a drainage canal from Pine Bluff southeast to Bayou Bartholomew, which would permit the closing of the mouth of Hardin's drain.
50 years ago
July 21, 1966
BRINKLEY -- The City Board of Directors here Tuesday night set September 13 as the date for a special referendum election to decide whether Brinkley residents favor an Urban Renewal program recently approved by the Board. The election was scheduled after a group opposing Urban Renewal here filed a petition asking for the referendum vote. There was some question earlier concerning the legality of the 303 signatures on the petition, but the attorney general's office ruled that 275 of the names, sufficient for the referendum, were the signatures of legal and qualified voters.
25 years ago
July 21, 1991
• Each week someone in Peter A. Miller's law office goes through the hundreds of traffic accident reports filed in Pulaski County, sending letters soliciting legal business to many of the "victims." The practice, though distasteful to many, is within ethical guidelines for lawyers - as are Miller's late-night TV ads. But a mistake Miller made with the envelopes containing the letters has led the state Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct to issue a "letter of caution" to Miller. And Miller's appeal of the decision fell on deaf ears Saturday, as the committee upheld its earlier action.
10 years ago
July 21, 2006
• A statewide workplace smoking ban takes effect today, but health officials are encouraging local law enforcement officials to go easy on offenders as everyone gets used to the law. That won't be a problem for some already busy police departments, including Little Rock's. Issuing citations to smokers is about as pressing as confiscating fireworks, said Sgt. Terry Hastings, a Little Rock Police Department spokesman. "If you call us and say there's a guy smoking in a restaurant, there'll be an officer [who will] get by there when he can," Hastings said. "We have higher priority police calls that we're going to be responding to."
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