100 years ago
Feb. 18, 1918
• A special study of the louse is to be made by the government and the task has been allotted to a woman, Miss Katherine Foot, sister of Maj. Lawrence Foot of Little Rock, special agent of the United States Department of Agriculture. There is a belief that trench fever is carried by the pest and to carry on experiments Miss Foot was sent to France to undertake the work. Miss Foot has studied in England and in Germany and has a research laboratory at Wood's Hole, Mass.
50 years ago
Feb. 18, 1968
• State Prison Superintendent Thomas O. Murton has come in for severe criticism, particularly from some legislators, for the unearthing of three skeletons from unmarked graves at Cummins Prison Farm on January 29. What particularly piqued the legislators was the adverse publicity the state received because of the diggings. Senator Virgil Fletcher accused Murton of "calling The New York Times and Life magazine" about the bodies in a "deliberate and calculating" effort to "focus shame and ridicule upon the state of Arkansas."
25 years ago
Feb. 18, 1993
• Two Little Rock legislators' bill to require firefighters to live in the cities that employ them got clobbered Wednesday in a House Committee. A motion to recommend passage of House Bill 1458 by Reps. Irma Hunter Brown and William Walker failed to get a single "aye" on a voice vote in the House Committee on City, County and Local Affairs. Brown and Walker were bombarded with hostile questions about the bill, and more than a dozen uniformed firefighters were present to oppose it.
10 years ago
Feb. 18, 2008
BENTON -- Saline County residents have few options when they find a box of puppies dumped on the side of the road or see an emaciated dog scavenging for food. With the privately run Humane Society shelter in the county often overwhelmed, residents are largely on their own to protect their pets from packs of wild dogs or to feed and house hungry puppies, kittens and other pets. Three cities offer animal control but not the county. "I think it's time for us to step up to the plate and provide this service," said Justice of the Peace Owen Bullock, who added that the county's population is now estimated at more than 100,000.
Metro on 02/18/2018