LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1910 ROGERS - Besides being the first day of court it was sales day and horse and mule day at Bentonville, and people thronged the streets of the county site town from every nook and corner of the county, and fully 2,000 people were present. A fine exhibit of mules and horses was made, and the day was one continued round of meeting and greeting and shaking hands with neighbors and friends.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1960
The State Health Department today recommended that 10 additional tuberculosis clinics be established to help Arkansas reduce its relatively high death rate from the disease. The proposal was made by Dr. J.T. Herron, state health officer, at a meeting of the Arkansas Legislative Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee in support of his suggested $440,000 a year budget to fight TB.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1985
Identified as the tallest skyscraper in a 1,000 mile vicinity, Capitol Tower topped out at 40 floors Saturday in a ceremony attended by numerous city government and financial leaders and Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., at the First Federal Savings and Loan Plaza. John Flake, chairman and founder of Flake and Company, the developer of the Capitol Tower, said the building was going up right on schedule and would open next summer. The final steel beam for the 40th and top floor was raised and put into place Saturday.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 2000 CAMDEN - Fire departments across the state are no longer sending their rookies to the state funded fire academy because the fire chiefs don’t like the way the director is running the school. Roger Worsley, chancellor of Southern Arkansas University Tech at Camden, said Thursday. “I acknowledge that we have a problem,” Worsley said Thursday. “There is a group of fire departments with fire chiefs who have said, ‘We’re not sending anyone else down there until the problem is resolved.’ It is my intent to resolve the problem.”
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 09/22/2010