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100 years ago

Nov. 17, 1918

• Last night from 5:30 until about 9:30 all of North Little Rock and parts of the east side of Main street in Little Rock were in darkness on account of a breakdown by a 2,500-kilowatt machine last Wednesday night, which made it necessary to shut off the power on account of the plant being unable to supply the whole city with electricity. Under its crippled condition, the power plant can produce only 3,700 kilowatts, while the demand for last night was 5,500 kilowatts.

50 years ago

Nov. 17, 1968

• M. Sgt. Norman Y. Munroe, who is a 21-year career Air Force man at Little Rock Air Force Base, will be one of three men to be ordained deacons of the Marshall Road Baptist Church at Jacksonville tonight. Munroe will become the first Negro deacon of a predominantly white Southern Baptist church in Arkansas. Munroe, a native of Elwood, Kan., and a lifelong Baptist, came to LRAFB in May 1966. He and his family joined the Marshall Road Church, which has received members of 10 Negro families in its 500-member congregation.

25 years ago

Nov. 17, 1993

CONWAY -- Don Harris admits that he violates the law virtually every day. Harris, a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair, smokes on the average four marijuana cigarettes a day to control muscle spasms that affect his stomach and legs, he said Tuesday. These days, Harris, 39, of Heber Springs (Cleburne County), faces a new type of confinement. Conway police arrested Harris on June 15. He was later released on a bond of $5,739. After officers found a half-pound of marijuana in his car, authorities charged Harris with a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia (Harris says officers found medical clamps), driving while intoxicated and traffic charges. Harris drives a car equipped with hand controls. "It was my winter supply," Harris said of the marijuana.

10 years ago

Nov. 17, 2008

• Among the traffic snafus in central Arkansas that draw scorn from area motorists, two of them identified in a public outreach effort startled even transportation planners. The most notable was Arkansas 5 between Interstate 30 and Hot Springs Village, which ranked second in the number of complaints among the top 5 noninterstate corridors in central Arkansas, according to feedback from Operation Bottleneck. The other surprise was the intersection of Alexander and Vimy Ridge roads in Pulaski County. "Those were the two big surprises," said Richard Magee, who as deputy director and planning director for Metroplan, the transportation planning agency for the region, makes it his business to know traffic trouble spots in central Arkansas. "The other ones we knew."

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