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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 12, 1915

Unless county judges of eighteen counties allow claims filed by vital statistics registrars, lawsuits to collect the fees allowed the registrars under the vital statistics law will be instituted, according to Dr. C. W. Garrison, State health officer. “The failure of the county judges of eighteen counties to allow these claims is greatly hindering the work under the law,” said Dr. Garrison.

50 YEARS AGO Oct. 12, 1965

PINE BLUFF — It looks as if anybody who wants to know what Rhonda Lee Oglesby is up to is just going to have to wait until Rhonda is ready to tell the world. After six days of mystery, a friend of the 19-year-old blonde who resigned her Miss Arkansas title said Monday that Rhonda is safe and well. And the friend, Mrs. Ralph Cloar of Pine Bluff, also said that Rhonda’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Oglesby of Pine Bluff, had heard, via telephone, Rhonda’s plans and the reason for her disappearance. The parents approved, Mrs. Cloar said.

25 YEARS AGO Oct. 12, 1990

JACKSONVILLE — Gov. Bill Clinton said Thursday he believed the company incinerating hazardous wastes in Jacksonville may have broken an agreement when it burned a material without notifying state officials or the public. “Whether the results of an unauthorized test burn were successful or not, the people of this state should have been alerted that a surrogate material would be introduced into the incinerator,” Clinton said in a statement he released to the media Thursday afternoon. “I believe the company broke an agreement with the state, at least in spirit, I thought existed,” he said.