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Voters in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, August 25 turned down a proposal to fund the construction of a new library to replace the 70-year-old county library in Malvern, which was destroyed by fire April 27 after being struck by lightning.
After the fire, the library was relocated to cramped quarters in a former dress shop. Voters rejected both a one-cent, two-year county sales tax to fund construction and an additional one-mill property tax added to an existing one mill to pay for operations.
"Our anti-tax people were very strong," Library Director Mary Cheatham told American Libraries. "Our supporters didn't think anyone would vote against the library, and they stayed home."
Posted August 31, 1998.
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