LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1912

Yesterday was indeed a day of thanksgiving for many derelicts adrift on the ebb and flow of life, and there are many kindhearted people in Little Rock who are the richer for having made the day pleasant for many hard driven women and thinly clad children. It cannot be said of Little Rock people that they let the harvest festival day pass without remembering those less fortunate. All morning the telephone in the office of the United Charities Association at the city hall was kept ringing by people who wished to give dinners to the poor.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1962

A $6 million maze of ultra-modern interchangeexpressway will open at 2 p.m. tomorrow, providing about 40,000 motorists from outlying north Pulaski County a free-wheeling taste of contemporary commuting. City, county and state officials will take part in ribbon cutting ceremonies over the 15th on the freeway, opening that section through north terminal to Park Hill and connecting arteries through Dark Hollow to the new Jacksonville Highway.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1987

Hold onto your hat - here we go again! A new round of federal court hearings will be held this week in the Pulaski County School desegregation lawsuit. This time, however, the hearings will be conducted by Special Master Aubrey V. McCutcheon Jr., a Detroit lawyer appointed by the court, instead of U.S. District Judge Henry Woods. The first issue to be discussed is improving communications among teachers, students and parents in the Little Rock School District.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 2002

About two dozen parents, their family members and supporters stood in protest on the steps of the state Capitol in Little Rock on Thanksgiving morning in front of dozens of frozen chicken pot pies and milk cartons. The food, they said, symbolizes all some mothers can afford for Thanksgiving dinner because the state’s processing of child-support checks is still sporadic or delinquent. Some of those affected by delinquent payments said Thursday that the state’s Office of Child Support Enforcement is the real deadbeat dad.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 11/29/2012