LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1912
Elaborate plans for the entertainment of Col. Theodore Roosevelt on the arrival in Little Rock today have been made by the Reception Committee of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway Association, of which H. F. Auten is chairman. The reception is to be strictly nonpartisan in character and will be participated in by the citizens of all political faiths. Colonel Roosevelt will arrive at 8:30 o’clock in the morning at the Rock Island station.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1962
PINE BLUFF - Production will begin here in January of a new chemical agent that will make an enemy incapable of making rational decision or controlling his body movements. Col. John Appel, commander of the Pine Bluff Arsenal, compared a person affected by the “incapacitating agent” with a person drunk on alcohol, the conditions are slightly different. Construction is under way at the arsenal now for facilities where the material will be packaged.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1987
Hundreds of Little Rock School District teachers vowed Thursday to go on the first teacher strike in state history if a 1987-88 contract settlement was not reached by 5 a.m. today. As of 12:45 a.m. today, no agreement had been reached between negotiating teams from the school district and the Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association. Frank Martin, executive director of the CTA, said teachers will gather in the parking lot of War Memorial Stadium at 6:30 a.m. today to find out whether they should report to work, or to picket lines at schools and the district’s administration building.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 2002
Aurora, the Little Rock Zoo’s snowy owl that enthralled children bewitched by the tales of Harry Potter, became the zoo’s second victim of West Nile virus on Monday. The owl’s popularity soared in recent years as Arkansas children read about Potter’s snowy owl, Hedwig, who delivers messages to his friends at the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Aurora traveled to schools across the state as part of the zoo’s education program. She was the only known snowy owl in Arkansas, which lies considerably south of the owls’ arctic habitat.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 09/25/2012