LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1913
PRESCOTT - While R. B. Arnold’s automobile was standing in front of his residence yesterday morning, the carburetor overflowed and a little gasoline spilled on the ground. A small boy passing by was consumed with a curiosity to know if the stuff was gasoline. So he touched a match to it. His desire for knowledge was satisfied. The car caught fire and was seriously damaged before the flames could be extinguished.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1963
Police Chief Ray Vick today received a letter from an Anderson, Ind. man along with three dollars to pay for an overdue parking ticket issued July 6, 1959. After three years and seven months, Sidney Bruce Stale discovered after moving to Indiana that he hadn’t paid the parking ticket. Stale wrote “the last few years have been hectic and I overlooked the ticket until today when I ran across it.” P.S., Stale wrote, “I had it coming.” A P.S. from Chief Vick, Stale is going to get his money back along with a complimentary letter. After all, Vick grinned, it’s just a couple years overdue.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1988
Little Rock Superintendent George D. Cannon said Thursday that corporal punishment should be abolished for the school district’s 26,853 students, but the issue divided school board members. Cannon asked the board to approve the concept of eliminating paddling when it meets again Feb. 25. He said a new discipline policy could not be considered until alternative punishments are established.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 2003
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A former nurse at a Tyson Foods poultry plant in Missouri told a federal jury Tuesday that children were among the Hispanics working on the plant’s processing lines. Kelly Englert, who quit in March 2001, testified that one worker at the Sedalia, Mo. plant told her he was 9 years old. After she reported that to superiors, “he worked two more summers” at the plant, she said. Englert told jurors she was concerned the plant “hired underage Hispanics.” She also testified that another immigrant worker injured by an auger turned out to be 14 years old. Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson is on trial on charges of conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 02/19/2013