100 YEARS AGO July 29, 1913 WALNUT RIDGE - While the people of Walnut Ridge - including the jail officials - were at Sunday school yesterday, two of the three prisoners in the local bastille deemed it an opportune time to escape. Lewis Miller and John A. Coleman, who are accused of having burglarized a store and the post office at Alice, each made a clean getaway, although they departed in such haste that neither had coat nor hat. Officers are still pursuing them. They made their escape by means of iron bars which had been passed to them from the outside.
50 YEARS AGO July 29, 1963
North Side postmen are conjuring up old visions of growling, teeth-gnashing dogs snapping at their legs as they make their appointed rounds. Honest! What else could be made of a letter by William L. Conway, president of Branch 3745 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, to the city council. Dismay is written all through the letter. The postmen are worried lest the dismissal of the city’s pound master means a lenient interpretation of the dog leash law. The postmen don’t want to leave the impression that they’re trying to muzzle the city council’s practice of hiring and firing. “But it has appeared to us that the (dog leash) lawhas been enforced fairly and we are fearful that any relaxation of the enforcement will lead to conditions which prevailed before the law was passed,” Conway wrote. It’s to be presumed that North Little Rock postmen led a dog’s life before the dog leash law was passed.
25 YEARS AGO July 29, 1988
Gov. Bill Clinton obviously played to a much friendlier crowd Thursday night in the NBC studios used by Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show than the one he faced in the Omni Convention Center in Atlanta the week before. Carson’s interview of the governor was interrupted by numerous bursts of applause and laughter from the studio audience. Carson praised Clinton for displaying a sense of humor about his now-infamous speech tothe Democratic National Convention.
10 YEARS AGO July 29, 2003
The Department of Defense alerted Arkansas’ largest National Guard unit over the weekend to prepare to be sent to Iraq early next year. If the entire 39th Infantry Brigade is mobilized, the deployment will be the largest in the state’s history, said Maj. Gen. Don C. Morrow, Arkansas’ adjutant general. About 1,200 Arkansas National Guardsmen already are on active duty.
Arkansas, Pages 8 on 07/29/2013