100 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1913
Someone has been playing a joke on several Little Rock people lately, representing themselves as Humane Officer W. M. Rankin. For the last three mornings prominent Little Rock men and women have called on Mr. Rankin to learn what charges he had placed against them. In every instance it was found that the party had been used by a practical joker. Rankin claims that the joke has gone a little too far.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1963
The home-cooked food at the church social or similar functions is often a danger to a person’s health, state Health Officer J. T. Herron said yesterday. Dr. Herron said it would be in the public interest to stop the sale of home-cooked foods by groups seeking to raise funds because most of the recorded food-borne outbreaks have resulted from carelessly handled foods by untrained persons. Herron said he has sent a notice to all health units urging department personnel to discourage such sales. He admitted the notice had not been popular with a number of church, social and school groups.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1988
Within a few short months, some lucky dog with a nose for pot, coke and smack will be scouting Little Rock junior and senior high schools, hoping to do his part to take a bite out of crime. The Little Rock School Board voted 4-2 Thursday to purchase a drug-detecting dog from Global Training Academy in San Antonio, Texas, to search school lockers and cars for heroin, cocaine and marijuana. It is unconstitutional for the animals to actually search the students. The Little Rock Police Department has agreed to send an officer to the academy to be trained to handle the hound, school district officials said. The police department will keep and care for the dog and conduct monthly searches of the schools at no charge.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 2003
Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday it will lay off about 500 to 600 workers at a Hope chicken processing plant. The layoff affects employees on deboning and other production lines at the Hempstead County plant, which employs 1,450, said Tyson spokesman Ed Nicholson. The Springdale-based company, the world’s largest meat company, plans to “outsource” some of the work to two other companies in Arkadelphia and Dardanelle, Nicholson said, declining to name the businesses.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 09/25/2013