100 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1914
Don’t worry about those broken threads which indicate that the days of usefulness of that overcoat you have so carefully cared for are waning, for the spring is coming with a skip and jump. It won’t be long until “the air will be redolent with the joys of living.” The ground hog “declared himself” yesterday. Emerging from his hole in the ground he found that, look as he might, there was no shadow, not even the faintest sign of a silhouette, and, “chuckling with ghoulish glee,” he remained outside his winter resort, knowing there would not be six more weeks of winter, but the joyful spring soon would be here.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1964
A Little Rock dairyman who tried to haul his own milk against the CAMPA setup was letting the organization pick up his milk again today and had a for sale sign on his big truck. J.W. Shackleford, whose dairy is on 12th Street Pike, confirmed today that a settlement had been reached with the Central Arkansas Milk Producers Association to pick up his milk as before. Shackleford said that he had a deal cooking for the sale of the big milk tank truck which he bought in November and used unsuccessfully for the first time Saturday to transport 6,843 pounds of milk. CAMPA is a cooperative of some 1,250 milk producers in central Arkansas. It provides the truck transportation which comes by the dairies, picks up the milk and places it with the processors. The producers are billed for the service.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1989
Revisions in the Little Rock School District’s method of identifying students for gifted and talented education programs were presented to the school board Thursday night. The identifying process, which will be in effect for the 1989-90 school year, relies on school-based committees to make tentative assignments of students to the special programs. The assignments will be based on a student’s standardized test score, creativity, thinking skills and motivation.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 2004
Striking Pulaski County Special School District bus drivers ended their 8-dayold job action against the state’s second-largest school district Monday night and will be back at work this morning. The members of the Pulaski Association of Support Staff, who have been on strike since Jan. 26, voted not only to return to work but also to take their fight to regain collective bargaining rights to the courtroom.
Arkansas, Pages 8 on 02/03/2014