100 years ago
Sept. 3, 1918
• If the proposed increase in barber prices of 25 cents for shave and 50 cents for haircuts go into effect today, soldiers and officers at Camp Pike will be advised by camp headquarters not to patronize the barber shops of Little Rock. This was the substance of a letter to the proprietor of the Hotel Marion barber shop by Col. Charles Miller, camp commander, yesterday. It is probable that the new prices will go into effect today according to scedule. No official communication of camp headquarters' decision to boycott the barber shops of Little Rock had been received by the union, W. H. Brown, secretary of the union, said last night. Mr. Brown said that he knew nothing of the proposed boycott and that the scheduled prices will be charged in all union shops today.
50 years ago
Sept. 3, 1968
LAKE VILLAGE -- A North Little Rock banker, a Jacksonville physician and a Jacksonville print shop foreman were killed about 7:45 p.m. Monday when their private plane crashed and burned on U.S. Highway 82 near here. State Police identified the victims as Guy A. Freeling Jr., executive vice president of the First American National Bank; Dr. Jan W. Crow, and Charles Rhoden. Officers said the plane crashed on the highway and burst into flames. Traffic was tied up for more than an hour, the State Police said.
25 years ago
Sept. 3, 1993
• The proposed settlement refunding $45 million in taxes to Arkansas' federal retirees could collapse under a dispute over whether a North Little Rock lawyer is due one-fourth of that amount in legal fees. The fate of the settlement -- and of Carrold E. Ray's request for $11.25 million from it -- could be determined Tuesday at a hearing by Pulaski County Chancellor Alice Gray. Ray, 36, successfully sued in 1989 over the state's taxing of federal employee pensions during the 1980s while exempting state employee pensions. As of Thursday, 17 individuals had filed objections with Gray to Ray's proposed fee, and seven organizations of former military personnel had passed resolutions against it.
10 years ago
Sept. 3, 2008
FORT SMITH -- Thieves cut a hole in the roof of an Alltel Corp. warehouse over the weekend and loaded up to four semitrailers with pricey cell phones, police reported. Warehouse employees found the hole in the roof and locks cut on four loading-dock doors when they arrived for work Tuesday morning, Fort Smith police spokesman Sgt. Jarrard Copeland said. An alarm also was disabled, and police found a pair of bolt cutters nearby. Copeland said several pallets of cell phones are missing. Police and the FBI are working with Alltel officials to determine what was taken and how much it's worth.
Metro on 09/03/2018