100 years ago
Nov. 13, 1918
HUNTSVILLE -- Norton Williams, whose home is in a remote mountain region near Aurora, returning from a visit to New Mexico, found his family in terrible plight. He discovered the bodies of his two grown sons dead in their beds, his wife unconscious and three small children seriously ill. Influenza had attacked the whole family and pneumonia had followed in the cases of his sons and his wife. Living in the mountains with the nearest neighbor far away no one of the family was in condition to seek medical aid or neighborly assistance and because of the country being so thinly settled no neighbor had discovered their pitiable condition.
50 years ago
Nov. 13, 1968
WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court struck down Arkansas's antievolution law Tuesday on the ground that it tears down in the public school system the wall between church and state guaranteed by the United States Constitution. The decision means that the public school teachers in the state are free to teach Darwin's theory that mankind evolved from another animal or animals, without fear of criminal prosecution. The "monkey law" has been on the Arkansas books since 1928, forbidding the teaching of Darwin on pain of a fine up to $500 and job loss on conviction.
25 years ago
Nov. 13, 1993
• Little Rock residents shouldn't expect a proposed 16,000-seat arena to make enough money to cover its costs, officials in other cities say. "They should be prepared to lose some money every year," said Jim Campbell, the assistant general manager of the Convention Center Arena in Tulsa. "I'd bet money on it. You're not going to make a profit." But cities build arenas to improve the quality of life for residents and to bolster the local economy, not to operate at a profit, Campbell and others said. Tuesday's sales tax vote includes a two-year, 1-cent increase for capital projects, with 80 percent of the revenue going for a multipurpose arena proposed by the Future-Little Rock Steering Committee.
10 years ago
Nov. 13, 2008
• Arkansas will feel the effects of an economic slowdown that could linger in the country for years, but the impact will be lighter than in most states, a Little Rock banker said Wednesday. "Arkansas is in relatively good shape compared to much of the rest of the country," said George Gleason, chairman of Little Rock based Bank of the Ozarks. Gleason was a panelist for a discussion of the banking crisis at the Doubletree Hotel in Little Rock. Arkansas had not experienced the wildly appreciating home prices that California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada did, Gleason said. The state also has avoided the high unemployment rates of states such as Michigan and Ohio, which rely heavily on the auto industry.
Metro on 11/13/2018