100 years ago
Nov. 26, 1920
• That A. H. Housley, Hot Springs veterinarian who is serving a one-year sentence in the state penitentiary for complicity in wholesale automobile thefts, will serve out his sentence is very unlikely. Governor Brough, who said several weeks ago that no clemency will be shown Housley, yesterday said that he is now considering the case in the light of new evidence and that it is probable that Housley will be pardoned.
50 years ago
Nov. 26, 1970
• The 1968 flood on the Cossatot River, the most severe on record, would have been reduced by more than three feet if the Gillham Dam project had been in operation, an official of the Army Engineers testified Wednesday in federal District Court. Carroll Scoggins, chief of the hydraulics branch of the Tulsa District of the Army Engineers, said that the river had left its banks 77 times in the 32 years that the government has operated a gauge on the U.S. Highway 71 bridge east of De Queen. Flood stage is 16 feet on the gauge. Scoggins said the reading of 22.6 feet during the May 1968 flood would have been 19.5 feet if the dam had been in operation.
25 years ago
Nov. 26, 1995
• Reindeer and a children's choir were on hand Thursday night when the Little Rock Parks and Recreation Department heralded the holiday season by illuminating up 25,000 lights at Riverfront Park. "This is our Christmas gift to the city," Mark Webre, the department's project design manager, said as the switch was flipped at dusk. This is the eighth year for the display, which will be lit nightly through Jan. 2, 1996. Amber, red and green lights adorn the park's trees, belvedere, 20 holiday figurines and a Christmas tree.
10 years ago
Nov. 26, 2010
• A group of 11-year-old children gathered around the end of a shovel, staring at a tiny grub writhing among the clods of black soil resting in its metal scoop. The students wore paper booties to protect their shoes as they wielded garden tools, turning the ground outside of Mabelvale Middle School in southwest Little Rock to expand a garden planted in its lawn. "I've never picked up a worm before," sixth-grader Dara Custis said as she tossed the creature into a cardboard box containing food for chickens in a nearby cage. Researchers with the Delta Garden Study worked last week to guide the garden expansion, which will allow the students to continue to cultivate their own vegetables and flowers into the spring months.