LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1909
Rushing the work on the new Union station, preparations for putting a night force on the construction of the overhead midway are being made. Yesterday poles for electric arc lights to illuminate the yards for the night work were set and the necessary wiring will be done as soon as all the poles are set. There yet remains a great amount of work to be done to get the station in readiness for occupancy by September 15, the date set by the Railroad Commission for the opening of the building to the public.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1959
As Arkansas manufacturing employment rose to 98,100 jobs in July, a new seasonal high, the State Chamber of Commerce predicted that before the end of 1959, total manufacturing jobs in the state would exceed 100,000 for the first time in Arkansas history. The steady increase in factory employment this year, the state chamber said, results from new plants coming into production and expansion of work forces in older industrial facilities.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1984
American Ambulance Service apparently will continue providing full emergency services to North Little Rock while Central Ambulance Service, which had been providing the service, gets its financial problems worked out. American, which originally was certified only to provide transfer services for the city, Saturday obtained 1-A certification to provide emergency services. Larry Bell, owner of Central, announced Friday his company would only provide non-emergency transports. Bell said outstanding loans and delinquent debts totaling $190,000 were forcing him to sharply curtail operations.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1999
Arkansas had one of the worst undercounts of children in the nation in the 1990 census, a problem that has cost the state its fair share of billions of federal dollars for education, child care, foster care and other services, according to a new study. William O'Hare, Kids Count coordinator at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, released the study Thursday, showing that the 1990 census missed more than 25,000 Arkansas children.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 08/27/2009