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LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1909 PINE BLUFF - To prevent the issuance of a writ of mandamus, applied for by City Attorney Sorrells under orders from the City Council, to compel Police Judge J.R. Stewart to pay over to City Collector A.G. Russell, the fines, penalties and forfeitures of the Police Department; in compliance with an ordinance adopted recently by the city's legislative body, transferring these duties to the collector from the police chief and police judge, Attorneys White and Alexander, counsel for Judge Stewart, yesterday filed their answer to the petition for mandamus. The attorneys declare that the ordinance is illegal and void and unenforceable under the laws of Arkansas.

50 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1959 EL DORADO - A 9-foot Ouachita River channel project, "hanging fire" for more than two years now, has received the backing of the U.S. Corps of Engineers at Vicksburg and Washington. The word came through H.K. Thatcher, vice president of the Ouachita River Valley Association, and P.G. Anderson, traffic director of Lion Oil Co., division of Monsanto Chemical Corp. If approved by Congress in the February session, the river project would include the 9-foot channel and a completeset of new locks, each to be 600 feet long and 50 feet wide with a depth of 10 feet.

25 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1984

North Little Rock Mayor Reed Thompson said Monday that he was notified a week ago that Central Patient Transfer Service would cease to provide emergency ambulance service to the city. Central's owner, Larry Bell, said last week that his company would no longer provide emergency service to North Little Rock. His firm was the only city ambulance service to hold a license to provide emergency care. Thompson said he was contacted a week ago by Bell, who said he would stop providing emergency service by last Saturday "unless something happened." 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1999 ROHWER - The lawsuit over the location of and the tax revenue from a hydroelectric plant on the Arkansas-Desha County line has caused financial problems for a tiny school district that depends on the tax revenue, Desha County officials said Friday. The Delta Special School District at Rohwer in Desha County would have started the school year with a deficit of about $200,000 if the state Department of Education had not stepped in to help, officials said.