LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1910
That woman’s suffrage will be adapted eventually in Arkansas is the prediction of Miss Erie Chambers, who believes that the ballot is needed more by the mother and wife than by the working girl and business woman. Miss Chambers does not set a time when the new regime will be in working order, but she firmly declares it will come.
50 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1960
Little Rock will switch signals Tuesday - traffic signals, that is. It will be the inauguration of the city’s new $249,000 traffic signal system. It also will mark the demise of the Denver signal lights along Main Street. Since last February crews under Traffic Engineer Henry M. DeNoble have been installing newequipment. It includes 34,000 feet of underground cable, four and five decker lights at 78 intersections and a complicated master control.
25 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1985
The state Human Services Department sent the Board of the Economic Opportunity Agency of Pulaski County a draft of a contract Tuesday that would allow the EOA to receive money to pay staff and rehabilitate the agency during the next 10 months. The contract would not allow the EOA to use the money to pay four fired administrators whose termination letters said they would be paid through October 31, or W. Dean Goldsby, the former EOA executive director. Goldsby fired Kirke Herman, Bruce Swinton, George Reed and Lauvane Pitts October 3 and then resigned, after admitting that EOA federal grant funds had been misspent.
10 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 2000 CABOT - When the U.S. Army decided to issue black berets to all of its almost 500,000 soldiers next summer, it created an economic boon for a Cabot company. Bancroft Cap Co. was awarded an $8 million contract to produce 1.3 million berets next year. Starting in January, the plant will increase its current production from 100,000 military berets a year to 100,000 a month.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 11/27/2010