LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1910
A report from George P. Rogers, the Little Rock youth who is making a trip around the world alone, indicates that he is now making pretty good time across the deserts of Utah, riding a wheel. In a communication dated on September 24, he says that he made “75 miles yesterday and will reach Salt Lake City next week.” The communication was dated at Grand Junction, Colo.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1960
The operator of a furniture and appliance store at 1309 W. 7th, who claimed exemption from Little Rock’s Sunday closing ordinance because of his Seventh Day Adventist belief, was fined $28.25 in municipal court yesterday. After Judge Quinn Glover found him guilty of violating the ordinance, Doyle Davis told the Arkansas Democrat he was giving up his business. Five days of business is not enough to make a profit, he said.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1985
Arkansas Power & LightCo. customers could see their bills increase 3 percent to 4 percent more than has already been projected if Reynolds Metals Co. permanently closes its plants at Jones Mill near Malvern and Arkadelphia, Keith Berry, chief economist for the state Public Service Commission staff, said Friday. Berry added, however, that he doesn’t see the Reynolds closings as causing a “death spiral” in utility rates.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 2000
Attorneys for the Lake View School District told a Pulaski County chancellor that they worked an estimated 19,500 hours over 10 or 11 years in their efforts to challenge the constitutionality of the state’s school funding system. That amounts to about 9.4 hours a week, every week, per attorney, assuming that four attorneys were working on the case at any one time over 10 years. The estimated hours were included in a legal brief submitted Tuesday evening to Pulaski County Chancellor Collins Kilgore, who must decide how much the attorneys should be paid for their work in the class action lawsuit that was filed in 1992.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 09/28/2010