LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO May 26, 1912
Governor George W. Donaghey yesterday pardoned all the Pulaski county convicts who were in the possession of E.N. Wiegel, whose contract for the working of the Pulaski county prisoners expired January 1. At the expiration of his contract Wiegel retained all the convicts who were then under his control and whose terms had not expired. Some of these had long sentences to serve and would have been under the control of Wiegel for nearly two years more had not the governor stopped in and set them all free.
50 YEARS AGO May 26, 1962
Right Rev. Robert R. Brown, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas, today issued a statement strongly criticizing the reverse freedom rides being conducted here. Bishop Brown said the services of his office and every other clergyman of the Episcopal Church in Little Rock were offered to any sincere person who is in need of employment. The freedom riders north to date haveconsisted of unemployed Negroes and their children. Three who left yesterday said they felt they stood a better chance of obtaining jobs at Hyannis, Mass., where 28 have been sent from Little Rock.
25 YEARS AGO May 26, 1987
The names of five native sons who died in Vietnam have been added to the Arkansas Vietnam Veterans Memorial. There are now 650 names inscribed on black slabs inside the gray, semicircular granite monument on the southeast lawn of the state Capitol.
10 YEARS AGO May 26, 2002
Pulaski County will be the 10th county to join the state’s rabies alert list, as two more bats tested positive for the disease Saturday, officials said. It takes three animals testing positive for rabies in a 12-month period for a county to be on the state Department of Health’s rabies alert list. Pulaski County has now had four animals positive for rabies. Two bats from North Little Rock tested positive last month.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 05/26/2012