LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO May 27, 1912
Main street is now open to traffic as far north as Fourth street, and it is expected if good weather continues the paving will be completed as far north as Eighth street by the latter part of the week. Following the completion of this work, the combination cluster light and trolley poles will be installed and Main street for a distance of eight blocks will be Argenta’s “Great White Way.”
50 YEARS AGO May 27, 1962
A spokesman for Downtown Little Rock Unlimited is asking more cooperation from the public in helping maintain the plants on sidewalks in the downtown area. Willard A.Hawkins, manager for the downtown organization, said ,“We now have a regular watering service. If the public will be more careful about putting trash in the tubs the plants are in, they will have a better chance for life, especially during this drought we’re having.” According to Hawkins, he has removed all sorts of bottles, cigar butts, paper of all kinds and “many foreign objects that should be put in the trash containers on the street.”
25 YEARS AGO May 27, 1987
VAN BUREN - The annual battle between man and bird is on in Van Buren and it appears the birds have won this year. An estimated 10,000 egrets and herons have nested in a heavily populated neighborhood about 1/4 mile north of Van Buren and are creating a nuisance. The birds aren’t endangered but they are federally protected and can’t be killed. The egrets and herons have invaded the Van Buren area annually for about six years, Mike Hoy, an assistant district supervisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said Tuesday.
10 YEARS AGO May 27, 2002
WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. - The collapse of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma has disrupted an important route for the nation’s freight. A barge hit the bridge during a storm Sunday, collapsing a 580-foot section of roadway and sending about a dozen vehicles plunging into the water with people trapped inside, authorities said. “It’ll slow everything down,” said Bill Tillman, a dispatcher for Pat Salmon & Sons Inc., a North Little Rock trucking company whose trucks make eight trips a day to Oklahoma City.
Arkansas, Pages 16 on 05/27/2012