100 years ago
Aug. 29, 1915
SUCCESS -- An amusing incident in the flood which last Sunday half covered this town is being told by Dr. Martin Waddle. At 11 o'clock Sunday night he heard a cry of distress from the southwest. Hastily organizing a party of 18 men he started in the direction of the cry. A half mile further he found the source of the distressing cries, a half grown goat in a barn that was fast filling with water.
50 years ago
Aug. 29, 1965
• Seven days remain for candidates to file for six positions to be filled on the three school boards in Pulaski County and one position on the Pulaski County Board of Education in the September 28 school elections. Several candidates have announced they will run for various positions but so far only four have filed, all in North Little Rock. Candidates should file with the county school supervisor, Don E. Blackmon, whose office is on the fourth floor of the County Courthouse.
25 years ago
Aug. 29, 1990
• A shift supervisor at the Hercules-Vertac plant at Jacksonville told a federal jury Tuesday he and other employees were led to believe "there wasn't any problem with dioxin." Freelyn Ray, employed by both Hercules Inc. and Vertac Chemical Inc., testified about conditions while each company owned the now-defunct chemical plant. During the Hercules years in the 1970s, Ray said, he was advised in a company memorandum to rotate workers performing cleanup chores every three or four days because of chemical hazards.
10 years ago
Aug. 29, 2005
• Images of the nine black students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957 will appear Tuesday in two places of honor -- on the north lawn of the Capitol and on the corner of envelopes across the country. The Little Rock Nine will reunite in Little Rock for the first time since the 1997 40th anniversary of the Central High crisis -- they reunited in Washington in 1999 to each receive the Congressional Gold Medal -- for two ceremonies. One will take place at 9 a.m. at the Capitol, where the nine will unveil life-size bronze statues depicting them as high-schoolers in '50s-era dress. The other will be at 11 a.m. at their former school to mark the release of the U.S. postage stamp "1957 Little Rock Nine."
Metro on 08/29/2015