100 years ago
Oct. 13, 1916
• Ten thousand Little Rock school children will have an opportunity Friday, October 20, to celebrate Children's Day at the Pulaski county fair, it was announced yesterday by Judge Joe Asher, president of the fair association. The School Board granted the half holiday. As a feature of the day all children of school age will be admitted free, and guides will conduct the children through the exhibits.
50 years ago
Oct. 13, 1966
• State Highway Commission Chairman Wayne Hampton of Stuttgart Wednesday challenged Jim Johnson, Democratic nominee for governor, to say what needs to be cleaned up in the Highway Department. Hampton said that as far as he knows there is nothing to clean out. "If Jim Johnson has information about wrongdoing he should reveal it," Hampton said. "I'll call a special meeting of the Commission if he has anything to produce." Johnson was not available for comment.
25 years ago
Oct. 13, 1991
• While nobody knows for sure what will become of the Arkansas Gazette, one thing seems certain: It won't continue to run as it has in the past. This was one of the topics on "Arkansas Week," the news commentary show aired Saturday morning on the Arkansas Educational Television Network. If the newspaper survives, expenses will need to be cut and revenues raised to reduce substantial losses, the panelists agreed. It has been reported that the Gazette is expected to lose more than $30 million this year.
10 years ago
Oct. 13, 2006
• An Arkansas prison work-release van driver on the loose for about a week turned himself in to Missouri authorities early Thursday, telling deputies that he was tired of running. Kenneth Stumbaugh, 45, a convicted thief and forger, drove away Oct. 6 in a work-release van from the Benton Unit instead of picking up fellow inmates at a southwest Little Rock business. Prison authorities began to question his friends and family in Russellville, Fayetteville and Little Rock, but Stumbaugh had pushed north over the Missouri line, apparently following U.S. 65 through the Ozark hills before he decided to end his bid for freedom, prison officials said. Officials don't know how he traveled after parking the van in Little Rock, where it was found earlier this week.
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