100 years ago
Aug. 28, 1917
• That the gross fire loss in Little Rock for the past five years was $1,487,788, is the statement contained in a comprehensive survey of the city's fire conditions, which has been issued by the Committee on Fire Prevention of the National Board of Fire Prevention of New York City. The survey shows that the annual loss varied from $225,493 in 1912 to $407, 377 in 1916. Based on an average population of 53,500, the annual number of fires per 1,000 population is estimated at six and the average loss per capita $5.56.
50 years ago
Aug. 28, 1967
• State Securities Commissioner Don S. Smith said Sunday that women bought most of the worthless stock sold in Arkansas. Smith said the merchants of watered stock had an easier time selling their wares to older women because the women thought that it would make their children or grandchildren rich. He explained that watered stock was stock sold to the public at a higher price than it was to insiders in the selling corporation. Smith said the watered stock was not worth as much as was paid for it.
25 years ago
Aug. 28, 1992
• Call it a modern-day lesson in catching a thief. To find out who was stealing cash from his safe on a nightly basis, a local business owner set up a hidden video camera that allegedly caught an employee red-handed. A Pulaski County sheriff's detective arrested the employee--Wayde Gaskill, 31, of Little Rock at Caple's Auto Garage on Arch Street Pike. He faces charges of burglary, breaking and entering and theft of property and was being held in the Pulaski County Jail on $10,000 bond.
10 years ago
Aug. 28, 2007
• Gov. Mike Beebe joined with three Democratic members of Arkansas' congressional delegation to support the federal reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides health insurance for low-income children. In Arkansas, the State Children's Health Insurance Program helps fund ARHealthNet, prenatal care for immigrant women, and ARKids B. Debate on the issue centers on how much to fund the program. Senate and House bills to reauthorize the program funding passed earlier this month. The Senate version would increase the cost of the program nationally over five years to $60 billion, the House version to $75 billion, mostly by more than doubling federal tobacco taxes. Congressional negotiators are working to come up with a compromise package by the Sept. 30 deadline, but President Bush has said both bills are unacceptable. He wants to limit the program to $30 billion over five years.
Metro on 08/28/2017