100 years ago
Oct. 19, 1917
• Jo Jung of Little Rock, president of the Rose City Bakery, who has acted as president pro tem of the Master Bakers' Association of Arkansas since its organization several months ago, was unanimously elected president at the final business meeting of the convention yesterday after noon in the convention hall of the Hotel Marion. Jonesboro was selected as the 1918 meeting place. The business meeting was scheduled for yesterday morning, but other business and speeches by Hamp Williams, state food administrator, and J.F. Kroutil, president of the Yukon Mill and Grain company of Yukon, Okla., necessitated a postponement.
50 years ago
Oct. 19, 1967
• The Dollarway School Board replied Wednesday in federal District Court to a supplemental complaint filed September 28 by the parents of eight Negro children who are dissatisfied with the pace of faculty and pupil desegregation in the District. The plaintiffs filed the complaint as an amendment to the 1959 Dollarway case, which resulted in a court order directing the district to begin desegregation with the first grade in 1960. The last action in the case was in 1963 when the District was ordered to begin desegregation at the high school level.
25 years ago
Oct. 19, 1992
YPSILANTI, Mich. -- Bill Clinton predicted Sunday that President Bush would open fresh character attacks in their final debate today and described the strategy as "really sad." The president and Ross Perot kept a low profile while preparing for the showdown. "He can't run on his record or his own vision for the future, so all he can do is tear me down," Clinton said after attending services at a black church in Detroit. "But I don't think that the American people believe that four more years of that is what we need."
10 years ago
Oct. 19, 2007
• A strong storm system that pushed through Arkansas late Wednesday and early Thursday morning did most of its damage in Lincoln County, where a confirmed tornado either damaged or destroyed about a dozen homes. Lincoln County Judge Charlie Cole said Thursday he will request that the state declare the county a disaster area, which would clear the way for additional assistance. Nobody in the county was seriously injured, according to Rhonda Thompson, deputy coordinator for the Lincoln County Office of Emergency Management.
Metro on 10/19/2017