100 years ago
April 21, 1918
• A fair-sized audience last night witnessed "The Silver Thread," a dramatized fairy story given by the As You like It Society of the Little Rock High School. The proceeds will go to the high school Liberty bond fund. The play was staged by Miss Bee. W. Cotton, teacher of English, and music was furnished by the 334th Field Artillery band, and by Miss Thelma Clark, violinist.
50 years ago
April 21, 1968
• GREENWOOD -- Residents here Saturday began cleaning away the rubble and debris and salvaging what they could from the ravages of a tornado that struck this South Sebastian County Seat about 3:15 p.m. Friday, killing 12 persons. They were assisted by hundreds of volunteer rescue workers, Civil Defense personnel, National Guard and Marine Reserve units, Oklahoma and Arkansas State Police and deputy sheriffs from surrounding areas. Operators of bulldozers, graders and other heavy equipment shoved the ruins of buildings aside into piles to be hauled off in trucks. The digging out operations actually got started by nightfall Friday, but tapered off after midnight.
25 years ago
April 21, 1993
• The University of Arkansas of Little Rock has cut spending, deferred maintenance and virtually frozen hiring to avert at least a $1.5 million potential deficit this year. Officials attribute the problem to having no savings at a time when it faced a cash flow problem and an incorrectly estimated budget in the same fiscal year. They had not happened in past years, they said.
10 years ago
April 21, 2008
• On the fourth floor of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers are studying how new cells evolve into the building blocks of the human body. By unraveling the puzzle, they hope to learn to manipulate stem cells into human bone, fat and muscle cells, said Dr. Robert McGehee, professor of neonatology and dean of the UAMS Graduate School. For now, the stem cells used in the UAMS research are shipped frozen from a blood bank about 300 miles away at the SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis. But Arkansas is one of the first states working to establish a bank of its own to collect and store the potentially life-saving blood and tissue from the umbilical cords of healthy newborns.
Metro on 04/21/2018