100 years ago
Nov. 15, 1918
• The first issue of "Carry On," the Camp Pike weekly newspaper, will appear this morning. It was scheduled to have appeared yesterday, but was held up to await a permit from the War Industries Board at Washington which was received at 9 o'clock last night. The paper will contain 16 pages, twice the size of any camp paper published in the United States, and the officials at Camp Pike give all credit to the business men of Little Rock, who have given it their full support. It was desired to have a 20-page paper, but the Paper Permit Section of the War Industries Board advised against it.
50 years ago
Nov. 15, 1968
JONESBORO -- The parents of two Negro students at Jonesboro High School suspended for walking out during the playing of "Dixie" are preparing to file suit in federal district court. The suit will name the Jonesboro School District, Superintendent Clarence H. Geis and Principal Charles Sims as defendants. It will ask the court to prevent "further harassment" of the students and to enjoin the school officials from preventing peaceful protests...the students were protesting the song because it is "humiliating and indicative of the past when Negroes were considered property."
25 years ago
Nov. 15, 1993
MENA-- Volunteers labored in the rain here Sunday to clear away trees and debris scattered by tornadoes that swept through the town about 5:15 p.m. Saturday. Eleven people were injured in the storms; none of them seriously. Two remained hospitalized Sunday afternoon at Mena Medical Center. Mena Mayor Jerry Montgomery said Sunday that between 15 and 20 business buildings in downtown Mena (Polk County) were destroyed or damaged so badly that they would probably have to be torn down. He estimated that a like number of residences in the city also had been destroyed or heavily damaged.
10 years ago
Nov. 15, 2008
• The State Hospital fired three nurses and suspended three other employees for failing to follow procedures after a patient hanged herself in late October, state officials said Friday. The woman, 41-year-old Brenda Shelton, died five days later from her injuries, the Pulaski County coroner's office said. "Both the administrative staff at the hospital and leadership staff in the [Behavioral Health Services Division], after having reviewed the situation, felt like swift and decisive action was warranted," said Julie Munsell, a spokesman for the state Department of Human Services...Munsell declined...to release details about what happened and the specific policies that were broken Oct. 25, the day Shelton hanged herself with a bedsheet in her room.
Metro on 11/15/2018