100 years ago
Aug. 2, 1918
HERMITAGE -- This is not the usual drouth story about crops burning up. It is rather an unusual drouth story. A Baptist revival has just closed here and there were seven candidates for baptism. It was impossible to find a stream anywhere about with enough water in which to immerse the converted ones. The Pastor, The Rev. Mr. Byars, in this dilemma, started on a tour of the county to find water deep enough for the purpose. He finally located it on Moro creek, 10 miles away, and the converts and spectators had to go that distance to have the rite performed.
50 years ago
Aug. 2, 1968
• Attorneys for the Negro plaintiffs in the Dollarway and Altheimer school desegregation cases have decided to appeal to the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis in an effort to force the districts to abandon the freedom-of-choice method this fall. Federal Judge J. Smith Hensley of Little Rock ruled that both school boards could continue to use freedom of choice during the 1968-69 school year while they work on a new desegregation method to take effect at the beginning of the 1969-70 school year.
25 years ago
Aug. 2, 1993
• Baptist Medical Center is back in the kidney transplant business with the hiring of Dr. Scott Young as its new medical director for the kidney transplant program. The hospital had performed 106 transplants before the program halted in March with the death of Dr. William J. "Pat" Flanigan. Young had been medical director of transplantation for the Division of Nephrology at the University for Medical Sciences since 1991.
10 years ago
Aug. 2, 2008
• Gov. Mike Beebe said Friday that he wishes Arkansas would become "the Silicon Valley of alternative fuels." Environmental issues dominated much of Beebe's monthly statewide call-in radio show. Beebe pointed to ongoing negotiations with an unnamed wind company as indications that the state is showing signs of an alternative-fuel rural economy that benefits farmers as well as fuel companies. In a brief apparent reference to Southwestern Electric Power Co.'s proposed coal fired plant in Hempstead County, Beebe said he "wish[ed] we didn't have another coal plant," but the state and national economy aren't ready to quit fossil fuels.
Metro on 08/02/2018