100 years ago
Dec. 21, 1919
PINE BLUFF -- The political fight over the election of Chamber of Commerce trustee culminated tonight in a real fight between H.H. McKenna, a representative of the American City Bureau, which conducted the recent membership campaign, and Frank R. Bloom, son of E.B. Bloom, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, whose re-election to this office is the big issue in the election of trustees. The election is being conducted by mail and ballots were mailed yesterday to be returned next Tuesday night.
50 years ago
Dec. 21, 1969
• "Arkansas Gazette: The Early Years, 1819-1866," the first of a series of three volumes planned to cover the 150-year history of the Arkansas Gazette, is now available at the Gazette's public service counter and bookstores and department store book sections in Little Rock and other cities in Arkansas.
25 years ago
Dec. 21, 1994
• About 100 jobs will be added at the Sterling Plumbing Group Inc. plant in Malvern during the next year and a half as production moves from a plant in Morgantown, W.Va., that is closing. The Malvern plant, with around 30 employees now, specializes in glass tempering and other operations related to Sterling's shower-door and bathtub lines. Those glass operations will be moved to Union City, Tenn., over the next 18 months, said Marty Martin, director of the Industrial Development Corp. of Hot Spring County in Malvern. ... As that happens, he said, the Malvern plant will redirect its manufacturing thrust to supplying parts for the company's faucet plant in Sheridan, which is expanding as well.
10 years ago
Dec. 21, 2009
• A gas explosion in westcentral Little Rock on Sunday morning leveled a one-story house and caused extensive damage to the house next door, firefighters said. Firefighters were called to the house at 3501 Longcoy St. at 3 a.m., after a woman in the house smelled gas and woke her husband, said Little Rock Fire Capt. Jason Weaver. Firefighters found the source of the leak, outside the house, and called CenterPoint Energy, Weaver said. They advised the couple to stay out of the house until the leak was repaired, he said. Employees with the Arkansas Utility Protection Service had just finished marking the location of utility lines in the street about 6 a.m. when the house exploded, Weaver said.
Metro on 12/21/2019